The Milkmaid'* Song.
Mii.vm kin (Ringing without).
Shame upon von. Robin,
Mhame upon yen now!
Kise me wouM TOO? with my bainls
Milking the oow ?
Daisies grow again.
Kingcups blow again.
And won rwrnr end klss'd me milking ilie oow.
Robin came behind me,
Kiwi'd me well I vow;
Cuff him ooald I with my hand*
Milking the oow ?
Swallows fly Rgein,
Cuckoos cry again.
And you eeme mid kiss'd me milking the oow.
Come, Robin, Robin.
Come mid kim me now ;
Help it o*n I ? with my hands •
Milking the oow ?
Ringdoves 000 again.
All tilings woo again,
Gome behind and kiae me nulking the cow.
The living Trooper.
Steady, hoys, stea.lv ! keep tour arms ready !
God only know* who ws may meet beta ,
Don't let me lie taken ! I'd rather awaken
To-morrow in—no matter where,
Tli mi to lie in that foul prison hols over there.
Step slowly! speak lowly !
These rocks may have Ufa!
ley me down in this hollow ,
We are out of the strife.
By heavens I tlic foemau may track me iu
blood.
For this hole in my breast it outpouring a
flood;
No tno aurgeon for me—he can give me no
•Hi ;
The surgeon 1 want is a juckaie and spade;
What ! Morris, a tear Why, shame of thee,
nisu ;
I thought you a hero; but since you've began
To whimper and cry. like a girl In her teens.
By George! 1 dont know what in thunder U
means.
Wall, well. I am rough—lit a very rough
school.
Tins hfe of a trooper . bat yet I'm no tool!
1 know a brave man. and a friend froui a foe ;
And boys that yOQ love me. 1 very well know.
But wasn't it grand 1
When they oarne down the hill, over sloughing
and sand?
But we stood, did we not, like immovable
rock ?
Unheeding their balls, and repelling their
shook?
Bid you mind that loud cry, when, as turning
to fly.
Our men sprang upon them, determined to
die ?
Oh wasn't it grand ?
God help the joor wretches who fell in that
light ;
No tunc was there given for prayer or fur
flight.
They fell by the score, in the crash baud to
hand,
And they mingled their blood with the aiough
ing and sand.
Hurra !
Good heavens ' this bullet-hole gape like the
grave,
A corse on the aim of a traitorous knave!
la there never a one of ye knows bow to pray V
Pray pray 1 " Our Father, our Father !'
Why don't you proceed ?
Can't you see lam dying ? great God how I
bleed.
Ebbing away, ebbing away—
The light of the day is turning to gray '
l*ray! pray 1
Oar Father in heaven—boys tell me the rest.
While I staunch the hot blood from this hole
iu my breast.
There is sooie'hing about a forgiveness of
sin—
Put that in—put that in—and then
I'll follow your wcnls, and say an " Amen."
Hers, Morris, old fellow, get hold of my hand'
And W.isou. my comrade, oh, wasn t it grand 1
When they came down the hill like a thunder
charged cloud.
And were scattered like mist by that brave lit
tle crowd?
Where's Wilson? my comrade—here stoop
down your head ;
Can't you say a short prayer for the dying and
dead ?
* Christ, God ! who died for sinners all,
. Here Thou thi* suppliant wanderer's cry ;
Let not e'e>n this p.or pjrru* fall.
Unheeded by Thy graceoue evo.
Throw wide Thy gates to let him in.
And take bun, pleading, to Thy anna,
Forgive. O Lord! his Ufe-iong sin.
And quiet all his tierce alarms."
God biers you. my comrade, for singing that
hymn ;
It is light to my path, when my sight has
grown dim ;
I am dyuig—bend down 'till I touch yon once
more.
Don't forget me old fellow—God prosper this
war ;
Confusion to enemies— keep hokl of my
baud—
And float our dear flag o'er a prosperous land.
A WOXAN AFTER ALL.
"Take off tliat hideous bonnet, Doro
thy. I want to tee you sweet littlu face
without it."
"Thou slionldst not speak so, Cliarles.
It is very wrong." *
" Why, little Dorothy f Tell me
why 1"
'• Thou knoweet favor is deceitful and
beauty is vain. We ought to tiear our
testimony against the vanity of personal
looks."
"Ought we I Then tell me why it
pleased Providence to make you so beau
tiful, my small cousin ("
" Hush, Charles. I will not permit
thee to sfx-ak to me in this manner."
And Dorothy Hick*, the little Quaker
ess, put ou tier gravest air, and strug
gled valiantly to turn the corners of her
mouth down when they wanted to turn
up.
" Don t look so serious, little girl.
You positively alarm me." And Charles
Mayuard burnt into a merry laugh that
echoed through the poplar tree* in the
old garden. " Now, tell me, Dorothy
—I insist upon knowing, and, a* a mem
ber of your family, I consider that I have
the right to be informed—are you going
to marry Broadbrim 1"
"Friend Epliraim ia an estimable
man. Charles. Thou must not speak of
him thus."
"Look, Dorothy. There he is. I
will quote no proverbs, but the rim of
his hat turned the corner just a* I spoke.
Now don't look as if yon intended to go
hack to the house, for you are not going.
I'll tell you a secret. When I was down
by the river this moroiug I found a
boat with a tempting pair of oars lying
in it, and I made up my mind that
Dorothy Hicks and h--r wicked, worldly
cousin from the iniquitous city of New
York were going for a row in that very
boat this evening."
" It is Neighbor Hancock's boat."
" Do will let us have it t"
" Y-e-s. But, Charles, I fear that it
is mv duty "
" No, it isn't. You know you don't
want to spend this lovely evening in the
house entertaining Broadbrim, and you
do want to go aud watch the sunset on
the river with me."
Dorothy looks doubtfully toward the
house and wishfully toward the river.
"' Femme qui Lesite est perdue,'
Dorothy, which meansif we don't hurry.
Greycoat will come out aud catch us."
Charles takes Dorothy's hand in his,
and in a moment they are on their way
to the shore. .
" But, Charles, sec that cloud in tho
south. If there were to be a storm !"
" But there will not. Come, jump in."
The oars are lifted into the rowlocks,
Dorothy takes the management of the
rudder into her little hands, and soon
they are gliding over the smooth surface
of the water, leaving a track of silvery
bubbles behind them. It ia a lovely
evening. The misty shadows of twilight
are gathering in the east and in the
west ; the clouds, blood-red and purple,
are casting a rosy light all over the
broad river ; a fresh breeze is blowing
ronnd their faces ; and waves sjilash
against the sides of their little boat like
low monotonous music. Charles is talk
ing abont his city home, telling Doro
thv abont the aunt and cousins she has
not seen for a long time, and amusing
her with stories of his college (Jays, and
his'efforts to make his way in his pro
fession, which at Unit were so onsuooess-
FRED. KI T RTZ, Editor ttiid I'roprietov.
VOL. VIII.
ful. Neither of thorn notions that the
broeae grows every moment stronger
slid fresher, tunl Unit the dark cloud in
the south has spread over the horiiou,
and is covering it with darkness.
Presently a low muttering growl of
thunder startles them from the dream
into which they have fallen.
"Turn hack. Charles, turn hack !"
screams l>orothy. " The storm is on
us!"
Hut there is no turning hack. They
have been rowing with the tide. The
river is very wide, and the increasing
force of the waves and the wind togetli
er is so strong tiiat when they attempt
to turn about the water rushes into the
tiny boat. Both faces grow pale in the
murky light as they see their danger.
" It is nujHiseuble; you iwiuot do it."
"Tell me, Dorothy, what is tiiat dark
object just alioad f"
" It is a ledge of ris-ka, but wbeu the
tide comes in from the sea it will lie
oovered;" and with a low moan Dorothy
sinks down fiom her seat and covers her
face with her liauda.
"We will try and laud there. The
tide will not turn for an hour."
The effort is successful. The ledge is
reached, and Charles carries Dorothy to
the highest rock, and lav's her gently
I down.
"My love, my little love," he cries,
kissing her helpless hands, " have 1
killed youf"
i "Stop 1" she cries. " Listen ! There
is a bout. It is coming to us." Doro
thy is upon her knees, and a wild cry
of thanksgiving comes from her lips.
Ephraim Ford has followed them.
The heavy boat with its single oci upant
is strong enough to resist the waves, and
as he ueara they go dowu to meet him.
"Hack.'" he ones; "I will not take
but one of you. It is not safe."
The grim Quaker, with his stern.
■ emotionless face, wrenches away the
slender hands that cling to Charles, ami
clasping Dorothy tightly in his arms,
lays her at his own feet in the tottom of
his boat. No word is spoken until they
reach the op|>osite shore. Then he takes
her up again and carries her to the near
est fisher hut upon the beach.
As they stand witlnn the shelter of the
little cabin, Dorothy looks at him with
wild eyes, and a cry of torture issues
from her white lips.
"Go back! go back! You will go
back for him I"
"Go I lock for your elegaut city lover,
whose ignorant carelssane* s had cost you
your life but for mo'"
," Dorothy falls ou her knees and gra]>
his cold hand iu an agony of entreaty.
"Go back! go back!"
"Promise me first that you will not
marry him. Swear it as the world's peo
ple do." Then he takes her luuid and
holds it up to heaven, and waits for the
oath.
Dorothy's lips more, but no sound
comes, she has fainted.
The fisher-wife takes the unconscious
child and lays her on her own bed, ami
Ephraim Ford goes upon his erreud of
mercy with murder iu his heart.
The storm has lulled for a moment.
It comes on so gradually, stopping every
now and then as if to make the earth be
lieve tliat it were doubtful of its powers.
The tempest knows its strength and can
affo.d to wait.
Ephraim looks at the sky. It is still
red in the west, the waves are rising
; steadily, but his strongly built boat, di
reeled by his powerful strength, can yet
make its way through them. There is
i yet plenty of time ; tho tide will not turn
for half an hour.
Ephraim fights his battle with teni|>-
tation, and wins the victory, for twenty
minutes later tho sturdy last plows its
way bark to the shore, and two silent
men struggle against the wind up the
, beach to the fisherman's hut.
Dorothy is waiting for them. ll< r
outstretched arms would wind them
selves a! H>ut both, but the stern, fixed
look in Ephraim's eyes restrains her, ami
Charles turns from har and fixes his
glance upon the ground.
It is a terrible moment for Dorothy.
She known that they I Kith love her. and
she shivers at the suffering sl* sees in
both faces. Then she rememWra the
oath she did not sjieak, and a wild sort
of terror takes pons QUI lion of h-r soul.
She speaks at last, and tries to thank
Ephraim for the service he has dune
them.
" Sjiare me thy gratitude, Dorothy," |
he commands, iu the slow, solemn tone
Ie-uhar to his jieople. " I know I have
done thee a service. I would not h*ar
of it again. I tried to make thee swear
an oath, Dorothy ; I am gUd it was not
spoken. Tell me now, though, dost thou
love this young mau f Wilt thou for
swear thy religion, forsake the faith of
thy forefathers, and become one of the
world's people f"
Dorothy's eyes looked toward Charles
with mute appeal.
"He has saved both our lives, d-ar,"
auswi-rs the younger man, in reply to
her glance, "and he is worthy of your
love." Then his eyes seek the ground
again. He has received his life from
this man's bands, and now he will speuk
no word to rob niin of his dearest
treasure.
"Hpeak, Dorothy," Ephraim repeats. 1
" It i* for you to choose."
Dorothy's voice is choked with tears,
and her breast shaken with sobs, as she
answers:
" It is very, very wick<nl of me, Eph
raim, but I love him so !"
Then she stretches out her helpless
hands, slid the sweet lips whisper :
" Chorion."'
Only a single word, but it decides her
life, in a moment she is in her lover's
arms, and for the second Line tliat night
unconscious.
The nobler man of the two goes un
heeded out into the storm to conquer hi.
heartache alone.
Sonietiiing About Soap.
Many housewives imagine that the
quantity of lather produced i* a sure in
dication of the gixxl quality of soap.
Thi* ix not correct. The lather is pro
duced by the borax or sal soda that ho*
been mixed with tho soap. If a great
deal of Ixirnx or sid soda lias been used
then the lather will quickly come in
large quantities; if not, the case will be
different. Soap that gives no lather is
jnst as good as any other if it has it*
proper coii*i*tency of caustic soda,
which, in reality, is the great washing
power. Laundry soap or ordinary toilet
soap is made of saponified oil. Curd
soap i* reinelted and crushed and is the
purest commercial article. Fancy soiqis
aro made of pare curd, Hcerted and tint
ed. Honey soap contains no honey and
is flavored with tho oil of citroneila. Old
Windsor i turned brown by ago or by
mixing caramel with Hoap. The trans
parent soap is rnado by mixing spirit
and evaporating.
Railroad Accidents.
The Railroad Gazette gives a list of
the railroad accidents in the United
States during tho year ehding with May,
which is as follows :
Am. mf AteidmnU. Kill,A. JljarX
JIIBS S3 22 55
July 64 20 104
August 73 16 77
September 69 27 106
October 81 16 60
November 82 13 69
December 74 12 49
January 131 10 96
February 211 11 IS6
March • 122 17 73
Apnl 60 9 67
May 54 6 48
Totals. 1,124 179 - 984
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
TIMKLT TOHCS.
Tostal cords are Iwcouiing popular.
The de|>ortmeiit rejiorta the sale of about
13,000,000 more this y <ar than last.
Of the '355,000 headstone* that mark
the reatiug places of Uuiott aoldiers in
national cemeteries, 135,000 are for
graves of the unknown.
Japan has coma of so small a value
that it takes a thousand of tliem to make
a dollar. Nowadays people in this fa
vore d land are in very much the same
condition.
Messrs. Moody and Monkey's four
mouths' work iu London tlgurcs up Uie
sstouisliiug total of two hundred and
eighty live meetings, with an aggregate
attendance of 'J, 170,0 ik) persons.
The Mormons have established a
colony ami branch of their Ghurch at
Clarksburg, West Virginia. They also
have a weekly uewspajver. The number
of Mormons in West Virginia is said to
lie considerable and increasing.
8o far this year there have bocu two
and a quarter million tous lees of ooul
mined ami marketed iu the United States
than iu 1871. It is not a pleasant thing
to coutemplate on the part of those who
have no spare money, yet must have coal.
Chicken pie is a very poor diet when
the cliickens composing it have been
feeding ou potato bogs. This fact was
thoroughly established by a Grand
lUpnls (Mich.) family, ten iu number,
who narrowly escaped death from eating
such chicken pie.
The Cornell boat crew took the hint
for their paj>er shell from the West,
where houses are made of jiajier that
stand the prairie storms admirably.
Both crews used the |aj>er boats, and
both won. It is fair to presume that
paper boats will be all the rage now.
The triumph of the youngest of the
universities iu the college races at Sara
toga was a matter of genuine surprise to
the majority of outsiders. Harvard had
the prestige of age ami experience, and
Yale was warmed up to the work by her
defeat of last year. But the strength
ami skill of the crews from Cayuga lake
prevailed, and the new men are the
center of the ovation that follows.
M ore than a thousand enterprising
persons came to grief under the common
delusion tliat they could edit news
jiajHTH in the United Stab* lust y<-ar,
but, at the name time, it must lie under
stood tliat a thouaan I other people
wanted to learnaudeml>arK,'<] in the same
enterprise, and it is fair te presume that
a thousand others will fodow the same
course as each year rolls by.
The legal profession in New York once
( this was a great many years ago) con
sisted of one lawyer, but his nnjueai to
the Amsterdam authorities for leave to
practice iu the courts was granted only
to the extent of allowing him to give ail
vice. With a strict Dutch sense of jus
tice, he was forbidden to plead, on the
ground that as there was no other law
yer in the colony there would bo uo one
to oppose him.
Harvest hands are sorely needed
throughout the country just now, and
there is a chance for uieu who are out of
work.und who mean what they say when
they announce tliat they want wotk. On
every corner and alniut every grocery in
every city, town and village are doily
to lie found loungers and by tho score,
whose delicate lunula would not be in the
least injured by a little work iu the har
vest field. Hut they will not go—not
they—they will starve (lr-.t.
Important Answers.
Why iloes exercise promote health ?
Because it assist* nil tin- function* upon
which life depend*. It quicken* circu
lation, *nd thereby nourishes every part
of the body, causing the hone* to beoome
tirm and the r.iuix-lc* to lieoonie full and
healthy.# It promote* breathing, by
which oxygen i* taken mto the Bjntom,
and i*irlx>u thrown off, and thereby it
produce* a higher degree of organic life
and Mn ngth tl an would otherwise exi*t.
It promotes j*'r*pintk>n, by which,
through the million* of |x>n-s in the *kiu,
much of the fluid of the Ixsly i* changed
and puritied. Whut i* nii<rp f Sleep i*
understood to ho that state of the liody
in which the relstiouof the brain to *<>nie
part* of the laxly ix temporarily sus
landed. There ar Home part* of the
Isxlv that never sleep; nch are the heart,
the lung*, the order of circulation, and
those part* of the nervous svsteui that
direct their operation*. Why do wo
dream f Dream* appear to arise from
the excitement of the brain during tin ex
hour* when itn connection with the other
piut*of :h livingorga- im i* suspended.
For iestanee, a man dren n* that lie i*
pnr*m-.! 1 y n ferocious animal, and the
mind pa***-* through all the excitement
of flying from danger; but the connec
tion U'tween the moving jxiwer and the
nw-hiiiery of motion being *u*]x-iided,
no motion take* place. Why do wo
cough I Because the ro*pimtory organs
are excited by the presenoo of something
foreign or uiinnturnl to them. A cough
ix an effort on the part of the air tube*
to free themselves from *omo source of
irritutiou. And no important are the
orpin* of breathing to the welfare of the
hodie*, tliat the muscle* of the chest,
back and alxlouien unite in tho endeavor
to get rid of the exciting sulmtnnce.
Why do we sigh I The nction of sighing
arises from similar causes to those of
yawning, but in sighing tlie nervous de
pression is caused by grief, while in
yawning it is the result of fatigue. In
sighing, the effect is generally caused by
an expiration—in yawning by an inspira
tion. The mind, wearied and weakened
by sorrow, omit* for a few seconds to
continue the respiratory process, and
then suddenly there conies an involun
tary expiration of the breath, causing
a faint sound a* it ]msse* tho organs of
the voice.
The Unfortunate Potato.
The jxitato is an unfortunate tuber.
In 1845 it was the subject of the most
destrnctivo discnac t)iut ever attacked
tho vegetable food of man. To this
day the cause of tho jxitato rot is almost
as much a mystery as when it caused
tho Irish famine. Tho health of the
plant lias not yet been fully restored
everywhere, tho rot still prevailing in
part* of Great Britain. But in this
country tho potato was in general pretty
sound, especially at the Wc-st. There
its new enemy has overtaken it, and
within a few years post -we have heard
terrible stories of the Colorado potato
bug. This insect has lieen steadily
traveling on its devastating path, cross
ing the Mississippi and the Alleghanies,
till now we havo it in Westchester and
Kings counties. Nothing but pariß
green seems to interfere with its exis
tenoe successfully. As all things havo
their uses, perhaps the niisHion of this
insect pest is to promote cleanliness in
the kitchen. Prudent honaekeekers will
nowadays insist upon the washing of
potatoes before they are cooked.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., I*A., THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875.
How One Man Itcfled a Mob.
Home nt<wH|ia|H<r lm* lately unearthed I
a story of mob law in Henry county,
Kentucky, in 1869, n story which will
liear coiulettHatiou and which should go
down to posterity, describing an example
to Im< imitated and a soeue to be immor
talised. In 1859 there resided iu the
j county named several brother* bearing
the name of Henry, one of whom was
charged with murder. He was acquitted
upon trial, but the mob woe dissutislicd
with the verdict and demanded that not
only the man charged with the crime but
all lint brother* should leave the oouutry.
One of the brothera thua unjustly
banned won slow to leave, and iu conse
quence wait assailed, licmg shot at and
norrowlv eMoa|iing with his life. Hut
wife ttitil children went afterward token
to lnm l>y a young man named Hunly.
Then the mob demanded that U umy
should leave the region, lluuly went to
his house and told his aged parent* of
the situation. They decided not to oliey
the mob and liomcMdetl the hottite. On
the next ilay the mob oarne, twenty
men and number* of respectable citizen*
who dare not resist. Tbe mob rode up
to the house and demanded the body of
young Hunly. Tbe old iuotiierap|>ered
at a window and replied that her sou
had oommitUxl no offence; he had situ
ply aided an inuooeut woman and her
children; he would uot be driven out of
the county like a criminal; she and her
husband were prrjwred to die with him.
Then alio bowed and retired. The mob
crowded forward, but there was a man
among the spectator* to be heard. As
the old mother ceased talking, he came
forward with tears on his face, and said:
" Of all fortunea in hfe there is aotluiig
like its fortunate ending. A man should
be esteemed fortunate who tinds an an
swer to tbe old Methodiat prayer, • Is>rd
give us a good time to get out of the
world.' I may live a hundred year*
without fludiug another opportunity to
so happily end my life, i am blessed !
My prayer is answered ! 1 will die with
Imm people!" Then drawing his pistol,
the taun (his name was Bollard) placed
his l>ack to the door and his fa- to the
mob. The effect was grand. Hesitating
citizens, lacking but tbe nerve to oppose
ruffianism, rushed to Bollard's support.
The mob tied for their lives before the
desperate resolve of the men be/ore
them, and Hunly and his family were
saved. Bollard's name is still synonym
fur bravo mania KH! in Heurv county,
and hi* glorious example has done not a
! little good. Could a grander xjxfeh be
conceived than this brief one of six doui
sentences t Ami h not tlie story one to
become immortal I
Cp In the Mountain*.
The highest point in tin- world where
■ arraugemeuts are made for scientific
observation* is the summit of Dike's
! iM-ak. There, 14.306 feet above the
loved of the sea, i* a ruilely constructed
stone hi-use, where hve three men, the
| observing sergeant aud hi* two aasist
anta. During m veu mouths of the year
these men are shut off from all inter
course with other human being*. Early
in N'ovetnls-r they hou*e themselves,
-and live on the provisions they ltave
stored up and tlie meats tliry liave bnrixl
iu the snow. Whan the atmoapliere is
iu a proper condition for the telegraph
to work, some scrap* of news are ob
tained, but they nuiuot reach the world
lie low uor the world get to tin m. The
observations made from tlii* lofty
point AT— sent to almost every enlighten
ed F.urojxxui nation. The station was
establish) d here in August, IMT3, the
special obj.-ct Is-ing to learn sometliing
atiout tii- up|*-r curreutv of the atmos
phere. The principal iustrumcuts used
are the liarouictcr,thermometer,hygrome
ter, anemometer, and the rain gauge.
One of the need remarkable phenomena
seen on Dike's jx-ak is tlie electric
storm. A correejMnderit of tlie New
York Trihurw recently viobsl the sum
mit signal station, and to him Mr.
Hrown, the olxwrving sergeant, thus de
m-rilx-s these storms:
Th-y generally U-gin with hail, ami
last from half an hour to four hour*.
The whole atmosphere is full of electri
city. Sheet* of Are are everywhere.
Sparks crackle about your clothe* and
in your hair, ami fill the buffalo robes
and the (tedding. The electricity comes
through the roof, tlirougb th- windows,
and up from the floor. 'lt seems a*
though you are in a battery. If you go
out doors, a cloud of electricity rests tin
the whole |-ak. It com-* from the
rocks; the clouds are full of it. The
lightning plays lielow in fearful inb u
sity • • • One's hair literally stamls
on end.
Mr. Hrowu also stated that he had
seen the frost* a fcs>t deep all over the
summit, ou windows, doors, rocks, and
particulaily on metal*. Sometimes it
gathers ou the telegraph wmw to the
depth of eight inches, ami frequently
breaks the wire ami stops communica
tion. Such are some of tlio features of
life ou Dike's p-ak.
Heuare of Them.
Opium in one of its forms enters
largely into the oonqsisitiou of unuiy of
the pain killers and patent mediciuos so
freely advertised for ilomestic use iu the
present ilay, and for this reason the
greatest care is needed in having re
courso to any of them. Taken, perhaps,
in the first iiisUince, to alleviate the tor
ments of ucuralgia or toothache, wliat
proves to hi a remisly soon txicomc* a
source of gratification, which tho wretch
edness that follows on alwtiueiioe ren
d-ra increasingly difficult to lav aside.
The stun- must fie said of narcotics, such .
as bromide of potassium ami hydrate of
chloral,frequently resorted toasuromedy
for sleeplessness; the system quickly be
comes habituated to their use, and they
can then lie relinquished only at the cost
of much -suffering. Indeed, the last
mentioned of these two drugs obtains
over tlio mind a power which may lie
conqiared to tluitof opium, and is, more
over, liable to occasion the disease
known as chloralism, by which the sys
tem ultimately becomes s complete
wreck.
Why lie Kode.
Leo IJCSJX-S, the brilliant French
writer who died recently, never went on
foot, but this custom was introduced,
says Charivari, .by Count d'Alton-Hhee,
ami had tlio following origin. One day
he was walking in Dnri* with a young
lady, who suddenly said :
" Oh! what a charming bracelet!
Look there, my friend."
Ho he bought it. A little further on
she saw a fan.
"Ah! the delicious fan!" quoth she.
He bought it. A little further and
she sow an ebony casket.
"Ah ! what a casket f" said she, " I've
wanted just such a ouo ever so long 1"
How could ho help buying it ?
The next day the count said to him
self : " Let us always take a cabriolet;
it will not cost more than walking,"
A Hint on Healthy Press.
Multitudes of persons of both sexes
low health, and oftentimes life, by busy
ing themselves until warm and weary,
and then throwing themselves on a bed
or sofa, without covering, or in a room
without a tire, or by removing theirouter
garments after a long walk. If you liavo
to walk and ride both, do tho riding
first, and, on returning, go to a warm
room, and keep on all your wraps until
cool, eveu if you suffer some discom
fort.
Races of Meu in tbe Bartflr.
Aeorres|Kindeut of the Ismdou T\m's,
who aocoui|iaiiiod the government ex
|>editioii t> explore the islands iu the
vicinity of Australia, thus desert Ikw a
race of jHHiple of whom but little is
known :
We anchored near Admiralty island,
and very shortly a number of very flue
ivutoea "thirty feet to forty feet long,
and with crews of front ten to litUvii,
came off to the ship. The canoes were
much ou the k-une pliui as thoae we had
seeu iu New Guinea, but more than
double the sine. The body of the ouuue
is cut out of a single tree, very syui
metrically formed, and really, at acer
tain sense, a work of art, ami one of
great patience and labor. Tbe natives
are Bupuaii Meltuiesians, but, as tbe
Admiralty islamls form New Hanover,
New Ireland, and New Britain, it is
prolathle that they partake more of the
character of the luhabitants of these
inlands than of those of New Guinea
proper. They are a trifle over five feet
ut height, ami their color i* quitedusky,
but tlist may possibly lie due to their
making getierni use of block pigment,
for we fouud on 1 letter acquaiutatioe tlist
some of their color was apt lo come off
ou the clothes or bauds. 'I heir lour is
black and frixxled, ami they wear it short
and rarely bleach or dye it. They are
quite naked, with the exoovtion of a
very narrow loin-cloth, and often, in
lieu of tliis, they wear a single shell,
plain or elaborate!* ornamented, of the
white egg cowry. The hair is sometimes
tied in a knot at the top of the head by
a band of tappa, and a favorite ornament
for the front of the top-knot is a disk,
three inches or so across, cut out of the
white inner substance of the shell of the
pearl oyster, which is |Hilished and then
overlaid with another disk of very thin
tortoise-she 11, often cut out into a very
elegant pattern. A similar disk of larger
■use is worn susjwuded from the neck as
a breast plate. Hie lioae ornaments are
long pieces of bone, hung from a abort
(Tort* piece, which jaoses through tlie
septum of tlie nose ; and the earring*
and the brae* lets, which tliey wear on
the upper arm, ore ring* of shell, cut
from a large turbo. It is singular that
the arms and implements of tlie Admiral
ty islander* differ completely from
those of the Hapuons whom we pre
viously visited at one of tlie ueighlairing
islands. In Admiralty island Iwiw* are
unknown. The canoe* all carried large
sheaves of spear*, with heavy heads of
otsudiau and light aliafts, six to seven
feet long ; they throw these with groat
force aiul accuracy, taking hold of the
sliaft just lelow the head, where the
wt ight of the KIKV wit* 1 Milan oed. They
Aim * use long, siuirp knives or daggers of
, obsidian, whieli they stick into an orna
mental bracelet of liliuted gruMM* which
. they wtvtr on the left upper ATUI. Al
most every uuui had over hut shoulder A
I neatly mounted httle adze, made of A
Kjiijtlf piece of hoop-iron, or frequently
of better and thicker irou than ordinary
. hoop, with H bent hard womj hAUille ; A
few still carried wliat must lutve preced
ed the iron adze— lUl implement of tie
same form, but with the cutting port
made of a piece of A thick spiral riled]
ground down in A j>artiouUr way.
1 A Scene in the Jfew Vork I'ollrc Court.
•• Johnson, the officer any* tliat you
were drunk, and tliat you haven't drawn
, a sober breath for a week. How in that,
Johnson ?" the justice atkixl of the next
primmer.
! "Yer honor, M said Johnson, aa he
dropped one arm over the rail and
leaned back Inwvily on the policeman,
who support*l him by tlie shoulder,
"it's true. I've been drunk for • week,
it* you say, an' 1 haven't got a word to
aay to defend myself. I've been iu tin*
h re court, 1 gu-sa. a hundred tirnca 1H
fore au" every time I've a*k-d your
honor to let tue off light. Hut thia time
I don't have no fear. You can maul me up
for ten days or yon can maul mo up (or
ten yearn, it'a all one now." A* he
apoke he brushed away a tear with hi
hut; and when lu- paused lie coughed a
dry, racking cough, and drew hi* tat
tered coat closer about hi* throat.
"When I went up before," he con
tinued, "I always counted the day* an'
the hour* till I'd come off. Thia time
I 'll count the block* to the Potter'a Field.
I'm almost gone, judge,"
He paused again, and looked down to
hi* almost shoeless fee t.
'• When I was a little country boy,"
he went on, "my mother used to any to
me: ' Charlie, if yon want to lie a man,
never touch liquor,' an' I'd answer:
' No, mother, I never will.' If I'd kept
that promise, roil an' me wouldn't have
la-en *o well acquainted, judge. If I
could ouly l*> a l*>y again for half a day.
If I could go into the old schooUkiuse
ju*t once more, an' are the lx>y* an'
girl* a* I used to see tlu-m in the old
•lay.*, I could lay right down an' die
happy- Hut it'a too lute. Send m up,
judge. Make it for ten ilnya, or make it
for life. It don't make no difference.
One way would lo a* short a* the other.
. All 1 aak now is to die alone. I've been
in crowded tenements for year*. If I
can lx alone n little while before 1 go,
I'll drop off cotitented."
The shoulder of the muddy coat
slipped from the policeman's hand, and
the used-op man fell in a heap to the
floor. He was carried to tlie little room
tiehiml the rail. His temples were
lmtln-d, aud his wrisb were chafed.
Hut it wan no use. Though hi* heart
still lient, he wrus fast goii. ■ to join hi*
schoolmates who have croak- the flood.
The shutter* were I lowed, the door was
closed. He might die contented, for he
1 was left alone. ,
Depth of the brent Lakes.
There is n mystery aliout the Anieri
csu lakes. Laim Krio i* only sixty or
sev-uty feet deep ; lint Tjke Ontario,
which "is 600 f.-et deep, is 330 feet below
the tide-level of the ocean, or as low as
most part* of the Gulf of St, Lawrence ;
ami the bottom of Imkea Huron, Michi
gan and Huju'rior, although the surface
is much higher, are all from thijir vast
• depths ni a level with the bottom of On- i
tario. Now ns the discharge through
the Detroit river, after following all the
prolxible portion carried off by evajxini
tion.doea not appear by any means equal
! to the quantity of water whicli the three
upper lakes receive. It has been oou
joctod that n siititorraneiui river may mu
from Lake Superior, by the Huron, to
laiko Ontario. This conjecture is not
impossible, and account* for the singular
fact tliat falraon and herring are eaught
in all the lukes oommunicsting with the
St. Lawrence, but no others. As the
falls of Niagara must have nl waysr minted,
it would puzzle the naturalist to say
how these flsli got into tlio upper lake
without some subterranean river ; more
over, any periodical observation of the
river would furnish not improbable
solution of tlie mysterioustlux antireflux
of ths lakes.
An Economical Mourner.
A gentleman dressed in all-black pre
sented himself, one day, at the bo* office
of the Theater Oomique, in Paris.
" Madam," said he to the ticket agent,
with tear* in hi* eyes, " I wish a box in
order to place therein the body of my
wife at the moment when the ' Requiem'
of M. Verdi is played." " Why," cried
the stupefied ticket agent, " is your wife
dead I" " Yes ; I lost her yesterday,
and I thought that a reqniem would cost
me less here than at the church ; and
then would permit me to hear the work
of M. Verdi.
The ** Fever Tree."
The eucalyptus, or Man gum tree of
Australia, wee discovered by a French
I scientist, l,shill*rUer , who visited Vsm
|)k iiuui' Lsud in 1792. The great nun
uinl lientlty of the tree soou gave it S
iilmw ill Urn bnUuitvl gwtlfiiiul Europe.
; Its medicinal <puditi-, however, for
which It in now no famous, do not soeui
to lwve become known until nival thirty
yenrw *g<>. The colonists of Tnninniiin
luted it for n great variety of purjmeea,
but were ignorant of it* power an an
antiseptic. Thia wan apparently dis
covered in Hpaiu. 1 n-I HtkJ the neighbur
hooil of the city of Valentin waa planted
with the eucalyptus. A marked iia*
iiioveuient in the healtlifulueaa of the
locality followed. The H|auitarda forth
! with dubbed it the "fever In*." It
wan noon afterward introduced into
Algeria, the climate of which seeuied
i-p.j -ecially adapted to it. It may be
fairly aaid to be naturalized there, at
the Cape of Good Hope, in the 1m Plata
S talon of Bouth America, and in Cali
fornia.
After a trial for many year* iu southern
Prance, it haa failed, an a rule, to be
come hardy, or to suck up and destroy
the {Miinonoua vapors of Uie warn pa in
which it was planted. The few dozen
I specimens planted within the walla of
lUunc are nearly all alive, but very few
of them are vigorous. Within a year or
two the Truppisl tuoiika at the Trr Fon
lane convent have act out large plants
I tiona of the tree®, and are tending them
with the utmost care. Thia may be
j fairly looked upon aa a decisive expert
meut. The place known aa the Tre Fon
! tan®.- tlie 1 hree Fountain*—lies some
| uiiliwaouth of Home, uxid u the aeat of a
magniiloent monastery. Yet ita climate
la ao deadly that the splendid building*,
rich in mosaics, marbles and freacoea,
are wholly deserted during the summer.
Trying to lire in them then would be
certain death. If the blue gum tree
makes the Tre Fontane healthy, it can
be relied uu to do the name work any
where else, Ita record as tut antiaeptic
and disinfectant is alranly a good
] one.
The districts iu which it i* indigenous
are healthy, and thuw into which it 4ias
j been transplanted and iu which it haa
I thriven liave become healthy. A few
i utiles from the city of Algiera there was
a farm which was noted for ita dAadly
fever*. Life on it in July was almost
i impossible. In the spring of 1867
thirteen hundred eucalyptus wereplanted
there. They were nine fart high by the
next July, iutd not a case of fever ap
I-cored. Nor baa one appeared since.
Near (< install tine, Algeria, there wero
: vast swam \m, never dry even in the hot
test summers, and it*ductivc of violent
jw-riodic f.vera. About fourteen thou
sand eucalyptus trees dried up every
•quart? foot of swamp and killed the
fever. Mai>*>u Came, near llauasrh,
a-as once a great market few quinine.
I'he demand for that drug has ceased
lince the blue-gum tree was planted
there. Mercantile books are aaid to
| show a similar decline in the amount of
quinine consumed in Mexico and Cut si of
late, and a similar cause is given for it.
A very unhealthy railroad statiou in the
dejiartuieut of Yar, soutlicrn France,
lias beau made healthy by a grove of
forty of those remarkable trees.
lhc Perfection of Diet.
If all the Ikxrumg house keepers could
Is- successful iu getting auch patrons as
j a man living at c'uthtiert, Ot', there'd
! Ih' more money in the Isiarding house
buaim-ss than in cutting off coupons
from some railroad booda. The charac
ter of this Cuthbert man came to light
recently through an advertisement in
the rikwspapMS, where it was proposed
to furoisli, fr five dollar*, a recijs*
teaching one how to live ou thirty-seven
oenta a week. The Cuthbert man. now
j sixty-four years old, read the advertise
ment and lw-oamo indignant, asserting it
to be sln-er extravagance for one to
j spend so much a week, and making pub-
Ins the fact that his own provisions cxwt
him not to exceed ten dollars a year.
Ilia process is simple, and is published
for the benefit of civilised humanity.
He has not taken a drink of liquor for
over a quarter of a century ; he never
drunk a cup of coffee in his life, or ate a
! pound of meat of any kind. He has no
| recollection of ever* taking a dose of
medicine or consulting a physician. He
can walk fifteen or twenty miles as
quickly as any young man in the coun
try ; i* a uati of family, and a model of
' moral am! physical health. The secret
of his diet is that it is plain corn bread
and vaiti-r, a diet which he asserts a man
■ becomes accustomed to and will be tlior
j onghly satisfied with. Such a man is
i this t leorgia model, aud such hi* a<lvioe.
Undoubtedly he is wise, too, bid it is
j difficult imagining a pleasant sound in a
dinner horn repeating day after day and
; year after year the same old story of
corn bread and water.
- , - ■ —-
llow He Prepared for Ilnty.
When F.ph W. was elected constable
up in Wayne township, Ohio, it was a
sensation to him, and he conld hardly
I realise it. It awakened visions of war
and Woodshed, and lie determined hi
put himself on a war footing. Wouldn't
: lie have to command the peace ? And .
[ wouldn't ho liavo to bring the whole ;
jHiwer of the army anil navy to effort J
this purpose, if it were necessary f Then
he procured a horae pistol, and aecunug
a copy of a "warrant" he rejauml to
the forest, took a position under hia
vine and fig tree, as it wore, whero nouo
ilaro moh st him or mako him afraid,
aud selecting a Ixs-cli tree a foot in di
ameter, bo reml the document to it in a
loud voioe whioli fairly made the fort-si
tremble. "Hold! you scoundrel!" he
crieil, "one foot more, and I'll blow
vottr brains out Then bang wont the
horae pistol, but he missed the tree
every time. _
A Test Paso.
Borne years ago s German named
Bteinelierg came to the United Stab*
and became a naturalised citizen. Dur
iug his residence here aou was born to
him. When this son was ten years of
age, Steineheig returned to Germany
and n-sumed nllegianee to the Gorman
empire. Irately the mm, who is twenty j
years of age, was drafted into the Ger
man army. He disputed the right of
Germany to exact military service from
liitn, asserting that he was by birth an
American citizen, and appealed to the
Htate department for protection. Young
Bteinel>crg asserts that he never re
notuiced his eitizensliip, aud argues that
ltis removal from the Tuitod States was
beyond his control. The ease lias been
referred to the attorney general, aud is
considered by him one of great import
auee and intricacy.
The New Postal Card.
The post-office department has adopt
od u new design for postal cards, pre- !
pared at the printing department of the j
treasury. Ou the upper left-hand corner
is the monogram U. 8., across which,
in a scroll, are the words "postal card."
On the upper right-hand corner is the
stamp, nearly square, instead of elipti
cal, the sides of the stamp beiug com- j
posed of fasces and the top and bottom
of the I wind scrolls, the top one having
the legend "U. 8. postage," the lower ,
one "one cent." Iu the center of the;
stamp is the profile of the Ooddess of
Liberty. It will be printed in black i
upon card-board of rati dr. Nile color, I
and will soon be ready for issue. I
Termßi: 0*2.00 a "Year, in Advance.
A lllg Knake Story.
f The Baltimore says that
a cotiaidcrabte consternation exists at
1 preeent among the people residing in
* the vicinity of Hall Springs, on the
s Harford road, about two miles from Hal
timore, owing to storiea about the ap
r |x-rauor of a very large snake in the
a neighborhood. Those who think they
Y have seen his NUakeship say that he u
a fully fifteen feet long, about eight inch**
, in diameter, and two feet in atratm
i fereuee. lis was seen, it is said, on the
>- place of Mr. J. F. Lee, the owner of Uie
i llive mill. The snake pawed through
1 the garden, ami came within a hundred
feet of the stable. Its track was after
b ward measured by Mr. Lee, who states
- i iia diiuoiuaona to be eleven and a half
I inches in width in the narrowest place,
j and about fifteen inches in the
1 Mr. Is**'* place is a short distance lie™
k yond Hall Hpringa, and is located on
t ilie east bank of Herring ltun. On the
* west bank, opposite the dam, there is a
- | large ruck, with a sort of cave under
uealh. This is thought to be the den
i of the monster snake, who lias been
- | noticed ou several < KMasidns in the woods
t near by. The miller in the employ of
i Mr. Lee says that s few days before he
i j noticed the suske lying, apjaut-ntly
f asleep, under the breast of the dam.
r He apprised Mr. Lee, on the latter's re
r turn from the city, of the fact, who
- scarcely believed the story. The visit
of the snake to his place, however, thor
i oughly convinced Mr. Lee that the
! suake'in reality existed, aud was one of
i unusual proportions. This gentleman
- 1 avers that a snake of the man described
■ has thecapscity of swallowing a calf four
i or five weeks old, and that S lxy or girl
* , ten or twelve years of age would be a
. mere mouthful. Mr. Lee stale® that he
, is willing to give SSOO for the capture of
. the snake olive, or in lieu thereof $25
s to any one who will kill it. Beveral at
* tempts have been made to kill the
i i snake anil have failed, for the simple
- { na*on that the parties making the at
? tempts, ou coming serons it sod noticing
1 its huge proportions, incontinently fled.
The superintendent of the turnpike
company was walking in the woods s
i few day* ago when lie met the snake,
s He rushed from the spot, and never
r slackened his niecd until lie reached
the door of his domicile. His nervous
r system was ao terribly shocked that he
t haa not yet entirely recovered. Beveral
; other persons have seen the snake, and
1 the stories that art- afloat about it have
been productive of a great deal of ex
citement and comment in the neighbor
. hood of Hall Hpringa. It is understood
i that on effort will lie made in a few days
- to cajituro the snake. It is proposed to
t fasten a strong chain, with a sharp hook
- attached, to a tree in the neighborhood
r of the den. On the hook will be placed
a live chicken. The snake, it is con
fidently expected, will go for the chicken
. and take in the sharp hook as well,
1 which, it is thought, will insure its
I capture.
The ( athedral at ( nicest .
: Of all Gothic building*, the plan of
the cathedral at Cologne is the meet
" stupendous; even ruin as it is, it can
nut fail to excite surprise and adinira
■ lion. The legend concerning its plan
may not lie known to every one. It is
related of the inventor of it, that in de
spair of finding a plan sufficiently great,
he was walking one day by the river,
sketching with hia stick upon the wuul
when he finally hit upon one which
pleased him so much that he exclaimed ; 1
" That ahull be the plan."
" I will show you one Is lter than
that!" said a voioe In-hind him, and a
certain black gentleman, who figures in
j many German legends, stood by him
and "pulled from hia pocket a roll con
taining the present plan of the catbednd.
Till- architect, amazed at ita grandeur,
asktxl an explanation of every port. Aa
he knew,liis soul was to be the price of
it, bo occupied himself, while U e devil
was explaining, in eommittirg its pro
portions carefully to memory. Having
done this, he remarked it dul not please
him, and he would not take it. The
devil, seeing through the cheat, ex
claimed in his rage :
" You mav build your cathedral ac
cordiug to this plan, but you shall never
finish it.
This prediction seems likely to be veri
fied, for though it was commenced in
1248 and continued two hundred and
fifty years, only the nave and choir and
one tower to half it s proper height are
finished.
The Black Hills Country.
A ixurespondent of tlui New York
IfrraJd, who gives the result of iiis ob
servations in a letter from Oanip Harney,
Eseuts a lively picture of the Black
la region, and makea it too evident
that the gold houters who ijv thronging
thither are the dupes of their too san
guine expectations. That there is a gold
tract there is quite true, hut though ex
tensive in area, it is so deficient in yield
that the driver of a horse car or a laborer
on our public works at the present re
duced wages is in receipt of a better in
come than the most fortunate .if those
who have gone so far and risked so much
in quest of gold among the Black Hills, j
The wild and wonderful accounts, by
; which multitudes of sanguine adventur
j or* were set craxy, have been proved an
i utter delusion, mid it is to be regretted
that they aie paying so dear for this ex
perience. Tb-v are still led on from
place to place, but the " pay streak " is
aln-nys "over yonder," and, like an ignis
faluu *, it is never reached bv the delud- \
c! pursuers. There is no gold to be had
by mere washing or sifting that is worth
the labor of collecting, and whether the
amount nnlwslded in quarts rock is suf
ficient to justify a heavy outlay for ma
chinery can le determined only by scien
tific explorations. _
The Helta of the Mississippi.
Captain Hades haa had compiled for
his especial use the following interest
ing and scientific data concerning the j;
Mississippi rivar, the work at whose
mouth he can tie said truthfully to have
already lioguu : 1. Quantity of water
discharged by the river annually, 14,-
888,9G0,b8P,880 cubic feet; 2. Quantity
of sediment discharged auuually, 28,- |
188,088,892 cubic feet; 8. Area of tlie j
delta of the liver, acconling to Prof.
Lyell, 13,(5K1 square miles; 4. l>epth of
the delta, according to Prof. Ridden,
1,056 feet; 5. Tlie delta, therefore, con
tains 400,378,42i,440,000 cubic feet, or
2,720 cubic tuiles; 6. It would require '
for the formation of oue cubic mue of 1
the deltif, five years and eighty-one I
davs; 7. For tlie formation of one square •
mile of the depth of 1,056 feet, 1
one year and lfij days; 8. For the for- 11
nmtiou of the whole delta it would re- '
auiie 14,568 4-6 years; 9. Tlie valley of '
:ie Mississippi from Cape Girardeau to 1
; tho delta is estimated to contain 16,000 1
square miles of 150 feet depth. It '
therefore ooutains 66,980,1(50,000,000
cubic feet, or 454 cubic miles.
BKMPINfI Hratt Irok.—lt is now 1
possible, by the aid of hydraulic ma- 11
ciiinery, to bend iron shafts of twelve , 1
I inches in diameter to any desired shape. ; 1
Incredible as this statement may seepi >'
to some, crank shafts are now so made, '
instead of by tho alow, laborious and ex-
I*ensivo method of forging. The bent
shafts are also said to be much better
than forged ones, from the fact that the 11
I fllier of the metal runs in one direction 11
| continuously, whereas in • forged enes it j i
I is often across tlie line strain. ' i
NO. 31.
The IViti *f (Jn, ItPhmw.
t Coiuiderabto interest ha. been evincac
lately relative to the manner of tlx
i ; death of Oeu. Mcpherson before Atlanta.
> (5a pt. IWtard, of Uia UonfaiknU army,
. Dow publishes a tUUmutul relative to th
matter, in which h says; We war*
i j placed iu line of Ijottle about twelve oi
r one o'clock in the day. and the Lwt oadtti
i given by (ten. Pat. Gtebuxbe to us, w
11 to move forward, torn neither to tlw
I right baud nor to the left, until we wort
i within the enemy'a bmaatworha
t j Hhortljr afterward a heavy and rapid
i cannonading commenced, from what Wt
| j supposed to be Gen. Hate's division,
which aunonnoed too clearly that the hall
i *m about to open in good earnest,
f Under the excitement aroused lOr it, wc
commenced a double-quick through •
— f> neat covered with dense ondertmuh.
* Here we ran through a hue of akimtiah
i | era, and took them in, without the firing
i j of a gun, and suddenly came up to the
, edge of a little waguu road running
parallel with our liu of march, and
i down which Gen. McPbemon aune
thundering at the head of hi* stall, and,
i aoootding to my beat remiltestion, hh
f body guard. He had evidaotfy just left
> the laid conference that he ever mid with
' Gen. Hherman, war the Howard Honor,
and waa on bin way to aee what the rapid
and audden firing upon hia left all
i i meant.
Gun. Hherman is certainly niititakcfi.
j in hia memoirs, when ha my* that h*
i , waa almost, tf not entirely, alone, for 1
f estimated hia rank entirely by the sue*
i of hia retinue, and in that eat made ]
| • fixed hia rank at nothing teas than a
norpa commander w ■ "^aiiliinlflf
I staff with him, and, according to mi
, lawt recollection, a body guard followed
i i him.
f He waa certainly surprised to find him
, self suddenly (son to face with the mbei
Una. My own company ami noatdbly
i others of the mgimeut had reached the
i isrge of the road, when be discovered,
for the flrwt time r that he waa within a
■ few feet of where we stood. I threw up
my sword to him as a signal to soman
. tier. Not a word waa spoken. H*
checked his horse slightly, raised hia ha!
aa politely aa if he was nutating a lady,
• wheeled hia horse's head directly to the
right, and dashed off to the rear in a fall
i' gallop. Young Corporal Coleman, whe
II ana standing near me, waa ordered tc
j fire upon him. He did ao, and it was
hia ball that brought Urn. McPberson
down. He was shot passing under the
thick branches of a tree, and aa he ana
bending over hia horse's neck, either tc
avoid coming in contact with the limbs
or, more probably, to aaoape the death
> | dtssUug bullet of the enemy that he
knew waa sure to follow him. He was
aliot in the beck, and, aa Slserman aw
in his memoir*, "the ball ranged npwmd
acron the body and passed near the
heart."
A number of shots were also fired into
hi* retreating staff. ,
I ran immediately up to where the
dead general lay, just as be had fallen,
upon his knees "and face There was not
a ijuirvr of hia body to be seen, not a
sign of life perceptible. The fatal bul
let hail done its work welL He had
been killed instantly. Even as he lay
there, drerned in hi* major-general'*
uniform, with hia face in the dust, he
was as magnificent s looking picture of
manhood aa 1 ever aaw.
Right by his aide lav a man, who, if at
all hurt, was but slightly wounded, but
whose liorae had been wot from under
him. From his appearance I took him
to be the adjutant or inspector (federal
of the staff. Pointing to the dead man
1 asked him: " Who is this lying brae I"
He answeml, with tears in hia eyes:
"Sir, it is Gen. McPhereon. You have
killed the brat man iu our army." This
was the first intimation that we had a*
to who the officer waa and aa to his
rank. _
A Filing Insert.
In all the allusions in your paper tc
the potato bog—the Colorado beetle—
asys a Tribune correspondent, I have
not seen it stated that these insects fly
in great numbers like the grasshoppers
of the West It is a fact, and I know
not why they cannot swam over the
whole country. In the summer of 18<J7
1 resided at Belvidero, 111., having
charge of a church. In pursuance of
my duties I called on a fanner named
Froorn, who lived about two miles north
of that city, and found Mrs. Froorn in
great trepidation, caused by the arrival
of a vaet army of these bugs. Hearing
the hum of their wings, she weut to the
door and saw what sue took to be an im
mense swarm of bera. Bbe seised a tin
pan and began to drum upon it vigor
ously to cause the swarm to alight It
did "alight, covering the ground, the
house, the barns, the fences, and 'nut
trees. There were millions of them.
When she saw the nature and extent of
her swarm she was disgusted and refused
ito furnish hives for thom. They did not
mem to like her potatoes or her want of
hospitality, and left the next morning
for bettor foraging grounds iu the neigh
borhood of Chicago.
The Fate of a Showman's Famitj.
The French papers are filled with in
cidents of the late flood of the Garonne,
and among others is one to the effect
that on tlte survivors searching among
, the debris for bodies, they came njxw
the van of a traveling showman, which
hail been carried down by the current
Iwrely injured. The company inhabit
ing it had not time to eerajw from their
itinerant dwelling. An unfortunate
watchdog, chained to the axle, waa bat
tered almost into a pulp. All the
"traps" were stowed sway iu baskets,
covered with tarpaulin, which served as
beds to the drowned players, and came
out fresh and gaudy in the midst of the
wrecked objects. A little girl, supposed
to have been a dauoer, bad not washed
her face ou going to bed, aud the Ver
million was bright as if baked in fast
colors upon her ghastly cheek. The
female giant, with a pair of artificial legs,
to which her feet were strapped, was in
her tinsel crown and dress of common
cotton velvet She and her hnsband
had probably sat up late, and were only
thinking of divesting themselves of their
finery when s wave swept over the plain,
aud iu its recoil drew thorn into the cen
tral current
' 1
A Strange Story,
There is a young colored woman in
Oskaloosa, Kansas, who has a strange
history, if the story told by herself and
friends be trne. She is called Maggie
Adams, and is übont seventeen years of
age. Until recently she had lived with
a family named Allen, iu the south part
of the county, who came from Missouri
to Kansas. During all the years since
the war she lias been in a state of slavery,
receiving nothing for her work, being
compelled to do washing, etc., for
various families, allowed no books or op
portunitiei for learning, and kept in ig
norance of the fact that she was no
longer a slave. Khe was kept so jealously
guarded that she kuew nothing what
ever of the abolition of slavery, and was
only enlightened and her release pro
cured by a young colored man who some
how learned of the facts aud went to
work to have her set at liberty.
EAST RITE* BJUDOE. —The total ex
penditures thus far on the East river
bridge between New York and Brooklyn
are 85,445,445.19. The New Ysrk jyer
is not yet completed.
, Z • - •• *tw: i sild 8w
Of UHf* that runs from m.
And f rMfa oat hands o< tilnsWog,, ■
Awl latrMeh out hand* of praysr.jj
t Ana 1U passional* earastfag
Waste ay Ma mm tha air.
ta my vara lbs WM rtvar
fling*, and matim up ta my (MM. 4H
But forever sad f<wir?w
It mm from my sstaraea.
Items f Intel-rat.
Tha Austrian femnderia* am ooouter-V
There in - '
Quits a jHwrsdoxicat-rvmark thai from 1
ii young lady just off a slm-jung <*r : i
"My berth was nearly the death of me, ,
Tha imraana* cannon now latin* con
structed at Woolwich will coal * tfa*
Rritiab government $2,500,000.
An apjatiite far intoxicating drinks
may b. cured, ft is said, by eating an
twangs every morning , before breakfast.
I A mistake of the type* caused an *n
, nouncement to read : " Thirteen Illia
- oi* railroad* are in the hands of de
■ gmnir
i A Canadian ran tend you his news
i ps,?er by mall to the States fur one cent
i postage, but it wtit oast the (States four
cents to return it to hint over the same
route.
1 The German udtuirally have deter
mined to adopt for the future, in con*
Btrurtuur ironclads, the praetioe prevail- *
ing in England and Russia of doolie ar-
The yj' thodUt is authority 0X %ht>
statement that Commodore VtiMerbiß .
—: UArtA AAA ML. * *-*
has gireu grtOO.OOO to toe ednratiooal
° institution in Tsnnuaasn which bears hia
1 A Kansas paper rays: A male kicked '
e an insurance agent in this place on the
I cLeuk the other day. The agent's cheek
„ was nninjured; the mole's hoof waa
h It appears that the terrible eptdemio
i. of measles in Fiji wa an early resoß of
I csviiiaatioD, as the disease waseommuni-
II rated to the nstivm from a British man- M
of-wan..
h The aevKu-ct'iii postage stamp has
? bran abolnihcl, and the too oent stamp
> will he printed in vermilion, that it may H
* be distiugniohed In color from the two- ra
1 cent stomp. I|l
* ' Dora giant fanning pay 1" asks the
SGbkago TMWK. If toe Tribunr really
wants ibforumtiou, it ought to go and
talk to the giants themaalvea. Tbeagri
t cultural papers can't know everything.
4 A person of Pike's peak, writing to
T Minnesota journal, says that the minera
f. are very diaccmraged in that region :
i they have to dig through a solid vein of
a ritecr tour fee* thick before they reach
p thegotiL
i Bamam has secured another fat
e woman. Her name ia Hann*—plain
>t Banna— and when she ssta down on a
t, chair the elephant moves around and
r hrams hta legs for the ooming earth-
Li <|ake torak
0 At the Grand fiapida fire, a woman
° threw a irathar bed oat of a asoondtaoiy
* window and then looked for her baby,
n but she could not find it until a man
* discovered the missing infant in the bad
* thrown out.
£ A Grand Trunk freight train was de
[. tainednear Koekwood, CWda, far half
* ® bom by graashoppew. They were '
1 over an inch thick an the rail, and
„ caused the wheels to slip as if running
j on grease. •
e There are in Berlin 1,906 manufacto
ries, of which 777 are worked by steam
0 power, twenty-eight by gas engines,
as van by air enginea, and the motive
a power of the remaining is supplied by
hand power.
* There was* gold mine in Cherokee,
Ga., a tew days ago. Alter a little of
the excitement subsided somebody dis
-1 covered that the deposit orsaswted of
[ gold foil stock sronna on the rocks with
macaisge.
f It is estimated that daring the months
of July and Aogw* there will be every
t clay torn i, 00 to 8,000 Amerioana srat
t tern! akNig the water from Niagara Falls
r to CUiooctiute, the bead of navigation of
i the Hagnenay river.
1 Who ran refrain from smiling at the
* story of tiie young lady who, after deliv
' ering s lecture in Bpringfu Id the other
* on " Drees Reform," went to
s at down, and couldn't get within six
* inches of the chair 1
Turkish authorities hare called the at
-1 rentioe of the English embassy to the
law of the Ottoman empire, prohibiting
the introduction of fire arm*. It is
rather hard on traveler*, who are thus at
the mercy of the numerous brigands who
infest the country.
White a man was standing in a drug
store in Providence, B. L, the other
dsy, a bottle containing soda water ex
ploded, and a fragment of tbo glass struck
his throat cutting a small artery. The
bleeding was no profane that a serious
| result was at first anticipated,
i This ie the season whan the careful
, housewife cute last week's paper into
strips, mounts them on top of a broom
| handle, and gone through the darkened
. dining room like the dertsoying angel,
| murmuring " sb-ah-eh," and waging
death and diMoiatio& to fifes.
L The Connecticut House has passed a
bill providing that all theaters, public
; hall*, churches, school buildings, fac
tor**, eto., where fitly or more persons
congregate, shall have all of their exit
doors open outward. A similar tew
should be passed in every State.
An important decision was recently ren
dered by the supreme court on the impor
tant question—What constitutes public
waters hi the United Btates t It was
held that navigability was the true test.
All navigable streams are, therefore,
j subject to governmental regulations,
j The roles of the New York public
hatha permit but one bath a day, and
that of but twenty minutes' duration,
and consequently the street boys are
hard preaaed for devices to deceive the
sharp-eyed superintendents. The most'
common " douge" is to wipe the hair
perfectly dry and daub mud on the face,
making them unrecognisable.
A new trick has been devised for the
idrertinment of patent mowing and reap
ing machines. All the agents in a cm
tain range of territory dub together,
after a good dgj of sales, give s grand
dinner to the buyers, and arrange a pro
cession through the principal streets of
u huge town, hi which the sold machines
play an important part. In plaoea
where it baa been tried the plan ia said
to attract as great • crowd as a circus.
That was a funuy instance of the
nbwuioc of mind on the part of the
Toledo editor quoting from rival paper
one of his own artiolca, and heading it
"Wretched Attempt at Wit." Such
instances of absence of mind are not un
common. Only a few days ago a Johns
town editor wis In New York, and pre
sented a check at Hie banking house of
Drexel & Co, aad upon the cashier
patting the usual question. " How will
you have itf" replied: "Gold, without
"sugar."
A rather good story is told of Miss
Annie Louise Gary by s Portland paper.
During a reoent stay in the city Miss
Gary was induced to enter s church choir
for a single evening and assume the so
prano part When: the. congregation
passed out, commenting on the voice of
the unknown singer, a lady who prided
herself on her musical taste' said, in an
swer tothe question of a friend : " I
think it ia one of that —— choir.
She hae a pretty good voice, but it lacks
cultivation sadly." >, . i;ro ,
In 1849 Harmon .Jang#, with fifteen
or twenty citizens of New Orleans,
started for California in search of gold.
The vessel they sailed fa hal never been
heard from. Recently, however, Mrs.
Jones' attention was called to an account
iu an English paper of the fiteoovery of
an unknown island iu the Pacific. In
the list of persons found there was the
name of Harmon Stones? frrnb New Or
leans. - -The man netted* to leave the
i *iaad,jaiytetipi thsfisikfi)tifEF family ties
w*re probably brojifa, sn&lhey did not
propose tiTjfarnite fC wliok Ijoat load of
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