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VOL. 1.-NO. 45. POET It Y. “THE LORD’S HOCS2.’> Two children, standing with yellow hair In tho sunV rich, golden ray, Winking at Sol with their eyea so rare; And this is what they say: " I come from over tho Rhino," one said. And smiled as she thought of home; " It's prettier there than hero; you’ve read Os our church with its handsome dome. " Germany’s lands arc po fine," sho said, “ And wo have lords’ houses there Sho glanced at tho c<v i.igos white and red, At ,he landscape, plain, but fair. “Is America poor?" sne asked in pity, “ And have you nothing hero, To compare with the grand old Rhenish city, And tho lord* wo so much four ?" Answering then, the American child Thoughtfully raised her eyes, And in a manner lirm but mild, She joyously pointed high. To the rich illumined, lofty spire, Shining in God’s own light. All lit with the sun’s rich beams of fire, And claspsed her comrado tight; " That is the House of our Lord," said she, And smiled at the othor's look; For tho Rhenish maid said, “Can it be?" And slowly the meaning t-'ok. Two childron, standing with yellow hair, And their soft, white anna entwined; Gazing at heaven with oyea so rare, And thoughts toward God inclined. THE BTO R r- TELL ER. THE WIFE OF DR. FRANKLIN. BY JAMES PARTON. On a fine Sunday morning in October, 1723, Deborah Read, a beautiful and blooming lass of eighteen, stood at the door of her father’s house in Market-st., Philadelphia. The city was then forty-threo years of age, and it contained a population of seven thousand. Many trees of the original forest still stood upon its site ; the houses were built at some distance apart, with gardens between them.; and as yet the streets were all unpaved. It was a large, tranquil Quaker village, surrounded by the primeval wilderness, with groups of Indians frequently to be seen in its streets; and such game as wolves, bears, wild turkeys, and deer to bo shot within four miles of tho town. As the young lady stood at the door of her home—it was about church time in tho morning—she saw in the crowd of church-going people a strange figure that both amused and surprised her. It was a stout lad of seventeen, not ill looking, but dressed in the very extreme of shabbiness. He wore the working clothes of an ordinary apprentice, and these, by exposuro to rain and the wear and tear of travel, had become dirty and dilapidated. The pockets of his coat were stuffed out with shirts and stock ings, and under each arm he had a large roll, while he was eating a third. She gazed at him as long as she could see him, wondering and laughing at his ridiculous appearance. If she had any thoughts upon the subject, she probably set him down as a runaway apprentice, for such indeed he was, one Benjamin Franklin, who had made his way from Boston by sloop, by barge, and on foot, to escape the tyranny of his brother, to whom he had been apprenticed. A few days passed. Miss Read learn ed from her father that ’a young man was coming to board with them, .a print er, who worked in one of the two print ing houses of the town. "What was her surprise when the young man arrived, nicely dressed, with clean linen, and very neat in his person, to recognize the forlorn and shabby youth who had caught her eye on that Sunday morning. His chest had arrived meanwhile by sea, and thus he was able to present himself at his new abode in a becoming costume. The young man proved Highly agreeable to the family. He was full of intelli gence, amiability, and good humor, one of those young fellows who make friends wherever they go, because they are themselves obliging and friendly. A year glided rapidly by; during which the father of the young lady died, and was buried in Christ Church bury ing-ground, Philadelphia, where his grave-stone may still be seen and read. His wife, a vigorous and prudent wo man, carried on the house as usual, so that it still furnished a home for tho young printer. His fortunes had bright ened during the year. The Governor of the province, who had accidentally be come acquainted with his talents, had promised to set him up in business as a printer, and was going to send him to London to buy types, a printing press, and whatever is necessary for the busi ness of a printer. With this prospect before him, the young man was embold ened to speak to Airs. Read on a mo mentous subject. He had fallen in love with her beautiful daughter. He told her this mighty secret, and of his intend ed voyage to London, and of the Gov ernor’s project of establishing him in business. Finally, he asked her daugh ter’s hand in marriage. Mrs. Read was far from disapproving the match, but, like a prudent mother as she was, she called the young man’s attention to the fact that neither he nor her daughter wero yet nineteen, and that it would be most unwise for them to marry just as he was going upon a long voyage, and about to engage in a new business which might not prove profitable. How much better to wait until he was safe at home again, and the business was well established. There was no denying this, and he was obliged to submit. Having thus arranged the matter with the mother, he spoke to the daughter, who confessed with her tongue, what her eyes probably had often avowed, that she loved him, and shepromisod to marry him on his return. lie set sail, and reached London in due time. There he discovered that the Governor had deceived and wronged him most cruelly. Instead of letters of credit, the Govornor had given him mere letters of introduction which were absolutely worthless. The consequcnco was, that this young printer of nineteen found himself in London with ten ponnds in his pocket, and not a friend in Europe who could boos the slightest help to him. To complete his misfor tunes one of his Philadelphia friends, who had crossed the Atlantic with him, and had come to London expecting to live by literature, could obtain no em ployment, and had no resources but Franklin’s purse. The printer was not long in getting work at his trade ; but as there were two to be supported, the ten pounds rapidly melted away, and Franklin saw no prospect even of his being able to get back to Philadelphia at all, still less of appearing there as a master printer. In these circumstances he should have written to Miss Read a plain statement of the case, and asked her to wait for him or released her from the engage ment. Either he had not the courage to do this, or else, absorbed by the wonders and pleasures of the town, he had be come indifferent to her. He merely wrote her a short note, announcing his safe arrival in London, and telling her he was not likely to return soon. This was one of tin* great errors of his life, which, he said, he could wish to correct if he were to live it over again. Month after month passed, andJDe borah Read, anxious and forlorn, heard no more from her faithless lover. Anew suitor presented himself, Rogers by name, who carried on the trade of a potter. He was an excellent hand at his business, and for this reason Mrs. Read favored his suit. Other relations persuaded her to marry him, and at last she gave her consent and the marriage was celebrated. Soon the dreadful rumor was noised abroad in Philadel phia that Rogers the potter had another wife. Such strong reasons appeared for crediting this report that Deborah Read, who had lived unhappily with him, re turned to her mother and resumed her maiden name, a sorrowful and hopeless woman. Her most sanguine friends could not have foreseen for her a happy and honorable future. Soon after Rogers, who owed money in all direc tions, fled from his creditors to tho Most Indies, whence came soon after a report of his death. Franklin remained in London for about two years, at the end of which lie returned as cleric to a Philadelphia mer chant, whom he had met by chance in London. Upon his arrival he renewed liis intimacy with Mrs. Read and her daughter, and doubtless explained his inconstancy as best he could. He la mented Deborah Read’s unhappy con dition ; and, however he may have ex cused his behavior, he felt that she owed the ruin of her life to his own “giddi ness and inconstancy.” The mother, however, insisted that it was she who was most in fault, because she had urged on the unhappy marriage, even against her daughter’s inclination. She still con sulted Franklin about her affairs, and they were all excellent friends. And so passed three or four years; during which Franklin, through his own industry and good conduct, became a master printer, and proprietor of a news paper, with the prospect of founding an extensive business. Needing capital, he tried to increase his store by mar riage, and when that scheme failed, he turned his thoughts to his first love, poor Deborah Read. Her runaway potter was probably dead ; but he might not be; and she seemed forever cut off from marriage by the fact that her second husband would be responsible for the debts of her first. Such was the law of the period. Franklin, pitying her forlorn condi tion, always reproaching himself as tho cause of her w r oe, and not less fond of her than before, at last proposed that they should risk a marriage. Nor was the match so unequal as it seemed; for, bachelor as he was, he had a son a few months old upon his hands, which was a good set off against the chances of Rogers’ reappearance. In 1730, seven years after Miss Read had seen Franklin walk up Market street eating his roll, they were married. Rogers, it turned out, was really dead ; nor did any of his creditors apply to Franklin for payment. The child was taken home and reared as though it had been born to them in wed lock. He was educated, and afterward became Governor of New Jersey. The marriage was eminently success ful in every respect. One of Franklin’s maxims in Poor Richard’s Almanac was this : “ A man must ask his wife to thrive.” Nothing more true. In vain shall a young man, without much capi tal, toil and deny himself, if he has a wife who squanders his gains, and takes no interest in his career. Airs. Franklin was one of the most industrious, careful, and friendly of women. Beside attend ing her husband’s little shop, she bought rags, stitched pamphlets, folded newspa pers, tenderly nurtured his child, and kept her husband from being extrava gant. He was by no means of an eco nomical disposition. He was generous to a fault, and, I am sure, was much in debted to his wife for the rapidity with which he made his fortune. In tho ear ly years of their married life he could sometimes boast —and he did boast of it —that he was clothed from head to foot in garments which his wife had first woven, and then made. It seems, however, that she was not averse to a reasonable amount of com fort and display. Franklin narrates that for a long time after his marriage he had nothing for breakfast but bread and milk, and he used to eat it out of a two penny bowl with a pewter spoon. “ But,” he continued, “ mark how lux ury will enter families, and make a pro gress in spite of principle. Being call ed one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl with a spoon of silvor. They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings ; for which she had no excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.” We have another pleasing glimpse of Mrs. Franklin, in the early years of her married life, in an advertisement pub lished in Franklin’s paper, The Pennsyl vania Gazette. Franklin advertised eve rything, and this is one of his attempts in that way : PALMETTO, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1872. “ Taken out of a pew in the church, some months since, a Common Prayer- Book, bound in red. 1 1, u.nd lettered D. F. (Deborah F:.Ui.xn.u) on each cover. The person who took it is desired to open it and read the Eighth Commandment, and afterwards return it in tho same pew again ; upon which no further no tice will be taken.” The iirst great sorrow of her married life was the death of their first child, a most beautiful and intelligent boy, four years of age. So engaging was he, and so rooted in the hearts of his parents that Franklin declared, thirty-six years after, he could never think of him even then without a sigh. When the reader visits the grave of Franklin in Christ Church burying ground he will observe near it a little stone, not two feet high, which Franklin placed over the grave of his boy. He added to the usual inscrip tion these words : “ The delight of all who knew him.” Their only other child, Sarah, grew to womanhood, inheriting and transmitting her mother’s beauty. During the last fifteen years of their married life Franklin spent most of his time in England, as agent for the Colon ies. Such was her dread of the ocean that she never could be persuaded to ac company him or visit him. During his absence she took care of all his affairs, better, in some respects, than he could have done it himself. By almost every ship she sent him American nuts, ap ples, and other products, and lie sent her in return all sorts of rare and beautiful things in fabric and household furniture, such as sets of china, articles of silver ware, table-cloths, tea trays, blankets, silk for dresses, and any curious house hold implement which he thought might be useful. On one occasion he sent her a large, handsome beer jug. “ I fell in love with it,” he told her, at first sight, for I thought that it look ed like a fat, jolly dame, clean and tidj r , with a neat blue and calico gown on, good-natured and lovely, and put me in mind of—somebody.” To make the jug more welcome, he filled it with pretty little coffee cups, packed in salt. During the Stamp Act troubles of 1765, when the false report reached Philadelphia that her husband had fa vored the odious measure, the mob threatened to sack his house. On this occasion she proved herself worthy to be the wife of Pennsylvania’s representa tive. Gov. franklin entreated her to take refuge in his own house at Burling ton, and all her friends urged her to go. For nine days, she says, people kept persuading her to leave her house. At length, she le. her daughter go to Bur lington ; but .or herself, she would not budge. “ I am very sure,” .said she, “ that my husband has done nothing to hurt any body, nor have I given any offense to any person at all, nor will I be made uneasy by anybody. I will not stir, nor show the least uneasiness. But if any body comes to disturb me, I will show a proper resentment.” And, indeed, she armed and fortified her house, stationing her brother and cousin below with guns and ammuni tion, and mounting guard up-stairs her self, prepared to defend her abode. The storm blew over, and very soon the truth respecting her husband’s conduct was known. For forty-five years Benjamin Frank lin and Deborah Read were united in marriage. Slie lived to see her husband the most honored of Americans on both conti nents, and she lived also to see her daugh ter suitably married to a merchant of Philadelphia, Richard Bache. Her last years were greatly cheered by her beau tiful grandchildren. She had the happiness of escaping the anxieties and terrors of the Revolution ary War. She died in December, 1774, with only one regret, that she could not live to see her husband once again. In deed, she had been for ten years longing and pining for his return ; but the press ing business*of the Colonies still detain ed him, and sho died at last when Ik; was making his preparations for his homeward voyage. Her body was borne to the grave by some of Franklin’s old est friends, men who had known them when, 44 years before, they had begun housekeeping, and ate their breakfast of bread and milk from Eastern bowls. There were scaroely any women at that period who were what we now call educated, and the letters of Mrs. Frank lin show that sho was not gifted in the use of the pen. But she was a faithful and affectionate wife, a friend and helpmeet to her hus band, who was enabled to devote him self to the public service because he had at home a wife competent and willing to take charge of his affairs in his ab sence.— WooiVs Household Magazine for January. A Railroad Surrey on Snow Shoes. The Green Bay (Wis.) Gazette of the 9th, says : “We had tho pleasure of a call several days since from Air. Archi bald McNab, of the staff of Sanford Fleming, Esq., Chief Engineer of the Canada Pacific Railway, a proposed route from the navigable waters of the St. Lawrence River to Frazer River, on the northern boundary line of British Columbia. Mr. McNab left Sault Stc. Marie on the 29th of November, with a party of men to go to Nepigon Bay, in tending to start from that point to sur vey. They embarked on the screw steamer Mineral Rock, and after various delays, owing to imperfect machinery, they were, on December 13, frozen in off Kewenaw Point. Here they were on a bleak point, no money, little provisions, and destitute of comfort. After much trudging and hard labor they finally reached Houghton, and from thenco they made their way to this point, and by communicating with the Canadian authorities, procured sufficient funds to enable them to recommence thsir jour ney. Air. AlcNab and party left here on Sunday evening for Duluth, where they will commence their pilgrimage for the point originally intended—Nepigon Bay; being compelled to travorso the entire distanco on snow-shoes.” Hints About Conversation. Special conversation, says an English magazine writer, is work, serious work ; general conversation should be the diver sion of our leisure. Special conversa tion is to end in a resolve, and in action. General conversation ends, as far as any visible effect is concerned, with itself. Thus, what is familiarly called “ shop” should be rigidly banished from tho lat ter. There aro moments when women may fairly compare notes about their servants, their children, their dress ; when lawyers may fittingly discuss their suits, their clients, their courts, their re forms ; when artists may properly can vass the time expensed over certain pic tures, their price, thiir technical merits, and so forth. lUit, %>. it understood, all this is business; it is nothing but “ shop,” lot the conversation bo carried on when it may. General conversation needs all of these—indeed, there.", no tid that it scorns : but it needs them as accessories, not as principals. They should be used as the side-lights, the timely illustrations flashed upon the main theme, at mo ments when it is threatened with dark ness or dimness. This miin theme should be no one’s in particular, but should seem to be any one’s at times, and in turns. Thus only can le reconciled the two at first seemingly conflicting condi tions of all good generai conversation— that it should not be mean, common, or vulgar, and yet that everybody should have an interest it, It is the humility of some, and the ar rogance or egotism of others, that pre vent the happy combination from being more common. People hive only to be gin with three axioms—the first of which is, that everybody is entitled (indeed bound) to form his own opinion, quite irrespectively of anything he may have read or been told ; the second of which is, that everybody is equally entitled to declare that opinion ; ana the third of which is, that everybody’s opinion is en titled to consideration, am. that not on ly on the ground of courtesy, but be cause it is certain that any opinion hon estly and independently formed is worth something, and opportunely expressed, may contribute in a striking manner to a current discussion. But *'or this most desirable consummation to be reached, difference of opinion must no longer be thought to verge upon bad manners, and truth or the pursuit of truth, not vic tory, must be the common quest. The upper ten thousand of this world pride themselves upon being so vastly superior to the rest of the human race, that they are confidently justified to themselves when they strengthen the barriers which separate them from the common herd. We aro not among the believers in the social equality of men, but we cannot allow Ourselves to be blinded by tho spurious distinctions which now pronounce them unequal. Abolish distinction of dress, manner, and speech, and where is the difference between many a lady and her maid, be tween many a gentleman and his valet, between some peers and their grooms V The conversation of the drawing-room is, in too many instances, not one whit better or more elevated than that of the servants’ hall, and the discussions of a smoking-room are perfectly on a par with those of the stable. And if wo are to stick to our definition, does it not fol low that he is the highest man whose conversation, i. e. whose thoughts—for, depend upon it, the two things are con vertible —-is habitually' the highest and the most soaring V A Queer Story of Superstition. The Berlin (Wisconsin) Journal has this story ; A gentleman who resided in this city has related to 11s a strange story of superstition and barbarity, which lie claimed had happened in this city recently. Our informant was a German, and the parties in the story are Polanders, but their names we could not learn. The story, as related to us, is substantially as follows: About the first of December or last of November a young Polish woman gave birth to a child. About two days afterward she died and was buried in the city cemetery. After about five weeks the wife of the brother of the dead woman was taken very sick, and it was thought she would die. It appears there is a superstitious idea among the Polanders that if one of a family dies, unless the head of the corpse is cut off the whole family will be likely’ to follow in rapid succession. However, if after one has died, another is taken sick, if some of the blood is procured from the dead body and administered to the patient he will recover. In accor dance with this superstition, our in formant alleges, the husband of the sick woman went to the burying ground on the night of January 2, five weeks after interment, dug up the body, cut off the head, and took from it blood and other liquid, which he administered to his wife as a medicine. That shortly after this the side woman’s malady’ assumed the form of smallpox, from which she reco vered and she is now entirely well. Our informant claimed that many witnesses story, and from what we learned we are could be brought to corroborate t’lis to believe that there is some foundation for the story’. The person who gave 11 s our information knows the name of the Polander in question, but would not disclose it. Nevada “Ships of the Desert.” The Virginia City’ Enterprise, of the 13th, says: A train of over a dozen camels arrived in this city' yesterday afternoon from the valley' of the Carson River, below Dayton. These “ ships of the desert” were loaded with hay in bales for Adams’ hay yard on North D street. The huge, ungainly beasts presented quite a pic turesque appeareuce as they filed into town with their cumbrous freight. Upon arriving at tho hay yard, at the word of command, they all knelt down to he re lieved of their loads. These animals appear to thrivo quite as well in this country as in the wilds of Sahara. There are an abundance of doserts here, if they aro neeossary to the comfort of the beasts. The Narrow Gauge in Colorado. Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, gives the following descrip tion of tho experimental narrow gauge railway’ now in operation for about sev enty'-five miles below Denver : The Colorado road, which has been constructed with gre? 1 rapidity for sev enty-five miles south of Denver, is in tended ultimately to be built along tho base of the Rocky Mountains to Saute Fe, thence to Albuquerque, thence to El Paso on the Mexican border, thence to Chihuahua and finally to tho City of Mexico—a total distance of about 1,750 miles. When completed, it will be one of the most important lines of railway on the Continent. It is not likely that it would have been undertaken but for the fact that the narrow gauge plan of construction involves so "much less ex pense than that of the accepted system. Mr. Bowles says that the cost of build ing this road has been but $13,000 a mile, while the Kansas Pacific, which traverses a like region of country’, cost §22,000. As to its working, 110 says : “ The road and its trains, in the first place, look like a railway plaything, in contrast with the broader and heavier tracks and larger oars of tho accustom ed lines ; delicate and dainty, they seem almost too faint and feeble for the hard, quick work to which they are called,and especially unequal to the great contest which they have invited. Yet so far, surely, they are performing their task with ease, with comfort, with celerity and with success. The track-bed of the narrow gauge is 0 foot wide, us against 9 ; tho distance between tho rails 3 feet, as against 4 feet 8 1-2 inches; thetiesare 6to 61-2 feet, as against 8; the rails weigh 30 pounds to the yard, as against 56; the engines 12 to 10 tons, as against 25 to 30 tons, putting about half the weight on the drive-wheels that the large locomo tives do ; the passenger cars, with 8 wheels, and carrying 32 passengers, weigli 0 tons, as against 18 tons, 8 wheels and 50 passengers ; and the freight cars so far introduced weigh 2 tons, run on 1 wheels and carry 4 to 5 tons of freight, as against cars weighing 9 tons on 8 wheels, and capable of 10 tons load. Where four passengers sit in the ordinary car, three are seated in the narrow ones, two on one side and one on the other of the passage way’, the car being divided in the middle by a door, and the seats for two and one, respectively, being re served in the two sections, so as to bal ance the carriage. The cars at first in troduced are 7 feet wide, and 10 1-2 feet high from rail to top. They prove a trifle more compact than is necessary, and not quite generous enough in ac commodations for passengers ; but this evil is being remedied in new cars now constructing; while sleeping cars and day drawing-room cars can be made for the narrow gauge roads, which will ac commodate still more persons, in pro portion to their size and weight, than the ordinary cars of this character now do.” Building and Loan Associations. Much has been said of co-operative associations for manufacturing and for carrrying on other branches of produc tive industry, as well as of co-operative stores, but what are known as building and loan associations, representing an other application of the same mutual principle, are comparatively little under stood. The latter offer very decided ad vantages not only to the working peo ple, but to all persons in receipt of wages or a fixed salary, whether shop girls or railroad superintendents. The building and loan association is in the nature of a savings bank, all the depositors in which are stockholders and entitled to a pro rata share of the pro fits which their aggregated savings earn. It is a perfectly mutual concern, there being no preferred class of stockholders, and, as usually managed, the officers for tho most part serving without salaries. Tile expenses aro exceedingly small. A prominent feature of such associa tions is the privilege accorded to mem bers of borrowing money, in amounts proportioned to the number of their shares of stock, on remarkably favora ble terms. This enables a poor man to become the absolute owner of a house in from eight to eleven years by paying an nually but a small sum in addition to the rent of it. A law passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1859 qirovides for the incorporation of building and loan asso ciations, and prescribes oertain general rules and limitations respecting them. Some of the details of their working are a little oomplex, but the plan in the main is very simple, and entirely within the comprehension of everybody. A man—or woman either—who can save ten dollars a month, may take ten shares of stock, which have a nominal or pros pective value of S2OO each. By contin uing monthly payments of $lO during a term which varies from eight to eleven years, he can withdraw the sum of $2,000 at the end of that time. Sup posing tho association to run nine years and six months (which is about the aver age period under good management), such a stockholder actually pays but $1,140 in return for tho $2,000 which he obtains. He thus realizes an average annual interest of very nearly eight per cent, on his money, while five per cent, is the highest ever allowed by savings banks, and four per cent, is the more usual rate. This example shows the paramount advantages of such mutual societies sim ply as a depository for savings. Os course a smaller or larger amount of stock may bo taken with proportionate results. Men who desire to borrow moderate amounts of money, either for the pur pose of purchasing or building a house, or starting in business, find quite as great an advantage from the possession of stock in a building and loan associa tion, though they may be obliged to pay a considerable premium iu addition to legal interest. That premium goes to swell the common fund, and the larger the profits thus made by tho association the sooner its object is accomplished and the end of its existence reached, when the borrower is not only relieved from further payments of interest, but his note and mortgage are cancelled without the payment of any principal beyond the amounts which havo boon received from him ns monthly duos on his shares of stock. Tho stock in tlieso associations may be transferred at any time, and always for more than it cost; thus there is no pos sibility of loss, provided honest or re sponsible officers are chosen. The prin ciples and workings of this plan cannot all be explained within the limits of a newspaper article. Several books have been written concerning it, and a month ly journal— The, Building Association Journal —devoted to the subject, lias been published in Philadelphia for more than a year past. The idea of such associations origin ated in Scotland about 1815. The first one in this country was organized ill Frankford, Philadelphia, January 3, 1831. The number now in this city is estimated at 350, and the average of capital invested in them at umvards of s2s,ooo,ooo.— Philadelphia Press. Facts About Trichime in Hogs. A Cleveland despatch says ; •* A well authenticated and undoubted case of trichinae spiralis is now undergoing in vestigation by our physicians, li, has already resulted in the death of one vic tim, and several more are iu a dangerous condition. The unfortunate sufferers are a family’ by the name of Martens. For several weeks past they have at dif ferent times eaten of pork, either made into sausages or cooked in the usual maimer, which was to all appearances in good condition, and there was no in dication of disease of any kind. A few days ago the entire family, consisting of Charles Martens, his brother Ernst, wife and two children, were seized with symptoms that baffled at first all at tempts at discovering their character ; but an examination of the pork partaken of proved r inclusively tho presence of " :..: ■ .:i t richinm in an encysted state, m spite of all that was done to relieve him, Charles Martens died Monday night. Miss Martens is in a very crit ical condition, and there is but little hope of her recovery. One of the chil dren may recover, but the only member of tho family out of danger is the broth el', Ernst Martens, who ate but little of the. affected meat. A microscopic exam ination made of a piece out from the muscle of the arm of the deceased with an instrument having a magnifying ca pacity of four hundred times, revealed the presence of a number of trichinae, some of them still alive and active, but soon dying on exposure to the air. Their average length was one-eigh teenth of an inch. Their color wan a light drab, marked with shades of a darker color. Experiments have shown that exposure to heat greater than 160 degrees effectually destroys these dread insects. The first cases of trichinosis in America wero in New York. At Marion, lowa, in 1863, nine cases occur red in one family, five deaths resulting. In the same county, eating raw ham containing trichina; (proved afterward by examination) caused the death of six children at the same time. An examin ation of pork in Chicago by a commit tee of the Academy of Science of that city’ proved tho existence of trichinae in one in fifty’ of the hogs inspected. Some of the flesh contained from 10,000 to 18,- 000 of these insects to the cubic inch.”— Buffalo Express. The Submerged Treasure iu Cuinana Bay. The wrecking expedition, (says the Boston Journal), sent out by the Ameri can Submarine Company has been for some time engaged in the endeavor to recover the treasures sunk in the Span ish frigate San Pedro de Alcanbctra, in Cumana bay, more than half a century ago, are progressing in the work. The hulk has been cleared, and the debris above the ballast removed. Tho result shows that the treasure room was above and abaft the after magazine, and the terrific force of the explosion scattered its contents broadcast over the bay. An idea of the explosion may be gained from the fact that oarmon weighing six tons were found to have been hurlod three hundred feet. A few Spanish milled dollars and some interesting relics and curiosities were found. The com pany have decided to fit out at once small vessels suitable for dredging pur poses, and expect to bo able to recover a large portion of the millions of coins which cover the bottom of the bay for over an area of an acre or more. Mr. Fuller of Norwich, Conn., is the man ager of the expedition; and the brig Nellie Gay, w’hich has been engaged in this work, will, on her return to New London, be fitted out for another expe dition of like character. Children’s Eating. When a parent sees a child come to the breakfast table, nibble a little, then go away, death is in the distance, and may be near iu a great many cases; in all there is solid ground for apprehension of coming ill in some form or other. This want of appetite for breakfast may come on very slowly ; it may be weeks before it is decided enough to be remarked ; so much the worse for the child, because greater will be the difficulty in righting things. If children are going to school, eating should be made compulsory, or brain disease will follow sooner or later, for the brain must be nourished, or rest less sleep follows, and in its train dreams, nervousness, cold feet and hands, with severe debility. All school children should havo plenty of meat and bread for breakfast and dinner, with all the fruit and berries they can got afterward for dessert; if not these, then no dessert at all. A speedy and easy way to remedy meal-time nibbling is to begin with a supper of bread and butter, and one cup of hot milk and water, and nothing olse. Allow not an atom of anything to be eaten between meals, and compel them to be in bed by nine o’clock. Within a week a hearty breakfast will be tho re sult, with an increasing vivacity, activity, life and joyovumesa. $2 PER ANNUM. Facts and Figures. Diamonds in Arizona havo advanced in price. You cannot now purchase really good ones short of sixty cents a bushel. Illinois is tho great railroad State of the Union. She lias now in operation 3,725 miles—just 705 milos more than any other State. A human footprint fifteen inches long has been found in a slate quarry noar Seneca, Kansas. The pro-Adamite man wore large boots. A Boston coroner has been accused of presenting bills for viewing bodies that he never saw. He gets $4 a head, and gets ahead about $4 every time. A woman engaged in passing counter feit twenty-dollar notes has been arres ted in Milwaukee, and a large amount of counterfeit money found in her pos session. A Cincinnati paper says that the lo cation of the Union Pacific depot grounds at Omaha, on G. F. Train’s property, will make Train worth over $100,006,000. Among the literary people who make tlieir winter homes in Washington, are Mrs. Southworth, Mrs. Ann Stephens, Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, Mrs. Mary A. Dennison, and Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. A prominent manufacturer of wood working machines in Cincinnati has re ceived orders from the government of Japan for shinglo and lath machines, turning lathes, and Other machinery for wood-working. Some of the towns in Vermont having vaccinated most of their population, aro now a little inclined to grumble because the small-pox does not como along. There is a general foeling that all tins t rouble has been taken for nothing. Some of tho quiet villages of New Hampshire have a commendable way of reliving the tedium of their long winters. Two rival towns engage iu a spelling contest, which is Carried on without any of tho bitterness which is apt to be de veloped in other “ wars of words.” Antrim and Bennington have been fighting it I out on that line all winter. At last re port. Bennington was two words ahead. Carroll county claims to have the big gest man ill Tennessee, in tile person of William B. Shaver. According to a recent measurement lie measure around the wrist eight and one-half inches; around the arm, eighteen inches ; around the calf of leg, nineteen inches; around thethigh, midway above the knee, thirty three inches ; around the chest, five feet; and around the waist, six feet. His height is six feet five and one-half inches. Boston has had another big swindle. An enterprising man named Brock openu Commercial Agency ” in that city, through which country merchants could of course make tlieir purchase at a vast advantage. So large was the concern that it had its own printing establishment for getting out circulars, reports, etc., and employed a large num bes of men and girls. No sooner had it. got well a-going than the projector sud denly conceived that he would find the climate of Canada beneficial. He left many debts unpaid and carried off some plunder. “ Aunt Phillis,” an old colored wo man, who was well known in and about Rahway, N. J., was burned to death at Bricktown, near Rahway, tho other night. She was born in New Jersey about the year 1767, and during the Revolutionary war, although a mere girl, is said to have been of some service to the American cause as a spy. Sho herself used to say that at one time she was in the special service of General Washington. Sho had in her posession a gold snuff-box, which was given to her by Governor Livingston as a tes timonial of ber services to the Federal cause. An ardent youth of Cleveland, over whose romantic hoad seventeen summers had passed, blow out his brains the other day because he was “ crossed in hopeless love” with a young woman some years older. His mother made the course of his true love exceedingly rough, and poor fellow he had nothing to live for, and so got rid of the small modicum of brains that nature had lodged in his cranium. If he had had his wish, and married the woman, it would only havo postponed the catastrophe, for he would very likely have awakened from his rosy dream to discover that he had been a fool, and had no resort but the pistol to end his married woes. He evidently was marked for woes anyhow. The suggestion of Gen. Hazen of the United States Army that Government should take some means to prevent the extermination of the buffalo, appears to be a sensible one ; for there is no reason why animals so valuable and so easily subsisted should be wantonly butchered by thousands, and their carcasses left to rot on the plains, as is now the case. The buffalo lives upon a short grass which grows luxuriantly upon the high, arid plains of the far West, and while it is valuable as food, its skin, when dressed, is an almost indispensable adjunct of a sleighing equipage. If any effectual means for protecting these animals from unnecessary slaughter can be devised a great benefit will be conferred upon the country. Mr. C. E. DeLong, the United States minister to Japan, is a self-made man, who, by his indomitable energy and ability, from small beginnings has climbed the path to distinction. In 1856 he was constable in Foster’s Bar Township, Yuba county, California. He afterwards studied law, and practiced with considerable success. He represented that county several times in the State Legislature. From California he went to Nevada and acquired a very large and lucrative practice. He was twice a candidate before the Nevada Legislature for the United States Senate, but was defeated both times by very small ma jorities. He went to Japan as minister in 1869, and has been very active ad vancing American interests in that country.