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She ittonitor.
D. C. Sutton, Editor and Proprietor.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN PASTOR S SUN*
DAY SERMON
Subject: "American Seamen.”
“Behold also the ships —James
ill, It.
If thi® exclamation was appropriate about
years ago. when it was written ebneern
mg the crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake
Dahlee, how much more appropriate in an
age which has launched from the dry docks
for purposes of peace—the Arizona, of the
Gulon Line, the City of Richmond, of the
Inman Line, the Egypt, of the National
Line, the Germanic, o£ the White Star Line,
the Circassia, of the Auchor Line, the
Etruria, of the Cunard Line, and the Great
Eastern, with hull six hundred and eighty
feet long—not a failure for it helped lay the
Atlantic cable, and that was enough glory
tor one ship’s existence—and in on
age which for purposes of war
has launched the screw-sloops like
the Idaho, the Shenandoah, the Ossippe. and
our ironclads like the Kalamazoo, the Roa
noke and the Dunderberg, and those which
lmye already been buried in the deep like the
Monitor, the Ilousatonic, the Weehawken and
the Teeumseh, the tempests ever since sound
ing a volley' over their watery sepulchres,
and the scarred veterans of war shipping that
have swung into the naval yards to spend
thoir last days, their decks now all silent of
the feet that trod them, their rigging uil
silent of the hands that clung to them, their
port holes silent of the brazen throats
that once thundered out of them. If
in the first century, when uar
vessels were dependent on the on is that pad
died at the side of them for propulsion, my
text was suggestive, with how much more
emphasis and meaning and overwhelming
reminisconce we can cry out as we see the
Kearsage lay across the bows of the Alabama
and sink it, teaching foreign nations they' had
better keep their hands off our American
fight; or as we see the ram Albermarle,of the
Confederates, running out and in the Roan
oke, and up and down the coast, throwing
everything into confusion as no other craft
ever did. pursued by the Miami,the Ceres,the
Southfield, the Sassacus, the Mattabesett, the
Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louis
iana, the Minnesota and other armed vessels
all trying in vain to catch her, until Captain
Cushing, twenty-one years of ago, and his
men blew hor up, himself and only one other
escaping; mid as 1 see the flagship Hartford,
and the Richmond, and the Monongaliela,
with other gunboats, sweep past the batteries
of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi flows
forever free to all Northern and Southern
craft, I cry out with a patriotic emotion that
I cannot suppress if I would, and would not
if I could: "Behold also the ships.”
At the annual decoration of graves, North
and South, among Eederulsand Confederates,
full justice bus been done to the memory of
those who fought on the land in our sad con
test, but not enough has been said of those
who on ship's deck dared and suffered all
things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea,
help me in this sermon! So, ye admiral-,
commanders, captains, pilots, gunners, boat
swains, sailmakers, surgeons, stokers, mess
mates and seamen of all names, to use your
own parlance, we might ns well get under
way and stand out tow ard sea. Let all land
lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four
bells!
Never since the sea fight of Lepanto, where
three hundred royal galleys manned by fifty
thousand warriors, at sunrise, September 0,
1571, met two hundred and fifty royal galleys
maimed by one hundred and twenty' thousand
men, and in the four hours of battle eight
thousand fell on one side and twenty-live
thousand on the other; yea, never since the
day when at Aetium, thirty-one years before
Christ, Augustas with two hundred and
sixty ships scattered the two hundred and
twenty ships of Mark Antony and gained
universal dominion as the prize; yea,
since the day when at Salamis the twelve
hundred galleys of the Persians, manned by
five hundred thousand men, were crushed by
Greeks with less than * third of that force;
yea, never since the time of Noah, the first
ship captain, has the world seen such a
miraculous creation as that of the American
Navy in 1861. There were about two hun
dred available seamen in all the naval stations
and receiving ships, and here and there an
old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade
thirty-five hundred miles of sea coast,greater
than the whole coast of Europe, and, besides
that _ the Ohio, Tenuessee, Cumberland,
Mississippi, and other great rivers, covering
an extent of two thousand more miles, were
to be patrolled. No wonder the
whole civilized world burst into
guffaws of laughter at the seeming
impossibility. But the work was done, done
almost immediately done thoroughly, and
done with a speed and consummate skill
that eclipsed all the history of naval archi
tecture. What brilliant achievements are
suggested by the mere mention of the name
of the rear admirals. If all they did should
be written, every one, I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain the books d.at
should be written. But these names have re
ceived the honors due. The most of them
went to thair graves under the cannonade of
all the forts, navy yurds and mon-of-war, the
flags of all the shipping and capitals at half
mast.
But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval
heroes who have not yet received appropri
ate recognition. "Behold also the ships.” As
we will never know what our national pros
firity is worth until we realize what it cost,
recall the unrerited fact that the men of tl e
navy ran especial risks. They had not only
the human weaponry to contend with, but
the tides, the fog, th ■ storm. Not like other
ships coulrl they run into harbor
at the approach of an equinox, or
a cyclone, or a hurricane, because
the harbors were hostile. A miscalculate-i
or a tide might leave them on a bar, and a
fog might overthrow all the plans of wisest
commodore and admiral, and accident might
leave them, not on the land ready for an
ambulance, but at the bottom of the sea, aa
when the torfiedo blew up the Teeumseh in
Mobile Bay, and nearly all on board perished
Tl icy were at the mercy of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, which have no mercy. Such
tempests as wrecked the ’ Spanish
Armada might any day swoop upon the
6juadron. No hiding behind the earthworks.
No digging in of cavalry spurs at the sound of
retreat. Mightier than all the fortresses on
all the coasts, is the ix-ean when it bombards
a flotilla. In the cemeteries for Federal and
confederate dead are the bodies of most of
those who fell on the land. But where those
nr - who went down in the war vessels will
not be known until the sea gives up its dead.
The Jack tars knew that while loving arms
miglit carry the men who fell on the land
and ! bury thorn with solemn liturgy,
oid the honors of war, for the bodies of
those who dropped from the ratlines into
tl.ssea or went down with alien board under
the stroke ot a gunboat there remained the
sliark and the whale and the endless tossing
of the sea which cannot rest. How will you
find their graves for this national decoration!
Nothing but the archangel’s trumpet shall
i each their lowly bed. A few of them have
been gathered into naval cemeteries of
the land and you will garland the sod
that covers them, but who will put
flowers on the fallen crew of the
exploded Westfield and .Sl.awsheen, and the
-• nken Southfield, and the Winfield Scott.
Bullets threatening in front, bombs threaten
ing from above, torpedoes threatening from
MT. .VERNON, MONTGOMERY CO., GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887.
nencath and the ocean with its reputation or
six thousand years for shipwreck lying all
around, am 1 not right in saying it required
a special courage for the navy?
It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a
war vessel going out through the Narrows,
smlors iu now rig singing:
“A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep!”
the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships,
the dtx;ks immaculately clean, and the guns
at Quarantine firing a parting salute. But
the poetry is all gone out of that ship as it
comes out of that engagement, its decks red
with human blood, wheel-house gone, the
cabins a pile of shattered mirrors and de
stroyed furniture, steering wheel broken,
smokestack crushed, a hundred-pound
Whitworth rifle shot having left its
marie rrom port to starboard, the
shrouds rent away, ladders splintered
and decks plowed up, and smoke-blackened
and scalded corpses lying among those who
are gasping their last gasp far away from
home and kindred, whom they love as much
ay we love wife and parents and children.
Nut waiting until you are dead to put upon
your graves a wreath of recognition, this
hour we put on your living brow the garland
of a nation’s praise.
Oh, men of the Western Gulf squadron,
of the l&istern Gulf squadron, of the South
Atlantic squadron, of the North Atlantic
squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the
Pacific squadron, of the West India squadron
and of the Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks!
l ake the benediction of our churches. Accept
the hospitalities of the nation. If we had our
way we would get you not only a pension but a
home and a princely wanlrobe, and an equi
page and a banquet while you live, and after
your departure a catafalque, and a mausoleum
ot sculptured marble, with a model of tbo
ship in which you won the day. It is con
sidered a gallant thing when in a naval fight
the flagship With its blue ensign goes ahead
up a river or into a bay, its admiral standing
iu the shrouds watching and giving orders.
But 1 have to tell you. Oh veterans of the
American navy I if you are as loyal to
Christ as you were to the Cioveru
ment, there is a flagship sailing ahead of you
of which Christ is the admiral, and Ho
watches from the shrouds, and the heavens
are the blue ensign, and He leads you toward
the harbor, and all the broadsides of earth
and hell cannot damage you; and ye, whoso
garments were once red with your own blood,
shall have a robe washed and made white in
the blood of tho Lamb. Then strike eight
bells! High noon in heaveji!
With such anticipation, O, veterans of the
American navy 1 I charge you bear up under
the aches and weaknesses that you still carry
from the war times. You are not as stalwart
as you would have been but for that nervous
strain and for that terrifiic exposure. Let every
ache and pain, instead of depressing, remind
you of your fidelity. Thesinkingof the Woe
huwken off Morris Island, December 6, 1803,
was a mystery. She was not under fire. Tho
sea was not rough. But Admiral Dahlgren
from the deck of the flag steamer Philadel
phia, saw her gradually sinking, and finally
she struck the ground, hut the Hag still
floated above the wave in the sight of tho
shipping. It was afterwards found that she.
sank from weakness through injuries in pre
vious service. Her plates had been knocked
loose in previous times. So you have in
nerve, and muscle, and hone, and dimmed
eyesight, and difficult hearing, and shortness
or breath, many intimations that you are
gradually going down. It is the service of
twenty-three years that is telling on you. Bo
of good cheer. We owe you just as much as
tl lough your life-blooi 1 had gurgled through the
scuppers of the ship in the Red River expedi
tion, or as though yon had gone down with
the Melville off Hatteras. Only keep your
flag flying as did tho illustrious Weehawken.
Good cheer, my boys ! The memory of
man is poor anil ull that talk about tho
country never forgetting those who fought
for it isan untruth. It does forget. Witness
how the veterans sometimes had to turn the
hand o guns on the street to get, their families
a living. Witness bow ruthlessly some of
them have been turned out of office that
some bloat of a politician might take their
place. Witness the fact that there is not a
man or woman now under thirty years of
ago. who has any full appreciation of
the four years’ martyrdom of 1861 and 1865
inclusive. But while men may forget, God
never forgets. He romembers tho swinging
Hammock. He remembers the forecastle. Ho
remembers the frozen rilpes of that January
teuqiest. He remembers the amputation with
out sufficient ether. Ho remembers the hor
rors of that deafening night when forts from
both sides belched on you their fury, and
the heavens glowed with ascending and
descending missiles of death, and
your ship quaked under the re
coil of the one hundred pounder, while all tho
gunners, according to command, stood on
tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the concus
sion shatter hearing or brain. He remembers
it all better than you remember it, and in
sorao shape reward will l>e given. God is the
best, of all paymasters, and for those who do
their whole duty to Him and the world the
pension awarded is an everlasting heaven.
Sometimes off the coast of England the
Royal Family have inspected tho British
navy manoeuvred Is;fore them for that pur
pose. In the Baltic Sea the Czar and Czarina
have reviewed the Russian navy. To bring
before the American people the debt they
owe to the navy I go out with you on the At
lantic Ocean where there is plenty of room,
and in imagination review tho war-ship
ping of our three great conflicts—l 776, 1812,
anil 1865. Swing into lino all ye frig
ates, ironclads, fire-rafts, gunboats, and
men-of-war! There they come, all sail
set and all furnaces in full blast, sheaves of
crystal tossing from their cutting prows.
That is the Delaware, an old Revolutionary
craft, commanded by Commodore Decatur.
Yonder goes the Constitution, Commodore
Hull commanding. There is the Chesapeake,
commanded by Captain Lawrence, whose dy
ing words were: “ Don't give up the ship;”
and the Niagara, of 1812, commanded by
Commodore Ferry, who wrote tm the back of
an old letter, resting on his navy cap:
“We have met the enemy and they are
ours.” Yonder i; the flagship Wabash,
Admiral Dupont commanding; yonder, the
flagship Mimics'ita, Admiral Goldborough
commanding; yonder, the John Adams,
Admiral Btringhain commanding; yonder,
the flagship Philadelphia, Admiral Dahlgren
commanding: yonder, the flagship Kun
Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding;
yonder, the Carondelet, Admiral Waihe
commanding; yonder, the flagship Black
Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding; yonder,
the flag steamer Benton, Admiral
Foote commanding, yonder the flagship
Hartford. David Glaseoe Farragutcommand
ing. And now all the squadrons of all
departments, from smallest tugboat to
mightiest man-of-war, are in procession,
decks and rigging filled with men who fought
on the sea for the old Hag ever since we were
a nation. Grandest fleet the worklever saw.
Sail on before all ages: Run up ail the
color ' Ring all the tiellsi Yea, open all
the j-ort holes: Umliinber the guns and load
and fi re one gr< at board*ide tha t shall shake the
c ntinentfi in honor of peace and the eternity
of the American Union 1 But I lift my hand
and the scene has vanished. Many of the
shi.* have dropped under the crystal pave
ment of the deep. -*-a monsters swimming in
and out of the forsaken cabin, and other old
craft have swung into the navy yards, and
many of the brave spirit" who trod their
decks are g ne up to the Eternal Fortress,
from whose - asc icnts and embrasures may
we not hote they look down to-day with joy
ujion a nation in re united brotherhood?
At this annual commemoration I bethink
that most of you who were in the naval ser-
‘‘SUB DEO FACIO FORTITER. 1 ’
vice during our late war are now in tho after
noon or evening of life. With some of you
it is two o'clock, three o’clock, four o’clock,
six o'clock, and it will soon be sundown.
If you were of ago when tho war broke
out, you are now at least forty-eight.
Manv of you have passed into the sixties
and tic seventies: therefore it is ap
propriate that 1 hold two great lights
For jour illumination- the example of Chris
tian admirals consecrated to Christ and their
country, Admiral Foote and Admiral Farra
go;. Had tile Christian religion been a
eowni'dly living they would hftvo had nothing
to do w h it. Iu its faith tliev lived and
rfied. In our Brooklj'n navy-yard Admiral
Foote held prayer meetings and con
ducted a revival on tho receiving
ship North Carolina, and on Siihlsiths,
far out at sea, followed the chaplain
with religious exhortation. In early life on
hoard the sloop of war Natchez, impressed by
the words of a Christian sailor, lie gave bis
spare time for two weeks to tho Bible, and at J
tneend of that declared openly: “Henceforth,
under all circumstances, 1 will act for God.”
His last words, while dying at the
Astor House, New York, were: "I thank
God for n.ll His gominess to mo.” When he
entered heaven ho did not have to run a block
ade. for it was amid tho cheers of a great
welcome. Tho other Christian admiral will
be honored on earth until the day when Hie
fires from above shall lick up tho waters trom
beneath and there shall be no more sea.
•‘Oh, while Atlantic’* breast
bears a while sail.
While sailor * flu-lit for right
Ami sweethearts wall,
Sion will ne’er forget
Old heart of oak,
Farragut, Farragut,
Thunderbolt stroke!”
According to his own statement Farragut
was very loose in his morals in early man
hood and practiced all kinds of sin. One day
he was called into the cabin of his father,
who was a ship-master. His father said:
“David, what arc you going to be, anyhow?”
He answered: "1 am going to follow
the sea.” “Follow the son,” said tbo
father, “and be kicked about the
world and die in a foreign hos
pital?” “No,” said David, “I am going to
command like you.” “No,” said the father;
“a boy of vour habits will never command
anything,” and his father burst into tears and
left the cabin. From that day David Farra
gut started on a new life. Captain Penning
ton, an honored elder of this church, was with
him in most of his battles, and had his inti
mate friendship, and ho confirms, what 1 had
heard elsewhere, that Farragut was goes! and
Christian. In every great crisis of life ho
asked and obtained the Divine direction.
When in Mobile Bav the monitor Tecumesh
sank from a torpedo, and the groat war-ship
Brooklyn that was to load the squadron
turned back, he said ho was at a loss to know
whether to advance or retreat, and he sayß:
“1 prayed: ‘Oil, God, who created man and
gave him reason,, direct me what to do. Shall
Igo on?’ And a voico commanded me: ‘Go
on.’ anil I went on.” Was there ever a more
touching Christian letter than that which he
wrote to his wife from his flagship Hartford?
“My dearest wife, I write nnd leave this letter
for you. lam going into Mobile Bay in tho
morning, if God is my loader, and Iho|>o Hots,
and iu Him I place mv trust. If Ho thinks it
is tho proper place for mo to die, I am ready
to submit to His will in that as in all other
things. God bless and preserve you, my
darling anil my dear Imy, if anything should
► happen to me. May Ilis blessings rest upon
you, and your dear mother, and all your sis
ters and their children.”
Cheerful to the end, he said on hoard the
Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took :
“It would he well if I died now in harness.”
Tho sublime Episcopal servico for the dead
was never more appropriately rendered than
over his casket, and well did all the forts of
New' York harbor thunder as his body was
brought to our wharf, and well did the
minute guns sound and the bells toll ns iu u
procession, having in ite ranks the President
of the United States and his cabinet, nnd tho
mighty men of land and sea, tho old admiral
was carried amid hundreds of thousands of
uncovered heals on Broadway, nnd laid on
his pillow of dust in lieautiful Woodlawn,
September 30,amid tho pomp of our autumnal
forests.
Ye veterans who sailed and fought under
him, take your admiral’s God and Christ for
your God nnd Christ. After a few more
conflicts you too will rest. For the few re
maining fights with sin, and death, and hell
make ready. Strip your vessel for
ttie fray; hang tho sheet ehaine over
(he sides. Send down tho top-gal
lant masts. Barricade the wheel, ltiar in
the flying jib-boom. Steer straight for tho
shining shore, and hear tbo shout of the great
( omriianclcr of earth and heaven as He cries
from the shrouds: “To him thatovereometh,
wiil I give to eat of the tree of life which is
in the midst of the Paradise of God.” Ho
anna! Hosanna!
Entirely Too Previous.
The secretary of the Lime Kiln Club
announced a communication from Grif
fin, Ga., signed liy sixteen colored resi
dents of the place, offering the Lime
Kiln Club a lot in which to bury the
Rev. Penstock at his death. The presi
dent was about to instruct the secretary
to return the thanks of the club and ac
cept the kind offer, when Penstock sprang
to his feet and exclaimed:
“Miss’r President, I protest! I look
upon dat communication as a deliberate
insult 1”
“Shoo ! Rrtidiler Penstock, what’s do
matter?”
“flat communication are de matter,
sah!”
"Doan you want to be buried in Grif
fin?”
“No, sail!”
"Doan you want to accept de lot ?”
"No, sah!”
“Very well, Rmddcr Penstock. Do
offer may hev bin a lectio too previous, J
but I ar’ satisfied dat it was made with
de dindest intenshuns. We will answer (
dat you can’t accept, on account of a |
previous engagement.” Detroit Free \
Dress.
Joshua O. Lacsenob, who reoently
died in Philadelphia, left 53,000 to the 1
First City Troop, of which ho was a
member. When this sum shall have
reached $6,000, by judicious investment,
it is to l<e known as “The Laurence
Horse and Equipment Fund, No. 560,”
that Ijcing the testator's number on ths
active roll of the Troop, anil the inter
est thereof to lx: applied forever to the
purchase and maintenance of a horse
for the uses and purposes of the organi
zation, as the commanding officer from
time to time shall determine. The lucky
animals in turn and their equipment*
will be known by the name of "Second |
Sergeant Laurence,” “Corporal Lan
reneo,” or "Josh Laurence,” the testae :
tor’s desire being that there shall a 1 way? ’
be a horse thoroughly equipped and
r adv for service, his name conspicuous- ,
ly painted on his still, and his equip
meats stamped with his name
THE HAIR TRADE.
Some Facts About tho Busi
ness In New York.
Hafr Used in Making Switches, Eta,
Gomes Principally from Europa
Tho word bangs and woman nro pret
ty gencra!ly*nssociatcd with each other.
It is not exactly appropriate that a new
bang should bo called tho "Willies,” but
it is. This bang is woven on a network
of tine hnir, with a short, straight cut in
front, parted in tho middle, and is worn
by the "Willies,” or tho dudes of the
town. 11 tice tho name. But this class
of humanity will not draw tho lino at
bangs. Homo energetic ventilators on
hair work linvo devised and woven all
the latest cuts on whiskers, and this
season at tho watering places tho Willies
may vie with the counts and lords in
full-grown English cuts. Tho wind
blows through moro fulsc whiskers than
persons not iu tho hair business would
imagino.
A person unacquainted with tho hair
business forms no idea of the hard work
poor girls do in these stores nnd for very
little pay. Tho class of workers arc what
is known to the business as "weavers and
ventilators.” Weavers are employed to
straighten out hair and form it into
switeno: These girls earn from $1 to $8
per week. "Ventilators” make a fine
network of h Hr, upon which they work
in bungs, wigs, and front pieces, receiv
ing the same pay as tho weavers. Tho
hair used for making switches, bangs,
etc., is ! rincipally s nt from Bromon.
Over there people lmvo thoir hair cut
every f w months, and get good pricey
for it. This, with what Is taken from
dead people, is almost sufficient to sup
ply the American markot. Sotno dealers
use yac ; or goat’s hair with tho real hair,
but it is not durablo. It is soft and
fragile, and is used mostly in making
wigs for mssijuorudcs.
This business oi hairinaking is u fear
ful strain upon tho oyes, and for this
reason, together with tho small pay it
brings, very few girls learn tho trailo.
AR >!f ctorou in tho city are supplied
with wigs of every color of hair for pri
vate theatricals nnd masquerades. Theso
they rent for $1 a night. There arc
many porsons in tho city, too, who for
lack of natural hair are obliged to wear
wigs. A pronrinont rai ! road official,
who frequently visits New York, wears
a very natural blond wig. lie is fault
lessly neat in p rson and exact in man
ner. While discussing the interstate
commerce bill with two young ladies
who wanted passes at his oflico one day
his secret was discovered, the wig having
become sadly disarranged. Ho was
much chagrined, as all persons uro who
wear wigs and their vanity is found out.
There is u certain secrecy with persons
who wear false hair that they cau’t quite
overcome. A young lady came into the
store while the reporter stood there, and
in u low tone of voice said she wanted to
get her hair, which was a golden yellow,
dyed back to ils original brown color.
"For,” added she, "Chollie’s got home,
and lie don’t like my hub bleached.”
But strange as it may scorn, false hair
does not only extend to bungs anil
switches, but eyebrows as well. It has
come to pass now that a person cannot
tell whether a man or woman wears his
or her own eyebrow or not. There uro
several people in this city who have
undergone the painful operation of hav
ing eyebrows crocheted to their skin.
Tin: skin is raised, the hair is inserted,
and when the required thickness is
reached tho skin islet 'oosc and allowed
to grow together ugain, holding the
hair fast in place, and having a natural
look. The pain, however, seems to bo
nothing compared to tho mortification of
going through the world eyebrowless.
There nre a score of hair stores within
a radius of two blocks about the corner
of Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street.
Tho owner of one of these is an urbane
Frenchman who said: "Ah, ze repor
taire. Ver strange person ze reportaire
who come my store in last week. He put
his liand his eyebrow on and say to me
‘Meester, would not you decs your eye
brow call?” I say certainmcnt. Zen he
laugh and slap me ze shoulder on an’
zay, ‘Veil, I wouldn’t. 1 would call it
my eyebrow.’ Zen ho went laughing
very hart out.” —N. Y. Bun.
Burnley as a Debtor.
Fcatherly—l wish you owed mo a
hundred dollars, Dumley.
Dumley (very much pleased)—Why,
Fcatherly?
Featberly—Because I would always
have something coming to me.—[New
York Sun.
—9
One of Secretary Whitney’s private
hobbies is said to be raising fancy chick
ens.
Evils of >Vati r-Brltiklug.
Sir Henry Thompson, the great Eng- :
lish teetotaler physician, who refuses to
treat any one in illn ss who drinks al
coholic beverages, says, nevertheless,
that tho only water which is perfectly
safe to drink, unless it has been boiled
or filtered, is natural mineral water. In
the shape of a wriggling worm, invisible
to tho eye, even when held to tho light,
and only to bo detected by tho micro
scope, a wntor-drinkor may have given
moro permanent lodging to a snake
than ever the hospitable whale gave to
Jonah. But au animalcule will grow
and thrive on the inside of tho indis
criminate water-drinker who has swal
lowed it until it feods upon his vitals
anil exhausts Ills health anil strength.
Hie victim wonders why lie or sho feels
so much discomfort in tho stomach, loses
all appetite for food or else grows rave
nous, feels nervous, depressed, and in
capable of nctivo duty. The unknown
and uususpectcd roptilo stowaway,
swallowed weeks or months before, in
a glass of impure water, is the causo,
and he who doubts the numerous cases
on record of inanition, or suspension of
life, and apparent death from this
cause alono must bo incapable of weigh
ing evidence. I have myself known a
young girl who died apparently and
remained cold anil lifeless until put in
her collin, when her month opened and
a small snake, sotno few inches long, ap
peared. A French doctor, who had at
tended to tho case, was fortunately
present, and drew tho reptile out with
his fingers. After a brief interval, tho
exhausted girl began to shudder, then
opened hor eye-, an 1 was thus rescued
from being buried alive. 1 heard the
story not only from her own lips, but
from those of her father and mother,
and have not the slightest doubt of its
truth. Numbers of similar cases arc
reported in medical journals. B the
moro swallowing of indigestible food
will almost deprive a dy .peptic of tho
use of his limbs and brain, how much
more must a living reptile in the stomach
paralyze and suspend the functions of
tho human body?—[Hall’s Journal of
Ilcaltli.
Two Russian Wolf II on mis.
Two large Russian wolf hounds stood
in Patrick B. Egan’s restaurant on Clin
ton nnd University places lust evening.
Two pieces of meat were thrown to the
floor. The hounds made a break for
them, hut were stopped by the voico of
their master, who shouted "Poison ! ’
The dogs slopped on the instant, and
stood ns though cast in metal. They
eyed the meat intcutiy, but did not
touch it. Then n cheery “all right”
came from the lips of their master, and
tho two chunks of meat disappeared.
A minute afterward a man carelessly
dropped a lighted match upon u newspa
per. It was ablaze in an instant. Tho
dogs dashed to the sceno and stamped
on tho Are until they put it out. At the
request of their master they kissed each
other. They kirsed anybody who was
properly introduced, and gave ominous
growls when anyone approached without
tin; necessary introduction.
Tho dogs weigh 126 pounds. They
stand 37 1-2 inches high. They were
from a litter of pups horn near Sandy
Hook on the passage of the mother
to America. A wealthy Russian
lumber dealer, now a citizen of Wiscon
sin, was tho first to introduce the breed
in America. These dogs drive well in
harness, and are owned by J. J.
Mucready, an actor. Ho is to introduce
them in a drama written ftp anally for
tile dogs, with the object of exhibiting
thoir marvellous intelligence. [Now
York Sun.
Icelandic Ventilation.
Dwellers in high latitudes are obliged
to economize in the mutter of heat, nnd
naturally become accustomed to breath
ing an atmosphere so close us to seem
almost unendurable to a stranger from
some milder clime. Indeed it is one of
the chief dangers of a northern winter
that it compels people to shut themselves
indoors. A tourist in Iceland writes:
The b d I slept in, though exceed
ingly comfortable, was at the far end of
the littie chamber ten an el by all the
mule members of the family, and towards
midnight I was aroused by an intense
feeling of suffocation, owing to tho pres
ence of so many large men in such a little
air tight hox. 1 remonstrated, and our
host, witli the utmost good nature,
jumped out of bed, exclaiming, “I un
derstand.” Going up to one of the tim
bers, which formed part of the support
of the wall, he pulled out a cork from
one of the knots, held it in his hand for
half a minute, during which time per
haps six cubic inches of fresh air may
have come in; and then shuddering hor
ribly, said wc should catch our deaths
of cold, hammered tho cork in, and
jumped back into bed.
VOL 11. NO. JG.
SCIENTIFIC sciurs.
Professor Davidson says that the Lick
telescope will unveil stars of one degree
faintor magnitude than can be detected
by the instruments now in use. This
would be no small gain. A correspond
ingly increased power ought to add to
our knowledge of Mars, which is the
planet of most immediate iuterest to ob
servers on this globe.
Tho nutogruphomoter is an instru
ment lately devised in Paris for unto
matically recording the topography and
difference of level of all places over
which it passes. It is carried about on
a light vehicle, and has only to be
dragged over the ground of which a plan
is desirod.
An apparatus of iron and glass, in
which a pressure of one thousand at
mospheres can be developed for the pur
pose of studying tho influence of great
pressure on animal life, lias been ex
hibited to biologists in France. With it
deep sea animals can be observed un
der their natural compression.
In a paper road before tho London
Anthropological institute, Prof, Ferrior
Las considered the function of different
parts of the brain so far ns at present
settled. He concludes that not enough
is known to serve as tho basis of a sci
entific phrenology, though there are
reasons for believing the groat progress
may yet bo made.
Prof. Neuinayer of Hamburg urges
the necessity of Antarctic exploration,
laying special stress on its importance
for geology and paleontology. lie an
ticipates that it will show that tho south
pole was a centre of dispersion of ani
mals and plants for the southern hemi
sphere, as the north polo is believed to
have been for the northern.
There are three wicks to the lamp of a
man's life; brain, blood and breath.
Press the brain a little, its light goes
out, followed by botli the others. Stop
tho heart a minute, and out go all threo
of tho wicks. Choke tho air out of tho
lungs, and presently tho fluid ceases to
supply the other centres of llaine, und al
is soon stagnation, cold and darkness.
M. Lessenne claims that a certain sigu
es death is tho pormanent gaping of a
wound mado in the skin by puncturing
it witli a noodle. If the person be liv
ing, blood will usually follow tho with
drawal of (lie needle; but, whether it
does or not, tho wound will close at
once. Tho puncture made in tho skin of
a dead person will remain open, as if
mado in leather.
In a recent lecture, Prof. William
Turner of Edinburgh university, gave
tho speed of the Greenland whulo as nine
or ton miles an hour, and that of tho
great finner wbule us probably twolvo
miles. One of the latter animals was
stranded on a British coast some years
ago, and was found to have a length of
eighty feet, a weight of seventy-four
tons, and a width of tail of eighteen to
twenty foot. With those data, tho
builder of the Anchor lino steamships
calculated that, in order to attain a
speed of twelve miles an hour, this
whale must have exercised a propelling
force of one hundred and forty-fivo
horse-power.
What a Copyright Is.
A copyright is, according to the act
of 1874, the sole liberty of printing, re
prlnting, publishing, compiling, copy
ing or executing any original urticlc, en
graving or print. A printed copy of
the article to bo copyrighted must bo
sent to the Librarian of Congress. The
fee for recording is fifty cents, and the
same amount is charged for a certificate
of such record. The right lasts for
twenty-eight years, and a renewal for
fourteen years may bo hud by applica
tion six months before the expiration of
the origiuul term. —[U troit Free Press.
A Short Speech.
“I’m going to speak iny inind at that
meeting to-night, and don’t you forget
it,” said an irate Metropolitan clubster
to his wife.
“Going to speak it plainly arc y*u,
dear?” she asked, quietly.
“Yes, I’m going to speak my mind,
my whole mind, and nothing but isy
mind.”
“What a short speech it will be,”
she said, half to herself, and went on
sewing. —[ Washington Critic.
Just as Effective.
A paralytic young woman, who had
been unable to w.i k for years, was con
veyed to a revi vi' m ting one night re
cently, and during jiny irshe suddenly
arose, gave tin e. r piercing shout,
climbed over three pews, gained tho
aisle and made a dash for the pulpit. It
was not another fidth cure is many jier
sons in the congregation supposed. She
had simply seen n mouse in her pew near
her lot. [Norristown Herald.