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the week past.
Thi: Prussian government coni)>els
Inkers to keep tlicir bread at least one
day before selling.
\'KA its ago lleverdv Johnson lost the
of one of his eyes while training
I'.Pvanl Stanley to fight Henry A. Wise,
■iftcr a row al>oiit racing. Stanley was
practising lor the duel when his bullet,
striking a tree, glanced hack and lodged
in his instructors eye. The “ meeting”
,v, thcrciijMin prevented, and nothing
hut Johnson’s iron frame saved his life.
I ion Pedro 11., the emperor of Brazil,
all d the Empress Teresa Christina will
leave for the United States on April J,
avith a numerous retinue and one million
dollars, pocket-money. The Philadel
phians expect to relieve his majesty of
about five hundred thousand dollars
during his stay in their city. An em
|,< ror does not come along every (lay.
Lli:i rKNANT Ca.MKBON writes of the
heart of Africa: The interior is mostly
;t magnificent and healthy country of uti
•jieakable richness. 1 have a small spefi
mrn of good coal; other minerals, such
as gold, copper, iron and silver, are
ibundant, and 1 am confident that with
a vise and liberal expenditure of capital,
one of the greatest systems of inland
navigation in the world might l>e utilized.
< )NE of the great features of the Phil
adelphia exposition will lie the engine
in machinery hall. It will supply the
power for all the machinery in the build
ing covering seventeen acres of ground.
It has the capacity of 2,500 horse-power,
and will cost when completed $70,000.
\meriean mechanics will he proud to
show that engine to their Eurojiean
neigh hors.
It is stated that the Mormon women
have found a friend in Senator Chris
tiam y, of Michigan, who has introduced
a hill in the senate for female suffrage in
I Tail, to enable the wives and daughters
of the saints to emancipate themselves
from the bonds of poligamy, if they are
so disposed. If the hill becomes a law,
their husbands, it is expected, will
threaten them with ecclesiastical ex
communication if they avail themselves
of the 1 (allot. .
liKiNd now in favor with (treat
Britain, the Khedive has been enabled to
borrow $80,000,000 570,000,000 being
for the state, and $10,000,000 for the
Idas live’s own account as a great land
owner. 1 his increases the Egyptian
debt to about $700,000,000, all of which
has lieen contracted since Jsniail came to
f lie throne. It is fortunate for Egypt
flint a largo share of the money has been
Icvoted to works of public utility, which
must increase the wealth of the people.
1 uk western tannin plant, which grows
luxmiaiiy- • - - • -
corns destined to replace oak bark in
pining. It contains 18 ivr cent of tan
mu, while the lx'st hark contains hut 12
percent., and large establishments em
ploying it in Chicago find that one-third
1,10,0 leather tan lie obtained with it
Ilian with a like quantity of hark. Tne
process of tanning with it is identical
with that with hark, hut the leather
tougher, finer, and more durable, and re
ceives a finer finish. The plant is an an
"ual > •‘ in, l <‘ an he mowed, dried, and
backed like hay.
V breed of tailless dogs has been dis
covered in Africa. This is a sarcastic
comment on the declaration that nature
1 ,( i (tu t-. J hiuk of a tailless dog in a
harmonious universe. Talk about the
"underfill mechanism of the animal
kingdom! Why, the common honey bee
iss ° clumsily built that he—or rather
"he— cannot sting an enemy without fas
'• mug her barbed spear and pulling out
her own abdomen. .She cannot defend
herself against assault without commit-
Kuiciclo ! The barbs ought to have
'fen committed from her javelin. But
■hi* generation is pessimistic.
' ,n * oln I’aine association of Free
"imkera,” ,>f Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
" 1,1 a memorial meeting recently, and
!''' sc< 1 1 evolutions /avoring a more com
pete separation of the churcli and state
lh:m there is now ; deploring the appoint
," " 1 l chaplains for legislative bodies
:u,( I the appointment of days of thanks
o,nnf’ faßting and P r aye r ; calling for
•' vU,; llic onicc „ r j, lr M (ien t 0 f
, S tates and the transfer of his
'‘t'rs o an executive committee; and
''"ring ihe extension of the suffrage to
pci sons, irrespective of color, race or
' I his is “reform” with a vengeance.
I c<>M the beginning of the govern
n" nt 'I 01 '* dune 80, 1875, covering a
1 " "I ot eighty-six years, the aggregate
l| ‘ "l our domestic exports was not
! > 'uhl o the value ©f our manufac
.iix! farm produce alone for the
II ,ls year 1870. Assuming that the
1| ‘ "t tliese two classes of productions
2 * 7l e, inaled that in 1870, then the
demand for our commodities
! ~ the whole of the eightv-six years
. n 11 satisfied by the total of our
H l> ~or the equivalent of that total
t\\n years in only two departments
industry Consequently, the
lail| dei of our products of every kind,
y(i.[|. llg c ‘l'd 1 ty-four out of the eighty-six
trs > must have been consumed within
Wn borders. In other words,
;) i that long stretch of time,
4 demand amounted to only
, |(| h* r cent., while the home demand
‘ lli, “d to as much as 97.67 per cent.
l i ie opinion of a well-informed
st | t Lng ! and that the Massachu
j would excursion two
' "and miles to see a hog-pen if any
“nushed free passes and gin.
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME IV.
TWO LOVKKS.
EY GEORGE ELIOT.
Two lovers by a moss-grown spring;
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny bair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
O budding time!
Oh love’s best prime!
Two wedded from the portal stept;
The belts made happy carolings,
The air was soft as fanning wings,
White petals on the pathway slept.
O pure-eyed bride!
O ieuder pride!
Two faces o’er the cradle leut;
Two hands altove the head were locked ;
Those pressed each other where they rocked ;
Those watched a life that love had sent.
O solemn hour!
< > hidden power!
Two parents l.y the evening lire;
'1 he red lights fell about their knees
On heads that rose l.y slow degrees
Kike buds upon the lily-spire.
(* patient life !
O tender strife!
The iwo still sat together there" - -
The red lights shone about their knees,
But all the beads by slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
<) voyage fast!
O banished past!
The red lights shone upon the floor,
And made the space between them wide ;
They drew their chairs up side by side,
Their pale cheeks joined, and said, “once more!”
O memories!
> • past that is!
UP IN THE AI It.
BY MAYNE REID.
The Tornado or hurricane in the far
west—“herrikin’” as the backwoodsmen
call it—is a species of tempest very simi
lar in character and effect to the ty
phoons and cyclones of the far east. One
of its most characteristic peculiarities is
that it generally sweeps over a very lim
ited tract of country, a mere strip of only
a mile or so in width. Fortunate its be
ing thus confined; for within that strip
or belt its action is fearfully destructive,
and the forest that chances to stand in its
way goes down before its breath as if tne
trees were so many stalks of grass yield
ing to the blade of the scythe. Houses
are prostrated in like manner, and wooden
ones are often carried for a mile’s distance
from their ancient sites, or deposited on
the tops of trees. Towns have suffered
amost complete annihilation, as was the
case of Natchez on the Mississippi some
thirty years ago.
In traveling me i_
not unusual to come across the track of
a tornado. If it he in a timbered dis
trict the trees will he seen all down, their
tops turned in the same direction, the
roots torn up from the ground, each (\ur
rying a high, circular mass of the surface
earth which adheres 4 to their network of
fibres. This belt of prostrated timber
is sometimes omy <i mw hundred yard*
in width, the hurricane seeming to have
shot through it like a bolt, leaving the
trees on each side standing and un
touched. Sometimes the line or column
of destruction is much wider, hut in
most cases a well-defined boundary, out
side of which nature remains calm and
unscathed. \Voe to the wayfarer, be he
hunter or traveler, who chances to be
caught in a “herrikin” when it passes in
its cyclopcan strength.
The effects of such storms are often of
the most eccentric kind. There is a well
authenticated instance of a barn-door
fowl, a “rooster,” having been stripped
bare of his feathers, standing tail toward
the tempest when it struck him—chanti
cleer escaping without any further dam
age!
The results, however, are rarely of this
ludicrous character, but oftener of a se
rious and tragical nature, scores of lives
being lost in the track of a tornado.
Escapes of a very singular kind frequent
ly occur —real hair-breadth escapes, one
of which, a little comical in its way, we
shall here record. It befell an Arkansas
squatter who came into our hunter’s
camp and took his turn at the yarns
which served to knit us all together every
evening when all hands were in for the
night. He gave us his narrative:
“ I’d made ’bout a acre o’ claim, an’
had got a shanty set up for the ole wo
man an’ myself on the edge o’ thestandin’
timber.
“It war in the fall secann o’ the year,
an’ the co -r> rl pc- I war all alone
myself potterin’ about and totin’ the
corn inter the crib. The ole gai
gone that day to the cross road store,
’bout five mile off, to git some grocery
fixins for the skin o’ abaar I’d shot the
week afore. She had the ole boss wi’
her, an’ for’nit for botli of them critters
they war away, Hed ey ther o’ ’em been
about the house I reckon they’d a’ been
blown sky high, as was mvsclf, an’
moutn’t ’a’ kum down so safe as I did.
“I war down by the eend o’ the clarin’
—that air eend furrest away from the
shanty. I war busy pickin’ off the veers
o’ corn an’ chuckin them inter a basket,
an’ didn’t notice ne’er a cloud in the sky
till all at once it sud’ently darkened
over, as if night had kum on three hours
afore its time. 1 hedn’t a moment to
make spekalashuns bout what it kod
meaD, tvhen thar kim sich a whizzin
an’ sc reekin’ an’ crack in an crashin as
gf General Jackson wi his hui arniA,
boss, fut an’ cannons, was pursuin’ the
Cherokee Injuns through the woods.
I kedu’t give the ghost o’ a guess what
war up, nor hed I any time for coujectcr
in’. Afore I ked count ten I war heisled
myself right up into the a’r, as ef I’d
sud’ently been supplied wi a pair o
wings, an’ flying’ like aeegle. I know'd
I war up in tbe a’r, but only for the
shortest space o’ time. Then all at once t
I didn’t know whar I was, the senseswar
knocked clean out o’ me.
“ When I rekivered them, which 1 did
EASTMAN, DODGE CO.. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1876.
arter somethin' like a hour, I reckin’ I
seed I war up in a tree ; but, boys, pree
haps in the most keurous preedickament
any man war in among tree tops. It war
a dead wood, one o’ them that I girdled
the year afore clarin’ the ground. As
tliar warnt no leaves on it, I ked see all
about, an’ what I did see were a caution
to ('rockett. r I har was no clarin’ any
longer. The hul country war cl’arin’—
that is, tliar stretched a strip o’ felled
orest a mile wide, or tharabout, to the
east’ard and west’ard, fur as my eye ked
reach. Ihc only trees stannin’ war some
o’ the dead woods on my bit o’ ground
thet, bein’ bare o’ leaves and branches,
lied gin no grup to the herrikin, which I
now perceived to have passed over the
Spot. ~
“I looked torst the place whar I ex
pected to see my shanty. Thar wan’t one
log on another, nor yit war thar a log in
sight. The shanty had been clur carried
off, the clay climbing along wi’ it, an’
wuss still the sticks o’ plenishin’ it con
tained. The boss shed and corn crib lied
also disappeared. Lucky the boss wan’t
tliar, nor mv ole woman neyther, else
they’d both a’ been switched up ’mong
the flyin’ furniter.
“ Wal, boys, while makin’ these obser
vashuns I was in a fix meself, an’ a
durned queerv one, as I’ve already gin
ye a hint. What do ye serpose it war ?
Wal, I needn’t wait, for ye’d hev neery
chance to guess it. I war in a fork !
“It war thuswise. The blast bed tuk
me up an’ carried my karkiss till it kim
in contack wi’ one o’ the outstritchin’
branches o’ the dead wood. This branch
lied two tines to it, partin’ like a pair o’
tailor’s shears jest a leetle ways open.
The puff o’ wind hed drawn me up
atween the two prongs, ’most splittin’
them apart. Thar I hed bekim wedged.
When I rekivered my senses I seed how
things stud. I was grupped by the twin
branches right ’rovin’ the ribs, jest below
the armpits, an’ out o’ that fix I soon
found thar warn’t no gettin’. The crotch
kep’ me as tight as if I’d been in a vise ;
an’ squirm as I wud ’twar plainly on
w'vuKihle to get clear o’ it. So I didn’t
try arter the fust wng s u „r two, for I
aecrl it would be a right dangerous busi
ness. The lim warn’t over thick an’ as
the sap was gone out o’ it, I seed thar
wur a possibility o’ its snappin’ right off
and vrecipitatin’ me to the groun*, not
less n tlmw f ee t Helow. Whenever I
made a mo\ e it wabout more than
teeled comfortable, so 1 u m y
mind to keep still. I hed to do'that, iv,r
thar was no other way.
“Wal, hoys, I needn’t tell ye, it war
anythin’ but a comfortable fix to be in.
To say nothin’ o’ the onpleasant position
wi' my legs danglin’ down, an’ the hard
dead-wood branches squeezin ag’in my
ribs, I hed the tliort to trouble me thet I
mout niver git releeved o’ the predica
ment. The ole ’oman mout ’a’ been in
the track o’ the liurrikin, on her way
hack from the cross-roads—for it had kim
that way—an’ if so, she an’ the boss an’
the grocery fixins, whar would they he
now ? ‘ That wur what troubled an’ per
plexed me. If she didn’t cum back,
who wood ? The clearin’ war out o’ the
way o’ all traffic. It mout be weeks afore
any one ’u’d be strayin’ in that direck
shun.
“Take my word for’t, boys, I war in a
ugly fix, an’ as the hours passed 1 feeled
skeerier and skeerier. I had jest begun
to give up hope, thinkin’ I must stay up
thar till I breathed my last, an’ then
stay like a ’possum thet’s bin shot an’
still clings wi’ his tail to a branch. I
may say I’d gin up hope, when I liearn a
screech thet made the blood run fresh
an’ sweet through every vein in my body.
It war the ole ’©man’s voice. I looked
down an’ see her seated on the boss, on
the spot whar our shanty hed stud.
She’d jest arrove, arter a good bit o’
trouble in makin’ her way through the
fallen trees. In a minit more she’d slid
out o’ the saddle, r an’ war stannin’ un
derneath me.
“ Wal, boys, ye may think it war all
o\ t-i, -v. . wrn’t. Mv ole ’oman war
thar down on the groan - . +1
tree. Thar war we, man an’ wife, not
more’n thirty feet apart. F’r all that,
we war as well sep’rated as if a Indiana
divorce court hed passed sentence atween
us. She ked do no more torst gittin’ me
down thun I myself; so thar war I in
the grup o’ thet fork jest ez tight ez
iver!
“An’ thar I hed to stay till she re
mounted the ole hoss an’ rode back to
the cross-roads store, whar a wheeno’ fel
lurs war soon gathered an’ kim on wi’
ropes an’ a ladder.
“They got me down at last; but 'twar
all a month afore my ribs feeled right
arter the ugly squeezin’ they’d experi
enced atween the two prongs o’ the dead
wood.
“ So, boys, ye kin be thankful to your
stars thet they niver put ye onto the
track o’ a lierrikin —when it war ragin.”
Asa colored resident of Detroit was
breasting the storm, with anew umbrella
over his head, he was halted by a friend
and brother, who asked, “Is dat your
umbrella?” “ Yes sail—cost me two dol
lars,” was the prompt reply. “Mr. Sav
age,” said the other, very solemnly,
“ when a man will pay two dollars for an
umbrella to keep de wet off’n a fifiy-cent
suit ob close, what’s de use to talk about
economy?”
In God }Ee Trust.
SELFISHNESS.
Ihe Confessions of a Man tcho Arkttoiclrdyes
His Infirmity.
“Nagrom,” Covington. Ky., writes to
the Cincinnati Commercial, as follows:
To-day I am seventy-five years of age.
and have been reviewing my life. Of all
men in the world, we think a selfish man
is to lie the most despised. It is the self
ish man who aims to gratify his own
pleasures and desires, regardless of the
consequences which may befall others.
At the age of nineteen I married, and
candor compels me to say that mv part
ner for life was one of the lovliest of
God’s creatures. Though previous to
our marriage she had received many
offers of marriage from men of wealth
and high position in tin world,-still this
true, noble-hearted woman preferred me
above all others, though fully cognizant
that she was marrying a poor man.
Three years after our marriage a legacy
of SIO,OOO was bequeathed to my wifi?!
In those days a man was looked upon as
“ wealthy” who could command SIO,OOO.
In a short time 1 purchased a fourth in
terest in the firm with which I had been
engaged for a number of years. The
profits were immense, and at the age of
twenty-six I was, indeed, a wealthy man.
At the age of twenty-eight six children
had been added to the family, ami right
here is where my selfishness began to
show. Though our business was still in
a flourishing condition, I began to im
press upon every member of the family
the necessity of being economical. The
children were denied every pleasure
when a pecuniary expenditure was nec
essary to contribute in any way to their
enjoyment. My family dreaded to ac
quaint me with their slightest wants,
knowing that the reply would be, “ You
must practice economy.” How many
times have I insisted on my wife wear
ing the same bonnet and dress “ justone
more season,” and have seen her wearing
the same cloak four or five winters; but
I must have anew overcoat each spring
and winter, and anew beaver as often
as the styles. I must also have the finest
patent-leather hoots and shoes, but my
wife.almost feared to mention that she
needed anew pair of gaiters. I have
seen her economize in various ways to
enable Ivor to purchase some article she
and, in truth, actually needed.
Mv children grew up in ignorance lie
cause I COU I A “oi oj.di-o lino mentG to
properly educate them. It was my own
useless expenditures that prevented my
full justice to my family. My
children are all of a good old age. My
wife is wrinkled and gray, and we are
both “passing down the hill of life.”
The hand that writes this, is a trembling
one. More than once have I had to wipe
my “specs,” so that T might see the
lines more clearly] It is too late to
make atonement for my cruelty and past
neglect; hut I male this true and hon
est confession a. 1 ? a warning to all meanly
selfish persons, that they may not folio V
in my footsteps, i For forty-five years
my expenses have varied but little each
year. My night lunches have cost me
each week $2,50; for one year, $l3O. I
have often attended the theatre five
nights in a week, and my expenses in
that line have cost me not less than $125
per annum. Whin not at the theatre, I
spent the remaining nights in some bil
liard hall—for, much to my regret, hut
few of my evenings were spent with my
family—and added $75 more to my ex
penditures each year.
My tobacco bill was. $ 25 per year
My cigar bill (four pur diem > was l lfi p<-r year
My bar bill was. 175 por ;. @ar
Champagne, twice per month, was no per year.
These, figures may seem startling, hut
they are, nevertheless, true. It really
appalled me when the sum total was
added up. To recapitulate.
Night lunches, per year Siao-fur 45 years
Theatricals, per year.... 224—for 45 years,’
Billiards, per year 75—for 45 years •; ->,75
Tobacco, per year 2.5-for 45 years! ij-j
< igars. per year I in—for 4-. t earr, ojam
Bar bills per year 175—fc.r 4.1 years, 5 7,."75
Champagne at table, yar... no—for 45 rears, 2,750
Carriage hire, each yea: 50-for 45 years, 2,350
Total year S7s6— for 45 years.s3s, 42o
Suppose, at the age of thirty, I had
put the $786 out at interest, and com
pounded it for for tv-five years, , calcula
tion would astound any man to see what
a weaiinv uum it ~ , . ,
_ . J "mid make me to-dav.
Let those who are £b r ,
, _ Mowing mmv foot
steps take Avarmng m tin..
LIOnTMX(i STROKES.
The fact that on the bodies of persons
struck by lightning are at times to be
found the outline impression of adjacent
natural objects, has prompted investiga
tion as to the true nature and cause of
this phenomenon The following incident
as recorded by Professor W. Q. Brown,
of the university of Georgia, will doubt
less recall to our readers others of a sim
ilar character, which have come within
their knowledge of personal observation :
On the 12th of July, 1875, a stroke of
lightning fell upora house in Americus,
Georgia, rendering insensible for a brief
period three persms—a child and two
adults—who were fitting in one of the
rooms. The two otter sides of this room,
which Avas at a correr of the house, had
each one window, ;nd a tree stood in
front of each windov, about twelve feet
distant. A third tee, a locust, stood
opposite the corner of the house, at a
distance about the lime as the others.
It was this tree whicuvas actually struck
by the bolt, the jotlul two remaining un
injured. At thl inJtant of the stroke :
the three persoss within were rendered
insensible fora time,.and,on their recov
ery, there were found impressed upon
the bodies of them all more or less dis
tinct images of the tree which was struck.
The child, who stood near the centre of
the room, was impressed upon the hack
and exactly opposite upon the stomach.
The entire tree was plainly to be seen,
every limb, branch, and even the severed
part, being faithfully reproduced. The
same impressions, though broken and
less c-„ mplete, were to lie seen on the
other occupants. Tha marks were not,
however, of a permanent character, hav
ing become indistinct before a month
had elapsed. Though, as has already
been suggested, this occurrence is neither
a rare nor an unfamiliar one, yet we
have till the present time received no
satisfactory explanation of it.
ALCOHOL.
The Influence of it* Abuse Cpou the Value
and Length of lAfe.
I)r. Elisha Harris, in a lecture before
the National Temperance Society of the
I nited States, on the “ influence of
alcohol ebrietv upon the value and
length of human lives,” said he should
not strain a single point to suit the pre
conceived notions which the most preju
diced may hold on the subject of alco
holic drinks. Even medical men do not
always appreciate the full value of facts
falling under their notice. The old and
bold assertion that “ the drunkard shall
not live out half his days ” remains true
after 2,000 years of quotation. There
are two ways of estimating the value of
a human life, two standards of measure
ment. First, the daily life and ability,
the health from day to day, and the
power that possession of health gives to
work ; and, secondly, the duration of
life, or longevity. Any excessive wear
and tear is sure to work prejudicially to
both these standards, and a great mis
take is made and great damage incurred
by mistaking alcoholic stimulation for
healthy vigor. The proof of this sub
ject rests no longer on mere opinion.
The actual physical effect of alcohol as
a stimulant can he registered as the pul
sations of the heart ore recorded. Dr.
Parks lias spent much time on this
problem, and in a perfectly healthy sol
dier he found the labor per diem of the
human heart as equal to the lifting of
122 tons one foot high. To this man
two ounces of alcohol were given the
first day, and the increased work thrown
on the heart was fifteen and a half ton's,
and the last day of the eight through
which the experiment ran the extra effort
was twenty-four tons, and this increased
action was followed by a reaction, a de
pression. Should the system have this
stimulus?
Dr. S. G. Howe after careful investi
gation concludes that two-thirds of all
the imbeciles in the Massachusetts asy
lums are so by reason of the inebriety of
the parents. Medical men are beginning
to find that this inebriety is beginning
to entail miseries that all the resources
of social science and medicine cannot
fully overcome. In Great Britain statis
tics show that between the ages of twenty
and thirty the chance of living for the
whole population is forty four years,
while for the intemperate the expectation
is fifteen and one-half years. Between
thirty and forty years the general ex
pectation is thirty-six years, while for
the intemperate it is thirteen years. Be
tween forty and fifty years the average
expectation is twenty-eight years, while
the drinker’s expectation is eleven and
a half years, and so on. The application
of these figures in American life is to
our disadvantage. Our whisky is quicker
than the English beer. The best medi
cal talent to-day is laboring to have al
cohol placed on a proper basis and to
check its indiscriminate use. The old
topers are a special class. They live be
cause they do nothing else but make a
specialty of their old toperism. Take
figures. Say one thousand young men
twenty years old, and drinkers, but not
drunkards, and then take another one
thousand men of equal age, abstainers.
The complement of life given them to
spare or spend, waste or save, will in the
end make a difference of twenty-eight
thousand years. The statistical differ
ence from a long series of observation
makes this figure for a single life twentv
•fight years eight months. What is the
worth nioney of this loss to the world?
In Europe aM England especially, in
the upper classes the drinking habits
have changed. Medical men are taking
the matter tvhere it properly belongs,
into their own bands.
SEEIXG YOURSELF AS A GHOST.
The possibility of this seems to be
shown by Mrs. Kemble, in this extract
from her reminiscences in the March
Atlantic . 1 habitually read while comb
ing and brushing my hair at night, and
though I made no use of my looking
glass while thus employed, having my
book, I sat (for purposes of general con
venience) at my toilet table in front of
the mirror. While engrossed in my
book it has frequently happened to me
accidentally to raise my eyes and sud
denly to fix them on my own image in
tiie glass, when a feeling of startled sur
prise,. as if I had known I was there
and did not immediately recognize my
own reflection, would cause me to re
main looking at myself, the intentness
with which I did so increasing as the
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face appeared t<> me not ray own; and
under this curious fascination my coun
tenance has altered, becoming gradually
so dreadful, so much more dreadful in
expression than any human face T ever
saw or could describe, while it was next
to impossible for me to turn my eyes
away from the hideous vision confront
ing me, that I have felt more than once
that unless by the strongest effort of will
I immediately averted my head, I should
certainly become insane. Of I
was myself a party to this strange fascina
tion of terror, and must, no doubt, have
exercised some power of volition in the
assumption of the expression that my face
gradually presented, and which was in
no sense a distortion or grimace, but a
terrible look suggestive of despair and
desperate wickedness, the memory of
which even now affects me painfully.
But though in some measure voluntary,
Ido not think I was conscious at the
time that the process was so ; and I have
never been able to determine the precise
nature of this nervous affection, which
beginning thus in a startled feeling of
sudden surprise went on to such a clr
max of fascinated terror.
THE GARB OF HEROI)IAS,
An English magazine, giving an ac
count of the dress of Judean belles two
thousand years ago, says: In the ward
robe of a Hebrew lady the most splendid
article of clothing was the turban, for
those who could afford it. The poor
people bad to be satisfied with winding
a piece of cloth around their head, and
fixing it as well as they could. The
turbans were of various colors, and wound
in different ways; some of them like a
high tower. Shoes and stockings were
unknown, but soles of leather were fas
tened with two latchets. The ladies,
who carried luxury into every depart
ment, and who are supposed, even in the
present day, to be far from indifferent to
a nice, neat boot, or elegant slippers, had
their shoes, or rather their sandals, and
their latchets made of colored leather;
dark blue and purple were favorite col
ors. The'ankles were decorated with
bracelets of gold or dainty silver chains
and rings, with tiny silver bells. Ear
rings were much thought of; we are told
of some that weighed 1,700 sheckels of
gold, and were so large a man could easily
put his hand through them. Some wo
men wore several rings with little bells
attached to them. They were generally
made of horn or silver. But the most
popular ring was the nose-ring. The left
nostril was pierced for this purpose, and
a ring made of ivory or metal put through
it. Bracelets were favorite ornaments,
and were generally worn on the right
arm. Some of them were exceedingly
large, so that they reached up to the
elbow. Rings on the fingers were worn;
chains of fine gold, or strings of pearls
with little silver balls or small tinkling
bells, were worn on the neck.
AXEUDOTES OF ,TOTIX BRIGHT .
Miss Kate Field sends from London
these anecdotes of John Bright, which
she has from high English sources:
When Artemus AVard was here he gave
a children’s party, to which one of John
Bright’s sons was invited, and from which
lie returned aglow with delight “ Oh,
papa,” exclaimed the little Bright, when
asked by the great Bright whether he
had enjoyed himself, “ indeed I did, and
Mr. Brown gave me such a nice name for
you, papa!” “ What was that?” in
quired the father. ‘‘ Why, he asked me
how that gay and festive cuss, the gov
ernor, was !” replied the child. Perhaps
you think the great Bright was highly
indignant at this taking of his name in
vain. He laughed. He didn’t laugh,
however, on auother occasion, during our
civil war, when the Prince of Wales,
while smoking a cigar with him on the
terrace of the house of commons, said to
him, “ Don’t you think, Mr. Bright, that
this war has rendered the Americans
heartily tirea ~ *-op U blican form of
government, and that they’ll a<i<, r ,
monarchy ?” “On the contrary,” an
swered Mr. Bright, “ this very struggle
that the Americans have gone through
will render their institutions dearer to
them than ever. The Americans are
eminently fitted for a republican form
of government. They will never aban
don it, and the English will never aban
don monarchy until they have a king
whom they detest.” Comment is un
necessary.
Population of thf. Globe. —Behm ,
and Wagner have published their annual j
review of the population of the globe, in
which they give many new and impor
tant data, and especially anew and com
plete measurement of the areas of the in
habited earth and the density of the
population. From the volume issued
by them as a supplementary number to
Petermann’s M'dtheilungen we can take
only the following figures, which give
the areas and populations of the greater
sections of the earth : For Europe the j
area is 2,700,000 square miles; popula
tion, 303,000,000. Asia, 13,000,000
square miles, and population 790,000,- {
000. Africa, 8,700,000 square miles;
population, 206,000,000.. America, 12,-
000,000 square miles; population, 84,-i
000,000. Australia and Polynesia,
2,500,000 square miles; population,'
4,500,000.
Git A It-: A SI) GAI.
It's an unpleasant fact that what
your friends call -self-possession, your en
emies call brass.
Mrs. Kirby, of (.laidwell county, N.
C., recent y l<t eight children by dyp
tlicria in such quick succession that four
were buri together.
Bain is the rirepet t thing we have in
our nature, and union through pain has
always seemed more holy than any
other.— llaflam.
■ A jawbone sixteen feet long is to be
exhibited at the centennial by Massa
chusetts. Tut it in the woman’s depart
ment, by all means.
.. How man can afford to give away
an eighteen dollar chronio with a pound
of dollai a, puzzles people who don’t
know the mmense profits made on tea.
. It is said that a woman of Xenia,
Ohio, offered her husband a divorce the
other day for a seal-skin cloa*. That
was no sign, however, that she was par
ticularly anxious for the cloak.
.. Night.—
The locusts are leafless and bare:
The desk world is mantled with snow ;
I stand in the cold, wintry air,
And think of the sweet 'ong-ngo.
On a dark, lonely house, o er the way,
The silver stars silently gleam ;
Alone, in the starlight, it stands
Like the ghost of a beautiful dream.
The locusts are leafless and bare ;
I’he bleak world is mantled with snow- ;
The light in the w indow is gone—
The light of the sweet long-ago.
-Eugene J. Hall.
. .A “leap year necktie” for gentlemen
is out. We have not seen it, but sus
pect it is a young lady’s sleeve, with an
arm in it, and goes all the way around
the neck. Every enterprising young
gentleman should have one.
. . It Was Buchanan Read who, when a
lady at table, trying to repeat it, could
remember nothing beyond the first line of
“ I/Ct the toast tic fair woman,”
quietly whispered to her, “ Let the toast
be, fair woman.’
. . An Albany minister said in a recent
sermon : “ What is the tendency of the
present fashions, in reference to assisting
or retarding the race for salvation? Our
beloved sisters arc so appareled that they
can hardly walk, much less run. There
seems to be a tremendous pull-back
somewhere.”
..Best at East.—
After the shower, the .t ranquil sun :
•Silver stars when the day is done.
After the snow, the emerald leaves,
After the harvest, golden sheaves,
After the clouds, the violet sky :
Quiet woods when the wind goes bv.
After the tempest, the lull of waves ;
After the battle, peaceful graves.
After the knell, ttie wedding hells;
Joyful greetings from sad farewells.
After the bud, the radiant rose;
After our weeping, sweet repose.
After the burden, the blissful meed ;
After the furrow, the waking seed.
After the flight, the downy nest;
Over the shadowy river—rest.
. .“It is better to yield a little,” says
some cheap philosopher, “than to quar
rel a great deal.” He should have said,
and would have said had he been a true
philosopher, that it is better to yield a
great deal than to quarrel a little. The
husband and wife who bear this con
stantly in mind may be 1 happy, even
without a baby.
. .One of the novelties of anew hotel
in Jacksonville, Florida, is a crystal
chandelier, in the bridal chamber. By
touching a button it is lighted; at the
st me moment out springs a little cupid,
who strikes with a hammer a chime of
bells, which peal out in the sweetest
melody, “Rest in this bosom,” “Lot me
kiss him for his mother,” etc.
. This is hard. But it comes from Von
i Bulow. He said to an in Chi
cago: “ I tell you the ouly reason why
I play Beethoven Schumann, Mendels
sohn and all tliesc, is because the gigan
tic ignoramuses with the inevitable beer
glass —the German mu sic-teacher in
America —has interpreted so many ol
these badly. I would rather from choice
play Wagner and Liszt.”
. .Kit Carson’s remains have lain since
1868 in a coyote patch, under the shade
of a couple of cottonwoods by the road
side on the Arkansas (southern Colorado),
without even a piece of picket-railing to
protect the grave from the wolves, or a
pencil mark on a shingle for a headstone,
to tell the traveler that Kit Carson sleeps
beneath it.
..The intellectual department of the
New York Herald contributes the follow
ing : “ When the transatlantic cable
was laid, not only were the depths of the
sea taken, but specimens ol the ocean’s
bed in different places, which were found
to be unconsolidated chalk—that is,
eighty five per cent, was shells or chalk
material, and the chalk-beds now worked
were formed Just an similar beds are
forming to day in the depths of the
North Atlantic. These chalk-beds were
formed by the skeletons of microscopic
animals as minute as the finest dust.”
The late king of Siam had eighty
one children, and he wanted all of them
to be educated in English. Mrs. Leon
owens says of the Siamese potentate:
“ Even the members of his body arc
specially named, as for instance his head
bears a long, many-svllabled title, signi
fying the sacred, supreme, majestic top!
The royal head is a sacred member, and
a little prince had bis hair all shaved off
because he had been contaminated by
being patted on the head by his English
governess.”
•A sporting Indian gentleman the
Zemidar of Walloor, is, according to the
Times of India, about to present to the
Prince of Wales “a very pretty and
unique present,” namely, a four-in-hand
of antelopes which have been perieetlv
broken to harness, and are as handy on
the roads as the best team of horses.
“A more graceful spectacle,” adds an
enthusiastic Londoner on the prospect
in the. Pall Mall Gazette, “can hardly be
conceived than that of a pair of antelopes
guided by the light hand of a lady in
gorgeous attire through the streets of
London on a bright summer afternoon.