Thinkiug.
morußTi T k KOODI.S
I don't thtnk * g<v*e ii'i Swan,
1 don't tliink • cheep is k rabbit.
But I think. * lion I'm thinking tlisreou,
Tlikt Uuuking's k dkngoroua hshit.
Fur imuiw jHMpIk think thy sr* right.
And some peopla think that *r* clever,
And homo people tlunk lilsck lunst ho whits.
And com* think of nothiug whatever.
And some people think of Ihemselve*.
And i>me people tliink of their neighbors ;
And some tlunk the gold that one do hot
la vary poor pay for one'a Ikhora.
For my psrC I tliink that I thought
That 1 thunh while a-Uiutkiug and Binning,
Thai t hiuktng ns really worth uaught.
Because thinking, 1 tlunk, u> coufusuig.
Flirting.
T.TMX TO nu
" If I were yon 1 wouldn't gira audi glanoea.
And dirt witli Oilier girla tlws evening through;
I would, at least, come bark between the
llamas,
If I were you!" .
ata
" If I were you, and came with ngf Jkme,
I wouldn't • spoon with Charley, all tu view,
And let hita hold my hand upon the atatrway,
If I ware you!"
una
* If 1 were you. I d dance with atyhah latlie* ;
1 woaktuT dance and walu with only tarn;
And these a ugly the two kliaa Oadys,
If I were you
MBA
' If 1 were you 1 wouldn't hurt one', feeling*.
And *oy arvsu tluug* : 1 would not ear of
you—"
tana
'• Then 1 would atop at once thewe douWe deal
, tag*.
If 1 were you!"
or*.
'•Really! you would? Why. dear.' the team
i on- owning.
Don't let her ileum—mr arm—dear, take
M. do!
I wouldn't cry when I naaoniy funning.
If I wore yon!"
i lrytw
'' One J ore not Uk one'* feelings to he doubt
ed-"
or*
One doe* not tike one # kire to wisccmtrue—"
urn*.
* If I cou/ee* that 1 a wee-bit pouted ?"
oca.
Then I'd admit that 1 was haste. too."
nma.
"Ask me to dance. I'd aay no more ai>out it,
If I were you*"
ESI'ERAA'ZA.
TXi you know the music-room in the
Redouble at Spa ? The large expanse
in the centre of it it kept clear for
dancing, and spectators whose minds
and toes are not light or fantastic, re
main in the cloisters which surround it,
and which are well supplied with com
fortable chairs and solas. Sometimes
it happens that the young me* are in
dolent or timid, and the young ladies
stiff, and then the smooth shining door
is a desert, and in spite of the floods of
light and music, there is something de
pressing about the general aspect. But
that was not the state of affairs oue
August night, although the majority of
visitors present were English. There
had been a great deal of fraternization
at the tah!e*-d'hot of the different ho
tels : walking, riding, driving parties
had been made np daily; the foreign
element was just sufficient to correct the
British stillness, without teing numeri
cally strong enough to provoke its ex
clusiveness. Altogether a very pleasant
little society was formed in the place
that- season. Milliceut Lurid was an
Attractive member of it; a handsome,
high-outraged girl; an orphan, sole
surviving child of a drysalter, conse
quent! van heiress. While at school,
from tie age of twelve to nineteen that
is, she was happy, hut her guardian's
wife had patronizing manners, which
Milly quietly put np with till she was
twenrr-one, and then took charge of
herself—that is, she engaged one of her
old governesses, who was getting too
blind and deaf to teach, and would con
sequently have been otherwise destitute,
to accept the nominal position of taking
charge of ber; but of course it was a
sinecure. People were shocked ; but
much Milly cared for that! She sat on
a sofa behind one of the pillars, talking
to a black-haired man of about thirty,
who dressed rather too well for the ex
pression of his featnres, which was in
telligent.
"I am afraid of yon, Mr. Bertram,"
ahe was saying.
" Are you ? he replied. "How peo
ple are maligned; I heard that yon were
afraid of no one."
"Perhaps you have been slandered
also."
" Shall 1 tell yon a romantic story ?"
" O yes, please."
" I>o not let your expectations rise,"
said Bertram ; "there is nothing sensa
tional about it. Upwards of a year ago
I happened to be staving at Brussels
during the Carnival. The Countess G.
had a fancy to give a masked ball, and
I received an invitation. It was a very
brilliant affair, and at the same time the
company was select, for the hostess re
ceived all her gnests on arrival singly,
and nnmaeked, in a small ante-room, so
that noue but those who were properly
invited could gain admittance. I had
not been in the room five minutes be
fore I saw a bine domino, who produced
the most extraordinary effect upon me
that I have ever experienced. Up to
that time I had langhed at mesmerism,
presentiments, everything which is con
nected with a mysterious intercommu
nication of spirits. Bnt now the fact
of the existence of secret sympathies
was forced upon me. I knew at once
that this was the only woman I could
ever love. Of course I had often
thought myself in love before, bnt now
I saw that I had given that name to a
passing fancy, which never reached my
heart. I spoke to her, I danced with
her. How the night passed, I have no
idea ; it seemed gone before it had be
gun."
" Yon saw her face before she left ?"
" Not for a moment. Nor was I able
to discover who she was, or where she
came from, afterwards. That she was
English, I am confident, though she
spoke Italian all the evening.
" I am quite interested," said Mis;-
Lund. What was her height, and her
figure ?"
" Like Yours,"
"Indeed! And the color of her hair ?"
" Yonrß exactly."
" And you have never met her again?"
" Not till this evening."
" Really, Air. Bertram," said Milly,
laughing, " yon almost look as if you
were going to claim me as your mysteri
ous domino."
" No ; I remember my premise."
" And that was ?"
" Not to claim lier until she wrote or
uttered the word Espcranza."
" Really, you have kept your word,
and told a veritable romance ; tYc lady
has only to turn out a ghost or a ghoul
to make it complete," said Miss Lund;
but as she spoke, she started and turned
pale : it was only with an effort that she
completed her sentence.
Bertram, looking round for the cause
of this emotion, saw that a new arrival
at Bpa, a man whom he knew slightly
in England, had just entered the room
and he experienced that pleasing
thrill which animates a pointer on snuff
ing a g&mey scent, or a dramatic author
when the idea of a plot comes into his
head, for he relieved the tedium of a
somewhat lethargic existence by watch
ing the little social romances going on
aronnd him. If he had been a tattler,
this might have proved a mischievous
propensity ; but he kept his discoveries
to himself, or only intimated them to
the principal actors, for his amusement
consisted in knowings what ot hex. people
.{ailed to perceive. The young Aan
who had just entered moved up the
ijpom, looking right and left for ac-
FHI'JD. 1\ l irrZ, Jvlitorantl Hropriotor.
VOL. VI.
qnaintancca. Ureeently, ho saw Ber
tmni, who eiuno forward and shook
hands with luuj, naked him wln-n ho
had arrived, what hotel ho was staying
at, and other little eonmionplaoe*,
whilo ho was answering which lie saw
Miss Lund, and could not prevent a
slight start ln-fore he bowed coldly.
The young lady replied with a distant
baud of the neck.
" You know Miss Lund ?" said Ber
tram.
" I had mot her ouce or twice. But
they are going to dance again, and as I
am uot in a mood for violent exercise,
having only jnst swallowed tuv dinner,
I shall go and have a look at the Trtntc
et
Though not a gossip himself, Bertram
by no means objected to take occasional
advantage of the gleuniuga gat herd by
members of that fraternity, so he went
and sat down by Mrs. C racket.
" So you have beeu making love to
the heiress," satd she.
" Bash, under your very eyes, wasn't
it ?'" he replied. " But what is there
between her and Graham ?"
•' Do you incau to tell me that you
don't know ?"
" How should I?" I was not aware
of Miss Lund's existence till this even
ing. "
" Well, they were engaged for ever
so long ; he was at her houseevcry dav;
most improper, with only that poor old
Miss Oorney to act us cliaperone ; when
anddenly she broke off the match. The
airs these parvenus give themselves.
"Was there no cause, then ?"
"Oh, I suppose it was some jealous
whim, and there may have been some
occasion for it You meu are all alike."
This was quite enough for Bertram
to start upon, and he made no more in
quiries. But he enlistened himself in
the troop of the heiress's admirer*, w hick
was pretty numerous, took the Lund
shilling,' as lie himself expressed it, and
being an adept iu the art of making him
self agreeable, was soon promoted to
the rank of leading partner and first
shawl-carrier, vice Williams and Ven
ables, told off respectively to Miss Cor
ner and the lupdog. This distinction did
not put him up unduly, for tliedescrim
mating young man perceived that the
preference was afforded him because he ,
I aoldotn approached the topics of love or
; matrimony, and when he did, it was ml
! wavs in a ton oof badinage.
Yet there were times when she aasum
-1 ed a coquettish air, which seemed to 10-
I vite him to mqfe serious flirtation, but
this was invariably when Graham was
; present, and appeared to be observing
j her.
"Now, "said Bert ram to himself, "there
are two courses for the male spoon to
panne: either to clear oat of the place
altogether or follow the spoon's lead."
Graham adopted the latter course,
and harnessed himself to the ear of a
handsome young widow, who dressed
gorgeously, rode fearlessly, talked
slangilv, danced untiringly, and tat
Juu-tt to play.
The manners of the little English
community assembled at Spa were very
mnch relaxed from the standard set tip
by each individual member at home.
Persons, even of different sexes, spoke
to one another without a formal intro
duction ; young ladies danced some
times twice consecntively with the same
partner. The majority only went once
to church on Sunday, and devoted the
rest of the day to long walk* in the
woods, the perusal of secular journals,
and listening to the band, which played
other music than Handel's. Many who
frowned at sixpenny whist at home as
gambling, staked their florins and flvc
franc pieces at roulette and rouge-et
noir. But there was one tacit law
which the female portion of the British
visitors adhered to religiously, and for
bade them to take seats at either of the
plav-tables. They might stand behind,
and make their little stakes over people's
shoulders, with an air of assumed indif
ference as to whether they lost or won,
if they pleased. That was considered
to lie mere looking-on. But to sit down
like a regular Gambler, with a big G,
was held to be a fearful breach of pro
priety.
And this crime Mrs. Geylass, the
voting widow, committed. She con
stantly took a seat, which was obsequi
ously vacated for her at the unsocial
board, removed her gloves, took a card
and pin, piled her stock of napoleons
into little heaps in front of her, and !
went in for the thing in the most busi
ness like way, her admirers clustering ,
round and backing her luck ; on the
principal, I suppose, tlist imitation is
the siueerest flattery. The admirers al- |
laded to were all men ; their mothers,
wives, and sisters abhorred her to a wo- ,
man. They would have cut her, onlv |
her late husband's consin was a lord,
ami her own father a baronet, and she j
was rich. Blood and money cover more
sins than charity, so they bowed and
smiled, and answered when she spoke
tp them. But that was not verv often,
for the widow preferred masculine con
versation.
This was the lady to whom Graham
now devoted himself; he procured nose
gays for her; he contended for the
honor of her hand iu the ball-room, and
her foot when She mounted on horse- j
back, and his attentions were always
most earnest when Milly Lund was ;
present. Bertram smiled approval.
"Graham is no fool," thought he ; " he
has selected the next most attractive '
girl; just as the Lund has selected the
next fin her blinded judgment) most
attractive man." This soliloquizer bad
no false modesty, you see.
Having thus ascertained that these ,
two yonng people were desperately in
love with one another, Bertram no
longer gave himself the trouble of pay
ing so assidious a court to Miss Lund,
and cultivated the acquaintance of
Graham, who was too mnch a man of
the world to shows reserve which might
betray jealousy, if he felt any, which is
doubtful. The two men had notchanced
UA meet often, bat they had been thrown
together some two years before in the
settlement of a domestic matter in
which Graham had behaved in a manner
calculated to excite Bertram's esteem, j
and he was inclined to like the man j
who knewbetterof him than most other
people did. For oar loves and friend
ships depend quite as much npon men
and women's opinion of ourselves as
upon their own intrinsic merits.
They breakfasted at the same little
table ; -they strolled afterwards in the
hotel garden, smoking ; they also con
sumed their last cigars at night in com
pahy, and waxed confidential. At least,
the'one who had something to confide
did it, and Bt rtram learned that Graham
was on the point of going out to Africa
to shoot big game.
The other visitors at Spa made a to
tally different arrangement for the young
man, and decreed that he was about to
many the lively widow forthwith. Mrs.
Crocket announced the forthcoming
event to Millicent Lund as an ascer-
tained fact, and the young lady, believ
ing it, went mad. Ido not mean that
she required a straight-waistcoat, or put
wild flowers in her hair, or sang scraps
of song, or danced with her shadow.
She did not even show any emotion be
fore Mrs. Cracket and the gossips, but
smiled, and remarked that she supposed
it was a good match ; for she was not of
an hysterical nature. But her mind
was for the time unhinged, for all that;
and she was quite capable of doing
some desperate thing which society
would have brought in temporary in
sanity. It was quite true that she had
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
broken with Graham, but then he had
no business to marry any one else, etc.
How could she 9p|M<a*c her resentment;
how prove that sliedid not eare oue iota
for the man she laid once been la-trot bed
to ? If she could only take the initia
tive ; that would l>e better still So
one can throw off the restraints con
ventionally imposed by their fellow
creatures with impunity ; if Milly Lund
had uot indulged her tastes for iinle
pendente and originality to such an
extent ;if she hml had any experienced
friend of her own sex in whom she hsd
confidence, to advise her, she would
never have been guilty of writing, on a
alioet of letuou-oolored note-paper:
" Let me tee yuu to-morrow tiuindng—
M. /.," and dropping it, with her hand
kerchief, at the lledoubte, a lieu only
Bertram was near euough to pick it up.
The wisp of paper was uot addressed
to auyliodv in particular ; that was the
only almti of prudence she showed ;
but theu she gave it almost with her
own hand, which vats very shockiug.
"If Graltatu had known that I had
this my in pocket, he would hardly have
bidden me suoli a friendly good night!"
said Bertram, ou examining the note
before going to bed. And then he put
it carefully awav in Ins pocket-liouk.
When he called at Milliccnt's lodgings,
he fouud her alone, not even Miss Oor
ney Ix-iug present. She had a wild,
excited look iu her eyes, ami a deep
flush ou her cheek; and directly the
door was closed, she stepped hurriedly
towards him.
"Do you know why I have invited
you here ?" she asked.
Bertram looked us many volumes as
he could, and l>owed discreetly.
"Espeatnza!" soidshe, turning away.
"What!" cried Bertram. "Mv rui- j
pathies were true; you are really 4 j
"The blue domino !"
Instead of throwing himself at licr
feet, seiziug her hand, and colling her
by her Christian uaqie, as he ought to
hutfo done, Bertram said, in a musing ,
toue: "Curious! 1 was never at a ball in j
Brussels in my life "
"Oh!" cried Millicent, shrinking
away, covering her face with her hands,
and shedding tears of bitter shame and ]
humiliation.
"I hope you will forgive me," Ber
tram continued. "I had uo idea you
would lielieve my rodomontade, which
was only mode tip at the moment for
fun. Pray, do not be distressed; 1
know all about it. It is pique which
has impelled you to listen to the suit of
so unworthy an individual; if it were
otherwise, f should indeed esteem my- j
self the most fortunate of men. As it
is, it is happy that 1 am neither u needy
adventurer, nor an unscrupulous lover,
or (wrhsps you might have been hurued
into a marriage which would have
proved the misery of your life; and
Graham would be eaten by lions, hug
ged to death by gorillas, stamited wut
by elephants, poisoned by snakes and
quinine, and—and all sorts of things.
By-the-bye, do you know that he is off
to the Cape next mouth?"
Millicent was too much overwhelmed
bv appreciation of the position she had
placed herself in, to reply; so Bertram
went on:
"They have made np a story about :
his engagement to Mrs. Geylass. Ab- !
sard ! If he cauuot marry one bnlv, I
am certain he will never take to another,
unless perhaps an Ashaiitee. Not even
for pique. Ido wish, dear Miss Lund,
that yon would make a friend of me,
and tell me the real cause of offence in
Graham. Do you think me curious and
impertinent, I only ask because I have
a snspicion that I might lie able to re
move some false impressions. I was
j left trustee to a young lady, a cousin of
my own, to whom Graham was once en
gaged; and I know that when the affair
was broken off, he was very much
blamed. Can tliut sad business have
caused you to think badly of him?"
" Had I—not—a right— to do so ?"
sobbed Millicent.
" Far be it from me to place a limit
to the Rights of Women !" said Bert
ram. " I only know that Graham was
not one iota to blame in that sail affair,
the fault being entirely on the lady's
side ; that he coald have cleared him
self in your estimation at her exjiense,
j if he had not pledged himself to silence;
' and that he kept that pledge, when the
happiness of nis life wus at stake, is
| very much to his credit. It is no ro
' mutice that I am telling you this time,
Miss Lund ; I give you my word ofbon
jor that what I say is trie. I was one of
those to whom Graham made the prom
; ise of secresy."
When yon have nothing more to say
to a woman who is cryiug, it is best to
go away. Ho Bertram went.
When he parted from Graham that
night, he said : " By-the-bye, I have
something to give yon, old fellow."
And opening his pooket-book, he pro
duced the little undirected note and
handed it over.
On the following morning Millicent
hod another caUer—aa unexpected one
i this time.
" I have got your note," said Graham,
seeing thnt she looked startled. " What
; may I hope ?"
" My note!"
Graham lipid it in his hand open. She
took it and read :
Let mc ere you to-morrow morning.
—M. L.
" I harp bopn informpd that I—von
; hasty—once," she said, blushing over
neck and forehead ; " and, if so, I am
sorry for any unjust expressions I may
I have used."
She could not think what else to say.
It did well enough.
" But," said Millieent, after an hour's
conversation, " you were very proud
i yourself, you know, Harry, not to make
! any appeal to the trustee people to ex
plain." And though he did not think
so, he owned it; just as he would have
owned anything just then.
He did not go to Africa to shoot gor
illas ; he stopped at home, and married
i the heiress. He is very fond of Bert
ram ; but I do not think his wife likes
his friend so well as sho professes.
| That little scene was trio humiliating.
■
Statistics of Population.
The Memorial Diplomatique gives
the following interesting account of the
density of the great cen
ters of humanity throughout the glolie.
There are nine cities having a popu
! lation exceeding one million souls, viz :
London, 3,251,000; Soochow, 2,000,000;
i Paris, 1,825,000; Pekin, 1.048,000; Yed
do, 1,054,000; Canton, 1,230,000; Con
stantinople, 1,075,000; Siang-tan, in
the province of Hunan, 1,000,000; and
Tchan-tchaon-foo, in the province of
Fokien, 1,000,000. It will lie seen that
although London holds the first place,
I the Chinese empire can still boast of
possessing more populous cities than
all the civilized States of the West.
The number of possessing a pop
ulation ranging from above half a mil
lion up to a million is twelve, viz: New
York, Vienna, Berlin, Hang-kaow, Phil
adelphia, St. Petersburg, Bombay, Cal
cutta, Fow-chow, Tchehing, Bangkok,
and Kioto. Twenty cities have a popu
lation of from 300,000 to 400,000 inhabi
tants, thirty-three of from 200,000 to
300,000, and ninety of from 100,(300 to
200,000 inhabitants. Europe alone pos
sesses one hundred and seventy-ona
cities containing more than fifty thou
sand inhabitants, at the head of which
stand London, Paris, Constantinople,
Vienna, Berlin and St. Petersburg.
CENTItE lIALL. CENTRE CO., TA., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1873.
How the Homier Is Hulked.
The readers of the Lrttijrr doubtless
observed in the cable dispatches a no
tice that the cable laid Ul 1865 " had
failed," at twenty minutes past twelve
o'clock on the day la-fore ; and that an
electrician would leave Loudon lit the
evening to " locate the fault." They of
course understood that it was the mis
sion of the gentleman mentioned to go
to the shore end of the cable ou the
coast of Ireland, to ascertain at wliut
imint of the two thousand miles of cable
bul led under the sea the cable had been
injured or broken. And we have no
doubt some of them have wondered how
it was possible for the electrician to
know, or to learn, IC/I t rt the fault or the
break could be, considering that some
{Mirtions of the wire were a thousand
miles distant from lu* point of observa
tion, sud a great ileal of it hurit-d deep
from human sight two miles beneath
the surface of the ses. Yet every psrt
of that loug distance, and every fathom
of that abvss of water, are within the
reaeh of the electrician's instrumental
hnndt, and within the ken of lus scien
tific eye. It is quite practicable for
him to " locate the fault ' or the break,
withiu a half mile of its actual position,
no matter where it In-.
Although these far-rescliiug powers
are among the great marvels of modern
science, the means and the prineiplea
through which they are exercised are
among the simplest thing* v hen seen
and understood. A telegraphic wire
will transmit on electro-magnetic wave
or " current," in proportion to the square
of its dianieLy'. The resistance to the
transmission of the wave <hminitio t in
proportion as the souare of the diame
ter is increased. Tuis is oue law for the
electrician.
The second is that the resistance to
the transmission of the wave inert nt
in direct proportion to the length of the
wire or cable over which it is sent.
There two laws furnish the bases for
the electrician's observations, calcula
tions and results. 11c kuowo, to start
with, the precise amount of resistance
that a mile of the cable will oppoac to
the transmission of s given quantity of
electro motive force. He has delicate
and wonderful instruments, made by
ex|>ert tuechuuic*, that enable him to
measure this with arcttrarv for half a
mile or for teu thousand miles. Having
this knowledge and these measuring in
struments, and having control of the
quantity of electricity he ia putting ou
tlie wire, he is able to calculate to a
nicety how many miles of the cable it is
transmitted over, before it encounter* a
greater resistance than that which is
tine to the length and diameter of the
cable itself. At or near the end of that
uutnlier of mil< of cable, though it be
u thousand miles from laud, oud two
miles under the surfuee of the •*, the
"fault" or brvak the elcctriciau ia in
search of will be found.
Our reader* should understand that
we are not stating any men- hypothesis.
This real wonder and securing uupnsi
bility ha* been accomplished again and
again. The principle* through which
it is accomplished, arwtlie discovery of
one of these quiet, studious men, who
plod about iu their laboratories and
workshops, and who are supposed by
many people to be wasting their liTe*
alioiit thing* of little practical use, but
whose works, together with those of the
skilled mechanics, who co-operate with
them, really move the world along.
This particular student of the laws
of nature is I'rof. Ohm, of Xureuibuxg,
Germany, one of several meu whose
labors, like those of Oersted and our
American Prof. Henry, have made the
Magnetic Telegraph a possibility. The
delicate and wonderful instruments by
which th'ise principles sre applied, and
which enable the electrician to extend
his reach a thousand mile* out to
sea, and to the bottom of the ocean
abyss, have IMH® at work in one of the
most modest work-shops in this eity for
several years. They are the tools of a
Philadelphia workman, who now leads
the world in the manufacture of one
important adjunct in telegraphy—a
nearly perfect "insulator." The simple
device for working the ocean cable is
there also.
This matter has been mentioned at
some length, for the benefit of the bovs
and girls in our public schools, who
will see what grant! and useful result*
are accomplished by the application of
the simplest principle* of science, and
that tliey may also understand that
they need but rarely go beyond their
own citv to find whatever they may
wish to know, or to understand about
science, applied to the nseftil purpose*
of life.— Philadelphia Ledger.
The .Mormon Bible.
I find in my acrap-book, set down
there thirty years ago, au item which
may le of yiterest at the present time,
when the Mormom problem is evidently
npproaching a civilized solution. The
truth of the statement herein given wns
vouched for in my presence by a man
who was above deceit. The origin of
the " Book of Mormon," so called, has
been a puzzle to many, much of it being
evidently the production of a cultivated
mind, and yet springing to light from
the hands of illiterate men.
It was written, in 1812-13, a* A liter
a' y recreation, l>y Itev. Solomon Spnul
ding, a graduate of Dartmonth College,
at tlint time residing in New Salem,
Ohio ; and, as he wrote it, it professed
to be a historical romance of a lost race,
the remaina of whose numerous mounds
and inscriptions nrv found on the hanks
of the Ohio. After the work had been
completed the nuthor had thoughts of
hnving it printed, and for that purpose
he gave the manuscript into the hands
of u printer, in whose office it remained
for several years, but the design of
printing was not carried into execution.
As foreman in tlie printing office where
Mr. Spaulding's romance was lodged
was employed Sidney Itigdon, who af
terward figured conspicuously iu Mor
mon history ; and there is no doubt that
he copied the manuscript and subse
quently gave it to Smith. Upon the
appearance of the Jkmk of Mormon, in
IKIO, there were those living to whom
Mr. Spaulding had rend pnrta of his ro
mance, and they recognized his verbi
age in the book. Upon search the orig
inal manuscript was found among the
papers of the deceased clergyman, and
on comparison the Mormon liihle
proved to have liecn not materially al
tered from this parent text. Of course
the discovery soon made considerable
talk. A great many people went to see
the manuscript, and at the expiration of
a few weeks it mysteriously disappeared.
As there was a Mormon preacher in New
Sulem at the time, with proselytes at his
heels, the mystery of tho disappearance
was not very deep.
EI.ECTIONEERTNO. —The Gardiner Kc
porter tell* a little story of a town elec
tion "at the head of navigation." A
man who wished to be elected treasurer
promised to treat the crowd on cider.
Then he went to the Yankee who wa
retailing the beverage aud undertook to
buy up the stock so as to control the
business, but was told he could have it
for five cents per glass, " without any
discount to the trade." His treat thus
cost him more than he intended, but he
was elected. His next move was to send
a letter to the Yaukee threatening to
enter complaint against him for selling
cider unless he came and settled up for
the advantage he took of him on elec
tion day !
Above the Arctic Circle.
I lit Marttl* at lli frluld Itosr-lnlte
callus K a|t ■ truer* tu III* Search fsr
lh* l|tru Polar St t-lui l ouutletl t>>
IrtlMrvi*
Dr. Isaac J. Hayes, iu one of his lec
tures descriptive of his search of the
open (Hilar sea, doscribed the glaciers
and icebergs of Greenland vividly. All
the interior of Greenland, the lecturer
suid, is one vast field of loe, which grad
ually and imperceptibly moves down
ward toward the sea, the centre moving
somewhat more rapidly than the sides,
and by the fractures thus created giving
to the ice those fantastic shapes which
from time immemorial have lieen at
once the marvel and admiration of ex
plorers. When the glacier reaches the
sea it passes on as before over the in
clined plsiti beueatli the surface, until
so much of it is immersed that it is uo
longer üble to resist the buoyaucy of
the water, and breaking from the gla
cier, with a roar that can lie heard for
miles, the iceberg risea to the surface,
and floats away sometimes ns far as the
coast of Newfoundland, while the gla
cier continues its ceaseless movement
downward U> form new icebergs from
age to age. The masses of ice tliua de
tached of caursc vary in size, but iu nil
of them there is seven times as much
ice under water as apja-ars shove the
surfsce. From the deck of his vessel
Dr. Hsyes once counted as many as 800,
some as large as the hall in which he
BUHNI, others sa Urge as Trinity church,
still others as large ss the city of New
York, and yet others twelve times the
size of New York. Oue iu especial
arose 317 hot above surface, and he
computed its weight to have been not
less than tweiitv-sereu millions of toua.
With regard to the midnight sun. Dr.
Hayes related an incident which, hod
he uot actually witnessed it himself,
might possibly have IKTU received with
lucredulity by his audience. As he
traveled northward the days gradually
lengthened until darkness ceased alto
gether, and the sun was never out of sight.
The passenger* on bosrd the ship were
mush incommoded, and were obliged
to create artificial darkness by drawing
curtains aroutnl them when they desired
to sleep. The dumb animals on board
were in a pitiful state of consternation ;
the dogs howled unceasingly, and
evinced a desire to bay the sun. But
the most remarkable effect was created
upon an old rooatcr, the last of their
stork of fowl, whose life had been spared
in consideration of his age and conse
quent tonghnes*. This venerable bird,
ilsy after day. watched the heavens, but
found no opportunity of heralding the
approach of dawn by his wouted crow.
Ilia mind at last gave way, and one
morning, iu full view of the astounded
voyagers, the unhappy bird flew upon
the rail of the ship, stretched his neck
toward the sun, and giving the merest
apology for a crow, sprang into the
ocean and was seen no more.
In 185". Dr. Hayes' first expedition
aaihal northward, and breuking through
the ice in Baffin's Bay, penetrated as
far us latitude 75", this, up to that time,
being the furthest poiut aver attained
by explorer*. On tlie ior berg* which
he eucouuterrd polar bear* were very
numerous. Tln-se animal*, he aoid, ore
far from being the ferocious monsters
which voyagers are so fond of depicting.
Tlwy are* in fact, very timid creature*.
As an instance *f tin ir cowardice, he
related an account af hi* suddenly
meeting one in the middle of an arctic
night, that ia to say, broad daylight.
Without a moment's hesitation the doe
tor turned and ran, never stopping until
his breath was utterly exhausted; he
then looked In-hind him to see, as he
said, how long a lease of life remained
for him, nud to his unspeakable relief
saw tlie Ix-nr was running also, but in
the opposite direction.
A very perilous adventure through
which he passed during this voyage was
listened to with breathless attention.
The ship was lying in a large natural
bay or harbor, close to a glacier; one
day a terrific roaring startled every one
on board. An immense ieclierg hod
parted from the glacier, and risen to
the surface so near the ship that the
first of a succession of waves which it
created carried the vessel, dragging her
anchor, entirely across the liay, leaving
her within a few feet of the rocks on
the opposite side. The wave recoiling,
threw over the deck a volume of water
tliat swept before it everything not
made fast, and forced the crew to hold
on for their lives.
Two of the finest glacier* the lecturer
saw he christened after I'rof. Tyndall
in compliment to tlie great scientist for
hi* Alpine researches. Among tlie in
teresting features of the lecture was the
exhibition of some exquisite photo
graph* of .Arctic scenes reflected upon
a curtain on the stage. One of these
was a gigantic rock on the coast of
Greenland, which was in all respects
similar to that on which the ill-fated
Atlantic had struck, and it was a matter
of surprise to Dr. Hayes, in view of the
uature of the coiutt, that so many of the
Atlantic's paaaetifirra had Ix-en saved.
Melville Ray wus the highest point
reached in this expedition. In conclu
ding his lecture Dr. Hayes said tliat
this trip might be made by any gentle
man during the summer months in his
own yacht. Noble sportcould be found
in shooting polar bears, and the trip
would be no more dangerous than
crossing the Atlantic. At the first blush
it might seem that sailing among these
tremendous (jlaciers nud icebergs was
perilous navigation, but it should be
lwirno in mind that at the proper season
darkness never hides them, and hence
danger from this source need scarcely
bo apprehended.
Rapid-Traveling.
Aa examination of tlie nine great rail
way* which terminate in London show*
that tin- average rate of apeed at which
the quickest expresses travel in forty-
KCTCII and three-quarter miles an hour.
Two line* only excel this. The ten
o'clock Northern train from London to
Peterlwrongli run* the distance of nev
onty-nix miles and a qunrter at the rate
of "fifty-one mile* an hour. But the
broad-gauge west of Knpland train* on
the Great Western beat even the Great
Northern. A train mnkes the run from
I'uddington to Hwindon, seventy-seven
and a quarter mile*, without stopping,
in three minutes less than nn hour and
a half ; this in a uniform pace of fifty
three and a quarter miles nn hour ! The
Great Northern fall* off it* pace after it
passes Peterborough, and travels from
Grnnthen to York at under forty-five
mile* an hour. The Great Western
falls off a little from Hwindon to Bath.
But the journey from London to Bath
by the 11:4. r > train is the quickest in the
world. The distanco is one hnndred
and six and three-quarter miles. It is
timed for two hours and thirteen min
utes, including ten minutes at Hwindon.
The running time is, therefore, some
thing over fifty-two miles an hour. The
fastest time anywhere ou the Great
Extern is forty-one miles an hour. The
London Daily Ncwa give* many other
figures comparing the speed of different
roadH, instancing some trains that run
a* slow a* thirtv-three and a half mile*
an hour. The Great Eastern is the slow
est, aud the Great Western the quickest
of the railways.
j 0 ■— . -.n- ■ .
Minnesota reports that with the mild
weather picket* are beginning to come
up, and farmer* expect a fair crop of
fences some time this summer.
After the Earthquake.
At orrr*|Mm4*al l.uh> si *sn ksl sdut
Afr lis UcstrocllVM.
Aa we approached the town of Han
Malvador, says a letter writer, the signs
of di-structloli became apparent. All
aqueduct which spans the road, and
from which the city was mainly supplied,
lay biokeii down, its massive arches
blockiug the road, and the remnants
threatening to fall at any umiueut. The
bullock-drivers were doing a splendid
business, the whole route being tliiong
til with their wagons going to and fro.
Ou arriving at the suburbs of the un
fortunate city, our driver, au impudent
vagabond, stopped, and refused to go
suy further. He persuaded htm, how
ever, to drive to the plaza, where we
found the President, auJ most of the in
habitants that remained, encamped.
The English Vioo-Cousi-1 could not lie
found uunndiatelr, so we waited ou His
Excellency the ('resident, and made
known the object of our mission, placiug
our services at his disposal, and assur
ing him of the sympathy of Her Britan
nic Majesty's (iuvrnuui ut We soon
afterward found Mr. Blair, acting Viee
t'ousu), wlw in company with some
other English gentlemen, was working
hard to save what he bould from the
rums of the British Consulate.
In eomjNUiy with one of these gentle
men, a Mr. Moffat, I mode an inspection
I of the eity, taking aketehca of some
, moat striking ruina. Such a scene of
desolation I have never before witness
od, Helens it be Africa. The whole
| town wss down, with the exception of
one or two wooden houses. All the
' churchea, including the cathedral, were
s heap of ruina ; the spire of the latter
had beeu arrested in ita fall, and re
mained ta a slanting position, like the
leaning tower of I'tsa, hut at a mnch
greater angle. One of the bells must
have been swuug completely round, as
it remained mouth tip. The United
States Consulate was a moss of ruins
inside, though the onter walls were
nlauding. Mr. Biddle, the Resident
Minister of the United States, with his
five little children, had a very narrow
eacape.
The Palace, being built of wood, re
mained standing except where stone
had been used, in which places the
sides had fallen, leaving great gaps
in the building. There was not s single
honse left in habitable condition; the.
stronger the walls the greater was the
ruin, and the streets were oue moos of
debria. Mr. Blair and his friends were
living in the patio under a rude sort of
tent, surrounded by the ruins of the
cunsnlate. They were all wonderfully
cheery under the circumstances, and as
kind and hospitable as if nothing had
hsppenetL Mrs. Keogh's escape was
miraculous ; the room in which she
wo* sleeping was completely wrecked,
and must have been killed but for some
Iwams which prevented the walla from j
crtisLiug her. Accounts differ sa to the i
number of livealost—some say as many j
as fifty killed and 500 wounded: others j
not so much; but all agree that the
number is wonderfully small consider
ing the damage done. Indeed, looking
at the rums it seems extraordinary how
any escaped, especially as the catastro- j
phe happened in the night Most
providentially the final aliock, which
brought down the town,was preceded by
two other* of sufficient force to awaken
and alarm the inhabitants, who hsd I
time to rush out, and so save their J
lives.
The Preaident behaved mosj nobly,
and by his admirable regulations and
the discipline which he enforced, pre
vented anv riots or robberies. The eity
was placed under martial la# ; citizens
were authorized to ah<H>t any one inter
fering with their property, and sentries
were posted at the corners of the streets,
with orders to fire st sny one lurking
aliout after dark. Judging by the way
the rifle-balls were flying about during
the night, they must have kept a sharp
look-out. Mr. Taylor, an American
gentleman, who has been superintend
ing the laying down of telegraphs in the
(Hiuntry, sxteuded Iris hospitality to all;
indeed" I do not know what we should
have done without his assistance. He
contrived to have a good breakfast and
dinner prepared for all who chose to
avail themselves of it, although his
house ws* ruined like the rest. During
our stay in the city—some forty-eight
hours—we experienced seven or eight
shocks of earthquake of more or less
violence. No further damage was done
by them, simply liecause nothing more
could lie done, unless the earth opened
vnd swallowed np the ruina. In some
places it already onened, some of the
cracks Wing npwara of a foot wide and
of considerable depth. Mr. Biddle, who
hail taken his family ont to a hacienda
some three or fonr leagues off, rode in
to set- us. We went together over the
ruins of his bouse —a most melancholy
sight. Many horses and mules were
killed by th'e falling walls, and those
that remained seemed to have their
nerves quite shattered. Mr. Blair told
me that one of his mules, a valuable
animal, was now qnite worthless from
the fright she had received ; alio would
stop and tremble at the slightest sound.
Birds also seemed in an excited state ;
at every shook all the cocks began to
crow, and pigeons wheeled wildly in the
air.
The President issued a decree the day
following the disaster, saying that the
town would be rebuilt on its old site.
One cannot help Admiring the pluck of
the gallant old man, but it ia nothing
more nor less than tempting Providence
to do sncli a thing. The city has been
completely destroyed already six or sev
en times, at intervals of afiont twenty
years; the last time was in IKSU The
ground on which it is built is a mere
shell, lty placing one's ear to the earth
running water may be distinctly heard,
and if struck by any heavy object a hol
low sound is produced. The Indians
would never build on that site, and it is
sheer folly to do so now. Before we
left San Salvador carpenters were hard
at work erecting temporary wooden
houses in the plaxa, and a military batd
plnved there in the evenings. The sick
and wounded having b>en nlready re
moved to Santa Tecla and other places,
the services of Dr. Smyth were happily
not required, so he and Mr. Davcv re
turned to Libortad by coach, and Mr.
Blair accompanied me on horseback.
Tnr. Monoca.—General Schofleld aent
the following dispatch to General Gil
lem:
•' Please inform me fully of the situa
tion, so I may send more trtwipa if neces
sray. If the Indian* escape from the lava
beds I may send troops to operate
against them from another direction.
Let me kuow fully what you wish. I
suppose you have force enough to de
stroy the outlaws unless they succeed
in eluding you. Nothing short of their
prompt and snre destruction will satisfy
the ends of justice or meet the expecta
tions of the Government."
In the wreck of the Northfleet, one
navvy who was saved was beard by the
correspondent ef the London Standard
saving: "When I saw what was up, I
said, *es I, I'm agoin' to die, aud I may
as well do it as comfortable as I can,
and so I lit my pipe." There was no
high feeling in*that man, but there was
an infinite capacity for discipline. Fear
did not over power him in any degree.
Ho thought a smoke even in the face of
death still an object worth desiring.
Termff: ©2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Official Report of Ike Moatarra of the
Peat* Commissioner*.
The following letter waa received at
the Interior Department, At Washing
ton:
HEAPqriBTKBS, CAMF SotTM Bint t
Ttui LAKE, Gal., April 13, 1873.)
The Hun. V. Delano, Secretary oj (he
Interior.
Hi a: Hmee our arrival at the lava bed
the commission, together with lien.
(,'auby, had labored hopefully, and had
apparently gained several points over
tlie Indians looking to a peaceful solu
tion of this question. Until Frulnv
morning, 11th mat., had thwarted all
their schemes of treachery through the
fidelity sf our interpreter, Mrs. Uiddlr,
a Modoc woman. Ou that morning
terms were agreed upon for a meeting
satisfactory to Dr. Thomas oud lieu.
Oauby, though not to Mr. Dvr nor my
self nor the liudoo woman, Of®. Canny
remarking that they dare uot molest as
because his forces commanded the situs
tiou, and Dr. Tliumss said where God
called him to go he would go, trusting to
His care. The meeting was held at the
time and place agreed upon—Canby,
Meacham, Thomas, and Dyar, and eight
armed, instead of six unsrwed Indiana,
as was agreed upon. The talk was
short, the Modoc chiefs both saying
that unless the soldiers were withdrawn 1
from the country no further talk would
be hod. Up to that point the Commis
sioner* reaffirmed that the soldiers |
would never be withdrawn until the dif
ficulty was settled, and stall extending j
the offer of amnesty, a suitable and
satisfactory home, and ample provision*
for their welfare in the future. The 1
reply from lioth chief* was, "Take awav
your soldiers and we will talk about it/' ,
< h-n. Canby assured the Indian* that he
wus h ri for the protection of both
parties, and to see that the commission
faithfully fulfilled their promises.
About'thi* time two armed Indian*
suddenly appeared from the braah in
oar rear. An explanation was asked,
and I'apt, Jock replied by snapping a
pistol at Gen. Canby, saying in Indian,
"All roody," after which Geo. Canby
was dispatched by Capt. Jack with a
pistol and knife, and Dr. Thomas by a
pistol abot in the breast and gunshot in
the b?od by Boston. Meacham and
Dyar attempted to escape toward the (
i-snip, the former followed by Srhoncbin ,
John, and the latter tiy Black Jim and '
Hooker Jim. Schonchin fin d eix shot* !
at Meacham, hitting him foar times, '
and leaving him for dead. Boston at- f
tempting to scalp him, was deterred by
a Modoc woman. Dyar escaped un
hurt, though fired at three times, by
Black Jim, who was only three feet
away, and bv Hooker Jim, by whom he 1
was pursued. After running about two
huudred yards he turned upon his pur
sner *ith a small pocket Derringer, |
when the Indian turned and ran back, >
thu* letting Dyar get away. Mr. Dvar ,
will be obliged to leave in * day or two |
on account of official duties, bat while
here the remainder of the Commission
will eousnlt with Gen. Gillcm, should I
any active measure be necessary on our
part. We believe that complete subju- j
gation by the military in the only ;
method by which to deal with these In- ,
disns. Very respectfully, youro'iedient ■
servant,
A. B. MEACHAM,
Chairman Modoc Peace Commission. |
An Atlxntir Cable.
Tlie new Atlantic cable differ* some
what from any of those hitherto laid,
either to America or elsewhere. There
are seven No. 18 gauge copper wires,
twisted in * spiral, and weighing 300
ponnda per nautical mile, and these are
covered with foar coat* of gutte pert-ha,
with thin layer* of Chatterton s com
pound, this amounting to 400 pounds
per knot. The diameter of each wire
is .0,048 inch ; of tlie stand, ,0,146in0h,
and of the wire and gutta pert-ha and
compound, .0,404 inch. This euro is
Mwved with hemp, and the hemp ia
again protected by ton wire#drawn from
homogeneous iron, each wire being
swathed in five yarn* of Mouilla hemp
laid on spirally/with a tarry compound
to preserve it. 8o far the cable ia r.at
dissimilar to those of 1865 and 1866,
and is almost identical with that of the
French cable of 1868; but it ia sensibly
larger, and the differeuoe ia owing to
two serving* of jute yam wound on in
contrary direction*, and covered with
two coot* of Latimer Clark"* preserva
tive compound. The cable weigh*
nearly two ewt. per knot more than the
previous cables; but it is even stronger
in proportion, and is calculated to last
twice a* long under the same conditions.
The cable i* coiled dowm under water in
the same tanks which have thrice done
doty across the Atlantic, and there ia
now" a fourth tank constructed quite
class to the stem, capable of taking
another 500 miles of cable. But if this
was filled the Great Eastern would uot
lie able to get over the Shecrn sa bar.
As it is, she will tie down to her line as
soon sa her coals are got on board.
Right well does she look; fit at * week's
notice for any service ; aa trim and as
neat as a man-of-war. Those who have
known her since the trip in which she
blew np her second funnel, fourteen
vesra ago, can ace no deterioration in
her appearance, and when the new dock
at Milford Haven is ready to take her
in, that she may get scrubbed down and
have the toua of mussels token off her
bottom, she will be aa good as new in
every respect.
Small Expenditures.
Five cents each morning. A mere
trifle. Thirty-five cents per week. Not
much, vet it would bnv coffee or sugar
for a w(iole family—Slß2s a year. And
this amount invested in the saving*
bank at the end of each year, and the
interest computed annually, would in
twelve years amount to more than
$670. Enough to bay a good farm in the
west.
Five rente before cash breakfast, din
ner and supper : you'd scarcely miss it,
yet it is fifteen cents a day, 81.(15 per
week—enough to buy a wifeora daugh
ter a dress—#s4.6o a year. Enough to
buy a small library of books. Invest
this as l>efore, and in twenty years you
would have over #3,000. Quite enough
to buy a good house and lot.
Ten cents a morning ; hardly worth a
second thought; yet with it you can
bny a paper of pins or aapool o( thread.
Seventy cents per week ; it would buy
several yards of muslin. #30.50
in one year. With it you could buy a
good suit of clothes. Depo*it this
amount a* before, and you would have
#1.340 in twenty years ; quite a snug
little fortune.
Ten oeuts before each breakfast, din
ner, and supper—thirty cents a day. It
would buy a good book for the children.
#3.10 per week ; enough to pay for a
year's subscription to a good newspaper.
#109.29 per year. With it yon could
buy a good melodeon, on which your
wife or daughter could play sweet music
to pleasantly while the evening honrs
away. And this amonnt invested as be
fore, would, in forty years, produce the
desired amount of #12,000. — Floral
Cabinet.
Some years ago a fat fellow asked
old Sir Francis Burdett, while in Par
liament, for soiae position, saying,
" Don't you remember me ? I used to
be a page." " Well," replied Sir Fran
cis, " you have grown into a volume.'
NO. 20.
Aa Eccentric EngUskmaa.
Ia England a court of probate hM
been occupied !a seUlfnf a Canoe* our
of alleged insanity. A Mr. Jehu Kmicht.
of Henley Hall, HUffurdshif#. di-d in
September Imt, leaving I*brad him
personal property to the amount of
£03,000 nod eit estate producing atM
tuouuitt of Al/iOO a yew. Is Wy Iff#
lie w M in straightened cireumrtanoes,
end Lie accession to s fortune #oetu to
bare unludnneed hie reason. He left e
•nil making eti woutric disposition of
hie property, and this will was eoat—t
ed on the ground U*t the testator was
of uueouud nund. The proof of mean
itr we* certainly very strong. It was
shown thai Mr. Xiiffn bed a greet par
tiality for German bands,end math
habit of eiitertoiniM three wandering
minetrela sumptuously at hie cceidetii*,
in return fur which they would play (or
Una hour, at a time. He mode hi*
groom* ride raoee in a ring, while be
stood by to enjoy the fan ; Mid he fed
hie doge on motto. without regard to
expense. He built ijilfinlid greeu
boueee and fruitertaa, but either allow
ed the fruit to rat without pithing r
led am mala with it. When h# went
out shooting rook be took a maid ser
vant with him, but the Judge charged
: the jury that One was not an evuleuee
of lueauitj. He wa# in the hahit ef
dressing himself in Afbe and muthing,
stripe* on his face, and whew I una dec
orated he wwuki rush in among his aer
vnnta, gun in band, rsfMMtoug to fright-,
en them. It was in evidence that he
wrote a letter advising one of hi# ion#
not to smoke, and thai ha d-whnsd te
lend the same 800 a sua of money to
set him up in businea#. though the
Judge coutd tee no indication* f • 1
►unity in either of these eats. tout M
was shown that he was subject to manj
hallocinationa, and on cue occasion he
fancied that be had been ai newi aft
committing a robbetw, and weal eo far
aa to boneuh a aoiicttor in relation to
his defense, though in real ty no tutor
recusation had been brought agaiia*
him. He had alao treated bia wife and
children with great nnkindnaea without
eufloieut cans#. Ahf James Batmen,
the Judge, in auouning op, told Urn
jurv that soundness of mind, the ques
tion they were called to <xm*ider, did
not me an" a property balanced nund, aa,
< if it did, few peraoos would he compe
tent to make a will A pwwon of sound
mind must bare a proper disown ram#
, of right from wrong, and be called At-,
' tention to the difference between eccen
tricity and insanity, stating that In
manv instance. psnom subject to 4w
lnaiona can transact all their basiooss
properly if it does not tarn on the
specific IwJluciaatioß from which they
suffer. The jury brought in a rvxdn-i
invalidating the wilL
Hint# te Owner* of Waicirt. I •'[
A wutcb is a moat dedicate machine.
| and a very little thing ig. enough
damage its system, and make it go too.
' fast or too alow, or to arrest the motion •
1 of its wheels, and It is juat that very 1
little tiling that you dont tali any j
notice of. Show ua your wutcb, ami
we'll tell yon what are the lmbitlwf its'
j owner. >,fT" I#gM V
A person of irregular habits will
; spoil the beat watch in the world- Care- ,
lees or inexact people will always have,
! watches that go fast or slow—or that gtT
both fast and alow by turns. If jam]
can't be steady and regular in yoiu j
, habits, you need not expect to have a 4
watch that you can rely oa.
All the beat watchmakers in the
world will be unable to give your wnteh *'
that regularity whicb is Tanking in jWWr-f
(wlf, and whicb you cannot, tlxwafoeu, f
preserve in your watch, and whiah yon l
destroy as fast as the watch is regulated.
| For a watch should be wound up every
day at the seme boor, and as eoou •
possible in the mooting. And the beet
occasion for doing this is whan the
1 minute-hand marks seven or ten |
' minutes after the hour-hand has marked
1 the hour.
The operation of winding up a watch
should never be performed carelessly or
roughly; bat, on the contrary, with
gnat precaution, especially at the mo-1
incnt when yon give the final turw to
the key. Then you should gently
moderate the movement, so as not to '
wind the wateh np too tight, hwf
should always take good care to 61 the
kcvliole before commencing, , . !
tt is not a good (dan to curry the key L
about with you, unless it ia kept in aT
1 case; and nevefca rrj it loose in yAur*
pocket, as it is liable to get dust into
it, which you will introduce into Urn
watch, from time to time, in windingit *
up, to its great detriment. ,
Never, under any circumstance* but
those of extreme necessity, open the,
interior compartment—that which eon- ;
tains the machinery of the watch.
In winding tip the watch, the haml
that ho Ida it should remain perfectly
stfidt and without motion.
The hands may be advanced or aet
liack, when necessary, without any harm
being done to the watch, although con
trary to the popular notion on the sub
ject.
The Beet of Water.
Since Sir Wyiiara Armstrong intro
duced hia hydraulic machinery for raw
ing ore from deep miaee, end for load
ing and unloading ehipa in dook, it hae
been applied, aa our readers are aware,
to many other purposes. By the quiet
pressure of water the largest of dock
gates are now opened and closed with the
utmost eaae ; newspapers are printed,
lift* are worked in hotels and factories,
and the scene* are shifted in theatres.
At the Boyal Academy, when exhibi
tions arc in preparation, trnckloads of
pictures are raised from the basement
to the galleries by s hydraulic lift of un
usual site, fed by the ordinary water
suppty. Water riua be used to mow the
bellows of an organ, and in the employ
ment of water for this or any other in
termittent purpose there is the advan
tage that it is always ready. Pull a
lerer, or turn a tap, and il begins to
work. There is no lighting of a ire.
and waiting half an hour, as in the case
of steam. And now an ingenious me
chanician at lhuris has contrived away
to close and open shop-shutters by
means of the ordinary water snppljt
The winch, and cog-wheels, and con
necting apparatus at present employed,
are not required ; with twenty gallons
of water, at a sixty-feet pressure, more
than twenty square yards of iron shut
ters can be'raised or lowered merely by
turning a cap inside the shop. The war
tar-tubes, and indeed all the Apparatus,
are inside the shop, which renders it
easy to guard- against effect* of frost;
while failure of water could be prevent
ed by storing a day's supply in a cis
tern. Chamltere't Journal.
THAT CALL.- A pair of fashionable
lovers met on Main street on Monday
evening. , u—. ,
" Good ebening, sweed/'jmid be,'
" Good ebening, luh," said she.
She takes out her handkerchief, l *nd
he steps up to the curbstone. Then he
returns. j \
>' Howd'u your code, sweedness," h#
asks. ~ b
" Nod mudge better, lab," "he an
swered again apply*nahrhim%emlp|#.' j
" Does ihy tweednesslab hsr devoted
Zohn ?"
" O Zohn, 'o* cad you ask id ? You
know I lub you bet-bet-be b—ker-chew."
Then we Mt.—Danburg New.
■ , '-"TifJi 1 mma.
1(3i of ißleresl.
A patient l QUMifihd lately from
tntaauUji a Unimefit intended
f#r outward
offliirSer f?£ inatipctoms not to re
torn until Le ' megaa
The great#trtketeWutoe reached it*
end by a c*>B*w*nto# whlpb afforili
nearly all tfcrt thram-a squired.
A company ban lwaninMiporatod In
FortUmr, for to* purpose of
ii rt !,nf:i t railroad
Xhu JioiWa ia Colrille VCo.'a saw
fha motion '• for lit liijffiWMiou and re
oeiver in the caac of UieVMskerbockei
Life Inaurmueu Company baa been de
niwd, #|rtbs >
tieveaal persons have been killed in
Oiorgevw. Wallanhin. b#we# the mib
tnry would force tli to pay
Bad drainagw, many physician* be
fibve, euuaes cr<-hj-S|'Uial menuigitts,
a fact fall of suggest! vensas to city
AJM9iMpwS*
! TmSana tt*eer*fcte siw pinched to
I ahrnwe betuwea abntuwg ,up shop on
Bnndwr or P#J' n * 120 *• wF *
cigar cm thai day.
As to drvea, buy-whul suits yourself
to wear, and f it do## not suit other
people to look at, let them ahut their
1 *y®**
... Two feoliali young girk took poison
in Jluriulw, wii, but the
1 fainffy doctor muni to tbuuto save their
jitouupsva 1 d-mwl mt< ■
i Twewt# real* per day of Mgrtoe ia the
sum families who lave sons with the
' insumrtwiuirta hav. topuylbe Spanish
L l irnriiuwiMilpitort rf defines religion
fcShgaqflffihg:
' li—i |iistamry ya ' •> d
\ M claimed Uml the odowd marble
of tialano roonty, C*l., ia anpenor in
point of beauty to any Bmopeen atone
or a like nature,
J< fw men wire MB 1 and aiany more
< injured by w>jm tom| " mafAouon in
, moutijtmirf, KMIIUIC .
4 "A w 0..) cnweTfo the fftrftod State,
tug j|i"totost year baaauaa of bia not
ras ilu a Use 4id nut sell bia
[l^3)7thTr time.
f 1 vnuthaf *t Pleasant,
i Team, got hiatodVbicu <mt ef her stern
, pansat s pimsatopqu of bkm*
t corpus, and then mamvd her,
' iXlk ICsa., Whfob has a popola
tion of aboat 'JJBOO Maato that it has
ir Of a % paused a whoto week without
locifig a single citizen by death.
The quantity of ores exported from
CeHforaia has rfeeimr4. fer the aatia
facterr raaaon thalm> m now smelted
#1 home than was done formerly.
A Bostou paper can hardly remember
ever having met a European in this
I country who wasnefc. sniintbng to bis
own aoouaat, s Atogrudput to the nobil
%iyk 'day rtouWwwder oath : "In
I nimainsili' dhtriotol was a Oemocrat ;
pay tfceto fi rth# work' Übtw may have
id in# toil ias Am T* MX
*&•* &
Pert /frd wWbuMlh Waptos,the
dtoil tol ■ Ot tilt .iisoove###mf the die-
of a' Igbfobr of Senator
Tcrtr,of Kaasae, toss bWM * fruud, idiot,
mm* Oemr MiUiiisnmA fhrifi"l' *' body
sgSsjr*.lm ?w w * ix
*,* Wbtofit machines
jr.ad* ai tiwally is ..Itofc.. Ousted State*.
Three companies make mow* than 150,-
000 each, jk ve7 Uflfe jdotlf ia realised
' W' lias ' from
Ska Wests bridle made out of human
hair, which be cafrtuiwd in buttle with
the Indians. 4* to bwwriJs mwsted
with aihrer. ,
, charg.Hl w ii
in ft mail mattrtf* #gffW%bor of dia-
Reeeuiiv ten* of ml# were made
in a farunght at British iron company'
worims-lhe largtwt quantity ever made
in Eqg]#nd under one root within the
same space of lime, .
Mattel* remain unsnUledonthe Mex
ican borders. M unless are committed
daily, and cattle stolen by m#uraudmg
bands Mexicans who cross the Rio
Grande for the pWfifibe. -
A western contemporufy thinks that
the old maxim of law to Itbel cases,
" the greater the truth torn •greater the
libel," has been retained in Pennsyl
vania ft* the the benefit of politicians.
1 a While), w Mid, tote of the New
k'ork iVikamu, gets a stoacyttf SIO,OOO
tl- World;
Bodxott hadftn.tHJfifl® the Upmid. and
retired OH''.pension of SIO.OOO.
j Sullsvan, lonc known in England
of the Vtting-lrtter im-
be#* seeteSeed te seven
veura' penal ocrtitud# tor' aUrindling
lien. Baspbrank oat ef $1 by a lying
pebtootomw- saw ti jmng
I A Mississippi sheriff makes an nn
common demand uptm public credulity,
asserting that l*>th be an-i lxia wife were
, chloroformed by burglars, and $7,000
carried off from his house. The money
was public funds, of course.
It is proposed, in a'toeasure now be
fore the French National Assembly,
that the army shall number 1,000,000
men sad be divided into 15 corps, so
constituted thst from tOfr.Wft to 700,000
men may bo plaoed in the 6eM in war
time, with a reserve of 800,000 in the
: depots.
A schoolmaster in Gsfcoktavillc says
; these is nothing like kindness in mar
aging a school. He law his ton foot
i hiekorv sapling pensively ob the desk
hefore* him, and- tells the fcdyu kindly
how they must do; and he saw the ef
fect Of hiß kind words is something re
markable. iWMMft t|l
A number of saloon keepers in Chica
• go recently held a meeting, at which
resolutions were adopted to strictly
eomplv with the law against the sale of
1 liquor on Sunday, and vigilance oor
mittees were appointed to see that the
I sals una wore closed and no liquor sold
! on.that-day-. . •
1 L After % Modoc treachery, while the
' signal officer* were m signal
ling between General Gtllem's head
-1! quarters and OoteneF Mason's camp, a
Modoc Indian pqt upon the ridge, near
Captain Jack's qpaHfk and with a white
l rag on a pole imitated the movements of
1 the signal offioert, wkbingtho rag to and
fro. "' * ri#
Somebody ie advertising a preparation
which, among otlicr mcrw.Tji warrant
ed to a keep lady's hand fvoraf chaps.
/hmcAknows another wqy tq effect this.
Let be? dress in the present fashion,
and have it known that she has no
money. Chaps, if they are sensible
chaps, will let ber hands alone very se
veroly. [ ; am; . a.J %*
A Gonnectiout mother learned of her
daughter's , contemplated elopement,
and on the night tye flight
she put some laudanum in the girl's tea.
The latter ib!! asleep apd' did not wake
up until next morning, and hi the mean
time Borneo got ttred of weitipg and
-went- home disgusted. He gees with
j another pel mm ?*
K Fifteen years ago, Michael Oncemi,
an Italian, was four times tried tor the
i musdw of Eugene Audawafcand finally
convicted uf murder w the second de-
C turned to Italy, wfcene bA Jdfared the
my, and gradually obtained promo
tion, until now he holds a colonel's
commission, and is actinj? general. His
, case wasover six yeafc court.