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THE DOCTOR’S WATCHMAN.
“ Tell you what; doctor; you’ll be get¬
days; ting robbed and murdered one !” of these
you will, upon my word
know, “Hardly, my boy. You ought to
by this time, that it’s the province
of be us doctors to kill other And, people, with not to
killed ourselves.” a thick
.chuckle at his own wit, Dr. John Hunter
Bistoury settled himself comfortably in
his chair, and began to peel his third
orange limb. as carefully as if he were taking
off a
When the doctor first came to New
York, thirty years before, he had been
in no way burdened with riches; but
his face had proved his fortune in a dif¬
ferent sense from that of the over-candid
milkmaid in the song. The mere sight
of that round, florid, jovial visage, in
every crease of which a joke or a good
story dial in seemed itself, to and be linking, was capable a cor¬
appeared invalid with¬ of
reviving the the most medicine hopeless all. Mindful
out aid of at
of the human weakness which makes so
'many worthy .kind people regard personal their distinc¬ own
ailments as a of
tion, the lessening insult of themselves, which in any Dr. way
is a direct to Bis¬
toury skillfully alarming took his a middle course be¬
tween patients, by an over
serious view of their case, and offending
them by appearing to make light of it.
In this way he had acquired an enor¬
mous stood practice, high and his reputation now
so that the mere eclat of his
name had sufficed to sell an entire edi¬
tion of his great work upon “ The Mu¬
tual Relations of Mind and Body,” in
which he proved to his own satisfaction,
if not to that of all his readers, that all
criminal impulses whatever, and indeed
the very existence of sin itself, are whol¬
ly cal due system”—that to “ a morbid action of the physi¬
a murder may be pre¬
vented by the timely use of Epsom salts,
and an unbeliever converted by a judi¬
cious contemplation of the virtues of
quinine.
“lean assure yon, my dear Harry,”
resumed the genial doctor, “ that it ’b
considered amazing flattering to me to find myself
worth robbing at all. No
thief would have thought me worth a
center-bit in the days when your poor
father—as fine a fellow, Harry, as ever
breathed—used to come and sup with
me upon biscuits and toasted cheese in
my little snuggery down town. And
then, as surely as the time came to go,
he’d turn to me and say: ‘ Now, Jack,
old boy, won’t you think better of it,
and let me write you a check—just to
give although you a I fair knew start, you know ? ’ But,
well enough that he’d
have been only too glad to do it, I had
to refuse; for my motto is, ‘Heaven
helps those who help themselves ! ’ ”
“A motto which you'll find some
black-masked gentleman exemplifying in
this very house one of these nights,”
growled doctor, Harry Everett. “Look here,
I’m not joking—I’m not, indeed.
Everybody and it’s got knows abroad you’re that there’s a rich man,
a room
in your house which is always shut up;
the very tiling to make people think
there must be something very valuable
stowed away there, and yet, after all that,
you soul go living in this big house without
a near you except the cook and old
Sam yonder, who woiddn’t be worth a
cent in a real scrimmage ! ”
“ Well, my boy,” said the doctor, with
a curious smile; “would it tranquilize
your mind if I were to engage a night
watchman ? ”
“I should think so. That would be
just the thing. ”
This “Very good. Consider it done.”
room, of which Harry had spoken
as being “always shut up,” was a stand
ing puzzle to the doctor’s few intimates,
Not a man of them had ever crossed its
threshold, and its master, when ques
tioned on the subject, answered only by
some joking evasion. Rumor whispered
that one adventurous gentleman, ren
dered desperate by his wife’s threat to
give what him Dr. no Bistoury peace till he found out
“ kept hid in that
room of his,” had actually attempted a
burglarious entrance ; but the attempt,
if ever made, had been unsuccessful. It
is needless to say that countless conjee
tnres, and not a few heavy bets, likewise,
were the being constantly made respecting
contents of this Bluebeard chamber,
Many declared in that the doctor had fitted
it up the hope of discovering the
Philosopher’s equally stone. Others were
hoardings positive that it contained the
of his whole life in American
gold, the his hard-money opinions being notoriously of
“ ” order. A rival prac
titioner, of a somewhat cynical turn,
suggested that it must contain the re
mains of the unfortunate patients who
ministrations, had perished under and that imaginative fellow Bistoury’s lady,
one
deeply read in “Jane Eyre,” stoutly
maintained that the doctor, in imitation
of the hero of that famous work, had
immured his wife in that mysterious
oubliette, in order to enjoy unchecked
the this freedom ingenious of theory a bachelor there life. only Against
was one
thing to be said-the doctor had never
had a wife to immure. This flagrant
treason pardonable against the sex was the had more had un
inasmuch as he
abundant opportunities of changing his
condition, had he but chosen to avail
himself of them. To most of those.who
questioned him on the subject he re
plied that he was wedded to his profes
sion flat Everett, bi^amvf to* k blft °to e htefriend°Har^ after-dinner
moment of
confidence, he told a very different story.
“My medical cousin Alice was tfie
woman who ought to have been Mrs.
Bistoury, and an admirable fellow-prac
titioner she would have made for me.
The way in which she once cut a splin
ter out of my thumb did equal honor to
her hand and her heart; and. ‘ when she
uncL’s nnir 18 birthdaiTfifi «i, c . . a f , e ^’ , n WI ... f| 3
her tel r^Lfner f a'” tteltwlk f
“ and articulated it SK
really masterly. But a^anev
became tainted with for bomere
„*v._. 8^mhis^te^’ ^ „
overbetween ns. “ '
T
hensions later for the he returned time beingTWt to a few
weeks the attack
once Tth“ more "I sav doctor have you 7
K " mght-watchman " yet?”
" Yes some time ago
>« Well he don’t seem to do his dutv
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME r.
of the night, and never seen him. Are
you quite sure he’s to be trusted?”
“ Wait and see !” replied the doctor,
oracularly. And Everett
The waited, but did not see.
invisible watchman remained as in¬
visible as ever, and Harry, out of pa¬
tience with his old friend’s seeming in¬
fatuation, had almost decided to take
some decisive step on his own authority,
when a new complication introduced it¬
self into the drama. This was nothing
less than the temporary retirement of
the doctor’s veteran man-servant, popu¬
larly known as “Old Sam,” whose
health had begun to give way so mani¬
festly ing him that his master the insisted on send¬
into country for a three
months’ holiday, replacing him with all
other man, who had volunteered as
promptly as if he had been keeping his
eye on the place for a year past. The
new-comer taciturn was who a grave, smooth-faced,
shadow, man, and seemed moved as living noiselessly
as a a com¬
bination of the two proverbial requisites
of a good servant—silence and obedi¬
ence.
But-, although the doctor and his
friends highly approved of this model
domestic, there was one man who did
not. That one was Harry Everett, who
lost no time in announcing his opinion.
“ Look here, doctor. I don’t want to
be always idea, bothering it’s you about this rob¬
fellow bery of but is a fact, that that new
yours up to some mischief.
I was coming home pretty late last night
when I caught sight of him standing at
the garden gate talking to a couple of
men. One 1 of them happened to turn his
face to the lamplight as I passed, and I
knew him at once for a noted thief, who
goes by the name Are of ‘ Badger Bill.’ ”
“ Indeed 1 you sure of that ? ”
“ Quite sure. You know I never fox
get a face I’ve once seen.”
“ Ah ! In that case, it’s time for me
to act! ” The last word was so curiously
emphasized that Hairy, who was not
wanting that his in persistent shrewdness, began to suspect
had been superfluous, warnings to the doc¬
tor after all, and
that the old gentleman was quite equal
to the emergency.
ing The about suspicion week was later, confirmed one even¬
a when the doctoj
dropped in upon him unexpectedly, say
ing : “ Give me some dinner, my boy.
You’ve no engagement this evening, 1
know; so I’m going to be very benevo¬
lent, and find you some amusement my¬
self. Have you ever read ‘ The Ckmut
of Monte Christo ? ’ because you’re go¬
ing to see a chapter of it dramatized to¬
night, myself.” and pretty effectively, too, I flat¬
ter
“ What do you mean? ” asked Everett,
staring.
“Why, yon see, I told my servants a
few days ago that I should be away from
home to-night, and my cook naturally
seized the chance for getting an ‘ even¬
ing be out;’ consequently, the house will
under the sole charge of that worthy
man-servant of mine, against whom
you’re so unaccountably prejudiced. It’s
quite possible that the two honest gen¬
tlemen with whom you saw him talking
the other night may be kind enough to
enliven his solitude with a visit: and
so—”
Harry sprung to his feet, and cut a
caper worthy of a dancing dervish, snap¬
ping his fingers by way of accompani¬
ment. all “ Capital ! first-rate ! I see it
now! But come, now, doctor; why
on earth couldn’t you tell me before that
you were up to the whole game, instead
of letting me make a fool of myself by
preaching to a man as smart as any six
of me?”
“ Never mind, my boy,” said the doc
tor, kindly laughing. all “Your warning was
meant, the same. Eat your
dinner—you’ll ing’s want promise it before the even
over, I can you— and then
we’ll have our talk. ”
Dinner over, the doctor lit one of the
incomparable cigars which were his sole
luxury, plan and action. proceeded to expound his
of ‘ ‘ I’ve locked up the
outer room that opens into my mysterious
chamber, between which puts two strong doors
it and the robbers. My estima
ble servant will warn them of this, and
let they’ll them try the window instead. He’ll
in by the garden door, and
give it to them mount the by. old ladder We'll hide that in lies the beside
sta
ble, which, thanks to my keeping my
brougham elsewhere—has been unused
so long that no one would dream of sus
peering it; but I can open the door
easily enough. then,” broke And then—”
“And in Harry, eagerly,
“ we’ll go for them the minute they ap
pear. It’ll be a fine chance to try my
new revolver!”
“Better leave it at home,” said the
doctor, quietly; “we shall want no
weapons for this job.”
“Why, are you going to mesmerize
the f '. ; ’ !o ' v ' s ■” tt8kfcd Everett, completely
and . , chuckled the doctor.
‘ We neednt be there till 11, for my
benefit the domestic signal, will that make I sure, not before
p bi f v ( k | n 8 i a ! ld heslde an experienced up burglar coming
““om begins work till after midnight,
? ° v tlllD S lie sure of is that no
, -
body sees us getting m .
B ' d “ layeredthem; and
“ the doctor had foretold, the ock of
the stable door nu,ty as it looked,
moved without difficulty, and the two
conspirators glided in, unseen and un¬
Weary, weary work crouching there
“ . the darkness with ear anil eye
st ™ ned to the u ^ most for brst sign
o{ the % omm « da Ff r ‘ Dr. Bistoury s
practiced nerves bore even this pro
W impulsive, ed . tnal excitable e f d 7 enough; Everett but it to the ate
was
*>h» te torture. Like all voung soldiers
be found the suspense before tlm action
“Tm yU>g tkan th * {ra v “l
self. The stable opened the street :
on
close to the garden-door, and its farther
posted themselves, **“ tW commanded ° watC K r# the
whole side of the house the blackness
of which was relieved only by a solitary
Suddenly ? T, the f light w® vanished, ">'I>cr windows, and re
re P** ted tkree Ume * m qulck HU '
cession.
" That muat .... be the signal, whispered .
tbe d '^' ****
Harry. Everett ...... be felt Us
Courageous as was
WATKIN8VIM.E, GEORGIA, AUGUST 3, 1880.
the doctor’s verdict, he liatl persisted in
bringing with him.
“ Hark! Was that a stealthy footstep
outside?”
The next moment came a low whistle,
instantly answered from the house ; and
then a shadowy figure, issuing from the
building, glided noiselessly to the gar¬
den-door, and opened it to admit two
others.
“They’ve got the ladder,” whispered
Dr. Bistoury, as the three phantoms
crossed the garden. going “Be on the look¬
out, my worth boy seeing ; you’re ” to see some
thing ! placed against
The ladder was soon
the mysterious window, and Badger Bill,
after whispering their to worthy his comrade confederate, to “ keep
an eye ” on as¬
cended, and, cutting out a pane so dex¬
terously that the sound was barely audi¬
ble, put liis hand through and shot back
the hasp. His two assistants mounted
after him ; and Bill, stepping cautiously
into the room, turned the "bull’s-eye”
of his lantern upon its interior.
coiled Instantly with the stilled treacherous servant re¬
a cry.
“Ain’t that a—a coffin over yonder?”
whispered he. tremulously, “Good
gracious 1 suppose there should be a
dead man in and-”
big “S’pose you should be a thunderin’
fool! ” growled Bill, savagely.
“Shut your mouth, will yer, or thar’ll
be another dead man somewhar round
soon. I’m a-goin’ right in —I am ! ”
And he stepped resolutely forward.
Crash! the coffin-lid burst open, and a
skeleton, thrown out in ghastly relief by
the red light that flamed in its eyeless
sockets, started up with a hideous rattle,
grinning thrusting forward its bony arms and
jaws as if about to spring on
them. The ‘ ‘Sauve quipeut ” of Napoleon
was not more decisive. The honest
servant gave one yell sufficient to wake
the whole neighborhood, and rolled on
the floor in convulsions. The second
head burglar, leaping backward, dashed his
with such force against the comer
of a bureau that he dropped as if felled
with an ax, while Badger Bill, making a
frantic rush for the window, overturned
the ladder, and fell crashing along with
it, breaking his leg in the fall.
“You see now, Harry,” said the doc¬
tor, their as unbidden they went up-stairs after seeing
guests marched off by
the police, “that my night-watchman
did know his duty, although there’s
nothing more unearthly about him than
a few concealed springs, which are re¬
leased upon the approach of any one,
and a little phosphorus. As for this
wonderful laboratory, room, you see it’s only stories a
after all. But the
that people told about it amused me so
given much that I must good plead guilty to having
them a deal of encourage¬
ment. Now, let us be off to bed; and I
think you may sleep in peace after this,
for it strikes me it’ll be some time be¬
fore anybody robs my house again.”
And, indeed, no owe has ever attempt¬
ed it since
Spasmodic Action.
The muscles are endowed with con¬
tractile power. They tend of them¬
selves to draw their extremities toward
their center. The heart is a double hol¬
low muscle, whose alternate contraction
and dilation constitutes its “beating.”
The contraction throws out the blood
into the system, and the dilation opens
the heart for more. The working of
this central engine is so essential that
its power to dilate and contract is, to
some extent, provided for within itself.
So much so is this the case that the
heart will beat for a considerable time
after it lias been removed from a vig¬
orous animal.
Certain ganglia at the base of the
brain supply the force necessary to
motion—the motor nerve-force, as it is
called. The supply is generated by the
nerve cells in the motor centers, directly
from arterial blood.
Withhold the blood from the motor
cells and all motion at once ceases. The
same effect follows when the blood is
sufficiently of vitiated through the failure
the lungs, liver or kitlneys to elimin¬
ate its constantly accumulating im¬
purities.
The motor nerve-force acts by extend¬
ing the muscles ; or, when they are in a
state of apparent rest, by simply coun
teracting the the contractile tendency. and In
case of the heart, the motor the
contractile force act alternately.
If, through any cause, the motor force
is sudilenlv checked, the muscles yield
to their normal tendency, and the result
is spasms. Hence spasms in the dying
do not generally indicate suffering, for
the nerves of sensation also, at the same
time, fail of their nervous supply. in limbs
On the contrary, cramps the
at night, caused by an over use of the
muscles, which has partially exhausted
the supply of motor-force, are attended
with pain, inasmuch as there is no dim¬
inution of sensational nerve-force.
The arteries have a muscular coat, by
the action of which the arterial blood is
increased or diminished. In the ease of
the dying—and often under other cir¬
cumstances—the lessening of the motor
force allows the arterial muscles to con¬
tract along their entire course, thus
greatly diminishing the blood supply to
all the nervous centers, and lowering the
power of sensation. Hence the act of
dying is ordinarily the painless'. Hence, too,
the pallor of face.— Youth’s Com¬
panion.
The best substance to preserve pol¬
ished steel from rust is pure paraffine.
The melt steel the should paraffine, be warmed which should, sufficiently how
to
ever, be already in a melted condition.
Lay the paraffine on with a brush or rag,
and wipe it carefully off with a very
warn L arid dr V 8 *- th “ < f a ‘ of
paraffine left adhering to the metal after
this process will not be perceptible, to
tho.greasy feeling that^creams 1 when oil
or taflow ,s used It dries not.aff^l a
the slightest degree the color of the ob
pt and we think it would prove exiiel
lent for the protection of a fine gnu bar
, »ti»o«phere.
the *_ ___ Rochester I~ I)emet _
A befontir on
oral counted twenty-seven young men in
o ||M evening who were driving liver)
ngs with one bend. The other liend was
Carried Safely Through.
The danger of reviving an old appe
tite, or of creating a new one, bv ad
ministering lias led aleoholio drinks to sick medical per
sons many conscientious
men to abandon the practice.
In the following case is an instance
where a patient with the assent and
sympathy strong drink of to the his physician, of refused death.
Trusting in God he very fought verge his battle
condensed through, and conquered. The facts are
from a narrative in a recent
address of a member of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union.
A reformed drunkard, after sixteen
years of faithful adherence to his pledge,
was attacked with pywmia, or decay of
seeds the blood, probably during liis the slow growth of
The sown physician who early oallcd excesses. him
well was to
was aware that wine and malt li¬
quors but were he always shrunk proscribed from in such
cases, bility of possibly the responsi¬
drunkard again—if he malting recovered. the man a
The disease is almost incurable, under
any treatment. He franklv told his pa¬
tient so, and submitted to him the ques¬
tion of the remedies. 'The patient re¬
ferred it back to him.
“With a wife and nine children de¬
pendent on me,” he said, “I do not wish
to die; but, doctor, my children know
nothing about strong drink.”
The physician was in a distressing
dilemma. To withhold the liquors, and
probably lose his patient, seemed almost
like committing a crime against a human
life. To prescribe them, and save his
patient would probably only insure the
man’s slower ruin.
The physician was a Christian man.
He asked for guidance from Him in
whoso hands are the lives of all men, and
decided at last to dispense with all alco¬
holic stimulants, and use only simple
nutrients and correctives. If he could
not restore the man’s health, he would
do nothing to injure "his soul.
The patient, who was also a follower
of Christ, grew weaker every day, but
bis faith in his physician, and his faith
in his Savior, were touching to see.
Week after week he lay helpless on liis
bed, praying alternately for life, for his
family, and for resignation. But all the
time the thought that he was free from
the poison that he hated for the harm it
had done him gave him joy.
“Thank God,” he would say, “if I
die, I shall go into God’s presence a
sober man.”
At last his friends interfered, and in •
sisted that he should take wine. It was
the only thing that would revive him,
they said, for he was almost gone. But
he replied:
“ No, no; if this is the passage from
life to death, I am happy. Once I was
dying unspeakable.” a drunkard, and that was misery
His wife entreated him with tears, but
even she could not move him.
“Take the wine away,” he whispered,
pointing nearly to lost it with liis feeble finger.
“It me heaven once. Take
it away 1”
sician By-and-by in despair the crisis came. The phy
wrote what he believed
to be his last prescription, ordered care¬
ful nursing and went away. The patient
lay scarcely breathing, him, his attentive
watcher leaning over with Angers
on his pulse. The pulse began to grow
stronger; the breathing became deeper
and more regular. The weeping family
in the next room waited for the closin s
scene tushed . They the heard a strange sound Put
to sufferer’s bedside. The
poor man had opened his eyes and was
trying to sing
Pralie God, from whom aU blowings flow.
The crisis seemed to be passed, and
the gladness joined with which wife and chil¬
dren in that thanksgiving must
hove made itself heard in heaven.
The man got well, and that physician
will always believe that his recovery was
due which to enabled the fidelity him and Christian trust
through trial such to keep few his pledge would
a as men
care to encounter.
A Pretty Girl at Auction.
“Grandfather” Ackley, of the village of
Watkins, N. Y., had rather a novel ex¬
perience vendue in recently the while “ crying off ” a
town of Hector. After dis¬
posing of the articles on tlie sale list,
there was a lull in business, and the
crowd was getting impatient waiting for
“Grandfather” to “come down,” or
rather to announce the close of the sale,
when a pretty, plump, rosy girl asked
him to offer her to the highest bidder.
“ Grandfather,” disposition, being of a modest re¬
tiring girl insisted, seemed reluctant, but
the so he proceeded to
“ cry ” her off. The first bid was offered
by a timid young man with a pianissimo
headed voice, who weakly offered him $75, a bald
man “ went $50 better," and
the bidding went along lively until $2,000
was offered. At this juncture the girl’s
father went $1,000 better ” and “ Grand¬
father ” closed the bid to that gentleman.
“Grandfather” looked the crowd of
young men over, and, raising himself up
m a dignified in the following way, proceeded to address
them manner: "Gentle¬
men, I am surprised, nay more, deeply
mortified, to think that you should let
such a prize slip through your hands for
such this a paltry sum. Why, do you know
that young lady would, if married,
get up in the morning and make a fire
without lord jarring and the floor enoug and h to wake
her master up; , further
more, if I were as young as some at you,
I would swim the whole length of Seneca
lake, climb a liberty pole, throw the
pole away icd climb fifty feet further
rather than i< ws the opportunity you fel¬
lows have.” It is needless to say the
assemblage Nvenina roared with laughter .—New
York Telegram.
The Oreftteat Work of Goethe,
Victor Hugo “ never could abide Goethe,
Good rfuo why . The great German
„ fti aof “Notre Dame” thatit was a nice
J hisuj^d U r t mt villainously “Giitl.e?- valueless
f r „m .. H ptontnf view. u:.
| \ Goethe? does he What did to? he The ever only write? thing What
amount ho
ever |toM,er»......Pardon wrote that, is at all jmeaablo rnastir," is ‘ Tho
me, ote
j serves <Tlia iuAAmn one of Hugo’s ■ j, hy Hchilier.” disciples; “ “ And but
SCIENCE AN» ART.
From the speed of light which has
been measured, disproved that at least
* 0l,r hundred and fifty-one millions of
millions of those minute waves flow into
the eye and dash against the retina in each
second.
White fish loss than a week old and
looking beneath like a pair microscope of eyes with ft tail, if
placed a and exhibit are beautifully found to
lie transparent,
the action of the heart in propelling tho
blood, and its circulation through, the
tail.
between If seeds (barley, pieces corn, of litmus etc.,) bo placed the
moist paper,
roots stick to the paper and color it so in¬
tensely red that even on the back of the
paper their course can lie traced in red
lines on a blue ground. If tincture of
litmus lie repeatedly added, the intensity
of the ml color is increased.
Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, read of Louis¬ tho
ville, French Ky., Academy in a paper of Sciences, before that
which fell Estherville, says
the meteorite at
Iowa, on May 10, phenomena 1879, should its lie placed
apart for tho of fall, es¬
pecially tho force of penetration of its
fragments into the ground, and for the
mode of association of its mineral con¬
stituents.
An Italian Antarctic expedition is pro¬
posed Viy Lieut. Bova, who was one of
the officers under Nordonskjold on the
Yega. It is to sail in the spring of 1881,
and touch at Monte Video, Terra del
Fuego, Islands, Falkland, and, proceeding and South in soutliweat- Shetland
a
wardly direction, commence explorations,
expecting in the Antarctic to be engaged for and two return winters by
region,
way of Hobart Town. Tho expenses are
estimated at 600,000 lire.
An instrument called the stathmo
gruph, for recording invented the speed of railway
trains, has been by a German
mechanician at Gassel, and works so well
that the Prussian Government is about
to test it on some of tho State lines. A
dial in viow of the velocity engineer enables him
to ascertain tho of tho locomotive
at any moment, and the changes of speed
are graphically which represented Lie studied upon a roll end of
paper, can at the
of tho journey.
A few years ago Herr Kollie suggested
dringing-water preserved used from ou long voyages
might lie little salicylic corruption by
means of a acid, and this
was supported experiments by laboratory experiments. made
Afterward were on a
large scale on board ships without suc¬
cess, and when tho water was examined
not a particle of tho acid could be found.
What became of the acid is an open
question. Herr Kolbe considers that the
action of the wood of the cask decom¬
posed the salicylic acid.
Somewhat in these words an English
scientific journal introduces the follow¬
ing the whole suggestion: of London They by propose to light
means of a great
central light-house. 1,000 feet Suppose a circular
tower, leries say intervals of or more, with gal¬
at one hundred feet,
and each gallery lamps, provided with with a series
of electric reflectors ar¬
ranged at suitable angles. The light
could thus bo directed and diffused over
the entire metropolis, rendering gas-light
unnecessary except in the suburbs. This
is the suggestion. Who will carry it into
effect?
The Philosophical Society of Glasgow
is to hold an exhibition of gas apparatus
on a large scale next autumn, and it is
intended, also, to make a display at the
same time of the apparatus which will
illustrate tlio progress made in electric
lighting, in manufacture in telephonic communication,
the of mineral oils, in
lation, hydraulic engines, There in heating be doubt and venti¬
etc. can rio that
this exhibition, taking up, as it menus to
do, some which of the most important prob¬
lems to man’s attention is given at
present., will prove of great service to
those who have to deal practically with
sanitary appliances.
According to M. Edmond About there
are at least 2,000 which pictures in the present
French Salon no dealer would
show in his shop. Within tho last twenty
years tho number of pictures hung has
doubled, without art reaping much ad¬
vantage. M. Paul Parfait gives us an
Salons. amusing description of some previous
That of Year IX (1801), con¬
tained only 485 works of all descriptions,
instead of, as to-day, 7,289. M. Collet
exhibited a magnificent canvas symbolical
of the 18tli Brumaire, of which the centre
was occupied by the vessel of the State,
which was represented as having safely
entered port and as moored with a chain
of laurel wreaths. The British leopard,
too, was displayed on it vainly lavishing
guineas on expiring monsters, and Dis¬
cord of luminary was flying doing before duty the dawning rays
a for a new era.
Educational Gifts.
Do not Americans app reciate educa
tion ? Here is a list of their benfauc¬
tions : $1,300,000 by Mr. Simmons, of
Boston, for the industrial education of
women; $1,000,000 theological by Daniel Drew, to
endow a seminary, to which
Abel Menand adds $100,600 more “ for
the education of women for the min¬
istry female ;” $200,000 college; by $100,000 Erastus Coming, Robert for
a Barnes, Indiana, for education by of
of the
orphans in the State ; $100,000 by Or¬
ange Judd, the agricultural-book pub¬
leyan lisher, for scientific department $60,000 in Cyrus Wes¬
University; for by
McCormick, logical the reajjer, Chicago; the theo¬
seminary Appleton at the book publisher, $100,000
for by Daniel Chancellorship and library in
the
New York University; $100,000 by
Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, by Ohauncey to Harvard
University ; $100,000 for Rose,
of Terre Haute, Ind., a female col¬
lege; $300,000 N. Y., by for Henry female-college Sage, of
Brooklyn, building Cornell Univesity a $500,000
at ;
by Mr. Shaw, of St. Louis, for park anil
botanic Pennsylvania, garden; $200,000 for by Mr. Far- de
dee, of Lafayette College, scientific
partment at by Hiram Sibley, at Easton,
Pa.; $75,000 lor library building of Itooh
ester, Rochester N, Y.j University: a $50,000 by the at
ltov, Jesse T. peck to the new university
at Syracuse, N, Y., which has lieen m
creased by other citizens to a million
and s half; educational $1(50,000 by Bnrnnrl Willis
ton for purposes in East
hsmptoti. Mass,
N UMBEL 22.
Fool Friends.
Nothing hurts a man, nothing hurts a
party so terribly ns fool friends.
A fool friend is the sewer of bad news,
of slander and fill base and unpleasant
things.
A tool friend always knows every mean
thing that has been said against you and
against the party.
He always knows where your party is
gains. losing, and the other is making large
He always tolls you of the good lnek
your enemy has had.
against He implicitly and believes kindly every story
defense. you, suspects your
A fool friend is always fall of a kind of
stupid He candor.
is so candid that lie always be¬
lieves the statements of any enemy.
He never suspects anything on your
side.
Nothing pleases him like being shocked
l>y horrible news concerning some good
man.
He novor denies a lie unless it is in your
favor.
He is always finding fault with liis
for party, and is continually other begging side. pardon
He not belonging frightfully to tho anxious
is that all his
candidates should stand well with the op¬
He is forever seeing tho faults of his
party He and the virtues of tho other.
generally showB his candor by
scratobnig his ticket.
He always searches every nook and
comer of Ins conscience to And a reason
for deserting a friend or a principle.
In the moment of victory he is mag¬
consoles nanimously ou by your repeating side. In defeat lie
made you prophesies
after the event.
Tlio fool friend regards your reputation
as common property, and as common
prey for nil tho vultures, hyenas and
jackals.
Ho takes a sad pleasure in your mis¬
fortunes.
He forgets his principles to gratify
your enemies.'
He forgives your maligner and slan¬
derer with all his heart.
Ho is so friendly that you cannot
kick him.
He generally talks for you, but always
bets the other way.— Cot. fnycrsoll in
the National Illustrated Weekly.
Growth of the Earth.
The millions ol aerolites descending
upon the earth as an everlasting shower
over all its surface prove that the earth
is growing; tho gradual rise of its oceans
prove the fact, and tlio great truth is also
demonstrated by the bottoms of all
these oceans, according to their various
depths, constantly formations. getting In short, tilled the up by
primary uni¬
versal law of terrestrial growth is de¬
monstrated by every shell upon tho
shore, which, by its formation, is just
that much permanently added to tho
bulk. But sinking into the bowels of
tins earth ns deep ns man can reach
proves the growth of the earth far more
strongly than all tho facts and words
which are available on the momentous
question; for no matter how far down,
every inch of the descent was once the
surface,however of low it may now creative be out
increase sight, by the it accumulation since tho time. of Thus,
over
so far as we have been enabled to pene¬
trate, and tlie rule holds good over every
part of ifs surface, we find the strata,
however deep we may descend, all lying,
as to time, in the order of their forma¬
tion. They can not be otherwise, as no
convulsions of nature could reverse the
position it of one another. stratum If by superimpos¬ sink down
ing upon we
through thousand the yards, strata to tho depth of, say,
a we pass through the
works of several geological epochs, the
first one that on which the drift of the
nextr—if deluge rests, in tho latest there formation, is the
the sinking no miss¬
ing link—a step in time earlier, the and so
on in succession, until wereuch low¬
est stratum at the depth mentioned, the
oldest one in the series. There it is just
where it was deposited, then on tho sur¬
face 1,000,000 of the earth, perhaps while all more tho than
years ago, others
have been in latter times superimposed
in the their respective There geological epochs, tip
to surface. is another such
epochal formation going on and getting
tliicker under all oceans since the pres¬
ent continental features of the globe
arose, which will yet be dry land, anil
will bo the latest formation for the geol¬
ogists of the remote future.— Colburn's
Magazine,
The True Wife.
Oftentimes I have seen a tall ship
glide invisible by against the line tide, with as if drawn hundred by
an tow a
strong furled, arms pulling drooping, it. Her sails she un¬
her streamers hod
neither side-wheel nor in stem-wheel; still
she moved her on, stately, life. But serene I knew triumph, that
as with own
on the other side of the ship, hidden be¬
neath the great bulk that swam so ma¬
jestically, there was a little toilsome
steam tug, with a heart of fire and arms
of iron, that was tugging tlie little it bravely on;
and I knew that if steam tug
untwined her arms anil left the ship, it
would wallow and roll away, and drift
hither and thither, and go off with the
effluent tide no man knows where; and
so I have known more than one genius
gay-pennoned, high-decked, full-freighted, wide-sailed,
but for the bare toiling
arm and brave warm heart of the faithful
little wife that nestled close to him so
that no wind or wave could part them, he
would have gone down with the stream
and lieen heard of no more.— O. W.
Holme, s
Accomplished Beerfstii.
A Pomeranian Lieutenant of Land
wehr cavalry and a Silesian student,
giants in stature and bulk,stalked into
Lanilvogt’s restaurant and in called Berlin, one af
ternoon in March, la stan¬
torian tones for respective mugs of Pil
sener and Munchener beer. Of the
foumiug promptly contents of these vessels they
ilinlawed by the so-called
“cow-swallow" method. When they
nailed for their bill some three liours and
u half later, it was found that the Pom
erunisn Lieutenant had stator I kmI sixtv
seven pints of beer, while his Silesian
fallow-osker hsd only succeeded b,
furmsiung sooommodariira for tifty-foui
STfic MatWttscilk Jdramt.
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LIBERAli TEIITIS FOR NORB MPACfS
WAIFS AND WHDIS.
A word with business men—settle.
Iron affected by fog is mist rusted.
A mule is tame enough in front, but
awfully wild behind.
A little cider now and then is re¬
lished by the best of men.
The man who can’t remember that he
was ever a boy is entirely ripe for the
harvest.
Starch is said to bo explosive. the It
causes old explosion finds it in the been family left when of his
man has out
collars.
A Boston paper says the conductor of
a street-car m that city took 900 fares
last Sunday, but is entirely silent as to
how many the company got.
The Crown Prince of Germany gets
more blind puffing boy than over giving a $0 fiddle to a
an American does over
leaving $10,000 to an orphan asylum.
There is a fortune in store for the mil¬
liner wfio shall devise a bonnet that can
be worn in any part of a church and al¬
ways present its trimmed sido to the con¬
gregation,
A poultry authority says that “ chick
ons should have an ample range.” It
depends upon the number of chickens. well
A little chicken will broil pretty
over a very small stove.
Many persons who rake through comb, an¬
other's character with a tine-tooth
to discover a fault, could And one with
less trouble by going over their own
character with a horse-rake.
It costs more than a hundred millions
of dollars annually to keep the feuces ol
this country in repair. Now, gentlemen,
get off the fence and stay off till after
election, and save your country a few
millions of this outlay.
Grown-up sister—“Oh, Charley, if
you must, go away can’t you introduce
me to one of your school-fellows, to look
after me till you come back?” Charley—
“Oh no, it wouldn’t do! It would be
too rough ou a fellow to fag him out like
that.”— Punch.
Homebody who appears to know how
fashionable schools are managed, says:
"To educate young ladies is to let them
know all about the ogies, omenies, the
ifles, the ties and the mistics; but nothing
about the iugs, such as sewing, darning,
washing, baking and making pudding.”
“I say, mister, this is a double seat,
and you stand-up can’t lay over it in that crowded way,”
said a passenger in a
car to another passenger who wns making
himself too much at home. “Can’t lay
over the seat?” echoed the loafer. “Bet
your life I can. Bee here, I have a lay
over cheek from the conductor, and it is
good. ”
A young lady received the following
note, accompanied by a bouquet of
flowers: Dear -, I send you bi the
boy a bucket of flours. This is like my
love for u. The nite shade menes kepe
dark. The dog fenil menes I am your
slave. Rosis red and posis pail, my love
for you slial never fale.”
Thu flowing reporter who wrote, with
reference to a well-known belle, “Her
dainty feet were encased in shoes that
might wardrobe ho taken in for handkerchief fairy boots,” tied his
up a and left
for parts unknown when it appeared the
next morning: “Her dirty feet feet were
encased in shoes that might he taken for
ferry boats. ”
A Young lady who is studying French
invited lately wrote to her parents the that she was
going to a dejeuner day before, the and
was to a fete champctrn next
day. surprised The professor receive of the college was
old to a dispatch from the
: man” a day or two after saying:
r If you don’t keep my daughter away
from these menageries and side shows, I
will come down and see what ails her.”
It is amusing to watch a slim man
weigh himself. Ho stops on to the plat¬
form with as an awful elephant of steps breaking upon the a bridge,
an tear thing
down, and then puts the three-huudred
pound weight he takes on the it end off of the beam.
Of course again, l rat he
does this unostentatiously. Having found
that he weighs, say, one hundred and
twenty, if you watch him carefully you
will see liim slide the weight along to
one hundred and seventy-five. "By
George!” he will exclaim as he goes out,
“ I’ve lost ten pounds since last week.”
He doesn’t say how much he weighs
now; if you wish to know, there is the
scale. He knows you will look.
Armles of (lie World.
Tho following table, which has been
carefully the compiled, annual shows of the the regular and
army, cost same,
the cost the per head of all the principal na¬
tions of world:
Regular Annual Cost Cost
COUNTBIM. Army, of Army. l-r
Head.
Auntria- M> SSte: 296,21H$ 60/99,000 t 1.35
Argentina Belgl 46,277 8,288 *4,514,618 I m N
Bolivia............. uni 8,787,009 i js
Brazil............. 16,500 4,022 . 10,862,496 1,126,915
Canada............ 3,000 1,013,944 .27
Chili............... 8,510.............
China.............. Colombia.......... 700,000 it
2,600 288,000
Donmark.......... 35,703 2,406,109 1.3*
KKyp*.............. 62,930 *4,452,522 ■
Franca............ 470,600 100,007,623 2.70
Germany.......... 419,559 92,573,403 2.16 LSS
Great Britain...... 113,720 65,101,015
Greece............. 12,397 1,494,800 1.02
India, British...... 58,170 78,875,960 .40
Italy.............. 199,577 37,983,756 • M
Japan.............. 36,380 7,506,000 .21
Luxembourg...... 619 100,480 .48
Mexico............ 22,387 *10,554,745 US
Netherland*....... 61,803 10,265,990
Norway........... 12,750 1,480,760 .si
Pernia............. 28,400 8,400,000 so
Peru.............. 18,200 ............. “lot
Portugal........... 35,733 4,342,928
Itou mania......... 130,158 8,310,198 LAP .68
Rum la............. 787,900 144,215,615 ■
Her via............. 14,150 869,138 9*91
Bpain.............. 830,000: 49,146,491 3,579,940
Bweden............ 86,495 .80
Bwitzerland....... 106,102 * 2,419,213
Turkey............ United 157,667 34,763,096 IM
Btatea...... 28,01* 87,082,736 .95
Uruguay.......... 4,060 *2,964,100 5.31
Venezuela.......... 5,494 .............
•Army and aarj.
“ I only want to show you one thing
more, Professor. I have invented » short
method of boring mountains which 1
think will prove very valuable.” “My
dear sir,” burst forth the wearied listen¬
er, "if you would only invent a short
method of boring individuals you would
race" indeed confer a lasting benefit upon the
Evsnr tea" who has become President
of the United Staten has lieen elected
during for the a leap year. wonder This is something
girls to over.