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LIUKR H TOUIAHS, Piblisbers.
WAYCB063, - -
GEORGIA
The sponge Industry I« likely to become
very important at Long Island in the near
future. There tie several varieties of
sponges which are indigenous to the
locality, end they grotr well; but cap
italists have conceived the idea of send
ing to Florida for a plant, thinking the
extraneous variety will prove more profit
able than the native. The prospects are
The Western papers are again circu
lating the ancient rumors concerning the
dearth of marriageable women in the
sewer States. The St. Louis Post-Dii-
potek alleges that in portions of Mione-
aots men are offering from $10 to $20 for
wives, and farther out, in Dakota and
Montana, they even go so far as to ofBer
s horse or a mala in exchange for one of
the gentler sex,
There is n young woman in the West
who can set an example to most young
men. Oat in Dakota Uvea Miss R. S.
Mills, who has daring the last six
months edited the Hawley 8tor, n
weekly newspaper, and has proved up
on a pre-emption, planted five acres of
trees on a tree claim, built a sawmill and
raised the largest turnip and the round
est squash in the county. When the
proves np on her homestead, which she
proposes to do, she will have 480 acres
of land.
Dr. Tanner and all the other fasten;
have been outdone, if we can believe a*
chronicle that cornea from n long dis
tance without an affidavit This chron
icle asserts that the African traveler, Dr.
Giovanni Succi, who is at present in his
native town, Forli, claims to have dis
covered a liquor which renders the human
body independent of food and drink. In
order to prove bis assertion he placed
himself under a medical committee, who
were to see that betook no nourishment
for ten days, after jpving drunk a few
glasses of his liquor. At the end of that
time the physicians pronounced his
pulse perfectly normal, and in order to
show that his strength had not suffered
Sued, before breaking his fast, walked
from Forli to FMbspOfdH, a distance of
four miles, is forty-oven minutes.
The woodlands of Louisiana are fast
passing into the hands of northern men.
Four years ago a number of shrewd west
ern capitalists sent their agents down
there to examine the southern pine, to
see what kind of lumber it would mike,
and the quality of the woodlands. These
agents made a thorough examination at
a mhnimum cost and sent back the most
favorable reports, urging Gw firms they
represented to make purchases. The re
sult has been that np to July 1, 1886,
1,160,583 acres, mainly of pine lands,
bid been bought at $1.25 per acre, about
one-half of nil the government land in
the state, and nearly one-quarter of the
area covered by the long-leaf pine. This
is mil picked land, and though only one-
fourth of the area, contains half the mer-
chantable long-leaf pine timber in Louis*
A little peasant girl in Italy knitted n
pair of stockings and sent them as a
present to Queen Margherits on her fete
day. With characteristic kindliness the
Queen sent the girl in return another
pair of stockings, one containing gold
coin, the other bon-bons, and a note ask
ing her to say which of the stockings
gave her the more pleasure. “Dear
Madam the Queen,” wrote the child, in
reply: "I have had nothing but trouble
with the stockings. My father took the
one with the gold pieces and my brother
the one with the sweets.”
The Boston Herald says the boarding
house women of Washington are num
bered by thousands. There are two
classes of these. The first merely rent
THE DAT STILL LIVES.
And tbs day is done.
Birds rise to heavenward flight and happy
lays,
flowers their petals ope to warming rays,
Tired of flight and aong, the birdaare nested,
The flowers are dosed in slumbers uomo-
Ard the day is done.
Thought, high endeavor, deeds m»-« jp one
• day—
The day still lives.
Though deed the loving heart that knelt to
pvsy,
Though cold the hand that smoothed the bit
ter way,
Barfed in unknown grave the ■enlptor’s
Into oblivion sunk the warriorti fame—
The Day still live*
—Richard H. Pens'll, in Tooth's Compan-
A MOONLIGHT SAIL
“Another moonlight sail to-night,
Hetty,” said Julia Keese, mounting the
front steps and fading her red parasol.
Hetty sat np rather slowly in the ham
mock, suspended between the pillars, in
which her light draperies had been
gracefully and comfortably bestowed, and
looked np at her sister with what, under
the circumstances, was certainly a sur
prising expression.
There was unmistakable regret and
something like dread in her big brown
eyes.
Julia, meeting her sister’s gaze as she
sank into one of the ribbon-bedecked
willow-rockero, which gave the porch its
hospitable appearance, bunt into soft
laughter, her bright eyea growing
brighter with a mischievous light.
4 ’Your dreadful suspicions are cor
rect,” she said, in a tragic whisper.
“Little Blivens is going to ask you.”
“Are you sure?” murmured Hettv, de
spairingly.
“Perfostlyl” said Julia, cheerfully
fanning herself with the gaily-colored
placque she had brought from “down
The famous Sun cholera cure, which
is a certain and speedy remedy for all
summer complaints,diarrhoea, dysentery,
and pains in the stomach, is so cheap and
easily obtained at any drug store, that
we republish it for the benefit of our
readers. We advise everyone to keep it
in the house. It consists of equal ports
of tincture of opium, tincture of cayenne,
tincture of rhubarb, essence of pepper
mint and spirits of camphor. A dose of
from ten to twenty drops in n wine glass
of sweetened water is given, until relief
^.1* felt, at intervals of fifteen or twenty
Thunutei.
The difficulty of preventing the escape
of criminals has at all times grieved the
friends of justice, but the most radical
solution of the problem bas probably
been devised in Gazi, n seaport town
claimed by both the Emir of Belong and
' the Sultan of Zanzibar. According to a
.correspondent the municipal authorities,
'who enjoy a local autonomy, have for
■yean saved the expense of burglar-proof
jails by hamstringing their malefscton
. and teaching them to earn a living by
> some sedentary occupation. Beddcs be
ing useful, the consequent lameness pre
vents n relapse, or at least the flight of a
’suspected backslid.r.
The Munich Allgemeine Zeitung thinks
•> *that the prospects of “Volapuk,” the
universal language invented fixe yean
ago by Pastor Martin Schleycr of Con
stance, ere constantly growing better.
There are “Volapuk” associations in
Aus'ris, France, Holland, Sweden, Spain,
and Asia Minor, whose members corre
spond with each other. The Munich
“World-Laogusgo Club” has moro than
n hundred members, and in its lecture
room nearly 150 students are taught,
among them being Poles, Russians,
Greeks, Italians, and a Japanese. Of
course, “Volapuk” is to bo mainly of
commercial importance, but the AUge-
tneine Zeitung thinks that even scholars
take increasing interest in it.
In New York rich men are payjng for
their clothes as they buy them, at so
much per suit. The old style of paying
a tailor so much per year, which did not
amount to much more than a renting of
the clothes, and which went under on
the score'of economy, makes way for n
new scheme, which, if the tailors are to
he believed, is a good deal more expen
sive. The average swell in New York
society is spending now from $1,500 to
<2,000 a year on his tailor, if he is cut
ting any figuro at alL Men do not
know much about the cost of clothes and
expenses of manufacture. Show n man
a coat that coats $20 and another that
cests $70, and he will seldom hesitate to
pay the $50 difference to get the higher
priced garment.
rooms, and the second give board as “Bd told me so; Little Blivens
well. It is a great business at Washing
ton for women to take large houses, pay
ing from $75 to $300 per month for them,
and then to sublet the rooms to single
gentlemen or to families, as the case may
be. They receive, as a rale, as much for
their ground floor rooms as they pay for
the whole house, and there have been in
stances in which women have made
themselves independent by room-renting.
One hundred dollars and more is not an
uncommon rent there for a couple of
furnished room in a good location, and
$50 to $75 are often gotten for two
rooms on the second floor. A good
third floor front room will bring $25, and
a house that rents for $100 a month, un
furnished, will often bring in $200 or
$250 if furnished and sublet, beside giv
ing a room for the landlady. A number
of landladies make money there keeping
boarding-houses, and the one who enter
tained W. D. Howells during his last so-
L
(•
Scientific appliances are beginning to
■ease the labor of fanning considerably in
the West. The frost bell is the latest,
and it is doubtless the means of saving
many tons of grapes in the northern por
tion ot California, where the frost's*
time* does so much damage. It con
of a wire running from different parts of
♦he vineyard to the house. On the vine
yard end of the wire is an apparatus that
yi&gsa bell when the thermometer de-
‘ ' to a certain degr.e. When the
If* off the occupants of the house
their vines are in danger and
lediately repair to the vineyard and
t fires in different quarters, and thus
■ent, through the agency of this in-
electrical device, the loss of tons
most luscious fruit growu on the
well enough to calculate upon
but to include the possibility
evidences a weak man.
And Julia grew pleasantly absent-
minded over this recollection. 8he was
engaged to “Ed."
Hetty leaned beck in the hammock,
with a small groan.
It had been like this all summer.
Once every week, on an average, the
gay little clique of which she and her
sisters were valuable members had had a
moonlight picnic, though the moon had
occasionally failed them.
And once a week, Mr. Blivens, the
lately-arrived china-storekeeper, had
taken,, down his hat from behind his
office-door and his gloves from his pocket,
and walked briskly up the street to Miss
Hetty Keese’s pretty home, where, in the
formal words which he considered fitting
to the occasion, and which he never
varied, he requested the honor and pleas
ure of her company upon the proposed
excursion, and whence after a brief in
terval he walked away triumphant.
Why she always consented was some
thing of a puzzle to Hetty herself.
But the was one of the tender e 8 t of
jonrn in Washington has been able to; girls, and the sight of Mr. BUvens
buy the house in which she lives, which > standing before her, hat in hand, s way-
is worth about $40,000, and is now start*
ing a new hotel near the Treasury.
ing on hi. short legs nervously, his little
bird-like eyes lifted to hers almost im
ploringly—she was several inches the
taller—eager hopefulness in every line
Th« clerk, in tho dead letter office at 1 " f hi * round face, thia, together’with
Washington show marre.oua .kUl-an j
ingenuity that is sometimes almost in-. brought a kind smile and a hesitating
spiration—in deciphering the ignorant “Ch, certainly—thank you!” to her lips.
“Shall you accept, as usualj” said Julia,
coming out of her reverie and regarding
her sister sympathetically. “I wouldn’t 1”
“But nobody else would go with him,”
said Hetty, simply.
4 ‘Let him stay at home, then!” said
Julia, in a matter-of-fact way.
superscriptions from across the sea.
What would the' reader make of this on
the back of a letter:
“Me Maria Peranala
nura Pa Kami in Ka
ute takkata ter nurt
amerikaa.”
The lady to whom it was allotted read .... —. t
it over to herself till well nigh distract- jour part is what he needs.”
ed, nnd finally settled on: “Mrs. Mnria I ‘I couldn’t!;’ said Hetty,
Pcratola, Nora, Hamlin County,Dakota.”
( too old to be going to picnics, anyhow;
it’s absurd. A gcod, sharp refusal on
with a s&ft
compassion in her eyes.
You funny girl!” cried Julia, with a
And it was duly deliveied. The word laugh. “Oh, by-the-way,"she went on,
‘azzilitorno” passed through tho alembic ‘‘J° e Harsh | s home again! I saw him
comes out‘‘Hazleton,,’while “Pitzkonty I _ 44 4 _ . 4V
„ .. „ 1 , I “Joe Marsh!” Hetty repeated, with
S X Ajowa reappears on a clean en- j frank delight * ^
velope as: “Essex, PsgcCounty, Iowa.” They had met him last winter-a hand-
Andhere is one calculated to drive the some, sharp-witted, hard-working young
reconstructor into a lunatic asylum:; w ^° enjoyed keenly the few social
“Gi hon aho la ast ha gew lan har yori 1 hinwel I ; more
.. , „ . . . __f. „ _ | tliat sweet Hetty Kecec was to be seen,
oluo lean Pok ju Amen.ke.” Ought nn ,nd talked to, aid laughed with-wae ti
immortal mind to tackle such a super- be walked home with under the cold,
It did, and from the chaos b ight stars, and parted from reluc
tantly.
And then—just
scription?
came the clear designation:
i4 John Ahola,
Ashtabula Harbor,
Ohio.'
Occasionally the address, carefully
it had dawned upon
him that for a young man the amount of
whose salary could not be mentioned in
the same breath with matrimony, he was
growing much too fond of this charming
copied from the bottom of an old Ameri- girl—he had been sent away on an ex
can letter by some Finn or Hungarian tensive business trip by the firm which
who does not know a-word of English, is ' en ^°{ c £ « 4 ,
. ... ... M . - . That had seemed to lookers-on to be
tingled up with etray bite of leniences, on end to lh(! litt|e
inch is “good-bye” or “meny kiiiei,”| But Joe Menh, in jolting trains snd
and one recently received bore, carelulty distant hotels, was haunted continually
copied into the superscription: I Hetty’s lovely face.
■.I-r^U.chn-n^^SUtU.D^Un.-!
A letter addressed to “Churhvat jova” things he had sent to her, picturing his
is forwarded by these gifted epistolary riirewd, handsome face, and telling her-
*“*£,*• * “h is* safe.
“Writ Kolud Namertkss" u it once dra .hiipered Julia, is n footstep «
patched to “White Cloud, Mich.”
Recovering from a Lightning Stroke.
George Edwards, who wav struck by
lightning while crossing the Iron Hill,at
Leadville, Col., recently, is slowly recov
ering. His case is a most remarkable
one and is attracting considerable atten
tion from scientific men. Edwards after
the flash lay unconscious for fifteen min
utes before receiving ’ assistance. The
lightning struck him on the left cheek,
knocking out a number of his teeth. It
then passed diagonally across his breast
to the right side, thence to the feet, com
ing out of the right foot, having passed
entirely through the foot, leaving a hole
very similar to one made_4>y a bullet.
His clothing was torn into fragments,
particles being found a distance of 200
feet from the spot, and one of the boots,
both of which were torn into shreds, was
found sixty feet away. Immediately
under where the nun was standing the
ground is torn up for a considerable dis
tance. Its course along the body is
shown by a black streak an inch and a
half wide. The worst effect is the in
jury to the lungs, the immediate result
being a severe hemorrhage, by which a
Quart of blood was lost. In addition to
these injuries the surface of the
was almost completely covered
blisters, the result of severe burns.
This is the first authentic record of a
person bring injured by a stroke of
lightning at an altitude over 10,500 feet,
and where persons affected internally, as
Mr. Edwards was, are not instantly
killed. ^
„ - - ___ now I”
ipered Julia, as a footstep sQunded
on the walk. “Now do be sensible,
Hetty; don't go with him!”
Five minutes later, Mr. Blivens, with
his cheerful little face shining with per
fect contentment—even his hair teemed
to have taken on a warmer glow—was
trotting away down the street; and Julia
sat gazing at Hetty in scornful amaze
ment.
“How could I help it!" sa'd the latter,
pleadingly. “It would have hurt his
feelings dreadfully. I couldn’t.”
“You're the Queerest girl!” said Julia,
staring helplessly at the impossible red-
and-bluc cherubs on her placque.
But Hetty's trials, as her frequent ex
periences on similar occasions had taught
her, had only Levon.
“So Little BiWens is still faithful,
Hetty 1” said her father, jovially, at the
tea-table. . -
“Yes, he h-.s again hoped for the
4 honor and pleasure* of her com]
murmured fifteen-year-old To ji, wj
beard several’of Mr. BUrt ns's invitations
through the parlor keyhole.
“We’re needing a new china-set.” said
her father, musingly. “Just mention it
to Blivens —won’t you. Hetty f I haven’t
a doubt that he’d throw off considerable
on your account—maybe give us oneP
Iti
snot i
noisy load "ol picnickers drove up, and
she followed Julia and Ed down to the
gate on Mr. Bliven’s arm, to know that
Tom was walking down the path behind
them, smiling up adoringly at an imagi
nary person several yards above him, in
wicked imitation of Mr. Blivens; and to
_ fed that several giggles from the load
_ | were tributes to this performance.
But when sne Had cl:mbel into the
long, five-seated wagou, into tho midst of
its laughing, chattering occupants, she
suddenly forgot har disturbance.
For a well-known form rose up from
one of the back scats, a hand reached it
self to her across the intervening Leads,
and Joe Karsh's crisp voice cried:
“Ah, Mias Keese, here we are again!"
There was not much in tho words, cer
tainly; ~but there was a tightness in the
grasp of his hand which made Hetty’s
cheeks grow a little pinker in the dark-
But JoeAtyrsh sank back to his seat
with a frown.
He had been told, humorously, by
some of the boys that “Little Blirens”
had been cutting him out badly.
But be had been given, ut the same
Hme, a burlesqued description of little
Blivens; and knowing the tenderness ol
Hetty’s heart as he did, he had guessed
her motives shrewdly, and had felt
nothing but a loving admiration for her.
But now, with Hetty’s big, lacey white
haft and lb*. Blivens’* silk one so close
fore bis eyes—with the
... Blivens'* rather high-
pitched voice snd Hetty’s sweet laugh in
his ears—things took on a new, an un
pleasant aspic t.
Probably there was something in it.
Mr: Blivena’s smiling, complacent lit
tle face, and his general air of proprie
torship, must mean something.
Perhaps the knowledge of little Bliv-
ens’s prosperity had been too much for
Hetty’s weak, feminine heart. Per
haps, Joe reflected miserably, they were
engaged!
The wagon jolled on, filling the pretty
country roads—the moon had come out
finely—with mirthful echoes.
Joe parti ularly entertain
S ; the group of girls that listened tc
laughed at him whispered to each
other that he was nicer than ever. But
the weight at his heart, a double load
of pain and indignation, grew heavier.
The picnic-ground looked charmingly
inviting in the soft moonlight, withlts
quiet little lake, its large, smooth danc
ing-platform, and itsmany rastli *
The orchestra, a modest affair
pieces, had already arrived, and the moon
looked down presently on a score of
pretty laughing girls in dainty muslins,
floating about the platform with mascu
line arms clasping their waists.
Joe Marsh was not amongthe dancers.
Mr. Blivens had led Hetty out, and he
stood watching them gloomily.
Little Blivens was not a dancer. Poor
Hetty had learned that by many painful
experiences. He bounced about in f a
strangely jerky, irregular way; and he
was continually bumping into people and
stepping on dresses. Perhaps it afforded
the frowning watcher a certain satisfac
tion to observe this.
“What are you doing here,” yon ab
surd thing?” cried Nell Lyman, a jolly
little person who was afraid of nobody.
“Come along and dance the Lancers
with me.”
It was an hour later, when the young
man, heated and wearied by a long siege
of waltzes and quadrilles,8urrendered his
partner to somebody else, and walked
away toward the lake.
He had not danced with Hetty
he had told himself that bis wisest course
was to keep sway from her. Of course
she had plenty of partners; but Little
Blivens, it had seemed to Joe, had had
every other dance.
Of course they were engaged; there
was not a doubt of it. - He stared un-
seeingly' at tho plac'd little lake, re
peating to himself all the cynical things
he could think of concerning woman and
her falsity.
A rowboat lay at the edgo of the
water, a few yards away, with a white-
clad figure in its. end—a figure whose
slender litheness the young man recog
nized.
She was alone. It would be a piece
of rudeness not to join her, he told him
self. He strolled down to the boat.
'Oh, Mr. Marsh 1” cried Hetty, tim
idly. She was convinced, in the depths
of her unhappy little heart that he was
angry with her. Why had he not spoken
to her all the evening? “Mr. Blivens
has gone up to the wagon for my wrap,
she added, in explanation of her loueli-
5SS.
“I suppose I may congratulate you!”
said Joe, shortly, keeping coldly aloof on
the edge of the bank.
Hetty raised her eyes wonderingly.
“I have been given to understand,”
said Joe, stretching the truth a little in
his bitterness, “that you are engaged to
—Mr. Blivens.”
He brought the name out with such
contemptuous emphasis that a small per
son in a silk hat—the top of the hat
being only five feet and four inches from
the ground—and with a. cashmere wrap
over his arm, came to a' startled stand
still behind a neighboring clump of
hushes.
“Engaged to him!” said Hetty, with a
gasp, “why, Mr. Marsh 1”
There was no mistaking the astonished
reproach of her tone.
Her listener felt his heart bound.
“You are not now?” he questioned,
eagerly, bending toward her. “And
don’t care for him!”
“How could you think so?” murmured
Hetty.
The moon at that moment went be
hind the cloud. But when it came out,
Joe was squeezed into the very narrow
seat with Hetty; and Hetty’s big bat was
very much on one aide, as though pushed
thither by a sudden violent contact with
something.
The person behind the bushes had re
moved his hat, and was wiping his fore
head, a humorous smile beginning to
straggle through the dozedness of his ex
pression.
There was silence in the boat for a
happy interval.
Then the young man said, slowly
“I am afraid we can’t be married
right away, Hetty.”
“No,” said Hetty, gently.
“I have only my salary, you know;
and that isn’t enough for two to live
on,” said Joe. “On. why haven’t I a
little capital? There’d be such a chance
for me it I had. The senior of the firm
was telling me, the other day, that
they’d like to take a third partner—one
with a small capital. If I only had it—
J, who know aU the ins snd outs of the
business— It's no use talking about
it,” he brokeoff.
“I shall writ for you, Joe,”, arid
Hetty, simply.
“We shall have a long wait, I'm
afraid, little girl,” said Joe, gloomily.
“By the way,” he added, forgetting Ms
trouble with youthful haste, “what made
you encourage poor little Blivens!”
“Ecourage him? Oh, I didn’t mean
thatl” cried Hetty, looking tenderly dis
tressed. “But I never had tho heart to
hurt his feelings by refusing him. I just
couldn’t!”
The person behind the bushes was re-
'* the speaker with a great grat-
And little Blivens seemed to appre
ciate it. For he beamed upon her at
parting with unusual warmth, and gave
ner hand an astonishing grip.
“You couldn’t guess what I'm g.iing
to tell you, Hetty,” said Joe Marsh,
’ ging up the front steps, two days
. ana sitting down by Hetty's ham
mock, with a radiant face.
“Have they raised your salary!” said
Hetty, briskly.
“I’m going into the firm,” arid Joe. in
a voice shaky with his excitement. “I’ve
got a loan of the necessary capital—who
from, do you think!”
Hetty shook her head, with ported lips.
••FromLittle Blivens!” crieaJoe. “it’s
the strangest thing that ever happened to
me. I was going oy his china-store, this
morning, when he called me in, took mo
into his office, looked me all over with
his sharp little eyes, and said he had
heard that my firm would take another
partner, with capital—how he heard it is
more than I know—and went on to offer
me a loan for the purpose—on very lib
eral terms, too. Isn't it the funniest
thing you ever heard of—and the jolliestf
We can be married with Julia and Ed,
in October!” he concluded, rapturously.
“He is the dearest little man in the
world!” said Hetty, with misty eyes.
And she never knew it was her own
self-forgetful kindness to Little Blivens
which had won them their happiness.—
Emma A. Opper.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Ono-half of the children born into the
world die before they reach tho age of
five yean.
Eighteen bumblebees, twenty-two wasps
or thirty-eight ordinary honey bees con
tain enough poison to nil an adult.
To make nails was one of the sentences :
imposed in Massachusetts a hundred years
ago as a punishment for crime, and
twelve naQs a day was accepted as a day’s
wotk.
The planet Mars has more land than
the earth and the late t theory is that
Mars is inhabited by a race of beings
similar to our own, but longevity there is
far less than here.
The greatest fortress in the world, frem
a strategical point of view, is the famous
stronghold of Gibraltar. It occupies a
rocky peninsula jutting out into the sea
about three miles long and three-quarter*
of a mile wide.
It was not until xuou tost tneworu
“donke;
“GUNBOAT GREEN.”
Taunted by Comrades fbr Showing:
the White Feather, He Monnts
the Breastworks and Shoots
8eventj-Two Federate.
Effects of Absinthe Drinking.
Powerful as a stimulant, it culminates
i a terrible reaction, and. like every
drag, it is resorted to to cure the evil it
has caused, and eventually enslaves the
manor woman who toys with it too
freely. Of cou; sc, all meu do not be
come slaves to it, as all men do not be
come opium fiends who 4 ‘hit” the pipe.
But it’s a bad thing to become accus
tomed to. The drip is the fashionable
way to drink it, but fashion becomes
forgotten by the absinthe slave, and he
soon drifts into taking it undiluted and
in enormous dcses, just as tho morphine
victim become i accustomed to take
enough of the sleepy drug to kill half
a dozen men. Its terrible results have
never become, in this city, a matter of
scientific observation or of restrictive
legislation, and judging from the drink
ing peculiarities of Americans, it never
will be. In the Eastern cities, imported
victims of the drug are often seen, and
in France, Italy and Switzerland it is
regarded as the greatest curse. Its use
in tho army and navy of France is pro
hibited by law. It first came into
notice at the time of the Algerian war,
from 1814 to 1847, when it was recom
mended for use by the soldiers in their
liquor as a preventive of fever. It was
developed in a few years that it was
ruining the army. Observation by medi
cal men resulted in discoveries that,
deadly as it was when pure, it was ren
dered even more so by adulterations. Its
use, in the first place, impaired the di
gestive organs and spoiled the appetite.
As a necessary consequence, sleeplessness
followed, with aU the terrible torture
that that implies. The minds of the ab
sinthe fiends became derang?d. They
saw beautiful visions such as it is alleged
the hasheesh eaters only know. They
became exalted and pitched to a high
key, and then thete came the most terri
ble depression, ending often in suicides
and oftener still in imbecility. Loss of
brain and nerve power, degeneration of
the muscles, and all the moral perversion
springing therefrom were among its ef
fects’—St. Louie Olcl>Democrat.
In Company E, ot the Thirty-first
Louisiana, there wav a man named Green.
The boys went into service in the spring
of’62, and for some time had very littlo
to do. Green soon made himself one of
the most popular men in camp. He was.
something of a humorist and Ms talents-
as a story teller made him always enter
taining.
When the Thirty-first sniffed gunpow
der for the first time, Green turned up*
missing. He had « fit and was unable to
nothing morJ PraUbW intS courra o! ' ^ J 1
i !“ ude - whlch h “ * bout “«*» , rictim to rheumitiim on tho ore of in-
5 — * .. . , , . , . I other fight, they spoke out in pretty
Cesar u said to have had 320 pairs ot p \ a - ln terms.
i* 1 ?? “ °?“ i" A 1 ? “““i “ d *° I Green was so deillod b, the boys that,
add to tho scenic effect the blood, itrng- ] ho w driren nesrl, cm,. Juit about,
gles were atnlght. Til,an surpassed all j that time there was a call for volunteers
in forcing 10,000 unhapp, prisoner* and to go up tho Ya-oo River ou a gunboat
gladiators to contend for life in the | j^ditfon. To tho aurpriao of all, tho
Roman amphitheatre; the blood, nnd . chronic invalid volunteered. The ex-
brutal sport lasted for 113 days. | pd.tion luted about six weeks and no-
In 1615 Governor Dale procured the fighting occurred. Green, however,
important privilege for the people of swelled with pride at the thought of his-
Virginia of holding landed property by | soldierly conduct, and bragged so lustily
a stable tenure. The farmers then did j that his companions nick-named him
not possess the land they cultivated by a , “Gunboat Green.” By degree* it began
tenure of common socage, but enjoyed it to dawn on him that he was the butt of
as tenant* at will of the crown. Now to ’ the regiment, and then he became sulky
every adventurer into the colony, and to and d.sa^recablc. .
his heir.-, were granted fifty acres of land, i But the time came when the gallant
and the same quantity for every person \ Louisianians had something more import-
imported by others.
ant to think of than “Gunboat Green.”
A good many people will be surprised | Tuey were driven into the “bull-pen” at-
to learn that the biggest building in tho | Vicksburg by Grant’s swarming legions,
United States will be the City Hall of j and every soldier had to do his duty like
Philadelphia, now in process of construe- ! a little man. The corps to which Green-
tion. Between $ti,09J,003 and $12,*! belonged w as stationed behind a crescent-
000,030 have been expended upon it shaped breastwork seven miles in length,
since 1872. It is estimated to cover j The land in front for some distance was ■
2,800 more square feet than the Capitol level, and then sloped down a ravine and
at Washington. The tower on the north ! up a steep hilt The timber had aU been
side will be surmounted by a statue of j cut down, so there was a clean sweep.
Penn, and its extreme height when com
pleted will bo 535 feat. I
reached n height of 270 feet.
One afternoon the Federal* charged
* * ‘ , They placed the'r
the hill to pick off tho
Slavery in the ancient Roman world Confederates wheu they showed their
was in part sustained by a practice so re-1 heads. The Federate charged in four •
volting and inhuman as hardly to be | columns, four deep. The Coofeder..tcs
comprehensible to modern ideas the i remained in the pits four deep, and held
systematic exposure and abandonment of i their fire until the Federate were within
the children of the poor and of female ; sixt y y, ards Then the front rank opened
and defective children by the rich. fire and foil hack, and the second, and so-
There are innumerable allusions to this' °“ until every gun had been emptied
inhuman treatment throughout Latin lit- i with terrible execution. Finally, the
erature. In two diffefent comedies or assaulting party fell back behind the
journey, is represented as ordering his the coming of night In this position
wife, who is soon to give birth to a babe, * they were protected except from the top
of the breastworks, and the Confederates
dialogues, the husband, on starting e
wife, who is soon to give
to destroy it if it prove a girl; and the
plot of one turns on the wife’s foolish
weakness'in exposing rather than killing
the female infant.
Paraffine and Stone.
Professor Ogden Doremus, the dis
tinguished chemist, gave me some cu
rious Information a few days ago, writes
the Newark Adtertiser'e New York cor
respondent. He has spent a good deal
of time recently in the study of stone
timber that had been cut down, to await
Mineral Water for Horses.
“It was my habit,” said a gentleman
just returned from a visit at Cape May to
a New York Times reporter, “to go to
the beach daily at the hours for the
horses to bathe, and a great pleasure I
found it to watch them. The noble fel
lows came down over the sand, tossing
their heads and impatiently pawing, evi
dently full of eager anticipation. Once
in the water they waded or swam about
on the fine, smooth beach, ducking their
heads in the l reakers and tossing the
snray like a pack of huge Newf ounalaud
mastiffs. The grooms found it difficult
to get them out and back to their quar
ters. One of the men in charge told ms
how well horses thrive during a seashore
residence. The briny air is a bracing
tonic to them, aud the salt water imparts
a satin smoothness to their coats.
“At Saratoga, too, eqnines improve on
tin waters as much as their masters;
more, perhaps, for they do not have the
counteracting influences of late hours
and rich eating, not to mention the more
serious dissipations of the spa. I have
seen horses there led regnlarly to the
spring every morning for their dose, and
a quantity of the meiicinal liquid carried
away for greoming purposes. ‘ A good
rubbing down with spring water acts
like a polishing brush, and a horse’s sides
fairly reflect in their lustrous gloss after
it. But it costs a nice little sum to have
pailfuls of Congress or Hsthorn dealt
out every day, and it is not every man
who can afford to coddle his stable in
that way.” '
Long Lives.
The United States is said to lead all
civilized countries in centenarian lon
gevity, while Connecticut is ahead among
the States. As to sex, women; as to
occupation, soldiers, sailors and fanners
are longest lived. Among the profes
sions, 100 ministers, thirty doctors, and
ten lawyers reached their centennial.
The first requisite for longevity, accord
ing to Prof. Humphrey, of Cambridge,
England, must be an inherent auality of
endurance, a something which is inborn
and perhaps inherited. It is noticeable
that the phthisical taint does not neces
sarily lessen the capacity for longevity.
Among 500 aged persons, phthisis ap
peared in fathers, mothers, brothers, or
sisters of eighty-twd, that is, in about
seventeen per cent. In one case both
father and mother were phthisical. A
second requisite for long life is freedom
from exposure to casualties. It is on
this ground, in part, that more women
than men reach extreme age. v Other
reasons however are, perhaps, a greater
natural vitality, since even in early .life
the mortality .is teas among females than
males. It does not seem to be proved by
the data collected that short and sprall
and women have any advantage
. those who are taller and larger.
The average height of old Englishmen is
five feet three inches.
and the means of preserving it, and has
come to$ho conclusion that only one
thing can be safely applied to stone as a
preservative; that is paraffine. Oddly
enough, he said to me, paraffine has sel
dom been in use in Europe as a preserva
tive of stone, and the method that is com
monly resorted to there to prevent rot
ting and crumbling is without permanent
effect. Professor Doremus made a test
of his judgment with the obelisk in Cen
tral Park. This splendid Egyptian relic,
“I knew it!” cried Joe, triumphantly.
If little Blivens was rather thoughtful
going home that night- nobody noticed
ft but Hetty.
That soft hearted little creature labored
faithfully to bring Mm to his natural
state of cheerfulness. - . -
Boat Life In China.
Perhaps the most curious domestic in
terior that one could peep into is a fam
ily boat-house in China. There is aa in
numerable mass of these houses at Canton,
mid it is amazing that family life could be
maintained in the small space available.
The children are laid along the keel at
night. Lift up a board and there you’ll
find them packed in like sardines in a
box. Floats are tied to the babies, for
dropping overboard is a frequent occur
rence. Families eat and sleep in a space
that would make a good sized cupboard,
and yet seem as healthy and in good
spirits as if each had an acre ol green
meadow to disport in. , .
man aer Gorringe, was, not long ago,
gradually rotting away. The rains and
frosts of our climate would soon have de
stroyed it, if Professor Doremus had not
suggested paraffine as a means of pre
venting rot. He was permitted to have
his way,
would not take that exposed position on
account of the sharpshooters.
At this juncture an event of the most
unexpected and paralyzing nature oc
curred. Down in thj pits a crowd of
rough fellows were tormenting “Gun
boat Green.” One man told him that he-
was looking rather pale, and advised,
him to go to the hospital.
“Never mind about my looks,” said
Green, “I have a presentiment that I am
going to be killed.”
“By a i
nervous shock,” suggested a
corpora], and then there was a laugh.
The object of all this ridicule gritted
his teeth, nnd his eyes flashed fire.
“I’ll swear, boys;” said one of the-
compsny, “that if a ballet is found in
‘Gunboat Green’ after his death it will
be one that he swallowed.”
Stung beyond endurance by these
taunts Green seized his musket and Tan
at full speed until he reached the top of
the breastworks. Here he had the Fed
erate behind the fallen timber in full
view and easy range. For a moment
both armies looked on in breathless won
der. On that seven-mile line of breast
works Green was tho only man to be
seen. Then tho sharpshooters corn-
association with others who 1 mented firing at him. With a white
shared his opinion: the obelisk was then ' blazing eyes, and nerves stretched
carefully temped and painted thickly , *° their utmost tcniion he took aim .nd
with paraffine and creosote. At present ® red * Ti. mc ea 1 again he reloaded and
water runs from the obelisk like mcr- **—" * — ““
sury, and frosts cannot enter into its
structure. Tae monument will last for
an indefinite period. Paraffine has also
saved the immense archways in Green
wood Cemetery from destruction, und
may sooner or later be applied to Trinity
Church, which is in an advanced stage
of rot. It is being applied meanwhile to
all kinds of public buildings, among
others the large Potter Building on Park
Row. Fir. Cyrus W. Field declared re
cently that, if he had known the worth
pulled trigger, each time hitting his
man. By this time the sharpshooters
were firing a thousand shots per minute-
at him. Some of the Confederates
begged him to come down, but an officer
“Let the blanked fool alone, they
can’t hit him.”
The men in the pits threw up a lot of
cartridges, and Green <outinueu to fire at
regular intervals. Bullets flew past him
thick as hail,but not a hair of hi* head was
harmed. Finally the brigade that he
of paraffine, he would have been able to wa* slaughtering in his merciless fashion
save considerable money; it cost him just j could stand it no longer. They broke
five thousand dollars to have the front of and ran np the hill, losing several more
his brown stone house in Grammercy ; on the way up under the fire of the soli-
Park renewed. It is a matter o! fact that tary soldier on the breastworks,
most of the brown stone houses here re- 4 -Gunboat Green” was the hero of the-
veal fronts which cannot withst nd severe' hour. Officers and privates surged
cl.; vges of climate much longer.
Facts About the Male.
It is said that a mule cannot bray if
you tie a weight to his tail and hold it
down. This was touchingly illustrated
in the cavalry movements that preceded
the second battle of Manauas. General
Stuart, with a large force of cavalry
manoeuvring around the retreating army
of Pope, got caught between two col
umns of Union troops, and was obliged
to conceal himself in a dense wood be
tween two parallel road* along which the
enemy were retreating. He had to lie
low all night until the columns passed
by. Messengers that the Union generate
sent to each other through the woods
were captured and held with as little
noise as possible. One great difficulty
was to keep the mules in the ordnance
and commit-ary wagons from braying,
snd thtis calling the attention of the foe.
For this purpose Stuart ordered a man to
be detailed to stand by each, mule and
whack him with n stick as soon as he
offered to bray; jor a mule, like an or*
tor, requires a certain preparation before
beginning hi* neat and appropriate ex-'
ercises. There is a preliminary protest
made with the ears, and certain solemni
ties of the nostrils, an expression of ror-
row overspreads the countenance, then
the tail is lifted. A bray does not break
forth from the lips of the mule. It be
gins way beck in the abdominal viscera
and comes gradually up. Now, as soon
as the cavalry mules began to prepare for
a bray, whack! whack I would go the
sticks, and the bray would be suppressed
—and thus all night. It was said that
this was needlees severity, for it would
have sufficed to tie a brickbat to the tail
of each mule.—Baltimore American.
Perfectly Incorrigible.
“My dear, it’s going to rain again,
“mat makes you think so, Mn Ik>
aenberry?”
“Because my bunions ache.”
“For shame, Mr. Dusenberry! You
are at the table l”
“Humph! So are my bunions.”—Cal
around him, shaking him by the hand
and applauding h:s bravery. Jest before
dark the Federate retired, and a party of
Lo .isianiana went out to look as the re
sult of Green’s bloody markmanship. It
was found by actual count that his mus
ket had killed seventy-two Federate.
Green insisted that he bad killed ninety,
but it is thought that some of them we re-
only wonded, snd their friends had
dragged them off. About the seventy-
two dead men there co-ild be no doubt.
They were there, and as their bodies lay
in a place where was not a single corpse
before Green commenced firing, it was-
5 Iain enough that he had brought them
own. -■*-
A special report concerning Green was
sent to the commanding General that
night. The result would doubtless have-
been promotion but for the fact that oa
the following morning “Gnnboat Green”
was nowhere to be found. Later it was-
ascertsined that he had deserted and
joined Great’s army. Nothing further
was ever heard from him.—Atlanta Con-
stitution.
YTork for Rieii Young Men.
The truth is, the modern development
of outdoor sports of all kinds i* p oring
the salvation of the very large class of
wealthy young men. One of theephysi-
cians in Bloomingdale Insane asylum
told me the other day that the percent^
age of Ms patients who had lost their
mind simply because they had never had
any occupation was startling. One of
the patients there, a member of one of
New York’s old families, that reckons its
city property by the acre, sat idle in his
club window until he finally concluded
that he was dead. So they buried him
in Bloomingdale, where he met a number
of his old set Everybody that knows
the people can name three harmless, but
more or less unpleasant imbeciles, who
are regularly invited to dinner, and to
social gatherings of all kinds, where
their idiocy is jeered at to the intense
delight of the young people and without
remonstrance on the part of the elderly.
—Brooklyn Eagle.