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"AN OCEAN TRAGEDY.
THE TERRIBLE FATE WHICH BEFEL
\‘ THE CENTRAL AMERICA.
A Contest Between Angry Waters and a
Bucket Line, In Which the Latter Lost.
A Cowardly Engineer—A Bird Guided
the Ellen to the Rescue.
And who that remembers can hear
without a thrill the name of the steam
ship Central America, which sank in a
great storm on Sept. 12, 1857, with most
of her officers and crew, nearly 400 pas
sengers and $1,800,000 in gold?
The Central America was crowded
with treasure laden people from Cali
fornia on their way to New York. Aft
er leaving Havana on Sept. 8 she rar
into a storm. The steamer began tc
leak, and Captain Hernden called upon
the passengers to form linesand pass
the buckets., Hour after hour the tem
pest howled, and the huge vessel groaned
as the immense seas broke against her.
Hour after hour the men with the buck
ets toiled for their lives; slowly the wa
ter gained on them,
The ofiicers exhorted the bucket gangs
not to pawuse for a moment if the ship
was to be saved. The wind roared and
the storm increased in fury. Every pas
senger stuck to his post and worked un
til he fell to the deck exhausted. Then
the women offered to take the places of
their wornout, fainting husbands and
brothers, but none of the men would al
low it. Asthe horror of the situation
gradually dawned on the minds of the
women and children the air was filled
with sounds of terror, but above the
raging hurricane and the cries of lamen
tation rose the chorus of the bucket
men:
Heave, oh! heave, oh! stamp and go,
We’ll be jolly blather, oh!
All day long they sang this song and
fought for life against the steadily ris
ing water. Mrs, Easton, a bride on her
honeymoon trip, passed bottles of wine
to the heroic men to strengthen them in
their desperate work. All night long
the struggzle was continued, and still the
ocean gained inch by inch. The women
begged, with tears in their eyes, to be
allowed to help. They cheered the brave
fellows and wept when they saw them
fall to the deck with white faces and
trembling limbs,
During the next day the peril of the
steamer was increased by the lack of food
and water. The hurricane tossed the
ginking hull about and shattered her
spars and masts. While the tired and
sleepless men stuck to the buckets the
women knelt and prayed to God for as
sigstance.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon a sail
was seen to windward. Guns were fired
and signals of distress hoisted. Th»
strange vessel, which turned out to Le
the brig Marine of Boston, answered the
signals and tried to approach, but the
gale blew her about three miles away.
Then the boats were made ready, and
the women and children prepared them
gelves. They had to strip off nearly all
of their clothes and put on life preserv
ers. Many of the women had gold
which they could pot carry with the
them. Twoof them went to their state
rooms and took out bags of $2O gold
pieces, which they threw down in the
cabin, inviting the others to take what
they pleased. The money rolled and
jingled about on the floor, while the two
weeping women explained that they were
returning home to enjoy the fortune
which they had made in California, and
that they would be beggars if the ship
was lost. None of the women dared to
take more than two pieces of gold lest it
might weigh them down.
The men still remained at their work,
saying that they would remain on boerd |
until another ship arrived, as the Marine |
conld not take all the passengers, and
the women and children must be saved |
first. Among those heroes was Billy
Birch, the famous minstrel.
Two of the lifeboats were smashed by
the sea, but three boats were filled wit!
women and children, many of the latter
being infants. The last boat to leave
carried the chief engineer. He solemnly
promised the captain to return, but the
moment he got into the boat he drew a
knife and threatened to kill any one who
followed him. Later on, when the wom
en and children were put on board the
Marine, the chief engineer, like the cow
ard and liar he was, refused to return.
Now the sinking steamship was sO low
in the ocean that almost every wave
swept her deck. Some of the passengers
got into the rigging. while others tried
to build a raft. Night came on. The
storm continued to rage. The snip quiv
ered and careened. Rockets goared up
into the bellowing, angry heavens. Slow
ly the vessel filled with water, and the
doomed host clinging to her decl: and
rigging prepared for death. Thero was
no weeping and no shrieking, no wring
ing of hands. The captain stood at the
wheel to the last.
All at once the ship, as if in an agony
of death herself, made a plunge at an
angle of 45 degrees, and with an appall-
Ing shriek from the engulfed mass she
‘_hl“dppeared, and nearly 500 human be
ings were left struggling among the
fierce waters. Thescene was horrifying,
and many who were saved afterward
fainted at the mere memory of it.
A few held on to planks and spars all
through the wild night, and as the day
broke the Norwegian bark Ellen arrived
and picked up 49 of the men.
: bef‘l was forced out of my course just
ore 1 met yon."lddthflo.ptdnof
the Ellen to the resousd passengerd.
and when 1 altered my course a bird
new across the ship once or twice, ana
then darted into my face. A few min
utes later the bird repeated its move
ments. [ thought it an extraordinary
thing, and while thinking on it in this
way the mysterious bird reappeared, and
for the third time flew into my face.
This induced me to alter my course back
to the original one, and in a short time 1
heard noises in the sea and discovered
that I was in the midst of shipwrecked
people.”
Who shall say what power guided the
flight of the frail messenger through the
stormy air*—New York Herald,
Growth of the Human [Heart.
Dr. Benecke of Marburg has made
known his observations on the growth
of the human heart, the fact appearing
that the increase is greatest and most
rapid during the first and second years
of life, its bulk at the end of the second
year being exactly double what it origin
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seventh years it is again doubled in size.
A slower rate of growth then sets in and
continues during the period of maturity
of other portions of the body. After the
fifteenth year up to the fiftieth the an
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a cubic inch, the increase ceasing about
the fiftieth year.—Leisure Momeuts.
Royal Pin Money.
The Princess of Wales' long retire
ment has enabled her tosave much of her
pin monay—£lo,ooo & year—and bring it
up to a comfortable amount. In the past
Alexandra has had plenty to do with
that allowance, dreseing herself most
elegantly, her daughters very much less
gO, and fitting out the boys. Times have
changed, her children have an annual
income of £36,000 to divide among them
selves, and the princess has lived aloof
from London society since the death of
her eldest sen, thereby incurring but lit
tle expense for dress.—New York Adver
tiser.
Count D’Orsay and Lady Helland.
A story going the rounds is one told of
the famous Count d'Orgay. On the oc
casion of Lis first visit to England, while
he was very young, very handsome and
not easily disconcerted, he chanced to be
seated at dinner next to the briliilantand
singular Lady Holland.
That remarkable and many sided wo
man was in, as it happened, one of her
imperious humors, and her young neigh
bor soon felt its weight. She dropp~d
her napkin. The count picked it up gal
lantly. Then her fan, thenher fork, then
her glass, and as often her neighbor
stooped and restored the lost article. At
last, however, the patience of the youth
gave way, and on her dropping her nap
kin again he turned and called one of
the footmen behind him. ‘“Put my plate
on the floor,” said he. *I will finish my
dinuer there. It will be go much more
convenient to my Lady Holland.”—New
York Times.
The Ruling Passion.
Mr. Theosoph—Speaking of the myste
rious, I knew an adept who predicted
that he would be taken sick on a certain
day, at a certain hour, and would die ex
actly 2 hours and 10 minutes later. Ev
erything occurred just as he foretold.
What do you think of that?
Mr. Hardhead—He must have been a
New York man who had lived in Jersey
and had become accustomed to doing ev
erything on schedule time.—New York
Weekly.
She’ll Know Him Again.
When the king of the Belgians stopped
in tavern at Spike duringa recent rain
storm he overheard the hostess remark:
“T've seen the mug of thistall fellow be
fore.” Ere leaving the place the king
presented the hostess with a bust of
himself and later forwarded a large
photograph, with his autograph,—Ex
change.
Improving the Breed.
“Why do you cut up such antics when
you feed your turkeys, Mr. Farmer?”
«Oh, I'm trying to make game of
them.”— Washington Star.
«Neither is a dictionary a bad book to
read,” says Emerson in his essay on
books. *‘There is no cant in it, no ex
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gestion—the raw material of possib'e
poems and histories. Nothing is want
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German papers give detailed deserip
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a crypt under the sacristy of the ‘‘Peters+
Paul Kirche” at Liegnitz, in Silesia. The
statues, which areall connected with one
another, are supposed to represent apos
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Queen Victoria's “Jubilee Book,” the
volume containing the jubilee specches
and addresses, is 18 inches thick, has
leaves 2 by 8 fest and weighs 63 pounds.
An advertiser in a New York daily a
few days ago offered a reward for the
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Woman-high of fame and name;
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1 and they are not tire same,
Why should I expire
For the fire of an eye,
Slender waist or swanlike limb?
Is't for them that I should die?
The round breasts, the fresh skin,
Cheeks crimson, hair so longand rich:
Indeed, {ndeed, I shall not die,
Please God, not I, for any such.
The golden hair, the forehead thin,
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The rounded heel, the languid tone—
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An Old Family.
Several years ago there was an old
family in Pennsylvania named Roth.
Indeed the long line of Roths was about
all the family had to show by way of
distinction, and so much did they make
of the long branches of the family tree
and the Niagara of blue blcod that had
in centuries past coursed through their
veins that people of the more recent gen
erations really began to think these
Roths were of some account.
One evening there happened to be a
party in the little town of M—, and
beside the great Roth fawmily the guests
numbered among others young Dr.
Sharp. He was a popular and rising
physician and considered by matchmalk
ing mammus a particularly desirable
catch.
Mrs. Roth had four marriageable
daughters, so at the first favorable op
portunity she cornerad the young doctor
and sought to impress upon him the im
portance of her wonderful family,
“Why, doctor,” she said, ‘*we all came
over on the Mayflower, so 1 know you
will not think e bold in aaserting that
the Rothsare really one of the first fam
ilies.”
“Pardon me,” replied the young phy
gician, “but I have no hesitation in say
ing that your family enjoys even agreat
er distinction.”
“Oh, doctor,” gushed the old woman,
giving herself a congratulatory hug on
her coming triumph. “Indeed you flat
ter us.”
“Not at all,” he replied, *‘for I know
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“Who told you that, dear doctor?”
“The Bible,” he replied reverently,
“for it says the Lord was Roth.”—Dßos
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