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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1883)
No Chance To Shoot. One Sunday afternoon, at a hotel in Alabama, we were talking about how great disappointments sometimes soured a man, when a chap who had been chew ing plug tobacco all by himself over by the window turned around and said: “Gentlemen, you’ve hit it plumb cen ter ! Up to four years ago I was a man who alius wore a grin on his face, and I’d divide my last chaw with a stranger. Folks now call me mean and ugly, and I kin “Then hardly get a man to drink with me.” you have suffered a great disap pointment?” I queried. “I have, stranger—I have. Ten years ago a man in this very town cleaned me out on a mortgage, sold me out on an ex ecution, and chuckled at me when I took the dirt road for Tennessee. I orter have shot him, but somehow I didn’t do it, and arter I got to Tennessee things be gan night preying on my mind. saying:" Dav and I could hear a voice ‘Go back and plunk old Brown,’ and I lost flesh and came powerful near-going into a decline.” “Yes ?” “Well, that voice kept talking and I kept waiting, but in about three years I shouldered my rifle and turned my steps this way, my mind fully made up to shoot old Brown on sight. He had a patch o’ land out west o’ here, and used to ride out every day. I made for that spot, to ealkerlating the to biff him as he drove up and nobody gate. Nobody had seen me, would know who did the shooting.” “ Yes,’’some one answered as he made a long pause. “Well, I got fixed and waited, and I was feeling real good for the first time in three years when I heard hoofs and looked out for the old man. It wasn’t him. True as you sot there the old skin flint had gone and died only a week be fore, giving me a tramp of 200 miles to say ‘ howdy ?’ to his executor! Gentle men, I can’t describe my feelings ! Just think of one white man playing such a trick on another ! It was wuss than Ar kansaw swamp mud warmed over for next season. I was took with shakes and chills and a cough, and here I am, sour, I cross, don’t mulish, ugly and realizing that stand no more show of going to Heaven when I die than that thar’ dog does of swallowing a postoffice with¬ out any preliminary chawin’!” — M. Quad. The Light Went Out. Not _ , long ago I stood by the death-bed of a little girl. From her birth she had been afraid of death. Every fiber of her body and soul recoiled from the thought of it. “Don t let me die, she said; “don’t let me die. Hold rue fast. Oh. I can't go. “Jenny, I said, “you have two little brothers in the other world, and there are thousands of tender-hearted people over there who will love you and take care of you. But she cried out again despairingly, ‘Dont let me go; they are strangers over there. She was a little country girl, strong limbed, fleet of foot, tanned in the face; she was raised on tbe frontier; the fields were her home. In vain we tried to reconcile her to the death that was inevitable. “Hold me fast,” she cried, “don’t let me go.» ^ut __even as she was pleading her little hands relaxed" their clinging hold from my waist and lifted themselves such eagerly straining aloft; lifted themselves with effort that they lifted the wasted little body from its reclining position turned among the pillows. Her face was up¬ ward; but it was her eyes that told the Divine story. They were filled with the light of recognition. They saw something and they plainly that we could not see; * brighter and brighter, and her grew hand quivered in to little eagerness go where strange portals had opened upon her astonished vision. But even in that supreme moment she did not forget to leave a word of comfort for those who would “Mamma,” gladly have died saying, in her “mamma, place: she was they are not strangers. I’m not afraid.” And every iustaut the light burned more gloriously iu her blue eyes till at last it seemed as if her soul leaped forth upon its radiant waves, and in that moment her trembling form relapsed among its pillows and she was gone. A Lake on Fire. The burning of Moscow is described as “an ocean of flame." The scene of a burning lake hererrelated must have been equal in grandeur to that conflagration, and none the less impressive for being a wonder of nature. Imagine a bon-fire four or five square miles in extent 1 It is said that from one of the chief naphtha wells in Russia the liquid slioots up as from a fountain, and has formed a lake four miles long, and one and a quarter wide. The depth is, however, only two feet. This enormous surface of inflam¬ mable liquid recently became ignited, and presented an imposing spectacle, the thick, black clouds of smoke being lighted up by the lurid glare of the cen¬ tral column of flame, which rose to a great height. The smoke aud heat were such as to render a nearer approach than one thousand yards’ distance impracti¬ cable. Suitable means hand, for extinguishing and it the fire were not at was feared that the conflagration would spread underground in This such supposition a maimer as cause an explosion. the immediate led many inhabitants of vicinity to remove to a safer distance. The quantity of naphtha half on fire was es¬ timated as four and a million cubic feet. The trees and buildings covered within three miles’ distance were with thick soot, and this unpleasant deposit appeared on persons’ clothes, and even on the foot! in the adjacent houses. Not the*earth, only was the naphtha itself burning, but which was saturated with it, was also on fire, and ten large establish¬ ments, founded at great expense for the development of the trade in tl* article, were destroyed. Paper Tents.— Paper houses are com ing into use in England, where for some purposes they are found greatly superior to tents. Shooting boxes 12 feet square are found convenient both to use and transport, and the material being imper vious lo moisture, the little cottages are satisfactory from a sanitary point of view. It is said that they will be used at the seaside during the coming season, not only for bathing houses but as “resi dences” for quiet bachelors of contcm plative habits. UNDER THE HUDSON RIYER A VISIT TO THE TUNNEL NOW BEING BORED BENEATH ITS WATERS. 1 I The Moat Dan«eron» Enterprise Ever I n del-taken—A Constant Kuzin for Life— Its Progress and Present Condition. 1 A Journal reporter took a trip into f he New York end of the Hudson Biver tunnel. He describes it as follows: Mr Haskin tapped sharply on the door of the air-lock, a signal to those within, and immediately a hissing heard. sound as of escaping steam the was This was the escape of compressed air from the lock, the heavy door of which swung lazily inward as and the chamber became empty of the air, a dense vapor was emitted. Thd opening was three feet in diame ter, and through this the party passed, The light, door was closed, shutting out day but a huge candle was lighted, and the Journal found itself crouched upon a couple of steam-pipes in in a circular chamber four feet diameter. Presently Mr. Haskin turned a vaive, and with the roar of a cataract the com¬ pressed ail- began filling the chamber. Although sitting close together it was impossible to converse, and as the pres¬ sure increased the reporter's ears began to twitch, which gave way a moment later to a tremendous pressure upon the air drums, as if being savagely prodded with sticks. The pain became intense, although only about twelve pounds pres¬ sure to the inch was then on. The valve was then closed, and the guide iu | structed liis victim to inflate his lungs i and compress his nostrils, so that the air might force out the drums of the ears. Again the air was turned on, and, '■ although it took lmt about three minutes ‘ to fill the lock with eighteen pounds pres sure, it seemed like an hour, during ! which time the most excruciating pain ; was suffered. Eighteen pounds pres sure being then used throughout the tunnel, the air become equalized, and the inner door of the lock leading into the lower air chamber of the caisson swung open of its own accord, and the party descended another series of per¬ pendicular ladders until tlio bottom of the caisson was reached, sixty-five feet from the top of the shaft. The tunnel is sixteen feet high by fourteen fe,et wide, and is oval in shape. Only a portion sand of the and excavated silt, earth, composed of is removed from tbe the balance being thrown bac k j^to the finished portion of the tun j j n( q as the work the progresses, to be re¬ , no y ed wlien whole is completed, Thus about one-half of the tunnel only exposed to view. On this earth a temporary railroad is laid, and over this a t the present time there is a foot and a half pf water, having the Into appearance of a subterranean river. tbis water the party stepped from the ladders, and continued their exploration riverward, which was not fascination altogether unpleasant, a we j r j sor t of leading a per son on. Once in the tunnel proper several powerful electrie lamps lent day-light to the seeqykj|’hile the ears had now- become accustomeuto the air-pressure and ceased The to pair repdrier The effect, entirely however, deaf remained. in his was right ear, while the slightest noise, even his own voice, sounded in the left like the roar or turmoil experienced by div¬ ing under water. Mr. Haskin said that the men get ac¬ customed to the sudden changes of air after awhile, although the hearing of some becomes permanently the impaired. Some passing through lock the first time emerge with bleeding ears and the drams forced away in; and they cannot he induced to try it again. About sixty men are employed at the New York end of the tunnel at present, divided into three shifts of eight hours each. Proceeding through the finished portion outward eighty feet from the shaft, a group of men were engaged working like beaveik. Every eye was kept open, while eagerly the slightest unusual sound was noted. Each ap¬ peared to know that he held his life in liis own hands every minute. Shovels are not used except to load the cars or throw back the earth. The men burrow like beavers, their hands scraping away the sand which falls to tlieir feet. The heading is advanced very slowly, and whenever a space of about a foot is ex¬ cavated tho iron plates composing the shell, which envelops the three-foot-thick brick wall, are put in place and securely bolted together. When a section, or seven feet of this shell is completed, the bricklayers follow and build the circular wall, after which it ii? plastereiUmd that much of the tunnel is completed. Thus [ the work goes slowly on. The silt which is found in some por¬ tions of the excavation is very tenacious, resembling putty, and forms an excellent cement. This is very useful to close any leakages of air or water through the sandy soil. Although there is an aver¬ the age of thirty feet of earth between bottom of the river and the top of the tun¬ nel, yet openings occur daily and water constantly air percolates however, through. keeps The great the pressure, back water and earth. “If,” said Mr. Bowie (one of the con¬ tractors, who was also in the tunnel), “the air pressure, whicli is now eighteen pounds to the inch, were reduced by two pounds, the river would be upon us in an instant, and none of us could escape.” At that momenta sharp hissing sound was heard at the heading. “Bush for that, Jim,” cried Mr. Bowie, whose ex¬ perienced through ear told him there was a leak of air the sand, which in a few minutes might control. increase to a fissure too large to ed With lightning speed the silt, man pic-l reaching up a mess leak, of putty-like and the jammed it in the Opening, which could not be dis earned. Til i hissing ceased and work was resumed. Two pairs of hands quick jy scraped a vay about a peck or two of sand, and as it crumbled away like gnn powder, 6ther hands dashed into the opening some of the dirt and plastered omin t) ;e surface vith it. Suddenly the oa8 hissing was different again heard simultane ouslv in two directions, and again the stern declared command of the brave pjowie /wbr he would never se nd a man where he was afraid to go) dr .-,v e the r on to dangerous places to keep back t. e mighty waters. “Thus,” said Mi'. Haskin, “it is a continuous fight for life and progress, the latter being necessarily slow, some days not exceeding live feet, some more, accord¬ ing to the nature of the river’s bottom.” It is exciting in the extreme to mark the expressions on the countenances of the different workmen. There is no laughing or jesting and no frivolity, be¬ cause they know text well, that each time they pass the door of the air-lock it may be their last. The earnestness and anxiety that depicted on each face shows clearly it is not a pleasure to them to labor there, but a necessity to earn a few dollars for the support of loved ones at home. One of the men said that he goes into the shaft with his heart in his month and his life in his hands, and that only when he is once more under the blue sky does he /eel that he has one more day to live. “Many a time,” said Mr. Bowie, “the leaks became too great, and we had to beat a hasty retreat, after which a great¬ er pressure is put on, the water is pumped out and work resumed. Once when I was alone in the heading a leak opened nii me which I conld not check, and be¬ fore I could reach the air-lock the water had risen to the top of the door, so that my only escape was to dive through the opening into the lock. That was the narrowest escape from death I ever had.” Two tunnels are being built, nmning parallel and 20 feet apart, being connect¬ ed by 14 foot arches at intervals of 500 feet after the first 1,000 feet. Each tun¬ nel will contain but one track so that there will Vie no danger from collision. The engines will be propelled by transfer com¬ pressed air and the cars for the of vehicles, etc., will be 100 feet long, while there will be facilities at the ter¬ mini for driving on board superior to those in use at the ferries. When completed the tunnel will be 5,400 feet long between the docks on either side of the river, aij,d two mul one half miles from the New York terminus at Broadway and Bleecker 1 street and the Palisades iii Jersey City, while the great (>f!t depth of water over the tunnel will be 05 feet. Thus far $1,000,000 have been expended, and it is calculated that $4, 000,000 more will complete it, which may require about stopped two work years. mule and When they removed from a tin tunnel, a Imrse were 1 they having been in three and seven months respectively, breathing the 1*01X1 pressed air. The mule lived, but'the horse died that day. Its death was at¬ tributable to the great and sudden change in the air pressure. The temperature in the mine is uniformly kept at about 70 degrees. NEWSPAPER LIFE OUT WEST. Starting a Paper In n Utile Town andlHav Ing Fun out of It, Peck, of the Milwaukee Sun, says; There is no other business that mortal man ever continued engaged in, of that pleasure embraces aud such a round glad surprises as attends the establish¬ ing and. in conducting small town of out a country West. news¬ paper There is a city, he always in every says, some young man who thinks his stock of divine afflatus is too large, more than he can possibly hold another minute without Allowing oft or ,exploding and killing some one, and it is often such a young man who wants to get into the newspaper business. He goes to no me out of the way country town, and whee¬ dles a few of the leading business men into the idea that they need a paper to boom the place, aud four or five hundred dollars is subscribed and the fun com¬ mences. For a few weeks, or perhaps months, until the novelty of having a paper in the new town wears off, busi¬ ness is very good, and the man thinks he has struck it rich, and he refuses to sell out, at a fabulous price. But before long a reaction sets in. His stock of energy commences to play out, the people don’t worry much whether the paper comes out or not, subscribers re¬ fuse to pay or take the paper, advertis¬ ing gets low, tbe office hands are obliged to steal wood, and stand the corner gro¬ cery off for soap for the office. The proprietor finds his hills at the the stores accumulating, and getting bigger than the advertising accounts the will pay. The business men of place send away to other towns for sick job work, and the editor is laid up on a bed from the effects of a mauling he gets from some esteemed citizen, on ac¬ count of an article that appeared in the paper. A draft from the paper house lies in'the bank unpaid, and to save it from protest, the editor hustles around and borrows money that he don’t know as he will ever be able to pay. In liis walks by day lie is constantly harrassed by his creditors and his dreams by night are full of all manners of terrors. He wonders from week to week what he will have for the next week’s issue, or how lie will pay the butcher for the last liver he had for dinner. He makes a vigorous effort to be appointed him post¬ master of the town to give some ready cash, but fails through lack of political influence ; runs for County Clerk, but is beaten by one of the old settlers out at the corners, whose wife is sick, and the people want to do some thing to help him out. of trials and hard After a few years ships of this kind, the poor man gives up in despair and sells out to some oilier man who never had any newspaper ex perience, and don’t know how much fun there is in the business. And so it goes. The above picture may be overdrawn m some particulars, but in others it falls far below tho average. But some one has got to print papers in country towns, and 80 wesuppo.se there will always he men who can tell of the hardships and discouraging incidents attending the publication of a paper, in a town that cannot support it. But after all is said, any man who ever started a newspaper in a smalt town, will swear that so long as he could keep out of the poor house he had more fun than you could shake a stick at. Wild Potatohs. —A species of wild potato has been discovered on the table lands of southwestern Arizona, in alti¬ tudes of 8,000 to 12,000 feet, which is spoken of as superior in taste and flavor to the " cst cultivated potatoes. Expet imerd n the cultivation of the plants are befbg made in the State Agricultural . . Benool ot Cau-orma. LESSONS IN EC0N0MI. HOW TO BUY aiKAT. MUs p.trlon’* Lecture Illnxtrntetl by ■ BmU'hev >nxl a Sid# of Beet. “Now, ladies, I hope yon will ask as man v questions as you please, because I want to make evcrvthing clear to you.” said Miss Maria Parloa, as she began her lecture on “Marketing” in the Col lege of Pharmacy, table New York City. On the long on the lecture platform was a side of dressed beef, weighing 400 pounds. Beside it, ready to cut it up to illustrate the lecture, stood a most gentle manly-looking butcher. Mrs. “You must remember,” said Par loa, “that after the meat is dressed only about one-sixth of it is desirable. The rest of it, rich and poor alike, prefer not to buy, but the poor have to buy it, be cause they cannot afford the price of the choice cuts. But you must bear in mind that costly and tender cuts are not the most, nutritious. The muscular part, that is most used, while it is the toughest, also gives the most nourishment, only it needs to be cooked differently from* the tender parts. When you are buying meat, remember that the tenderest parts came from the part of the animal where there is least which exertion. The tough parts of the meat, would be unpalatable if broiled or roasted, may be with profit stewed, braised, or made into soup. In fact, the very tender parts would not bo good for food for a sick person, because they are nof-juntritious enough. Now, I want you ladies to say what are the names of the parts I touch.” “The neck.” said a timid voice. ‘ ‘Tlie ribs,” said a matron in a sealskin sacque as the stick moved along* ‘‘What kind of ribs ?” “Give it up,” said a lady in a fur-lined Clovis ‘Now wfrwill have Mr. Kissoll cut it up,” said Miss Parloa, after she had pointed various out the principal cuts and told of the ways of cutting meat in different cities. ‘'Fix that hack bone in your mind,” *lu> continued, “for we will start from there. You see the side of beef has been cut in two. The hind quaiter end con tains, at about the middle of the animal, the porterhouse and the steaks, the porterhouse masts, tender pieces that every body wants. As we go further baek we find' the rump and the sirloin.” Tiie deft butcher, with liis knife, saw, aid cleaver, pointed cut piece them after piece as the < chirer the kidneys lay embedded out, showing in where tho met, showing the brittle, crumbling nature of suet as distinguished from fat, showing where the tenderloins lay, anil how to cut them to advantage. Each piece was fix shown, its until all had an oppor tuniiy to market name and place and its •p -esont price. The delicate, nutritious rolling pieces were cut, and shown, and the method of preparation sometimes was called explained. “the These skirt.” pieces arc Tho ladies were cautioned that brine draws out f lie juices of the meat, and that fat corned bee is the best, because the fat keeps the juices of the meat from being drawn ' f ,ny the brine. “Dr ion consider kidneys uutri tious? 1qHired a sprightly lady, who had gr front seat-to be sure and see jfcjfi,-. and ‘ 4 ,du«ys the flank pieces, the liver, Cooked, fand other all cheap parts, food." when properly The lecturer showed are how good much more economical and sensible it would be to have the meat cut in grades, and not to buy as often as is done now poor meat and good meat in oue piece. She ail vised the habit of buying, even at higher prices, \ ieccs with tlic flank end cut off. She advised her hearers to hunt up butchers who would cut up meat to or der, and not compel them to buy what tliev did not want and could not use. Speaking of soup, she said that to keep it clear it should not be boiled much, as boiling set the lime of tho bones free, “But I should think that might ho the very thing .needed for children when they are making bones,” said a bright¬ eyed lady. “Well, that may be so. I suppose it is ; but you must not boil the soup much if yon want it clear.” The lecturer was pointing out in a piece of sirloin the tough part that she said ought to be cut off as not fit for roasting, and turning to Mr. Kissell, the gentlemanly butcher, she said: “You don’t usually sell them that?” “Oh, yes, they do,” interposed the young lady. “You will have to go and educate our butchers, Miss Parloa.” “They charge you twenty-eight cents for ttiis piece with the flank on. Yen might better pay thirty cents flank for (lie iv-h and let them sell the for ten cents.” “All it’s ft’orth!” ejaculated short the lively matron. “I always ask for steaks ;hk1 short roasts, and don’t buy a lot of meat that is worthless.” . Miss Parloa kept up a running fire of chat with her audience, and Several encouraged them to ask questions. pencils, availed young ladies, with books and themselves of the opportunity. a Lovelorn Indian Maiden’s .Suicide, _ The Brandon Sun says: News has corQ(; t)iat al) lll(1]i(II maid(!n belonging to a |, ranc h 0 f the Sioux on the Oak Eiwr iu Manitoba, recently comtIlitt ed suicide. The Chief desired be r to raarrv a certain member of the tribe, who was advanced in years, but the maiden’s fancy had already been eu Liaised d by a young brave, whom she to wed should she wed at all. rjr^ objection shown to the Chiefs Mr j s j lefi enraged him to such an extent that he insisted on the marriage with tho 0 j d ,, r one, and threatened all manner of punishments in the event of further con t UJi .;toy. There appeared no possible f or bravely ( bf! unhappy faced it. maiden Getting but one, and j. b( » pos ion of a piece 1 of rope, { ’ she managed to slip away unobserved i „ and, i fastening fn< l the rope to a branch of a tree in the vicinity of the encampment, succeeded iu most effectually hanging herself. How much pleasanter this world would to live in were it as easy to go to Iasi a t night as it is to remain there in the morning, and as easy to get up in the morning as it is to talk of getting oj V. hen . yon go to bed. CLEANSING THE CANALS. THE ANNUAL EVENT WHICH GOVERNS THE CROPS. Forced Labor in Ejrypr «» it Exist* Under the Kliedive. Cleansing .. the 8,500 miles of ... fresh water canals that at present exist in Egypt is, next to the inundation ot the Nile, the annual event upon which linngs tlle success or failu»eof the crops. From 1,ie Pharaohs to the Khedive, canal dredging has been the special and ex¬ ,OUB care of the government, and for ov f r fave thousand years no Egyptian ruler has yet been able to got this vital work done without resorting to forced labor. A few philanthropists have re cently remonstrated with Ismail Pacha a,ul the present Khedive for compelling the reluctant, fellah to work ; but when fiver tlieir pockets are touched Europeans have always been most zealous to urge iUU ^ «ueourage the most brutal :ipp he li¬ * lon °f Egyptian forced labor. For iu stance, Ismail Paclia had to pay $8, 000, t)0() m order to secure M. de -Lessops’ consent to abolish that shameful clause the Suez Canal contrrifct wmch forced 20,000 fellaheen to be dragged every uionth m chains horn then* own fields to tod at M. do Lesseps canal, which lias been the alpha and omega of all the Pogues that have befallen Egypt during the last fifteen years, The present Khedive has done away "'dli forced labor, except for the work of cleaning out the canals and strengthen in 8 the embankments of the Nile and tho larger canals when there is danger of 111,00(1 > aU(1 1,1080 exceptions are ab solntelv necessary to preserve the exist ence of Egypt. I he Nile begins to sub side in October and begins to rise in June - Tho wolk of cleaning out the canals begins m February, when the water is very low. The other day I rode °pt to a point on the Ismailia Canal, about ten miles from Cairo, where about 1,000 laborers were hard at work clean dig the canal. What I saw is a fair specimen of forced labor as it exists to day m Egypt. Moored near the bank of the canal which is 180 wide—a large dredging machine was throwing up a continuous stream of vile mud upon the* f°wpftth of the canal. About three Inui “red fellaheen both men and women— were squatting down on their haunches, and with no other implements but tlieir ll,lU(ls were scooping up the mud thrown I'D 1 ’Y 1,10 dredging machine and throw- 111 B 11 11(10 round, two-handed, flexible About seven hundred ypnng W s al1(1 full ff irls were carrying those baskets of mud on their heads and “dumping down their contents behind the canal embankment, about two hum dred yards distant. A Greek engineer w“ superintending the whole work, and a,Kml twenty or thirty overseers—ex porieneed lollnhs, about forty years of a S°—"’ciy. walking about promiscuously, seeing (lmt nobody was lazy. These overseers wore brown woolen fezes and long. blue cotton shu ts, and wove bare footed. Each overseer had in liis hand a sljort stick, to the end of which was nailed a long flat leather strap that might have served in better days as a trunk Strap, These flat straps are a merciful substitute for the famous eourbash —an oiled strip of hippopotamus hide about eight feet mg and twisted and stiffened with |ftne brass wire. These flat strap would occasionally come back down with a loud “ whack ” upon the of some luck hiss backslider, but as a rule there was no undue cruelty. taken The the laborers tliem selves were from neighboring villages by requisition upon the respective Sheiks-el-beled to provide so many hands, They sleep tlieir in their village, and and large at sun rise say prayers cat a pot, ol baked beans, garlic and oil. They commence and scooping mud immediately afterward work away until noon. They then pray again and receive from the government a frequently large flat round loaf of bread. I have seen young boys and girls of ten or twelve yoare old working away in the sun quite nuked, A Bay Drc him Iii term pled. The cry of “Bead 1 road 1” caused u business man to jump aside just in time to avoid being run down The by a boys sled in one of the city suburbs. were the making the most of the snow. As weary man picked liis way carefully up the slippery ascent recollections began to crowd upon his mind of the rime when he was owner of a sled which could pass anything on tho hill. The lines of care m liis face began to relax as the symmetry of the proportions of that H ied and the name cut on the bottom board with an old jacknife loomed up through tho intervening years. Then there came into liis mind another pic ture of a girl, whose blue scarf matched the color of her eyes, anil tho rose of whoso complexion deepened a little timidly as she picked up her sled. skirts He atnl remembered sat down upon tho what he said: “You needn’t bo afraid, Nell; she’ll j l0 ] d a ton 1” The weight of that little hand upon tiis shoulder still has power to stir his pulses. As the iron-shod runners shot swiftly over the snow tho grasp tight cued and an arm was thrown around liis . wlth ... llttl0 °f . . 11 CI 7 sled was now speeding like a greyhound, Another and swaying from sideto side. ? rm ' v f tlirow n a ™® n d .^ u » neck » ttl1 ' 1 “ e I rd her . atniglit.. . |( ' ii cry in h-e-r, John O—h—h ! sto—op . The agonized entreaty’failed to wBn* 011 «: him, as he was satisfied with the condition of affairs, and only when tie attorn of the hill was reached was the willing prisoner released. Then the xva !k up the hill in the moonlight, with the eager and nipping and air shouts echoing of his with the merry laughter the slipped coin - panions. Perhaps as moon under a cloud— The feet of the day dreamer were sud dr ’! ll Y kn ^ ked from point, • and as he assumed a sitting pc* j , a ifii shollt . “Old duffer, why don’t you keep oi it c f the road V” There have been many definitions of a gentleman, but the prettiest and most poetic is that given by “is a lady. hnman “A being gen tleman,” says she, a combining a woman’s tenderness with a man’s courage.” A POLITICAL DISEASE. HALLUCINATIONS WHICH TAKE POS¬ SESSION SOMETIMES OF HYS- * TEK1CAL WOMEN. I.adyflorencedtxIeiNin ns Described by the British Medical Journal. Beeent circumstances have directed at¬ tention to certain remarkable delusions to which females of unstable nervous equilibrium are subject, either through hysteria or similar disorders of the nerv¬ ous system. Charcot and Boumeville give instances of tho extraordinary self deceptions that are frequent amongst Simile, hysterical patients. Dr. Salpetriere, Legrand Paris, da describes physcian in his to standard the work, “Lea Hysteriques,” some remarkable case* of hallucination, where females labor under the belief that they have been struck or stabbed by others, even after having in¬ flicted blows and wounds upon them¬ selves. In one instance a young woman was found by her husband lying on the floor of her room in a fainting fit, her face covered with blood. On reviving from her swoon she stated thnt she had been attacked 1 >y armed men; the Paris newspapers related the case, and within three weeks two similar events occurred in the French metropolis. All these cases proved to be fabricated by the sup¬ posed victims. A young girl wounded herself slightly with a pistol. She gave the police authorities tho most minute details about an imaginary assassin, who, according to her account, fired the weapon, but she was found to be highly hysterical, willfully and it was proved In that third she hud wounded herself. a case in Dr. du Simile's experience, a young woman was found in a railway carriage, stabbed in the left side. The incident caused great excitement, but it was proved, contrary inflicted to her assertions, herself that she had the wound and was a hysterical subject. A house¬ maid was found lying behind a door, hound, gagged and covered with braises. She stated that she had been brutally blackened at¬ tacked by two burglars with faces, but she was a Jiighly have hysterical woman, and there appears to been strong evidence that she had contrived to tie her own hands and to gag and bruise herself. Perhaps the strangest ease of all occurred in M. Tardieu’s practice. A young lady living at Oour iievole wished to make herself an object of public interest by passing ns a victim of a political conspiracy which she pre¬ tended to have discovered. One night she wan found in a state of the greatest mental pertubation at the door of her apartment. Who could not talk, but stated iu writing that she had tioen at¬ tacked outside her own bouse by a man who attempted to garrotte her, at tho same time striking her twice with a dag¬ ger. Only the lady’s clothing was in¬ jured, and the body of her dress and her corset were found to lie out through, but nt different levels. Hlio tried to make out that the at tempt at strangulation remarked had caused numbness. M. Tanlieu in her hearing, that this infirmity under rapidly disappeared when produced cir eumstnhces of this kind. She soon man¬ aged to regain her speech; and, in a short time, admitted that the whole nar¬ rative had been developed out of her in ncr consciousness. Eccentricity in rela-. rives is ever strongly presumptive of self-Jk deception, when a ‘hantAr. makes. statement or charges of itl-treatmont of any kind. The constant fear of assas¬ sination, grounds, especially is particularly if based ou liable reason¬ to able predispose nervous or excitable subjects to extraordinary delusions of this kind. The East River Bridge. Construction commenced Jan. 3,1870. Size of New York caisson, 172x102 feet. Hize of Brooklyn caisson, 108x102 feet. Timber and iron in caisson, 5,253 cubic yards. Concrete in well holes, chambers, etc., 5,00!) cubic feet. Weight of New York caisson, about 7,000 tons. Weight of concrete filling, 8,000 cubic tons. Now York tower contains 40,945 yards of masonry. 38,214 cubic yards Brooklyn tower contains of masonry. Length of river span, 1,595 feet 0 inches. Length of each land span, 930 foot; 1,800 feet. Length of Brooklyn approach, 971 feet. Length of Now York approach, 1,562 feet 6 inches. Total length of bridge, 5,989 feet. Width of bridge, 85 feet. Number of cables. 4. Diameter of each cable, 15J inches. First wire was run out May 29, 1877. Cable making really commenced Juno II, 1877. Length of each single wire in cables, .3,579 Length feet. wire in four cables, exclu¬ of sive of wrapping wire, 14,361 miles Weight of four cables, inclusive of wrapping wire, 3,538 > tons. each cable, 12, Ultimate strength of 29 11 L tc ? 1 ?v Weight of , wire, nearly , II ,, feet , , per pound. Each cable contains . , 5,290 parallel, . not twisted, galvanized steel oil-coated wires, closely wrapped to a solid cylinder 15 1 inches in diameter. Depth of tower foundation below high water, Brooklyn, 45 foundation feet. below high Depth of tower York, water, New 78 feet. Size of towers at high water line, 140 y.59 feet. Hize of towers at roof course, 136x53 feet. Total height of towers above high water, 278 feet. Clear height of bridge in centre of river span above high water tit 90 de i F., 135 feet. Height of floor' at towers above high . Wil .ter, 119 feet 3 inches. Grade of roadway, 3}, feet in 100 foet. Height of towers above roadway, 159 feet. Size of anchorages at base, 129x119 feet. Size of anchorages at top, 117x104 feet. lh iHit of anchorages, 89 feet front, 85 feet rear, Weight of each anchor plate, 23 tons. Engineer, Col. W. A. Boebling.
