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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
The care of most people is how to get
husbands for their daughters; but my
care is to fit my daughters to be good
wives; and then let God provide for
them.
Soap bubbles are airy things, but
ther soon burst. Just so it is with men
puffed up with vanity. They make a i
ihow for a season—sail on the current,
but soon burst, and nothing is left ot
them.
Whoever thinks of life as something
that could be without religion is yet
in do idly ignorance of both. Life and
religion are one, or neither is any
thing.
JJOne of tbe hardest lessons to learn in
life is lhat the man that differs with
vou, not onlv In opinions, but in prin
ciples, may be as honest and sincere as
you rself.
The powers of the mind, when they
are unbound and expanded by the sun
shine of felicity, more frequently luxu
riate into follies than blossom into
goodness.
I pity the man who can travel from
Dan to Beersheb* and cry. "'Tis all
barren !" And so it is, and so is all the
world to him who will not cultivate tbe
fruit it offers.
I have seldom seen much ostentation
' and much learning met together. The
sun, rising and declining, makes long
shadows; at mid-day, when be ishigh
est, none at all.
Good intentions are at least the seed
of good actions, and every man ought
to sow tbem, and 'leave it to the Boil
and seasons whether they come up or
not, or whether he oi any other gath
ers the fruit.
If any one does not know by personal
• experience how much of heaven's
promised rest can be secured for the
soul even now by prayer, he bad bet
ter leave every other lesson of life un
learned till he has mastered that.
Unceasing vigilance is the only way
of sef ty. 44 While men slept, an eren j
c une and sowed t ires in the field," L O
will it be with our precious fields if we
are neglectful, or sink into a careless
slumuer with regard to these dangers.
"In everything give thanks." Even
with the manacles of a ciiminal about
his wrists, Paul writes: "Be careful
for nothing; but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanks
giving let your requests be made known
uuto God.
RATTLE OF THE BONES.
How many lomw in the human face?
Fourteen, when they *ll *ro tu place.
How many bones in the humau ear?
Eight, mv child, tut 1 TU often said.
llow many bones in the human head?
Three in each, and they help to hoar.
How many bones in the human spine?
Twenty-six, like a climbing vine.
How many bones of the human chest?
Twenty-four ribs and two of the rest.
How mauy bones !ho ahoulders bind?
Two in each, one before, one behind.
How mauy bones in the human arm?
In each aim one; two in each fori -arm.
How many bones in the human wrist?
Might in each, if liouo aie missed.
How many bones in the palm of the band?
Five in each, with many a band
How many bones in the fiugers ten?
Twenty-eight, and by joints they bend.
How many b nee in the human hip?
One in each; like a dish they dip.
How many bones in ths human thigh?
One in each —aud deep they lie.
How many bones in the bumau knees?
One in each—the knee-pan, please.
How maur bones in the leg from th- kiue?
Two iu each—we can plainly see.
How many bones iu tbe ankle strong?
Seven in each —but noue are long.
How many boues in the ball of the foot?
Five in each; as iu the palms were put.
How many bones in the toes half a score?
Twenty-eight, aud theie are no more.
And now, all together, these mauy bones tlx—
Aud they count iu the body two hundred and
six.
And then we have in the human mouth.
Of upper and uuder, thirty-two teeth.
Aud we now and then have a bone. I should • i
think,
That forms on a joint, or to till up a chink. ,
A Sesamoid bone, or a Wennian we call.
And now we may rest, for we've told them all,
My Charlie.
My Charlie was the most unromantlc and
matter-of-fact fellow that ever existed.
He would read an old almanac any time in
preference to a volume of poems, and when
1 told him one day about the trials aud suf
ferings of that dear "Claude Clonett," iu
Stringemont's new novel, he coolly asked
me, when I had finished, if 4 'C. C. took
sugar or drank his whisky straight. " Oh,
my! what a trouble he was to me, aud 1
really do not know how I ever came to tol
erate him. He wouldn't act one bit like a
hero, and when he said "good bye" at the
gate, after spending the evening with me, !
he would walk straight away through the 1
field whistling 44 Yankee Doodle," and
never turn and kiss his hand to me once.
Then when I flirted just a little with a
nice fellow to make my Charlie jealous, he
never said one word, aud I had expected he
would vow vengeance on the nice fellow,
and threaten to take prussic acid himself.
No, there was no romance iu Charlie
Marsh. He drank two cups of coffee for
breakfast, ate lots of pork anil beans for
dinner, and poured down three cups of tea
for supper. His hair was always parted on
the right side of his head,a moustache never
graced his lip, and his voice, instead of
being soft and low and sweet, was loud
and coarse like the sound of a bass viol. %
It will be proper to state, before I go
any further, that Charlie was my promised
husband; and I think he loved me, al
though he was unromantic. As I said
before, how I came to love him has always
been a profound mystery to me, for lie was
as different from my ideal as night is from
day; and when he proposed to me, in
place of dropping on his knees and telling
me that I was the whole world to him and
he could never, never, never exist one mo
ment without me for his guiding star, he
just turned to me one evening, as we were
sitting together in the parlor, and said, as
coolly as you please : 44 Sis " —that's what
he always called me— 44 you know I have
been head over heels in iove with you for
more than two months; won't you be Mrs.
Marsh, and make a fellow happy ? "
44 Head over heels in love" with me!
what an expression ! I was really shocked
and I never ought to have said "yes," but
I took pity on the poor fellow, because 1
thought he sincerely loved me, and would
I become more sensible in time. I do sot
hink 1 would have loved him so well if"
Pa had not detested him. Pa did not like
him, because it was rumored that his great
grandfather sold peanuts on an old
ferryboat; but I never believed it. Pa at
last forbade him the house ; but that made
me all the more anxious to see my Charlie,
and we met under the great maple trees.
He, of course, should have proposed an
elopement; but lie was too matter-of-fact
I to ever think of it; and when 1 asked him
what we had better do under the circum-
I stances, he thought for a few moments and
said :
44 1 think I'll give your father a good
thrashing when 1 catch him out, and then
he will think better of me. "
44 No, Mr. Marsh," I replied, 44 you'll do
no such thing. Just lay your finger on pa,
and I'll never speak to you again while 1
live. "
I said this In such a tragic manner that
poor Charlie could do nothing but stand
and look at me and whistle. •
44 What shall we do then?" he asked.
44 W r hy, if you are too dumb to think, I
will tell you," I answered, feeling dread
fully provoked at him. 4 4 To-night, when
pale Luna has —"
44 What's that ? " he aaked.
44 The moon," I returned, impatiently;
44 and you will oblige me by not interrupt
ng me again. When pale Luna has sunk
to rest behind the horizon, and our cottage
is hushed in silence, come steatliily to the
back yard, and— "
I "That confounded dog will get after
me!"
4 *Mr. Marsh," I replied, getting en
tirely out of patience, "if you interrupt
me once more, I will leave you, and return
to my home. " " Go on, then, Sis, " he re
plied, 44 and I'll be as silent as a tombstone.
Proceed, as Parson Sagby says. "
44 Well," I continued, 44 when you reach
the back yard be sure that uo one is up—
see that the house is shrouded in darkness
MILLHKIM, PA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880.
-and if it is, throw a little gravel stone
lgainst inv window, and 1 will appear to
you like Juliet did to Romeo—"
44 Hut where will that dog be —"
44 Silence! " 1 said ; 44 1 will see that the
dog is shut up in the kitchen. Don't in
terrupt me again, please. 1 will be all in
readiness to leave my father's inunsioii,
and you must stand beneath my window
Atul catch me, for 1 will have to jump
down—"
44 Suppose you should fall and skin your
nose ? " said lie.
I could not stand that. All patience
was gone, and 1 commenced to sob hysteri
cally.
" Don't cry, Sis," he said, tenderly, !
laking me in his arms. " I'll see that you
do not fall. Tell me the rest ot the pro
gramme, and I'll listen in silence. "
1 then ceased sobbing, anil resumed:
44 After we are safely away from the
grasp of my cruel pa, 1 will become your
jwn wife forever; and then we will return
to him, tall on our knees and ask forgive
ness. Do you like my plan, dear ? "
44 A1l right, Sis; your arrangement is A '
No. 1. 1 will do exactly as you say.—
When pale wltat-you-may-call it has sunk
Lo rest, a chap of my inches will be about."
44 That's a dear Charlie," I replied; |
44 you'll try and be good hereafter, and
liave a soul above buttons, won't you?
And now 1 must return home. Tra-la-la
till to-night. " And, kissing my hand to
him, I turned and walked home.
It was awfully dark. Murky, sombre
clouds floated through the sky, and hid
pale' Luna completely from view. I had
everything in readiness to leave my father's
house; and I sat. by the window of my
cosy chamber awaiting the sound of the
gravel stone against the pane. It came at
last, with a sharp crack that made me half
jump from my chair, and silently 1 slid the
sasli up as high as it would go.
" Are you there, dear Chariie ? " 1 asked
in a low voice.
41 Yes," was the reply, and his head ap
peared On a level with the window-sill. "I
got on this hogshead, and now 1 can lift
pou out easily. Is that dog shut up
lately ? "
44 He is, I replied, "and now help me j
jut. Be careful. That hogshead is full of i
water, and the cover is weak —O, gra
cious ! "
My admonition came too late. Our
combined weight was too much for the
cover—it gave way, and iu we both went
up to our necks in water.
44 Just as I expected," said Charlie,
cliftibing out.
44 You're a brute! " J returned. 44 Lift
me out of this, "
He did so, and at the very moment 1
was deposited on the ground, pa and the
dog Towter, apjieared on the scene.
44 There's that dog!" cried my lover,
ind he disappeared over the garden fence ,
in a twinkling.
44 What means this?" asked my cruel
father.
1 made no reply ; but pushing past hitn ,
[ entered the house, ran up to my room,
md had a nice long cry. I would never (
lee Charlie again, and ho married a widow
with five children. Boor fellow ! I pity
aim!
••I I.irkeil Him."
"Now, Mrs. Roosniyer.' said his honor, j
"what do you want a warrant for?"
"Foor my husband, so much I know."
"What's he's been doing?"
"I licked him."
" Yon licked liim!"
"I licked him. Und I got right py dose."
"How do you make that out?"
"Yen I told you, then you find out. I fix
his dinner so he go py his vork. Then lie
catch his hand pehint und say he got a pain
in his pack. So he lie down on the lounge |
und groan like he vas very pad. Yen lie
feels pettcr it vas too late to gopy his vork,
so he say he go mit the greek und catch j
some fish. He don'dgoome pack pefore it
vas nighd, und all the fish vat he got vas as
a meesrable leedle pull head what you
could'd ground; put he smell like some peer
parrels more ash dwendy dimes. Und den
he say:
44 What for supper aind ready?"
"I tell him you schplit some of dose firc
woqd und I dalk mit you. Then lie catch
by his arm und si bream:
"Oh ! I got the roomasticks!"
"So you can'd schplit some wood?" I
say.
"Nein. Oh! oh! dose roomaticks! dose
roomaticks!" he kept on griveing.
Then I vas madder ash you dink. Und
I say:
"Yen you dold me you got a bain in your
pack. I say nothing. Und ouf you got
doobie up on accound j'ou got some ot dose
roomatickst I say it vas all righd. Put, by
golly, ouf you dose bam in the pack und
dot roomaticks von don'd gome only veil
you got some vork to do, then I lick you
on siglid."
"Very well, if you licked -him what do
you want a warrant for? '
"Oh accound he shall be locked oud the
vay so I put smearcase on my own brod,
by shimmeny. Vot you dinks?"
A Duel on Hoi gobaek.
The Earl of Gicucairn challenged Lieut.
Gen. Sir George Munro for grossly oppro
brious language used by him towards the
Highland troops, as being "no other than a
pack of thieves and robbers." They met
in a field near Dornoch, "by gray daylight.
They were both well mounted on horseback;
each of them were to have one pistol, after
discharging which they were to fight
with broad-swords. The pistols were fired
without doing harm. Tlicy then engaged
with their swords, and, after a few passes,
my Lord had the good fortune to give Sir
George a sore stroke on the bridle-hand,
whereupon Sir George cried out that he was
not able to command his horse; 4 and I
hope,' says he, 'you will tight me on foot.'
4 Ye earlc,' says my Lord, 4 I will let you
know that I'm a match for you either on foot
or horseback.' Whereupon they both
alighted ; anil at the first bout my Lord
gave him a sore stroke on the brow, about
an incli above his eyes, which bled so much
that lie could not see. His Lordship was
going to thrust him through the body: but
John White, bis man,pushed up his sword,
and said: 4 You had enough of him, my
Lordi' His Lordship, in a passion, gave
him a stroke over the shoulders, and then
took his horse and came to his quarters.
Munro and his brother went to head-quar
ters, but with much ado, for the bleeding
head and hand." Their only attendants
as seconds were Lord Glencairu's trumpeter
and valet—liis man John above mentioned
—and Lieut.-Col. Alexander Munro, a
younger brother of Sir George.
Foiled liy m Woman.
44 Madam, it is my duty to arrest you!"
4 'You dare not I"
The lips were white with passion rather
than fear, and the lady stood before nielike
a lioness at hay. Even then 1 could not
help hut nyte the splendid beauty of this
grand lady. Tull and slender, eyes black
and flashing—almost lurid now; the spec
tacle she presented, standing there in the
middle of ths apartment, was more tlie ap
peal anee of a queen than u hunted crimi
nal.
44 1 must," I replied. "I do not doubt
your innocence; looking iu your face, it is
uot marked with guilt. But lam constrain
ed to do my duty madam, however inimical
it may be to my feelings."
"Will you allow me to change my
dress?" she said in a tone almost pleasant.
The hard lilies around the mouth had re
laxed, and the passionate glow of the face
gave way to a pleasant smile.
"I'ertuinly, I will wait for you here."
4 'l wish to send a message for a friend;
will you allow him to pass?"
"Certainly."
This was my first interview with Eu
genia Cormille. 1 had seen her here for
mouths, the leader ot our gayest and most
fashionable society. In her splendid man
sion she dispensed the most profuse and
elegant hospitality.
A Spanish lady—a widow, she bad re
presented herself—aud hud been a resident
here almost a year. No one ever suspected
her of being aught but what she seemed,
uulil one day 1 was ordered to arrest her as
a murderess.
It was now alleged, said Mr. F., that the
young beauty was none other than the
woman who had poisoned her husband in
Havana, and tied with all his wealth. An
immense reward was offered for her appre
hension, and the circumstances that had
come to our knowledge pointed her out be
yond all doubt as the person we weie in
search of. Yet the ]>ersou who had recog
nized her the evening before al the theatre
advised us to be careful lest she should
escape us. 1 laughed at the ideu. Mr. 1
and myself were sufficient to arrest a
lady. We were old enough in the ways ot
cunning to defeat any such attempts. Wheu
the lady left me, I stepped to the window
and said to Mr. I , who was waiting at
the door:
44 The lady desires to send a friend; suffer
him to pass.
Almost at the same instant the door of
the apartment the lady entered was opened,
and a youth—apparently a mulatto hoy—
came out and passed hurriedly through the
room into the hull, and from thence into the
street, it was no doubt the messenger, 1
thought, and 1 picked up a book aud com
menced reading.
Nearly an hour passed, and still the lady
did not make her appearance or did the boy
return. The friend she had sent for must
live at some distance, or the lady is unusual
ly careful about her toilet, 1 thought; and
so another hour went by. At last I grew
impatient and knocked al tin 1 door.
"Madam, I can wait no longer."
There was no reply. 1 knocked ntyeat
edly, and at last dertermined to force an
entrance. Strange tears harassed me. 1
began to suspect, 1 knew not what,
took hut a moment to drive in the door,
and once in that apartment the mystery was
revealed. The robes of the lady lay upon
the floor, and scattered over the rooui were
suits of boy's wearing apparel, similar to
that worn by the mulatto. On the table
w;is a cosmetic that would staiu the skin a
light, delicate brown.
1 was foiled for a surety, the lady had
escaped in tho guise of a messenger. I
should have detected the ruse; I felt hu
miliated, and determined to redress my
error. 1 know she would not remain in the
city a moment longer than was necessary.
I hurried to her banker's and found she
h*ul drawn the amount due her an hour lie
lore.
44 Who presented the check?" I asked the
clerk.
"A mulatto hoy. It was made payable
to liearer."
There was yet a chance, The French
steamer left within au hour; it was possible
she would 9eek that means of escape. I
jumped into a cab and arrived there ten
minutes before she lift the wharf, just in
time to assist an aged, decrepit gentleman
into the cabin.
There were few passengers; none answer
ing the descripliou of the person I sought.
1 was in Uie act of turning away when a
hackn.an approached me with the remark :
4 'Mr. F.. did you see that old man on
board; he had a long while beard and liAir
that fell on his shoulders?"
"Yes."
"Well, sir, there's something curious
about him."
"Why?"
"Why, sir, when lie got into my carriage
he was a mulatto boy, and when he got out
he was an old man." .
1 will not repeat the expression I used
then—it was neither polite nor refined—lor
1 knew the vessel would be far out to sea
before she eould be overtaken. I was fi lied
by a woman. Nor could 1 help rejoicing,
now that the chase was over, that shej,had
escaped.
Innocent or guilty there was a charm
about lier none could resist. The spell of
her wondrous beauty affected all who ap
proached her. it lingers in my memory
yet; and 1 could not have the sin of heJ
blood upon my conscience. •
A Deadly Ring.
Here is a true elephant storv for you
from an American missionary, who once
lived among the Dutch Boers of Natal, for
seven years. He saw the ivory, and be
lieves the story:—One afternoon, about
four o'clock, three Dutchmen were out
hunting, and came upon a large herd of
eiephauts. They fired at the leader, and
instantly the entire herd fled. The leader
rushed on and on, thinking he was on the
right track to escape; but the elephants
were in a valley and only ran round and
round it in a circle perhaps three hundred
yards in diameter, and were shot down
from four o'clock in the afternoon until
eight in the evening, when darkness pre-,
vented the Dutchman from taking aim any
longer. But the three men rose at break of
day, and found the poor elephants still
going round. It was several hours before
a .new leader, breaking out of the beaten
track, led off the remainder of the herd in
safety. The Dutchmen, whose names
were Botha and Potgeiter, two being
brothers, counted tbe slain. Ninety ele
phants lay dead in the valley; and as their
valuable tusks of ivory were divided equally
among the three Dutchmen, you can believe
that each man's share was considerable.
l.ove'a KMC rifle*
It was my last act oi iny mission as a
detective liefore leaving New Orleans for
San Francisco in the Spring of 1H49; and
1 may add that it is the saddest memory
connected with my career as a detective.
In one of the fashionable millinery estab
lishments of that city was a young girl
named Mary Elliston. She was very
young, hut with a character formed by the
sail experience which is sure to lie met with
in the life of an orphan. She had clear,
beautiful gray eyes, cheeks soft and deli
cate as the leal of the roses; brown curly
hair shaded a low, broad forehead, instinct
with intellect and intelligence. She was
small in figure, but the petite form was
faultless in its exquisite delicacy of outline
and contour. It was impossible not to
love her, if to such physical beauty is
added the generous and kind heart she
really possessed. It is not surprising that
such a girl had many admirers. It would
be strange if she bad not. lint there were
two, who, from their devotion and bar
treatment, acquired a proniiuenoe over the
rest. Indeed the sphere they moved in
was far nliove that of the little milliner.
She believed they loved her; and, not
withstanding the great difference in their
social position, believed they meant kindly.
That tney loved is certain. They were
jealous; and more than once a hostile
meeting was imminent between them.
Her way home from the store led by Jack
son square. It was not as beautiful then
as now, but its rich foliage and elegant
bowers, even at that day, excited admira
tion. One evening as she passed along the
river side of the square she was met by
Luisaud Lacour, the richest and most per
severing of her admirers, but the one whom
she favored least. Indeed, it was said she
disliked him, and on one occasion had re
sented bitterly an insult be had offered her.
.V passer-by heard her voice raise indig
nantly as she passed him that evening in
front of the iron gate. Standing there a
moment she entered the square, from
which a half hour afterward she was seen
to hurry away with every sigu of distress
and intense excitement. It was but a few
minutes after this that. young I*acour was
found murdered, lying on the iron bench
with a short Spanish dagger through his
heart. The girl had been known to pos
sess such a weapon—the gift of one she
never named. This was all.
Of course almost every one believed her
to he the assassin. 1 could not. 1 had
seen too much of criminal life its
characteristics. That girl was innocent 1
knew. Wheu arrested she protested her
innocence in language frantic and wild.
Terror had made her forgetful, seemingly
ol look and action, and she gave way to the
most excessive paroxysms of grief and dis
tress. After she was taken to the station
Mr. L. and myself visited her, to see if we
could learn anything of the case. We felt
more like friends than deteciivea. The sad
orphanage of the young girl enlisted our
deepest sympathy anil touched our hearts
—they would have been flinly, indeed, had
they not softened at her distress. I never
saw such anguish before. The pale, beau
tiful lace was almost wild with terror.
She was frantic one moment, and sobbing,
walking and terror-stricken the next. As
we entered the cell she threw herself at my
feet, and, lifting her face, so pale and
beautiful, wailed out:—
44 1 am innocent, sir—l am innocent. "
44 1 believe you are, Mary; and it was to
help you that we came here. "
44 1 could not do such a deed, sir; in
deed 1 could not. "
44 1 know that; but, Mary, do you know
who did ? "
She lifted her face quickly, and a wild,
frightened expression crossed it, and then
it grew like marble in an instant. She did
not reply, hut I never saw one in whom
hope seemed so suddenly and utterly to
have lied as that girl then. 1 repeated my
question :
44 Do you know who did, Mary ? "
She shook her head and remained silent.
1 told her that we were sutisfied that she
was innocent, but to establish this it was
necessary to bring the real criminal to jus
tice. She could help us in this. But she
still shook her head.
"Mary, Paul Yillie is the man! "
She sprang to her feet and screamed out
rather than spoke her deniak
44 N0, no, no, not him; it was I, it was
I. 1 did it! I'll acknowledge it now—
punish me if you will, but do not accuse
him —do uot let him be arrested ! "
It was plain to me now. My first im
pression was correct. Young Yillie had
come upon his rival talking with Mary in
the square, and under a first impulse of re
sentment had slain him. Her confession
of the fact was only lacking to secure her
acquittal, hut she would not confess; and
from that hour acknowledged her guilt.
A few days after young Yillie left the
country, and in time his family furnished
evidence that released the girl. She, too,
went away, but it was not long before she
died. The fright and horror of the terrible
crime laid to her charge finally killed her.
I shall never forget the scene 1 witnessed
iu her cell. The desolate woman strug
gling with her anguish and terror haunts
my memory still.
A Thrilling Night.
Tiie steamship Rotterdam, from Rotter
dam to New \ ork, met a terrible gale on
the Ist. of March which increased through
out the day and at night fall had attained
the fury of a hurricane. The engines were
kipt moving just sutHcicntly to maintain
steerageway ; the 350 steerage passengers
were confined under battened-down hatches,
and every precaution thai care and experi
ence could devise was employed to miti
gate the imminent danger. The storm was,
however, an extraordinarily violent one—
the worst, in the opinion of the first ollieer,
John Vernes, that he has ever encountered
in long service on the sea —and the vessel,
tossed by gigantic waves, labored so heavily
that she threatened momentarily to cap
size. At 2 o'clock on the 2nd. a moun
tain-likc wave came aboard on the port
bow, and, rushing aft with tremendous
force, carried away the false bulwarks
thrown across the deck in front of the first
hatch ; then becoming jammed in the nar
row passage beside the chart-room, dashed
in a whole pannel of that apartment, and
forced out the opposite panel on the star
hoard side for its escape. The Captain
was seated at his table in the chart-room,
when tons upon tons of water were hurled
over him through the hursted side of the
room, and without waiting an instant to
open the door behind him, he tooa a header
out of the new aperture in the wall, with
the swiftly-rushing billow, and picked
himself up away amidships, startled, con
; fused, and soaked, but unhurt. The same
great wave continuing aft, burst open the
C(X)k's galley, and upset a great steam
boiler used for cooking the food of steer
age passengers. A lamp-trimmer named
Yunson was forward of the chart-room
wheu the ocean invaded the deck, and was
carried like a cork clear aft to the wheel
bouse, along with a portion of the false
bulwark and some other dismantled parts
of deck lumber. Of that brief but exciting
trip iu the embrace of the flying wave he
was conscious of nothing, but when he re
gained iiis senses and got to his feet he
found bis left arm broken and a great
chunk torn out of its muscle. Another
sailor was tossed about almost as wildly,
but escaped without other injury than the
severe spraining of his left hand. The
moment after that wave left the deck, as
the stern of the vessel descended into the
trough of the sea, another enormous wave
boarded the deck on the port quarter aft.
It dashed in part of one side of the wheel
house and, to force its way out again from
that room—which it had instantly filled—
tore off both the side doors and carried
them away with it to sea. Strangely
enough, it did not break the great panes o!
thin glass which, from breast-height up.
constitute the front of the wheel-house, hut
exerted its force laterally upon the doors at
the sides. Another wave that mounted the
deck was high enough to reach above the
companion-way doors, which were closed,
and to hurl many tons of water in one
seemingly solid mass throughthe open space
of the sliding cover above, which was tem
porarily unclosed, and down the stairs into
the first cabin. The cabin floors and the
staterooms were deluged, iockers and draw
ers were filled with water, and beds in the
lower hunks were set afloat. It was hours
before all the water shipjied in that one
second could be pumped and bailed out,
and the frightened passengers who, spring
ing from their hunks, found themselves
knee deep in the water in the darkness,
gave themselves up for lost. During the
worst twenty-four hours of the storm, in
cluding that eventful night, the vessel
made hut twenty-four miles, and the next
day but ninety miles. The violent gale
lasted four days, and the high winds con
tinued all the rest of the way across until
the arrival ot the vessel.
lloiisekfln Veuice:
The City of Veuice stands in the water
as though perpetually bathing its feet.
There is no rumbling of carts and wagons,
only the soft splaah of the oars of the
gondolier as be propels his dark gondola.
No one has any fire in the house—that is,
nothing that we should call a fire. They
make a fire in a sort of pipkin, which they
call a scaldiui, and warm their toes at that
if they are chilly. Hut the climate is mild
and they know nothing of winter. The
floors are of marble, and are oiled; in some
places mats or nurs are spread about. A
suit of apartments can be hired for about
five dollars a month, and a small palace for
about thirty dollars. A man servant works for
altout three dollars a month, and at that rate
does general housework. Strange to say,
women ask a little more than men. Wash
ing is sent to the country to be done, but
ironing is done at home. In the kitchen
fireplace is a flat raised piece of stone with
hollows in it. Here the irons are heated
with charcoal, and co< king is done. But
most of the ordinary Venetians never cook
at home; they simply send out at meal
times and buy food ready prepared for
them. Much light wine to drunk, and wa
ter must always be bought to drink. There
is a great deal of fruit, fine melons and ex
quisite grapes, in season ; also another lux
ury—not always appreciated by foreigners
—hot, roasted pumpkin, which is brought
about by a man who sings of its sweetness,
and declares it hot from tbe fire, until he
has sold it in shoes; and polenta, which is
only a boiled Indian meal dumpling, but
which is more used among the Yeuetians
than bread. When anyone rings a bell in
Venice the door is not at once opened to
him. Someone cries from above : 44 Who
is there, if you please ?" And the appli
cant looks up and sees a face leaning over a
window sill, and then instantly bellows his
business. If he is to be admitted, the door
opens from within. And however many
may be the floors or apartments, he finds a
private staircase to the one he wants. But
if he has anything to leave, a basket is let
down by a string, and he deposits it and it
is drawn up. The mothers of the lower
orders have no trouble about the children's
daily hath, AS evening approaches they
undress the little hoys and send them out in
short little white cotton garments, bare
footed and bare-armed, to take a bath in
one of the canals. Sometimes the head of
the family also takes his bath there. Vene
tian ladies are often artists or musicians ;
otherwise, tlieir principal occupation seems
to be to dress elegantly aud sit on a bal
•onf.
He Had Done It.
Mr. Piute went home from the "lodge'
the other night and tackled the "fifteen' 1
puzzle. lie wrestled with the thirty
blocks—at least he thought there were
thirty of them, he being in splendid con
dition to "see double"—and in about an
hour aud a half had the thing solved to his
own satisfaction. Then he got pen, paper
and ink and attempted to write out the so
lution as follows: "Shove 4 down, push 1
over, carom on the 14, swing the right
bower, drag out t>, keep the 10 iu the king
row, keno on the black, deal again> run the
6 from first base, move 3 to the southwest
of 15, white to play and mate in twelve
moves, P to K 84, Qlt to K, move 13-14-
15 a little northeasterly, R to Ktsch, then
set 'em up on the other alley, throw dou
ble tf's rouquet the 9, take the seven on the
tly, lea 1 king, then R to R7, rake in the
pot, and mo—mor —move —" His wife j
becoming alarmed a 'his long absence
came down stairs at 2 a. m. and found him
under the table. But he had "done it."
Sw Through llie Meat.
Madame C , dressmaker, has a great
deal of trouble with sewing girls. The
other day one of them cauie to her to say:
"Madame, I fear that I will not be able
to work much longer. I think lam getting
blind."
"Why, how is this? You seem to get'
along pretty well with your work."
44 Yes; but I can no longer see any meat
on my plate at dinner."
Madame C understood, and the next
day the young ladies were served with very
large but very thin pieces of meat.
44 What happiness," exclaimed our Miss..
"My sight has come back. I can now see
better than ever."
"How is that, Mademoiselle?" m
4 4 Why, at this moment I can see the
plate through the meat."
An Irish Fishing Village.
There was scarcely a well-thatched cabin
in the village; the.floors of most of them
were as muddy as the roads, and dotted
with little pools of water, which seemed a
refreshing feature to the ducks that came
in, in quest of food. The most sheltered
corner of the cabin is devoted to the pig,
and the chickens seize upon every coin of
vantage for a roost. Nets hang from the
rafters, and the equipments of the boats
are disposed in whatever dry nooks the
habitation boasts of. The warmest spot on
the hearth is usurped by the cat, cherished
with great care as the protector against
their terrible enemies the rats; and beside
it an old woman, who did not seem to have
changed her clothes since her youth, cud
dled the latest born of the household.
The village was prevaded with so strong
an odor of fish and tar that iess agreeable
emanations were unnoticed. The dungheap
was zealously guarded by the door—l have
seen it, indeed, in the very living-room of
the occupants—as the riches that were to
prosper their next year's potato crop; and
every morning the pig was sent out to walk
with a solicitude for his health not be
stowed upon the other members of the
family. These people spend three-fourths
of their time in idling and gossiping. I saw
poor haggard old women at the doors of
their cabin, or by the village well, who
had to crouch like apes to make their rags
cover them, so mad for gossip that they
forgot their hunger and the rain that soaked
them; and day after day old men gath
ered on the sheltered side of a wall and
talked with as much gravity as if they had
never seen each other before, and every re
cital was an unheard of marvel. Troops
of half-clothed and half-starved children
sprawled in the mud, fought among them
selves, or with loud yells crowded about
some poor ass, infiiciing all the torments
that their untutored imaginations could
suggest, while their mothers, cans in hand
whispered, with amazement written ou
their faces, of all they had heard or seen or
dreamed of since yesterday in a village de
pendent entirely upon itself for its topics of
interest. Hither, I learned, the priest
came once a year to hear the confession of
the inhabitants. They repair to one of the
cabins, where, while the pig, chickens,
ducks, and geese are kept in abeyance by
the zealous host and hostess, the rite is
celebrated. Among these people, whose
only extravagance seems to be on the score
of their religion, be is entertained and re
quited in a manner quite out of proportion
to the means of his entertainers; and when
departing, after the manner of the fond
mother m the story-book, who whipped
her children and put them to bed, he gives
them all a sound rating upon their idleness
and remissness in their religious observance, *
and receives in return, ''Long life to your
reverence," and "Godspeed," from his
humole Hock.
Colorado Height*.
Just west of the line of contact of plain
and mountains rise some of the sublimest
peaks in America. Go up Pike's Peak be
fore sunrise, and you will see about twenty
peaks tipped with flame that are over 14, -
000 feet above the sea. The Alps have
very few that are higher, and nowhere so
many visible from one place. Colorado
has one hundred peaks over 14,000 feet
high, and two hundred more over 13,000
feet. Among these peaks lie the parks in
the same general direction north and south.
These are large areas from twenty to one
hundred miles wide, and from sixty to
two hundred miles long. They are sup
posed to have formerly been very deep
lakes among the mountains, but the moun
tain barrier having been cleft with a canon
they arc now dry. They are located as
follows, beginning at the north; First,
North peak, then two charming little ones
called Egeria and Estes, Middle park, then
South park in the middle of the State— •
where Fremont was hemmed in with snow
and obliged to subsist on his mules—and
San Luis park in the south. The view of
these deep inclosed valleys from the sur
rounding heights is attractive in the ex
treme. Men build their cities and work
their mines at unheard-of elevations. All
Leadville, with its 30,000 inhabitants, is
1,025 feet above the sea; the Stevens' '
mine is nearly 12,000, and the present help
mine 14,000 feet above the sea. This is
nearly twice and a half the elevation of
Mount Washington.
A Floating lstanu.
Among the many natural curiosities of
Oregon, it is not generally known that
there is a "floating island." Up in the
" Siskiyous," lying like a pearl in the great
mountain chain, is Squaw Lake, a beauti
ful sheet of water now utilized by a mining
company as a reservoir. For many years
the lake has been a favorite and delightful
resort for fishing parties, and contained
nearly n its centre an island, comprising
about an acre of ground, covered with lux
uriant grass and a growth of willow and
alder. It was never dreamed that the
pretty little island was not part of terra
lirma; but when the bulkhead across the
outlet of the lake dammed ip its waters,
the island rose slowly until it had been ele
vated fully sixteen feet above its original *
level. It would be a question for the nat
uralist, rather than the geologist, to deter
mine the age of this floating island, as it is
evidently made up entirely of decayed veg
etation. Perhaps at some remote period
the roots of a tree, uptorn by a mountain
storm and drifting out into the lake, formed
the nucleus from which the island has
grown; but it seems singular that it should
have remained anchored and unchangeable
in its position. The locality is much fre
quented by pleasure-seekers, who will here
after notice the increased elevation.
Three Wishes.
Three young soldiers, a Parisian, a Gas
con, and a Marseillais, were walking one
stany summer night on the shore of the
Mediterranean, and seeing who could frame
the most colossal wish for a fortune.
"I," said the Parisian, •"wish this sea
were all ink; then I'd dip my pen in it,
make a big nine on a sheet of paper, and
after the nine I'd set down naught until
the ocean were dry, and the sum thus
written would represent my fortune."
"And I," said the Gascon, "wish that
every star above us represented a bushel
bag of louis d'or that belong to me."
"And I," said the Marseillais, ."wish
that both your wishes were true, and that
you might die of heart disease the moment
after you had made your wills in my
favor."
NO. 17.