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LIKE A BLOW IN THE BACK.
riow it Feet* to be Struck by Unlit niim
An t iijdeasant Experience “Above tin
Oond*.”
Henry M. Burt, the White Mountain
editor, gives his experience with light¬
ning. Mr. Burt certainly had a narrow
escape. He writes:
“A little 'after six o’clock Saturday
night I was in my office (in the old Sum¬
mit. House on Mount Washington), and
had just given directions to Darby about
making up a form, when all at once J
felt a tremendous blow in the back. I
could not imagine at first what caused if,
but instantly I saw a ball of fire as large
as a man’s head directly in front of me,
not three feet off. It exploded with a
tremendous noise, seemingly as loud as
-a cannon, and then I knew what must
have happened. My left leg seemed to
'>e completely paralyzed, and I fell to
the floor. Three of my printers were
in the room at the time, two sitting at
the table near me and one standing up
a little further off'. The latter had the
.skin on one hand tom up, another was
hi! in the back, and the third escaped
without injury. At first I felt as though
ii ball had gone through my body, and
that all below had been shot away. I
was startled and confounded, but did
not lose consciousness. Die young man
who could get out of tire office ran to
rise hotel, the Summit House, and told
what hud happened. Help came imme
•riiately, and I was removed to my room
sa the hotel and undressed. Dr. Strong,
medical student of Harvard. look my
••use in charge, and treated me with
great skill. In the course of two or
three 1 hours I could begin to move my
leg a very little. This (Monday) morn¬
ing I find myself quite comfortable,
though I cannot walk without a cane,
and my leg pains me considerably. 1
can assure you that it was a narrow es¬
cape from instant death, and for one I
do not care to go through another expe¬
rience like it. As the storms nre all, or
most of them below the summit, we have
very little fear of being struck by light¬
ning. In fact, for 30 years no one has
been hurt or had such a narrow escape
from death. It is an old saying that
lightning never strikes twice in the same
place, and I’m sure I do not care to
have it. Wo were nil the more sur
prised from the fact that until the bolt
came in we had no idea of the presence
of an electric storm. It had begun to
rain a little, but there had been no
flashes of lightning. It was as startling
as it would have been to get a clap of
thunder out of a clear sky. You have
probably heard of the impression of a
free being found upon the bodies of
those killed by lightning. The same
tiling was noticed upon my back, and as
there are no trees upon Mount Washing¬
ton. it seems to me that the peculiar ap¬
pearance must be the result of the blood
settling in the smaller veins.”
School Life In China.
Very much is thought of education in
Oh ina, and if a poor boy take literary
honors, he can fill as high a position as
though he were a boy of rank. All boys,
especially in the south of China, are ex¬
pected to go to school, but beside the
mission schools there are not many for
girls only to teach boys
A tutor has not
Low to read aud write, but politeness
forms the basis of Chinese education,
aud the many ceremonies belonging both
to public aDd private life have to be
learned at school. Very much trouble
is also taken with the writing lessons,
“au‘ elegant pencil” being thought of
great consequence, and all the mistakes
made in the writing lessou the master
corrects with red ink. Like boys of
Japan, the Chinese learn their lessons
out loud, and sometimes make a great
clatter iu the schoolroom while doing so.
But boys may not talk together in school,
and to prevent their doing this the desks
are arranged some distance from one an¬
other. When a lesson is known the boy
takes his book to the master, bows, turns
In-, back, and repeats it. This is called
peychou, or “backing the book,” and is
to prevent the boy from reading the les¬
son, which the large characters would
.make it very easy for him to do.
The way the Chinese are taught is on
a very different system from ours. They
learn by heart first, and then have ex¬
plained to them what they have learned.
Their first lesson is on filial piety, and
throughout life the Chinese hoy and girl,
and man and woman are noted for their
love toward parents. They then learn
♦heSacredTrimetriealbook, which treats
of the nature of man, modes of educa¬
tion, social duties, and many other things.
Next come the four classical books, and
then the five sacred, so when Chinese
lioys go to school they are well set to
-work. Unlike the Japanese, however,
they do not think that they have any¬
thing left to learn from other nations.—
Little Folks Magazine.
* Chicago Lawyer’s Love Story.
Prof. Swing, iu an address at the Ac¬
ton (lud.) Assemblage, approved and told of ju¬
dicious novel-reading, this
story: “I heard of a Chicago lawyer
owe whose wife read two novels to him
when he was sick, and he said to her :
T have been entirely too much wrapped
np in law, aud have forgotten almost
everything else. When I get well I
shaii lay aside my statutes and write a
novel.’ And so he did. The first chap¬
ter told about a nice young man and a
pretty young woman, The second told
how they met and fell in love, The
third, a very pretty chapter, told how
they took a walk together in the even¬
ing. aud how they got outside tiie town
because the sun went down, and they
couldn’t see the corporation line. he It
was a very romantic story, but
spoil- d it in the next chapter, for after
the lovers were appropriately spreading seated oak, un¬ the
der the shade of a
young man said: “Adelaide, I can no
kniger conceal my feelings. I love you
madly, distractedly, wildly. 1 cannot in
five without you. Your image is my
heart by night and by day, and without
you my life is incomplete.’ Now, that
W .1 - all very pretty, but—would yon be¬
lieve it ? — the lawyer commenced the
maiden's answer to that burning declar¬
ation with: ‘ The other party responded
substantially as follows,' and that took
away all the romance."_
Oxe of the best stops for a hand
organ is a pewter dime.
At a Yucatan Ball.
The same dazzling array girls of beamed beauty,
jewel-tedecked mestrsa the first
upon us this evening, friends as at busy
dance, and soon all my were
filling their books for the dances. There
was no prescribed style of dress for the
men; sore) wore their shirts outside,
flutter up m the evening air; some wore
them inside, and some of the most aristo¬
cratic even wore coats, but all wore their
hats. Unobserved, in a corner, I was
watching the strange costumes, as the
sharp eye of the general espied me, from
liis chair of state beneath Ins own por¬
trait, draped in Mexican colors.
“Hi, Senor Frederico, why are you
not dancing?” general, don’t know how.”
“Senor I
‘ ‘Yes, you do; you’ve got to dance, any
way.” he approached and when
With that me,
I tried to dart through the crowd, caught
and led me sternly back.
“Here,” beckoning to a lovely girl,
“come, my darling, and dance with el
senor estrangero. ”
The girl came and stood in front of
me, smiling. prettiest girl in
“That is my niece, the
the room and the best dancer in tbe’can
ton. Take her, now, and let her help
you.” I explained that I had
Then never
danced; that a lame duck i i a ten-acre
lot would waltz all around me. It was
of no use. He repeated: “There’smy
niece; look at her !”
True enough, there she was, waiting
for me to take her out. Oh, she was a
handsome girl, with regular features and
shapely shoulders, and hung all around
with gold ornaments.
Now, that girl couldn’t understand a
word of my language, but she must have
seen that I didn’t want to dance with
her. But when the music struck up she
merely smiled and said:
“Vamonos!”
Yamonos is “come along!” but I
wouldn’t go. i. commenced to explain.
“Senoritta, yo no se this kind of a dance,
you know; it’s all Greek to me; a Vir¬
ginia reel, now, or a sailor’s hornpipe,
for instance, but this--” I never fin¬
ished that sentence, for she advanced
with fire in her eyes, and seized me in a
decided manner: “Yamonos!” and I
vamonsed.
Well, that young lady sailed all about
me like a swan. While I hopped up and
down, stepped on her skirt a d trod on
her toes, she remained as serene as a
summer sky pulled this way and that,
whirling me round and round until I was
giddy, and ended by flinging me into a
seat, while the whole audience, who had
remained thunderstruck with awe and
amazement at my war dance, burst out
with loud cries of “Viva el Americano !”
A TELEGRAPHER'S DUTIES.
Wlint « First-rhiHM Operator is Heiiuiml
To Do Every Bay.
A correspondent writes that he is able
to transmit forty-two words a minute by
the watch, for a considerable length of
time, and to receive, without any diffi¬
culty, the writing of a private line with
forty offices, some of them occupied by
Western Union operators, and he desires
to know whether this degree of skill en¬
titles him to be rated as a good operator.
Inquiries of this kind are often received
implying that ability to transmit and re¬
ceive a specifled number of words per
minute constituting a standard by which
a good ora “first-class” operator may be
distinguished—au error very common to
novices and very mischievous. Speed,
when combined with other qualifications,
is certainly a very desirable accomplish¬
ment, but it is not the first requisite of
telegraphic Some skill. the ranked
of men who have
highest in the profession have not been
remarkable for speed. It is the old
story of the tortoise aud the hare over
again; it is the steady gait and sound
judgment transmit that tell. It the correspond¬
ent can forty-two words a min¬
ute in good, ringing Morse, and can
transcribe from a line at the same rate,
making every letter unmistakably legi¬
ble—not adjust necessarily his instrument ornate; if he can
quickly to every
variation in the circuit, particularly line; in
bad weather, or on a faulty if in
sending he exercises judgment and
gauges Iris writing to the ability of the
receiver; if he has that peculiar tele¬
graphic sense which enables him to in¬
stantly detect au error, even in a cipher
message; if he never “breaks” except
when iu doubt as to the correctness of a
word, and then always breaks; has if the liis
habits are irreproachable; if lie
good sense never to allow' his temper to
be ruffled by anything that occurs on the
line; if he can do and lie and suffer all
this for nine hours a day, without leav¬
ing his chair, then lie may justly claim
to be a good operator.
If. in addition to these accomplish¬
ments, lie can transmit forty-two words
a minute with one hand while “timing”
with the other the messages he has sent,
and can eat his frugal luncheon without
suspending either of the other operations,
he may be regarded as a first-class
operator, and will probably have no
difficulty in obtaining a position at from
>70 to $80 per month. All that is then
ecessary is for him to become
horouglily conversant with the proper¬
ries of electricity and the applications
thereof, and he is reasonably certain (il
he lives) to reach the top of the profes¬
sion, the length of time required de¬
pending to a great extent gentleman upon the
m.-t: (covers of a eerfain in
New York—Mr. Jay Gould.— The Oper¬
ator.
Cp t'M Smoking. —The experience smoking in
Sau Francisco is that the opium
habit is confined almost exclusively to
the Chinese and those exceptional fallen per¬
sons of the white race who have so
low that a lower depth is impossible, and
the stories that women of good breeding
aud innocent young girls are enticed into
opium joints are denounced as fictions.
For the greater security of the Chinese
under American laws the Chinese
Six Companies in San Francisco
placarded the Chinese quarter with
warning to the residents not to
white men, women, or children into
houses for the purpose of
opium.
The work of the hardy miner is all in
vein. Yet he is happy when ’tis ore.
A DETECTIVE’S SERMON.
V Ollt hfiil f'rimimilN ami W* nr .llsikcs Thpiu
Such -* 4 l*nnl For Drinks” and Home
The cell-door iu the police station was
closed upon a thief who had given his
age as seventeen years, and who looked
even younger. His clothing and person
were clean and his features were of a
type indicating intelligence. The brutal
law-breakers expression often noted in the features of
his. was lacking entirely him in
A Tribune reporter, who saw
locked up, noticed tears in the youth’s
blue eyes. The detective who had made
the arrest had served many years iu the
Police Department and was familiar with
the history of many thieves. “The boy
ought not to be a thief.” he said. “His
father is dead, and lie has a respectable,
hard-working mother, to whom lie might
be a comfort instead of a curse. He has
been on the Island twice already and
now be will go up for burglary.”
“What kind of boys become burg¬
lars ?” the reporter asked.
“All kinds.”
“Do good boys everiget to be thieves ?”
“Yes, when they fall in bad company.”
“What influence do you consider the
most powerful in leading bovs on to
crime ?”
“Bum!”
“Has not natural depravity much to
do with their fall?”
“I do not believe that human de¬
pravity is natural,” the detective said.
“It is unnatural. The lives of the worst
criminals in the city prove as much.
Did it ever occur to you that there is
much less of what you call natural de¬
gravity in country places than in the city ?
people get to be bad because their sur¬
roundings are bad, because they cannot
resist temptation, because their better in¬
stincts are taken away by evil influences.
This boy here lives in a tenement-house.
His mother is poor, and there is not
much pleasure for him in the house. So
lie runs about in the street. If he lived
iu the country, as I did when I was a
boy, he couldn’t find much mischief
■way from home. Here he associates
with all kinds of boys, and there is not
much wickedness which a New York
‘gamin’ does not know about. Every
grog-shop drinks’ which bears the sign ‘pool for
is a training school for* young
thieves. The boys get heated with beer,
and are fascinated with the game. They
must have money to enjoy the sport, and
drink leads them to steal it. This lad
began stealing from his poor mother first.
She would not have him punished. Then
be stole from his employer and was di->
c mrged. I caught him picking pockets
aud sent him to robbed the penitentiary. Whe
liu got out he a money drawer iu
■i grocery. Last night he and his ‘pals’
broke the shutters off a cigar store and
earned off a small amount of the stock.
After he gets out of prison again he
may become a more expert burglar, but
lii.s mother will die of a broken heart.”
A sob, within the cell, sounded like an
expression of assent. The officer noticed
it, and turning away from the door he
added in a lower tone: “It is the fruit
of the parents sometimes. If his home
life had been nude a little better and
pleasanter, he might have been a steady
boy. His mother in was always complain¬
ing aud fretting the house, before
lie began to steal, and since then she
lias tried to shield him from the police,
while she kept nagging him when they
were alone. Boys are growing up to be
sober, honest men in the worst tenement
houses iu the city. You will find, as a
rule, that they have been taught by theii
parents to expect punishment for evil
doing and that they have amusement at
home.”— N. Y. Tribune.
Born in Jail.
The birth of a girl baby in Ludlow
street Jail, says a New York paper, the
first child ever bom within the walls of
the grim and ill-kept structure, recalls
that pathetic chapter in one of Dickens!
strongest novels which tells the story of
the birth of Amy Dorrit in the Marshal
sea. From what we have learned of the
interior ot' Ludlow street Jail and the
life of its inmates, from the published
statements of prisoners and reports of
investigating committees, we may almost
imagine that the incidents preceding the
first appearance iu this dismal and wicked
world of the Child of the Marshalsea
were reproduced in the New York jail.
The sympathy of the jailors was surely
not wanting, and the fellow-prisoners of
the happy (or afflicted) parents were, do
perhaps, as officious in their desire to
something useful, as they were certainly
as dirty and unkempt as the poor debt¬
ors in ihe Marshalsea. It is not likely,
however—as the inhabitants of Ludlow
street Jail in this enlightened age and
this free country include scarcely so English many
varieties of human nature as an
debtors’ prison sixty or seventy years
ago—that no outside aid was necessary
in ushering into life the daughter of
Michael Coletto. iu the Marshalsea the
doctor was a. hand, grimy and shabby
as all the other prisoners, and called for
the occasion from the billiards and rum of
the “snuggery,” whence he bore with
dim a pungent odor of stale alcohol and
tobacco to poison the air which the in¬
fant first breathed. Unlike Little Dor¬
rit, the Coletto baby is not destined to
grow up to womanhood behind the walls
of a jail. Her parents are not debtors,
hut are accused of counterfeiting; and they if
will soon be removed for trial,
convicted, the penalty of their although crime
will not be shared by the infant,
its consequences have already fallen to be so
heavily upon her. It is no crime
born in a jail, but it is a terrible afflic
t ion.
A Cruel Relative. —The police of
Toulouse, France, made a descent upon
the house of a grocer named Bonzoul.and
rescued from a cellar a man and his son in
the last stage of starvation. They were the
brother-in-law and nephew of Rouzoul,
who had kept them in durance while he
squandered their fortune of $20,000.
They were found to be entirely bereft ot
reason.
“What station did you say this was ?’
inquired a passenger growled of a gruff' brake
man. “Pig-sty,” the polite em¬
ployee, who was mad because his first
answer was not distinct enough to be un¬
derstood. “Ah,” smiled the traveler,
“ti en you must be perfectly at home
here.” Thebrakeman slammed the door
from the outside aud then bit off a piece
of the iron railing.
SOLDIERS IN CAPTIVITY.
Tin* JAtc ot Confederate i'rihfliicrs at
Elmira Barracks.
In their prison life at Elmira the Con¬
federates were generally cheerful and
good-natured, spending their time in
wood and bone carving, reading, writing
and the thousand and one ways those in
confinement while away the weary hours.
They triei.ds, were permitted to write letet rs to
subject always to the inspection
of an officer. Many of these letters were
of course withheld, and some which
were not were copied for their very
quaintness.
tion Many were the devices put into execu¬
in their attempts to escape, some of
them showing a daring and shrewdness
worthy of success. Most of these were
futile, owing to the closeness with which
the camp was guarded. Two daring
North Carolinians, brothers, worked a
month on a tunnel, carrying the dirt
away in their pockets and boots. It was
finished one night about nine o’clock,
and the astonished tunnel workers found
that an angle had been made in their
hole and they had come out on the in¬
side of the fence. They were discovered
and closely watched for a time, but in
about two months did make their es¬
cape and were never overtaken.
One reck less young fellow, an eigliteer.
year-old Virginian, with the aid of a
companion, removed the body of asnnill
pox corpse from its coffin and placed
himself in it. It was taken to the ceme¬
tery at night and unloaded. 'When he
heard the dead wagon leave the grounds
he left his ghastly bed, and in rising up
nearly frightened the two negro grave¬
diggers out of their senses. He made
good his escape, and the precincts of
Barracks No. 3 saw him no more.
At first very few of the prisoners
would take the oath of allegiance, the
spirit among them at that tin e being
very bitter against the North. In a
letter written to the Richmond Exam inc r
by a prisoner who escaped by digging a
tunnel sixty-five feet long the following
strong words are found:
“We should fight forever before being
subdued by such a nation, though I can¬
not see where old Abe is t"> get his next
call from. They are scarcer from here
to Elmira than in the Confederacy. I
think that it is they who are played out,
not us of the South.”
Toward the last, however, they a<5
cepted the parole and were released by
hundreds. Shortly after the first cou
rignment of prisoners arrived in Elmira
they were attacked with a. chronic com¬
plaint, and in the winter of ’61-5 the
dread scourge of smallpox made its ap¬
pearance, and bt fore the ensuing spring,
had made terrible ravages among the
ranks of the Confederate captives. At
one twenty-five time they thirty died off at the and rate of
or a day, the
prison dead wagon was busy from enriv
morn till night bearing the victims to
their filial resting place.
In March, 1865, occurred a rise in the
Chemung and Susquehanna, memorable
throughout Eastern New York and Penn¬
sylvania as the “big flood.” The water
coming up suddenly, surrounded the
hospital in Barracks No. 3, and the nearly
helpless inmates were in great danger
of being drowned. This wo Id un¬
doubtedly have occurred had it not been
for the bravery and humanity of several
private citizens of Elmira and several
officers. Mindless of the contagion,
they bellied carry the several smallpox
patients to a place of safety. But the
was too much for many of the
patients, and the next day upward of
forty breathed their last.
Life at Went Point.
A part of the drill of the graduating
Cadets at West Point is thus described:
—The cadets having performed several
evolutions to the satisfaction of Captain
Godfrey galleries, and the admiration of those in
the two hurdles were placed
on the tan-bark and midway between
them a wooden frame-work, from which
was depended an iron ring. At several
points there were posts, representing
men. At the word of command the ca¬
dets came charging down on the hurdles,
one at a time, their horses going at a full
gallop. As each cadet reached the first
post he fired his revolver at it, and, as
his horse leaped the hurdle, he drew his
sabre and caught the suspended ring
deftly on the point of his sword. Then
he leaped his horse over the next hurdle,
slashing off the leather head of the
wooden man as he did so, and swept on
to the smaller post in a like manner.
After some time the saddles were re¬
moved and a little bare back riding was
indulged in. The cadets set their horses
in motion and went gyrating in the ring
around the hall. Just before reaching a
hurdle the cadet would dismount and,
clinging to hie horse’s mane, would leap
the hurdle with him, springing to his back
again immediately tue obstruction was
passed. Then the hurdles were removed
a»jd the cadets, still riding around the
hall at full speed, began to jump on and
off of their horses without checking in
(he least the inri us pace at which they
were going. Then the order to “ride at
will” was given and the cadets went
around the hall standing up, lying down,
kneeling or hanging by one fo.t on tlie
backs of their horses.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Not long since an Austin lawyer was
appointed by the District. Judge to ex
amine a candidate for admission te the
bar. The young man was rather deli
cinet in Blackstone aud Greenleaf. It
looked very much as though he lacked
the requisite preparation.
“Do you know what fraud is in tin
judicial sense of the word?” inquired
the examining attorney.
“I don’t—I hardly think I do,” was
the stammering reply.
“Well, fraud exists when a man take
advantage of his superior knowledge t«.
injure an ignorant 'it person.” '
“So, that’s it. is ? Then if you take
advantage of your superior knowledge
of law to ask me questions I ean’t an¬
swer, owing to my ignorance, and, in
consequence thereby, I am refused a
license, I will be injured, and you will
be guilty of fraud. Won’t you, Judge ?”
The lawyer was very thoughtful for a
few moments, and then added, reflec¬
tively :
“My young friend. I perceive that
yon have great natural qualifications for
the bar, and I shall recommend that a
large, handsomely engrossed and richly
engraved license be granted yon in spite
of your ignorance .”—Texas Siftings.
Waiting on the Combination.
A country editor, who had procured :•
Mick s safe on an advertisement, is tov
ing with the combination. Man waiting
to collect a bill.
“Eighteen at times slow, to the riglu
stop 32 J,” the editor soliloquizes.
the “Copy !” yells the boy who sets up
paper.
Hastily abandoning the safe, the edi¬
tor cuts out a half column article from
it an exchange, the marks it “editorial,” hands
to boy and returns to the combi¬
nation.
“Let’s see,” he muses, “stop at 32 '
Yes, Yes, that’s that’s right, right. Now, then, to the
left 15 times slow past 31f stop at I6f,”
and then, looking up at the collector, he
paused and inquired: “How much is
that bill of yourn ?”
“Two dollars.”
“Cau’t you come in to-morrow? I
haven’t any change about me and I
don’t like to ask you to wait until I open
my safe.”
“Just as leave wait as not,” responded
tbe collector.
“Besides.” continued the editor, “I
haven’t anything less than a $100 bill in
the safe. Break a hundred dollar note ?”
“Yes, two of ’em,” was the disheart¬
ening response.
“AH right. Lemme see, 19f. Then
to the right past 19?—but hold up;
seems to me half that bill was to be
taken out- in advertising. How is that ?”
“No such thing.”
“Sure?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Very well. Then to the right past
ITS, fourteen times to the left, stop at
75. Look here,” to the collector, “bet¬
ter come in to-morrow. This is an ac
commodation combination—stop at all
the stations, and besides that, it’s
flagged every few minutes,” he added, as
the boy called him out to see “that wo
man with some more poetry.”
Thirty-five minutes later he re-ap
pears with an arm-load of mixed poetry.
“You couldn’t wait till I read this,
could you?” he asked, “or maybe you’d
like to skim through it yourself?” he
added.
But the collector said he felt faintly
like, and would just sit still and wait un¬
til the safe was opened.
“Oh, you will, will you? Correct—
75, then to the right past 75 thirty-eight
times, slow, stop at 09}; then to the left
past 99j a hundred and sixty-eight times,
stop at 43; then to the right pastil—Say !
I’d rather you’d come in to-morrow. I'm
a little pushed for time now. Can’t
wait? Then to the right past 43 six
hundred and twenty-two time?, stop at
13. This is a long stretch of country
I’m going over now,” said the editor, as
he whirled the knob, ‘ ‘but when I get to
13 I’ll be nearly half through— confound
it, I’ve passed it! Have to begin all
over now. Eighteen times slow to the
right, stop at 321—”
‘ ‘Hold on there ! Stop right where
you are,” interrupted the collector; “I’ll
come iu some time next month;” and he
left.
“It’s my opinion that no newspaper
office is complete without one of these
combination lock safes,” soliloquized the
editor as he deftly turned the knob twice,
opened the safe and got out liis best
cigar .—Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Boys and Trades.
“BILL ABP” TALKS A SriORT PIECE.
I believe in these schools where boys
can learn trades. Peter the Great quit
his throne and went off to learn how to
build a ship, and he learned from stem
to stern, from hull to mast, and that was
the beginning of his greatness.
I know a young man wl*> was poor
and smart, and a friend sent him to one
of these schools upNorth, and he stayed
two years, and came back as a mining
engineer and a bridge builder, and last
year he planned and built a cotton fac
tory, and is getting a large salary. there
How many college boys are in
Georgia who can tell what kind of native
timber will bear the heaviest burdens,
or why you take white oak for one part
of a wagon and ash for another, or what
timber will last longest under water?
How many know sandstone from lime
stone, or iron from manganese ?
How many know how to cut a rafter
or a brace without a pattern ?
How many know which turns the
fastest—the top of the w heel or the
bottom as the wagon moves along the
ground ? know how steel is made,
How many
and a snake can climb a tree ?
How many know that a horse gets up
before and a cow gets up behind, and
the cow eats grass from her and the
horse eats to him.
How many know that a surveyor’s
mark upon a tree never gets any higher
from the ground; or what tree ber-rs fruit
without bloom ?
There is a power of comfort in know!
edge, but a boy is not going to get it
unless he wants it bad. ai'd l hat is the
trouble with nv.st > .-liege, boys; they
don’t want it. They ar* t««> busy, and
haven't got time. There is more hope
of a dull boy who wants knowledge, than
of a genius, for a genius generally knows
it all without study. The close observ¬
ers are the world’s benefactors.
Why lie Went to Philadelphia.
Stephen , Girard, _. . at , an early , day, , as
master and owner of a small vessel, trad
ed principally between New Orleans
auc t }} est Indies coming to I’ 1 'ba¬
delphia tor the first time in 1/09.
When he came at last to stay, it was—
if tlie fetor Y w true-by an accident. In
May of 1776, he was on his way in a
sloop irom New Orleans to Canada
when he was lost m a fog. His signs
of distress brought an American vessel
alongside, and Guard asked jjheie ne
was < ‘^ n Delaware Bay. The next
-
question was how was he to get out?
This, the American told him, was easy
enough, but just outside the bay the sea
swarmed with British Cruisers, and the
captain’s advice to the young French¬
man was, that having come safely in he
should risk no more, hut sail direct to
Philadelphia and there dispose of his
cargo. To this Girard objected; he did
not know the river, and had no money to
pay a pilot. The captain then backed
iris advice by action, and lent Girard five
dollars; a pilot came on board, and so
Girard ignorantly and by chance r it
seemed, went to his future home in the
Quaker City.
How Shingles Are Made.
sir
make lumber; if they the .V
eaten, fire-burnt and a; dot , >'> H
emllv, they are forked np gJSf '“"“'I *
to**- *
root, and it must be old mayt ali ,j f *?M atl ®
prevent warping. A log do
places, and even hollow i 6 . h t *
considerable good timber in n ‘i/*’ Z
able for shmgles. The logs
they “bolts” are 16 inches “run in” bvacros? and ?LT . d e !
worked by steam long These*Vi o
are placed eml power.
on and pushed u^ii
large good parts circular cut saw in motion eel S
out in the most M
cal shape as the operator judges ,>■
ookmg at the end. The of "
the furnace-room and the refuse
are carried to the shingle select hi ' m
the are other set on end end of in the room mint, wh J?if S
giggle rapidly .a sort of vise
back and forth throCfc again*
circular saw, the block being |
at the top and bottom alternately j
eccentric movement for the lV
of the shingle, at butt and If 1 ■ '
the same time
moved back to the saw, each move
making a slimgle. Of course an’dsS >„■
shingles are of all widths,
taper in width; some have knots ■
shakes and doty strips through ti*
and lei with sometimes the sides these of defects the shingle" run nifl
sometimes they do ■
not. Sitting near*
man the shingles who operates made, the block is from wlW
are the “joint* ninW
a man who picks up the shingles
and planer, holds and their that edges an instant a eM
a runs so rapid]*
appears to be standing still, and*
tosses perfect them shingles—that where they belong I
sound, unblemished wood, is shingle*
parallel edges and ends, and * ■
whether square no
ferenee they are wide or*
below row, are pitched into one hopper —
to the “ binder.” These
“AM.” respect Shingles except that that are perfect *
every small they
knots in the upper half,*
pitched and into below another hopper or chi
go to another “hinder,
feet These in are every ‘ ‘A*. respect ” Shingles except that that the are I |
. ■
is pitched not on into a right another angle with chute, the sidedarei grJl>c-*
and
low to a boy who lays them on a
and pushes them against a saw. G
which they are squared, after w
they are thrown on a conveyer am i
to the binder of “AH” shingles. S I
gles knot that near have the a middle, doty streak are jointed or erac I E
pitched over the planer to a man
holds them against a circular saw inu
they are ripped up and these defect
out. Then, if this operation leav the* , the
sides and butts at right angles,
sent below to the binder, but if ta
defects run at an angle, the buttB dot* ii
be squared, and they are sent tktl
that purpose first. Shingles si*
“feather edged,” knotty, doty,
and incapable of being made over* cl
anything good, are sent down a strl
and come out in bundles, by a
travesty on language, marked “N<
AN INSURRECTION StJliUl'K
A Backyard Battle ns Keen (roll! R .
or>16 nr ’
[From tlie Detroit Free Prim]
One of the traces of the sired* sevefcl
| 10rse broke, delaying the car ■
eigllt minutes. Afar off to the
one cou ld see into the back passengeiH yard tof I
h ou8e> and directly the
q le car wer e gazing that way at a itlpo panto
m ime. A man on the car took
himself to explain what was occu*
jj e began:__ and her husband ifflj
“A woman excite.*| a
a t the back door, tllie is
[ 3 the picture of calmness.”
It was so. She waved her arm> an
gesticulated—the man seemed to «
“Now' she scalding,” leads him continued to a bedsic.-iMj the pa*
been saying till
8e nger. iii “She is probably and he i
K p e w smash it with an ax, j
probably replying that she’ll hare
sleep on the floor if she does. If I ha
jj m e I’d advise her to use keros ae o
in the crevices, but I haven’t.”
r fq K > woman then led the and man * t>
carpet hanging on the fence
j ier ar ms some more. hi* ■
“She's telling him to pull off n .
an q p, ea t it,” explained the pas* t*
<< alK l he replies that he’ll see
thing burned first. No true have wi* any*
ever ask her husband to
f 0 q 0 with a carpet.” disappear u* . ■
'g] le two suddenly interpreter musB
i l0 use, and the n
“Hold on—this isn't the eiut! ■
taken him in to show where sue ■
the kitchen stove moved to. ■
they come, and she is madder
q^e actors reappeared and S‘Q*
the attitude of enemies about to ^
c . om bat. she rues til
“She’s saying that him,” "'h?
s jj e ever 8a t eyes
the passenger. him loafer L
“She’s calling telhng » to ^
drunkard, and he’s Eli
chimney afire and let tlu - *
TVh°‘ ,
her house cleaning. handle! •' ,. ►
firing off the bedstead* ^ t
hit him with a a ..
<rers, but recovers and tries .- •• ■ ■
° rilie whacks him again, Hi
turns to flee. He reac ies « ■
hut she reaches bun. J in
Some of the passenger, cDa i-;
th ■ platform climbed to get a to da ; ;
interpreter
reached the end ot hn, = ■
got to cut bait or fisn.. 1“
She chokes him and jams a. 1
lets : he ashes him up, ! Now Noivhesw'-- he is qm ;■ j
the carpet with a stick. , J
gentlemen, the oo reat 1
is over, and ” ti ”” anJ 1
nave won anc *
Dudes who chew the heads dicaled a
are advised by a me
canes Se of soft
the same wear
silver, It makes less teeth
the gums s and helps the
through just as well.