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THE CLOUD.
The clond lay low in the heavens,
Such a little cloud it seemed ;
Just lightly touching the sea’s broad breast.
Where the rose-light lingered across the west.
Soft and gray as innocent rest,
While the gold athwart it gleamed.
It looked such a haijnleHS cloudlet
Seen over the sleeping wave,
Yet the keen-ej'ed mariner shook his head,
As slowly it crept o’er the dusky red.
:• See the rocket lines are clear, ” he said,
And bis lips set stern and grave.
And long e’re the eve was midnight,
That cloud was lowering black,
D mming the flash on the furious spray.
As the breakers crashed in the northern bay;
Ifands howling on th ir track.
So, in life’s radiant morning,
May a tiny care or cross
Just trouble the peaceful course of love,
As if the strength of its sway to prove,
As if to whisper -‘Ilf surface may move,
But my roots eau laugh at loss.”
It may seem such a little jarring,
Only experience sighs,
For with time’s sa 1 learning to sharpen the
glance,
He sees the “rift m the lute” advance,
Knows how fate may seize upon circumstance
To sever the closest ties.
Ah me, in the fiercest tempest,
The life-boat its work may do ;
But what can courage or skill avail
When the heart lies wrecked by passion’s gale,
Wlieft change or death have furled the sail,
When treason has bribed the crew ?
Then watch, oh, hope and gladness.
Watch for the rising cloud,
Sun itraway, frank warmth of youth,
Blow it away bright breeze of truth,
For olu there is neither mercy tior truth,
Should it once your heaven enshron J.
The Willow Switch.
Aliont lorty years ago a large part ot Cen
tral New York, that is now fust becominga
gardou* was almost a new- country, and
jioofili*'talked of “moving West” when they
emigrated from the hanks of the Hudson to
those of r the Genesee. Still one of the
cities on the line of the Erie Canal waif
even then a town of some importance and
Toasted much of what then amounted to
wealth and even aristocracy.
4)1 this later class had been the family
of -Judge Morton, but sundry unlucky
speculations had made it impossible for
l/ini to retain his accustomed position
among Ids old neigliliors, and he was about
to seek a new field in one of the younger
settlements.
Everything had long been prepared, the
wagons were laden, the adieus for the mast
part had been said again and again, and a
part of the cavalcade was fairly under way.
The heavier goods, indeed, had been started
two or three days before. The ladies of
the party as well as the gentlemen had de
cided to attempt the journey on horseback,
well aware that the condition of the roads,
even though spring was now well advanced,
could not he depended upon.
Apart from the rest, mounted on a stout
and quiet looking pony, sat a young tody
<rf sunur iTgrireeir sntiiniers, in wikwc r^sy
cheeks and bright, black eyes the excite-
raent of the occasion seemed almost to have
overcome its sober suggestions. Still, some
thing like a shade was on her face as she
leaned forward in her saddle and conversed
in low tones with a gentleman whose arm
was thrown carelessly over the neck of her
pony.
“Never mind me, Charlie; why it isn’t
three days’ riding at the very worst, and
that won’t hurt me.”
“But me, Susie! I am ordered off for
a long cruise, and I cannot tell when I
shall see you again.”
‘•But you will come back ?”
“Yes—but when ? And will you—
“Will I what, Charlie ?”
“Wait a moment, Susie!”
And the young man, who was in the un
dress nniform of a naval officer, sprang off
to the side of tne road, where some willow
trees were growing in untrimmed luxuri
ance. Catching hold of one of the grace
ful ly bending boughs he cut therefrom a
long and pliant slip, with which he re
turned, stripping off the leaves as he came.
“There, Susie, that will answer for a
riding whip, but do not wear it out on your
pony, even if therondsare bad.”
“Why not, Charlie?”
“Because at the end of my cruise I shall
come back to claim it. Will you keep it
for me ?”
A very soft light stole into the black
eyes; but she said in a low voice, “Yes,
Charlie, I will keep it. But are you sure
you will come to claim it ?”
“If I live, Susie.”
“Ah! then it is good-by, sure enough,
now, for father is calling me. Good-by,
Charlie!”
There was a most passionate earnestness
in the young officer's reply, and he stood
gazing after the pony and his mistress long
after they were hidden by a turn of the
road. We cannot follow him, however,
by land or sea, for our business is with the
willow switch.
If Susie's pony suffered on the road it
was not from any excessive application of
Charlie’s queer memento, and on the third
day about noon Judge Morton rode up to
the side of liis daughter and announced
that they were close at their journey’s end!
They were nearly at a fork of the road at
the foot of a gently sloping hill, and just
where the two ways met a little spring bub
bled up and wandered off into an adjoining
meadow. There were more signs of im
provement than Susie had expected, but
enough of wilderness remained to add to
the rural beauty of the spot.
“Our new home,” said the Judge “will
be on the top of this knoll when it is built,
and our present quarters such as they are,
will Ik* a little further on.”
A sudden thought seemed to have en
tered the brain of Susie.
‘ ‘Father, won’t willows grow from slips ?”
“Yes, my dear; that's the usual way of
setting them -out. ”
“Aid they want water, don’t they ? Is
this one fresh enough to grow?”
“1 should say it was.”
‘,Wdl, then, may be we cau have some
thing growing here to remind us of our old
home.
In an instant Susie was down from her
pony, and the willow 'switch was carefully
planted, just above the little spring. It
would have all the water it wanted, at all
events. And thejj -pusie-, and her father
rode on'to.Lhiijr new libihe; biitthere was a
warm flutter at the young girls heart and a
blush on her cheek, as she wondered, “Will
it ever grovr? 5 ’
The new settlement was a good one ft r
the Judge, and Susie’s willow prospered
famously. Even the rude farmer boys bail
learned how it came there, and respected it
reljgimisiy, wlrile a littte paling kept off
other intruders. Susie’s heart throbbed
high with hope anti faith, at times, as she
noted the wonderful vitality and prosperity
of her leafy favorite. It grew as if it had a
dutyto perform anti was determined to do
it well. And the little spring bubbled up
more briskly from under it, and seemed to
murmur softly “He will come! He will
come!”
Still, one year and another and another
went by and Charles did not come, and let
ters were terribly uncertain and far l>et\veen.
All around the world he had been sent, and
Susie’s heart at times grew siek and weary
in spite of the willow.
But she had other suitors, for her beauty
seemed to grow every (lay, and her father
was getting along well in the world once
more. Truth to tell, Susie had something
of Mother Eve in her, and was not at all
adverse to admiration.
So it happened that one day in June of
the fourth year of the residence of the
Mortons in their new home, just as the sun
was setting, Susie found herself taking a
stroll along the shaded roadside accompa-
nied-by the handsomest arid most favored
of her numerous train of worshippers.
They did not seem to be in a talking
humor, but walked slowly along until they
came to the forks of the road and paused a
moment by the side of the spring. Here,
at last,-the young man seemed to have
found his tongue and he pleaded eloquently
and passionately for the -the half-reluctant
hand which he had seized in both his own.
Still Susie was silent, and it may be that
the bubbling spring and the sighing willow
were talking to her; but just then they
heard the sound of horses hoofs coming at
a (piick pace up the road, and in a moment
inpre a rider drew his rein bqsiiie them and
asked politely if he could be directed to the
residence of Judge Morton. The young
man had dropped Susie’s hand, and, lmlf-
vexed at the interruption, was proceeding
to give the desired information, but his
words were aot listened to. *
The horseman was leaning forward is his
saddle, and had fixed a gaze of earnest
penetration on the face of Susie Morton, on
which the blushes had given way to a
deadly pallor.
“Susie, I have come ! The willow—”
The light came back to Susie's eyes in an
instant, and with a long sigh of relief, she
pointed to the little branches which swept
her shoulder, and answered, “Here it is,
Charlie; it has been growing ever since you
went away.”
Susie’s other companion was not obtuse
enough to linger longer in the shade of such
a tree as that, and before she returned to
the house.Charlie had reclaimed his gift.
The song of the spring only changed enough
U> sound like “He has come—he has come?”
'Thirty years went by, and the Morton
willow kept on growing, until it became a
well-known landmark, towering high in air
above the little spring at the forks of the
road But thirty years work - changes in
ottyer tilings besides trees, and a slip from
tilt willow had been’, dissevered to grow
above a little moinid In the village grave
yard, for the Judge slept, like a true
American, not with his fathers. Every
thing else had undergone changes, if not
always improvement, and last came the
fearful changes of the war of 1801.
It was not many days after the Gettys
burg fight and a matronly lady in deep
mourning, supported by a fair young girl
similarly clad, walked slowly and feebly
down the sloping road to the spring.
“If there is a bough within react), dear,
I would rather gather it myself, and then
if 1 can find where they have laid him I
will go and plant it with my own hands.”
One long, sweeping branch of the willow
tree seemed as she approached it almost to
lie lield out to her with a sympathizing pur
pose, and with a pale face and quiyerbu:-
lips she was proceeding to sever the slip she
wanted, unmindful of the rattle of coming
carriage wheels. As for her girlish com
panion, she had sunk down upon the grass
and covered her face with her hands. The
good lady’s trembling fingers almost re
fused to perform their duty and the car
riage drew within a few paces of her just
us she had severed the slender rod.
“Well, mother, I hope that you are not
cutting that for me,” said a cheery but
somewhat feeble voice from the carriage.
The young girl sprang to her feet, but only
just in time to save hermother from falling,
though she did not quite faint, and re
covered quickly.
“Oh, Charlie, my boy!—my boy!”
“Here I am, mother—hurt, sure enough
but in no need of a willow yet; am I.
“Not by any means, ” said a hale and
hearty old gentleman, in a naval undress,
who now sprang out of the carriage ; “and
they’ve given us both a furlough,, though
mine is a short one. This willow was
always a good omen.’’
And again the spring seemed to bubble
up softly, “lie has come! he has come!”
And the old lady, and the young lady,
too, sobbed and laughed, and kissed the
returned warriors, till the good mother,
with the bit of willow still in her hand,
knelt down in the shade of the memorial
tree, to pour out her thankfulness to Him
who had made her prosperity to grow with
its growth, from the day when she sprang
from her weary pony to plant it.
A Home Glacier.
A great deal is said about the glaciers of
the Alps, but it is not generally known that
we have a genuine glacier in ^lie White
Mountains. In the winter large quantities
of snow collect in Tuckerman’s Ravine, on
Mount Washington, and last well into the
next summer, sometimes even continuing
till the "following winter. The question
has often occurred to me, is not this huge
snow patch a true glacier V I went through
the ravine early this year, on the 7th of
July. Indeed, our party was the first one
through, and we found the patch larger
than usual. It was nearly triangular in
form, broad above, aud tapering to a point
at the liottom. It was about one thousand
feet in length, three hundred in breadth,
and perhaps cue hundred in depth. I
placed a line of stones across the snow two-
thirds of the way down, and marked the
two ends by cairns built in the neighboring
rock.
On the 27th I visited the ravine again
to find quite a change in the appearance of
things; the famous snow arch had fallen in
the night before, owing to the very heavy
rains which occurred there; but a consider
able portion of my line of stones remained
intact, and, as I expected, they were not in
the place where I had placed them, but had
been earned down the mountain a distance
of thirteen feet in twenty days, showing a
daily rate of motion of a little less than
eight inches. This is as fast as many of
the Alpine glaciers travel, although one of
them, I believe, moves at the rate of four
feet per day.
Though our little glacier may not afford
the excitement that some of its greater al
pine congeners, and is without cheir beauty
still it has the advantages over them of
being without any of their attendant dan
gers, aud now that a good path has been
constructed from the Glen House, there is
uo reason why any one who is capable of
walking five miles on level ground should
fail to see it and the magnificent scenery
t by which it is surrounded. The Appalachi
an Mountain Club has recently undertaken
the improvement of an old path which led
in the ravine by way of the beautiful Crys
tal Cascade, and, if femds permit, it will be
continued to the summit of the mountain,
thus procuring a most enjoyable walk for
those capab.e of enduring the necessary fa
tigue.
“Gerald.”—You grieve that your pas
sions are so strong, doyou ? All right; mix
in a little of your morals, which are weak
enough to thin-them down.
“Little Buttercup” writes—“How can I
mend a crystal goblet that has got a hole
punched through its side ?” You can’t re
pair it permanently, but if you stick your
thumb in the hole when you are using the
goblet, it will answer for all practical pur
poses.
“Mary Ann” saj’s she is “a-weary,” and
complains that “woman's work goes on
forever.” So it does, and we are glad of
it. But that doesn’t affect you. Bless your
soul, you don’t go on forever; you don’t
have all the work to do, not even while you
live. Man’s work goes on forever too, we
hope, but that doesn’t fret us a particle.
We are not going to stay here and do it all.
Bless you, no; we are not going to do our
own any longer than we have to. Brace
up, Alary Ann, and don’t you fret about the
work that “goes on forever. You’re not
going on with your work more than forty
or fiftj' years longer, Mary Ann, and don’t
you forget it.
“Airs. Blodsoe” wants to know “which
is the quickest way to make ice cream with
out a freezer?” Buy it in one of those
little paste-board boxes they sell at the ice
cream factories.
“Gentle Annie” is in a desponding mood
tills week. She begins her sad plaint by
asking, “Will they forget us when we are
gone?” You may bet your sweet life,
gentle Annie the}* will. They will forget
us so completely they won’t even be posi
tive where we have gone.
“Marguerite” asks if “a wornau should
marry a man whom she respects and es
teems, but does not love, for his money ?”
Oh, no. Marguerite, n-no; not exactly that.
You should not marry him for his money,
unless v r ou can’t absolutely get it any other
way. But if you do really “respect” the
man, you might love his money, and then
you would have all the ingredients, for a
happy match, anyhow. We wouldn’t ad
vise you to marry a man for his money
alone, nor, on the other hand, Alarguerite,
ould we advise you to marry a man
merely for the sake of his poverty; there is
neither merit nor novelty in that. But you
should many hio, even though he is rich
as Croesus, because—by the way, Mar
guerite,.you didn't say that this rich man
had asked you or wanted you to many
him ? How is that, by the way ?
“Baby Mine” says “she is just crying
her eyes out because she is not pretty, and
she feels lonely and nobody loves her, and
she longs for some sympathetic heart that
can feel for her troubles aud drop words of
sympathy like healing balm into her lovely
life, and ” “Baby Mine,” bush it right
up ; not another line of it; not a whisper.
You scare us to death and we haven’t a
line of sympathy for you. We are a mar
ried man, with a boy old enough, or at
least smart enough, to go to college; we
are the busy head of a pleasant, happy
household, and we are not going to be de
coyed off into any sympathetic streaks, not
by all the lonely women in America. Dry
it up, and the next time you write to this
department, tell us how to make water
enmps that will last all night’ and won’t
traighten out in one hot afternoon.
‘Lonely,” are you? Then why don’t you
go to the sociable, where you will meet so
glance through the window, hut still no
sheriff in sight.) Aside: “What shall I
do ? ”
“There, I’ve got only ten minutes to
catch my train. If you will assure me
uppn honor that it Is all right, and that the
bank is not going to bust, I won’t wait
now; but if you are going W> shut up I
want my money Come now, how is it,
old fellow ? ”
“Really, sir,” replied the polite cashier,
“you place me in a very delicate position.
If I tell you the bank is safe, and anything
happens hereafter, you will blame me; on
the other hand, if I tell you it is shaky, I
shall be unfaithful to my employers, and
shall very justly he discharged. I prefer
not to make any statement, but simply to
count out to 3*ou 1,000 half dollars.”
(Half dollars were the principal coinage in
circulation at that time.)
Turning, screw driver iu hand, to a
strong wooden box, apparently tightly
screwed together, such as silver coin was
usuall>' packed in in those days, but which
the cashier knew very well to he absolutely
Tlie Sea Cow.
Recently there arrived at the New York
Aquarium a monster manatee or sea cow
.from Indian river, Alanatee county, Fla.
'piis strange amphibious beast was brought
l»y steamship from Florida, packed iu a large
box, fifteen or sixteen feet in length by* five
feet .in width and three in deptlL It was
Iiedeil in algae, fucus natans and other
aquatic plants, andi its guardians and kee
pers, who had brought it from Florida, said
thar^it had eaten notliiug since it was taken
from Indian river, and that the only care
that it required on the passage and jouine3’
was a plentiful supply of water run through
the holes of the box in which it was trans
ported. When the box was ripped off,
and the odd of the .same removed, the
monstrous beast, thirteen feet in length,
and “weighing about three thousand
poundp” (Mr. Reiche said) was slowly
launched in the shallow water of the great
t.There it lay, a long, black mass,
neither a “fish nor an animal, shaped souie-
t. iipg like a .seal, , but hearing as much
empty, "he wiped off'his brow and set him- «•<&»«•<» as to a hipopotamus. It lay
’ - -- - « * pr.»ne on the bottrihi of the tank while the
self to work as if to an herculean task.
The man glanced at the clock, and then
at the iron bound coin box, then mentally
calculated the weight of a thousand haif
dollars, then burst out with: “Never
mind; I see that 3’<>u have got the coin,
and I’ll l>c d d if I’m going to pack a
thousand half dollars all tlie way to Dex
ter to-night. Never mind, Air. Cashier, I
won’t trouble you,” and out of the hank
he darted.
The injunction was served soon after
and the danger passed. But the old Far
mers and Alcchanics’ still kept up the habit
of being short of coin, afid did 90 till the
last, when nearly twenty yeare later what
was left of it was consolidated with a pri
vate bank, and became the now’prosperous
American National bank of Detroit. The
worthy cashier still lives in Detroit, and
finds a bonanza of enjo3rment in recounting
the amusing incidents of old-time finan
ciering.
We Gentlemen in IHack.
Timely wit can do easily a great many
very hard things. It can even disarm a
haggling debtor. A Northumberland Bishop
returned home alter a long absence in
London. A cliimne3’-sweeper had been at
work cleaning the cbinine3'8 of the large
mansion and its connections, and had just
completed his work as tlie gentleman met
him in the drive-wa3*.
“Alercy onus!” cried the Bishop, as he
came face to face with the apparent imp of
water poured in and the keepers patted its
black hide and threw water over it and
chared its flattened anterior, fin-like arms
of seaweed, and raised up its calf-like
mouth and nostrils and e3 r es. It has no
legGor p< s erior limbs, outy a broad flat
other substances. For the ash of the fiber,
thirt3’-three and one-third per cent, phos
phate of potash, sixteen and two thirds per
cent- phosphate of lime, twelve and one-
half per cent, phosphoric acid, and thirt3'
seven and one half per cent, magnesia and
other elements. A bale of lint cotton of
400 pounds, thorough 13' incinerated, would
3'ielti four pounds of ash, half of which is
made up of phosphates of potash aud lime.
Tke seed from which this line is taken,
some 800 pounds, reduced to an ash, would
3'ield about fifty pounds over half of which
is composed of phosphates of lime and pot
ash, the lime preponderating. These cons
tituents, as found in the seed, are WI10II3',
or nearty* so, from the hull, the kernel fur
nishing but little.
It is well known that the natural color is
white, reddish or 3’ellow; blit the compo
sition of these colors has never been satis
factory explained, any more than that it is
thought they are allied with *some pectine
and resinous substances which cau be re
moved by treatment with diluted solutions.’
For the most favorable results the plant
requires a uniform temperature, a singular
adjustment of heat aud moisture, a peculiar
equilibrium in the climatic relation between
the mountains and the sea, abundant ruin
during the planting season, frequent and
gentle showers while flowering and fruit
ing, and a rainless period at maturation and
gathering. It is one of the least exhaustive
teued, horizontal caudal expansion at the Q f anv known crop plants, that is, if the
posterioi end of its body. Its thick, black ! sta ] k an( i t h e seed are retained to the soil
skin is sparsely scattered over with bristly, j an( j nothing but the lint taken from it. It
coa*se, black hairs. ‘AY hat are you going . j 8 that an average crop of wheat (ten
to feed it with?’ I asked Mr. Reiche. ; bushels) |tak e s from an acre of land about
“^Die leaves of the drascena aud of pond : thirty-two pounds of vegetable such as pot-
liliei, was the reph'. “We will get the ’ } isli, lime, magnesia aud nitrogen; while of
drascena from Florida, the pond lily roots j these elements the cotton plant removes in
and plants from the great northern lakes. I jj n t onty two and tliree-quarter pounds per
\Vehave already telegraphed for them.” i acre, presuming 450 pounds of seed cotton
“Will 3'ou keep it iu fresh or salt water?” ; to jj ie acre
“That is croton running into the tank, i ---- -
but it likes brakish water the best.” “Is its 1 1 he Squeaky Door,
flesh fit for food?” “They say its excel- Some thirty years ago, in a small town
lent, and sells for fifty cents a pound in j n Ohio, had grown up a nice congregation
Culo, and as high as a dollar a pound in j 0 f Methodists, who had built themselves a
sone localities, as the Catholic Chr rch per
mits the use of the same on some fast days,
ecclesiastical dogma having declared tins
creature, along with whales and other ce
nice church edifice, which had, unfortu
nately, a very squeaky door. The new
ministerMiat the Conference had sent them,
was annoyed by the habit some of the mcm-
taccnns, to be fisli, not flesh. ’ “How did i>ers had of coming late, but what particu-
yot gci this one ?” “Of native Floridans, 1 lariy troubled him was that, as soon as the
who have had it for a pet four years.” j squc‘ak3' door opened, all the congregation
4 flow old is this specimen supposed to be.” j WO uld twist their necks round to 6ee who
•‘Al»out fifty years old,^and it has not‘yet it was that had come in. He made up his
gaiaed its full size, though it is the largest, m i n d tlmt he would correct these bad hab-
onc 1 ever saw in captivity. It-will be, its; so the next Sunday morning he fiankty
twenty feet long if it Jives long enough to told them thut between those who came
get its full size.” j late, and those ^who turned round to see
While *we were talking about the Mana- j w ho had come in, he could not get on with
uum; mu, w low; vyimi uic ojijiaiviui nujrvi • •• ““v ..... , «ik> iijui cuuic i
darkness—for the fellow had just come tee, and watching it raise its nostrils above j Bis sermon, and that if they would only
from the last chimney, and was a literal the water at intervals ef about five minutes j remain quiet every time the door opened,
mass of soot from head to foot. “Who and for air, it suddenly liecame active, and 1 he would announce to them who it was that
what art thou ?
“I, 3'our Grace, am 3’oilr most humble
aud devoted servant aud helper—the cleaner
and amender of 3'our chimneys. ”
“Oho! You have been sweeping the
chimneys ?”
“I have, 3'our Grace r and 3'ou may now
build your tires with solid assurance of
peace and comfort.”
“1 am glad of that. And now, I sup
pose, 3'ou would like for me to pa3 r 3*ou ?”
‘ ‘From 3'ourself, my lord, cither the pay,
or an order on your treasurer. ”
“I’ll pa> r you. How much will it be ?”
“Indeed, sir, it was a pretty job; take
’em big and little, there were six-and
many other lonely people that you will feel chimneys, and I should surely have
happy? “Lonely ?” Great guns, ami a new a slnUmg ap eep, but w*
circr/s billed 03 the fence nro —11 ! '""^rSu-enty shillings
Bishop. “And how long have you been
at it ?”
“Yesterduy and to-day, your Grace.’’
“Well, I declare, you manage to earn a
very short space
Old-Time Banking.
laGicd itself around furiously for a few se- hail come in.
conds. The keepers jumped out of the j Squeak went the door, “Sister Fdwards,”
tank in double-quick time, but no one was i he announced, in a distinct, clear voice,
hurt, and after that exhibition of its activity j sister Edwards took lier seat, not
tlie sea cow ,(or Sea bull this one is, as it is : knowing why her name had been called
a male), relapsed into its dormant condition ! out> }U1( j fancying, not without good reason,
and did not stir its tail or arms again during that ever3 r one was laughing at her.
tin next tiiirty minutes that I sta3'ed watch- j Squeak again “Brother Brooks,” in the
ing it. During that time it took in and ex- j same c i ear voice. He, too, looked as if
linled air four times, and slowly ■winked its something was going on that he could not
eyes about as often. It’s the queerest beast j g et the hang of. He could not imagine
I aave yet seen in the aquarium. j why his name should be called out, and
j everyone in the church sit motionless as
summer Breakfasts. 1 statues, excepting Sister Edwards, and she
s i gave him, as she turned, such a look of
Beefsteak, or ham and eggs, short bis- j anxiety, that he suspected, although he
it, fried potatoes, and such articles, with; cou id no t for a moment believe it, that
ye’ll calLit foutejlR^ are not Uie dishes to sit lightly on a ; they were on trial for having l>een seen j
^^^an’s .,‘omack. jiqri give him. comfort; t h e public park, conversing a few days lx
hillings!” cried the through tne day, ana yet they are what; f ore .
>45. owing to some disastrous operations . deal of money m a vei
1 Ohio, it was temporarily badly crippled, time. ^
id to tide over the crisis the directors lent “Ah, your Grace,” retort*
The old Farmers and Alcchanics’ bank
was established in Detroit in 1839.
1845.
fn
and
their best energies. The bank had a large
volume of notes outstanding, all redeem
able in coin on presentation, and it was
apprehended that the moment the condition
of the institution became known a run
would ensue which would compel the clos
ing of their doors. Now-a-da} r s a bank
officer would throw' up the sponge under
such circumstances; aud suspend payment
like a little man, but then bankers were
liotli bold and fertile of expedient. The
coin had ruu ver3' low and there was no
time to he lost. The services of a friend
of the institution were -secured, and he was
privately sent to a large creditor (Lyell,
the subsequently defaulting banker, by tlie
way,) -to whom the critical state of the
hank was whispered, and the wisdom of
some measures for self protection suggest-
. Lyell snapped at the bait, and, upon
hint frpm the officious visitor, rushed
around to the nearest court and got out an
injunction forbidding the bank to pa>* out
any more coin pending the order of the
court. This effectually saved the concern,
for when note holders subsequently pre
sented the bank’s paper for redemption they
were politely r met with the repl3 r : “We
should be ver3’ happy to oblige you, sir,
but unfortunate^' we are for a few' days
tied up by a process of the Wayne circuit
court. We hope tlie injunction will soon
be dissolved.
It was late in the afternoon w hen the in
junction w'as served, and the stock of coin
had some hours previous dwindled to $53.
The cashier meantime was on nettles. If
that injunction did-not come quickly'the
concern was ruined. At every opening of
the door the poor man trembled iu his
shoes, lest the newcomer should be a note
holder in quest of coin. One more de
mand would close the concern forever.
Slowly the clock ticked off the minutes,
retorted the sweep,
with a comical shrug aud leer, at the same
time giving a sweeping indication of his
finger toward the prelate’s glossy habili
ments of matchless broadcloth, “we that
wear the black cloth must needs get good
pay for our work.”
Tlie Bishop laughed heartily at the
humor of the retort, and paid the four-and-
twenty shillings willingly'.
most people fill up with constantly. Now, t Squeak again. The minister looked hesi
undoubtedly, it is not good in hot weather ta te d— looked again, and finally said,
to overload ijie stomach by partaking of a “Sniall man ^ with white hat, crape on it;
hCavy meal. And yet we doubt the pro- j has a cane in his hand. I don’t know him;
priety of discacding meats and living exclu- j ^ a p may turn round and look at him to
sively or principally on oatmeal, cracked ' ^ jf ^ey do.” Round went every head
wheat, etc. In hot weather there is a great j f or p wa s a relief, as they had sat so long
wastage of“our bodies going on ; and food gazing at the minister, when nearly all ex-
should be taken, although in moderation, in | claimed, “Why, it’s Brother Brick.”
Tlie Lone Branch Pi
The pier is one of the boldest bits of en
gineering ever attempted. It has been
talked of for years and laughed at by
many, who said that the first winter gale
would knock it all to pieces. But laughter
never kills anything, and the structure,
though not yet quite completed, is an ac
knowledged success. True, it has not en
countered winter storms, nor have any ice
bergs floated against it, nor wrecked vessels
been blown upon it. The weather si nee* its
opening for traffic has been for the most
part placid, and the boats liaye generally
been able to land without much difficulty.
Considerable trouble in regard to tliis was
feared. The pier is now about 6U0 feet
long, and will be, when completed, about
1,0U0. It extends from the bluff intd the
sea, directly in front of the Ocean hotel
It is supported by about 140 iron piles,
each one of which is a tube, forced far
down into the sand and clay which 'form
the bottom o f the ocean. These tubes are
firmly braced together by iron girders, and
the structure thus combines an immense
amount of strength with elasticity ebough
to resist the force of the waves. ‘Even
when the sea is as rough as it has been at
an3 r time since the pier has been erected, no
motion is perceptible to one who stands on
the floor or deck. In appearance the thing
is so light an airy as to suggest the pqesibil-
. „ , ,. , l . . . , ity of its being swept away. All fear of
full thirty of which must yet elapse before gucll a calamity vanishes at once .from the
"ould the junction mind of the passenser who sets^oot on
deck or stairway. At the present -ocean
the hour of closing
never come! At last the door opened and
a nervous, bustling man hurried up to the
counter. The casliier saw at a glance it
was all up with him, but while there was
life there was still hope he thought.
“Here, Air. Cashier, I’ve got $500 of
3'our notes I want coin for.”
The cashier endeavored to preserve a
placid exterior while he deliberately be
thought himself how he might delay a re
fusalof pa3 r ment for a little while, until,
perchance an officer would come in with
tlie hoped for injunction.
“ So you want gold coin for >'our bills,
end of the pier the depth of water is about
twenty-six feet. Tlius the biggest boats
can be accommodated.
Traveline Stones.
Alan}' of our readers have doubtless heard
of the famous travelling stones of Australia.
Similar curiosities have recently been found
in Nevada, which are described as almost
perfectly rtund, the majority of them as
large as a walnut, and of an irony nature.
When distributed aliout upon the floor, ta-
r , . .. ble, or other level surface within two or
>u ? ” suavely remarked the cashier, | ’ f . , oth ^ immed iately c 8 "** 1
ng through the open wmdow into the “ gia tmv!lrd ’ a c J Ilmon centre,
and there huddled up in a hunch like a lot
of eggs in a nest. A single stone, removed
to a distance of three and a half feet, upon
being released at once started off, with
wonderful and somewhat comical celerity,
to join its fellows ; taken awa3 r four or five
do y
glanci:
Jill too quiet street.
“Why,yes; I live in Dexter, and I want
to catch the four o'clock train; so please
hurry up the specie.”
“All right! What’s the news in Dex
ter? How do the crops look ? How’s m}' ^ ^ ^
old friend ? Is be living there still: ; f ee ^ ft remained motionless. They are
And, l>\’ the way, what in the world can f oun d in a region that is comparatively
3’ou do with specie iu that little country ] j L , ve i ? an( i j s nothing but bare rock. Scat-
town that banners and Mechanics bills ^ tered over this barren region are little ba-
won t accomplish? ’ sins, from a few feet to a rod or two in di-
“Oh, never mind. Give me my money anieter , and it is in the bottom of these
so that I can catch the train. The fact is, , ^j ia ^ ^he rolling stones are found. They
there is a little flurry out there about the f r om the size of a pea to five or six
safety of your bank, and I want to make j inches in diameter. The cause of these
sure of my money’. ” [ stones rolling together is doubtless to be
“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed the cashier; f nnm | in tlie material of which they are
“afraid of our bunk, are they’ ? \\ell, | composed, which appears to be lodestone
they must be getting pretty fastidious 0 r magnetic iron ore.
hen the conservative old Farmers’ and
Alecbanics’ won’t suit them. AVhy, my
dear sir—”
“Never mind the pedigree of your bank
but give me my money or I shall miss my
train.”
“Certainly, niy dear sir.’* (Another
—Judge James T. Leonard, of Clear
field. Pa., has given $19,300 to the pub
lic school fund of that borough.the
amount due him on money advanced by
him for the erection and furqishing of
a graded school building.
the highest degree nutritious and calculated
to keep our bodies in their full normal con
dition. We regard beefsteak or a nice
amt ton . chop, accompanied with few cu
cumbers or spring onions as a salad, and
eaten with properly-cooked potatoes, as an
admirable Summer breakfast. Such nutri
tious food serves to fortify the system
against the insidious effects of the heat
which comes to us during the Summer’s day.
There is another excellent breakfast, easily
got up, which we wish was more common.
We allude to Graham bread and butter and
a slice of rich cheese, accompanied with a
cup of good coffee. To get up such a
breakfast will give tlie housekeeper but lit
tle trouble. This Is also a good fortifying
meal against the heat of the day which lies
before us. Cheese forms an admirable
sibstitnte for meat, but it should be always
eaten in Hie forepart not in the latter part
of the day. So, also, to those who are en
tirely healthy, hurd-boiled eggs with
Graham bread and butter, makes an admir
able substitute for meats. An important
item about Summer breakfasts is to change
often. The same writer, from whom we
have quoted above, also says:—“More
wholesome dishes for breakfast, however,
are rapidly coming into use. Within the
list five years the consumption of oatmeal
and cracked wheat has increased wonder
fully. Cooked as musli/or as nee, they make
a diet that not only satisfies the appetite,
but sustains the ph3’sieal and metal energies
longer tnau almost any other food. At
first they will seem a little insipid, suid one
will think he ought to have something a
little more substantial; but gradually he
will recognize and appreciate their delicate
flavor, and relish them highly. They are
eaten both hot and cold.”
It is needless to say, the bad habits were
corrected from that time.
Cotton Fiber.
Tlie cotton fiber is a hollow, elongated
cylinder, tlie walls of which are of the
purest and thinnest cellulose, filled with a
sap or protopalasm, more or less glutinous,
which in the state of maturation becomes
dense by the dissipation of the volatile
parts, causing the filament to assume a spi
ral convolution. During the process of
ripening the fiber collapses, presenting the
appearance of a flat ribbon with thickened
Horrors of Silver Speculation.
Air. Ichabod resides in the wild sub
urbs of a part of tlie city where don
keys occasionally “roam and howl.”
Mr. Ichabod is quite a joker in his way.
He has living with him a neice, lately
arrived from a part of the Atlantic
States where such an animal as a jack
ass is hardly seen twice 111 a lifetime.
A night or two since this young lady
had retired to her sleeping apartment
after having duly and dutifully kissed
her relatives good night, but feardty
been absent three minutes before she
rushed back into the parlor with ashen
cheeks and widely distended e3’es.
“Oh, uncle!” cried she, “did you
hear him ? Some one in the street ut-
ering such fearful cries! He must be
in horrible agony. There he goes
again! Why, uncle, some one is surely
being murdered!”
Uncle Ichabod now heard the long-
drawn, wheezy bray of an old asth
matic jackass, and smiling reassuringly
upon the startled and excited girl,
soothingly said: “Calm yourself, my
dear, it is not so bad as you think. He
will soon get over it.”
“Wh3 T , uncle, who is it, and what is
the matter of him!”
“Why my dear child, how excited
you are! It is nothing—nothing! It
is only poor neighbor Jones across the
way. He’ll soon calm down.”
“Calm down ! But, uncle, why docs
-he take on so?”
“Well, he is of a sensitive, nervous
coustitution, and he has probably just
beard of the $3 assessment on the Sierra
Nevada.”
CurlQua llbling Places.
Some women have curious ways of hiding
margins. In proportion to the abundance their money. A woman put fifty dollars in
of twist in th« filler, so its strength mid the oven of her stove one night to keep it
pliability, two of tlie chief values tor safe. Next morning after breakfast the na-
manufacturing purposes. j tional debt bad been diminished exactly
The glutinous composition gives what is that much. A student of the curious would
^lled the ‘body’ to the cotton, which is find it interesting to note the places in
more copious in rich cotton that is grown which women hide their money. One ex-
OnYich land, which aoecounts for the supe- cellent and frugal dame used to tuck her
nority in strength of such cotton over that little savings under a corner of her carpet,
crown on poor soil. The direction of the ; The tin3* roll of greenbacks grew fatter and
twist in the fiber is variable; and not al-; fatter in the course of a year or two, when,
ways complete, there being quarter, half, ' the da3' after it counted $250, the house
tliree-quarter, full turns. ! burned to the ground, and again the na-
The numbers of sinuations to an inch tional debt was diminished by a little roll of
differs according to the nature of the cotton, \ woman’s pin money. There was that oth-
but seldom exceeding 150; nor are they er careful lady, too, who used sometimes to
uniform throughout the fiber. "The largest bide her diamond ring between two teacups
number of twists t(7 the inch that ever came in the kitchen cuplxiard. sometimes behind
under my observation was 160, including a certain brick in the cellar, and again un
half turns. I am inclined to the opinion der the lining of an old hat. She had div-
that the firmness awd softness of cotton are ere other places of safety for her jewelry
dependent greatly upon relative humidity also, the only trouble being that she had so
of the atmosphere. The fineness of the n.any hiding-places she occasionally forgot
fibers averages nu$r ^ ar Rom 1,690 diame- : where she last put her precious things, and
rs to the jnr>h . 1 about every three months would fancy she
The chemical analysis of the seed and had been robbed, and the house would be
fiber demonstrates the existence of potash, turned inside-out, and all therein be made
lime and magnesia as the principal consti- uncomfortable until the missing gems would
tuents in various combinations. The most be found carefull3’ tucked away in the folds
satisfactoiy ansdysis w'hich I have seen is of the bottom towel of the pile in the left
this: For the ash of the seed, sixty per hand comer of the lower drawer in the
cent, phosphate^ of lime, thirty per cent. ! clothes-press at the east end of the dinmg-
phoarhate of ’lotash and ten per cent, of room.
Ka*rally Ingenuity.
A bright example of perverted ingenuity
was developed in Paris during the time of
the Exhibition. Three persons it seems,
are necessary to carry out the trick, the
modus operandi of which is as follows: A
man, accompanied apparently by liis wife
and daughter, enters a shop in which the
articles lie alxiut a little careless^’, and the
gentleman at ofice goes up to the bead asj
sistant behind the counter and makes
confidential communication. “I must warn
you,” he sa3’s, “that my wife is affl cted
with kleptomania. Be so good as to watch
her, but do not say an3'tliing to her which
might make her tliink 3'ou have any suspi
cions.” The elder lad3 r is consequently
watched with great care, all the shop being
on the alert. Some article is pilfered
due course, tlie theft noticed, and the gen
tleman on going out quietly and promptly
pal's for what has been taken. While the
shopkeeper is congratulating himself
the honesty of the husband, the trio are
making off with a valuable boot3* secured
by the younger lad3 r , whose movements had
not l»een watcl^*d at all. But the best part
of the s f ratagem remains to be told, in
case the disappearance of the articles really
stolen should be detected a little too soon,
and the party be followed b}' the indignant
shopkeepers, nothing is easier than to ex
press regret and surprise that there should
have been other mistakes, aud to ruturu the
articles with profuse apologies. B>’ this
ruse a considerable degree of safety is in
sured even if the swindlers are balked of
their booty; the scheme provides for escape
as well as for success.
A German in Paris latcl3’ adopted a plan
wliich was successful in despoiling shop
keepers of their goods. Provided with s
loaf of bread, which he carried uncon
cerned^’ under one arm, he would saunter
up and down in front of the shop windows,
till, watching Ins opportunity, he would
seize some small articles exposed outside or
otherwise within liis reach, and secrete it
in his loaf. Suspected, and at last arrest
ed, lie was subjected to a strict search, and
was on tlie point of being released, when
some one thought of the loaf, which the
accused had laid unnoticed on a form. On
examining it, a watch, some rings and other
missing articles were disclosed to tlie sur
prised spoctators, and another swindling
dodge thus exposed* Equals successful,
for a time, was another system of robbeiy
practised not very long since in the streets
of London. A man dre&sed like a clergy
man would walk about the crowded thor
oughfares carrying a half-opened umbrella
in his hand. Innocent as that useful article
appeared, it was acting all the time as a
convenient receptacle for sundr3' articles of
value dexterous^' slipped within its folds
by two or three female pickpockets, who
were active in their depredations among
the foot passengers, but were captureiL,
together with their respectable-looking ac
complice.
Thefts by means of any kinds of ruse
are had enough, but when they are com
mitted under the cloak of religion the\’ are
innneasurahl3' worse. A sister of charity
called on a famil3' in Paris to enlist their
sympathies for the poor; she was most
pleasant and attractive in her manner.
Eventually she induced those present to
join with her in an act of devotion, and the
party knelt side 113* side in the drawing
room while the sister offered a pra3'er.
From the time of her entering the house,
and during this act, she had kept her hands
crossed upon her 1k)Soiil When, therefore,
in the middle 01 tlie prayer, a lady felt
somebody’s hand in her pricket, it required
some nerve to seize the si$tcr and accuse
her of theft. This she nevertheless did;
and then the m3'ster3' was solved. The
crossed anus were of wax, and, being par
tially hidden under the sleeves, seemed
real, while the actual hands were at liberty
to enable the lady to pursue her fraudulent
calling.
The Bill S3’kes fraternity, in following
out their profession of housebreaking, some
times give evidence of an amount of in-
genuity worthy of a better chuse. A bur
glar concealed under tlie bed ef a married
couple by some incautious niouement al
most betra3’ed his presence, the noise he
made being sufficient to make the wife call
her husband’s attention to tlie sound. “It
is only one of the dogs,” was the sleep>:
answer, and, snapping liis fingers, he called
by its name one of his favorites, wliich was
supposed to lie present. The thief’s pres
ence of mind did not desert him though on
the briuko f discovery; for, divining the
situation at once, he immediately licked
the extended hand in the hope of confirm
ing the gentleman’s surmise. This clever
ruse was not, however, we believe, success
ful, though one might say it deserved to be
for its boldness and ingenuit3'.
BR I EPS! .
Removing Old Paj>t
We would urge the necessity, from a
sanitary point of view, of having the walls
of a room thoroughly stripped of all old
paper and washed and dried before laying
the new papers, containing as they do a
large amount of vegetable and animal mat
ter in the form of size, are easily softened
by moisture, and are then subject to pntre
faction and mildew, the odor from which is
both unpleasant and unhealthy*. This,
however, is an evil that can easily be
averted by expending a few dollars in strip
ping and thoroughly cleaning the wall be
fore each repapering. Inquby is often
made by the careful housewife as to
whether paper-hangings will clean, and, if
so, wliich is the best method to adopt.
Good hand-painted paper will clean, but
machine-made paper, owing to the material
used in sizing the colors, as alread>' ex
plained, will not. The following method
can be used : Cut into four or six parts a
moderately sized loaf of bread that is two
dav'S old—it must be neither newer or
staler. 'With one of these pieces, after
blowing off all the dust from the paper to
be cleaned with a good pair of bellows,
begin at the top of the room, holding with
the crust in tlie hand, and, wisping hghtiy
downwards with the crumps, about half a
yard at each stroke, till the upper part of
the banging is completely cleaned all around.
Then go round again, with a light sweep
ing stroke downwards, and always com
mencing each successive course a little
higher than the upper stroke had extended,
till the bottom is finished. This operation, i
if carefully performed, will frequent^’ make
ver>’ old paper look almost equal to new.
Great caution must lie used not by an3’
means to rub the paper hard, or to attempt
cleaning it in a lateral or horizontal wa3’.
The dirty part of the bread, too, must eacli
time be cut away, and the pieces renewed
as soon as it may become necessary.
A J Water Velocipede.
Elon Marsh, of Battle Creek, Alicliigan,
has inveuted a velocipede to ride upon the
water. It was given a good test a day or
two ago. and proved perfectly satisfactory,
the frame is similar to that of an ordinary
velocipede, having tliree wheels, or rather
air-tight drums, with fans, two in front as
propellers and one behind to steer by. Tlie
machine is steered in the manner as any
bycicle. At the trial on the river it walked
up the stream against the current much
faster than an ordinary boat, and with
greater case than rowing. The machine
draws only five inches of water. The
. principal objection seems to be that a fel-
y low can't take his girl riding with him.
—The hospitel for the insaqe-at Dan
ville, Pa., has about 452 inmates at pre
sent.
—The valuation of Springfield, Mass.,
is $29,458,089, an increase #f $83,214
over last year.
—Niagara river under the ftfwer sus
pension bridge is 700 feet d6fcp—the
deepest running stream known.
—A firm iH WjJJiamsport ,has a con
tract, for manufacturing the erases for
fifty thousand miniature piano*J
—It is estimated that the yield!of the
Aliiniesota wheatcrop will be 40^)00,000
bushels.
—Over twenty families name# Nich
ols reside near each other in. iiife lower
porclon of Carolina^county, Md.
—The original autograph will/ of
George Frederic Handel was lately
sold by auction in London for £53.
• —Crop returns lunu Kentucky show
an extraordinary yielii of wheat, but
the corn and tobacco crops are looking
badly* . '
—it is < stimated that .the .present
year’s wheat crop will ptit iffto the
pockets of the faraiers of Indiana at
least $35,000,000. , c
—A United States Si^alService Sta
tion is being establisheci on the iummit
of Sugar Loal Mountain, twelve miles
from Frederick, Aid.
—The debt of California iii foiir years
has been reduced $3B6,2L4, and 'is now
less than $3,dOO,0(KJ, while is $1,
498,450 in tlie Treasury'.
—The total valuation of 111 Alnssa-
cliusetts cities and to\Vnsi#$15lr’000,000
650. Last year It was $161,318,180.
Boston is not include^ ip this f report.
—The French Comedy Company in
England, while phijring in an eating
piece, demanded real food,'aiu^drink,
which cost the management $20a night.
—The llagyr^own (Md.) .tilobe says
that an empioye 2 of the Anfleram paper
mills while sorting a lot o#cdU!)paper
recently, found a copy /if the laws of
England published in f602.
—Wm. R, Taylor, of New Gloucester,
Maine, is 85 years old.and is said to be
the oldest harness maker in the State.
He has worked in one sflop in New
Gloucester for 57 3rears.
—An equestrian.statue of the Prince
ot Wales was 11 irvei led, at Bombay^ India,
on the 2Cth‘ of «?une '~Tt is a gift to the
city by Sir Albert Lassoon, and com
memorates the visit of the i’rijice in
1875-6.
—Arthur Reese, a Clearfield (Pa.)
farmer hung himself In his barn re
cently. On a shingle near by lie had
writteu his will, and charged his wife
with being tlie cause of*the trouble that
led to the suicide.
—The sale of cigar stamps in the col-
lecticu district of Schuylkill, Berks, Le
banon and Lehigh counties, Pa, during
the present fiscal year, it Is estimatod,
will amount to about $300,000, or nearly
$1000 a day.
—The extent and destruction of the
famine in India may be judged from
the statement of the Bomtjay Gazette
that jhe city of Serinogur, the capital
of Casemere, which contained 300,000
inhabitants has now only 30,000.
—Down to the close of 187S the Uui-
ted States had produced a total of 2,145,-
595, net ton of Bessemer Steel rails.
In 1863, when the States first, imported
Bessemer steel rails from this cpur.try,
they paid us at the rate of $150 per ton.
—The late Robert Arg3'le, of Gold
Hill, Nev., one of the first settlers of
the Comstock, has left 10,000 to the cit3 r
of San Francisco to build a fountain.
He has ordered the foundation to be
made of refuse quartz from euoh of the
Comstock mines.
—More than half the glass used in
the United Spates is produced at Pitts
burg, where over 5,000 hands are em
ployed in making it; 12,110 tons of soda
ash were used in the business last year,
aud the value of the glassware amoun
ted to nearly $7,000,000.
—The Pacific ocean covers 80,000,000
of square miles; the Atlantic 25,000,000;
the Indian ocean, 14,000,000; the South
ern, to thirty degress, is 25,000,000; the
Northern ocean, 3,000,000; the Black
Sea, 170,000; tlie Baltic, 175,000; and
the North Sea.’ 160,000.
—Asa Otis, of New London. Conn.,
left in his will $5000 to an old negro
servant, Preston Hamilton, who has
expended part of the sum in the pur
chase of a lot near the Otis residence,
wliich he turned iuto a park and pre
sented to the city.
—Mrs. Maria Rice, of Saucon town-
slqp, Lehigh county, Pa., Iras attained
the ripe old age of 107 3’ears. She is
quite active, aud when in Bethlehem a
few days since, the band serenaded her,
which she acknow ledged in a few re
marks.
—A Russian physician, M. Malarey-
;y. struck by the prevalence of
# Kirtsightedness among literary men,
proposes that books should be pcfeited
in white ink on black paper, aud has
made experiments with tiftv' persons
which tend to confirm his view.
—Vxs. Simmons, a resident of Aliiiers-
vhle, Pa., went into the woods recently
toynefc berries, and not returning at
night, her husband and some friends
went to look for her. She was found
hanging by the skirts,head downward,
in a deep pit, in which she had survived
six long hours.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany are building at Altoona several
hundred box cars, which they propose
to run on their fast express trains. The
axles, journals, etc., are to be sufficient
ly heavy to m ike it perfectly safe to
ruu the cars at high speed when carry
ing 40,000 pounds.
—Prince Albert Victor and Q*orge
Fraderick of Wales, on July 24th, bade
farewell to the Brittaoia,at Dartmouth,
where they have been educated during
the past two years. They have *both
passed first-class in seamanship andcon-
duct, thereby gaining six months’ time,
w hich will entitle them shortly to be
come midshipmen.
—During the past few* days several
large engineering firms in America
have communicated to the Secretar3 r of
the Bradford Branch Amalgamated
Society of Engineers, offering employ
ment to as many men as will go to
America. The wages offered are much
higher than is the case in England.
Between two and three hundred me
chanics have signified their intention
of accepting the offer.
—The following taxpayers at New
port, R. I., pay taxes on the amounts
annexed to their nvmes: Alexander
Agassiz, $25,700; J* an Jacob Astor,
$126,000; JohnC. Brown (estate),$822*-
000: Charlotte Cushman (estate)*$25,-
400; David King (estate) $548,000;
George Bancroft, $36,600; August Bel-
ntmii * 107 200 r Pierre Lori Hard. $133.-
800; Fairman Rogers, $68,300; Charles
C. Van Zandt, $26,800; George P. Wet-
more, $581,400. The estate of Mr.
Brown pays the largest taxes of any
single estate ir the city.
