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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.