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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE-
A. J. HARP, Publisher.
Everyday Life.
Tymtrblesmlth, at Ills morning task,
Merrily glassy tbe blue-veined stone,
|W ut Lands circling smootli. You ask:
“AVhat will it bo whon it is donel”
•'A shaft for 11 young girl’s grave ” Both
bands
Oo Itack with a will to their sinewy play,
And b 0 sings like a bird, os he swaying
stands.
A rollicking slave of Love and May.
—[Andrew Hedelbroke in the Atlantic.
A COSTLY BONNET.
"Isany one hurt?” asked Mr. Creswick.
‘•What has happened? Can I he of use?”
He was strolling past CMndytuft Cot-
tage, as he often did. It was a habit
into which ho had fallen of late, almost
without any definite knowledge or in¬
tention of his own, aud if any one had
told him that Z tldee Gray’s fair, girlish
face had anything to do with it, ho
would doubtless have been much sur¬
prised.
"Oh, it’s only our Zay, in one of her
tempests,” said Louise, calmly smooth-
jag back the wind-ru Iliad gold of her
curls. “8hc’s as wild as the March
wind itself.”
Louise Gray was like a tall, white lily,
to serene, so graceful and so beautiful.
Her soft locks lay against her brow
likes waves of sunshine, her eyes were
blue and clear beueath their curved
lashes, her crimson lips looked as if they
never spoke aught but the sweetest of
words.
Mr. Creswick looked at her as an
artist might survey some peerless work
of art; but his heart never warmed
toward her any more than if slie were
her own type in a frozen marble.
It was Zaidee that lie liked best—
wild, impetuous Z tidee, with the velvet-
hazel eyes, and the shifting roses in
her cheeks and the bright, disordered
hair—Zaidee, who was always being
checked for something, and who was
treated more like a child than a woman,
although she had passed the Rubicon of
her eighteenth birthday.
"Oli!” said Mr. Creswick.
Nor did he think the less of Zay to
discover that she was human, like the
rest of womankind, and no passionless
clay goddess.
“Won’t you come in,said Louise,” with
carressing cordiality of manner.
"Not to-day,” said Mr. Creswick.
And he walked meditatively past the
lilac-hedged fence, with his eyes cast
downward as if he were counting tho
yellow dandelions that starred the
grassy bank.
Louise bit her lip.
"Tiresome fellow !’’ she said to her-
self. ‘I do wonder if he ever means to
come to the point ? But he must mean
something, or he wouldn’t keep coining
here. And he is rich aud handsome,
and mamma says that if 1 mean to settle
well, I mustn't wait till I ain old and
faded, like Miss Patience Perrifield.”
So Louise entered the garden-gate,
settling the ribbon bows ou her dress in
a leisurely sort of way, aud following
the tones of a high, excited voice, she
strolled along the wide, cool hall to the
shrubberies at the back of the house.
“Oh, dear,” said she, with a depre¬
cating motion of her hand, "what is it
now ? I do wish, Z lidec, you wouldn’t
treat us to so many of these scenes ! It’s
too trying to the nerves ! ’
Zaidee stood in the midst of the
flower-beds, relentlessly tramp ing down
verbenas, poppyhead* and clove scented
clusters of pinks, with something held
tenderly in her hands, while her spark¬
ling, tear-drenched eyes and the vivid
scarlet of her cheeks betokened that
some extraordinary emotion had stirred
her soul.
“Wlmt have you got ?” asked Louise,
sharply. "Bright hits of color— fea¬
thers ?”
"It’s—it’s two beautiful bluebirds!"
sobbed Ziidee; “and my humming¬
bird—-the humming-bird I have fed and
ooaxed ever since it was a wee bit of
velvet down in its nest!”
“Such a fuss about nothing!” said
•Toe, a tall lad of sixteen; “and Bill
Beers is waiting to stuff and mount them
for me. I told her, L >u, that you had
said you’d give me a dollar if I'd shoot
the blues and trap the hum ruing fellow;
but she won’t believe me.”
"Oh, Louise!” pleaded Ziidee; "you
didn’t--you never cou'd !”
"Such a fuss to make about nothing 1"
repeated Louise, impatiently, stamping
her foot. "1 mint have birds for my
bonnet. Every one wears birds.”
"People are cruel!"’ sobbed Zaidee—
"savage! Oh, I do so hate fashion and
fashionable doings!”
“And as I can’t afford to pay the
prices that the milliners ask,” languidly
added Louise, “as long as papa keeps my
allowance at such a niggardly point, 1
must just do the best I can. After all,
yo» silly Donna Quixota, what’s a blue¬
bird or two?—or a mise able humming¬
bird, that you could cover with ths
palm of your hand? Here’s your dollar,
Joe. Have Bill Beers stuff and mount
them as soon ns he can. 1 want to wear
( hem next week."
“You shan’t, have them I” cried Zaidee.
“My poor little murdered darling! Oh,
anything- ’inything but ft fashionable
woman 1 "
Louise, however, was waxing impa¬
tient. With a rapid step forward, she
watched tho birds front Zaideo's hand
and gave them to Joe, who, vaulting
over the fonco, vanished straightaway
into the copses; and with an exceedingly
great cry, the poor child sank cm the
garden seat, and gave way to aobs and
tears.
"Such sentimental nonsense!" mur-
mured Louise, turning scornfully away.
And then she fell to wondering how
she should look In the now bonnet, and
whether Mr. Creswick would think the
bluo-aud-gold decorations becoming to
her; and if-— But who is to trace the
devious current of a pretty girl’s medita¬
tions, when once they wander into the
regions of if* and amlti
"Auything but a fashionable woman !’’
Alured Creswiek’s heart echoed Zaidce
Gray’s passionate words—"anythiny hut
a fashionable womau?”
The little discussion had an auditor
that they recked not of.
Was it strauge that Mr. Creswick
opened the latch of the lower garden
gate, and came to try aud comfort poor
little Zav in her tribulation?
"I have heard it all, Zaidoe, ” said he.
"Do not fret, poor little lassie—it can’t
be helped. But after this I shall never
want to see the burnished breasts and
glittering wings of heaven’s poor little
songsteis on a woman’s head -gear. It is
too much like a sacrifice. It makes one
think of the slaughter of the innocents."
Zaidee lifted those velvet-hazel eyes
of hers to his face, full of inexplicable
pleadings.
"I—I know it’s dreadfully silly of me,”
she faltered; "but if I could only have
put my little pets under the green
"You shall 1” said Mr. Creswick.
“But—”
"Don’t look so troubled,
don’t I say that you ahallT' reiterated
Creswick.
"Oh,” cried Zaidee, "you are so good t
No one has comforted mo as you have-
Every one seemed to think it was so
silly of me to care for birds. But they
were such beautiful, innocent little crea-
tares, and they had been my pets.”
In the carmine glow of the sunset that
evening, Air. Creswick brought Zaidee a
little paper box.
"Here are your darlings,” he said. "I
bribed Beers, the taxerderinist, to let me
have them. He will substitute others iu
| their places—unfortunately there are
' plenty of little sacrifices the idle
poor to
folly of fashion’s barbarous whim piled
up there on his counter—and Miss Gray”
(he did not say Louise, Z tidee vaguely
noticed! "will be none the wiser.”
"Oh, it is too good of you—so good
| flt you!” repeated Zaidee. "But how
Louise cau wear those things on her hat!
AVby, I would as soon go around like
the cannibals that we read of, with
strings of human teetli around my neck,
and scalps hung at my belt, Should
you think me very childish aud silly,
Mr. Creswick,” she added, with soft
eyes lifted imploringly to his face, “if I
bury these poor little winged creatures,
whose bright life is over now, in the
corner of my flower-garden? ’
"Dear little Zaidee,” he said, kindly,
"in my eyes everything that you do is
right."
And so, together, they buried the two
blue-birds nnd the tiny, gold-streaked
humming-bird. While at Mrs. May-
dew’s "musical tea” every one was won¬
dering where Air. Creswick was—and
Miss Louise Gray, most of all.
"Z iidee,” said Alured, as he sat on
the crooked trunk of a tree, when tho
miniature obsequies were over, "will
you answer me oue question?”
"As many as you please, Mr. Cres¬
wick,” said the girl, who was slowly
sprinkling clover leaves on the tiny
mound, with her chin resting iu her
hand.
"What did you mean, just now, when
you asked me if 1 should think you
childish in following the dictates of
your heart ?”
“What do I mean ?” she repeated.
"Yes. "Do I seem so very old to
you?” Z ddee's color
"You, Mr. Creswick?”
wouuted like pink waves to the roots of
her hair. 11 Oh, no, no!’
"I am eight and twenty,” said he.
• ■And if the girl whom 1 love considers
that too old, 1 am lost, indeed."
“Do you mean—Louise?” she faltered.
"I meau—Z tidee,” he replied.
In an instant he hud folded her to ids
heart.
"My little one, my pretty one, uiy
heart’s queen.” he whispered passionate-
iy- "I could
"Oh,” cried Zaidee, never
have believed this. I have thought of it,
but—but what have I done to desetve
this?”
And then Alured Creswick knew how
well she loved him, this shy, soft eyed,
impetuous young thing,
Louise Gray’s new bonnet was ex¬
ceedingly elegant and stylish, ‘ ‘a p*:r-
feet love of a thing," as all her young;
lady Wends said. But it bad cost her
dear. It had cost her a over And her
loss had been bright eyed Zudee s gain.
“Fori think after this,’ ml Mr.
Creswick, "I never can see a birds
briaht wing or pretty droop ng head dis-j on
a girl’s bonnet without a thrill of
taste of aversion, almost. Barbarism is j
barbarism, whether fashion santlons it j
’
or not.’’—[Saturday Night.
RLLAV1LLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 31, IRK.
THE 1'AMIlY PHYSICIAN.
HyilU-ule Hill at Para.
' Bread and milk with fruit.
" Bread and whipped eggs; honey.
<<• Bread and boiled eggs; apples
(Human).
*• Bread and butter; rice pudding
with sugar and milk.
■> Corn bread and butter; roasted
chestnuts; honey, grapes [Corsican).
0. Oat-meat porridge and milk; fish,
bread and butter (Danish).
7. Poached eggs, pancakes with
honevor svruD- ’ bread rm ldimr- ’ hot
Milk '
... yctable soup; baked beans; po-
dumplings. V. [Phr bolter enolo biscuit, gical Journal. and apple
IWI* Xo, Ibe Mck-Koom.
Don’t light a sick-room at night by
means of u jot of gas burning low; noth
ing impoverishes the air sooner. Use
sperm candles, or tapers which burn in
sperm oil.
Don’t forget to have a few beans of
cofLo handy, for this serves as a deodor-
izer, if burnt on coala or paper. Bits of
charcoal placed around are useful in al>-
sorbing gases and other impurities.
Don’t have the temperature of a sick-
room much over 00 degrees; 70 degrees
are allowable, but not. advisable.
Don’t permit currents of air to blow
upon the patient. An open fire-place is
an excellent means of ventilation. The
current may he tested by burning s piece
of paper in front.
Don’t give the patieut a full giws of
water to drink from, unless he is al-
lowed till lie desires. If he can draiu
the glaws he will be satisfied; so regulate
the quantity before handing it to him.
Don’t nsk a convalescent if lie would
like this or that to eat or drink, but
prepare the delicacies and present them
in a tempting way.
Don’t throw coal upon the tire; place
it in brown paper bags and lay them on
the fire, thus avoiding (he noise, which
is shocking to the sick and sensitive.
Don’t jar the bed by leaning or sitting
upon it. This is unpleasant to one il!
and nervous.
D-in’t let stale flowers remaiu in a sick
chamber.
Don’t be unmindful of yourself if you
are in the responsible position of mirse.
To do faithful work you must have
proper food aud stated hours of rest.
Don’t appear anxious, howevergreat
your anxiety.
D m’t forget needful that kindness successful and nursing, tender. |
ness are to
Human nature longs to be soothed and
comforted, on all occasions when it is
out of tunc.—[American Druggist. |
A Dog Lives Forty Days on Water.
At the last meeting of the French So-
ciety of Biology Dr. Labordc read an
interesting paper, which throws some
light on tho complicated problem of in-
auition raised by the fast of Merlatti,
On this occasion, however, the problem
concerned dogs and not men. One dog,
weighing thirty-one pounds, condemned
to a complete fast, died on the twentieth
day. Another of the same weight and
race, but which was allowed to drink
water, was still brisk and alive on the
twentieth day. The experiment was
continued up to forty days, and might
have been pushed longer, tbe dog being
in a fair state of health. On the twen-
tieth day the dog that died weighed only
four pounds; the other one weighed
nineteen pounds, and from that moment
it lost less in coinjiarison every day, till
on the fortieth day it weighed fifteen
and one-fourth pounds. During the
forty days it drauk nearly eight pound*
of water, drinking less and leas as the
fast continue I. As regards the question
of the resumption of nourishment, the
dog settled it by eating two pounds and
a half of soup aud two pounds of meat
without any unpleasant consequences,
and it is now iu first-class condition.
The .Spanish Mackerel.
"Not one persen ill ten who orders
Spanish mackerel at the average restaur¬ .
ant ever gets it,” said a Washington
Market fish dealer. ‘Spanish mackerel j
are a good deal like Mocha coffee or
canvas beck duck, because it’s very hard
to get the genuine article and so easy to
fool customers. Some of the high-toned
restaurants are not above serving a bonita
now and then when an order comes for
the Spanish mackerel, and 1 kuow that
in the cheapet restaurants striped bass,
bonitas wcakfisli, ami sometimes even
the common mackerel are served for this
delicious fish, The fact is that it costs
almost ns much to get the Spanish mack¬
erel as it does trout, but there are com¬
paratively few people who know one
when they get a bit of it in their mouth.
A half portion of genuine Spanish mack¬
erel cannot b served at a profit for less
than seventy-five cents, Home of our
lovers of delicacies always select their
own mackerel, so as to he sure of it.”—
[New York Sun.
th , I) llk side.
^ ^ ^ lalB( , l!jogUie iU luck
!lUend( . d h , r H ff„i rs , when s
w Whi „„ to conmlo her, bade h*r
• • ' ^ bn „ ht iid( , >. “ 0 h,” she
sighed, "there seems to be , m, bright , . . ,
"Then polish up th" lark st e,
was the reply. Th.s was sount adv e.
—[L vmg Church.
A CITY AMBULANCE,
Tho Dark Wagons Frequently
Seen In New York Streets.
Some of the Odd Experiences of tkrf
Daotoi's in Charge.
. ,
' e -1 '“ '** uUC *‘ ^
«•»*‘‘oilwa *} °. u th , by at W with “ k - * '**'*"«* speed only second
| to that of fire engine, there iuci-
a are
“ urrin -' tbat M6 " wul1
, 1 * tlC ’ nnd > frmn a '“oialist s stand
point, are also instructive.
Probably the major part of tho human
family, outside of the medical profes-
«on, have awooiated n*ught but grim
ideas with tha' black wagon and gallop-
mg horse, aud tm!y connect, them with
<leath-bed scene., with the shadow of
* ie cemetery lurking in the background.
body But.it is bidding doesn’t tare always well mean to this that earthly some-
*Te every time you hoar the clang of the
bells and the rush of the wheels and
catch a ff !iin P* e of the 30mbre cover
over your shoulder a* it rushes past.
ob * Do! It may mean an accident, or
a case of pneumonia or rheumatism, or
H may mean^ouly a “drunk, ”
Hut that latter is generally the most
serious in the surgeon’s eyes, for he
knows it moans strict surveillance on his
P ar ^ for the next twenty minutes,
"One uight,” said a downtown phy-
siemn, "when I was on the Bellevue
Hospital ambulance, there was a call
fr °m the Fifty-ninth street station house,
^ ben we B 0 *' U P there 1 found it was
oniy a case of tremens. The man was
tftb un ’^ sahow, like a Mexican. 1 had
a great deal of trouble to keep him in
*- be ambuiance. He assured me there
were little white elephants hanging by
their tails all around him. He described
their antics to me, and then began to
count them. It was a very cold, windy
uight, and the wiud blew through the
wagon in gusts. The man fought hard
to get out of the ambulance, and I final-
ly had to fasten him down to the bot-
tom to keep him quiet.”
"I remember one night in Decamber,
it was bitterly cold, «nd three calls came
in at ones from the Toombs. Oue was a
ca8e o{ tremens, one was an old
who had rheumatism and the other was
a woman who was suff.-riug with pleuri-
*J- ^ ^storming hard outside, and
lbe three were huddled in the wagon
shivering with cold. There was only
one blanket, and that I wrapped around
the woman, who was most in need. B ut
° 1,1 ^ maa groaned incessantly, for the
jo.'ts of the wagon made the rheumatism
creak in his joints. His complaining
aroused the woman’s sympathy to the
highest pitch, and she magnanimously
offered him the blanket. I objected to
that, however, aud then she gave him
one corner of it. Between the three 1 in
one nmbuluuce 1 had my hands fnll
f
and wasn’t sorry when we rolled under
(be archway into the hospital yard,
"Iliad a sad ease in Pitt street one
day in October. I remember the sun
was shining very brightly in the street
when 1 went, at noon, into a rear tene¬
ment. We groped through the dark
balls to a room where there was a great
deal oI excitement, and going in Ifound
* little girl, four years old, who had been
terribly burned. The mother, a Hebrew
woman, liad gone out and locked her
two little children in the room, when
the eldest of them caught her dress in
the tire aud in a moment was enveloped
i„ flames. The neighbors rushed in and
the fi e was finally put out, but the little
,,ne bad inhaled the flame and could not,
possibly liv . She did not suffer much,
apparently, and her parents could uot
be brought to believe that she was in so
dangerous a condition, and when, a few
hours after, she died iu their arms they
couid not be consoled. Tin y lived in a
room about eight by fourteen feet square,
HU d tber were fully twenty people
crowded in there, i be child lay ou a
lounge and they crowded around till I
could scarcely get through to see her.
"There was another case of a child
that I once had. It was in the middle
of the. afternoon that the call came. We
hurried up to forty-eighth street, near
second avenue. The case was in the top
of a six story teuoment. It seems they
were building another tenement just next
door of equal height, aud there was an
air shaft between the two buildings.
There were a lot of children playing on
the roof, and they amused themselves by
jumping across tbe air shaft. Of course
one of them fell and went the whole six
stories to the bottom of the basement.
She struck on a pile of lumber and fell
on her shoulder in some way, so that her
back was broken below the neek. They
carried her up agaiu to the room, but
her mother was out, aud it was nearly
three hours before the ambulance was
summoned and, the child was taken
away. She was paralyzed and lay in the
hospital sixteen months. Then she was
pronounced incurable, put in a rolling
chair and removed to the hospital for
crippled children.”
“Do hospitals keep the ambu*
lances and horses always in readiness,
something after the manner of fire com-
panies?” "Some hospitals have the drop har-
aeH s, others keep a hone always bar-
ne ssed, and others still keep to the
oiowsr way of harncssm* up when the
call comes in. I believe the New York
Hospital keeps a horse standing har¬
nessed night and day.
"At Bellevue the call comes in by
telephone. The little crippled man who
stands in the office takes down the ea'I,
goes out ou the steps and blows three
blasts on a big whistle, and by the time
I the doctor is summoned and ready the
ambulance is driving up to the door,
-[New York Herald.
------—----
j Magpies looking aud Robber Birds. in
! A stranger at the magpie
| it* cage in Liucola Park, Chicago, said
I to a "News” reporter:
, “We have hua d r eds of them in Now
, Mexico. They are on my excellent
j terra. with the cuttle. A (lock is almost.
lt!ways t0 be M , en i nconl p au y withahenl.
I 'file magpie, will alight on a steer’, buck
j atld g0 ,« him, picking off insects,
j jj e never m ole»ts tho birds, excapt when
lhey ^ thelr b ;u, t00 cloM to jp, e ye-
ba ii s , The birds are very familiar and
easily caught. Iti our country the mag-
p j e is a great pet. lie learns to talk, and
can speak in English as plainly a# any-
body. He is far superior to the parrot i
as au imitator, and can easily be taught
to 6ay almost anything. He will sustain
j his part of a conversation with vigor,
while hopping around seemingly too
busy to notice what is going on he will
often astonish a whole croud by breaking
out with some sage and fitting remark,
and when he is at loss for words he will
hold ths attention of hie auditors by his
glib chatter aud saucy mimicry of every
noise he hears. Wo doa’t think lie’s
worth keeping unless he can talk, and it
! is rare to find a magpie llwt can’t learn
bow These birds are great company iu
t he mountains, miles and miles away
, f roni tbe busy world,
"The American magpies are very much
like their European cousins. There is a
tradition in the fur west that years ago a
foreign ship arrived at Sun Francisco
with a few magpies aboard. It is said
they were set free oa reaching shore uud
made tbeir way to the interior. Reach-)
ing the Mexican ranges, they located
there, and multiplied fill they have be-
come very uurnorous, and are now found
all along the Rocky mountain chain,
even far to the north.
"We have another curious bird out in
,i ie m i„i U g an d grazing country. A
3!n all, grayish eh up, as sly as a fox. He
; s ( a q ed the ‘robber.’ Leave a piece of
mea t or a biscuit on the cabin table and
j he i? sure to stent it. I have seen these
j b j rd8 ait on tbe dinner, window pluming sill, while (licin- we
xere entiug our
: ^ivea as if no one was near. But us soon
j ab W(J turned our back on a piece of meat
it was takellj and the ‘robber’ was out of
sight _ Thig cunning bird will actually
pR-k tha food off one’s plate, and in such
a myat erious way that one is puzzled to
know what has b CC0DJ0 of if. We never
km the . robb er’ birds. They are infinite- j
j y alnug j D j, nnd bunnies*, but they are
tbe m03 t audacious thieves on earth.”
Removing Superfluous Hair.
To remove supcifluous hair, procure a
p i ece 0 f pumice-stone of a fine grain,
and not very porous. Prepare for use
by cutting the stone into a small square
with rounded edges. Then rub it on a
[ lftrd s tone or file until its whole surface
s qu it e smooth. When this is done.
,„ b gently with it the part where the
hair grows, at first once a day, previ-
ously dipping the pumice-stone iu warm
water. One minute dipping wilt gen-
tra iiy suffice to remove the hair. If any
j rra tion of the skin ensues, apply a little
0 R to t he part. The rubbings
mav bt , made»as often as is convenient,
care be i Q g taken uot to scrape the skin
by too rough application. This may;
I10 t; pro v« a radical care, but it will
kcc p tho enemy at, bay, and prove less
troublesome aud painful than plucking
out the hair with tweezers.—[New York
Dispatch.
- '
A Si lit mt ti ay Louisian t i.
Some one once asked John Jacob As-
tor about the largest sum of money he
ever made at any one time in hi< life.
He said in reply: "T.ie largest sum l
ever missed making was in reference to
the purchase of Louisana iu connection
with DeWitt Clinton, Gouvernenr Mor-
ris, aud other*. We hftended to pur-
chase all of that province of the Emperor j
Napoleon and then sell it to President J
Jefferson at the same price, merely re
mining the public domain, charging 2
1-2 per cent, commission ou the pur- j
chase.” It fell through, however, for j
some tr ffl ng cause or other. H id they
succeeded Mr. Astor estimated that he
should have made about $30,000,000.
-[Dr, Goods Chronicle. ;
An Unnecessary Kxlinrt.ition.
In his rec ally erected wing to
"Locksley 11a)',” lennyson exhorts: '
“Hope the lies', hut hold the
Present, fatal daughter of the past.” J
This seems rather unnecessary. If the
fatal daughter of the past is like tb«
fatal daughters of other people, she may
be counted upon to bang on to all tht j
presents she can lay her hands on.—
[Life.
Rule Egg, i
A
"Give me a (lude egg, please,” said
the boarder to the table girl.
‘‘A dude egg? What is that?”
"A fro -It one.”---[Boston Courier.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,
A scientist, after a careful analysis ot
the impressions made upon the retina by
different tlegr «•» of light, concludes that
both white and black are colors, and
both should have « proper place upon
the chromatic scale.
lu certain Austrioa coal mines work is
suspended in dangerous plat es during t
full of the barometer, experiments still in
progress having shown that the quantity
atul intensity of explosive gases greatly
increase as the degree of atmospheric
pressure diminishes.
For some time past experiments have
lwcn mutlb u Ue rmativ with a compoei-
lion of corkj 8alldi aud )[*« moulded
illtu brick, for the construction of light
wa )i*. xiil*, it i» said, tx
t i ude g souud better than brickwork, and
Uatoo.light and a good non-conductor
0 f ‘
-old in North
, . , ^ , , mler-
mt *" 1,1 J<
. 1 . d tl tioa known a.
j;“ , h^^teen . j n p umbro ke
known to fall
. ' . ’ and at Fort Reli-
6jj d M bag
been observed
A French commission, appointed to
inquire into the protection of buildings
from lightning, have reported to the min-
ister of instruction that it is indispensa-
ble for complete safety to have all iron
roofs, doors, pipes, sashos, etc., carefully
connected with the apparatus usually at¬
tached to public buildings as protections
against electric discharges.
The interior of the bulb of so incan-
descent electric lamp is popularly oir>But sup-
posed to be absolutely empty of
Dr. Fleming asserts that in a Swan lamp,
when exhausted to onq-uullioath of ao
atmosphere, there remains some 400,0#0,-
000,000 molecules of air. It would Uk*
about 120,000 years to count the number
of molecules la that "vacuum.”
While the bog-wood of Iceland proves
the former extensive growths of laoge
trees, the present forests consist chiefly
of dwarfed birches, and trees fifteen or
twenty feet in height ore said to be rare.
The decrease of wood- land is not a re¬
suit of climatic change or volcanic out-
burst, but has been brought about by
the improvident destruction of trees by
the inhabitants themselves,
The tortoise shell of commerce is da-
rjvcd from the beautiful horny plates of
the iiuwk’s-biil or imbneated turtle,
though from those animals only that
weigh at least 180 pounds, as the plates
aru otherwise too thin. The great tor-
toisc-shell marts are now Singapore and
c l[lton; but it wai consumed in ancient
Rome in considerable quantitics-even
the door-posts of the rich being inlaid
witil itf andt Ue carapace used as a cradle
and a bath-tub for children and as a
sh i e id for warriors.
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The Extremes of City Life.
Is city life favorable to women? In
one respect, yes; in others, most cer-
tainly no. Iliad the euriosity to ask
the head of one of New York’s great
drygoods firms the other day if ha
could give me any idea of the yearly ag—
gr,-gates of tbe bills of his heaviest custo-
niers. Twenty-five thousand dollars, ha
told me, one woman had spent with him
within a twelve month, and several
others had grown poorer to the tune of
$20,000 to flY, 000. Thirty thousand dol-
jars is not unheard of as the price of
the dress and toilet equipments of an
extravagant city’s eitravagant dame*.
At. the other end of the social scale tha
unwomanly employment of the very
poor are before the eyes daily. I see
women raking in the ash barrels for bits
of coal, bags of fuel slung upon their
backs; women balancing heavy planks
and broken wood on their heads, pil-
fered from houses in process of erection;
women bent in anxiety over the offal
buckets for stray morsels to eat and
women on the shanty farms in summer,
<loing ^ heavy out . of . door drudgery M
undw any phaae of tbe old world civlli _
zation ou which we suppose w« have
improved.—[Mail and Express.
Didn’t Give up to Trifles.
As John Quincy Adams, then a Hep-
resentative iu Congress, was crossing tho
ball of the House of Representatives on
the afternoon of Monday, May 18,1840 one
ofhis feet caught in the straw malting on
the floor aud caused him to fail with
gucb violence as to dislocate his right
shoulder. After being conveyed to his
residence, however, the shoulder was
restored to its socket, and, regardless
of what most men would consider a very
sufficient reason for remaining at home
this faithful representative, with hi.
bandaged shoulder and disabled right
arm, was again at his post in the House
of Representatives at the usual hour of
meeting the next day. —[Ben: Parley
Poore.
A Tart Tenant.
Landlord—That porch is rotten, and
ought to come down,
Tenant—Yes.
Landlord—So ought that shed roof,
It’s very little bettor.
Tenant—Yes. And there’s something
else ought to come down.
Landlord—Ah, indeed? What is that?
Ten ati L - The reu t, s ir. —[Harper’s Ba-
zar.
VOL. II. NO. -'7.
Because of Thee.
Ai f PO- Um grown to ilttr to mm
Because of thee.1
-jgy maiden with the eyes demur*,
And <juiet month and forehead pure,
Joy >uak .s a summer iumy heart,)
Because thou art.
TL. very winds melodious ba
Because of thee.
The rose i* sweeter for thy sake,
The waves in softer music bftak^
on brighter wings tbe swollowa dart
Because thou art
Uy aky „ , w « pt 0 f shadows froe
Because of thee.
Borrow and nrt have loot their ttUtg, '
T he blossoms grow, the linnets shag;,,
.kings in my delight have part,
Because thou art..
—[Cali* Tbaxtsr.
HUMOROUS.
A . bau.i-orgsn-A . devoted , , . to .
paper
uu*tT?,
Tho dramatist has an eony time. His
wt>1 ^ *•
^ » man blows his own trumpet, can
bis opinion he sound?
Woman—Say, there, why don’t yon
out that pie? Tramp--’Ctos it's too much
like work,
There’s no danger of the young man
who goes to see his girl striking for
shorter hours.
Tho young wau who is bewailing his
misspent time probably put up his watch
to take his girl out buggy riding,
Before the wedding day she was dear
and he was her treasure, but afterward
the became dearer and he treasurer.
T he man who was born with a silver
S1)00n in hi( mouth ig now i 00 ki ng about
for S0U1 «, tt ,i U g to eat with the spoon,
A t . rci]llloil9 Ku gli»b paper gravely as-
^ ^ we|Um gras , hoppere are put
, ju (bj$ ( . ouutry for Freuch sardine ..
. Palmistry Is uot a new craze; we have
• known men to sit around a table for
hours trying to find out about each
other's hands.
A Oil cago business man worth half a
million dollars married the female cashier
iu his store the other day. The manner
iu which she got thirteen cents for a
shilling every time hit him.
Science says that a body weighing
100 pounds on earth would weigh two
tons on the planet Jupiter. Just think
of the sufferings of an inhabitant of
Jupiter who had eaten a piece of wed-
diug cake !
Woman (to Irsmp)—You might saw a
little wood for that nice dinner. Tramp
(reproachfully)—Madam, you ought not
j (o throw temptation in the way of a
I 1001 IUftl1 ' Woman — Temptation?
j Tramp-Yes, madam, If I were to saw
some wood, the chances are that I would
carry off (he saw. I’m au honest man
“ ow - An ‘ l 1 Wftnt to » ta J 80 ‘
Persiau jSoldlersrou the March.
A Persian regiment on the march is a
strange spectacle. Every three soldiers
have a donkey; for there is no baggage
train ami no commissariat. On this
donkey is placed the worldly wealth of
its proprietors and their musket. Occa¬
sionally the veiled wife of a soldier also
bestrides the patient beast. The short
tchibouque is passed from mouth to
mouth. The colonel’s lady travels in a
light horse litter covered with scarlet
cloth, and is quite concealed from the
eyes of the indiscreet. The other regi¬
mental ladies, closely veiled, are borne
in more modest panniers, one on cither
side of a mule. The procession extends
j perhaps over two miles, with
| long gaps between each group
of wayfarers. The only Ing-
gage consists of a few trunks belonging
to the officers, and a few large copper
; pots for cooking purposes. Last come
the officers, chatting merrily, and
smoking their silver water pipes, which
a ragged fellow ou a ir.ule replenishes
with tobacco and fires with live char-
coal us they are smoked out. The regi¬
ment possesses no tents. It found
muple accommodation and to spare in
the caravanserai it left this morning,and
in a similar caravanserai eight-and-
twenty miles off the whole company
will he comfortably housed before sun-
set.
I The Owl.
Tiiere are forty-six different species ot
! ""'Is known to naturalists, but the prin-
! el l ial occupation of each species is to
! rUM out nights aud scare school-ma’ams
half to death by hooting. Such owls as
can 1 hoot at,! one-hom ‘ ,ir ' ls wlnctl
( ‘ave to grub along the best way they
CHU ' They “ r ® llke * with such a
hard cold that he c-au’t holler. The owl
is not !’ articular wl ‘at he eats, and
would be warmly welcomed at the sver-
af? 1 ' boarding house. He will eat chick-
r ftbb ' tS ’ berries, seeds,
a " d ““ , T i UP
ou, and is called , the emblem of wisdom
because he can look around the corner
of Ihe coru crib and see a farmer’s son
waiting there with an old shot-gun to
welcome him. While the bird is harm¬
less, many a young man who is coming
home from seeing his Mary Jams has
struck a 2.20 clip on hearing the solemn
"Too-hool” above his head, and hasn’t
stopped shaking for an hour after get¬
ting home. The owl is said to live for
half a century, but what particular good
it does him is more than anybody can
tell.—[Detroit Free Press.