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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1883)
TERESA STURLA IN JOLIET. From Thnl Mae Will Xm Hfl«r»-Ho» Ski lias llern Tcinplrd. sssill T^VJii nr? Li ' ', J J : 1, ' uL nomfi- *1,. her , w U asmnel, carriage trip, and remru-ked as she entered the •uliicli Si■ »as to drive "i her to the IW'k imt n Depot • an the. jollied; girl ever sbn-ted from ln re for Joliet.” Her mar..,, ,- certainly confirmed the 3 tnidi of 1 the assert on. The train commenced*** Joliet and her year’s sentence Ib-r departure was unex- her iHei.d -V and there was no one to sis: off x it tlo iril officers Mrs W P Black Iwncerniug who has been espe cinllv Kohcitons tlo reforma lion Of Miss Htiirln, raid : “From tie day <>f her sentence her entire manner eli'anged toward me, and instead and of the loving, r-'tar,a£W5fS!s Childlike, repentant, even not (» ,« : .ton It Ma <.e ,, idei,f. but ns a <lati"l:l*T I i «<> i .M- v r .* atrueb-d by tn-t-ei.-.-s t< a-lieis am •< { „V. her every mu a-al vantage, tea ‘•^"■r tins mnnitrv or Buropc could olH ate id, voice. in oHer I do to not ;hu< fmdany <>p iei fault rnai aid w if at the time Charles Stiles was killed one-fourth of the men of this city had ......niemoved I think moral influences might have Is-eu potential in her offers ease, of Could the public know of the evil which that girl has received, and of the Visits of men to her in the comity jail, who discouraged and jeewal at, overr every pm imrnose pom of oi I'efonn- k mini until unm she sn . has tec. so wrought upon at tun.-* lm she Sid S,r« 'p. at 1 " r r th'o Co Sdcago ot Im'/n wouhl an-the .iple , J under .stand the change in her conduct os I do. The girl has had influence* brought to Leiir upon her which seemed strong enough to thwart all her purposes of re¬ form. Certain men of social high standing, both in financial and ways—men who are considered worthy of the respect of the public, who are fathers of fami¬ lies, and profess to be Christians- have made proffers to this unfortunate establishments girl to of set her up in separate ill-fame. But while I would never cast a fire-brand into domestic circles, to destroy the pence of good and loving wives, I should feel tempted to ask these men—professed purity humanity gentlemen—in desist the name of and to from their unworthy efforts to destroy the hope of a fallen one's genuine reforma¬ tion. I never before could understand why a woman eannot do as thoroughly be¬ re¬ form as a man, but 1 now. It is cause an army of unworthy men rise in her way to arrest her progress, and cast the poor, burdened one back upon the coals from which she lias striven to arise. Two mistresses of prominent her houses of ill-fame in Chicago offered $4,001) for the purpose of making the effort for a new trial, provided, if suc¬ cess was attained, she would become an inmate of their houses. This offer the girl refused. I have been at the jail and seen the notes sent to her from men offer,''ig her money and help - -J lww> not seen her since the day after Christ¬ inas, when my husband was at the jail with me. 1 have not seen her since, is - cause I have had no reason to believe that she desired to see me.” Boots unit Buyers in Maine. A few frosty mornings starting; mid a little demand mini have cowhide eo-ojK-rated ill which have a for boots, role in played poli¬ such an entertaining Maine ties for three or four years. Tlie fact is, file shoe dealt rs recognize no such tiling as a cowhide boot nowadays. Every¬ thing is called “kip." whether it came from heifer, eotv, ox or bull. A boot whie.li would lie called cowhide ill old fashioned piulunoe sells at $2.50 to imota, j«-r pair this fall. A good pair of kip hand-mode, may be bought for $fi.M) it pair. Split-leather demands boots s< hand¬ 11 for $2. The rural trade a made boot, and the result is that most momifaetmvrs stamp their boots “Sided bv baud." When a mail buys a pair of kip 1 toots in tlie full will lie exjioeb* him" to get till something which “wear through after planting in the slu fall. ing and He the early plowing next whether they is gener¬ ally anxious to know are “hot liquor tanned or cold-liquor tanned," and if they are made of “Southern hides or slaughter hides.” To elinch a trade the dealer has to usually "throw and in” n hi t of heel irons. Lumbermen woodchoppers have adopted wool exelu- boots and gnm-i ulibi-r covers, almost sivi lv. Tbe buiils mid rubbers is is I >- i a |wcr this year 50 cents advance of last year's priee. Verv few moccasins iuv MOW use d ’ in New England. — Lewi shut Jou mat. Itasenos It. The feat of George Hutchins, a Boston fireman, will bring him a medal. It was performed at the burning of a gun store, described tile other day tlie by tileglliph. It was impossible to k«H'p although pimple far from tbe building, (hex were fold that it eout imd i xplosiv*>s. The firemen learned just where the siiick of powder was kejit, and Hutcluns volmi teen d to go ill after it. He iffiinlMtl through a window, got down on his knees, and eix j't towtuxl the sjaff to which he had been direeted. The smoke stifling and blinding. His bands toiielied tbe lnice copper Imix, and he carried it out. Aga Tlie be went lawk for d the n maiuing and Ikix. lie coj>j.H>r burnt tlie liis tingi'rs. as sprang out flumes followed him, but the powder was safe under a powerful stream of water. visited — A. this J. Gate, an la>t English architect, and in country buildings summer, said tboi the m pa er on our xnest sur prising thing to him was the w undern il completeness of Amerii au houses and the elaborateness of their c instruction. He found American clients willing to pay for any comfort that could bo procured. He expected to find our work inferior; he returned to say English work was. SHARKS—THEIR PECULIARITIES, ■some Intci’rotlift Slorles Aboiu Tbcm \Yl,v Tbij Auftanll lb? SVbplf, _ the head, instead of at the anterior of the l*ead, as in most fislu-s. The most marked eharae teristic of sharks is thdr voracity. 1 hey will eat any thing that comes in their way, and their jaws are provided with numerous sets of teeth, so that as soon as one set arc tom out or rendered worthless another set takes their place. “The lecturer held up to view the jaws ot a good-sized shark, and explainer! that the teeth were set in a tough but very durable cartilage. The teeth of host sharks will cone- out very easily. The sir to which sharks grow can Is: judgedby their teeth In the jaws ex hihited by J rot. Bickmore the t-etli were about as large as showed a man s thumb mnl, but the professor olios' a large « « ' ‘ 0 j. , )TIV . sjiftrk. sliari) 1 particu V Vil ” man-e itei'- -m ill, and « .J ,!£ soil tffiuk' s white the t o of an set into the j j )1WH s nai jj.d in Jilie jiaving-atones. / h Inaspare l.-ti«faetioh Bailor will take as ; insliarpening a shark hook as a barber does in strapping a razor Alter a shark is captured and hauled aboard the vessel tl.o sailors cat it up into ijs many small pieces as possi b]e before throwing .1 overboard. Bliarks are as tenacious of life r as cats, and it is necessary to cut them all to pieces m or tier to kill tin m. “On one occasion some sailors capght ' , . £ , I™-, } - ■ ,.fter tfettimi thouglit it u ^ they They cut out. one entire side or its mouth and threw the mangled carcass back into the water. A little while af terward they caught the flame shark, ap parently us full of life and mischief as ever. “The shape shark and peculiarities shown and of tlie de¬ thrashing were tol gli and ugly scribed. This fish lias a looking tail longer than disitbles tk< body with which it thrashes and its ene¬ mies. It is a formidable and relentless adversary of the whale, and hunts the leviathan of tlie deep in company with the sword-fish. ‘These ti.sli travel in pucks like wolves,’ said the sword-fish professor. When a whale is attacked the go down under it, and by pricking force and cutting it in the belly they the monster to rise to the surface of the wa¬ ter. Then the thrashing sharks raise their tails and lnsli the whale across the back. The sword-fish and the sharks keel) up their combined assaults until their mammoth but, as against The them, powerless adversary is dead. only part of a whale that is eaten by the thrashing sharks is the tongue. It is not known that the sword-fish eat any part of a whale. They appear to join with the thrashing sharks in assaulting whales only out of pure viciousness. ‘With all of their voracity,’ the lecturer said, ‘the sharks are entitled to the credit of earing for one another. Young sharks are watched and protected by the .oUlu-iaga-'—........ —-------- “Prof. Bickmore next took up the rays or skates, and pointed out the prin¬ cipal characteristics of those fishes. Some rays, he said, were regular electric batteries which could produce currents of electricity from their body of suf¬ ficient power fo knock a strong man down." A Orimkeu lleiltlsinnii. Ail Denmark, says tho Copenhagen correspondent of (he St. James's (lazette., was thrilled by a general feeling of hor¬ ror when tho papers brought tho details of the execution of a erimiiml in a pro viaeial j'lace the previous day—-details which painfully remind in one Sofia of Pctrowa- the dis griu'i fill nianuev wbieli kaya wasi xis-ult-d last year at St. Peters¬ burg. According to tbe Danish law criminals condemned to death suffer tho last penalty "f the law by block decapitation being bv means of an ax, the placed at some eonspii-uom jdace as murder near as possible to tlie )-1;us■ wlu’te the was eonimittcil. A man condemned to death was to lie executed »ue morning lately, and, as usual, a large crowd of people from the surrounding districts luul assendded ivuiul tbe spot, only order. one constable til ing present to k«s-p When the usual formalities were gone through, the criminal laid bis head oil the block; bnt the eye and tlie hand of the executioner, who bad Vh- oil drinking heavily on the previous day, were un¬ certain, and the stroke fell over both shoulders, the criminal uttering a smoth¬ ered cry of pain, The the executioner wound, wrenched the ax out of wielded it again, and struck the criminal high up on the buck of the head; again lie wrenched the ax out of the wound, anil succeeded at last in cutting the head off. The crowd rushed to the headless trunk, some to try to catch some drops of bloixl, which the peasants think has some kind of magical effect to cure cer¬ tain diseases; ethers to satisfy their mor¬ bid curiosity. In fact, a horrible anil disgusting scene took place, several men and women fainting. Every spectacle one agrees that such a disgraceful in Denmark, must and never more take place the Minister of Justice has already, with praiseworth speed, declared his mten tion to bring in a short bill guillotine providing and for execution by means of the within the precincts of a prison. Exrmcn. —Most of the troops who fought on either side at Gettysburg were veterans, and yet out of 24,000 muskets picked up on that field 6,000 had tliree cartridges in and 1,150 had from four to eight. Tuk London L omx t says that the peo¬ ple who stieizo oiteiu-st ate the healthi¬ est. A sneeze sets th biinxl circulating and throws off a eold which is trying te settle. This in- du al opinion is evidently made in the interest <4 suuff, and tho public is not yet up to it. “President Lincoln’s Height” Leonard W. Yolk replies, as follows, in the January Century to a denial ot hia done in the case of Senator Douglas, two years ljefore. I measured from the floor j*to»^.e mark seve«l gjb exact difference in the heights of these two men which was just twelve niches. I thought Mr Lincoln fairly erect when have Btretomai wpan t^cnor two higher, could but at that date expanded it » hardly three possible inches be have m length. I am now rermnded of a story tol.l me while at Spnngfield a few years since of Mr’.Lincoln s faculty for stretch “J ‘Jre- "J asm i! him, >r J should have re fulle8t kelght ’ Lhe Jll^r^L^nade Sdavin , Rnrimr man), as to their relative height. Mr. Hatch was fii*Ht. pieced against the wall, so a mark could l>e made over his head, Mr. Lincoln remarking, at the time “Now, Hatch, stand fair.” When the mark was duly beside made, it, Mr. Lincoln was duly placed frkuida declared and at first Mr. had that they w n the wagu. “Wait,” said Mr. Lin - -In. “The mark is not yet made for “«• Then he began to stretch himself out 1 ke Ind , a nrtgn^and rubber and went "^emfly nearly ' t.n It bvXnders aSSt a.iinaughb^of . of the the J^taudtm ^ rf mm m ts/«, i ronresent represent him mm six six feet icet three and real a life-size. half inches high, which is over his Mr. Lincoln looked taller than he really was, owmg to Ins tlun, bony, lank A Little Too Earnest. Frank Cbanfrau impressed tells of an interesting incident that a lesson of cau¬ tion upon hri mind t hat will not be easily forgotten. “I was filling an engagement at the Holliday Street Theatre, Balti¬ more, many years ago,” he says, “and of course ‘Kit’ was the play. In tlie piece I used two of my own revolvers, and at that time I intrusted the loading of them to the property man. On the particular night to which I refer, his assistant, a mere boy, bad lieen left in charge of the properties for a while, and when it was time for him to deliver my pistols to me lie discovered that they had not been loaded. It was too late for him to begin (o load, for tlie curtain was up, and I was waiting for him. Tlie boy, in fear of being censured severely for his neglect, i an excitedly to (he back door, where a watchman was chatting with the door keeper, and asked him to let him use his revolver for a moment. It was handed fn him by the watchman, who supposed that lie knew better than to give it to any one to discharge it on tlie stage, But the boy was too nervous with fright to realize what he was doing, and a few moments later I was firing deadly bullets right and left on the stage. Ho w j h e y jjjjH'njH] i~ ' 'tr»‘ - - afterward ^ b.:t when my attention was called to some holes that had been made in the woodwork staggered of the proscenium that box, I (lie terrible fact me so was as weak as a child over the danger that bail been passed through. After that f became, and am to this day, my own powder monkey at every perform¬ ance, and I won’t trust the best fire-arms.'’— property man in the land to load my Philadelphia Times. Tlie Jiai. Who Spoiled a Sttrsp, The mnmage ceremony had „ been per formed; the guests had departed and the last vestige of a sumptuous repns* was °ven uowr being stowed away under the 1 due-coat of a guardian of the night. The imde wns taking an inventory of the pic-1 kle casters, and tlie groom bad justt left! the house ostensibly-for the purpose of smoking a cigar, but really to seek his father, at whose door he was about today a charge of i«wfnl import. “Father;”'and the old man trembled with appn k lu*n8ion :»s- ho noted tlie si^em visage and Ward tho cold harsh true, “father, do yot ktww what you lave done!” “NYliatr is- it son. toil me the worst.” “This night you gave me a check for $5,000 ” "So I di.l, and I ought to have made it $10.(XK>1 Oil ! my boy, I am very, verv ‘ * sorrv " “Yes,, you ought to have made it $10,000,.bwt,"’ lie aditetl grimly, “it is. too ........ II,, .1,1 “It pains me her»*iid measure to Jims tortun* you, Imt., father, vour conduci has betm cliMi'aeterizt d l\v a reckless c ctxav agnize that must not pa** uunor.eed. Are you aware that tho bluiik check you filled out was one with the stamp printed on it? Would it not have answered tlie purjKise amply as well, sir. to have pasted a cancelled two cent internal revenue stamp on the cheek ? I overlook your forge tfulu ssiu filling out the cheek incor rectlv. but that you sliould destroy a eo.nl stamped check is inexcusable.' But the old man lml swooned ere tho son had finished. It was ail true; m a monn nt of abstraction, the old man lmd wasted a two cent stamp on a snide wed <!i “ g CheCk " Too Horkiblb to be Trck—T he Whitehall (England) Review am that it has excellent authority for the follow mg horrible story of the Egyptian cam egn: A paity sent out to bury the dead >ne across a heap of bodies which " 1015 -TBroachiM. gave forth such a fetid odor that the burying party was atamt to leave them, when they noticed that tlie arm of a man covered with ivrjises w is waving about to attract succor. The and burying pu-ty the consulted conclusion together finally came disturbing to th_i the result of the pestilential heap would be dangerous or fatal to them, and marched off, leaving the uii fortunate still waving his arm. A TERRIBLE RESPONSIBILITY. The Man Who Tarried the Money for Uncle sain. - He uAd the companies that a lower rate must be conceded or he would take the business away from them. The com were defiant. This is the way the express companies were circum venteL The Secretary the se lected a trusty special agent of Treasury, who simply put the currency m V alise and went over to New York as M ^ passenger on the night train, Tbomas Cavanaugh, the Deputy Ser goant-at-Arms ^ under the galliuit Colonel in the House, was the special ^ x ^ f or this work. He is a broad-shouldered, deep-chested, manly-limking specimen of humanity, K(juarei resolute, sun-browned face is accentuated completely by a crisp, curling mous tache > hiding bis mouth and iron resolution. Mr. Cavanaugh used to set out from the office of the Secretary of the Treasury after night with a valise simply stuffed with govem meat currency. One night lie had in liis bag $750,000 in greenbacks. Eveiy dollar ever en¬ trusted to him was safely carried. Not a jieiiny was ever lost. His pay from the Treasury was his regular one, 88 per day and his traveling expenses. He gave no bonds for this work, as the law recog¬ nized no such way of carrying such funds. The Secretary had absolutely no pro¬ tection beyond had Cavanaugh’s with individual honor. If he run away an odd million at any time, he could not have been prosecuted the for carrying more than of this a breach of trust. In money Cavanaugh carried more than liis life in his hands. If it were even suspected that he of was carrying York su<;b sleeper, sums over in a section a New as an or¬ dinary passenger, he would certainly have been attacked. If he had been robbed, nothing could but have bis death saved in him defend¬ ing liis trust from tlie scandal of being classed by many as a guilty participant Cavanaugh in the robbery. became To¬ ward the last veiy nervous. He used to start out with liis money in one hand and a revolver in an¬ other," hidden in the pocket of his great¬ coat. A close coupe took him down the ave nue. In the sleeping-car, toward the last, he slept but little. Some one was always reaching across liis gashed throat for the money placed in liis trust. It was a great relief when this dreadful re sponsibility came to an end and he was able to go back to liis ordinary duties, To-day Cavanaugh is again carrying Government money. He is the official who takes from the Treasury the money needed in the business office of the Ser geant-ateArms’ Office, where the mem bers are paid. and Bank cashiers men in high trust could find much to learn in the lugged, unassuming integrity of Thomas Cuva nnugli. A VERITABLE LEPER. A fictiui ol fhe Terrible Disease Now i»K in Miikhnclmselts. ^co— s case of leprosy. u vie ' ‘ 1 tCd . !? er r? ’ ' V -’° c PV tK f tlie Hawaiian islands. TTVeln taff i'vom to'San D • the cwintry he went aacibco, and finally to Sob in. His f ■ ' edge of the tact that he was a lepar came with the discovery of a blotch of -h i the size ot a ten cent piece on his left temple. Slowly, but surely, has hi, case grovvn worse, until now there is a large scade on either aide ot me nos., which oi^an is much enlarged by the disease, while the ears an: swollen, one foot is badly infected ;tl« nf the toes, and one hand has been att acked. ! tubercles appear on- utofferent parts or the face. In nibbing his hands to getlier ns ore would do sn washing a per feet sliowen af white particles falls to tho floor. His-voice is laoaase and his throat sore. One eye i» in a frightful condi tion, and the other, from which the vis ion has not entirely tk \\ is fast following the course of ft* compainion. And yet he suffers no gain. TIw numbness char acteristic of- leprosv balds perfectly in bis case as in every other. Thrust a pm, a needle or a sharp knite into liis minds, feet or face and lie feels- it not. Even his eyes cause hea no incoaveuience, save the horrible thought constantly m Ins mind that the- light of day will to him verv soon be slmt out forever. He eats all "kinds of food with a relish, sleeps csire is used! by his t to see that none of tbe citensils «>r clothing used by the motion lop« v are handW* by other persons*, as might occur, in which case the party dr parties so inoculated would inevitably become victims of the frightfid disease. Aside from methods such as these, there is thought by danger an tliorities on the subject to be no of a communication of thi? disease from one person to another. In fact, at-Hon ohdu, where the sentences of Wh liient are so surely and so unp.nhaily hesita carried out, there seems to be no tion on tlie part of any one to converse with to come a leper, m contact as long xnth as ^re^akeiiMt the pi rson oltnt unfortunate. te^^tses ^Bainshment or handles is liable to convey the contagion through an abrasion of the sk in or otherwise to the next party hand fog the article. Consequently, if it is derided to keep tbte Salem leper in that c ity. a person will lie engaged for the sp eci al purpose of taking care of Derby ivn d of everything that heuses. Perhaps vn effort will lie m;ule, however, to se : admission to colony of lepers cure his where a he could ; n \ ew Brunswick, almost re C eive better attention than any where else, Buffalo Bill is going to Europe, Thus do we get even with the mothot country. A NEVADA MAN’S NEW SUIT. Bow It Feels to wear a Coat of Tar Feathers next to the Hkin. “Most people,” said a prominent Be noiteto a Virginia City Chronicle what re porter the other dav, “don’t know a terrible punishment tarring and feath ering really is. They suppose it ii noth ing worse than a badge of infamy, rather uncomfortable perhaps, but not painful This unless the tar gets into the eves. ia a great mistake. I helped to daub Jones. H-' was a disgrace to humanity hail and he deserved what lie got. But I no idea until I saw that fellow plastered We what a tough deal the process is. painted him all over pretty thick with a broom, and some enthusiastic vigilante poured a few gallons of tar upon his head. Then the feathers, taken from a big pil low, were dusted on him, and he stood out, white and fluffy, in the starlight, like some had huge and grotesque-looking clothes bird. He to put his on over the whole mess, and then he was ridden on a rail lor fifty yards or so, .and we put him on board the West-bound train at miduight, with instructions not to come back on pain of lioing hanged. “I saw him on the train. He was sit ting with bis bead on his arms on the back of the seat in front of him. The tar was so thick on liis head that it covered the hair out of sight, and his poll shone in the light of the car lamps like a black rubber ball just dropped into the water, The poor fellow was groaning, and I couldn’t help feeling mean at having taken a hand in the job. You see body is covered with short hair, and when the tar hardens a little the slightest movement causes acute pain, as if one’s beard was being pulled there out w-ith pincers, hair by hair. Then is the stoppage of all perspiration, which would lively soon kill a man if he didn’t make time in getting scrubbed. “Besides, the smell of the tar turns the stomach, and about half an hour after a man has been coated he must fee] mighty sorry he wasn’t hanged. Then comes the scrubbing with oil. It took two Chinamen and a darkey three days in Tmckee to reduce Jones to a mild brown. The rubbing makes the skin tender, and the body must be ae sore as " a boil for weeks. ” Indian Visitors in London. Londoners have been unwittingly out¬ raging the susceptibilities of the heroes of the Indian Contingent who were brought over on a visit to the British capital. For example, many of them whose religion forbids them to look at a picture were taken to the National Gal¬ lery. The amount of hand shaking drawback, they had to endure was another for this method oi salutation is quite contrary to tlieir customs. They were also frequently embarrassed by being confronted with ladies in whose society they were always ill at ease. In their own country they are accustomed to shut their women up, as everybody knows, and they could never accommo¬ date themselves to Christian magnanim¬ ity in this respect. When they went to the tower some ladies sat down at the same table with them to luncheon, upon which several of the Indians gravely side rose and seated themselves at a table. Another awkward contretemps oc¬ curred at Hongler's Circus when a per¬ forming pig made its appearance in the ring. A pig is an abomination in the eyes of the Indians, and many of them :; :.:M, - < sed er m i d fe na y have felt constrained to turn aside at such a loathsome spectacle, or spit upon z^ssgtr&'izss. of the innocent p% might be regarded tion as and wishing to avert significantly any un ^ pleasantness, whispered French dog. Tins tho animoJ wls a explanation was ,SitenL gravely accepted by the whose enabled them Jo restraiu their fe elingffi and to sit out s] rfonuallce> , vi th o; ri any outward of disgust. Nothing interested them except Woifiwich 4m ; Ila . wl)i( . h ma< j c more impreesion } t-liom than all the rest of their ex . , mt together. ©Id Anglo-In j&ns COUKi q,, r t j iat it p as- a great mis :Vxe to take tlie men f o see- a ballet at ^ A p n . llnl)1 .. ; for sn( .], a spectacle was ., ftknlate d to lower their high respect j-rj white women, Early Marriages in;England. m&n Eariy_mamages as ni ie . prospt are < nowhere < ■ ^ u » com- , ^ncs. Boys and giilsaot^ut of them teens, bu eiuiung i „ «»g - - - ' p their feeling of independence dtome prema bwely hay t~c developed mu u in by w* tjieabsence > < ^ ‘ life when, m the lugher rrinks of society , tite^ have not left '"Ijte inaik o * - ‘ ' ‘ A • Jar for getting married; because it u a thH’Ugh one, with and a the miniimiK'' ^ifflaony^be^ of ‘ ‘ ” pnri>ose «md on Mon< ^ * w* 1 in flip stroke ‘ of six Jf 1 ^ found H 1 0< pAriijhpwir a * rnd p-ir of 1 ^ ‘ ’ , j „ Alteration ...mor-'incarnest. t in the P° Vo;7f s ' tb P . wife so far-is ‘ mill-work is f!' ^ !i|Uf , . , i, ours a 'A V, orP Indeed the’bar- she ‘ iu ,mp ^ ir Tilv the'day’s the worst of fo work is over, it r > ' vileKe the fire at home, „ r ^ to S Jbold ve . ul v am i j 0 the neces h on ’ work’ while it is the pre of tlu . busban d to use his leisure o hig sweet win. When to ()wu the time comes for the baby to be born. !}'° -' fw'a te’w^we^' s" and l 'when 'she ^ Ls r , snme her place at the the babv phieed hi the cate of M ., a f 10 is past work herself ’ live by tak ollt sn fflcieut . to on _ * six of these luckless ^ f tbe coasi a, ru tion of a shilling two a week accon iing to the age.— ’ , ^ Fixed.—F our sophomores of tlie Wis cousin Umversit loeked a freshman in his rixim. He promptly broke the door to pieces with an ax. The President approved of this, and sentenced the goi hemores to pay for the repairs. M. Chamey, in one of his North Amer¬ ican papers a year ago, declared that he did not trust the concentric rings of a shrub as a record of its age in years. He had put Central the popular theory explorations, to test dur his American and had found u to err. Dr. A. L. Child, 1111 -he current Popular Science Monthly, “ l J’ s he never until then had seen the authority of this age record disputed, ■ 11 ‘ ‘ "hen he came, some months later, fo cut down four small trees which he knew were planted in April 1871, he re solved to t< st the matter, and found that, although they had only twelve years growth in them, he could count on each from thirty-five select to forty concentric rings, “ 1 could twelve more distinct ones, be says, “between which fainter an ' 1 narrower or sub-rings appeared, !!U >e of these apparently annual rings on much <m e section were than peculiarly distinct, more so any of the sub-rings; °I the remaining it was difficult to decide which were annual and which were not Dr. Child then proceeds: ^o\v, to ascertain what relation or eon nection there might be between the me teorology of the several seasons and the growth made during the same, I selected tEom my meteorological records the mas¬ imum, minimum and mean temperature and the ram-fall of the six growing months of spring and summer of each of ^ ie twelve yeai sot.growth These ex iracts I have tabulated, and have also appenut d to each season the t.uckness °| t .“ e nng formed, as measured on the oblique , cut previously described. shows The examination ot this table a general relation of cause and effect oetween high temperature and large rain-.all and great er ir ! ie*' ?*• fabs ,, v erv far . short , , of . pro\ mg a general law cn “so much heat and so much water during the growing season, to produce so much wood. For exam¬ P le > compare the years 1875 and 1878. ^he temperature of 18(8 for the season IS Better than 4 degrees in excess of the season ot 187o, anil the rain-fall only a httie over four inches less, and yet the growth of 18 m is seven times what it was m a ! aos ^ unparailed growth of other IS iq —that is, as compared with the years cannot be ex¬ Pained by the above general law. But I think the May and June record of that year throws light upon it. We see there a maximum heat in May of 90 degrees (higher than I have ever known It in an observation and record of twenty-five years) and a mean temperature of the whole month, also uneqnaled, of 71 de¬ grees, and this great heat continued through the month of June, and no cold spells after the heat set in sufficient to check the growth. Then, in connection with this heat, the ground was well sat¬ urated with water when this heated term began (May From 6) by- this 1.G2 inches the of rain on the 4th. on to 26tli of June, fifteen inches more of rain fell, so apportioned saturated. over the time This as to keep the ground heat and evidently synchronous excess of water pro¬ duced the abnormal growth. further And prob¬ ably, as this matter is studied, it will be found that these agents, rightly proportioned, operating thicker rings; synchronously, while produce these as one or the other is in excess or absent, the growth is checked, and thus has time to condense and harden, and form these sub-rings; and the more frequent these altercations, the greater the num oer of them. The Horrors oi Solitary Lonfisrwent. .4 esMzvsjavcstevt .ei the St. Louie (fiobe~ Democrat, Penitentiary, describing Joliet, Ill.,. State says the system of solitary confinement merits some description. At a point withfe the prison yard, at the extremity of one of the great cell houses, nsid far removed Stom the noise and hum of the workshops-, is a stone building,, in which are arranged in two galleries forty solitary cells. Ea*h is about 10x16 feet in dimensions anif 15 feet in the clear. A ’rang horizontal window, perhaps height, G feet in width by eight inches in locat¬ ed Bear the top of file cell, admits light andiair. It is sunk in the heavy walls;, andi rarely do the ana’s rays penetrate the interior of the tomb-like apartment. The floor of tlie cell is of stone, the eeile ing :» painted white,, tlie wails are a glar¬ ing white. The two-bits of color in the cell rare the black irons of the inner grata ing raid the red wo-vden bucket in the corner of tlie cell. That bucket is the only pece of furniture. The prisoner to be punished is led te» one of these cells and handcuffed to tbe inner grating, his arms being at a natural elevation. A heavy wooden door shuts off a view of the can-idor. He is alone amidst a si¬ lence as profound as the grave. His own 'toice, should he- raise it in protest at his fate, is thrown back to him by the cold, pitiless walls, and the echo causes him to start. He looks around and noth¬ ing meets Iris eyes but the glistening, white walls. At tirs'j he does not notice this. Ere long his eyes, used to the moving life of the workshop, begin to weary blank of this monotonous, glistening, view. Tbe feeling, at first irksome, been ales painful. He tries to look at the win low above, but :i is so arranged that lie sees nothing brj the flood of light. Tlie- blue sky lie remembers only as a thing of beauty never heeded before. A glimpse of it now would be a boon ines¬ timable. He tries to shut his eyes, to rf-Iaeve them of the glistening, blank im¬ pression, but his disordered nerves cause strai ge lights, and an anil annoying ever-changing phantas¬ magoria of dance grotesque his bsain. If figures to through tliis Ik- is of an acute nervous formation, soon becomes torture to him, and he fears that he is losing his mind. Some of the most rebellious spirits have lieen quelled by a brief retirement in these merciless white Cells. A good story is told of one of our former citizens. A book agent got hold of him once and offered liim a book with “one hundred plates” for tliree dollars. He thought the matter over, remembered that his father kept cheap a res¬ taurant, concluded that it was enough and accepted the offer. when In he due time the book was brought, in¬ quired, “Where are the plates?’’ He was shown the beautiful engravings, what when he replied, “Is that crockery."— you mean? I thought ’twas Providence Journal. —By the mistake of a mea-les Philadelphia physician, a girl with the hospital, was sent to the small-pox serious disease. wha u she contracted the more —Philadelphia Press.
