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OLD SERIES—VOL. VI-NO. 51.
lEDARTOWN, GA., MARCH 4, 1880.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 12.
THESE IS NO DEATH.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairy shore.
And bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown
They shine forevermore.
There is no death! The dust we trea 1
Shall cLange beneath the summer shower,
The golden grain, or mellow fruit.
Or rainbow tinted flower.
The granite rocks disorganize
. To feed the banging moss they bear; ^ '
The fgjrest troes drink daily life
From out the view lees air.
There is no deatb! The leaves may fall.
The flowers may fade and pass away—
They only walkthrough wintry hours
For coining of the May.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o’er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best loved, things away,
And then—wo call them dead.
He leaves onr hearts all desolate.
' He plucksx»ur fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal Lowers.
The bird-like voice whose joyous notes
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife,
Bings now an everlasting song
Amidst the trees of iife.
And when he tinds a sm«le too bright.
Or heart too pure for taint or vice,
He bears it lo that w^rld of light
To dwell in Paradise.
Born into that undying life.
They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them the same,
Except iu sin and pain—
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immoital spir.ts tread,
For all the boundless universe
Is life—there are no dead!
My Wife’s New Shawl.
“But why did you pay so much for a
shawl? It was sheer nonsense, ” said my
old friend, Captain Morton, as he mixed his
third glass of grog, and stirred in a multi
plicity of spices before drinking it—after
the manner of sailors when they can get it
“Why on earth did you pay so much iv.oney
for a shawl, when you could buy one so
much cheaper? Nine hundred dollars—by
the blood of a shark it would buy a house.”
That was liis oath—“By the blood of a
shark;” he never swore any other; and the
most abusive epithet lie could apply to a
man—one that to him Embodied the quin
tessence of meanness—was to call him “a
shark.”
“I’ll tell you, Captain,” said I; “but then
you must acknowledge that the shawl is a
beauty—if it did cost a small fortune to a
poor man. Last year, when I came home
with a cargo of tea from China, I left my
boat in good hands and burned to my home
in the little village of Twiceaweek (we
called it that because our mail came twice
a week), where all my hopes and affections
were invested in a wife and two children*
was in joyous spirits, and as happy a
man as ever stepped on terra firma. My
handsome wife was well and young as ever,
my boy as much like me as when I left him
many months before, and my gentle, six
year old Nellie lovelier than I had dreamed
she could be. My welcome was all I could
have wished; and oh! what bright days
those were that followed my immediate ar
rival!
“The third day my boxes were brought
out. Now the opening of a sailor’s boxes
is always a momentous affair to his family,
and I had brought mine all the presents I
could possibly procure for them. Two
pieces of rich silk for dresses for my wife,
beautiful Chinese table linen, carved chess
man, and so on. I saw a look of disap
pointment on my wife’s face, but I said
nothing, and the matter passed off.
“My old friends came to see me—my
wife gave me my favorite dishes—and the
week so happily spent was gone before I
knew it. Sunday morning came, bright
and beautiful. To my surprise, my wife
came to breakfast with rumpled hair, and
looking decidedly cross. After a while she
decided that she would not go to church
though, she was as regular as the sexton, , . ._ ,
■ -, . , , J: . T remained in town live or six days; her
for she had nothing fit to wear. I thought. & J ’
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it very odd, but said nothing, having long
since found out that arguing with a woman
s about as effectual as dipping the ocean
diy with a teaspoon.
“When Nellie and I got back, there stood
my wife, her hair still uncombed and ready
to scold the child for muddying her shoes;
her blue Chinese boots with the little bronze
bird on the side of them. I interfered with
a good deal of firmuess, and we went into
dinner. Nothing on the table was cooked
decently. And so it was all the next week,
my coffee was thick and muddy, my meat
done to a crust, and I well knew the demon
of mischief was about to be let loose, but
why I could not guess.
“In the meanwhile, my wife’s sister,
who had been a kind of ship’s cousin, quar
tered upon me ever since my marriage,
looked as demure as a Connecticut deacon,
and gave me no hint what it w r as all about.
On the next Sunday afternoon I was sitting
with mywife and children when there came a
knock at the door, and in came first mate
William Bendoin and his wife, she in all
the splendor of a new rig. Hejiad returned
the week before me from Calcutta, and we
were the only seafaring men of the place,
and our wives were neighbors and had al
ways been professedly great friends.
“I was delighted to see them, and thought
at the time that my wife was very cool,
though so exceedingly polite. I soon for-
* got all about her manner, though, in the
pleasure of talking over old times, and they
made a long and to me very pleasant calk
“As soon as they left, my wife went up
to her room, and I saw her no more that
evening, for when tea was ready she sent
down word she had a headache, and
wanted none. The next day things were
no brighter than before, and when the first
church bell rang, my wife burst into a flood
of tears and set off for her chamber. I fol
lowed her, and there she lay on the b6d in
regular hysterics. When she came to her
self a little, I asked:
“Why, what on earth is the matter?”
“She looked at me full in the face and
said:
“ ‘If you don’t know, Thomas Wilcox,
you ought to! '
“I wilted under her looks like a boy
caught stealing marbles. The truth is, I
thought some villain had been telling tales
out of school; but for the life of me,
couldn’t conceive who it could be.
“Bv this time my Wife 4 was in another
fit, worse than the first. I conjured up all
the recollections of my voyage—and they
were not half so pleasant a^ J^qould have
wished them—bu* finding 1 could not
restore her, I ran down stairs to make some
mulled wine. When I reached the kitchen
there was my wife’s sister, with her demure
face, which helped to irritate me still more.
I called for wine and Apices, and, while I
was heating it, she began. She wished to
gracious her sister knew how to treat a hus
band as he deserved to be treated; that if
she was a wife, she would kutAv how td
prize a man who did everything lie could
to please her.
“I was in no humor to hear my wife
abused —my conscience that time making a
kind of coward out of me—so I burst out
upon her in a rage, told her she was a snake
in the grass, and I would rather have her
sister than a thousand such as she was; if
there was any trouble betweeu Mollie and
me, why I knew who to thank for it.
“She lifted up her eyes and hands above
her head, and said that all men were fools,
but I was the greatest of them all.
“This brought on a spirited altercation,
in which I spoke my mind pretty freely.
As 9oon as the wine was heated, I decanted
it into a tumbler. My sister-in-law recom
mended hot vinegar, but I told her I w r ould
leave that for her.
‘On my way up stairs I thought I heard
my wife’s footsteps in her chamber, but
when I entered she was lying on the bed,
crying in a very sensible manner. I had
no difficulty in persuading her to drink the
wine. She caught hold of my hand and kept
sobbing. She did not deserve such a hus
band, she said. I was too good for her,
and she was not worth all the kindness I
gave her.
“1 felt encouraged, and kissing her again
begged her to tell me what was the matter.
At this she began crying and sobbing again,
and said she could not tell me as I would
hate her, and she deserved to be hated,
etc.
The more she decried herself, the more
penitent 1 became, and in fact, w r as on the
point of making a clean breast of it, and
asking her forgiveness; but luckily I did
not, for in a little while she told me the
terrible bugbear. First mate Bendoin had
brought home to his wife a Cashmere shawl,
while I had only brought her the silk
dresses.
“ ‘Is that all?’ I cried, clasping her iu
my arms and feeling intense relief; and then
told her how unkind it was to keep mein,
such suspense; and she laid her brown head
on my breast and begged to be forgiven.
Now every woman has her Napoleon
Bonaparte, and my wife’s was Mrs. Wm.
Bendoin, and the agonizing thought of be •
ing outdone by that lad}’ at church had
caused all this commotion, and perhaps
given me dyspepsia through eating tough
bread. I explained to my domestic angel
that Cashmere shawls came from one pari
of the country and -silk from another—but
as soon as I could her wish would be grati
fied. By dinner time the pretty face was
as smiling as ever, and to my astonishment
she spoke sharply to her sister—the first
time I ever heard her do so.
I had reason to believe afterward that
my wife, hearing our voices, had come to
the top of the stairs and listened; for once
in the world a listener heard good of her
self, and it resulted in my sister-in-law’s
marrying herself to a saddler and leaving
my house.
The next week I had to go to the city
on business, aud I took my wife along to
have her China silks made up; I secretly
resolved to buy a shawl that would out
shine AIis. Bendojn’s, aud the day after my
arrival I was lucky enough to find a claret-
colored satin bonnet, the exact shade of
her handsomest dress, with a long, drooping
plume that perfectly enraptured her. We
to see my wife look like somebody, etc.
Never had our place been .as dressy as it
was that'' winter, and I had the "satisfaction
of knowing that I was the cause of the other
married men having, to spend some money
<o£3ry goods, -especially those "whose wives
and daughters attended the same ehurcli
with my wife.
“ ‘But none of them had a nine-hun-
dred-dollar shawl—eh, Tom?’ said the cap
tain slyly, as he drummed on the table with
his glas^.
v ‘Not a bit of it did they! And remem
ber, captain, mum’s the word, about the
price of my wife’s new shawl.”
esses came home beautifully made, she
said, and just suited. I bought her all the
little trumpery she wanted, and she was
delighted with her visit.
“Two days before we started home I met
my old friend Legget, just frern Calcutta,
with four of the most beautiful shawls I
ever saw; he allowed me to take my choice
at cost price, which was four hundred and
fifty dollars, while he modestly made out
the receipt at nine hundred. This I put
safely away in my trunk when my wife was
out.
“We reached home the last of the w r eek.
found the children well, and heard that the
world renowned Professor Lumley would
preach in our little hamlet the next Sunday.
I saw my wife’s eyes dance with the intel
ligence; perhaps at the thought of her new
dress and bonnet, her six button gloves
(Mrs. Bendoin had never had any higher
than five buttons), perhaps of the excellent
discourse she was to hear—who knows?
“Sunday w T as a bright, frosty day, and
my Mollie looked charming as she came
down stairs ready for church in her rich
silk and new T bonnet. She had on a light
cape.
“ ‘My dear,’ said I, “don’t you need
something heavier around you?’
“ ‘Oh, no, not to-day, I think.’
“I stepped out of the room a moment
brought out my splendid present and threw
it around her shoulders. She looked at it
in a dazed way for a moment, then threw
herself into my arms and burst into tears. I
soon kissed them away, and we started to
church.
“We walked up to the head of the broad
aisle, and. it would have done your heart
good to hear her sweet, clear voice as she
sang that day. When service was over, she
had a kind word for everybedy, especially
was she anxious to hear from Mrs. Ben-
doin’s children; she lingered on the church
steps for a good while to see that lady.
“I put the bill where I knew Mollie
would find it-, and while the men all voted
me a fool, the women all said I was the
best husband in Twiceaweek, that I liked
A Rajah’* Vanity.
The following description, by Air. Yal
Priusep, of,the dressing up the. Ma
for Bis portrait, is amusing:—-Tu~
Holkar has been ill since Delhi; he has
even now fever, the result of cold, and re
quested me to paint him as fat as he "was
at the Assemblage, rather than as he is now.
He prides himself on his flesh, and can,
they say, eat a whole wild boar unassisted
at one meal! I must say I saw but little
change in liis vast bulk; he looks a little
grayer, but that may be that he has forgot
ten the dye tliis morning. However, he is
certainly seedy, aud that does not render
his society or conversation any more fasci
nating. Holkar is the beau ideal of a rajall.
He sits lolling about in his big chair while
flies are brushed away by attendant slaves,
aud if his Rajahship leans back, a. cushion
is put under his head or elbow; m fact, a
a rajah for the Surrey Theatre—‘‘theGreat
Mogul called Bello”—the dream of one’s,
youth; yet as sharp as a needle^ and as
cheeky and proud as the King of' the Can
nibal Isles with nothing on but a club and
a few beads. The second day I went there
the Rajah had to put on his jewels, and
what a sight! It takes at least six men to
dress him. There is the Hereditary Mas
ter of the Jewels, an old man with spectac
les, who puts them on with the care of a
real artist, while four men stand round
with trays, on which arc displayed jewels
worth I do not know how many lacs.
“What shall I wear?” says the Rajah. “I
think tliis handsome.” And he holds up a
kind of a peacock made of diamonds and
pearls. “Yes, that will do.” And the pea
cock is “offered up” to his head while lie
lazily turns from side to side, gazing with
self satisfied look into a glass, which orgin-
aily cost eight annas (one shilling), and
which, held by a sixth man, contrasts
strangely with the jewels it is called on tb
reflect. Squalor and magnificence are
found side by side in all these rajahs’
abodes. None of them have any sense of
fitness—in fact, no native has. We won’t
put on these pearls,” cries the Alaharajab,
for without them this looks more like a
crown.” And this in India, the land of
caste, changeless through succeeding ages?
Why, this man's ancestor was a goatherd,
and he himself, for all his airs, would
cheerfully pay auv sum of money to be
considered a Rajah; # aud while many
Brahmins stand around with clasped hands,
and probably his cook is of Brakminical
caste, notone of them would eat with
him, Rajah though he be. _ _
Horses for Leeohe*.
A number of persons at Bordeaux,
France, recently’ attempted to make their
fortunes out of that very disgusting object
of natural history, the leech. To this end
ihey nave made artinciul swamps on the
banks of the Garonne and filled the swamps
with leeches. To be profitable these leeches
must multiply themselves bv millions; to
do this they must be liberally supplied with
food; to thus supply them the Bordelais
(peculators buy up the old aud worn-out
horses of the province, and drag or drive
the horses into the swamps, which are sub
divided by wooden compartments, so plac
ed that when these unhappy animals have
been forced into the mud there is no hope
for them. The leeches fasten on them in
stantly by thousands: the horse is in a few
moments black with crawling creatures;
the blood suckers fix themselves most of
all on the open wounds and galls that these
poor horses have incured in their many
years of service. ‘An eye-witness descri
bes in terms of horrible vividness the vain
struggles of the animals drawn downward
into the mud, bleeding at every pore, striv
ing iu frantic terror to shake off the leeches
which hang on their eyes, their lips, their
nostrils, all their most sensitive parts, and
atjlast, exhausted by loss of blood, are sucked
down into the noxious slime and seen no
more. He adds that all these poor martyrs
bought when they are aged, infirm,
weak with overwork, with hunger and
with fatigue, and in this piteous state are
devoured alive by the aDnelides. From
18,000 to 20,000 horses are annually sac
rificed in this manner at Bordeaux.
SharKs Jam ping at Food.
When cruising in the fore-and-aft-schoon
er “Sunny South,” on the Alosquito Coast,
a few’ years since, the steward hung a roast
of beef from one of the stern windows; and
to his annoyance it was non-eit in the
morning. The weather at the time was
very calm, and it was consequently suppos
ed that some forecastle hands had got down
in. the rudder chains aud appropriated it,
although how it was to be cooked without
discovery was difficult to know. However,
a seepnd piece was about being hung out,
which doubtless was to be well watched,
when, as the piece of line was about to be
made fast, a violent pull was felt, and on
the steward running out his head lo find
the thief, it was found to be a shark in
stead of a man; the fish had sprung at least
three feet from the water to secure his prize.
A friend of mine, while fishing with a deep
sea-line, was-nearly-losing liis hand through
one df these blood-thirsty prowlers of the
deep. The fish had not been biting rapidly
and careless from want of success, the iiand
in w’hich he held the line was outside the
gunwale of the boat and close to the
surface; fortunately, he happened to cast
his eye at the moment overboard, aud just
in time, for a shark, seven or eight feet long,
was close to the surface, coming straight for
it. On examining the head of a shark, it
wifi be seen that from the position of the
eyes, they can-well see what is taking place
above them, and in *all instances where I
have observed them take a bait, they always
got underneath before seizing, it turning
on their side at the moment of laying hold.
I never previously, till reading Air. Buck-
land’s remarks, saw it stated that a shark
scented his prey; nevertheless, I have long
thought so, and that their olfactory nerves
are of the greatest acuteness and use in
directing them to where it is found. On
two occasions, once in the Southern Indian
Ocean, on another, off the north coast of
South America, near Los Rocas, although
no sharks had been seen previously’, they
appeared about the ship soon after the most
venturous had bathed. Again 1 was on
board a vessel becalmed, within sight of the
volcanic rocks, St. Paul’s and New Amster
dam. The captain kindly lent his gig to
procure some specimens of Cape pigeons,
Cape liens, and albatross. A great number
of birds were killed, aud whether it was
the scent of blood or not, I can not say,
but a white shark about ten feet long join
ed us, and lemainedby us till our return to
the ship. He was afterward caught by
using a Cape hen for bait. On examining
the head of a shark, the snout w ill be
found to project a long way over the upper
jaw, and although there are no regular nos
trils defined, such as will be found in the
salmon or trout, there are a great number
of minute orifices, doubtless intended for
smelling, and which duty I am inclined to
believe they most ably perform.
| linn, when her position is sufficiently dis-
: lantfroui the sun. Air. Denning lias fre-
queitly seen this planet at noon, shining
verystrougly, and she has been similarly
noticed by many people. In fact, there is
no dfficuity whatever in seeing this beau
tiful planet in the daytime, if the position
is pretty well known and care is taken to
make the observation from a place where
the sun's direct rays are intercepted aud
cannot dazzle the ey r e.
Liffht in the House.
A Cat’s Home,
Casts from Riving; Forms.
I was taken by a friend, says a correspond
ent,to see the wonderful plaster casts of liv
ing human beings which are among the cur
iosities of the Russian department. How
the thing is done is impossible to imagine,
but there the two statues are, recumbent
female figures, undoubtedly taken from liv
ing women. One lies slightly turned upon
her side, her lips parted in a smile, as
though she wss trying to suppress a laugh.
The other; who was much the finer form of
the two, lies face downward, her feet cross
ed and her head pillowed on her folded
arms, as though she had thrown herself
down to sleep. The minutest details of
the texture of the skin, nails, etc., are very
perfectly reproduced, the “gooseflesh”
Therewith the skin is covered being amus
ingly noticeable, and showing that the pre
paration used for these casts, the composi
tion whereof is a secret, must be applied
cold. Then all tne little indentations in
the soles of the feet and the palms of the
hands, and the curve of the nails and their
riminings of skm and flesh arc produced
with startling accuracy. The process by
which these figures are produced is still a
secret, but it is certainly a wonderful and
cuifcius discovery.
Wliy Ch>ld Changes Color.
It is well known that the the human
l>ody contains humors and acids, similar in
action to, and having a like tendency to
wards, baser metals; as nitric and sulphuric
acids have, namely, to tarnish or dissolve
them, varying in quanity in different per
sons. Of this theory we have abundant
proof in the effects which the wearing of
jewelry pioduces on different persons.
Thousands wear continually, without any
ill effect, the cheaper class of jewerly with
brass ear wires, while if others wore the
same article for a few days they would be
troubled with sore ears or, in other words,
the acids contained in the system would so
act on the brass as to produce ill results.
Instances have occured in which articles of
jewelry of any grade below eighteen carat
have been tarnished in a few days, merely
from the above named cause. True, these
instances are notverv frequent; nevertheless
it is as well to know them; every case is
not the fault ol the goods not wearing
well—as it is generally called—but the re
sult of the particular constitution by which
they are worn.
The Cat’s Home, is a refuge maintained
by the women’s branch of the Pennsylva
nia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animal^ in Philadelphia. Here an of
ficer of the society receives all stray cats',
lost cats and diseased or aged cats, both
Thomases and Tabithas, whether Tibbies
or Grimalkins, whow 1 friomlo Jtwire their
ailments cured or ended. Not only cats
are included in its beneficent provisions,
but dogs and other “small deer,” like par
rots, canaries, rabbits—in fact, pets of any
kind can partake of its hospitality. If the
animal is sound and healthy’ it is not killed,
but kept until a good home can be obtained
for it. If it be of many years or incurably
diseased its life is mercifully ended. Ten
thousand six hundred and thirty dogs and
cats received, and either provided with
good homes or kindly killed, in a period of
five years, is certainly’ a record of which
the officers of this auxiliary of the women’s
branch of the P. S. P. C. A. may be proud.
This shows the necessity of such an insti
tution in a large city, and as the workings
of the refuge become wider known, doubt
less in the future the above figures will be
greatly increased. Philadelphia stands
alone in this work of mercy. There is no
other institution of this kind in the United
States. The house and lot at present occu
pied by the refuge was purchased by the
women’s branch in 1878, $7,000 being the
price of the lot and house. The society ha9
raised, by subscriptions and donations since
that time, the sum of $1400, leaving a debt
of $7,600, which is secured by mortgages
on the building, to pay which the society
will be glad to receive any contributions
however small. Any person can become
an annual subscriber by paying $1 per
year. Recently a kind hearted young lady
who is connected with a well known family
of Boston, gave the sum of $60 for the pur
pose of building a small house for cats in
the yard of the refuge, which has since been
erected and is now in use.
The Celestial Kingdom.
In an interesting article, W. F. Denning,
an English member of the Royal Astro
nomical Society, with an eyesight almost
as keen as that of Professor Burnham, of
Chicago, points out several celestial objects
as a test of unaided vision. One of these
is, of course, the Pleiades, or seven sister^
which crosses the meridan now about
9 P. AL To ordinary vision only six stars
are visible in this group. Aloestlin, the
preceptor of Kepler, saw fourteen. A very
good eye now can detect eleven. Air.
Denning can see thirteen, and on one clear
night counted fourteen, while a telescope
reveaD from fifty to a hundred, according
to its power. Another object of some In
terest to naked eye observers is the middle
star in the tail of the Great Bear, which has
a small companion named Algor, close to
it. It was called “Saidak” by the Arabs,
signifying “the Tester,” for it was cus
tomary amongst them to test a man’s
power of sight by it. Humboldt, in his
“Kosmos,” says that he has seen the
smaller star with great distinctness every
evening on the rainless coast of Cimiana,
but has recognized it only rarely and un
certainly in Europe. “Observers,” says
Air. Denning, however, “will find no diffi
culty’ in seeing the star, for it is a remark
ably easy’ object, and at the present time,
certainly no test of vision. It may r possi
bly have become brighter than it formerly
was, for it is now extremely plain, even in
unfavorable conditions of the atmosphere.
There is a third and fainter star near.it
which really forms a very difficult object
to reach with the naked eye. The moons
of Jupiter form another and a severer test
for the powers of the naked eye, for though
they have been undoubtedly detected
without telescopes, yet they are very faint,
and being immersed in the planet’s rays,
are almost wholly overpowered, except at
the time of the greatest elongation, when
two of them (the third and fourth) being
occasionally in conjunction, afford a capi
tal opportunity’ for testing the vision.
These little moons are generally in a line
with each other, though not invariably
all visible, for they suffer numerous
eclipses and allied phenomena. As to Jup
iter himself, he is often perceptible in day
light. Bond has often seen him with the
naked eye in high and clear sunshine, and
Mr. Denning has observed the planet sev
eral times half an hour after sunrise. Venus
is always a conspicuous object in the day-
In a dark and gloomy house 'you never
can see the dirt that pollutes it. Dirt ac
cumulates upon dirt, and the mind soon
learns to apologise for this condition be
cause the gloom conceals it. Accordingly,
when a house is dark and dingy, the air be
comes impure, not only on account of the
absence of light, but from the impurities
which are accumulated. We place flowers
in £ur-T£mdows that they may have the
light. If this be the case why should we
deprive ourselves of the sunshine and ex
pect to gain health and vigor? Light, and
pleffty of it, is not only a purifier of thiAgs
inanimate, but it absolutely stimulates our
brains. It is in regard to sick-rooms
that this excellent authority is particularly
impressive. It used to be the habit of phy
sicians in old times to sedulously darken
the rooms, and this practice continues to
some extent even to-day. In certain very
acute cases of nervous diseases where light,
the w*ry least ray of it disturbs in over-ex
citing the visual organs, this darkening of
the room may be permitted, but ordinarily
to keep light out of the room is to deprive
the patient of one of the vital forces.
Children or old people condemned to live
in darkness arc pale and wan\ exactly like
those plants which, deprived of light, grow
white. Darkness in the daytime undoubt
edly nukes the blood flow less strongly, and
checks the beating of the heart, and these
conditions are precisely such as bring con
stitutfonal suffering and disease. The sup
pression of the light of day actually in
creases those contagious maladies which
feed on uncleanliness. Dr. Richardson
states “I once found by’ experiment that
ccrtahf organic poisons, analogous to the
poisocs which propagate these diseases, arc
rendered innocuous by exposure to light.”
Once in England there was a tax placed
on windows, but this was driven out of
Engleh legislation after a while never to
lie brought up again, because it was a tax
on human health. This leading authority on
liy’gieie has a great deal of fault to find
with Llie architectural dementia of to-day.
A fashion introduced in England, and
whick ha3 some feeble imitations in this
country, is to reproduce the styles of the
Queei Anne houses. Tliis peculiar method
indulges in small panes of glass, overhang
ing windows, sharp, long roofs, with tiny
openiags. It is a relic af ancient perver
sity, picturesque, if you please, but perfect
ly at variance with the dictates of common
sense." If you have big windows, which
say, admit too much light, the glare of
which is uncomfortable, a shade or curtain
will keep out the sud; but have small win
dows,! barely admitting. the invigorating
o what you please, you can-
not nr liirlit. Such
cramj®lPP;«vlows interfere with the great
work God gave the sun; Architectural elc-
ance ought always to be subsidiary to the
necessaries of health. In the United States,
though with a climate differing materially
from that of England, the laws of health
are the same. Our August glare heats our
houses, but still it should be admitted at
times. A house darkened and kept dark
ened from the middle of June to the
1st of "September is an unwholesome house.
Its coolness may apparently be refreshing,
but the air of the rooms, which stagnates,
contains undoubtedly germs of disease,
which ore not the less dangerous because
they arc unappreciable. As it is, then,
only tie windows of the house, with panes
of glass which admit the light, the precau
tions to keep them clean and bright are not
so much measures of tidiness as absolutely’
hygienic necessities. As regards windows
and their construction, American invention
has in this respect not advanced anything
like in proportion to other things. The
usual window with its counterpoise weight
presents unusual difficulties as to cleansing
it. You can get inside of it, but the out
side presents great difficulties. Save in the
lowe* stories, it may be pretty generally as
serted that of the upper windows of a house,
the most important of all which give light
to the sleeping rooms, the glass is rarely
brielt and clean. There seems to be a de-
cidea reluctance on the part of builders to
put ii houses either the French window,
whicl simply works like a door, or those
windows which, hung in the middle revolve
on the centre. For ventilation alone, such
wmcbws have great advantages over tne old
stylei, and they can be cleaned with per
fect case.
Representative Joys.
He occupied one-half of the car seat and
filled the other with a double-covered mar
ket bisket. - He was an original specimen.
His jJug hat sat on his ears like a smoked
ciiinuey on the prongs of a lamp top; his
legs vere braided together and his shins
were sharp enough for can-openers.
“You can’t guess what I’ve got in the
basket, ’Squire,” he observed to a passenger
in the seat behind him.
“No, was the reply’.
“Twins, by thunder!” he exclaimed,
“and I’m going to give them an airing.”
So sariug lie drew forth a black and white
doll of unusual proportions and dandled
them on bis knees.
*‘I’3 tell y’e how it is, Captain,” fie con
tinued. “Ale and the old woman lias been
hitched up in the holy bonds of hemlock
going on these forty years, and there hain’t
a chick ora child to be seen or heerd about
the house. So I’ve brought home these ar
twins. She can take her choice—a black
’un ora white ’tm Bet ye she will take
both. Why, if I took home a black snake,
she vould want it to set up and have
some supper, aud put a hot brick iu the
bed where the snake w'as going to sleep.
Gosh! the old gal has got a heart in her
like a red cedar. Great prize pumpkins!
how die will shout when she sees them ar
twins!”
And then he put them carefully back iu
the basket, closed the cover and beamed
bemgnantly upon the wintry world with
out.
A New Weather Indicator.
The weather bureau at Washington, has
invented an instrument which will show
the probabilities as well as they are given
by the bureau. The instrument has dial*
which on certain indications of wind and
atmosphere will predict certain kinds of
weather, the prediction being based on a
thousand observations. In other words a
thousand observations heretofore made
showed that certain conditions of the wmd
and atmosphere brought about within a
day or two or three days certain weather.
It is intended to have one of these instru
ments placed in postoffices of all cities, so
that every one can be his own “Old Proba
bilities. ”
We must not look around on the uni"
verse with awe, and on man with soorn.
Any girl who has sat up every night until
12 o’clock since the last Leap Y’car with
the same young mau, eating 55-cent candy’,
has an inalienable right to pop the question.
Should the same girl devote all Sunday af
ternoon to the same young man, and feed
him liberally and frequently duriug this
period, his refusal to take her makes him
liable to be fined aud incarcerated in the
deepest dungeon beyond the moat. If it
can be shown that any “maydn” between
the ages of thirty’-six and so on has for the
said period of time (viz, since the last Leap
Year) focused her affections on any certain
particular young man, that she lias diligently
sought to keep and hold him by divers
means known to the sex, and striven to
kindle the ardent flames in his bosom, can,
under the provisions of this act, drag the
said hardened young man to the nearest
magistrate, and give him the choice of
supporting her for life as her lawful hus
band, or enlisting in the service of bis Gra
eious Country’. Doing service for the
Country is sheer nonsense. The way
to do it now is to snatch the young man by
the lappel of his ulster and give him the
choice of taking you or parting with his
garment. In nine cases out of ten he will
save his ulster and take you. As the di
vorce lawyers put it, this will prevent the
publicity of going before a magistrate.
If the young lady cannot muster courage,
this antique law clothes the parent with
certain powers. Any time during Leap
Year she is privileged to drop in on the
_voung man at any hour (it makes no dif
ference whether the young man is weighing
the old man’s darling on his knee or glued
to her side by r a crimp in the arm) and say’
to him:
‘Young fellow, biz is biz. There is my
lovely daughter. Here is a lovely bill for
“Sixteen gross of candles;
“Eight cords of wood ;
“Four dozeu gate hinges ;
“Two hundred and twenty meal3;
“Three carpets;
“Six chairs;
“Seventeen dresses;
“Fourteen doctor bills;
“Loss of sleep;
“Raids on the kitchen;
“Hair oil;
“Perfumery;
“Powder;
“Paint;
‘ ‘Patience—
used and consumed by you and that girl,
during the courting spell. Which will you
take ?”
The modern degenerate young man would
no doubt close solemnly his off-eye at the
parent and remark:
“Biz is biz, oid’man—but knock off the
candle charge, no light, you know, for three
years. Cut down that fire bill one-third;
we have been too snug to use much heat.
Substitute sliding down balusters for gate
hinges. And, as for chairs, that’s sheer
extortion; one chair for two has been the
rule. But, give a fellow six or eight months
to think it over and I’ll let you know.”
Indulgent parent, beware!
Tender-hearted fenale, nail him!
Do not falter.
Pop the question at once.
If he declines, fire him out.
The First Paper Maker.
Who w’as the first paper maker ? It the
reply to this query should be, as is quite
likely, that some old-time inventive genius
was the man, it will be incorrect. The
date of the invention and the founding of
paper making is not definitely known. The
common wasp was, however, the inventor.
The big w r asp’s nest, which was always
kept at a safe distance, and often knocked
down with a stone during the rambles of
boyhood, wa9 composed of actual paper of
the most delicate and elegant kind. As
spiders were spinners of gossamer webs of
intricate and exquisite pattern when primi
tive man went about dressed in the shaggy
skins of beasts, and could neither spin nor
w’eave the beautiLd and fine cloth fabrics
of to-day’, so little wasps, when people of
the later and somewhat more advanced
had recourse to such rude and unsatisfac
tory substance as w r ood, stone and brass,
the bark of trees, and the hides of animals,
on which to pre-erve memoranda, were
making a material of far greater excellence.
They make tlieir paper, too, by very nearly
the same process employed by man at the
present time. Indeed, several of our best
discoveries in regard to building, archi'cc-
ture, and manufactures of various kinds,
if they have not been derived from acute
observation of the work of certain animals,
including insects, have, when compared
with their constructions and their manner
of making them, been found to show a
wonderfully close resemblance. The beaver
gave men their earliest and most service
able knowledge concerning dam-building,
and to-day no workman can surpass this
animal’s skill and precision iu the erection
of such structures. Nature is a good
teacher, and especially does the paper mak
of the wasp illustrate how valuably
suggestive she may sometimes be; for, as
suredly, the wasp was the first to show that
it did not always require rags to manufac
ture paper, that vegetable fibres answered
for this purpose and could be reduced to a
pulp, aud that to make the paper strong
and tenacious, the fibers must be long.
The first thing the wasps do, when about
to build a nest, is to collect fibres with prefer
ence for old and dry wood fibers, about one-
tenlli of an inch long, and finer than a hair,
and put them into bundles, which they in
crease as they* continue on their way.
These fibers they bruise into a sort of lint,
and cement with a sizing of glue, after
which they knead the material into paste,
like papiermache, and roll up a ball; this
they’ trample with their feet into a leaf as
thin as tissue paper. The ceiliug of the
wasp’s chamber, to the thickness of nearly.
two inches, is often constructed by putting
above another fifteen or sixteen lay’ers
or sheets of this prepared paper, and be
tween these layers spaces are left, so that
it seems as if a number of little shells had
been laid near one another. Next they
build up a terrace composed of an immense
number of paper shells, until a light and
elegant structure, like a honeycomb, has
been constructed, aud in the cells thus
formed they rear their young.
A Very Old Joke.
Stopping for some time at an inn, and
feasting on the fat of the Ian i, Tyll was at
length importuned by the landlord for pay
ment, and being driven to bis wits’ end,
he concocted a pleasant scheme for dis
charging his score. Far and wide he caus
ed it to be announced that a foreigner had
arrived at such a hostelry with an extra
ordinary animal, whose head was to b<
seen where his tail should be. The sight
seers flocked to the tavern, and when the
yard was quite full, anil every one had
paid his admission fee, the door of the
stable was tlirown open, and Eulenspiegel’s
horse was seen with liis tail iu the manger
and his head where his hindquarters usu
ally'stood. The jest was taken in good
part, anil every’ ore advised his neighbor to
lose no time in visiting the wonderful ani
mal. Tyll was thus enabled not only to
pay his host, but to fill his own pocket.
The equivoque, however belongs to all na
tions and limes. The writer well remem
bers paying a penny to his father’s
coachman who had promised to show him
a carriage horse with his head where his
tail should be. lie was also a witness, some
years ago to a somewhat similar trick being
played off at the expense of the worthy
townsfolk of Bruges. A kermessc was in
full swing, and at the door of a caravan, a
man loudly vociferating, and at times
banging a drum, invited ‘messieurs et
mesdames" to walk in and behold what
they’ had never seen before and would
never see again. The charge was
ten centimes and about every quarter
of an hour a little stream of people
issued forth, laughing heartily’ and bidding
all their friends pay two sous for a sight
that was well worth the money’. The spec
tacle was simply this: As soon as the car
avan wa3 filled, the shor.man produced
from his pocket a nut, wdiich he carefully'
cracked with his teeth. Then, holding up
the kernel, he gravely’ inquired if any lady
or gentlemen present had ever seen it be
fore, and, of conrse, was answered with a
volley of “No, no, never.” “In that case,”
he rejoined, “look at it well, for”—popping
it into his mouth—“you will never see it
again.”
A Desperate Maniac.
A Peculiar Dreed of Salmon.
Some of the finest-eating salmon in the
world visit the Quiealt River, Wash in* t >n
Territory. They’ begin asceuding the liver
about the first of Alarch, aud continue run
ning up until the first of July. The Chi
nook salmon run up in the fall, as also do
other varieties duriug the summer aud fall
mouths; but the spring run is the principal
one for which the river is noted. These
latter fish are about twenty inches in length,
six inches deep and three thick, and weigh
from six to seven pounds each. They have
very' small fins and tails, and are very uni
form in size and weight. Their color is a
deep greenish blue on the back, with silver
sides and white bellies. The meat is of a
bright red color. They are extremely fat,
and when put upon sticks before the fire to
cook, as is the custom of the Indians, large
quantities of fat drip from them. They
are particularly’ famous for their rich and
exceedingly fine flavor, and as far surpass
the Columbia River Chinook silver side as
the latter docs a dog salmon. In May and
June they run in endless number 3 and are
as thick as herring in the Sound, the water
in the river at times being seemingly alive
with them. The fish will not take either a
fly or hook in any manner, and are only
caught by’ the Indians in their primitive
manner with weirs, built across the stream,
and made of poles and hazel brush. The
weirs are made to stop all the fish ascend
ing when fishing is going on, blit are opened
at other times to allow the fish to go up
and spawn (a fact which white fishermen
on other streams miglit heed to their ad
vantage). It is supposed that they spawn
in the river, and do not ascend to the lake.
Those engaged in propagating fish would
do well to examine the salmon, as we are
satisfied that they wouM be a valuable ad
dition to the varieties of fish now propagated
by the United States Fish Commissioners.
Coming early in the season, they could be
put in the same streams with later salmon,
and thus continue the fishing season nearly
the whole year round. Their eggs can be
easily obtained, and the trial, if successful,
would be one of the greatest additions to
fish culture ever undertaken.
"What'* Up?
A few days before the schools were
closed by order of the School Board, at
Lansing, Alichigan, one of the teachers at
noontime espied a small boy with a red flan
nel scarf around his neck. Visions of diph
theria immediately floated through her
brain, and she ordered the young John
Henry to pack up his books and return no
more “until your throat is perfectly well.”
He obeyed the summons, and on his way
home met three of his companions, who
noticed his books and saluted him with:—
“What’sup?” John Hemy proceeded to
explain that the piece of red flannel had
gained him a furlough. The three youths
held a short council of war, chipped in
what little spare change they could muster,
went into a dry goods store, bought half a
yard of red flannel, tore it in strips and
placed it around their necks. In just
twenty minutes from that time three more
boys were ordered out of the school-room,
on the ground that they were threatened
with diphtheria.
A man named David Hughes, "who "was
employed as a laborer iu Youngstown, Pa.,
got on a spree recently and drank so heavily
as to unsettle his reason. On Sunday’,
about dark, he w ent to Struther’s foundry,
climbed up to the top of the furnace, w’here
he began to make a wild speech. Jle said
that some of the men had killed his brother,
and he W’anted revenge. The men were
anxious to go to work, but he, at the top
of the furnace, bade them desist. There
were around him cinder and ore and crow
bars, plenty of ammunition, and from his
vantage point he found it easy to carry his
eud. Every one who attempted to ascend
narrowly escaped death, as some missiles
were hurled down with violent and vindie
tive force. Time went on. The furnace
needed attention, the fuel w*as burning out,
and yet the maniac held his position. About
midnight Alarshal Fvans was sent for, but
hesitated to go out of his bailiwick, but, on
being urged, consented. Toward 1 o’clock
Uic next morning, hf» arrived— mu* 11 the
scene, and was at his wit’s end to know
hat to do. The fires of the furnace were
fast dying out, but in the darkness the ma
niac yelled and threatened, complete master
of the situation. From the side of the fur
nace upon which the ascent must be made
the Alarshal took everybody away with
their lights, leaving it dark below, sending
all to the other side to attract the attention
of the man on top. At the same time he
fired a couple of shots from the side of the
ascent to frighten the man from guarding
the stairway. The strategy was successful,
and Hughes was soon on the other side of
the platform, talking to the men below.
BnL who would make the' perilous ascent.
The Marshal was willing to lead the way,
but did not care to go alone to encounter
the maniac at that dizzy height where a
slip was easy, aud a slip was death. At
lengtn James Kennedy, who was there with
his father, agreed to accompany the Mar
shal in the perilous undertaking, and to
gether through the darkness they started
up the stairway. When nearly at the top
the man heard them, turned, and seized
large board.- At that moment, and not a
moment to* soon, the Alarshal sprang up
the intervening stairs, avoided the blow
and grappled witli the maniac. The two
went down on the platform together, on
the very edge, but a few inches between
them aud certain death. Kennedy wa3 in
an instant to the assistance of the Alarshal,
aud they were able to hold their man until
the men below could reach the top. The
Marshall then put the handcuffs upon him,
and brought him to Y’oungstown, lodging
him in the lockup.
Solomon’s Rose Garden.
In the neighborhood of Jerusalem is a
pleasant valley, which still bears the name,
“Solomon’s Rose Garden,” and where, ac
cording to a Alohanimedan myth, a com
pact was made between the wise man aud
the genii of the morning land, which was
written, not in blood, like the bond be
sween Faust and Alephistopheles, nor in
gall, like our modern treaties, but with saf
fron and rose water, upon the petals of
white roses. In the Catholic Tyrol, in the
present day, bethrotlied swains are expected
to carry a rose during the period of their
bethrothal as a warning to young maidens
of their engaged state. Roses have played
and still play an important part in popular
usages in other parts of the world. In
Germany young girls deck their hair with
■white roses for their confirmation—their
entrance into the world; and when, at the
end of life’s career, the aged grandmother
departs to her eternal rest, a last gift, in
the shape of a rose garland, is laid upon
her bier. Julius Ciesar, it is recorded, was
fain to hide his baldness at the age of thirty
with the produce of the Roman rose
gardens, as Anacreon hid the snows of
eighty under a wreath of roses. At mid-
Lent the Pope sends a golden rose to parti
cular churches or crowned heads whom he
designs especially to honor. Alartin
Luther wore a rose in his girdle. In these
instances the rose serves as a symbol of ec
clesiastical wisdom. A rose was figured on
the headman’s axe of the VoehmgerichL
Alany orders, fraternities and societies have
taken the rose as their badge. The “Rosi-
crucians” may be instanced. The “Society
of the Rose” of Hamburg, an association of
learned ladies of the sevententh century,
is a less known example. It was divided
into four sections—the Rose3, the Lilies,
the Violets and the Pinks. The holy Ale-
dardus instituted in France the custom of
La Rosicre,’ by which, in certain locali
ties, a money gift and a crown of roses are
bestowed upon the devoutest and most in
dustrious maiden in the commune. The
infamous Duke de Chartres established an
Order of the Roses,” with a diametrically
opposite intention. At Treviso a curious
rose feast is or was held annually. A castle
was erected with tapestry and silken hang
ings and defended by the best born maidens
in the city against the young bachelors, al
monds, nutmegs, roses and squirts filled
with rose water being the ammunition free
ly used on both aides.
A Sermon for all Mankind.
I have found in myself a strong tendency
to personal dislike to strangers. It is not
difficult to recall the faces of men whom I
have met on common ground, and to whom,
without provocation, I have felt stirred in
angry resistance. There was a man who
used to frequent one of my daily resorts.
I rarely heard him speak, but to my confi
dential companions I habitually spoke of
him as The Assassin. If ever a man wore
a murderer’s countenance he did. His
brow was dark and lowering; his eyes were
baleful: his figure was squat, and his mo
tions were feline. He carried an habitual
frown, and his whole bearing was singu
larly repulsive to me. I must have felt
thus towards him for six months, until one
raw winter morning I saw him carrying a
heavily laden basket along a squalid street,
lie had lost none of his baleful influence
over me, and, without knowing or asking
myself why, I followed him to his destina
tion. It was a houso in which lived a
wiaow whom I chanced to know, and
whose children had been sometimes for
days with insufficient food, and often the
house was fireless. The basket that my
Assassin carried contained a generous dona
tion of necessaries, and from that time
until the spring buds gave promise of a
betterment of the widow’s state he kept
her well supplied with food and fuel when
ever her own resources fell short. Aly God!
I did* not know it then, but that which I
had mistaken for a frown was the involun
tary expression of a pain from a disease
that never left him until he died. He was
a railroad conductor who had been dis
charged because he could not resist an ap
peal from the poor for free transportation.
I wish that 1 had never called him The
Assassin, for no more cruel injustice could
have been done a fellow-creature w r ho
strove with all his might against his ov
painful afflictions to salve and soot’
hurts ot other suffering ones.
ft.
How to Have a Bad Scuool.
1. Elect the most ignorant, bigoted,
elosefisted old fogies in the district to the
school Iward.
2. Employ the cheapest teacher you can
get, regardless of qualification, reputation,
or experience.
3. Find all the faults you can with the
teacher, and tell everbody; especially let
the pupils hear it.
4. When you hear a bad report about the
teacher or the school, circulate it as fast as
you can.
5. Never visit the school or encouraga
the teacher.
6. If you should happen to visit the
school take close notice of what seems
to go wrong, and tell everybody about it,
except the teacher.
7. Never advise your children to be obe
dient to the teacher, and when one is pun
ished, rush to the school room before your
passion is cooled, and give the teacher a
hearing in the matter in the presence of the
school.
8. Be indifferent about sending your
children to school regularly.
>. Do not be concerned whether they
have the necessary books.
10. If any of the pupils make slow pro
gress, blame the teacher for it.
11 Occupy your old tumble-down
schooWhouse as long a3 y r ou can, and do not
go to any expense to repair it.
12. Do not go to any expense to get ap
paratus, improved furniture, etc.
13. If the teacher or pupils should com
plain of an uncomfortable or inconvenient
school room, do not consider it worthy of
notice.
14. Get the cheapest fuel you can.
In general, conduct y’our school on the
cheapest possible plan, and let your chief
concern be to find fault and devise ways of
retrenchment.
If these niles are faithfully carried out,
you are not likely to fail in having a bad
school.
Roman Fish Culture.
The luxurious Romans achieved great
wonders in the art of fish breeding, and
were able to perform curious experiments
with the piscine in habitants of their aq
uariums; they were also well versed in the
arts of acclimation. A classic friend, who
is well versed in ancient fish lore, tells me
that the great Roman epicures could run
their fish from ice-cold water into boiling
cauldrons without handling them. They
spared neither labor nor money in order to
gratify their palates. The Italians sent to
the shore of Britain for their oysters, and
then flavored them in large quantities on
artificial beds. The value of a Roman gen
tleman’s fish in the palmy days of Italian
banqueting was represented by an enormous
sum of money. The stock kept up by Luc-
ullus was never valued at a less sum than
$35,050. These classic lovers of good
things had pet breeds of fish in the same
sense as gentlemen of the present day have
pet breeds of sheep or homed cattle. Red
mullet or fat carp sold for large prices. We
read of $300 being paid for a single mullet.