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CKAWFOKDVU.I.K. UEOUGIA
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
liomiiiil ic I pif»od«? in ih« Mfr •( (Jpnprnl
flnnrork*
I was talking politics with a Senator
from the W- Ht, and on mentioning Gen
orsl Hancock s name he told me a story
of the gallant General that is romantic
enough to repeat. West Soon when after his gradn
ation from Point, but a little
past his majority, he started for the
West m company with a number of army
men to see the country. They stopped
at Ht. Louis, and while there General
Hancock met his future wife. He was
taking in- of Ids customary morning
rides on horsr hack in the most fashion
able pait of the city, when ho caught
sight of a handsome young lady stand
ing at a window. His hemt was touched
at once-and for the first time—and,
without a thought of the impropriety of
his action, involuntarily he reined his
charger i ud took off his hat. The fair
vision at the window waved a shapely
whitt) hand, blushed and drew the our
tain. This only increased the young
man’s disease, and when he returned to
his hotel, Inn «bsent-mindeduess and
evident abstraction, provoked comment
oil the part of bin friends. Try as bo
would, the beautifql f ine at the window
haunted him still, and he yielded to an
irresistible impulse to return to the
housi whore his fab.* resided, in lioi>o of
getting anothe r wave of the hand or a
smile of eucouragomeut to love’s young
dream.
A# hick would have it, fortune smiled
antin’ yffU n g man, and the young lady
was iusi lin "Dg the house, accompanied ho
by at, a! and elderly gentleman, as
reached .here. She recognizedhim face at
bnoe, m.u losy blushes sunusod her
as she entered a carriage in waiting and
was driven rapidly away. Young H in
cook was now more eager than ever and,
hailing a pm*ing cab, directed the dri vel
to follow the carriage containing the
lieanliful unknown. Finally her car
riaga cTan stopped M and she entered the house
army friend of the ardent
lover, who followod cl* se after ana was
admitted by the lric.nl in person.
To him the smitten youth untiosomcit
himself, and au introduction followed to
Miss Mary Russell, a daughter of one of
Bt. Louis's wealthiest merchants. The
young lady seemed to have been struck
j,y heart, the and same a dart cordial that pemdl invitation her to Iovm call a
was extended to him. "“f'!"
“ the ore oft-told - ’ Ti tale, l’ «o loi - m Lm six mourns t
Mary Russell became Jars, wmneiu
Scott. Hancock, and she is tielu m the
warmest est cem by and those wi ly o k qualitisk w ner
many charming wotaa
This is but ouo of many romantic tails
that oim hoars here nearly eve^oay,
aud their reoita is one of the plwmiul
<*' features ol WaslnnglOU me.-n
I'itmH.
A Fair Girl’s Conquest
tee coiiuthuu- of a iouno hiw h
n.uun who rici.r, in ikjve with an
amk’AN antx..
A Tiondon letter in the Ohieagi.
Trihun' says: There Ims been much
gossip over tho recent union of Miss Jos
tin, of l’iilsl'udd, Mass., with a young
and wealthy Bcotohinnn. Miss Joslin is
one of tin elevorest ami most admirable
of girls. Her marriage is quite • roman
tic uflivir. She met her present husband
ill Rome, where, subsequent to the
death of her father, her mother and she
were spending a few weeks. Miss J.
wm licit, oT course, going out at all, nor
was she receiving calls at the time, so
the young laird, with whom it was a
ease of love at first sight, was in a piti
able at do for days and weeks, When
his inamorata lift the Eternal City he
promptly followed, and finally obtained
par ---- emission : ....... from A, Mrs. "“ Joslin *“ to addrosa
her daughter. To make a long story
__ oh inquiry,
short, everything, proving
more than satisfactory, the young man
proposed and \ta* accepted. The wed
ding was set for the next fall sometime.
Tin. parents of tiie young flame came
»oon after to make the acquaintance of
their future daughter, and the result
was the total subjugation of the entire
family by tho charming American girl.
tJsUAlly it ia the prospective groom who
pleads most strongly for a short engage
meet, but in thin case tho expectant
father in law was so enchanted with his
son's choice that he joined iu the for
mer\s entreaties for an early wedding, and
to such purpose that throe weeks after
bis presentation to Ins son’s jianan the
little rally went quietly took to the Marie.
wheto the civil nuu-nage plane, m.1
troin thence to the little American
ahatod aud wore ^made one.
The Journey Through life.
The lute Hr. Farr, in his description
of the mu oh through life ot a mifiion
children, kc ci\. u the following results:
Ncarh t l.'l,C 10 »; ! die in the first year,
68.000 *ii the sc<. no year. 28.000 ... the
third ,'i-ar, and less tlnvu 4,0tXl iu the
thirteenth year. At the end of 45 years
500,000. or one-half, will have died.
At the begiiniiug of 00 yews 370.000
will still W living. At the beginning ot
ts vears. 90,000; at 85 years, 38,000; aud
at 95 years, 2,100. At the beginning of
1(X1 years there will be 323. and at 1 1>8
years 1. The mean lifetime of both
t><xes In England was calculated some
vear* ago to l*o 40. S58, or nearly 41 years.
Mr. H. Humphreys has shown, how
ever, that iu the 5 years, 1876 to 1880,
the menu age at death waa 43.56 (females
45 . 31 , lx ing a gain of nearly notwithstanding 2{ years,
Ti.uswitl.ii. 20 year.,
an increased birth rate, density OoudibaB ot popu- of
latiou. and the unsanitary than
towns suddenly grt.wn large, more
2| years have been added to the life of
every inhabitant of England
Bbbad and stockings are the cheapest
artieki in Norway. The reason is that
no girt is allowed a l^an until she
bake the one and knit the other.
should be a law ia this country
forbiddiug any girls arounS having a Ixwn
she is able to go the
without the aid of a dog 0 a etBug
l*uck.
QOOn-NlQIIT.
. Good-night, beloved ! the tender night ia fxB
ing
Oe'r the »l!-wn»ry world, and through the
j- jjj
r„. -w*-* ~ -X.
niatV’ ’ V ’ 1 ’ a ° n g °°
’
Good _ , night, . beloved , , angeb. ... bless thy ..
may
With ZZ far brighter than the day’s lost
u ht .
And maytby waking be to smiles, not weeping
j Good-night, oh, tract friend and best, good-
1 night!
Good-night, beloved ! though weary miles are
iyi"B
Between thy heart and mine, jot with the
I (light
Or day my thoughts on wings of love are flying
To bid thee, even a« a prayer, good-night!
Good-night, t*loved! ’m ath that great Eye i
unsleeping i
Heave tl.ee, lo, Ilia stars are shining bright
N er us and thee. God have ns in His keeping
; CutU we meet again, oh ! love. Good night.
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[V TTTT-’ Pf)LAR SEA I
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Tt . the mo,lth of April good ,
i Wi,K ,n «>«
» h) P Baldwin, commanded by myself, In
company with the ship Norwich,
! weighed anchor at the port of Lahama, j
Sandwich Islands, for a cruise to the
Arctic Ocean, by way of Ijchrings
Btraits in pursuit of whales. \Ve had
agreed to keep company. 1 ho Baldwin
w *’| well-fitted for a voyage to tlio North,
with plen ty of provisions and a crew of ;
, nI
* >
A whalers , crew (Inters . somewhat from
“ crew of a merchantman, the former
consisting of captain, four mates, four
boat-steerers, carpenter and cooper.
Bitch mate takes charge of a boat in
whaling and is called the boat-header.
this ship swung lour mats, requiring
twenty-lour men >> man um -
were U> make the coast of fkam,
’ , |^omniencemei,t of o»r 2
“ „ 1 hd h ’“.T n flI ctbmient. As our ship *
1 from’ , h d cr#w M
* 1
, i„ u i the first stormy and
3 weather to contend with. As we
miarer to the land of ice the
^ into W iow, gales crossed our
P ■ unbridled mountain' fury the great
, m hich But
way
f ‘^ ♦*,»» *allnnt maet carried
Bgnl , ( j ths'liliiilim er ,„ l( j amH j H t the wild cry of the
f. , iu,d drilling snows i
. v amen ran nloft to replace the !
riei/imr S encased in ice.
! HWaT A new top- ;
* . weathered n .ast was sent the aloft storm. and With we had j
a
fair wind, onr course was still north- j .
ward. In the latitude favorable of fifty-eight weather.
( ] PKrees north, we had
Hyre woiawour first polar whale, in com
^ with onr consort, the Norwich.
- i a f from each
were owore our
^ ow commenced a new exoitement
^ t)|o Ilulglllti< . 1 . lll 0 i )a80 o{ the great
^ monNtt , r . Of course each boat was
ftr<xton to secure the prize for her own 1
s
h1u qhe floats were lying upon their 1
oars waiting for the monster to ootue to
light Euen boat-header was to use his |
i judgment. The whale lmd been
i down some ten or fifteen minutes and alls,
. hands were keeping a bright look-out to
t »atoil the first glimpse as he should
1 come to the surface. The whale rose
noar jjie Norwich’s boat. Captain
, West’s crew took their oars and pulled
j ld , e ad. The rest of the bouts lay quietly should
„i»on their oars, as only one boat
\ , rtd | for a whale at a time. They drew
1H ar , 0 jj ie w liale, heard the captain
1 tho on. The hnipoonor nmn
mgo crew
i 8 j ood and let go his iron into the
! monster as the captain cried, “Stern
a |j »
Un went the whale's flukes thirty feet
iu the* air; down they came with a crash,
knocking the boat into a dozen frag
| U ,, u tH. The whale disappeared. Our
i l()U ts rushed iu and picked them up the crew
(l f the stovcli boat and took to tlieir
ship; while the rest of the boats went in
pursuit of the whale. No one was badly
injured. The whale had mado his grand
div. in search of safety, taking out some
iix hundred fathoms of line.
j Forborne mimitet we baw nothing of
i,jm. Once more he rose to daylight, to
letvivu the bright, keen lanco. column He now and
threw into the air a crimson
breathed --------- his life out iu the ---------- red streams
of his vital biood. Oft times our industry
fails ot its reward, as was true iu that
i^mo. The whale went into his last ilur
ry f kicking and threshing the water
with liis enormous tlukes. Then he
j his rolled tin upon of his ledt side, liia head with
out water,
pointing to the sun, and sank. The
! boa f a returned to the ship and called it t
j ; bad The liegiuniug. next morning I awakened by
masthead, was
! the erv from the “There *ho
: blows! there she blows!" and quickly
' made my way on deck.
“Whore away from the officer of the
miUrotl” P >hlt8 nP ° 1 ’ th ° 106 b °" ’ tUrM
“What d.^« it look like ?
A Keep |.hk\ of ^ three off, Poiar»h^,^ man _ at to
wheel. /ing out from nloft when .
shqs heads for them.”
; “Aye aye, sir.’
Everything bustle and ..
was exu -
meut. The line tnlvs wvre place.1 in the
j boat*, the boat* cleans! away and rna «
ready for lowering, tiie crew standing
I by, ready to lower aud jump in at word
of oommand.
Now the order came:
’‘Lay t ie mainvards square and lower
an v the Imats ,
The whales were to the leeward of the .
stop and seemed to be quietly feeding,
They turned flukes to go down, to re
mam teu or fifteen minutes. The boats
were so pU.edaa to be as near to the
whales as possible when they should
, come up. I was in my own boat that
day and told the first officer to keep
handy to me. YV e were all on the lex*
, out to catch the first glimpse of the
j "“ales. one of them came up close
, J? m - T .oiLt
^ break water
. j 1 ^^TpriL hard to - vonr oars spring
, , .! t w * uu ’ wo e l ‘‘ ow ’ l ‘ 8
, ’ ’
| ^ t
I ^ m head on to the
iUld we wwe soon alongside of lam
“Stand np I” to the harpooner-m&n.
“Give it to him hard I”
Id went one iron, then the second,
and down went the whale.
“Pay out the line, pay out the line.
See the line runs clear."
«“ “ b “* 1 «*» “
"Bend on the other!” Still he took
line “Now. bend ou the tab to the
of the ltoe”
Out went the end of the line, tub and
a11. He remained down some minutes
came up, and the boats went after him,
nsrer ine aeep deV aton^ide^ alongside of the
“d “eZJhv Ed tbe^rko
his flukes. Hardly had the work com
menced cutting in when the unwelcome
wind fill rapidity, the ,®\ land e was *** tinder .T lUl ^ lee
our
and far ont extended the great icy bar
Tlel - Cutting m was ont of the question
and equally impossible was it to lie with
the whale alongside of the ship So his
tlukes were unjointea and slowly he
drifted astern, and with him, to our
great chagrin, one hundred and seventy
barrels of oil and three thousand pounds
ctboae. But we had no time to gram
ble ; our topsails were to be close -reefed
and stormsails set. With watchful at
tention we cleared the land and ice and
rode ont the storm.
Thenext whale was captured and cut
in; everything favored ns and the con
trast was delightful. Not a cloud ob
BC nred the bright, blue sky. The
g ed cliffs of Kauitehatka were far off in
t j, e wes j erll horizon—mountains tower
j u g a i W ve mountains until they pierced
the arch of heaven. The scene was
glorious, hut quickly passed away. The
00 ] d nordlweB t winds swept down from
the mountains and a meridian sun could
not arrest the continual formation of ice.
We cruised along the icy barrier from
St. Paul’s Island to Cape Thaddeus. The
ice in places was masthead high. Some
points were covered with walruses. We
0 ( ten oa ptured them, some weighing
fifteen hundred pounds, a large one
affording us three or four barrels of oil,
as well as thirty pounds of ivory.
1 liegan to tnink that we should not
lje » I)1b to get through the ice that sea
*»«»• A large numlier of ships were wait
» n opening to go through. On
the 1st of June we had a very hard
southwest gale, with rain and snow. It
increased curing the night to almost a
hurricane, moderating iu the morning,
although still a heavy fog. We stood in
for the ice. After running about twelve
hours and not seing any, I made up my
mind that the ice had sunk, ns is olten
the case in high latitudes when ice has
became old and rotten. The water was ,
somewhat discolored. We hove over !
t ' 18 ^ all(1 fouud thirty fathoms. Hie
fog clearing somewhat at the same time
we saw Cape Ihaddeus towermg high
above our heads and whales in great |
numbers. We wont to work, cutting m,
trying out and down oil. For >
stowing i
eighteen days we captured a whale nl
most ever, day. 8 t.il it remained foggy !
most of the time. We did not know our
position, nor did we much care, as long
as we had plenty of whales.
At last we had stowed down fifteen
hundred barrels of oil and everybody ;
was wall fagged out. We had just got- ,
ten through with onr reported stowing, it being
calm, when around the tlio mate ship/ Atthhngn
whales, the
was very thick I ordered him to
lower s.vay tho boats anu we would me
the big signal should gun every fifteen minutes, the ;
so they not get too far from
ship. Each boat was supplied with fog
horns, so there was little danger of get
ting lost. Suddenly the fog lifted end ,
the land was in full view. IVe had
drifted five hundred miles, most of the
time through a thick fog, without one
observation of the sun. We were at the
mouth of Behring's Straits, a number of
ships in sight, all of them boding aud to
all appearances had been taking oil rap
hlly. Our boats were fortunate enough
to capture a wliaie about the time the
fog lit up. We soon had him alongside
ftlld commenced cutting in. Bo far we
had been very successful ni taking oil.
T now concluded to pass through the
straits into the Arctic Ocean.
We kept along close to the Asiatic
shore, having frequent visits only from the
natives. The Straits are about
forty milee across from the Asiatic to
American shore, rhe Diamede islands
being m the middle of the htraits it is
dilnouit for the natives to pass from
one oontment to the other. In passing
along we were surprised to see a boat
approaching the ship from the shore,
Soon a lieutenant of one of herMajesty s
ships, the Plover, was alongside and on
hoard. We saw the snip at anchor in
3t. Lawrence Bity, where we had passed
the wiuter. She belonged to the fleet
that was in search of Sir Johu Franklin.
The officer expressed great surprise surprised at
>eemg us there and wjw more
still when we informed him that there
would be at least fifty whalers m the
Arctic that se. won.
“Well, said he, “if Sir John Frank
hx, is ever found you whalers wil be the
girfu^nS^Lt^rtlie^nte^he
shto , g gXher ^ uuder wa^v ami went NortT
natives everv
^ bunging as ducks and all
-• • :
wild fowl , - tern ,
krn.ls of PW
m return nee. es, tobacco■ «nd the like,
tor one needle we to 1 g f
eauvas-baok ducks t often routed
as many as a hundred 1
landed at one of those na. 1 %/ villages
near East Cajje. It wm a summer vil
lage, the fishing the peoj.lo season. remidnmg Wh t^re du^g
plenty -.
was so am a 1
, q.
n0 la ‘
supply of twelve «■ fourteen whales h , , to
the village They had captured one the
day we made them a
them with a gooddeal of They
preserved bl « W £ alt parts of the ^^The
a large hole dog m sto»d
f «4 de^ sndtM *m . 4 acroa^ np
like a well, and into. thw the blnbhw was
nicely stored. The flz*h
and stored away in
natriel tenirikhTc w^re them with oil clothfng vlrv The
nTJ^nd varv wh^v fneudiv ^ev and fond f^re
of o kinds salmJ, ducks and
~; n wbnt were nnvrmtov Consisted to sell offiv
j for entirely Their food af
most offish, fowl, reindeer, seal
and walrus, never having tasted bread.
Their boats bad frames of wood covered
with walrus hides. Borne of these lx>ats
would carry thirty or more people. We
counted about a hundred and titty lodges
“ that village. Through the natives we
obtained a good deal of information
Eastern land of Asia, and steered across
the straits to Cape Prince of Wales, pass!
working along the American shore,
j n 2 Kotsibu Sound as far as 72.30 north
latitude, crossing over to North Cape,
th'. Asiatic side, seeing whales wherever
were now to the north of the Arc
• . tiie ^nefit T t™ riant midsummer and
we had °* the iougdavs. The
suu a K ov .- the horizon the twentv
. hours around bvthe’sun so that I often o’clock got
mv latitude at twelve
.having \Ve were now getting well fitted
nr "seventy taken three thousand barrels
0 f oil and thousand pounds of
It was getting late to remain in the
Arctic Sea much longer. The northwest
| winds were driving the ice to the south
i and jj. waa w [-h the greatest difficulty
kept getting the ship clear of it. The days
were short and the nights grovr
t jpg longer. Every day the thermometer
warned us that winter was at hand
j Being off the mouthof the straits, with
;* j fair wind, ’ in company with three other
we k t awa y fora warmer climate,
r j During the day one of our company
keepers set his flag in distress. The
| straits itimmed were filled with small icebergs,
lately surmised that he had
' afoul of ice and set the ship leaking,
! run
We kept off. run down for him and found
such to be the case. He had struck a
berg, knocked in seven timbers and as
many planks.
The ship did not leak badly, as the
damage was mostly above water; still it
would not be safe at that season of the
year to attempt the passage to the
Sandwich Islands. The captains of the
different ships went on board the wreck,
a survey and condemned her as
being unseaworthy. The ship was sold
at auction, likewise the oil and material
and equally divided among the three
ships. The ship was taken in shore to
a safe place and anchored, the oil taken
out and she was stripped of everything
valuable. We let her go on to the beach
and made her a present to the old chief,
When we left the bay we saw him walk
ing his quarter-deck, started
Our three ships in company
for Honolulu. We soon struck the
northeast tradewinds, and in thirty clays
were quietly lying at anchor in the beau
tiful harbor of Honolulu.
Lu Catitaime.
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The Scfret Correspondence,
L heard a lady remark ft few days
ag0] that she always opened the letters
which came to the house directed to her
husband. Now, I should judge that man
to be one of the kind who follows the
straight £ path free from entangling appli
ao t who has no occasion to fear an
inspection of his mail. That is the sort
of a man ono cannot help admiring,
On0 feeis a real pleasure to know such a
man iu this world of general cussedness.
When I heard that lady I instinctively
felt what a jewel she had—not at all
dike some young fellows—and old ones,
coulej who had mention. followed I the felt that
a man close
lines which I many years ago laid out
for myself and have religiously adhered
{ 0 _ No letters ever come to me which
the wife of my buzzum—had I one—
could not examine, aud I have fouud
such a course to bring wonderful peace
of mind. I know men who have special
arrangements made with the distributors
a t the post-cffice to place all letters
bearing their names, no matter how ad
dressed, iu f box which they pay so
much a year for. I am told that there
art j men who have the correspondence
business down to such a science that let
p . r9 addressed to them in flet tious
-nami-a reach them without trouble. It
j 3 sa id there is an especial place in the
' post-office known as the “demi-monde
row,” where letters are held until called
; f or — a private mark on the envelope
showing they are not such as should go j
to the house, store or office. That must
be t great scheme. But then the ladies I
ha * tbeir ]ittle arrangements, too.
xiiuJen names are very liandy to make
lls $ of, while carriers are given signals
w>ich tell them whether letters can be
]e/fc. Sometimes it is a mat on the step,
a string out of the window, a drawn
hind or closed shutter. Thus, you see,
ny dear boy, while you are chuckling to
yourself over hoodwinking madam with
four post-office box, the gentle creature
Is throwing sand in your eyes through
he aid of the accommodating letter-car
ligr ,—Boston Trcuweript,
— -
Mr. 1 oa - tw t rioh l u Rill >
.
The t tah bfil was P^l , , be , ore the
>Vnace aud Mr. H’ar spoke its sap
,1 t- The mi i
u^tioThS'
Thev didaormean’tohi^SjiThe he^t
of their eminent aud growing up under
tho Consttution of the United States, in
a Territiifc-subieot SgTZ to the exclusive leg
g an Amercan State
, a delda i p{ :tv auJ in .
i t grit? of he famiiv relation. Thatprop
w* one that seemed to him to be
osit l the Abatable stage The dominant
“ Senate ^ f had manv times af
| I pro . x it ou as part of its po
He had yet to learn that
1 t r ^ n exce r>t from Utah itself
dilaratiai leaiiei of an’v partv had come to a
.w in conflict with that proposi
rj A ftin therefore oulv took the floor
th the framing of that bill,
1 ; se4re Y and stringent as some of the pro
J t^rS^rf be conceive.! to be it had
whjSXipres^Sl Urn commiuee !
leJ to infringe in the
! ^ npri -^J the ^ great American fund*- !
r a 1J ^ ij0 entir< , ;iberty o{ con . ;
he AmerK . <in Stato ^sted np
^ J| fundamental doctrine that the
fl v w3]ch was the result of the pure i
^ chaati union of one man with one
«wum. cpnsrimted the unit of citizen
I *«p; oflfc* faaily thd the relation protection of the the purity ob
was great
i of ianan legislation ; that without
i th * Dc Christian State, no republican
or remnratie State, certainly, could long
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THE WEAK TOINT IN STEAMSHIPS.
Anv Vessel will Nlwk it a t'ertwln One of
her Bulkhead Compartment* Fills.
Says a well- known correspondent: So
much has been said about the sinking
by collision of the steamship State of
Florida when she waa provided with
five water-tight bulkheads, that an ex¬
planation of what the bulkheads are and
what they will and will not do may be
worth the space. A bulkhead is a water¬
tight iron partition built across the hold
of the ship below the main deck. The
five bulkheads of the State of Florida
divided the ship into six water-tight
compartments. People suppose that if
one of these are broken into and filled
with water, the ship will still float. This
is true for five of the six compartments,
but there is not a steamer that sails out
of New York with a cargo on board that
will float when the compartment that
contains the engines aud boilers is filled.
Here is a picture of the compartments :
6 S XNGINBS. 4 coal. 2 >r
A ship floats when loaded because she
weighs less than an equal hulk of water.
The forward compartment, No. 1, is
very small. The bow of an iron ship is
very sharp, and so the space is narrow.
No cargo is stowed there. The sixth
compartment, in the stem, is like it. If
either were filled or knocked clear off
the buoyancy of the ship would be little
affected, because they they are so nearly
solid iron that probably weigh
about as much as an equal bulk of water
would. The forward compartment in
the Nevada was tilled the other day, bnt
it only weighed down the • bows a little.
The second compartment is filled with
cargo, which is usually of greater spe¬
cific gravity thau water. The third is
half tilled with cargo and half with coal.
The fourth contains the engines and
boilers aud some coal. The fifth is full
of heavy cargo. It is plain that if either
the second, third, or fifth compartment
should he opened by a collision the
buoyancy of the ship would be little
affected, because they are already com¬
pletely filled with heavy cargo, and
would admit but little water. The bulk¬
heads damage serve only to lessen the possible
to cargo and to keep the water
ont of the compartment which contains
the engines. The capacity of this com¬
partment as compared with the others
may be shown by figures taken from the
steamer State of Nebraska. She is 385
feet long, 43 broad, and 34 feet deep.
Her cargo capacity is 167,200 cubic feet.
The capacity of the engine and boiler
compartment is 110,720 cubic feet.
With all that air space, which is dimin¬
ished somewhat by the engines and
boilers, her main deck was 6 feet 10
inches out of water when she sailed out
of New York port recently. It required
all of the 110,000 cubic feet of air space
to keep her there. Fill that space with
water and she would go down, as the
State of Florida did, inside of twelve
minutes. The State of Nebraska is a
new and a strong ship, aud she is built
on the most approved style of marine
architecture. She is as safe as any pas¬
senger ship afloat.
Mules for a Breastwork.
In 1863, when the Confederate Gen.
McCuJlouch, having about 3,000 men in
bis command, discovered that Milliken’s
Bend was held by a Federal force of less
than 1,500, a part of whom were negro
troops, he moved forward to gobble up
the prize. His first attack was on Sat
urday, and he was repulsed, after a hot
tight lasting several hours. During j
Saturday night a Federal gun-boat came I
to the rescue of the post, and her pres
ence was not even suspected bv the Con
federates. The Federal commander
packed his whole force into the rifle
pits aud waited for the attack he knew
must come.
When McCulloch came to advance up
on the works he discovered that his lines
would be swept by a terrible fire before
they could get near enough for a dash,
To shelter the men as they moved up,
he brought out about 600 mules and
formed them m line. The idea was for
a soldier to advance alongside of each
mule, him. making the living breastwork
cover the Everything but worked all right
at start, as soon as the mules
came under fire they began plunging
and kicking, and raised such a row that
the Confederate lines were uncovered,
The gun-boat now opened, and, between
shell And bullet, McCulloch soon had
more than he could stand, and there
treat was sounded. He lost, in killed,
wounded and prisoners, over 600 men,
together with a field battery and many
small arms, while the Federal loss, in
killed and wounded, was nearly as many,
McCulloch was the first general in either
army who attempted to make a breast
work out of a living ^ mule, and, as far as
known> he was the His men
found ^ kee ls of the terrified animals
about as dangerous 8 as the Federal bul
M. Quad.
A Wond erful B usiness.
No other insurance company in the
world has ever undertaken so vast atask
as the work of the Prudential Company,
of London, which holds whole‘population policies ou
about one-srith of the
G f the United Kingdom. The manage
inent of this great company is a peculiar
one: but it is the industrial branch of
this phenomenal company’s features operations
which possesses most sugges¬
live. The report shows that this single
office has about 6,000,000 policies in
force, at a premium averaging about
four cents a week. These premiums are
called for and collected everv week at
the homes or shops of the policy-holders,
involving the enormous number of 311,-
415,416 calls during the year. As show,
ing mfnse from another ‘point of view the im
detail of this pecuhar svstem of
insurance, it was stated at the recent
annual meeting, that during the the vear
1883. as manv as 5,700 of company’s
policy-holders removed every weekfrom
one place or town to another, thus mak
ing 300.000 removals in the year, which
required transfers minnteof from changed one agent locality to an
othe or a new
on the company’s books. Then, too,
7,900 policy-holders the policies emigrated still being to colleet- other
countries,
able in England. The ckims paid in
l^amomfl^ % to *4,061,600, or about
TIIE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FINB TO HHIGE OVE \ IN
THE HL.VI()B«LS FAFERg.
THF CAUSE OF THE DEBAND.
“You will have to order some more
woolen stockings,” said a New ..&«k
dry goods clerk to his employer.
“Why, what’s the matter ? We had
an overstock a day or two ago.”
“I know it, but we haven’t any ^ft.
I sold the last pair only a few moments
ago.”
“It is strange, ” said the proprietor,
“that there should be such a demand for
woolen stockirigs at this season. You
are sure you have made no mistake?”
“Yes, I am sure. The panicon Wail
street is the cause of it. The people use
them in the place of banks.”— Evening
Call.
DRAWING THE LINE.
“What is the matter with Jim Har¬
mon?” asked a grain merchant of a
countryman who had just “got in” with
some corn.
“He’s got himself into trouble,” was
the reply.
“So I hear, But what was the mat
ter ?”
i Well, Jeems got too pros’prous.”
; How can a man be too prosperous
r Well, Jeems wara’t satisfied with
raising the best co’n an* oats, an’ the
best horses an’ cattle; he ha’ to raise
notes. That’s where the trouble began.
I tell you, unless a man’s in politics, he
wants to draw the line on raisin’ notes.”
— Ccissors, _
THE DOG IS IN.
A Barnard man who was reproached
by his wife for his inhospitable disposi¬
tion, promised to amend.
“Well, how will you go about it?”she
demanded.
“I will put a notice on the front door,”
he replied, “where all the neighbors can
see it.”
The matter was allowed to drop at
this point. The next day, as the good
lady of the house Was going out following to make
some calls, sbe found the
placard pasted conspicuously on the front
door :
“Notice > The latch string is out, but
the dog is in .”—Burlington Free Press.
APROPOS.
O vot is all rlia earthly bliss,
Anri vot is man’s sooccess ?
And vot is various Oder dings,
And what is happiness?
We make deposits in a pank,
Straightway the pank is preak;
We fail and smash our outsides in,
Yere we a den sdrike make.
Hans Bbeitaian,
his SAFE.
“My boy,” he said to the young man
who was about starting out in life,
“when you hear a man telling about a
backward spring, too much rain, cold
waves and all that, remember that he is
trying see.” to bull the wheat market,”
“I
“And when you hear another hurrah¬
ing over an opposite state of affairs you
can set him down for a bear who wants
to smash prices and rip up things.
Trust neither, but strike a medium.”
“Exactly, sir—that’s just what I have
done,” replied the young man. “I’ve
gj tol7 ’ 8“* “ WaU St AeW S ' ^ ^ ^
ithe pft.t»t.ers
An . e]deT “. one of th ® oh I ,roh “
, week making up a eltib 1 of subscrib
ers f ° r a ku^ay school paper. In his
J oun ^ 8 at a house where ha
fou ? d 8 ! ‘ U le ff> rl of ? e / e “ at h ° m f
explained . his , errand the to hst her, hoping she to
gf^ er name on - and re *
1 I’ll mother, ,, and , T I , quite ..
“Well ,, ask , m
snre she 11 P ve me the monev - for she
says we must patronize the peddlers who
come nlong or they will be driven to stea 7
and rob!”
He hasn’t gone back to see if she suc¬
ceeded .—Detroit Free Press.
A debatable qttk.stio;:.
RiinkqV’ nf r „ p- rls _“Do 3 von rmwmlwr Mr
ir r k: / “Porf/otlv ”
<<Well he aToffi went to oX^l Enrone Became leTnve^ be
wigli ed to a ^ ^
»»
^
“Well, wliat of it?”
“He got caught in one of the recent
disasters and was lost. Just think what
a fool he was. If he had married he
couldn’t have been worse off than he is
now, could he ?”
“Well, my dear, that depends on
which place he went to .”—Philadelphia
Call.
AN EIGHT TEAR OLD GIRL.
PliVnhpth i* a 'Rnffnln <yirl ahont eiaht
vears old When asked how far she had
Win ceocrapbv lessoD the little WO
man Zd said- ^hat “We are in the Aim now' ^riris
fkere short^red do vou think? The
were skirfsand a sorfof
ffr een iacket 'aced in front K gfl and £2 behind
but I think they are blue.” “Well,”
she could recover breath. P “but 'where
are the Alps, child?” “I don’t know,”
was the artless response “It doesn t
sav anything about that. —Buffalo
Commercial.
AN UNPROFITABLE BUSINESS.
“Well, how s trade ?” asked one Cin¬
cinnati florist of another.
“Dead,” was the reply; “I haven’t
sold a bouquet in a ween.”
“Nor I,” responded the other. “And
here there are thirty or forty murderers
in jail. This uiob business is a terrible
thing.”
Digging for Precious Stones.
A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis.,
says: 8. B. Boynton, of this city, who
ia'digging Wis., for diamonds that he has near found Wauke¬ two
sha, reports this week. One of
in the gravel strata fine specimen; the
the stones was a
other an imperfect crystallization known
as “Tart” diamond. At a depth'of fifty
five feet the diggers came upon a piece
of timber, evidently tamarack, perfectly
preserved. It probably thousands had of lain in its it
present bed for years;
was not petrified. In the upper strata
of gravel, Boynton found quantities of
topaz stones, malachites, sardonyx,chrys¬
olites, cornelians, and pieces of garnet.