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CUKKKNT PABAGHAPUS.
Southern News.
Richmond States: The failure of bo
many New England cotton mills and the
strikes in Old England among the opera
tives must lower the price of raw cottoD,
and raise that of the manufactured article,
ft should admonish the south that it is
not only her policy to grow, but to ppm
•and weave the cotton also. Let us
profit by the experience.
Chattanooga Dispatch : Thirteen flat
boats, loaded with grain and meat, ar
rived at the wharf Sunday from up the
river, They brought about 8,000 bushels
of wheat, 7,000 bushels of corn and 25,-
000 pounds ef meat, principally from
Union county. Twenty fiat boat have
arrived during the week, averaging 1,000
bushels of grain to the boat,
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph : The pros
pect for good crops in this section were
never better. We gather from many
who are engaged in agriculture, and
others, that the standsot cotton and corn
are all that could be asked. The cut
worm is slightly iu the cotton in some
localities, but no serious damage is ap
prehended. The promise of the fruit
vrop is also just as good as can be.
ban Antonio Herald: There is on*
thing very evident, and that is if there
is anything in the power of General Ord
which will conduce to the safety of the
frontier and protection from Indian and
Mexican raids; s, he will do it. But his
power is far less than is gentrailv sup
posed. When the re-enforcements were
ordered bare a few months ago, the
newspapers a!! seated the force in this
department a? amounting to fully four
thousand troops, but the last official
returns of the troops now here show
that, whiie the organizuions now
stationed here caii for thousand
seven bundled ana forty-nine troops,
the,- are .only two thousand and eight,
bandied and seventy tbr*e enlisted men,
that < i this number there are but
nineteen hundred and sixty men instead
of scar ihcawmd.
Foreign Items.
trance propose? spending*lso,but/, wu
on her army, and *45 Ow.iErO on tier
VOL. JI.
| navy in 1879. The low pay of French
soldiers is partly compensated by the fact
that they can buy their tobacco from the
government on very low terms, and
travel everywhere through the country
at half price.
The present Earl of Leitrim has of
fered a reward of £10,600 for information
which will lead to the arrest of the men
who killed his uncle. This is by far the
largest reward ever offered in Ireland. A
farmer with a shattered hand has been
arrested.
Miscellaneous.
j Some signs of taverns in London are
curious, viz: '©bat and Compasses'/’
| “ Salmon and "Compasses,” “ Anchor and
j Bodices,” “ Bull and Mouth.” “ Green
i Man aud Still,” “ Pig and Whistle,”
Who’d a Thought If ? ” “ The Splendid
Shilling,” etc,
A Los Angels paper etateß that
genuine Smyrna fig commerce has been
introduced at Passadena, Cal., where it
is almost perpetually iu fruit, Last year
it. fruited from dune to January, and
this year has already st arted fruiting and
will probably ripen from Mav-dav to
Christmas.
Anew style of paddle-wheel has been
invented and placed on the steamer
Massachusetts at New York. It was
tested and on the first trip the steamer
made nearly 28 miles an hour, with less
power than usually applied. The wheel
works by pressure instead of impact
The blades are twice the size of ordinary
blades, but the wheels contain only halt
the usual number.
Eastern Terminus of the Texas
Pacific.
1
The bill for the benefit of the Texas
Pacific railway, now pending ia Con
gress, provides that: “In order to make
and perfect the highway aforesaid in such
manner as may do equal and exact jus
tice to all sections of the country to be
affected thereby, it shall be the duty of
the president of the United States,
within sixty days after the passage of
this act, to appoint five commissioner.-,
three of whom shall be the three engi
neer officers of the United States highest
in rank, and ail of them wholly uncon
nected with and free from all personal
cr corporate interest in any of the
proposed routes between Texas and the
Mississippi river, and also from all
personal or corporate interest in any
railroad company from any point on or
connecting with the Missis-ippi river
and the Atlantic or gulf coast, whose
duty it shall be to examine the Missis
sippi river and the present constructed
road of the Texas and Pacific railway
company; anti after considering ali
questions of distance, coat and transport
ation routes, in view of foreign as well
as domestic trade and commerce, and also
in view of an eligible connection with
the Atlantic seaboard, to report where iri
their judgment the proposed addition
eastward of the present main trunk line
of the Texas and Pacific railway com
pany shall connect with the present line,
and where it shall connect with the
Mississippi river; provided that the
point of connection with the Mississippi
river shall not be farther north than the
city ol Memphis, Tennessee; and that
their report, if approved by the president
of the United States, shall be final and
conclusive in determining the location
of the eastern connection with the
Mississippi river,”
A Baptism of Hundreds.
On Sunday morning the roads and
lanes leading across Chimborazo park
were filled with persons, white and black,
male and female, from the gray-haired
sire to the infant in arms, all hurrying
in the direction of Gillie’s creek, to
witness the great baptizing. By 10
o’clock a. m. at least 4,0(i0 persons had
assembled ob the York River railroad
and the surrounding hills, and the
long line of new converts, male
and female, in twos, arrived on the
ground and stood in readiness on either
side of the stream—the males on one
side and the females on the other.
The females were dressed in white, with
white tnrbans around their head, and
tne men with white shirts, and white
handkerchiefs around their heads,
awaited patiently under the burn
ing sun the arrival of turn.
After the singing of a hymn and a
short prayer, the Rev. Scott Gwatbmey,
acccompanied by one of his deacons,
stepped down into the water and the
baptizing was begun.
The females were, served first, and
they were quickly disposed of to make
room for others in waiting. The men
outnumbered the women. By 12.30 the
ceremony was ever, and 233 persons had
been immersed by one man. The con
verts for the m ,st part were very quiet
and undemonstrative, but cceasionally
some manifestation of religious fervor
would break out.
One old woman, at least seventy years
of use, walking on crutches, hobbled to
the pool and was among those baptized.
She was taken in the arms of a stalwart
, deacon and bjrne out to the dresßing
room.—[Richmond State.
JESUP, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1878.
A LIFE'S REGRET
Turning the leaven in an idle way
Of a book i was skimunu* the other day.
1 found a line at the * a<l of a coup,
Which keeps on beuntin.; mu ali day Joup,
With its sweet and mournful mo odv.
“ O love, my love, had you loved but me l”
Sadder a buuieu c uld never be
Thau “love, my love, had you loved but me I”
Few wordmind f-lmp'e: but, O, how much
l he slower has to a in that little touch I
How hard u story of chances lost,
Of bright bop a blighted and true love crossed
Is heard in tlie wbi.-pered melody.
‘ O iove my love, had you loved but me!”
To many a SLrrow the’ fcev may be
That :<>. my love, had you loved but me!”
T don’t bt Meve In what poets have aald
• f heart.-* nai are broken ana lives that are
dead ;
T Ives well ordered will stand to their course.
And h arts of tiue metal ring little the woise;
But they still to that roelodv,
" O love m* love, had you loved but me!”
M y Jiie is wll. but what would it be
Sweet “ love, my fore, had jou lond but me "
’’he vorM rolls on and the yvars roll by.
Dty dreams vanUh and memories die ;
But it sug s up with a restless pain,
That fond lost longing evei again
Breathed in the passionate melody.
11 O love, my Jove hsd you lovtd but me!"
It might have b. e but it cannot be.
Y*>t • love, my lovu, had you loved but mo.”’
-[London World.
TITIAN’S DAUGHTER.
“ Thou dost not admire that picture,
Giulio?” said the great paiDter, Tiziano
Vecelli, of Venice to his favorite pupil,
Giulio Mantoni.
“Si, ti, signer; but whose portrait is
it? When was it painted ? and where
has it been until now ?”
“ Thou doßt not ask who painted it.
Hast no curiosity, hast no wish to learn
this?”
“ Curiosity enough, as thou well
knowest, signor, to prove my descent
from Eve, whose falling that, way lost a
paradise to Adam. But I need notask
who painted thus, for there is only one
who can paint thus. There is only oue
pencil which can blend such beautiful
eoloiiag with such freedrawing. Signor
maestro, it thsu could have thy pictures
unrecognized, thou musteven hang them
with the painting to the wall.”
“ Flattery, Giulio—rank flattery!
But I believe thou meanest what thou
sayest. As to this portrait ”
“ Ay, signor, whose likeness is it ?”
“As thou art anxious to know, my
Giulia, and often playest a trick upon
thy master, metbinks I shall not tell
thee. Thou mayest look grave il thou
wilt, but I shall not tell thee now. Call
my gondolieri; the day is pleasant and
they shall row me across the Lido. Addio,
Addio!”
fjmiunir went on Sis way across
thelagune and smiled as one smiles at a
lucky thought or a tmccestful specula
tion. The nursings were pleasant and as
belay “at listless length” within the.
canopy of his gondola they found such
utterance as this :
“He is a good youth, and hath a prop
er love for art ; he is studious, too, gen
tle iu manner, affectionate, and with a
warm heaaf. My Beatrice is a tender
dove, and it will be well if she can find a
shelter in his breast. How he gazed
upon the picture! If he admire tbe
original only half as muci, the train will
soon be in flames. He is a goodly
youth.” And with such thoughts did
Titian take council on his brief and pleas
ant voyage to the Lido.
Meanwhile the pupil employed him
self in looking at the portrait more
minutely than be heretofore bad done.
The renewed and closer examination
confirmed his original opinion of its oxs
ceilence, not alone as a work of art, but
as the representation of a character of
feminine loveliness more attractive than
he had yet beheld in Venice. The por
trait represented a beautiful girl just in
the spring of youth, bearing aloft in her
hands a massive casxet, and pausing, as
it were, in her onward progress, to cast
a smile upon the beholder—like a sudden
sunburst! The face was one of exquis
ite beauty, but the naiv* and cheerful
expression, the hearty joyousness, the
guileless end trusting eloquence of
aspect, formed a part of intellectual
loveliness far gxeater than usually accom
panies mere beauty of features. For—
though to say so would be treason against
the majesty of that sex whom we gener
alize as “lair”—l fear it is but too true
that the perfection of personal and men
tal beauty do not often meet inone. Yet
even now do I remember to have met
that union.
The young artist admired the portrait
for some time and then tell into a medi
tative humor—a thing unusual for him,
fir, though he was 3 Spaniard, he was
a youth of quick imagination and lively
temperament, and it is not the wont ot
such to anticipate the contemplative
thoughts which they believe belong to
the maturer season of manhood. The
youth thought and thought and thought
until, when Titian returned, he found
his pupil seated opposite the portrait,
with Itis pencil in bis hand and hie bead
downward drooping—even as in bis
mood of poetic thought T have seen that
i of Wordsworth, the great master of the
| lyre. Titian came near, but Giuiio did
-not stir: nearer still, and Giuiio was
; breathing heavily; close to him and
| touched his shoulder. The youth up
i started! He had fallen szleep before
I the port!ait!
Oh. what a very unlover-likeaccident!
j But a siesta )“ a treasure to the Spaniard,
i anil tin* day was dull, and it wt wcari
j some to alone, and, if the truth roust
| be told, Ginlio, who had all a painter’s
eye for beauty. Lad heei. up half the
preceding night, serenading a beautiful
dama. whose bright eyis had fascinated
him one evening as lib passed beneath
. the windows of her father's palace.
Giulio Mantoni lutd been Titian’s
pupil tor some six months previous to
the incident of the b.rtrait and the
-■lnmber. Without buy introduction
had he come, but haw paid a large sum
for the privilege of instruction, after a
time his gentle mannsra, his love for the
I art and his rapid progress in it had so
far won uporiTitian—a lone and widow
ed man—as to make him solicit that
j Giulio would become an inmate of his
! house. Titian was a aoii’ary, for his son
was a wjld youth. JSjftd loft. Venice
for Cyprus in thd suite of the admiral,
and his daughter Beatrice was in a cou
vent in the Friuli, of which one of hi
relatives was lady principal. Giulio
Mantoni accepted the invitation, and tor
I three months preceding the day on which
this slight tab commences he had been
to Titian affectionate, kind and obedient
as a son. He was so skillful with hi
pencil, too, that Titian was reminded by
his skill and enthusiasm of what his own
son had been at the same age, some
thirty years before.
Some days passed on and the portrait
still remained in Titian’s studio. Giulio
often looked at it but never spoke of it,
and Titian did not err when he thought
that there was a meaning iu this silence.
But tbe grand festival day of Venice
was at hand. This was Ascension Hay,
of which the doge p*rformed the annual
ceremony of signaling the maritime
power of tbe signor,, by casting a golden
ring into the wat rs of the Adriatic.
The custom was, at this proud eelebra
thru, for Venice to -bud out her popula
tion of all degrees and it was certain
that at such a time .he fairest daughters
of Venice never we e absent.
The short voyage of the doge from the
quay of the ducal [ dace to the boundary
of Lido and Maltni icca was always per
formed on this occ.‘ don in a stately ves
sel called the Ilur utaur. a galley said
to be of equal anti ,uity with these mari
time nuptials. This magnificent vessel
always bore a frt girt of some import
ance; for, besides the doge, the council
the chief oflicers < ( state andtheadmiral
of the port, (who . cted as pilot, and was
bound by oath to bring tbe vessel back
to her harborage ' >tl;o arsenal), it bore
tiic - Aitu . -ss.,..us C l_ ll
tries in alliance with the republic
Sometimes, besides the mb Umimi and
the state officials it bore citizens of worth,
and at times the doge was glad to see by
his side the great painter, Triziano
Vecelli, whose pencil could confer such
immortality as earth is proud of, .■ ■;
whose works reflected more fame upon
Venice than Venice in all her glory
could bestow upon him.
Giulio, with others of his age, followed
in the procession, for it was a scene of
matchless beauty and magnificence, well
worthy the attention of a painter’s aiirid
and eye. The Bucentaur was swept on
in a stately manner by the rowers, and
Giulio’s light gondola came near it,
within full view of the gaiiant company
beneath its gorgeous canopy of crimson
damask, richly embroidered with gold.
To Giulio’s am nr..-, Titian had by his side
a young lady, and when she turned her
face for a moment Giulio saw to Ids sur
prise and delight that she was the fair
original of the portrait.
The ceremonials went on, and Andrea
Gritte, the doge, wedded the sea (an un
stable and fickle mistress, with theaccus
tomed words, “ We wed thee with this,
in token of our true and ix-rpctua!
sovereignty. Ihe moment these words
were uttered, arid the ring cast into the
sea, it was strewn with flowers and fra
grant herbs, in the fanciful idea that
(bus the bride was crowned.
The pageant ended, Giuiio speeded to
Titian’s house. He found the great artist
before the easel, busted, as usual, iu some
work for immortality. They spoke on
various subjects, but Titian made no
mention of the young signora, of whom
Giuiio had just one g ance. At last
Giuiio said he had seen Titian on the
deck of the Bucentaur; but this, though
it challenged Titian’s allusion to the Jady, j
drew no remark from him about tier, so I
that, at last Giuiio ventured to say that;
he thought the signora much resembled j
the portrait which he had admired from j
the moment it first met his view.
“ Admire it, Signor Giuiio Mantoni?!
Fall asleep before it in excess of admira- |
tion ’ Well, well, thou needest not blush. !
’Tis my daughter Beatrice, whom thou j
sbalt meet anon. But signor, if thou !
sbouldst admire her, or if thou shouldst i
not, it would tie well for thee to take thy
siesta ere thou meetest her. Women, as
thou knowest, like not cavaliers who are j
drowsy. Now, I have not told her that.
She saw thee, and asked who tfiou wert,
and 1 told her Giuiio; but not that thou
didst gn7/' thyself to deep Wore htr
portrait. Now, let t;s within. Thou
wilt like my gentle Beatrice. Bbe re
minds me ot what lew fair ami loving
mother was.”
And Giuiio dm very muen like Beat
rice Vecell’., who, in turn, admired the
manly beauty and ihriairous bearing of
the .Spaniard. Admired ?—ala, that is
a word a too w.-uk Woman scarcely
know- medium, in her intercourse
with ci;; - x. between the coldest indif-
ference and the warmest love. Long
before she knew it Beatrice was deeply
i>nd devotedly attached to Giulio. Her
father saw this and did not check it; be
already loved Giulio Mantoni as a son,
and cheerily anticipated that, in the
natural course of time and circumstance,
lie would become so—with the consent
of Beatrice.
Very much did Giulio admire the
loveliness, the grace, the innocence of
Beatrice Vecelli, but he did not love her
with more than a brother’s love. To do
him justice he was all unconscious of the
feelings which his attentive kindness bad
awakened in her gentle heart. He read
to her aud talked with her as if she were
his own dear sister ; aud she made the
too common mistake of thinking that
these general courtesies, made most kind
through the suavity of his manner, had
a particular application. So, thesignora
was iu love I
Two months had passed by since the
return of Beatrice to her fatiier’s bouse
and during this time the young maiden,
flushed with her growing passion (inno
cent as it was deep), and buoyed up by
the hopes which her youth aud sex might
well he excusod for forming, and drank,
in draughts of delight (lor hope is the
Hebe of mortality and |K>urn from a gold
en vase!) which made her happy-hearted
beyond what she had ever been before.
Then it was that her father completed
that picture which lias been known as a
c/i>/ d'nurn' in portraiture, which the
pencil of tbe painter and the burin of
the engraver have multiplied through
the world. And during all this time
which passed on happily for Giulio also,
he was not iu love with Beatrice.
They sat together now, in the month
of July, with a deliciousbreezesweeping
up the Adriatic and tanning the cur
tains of the room like the sails of some
rapid bark. It was now midday, and all
was calm in Venice as in other cities at
the hour of midnight, for the heat of the
room kept even the gondolierie within
doors. But it was cool in the room in
which Beatrice and Giulio wore sitting,
or the long blinds bad been drawn down,
excluding the sunshine and admitting
the breeze. She had been singing, and it
was from the Hush ut her cheek and the
tenderness of her tone as she (dosed the
cadenza that Giulio now first surmised
what might is- the nature of her feelings
lownrdo him. This was the song .
Oli. sub not though (or fortune'll riowei
Wita lordly ]>otU|> to gild thy tat**,
Nor turn of void, t mhliiouD |wor,
I’o orown lh*o wiin u Mu<n!> Bt#U' !
Hook not for coinjnpht lo •*(< 1 wine
Kiisjujuuliiftl IninHh lo the hair
Hut llrtfn to ihis lav of Hiiiu*
i htaoi iuon thin anient |>raye*'.'
Of love mo, love iu-j !”
Oh, if the noontide of thy heart
With hoi j o'V weie o eionat,
it ih f bad done Ira defldllont |..r|
I ill joy we e of the |aHt.
How gently ’mid auch tfloom would lull
The bill limy of hojMM joy-Hhlnn,
When thouKhton ihfti nt would utlJl iccall
When first fond lips were presM'd to thine,
With “ love ino, love mei ”
Tiie song had ceased, i t was a simple mel
ody, but there was a startling expression
of earnestness in it which struck to
Giulio's heart. For a brief space lie sat
in silence, and then thus spoke to (he
beautiful cantatrice:
“ Lay aside the maudlinn, deur Beat
rice, and let us talk. You have never
inquired who nr what I am, I consider
you as my sister, and it is not well that
you should be in ignorance of this ”
11 Nay,” said Beatrice, with a smile
and a blush, “ J will not own yon as a
brother, and I will have no unraveling
of mysteries. [yet me sing this barca
role.”
“Beatrice,” said be, with a grave air
and earnest tone that suddenly chilled ,
her mirth: “ Beatrice, this ih the time,
for your sake as lor my own, to have the I
mystery umavelhd, if i : 1- worth the |
name of mystery. lam not quite what ]
1 appear; in a word, I am of the royal j
house of Spain ; my mother whs the J
daughter of a noble of Alrriaino; my !
father it the Emperor Charles To
avoid a marriage of his choice, heart and :
hand being plighted to a lady-love of my
own, 1 fled from Spain and became a
pupil of your father’s, as much from love j
of the art as to give mv leisure pica-ant
occupation.”
T’.ul hi! spoke to ears whim heart) hirn
not, for ere be hat! concluded Beatrice
was in a swoon, Bbe was speedily recov
ered arid thus earnestly spoke to hirn :
“ I did not know—l could not--that
we hada prince beneath ourhumble roof;
but whatever you arc you must quit
Venice, ft was but yesternight I beard
at the ridotto at Signor Barberigo’s that
the prowditori had an order to arrest a
Spanish prince who was disguised arid
concealed in Venice. I heard it by the
merest chance, as I stood near two mbili
who were talking together, and that the
arrest was to be made to-morrow. You
must fly,signor; it neither suits your safety
nor vour honor tha* you remain here.
Venice wars with the Emperor Charles
my father, the most honored citizen of
\ eiiice, has been distinguished bv the
einper r, and the suspicion of having
wittingly harbored you would only be
equaled by the misery of your capture
here.”
f'iuiio. or, a.- lie should rather be
called, i’rinoe Anthony of I.eon, seemed
astonished at this intelligence.
‘ And vrhithcr can I t!y?” demanded
he seeking counsel In this hour of peril
from Beatrice.
' V i roiincd- you -eet>. ol— you have
oue to whom your faith la plighted ; she
must ill deserve It if she will not shelter
you.”
“ You speaa wisely, Beatrice,” said the
prince; “it is the daughter of Sforzi,
Duke of Milan, and with him. albeit he
is but a cold friend of my house, nor has
he much cause to lie otherwise, I shall
find safety. And yon, Beatrice?”
“Of me—nothing—not a word now
not a thought hereafter. Here,” added
she, tearing ofTa necklace, “ here, if you
want the means wherewith to reach
Milan, fake this, 1 have no more need of
costly ornament."
This offer was declined, for the prince
had jewels with him more than sufficient
to pay all charges. He saw the urgent
necessity of speedy flight, penned a
hasty billet of leave and gratitude to
Titian, and then returned to greet Beat
rice with a farewell. He did not mark that
her lips were as pale rm death and her
eyes glazed, and her cheek and brow as
if astonled. Her hand scarcely trembled
when he pressed it, and, gently as oco
would embrace a sleeping child, he kissed
her fair, cold brow. He was gone I
And with him went the terrible de
termination, which in this wreck of her
heart’s hopes had nerved her to act this
dreadful part, to simulate indifference
while amid despair she felt the immor
tality of love. She never moved nor
spoke, and when at eve her father re
turned he found her statue like. For
weeks she lay helpless as an infant, and
at last she died. Her heart was brtneen-
She died, and with her died her father’s
hopes and pride. Within a month after
Giulio’s departure she had ceased to be.
Henceforth, and he lived to extreme old
age—Titian lived but for his art; that
was his wife, daughter, all to him!
Of ttie prince we have no further rec
ord. The annals of Venice record not
his capture, so it may be presumed that I
he escaped. But whether he reached his j
lady-love, whetne. - he married her, and I
whether in alter life, he ever paused to j
think upon Beatrice, is unknown ; but I
he was kind and gentle, so >1 is impose!- j
ble that )u could have readily forgotten j
one so beauliuu, eo gentle as her.
There b no more to add. This is the i
whole toiy, so lar as it can now lie
known, ol 'I Ulan’s 1 laughter.
Win in tlie London Tele
graph Office.
Eight hundred young women at work,
nil in one room, looking comfortable,
most of them looking pretty, earning
fair wages at easy work, work fit for
women to do ; work at which they can
sit and rest, and not lie weary, with a
kitchen at band arid a hot dinner in the
; middle of the day, with leave of abse nee
without stoppage of pay every year, with
a doctor for sickness and a pension for
old age (for the young women as years
roll on will become old) with only eight
hours of work, never before 8 o’clock in
the morning and never after K at night,
with female auperinlendenta, and the
i chance of rising to boa superin tendent
open lo each girl. This is a govern
ment office, under government sur
veillance, and all this has sprung into
existence during the Isst eight years.
I he general poatoffice is in St. Martin’s
le-Orand, near fit. Paul’s, and there are
now two great post offices at the same
place, facing each other, the Idor one
having been found altogether insufficient
for the purpose required, although when
it was firstopened, about forty-five years
ago, it was supposed to be absurdly large
for any possible requirements which the
country could have for such a building.
Those who pass from < heapside into New
gate street, afier the lamps have been
lighted, may observe, on hsiking up,
that (he whole top floor of this
new building is illuminated, ft is hero
that the 800 young women are at
work, and their business consists iri the
receipt and dispatch of telegraph mes
sages. After discovering that at least
800 women can keep a secret (secrecy is
essential there) Mr. Trollope asked :
“How many dismissals did you have
during last year V” for I hail known
much of the civil service myself, and had
been aware that, in dealing with large
bodies of men, the exercisers of diseip
line must have recourse to that last
means of declaring that obedience and
order are indispensable. ‘‘Dismissed?”
said my friend. “ Yes, we have had a
dismissal Miss— was dismissed. But
it stems to me a long time ago. Tll get
the books. ’ Tbe books were produced,
and it appears that the unfortunate one
named had been sent away, at some time
in 1871). From a body of public ser
vants as Large as a regiment, there had
been no dismissals in four years.—[An
thony Trollope.
. It indicated a want of education in
natural history, hut it was certainly very
'unny, when the young lady wrote from
the country to say that the cows were all
in the habit of chewing gum bhe had
watched them, after their day’s pastur
ing, lying down in the barnyard wi h
their iaws in constant motion, and very
naturally jumped to a conclusion
It may is- encouraging to the small
boy to learn that -senator Morrissey was
not only self-made, but that he was at
one time n pe.rtn- rin sixteen faro tanka.
WAIFS AND WHLUS.
: - Sixty years ago the iaSte^-horWs
only made a mile in {'ireSffiimr ,
’ ..A little boy’s first pair tUFtthmsew
always fit if.the poc.ets are deep enough,
i Professor Cope, of Philadelphia, the
geologist, has found specimens of verte
brates in northern Texas heretofore-un
known
.. A guilty conscience makes you feel
that every man you meet has just
learned your secret and is looking at you
with scornful cariosity.
A railroad eating-house is a place
where trains stop long enough to allow
a pious-looking mau, formerly a colonel,
to collect one dollar from each passenger.
Bishop Haven told a class of young
men who were learning -the occupation
of preaching that warmed-upold sermons
i were worse than warmed-up buckwheat
j cakes
. A sailing car is used for pleasuro on
the Kansas Pacific railroad. It is sloop
| rigged, has four wheels, and will run
| forty miles an hour when the wind is
| favorable.
.. Death bed repentance is like those
sailors who throw their valuables over
■ board in a storm. They wouldn’t do it
if they could help it. and are sorry that
they must.
. .St ur ’■ oks mule the time term leng
but when the heart is cheerful the hours
are only notes in a meiry piece of music,
which leave it pleasant echo behind as
they trip away.
The higher education of women
Gentleman (literary conversation)
“ After all, I prefer the ‘ Vicar of Wake
field.”' l ady--" Dear me, you surprise
me. I never read religious books.”
. Fish iu Germany are seldom broiled;
tbey are boiled. The size of a fish that
need not be returned to the water when
caught is fixed by law. Thus a salmon
imiHt be sixteen inches long, a perch five,
and an eel fourteen. Germans do not
fish for sport as a rule.
NO. 39.
THE •* MAN KATE It ” SHOT.
A Stallion that has Killed throe Men and Dis
figured Twenty Others.
A dispatch Irom Middletown, New
i York, says :
The llambletotiiau stallion “Rising
ham,”one of the jiuest bred horses in Or
ange county,was killed by his owner,Dr.,f.
A. Schultz, in this place last, night. This
horse was tvivniy-one years old. An
offer of $7,000 was once refined for him.
At two years of ago he was considered
the coming successor of Old IJamble
tonian, his sire. Nineteen years ago,
however, he began to exhibit signs of
vieiousness that increased as he grew
older. Finally he became almost entirely
unmanageable, and has since been known
as the “ man eater.” lie had killed
three men, and wounded, crippled and
disfigured twenty others. For fourteen
years no one dared to put him to a wagon,
until a short time ago. Dr. Scbultz, wbo
had owned him but >• short time, with
the aid of several men, got him in har
ness and to u wagon, and tried to drive
him. it was a dear experiment. The
stallion broke everything to pieces, and
the Doctor was himself saved by the
merest chance. Manyof the leading horse
trainers of the country had tried their
skill at subduing him. He conquered
them all, and nearly killed one ol
them. * >ne of his latest exploits
was the seizing of a negro groom
who had undertaken to keep
him, tearing ofi the man's cheek and
destroying the right eye, and stringing
the fieHh irom his right arm. The groom
became blind and paralyzed. The three
men who preceded the negro as grooms
nil narrowly escaped with lives.
(inn lost an car; another had three lingers
and a thumb taken off; the third left his
arm from the elbow in the jaws of th
horse, ft became impossible to get a
groom for the stallion. So one knew at
what moment the brute would attack
him. Dr. Schultz at last made up his
mind that Risiugbam was chronically
insane, and concluded to kill him before
be maimed another victim.
As Risinghain stood in his stall glaring
over the manger at the spectators who
had entered the stable to see tbe man
eater die, five large pistol balls were shot,
into his head, directly between bis eyes
They failed to bring him down, and,
uttering the fiercest neighs, he made
frantic efforts to get over the manger
among the bystanders. Asa man drew
the attention of tbe horse away, Dr
’■'ebuitz, by a skilful thrust of a long
knife, severed bis jugular vein, aDd the
blood spurted out in a large stream. For
a long time Risingbam stood up under
the great flow of blood, relaxing no effort
to get at the men. A t length he settled
to the floor, but to the last maintained
his fierce disposition. The lastmovement
he made was to attempt to seizi Dr.
Hohultz with his teeth, the doctor having
gone into the stall, dorse men say that
but for the temper of thishorse he would
have tieen worth f.30,000.
Reversed Speech.
Messrs. Jenkins and Ewing have
recently made some investigations into
the capabilities of the phonograph for
revereing sound when turned in opposite
directions. They state that both vowels
and consonants are unaltered by being
spoken backward, and that, whether tbe
pulsations o r air be made in given order
or in reverse rrd-r, the ear accepts tbe
sound as indicating tbe same letter.
Consonants betn n single pairs of sylla
bles, as nda, übo , are identifiable quite
as well backward as forward. Ab, how
ever, said backward b.-comes ba, and
thus the investigators suggest we have
here standard of what does’really con
stitute a single letter or element of
articulate speech ; it is any one reversible
p.irt. '1 ne word nohtccwiaa pronounced
, in the phonograph is reproduced very
cleariy s. association.—’Scientific Amei
! lean.