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SPEAK NO ILL.
Nay apeak no ill—a kindly word
Can never leave a sting behind.
And, oh! to breath each tale we’ve beard,
la lar beneath a noble wind.
Full oft a better seed ia sown
By choosing thua the kinder plan ;
For if but little good be known,
Still let ua speak the beat we cau.
Give ua the heart that fain would hide—
Would fain another’s faults efface ;
How can it please e’en human pride
To prove humanity but baae ?
No ! let ua each a higher mood,
A nobler sentiment of man ;
Be earnest in the search of good.
And speak of all, the beat we oau.
Then speak no ill, but lenient be,
To other’s failings as your own ;
If you’re the first a fault to see,
Be not the first to make it known.
For life is but a passing day,
No lip may tell how brief its span ;
Then, oh! the little time we stay.
Let’s speak of all the best we can.
“Here’s to pretty 8u&
I it said.
! He wheeled around. Boh w;
j in the act of drinking his glass.
Red fern
just
She Got Him. ' ployed in tl
jirl, young and pretty, but aboyi
Cousin Bob.
It was an odd-looking old ring, set
with a single opal. Not the sort of a
ring, by any means, usually chosen
for a wedding-ring. But it had been
In the Redfern family for ever so many
years, and on the bright summer
morning, when Jack Redfern w as to
make pretty Susan Wheatley liis wife,
he brought the opal ring, ind with it a
string of old-fashioned, pinkish-tinted
pearls.
“I have always heard that opals are
unlucky,” said Susan, “Why didn’t
vou get a plain gold band, Jack”
“It was my mother’s wedding-ring
and my grandmother’s, and my great
grandmother’s, and maybe even fur
ther back than that.”
A year had sped by. In the wanin
brightness of departing summer, Susan
sat in the old trysting-placc alone. The
quaint opal ring glittered on her Unger
She touched it caressingly,, turned the
stone to catch the sunlight, her pensive
eyes full of unshed tears, a tender
smile parting her lips; as she thought
ol* her happy bridal morning, only one
short year ago.
For Jack was gone! Gone oil' over
the seas; never to return, perhaps;
gone, and not one word or line had
come to her since that terrible night of
his going. But she waited and hoped
with that faith which is born of death
less love.
Jack, fond and proud of her in his
masculine fashion, had been prone to
be jealous. Without cause, as he con
fessed himself, but the miserable fail
ing seemed to be part and parcel ol his
nature.
One afternoon, Susan had gone into
garden to weed her flower-beds.
“How dare you trifle with my wife’s
good name?” demanded Jack.
Hob laughed sneeringly.
“When a woman shows a fellow fa
vor, he dares everything,” he answered
and held up his right hand.
On the little linger gleamed the opal
ring. Jack saw it, and his dark face
flushed crimson. He cleared the dis
tance between himself and the speaker
with one bound, anil before the by
standers could interfere had felled Bob
to the ground.
“Stand back, neighbors,” be panted
as he tore the ring from the prostrate
man’s finger. I’ll have his life for it.”
But the bystanders interfered, and
Bob was got out of theVvay.
Jack went home, with all the bright
ness of liis life dashed out His young
wife met him at the door, in the silver
shine of the spring twilight. He
caught her, and held her at arm’s
length.
“Susan,” he said angrily, “where is
your wedding-ring?”
“Why, Jack,” flushing and speaking
with embarrassment, “it was on my
finger, 1 hope 1 have not lost It.
Her husband threw her from him,
with a muttered exclamation, and
strode out of the house without a word.
All through the night, from the rls-
ng to the setting of the stars, Susan
waited, but Jack did not return. She
fancied he was angry because her wed-
all gifted with an adorable caudor, pre
sented herself before a certain Prussian
lawyer. “Monsieur, I came
you upon a grave affair,! want to oblige
k mail I love to marry me in spite of
himself how shall I proceed ?
The gent’eman of the bar had of
course a sufficiently elastic conscience.
He reflected a mou* nt; then, being sure
that no third person overheard him re
plied unhesitatingly: “Mademoiselle,
according to our law you already pos
sess the means of forcing a man to mar
ry you. You must remain oil three
occasions alone with him ; and then you
can swear before a judge that lie is your
lover.
“And that will suffice, monsieur?”
“Yes, modemoiselle, with one further
condition, which is. that you will pro
duce witnessess who will make oath to
their having seen you remain with the
individual said to have trifled with your
affections.”
“Very' well, monsier, 1 will retain
you as counsel in the management of
this affair. Good day.”
A few days afterward the young girl
returned She Is mysteriously receiv
ed by the lawyer, who scarcely giving
her time to seat herself; questioned her
with the most lively curiosity. “Well,
mademoiselle,how do matters prosper ?”
“Oh. all goes on swimmingly'. 1
have passed a hal.-hour with my in
tended. I have been seen to go up
stairs and come down again. I haw
ding-ring was missing, and wept her-, f our witnesses who will affirm ibis un
while awaiting her husband’s return.
“Susan!” called a pleasant, lazy
voice.
* She dropped her rake and looked up.
It was only Bob—her cousin, Bob
WheaHey.
“Rfhy, Bob, how you startled me!”
sh* said.
Will you come in? But I’m very
busy.”
The young man sauntered in.
“You’re always busy', it seems to me,
Susan, when I’m about,” he said with
a smiling sort of impudence. Won’t
you shake hands with a fellow, for the
sake of old times?”
A flush rose in the young wife’s
cheeks; but she gave Bob the tips of
her fingers.
In her girlish days, Susan had been a
good deal admired—for her own sweet
face and winning ways, for the most
part; but in a few cases, the fact that
she would inherit the old Wheatley
Homestead served to enhance her at
tractions.
Her cousin Bob had been one of her
most assiduous-admirers. He followed
Iter like a shadow and even after her
engagement to Jack Redfern, was a
little disagreeable by liis marked de
votion.
After her marriage, on one occasion,
Cousin Bob hid excited Jack’s jealous
anger by makinghimself over-attentive
to Susan, and some pretty hard
words had passed between them.
Bob took the finger-tips she ottered,
held them an instant, and then carried
them to his lips.
“How dare you?” cried Susan,
snatching her hand awav; then picked
up her rake and went on with her
weeding.
“Let me do that for you, Susan,” he
said after a minute. “If you were my
wife, you shouldn’t drudge like a
slave.”
Susan gave him a blazing glance.
“But I am not your wife, and glad
enough 1 am of it,” she replied. “Go
:iway Bob; I don’t want you here when
Jack is absent.”
Gob laughed an ugly, provoking sort
of laugh.
“1 suppose not. You’re afraid he’ll
come and find me here, the jealous
brute. But I am not going.”
“Then I’ll go myself,” said the
young wife, and left the garden.
Bob stood irresolute a minute, halt
regretting what lie had done, half in
clined to follow his cousin, and beg
her pardon. Something glittering in
the mound at his feet caught his eye.
He stooped and picked up the old opal
ring, which had always been a little
large for his cousin's finger.
His first Impulse was to return it to
Susan at once; his second was to keep
it, and pay her off for treating him so
scornfully.
He slipped it in his vest pocket and
took bis way to the viDiage tavern. The
place possessed a great charm for Bob.
He ordered a bottle of wine, and then
brandy and seltzer, and by sunset was
not quite himself. Lounging in the
tavern porch he saw Jack Redfern com
ing down the road, and a- wicked
thought flashed through his excited
brain.
“He’s coming in. New boys,” he
cried, “look out for some fun.” .
Jack came in to leave a message with
the tavern-keeper, and, having deliv
ered it, was going out again, when a
load voice caught his ear.
self ill over his cruelty.
Morning came at last, and Mrs. Red
fern, Jack's mother, appeared. She
had the opal ring on her linger, and a
letter in her baud from Jack.
“Your husband lias returned the opal
ring to me,” she said in a severe voice.
“JJis letter will explain the rest.”
Susan read theTetter and then, with
the pathetic cry, “Oh, Jack, comeback
to me!” fell in a swoon at Mrs. Red-
fern’s feet.
The tulips had bloomed, and were
withering on their stalks in the garden
when she awoke from that awful trance
of death. On her white, thin linger
glimmered the old opal. Hearing of
her illness, and bitterly remorseful for
the evil he had wrought, Bob had told
the truth about the ring. But it
too late. .lack was gone.
“I’ll find him, and bring him back
to her,, if it costs me my life!” said
Bob, in remorse. And with a last look
at her death-like lace departed.
Months came and went, and the cry
of the little new-born babe was heard
in the cottage.
“Jack’s little baby,” said Susan, as
it lay on her heart, “and he may never
see it!” *
And now in the early autumn, she
sat by the old stile, waiting the post
man's arrival. .She had waited so many,
many times, but surely the letter would
come to-day; the letter from Jack, as
suring her that he loved her still.
The shifting sunlight fell about her
fair head; a golden leaf fluttered here
and there, across the green turf at her
feet. Wife and mother in one, her bo
som tlirilled with tender longing. Su
san looked at her wedding ring aud
waited.
A quick, resolute tread on the coun
try road below. Could that be the
postman’s nag?
Susan looked up, with her heart in a
wild flutter. It was not the postman,
but a tall, bronzed man.
“Oh, Jack! oh, Jack!”
In a twinkling, Jack had her in his
strong arms, and his tears were on her
cheeks.
“Oh, Susan, can you forgive me?”
le said, with a choking voice.
“There is nothing to forgive,” sh
obbed, clinging ♦<-» him. “See, Jack
have got 1113' wedding-ring! Jack
you can never know how my heart has
hungered for you. “Jack,” hiding
her hot face in his breast, “there’
lomeone besides me to welcome you.
Can’t you guess, Jack? A little, wee
baby, Jack, with his father’s own eyes.
L thought, once, you would never see
him, Jack, but thank Heaven you have
come.”
lie could only hold her close to his
heart; he had no words to answer her.
“Jack, how did you know?” she
asked, at last, when the first rapture of
the reunion was over. “Did you get
my letter?”
“No,” he answered hoarsely. "It
as Bob. He followed me across the
ocean; found me, and told me every
thing. Oli, Susan, say you do realty
forgive me?”
Come and look at baby,” was Su
san's reply to that.
der oath.”
“Capital, capital ! Persevere in your
designs, mademoiselle, but mind, the
next time you consult me you must tell
me the name of the young man we are
going to render happy in spite of liiin-
Curiosities of tbe Kart a.
At the city of Medina, in Italy, and
about four miles around It, wherever
the earth is dug, when the workingmen
arrive at a distance of sixty-three feet,
they come toa bed of chalk, which they
bore with an auger live feet deep. They
then withdraw from the pit before the
auger is removed, and upon its extrac
tion the water bursts through the apart-
ure with great violence, and quiekly
fills the newly-made well, which is af
fected neither by rains nor drought.
Rut what is the most remarkable in this
operation is the layers of earth as we
deeeiul. At the depth of fourteen feet
ar found the ruins of an ancient city,
paved streets, houses, floors and differ
ent pieces of mason work. Under this
is found a soft oozy earth, made up of
vegetable matter, and at twenty six
feet* large tress entire, such as walnut
trees, with the walnuts sticking to the
stem, and the leaves and branches in a
perfect state of perservation. At twen
ty-eight feet deep a soft chalk is found,
mixed with a vast quantity ol shells,
and the bed is eleven feet thick. Under
this, vegetables are found again.
Shrewdness aud Ability.
Hop Bitters, so Ireely advertised in
all the papers, secular and religious,are
having a large sale, anil are supplant
ing all other medicines. There is no
denying the virtues of the Hop plant,
and the proprietors of these Bitters
have shown great shrewdness and
ability in compounding a Bitters,whose
virtues are so palpable to every one’s
observation.—Exchange.
“You shall have it without fail.”
A fortnight afterward, the young
person more naive and candid than
jever, knocked discreetly at the door of
her counsel’s room. No sooner was
she within, than she flung herself has
tily in a chair, saying that she had
mounted the stairs too rapidly, and
that emotion made her breathless. Her
counsel endeavored to reassure her,
putting his arm around her to keep her
from falling and ottering her every as
sistance.
So she said, “I am much better ”
“Well, now do tell me the uameofthe
fortunate mortal you are going to es
pouse.”
“Are you very impatient to know
it?”
“Exceedingly so.’*
“Well, then, the fortunate mortal be
it known to you, is yourself,” said the
voting beauty, bursting into a laugh.
“1 love you, 1 have been three time
te.te a Lett with you, and my four wit
nesses are here below, ready and wil
ling to accompany us to the magis
trate,” gravely continued the narrator.
The lawyer thus fairly caught, had
the good sense not to get angry. The
most singular fact of all is, that he
adors his young wife, who, In* the.way,
makes an excellent house-keeper.
Inglish army. The can
non were now provided with iron balls
instead ot the ponderous stone ones in
use previous to this date. Here also
-we find mention of the wheel-look pis
tol. Carbines, petronels,and dragoons
are frequently mentioned among the
firearms of the age. The first was so
named from having been used in the
vessels called carabs; the second from
being fired with its square butt planted
on the chest; the third, from its muz
zle being frequently decorated with a
dragon’s head—hence the troopers who
used it came subsequently to be named
dragoons. The wheel-lock hackbut
was used in Elizabeth’s reign, with the
rest for the heavy matchlock, but the
powder was now made up in cases, each
containing a complete charge to facili
tate the loading of the piece, and the
strap to which the}* were attached
named a collar or bandolier.
A Female Robinson Crnwe.
1 One to Bla
Iii the spring of 1835 tli.» small schoo
ner Peor es Nadu, built at Monterey,
wis chartered by Lewis T. Burton and
Isaac J. Sparks for an otterbunting ex
pedition from Santa Barbara to the
coast of Lower California. The schoo
ner sailed in May, but the trip not
proviug so successful as was anticipat
ed, she returned as far north as San Pe
dro, where she remained at anchor du
ring a portion of the mouth of August
ol the same year. It being known that
tiic small i laud of San Nicholas, situat
ed about seventy miles southwest of
S-.tu Pedro and a little further southeast
from Santa Barbara, was inhabited by
a number of Indians, the Peor es Nad a
was dispatched «lo remove them to the
main land. Nineteen men, women aud
children were taken on board the
schooner, which was preparing to de
part when one of the Indian mothers
discovered that two of her offspring had
been forgotten and left on the island.
The Beginning of Guns.
In 1340 cross bows were in prett3'
general use among the English, but a
new era in war was to be inaugurated,
for with the army of Edward III. (at
Creasy) came five small pieces of can
non. a species of weapon supposed to
be unknown in France, though cannon
arc spoken of in a sea engagement in
the 13th century between the King of
Tunis and a Moorish king of Seville.
By whom the five pieces of cannon were
made is uncertain: but Le Blond, in
his “Treatise on Artillery,” says that
the earliest guns “were of very clumsy
and inconvenient make, being usually
formed of several pieces of iron fitted
together lengthwise, and then hooped
with iron rings; and as they were used
for the throwing ol stones of prodigious
ight, they were of enormous bore.”
The “Dictionare Militaire” 1758)
asserts that cannon “were known in
France,” according to some authors, in
1338, under Philip, but known of only.
Nevertheless,” says Voltaire, “tili
the reign of Charles VIII., artillery
ontinued in its infancy. They did not
make use of artillery in sieges till the
reign of Charles V. King of France;
and the spear was their principal weap
on till the reign of Henry IV.” No
more mention is made of cannon in the
English wars until 1405. when we are
told that, at the siege of Berwick a shot
from one great gun so shattered a tower
that the gates were at once thrown open
b\ r the alarmed garrison. In the year
1400, James the .Second of Scotland
lost his life b3* the bursting of otic of
these rude implements of war. At the
siege of Roxburgh, standing in the vi"
cinity of a gun which was about to be
discharged, the rude mass composed of
ribs of iron, bound together by hoop:
of the same metal, burst asunder, and a
fragment striking the king on the thigh,
broke it asunder, and killed him on the
spot. Handguns were not then in
vented, but at the battle of Chipping
Barnet (1471) mention is made of 300
Flemings armed with hand guns, but
ot the construction history does not
tell. At the battle of Flodden (1513),
James of Scotland had with him thirty
pieces of artillery, which had been cast
for him at Edinburgh, 1)3* the master
gunner ot the Castle, Robert Bortliwick.
Seven ol these guns were of great beau
ty, and were known as the “Seven
Sisters of Bortliwick.” The cannon of
the English were of inferior make to
those used by the Scots, being com
posed of hoops and bars.
The first cast-iron guns of English
manufacture were made at Buxted in
Sussex, in 1543, b\* Ralph Hogge, mas
ter founder. About this time there also
came into use guns called arquebusses,
which were fired from a rest planted
into the earth. The French were now
making rapid strides in the manufac
ture of brass guns, for in 1545, when
Francis I. was preparing to invade Eng
land, we find him (according to Pere
Daniel) possessing in his fleet one ship
carrying 100 brass guns. At the battle
of Pinkie (1543) pistols were in use
[among the Germans and others ern-
The other day when a house on Fifth
street took tire and was saved b3' the
firemen in a damaged condition, they
set about trying to discover the cause
of the accident, and in so doing ques
tioned various inmates of the family.
The head of the house had .his theory
all ready.
“It is my opinion,” he began, “that
some enemy of mine climbed to the
roof and emptied coals on the shingles.”
The idea was laughed at and the wife
said:
“Well, there was a lamp up stairs,
but it was not lighted. Now, if the
rats got hold of matches and tried to
light that lamp, they would just as
quick throw a lighted match on the
bed as to blow it out. I don’t say they*
set the house afire 011 purpose, but 3-ou
know how careless rats are.”
The theory didn’t hold with the fire
men, and the oldest daughter was call
ed upon.
xpect it was spontaneous com
bustion,” siie began. “You see, in my
room up stairs, where the lire broke
out, there was a hole in the chimney.
didn’t like the smoke coining in my
room, and so 1 stuffed the hole full of
straw. It may be that tl
mortar aud the brick
neons combustion.”
The firemen were about to accept her j breaks, afibrdin
theory when the small boy of the fami
ly came up and said :
“1 know all about it.
•Smith he was on the shed a heavin’
snow balls at dogs. Tom, the teller
with one arm, was in the barn playin’
with my goat. That Turner gal she
was on the fence out there callin’ us
names, and her mother had the clothes
line and was ttyin’ to lasso a stick of
wood off a wagon in the alley. 1 went
down in the cellar to see if 1113* mud
turtle had got away, and 1 was just tr}*-
supposed to be tine to her chewing
rough and solid articles of food. Her
age appeared to be aho.it 50 years. Mr.
Brow 11 made her a ski it of ticking, with
which, and a sailor’s cotton shirt and a
black nektie, her dress was complete,
A severe storm arose, and embarkin
with their island queen, the men soon
found themselves at sea in a storm
made signs that site could stop the
storm, and obtaining permission she
knelt on the deck facing the quarter
whence the wind came and commenced
muttering something supposed to he a
prayer. She soon got up, but contin
ued the prayer at intervals during the
day, apparently without fear, and
when the wind began to abate site
turned to her fellow-voyagers and with
a smile made signs that her prayers
had been answered. She was taken to
the bouse of Mr. Nidever in Santa Bar
bara, where she became the centre of
attraction. The Mission fathers took a
great interest in her, sending to Los
Angeles and other places, hoping to
i<l Al>u»<
BRIEFS.
With true maternal devotion she sprang j Hud one who could converse with her,
into the water and swam to the shore
in search of the missing children, one
of which was 3 years of age and the
oilier an infant unable to walk. Her
hurried search was unavailing, and,
abandoning all hope of finding the
babes, she returned to the beach just
in time to see the schooner sailing
away with all her friends on board.
{Shy called frantically for some one to
19jh her to the vessel, but received no
rejflly but the one sad word, nwnyana
(to-morrow), which never ceased to
ring in her ear and was repeated on
her dying bed. The schooner never
went back to the island, which was
not again visited until 1851, when
George Nidever, an otter hunter,
stopped there for a few days. He was
not previously aware that the place
was inhabited, but on his occasion he
but failed. Even the Pepimaros Indians,
who were said to have had an acquain
tance with the Indians on the island,
could not understand her. Two otters,
one of $1,000, for the privilege of tak
ing her to San Francisco were refused
by Mr. Nidever. When found she was
in excellent physical condition, strong
and active; but the eating of fruit and
vegetables brought on a sickness, which
in connection wiih an injury to the
spine received b3* falling from a porch,
terminated her life four weeks later,
or seven weeks from Lite time she
landed
Important as it is to keep these mil- —Over 14,000 hogs are daily slaugh-
lious of sudatory ducts open, it is very j tered at the Chicago stock yards,
questionable whether a lavish use of j —Salisbury, Mass., turne i out 8000
soap aud scrubb.ng-brushes has a ten- carriages last year—many for export,
deucy to do so. In fact, the contrary j —The latest dinner cards are the shape
av be presumed, for the apDlicatlou j of a horseshoe handsomely decorated.
side cuticle, scrubbed ~ T . he "ew middle Penitentiary, at
of soap to the outside eutlcie, scrubbed , ,IB ,, m " ,u . ® 1 enitenuary, i
... ’ . Huntington. Pa., will have 1280 cells,
well into the pores with a rough brush, „„ , . .
. i . i .i II - —lhe glass skylights lor the nc
must rather block the capillaries than p, nvPrn *, *
A Mean Advantage.
There were a score or more of women
gathering together at 31 r. Johnson's
house. 3Ir. Johnson is a gcod-hearted
man and a respectable citizen though
ather skeptical in some thin;
open them. The application of very
warm w'ater surcharges the skin with
blood, while that of very cold water
drives back the blood and contracts the
capillaries. There are other reasons,
however, why soap and scrubbin
brushes are not 011I3* unnecessary to
health, but even inimical to it. The
outer cuticle or scarf-kin of the body is
composed of the same material as the
nails, although the liber is somewhat
differently arranged. It Is, in fact, the
enamel of the skin, and its proper pre
servation gives to the skin of a beauti
ful woman the ivory finish so much ad
mired. it is the protection of the skin
beneath. But, like the substance of the
nails, it must be painlessly scraped or
rubbed off'easily, if one keeps scrubbing
long enough. Under the microscope it
is scaly, like the skin of a fish; and
these scales may be ea-ily scraped
away. Nearly all soap contains strong
alkalies, which soften the epithelium or
scarf ski n, and render it easily removed
by rough scrubbing. A strong flesh
brush, rough towel and hot water, are j
wonderfully efficacious in removing |
this protecting membrane, but are I
wholly unneccessary to health and 1
• cleanliness. The only- really health3' i
new
Chicago, will
Government buildin
weigh 20 tons.
—3Jrs. Astor celebrated the marriage
of her son by donating $1500 to the man
agers of an asylum for destitute chil
dren.
—It*s rumored in Berlin, that Queen
Victoria will, during the present year
pay a visit to the grave of the late Prin
cess Alice.
—It is suggested that New Haven,
Conn., celebrate on the next 4tnol July
the 100th anniversary of the invasion
of that city by the British.
—London converts her public b.*th
houses into gymnasiums for the wint *r.
under the provisions of an act of Par
liament passed at the last session.
—In November there were five four-
masted ships in .San Francisco harbor,
which the Bulletiu of that city call \ a
maritime phenomenon. V
—The stock of grain in Boston ejevn
tors is only 200,000 bushels, against half
a million bushels at the same time last
year.
—Joseph 3Iilmore, the sculptor, 1
received a commission to execute bt;
ot Lord Lome and wife, for the city
Ottawa.
—Of the 007 students at Eton, one is a
marquis, one an earl, one a viscount,
two are counts (foreign), thirteen are
lords, thirty-eight are honorables ami
three baronets.
—Dr. David Laing, the well-known
and proper water batli costs little or j investigator of Scotch'antiquarian liter
nothing, and can be taken at home, ature aud keeper of the Signet Library
Some say they have no time to take a : at Edinburg, died recently at Porto
bath, but this only requires eight min
utes before breakfast, which every one
not inordinately-lazy can take. Go to
then
strav
and
became convinced that such was the The women had just organized “The ,, i ,n to i m;,ke ^° i u
case. He noticed three small circular | Foreign Benevolent Society,” v
in closures about two hundred yards Mr. Johnson entered the room,
from the beach about a mile apart, was at once appealed to donate a
They were about six feet in diameter : dollars as a foundation to work on
u tin
to
li.t
father fall down stairs and mother giv
a yell, and that’s how the house g«i
afire, and now I won’t have to go t
school for six weeks.”
Met*
• stones Catalogn
made ol brush,the walls live feet high,
with a small opening on one side. Near
these openings were sticks of driftwood
stuck in the ground in the form of a
attsed sponta- tripod, supporting tried blubber. These
inclosures appeared to be simply wind
no protection from
also saw a mysterious foot-
j print, and judged to be that of a wo-
aee, Bill \ man from its small size and arched cen
tre. An approaching storm obliged
Nidever’s vessel to leave the island
without allowing him to persue liis in
vestigations an3' further. Mr. Nedever,
having seen many otter on liis visit to
the island made a second during tiie
winter of 1852, and being requested by
the Mission Fathers of Santa Barbara,
he and a party determined to make a
cajujul hunt for the supposed lone in-
1 J^aur of 1 Dc* island. Within half a
miU of the head of the island the3' dis
covered a basket in the croth of a bush
or small tree, covered with a sealskin
and containing a dress made of sliage-
skin—aseufowl common in that section
trav about two inches deep and eigh
teen inches square. This will cost
about sixty cents. Then buy a spoil
which will cost 3*011 about
With tlie tin pan, the spoil
bello.
—M. Ambroise Thomas, the compos
er of “Hamlet” and “Mlgnon,” was
married recently at Nancy, to 31’lle
Elvirh Reqjaury, a sister of Mme. Mou-
tigny Remauay, the pianist.
—The Bordeaux Mint, the scene of
. c ,_ the recent misappropriation of MA1.
a quarter.! Rothschild’s silver, le to be closed and
|We aiM j a jthe ^taff transferred to Haris, which will
” ’ 1 njw be the only French mint. Stras-
“Is tliis society organized to
poor of foreign countries?”
“Yes—yes—yes!’’ they chon
“And it wants money?”
“Yes—yes.”
“Well, now,” said Johns
id.
«i.
3li - . Charles 1 . Shepard, of New
Haven, Conn., writes to the Indianapolis
Journal for fuller information concern
ing the alleged meteoric stone of recent
uotoriet3', and expresses an earnest de
sire to procure a piece of it to add to his
large collection. Mr. Shepard has been
informed of the facts, or rather the
want of the facts, in the case. His let
ter states that he has been for fort3*
years a diligent student of meteorology,
and that lie lias accumulated the larg
est collection of meteoric stones in the
United States, if not in the world. He
forwards a catalogue of his collection,
showing the number of stones and the
date and locality of their fall. The
collection embraces over 500 meteoric
stones and meteoric irons. The total
weight of the collection is about 1,200
pounds. The largest iron, procured
from Colerado, weighs 482 pounds, and
the smallest, from Ostego county. New
York, weighs half an ounce. The
largest entire stone procured from .Mus
kingum county, Ohio, weighs fifty-six
pounds, and the smallest one, from
Sweden, weighs less than fifty grains.
The specimens have been gathered from
all parts of the world. The catalogue
begins with one which fell November
7, 1492, in Alsace, and ends with one
which fell Februar}* 12, 1875. in Iowa
county. Iowa. There are none between
1492 and 1703, but most of the years
since the latter date are represented,
and some 3'ears b3’ several specimens.
Nearly every country in the known
world is represented in the list. The
entire collection is in one of the build
ings in Amherst College. Mr. Shepard
makes one statement which will sur
prise most persons. He sa3*s: “There
have been several instances of death
occasioned by meteoric stones. Two
monks in different places were thus
killed in Italy, and two sailors on ship
board in Sweden.”
It is an oft-spoken whim ol the cy
nics—and pos8ibl3' something more—
that the doctors give their presciptions
in Latin so as to afford tlieir ignorant
patients the benefit of a little imagina
tion. Bolus Panificus sounds a good
deal more important than “bread-pill.”
Some years ago in a Rhode Island Le
gislature a member moved to translate
all the Latin phrases in the statutes so
that the people could understand them.
A 3Ir. Updike took the ground that it
was no advantage to have the people
understand the law. He said that they
were not afraid of anything they un
derstood ; that it was the Latin words
they were afraid of, and proceeded to
illustrate as follows: 3lr. Speaker,
there was a man in South Kingston
about twenty years ago who was a per
fect nuisance, and nobody knew how
to get rid of him. One day he was hoe
ing corn and he saw the Sheriff coming
arefully folded up, and several piec
es of skin similar to those of which the
dress was made; also a rope of seal
sinews, shell fish-hooks, bone
needles, etc. A3 it was late and time
for them to. return to their boat for the
night, Mr. Nidever scattered the con
tents of the basket on the ground, so
that upon his return lie could judge of
the presence or absence of the owner
by finding them gathered up or remain
ing as he left them. The following
four or more days were spent in otter
hunting, and before the search for the
Indian woman was renewed a southeast
gale compelled them to seek a more
hospitable harbor at the island of San
Miguel. A third expedition made to
the island in 1853 b3’ Nidever, Charles
Brown and four Indians from the San
ta Barbara mission were more success
ful. On the da3' after landing Mr
Brown discovered the object of tlieir
search at a distance, and cautious ap
proaching in an opposite direction from
the remainder of the part}' came
close to her without being observed.
She was sitting cross-legged, skinning
seal blubber with a rude knife made of
a piece of hoop-iron driven into a piece
of wood. There was no covering on
her head excepting a thick mass of mat
ted hair of a yellowisli-brown color,
due to the exposure to the sun and air.
The hair was short, as though the fine
ends had rotted off. She would occa
sionally raise her hand and shake her
eyes and look toward the other men on
a sandv* plain near the beach, whom
she evidently saw. The balance of the
party were now signaled in order that
she might be captured if the attempted
to escape. To the surprise of all she
made no attempt to get away, but
greeted each one as they approached
with a bow and a smile, and chattered
all the time in a dialect that none of
them understood, although the Indians
accompanying 31 r. Nidever were ac
quainted with several Indian dialects.
She was talking apparently to lierselt,
from the time Mr. Brown approached
within hearing distance until she was
made aware of his presence. The ex
pression of her face was pleasing, her
features were regular, and her comple
xion much fairer and her form more
symmetrical than that of the Indian
women on the main land, and she is be
lieved to have belonged to a different
and superior race. By signs and other
means of communication she was made
aware that they wanted her to accom
pany them, and without any apparent
hesitation she made ready to follow.
I11 their course to where the schooner
la}* at anchor the}' found a beautiful
spring of water issuing from the bank
above the beach, under a shelving
rock. The cracks or fissures in this
rock-were stuck full of bones, and there
were other evidences of an encampment
then Mrs. Graham added. ,
“It would be so pleasant, in after S“lion of water, you have all the re- bourThaWng become Gerinan!’
3*ears for you to remember that you ‘lhireuients tor an excellent bath, and
gave this society its first dollar and its e '*- r y person should take such a bath
first kind word.” j c,ail >’* lc is onl >* necessary to sponge
He slowly opened his wallet, drew ! yourself thoroughly from head to foot
out a ten dollar bill, and as the ladies i am w,pe ,,ry W Ith :l sofl toweI * T,,e
smacked their lips and clapped their 1 eXt * r< ; ,se °f doing this to one’s self—no
hands, he asked : one eIse 8,l0,,Id 1,0 it—is excellent. The
l u , i water should be about the same tenqier-
ature as the atmosphere, if you are
healthy and strong; but if the weather
is intensely cold, tepid water may be
substituted. But the bath should not
.v. wiiuouii In* ^ * aken "’ill* the window open or in a
folded the bill in a tempting shape, i curn -' nt of air - :lni1 ll, e "'der should be
“there are twenty married women t *"‘ 3:,mc ten, perutiire as the atnios-
liere. If there are fifteen of yon who P"e™ in the room.
cau make an oath that you have combed 1
the children’s hair this morning, wash- a Little otri Fancfnate* i«r«is.
ed the dishes, blackened the cook-stove [
ami made the beds, I’ll donate umi dol- f , There reside in the vicinity of ll«ti-j A Umin*c K
lars.” risburg, an out-of-the-wa y place ini the woman is that she neve r »
**1 have,” answered 7w. of the crowd, Hancock count}*, Ohio, about three George \V ashir-* jn.
and the rest said : miles west of Mount Blanchard, a very , — A 1*J.V in a Franklin county (Me.)
“Why, now, .Mr. Johnson !” remarkable child only five years old, i tow , n in providing for the twenty-first
“if « fle ? n Jon can make oath that j ".Ho seem* to have the power to charm j JrttoVdShSr“pr£
your husbands are not wearing socks ; l* 11 ” 3 u *”• Her mother first noticed serves that were put up in August, 1857.
with holes in their heels, the money is j strange fascination that the child j They were first tested on the eventful
3’Ottrs,” continued the wretch. j possesses about a year ago. The little day of his birth, again when seven years
“Just Hear him!” they exclaimed,' was out playing in the door-yard j of a «e, and also at fourteen,
eaclt one looking at the other. i an,on £ l * lc of snow-birds, and : —New discoveries of gold have been
“If ten of you have boys without w * ien sI,c spoke to them they would made In Siberia, near the source of the
’ ” ’ Konnissar, and a nugget of gold, weigh
ing 117 pounds, the largest ever discov
ered iu Russia, and probably in the
world, has been found 011 th*e banks of
the Upper Toungouska, about 100 vere
above the river’s mouth.
—The death is announced of the Ger
man painter Nerly, Who has been living
in Italy since 1820. He was acquainted
with Goethe and Byron, and is mention-
ed‘In the respective biographies of the
4wo poets.
—The Berlin police have lately found
that at least one tenth of the population
of that city live in cellars. The mor
tality among them is great. Half of
the houses of the city are excessively
crowded.
—The silver mounted Malacca cane
of Judge Lynch, the founder of Lynch
burg, Va , and the originator of Lynch
law r , and his inkstand, are in the posses
sion of Mr. E. J. Withers, of Henderson,
Ky.
j —Mrs. Appel, said to be the olde«
person in Cincinnati, died there sever;
j flays ago, at the age of 97 years.^
I was active up to ti;e time of.
| holes in the knees of their pants, tiii 1 eo,,,e an<1 n £ ht u P° n her, twittering
X goes to the society,” said Johnson. | to ,,er * 0,1 taking them in her
“Such a man!” they whispered. | ! ,a,lds :intl stroking them, the birds
“If there are five pairs of stocking- ! * ,,> tead of tr}*ingtoget away from their
iu this room that do not need darning, * a * r uaptive, seemed to be highl}*
I’ll hand over the money,” lie went on. l ,1,;ase,1 > amI wl »e» kt loose would fly
“Mr. Johnson,” said Mrs. Graham, j a ' va >’ a sl,ort distance, and immediately
with great dignity, “the rules of this , ret,,rn to l,ie again. .Site took
society declare that no money shall be ! several of them into the house to show
Contributed except by members, and as j hcr motl,er > wl, °* thinking she might
you are not a member, 1 beg that you ; hurt them, put them out ol doors, but no
withdraw and let us proceed with the ! sooner was the door opened than the
routine business.” .birds flew into the room again and lit
Bijnii and Novel Reading. upon the girl's head and began to chirp.
. „ .. , . ^ j The birds remained about the premises
A motherlv-lookmg woman about. • ... ..... . . .
6iw ’ . f 1 . all winter, flying to the little girl wlien-
fifty years of age, entered the parlor, I
and when invited to divide her burden !
of wee and anxiety she began :
“31 r. Joy, I have a daughter.”
“And I have three,” was his encour
aging reply.
“This daughter of ours is a dear girl,
31 r. Joy. .She is our only child, and of j ‘hiring last summer the child list
course we arc much concerned about ! numerous j»cts lrom tlie birds,
ever the door was opened. The parents
of the child became alarmed, believing
that this strange power was an ill
omen, and that that much-dreaded vis
itor, death, was about to visit tlieir
home. But death did not come, aud
had
The
hej future. j child handles the birds so gently that
“Very likely, madam. I used to be i a humming-bird, once in her hand,
concerned for fear iny daughters would j does not fail to return. This winter a
bevy of birds has kept her company
and she plays with them for hours at a
time. Every morning the birds fit* to
her window, and only leave when the
sun sinks in the west. The parents of
this little girl are poor, superstitious
people, and have been reticent about
the matter until lately fearing that
some great calamity was about to befall
them.
marry blind men.”
“Our daughter has a passion for rea
ding, 3Ir. Joy. She reads about ten
novels a week, and often sits till mid
night to read the story papers. Her
father and I have been wondering if
she is not reading a little too much. I
was going by, you see, and I thought 1
would call and see 3*011 about it. Do
3*ou think this novel reading will affect
her future! What would 3*011 advise?”
“Well, if I had a daughter.” he slow
ly replied, “I think i’d let her read
24 novels per week: I’d let her sit up
till midnight, and lie abed till noon.
I’d hire a servant to comb her hair and
cook her canaries; I wouldn’t let her
lift her hand to housework, and I'd
practice her till she could pound a
piano and drawl her voice in a fashion- 1
able way.”
“And then?” she queried, as lie
paused.
“Then, when she was old enough to
marry, the whole famil}* would turn
out and hunt down a husband for her,
wish ’em much joy, and—”
“And what.”
“And know that she would make him
the most miserable wretch in town
madam! Don’t teach your daughter
how to sweep or cook, because it is un
fashionable. Don’t teach her to know
butter lrom beef-bones, because it will
affect her standing in society. Don’t
teach her to cut and baste and fit and
sew, because some one may suspect
that hcr grandmother invented the
needle. Bring her up to be nothing
Fa der land’ft Bee
with a paper and asked him what it ment> obtained by sucking; they were
dried and resucked many times, show-
and know notning. Get hcr three av-
of the lone inhabitant of the island. \ era g C servant girls to run her house for
These bones were used for nourish- | | lcr> an j jf j ier husband doesen’t
was. Now if he had been told that it
was a writ what would he have cared?
But he told him it was a capias satisfa
ciendum!, and the man dropped his hoe
and rat* and lias not been heard of
since.
that occassionally she was put upon
short rations, but at the time of her
discovery appeared to have an abun
dance, such as it was. She retained
all her teeth, but they were worn low, y° u an J
away or commit suicide within eight
month’s it’s because he hasn’t brains
enough to come in when it hail:
German beer statistics for last year
show some remarkable features. The
total product for the whole German
Empire was 856,823,220 gallons last
year, and this immense amount was
some half a million dollars less than
the previous year. The total amount of
beer consumed within the territory
of the excise union was 45S,4S2,S38 gal
lons, or 114 pints per head of total po
pulation. In Baden and Wurtemberg
the consumption and its proportion to
production are higher, the consump
tion being at the rate of 129 pints per
head of population, while in Bavaria
the production is at the rate of 427 pints
per head of population ; but the actual
consumption is not given. It is known,
however, that the quantity of Bavarian
beer exported is very considerable,
while the quantity of beer imported in
to Bavaria ts very small. Still, there
can be little doubt that the rate of con
sumption per head of population in
Bavaria is greater than in any other
part of Germany. The total consump
tion of beer for the whole German Ein-
I pire is set flown at 841,058,768 gallons,
■or nearly 160 pints per head of the to
tal population.
“Xlr. Jov, I shall not take vour ad | —Already three claims to the ^15
vice!” she*replied. bounty offered by the Princess Louise
31 v* dear woman, I haven’t given j for triplets have been made within a
fortnight.
’ he humbly remarked.
—The Special Relief Committee of the
Odd Fellows of Memphis, Tenn., have
made their report, showing that they
received $18,061 in contributions during
the prevalence of the yellow fever.
Ninety-five members of their fraternity
died, and of their families, 134. The
number ol widows is54, and the orphans
150.
—Judge Junkin, of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, of Juniata county, Pa., in a
recent case against an employe of the
Pennsylvania Railroad for shoveling
coal on an angiue on Sunday, held that
on long lines of railroad “both necess
ity and charity require that trains car
rying live stock and perishable freight
be run upon Sunday, and the statute ot
1794 is not violated thereby
—A man in New Haven, Conn.,
whose house was infested b}* sewer rats,
tried the experiment of catching oue of
them in a trap, and leaving it to starve
to death, believing that its cries wouid
frighten away its old associates. l L .
shrieks of rage and despair had the de
sired effect. The trial was made si*
or^^
•y
months ago, and not a rat has beer;^
heard from or seen within those wall-i
1 m
i
heard front or seen
usince.
I—The productions by State and Terri
tories of precious metals during 1878 is
as follows: California, $18,9*20,461;
Nevada,$35,181,949; Oregon,$1 213,724;
Washington, $73 311; Idaho, $1,868.122;
Montana, $1 763 610; Utah, $6,d04,613;
Icolorada, $6 232,747; New Mexico,
$453 813; Arizona, 2 287,983; Dakota,
$2,215,805; Mexico, (west coast. ).$1,594,-
'.195; British Columbia, $1 283 4 8.
Total, 87, 154 , 622.
The school population of South Caro
lina is 228,12S; of this number 144 315
are colored. The school attendance
during the past year was 102 390— color-
ad 55,952. There are *2483 public schools
rnploying 1725 white and 949 colored
teachers. The average salaries oi male
teachers were $28 32 per month; of fe
male teachers, $26 87. Of the 226,020
expended upon the schools, $100,000
was appropriated b}* the State, ami
$4100 was bestowed from the Peabody
Education Fund.
—ft is asserted that from the summit
of mount Etna the circle of vision lias
the enormous radius of 150.7 miles. The
habitable zone of the mountain is very
fertile, and sustaius a dense population
—1424 to the square mile. Rodvreli
says the gigantic chestnut trees of Car-
pineltoare no myths, but sober realities.
He asserts that the diameter of the
trunk of one of them is twenty-five
feet, ami that a public road passes
through the much-decayed trunk of the
largest, the Custagno di Cento C&valli.
— It is estimated that there are in the
State of New York no less than 6400
ecclesiastical organizations of all de
nominations, occupying nearly as many
ed ifices, which furn ish seats for 2,600,000
persons aud have an enrolled member
ship of 1,300,000 iu round numbers.
The total value of these church edifices
and the lots which they occupy is about
$101,110,Of 0, to which should be added
say $16,500,000, the value of the parson
ages and other real estate belonging to
the various denominations.
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