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F. SMITH, Publisher,
VOLUME IX.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Fi-President Hayes and wife will
shortly sail for England.
Joaquin Miller is writing a now play
on the Mormon question.
Six-retary Blaine, we understand, is
to retire to private life. He is wealthy.
A gold memorial medal of the late
President will shortly be issued from the
mint.
Mas. Marshal O. Roberts is a widow
of thirty-five, with fair face and $40,000
a year.
The war of the French in Tunis goes
bravely on, but the Moslems seem to bo
holding their own,
Archibald Forbes, the world re
nowned war correspondent and lecturer,
is again in America.
Artificial seltzer water is made m
barfs from ground oyster shells. The
oyster seltzer water.
Herbert Spencer is reported to bo en
gaged to an American heiress whose ac
quaintance he made in Egypt.
Mb. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid will
return from Europe this month. Reid
will resume journalistic duties.
President Arthur has asserted that
the whole year’s salary of the Presi
dent’s ollice shall go to Mrs. Garfield.
Tiiirty-five families of tho Oneida
Community have bought a tract of land
in California, and will soon remove to it.
It is stated that the grocery trade of
Charleston, S. C., amounts to $20,000,-
<X)t) a year. That is no inconsiderable
amount.
There are getting to be too many
weather prophets and we can’t think
about mentioning all of them. What
we want is, more weather.
Because a Cincinnati brewer has given
$250,000 to his children an exchange
wants someone to write a poem about it.
It opens up anew field —the beer does.
Mr. Bradlaugh declares that “Vic
toria is the last of the German intruders
who will be tolerated by the English
people. Albert Edward will not succeed
his mother. ”
Mr. Thomas J. Brady, late Second
Assistant Postmaster General, who de
sired to be tried in order to establish his
innocence is to be accommodated. “In
formation ” has been tiled.
Agricultural fairs are wondrously
fluence, producing competitions, has in
creased the value of stock 50 per cent,
in many localities the past ten years.
IbiEsiDENT Arthur was fifty-one years
old on the sth inst., and weighs 215
pounds. He thinks something of get
ting married, and the name of Mrs.
Marshall O. Roberts, of New York, is
connected in a roundabout way with the
event.
Ex-Gov. HiiiARD Halo, of Benning
ton, Vt., who is aged eighty-six years,
has heard tho announcement of all the
deceased Presidents at the time that they
occurred, loginning with that of Wash
ington and ending with that of Garfield.
Wb may still congratulate ourselves
that we live in America. Iu Russia, in
spite of the most rigid measures, the
eruption of a revolutionary volcano is
momentarily expected. Everybody is
suspected, and everybody lives in fear.
Contrary to the report current it
should be stated that the government
has fixed no valuation upon mutilated
silver coin other than the market value
of the silver they contain. They are
purchased at the mints by weight as
bullion.
The total transactions at the New
York Clearing House for the year aggre
gated $50,341,836,373.89, or an average
of $165,055,201.22 per day. Of the
balances for the year, $372,410,000 were
paid in gold coin, the weight of which
was tons. The volume of business
done was $11,643,260,121 more than in
any former year.
Those who were so horribly mortified)
witu a surplus of hot weathhr must have
frit greatly relieved when ] mercury fell
suddenly on the sth inst. from up in the
nineties down to freezing point. In
places in Pennsylvania ice an inch thick
w as formed, and snow fell in the New
England States, Much fruit was frozen
°n the trees.
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FoRTUNE-TBiiMEEfc are to be banished
from Paris. Free America extends *
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IbvotHl to Industrial Infar.st, the Piffii-jim 1 Troth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government,
!';ind to Everything that wants to come,
which means that fortune-tellers can
come and welcome. Here these people
openly advertise their fraudulent busi
ness and pans for legitimate business
people* The best institutions have their
faults and America has her’s.
In consonance with other things the
present year, the apple crop is a light
one. Michigan, the great apple Stale;
reports the lightest nrop in many years.
In Illinois ‘‘apples are selling at five
times their usual price.” In New York
and Maine the crop is very light* and hi
Massachusetts the trees aTe almost bar
ren. Seven of the best fruit growing
countries report almost no crop.
Arkansas is a very wild State, but
filill it is an unhealthy State for outlaws.
Train robbers in Missouri manage to al
ways evade the authorities, but not so in
Arkansas. They overhaul them and bring
them to justice in short order. When
wo remember that Judge Lynch, in
Arkansas, last year, passed sentenced of
death on 108 criminals, we can but con
clude that her citizens meau to bo honor
ably and honestly dealt with.
Gutteau has told his story at great
length, and in it he details minutely how
he watched and waited for the President
nearly three weeks before a desirable op
portunity to commit the act presented
itself. He maintains that he was di
rected by divine inspiration—as were men
in the olden times—to take the life of
this man to unite factions. He tells his
story deliberately and lucidly and with
out a single trace of insanity.
Figures are startling. In 1553 two
Portugese brothers named Goes took
into the Argentine Republic eight cows
and one bull, and from these have des
cended a herd of 20,000,000 cattle, which,
with the sheep, constitutes almost the
entire wealth of that country. Of recent
years the stock, which has run down
considerably, has begun to be improved
in the vicinity of Buenos Ayres by
crossing with short horn breeds.
T. B. Connery lias been retired on a
pension from the editorial management
of the New York Herald. His successor
is Frank Langley, of the editorial staff
of the London Telegraph. Mr. Nord
hoff, the chief Washington correspondent,
has been appointed principal editorial
writer, in the place of I. Chamberlain,
deceased. John Russell Young and
Joseph Howard,' jr., are the assistant
editorial writers.
How to Make Labor Cheerful.
A dozen or so years ago the wife of
President Garfield wrote her husband a
letter, in which the following passage'
occurs:
44 1 am glad to tell that, out of all the
toil and disappointments of the summer
just ended, I have risen up to a victory ;
that the silence of thought since you
have been away has won for my spirit a
triumph. I read something like this
the other day : ‘ There is no healthy
thought without labor, and thought
makes the laborer happy.’ Perhaps
this is the way I have been able to climb
up higher. It came to me one morning
when I was making bread. I said to
myself : ‘ Here I am, compelled by an
inevitable necessity to make our bread
this summer. Why not consider it a
pleasant occupation, and make it so by
trying to see what perfect bread I can
make ?’ It seemed like an inspiration,
and the whole of life grew brighter.
The very sunshine seemed flowing down
through my spirit into the white loaves,
and now I believe my table is furnished
with better bread than ever before, and
this truth, old as creation, seems just
now to have become fully mine, that I
need not be the shirking slave to toil,
but its regal master, making whatever I
do yield me its best fruits. You have
been king of your work so long maybe
you will laugh at me for having lived so
long without my crown, but I am too
glad to have found it at all to be entire
ly disconcerted, even by your merri
ment. Now I wonder if right here does
not lie the ‘ terrible wrong,’ or, at least,
some of it, of which the woman suffrag
ists complain. The wrongly-educated
woman thinks her duties a disgrace and
frets under them, or shirks them if she
can. She sees man triumphantly pur
suing his vocations, and tlnnks it is the
kind of work he does which makes him
grand and regnant; whereas, it is not
the kind of work at all, but the way in
which, and the spirit with which, he
does it.”
Stinking Pride.
Some of the upstarts of to-day can not
carry a package. The late Chief-Justice
Marshall, the first biographer of Wash
ington, was once in market in Washing
ton when an insurance agent, with a
waxed mustache, was pricing a turkey.
‘M’d buy it,” he said, “but I’ve no
wav of carrying it home. ”
“Bow much will you give f said the
Chief-Justice.
“Twenty-five cents,” was the reply.
“ Give me an order to your wife, then,
for the money,” replied the Chief-Jus
tice whom the agent did not know. The
man holding the highest position in the
United States carried home the turkey
and got the twenty-five cents from the
aunt’s wife, Who knew the Chief-Justice,
avd war horrified at the lesson her airy
hhsbaud had received.
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
WIIY SHE SQUIRMED.
“Oh, Vnv so reviews, darlittg; fa If you fain would
~ otirself from out my presence—tell me, fairest of
the fair—
Is my conversation stupid, that you flinch and twist
about,
Like an urchin with the cholic, or an old man with
the gout’
Do I tire you with my stories, or annoy you with
my jokes, %
;r wear upon your parietace critifciaing other folks?
toll me Why you are so reil>ss, and keep turning
otiyo, r:-h
And Shrugging up your shoulders—tell me, sweetest
of the sweet.”
Jhe maiden hides her blushing face within her
shapely hands.
While her fair breast ftrlth feniotion collapses and ex
pands,
And in a timid voice replies: •* No, no, indeed, my
dear—
"i our tones, like sweetest music, fall upon my listen
eningear;
Y ° Ur ri lßeuce tills lue wlth delight; I could forever
Beneath the scinc tiliations of your sparkling native
ant,
But for the past teh tninittfes I hake b on on tor
ture’s rack,
I'or a June httg has been promenading up and down
my back.”
—Detroit Free Press.
SIBERIAN HORRORS.
Ix|> rleir of a Chicugo Prdarocne -Ex
il*Ml In Siltei-ea and Compelled in IVork
in (he fllnei.
Occupying humble furnished lodgings
in one of the large buildings in the heart
of the city, and earning a moderate
income as a teacher of music and lan
guages, is an old man, counting by years,
though his eye is so bright, his frame so
robust, and his step so firm that a stran
ger meeting him for the first time would
never suspect that he had passed mid
dle life. But he comes of a hardy race
—-the Swiss—and was nurtured in the
life-giving atmosphere of the Alim. In
his youth lie had a constitution of iron,
else he could not have survived the suf
ferings and privations which have been
his lot.
The assassination of the Czar was an
event which had the effect of loosening
his tongue, and during a discussion of
the causes of the tragedy lie narrated an
interesting incident of his life.
“What good can ever come of an as
sassination ?”
“Assassination! Well, it is an un
pleasant word, I admit, but it means
nothing more than bloodshed, and what
great reform was ever accomplished
without bloodshed ? It cost rivers of
blood to emancipate the slaves of Amer
ica. ”
“True, in that case, but the serfs of
Russia were liberated without the sacri
fice of a single life.”
“Do you think the people of Russia
are free to-day ? No. They can not be
bought and sold like merchandise, but
they are slaves all the same. They be
long body and soul to the Czar, whom
they call the Father, and he can dispose
of them as he sees fit. You have heard
of Siberia. Is a man free when, without
just- cause and without trial, he may be
banished to that place ? Why, even a
foreigner loses his freedom the moment
he sets his foot on Russian soil. Do you
think all exiles are Russian subjects ?
No. I, a Swiss, was in Siberia !”
“ You in Siberia? An exile ?”
“Yes.”
“ How could that happen ?”
“I will tell you, because it will show
you how great is the power of the Czar
and how defenseless are the people. My
case is one in thousands, and my suffer
ings nothing as compared to those which
many exiles endured.
“I was a soldier in my youth, and
served in many parts of the world. In
my last engagement I was severely
wounded. It is nothing now, but for a
time I was incapacitated for active mili
tary service. I had always had a taste
for music, and had received a good mu
seal education. When I retired from
the army, therefore, I sought to support
myself by teaching. St. Petersburg
seemed to present a good field, so I went
there. I was well supplied with letters
of introduction, which procured for me
the influence of some of the most im
portant personages in Russia, and I had
no difficulty in obtaining pupils of high
rank. At first I taught music only, but
I soon found that I could materially add
to my income by teaching the English,
French and Italian languages, of which
I had a thorough knowledge. Within a
year I was well established and had
laid by a little money. I had every rea
son to congratulate myself upon my po
sition.
“ But an evil day came. It was sit
ting alone in my little library one even
ing when two agents of the police en
tered and placed me under arrest.”
“ For what cause?”
“For what cause? That was the
question I myself asked, but it was
many a long clay before it was answered.
The police would tell me nothing. They
simply hurried me off to prison. No
formal charge was preferred against me,
there was no trial, but in two weeks 1
was on the way to Siberia. It was win
ter, and the journey was a terrible one.
Think of it! Thousands of miles in an
open sledge ! I was taken to the Ouk
boul mine, and there in the dark, breath
ing poisonous exhalations, I worked
with convicts of the lowest class, while
a guard, armed with a whip, stood ready
to lash us if we relaxed our efforts. This
lasted for six months. I could not have
stood it much longer. Already my
my strength was beginning to fail, al
though when I entered the mine I was
as strong as three men. I determined
to escape, but before I had decided how
or when, I was transferred to Irkoutsk.
The government was building roads and
needed laborers. It was hard work in
the burning sun. but child’s play as com
pared to the mine. After a while they
found I was an engineer, and that they
could make better use of my head tlian
of my hands. From that time my situ
ation Was much pleasanter.
“ One day I found an opportunity to
escape. It was in winter—my second
winter in Biberid. A cHurier wjts to be
sent to the Czar. He was going in a
sledge, and was to be accompanied part
of the way by a guide. I had made
good use of my time in the engineering
department, and knew the route from
Irkoutsk to the frontier as well as it
could be learned from maim. I resolved,
if possible, to take the place of the
guide. Fortune favored me. The charier
was to start early in the morning. The
night before, I found the guide, plied
him with and left him in a
dftinkeii stupof. Before daybreak 1 re
turned and aroused him. He was still
intoxicated and very thirsty. A few
more drinks of brandy sufficed to again
stupefy him. Then I took his clothes,
his horse and his sledge, went for the
courier, and in an hour we had left
Irkoutsk far behind us. The courier
suspected nothing. He had never seen
the real guide, and had therefore no rea
son to suppose I was an impostor. I
Accompanied him as far as Omsk, where
he procured another guide and aiiother
vehicle. You may be sure I was not
sorry to part with him, for at every post
ing house since we left Irkoutsk I had
expected arrest. I felt that I would be
Bafer without him. There was one dif
culty, however. I had very little money
—scarcely enough to keep me in food
Until I should reach the frontier. But for
tune again favored mo. A merchant bound
for Perm, required a conveyance and a
guide, and as I professed to know the coun
try he employed me. It would take too
long to tell you all the incidents of the
journey. We arived at Perm, not with
out some difficulty, t’o be sure (for I was
very uncertain of the route,) and I was
well paid for my Services. From Perm
I proceeded alone, and although 1 was
without passports or papers of any kind,
I managed to complete my journey.
“I shall never forget the day I ar
rived m "’t. Petersburg. It was still
winter, and I was penniless, hungry and
in rags but I was happy. I had formed
the mention of presenting myself at
the Swiss consulate, and claiming the
protection of the Swiss Government, I
was on my way thither when I was ac
costed by two policemen. Not satisfied
with my replies to their questions, they
arrested me. An attempt had been made
the day before to assasinate a high offic
ial, and all suspicious characters were
being taken into custody. What there
was in my appearance to excite suspicion
I know not, for there were thousands in
St. Petersburg as ragged and dirty as I.
The thought of returning to prison, per
haps to Siberia, maddened me. I re
sisted but was overpowered, and in a few
minutes was once more in a dungeon.
For a time I gave way to despair. I
fancied myself again in the mines, dying
a lingering death. The thought w f as so
terrible that had I not been chained to
the floor I should have contrived to kill
myself.
“I had been in* prison five days, and
had had time for reflection. I was con
vinced that nobody had recognized me,
and that my arrest had no connection
whatever with my escape from Siberia.
This gave me hope, and with hope came
the determination to make another effort
for liberty. I should have appealed to
the Swiss consul, but I knew that no
message I might dictate or "write would
be conveyed to him. At last an idea
. struck rae, and I acted upon it.
“Among my pupils in former days had
been a neice of Prince Gortschakoff. She
was a beautiful creature, young, accom
plished, and with a heart of gold. We
had become very good friends, consider
ing the difference in station between a
princess and a music teacher. I knew
that if I could communicate with her she
would assist me, but bow could I com
municate with her ? I had no money to
bribe the jail attendant, and without bri
bery I had nothing to expect. However,
I concluded to appeal to him, and at the
next opportunity I asked him if he knew
the princess. ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘she
is visiting the prison to-day.’
“ ‘Visiting the prison,’ I exclaimed.
‘Do they, then, admit visitors.’
“ ‘lt is against the rules,’ said he ; but
when a women and a princess resolves to
see the prison, who can prevent her?
She will have her own way, rules or no
rules.
“‘ Do you think she will come here ? ?
“ ‘Who knows? If she wishes to come
she will come. ’
‘ At this moment I heard the voioe of
a prison official explaining that this was
the department of the ‘ suspected.’
“‘She is here,’ said the attendant,
and at that moment she appeared at the
door, which had not been closed.
“‘Princess,’ I cried, ‘will you not
save me ? ’
‘‘ ‘ Who are you ?’ she asked, evi
dently not recognizing me through my
involuntary disguise of rags, dirt and
chains.
“ ‘Have you forgotten your old music
teacher. Do you not know me?’
“‘ My God! Is it possible ! No,
Professor, I have not forgotten you, and
I will help you. What must I do to
procure your release ?’
“ ‘ Tell the Swiss Consul that I, the
son of a former President of the Swiss
Republic, am imprisoned on suspicion.
He will do the rest’
“ ‘ I will go to him instantly,’ she
said, and hurriedly left the prison.
“In a few days I was set at liberty,
and having, with the aid of friends, pro
cured suitable garments, I called to
thank the Princess for her kindness. It
was then, for the first time, thatl learned
the cause of my banishment
“ ‘Yon owe me no thanks,’ said she.
‘lt is I who am the cause of all your
misfortunes.
“ ‘ You, Princess !’ I replied, in aston
ishment ; ‘how is that possible?’
“ explained. Her uncle had had
in view her marriage with a nobleman
v,ho was highly obnoxious to her. It
was thought that her opposition to the
alliance was due to a preference for
else* and it was finally dieid
ed that I, her fntisie' teacher, must be
the obstacle. Prince (jrortschakoff, in
order to get rid of me, procured my
arrest and deportation. She had been
surprised at my sudden disappearance
and had instituted inquiries, but had
learned nothing until quite recently, and
then only by accident. A masked ball
had been given at the residence of a
lady of high rank, and while seated in
an alcove the Princess had overheard a
conversation regarding herself. She
was about to interrupt it when one of
the speakers coupled my name with hers,
and her curiosity overcoming her scrup
les, she listened. Armed with the knowl
edge thus acquired, she had accused her
uncle of the outrage. He admitted it,
and defended it as a matter of necessity.
She urged him to secure ray pardon, but
he refused. Wliat was the use of so
much trouble over a music teacher ? Of
course, she could do nothing, but it was
the thought of my unhappy fate that
led her to visit the prison.”
“ Had she really formed an attach
ment for you ?” asked the writer.
“ What a foolish question,” said the
professor. “ This is not a love story.
You forget that she was a Princess.”
“No, I remember that she was a wo
man.”
“ Well, I have finished. And, now,
is not a land in which such things can
happen a land of slaves. I tell you, my
young friend, that my case is not an ex
ceptional one. Thousands and thou
sands have suffered more whose offenses
were less grave than my supposititious
one. It is the same to-day. No man is
safe in Russia. Without cause, without
warning, without trial, anybody may be
torn from his family and sent to Siberia
to die by inches. It is -terrible !”
“ And you think all this may be
changed by killing an Emperor or
two ?”
“Who knows? It is not impossible.
If by terrorism the Russian peop’e can
obtain a constitution, it will lure cost
less than the Great Charter of England.
If terrorism mil, there will be ?. revolu
tion. ”
“ But to return to the Princess. What
has become of her ?”
“She is- a Nihilist, heart and soul.”
“And you?”
“I am a teacher of music and lan
guages. ” —Chicago Herald.
Artesian or Self-Spouting Wells.
In 1833 the French Government began
the sinking of an artesian well at Gre
nelle, then a suburb, but now a portion,
of Paris. This well was not completed
until February 26, 1841, when, at a
depth of 1,792 feet, the auger, having
penetrated a ledge of rock, suddenly
sank in several yards of water. When
the drill was withdrawn, the water of
the well spurted 112 feet above its top,
and continues yet to run in a constant
stream. Paris is situate iu the lowest
portion of a basin shaped mass of for
mations, so that the strata slope toward
the city. As in Cincinnati, which is
built on the lowest formation geologi
cadv within several hundred miles, a
“deep flowing well” may be sunken
almost anywhere in its “basin” with
almost a surety of obtaining a steady
flow of water. The Grenelle well is
utilized for many purposes, discharges
500,000 gallons per diem, and, as the
water is pure, it is used for drinking
when cooled down from its temperature
of 82 degrees Fah. at the mouth of the
well. The immense abattoirs—slaughter
houses—in the neighborhood are kept
clean by its waters. Since 1841, the
city of Paris has gone rather extensively
into the artesian well business. The
largest is that at Passy, which was com
pleted in 1860. This is two feet in diam
eter and nearly 2,000 in depth, and dis
charges five and two-thirds million gal
lons daily, but its great flow has dimin
ished the yield of the Grenelle well
about one-fourth. St. Louis has vainly
attempted, by boring a hole some 3,000
feet deep, to obtain an adequate supply
of water. She has one artesian well at
the Belcher sugar works which dis
charges a tepid, medicated %ater. It is
pretty certain that any well sunk fDep
enough in the Cincinnati basin to dis
charge a constant stream by natural
force would produce warm mineral
water, but it is possible the streams from
such wells might be found highly useful
for many economic purposes. At all
events, “the Paris of America” might
become even more like her European
exemplar by sinking a few huge artesian
wells. —Cincinnati Gazette.
The English Joke.
The mission of the English humorist
is, to darken the horizon and shut out
the false and treacherous joy of exist
ence—to shut out the beauty of the
landscape and scatter a $2 gloom over
the broad-green earth.
English humor is like a sore toe. It
makes you glad when you get over it. It
is like having the smallpox, because if
you live through it you are not likely to
have it again.
When we pass from earth and our
place is filled by another sad-eyed genius
whose pants are too short, and who man
ifests other signs of greenness, let no
storied urn or animated bust be placed
above our lovely resting place, but stuff
an English conundrum so that it will
look as it did in life, and let it stand
abdve our silent dust to shed its damp
and bilious influence through the ceme
tery as a monument of desolation and a
fountain of unshed tearqpand the grave
robber will shun our final resting place
as he would the melon patch where
lurks the spring gun and the alert and
irritable bull dog. —Laramie Boome
rang.
SUBSCRIPTION"SI.6D.
NUMBER 9
HISTORICAL.
The probe was invented by Es<m
lapins.
The ancients used pitch to give odor
to wine.
Amethysts were found in Kerry, Ire
land, in 1755.
Cherries were first planted in Britian
100 years B. C.
France adopted the system of postal
stamps in 1849.
Mole traps were precisely the same
in 1357 as now.
Pope John XII added the third crown
to the Papal tiara.
An air gun was made for Henry IV.,
in Normandy, in 1488.
In 1474, William Saxton introduced
printiug in England.
The Scandinavians believed the earth
to rest upon nine pillars.
The order of the Garter was insti
tuted in 1348 by Edward 111.
In the fourteenth century the sale of
nosegays occur as a trade in Toulouse.
The Sicilians borrowed the term ad
miral from the Saracens about 1149.
The first tragedy was acted in Athens
in 535. The first comedy in 562 B. C.
The canary bird was introduced into
Europe early in the sixteenth century.
The first mills in England for turn
ing grindstones were set up at Sheffield.
Among the oldest representations of
diving apparatus is a print of the year
1511.
Tun study of the classics was dis
couraged by the bishops in the fourth
century.
In the seventeenth century, on the
continent, boots were never worn with
out spurs.
During the reign of Edward VI
Tyndale’s Bible was printed more than
thirty times.
The Eddystone Light-house was begun
in 1766, by John Sweaton. It was built
in four years.
Queen Elizabeth wore her prayer
book hanging from her girdle by a
golden chain.
The first clock iu Europe was prob
ably that sent to Charlemagne by Ab
dalla, King of Persia.
In 1764 the members of the church in
Coleiaine, Mass., voted “to color the
meeting-house blue. ”
Among the Greeks the death punish
ment of certain criminals was aggravated
by the denial of funeral rites.
;! In 1822 the coast of Chili, one hun
dred miles in extent, was raised from
two to six feet by an earthquake.
In the early days of printing books
the paper was only printed on one side
and the blank sides pasted together.
Bells were first introduced into
churches about 400 A. D., by Paulinus
of Nola, and were then called Noise.
The next use of the Mayflower, after
her memorable voyage to America, was
to carry a cargo of slaves to the West
Indies.
£? By a statute of Henry VIII. a person
whose wife wore a silk gown was bound
to furnish a horse for the use of the
Government.
Tarring and feathering is a European
invention. It was one of Richard Coeur
de Lion’s ordinances for seamen in
punishment for theft.
Pynson was the first English printer
who introduced borders and vignettes in
his books. Vignettes with human fig
ures are probably of the date 1527.
Fireworks are little spoken of in
English history till the time of Eliza
beth, and then very slightly, but in the
time of Charles they were commonly
used at rejoicings.
The earliest magnifying lense *of
which we have any knowledge was one
rudely made of rock crystal, which was
found among a number of glass bowls in
the palace of Nimrod.
Beer was the common drink of the
Germans in the time of Tacitus, who
wrote his “Treatise on the Manner of
the Germans” about the end of the
first century.
A Visit to Henry Clay’s Tomb.
Here we visited Ashland Farm, the
home of the “ Great Harry of the West.”
All of that once magnificent farm (except
a portion owned by James Clay and on
which he now resides) was bought by
the State of Kentucky. A portion has
been set apart for an Agricultural and
Mechanical School. The old residence,
on account of its dilapidated condition,
has been rebuilt by one of his sons on
the same model. A good many of the
trees planted by the hands of Mr. and
Mrs. Clay as ornaments to the grounds
have been cut down and carried away.
He is buried in one of the most elevated
spots in the Lexington Cemetery. The
State of Kentucky has erected over his
remains a very imposing monument of
granite and marble, cut from its own
quarries. In the basement of the mon
ument, through a glass door, is .seen his
tomb, on which is inscribed one of those
eloquent sentences, taken from one of
his speeches in Congress, in which he
calls on God to bear him witness to the
purity of his motives and the absence of
any desire for self-aggrandizement that
prompted his advocacy of the pending
measure before Congress. —Lexington
(Ky.) Cor. Macon Telegraph.
The “rose” diamond is so celled not
from any peculiarity of color, as many
suppose, but from the form into which
it is cut, which is twenty-four facets,
with the base a plane. In the “bril
liant” pattern, invented during the reign
i of George 1., the stone is cut in form of
Ia double cone, the lower end pointed,
upper end truncated.