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About The Summerville gazette. (Summerville, Ga.) 1874-1889 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1875)
TIMELY TOPICS. The government has forwarded 2,000 improved Springfield rifle* to the state armory of Texas for militia purposes and possible use on the Mexican border. Aboct ona hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Schiller, including the Lconhardt family of Augusta, Ga. According to a recent report from army headquarters, over 1,700 men have deser ■>! within the last ten months, b in a proportion of one in 14. Tub Knoxville and Charleston Railroad has been finally disposed ef to Maj. Thos. O’Connor ,V Cos., the difficulties in the way of tho purchase having been satisfactorily settled. A. J. Alexander, ofJWoodburn Farm, Ky., has sold to Mr. Fox, of England, tho 24th Duke of Airdrie and the 20th Duchess of Airdrie at #30,000 for the two. Our national debt is #2,131,000,000; the total of state debts, #390,000,000 ; county debts, #180,000,(XXI; city and town debts, #570,000,000 ; total, #3,271,- 000,000, The principal objectof Vice-President Wilson’s trip to the south at this time is said to be to visit the spot at Austin, Texas, where his only son, an officer in i the regular army, died. The terrible fires which have been sweeping who'e dislricts in Pennsylva nia are attributed to the great drouth, arising from the reckless felling of tim her, which diminishes the rainfall and opens an inviting field for ihe flames. The Tnman line of steamships, which for some yearn has been plying between New York and Liverpool, intends to transfer some of its ships to Baltimore, j with the expectation of establishing a line between that city and Liverpool. Con. Robert M. and Stephen A. Douolass, sons of the late Stephen A. Douglass, receive an award for 1,457 bales of cottoD, or about #259,400, 1 seized in the state of Miaeissi| pi on the I maternal plantation. The luxury of calling a lawyer a shy ster in St. Louis is ro cheap that no newspaper need practice self denial or ec momy iu this regard. The Republi can has jut been assissed one cent damages as the result of a protracted j libel suit. Kpain Ihs settled damages for the slight put upon the Mecklenburg brig Gustav. She managed to scrape up $17,000 to fork over to the German embassador at Madrid. The flag stands well, and the Dcutsch goose hangs high pretty much everywhere nowadays. No woman can wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning and listen to the cease less crowing of a dozen neighboring roosters without an emo ion of thank fulness to a merciful and all wise Provi dence for denying man both the genius and the inclination to crow. Merchants of New York city com plain that their expenses hate be£n in ortased by from SSOO to 6,000 in con sequence of the double postagr en third cl iss mail matter. The boaid of trade have appointed a % committee to collect the feeth and take measures to obtain a repeal of the law by the next congress. Now it is Queen Victoria who is again threatened with assassination. O’Con nor, who, some time since, made an attempt to shoot her, was found stand ing in tl e identical ipot, the other day, where the former affair took place, ob serving the queen. Of course he whs packed off to the insane asylum. Cait Lawson lm astonished Ihe geographers by discovering a m untain six miles high, on the island of New G linea. This a mile higher thau Mount Everest, of the Himalayan range, hitherto believed t> be the highest mountain in the world. It is rather singular that such a protuberance has not been seen before. The girls of Warsaw, Ky., have nnan imously resolved to pm chase no dry goods costing more thau twenty-fire ce-.ts per yard for the space of one year. Here is a woman's reform movement which, if carried into effect throughout the entire south, would do more fo cure the ills of 3hort crops and high rates thau any plan we have yet seen sug gested. One of the most recent of the sick ening S'. Louis sensations is that which tells of the discovery of the putrefy ing body of a small-pox patient in the bottom of a well, from which a num ber of families had been getting water for some time. Strange to sav, the people did not detect any peculiarity in the taste of the beverage. They will henceforth be proof against the small pox. A todho man left W alla-Walla several weeks since for the pur pot e of making a general four of Northern California. B fore darting, he solemnly promised his friends to write back all the p r ticulars of the coantry. But one letter hrs been itceived from him, containing two lii es, which tajs : “ The girls are all from B s on, and wbi-ky is twenty, five c.nts a d.ink.” Dio Lewis declares that he refuses to lease a hotel <•* his “ (xnept ou condi tion (hit wine and brandy are excluded from the co.ki g." H-> is quite right in this. We never see a parcel of men, women and children g> reeling and staggering from the dining-room of a hotel where wine and brandy are used in cookii g without shedding tears of blood acd experiencing emotions of ihe soul which c in be soothed and quelled only by a B -tirbon cocktail or a glass or two of beer. Exchange. The surveying party sent out by the Government, to locate the line of the proposed ship canal across the Isthmus lie J§mwef bille fafefte VOLUME 11. of Panama, having completed the work, have retnrned. The expedition was subjected to numerous hardships and daugers to health, but no loss of life i among the officers or men. The earliest eßtima'e, #50.000,000 for the comple tion of the work, is not now regarded as sufficient The Napipe Atratro route is the shortest, but requires five and a half miles tunneling. The Cheyenne leader evidently lacks confidence in the veracity of Red Clond. It says ; “ Prof. Marsh may or may not be as good a‘fossil sharp’ as he is a judge of the veracity of au Indian, but he is making himself ridiculous iu try ing to impress upon those who will con sent to be so bored by him that R<*l Cloud is a truthful, reliable roan. We, in Wyoming, know this distinguished Ii dinn to be a treacherous murderer and a treaty breaker, and a harborer of Indian murderers and thieves. LATE NEWS SUMMARY. EAST. Terrible fires are sweeping through tho mining regions of Pennsylvania, which aro reported as of incendiary origin in many ca*en. The miners are beiug burned out, and much suffering will follow. % President Jewett has been appointed receiver for the Erie railroad on a suit brought by the attorney general of the at ate on a gen eral allegation of the insolvency of tho com pany. Mr. Jewett ito Resume his duties as soon as he shall have filed bonds of #500,000. The order requires him at once to file an in ventory of all the property of the road; to run it as usual; to prosecute and defend suits at law when the same shall be necessary ; to pay salaries and wagos; to borrow money ; to re deem pledged securities, and in line to do all things necosrary for tho prosecution of the business c f the road. WEST Gen. Custer is to lead anotner column of & thousand men into the Black Hills and beyond this summer, to make sure about the gold, stir up the Indians, and drivo out the miners. Two vessels loaded with wheat, after trying a week to find or force an entrance into Buffalo harbor through the ice, have returned to Chicago. It is said the ice is closely packed ten miles out from the former pjrt, and it may be June before any water craft can enter. The musketH furnished to the Indians in trade by the Hudson Bay company are of tho old flint lock pattern, the barrels being so thin that the owners are often seen straight ening them across their knees Perhaps this is one reason why the company which rules the greater area of. British America lias no trouble with its Indians. SOUTH The mayor of Pensacola, Florida, niters a reward for the author of the statement ihat two deaths from yellow fever had oc curred in that city. The planters of Alabama are in much better spirits than they were at this time last year. The corn and cotton prospeotß are very good, and tho former crop is made superior to the latter, which speaks well for the conntry. A youog negro died from consumption in Lebanon, Ky., last week after a somewhat novel aonrse of treatment. Homo negro Galen had assured his friends that the patient wonld get well if fed on dog meat. The prescription was faithfully followed, but, unfortunately for medical science, proved ineffectual. At a recent meetiigof the city council of Little Itock, Ark., an ordinance was passed levying a licens“Of slooon drummers. Against this the commercial travelers protested, and about a dozen of them met and resolved to withdraw from tho city trade, rather thau pay tho license. Representatives of Memphis, New Orleans, Bt. Louis and Philadelphia houses were at the meeting. Should the worst apprehensions be realized in regard to tho fruit crop in the northern sections of the country, the prospects still further south are said to be remarkably good. The New Orleans Picayune says it is estimated that the fruit yield this summer wil be quadruple that of last year, and thelargest ever known at the south, and that in this abundance Louisiana is to offer the best fruit crop she has ever produced. The Riverside nail plate mill and new nail factory at Wheeling, W. V., were totally destroyed by fire last week. The loss will probably reach $75,000, which is nearly, if not entirely, covered by insurance. The greatest loss is on machinery and stock of tho plate mill. Having run continuously through the nail-feeders’ strike, the mill was literally filled with nail-plate. The old nail factory was saved. MISCELLANEOUS. The diminution of the production of whisky, owing to the seizure of so many dis tilleries, is observable in the internal revenue receipts. A series of terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the beginning of May in the Province of Borronaa, Asia Minor, in which 600 houses were destroyed. Accounts already received Bhow that 160 lives were lost and 187 persons wore injured The total number of kil ed is still unknown. The secretary of the treasury has directed the retirement of $9-7,700 from the currency balar.ee of the treasury, the same being 80 per cent or tho additional circulation issued to banks during the present month. Until further directions the amount of United grates notes outstanding to be use and as circu lating medium, shall not exceed $367,055. The death of Gt-n. Breckinridge leaves but four gentlemen living who have been elected to the second highest office in the United States. They are Hanoiba! Hamlin, Andrew Johnson, Schuyler Colfax, and Henry Wilson. The mortality among vice-presidents dors not seem to be as great as that among the presidents. Mr. Johnson is the only ex president now living, and be was not elected to that office by tho people. FOREIGN. An article has appeared in the Figaro suggesting that the revet ge of France bo postponed a hundred years, and canse a great sensation. It is asserted by La Liberia that ihe article has been made thosubject of a cab inet discussion. •SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 10, 1875. JOHN JONES AND I. BY CHARI. KH <4. AM KM. >Ve had a tiff: “ John Jones,” said I, “ You should’nt leave your cow at largo I” “ You mend your fence!” was his reply ; And so ran charge and counter-charge. A trifling thing ; tho cow had cropped Some blades of grass, some heads of grain ; And yet for this a friend I droppod, And wrought for both a lasting pain I knew that I had played the fool, Yet thrust uiv better thought aside, Aud wbeu my blood had time to cool, Became a greater fool through pride. Upon two houses a shadow sate ; Two cordial wives grew shy atnl cool; Two broods of children learned to hate, Two jrartiea grew iu church and school. John Jones’s pew was next to mine ; What pleasant greetings passed between ! As sacred an the bread aud wine Had our communing i nembhip been. Oft had our voices swelled the song ; Oft bad we bowed iu silent prayer, Aud shared the worship of the throng Who sat iu heavenly places there. But how shall souls in exile sing The Lord’s sweet sons ? The holy notes Of fellowship, ami .joy, ami yoaee, Aud pardon, stuck in both our throat’). 'Some lessened relish for nil good, Made life for both to doadcu down ; And nature darkened to her mood, And answered back our settled frown. One summer eve I sat and smoked ; Good Doctor Deane came riding by; lie Maid, in voice a little choked, “ John Jones in hurt, and like to die.” A sudden Are shot through my brain, And burned, like tow, the sophist lies; And on my heart a sudden pain Fell, like a tolt from hidden skieH. I stumbled o’er the threshold where My Hhadow had not passed for years; I felt a shudder in the hand A woman gave me through herjtears. When ho no more the pulse could feel, I saw’ the doctor turn away ; Some mighty impulse made me kneel Beside the bed as if to pray. Yet not the Maker’s name I called ; As one who plunges ’neath the wave, A swimmer strong and unappalled, Intent a drowning life to save ; So all my soul’/up-gathered dowers, In anguish of desire, intense, Kent that depurtiug oue a cry That leaped the abyss of broken sense. Back to tho dim eye came a ray, O’er the white lace a faint smile shone; I felt, as \were a spirits touch, Tue stiffened Augers press my own. O, resurrection power of God, Which wrought that miracle of pain! From burled hearts tore Off the shroud, Aud made dear friendship live iigain. Beside one grave two households stood Aud, weeping, beam the pastor say, “ That out of death He bringeth life, And out of darkness ooineth day.”. Was I ohief mourner in the train ? Ah, who could guess of all the throng, The strange, sweet comfort iu the pain Of one who mourns forgiven wrong? WON BY CARDS. “ For Christine.” “For Christine!” the stranger re peated, as lie took his place at the table, while the old woman, with a ringing laugh, shuffled the cards once more, and again tne game went on. It was a wild, wierd scene, which per haps could not have been witnessed in any other part of the globe. A group of men, in every description of dress, numbering no less than a hnndred, stood looking on—some in silence, tome nttering oaths and bandy ing coarse jokes, as they watohed Madame Dupray, the wickedest woman in the colonies, fleece her last victim. Two weeks before, she had announced that she should set her daughter up to be played for. If the man lost he was to pay Madame one hundred ponnds; if he won—Christine was to pass into his hands, the Madame’s control ovor her at an end ! This was Madame’s latest desperate game, and in anticipation of this she had kept her daughter in seclusion. Only a few had ever looked upon her face, and those few raved so about her beauty that it inflamed the hearts of their eomradi a. To night she had stood before them. Never had the ir eyes fallen on such loveliness. Madame arrayed her in costly robes ; but even though she had been clad in rags, her rich, radiant, dusky beauty would have bewildered the (sye. Her beauty infatuated the beholder, and one by odo the men advanced, and flung down tbeir one hundred pound stake, and one by one they arose, de feated, while Madame’s servant swept the gold away. Some risked, but th# game went on ; others played game after game, until their pockets were cleaned ont, before they wro old give up. Madame was exultant; she was reap ing a rich harvest to-night. What a lucky thought it had been. Her skill in cards was something almost infernal, as many poor fellows could attest to their Borrow. Hardly a miner, with his bag of gold, came down from the mountains whom the Madame did not lure into her deu ; aDd once in the fascination would be so strong that, when they went out, they did so ruined. Some had retrieved their fortunes ; others “had gone to the dogs ” aud many a poor fellow had filled a suicide’s grave. To-night bnt few had intended to play when they entered, but now the last victim yvas sitting down. He kept his hat slouched over his eyes ; no one kDew him. He had dropped in to look on ; he had no intention to have any thing to do with this “hellish game,” as he called it. Madame played like one possessed, but her good luck was leaving her. She laid down no card her opponent could not defeat; and, as the game progressed, stillnesii reigned, every sound died out —all were absorbed in seeing if, in d ed, Christine Dupray was to be won to night. Otie card more 1 Madame threw the pack on the floor in a rage, and the stranger arose, saying : “ Christine is mine !” A wild, deafening ciy arose ; though deflated themselves, the men were glad that someone bad won her—Madame could not play that game over. The stranger advanced to Christine he saw the wild look of affright in her beautiful, dusky eyes, and his voice in tuitively became softer, as be said : “ Got your hat. This is no place for you. You will bo safer with me than here," glancing around upon the rough, wild g oup. As one in a dream she obeyed trim, and the men parted to let them pass out. Madame faid no word of adieu to her daogater ; she only muttered curses upon the fellow whoso skill was greater than her own. The stranger took tho girl to a hotel ami early next morning he took her “ to parts unknown” to those who had tried to win her; but in reality, oniy to place her in a good boarding sohool in one of tbejoities. Ho paid for a year’s tuition in ad vance. He gave them his address, wished them to write twico a year and inform him of her progress ; aud then, bidding tho girl to keep to herself all of her history, he took his departure. ■ Four years passed away, Christine’s beauty had increased', not diminished. She had not looked upon her gnardian’s face (for as such she spoke of her own er), hut he was ever in her mind, asso ciated with that awful night. Even now, all tho swarm of wild faces swam before her vision nod made her sick at heart. From the little, ignorant, four teen-year old child, she had developed into a glowing, educated, refined young lady of eighteen, and now a lotter came addressed to herself. It read : “Ifr is four years t inoe I saw you. Your school days are drawing to a close. I am coming to ask yon to he my wife, and go with me to a home of your own.” There was uo word that she belonged to him, nothing that indicated his own ership of her, but she shrank baok from the letter with affright. She could not meet this man ! She Mare not meet him ! What must Bhe do ? She weut out into the open air. At a little distance she could see a steamer at the wharf, almost ready to leavo for the Australian shore. A wild thought to escape came into her mind. She had been kept with money which she had made hut little use oft Perhaps she had enough now to takfufier far away. She returned to the school, secured her money aud jewelry, ami hastened to the boat. She had just time to write a note before the plank was pulled in, and amid the cheers and good-byes the boat started on her journey. She purchased a ticket, making au excuse for coming so late that she had just received a letter which summoned her to England. Two days Inter Mr. Hardeliffe made his appearance at the school and asked for his ward, Christine. The matron handed him a sealed envelope. It con tained the note she had scribbled on the moment of her departure. She wrote: , “I cannot stay to meet yon. lam now on board the Eagle, and before you get this will bo far away. I am not going out of ingratitude. I remember what you have done for m>; you rescued n e from degradation worse loan death, and have given mu an edufl'ijf'ou which hut few in this country received. And now out of the goodness of your heart, uot knowing how else to dispose of me, you are willing to marry me rather than allow me to he card, on the world friend less. Such an act I cannot permit. You shall not be. hound to Christine Dupray, daughter of the ‘ wickedest woman in the colonies.’ Tho blight would he fatal to us both. I leave my thanks, and Christine will pray for you as long as the breath of life is in her body. Farewell, forever.” lie reread the note, and then turned to the preceptress, who was standing ntrvouslv awaiting him to speak. “ My protege has gone to England,” he said, quietly. “Bhe could not wait to consult mo. I hope she lmd money enough to defray her expenses,” The woman breathed more freely. Bhe had expected a scene—expected to he upbraided for not keeping a stricter watch over her pupil. “I think she had,” she answered. “You were very liberal in your allow ance of spending money, and Miss Christine was very careful ; she never frittered it away as other girls do.” “ Have you any hill against mo ?” he queried. “ None whatever.” “ Then good day I” and he was gone. Six years later. Guy Hardeliffe had succeeded in the mines beyond his wildest expectation. Almost at the last moment, when his courage was beginning to fail, he had struck upon such a streak of gold, in Golden Gulch, that his fortune was made in a few days. Then word came to him that his uncle was dead, and he came into the Hardeliffe property aud title. He sailed for England, and went to his new home. Everything was strange to him. Tho customs of his country, the stillness of his new life—everything was dull—and he gave up, amt went to Paris, to see if he could there he amused for a little while. Mademoiselle Bantelli was advertised, and many were flocking to see her. Bhe was the new cantatrice ahont whom all the men were going crazy. Her beauty and tier voice were raved about, nutil Guy Hardeliffe determined to go, and see her for himself. Once iu the building, lie was spell bound. In tho beautiful whose glowing loveliness infatuated al 1 who went to see or hear her, he recog nized the girl won by a game of cards —Christine Dupray 1 He wa'cbed, he listened, and in that hour he felt his doom sealed. No woman had ever thrilled him as this woman did; no woman had ever seemed the same. He made no remarks, but asked his fri* nd her history. “She came from Australia,” his friend said—an orphan, alone. Her voic *, on shipboard attracted the atten tion of old Mezzo, and he engaged her to go to Italy and have her talents educated. Bhe did so, and when he introduced her into the public sho was immediately successful. Men were mad about her,” he continued, “wher ever ehe went,” and M< zzo’s widowed sister traveled with her, and took care of her, and no one could say a word derogatory to her.” Hardeliffe listened like one iu a dream. “ Introduce me,” he said. When brought in close contact with her. he admired her even more deeply than when she was on tho stage ; but to him, as to the rest, she maintained the coldest politeness. He knew that she did not ree ; u)ZJ him, for he h and changed his appearance, and his true name she hail icver known. Day by < y he haunted her, and when she was. about to leave Paris be suddenly became renzied, and told her ho could uot live longer without her. Bhe listened to his torrent of words with trembling lips. “Do not say more,” slio pleaded. “You do not know what you isk, I shall never marry.” “ Why not ?” “My past,” she said, quietly—“ I onnnot reveal it, and it forbids such n thing.” lie approached nearer. “ Christine,” ho said softly—“ Chris tine, I know it all, and there is nothing iu it that should separate us.” “ You—you ” —she faltered—“ were thee “The man who won yon. Christine, let me win you again.” And he did. Ho never regretted hav ing won Christino for his wife from “ tho wickedest woman in tho colo nies,” who confessed at the last moment that sho was not her own daughter, but only au adopted child. THE PARIS MUTUELS. Wliy They \V<rc tlaiiUhct! from the French Yurt. At the recent Longchamps races, tho gambleis were out in great force, but there were no Paris mutuel machines, as they have been abolished from the course entirely for tho second time— the first by order of the emperor aud latterly by the republican prefect of police. Cheating bad been detected by the police in the working of these machines, and the pablic had been swindled most egregiously, hence their banishment not only from the course, but to the other side of the boundary lines of France. Oneway of cheating, it is Hftid, was by altering tho numbers iu the machine on a particular horse at tho moment of his winning so as to make more tickets Bold on that particu lar horse than had been indicated before the start, while another way was by getting in league with the trainers aud jookeys, getting them to throw races, and by purchasing all the tickets, or nearly all, on the horse that had to win, the public were not only robbed of all the money they bet on the other horses in the race, but, worse than all, the owners of the race horses were sold and beaten by rascally set of scamps who bad thus bought up the jockeys and trainers. Villuuies of this kind, it ia reported here, were practiced by a cer tain gambler in tho United States last year, who was not a worker or owner of the Paris mutuels, but a great better on races. Ho bribed tho jockeys to throw races, and by this fellow’s tricks many a good liorso was beaten when he should have won his races. I montiou this fact, as many people over here seem to know something of the manner in whioh gambling is oondneted iu America. It is said also by the police here that many of the operators of the Paris mutuel machines in France beeamo owners of race horses themselves, or obtained oontrol of them through bribery, and were thus enabled to defraud the hackers of horses opposed to those in the in terest of the mutuel machines. When this villainy was detected by tho polico here, the hooks of the gamblers were seized, as well as the cash in hand, and they scattered tho villains from their haunts, to find other instruments than the Paris mutuels to do their swindling with. But for these exposures the Paris mutuels would be still in opera tion. The Suet Butter Manufacture. Iu spite of the prejudice whioh exists against suet butter, it is a fact that the manufacture has of late made great pro gress ; and the quantity of tho material now cousnmed is certainly now larger than ever before. There is a large fac tory in Hamilton, Canada, from which some 2,000 lbs. per week of imitation butter are shipped to all parts of the world. Another and still larger estab lishment in Boston, Mass., turns out a very great product. In many cases, it is said, this bu ter finds its way directly to the butter producing districts of New York and New Jersey, and then is sent to market as genuine spring butter. It is certain that imraenso quantities of the oleomargarin are sold by dealers as true butter, and that tho profits of the trade aro very large. Wo see it noted in a daily contemporary that the suet compound is in use in some of the prin cipal hotel and rostanrants in this city, and that the frequenters of these places have as yet not discovered the fact. We *do not pretend to the skill of the pro fessional butter taster; but we have no difficulty in instantly recognizing tho artificial compound. We may add that, not long ago, we discovered it on the table of oue of our Now York hot Is ; and after satisfying ourselves as to its identity, wo taxed the proprietor with its use. He strenuously denied the charge ; but at a subsequent meal, we, fouud the “ox butter” fas tho Harvard students have named it) replaced by “cow butter.” We do not mean to say that the oleo margarin is unsavory or unwholesome. On the contrary, it is made with the utmost nicety from the cleanest of ma terials. Neither is it unpleasant in any marked degree to the palate, nor to the Btomaeh. It certainly is infinitely bet ter than the abomination sold by grocers und r the generic name of “cooking butter.” Still most persons have a prejudice against suet butter, aud that feeling, so far from being weakened, has been strengthened by the knowl edge that the reprehensible practice of selling the imitation as the genuine is so widely jiractised. If the material were advertised and sold uniformly for what it is and ou its merits, wo have po doubt but that the prejudice ■against it would in a great measure subside. For shipping to hot climates, it is, no doubt,Mpr better than the but ter usually seht'Vi southern ports.— Ncicnlijie American. A Williamstown boy became a man in this way : While hoeing corn one after noon he turned to his father, who was working with him, and said : “ What time is it, father?” “ Half-past two," replied the senior farmer. Throwing down his hoe, the son graduated from his farmer life with this remark : “Twenty-one jeers ago, father, at lialf pa-t two in the afternoon, I was born ; you can and“ yonr own hoeing after this 1” There are eight mill'ons of Qeraan speaking people in ihe United Btates, and tbev have three hundred newspapers and periodicals in their own language. NUMBER 23. USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Dampness will cause houey to become thin and watery. Live fish (pickerel or trout) will keep a cistern free from worms and bugs. Silver ware may bo kept bright and clean by coating the articles (warmed) with a solution of collodion diluted with alcohol. Water containing about seven grains of salt in each pint, is, wlion used con tinuously, a poison to the weaker forms of vegetation. To make groen gold, melt together nineteen grains pure gold and five grains pure silver. Tho metal thus prepared has a beautiful green shade.® Bandarac varnish is the best material for mending plaster models. Saturate tho broken surfaces thoroughly, press them well together, and allow them to dry. Five parts of sifted whiting mixed with a solution of one part glue, togeth er with a little Venice turpentine to ob viate the brittleness, makes a good plastic material whioh may be kneaded into figures or any desired shape. It should bo kept warm while being work ed. It becomes as hard as stone when dry. In some parts of tho country, there have been largo numbers of tho orchard or tent caterpillars which have left their rings of eggs on the young twigs. If these are now cut off with a dipping pole, it will pievent iu every instanco a large nest of caterpillars, and be much more easily done tliau alter the latter have grown. Unless the mouth is frequently and carefully cleansed, it becomes infested with vegetable and animal parasites. These cause decay of the teeth. Soap is the best materful for preventing the development of the fungi and for neu tralizing tho acid. Precipitated chalk mixed with tho soap assists the cleans ing notion. The German washerwomen use a mixture of ozs. tu pen tine and 1 oz. spirits of ammonia well mixed together. This is put into a bucket of warm water, iu which I n>. soap has been dis solved. The olothes are immersed for twenty-four hours and then washed. The cleansing is said to be greatly quickened, and two or three rinsings in cold water remove the turpentine smell. Among some uneducated people thore is a superstition that the ticking noise made by n little insect popularly called I the “death-watch” forebodes a death in the house. This little creature is a beetle of tho timber-boring species. The tick is only a call one to another, and if uot answered it is repeated. It ,ij produced by the beetle lifting itself upon its hind legs and beating its head against the place while it is standing. Iu cld houses theso inseots may be beard rappiDgall day long. In using Paris green to exterminate the potato hugs, the poison thould ho mixed with tho cheapest grade of flour, one pound of green to ten of flour. A good way of applying it to the plants is to tako an old two-quart tin fruit oan, molt off the top, and put in a wooden hoad in which insert a broom handle. Bore a hole in the head, also, to pour the powder in, and then punch tho bot tom full of holes about the size of a No. 6 shot. Walk alongside the rows when the vines are wet with dew or rain, and make one Bboot at each bill. To Remove a Ring prom the Finger. —ln case a finger ring becomes too tight to pass over the joint of the finger, the linger should first be held in cold water to re luce any swellii g or inflam mation. Then wrap a rag soaked in hot water around the ring to expand the metal, aud lastly soap the finger. A needle threaded with strong silk can then lie passed between the ring and finger, and a person holding the two ends and pulling the silk, while sliding it ar.unil the periphery of the ring, will readily remove tho latter. The alloy popularly known as oroide, from which a large number of cheap watobes, chains, and trinkets aro now manufactured, is made of pure copper 100 parts, tin 17 partH, magnesia 16 parts, sal ammoniac } part, quicklime J part, tartar of commerce 9 parts. The copper is first melted, then tho magne sia, sal ammoniac, lime, and tartar in powder are added little by little and briskly stirred for half an hour. The tin is lastly mixed in in grains until all is fused. The crucible is covered, and the fusion maintained for 35 minutes, when tlie dross is skimmed off and the alloy is ready for use. Caterpillars. —Tho tent caterpillar, eggs of which encircle the small twigs in rings of 400 to 500 each, is most easily destroyed before it hatches, or early in spring. Cut them off and burn thorn. In an extensive plantation, we caused an activo man to pass through early iu spring and clear them out. He destroyed about 3,000 nests in two days, thus preventing the hatching of over a million of eggs—more than all the birds in the township would have done after hatohin . In some parts of the country they aro abundant this year, and the sooner they are looked after the better. Going to Bed, —We should never go to bed with a hope to rest, sleep aud perfect repose until “ all ready.” The preliminaries for retirement arc all just as important as are those for the day’s duties. Wo must not go to bed with au overloaded stomach, in au anxious or troubled state of mind, with cold ex tremities, or without anticipating and responding to the calls of nature. Be fore or in a stove-heated room is not tho best, way to get warm for a night’s sleep. We should take such vigorous exercise as will give quick circulation to tho blood, and uot depend on artifi cial, but on natural hi at. Attention to all these things should be followed by such devotional exercises as will bring all the feelings, emotions and senti ments into accord with the Divine will, subduing passion, removing hatred, maeice, jealousy, revenge, and opening the portals of heaven to all who seek rest, peace acd sweet repose. It 'S a happy custom with many to conclude the evening’s proceedings by singing a sweet, quiet lijmu—“ the day is past and gone,” etc. whioh brings all present into delightful union with each other and with our Father which art in heaven,” FACTS AND FANCIES. —Au Irish doctor lately sent in his bill to a lady as follows'; “To curing your husband till he died.” —“ Hoaven’s Own” is the name ol a new Nevada town where a railroad passenger saw a woman pinning her husband to the fenoe with a pitchfork. —ln Germany there aro nearly one million moro women than men, and wives do not lift the hair of husbands so readily as in oountries where the supply of the sex is more limited. —Rich uncle : “My nephew, I have au income of oighty thousand francs, u touch of liver complaint, and no chil dren. For theso reasons Ido not doubt that you will read this, my advico, with profound attention.” —Lewis remarks that most any wo man can sit down gracefully in a street oar, but not one in a hundred oau de scend from the back end of a buggy when the horse is running away, with out feeling that Bhe’s going to overdo the thing. —lf properly gathered and preserved, beans will retain vitality 2 years ; cab bage, 4 ; carrot 3 ; sweet corn, 2 ; en cumbers, 10; lettuce, 3; melon, 10; onion, 1 ; parsnip, I ; poas, 2; radish, 3 ; squash, 10; tomato, 7; turnips, 4. —When a woman is oare-laden and heavy-hearted? nothing shakes the me grims out of her qnioker than for a couple of ladies to > top in front of tho houso long enough for her to examine tho trimmings on their bonnets. —Weston is still walking. Tho an nouncement calls up once more a feel ing of grateful appreciation of the Swinburnian assurance, “ That no life livos forever; that dead men rise up never; that oven the weariest river winds somewhore safe to sea.” —The newest seaside umbrellas are intended to shelter an entire family, if wo are to judge from the size, tfhey are about the dimensions of a “side show tent” belonging to a circus, and have a polo ten feet high to stick in the sand, and they form a canvas house. —An Arkansas youth came to his father aad said: “Dad, they ain’t knives ennff to sot the table.” Dad— “Whar’s big butch, little butch, the case, cob handle, granny's knife, and the one I handled yesterday? That’s emiff to sot any gentleman’s table, without you’ve lost ’em.” —The English traveling public are enraptured with the Pullman sleeping cars. The Railway World correspondent says that the next improvement in for eign railway travel will be the intro duction of our sixty-seat passenger cars in plaoe of the sixty-Heat boxes now iu use, and that when adopted they will be as liigley oommended as nro the sleep ers, which have been liberally patron ized in America for over fifteen years. —lt is now possibly by the aid of hj draulio machinery to bend iron shafts of twelve inches diameter to any re quired shape. Incrodible as this state meDt may seem to an inexpert, crank shafts are now so made, instead of by the slow, laborious, and expensive method of forging. The bent shafts are ah o much better than forged ones, from the fact that the fibre of the metal runs in one direction continually. Whereas in forgi and ones it is often across the line of strain. —After reading Sherman’s book and the violent comments upon it, one might suppose that all military achieve ments are mere matters of accident., and that no particular person is enti tled to any great amount of credit for winning a battle. Vou Moltke himself is said to have been a little surprised at the victories won by the Germans. Who knows but llie good time is close at hand when the military hero is to be politely conducted lo tlie buck seat reserved for him by au improved civili zation ? —Tho people on the coast of Corn wall, off which the Schiller was wreck ed, have long had a bad reputation as wreckers. When a ship was seen oil' the rooks, on a Sunday, the minister would give them a ho.iday. One of tlioir principal men, several years ago, was charged with having tied up the leg of au ass, hung a lantern round its neck, and driven it, by night along tho cliffs, so that its halting motion would imitate the plunging of a vest el under sail, and thus tempt ships to run in whore they would suppose was sea room, aud drive them to destruction. The inhabitants are as inhospitable as their rocks. —Yesterday afternoon a man who had been beaten in a law suit stood at the corner of Griswold street and Justice alley, and cursed high and low. He was spouting away in vehement tones, when a lawyer asked : “ Are you swear ing at anybody in p-.rtionlar ?,’ “No; blast you, no!” ripped the man. “ Well, it is too bad to have all that wasted. I wish you would use a few of the biggest and best oaths on Hannibal HamliD, the man who raised the rates on p'istago.” The man gave it to Ham lin right and left for eleven minutes, and then the police interfered.— Detroit. Free I’ress. —The cure for this sleepless condi tion is simple, although tho treatment must be radical. The first essential is to abandon the particular class of brain exeroise which has induced or attended upon the difficulty. • The next thing is, give up coffee, tea, tobacco, and all stimulants. To use any form of alcohol in such a case may do suicide. Finally, live out of doors, exercise daily till you are tired out, and tneu go to bed in a quiot. well-aired, cool room. In a month you will be well, aud may go on in the old brain-wearing, destructive way, if yon have not learned the lesson of prudenoe by suffering.— Hall’s Jour nal of Health, —Steps are being taken by several of the states and kingdoms of Europe to effect an extensive substitution of gold for silver in current use as a circulating medium. There has been recently is sued in Germany, 1,114,000 marks in gold coin, and a still greater amount is to be put in circulation. A mark is equivalent to about twenty-four cents. Belgium is putting out gold coin at the rate of 50,000,000 francs annually. In Holland #130.000,000 gold coin is needed, and franco imported last year 431,064,900 francs’ worth of gold more than she exported. Of course such movements will materially affect the relative market value of gold and silver iu the markets of the world. A New Indication of Death.— Is the pa 1 ient really dead or not ? is at times a very anxious question. A. medioal practitioner of Cremona proposes a simple method by which the question may be answered with certainty. It is to inject a drop of ammonia beneath the skin, when, if death be present, ho effect, or next to none, is produced; but if there lie life, then a red spot appears at the place of tho injeotion. A test so easily applied os this should remove all apprehension of being buried alive.
