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UnjMwered yet? He prayer yoor lips Pave plea
ded ’
In agony of Peart tbeae many years?
Does faith begin to fait, Is bope departing.
And tnlns yon all In vatn those falling tears I
Say not the Father bath not beard yonr prayer,
Yon shall have yonr desire, sometime, somewhere.
Unanswered yet ? though when you drat presented
Tills one petition at the Father’s throne.
It seemed yon conld not wait the time of asking,
So urgent was yonr heart to make It known.
Though years hare passed since then, do not de
spair,
The Lord will answer yon sometime, somewheUT
Unanswered yet! nay, do not say nngranted.
Perhaps yonr part is not yet wholly done.
The work began when drat yonr prayer was ut
tered,
And God will finish what he has begun,
It yon will keep the incense burning there,
His glory you'will see, sometime, somewhere.
AM OLD BACHELOR.
“Miss Tillie, Miss Tillie!”
“Yes.”
“He’s an old bachelor, Susan Kite
says.
“Mercy on us, Kizzy Jones. Who’s
an old bachelor?”
Miss Tillie Bell, had been medi
tating deeply as to whether scarlet,
orange or green would he best to begin
with in working a motto, and evidently
not paid due lie*ed to the opening re
marks of her hand-maid,
Kizzy gave her broom a flourish, and
replied to the mistress’s question.
“The feller that’s took the cottage
back yonder on the hill. I don’t reckon
he is overly young.
“He’s kinder grey, but not very, jest
a ieetle grain, an’ what do you think lie’s
been a-doin’ all the momin’?”
“Goodness me, Kesiah, how should I
know?”
“Been a-plantin’ marigolds in his
front yard all the blessed morning. ’
Bought a whole lot of packages of seed,
Susan said, every one marigolds.”
“Dear me, what a funny man!” said
Miss Bell.
But as Kizzy hung up the broom and
disappeared the large cardboard motto
slid on to the floor on .one side of her
and the skeins of worsted silk on the
other, all in a tangle of vivid color, and
Miss Tillie forgot them, forgot the
present entirely, and sat with her hands
folded and her soft eyes looking out to
the line of hills across the fields.
It was the word “marigoids” that
had sent her thoughts wandering, so
often will one simple won! waken a
whole train of recollections.
There was sadness mingled with
these freshly-stirred remembrances, a
sadness that had come to her through
her first and only romance.
She was young when that happened.
Eyen now she was pretty aud plump
and pink.
Then she was slender and pale, and
Joe Gifford had seen the wide world in
her eyes and there had been promises,
and an engagemant-nng, anti a little
brown cottage bought, back on the hill,
with a tunny, straggly, red-bud tree in
a corner of a bit of front yard, and Til
lie, who had very little money of her
own in those days’ invested five cents in
a paper of marigold seed to beautify the
yard.
“For,” she said, “marigolds are such
a hearty jolly kind of flowers. There is
so much satisfaction in them-’
Byt just as they had come up and be
gun to bloom in huge brilliant masses
of golden-yellow and velvet-soft, red-
brown, three weeks before the wedding-
day, what was it took all the light out
of them—all the suggestive beauty and
sweetness out of the brown cottage.
What but a horrible quarrel with Joe
—a quarrel in which they had both act
ed with the wisdom and common sense
of a couple of belligerent children fight
ing over something as important as a rag
doll, and breathing deadly threats
against-eacli other.
And Joe had wound it all up by re
pairing ta the brown cottage in a ter
rible temper, and pulling up every mari
gold by the roots throwing them spite
fully across the street, as near Tillie’s
home as possible, where they lay, a heap
of bright color, fading and wilting in the
sun.
If a straight slim little figure, in a
grey dress, trying to look as much like
a shadow as possible, had slipped out of
the house in the faint light of a crescent
moon and gathered up one little velvet-
red marigold from the heap moist with
dew, and if that marigold, all dead and
dr}’, was In one of Miss Tillie’s boxes
upstairs now, why no one hut Tillie had
any suspicion of it.
And Joe had sold the cottage and
gone away.
“And he can stay away while the
world lasts, for all of me,” Tillie had
said, remembering how’ he had called
her an obstinate little jade, though to be
sure (She caller! him an ogre.
Tillie was a devout little woman, and
was bent on walking in the narrowest
heavenward path she could find, yet her
besetting sin of temper would get in her
way sometimes and trip her up.
“And as if,” she had said, “thereare
not higher duties in life than thinking
of an obstinate goose of a man with a
bad temper.”
And yet how many, many tears she
had shed over that little dead marigold
in the box.
For Tillie was not as unforgiving as
she had tried to he.
And now a man had taken the brown
cottage on the hill—a bachelor, not
“overly” young, who had been planting
marigolds all the morning. ,
Well, Joe could not be overly young
now.
Suppose this man should he Joe?
Kizzy’s head was poked inside the
door.
her head an impatient little toss, and
picking up her motto and her wool, be
gan to work briskly.
“Well, well,” she half-sighed, “if
people do their duty, there is no doubt
that things will come out all right some
time.
Kizzy came flying in red and giggling,
with some one stalking solemnly behind
her.
’ “Here he is, Miss Tillie, that’s hiny’
she said, choking a tittek, and pointing
to a square-shouldered man in the door
way, whose thick brown hair was
slightly tinged with gray.
It was Joe Gifford, not looking so
very different from wliat he had in the
old days.
“Tillie,” said he, without any preface
at all, “I’ve come hack and bought the
cottage again, and planted the mari
golds.
“And now, don’t you think we had
better fulfil the contract we broke so
long ago?”
“I thought,’’.fluttered Tillie, “Kizzy
said -
’Twasn’t me, ’twas Susan Kite said
it, when she fetched the milk this eve
nin’— said her brother Jeff was in the
stotp and heered the men a axin of him,”
pointing her elbow at Joe, “if lie was a
goin to git married, and lie said—‘You
better reckon I am.”
“And so I am if slip’ll have me,” an
swered Joe, coming forward.
Kizzy, you run and feed the chic
kens, or the cat, or something, my
dear.”
And as she disappeared with an un-
suppressed giggle, Joe went straight to
Tillie, and dropping down beside her
chair, tangled her wools all up by catch
ing her hands as she was picking at a
knot.
“Wliat impertinence,” said Tillie..
“Do you suppose I have forgotten
wliat a scamp you were?
“Have you reformed?”
“I don’t know,” lie answered serious
ly.
“I have tried.”
“And wliat does your motto say?
“ ’Charity sufferetli long and is kind.
“I know that you are kind and sweet,
Tillie.
“Dearest Tillie, try me again.”
“Ah, Joe,” sighed Tillie, “we lioth
have need of heaven’s help.
“If we go there for strength and help,
we shall learn the lesson to lie kind to
each other.”
“And when shall we lie married)
Tillie?” Joe asked.
“Oh, not till the marigolds bloom,
Tillie answered.
“That Durkin.*'
At a table in a Comliill restaurant,
Boston at dinner recently, sat a man
from Cambridge, who was a native of
Hew Hampshire. Meeting an old ac
quaintance the conversation soon turned
on family topics and the pair began to
talk about their former neighbors in a
most familiar way. “Yes,” remarked
the Cambridge gentleman, “Sam was in
many respects different from the rest of
the hoys. You remember who he mar
ried? Well, when the old man, his
father, found that he was shinin’ round
with her, he called him one day in the
bam and said: ‘Sam d’ye intend to
marry Beckie? Sam never said a word,
so the old man said: ‘Me boy, ye know-
all about them. I can’t tell ye nothin’.
Ye know how- the sisters lias turned out
and not one of them is now livin’ with
their husbands. ’ Sam was as mum as a
pantomime and, just as soon as lie was
ready, him and Beckie got tied.
“They lived on a farm, and everything
went on smooth for about a year, and it
came to hog butcherin’time.* Sam got
all ready to have the usual party for the
occasion, and just as he was sharpenin’
up the knives Beckie came out and said:
‘Sam, I’m goin’ home.’ Sam protested
in his quiet way, hut it was no use, so
lie said he’d get a man to row- her across
the pond. It was about half a mile over.
She said: ‘No ye won’t: ye’ll row me
over yerself!’ Sam told her he couldn’t,
and Beckie fired up andsiiid: ‘ThenI’ll
drown meself.’ Sam said he’d go with
her if she wanted to do that, so the boat
was got ready, she got hi, and they
rowed out till the water was twenty feet
deep. Then Sam stopped and said:
‘Well, Beckie, this is a good place for
ye to drown yerself!’ She didn’t open
her mouth. He waited awhile and then
said: ‘Come, Beckie, I’m in a hurry to
git hack.’ She never looked up. Sam
put down the oars, caught hold of her
and pitched her in. She grabbed for
the boat, but lie wouldn't let her git
near it. When she was almost done out
?he said: ‘Sam, let me in that boat and
ye’ll not hear anything more from me
out o’ the way.’
“So lie pulled her in, and they went
hack home. She changed her clothes
and entertained the guests. They’re
now nearly eighty aud you never saw a
happier old couple—did you? I don’t
think they ever spoke of that duckin’
since the day she was goin’ to drown
herself.
Among all classes in Mexico there is
too much of the idle “restand be thank-
fid” spirit. Nature has been bountiful
the necessaries of life are easily secured
the need of exertion is minimized; a few
beans or a handful of com, a little fat.
and some chillies will form the unvary
ing diet for weeks. But all are inveter
ate gamblers. Although sometimes too
lazy or improvident to provide even
comfortable food, they will sit for hours
over cards or dice, and in tlieir infatua
tion pawn anything on which they can
raise money. In selling tlieir chillies,
their eggs, poultry or other produce,
they seldom have any fixed price; tlieir
demands are mainly graduated by itlie
apparent capacity or generosity of the
purchaser. Contracting to supply milk,
for example, to the railroad construction
gangs, after arranging for a a very ample
remuneration, and going on for one,
perhaps two weeks, they will complain
tlieir cows are doing badly, get a few
extra cents per gallon, and jierhaps a
week later make a similar stand for' a
further advance. The merchantile
classes in the towns, although they sel
dom have much capital, are tolerably
straightforward, endeavor to meet tlieir
engagements, and have a wholesome
horror .of a protested bill. Every village
celebrates, at least once a year, its fiesta,
where dancing, an extra amount of
gambling, cock fighting, and sometimes
bull-baiting are the entertainments, and
where the liberal consumption of cheap
intoxicants brings business into the
Court of the Elcaldi or Justice of tlie
Peace. The Mexicans are generally
more pusillanimous and superstitious
than the Indians. Secret societies, under
priestly control, exercise a good deal of
authority. Both in Old and New Mexico
the Penitates eonnt their numliers by
thousands, and enjoin among their vo
taries fasting and humiliation, from
which, however, exemption is freely ac
corded on payment of certain doles. On
occasions, self-flagellation and strqies.,
inflicted by brother devotees are proceed
ed with until the infatuated victims are
covered with blood. For several hun
dred yards along a path thickly strewn
with prickly cactus, others go on hands
and knees to prostrate themselves before
the Cross. Bearing a cross weighing
several hundreds pounds, with arm out
stretched and secured, others toil for
miles, usually to some sacred ehaiiel or
almost inaccessible mountain top. When
the poor enthusiast, fainting under his
burden, is aliout to drop, attendants
place tlieir shoulders under the arms of
the crass, and afford temixirary support.
These senseless performances shatter
yearly the health of many weakly devo
tees, and kill some. The United States
Government recently endeavored to put
down these Juggernaut superstitions in
New Mexico by introducing a bill pre
venting cruelty to men or the lower ani
mals, but, jealous of interference with
their power and profits, the priesthood
stenuously opposed it, and it was with
drawn. The liahits and education of
the masses will obviously have to under
go much change before the country can
make material progress.
The Knot and the Mile.
The “knot” and the “mile”are terms
often used interchangeably, but erron-
ously so. The fact is that a mile is less
than, eighty-seven percent, of a knot.
Three and one-half miles are equal,
within a very small fraction to three
knots. The knot is 6,082.60 feet in
length. The statute mile is 5,280 feet.
The result of the difference is that the
speed in miles per hour is always con
siderably larger than when stated in
knots, and if a person forgets tliis and
states a speed at so many knots, when it
is really so many miles, he may he giving
figures verging on the incredible. When
we hear parties say that such a vessel is
capable of making twenty knots per
hour, we usually take the statement
with a very large grain of salt, for
twenty knots is 23.04 miles per hour, a
speed winch very few vessels have made
and it doubted by some who have the
best opportunity for making actual
measurements whether any vessel lias
made twenty-five miles in sixty minutes.
It has been said that some of the Eng
lish torpedo boats have made as high
Miss Tillie,” said she, “he’s a-goin’ 33 twenty-four or twenty-five knots.
golds is. I twenty-five knots are upward of twenty-
As the head disappeared, Miss Tillie eight and three-quarter miles per hour,
• snapped the thread of her reverie, gave distances that are incredible.
The first instructor in music of Ole
Bull was a Dane named Paulsen, a man
thoroughly qualified in his profession,
but given to drink. At one of tire week
ly quartettes Paulsen imbibed so freely
that he was unable to play. In this un
fortunate dilemma Ole was half-joking-
ly told to take his place, and the violin
was placed in hishaiul with the promise
of a stick of candy after the perform
ance. Ole accepted the command in
earnest. A quartette of Pleyel which
he had heaid several times was chosen,
and his memory served him faithfully.
To the astonishment of all he played
each movement correctly. He not only
executed the difficult passages, hut
marked the rests. It was a wonderful
triumph for the 8-year old boy. He
was made at once an active member of
the club. Soon after he became the
owner of a little red violin. He slept
in the same room with his parents, and
the night of its purchase lie could not
sleep for thinking of it. After all was
quiet in the house he crept out of bed
and into the next room where the in
strument had been deposited. But let
him tell his own story:
“When I heard father and mother
breathing deep, I rose softly and lighted
a candle, and in my night clothes did
go on tip-toe to open the case aud take
one little peep. The violin was so red,
and the pretty pearl screws did smile at
me so! I pinched the string a little
with my fingers. It smiled at me ever
more and more. I took up the bow and
looked at it. It said to me it would
he pleasant to try- it, across the strings.
So I did try it, just a very, very’ little,
and it did sing to me sweetly! Then I
did creep farther away from the bed
room. At first I did play very soft. I
made very, very little noise. But pre
sently I did begin a capriceio which I
like very much, and it do go ever louder
and louder; and I forgot that it was
midnight aud that everybody was asleep.
Presently I hear somelhing go crack!
aud the next minute I feel my father’s
whip across my shoulders. My little
red violin dropiied on the floor and was
broken. I weep much for it, but it did
no good. They did have a doctor to it
next day* but it never recovered its
health.”
In 1831, when he was 21 years old, he
went to Paris to pursue his musical
studies, but his money soon gave out,
and he had no means of replenishing his
purse. He was unknown as a musician,
he could not even teach, and he was at
last reduced to the very verge of star
vation. The tide turned at- last, how
ever, and by a series of curious accidents
he was enabled to gain a hearing before
some rich and powerful connoisseurs in
music. After a successful concert tour
through Italy he devoted himself to
study with an intensity which wrecked
his health. Visiting Bologna he won in
the most extraordinary 'way the great
celebrity which followed him ever after
ward. It seems that at the time of his
stay in Bologna, Malibran and DeBeriot
were both there, and were advertised to
appear. The two had a violent quarrel,
however, and refused to go upon the
stage.
“Ole Bull had now been a fortnight
in Bologna. He occupied an upper
room in a yioor hotel, a sort of soldiers’
barracks, where he liad been obliged to
take temporary refuge, because of the
neglect of a friend to send him a money
order. Secluded from society’, he spent
the days in writing on his concerto; and
when evening came, and the wonderful
tones of his violin sounded from the
ojieii windows, the people would as
semble in the street below to listen.
One evening the celebrated Col bran
(Rossini’s first wife, and a native of Bo
logna) was passing Casa Soldati and
heal’d those strains. She paused. The
sounds seemed to come from an instru
ment she had never heard before. ‘It
must be a violin,’ she said, ‘but a divine
one, which will be a substitute for De
Benot and Malibran. I must go a$d
tell Zampieri.’ - • j-i
“On the night of the concert, Ole
Bull, haring retired very' early on ac-
count of weariness, had already been ,in
bed two hours, when lie was roused by
a rap on the door and the exclamation,
‘Cospetto di Bacc-o! What stairs!’ It
was Zampieri, the most eminent musi
cian of the Italian nobility'- He aiks
Ole Bull to improvise for him, and then
cries, ‘Malibran may now have her head
aches!’ He must off to the theatre at
once with the young artist. There is
no time even for change of dress, and
the violinist is hurried before a disaji-
ixiiiited but most distinguished audience.
Tiie grand duke of Tuscany was there,
and DeBeriot with his hand in a sling.
It seemed to Ole Bull that he had been
transported by magic, and at first that
lie could not meet the cold, critical ex
actions of the people before him; for
lie knew his apiiearance was against
him, and his weariness had almost un
nerved him. He chase his own compo
sition, and the very desiieration of the
moment, which compelled him to shut
his eyes and forget his surroundings,
made him play with an abandon, an
eestacy of feeling, which charmed and
captivated bis audience. As the curtain
fell, and lie almost swooned from ex
haustion, the house shook with reiter
ated applause.
“When, after taking food and wine,
he appeared with renewed strength and
courage, he asked three ladies, whose
cold, critical maimer had cliilled him on
his first entrance, for themes to impro
vise upon. The wife of Prince Ponia-
towsky gave him one from ‘Nonna,’
and the ladies at her side, one each from
the ‘Siege of Corinth’ and ‘Romeo and
Juliet.’ His improvisation, in which it
occurred to him to unite all these me
lodies', renewed the excitement. The
final piece was to lie a violin solo. The
director was doubtful of Ole Bull’s
strength, but he stepped forth firmly,
saying, ‘I will play! oh, you must let me
play!’ and again the same unrestrained
enthusiasm followed. When lie finished
there was a rain of flowers, and he was
congratulated by Zampieri, DeBeriot
and the principal musicians present. II e
was at once engaged for the following
concert, and the assistance of the socie
ty was offered for a concert of his own.
One gentleman asked for sixty tickets,
another for one bundled, and Emile
Loup, the owner of a large theatre in
Bologna, offered him his house and or
chestra free of expense. The wheel of
fortune was turning in his favor; the
Noms were now weaving bright threads
in the wel) of his life. lie played at
both concerts, was accompanied to his
hotel by a torchlight procession, made
honorary member of the Philharmonic
society, and ids carriage drawn home by
the populace. This was Ole Bull’s real
debut.”
Coot sulcule.
Captain John Hartley, late of the
Twenty-second United States lufantry.
walked into the shooting gallery at No.
4846th avenue,N Y. recently. lie appear
ed entirely cool and self-possessed. He
talked with the two young men who
had charge of the place about pistols
and guns, and they noticed that his lan
guage was that of an educated man.
“People should be very careful,” lie
said, “about using firearms, especially
when they have hair triggers.”
“Yes, that’s so,” replied the attend
ants.
Then the party hail a quiet drink,
and the stranger returned to the gal
lery and began again to talk about
shooting.
“What distance is your pistol range?!’
he asked.
“Oh, about sixty feet from the coun
ter to the target—twenty paces,” was
the reply.
“I prefer fifteen paces for pistol prac
tice,” said the stranger. "Can I fire a
shot or two at that distance?”
“Certainly.”
Hartley got over the rail and careful
ly measured fifteen paces from the tar
get. Then he took one of the pistols,
which had been loaded for him with
twenty-two calibre cartridge. Holdin;
it in his hand he turned and said:
“A friend of mine was so careless
once as to shoot himself in the foot just
as lie was about to raise the pistol. It
is really very’ dangerous to point the
pistol toward the floor unless one is very-
careful. ” Hartley was still cool and
collected when he said:
“Is the target all ready?”
“Yes; fire away.”
“Well, here goes.”
Deliberately raising his right hand
the startled attendants, who were
awaiting the discharge, saw him press
the muzzle against his right •temple.
He pulled the trigger, a muffled sound
followed, and Hartley fell to the floor
dead. After the usual excitement at
tending such scenes in a public place,
the body was taken to the police station
and thence to the Morgue. It the jack
ets was found a card, on which was
written “John Hartley,” and a pawn-
ticket for a watch, handkerchief and
gloves.
His suicide was mainly due to poverty.
No money was foimd on him after his
death, and in his pocket was a pawn
ticket for nine dollars, borrowed on a
silver watch. It is also thought that his
despondency was augmented by family
troubles. He was married aud was 44
years of age.
Cochineal.
This article as found in .trade, is the
dried body of the female-cochineal in
sect, which lives on a species cactus.
During life it is about the size of a
small ladybug. It rather long, com
pressed, equally broad all over, wing
less, and marked behind with deep
incisions and wrinkles. The cochineal
insect has six feet, which neverthe
less are only of use directly after birth.
It fastens itself upon the plant by means
of a trank placed between the fore-feet,
and remains there till it dies. The sap
of the plant provides this little animal
with nourishment. The nude cochineal
insects resemble the female during the
larva state. They change into the
chrysails, and soon come forth as small
red flies. The fenude 'then lays some
thousands of eggs, and liecomes covered
with a white powder. She protects the
eggs under her body; and hatches them,
so to speak in this way. When the
young insect appears the mother dies.
—Gustave Dore has undertaken to
model the bronze statue of Alexandre
Dumas, which is to stand in the Place
Malesherbes. It will be the great ar
tist’s first attempt at statuary, and only
a single copy of the work will be cast.
Tlie famous stage driver is dead,
has been on the down grade a long time
Recently his foot lost its final hold
tlie brake and his coach could not
stopped until, battered and broken on
sharp turn, it went over into that canon
black and deep, which we call death
In his way Hank Monk was a cliaracter.
In tlie old days, before the leathers
under ids coach were so soakeiT with
alcohol, there was no better balanced
head than his. There was an air about
him which his closest friends could not
understand. There was something
which seemed to say that stage driving
vyas not liis intended work; that, if 1
pleased, there were other things, evt
more difficult than handling six wild
horses, which lie could do quite as well.
Generally, he was reserved of speech,
sententious in his ways, but. often
While battling with a high-strung team
would pronounce an epigram worthy ot
Iiigersotl or Emerson. After his little
episode with Greeley, distinguished
men passing over the Sierras, where
Monk drove, would plan to ride outside
with him. Many a one has ridden
twenty miles, trying in vain to call him
out, and at last lias settled back with
the belief that lie was but a stolid idiot
when half a dozen words from Monk
spoken with Ids peculiar drawl, showed
that when lie drove Greeley’s coach
over the mountains there was, perliajis,
as big a man outside as there was inside
the vehicle. As he was not like any
other man, so he was not like any other
stage driver. In his prime lie would
turn a six-horse coach in tlie street with
the team at a full run, and with every
rein apjKirently loose. But the coach
would always bring up in exactly the
sjKit that the most careful driver would
have tried to bring it. His eye never
deceived him, and his estimation of
distances was absolute; the result which
must be when leaders, swings and
wheelers all wfre playing their roles,
was with him an exact science. His
driving was such a perfection of art
that it did not seem art at all, and
many an envious whip, watching him.
lias turned away saying, “he is the luck
iest man that ever climbed on top of :i
box.” It was not luck at all. it .was
simply an intuitive, exact calculation
from causes to effect, anil his whole
duty ended when he fixed tlie cause.
The effect liad to he. He lias often
driven from tlie summit of tlie Sierras
down into tlie valley, ten miles, in forty
five minutes. Other drivers have done
as well, the only difference being that
with others it was a strain upon eye,
and hand, and arm, anil foot; with
Monk it was a matter of course. lie
was to stage driving what tlie German
papers say Edwin Booth was in Hamlet
“It was not played, hut lived.” Of
course we s;*ak of him as lie was of
old, when tlie railroad was yet beyond
the Sierras, and when staging over tlie
Sierras was something finer than staging
ever was before, or ever will lie again
Of late years Monk lias been hut a
host of himself. His physical strength
has been so wasted that no wild horses
have iieen given him; tlie grades up the
mountains have not lieeu sprinkled; tlie
locomotive took away the glory of stag
ing, and hail whisky sapjied tlie finer
springs of tlie old driver’s life. A year
ago, for the first time, a coach capsized
under him, and while the accident
seemed trival in itself, it was a notice
to him that his hand had lost its cun
liing, that his lamiis were going out
that a dark canon was before him, and
there was no moon to rise. When this
winter closed down lie went into his
little den of a house and knew that lie
was going to mire down in a few weeks.
When ffiends tried to have him consent
to lie removed to the hospital, where he
could have more comforts, he refused
and waited where lie was, until AVed-
nesday last, when lie drove into tlie
home station. lie died simply a dissi]
ated old stage driver; but if in tlie long
ago, when life was bright and lioi* was
exultant, his heart did not receive a
wound which changed his whole life,
and all its purposes, than a man’s face,
and acts, and moods, and models of
thought are no indication of what he has
done and suffered.
Remarkable Finds of Cioltl.
V volume might easily he filled with
anecdotes of remarkable “finds” in the
A'ictorian gold fields. In midsummer,
1869, two poor men were at work in a
gully, when, on digging around tlie
roots of a tree, tlie pick of one of them
came upon something very hard. Tlie
man exclaimed he wished it had been a
nugget, even if it liad broken his pick.
It proved to l* a nugget, and one des
tined to 1* famous. A wagoner was
one day driving his team on tlie road,
when his wheel, in turning up the soil,
suddenly exposed to view a considera
ble lump of shining matter. The wag
oner stooyied to pick it up, and by doing
so became tlie owner of a nugget which
proved to 1* worth £1,600. In tlie
early days of sluicing a Scotchman was
working an extensive claim, and employ
ing a iiumber of men under him. His
last shilling was spent before any gold
was found. lie told his men lie liad no
more funds aud could go on no longer;
Tliey had a great respect for him, and
subscribed among themselves enough to
carry on the work for a few weeks.
Gold was soon afterward found in abun
dance. Tlie Scot retired with £'40,000,
and made over tlie mine, while still in
full yield, to the men who liad so gener
ously helped him. On one occasion two
men, who had just arrived from England,
sat down to rest on the outskirts of a
spot to which there liad l*en a recent
rash. It was a broiling hot day, and
they were glad, after their toilsome
walk up the country, to rest in the
shade of an old gum tree. As they sat,
one of them, rubbing up the earth with
the heel of his boot, disclosed (o view
something hard and yellovv'-looking.
Pulling it from the ground, they found
it was a huge cake of veritable gold.
Without haring liad to use pick or s]>ade
they had realized a fortune, aud, speed
ily turning tlieir backs on the digging,
they took the first ship home.
Lost An Inch.
The following' enrrious puzzle is said
to heat the celebrated “13-15-14,” and
is well worth investigation. Take a
strip of iniper or cardboard 13 inches
long and 5 wide, thus giving a surface
of 65 inches. Now cut this strip dia
gonally, as true as you can, giving two
pieces in tlie shape of a triangle. Now
measure exactly 5 inches from the larger
end of each strip and cut in two pieces.
Take these slips and put them into the
shape of an exact square, and it will
appear to be just 8 inches each way, or
64 square inches, a loss of 1 square inch
of superficial measurement, with no
diminution of surface. The question is,
what becomes of that inch.
A Crowning Danger.
Much has been written and said con
cerning the benefits and dangers that
attend the use of the electric light. No
tice has been taken of the annoyance
and danger to life from the placing of
the electric light wires on poles and
buildings in proximity to other wires,
noticeably those of telephone compa
nies, contact with which may result dis
astrously to persons using ’phones on
the circuit tiius affected. It lias become
an almost unwritten law that to avoid
such coutengencies as far as possible
wires used for electric light circuits
shall be placed below all other wires o
the same poles, with a view to avoidin;
possible danger in case of breakage o
those conveying the current from tlie
dynamo-generator. Although attention
lias been called in emphatic manner t<
tlie obstacle which wires in general
whether on jioles or buildings, are U
firemen in raising ladders and in the
l*rfonnance of their many difficult du
ties in extinguishing tires, but little
mention has l*en made of tlie extra
danger to which they are liable -when
working in tlie vicinity of wires cany-
ing tlie powerful currents needed for
tlie electric light. The rapidly increasing
demand for the light is so well known
that the most superficial examination
cannot fail to convince that danger to
the lire laddies from this source is con
stantly growing.
Conversation with local fire officials
shows that they are keenly alive to the
situation and anxious that tlie possibility
of serious results l* speedily reduced
the minimum. \ r ery fortunate it
th^t'since the introduction of the elec
trie light in Buffalo serious fires hav
been few, and in no case lias the prox
imity of tlie wires caused accident -to
tiie fire-fighters. As instancing tlie
vigor with which these wires make their
presence known, it is related that a
tlie Commercial tire when the new Hayes
track was on Washington Street, tlie
extension ladder was at one time resting
across the bundles of wires strung on
poles through that thoroughfare,
member of tlie company was leaning
tlie crank used to turn the elevating
screw. Suddenly lie jumped as if shot
and began rubbing his hands, which had
l*en behind Ills back resting on the
crank. Asked what was tlie matter
the astonished tire laddie replied tlni
tlie thing was hot. Examination so far
proved the truth of the assertion that no
one cared to bother the crank. In raising
the extension ladder there is- used a
stout chain passing over pulleys at the
top and bottom of the main ladder. This
chain, it appeared, was pressing against
an electric light wire, and though the
latter was insulated, enough of tlie
IKiwerful current escaped to make the
electricity felt. Though the iron about
tlie ladders and truck, together with
the iron tires, seemingly made a com
plete “ground,” there was still plenty
of lightning left. AV'hile tliis incident
senes to convey some idea of tlie im
portance of these wires its a factor in
tire fighting, there yet remains to 1*
onsidered the danger on the inside of
building which is lighted by electricity
its is the case in many buildings occupied
for business purposes on Main Street
ami elsewhere, and in laige nianufac
tories where tlie light is now inconstant
use. In all of these places at all times
hiring the night the powerful current
passes into the building until it reaches
tlie lamp most remote from its ]n>int of
entrance and then passes out. Whether
the lights are in use, does not affect the
question. 'While the generator is in mo
tion tiie circuit is complete within tlie
building, for if the lamps are not in the
use they are “switched out” by a.simple
lever overhead, and the current, though
d<*s not.pass through the carbon arc,
laking its presence known hv the light
thus formed, it is silently circulating
just as powerful as if seen. Suspended
the ceiling, as these lamps usually
ire, it is easy to see that even a sligh
tire in store or factory may detach both
imp and wirf-s from tlie fastenings that
keep them out of harm’s way. A break
age of this sort and tlie room may be
come a mammoth Leyden jar, more es-
pecially if tlie place is well Hooded, for
water is one of the best conductors.
The ends of an electric light .wire on a
floor covered with two or three inches
water is not a state of things in which
the fire laddies find much comfort. Yet
the firemen are by no means enemies of
tlie electric light, and only ask that rea
sonable precautions be taken for their
protection from tliis source of danger
Idle at work.
A simple switch placed outside of
each customer's premises, by which such
place can 1* "cut out” of tlie circuit
mil the current kept out of the building
lien the Ianqis are not in use, is sug-
listed by local firemen as probably the
most practicable safeguard that can t*
put in operation without expense or de
lay. In factories or other places where
the light is used all such “cut outs” can
oi*rated liy the firemen on tlieir
arrival at the premises, while consumers
using tlie ligtit a shorter time can operate
' le switch with but little more trouble
ian in simply switching out the lamps,
i is now tiie custom. The subject in
creases in importance as the use of tlie
light extends, and it will probably re
ceive local attention ere long.
Sin- Rat«n.
The superstition of the sin-eater in
Wales is said to linger even now in the
secluded vale of Cwm-Aman, in Cier-
artlienshire. The meaning of this
most singular institution of superstition
that when a person died the friends
sent for tlie sin-eater of tlie district,
rho, on his arrival, placed a plate of
salt and bread on tlie breast of tlie de
ceased person; he then uttered an incan
tation over the bread, after winch he
proceeded to eat it—thereby eating the
of the dead person; tliis done, he
received a fee of two-and-sixpenee,
which, we suppose, was much more than
many a preacher received for a long and
gainful service. Having received this,
lie vanished as quickly as possible, all
the friends and relatives of the departed
aiding his exit with blows and kicks and
other indications of their faith in the
ice he had rendered. A hundred
■s since, anil through tlie ages 1*-
yond that time, we suppose this curious
superstit-i’-" was everywhere pre"alent.
Regulate Your Watch.
It is not generally known that there
is available to every one a most simple
and accurate method of regulating a
clock or watch, when access to stand
ard time at short intervals is incon
venient or impossible. It-consists simply
m observing the time at which any
particular star sets, or passes the range
of two fixed objects on different nights.
It is necessary to have the correct time
to start with; after that, a clock may
** kept within ;i very few seconds of
standard time for any number-of years
without any difficulty. Tlie sun cannot
l* used for tliis purpose, for tlie reason
that there are only two days in the year
when it is on tlie meridian of a place at
noon by clock time. It may 1* as much
as fourteen and a half minutes fast, or
sixteen and a quarter minutes slow on
different days; and besides, the deter
mination of its altitude with any degree
of accuracy requires the use of special
instruments, aud much skill in obser
vation.
To determine the time by observation
of a star, on the contrary, is a matter of
great ease, and no instruments are ne
cessary. Tlie mode of operation is as
follows: Select two fixed points for a
range of observation. If a westerly
window, can 1* chosen which faces any
building anywhere more than twenty"-
five to thirty feet distant, we have as
goal a post of observation as we can
desire. Drive a nail or stick a pin into
the window jamb; or, if anything more
substantial is wanted, fix a thin piece of
metal, with a very small hole in it to
sight through, in any convenient place,
that you can observe the time any
star sets or sinks below the roof of the
uljacent building, or whatever may be
chosen as tlie more remote sight. Then
‘boose some well-defined star, the bright
er the better and with your time piece
set right, to start with, observe tlie time
it passes tlie range of your sights. The
exact time, as well also as tiie date of
this observation, should 1* recorded;
then to find out at any’ subsequent time,
how much your watch has varied from
orreet time, observe the same star, and
recollect that it setsjust three minutes
and 55,90944seconds earlier on any given
night than it did the preceding night.
Tims if our first observation was taken
soinenight when thestarsetatninehmirs,
fifteen minutesand twenty-three seconds;
Mid at our second observation, taken
just one week later, it set at eight hours,
forty-seven minutes and fifty-two sec
onds, we would knew that our watch
ad kept correct time. If it set at eight
hours, forty-five minutes and fifty-two
econds. we would know that our watch
lock had lost two minutes during
the week. And similarly for anv other
inflation. If the time at which’ it had
set had l*en eight hours, forty-nine
minutes and fifty-two seconds,
see that our watch had gained two min
es, and so on.
If the location of our sights admits of
, we should select a star 80°, as nearly
ns possible, from the jsile star, for its
apiiarent motion will he greater than
that of one near the pole, and the liability
of error will be diminished. If a.suitable
lection can 1* made, tlie error need
not he more than three or four second;
anil it will not 1* accumulative.
From the fact that any given star sets
•arly four minutes earlier each night,
is evident that it will after a whit
begin to set during daylight. Before
this occurs it will 1* necessary to trans
fer the time to some other star, which
sets later. Thus we see that the later
the evening our first observation is
iken, the longer the same star may 1
used. To transfer the time, of course
very simple, you merely have to ol>
serve the star you have been using, note
the time, and also tlie error and rate of
inflation of yonr watch; then as late as
convenient tlie same evening, select the
w star, not too near the horizon, ob
serve its time, and from the date of the
first observation, calculate the exact
time of its setting, or passing the rang
your sights. This is a very simple
litter and requires no explanation.
Then use the new starasloiigas|iossible.
ind transser to another, and so on.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
—Tlie University of Cambridge was
founded in 1109.
—Titles were abolished in France
after the revolution.
—Last year 181 Jews in Vienna be
came Roman Catholics.
. -Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Mor
rill, of Maine, is in failing health.
_—Marshall Bazaine is soon to write a
history of the Franco-Prussian war.
Ancient Thebes covered aii area
five miles in length hv three miles in
breadth.
.—The independence and prosperity of
Novgorod were destroyed by Ivan Vasi-
Jivitch I.
The Prince of AVales has accented
the chairmanship of tlie Longfellow
Memorial Committee.
—A resident of AVoodbiuy, Teun.,
hut thirty years of age, has jrTS-tTTffltW'f'
for tlie fourth time.
The i*trifactlon called agate was
named from the river Achates, in Sicily
where it was first found.
—Rich gold mines have been discover
ed in Guatauiala, Central -America,
causing much excitement.
—The Paris Academy’ of Medicine
offers a prize of $5,000 for the finding
of a remedy for diphtheria.
—Valuable coal discoveries continue
to 1* made on the east coast ofVancou
ver's Island, British Columbia.
_—The different leagues of Gorman
cities were united into one hv the trefity
of Heidelberg, signed in 1384.
—In the greater part of the East,
whistling is looked upon with ill-fa,vm
as a practice full of evil omen.
—Tlie contract for the York town
monument has l*en awarded to the
Holiewell Granite Co., for$6)000.
—The Bernese (Switzerland) Govern
ment has forbidden any meeting of-the
salvation Army within tlie canton.
—A resident of Holland, w ho died
In 1872, wan said to have smoked over
four tons of tobacco in his life of eighty
Ill’S.
—Bonnat, the artist, has secured, at-
tiie price of $2400, a beautiful imrtiait
of Erasmus, drawn by Albert Ditrer in
1520.
—(>ne hundred and fourteen thousand
small trout have been recently distribu
ted in tlie streams of Eastern Pennsvl-
Three Coins Fr<
i Pompeii.
been 1
ded i
water i
like i
Jen. Janies 15. Steednian has l*en
chosen Chief of Police of Toledo, Ohio.
—Strychiuia was discovered in 1818.
—Ovid burned tlie “Metamorphoses”
when exiled from Ron*, hut copies had
ien taken by his friends.
—Veterinary colleges were first foun-
UH LUC Utlltfr
1 in England m the hope of putting side a full length Roman soldier with
end to the ravages of the murrain. sword and shield, standing between the
Silk handkerchiefs washed in clear letters 8. C. Claudius reigned A. D. 41.
' :r with pure white castile soaplook j This coin is made of pure copper, is in a
new. Do not iron, bat snap be- fair condition, worn smooth in places,
tween the fingers until almost dry, and and some of the letters of the inserip-
then press under a weight. ’ t ion illegible.
During the Crimean war (1854-5) the
nited States sent a number of artillery
ami engineer officers to witness the pro
gress of tlie war and l*nefit by the ex
perience they might gain there, and
among them was a general (now livin;
and in the army) who at the expiration
" the war, was given a year’s furlough,
travel in Europe. lie. with a party
friends, were visiting Pompeii, where
the present excavation had lately l*gtin
and under charge of a guard, were per-
mitted to look, lmt not take anythin]
they might see.
In looking over the ashes in tlie bur-
city,, he saw three pieces of money,
Mid the temptation to secure them for a
friend to whom he hail promised some
curiosities of his trip, was too great to
resist, and the guard not looking, lie
slipj*d them into his pocket and gave
them to tlie present owner, who lias liad
them in iiis ]Missessioii until now. Now
Poiiq*ii was destroyed A. 1). 79, the
coins must have l*en that old at least.
AA'e give the description of their present
appearance:
A copper coin, the size of a cent, dee
ply crusted and colored with green,
from age shows upon tlie face a head
crowned with a laurel wreath, aud tlie
letters imp ceas Vespasian; on the
back of the coin a winged female figure
and tlie letters Victokia, evidently-
being a medal struck to commemorate
ictory by Vespasian, who was Em
peror of Rome from A. D. 69, to A. I>.
79, the year of tlie destruction of J’om-
i.'
A. smaller cop]*r coin, about tlie size
our dime, in almost perfect condition
except being worn off at one side, l*ars
upon the face the head, in helmet, of a
soldier and Hie letters vims; on tlieoth-
side tlie figure of a wolf under two
;irs, suckling the twins. Romulus and
Remus, under which are the letters It.
All Roman coins of the different
emperors’reigns l*ar the letters S. C.
(consent of senate). These are wanting
this coin. Rome was a republic
from 509 B. C. to 27 It. C., and as the
olf and twins was tlie seal and Roma
ulelnip Pont, the motto of tlie
Republic of Rome during those years,
this coin, small though it is, can lay-
claim to a good old age.
A copper coin alsmt the size of a
quarter, head of Claudius C*sar, sur
rounded with the inscription, “Claudius
C:esar, Aug Irn]*enitor,’” on the other
—Porpoises are often known to form
i ring about a shoal of small fish, and
by driving them into a mass obtain a
hearty meal.
—Tl* largest circular saw in the
world is at Blakely. Washington terri
tory. It cuts 200,600 feet in twenty-
four hours.
—On hearing of his having won 100.-
000 florins in one of the national lottery-
drawings, a ik.hh" starving devil was
struck dead.
—The ice harvest from the Kennebec
river is now estimated at 674,0(10 tons,
and there were 2(H),(NH) tons left over
floin-last year.
—There are now only thirty-six es
tablishments in Cologne that profess to
sell tlie true and only genuine eau. In
1829 there were sixty.
—A method has been discovered by
which tlie pine needles of the Silesian
forests can 1* cured, felted and woven
into serviceable cloth.
—-The Mobile and Ohio railroad, 490
miles long, has been in operation twenty-
seven years, anil not a single passenger
has ever l*en killed on it
The Peruvians buried all the wealtli
of their Incas with them, and so great
was tlie amount thus interred that the
Spaniards took $931,000 from a single
tomb.
The reason why tlie tombs of the
Egyptian monarclis were built" in tlie
desert was that in this place they occu
pied no land which might have been
used for agriculture.
—During tlie twelve months which
ended on January 31st, 1883, our im
ports of merchandise amounted in value
to $752,727, 307, anil our exports for
tlie same jieriod were $783,298,409.
—The Marquis of Lome while in
California had several dozen quails ship-
(khI from that State to tlie head keeper
on the Inverary moors, with a view tp
having them acclimated in Scotland!
—The production of books and maps
in Germany, including new editions,
during 1882 reached 14,794, as against
15,191 in 1881. Natural science, law.
and theology are all more weakly repre
sented. Mathematics, philosophy, and
modern languages increase.
Judge Jeremiah Black, referring to
the rumors of the President’s marriage,
says that when lie was a member of
Buchanan’s Cabinet he was rantinually
solicited to 1* the medium of ■Atrimou-
jal overtures to Buchanan.
—Mr. Frederick Archer, who in the
last 10 years lias won some 1,500 races,
and who was married a fortnight ago,
possesses a fortune estimated to be con
siderable over $500,000. Mrs. Archer
is tlie eldest daughter of Mr. John Daw
son, of AA'arren House, Newmarket.
—Louisville, Ky., is busily making
preparations for a great induitriai ex
hibition next August. Tlie citizens
have suhscril**! $250,000. ask for no out
side help, and are putting up the main
building, which will cover thirteen
lores. Tlie show will open August 1,
and will continue 100 days.
—In the town of Woodbridge, Ct.
bout six miles from New Haven, tlier
is an oak tree said to be from 1,000 to
1,800 years old,the oldest of its kind
known in America. It is thirty feet in
ircmnference at the base, and some of
its branches spread sixty feet bey-ontl
the trunk. It is yet vigorous.
•Beyond tlie Mississippi River there
are 1,200,000 square miles not settled
by white men, and of this area 240,000
square miles, embracing much of the
l*st land, are included within Indian
reservations, while much of the remain
der consists of mountainous tracts,
lands inaccessible or sterile and arid re-
regions which cannot be irrigated.
—A few years ago associations known
ns “Bands of Mercy” were formed in
England, the object of which was to
inculcate anil promote kindness to ani
mals. They have achieved a great suc
cess, especially in teaching children to
show kindness to the dumb creation,
Tlie Earl of Siiaftesburv is at the head
of the organization.
^ —Tlie annual report of the Loudon
Peabody Trust shows the net gain f»r
the year to liave been almast $150,000.
It has now provided for tlie artisan and
laboring class 6,l60rooms, exclusive of .
hath rooms, lauudries, and wash houses.
The trustees show in their report that
the fund has been expended strictly in
accordance with the donor's expressed
