Song.
I wore your roses Tretsrelay j
About this Ught rale's folds of while,
Wherein their gathered sweetness tay,
Rtill clings their perfume of delight.
And all in vain the warn wind swr*|is
These airy foWa lite vajxv fine.
Among them still the odor sloops.
And haunts me with a dream divine
So to my heart your memory clings,
So sweet, so rich, so delicate ;
Eternal snmraer-nme it brmga,
lie tying all the storm* of fate ;
A power to turn the darkness bright.
Till life with matchless beauty glows .
Each moment touched with tender light,
And every thought of you a rose 1
Hardly Earned.
To her humble room at last returned.
To seek for the reel so hardly earned.
The poor little teacher haa come.
She has patiently worked the long, long day.
To reed and to spell alio haa taught the way,
And unraveled many a sum.
She has guided the strokes of tiny hands,
Tracing winding rivers through foreign lands
Til all the leesona were said .
And the evening hour la here once more,
That comes when labor at last is o'er.
The weary struggle for hreed.
The heights of knowledge are hard to reach, {
And the tiny heads that she tries to teach.
How stupid they sometimes seen;"
Her heart is weary with toil and care.
And the aching head lies helpless there.
Watching the firelight's gleam.
The shadows fall on the tired eyea.
The hand of aleep on her eyelids lice—
There is reel for the toiler now;
The cheerful kettle its story speaks.
The finghght plays on the pallid cheeks.
Peace falls on the care-worn brow.
No friend or lover is waiting near.
No lips to kaas her. no voice to cheer,
Only the angel of aleep;
He comes to quiet the sorrowful moan
Of the womandiear that is all alone.
And his gentle watch to koep.
CRIPPY THE CABIN BOY.
Whatever were hia real name, sir, said
the old sailor, a* he settled himself back
comfortably in his chair after lighting '
his pipe, I never kuowyl; but the punier'*
name we knowd him by were " Crippy." j
Wherever the old man got him I don't
know; some said a* how he come of some '
asylam or other, and some said he were
a illegitimate son of the old man by
some stewardess that he'd had with him,
but that I don't believe, muse I don't
believe it's into any man to treat hi* owu
flesh aud blood as'l seen that boy treat
ed; but, anyway, he were a moat miser i
ble lookin' wretch when I first laid eyre
on him, which were when the old man
come on board in the arternoon. and we
got under way and towed dowu and
anchored in the Horseshoe, cause the
wind was southeast and dead ahead. She
were a big lump of a Rwk, bound from
New York to Rio,and I had shipped inU>
her muse I were hard up and times was
hard, and 1 were glad to git a chance to
go anywheres, and I didn't know notliiu
about this here old man; hi* name were
Thompson, and he were a infernal ras
cal.
I took my bag and hammock aboard
of her, alongside of the dock, and uie
and another chap by the name of Titn
Walker was the only two that went out
into the river with her; but durin' the
day the other five wa* brang off—there
was only seven of us afore the mast—
and along about four o'clock the old man
came off, and he brusg this atomy of a
boy with him, and we got the anchor
and towed down into the Horseshoe,
where we anchored at a little harbor
arter six o'clock.
If ever there were a human that looked
as if he'd just departed from a graveyard
it were this here Crippy. He were as
thin as the leaf of a psalm book in the
first place; he had red hair, which prob
ably had never been combed since the
day he were born ; one of his eyes was
clewed athwartshijw and the other were
troubled with some kind of disease
which kep' it a-runnin' all the time, tin
grime from the eye constantly plowin' n
furrow m the dirt ou that cheek, which
give it a kind of a streaked apfiearauce
on that side, oontrastin' oddly with the
plain dirt of the other cheek. His nose
were short and turned up at the end, and
his mouth were so wide that when he
opened it the top of hi* head seemed to
be an island. Two of hi* front teeth
had been knocked out by the old man in
one of his tantrums, and he had one
upper task that ought to have been
knocked out, 'cause it stuck right out,
and no amount of lip would cover it.
His clothes were the cast-off dunnage of
the old man, and fitted him like a
purser's shirt on a handspike. Hi*
breeches, bein' a good deal too long, WHS
turned up at the botßm ; his weskit
reached well down amidships, and the
tails of his claw-hammer coat was only
jist clear of the deck when he walked.
As the old man came over the side, he
waited until this Crippy came over, and
then, fetchin' him a wipe alongside of
the head which made the poor boy stag
. ger, he piR-hed a bundle of pajx-r* to
him, tellui' him to stow 'em away in his
room, and to see everythiu' to right*
there, "and mini you, young whelp,"
says the old man, "if I find anythiu'
wrong there when I come below, you'll
catch it; so mind how you draw your
hair strokes."
I bail the watch from ten to eleven,
aud along about quarter past ten, as 1
were erittin' on the windlass end smokin'.
I heard the most ooartbly screechin'
alt, and I goes along for to see what were
the matter. The bark had a half poop
trunk cabin, and gittin' on to this, I
looked down the skylight aud there saw
this here Crippy strapped down to a
settee, and the old man a givin' it to him
with a small cat which he had made out
of ratlin stuff, and it were him a
screechin' that I hail heard. Well, sir.
of course, it weren't no business of
mine ; boys aboard of a ship must lie
flogged, if you ever exriects to make any
thin' out of 'em. and this here particular
boy seemed to belong more to the old
man than to the ship ; still, I must say,
I felt a good deal like goin' in and liol
lerin' " enough " to the old man, 'cause
it seemed to me he were a-givin' him a
little too much, no matter what he had
done wrong. Well, arter whalin' him
till he got tired, the old man went and
turnec' .n, leavin' the poor boy strapped
face down to the settee, and there lie
were when I were relieved at eleven
o'clock, and there ha remained, I were
told afterwards, till the steward turned
oat in the mornin' and loosened him aud
net liim to work. Ho could scarcely
Btaud up when the steward cast him
loose, 'cause he were still from remainia'
in one position aud sore from the
wallopin' he'd had, and so the steward
he had to cuff and best him a little to
make him more spry.
Well, sir, we got under weigh next
day with a crackin' breeze from nort i
west, and in two or three days was
ont across the Golf and into fine weather.
But their weren't no fine weather for
na aboard that hooker; it were work all
day and miserable grub and constant
abuse from the officers. I come early to
grief, cause I weren't need to snch treat
ment, and when the second mate give
me a chut side of the head for to make
me move faster, I jist hauls off and lets
him have one atwixt the eyes that laid
him out senseless for a time. Well, the
mate he came for'ard, and I jist told him
for to keep his hands off of me; that if I
had done any wrong I'd go in irons, and
so be pat me in irons, and I were locked
np in one of the staterooms. I weren't
kep' long though, cause I were in the
second mate's watch, and there were only
three of ns, and takin' me out left but
two, and the second mate had for to do
my share of the work, which he didn't
like, so he got me let ont after twenty
four hours. The old man, he says: " I
ought for to keep you in irons to the end
of the v'yage, and then hand you over to
the oonsul, but as I needs your services,
1 will let you turn to if you will promise
to behave." Says I: " Captain Thomp
son, I has been into ships to which this
here bark ain't fit to be nothing but a
jolly-boat, and I haa always behaved my-
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. VIII.
self aatiafaoßvry. The work aboard of
this croft 1* hard and linnibuggin', ami
tho grub is poor and abuse frequent;
*ll tlu%t ! mn stand, wul tumn to, till
aioh timm a* I mn change, hut blows 1
won't stand, neither frotn you nor your
officer*, and if you eliooaoe to lot sue out
of iron* onto Item tortus well and good,
I'll do mv duty; and if not, not." So
on that i worn lot out of irons, ami
though tho second mate gave lue all tho
dirty job* to >lo tluit ho could think of,
ho liiiln't novor strike tuo no uioro.
Well, air, it would take mo too long
for t*> toll you of all tho crtolti a I aeeu
practiced onto tlua Drippy. Tho old
mail aeemxl to lie delighted if ho could
tuily Uiruiout tlua }>oor txiy. Ho woro
mortally timid, aud thoy uaed for to
uiako htm go out onto tho oinl of tho
M|*uiker-boom when alio were uitchin",
and rido it for lioura. They called that
" riditi' St. Anthony." Sometime* in
wry light weather they'd head liini up
in a laurel, cnttm' a hole for hia head to
come through, and thou liallaatin' the
liarrel aud cliuekin' it overboard, a mak
in' believe thoy wa a goin' U> leave hiui
for g'XH.I and all, and then, arter leavin'
him away aateru, the old man would
lower a boat and pick him up. Some
timed when ahe'd on goin' two or ill roe
knots the old man would have a whip
rove at the maiu yardarm. and ho would
bend tho end of it uuto Crippy jist uu
dor hia arms and run him out over the
aide. He'd first let him drop three or
four times into the water, aud then he'd
run him about half way to the yard
arm aud leave him swingin . It weren't
that there wore any thin' very laid in those
deviltries, except for the mortal terror
the* gave to tho lad, and hia acreeehiu'a
wore jist awful to hear at these timea.
I dou't believe any liekin' the old man
ever giv' him were half as had as those
frighta that he got
Well, to cut this here abort, we got to
Rio at last, arter a very lung passage,
which I thought would never cud, and
arter dischargiu' we hauled in abreast of
the coffee warehouse for to git our load
of coffee. I determined that I wouldn't
go no further into that craft, but as Rio
are a bad place for to run away in I had
arranged it with a old chum of mine
aboard of the hark Margaret, wliat had
got her load and were bound to Balti
mors, for to stow me away atioard of
her. The night I went aboard of her I
had the anchor watch front twelve to
one, aud I got all my dunnage into my
tiag and were jist a goin' over the side
with it when who ahonld appear before
me but this here Crippy. " You're
goin' for to runaway,' says he. "O,
take me with you, Tom; take me with
you, for (.rod's sake 1" And the little
atomy flopped dowu on lu knee* on the
deck afore me, as if I'd lieen his guar
dian all my life. I were completely took
aback, for it were one of the old mail's
rules that this here chap weren't never
to speak to us chaps afore the mast, aud
this here mite liad never had so much to
say to me afore. However he got to
know I ware a-goin' I can't say, but here
ho were dowu on the deck afore me a
beefcechin*, and I tell you what it is, sir,
I jist felt that I'd stand to thst boy till
the last drop of my blood if necessary.
If I couldn't stand thst craft, how much
more couldn't he, that had so much
more to bear ? And I says to him:
" Take yon with me ? Of course I will,
my boy; and I'd jist like to see the man
as would try for to stop me," and I felt
uncommon like whaiw' somebody jist
then.
Well, sir, we goes aboard of the Mar
garet, and we finds my chum, who were
a wtutin' for me. He were rath-r Rok
aback when be seed Crippy, but I telled
him enough about the boy for to make it
right, ond we were stowed away auug
down inßi the fore peak. I were told
arterwards that the old man liad all the
Eilice of Rio at work for to hunt u* up.
e didn't core so mnch for mo a* for the
IIOT; he wanted him, and pro mi*.-d vome
thin' awful in the way of whalin' if he
caught him, which he never didn't do no
more. The day arter we got R> sea 1
come out and 1 goes to tlie mate and
says I: " I'm a stowaway alxionl of your
ship, sir, but I'm a geod sailor man, and
can oru my grab. I've got a chap with
me that won't eat mnch, even if he can't
do much work, and I'm williu' for to do
hi* share of work a* well a* my own.
We've left the liark we w. re in becau*i
nhe were a hell afi. at," and I tips and 1
tella this mate of the way I'd seen Crippy
abused. Well, wotlid you believe it,
sir, I actually struck a noft spot into this
here mate, and he cottoned right to tliat
boy at once, and say* he: " You've
done jist right, my man, and I'm glad
for to have you atioard; I'U take that
boy aft and let him take care of mv
room, and that'll lie eay work for him." j
The next time I seed Crippy, air, I
hardly know'd him. He'd got hi* face
washed clean, and the mate had rigg. d
him out complete in a a. t of his Riggerv.
It were rather large for Crippy, but it
done hettrr than the rag* he had lieen a
weariu'. The boy got Ri lie a great fa
vorite, both with the mate and the old j
man; he were snch a willin' chap, and in
conseqnenoe of my tmngin* hiin I had
good, cay times of it, and when we got
to Bultimore the old man offered for Ri
k ep Crippv and make a man of him;
but the lad had suffered so mnch at sen
that he were determined he would
f-tarve Ri death on shore afore ever he'd
go on blue water agin; so the old man
he shoved him off ouR a panmn in Hal
tirnore, and here I lost sight of him,
'cause I shipped in a brig that were
goin' R> Montevideo for hi.l-, aud went
away to sea. —iY'ei# York World.
Oat Meal for Children.
M. Dujardin bo* been experimenting
with oat meal a* a food for young chil
dren. He made use of a jelly prepared
by soaking a tablcspoonfnl of the meal
in a glass of waR-r for twelve hours, then
straining throngh a sieve and bolting till
the whole assume* the consistence of
jelly, and adding sugar or salt to taste
According to analysis, one hundred
grammes of the m*al contains 8.7
grammes of waß*r. 6.7 of fatty matters,
2.5 of starch, 12.5 of nitrogenou* mat
ters, 1.5 of mineral Knbatanoe*, and 7.6
of cellulose, dextrine and lon*. It*
nutritious value, therefore, a* food for
children, in regard Ri nitrogenou* or
plastic element*, and such a* are respira
tory, in analogous to that of human milk
or cow's miik. Besides these, it con
tain* more iron than do most of the arti
cles of food. Four newly-born infants
were fed with the preparation just de
seriljed, and in every wui with satin
factory results. In addition to its quali
ties a* food, it act* efficiently against
colic and diarrhea. It ent r* into the
composition of the syrnp of Luther,
which in naid R> lie mnch uned in Ger
many. M. Gillette, surgeon of the hos
pital of Meluu, has also given oat meal
combined with cow's milk to nix children,
and find* it to be a valuable food in cane*
where the natural supply of milk is de
ficient.
Very IHrty.
The English colliers must he a nice
set of men. At a recent meeting of a
local board the question of providing
public baths wa* raised, when one of the
members said he liad heard of a collier
who boasted that he had not been
washed all over for thirty years. An
other gentleman said the colliers avoided
washing, as thev thought it weakened
them ; while still another said the men
would rather pay five dollars on a dog
fight han twelve cents for a bath.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
SKA SKIII'KNTS.
The Ureal l'rkbllll itial Ike Mlorlea
afceut Tkrtu are Mel all Sallara' V araa.
The Philadelphia Rvetnny RitUctin
publishes an account of a sea nerpeut
seen by a geutleiuau whom it describes
as " well kuowu ami reliable. ' His story
is that while the steamer Roman was on
her wav from lloston to Philadelphia,
and was near the lighthouse UU the ex
tremity of Capo Cod, lie aud oilier, had
their attention called to what they at
Aral supposed to tie s shark, as a small
but short dorsal flu ams-ared above the
water, hut afterward* had reason to be
lieve was a sea serpent. Hoing attacked
by a swordAnh, it raised its flat and tor-
Rust -like head fully ten feet out of the
water, vlius giving the party an oppor
tunity of observing it more closely. It
hail a dorsal and several lateral flu*,
looked slimy, and was covered with large
and tviarse" scales. About four week*
before this occurrence tin* animal had
first been seen near Cape Cod, and sev
eral wlisle boats had been filß-d out to
capture it. They estimated its length to
tie about sixty feet, but the pilot said
that it had ruu alongside of the lvowau a
few weeks previously and that theu its
length was thought to tie at least oue
humlresl and tweuty feet.
This account, which is evidently given
in good faith, recalls the numerous
storms of enormous sea oerpeuta which
have long formed a large part of the
stock of the old wilt when Bpinuing yarns
in the forecastle, as well as of others
who are naturally aupposed R> adlmre
to the truth more closeiv tiuui sailors do.
But the testimony which should lead R>
the belief that sea serjmnts do in reality
exist is not to be cavalierly set aside ex
cept for very much better reasons than
have ever been brought forward. It is
not contrary to esperiaooe that enor
mous marine animals should exist ; we
know that they exist now, an I some
gigantic foseils show that at one period
of the earth's history they atwnuided in
great numliera. There is much direct
Rwtimony to their existence in modern
times. On August 6, 1848, H. M. 8.
Dwdalua, on her wiv from the Ca|>e of
Good Hope to St. Helena, came aero**
a sea serpent. Captain Medullar and
the officers observed it witli glasses at s
distance o: six hundred feet and distinct
ly traced its eye, mouth, nostril, and
form ; it resembled an animal of the
lizard type rather than a serpent, and its
movement wa* steady, rapid, and uni
form, a* if projielled by this rather than
by uudulating power. The size seemed
to be enormous, but as only a part of
the animal was out of wR*r no correct
estimate could be made of its length.
On the Pith December, 1857, the ship
Caatiliau, honml from Rooilwy Ui Liver
pool, and being twelve miles from St.
Helena, passed a sen mounter which is
tlias deecribed by Captain O. H. HOT
ringUiu, Mr. W. Daviea, and Mr. K.
Wheeler, the three chief officers of the
ship :
YVlnle myself and officers were stand
iug ou tlie leiwide of the poop, looking
R>wnrd the islatul, we were startlel tiv
the sight of a huge marine animal, which
reared its head out of the waR-r within
twenty yards of the ship, when it sud
denly disappeared for about half a min
ute and theu made it* appeanuire in the
some manner again, showing ns distinct
ly its neck and head about ten or twelve
feet ont of waß>r. Its head wa* sliaped
like a long uun-baov, and I suppose the
diameter Ri have been wveu or eight
feet in the largest jart, with a kind of
scroll or tnft of loime skin encircling it
abont two feet from the top. The water
was discolored for several hundred R-et
from lb* heal, so much so that on its first
appearance my impn*ion was that the
ship was iu brokeu waR-r; but the six*
•nd appearance ouuipleß-lv dispelled
those fears, and assured us that it was a
monster of extraordinary length, which
ippeuiil to be slowly moving toward the
bind. Tlie ship wa* going too fast to en
able us to reach the masthead in time
to form a correct estimate of its ex
treme length, but from what we saw
from tho deck we conclude that it must
have lieen over two hundred f>et long.
• • lam convinced tliat it Iwlonged
to tli* serpent trilie; it was of a dark
color about the bead, and was covered
with several white spots.
Bet ween 1814 and 1846 tliere were
several reported aiqu-wranoe* of this
monster in tlie seas fronting the United
States and Canada, aud at almut the
same period a similar creature WHIJ seen
uear tho shore* of Norway, considered
as identical with one depicted in Pon-
Rippidan's " Natural Hisßiry of Nor
way." Twenty year* liefore sneb a ser
pent had Is-en repeatedly seen on the
•-oast of the United Staß-*, aud also
about 1806 and 1818. The accounts
given of hucli sights are consistent, and
there seems R> be no e-.ntlily reaaon for
rejecting them, except Isswuse they
sonml like sailors' yarns, which aro no
Riugher than traveler*' tales, such as
that of Dn Chaillu when be R>ld of the
•lisoovery of tluU remarkable animal, the
gorilla, and was generally disbelieved.
Strictly speaking, the extsß-nce of enor
mous marine " seriM-uta" is not im
probahle, and this last report of one
seen will add to he credibility of tlie
older account*.
Feter IMet.
Dr. Jgiton, of Kheims, state* that for
tlie last four year* he ha* treated typhoid
by an ahsoluß' water diet. Nothing
but good fresh filß-ritl water, occasion
ally iced, is |M>rmitted to lie taken. At
first, he says, it is taken with aridity,
then in moderation, and at last with
signs of satiety; it is sometimes vomited
at first, tint i* soon Rilcrated; at tho be
ginning of the treatment the bowel*
may tie a little relaxed, but they soon
liecome moderate and less offensive, and
after a time constipation may ensue.
The duration of this treatment depends
u |ion the progress of the disease; tliat
in, between four and five day* of waß>r
exclusively may lie required, if the
fever be treaß-d a* a whole, lint three
or fonr days suffice if only the intestinal
element of the dineose lie considered.
A light alimentation may then lie allow
ed—milk, unboiled, may lie mixed with
the water and given hv spoonful*, and if
well supported for a time, R> lie followed
by broth and soup. Under thi* treatment
the mortality is very low, no evil results
ensue, and serious complications, incln
ding visceral congestion* and bed sores
at onoe disappear.
Met hi* Death.
The way of the transgressor is hard,
but one of the most ntartling cases of
speedy punishment for crime in found
in the death of the supp<i*"d river thief
who wa* killed by the explosion and fire
on board the lighter, at Jersey City, N.
J. He ws* seen to go inß> the cabin of
the lighter and, it is supposed, lit a
match R> nee what plunder could lie din
covered, ignited the gas from the crude
oil and so sent himself and the tmat to
destruction. Later in the day hi*
charred and shapeless body wa* found
floating in the river, a shocking spoetaele.
There is something so horrible and swift
in this sudden meeting out of justioe tliat,
mayhap, it will have the effect of prov
ing a salutary lesson for other thieves.
ONE AT A TlME.— When Arthur wa*
a very small boy his mother reprimand
ed him one day for some misdemeanor.
Not knowing it, his father began to talk
to him on tne same subject. Looking
up in his faoe, Arthur said solemnly :
" Mother has 'tended to me."
CENTRE HALE, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1875.
Anxiety with a Substantial Koundatlnu.
A voting l*ly in Virginia writes the
New York Isdyrr a long, confiding 1 t
tar, exprmwive of deep anxiety springing
from a source which is not only rational
in itself, but which must l*< applicable
Ui many oases liesnles her own. She is
in love amt is engaged R> he married.
Her suiß>r desinw that the marriage
should take place the coining autumn.
She has no well grounded objection R>
this except one : She is afnud her future
husliautl will le disappointed when he
flints out how little she knows about
hounekcepiug ; " aud " she seimihly
adds, "if \ think lie is dissatisfied, of
course that will blight my liappuiesa.
There is nothing," site continues, " to
prevent our beiug married at any time,
with this exception."
We tliiuk this is an obstacle of a very
serious character, aud, a* agai.mt an iui
mediate marriage, issufficieiit. No young
woman ought R> get married until she
understand* every department of house
keeping. And "there is no excuse for
any oue not understanding housekeeping
in all its branches. The only thing in
the way of learning i* indolence ; for
oue opportunity or auotker r.iu always
be found or made.
The advice we give Ri our Hirre*|xii-
Jent is appropriate ti all other young
lodic* similarly situated. It i* to lenru
all about housekeeping as soou a* |i"*si
ble. it is a kind of kuowUnlge whieli
every ine uiay well lie proud. There i*
no art ii which woman eon (> iu-t.- u-<
fuL
Nor is it Ri be hxiked U|hiii as a mere
ly hutßpiiU, matter of fact business, by
any means. Far from it. Tln-re is good
nature, amiability, generosity in a gs-1
dinner ; and ih-re is rest, there i* quiet,
there is peace, tliere is contentment in s
well ordered house.
We would say to every engaged vuttitg
lad v : If you wish Ri retain the love and
admiration of your future husband, one
ini|Hirßuit step toward it is to excel iu
housekeeping.
A Fearful Mean* of Sating 1-lfe.
In the Fort Wayne Xentinrf mention
was made of a difficult and painful sur
gical operation jierformed upon the iwir
*on of Mr*. E'rank Co*well. Mr*. Co.*
well lias been troubled with symptoms
of curvature of the spine siuo- she was
fourteen years uf age- Ileosntlv th.-w-
Hvmptoni* have become marked, until
tLey excited the alarm of Mr. Caswell,
who sent Ri Boston for Dr. Rioharl*ou
to come Ri Fort Wayne and examine the
ease. The doctor amv.xl there, and,
U|h>d examinatioo, Statesi thst unless a
cure could lie effected, either parol run or
iu*auity would sjieedily ensue, ami jn-r
hap* di-ath. The jwtient was prepar. d
by projier applications *if medicine for
the ordeal, and ou a recent ofR-rnoou
the operation was accomplished by 1 (r*.
Rieliardnon and Dills of tliat city. Just
prior to this, cupping liad t>cru re*. >rt-d
to, n.l a large quantity of blood taken
from tin- spine. The operation coti*i*R d
of the burning of *ix hole* iu the spinal
column with red hot iron*, the conse
quent suffering being a* excruciating
juid ogoutxing a* could lie. Chloroform
was not administered internally, through
f.-ar that lockjaw might ensue, but was
applied externally for the spine ; hardly
sufficient, however, Ri diminish ajipreci
ably the intense anguish.
The patn-ist ha>l to be held tightly
while the Invited irons were force*! into
the quiveriug flesh. Mr*. Co*well is
uow in sn favorable a condition a*
oonld have been anticipated, although
suffering, a* might be expected, from
nervous prostration. Dr. Richardson
remain* coustaiillv witli her, a* it will
require a period of R-u days Ri deßr
-mine whetlier or not a perf.-ct cure lu*
lieeu effect.*l. The nperatiou is one of
the rnreat and moat difficult and .langer
oii* iu surgery.
Cost of Kai*lng Horse*.
Tlie agricultural department liavmg
mode inquiries as to the cost of raising
horses in each of the varioii* Staß'*, ro
jHTts as follow* : In the Middle State
the aiaximum cost of wintering homes i*
S4B jier head in. New Jer- y ; n.-xt in
0r.1.-r stoiuls 1 H<l*wun\ sAil, N-w Y'ork,
sl7, ami Pennsylvania, $-B*.. Delaware
farmers, last y<-ar, o-oeivi-.l the highest
average price for hay, S2O per ton, and
those of New Y'ork the lowest, $13.10.
New Y'ork received the maxiinum price
of corn, ninety three cent* per bushel,
and Delaware the minimum, seventy
cents. The price of oat* ranged from
fifty-two cents in Delaware to rixty in
New Jersey. Average* of Eastern Staß-*
were as follow*: Maine, $27; New
liam|iatiire, sl7 ; Y'ermont, $lB ; Ms*ss
chusetL*. $45 ; Rliiale Island, S4B ; aud
Connecticut. $45.
West of the Mississippi the average
oo*t of wintering range* from $3 in
Kaunas. Ri S2B in Minueeoto. lowa
averaged sl6; Missouri, sl2, and Ne
liranka sl3. Farm prices of hay rarv
from $3.86 in Kansas, to $12.05 in
Missouri. 'Die eb*|>er lisv of Kansas
and Nehranka is mostly made from the
wild grass.*! of the prairies. Corn
ranges from forty-three cents j*>r bushel
in lown to ninety-one in Kan*a*. an.l
oat* frotn thirty eight cent* jier bushel
in lowa R> fifty throe cent* in Kansas.
.Yew York City's Population.
Tlie population of the city of New Y'ork
hn* lieen enumerated fifteen times aiuce
17*J0, when the first oenau* was taken liy
the Btate government. The following
table give* the saocessive figure* at eaeh
census ; the figures to the i ight give the
increase or lon* lietweon each census :
Fmk. Aipe'a/iso. /aereaav
17U0 X3.UI
I*oo 60.4*0 S7.S&*
I*lo 06 7M 88,264
I*ls* 08 510 1.384
I*2o 123.706 2* I*7
I*2s* 166,0*6 42.3*0
I*3o 107.112 81 026
1886* 263,0*0 70,077
I*4o 312.710 84.621
I*4s* 371.2A3 50.513
I*so 515.547 44.324
I*ss* 620.310 114,2 ft(
I*6o *13,600 I*3 7*o
I*6s* 726 36 *7,313
1370 942.202 215.907
I*7s* 1,018,622 76 330
*Btate cennua.
In thi* table the return* from seven
election districts are not in; they increase
the Rital some 16,000. The population
annexed R) the city since the last census
is 36,466, so that old New York as it was
does not yet reach a total of one million
inhabitants.
THK MODIUM GIOIUIF. WAMHWOTOK. —
George YVashingtoti couldn't R*ll a lie,
and that's what ails the average Vieks
! burg boy. Tlie other dny, when one of
them accidentally broke a pane of gloss
in a sßire window, it was R niching R>
see him walk bravely into the sßire and
up to the merchant, and say : "Mr.
Blank, I broke a pane of glass in the
window there, and yon can charge it Ri
the old man's acconnt! Put it down as
a pound of salerntim, and he'll never
know the difference!"
A Chicago poet upon hearing that
Mile. Nilsmiti was about R erect cow
*heds upon her Peoria lpis, burnt forth
into the following verse: " Christine,
Christine, thy milking do the morn and
eve between, and not by the Jim re
ligions light of the fitful kerosene. For
the cow may plunge, and the lamp ex
plode, and the fire fiend ride the gale,
and shriek the knell of the burning town
in the glow of the molten pail."
PERSONAL EXTRAVAGANCE.
Tk, Hauler**** 11* ll. lwlrrr*i.
In* I' rtM*nl Mttrlrk *1 * H*hl*S H**r.
Hon. Win. E. Cramer, of the AN miny
irtscmiri'i. who knows jieneumlly of
what lie writes, give* us the following
very interesting skeßili of the prrmmtul
of the founders of the Isßi Isuiking
liouMo of Dunoan. Shermsu A Co.:
Since the failure of Dtiueau, Sherman
A Co.. and a* the firm willprolsibly pose
out of exiHteiice a* s lisnkuig houi*',
Home remiuiaoences of the |uuit may le
iuteroHtiug oounedeil witli the founding
of a bunking establishment whieh has
bail brilliant career, aud whieh grew
into a world wide prominence as rapidly
as any private liankiug house ever ea-
Ribliidied iu America.
Five aud thirty years ago there was a
very wealthr citireu of Providence,
Rhode Island, by the name of Cyrus
Butler. He was a quaint old man, and
made his three millions of property by
eareful saving* aud the natural rise of a
vast real estate projierty which he held
in Providence. He was very close, but
st time* would perform exceedingly lib
eral acts.
The ladies of Providence conceived it
would le a beneficent deed to establish
a hospital. They besought it* cilioeus
for contributions. Most of them gave
them something. Thqy repeatedly went
Ri Cyrus Butler, and he refused Ri give
tlielii one Ceut. Nevertheless tliey com
menoed their building. They were soon
severely ptuched for fund* so carry ou
the work. The women thought they
would try Butler ouce more. They went
R> the alii gentleman aud teas-l liim as
UMual. At first he was otidurste, but as
women know how R> Ixither and tease to
}H-rfecliaU they did Uat give up the pur
suit- At last he exclaimed iu rather a
harsh voire, "(live me your pajier."
The ladiee bonded it R> him, eij—oting
that they wouhl jxweibly receive s.'*lo
or sl,l>t)->. Rut he sat down aud dehb
eraß-ly wrote: "Cyrus ltutler, $40,000.
Great was the jov iu lVoviJeure at this
princely gift. T*be benevolent institu
tion wa* completed, and a* ou evidence
of gratitude it wa* named the Butler
luwptUl. That institution has survived,
and will survive in honor of the memory
of old Cyru* Butler far loug-r than the
millions of bis "property which ultimate
ly went into the bonking house of Dun
cau, Sherman A Co.
Cyrus ltutler hod u j eons, but he liad
one* dsughß'r who married Alexander
Duncan, and they inherited the whole
estate of Butler. About the same Um<-
there was a citizen of Albany named
Watt* Sherman, the caslner of the Al
twnv citv lsuik. He wns a great fa
vorite o\ Erastu* Corning, tlien the
railroa>l Sgig of New York, whose
atlopted daughter he marr-.ed. Watts
was considered one of the *horj>e*t louik
er* in the Slaß* uf New York. Though
the lsuik bod a capital of ouly $500,0C0,
it become a notable institution under his
management. It enjoyed the vast de
l>osits of the Central railroad company,
and wa* known a* a " little monster."
and exreedmgiy profitable Ri its sßvk
holdera.
But Watt* was not content with living
in Allianv. He sighed for other and
larger fields of commercial power, and
N<-w Y'ork wa* then, a* now. the metro
polis of America, whither men who M-k
commercial distinction naturally fl-wit-
Watt* could not lie called a wealthy
man, there lore m order Ri succeed iu
New Y'ork in the hanking buaineo*. it
was mnmwrj R> connect himself with
a man of large fortune. He lieoame oc
quaiuUxi with Duncan, of Providence,
then a gentleman of leisure and of great
wealth, ns tlie inherißir of Buth r s
estsß-. Their arrangement* were soon
jwrfceted Duncan was Ri lulvamai the
money and Sherman the financial brain*.
Sherman, of all men, knew how Ri make
a gisal impreaaion at tlie start. So the
new firm bought the lot on the sonth
west corner of Fine and Naasau ntfeaia,
and thereon erected one of the mo*t
solid, oubetautial and elegant s.one
Isuiking hoc"*-* in the Uuit<xl State*.
It wa* built somewhat after the English
style—strong and dark—the brown sßme
having a shadowy effect on oil the room*.
The vault wn* considered a luurel a
the time. It was int<*ndd Ri I*' not only
burglar proof autl fire proof, but mob
proof. In order Ri acouuplish this Ut
ter the heavy walU of the vault* were
not solid butincloeeil large conmm lsdl* ;
so when the rioß't* dug through the
first eivering Alley would strike a lsll
which would enntinuaUyEoll, a* th-y at-
R-mpUwl with chisel or crow liar Ri |wr
foraßi further, aud we lielieve to-day
this is considered the safest and the
strongest way Ri build a vault.
Tlie very solidity of their banking
bouse was "a world wide stlvertisement,
and when they opened it* new and
lieantiful door* they hml a jircas of ile
poaitora.
Coming gave them nil the influence
which the New Y'ork Central railroad
couijtanv could command iu New Y'ork.
That oloue secured them an immense
prestige, and prolmbly no Imnking house
ever comtneuo*! more swimmingly tlian
they did, or ever enjoved a more
remunerative business, 'lne South wa*
then iu it* strength and it* glory. The
house acquired a very firm foothold
throughout the Southern Staß**, for it
immediately dealt in cotton bills, and we
think ha* maintained it* jiojmlanty to
tho last in the South, liecause on all
question* when compromise was pro
|Mised WatU Sherman favor. 1 the South
ern aide.
We believe it lias never Ihxh an
nounced R> the public what amount of
capital Duncan contributed to the con
cern, but it was supposed R> 1*" from one
to two million*, ami upon thst capital
they usually had afloat aimut six million
of liabilities ; and, of course, as only
two millions of thi* wa* backed by cash,
and four millions by credit, when busi
nc*a vim large and remunerative, their
profit* must have been enormous. Sher
man lived in grand style and so did the
Duncan*. and the individual expenses of
the firm could not have lmen less than
$120,000 per annum ; and j*rhft|i* it will
lie found that not only tln-ir loss upon
ootßin bills, but the corroding cancer of
jirivnß' extravagance has consumed their
capital; for it ha* lieen discovered iu
New Y'ork and elsewhere when individu
al* have failed, who were enjoying great
income* and had large wealth, that the
nx of extravagance in personal expendi
tures ha* been *teadily cutting at the
root of the tree.
The lowa Ice Cave.
The remarkably natural curiosity
known a* the " ice cave " can now lie
seen at it* best. A party of gentlemen
who lately visited it, say* the Docorah
(la.) Republican, say that thoy never
liofore saw anything like the quantity of
ice formed within it As proof, they
brought to our office a cake of ice twelve
inche* long, ten wide ami lx-twoen two
and three inclien thick, notwitliNtauding
the waste of carrying it a mile on a hot
afternoon. The psoas go-way inßi the
cave is three-quarters filled up with ice,
and there is a fiooriug of the some for
twenty feet. At one spot i a oone of
ioe fasßmed to the wail which is throe
foet in diameter at the base, eight Ri ten
feet high and twenty inches across at the
top.
A boy living at Drownod IJAIKIH, N.
Y., gave a horse pari* green "just R>
see if tho animal would die or not." He
wa* gratified, as the horse lived but a
ahort time after eating the poison.
In the Harvest Held.
The moat frequent imprudence in the ,
harvest field is the coustout drinking of
cold water freali from the well or spring
iu copious draughts. Tliia induces ex- (
ooaaive perspiration, which iu its turn j
produces excessive thirst, and the result ,
is a serious weakeuiug of the nervotia
system. Life, even without labor, tie- j
co in us a burden when every |*>re gives
out a stream. The salts of the blood
are rapidly washed ill the flood of per
spirution, and the syaleut is depleted of
that which it can sjiare the least. This .
can tie obviated by simply avoiding ex
cessive drinking. A man may ride upon
a reaper or follow it binding for ten ,
hours without ueediug R> drink more
than twice, if he will simply determine
R> do eo. We have done this rejeetedly
without driuking, except at meal timea.
It is well to avoid the use of toboooo
while ill the field, and by all means no
drop of spirituous liquor should pass
the lip* of a harvest laborer in our cli
mate while he is iu the field. If one
must drink, cold coffee or Us without
sugar or milk is the best. This can be I
drank wheu moderately warm without
nausea wheu wuw cannot. Hot tea or
coffee after dinner is both cooling and
refreshing. At leaat two hours rmt ,
should l>e taken at uoou, and from half
pat eleven until half post one is the
(mat interval. When the body is heated
by labor it is perfectly safe to cool it by
l*>unug cold water upou the wrista, by
which the temjmrature of the blood is
slowly lowered; but it is not safe to cool
the tssly by sudden exposure R> cool
sir in a" shady barn or a cellar. Such a
course would De the greatest imprudence,
and almost certain R> result in .boaster.
To cool off slowly is saf, and if one
should exiHise himself to coot draughts
he should put on extra clothing and
walk about meanwhile. At night, after
the work is done, and before retiring to
rest, the whole body should lie bathed
in water slightly tepid, or at least as
warm as the air, and pure soap, and then
briskly nibbed dry with a coarse towel.
This will bring comfortable and reatful
sleep. Then a clean undergarment
for the night ahonld be put on, and the
.lav worn garments placed to air and dry
ready for the next day. cieanhnres of
person is one of the beat preservatives
of lfllalth and jiroductiv® of the greatest
comfort in the liar vest reason.
I>og la England.
The wealthy people of England pay
jnurh attention to the breeding of dogo.
A c<>rreap<indent who visited a dog fair
*aya. Among the setters I coffnted a
large numU-r held at £1,0(10 each, and
; one, the property of Mr. I*. 11. Stone,
M. !>., agxl five years, was labeled
£IO,OOO stei ling. I counted six retriev
ers at £I,OOO each, and very many from
£SOO to £l5O. Among the Irish water
*laniel*, Mr. N. Morton'a Shamrock was
held at £I,OOO, the other* at prices rang
ing from £IOO to £SO. Siwof the apan- j
lets were lalieled £I,OOO rech, two or
three £SOO, and a large variety from
£IOO to £2OO. Ten pound* were re
garded as a very reasonable charge.
Th<-re were two hounds at £SOO each.
The licaglrw, hot exceeding fifteen iuch-
M high, ranged from £IOO to £2O.
I"bere were nearly two hundred (ox ter
riers, h Id at extraordinary rates, at
h-aat lialf a dzeo at £I,OOO, and alwut
j twenty at £SOO, the other* rouging from
£10(1 to £la The sheep dogs were also
vcrv high, a dozen commanding £I,OOO
i-ach, ami other* £9OO, very few running
a* low a* £2O. A Dalmatian, belonging
U Mr. R. J. L. Trice, known as Crib,
nine years old, wa* beld at £IO,OOO ster
ling.' Another, owned by Miss Julia
Barney, called Kaneho, three y<-ar* and
fire mouths old, price £OOO. The bull
' dog* ranged from £250 R> £25. On* bull
j R-rrv-r, Young Put, was held at £I,OOO
sR-rluig , another, belonging R> the same
owner, YV. Grant liavi*, st the same
price. This avmel to l* tlie favorite
lirecxl. Many command-*1 £IOO each,
and a few ran as low sa £5. Block and
tan terrier* exceeding fourteen pounds
weight commanded £IOO each, very few
ns low as £5. One of the drop cored
blue Skvc terriers, named Sam, belong
ing to "Mr. J. W. lierry, was held at
£IO,OOO sR-rling. There was a Dandy
Dinnuint terrier, called Toper, price
£I,OOO, and another called Macbeth,
price £S"W-general rate* from £SO to i
£5. A Yorkshire terrier called Mozart,
lielonging to Mis* H. AUierwon, price
£I,OOO. The Redlington terriers com
mnnded from £IOO R> £5 ; of one spe
cie called Dachshund, black ami tan.
three commanded £I,OOO. and the rest
ran from £IOO down to £5.
Style* for Elderly Ladles.
Elderly Ladies ding R> polonaises in
preference to Imsques with overekirta.
These jiolouaires are of simple princess.-
*hn)H not elalxindoly drajxxi. Their
- most dr*s*y summer Rulettes, a fashion
journal savs, are of black grenadine
trimmed with folds and knife plaiting*,
or el*.> summer silks in black and wlnU'
checks, I tar*, or stripes, plainly ruffled,
; with bias 1 ninds for bemling. These
dressea are for church, afteruoon, and
dinner. For morning and .lay wear they
cluxise wliiß- linen lawn*, batistes, and
half-opaque cambrics. A long Iwianue, no
ovemkirt, and a flounced lower skirt is
the popular manner of making; there
are from one to three flounces on the
lower skirt. Their cap* for afternoon
aud evening are large squares of lace
for the Rp of the head, with flowing
ends behind or or the sides. Those are
not large enough to conceal the coil of
lieantiful grey hair worn low behind, or
the long lightly rolled puff worn on
each aide of the face. The lace used is
thread, Valenciennes, or dnehesse point,
ltlaek lace liarties an- used alone, or are
mixed with white lace ; large caps en- ;
tirely of black lace are uow seldom worn,
as tlu-y cover up much of the gray hair
that is now the fashion Ri display, and
! hove a drenrv, somber appearance.
Morning caps are of snowy white lawn
with large bag crown*, and plaited fronts
trimmed with purple, violet, or blue
ribbou, or else black velvet; jiale blue
j ribbons are pretty with gray hair ; pink
utul buff are seldom beoomiug to faded
complexions.
The Louisville Lottery.
Colonel Blanßin Duncan haa, as
attorney for the ticket-holders, made a
demand on the managers of the Louis
ville lottery for the Isdauce of sixty two
per cent. o*f the prize* ntqiaid, declaring
that the consent of the ticket holders was
not given to a reduction of the amount
of the prizes. He ha* also renewed his
applieutiou, previously unnoticed, for
an official list of the prize* drawn and
the unsold numbers, also of the approxi
mate*, and stnß-s in hia letter that the
offloe has issued at lea*t two lists, both
purporting R> lie official, whieh do not
accord with each other.
The Secret of Wealth.
My success is owing to liberality in 1
advertising.— Ronnrr.
The road R> fortune is through print- .
era' ink.— P. T. Rarnum.
Frequent and constant advertising
brought me all I own.— A. T. Stnrart. \
Success depends upon a lilieral patron- j
age of printing offices.— J. J. Attor.
My son, deal with men who advertise.
Yon will never lose by it.— Ren J-Vank j
lin.
How can the world know a man has a
geod thing unless he advertises the pos
session of it f— Vandorbilt.
Term®: $2.00 a Voar, in Advance.
A FORGOTTEN GI.OKY.
The Kirs Wsrivrs I* KspsMtraalMa I*
A aisiira.
One hundred aud six years ago Ave
citizens of New Orleans pah! with their
Uvea for their disloyalty iu trying to *-
tabliah a republic upou the soil of North
America. Their fame Imm long since
(•ecu forgotten. Their namne are to be
found ouly in the musty records of
Taris and Madrid. Their* was a gal
lant, but a hopeless struggle. Ou oue
side, five men; on the other, France
and Spain. The New Orleans Rrpubli
can gives a full sooouut of this first or
gauized attempt to found on American
republic.
Louisiana ouet France more thou it
iraid her. Louis XV., seekiug ewajre
from his load of debt, gave the province
named afR-r his grandfather to Spain.
The h'-li ines intiabitants protested in
vain. Twice tlnj sent a delegate to
Taris, and twice the king refused eveu
Ri see him. The Spaniard* formally ac
cepted the gift November 13, 176*2. The
first Spanish governor, UUoa, did not
arrive until 1766. The colonists mode
up their minds to dislike him, and they
•lid so. He seems Ut have been a gay,
good humored, not very diahonoKt ruler,
who tried to suit his "uuruly subjects,
and found that he had act himself an im
jroaaible task. They were scandalized
trecause he married With the consent of
" Father Ihmobert," aud hurt because
lie sent to Havana fur a nurse for his
child; was not Louisiana able to fur
nish a good enough uurse I The colon
ists complained <>f his pre* nee st New
Orleans, bat declared that be had insult
ed them when be stayed at Baliz- for
eight months. They shut him and hia
wife out of auciety and then accused
them of haughty exciuaiveneaa. Oue of
the serious charges against him was that
lie made the inhabitants of New Orleans
go six miles out of town in order to
whip their slaves, because, forsooth.
Mine. UUna's nerves were disturbed by
the shrieks of the victims of the lash.
When he saw that the colonists had
agreed to disagree with him in every
thing be gave up trying to please them
and secluded himself and studied sei
cuoe, to which be was a devotee. Mean
while the popular diaoontent grew apace.
Twelve prominent citizens funned a plot
to overthrow the Spanish authority aud
establish a republic under the protection
of the British officer then commanding
at Tcnaooulo. October 45, 1768, the
crisis come. Armed tiands occnuied the
Ktrects of New Orleans. Ujlua fled to a
frigate which lay off the city. The su
perior council met, xpUed, in the
*tyle of mare recent <lays, all the ad
herents of the other aide, aud adopted an
address declaring that the oolony s alle
giance was due to Fran or, not Spain.
This was a blind. The real intent, se
the archives of Taris show, was to es
tablish a republic modeled after the
Swim government. ULloa reported to
Madrid : "One plan was to transform
the colony into a republic under the pro
tection of England; bat ancing that they
could not obtain from her th- assistance
they wished for, they came to the deter
mination to not) without it, and to tram
ple under foot the orders of their aov
creigu."
Fur several mouths the colonists were
left to rule themselves. Then the fu
ture grew dark. France and England
iMith refused the in aid. Spain sent the
lriah O'Reilly, with twenty-four ships
and more than 3,000 troops, to seize the
rebellious colony. When the fleet came
in sight, advancing up the Mississippi,
one of the conspirator*, Marquis, pro
claimed the republic, but less thou a
hundred men responded R> his call for
troops. O'Reilly landed undisturbed.
Four days afterward the twelve leaders
were arrested. A mouth of torture and
trial ended in tb sentence of five of
them to death. One had already been
killed while speaking to his wife. The
lack of a hangman saved the five from
the scaffold. Thy were shot on the
morning of Ocßiber 26, 176H—the first
martyr* R> American independence.
Egg* and Financial Wiodein.
She said ahe'd take a dozen of eggs,
but while the grocer was counting them
out she asked the price. He told her
and she shrieked :
" Seventeen cents ?"
"Yes, ma'am."
" Why, that'* outrageous
" Weft, it'a hard times and everything
is up."
She oat down on a sugar liarrel, sighed
several times, and asked if eggs were
likelv Ri be lower or higher.
" I don't claim to be a prophet," he
replied, as he twisted a sheet of paper
into the shape of a funnel, " but I dare
say that they'll be dowu to sixteen and
one-half cents in leas than a week, and
perhaps go lower. Trade, which is
naturally depressed during July and
August, is looking up a little. Our ex
i torts of gold are now equalled by our
imports. The coiling in of bonds puts
more ready money afloat, aud capitalist*
are much more hopeful this week than
last The trope are about ready to
move, navigation prospects are brighter,
and public confidence in financial meas
urea is rapidly returning. One thing
moves around another, you see, and
though, a* I said before, I am not a
financier, and mv predictions are not en
titled to any greet weight, it seems clear
Ri me that eggs have got R> come dowu.
A great current of eggs is setting toward
this ]K>int from s doacn direc
tions, and even if the calling in of bondi
aud the sale of surplus gold don't pro
duce lower prices, I cannot see why
figures should go np."
She reached into the pickle barrel,
nipped s encumber, and went away won
dering why her husband never knew
anything. —/Vfroi/ Free Pre**.
YY hat a Saloon Keeper Thinks.
An Irish saloon keeper of Detroit, who
say* " be like* Ri live up Ri the laws of
his adopted country," would like to oee
the law* regulating hia traffic arranged
as follows;
Finit—That each saloon keeper !>e
required to give from 42,000 to $5,000
bonds that he keep a respectable saloon.
Second—Not to sell liquor of any kind
! to drunkards or habitual drunkards or to
minors.
Third —Close up every place where
liquor is sold each night at eleven
o'clock, and not R> open before five
o'clock the following morning, except
Ri sell liquor for strictly medicinal pui^
DOMH.
Fourth -Cloze UP the entire Sunday.
Fifth— For the violation of the alwve
law first offense SSO fine, second offense
SIOO fine, aud so on until the law is re
spected—half to go to the informer.
Gloat Cuttle Fish.
Some time since was mentioned the
lisoovery by the Rev. Mr. Harvey, of
St. Johus, Newfoundland, of a giant cut
tle fl*h off the coast of that island. We
now learn from him that a still larger
one was cast ashore near Fortnne bay in
| December last. The larger arms meas
ured twenty-six feet each, with a circum
ference of sixteen inches, the short arm*
1 eing about one-third that length with
the Hame circumference. No portion
was preserved excepting the lieak sud one
sucker, which is sn iach in diameter.
The fishermen carried it off as food for
their dogs. The specimens preserved
will probably be sent to Professor Ver
rill, of Yale ( el lege, for comparison with
what he has of tie first one.
NO. 34.
KiCUO OS THE HlMMHirri.
A Nkrlrk ■■ Ik* OMn Tt*i* mm Ik* ■!***—
A Heal KidWeeH.
Mark Twain, in one of hia sketches,
say*: In tlie "flush times" of steam
lecting on the Mississippi river, a moe
between two notoriotiMy fleet steamers
waa au event of vast importance. The
dale waa net for it several weeks in ad
vance, and from that time forward, tbe
whole Miaaiaaippi valley wan in a state <it
consuming esiutoment. Politics and tbe
weather were dropped, and people talked
only of the coming race. As the time
approached, the two atoamer* "stripped"
and gut ready. Every incumbrance that
added weight, or expaaad a resisting
surface to wind or water, wee removed,
if the buat could possibly do without it.
The " spars," and sometime* even their
supporting derricks, were sent sebum,
sad no moan* left to set the boat afluat
in csee ah- got aground.
If tb boat was known to make her
heat speed when drawing five and a half
feet forward aud five feet aft, ahr was
carefully loaded to that exact figure—
*he wouldn't enter a does of humcau
uatiiie pill* on h-r manifest after that.
Hardly auy )ass*ugera were taken, be
<*iwe they not only added weight but
tbey never will "trim boat." They al
ways run to tbe aide when there is any
thing to see, wber*a a eooaeientioos and
cx)>rinueed Wsmbo*tmau would Mick
I to tbe center of the boat and tort hia
hair in the middle with a spirit level.
So way {might* and no way passengers
were allowed, for the racers would atop
only at the Urgent towns, and then it
would be only •* touch and go." Coal
fists and wood data won* oootnetal for
beforehand, and these were kept ready
to bitch on to the flying steamers at •
moment'a warning. Dogble crew* were
carried, au that all work otmld be quick
ly done.
' The cboaeo date being oome, and all
things in madineaa, the two great steam
ere back into the stream, and lie there
jockeying a moment, and apparently
watching each other's aligfataat move
ment, like sentient creature*, flag* droop
ing. the pent attain shrieking through
safely valves, the black amoke rolling and
tumbling from the chimney* and darken
ing all the *ir. People, npople every
where; the shores, the house-tops, the
steamboats, the ahipe are packed with
them, and you know that the border* of
the broad Mississippi are going to be
fringed with humanity thence northward
twelve hundred mike, to welcome thaw
moan.
Presently tall columns of stbam bunt
from the 'scape-pipes of both steamers,
two guns boom a good-bye, two nsd
skirted heroes mounted on capstans
wave their small flags above the massed
crews on the foreaastlea, two plaintive
solos linger on the air a few waiting sec
onds, two mighty cboruiiM bund forth
—and here they come ! Brass bands bray
Hail Colombia, huxza after buna thun
ders from the shores, and the stately
creatures go whistling by like the wind.
These boata will never halt s moment
between New Orleans and St. Louis, ex
cept for a second or two at large towns,
or to hitch thirty-cord wood boats along
side. Too should be on board when
they take a couple of those wood-boats
in tow and turn a stream of men into
each; by the time you have wiped your
glasses and put them on, you will be
aon daring what baa become of ail thai
wood.
Two nicely matched steamer* will stay
in tight of each other day after day.
They might even stay aide by side, but
for the fact that pilots are not all alike,
and the smartest pilot will win toe race.
If one of the boats has a " lighten R "
pilot, whose " partner" is a trine his in
ferior, von can tell which one is on watch
by noting whether that boat has gained
ground or lost some during each four
hour stretch. The shrewdest pilot can \
delav a boat if be has not a fine genius
for steering. Steering tea very high
art. One must not keep a rudder drag
giug across a boat's stern if be wants to
get up the river test.
A Cheap Fashion,
1 observe, nays a Paris correspondent,
that white, and if not white the nearest j
approach to white, is everywhere the
rage. White veils, white bonnets, white
dreuses, white flowers, white ribbons,
white fans—all must be white. Fashion
has not been no lightly inclined for very
many years past. The black that was so
universally patronised last year and the
year before last is entirety discarded
now—black barege, black grenadine ia
no longer seen, unless, of course, in |
cases < f mourning—and the lighter the
hue of your dress the better. All sorts j
of cheap cotton materials, cheap in them
selves, but excessively dear if made up
by the fashionable dressmakers, are
enormously worn. There is s particular
style of coarse linen known in Paris as
Oxford, which is sold there at five sous
a yard, and this is the stuff which all
Pari* is trying its hardest to buy in
great quantities, and make up into moat
elaboratelv trimmed seaside dresses. ,
One of the most elegant women in J
Paris appeared at a garden party the
other day in a bewildering costume of
Oxford, and slie was telling every one
who gathered about her to admire its
multitudinous developments of frill and
flounce that it coat her seven francs and
a half only ! She had Imnght the staff
at five sons a yard, and her maid had
made it instead of the dressmaker.
Reducing Obedty.
Mr. Philbert proposes an improved
svstcm of mincing obesity, the basis of
the regime resting on the prevention of
the introduction of carbon mto the body,
or on favoring its transformation, and
augmenting the amount of oxygen—the
food, therefore, to be non-nitrogenous,
varied with a few vegetables containing
no starch, and some raw fruit The
temperament of the patient is also to be
kept in view; the lymphatic to have a
red diet, such as beef, mutton, venison,
hare, pheasant partridge, etc., and the
aangniue a white diet, like real, fowl,
pigeons, oysters, etc. Vegetables, not
sweet or farinaoeous, are allowable; also
grapes, gooseberries, apples, etc., bnt
sugar, butter, cheese, potatoes, pasty,
rice, beans and jieas are proscribed.
The hygiene consists, in this system of
treatment, in favoring the action of the
skin, in wearing a tight roller to support
the walls of the abdomen, in taking
plenty of exercise on foot and on horse
back; also, playing at billiards, fencing,
swimming, gymnastics, and kindred di
versions. In some slight respects only
does this method of M. Philbert differ
from others brought forward of late
years, but great merit is claimed for it
Manufactures in the United States.
The substantial growth in the products
of the manufactures of the United States
from 1860 to 1870, illustrate the indus
trial prosperity of the nation. It is safe
to assume that the increase of products
of manufactures to June 30, 1874, would
bo upward of 83,000,000,000. The fol
lowing table shows the increase from
1860 to 1870:
r r*OOCCT OF MAUL*rAOTt
„AT*..j - —: I*C*EAM.
ISM. | 18TC.
EMttra 8858,599,387 i "$1^009,116,773
Middle 798,926,390 1,788,813,938 98M87.65S
Wsrt'rn 888,676,<0; 1,073,888,858 TW, 368,088
SouthU 198,483,521 158,618,488 80,115,915
Pacific 71,339,9801 89,540,482 18,110,598
Total. 81,878,898,817'
(teas of latere*!.
Yon make your moony knrt by getting
nomebody else to make it flrat.
Being threadbare is Mbb benr to
a proud man.
The great feature at seaside resorte—
The big bIU-owe*.
(Vl*!<•'recommendation was; *'Make
yourself an hottest man, and then yo
may be aum thai there la one rascal leaa
in & world."
A flock of bona in Fairhaven, ft,
have Iwen fed ao much on raw meat that
they kill and eat all the young chicken*
that oon* among them-
An enterprising New Englander give*
away hymn book* oaotainirig on alter
j iwtr pagaa clever notice* of hia clothing
' store.
A woman named Adelaide Itobin,
fifty year* of age, threw herself from an
tttitc window fat Flris not long ago, being
a victim of unrequited love.
' There ia ao piece like home. Kal la
ctone. I f your hpme be to a row of v
1 houses, it ta probable that the homea of
. : yon. neighbors will be like youm,
A Southern farmer aaid that carpet*
looked liandflome on a floor, but be
. couldn't afford to fake aome one to carry
s a carpet oat doora tmrj time be wanted
i l to apik
B ! Ho large www the hailstones which
' fell at Damascus in a tempest which
j viitd that rity cm the lt of June, that
1 three men were killed by them and eight
| wounded.
k We see through it at last. The butcher
" Mick* tboae miserable little pina— which
t no amatenr carver ever can contemplate
i without profane impulse—into the roast
; piece to make it more aekewer.
It ia an old saying that ** It ia never
r too late to mend," and the men who
* makea hie wife ait up in a hot night toft*
t hia old datim while be aaorae under the
mosquito bar, in the kind at person to
r ;aay ii
I The number of deaths in the English
" mines laet year averaged one to every
510 person* employed, end nearly all
were attributed to catslaaatiees. The to
* I*l number of persons employed wae
t SMJMI
The Mennonttoa settled in the north
vest of Canada have met with dish-ait
-1 ening yiTMi Their crepe have been
k mom than half destroyed by the grass
a hoppers, and a good deal of destitution
: w the result.
" If a ftirt ia a fool who delights in fooi
, ing fouia, and the fool who ta fooled by
j sueb a fool la the fooiSaheat kind of a
, tool, then the girl that gwstaa " taken in ?
: by that fooUabaat kind of fool rnuat be a
fool, indeed.
e According to the United Htetoa oannus
> reports the average value of the hay crop
for the Ave years up to and indodi: -
a 1873 amounted to 13*0,080,000, which ta
i- :n exom of any other product of the soil
a except corn.
f The Ijeevenworth (Kansas) people are
afflicted with flying makes, that crawl
L, through the air four feet above the
, ground. They are little things, about a
foot kmg, wdh •" l * r 8®
A sister of exLJovernor tieuter, of
Tenneaaee, fell into a trance au closely
wambling death that abe waa prepsrwi
for burial. Upon revival she aaiu abe
had baan with bar father, who had beau
dead many yaara.
Mr. Cleveland, on leaving the Con
necticut Houae after Ma speech on woman
suffrage, mat a man who aaid "ba
wouldn't vote to make a man of his wifa.'
Mr. Cleveland responded: "I hope
your wife will euooeod in making a man
of you."
A party of belated gentlemen, about a
curtain hour, began to think of home
aud their wivea' displeasure, and urged
a departure. " Never mind," aaid one
of the guttata, " fifteen minutes can make
no difference; my is as mad now as
•becan be."
A woman of Indianapolis baa shown
that she oould be as murderously b -utsi
a* almost any mac. She pursued her
rival in love into a dbset, shot her Mtal
Iv, and then, patting her revolver giee
fullv, exclaimed : "Oh, quiver! That's
right, die hard! I enjoy this. I do!" *
The Warwickshire (England) miner*
are wise in one wy. Tliey have been on
a strike for a long white, but instead of
remaining "D* they have gooe to school,
vt an now improving tte tame by re
u ii uii iii li ainrw in arithmetic, leading
and writing, in rooms which they have
hired for the purpose.
A Sooth Boston lady was recently in
terrogated by a Benedick aa to why she
did not get married. She replied: " I
prefer hi be an old maid. " He said he
did not believe it, aa tea felt sore she
envied his wife. " Oh, no! that would
be breaking the commandment—'Thon
•halt not covet thy neighbor's ass.' "
At Dolmen the Germans pointed four
of Krupp'e cannon, loaded with balls
that oolteetMQr weighed twelve ban
died weight, against a target made like
a section of the skin of the best English
iron clad, and the cannon were then dis
charged simultaneously by the electric
wire, and the target was annihilated.
A curious instance of the cheapness
of wheat and the deaniem of provender
at the same time is given by an English
farmer in a London paper, as having
come under his own notice. A fanner
sold the wheat grown on one field for
£56 sterling, but for the straw which
produced this wheat be obtained £6O.
An officer of the French arav wore
lij uniform about the rtreets of Eooe
the other day, and was cm the point of
being mobbed by the indignant citterns
when the police' took him under their
protection. That uniform is not vary
popular among the Bomans, owing to
Napoleon ULk military occupation of
the dty.
If men are the salt of the earth, women
are the sugar. Salt is a necessity, sugar
is a luxury. Vicious men are the salt
tieter ; hard, stern men the rode salt;
nice family mea the table salt. Old
maids are the brown sugar ; good-natur
ed matrons the loaf sugar ; pretty girls
the fine pulverised white sugar. Pass
the sugar, please!
A mudent of Pottirvilte, Pa., baa a
coin which has been decided to be a
Hebrew shekel of the date of 335 B. C.
It bas on one side a representation of
Aaron's budded rod, and on the other a
priest's censer with incense. The same
gentleman also has an old Saxon coin,
an Elizabethan shilling of 1691 and an
English coin of 1693.
A young and newly married couple
passed along the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio nulroad, both traveling on free
posses. Some years ago the groom
granted right of way to the railroad
company through his tends on condition,
among other things that when he
married he should nave two free wed
ding excursion tickets.
A M"'"* man has preserved the follow
ing curious legal document: "Hancock,
as Novr 11th 1800. Hien personally
appeared Ibrook Eddy -of Eddington,
and acknowledged himself guilty of
having uttered two profane oaths on this
dav and ban paid a fine for the same as
the' law to mcv-O, Leonard,
Justice of the Peace."
While a party of fifteen men were en
gaged in running a thrashing machine
tefleorgte a heavy cloud and rain came
1 up, and a bolt of lightning Struck in the
i midst of the crowd, killing three men
outright- and injuring to aon}e extent the
entire party. Two of the men were
brothers, and were standing one on
each aide of their father when killed,
the father miraculously escaping unhurt.
Caused His Death.
M. T. Bowden, a schoolteacher at St.
James. La., filled a pocket with advertis
ing imitations of greenbacks, and when
somebody at the village slope offered to
1 bet on something, he drew out a hand-
I ful, saying : it #SOO, and I'll
take you. The most of the bystanders
saw the character of the supposed
money, and laughed at the joke. Not
so Karl Ahlbesrg, an ignorant Swede,
who regarded the bills as genuine, and
the amount as a fortune. Ahlberg en
ticed Bowden into a stable, murdered
him with a shove!, secured the worthless
roll of paper, burled the body, mid fled.
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