Afloat.
MT IW* keep tune to halt * rhyme.
Thst slij a sivl fliJee r from me ;
Aciowi ray mind, lik r iHe wind,
A lost tVoiifrtit t-ii. iihltrilT.
Adream, kitoat, my little boat
And 1 alone ute*; mt to sea ;
One ranisluxt year, U l.wl and deal !
Yon reset tlie lutle txat for tne.
Ati ! who can aiug of anything
With none to litu lovingly?
Or wlio can tiuie tlie oare to rhyme
When left to row alone to eea V
—JfiuoheCA Sfu<irt Phtlyn,
The Reaper*.
The reaper* bend their lnety hack* ;
Tlieir eounduig wokle* away ;
At evwry atroke the goldeu eea
Reoedee to give them way.
The heavy ear* fall bowing down,
And nestle at their feet.
Such will, anoh work, an their'* perforce
Must win—must homage meet.
So oareleee of fatigue they go.
So true, eo steadily,
The admiriug traveler on the road
Leans o'er the gate to see ;
With marvel of the soon-fallen breadth
The lontlgiiig goeetpe UiU ;
But the reeper* labor for ua all;
Ti* need they ahould work wall.
Ere the greet euu that borne above
Shall cximeon in the west.
And the ohildran'e poppy roeegaya fade.
And they Ue down to reel.
Each gulden epeer that upward pouile
Shall fall upon the field.
And the farmer dram a sparkling glass,
Rejoicing o'er the field.
Ply, bonny men. your sickles bright.
And give the people bread!
At every conquering stride you take
Ou want and woe you tread
Drop, heavy ears, and give the strength
Too gathered from the plain,
Tliat men may rise refreshed and firm,
And do great things again '
God hi ess the hands, all hard and brown.
That guide the cleaving plow,
That cast abroad the ahimug eocd.
And build the wealthy mow !
They rear the bread our children eat;
lis by their toil we live .
Hurrah ! give them the loodeet cheer
That grateful hearts can give 1
.. . ■ a i
THE BANE PRESIDENT.
i'rsa revertv te f*r AwMtll* *f -Wra
Hera law-Tk* Bssk eft allfarala Nslk.
ta bel William C. Kalalaa—Tbe Kaar-
raaaa Aoytratlsa* aa* Deaiti** tf Hot*.
From mate of a Mississippi steamboat
to litW of on© of the largest banking in
-tuutions in the world—undoubtedly
the largest in this Western half of the
world—seems a transformation ibuxling
and dramatic. But it was a gradual one.
In this instance, as in all others, it was
no royal nwd that led to positiou and
power. The climb was a hard one and
kail its different stages and halting
places; by no single bound was the
height reached. Different indeed the
fall. Yesterday, looking up, m-n won
dered ; to day, looking down, they stand
aghast. For one of the adventurous
who then stood with feet seemingly
lirrn planteil high np the hill, which so
many aspire to climb, now lies a crush
ed and shapeless mass at oar feet. Less
far indeed from top to bottom than from
Inittom to top ; for the one journey years
are necessary, for the other a single
urinate suffices. It is very hard at just
this point to refrain from preaching, i
Bnt I will. The corpse found floating
and drifting about the bay of San Fran
cisco has been dragged ashore, and if
you can look upon it without learning
something, all that the ghastly lesson
conveys, indeed, a sermon would but be
thrown away.
William C. Ralston was the most rest
less and ambitions man I ever knew,
and among restless and ambitions men
my lot has principally fallen. As already
hinted, his l>egiuning was an obscure
one. The precise details of his early life
I do not remember, and will not endea
vor to repeat, though I have hail them
from his own lips. But unless I much
mistake, the banks of the Mississippi
river were the only banks with which he
had to do prior to immigrating to Cili-!
forma in the early gold days, and with
these he had to do in the capacity of
mate—some say deck-hand only—of a
stern-wheel steamer.
To the conqrarattve lownees of this
starting point, may we not attribute that
aspiring ambition which led to a fall i
For you may have noticed that men born
to a "middle station in life plod always
ia it contentedly, while those bora in
the lower levels are scarce ever satisfied
till they have climbed to the top of the
social shaft. It does not exactly follow
that those who start on the top ronnd of
the ladder are uneasy till toey have
climbed to the b> >ttoni, bnt it is very |
frequently the case. In this matter
society is like the outran, that which
breaks loose from the Irattom struggles
up, and g<x&l ship* which are launched
and expectod to swim on the snrfoo- go
dowu if accident kiux-ks a hole in them.
Little by little, Mr. Ralston got on. But
the more he got on the longer were hi*
strides. Most men set for themselves
a point in life at which to rest when
reached—at least they any they will rest
at it; he never did. The only point
where he projxiaed to stop was when he
had gotten a* far a* be conld go, and
this programme carried with it very few
limitation*, a* you can well imagine.
Nothing short of all could satisfy the
man. As in business, so with pleasure.
For pleasure in itself he did not really
care—indeed, I much doubt if he knew
what it was. Lavish surrounding* con
tributed little to hi* happiness, but be
maintained tlie establishment of a prince.
How it was afterward, wtien railroad*
came to be built, I do not know, but in
the day of my knowledge he was whirled
to hia country seat by relays of horses
at tbe close of each day's business, with
all the speed and more of style than any
two railroads oould furnish. For horses,
as horses, he cared very little, and abont
horses, as horses, he knew less ; but his
stables were full of the most famous of
goer*. For wine, he had no inordinate
fondness, I thiuk, bnt down in hia cellars
you found brands which are commonly
supposed to !>e reserved for the tables
of royalty alone. His "hospitality "
was marvelous ; but I do not know that
any one can say he wax hospitable. Go
to him with a ietter of iatrodu<-tion—or
without one, if yon hap)>en to be an
eminent editor, prize-fighter, lawyer,
theologian, or a memlx-r of any one of
the learned professions—and he insisted
upon yoa making his house your home
while you stayed, furnishing yon with
horses, steamboats, palaoe cars, or any
thing else yon wanted to go with when
you went.
Invited down to his country seat, you
were at liberty to remain as long as you
pleased, and perliaps you would not see
your host more than once daring your
visit. The whole ranche and all at cou-
taine.l were at your disposal, however,
ami if a man could no- enjoy himself
with such freedom of range i.s this, the
fault surely could be but his own. I
I have heard it said that the Bau<t of
California allowed him $25,000 a year
wherewith to entertain Eastern visitors.
A rain, I have heard it stated that no
•limit was fixed, but that a carte blanche
was given him to entertain valuable visi
tors as ho pleased, and that at the end of
the year he drew for the total expense
incurred. If you ask me which of these
t&ori'-s I believe, I reply, without the
least hesitation, neither!
You have heard of the Bank of Cali
fornia, of which William C. Ralston was
E resident at the time of his death, per
ans. Do you know what it was ? No ?
Well, the Bank of California was Wil
liam C. Ralston. At the time of its or
ganiz itiou he was cashier only, it is true,
lmt if you suppose that the president of
n bank is auything loss or is meant to be
anything more tlina a respectable llgure
b '"ail, you know less about banks in gen
cial, .mi New York banks in particular,
KKKI). KURTZ. Kditor tuul Proprietor.
VOL. V 111.
than ouo would sup}***- |x nobble iu this
age *■£ general enlightenment. As
cashier, Willmiu C. Ralatou ran Urn
(rank. As president he run th bank.
The I sink he always was, mul whon the
bank uo longer wo*. ho died—by suicide,
some SAT —imtur.illy enough, sV I.
Here you have the whole history of the
lrank in s nutshell. As for the directors
or trustees, ull, they wore g.xxl men and
rich men, undoubtedly ; and as such
they, in common with other ikiokbold
em, will now have ail jpivirtuuitv of
performuig the tlrst retU duties which
the honorable situation of stockholder or
director makes imperative, via., paving
in a handsome assessment to make their
stH\k gvsHl. Thus the end crowns the
work, and perluqw some day the day of
dummies will be done.
It may tie complained that I liavo writ
ten too much about an individual and
too little about an institution. Hut it
was necessary to tell what the one was
in order to explain the workings of the
other. The I lank of California was
restless and ambitious, in direct resjKnuw
to the characteristic* of its founder.
The two pulses lieat together. As a
synonym for strength, its name on the
Pacific coast long ranked next to Lliat
of the Hank of England. As a power,
the Bank of Kngland was but a country
schoolinaxtor iu ixuupariaon with this
most despotic cab {>h —looallv considered,
I mean. The Bank of Oaliiornia either
controlled, or meant ultimately to gain ,
the control of every tiling on the coast.
It was at any time ready to contract to
take all the quicksilver, all the cattle, or
all the wool that the country produced.
A small slice of a valuable mine would
not be touched at any price But go to
it with a controlling interest to dispose
of, and you could name your own terms
—that is to any, if William 0. Kaistou
wan toil it Anything thai he wanted,
from a Congregational charch to s
mountain in the uttermost wilderness of
Nevada, the Bank of California was will
ing to buy or take on deposit It was a
power in politics, a mighty eugiue iu
elections, a Colossus lx-*triduig the
Btab* as well as the mastodon of the
rnunioqrality of San Francisco ; admit
tedly it controlled the courts, but still its
restless arms were outroadn-d for fur
ther conquest. (Again 1 tind it very
hard to refrain from moralising. I'll do
it though, or perish nobly in the
attempt)
If you deem such a monopoly as the
Bank of California actually was (to say i
nothing of what it threatened to lueoiae)
detrimental to the morals of a commu
nity, iujarions iu the highest drgne to
the welfare of a Btate, 1 11 not quarrel
with you. But if you think such a
monopoly has ever reared its head, or
gone on breathing for any comfortable
length of time, without getting bowled
down at the good Lord's earliest leisure,
you're less devout than I, and we'll say
nothing more al-out it, for fear of getting
into a theological disputation, s sort of
cudgel play that should be avoided in
August.
It never seemed to me that William C.
Ralston lid business for the pur;* .-X- of
making money, exactly. He did busi
ness mainly for sake of >k>ing busi
ness, and this, to my Blinking, is not the
legitimate end of business doing. If the
excitement alone is wanted, why not
gamble! Why do business unless you
do it with a money success in view I If
it's to come to the same thing at last, I,
for one, had rather lounge than seize the
greasy reins of commerce in my mad
grasp. Sooner far would I go charioteer -
mg through the world in an ox cart than
driving a random tandem. So with
pleasure. If there's no fun in it, I don't
want any. (As for lagging a nine-pound
gnu over the fair face of creation, a
swampy swale lielow and n blistering
July sun above, with a chance ]erhaps
of getting one woodcock, bnt more of a
certainty of getting none, no more of
that for me.) The man who doesn't like
drinking for its own sake is a fool to get
drunk, and why should one who's not
i foud of riding take the risk of a broken
neck, simply because liis next-door
neighbor jogs round on horseback ?
William 0. Ralston did not caw enough
aliout money to keep it after it was made.
What wedded him to his work was the
excitement attendant uj>u making im
mense trades and moving millions. As
for keeping the money he male, that
, never entered his mind—he scattered it
' broadcast on every side. It was aa
though a man should pump away for dear
life and all the while have nothing but
a bottomless vessel to hold his pumping*
—yes, as though one should pump away,
with clang and noise, but have never a
valve iu his punrp. Men do this some
times, for exercise. But exercise is not
work. One must have a serious purpose
in view, or even the swinging of dumb
bells avails not. And if I had not reso
lutely resolved to refrain from {minting
a moral, I wonld say right here that the
want of a worthy ptirjxwo is just the
hole in which William C. Ralston and
his bank went under. But I prefer tliat
each reader should apply the great
ethical blister, which I have so gener
ously spread for himself. Ploce it where
it will do the most good, please.
William C. Ralston was not a bail man
in reality. True, he did wry many
things which are commonly esteemed
bad; bnt I do not thiuk that he put
much heart into them. There was little
j of earnestness or vim alwiut any of his
dissipations ; seeing another person tlo
s thing he thought it was the thing to
do, and there must be fun in it. He
never wanted to lie counted out ou any
thing. In a very similar way he dul
much good. Bo did the Bank* of Cali
fornia. It encouraged many praise
worthy enterprises, developed valuable
industries, lent its shoulder frequently
! to public improvements, where a bank
conducted on prudent principles would
not have lent a finger. On one occa
sion it even lent money to roe—is there
need to say more! Then again tbu
Bank of California gnve aid to some
schemes most ou'rageonsly corrupt. But
nature in her own way turns most mal
feusances to good. Ido not know, how
ever, that in such cases n credit mark
I goes down in the book to the account of
individual or institution, nnlesa good
was intended. JOHN PAUL.
He was Excluded.
A curious issue has been made up in
Chicago for a court and jury to pass
i upou. A prominent Methodist named
Brown lias sued the pastor of his church,
laying the damage at 850,000, for ex
eluding him front the communion table.
The reputed reason for the excommuni
cation is that the geutlcroan is not a
projter person to partake of the elements
lof the eucharist. One Sunday, after the
regular services, the Rev. Dr. Iteming
announced that the congregation were
I invited to partake of the sacrament with
the exception of Ira Brown, who wonld
; be excluded from the sacramental table.
Mr. Brown was not present, bnt was
soon posted by his friends, who called at
his house to tell him what hail transpired.
The newH came unexpectedly upon
■ him. but after he recovered from his
surprise he called upon the Rev. Dr.
Deming to talk over the mutter with him.
| When he arrived there he inquired of
| Mr. Deming by what authority he hud
j declared his place vacant at the sacra
! mental altar. Mr. Deming stated that it
| " was by the aithority of the Lord of
Hosts." Mr. Brown said that was
S enough for him, and on the following
morning he consulted a lawyer and com
menced an action for libel against Mr.
Deming, laying his damages at the re
spectable sum of 850,000.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
THE TORPEDO.
Thr Orlru* tmr i Kr -ri. .1 hr I atlrd
ait Air* IM I air tit M l'i ri# W r.
As a standing army or a huge navy arc
tilings not consonant with the ideas of
the ixxiple of the Putted States, ami as
she lias many ports that a powerful tl<-ct
in ease of war could iKunbard and caji
ture, atUmtiou has Usui largely turned
to defense in the toipedo. and this sy
tern is lx-ing brought to perfection as
uearly a* jxwsible.
Bwaiity at Cook island some expert
meats wore made with the torpedo. Ihe
programme was, tlrst, for the irou-olad
torpedo boat, under command of Lieu
tenant Barbour, to blow up an old ixraxt
survev schooner of alxiut 100 tons by
means of a submerged torpedo on tlte
cud of llie prow of Uie Alarm ; then to
riddle the wreck by means of the tiat
ling guns mounted ou the rail of the
Alarm and to prevent the imaginary foes
from climbing on lxrard. After tni* it
was intended tliat tlie N ma should heave
alougside and with a Harvey torpedo de
molish what might remain.
U|x>u being signaled, says a re|xirt,
the Alarm turned almost as easily as
though slie had Ixxm u|x>u a pivot, and
tuado for the objet of attack. Ihe old
hnik was alxntt 100 feet long, and had a
toimag>> of eighty five tons. All eyes
were turned toward the Alarm, whose
'.uaasive prow, armed with a seventy live
pound torjHslo, was making slowly for
the schooner, slower and akiwer she
went, approaching the hulk aa though
cerbuu destruction awaited her, but in a
few seconds a volume of water w*e> hurl
ed into the air some two hundred feet,
speckled with H|ars and timlx-re, which
immediately began to fall pell-mell into
tlie harbor, like tiie descending sparks
of a spent sky-rocket The schooner
had ilisapjxrared, aiul tiiere remained id
her but chips and splinters, literally re
duciug her to toothpicks. The old
schooner was no more. A gurgling
commotion ensued, and the lower por
tion had settled to the bottom hojx-hras
ly crippled. But the Alarm was not
done with her. She was still to all in
tents and purposes an enemy, whose men
might clamber on lxrard and seek re
venge. So she backed off and let fly
her terrible fifteen pounder, which was
supposed to final I v demolish the impro
viseil rafts made !>y the enemy's drown
ing sailors. Then she started her rapid
Galling guns, which were niounttxl ou
her rail, and 250 Iralls were rattle,!
uaiong the supposed struggling men in
the water and on the filiating tunlx-re. It
was a real war scene. The Alarm was
enveloped in smoke. Still tlie thunder
of the (.ratlings reverliexuted from the
neighlniriiig hills until the last strng
gling wretch was aupjxjeixl to have been
sent to his eternal rest beneath the wa
ters of the harlxir.
Before the siuoke had cleared awav up
came the Nina to the rescue, and Is fore
the schooner's debris had fairly Ix-cn
scattered bv th** mlc alie hurl .1 ag-.unxt
it a Harvey, which caused a frightful
commotion, and, as it was snpjsrscd, put
an end forever to the enemy. Now the
Despatch, tlie Isiat with the visitors,
turned round and came close alongside
to view the wreck, and while so doing
another spar torjsxio was exploded bv
the Nina as a warning not to approach
too ck>w. Signals w ere then exchanged
with the Alarm, aaking, *• Uhall I mud
l>ot ?" ti which an affirmative reply w as
sent, and noun after Admiral l'orter re
turned in hi* Isiat to the Despatch.
Scarcely had he Ixs n rwivi-d when the
Alarm announced that she was going hi
tire another round of tlatlingH. Scarcely
lial the party recovered from their sur
prise, when Commander Barbour gave
them s thorough shaking up. He ran
out ou the submerged iron spar of the
Alarm a genuine old seventy-five jviund
er (Ts'tieath the wati-r aud quite unacen
bv th' visitors on the Despatch of
course ). On the atarlioard side he run
out a fifty, aud on the jx>rt side a twen- -
tv-five jxiund torpedo. Gradually tUe 1
Despatch grew nearer and nearer, and,
like an unsuspecting victim, was right
on the ram, when thris- huge columns i.f
water tlew up iu front and on either side
of the Alarm, followed by a terrible eon
enssion, showing that the three had
Ixsui exploded at almost the same in
stant. The Despatch fiiuU* staggenil
nruler the attack ; bnt the Alarm was
deluged by these thris* inverUxl water
sjmuts, for the wat-r run out of her
afterward as though she lnul just return
ed fmm a risit to Neptune. This was at
least a retribntion for the insult to some
extent, and so the i*a|tain ordered Engi
neer Harris to show the iron " heeL"
Chicago's Brain Elevator*.
Chicago is the biggest grain mart in
the world, and handles about 90,000,000
bushels annually. How this vast amount
is received, stored, and shipped, is the
subject of an interesting aitbdq in the
Cliuwigo Tim' t. The first stivun sli-vator
was estalilished in the spriug of IH4X,
with a cujiacity of 100,000 bushels. To
day Chicago has eighteen steam eleva
tors, with a combined capacity of 15,-
. 350,000 bushels, nr more tlian the
product of 1.000,000 acre* of tim fertile
cheat producing laud* of the cofitineut.
Their isips'-ity varies all the way from
200,000 buahels to 1,500,000. 'Hie entire
cost of the eighteen elevators now in
operation was ulmut 85,000,000, exclu
sive of the grounds on which tliey stand.
Add for this 81.000,000, and the result
shows £0,000,000 investeil in this indus
try. Two firms handle more than one
half the grain tliat pa* 1 -*"* through
| Chicago. They control eight of the
eighteen elevators, and last year tliey
together delivered over sixteen million
bushels of wheat, seventeen million
bushels of corn, four million bushels of
nnta. aud over two million bushels of rye
aud barley.
A Couple of Monkeys.
In Paris quite a commotion was
created by ths entrance of a very aiugu
lar party. It consisted of two tiny cava
f hers mounted upou exquisite little
[ {Hiniea. One of these small riders was
a 1 andsnme boy alsmt seven years of
sge, and tbe other was a largv monkey
strapped to the saddle of his steed. A
j aarvant in livery followed on horseback
at the distance preaerilxxl by etiquette.
I Finding that this Atrango cortege wns
attracting a crowd, the poliec interfereil,
' and the young gentleman and hia com
panion were forced to return homo. On
inquiry being made it was found tlrnt
the Iwy was the only aon of a Portu
guese connt, at present residing in Paris,
a terribly spoiled child, to whom hia
parents can refuae nothing. Conse
quently, when lie took it into his ln ad
to take hia monkey, which is hia special
list and companion, out riding with him,
he found no one bold enough to oppose
hia whims. That duty wna reserved for
the {Kilic
Thrilling Proof of Affection.
When a oonple of excuraionists were
strelling through the market at Detroit,
tbe girl looking longingly at the fruit,
f and the young man, after a struggle
1 with himself, purchased aeveral plums
- and divided with her.
t "Doyon doubt my love, Milly?" ho
f asked, as they chewed at the fruit,
s "Noap," she replied, her mouth
J; j " plum " full.
" Because," he con tinned, " if Ididu't
. love you I wouldn't lie around buying
- boss plums at five cents apieoe, would If "
She seemed satisfied.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., I > A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, iß7~>.
THE KKELY MOTOR.
I I'.wr ilaul HOHMI
.an.l. ml I'mmmdm I'OMirr la l*r *•"• ,
lurh-.No tmmmml 111 la l'irl 11.
Not withstanding the fact that the
.Vcif-fib/fi- .iinrrifitH dtx'larws the Krx'ly i
motor a humbug of the !ir*t wutsk, we
still hear of it auii of what it jmpo#ox h |
Jo. The grand principle of the motor ; i
ix of course a secret, aud it l* said by I
I'rof. kecly will remain so until tlie dix |
1 oovery -for it is claimed to I*> n dia- j i
' ixivery rather tliau an Invention -w so i
secured by letUira jraUmt that it will l* - i
pr>Ux.'txl. It is xuld that the power ia
simply water, anil in the rough ix the
xameux if you t*x>k a barrel full of water I
mid, running a pij>e nj to the Neoond i
story window f it building, tln< lower <
end of tlie pqx lxung iu the bnrrol. If <
Vol! then fill the pi|x< with water the i
pt<raxur i* ao great that it will burst the i
Irarrvl luto jiiectia. Anylxxiy mil try i
the experiment and thus ltluxtruU- tlie i
power of water. _ I
A rejxirU'r lately viaite.l Prof. Keely i
and found him confident ami sanguine '
ax ever. Hi* machine shop or laboraU>rj I
is iu the Iraxcincut of hia h>ue 111 Phila i
dt-lphta, and it is said that engineer*,
wheu they oome in here, are puzzled by i
tha strange forma of the apparatu*. tiie I
chief purpose of which ia strength. Pro 1
fmxnr K<*-ly {x'iut''d U a "generator," i
an enormous egg xhapul moos of irou in I
a corner (I think it mut liave Ixx-n i
thirty-five inches long bv twenty inches
iu diameter across), and said It had a
hollow of the capacity of a gallon and a ■
half in its ivuh-r. All the rvit of it was I
solid iron. It had Ix-eu discarded lx- I
cause it wo* not strong enougb to im- i
nriaou and hold in chock the force he I
Lad invented. He direote.l my attenti-m |
to a " mnltiplioator," or regulator of the
force— piece of meclianuim alxiundiiig
with heavy iron chamber*, with wall* *f 11
great thickness aud connecting lulx-s of I
xmall txire and heavy bnora circumfer
ence, aud said that hail been discartied I
likewise. " Every tube of ihnt machine
buret here one rooming while 1 wax i
standing right here in the room. There i
have Ixx-n seveu explosion*nine*- I tx-gun i
tlieee eifx-rinieuta, and I haven't got a
scratch from one of them. I've lxx-n i
very fortunate." Touching with hi*
foot several pieces of iron weighing from
200 to 500 pound* rach, he applied to
them all the stigma tliat tliey " wouldn't
stand pressure " There were flanges ,
and screws, Ix-ut and useless, tliat it i
wvmeil ax if nothing but the power of
nitroglycerine could ever liave de
formed.
What is tlie force that curl* up iron
in this wayf" I askxl.
" Well, sir," said Mr. Keclv, with i
his eves in the air, and slowly formula i
ting nia reply, "it's a force obtained
from tlxi hlranvtiou of the Lxtt-ut jiower '
iu water. The {TVXVMIS of liberation i*
practically instnubuieoiis. It trars the ;
water, so to speak—ileootn{xvie it* jrar
ticlex. The force is stronger than any ~
heretofore known. The only trouble lion
been to get an apparatus strung enough
to contain and cimtrol it."
"Don't you aso any olicnih*als or .
other known scientific agents I"
"Nothing whatov<r. The motor is
not an invention ; it i* a discovery."
Of course I didn't axk Mr. Kex-ly to
explain all alxut the pnxxvw of gem-rat (
ing hi* "force," but it must lx- the
si in pleat cremt conceivable. All he
wants, in thr first place, is on iron cylin
der with capacity from a thimbleful to 1
five gallons, according to the quantity
of f ireehe into gem-rote, ltnt tlie wollx j
of thi* cylinder innxtlx- of extraordinary ,
tlueknexx ond density. Some of his ex- j
poriments have ri-xiilUxl in tlu- *-|iora
tion of tLug<ra connecting Uie two hsdviw
of the cylinder or, when this has not
occurred, in the wasting of water and '
force through the sweating pores of tlie '
iron wall*! Tlie utmost force which j
Mr. Kocly has been able togouerab- with ,
safety has registered a pressure of 16,- j
i 000 potimls to the square inch. When !
it i* oolisidenxl that steam boiler* are
usindlv tosbxi at 300 pound* to the
square inch, and run at a pressure not
oiteji exi-ctxling 130 pounds, the requw J
it.- strength of the K'x-lv mobu Ixiiler
or generator, even for this pressure of |
16,000 jx.niuls, may lx estunab-d. Bnt s
this pressure by no means denotes the ]
fall and fearful extent of Mr. Keely's
forci-, which is practically illimibible. i
lie box now in prix-eax of construction |
a generator com posed of metal* of ptob |
ably rofficieut *tn-ngth and denaity b>;
enable him bbrat the value of his inven- |
tion. Tbe heaviest gauge of force power '
' hitherto mode wns manufactured for the i
gTcat Dnpont gumxjwder mill*, at j
Wilmington. It register* b> the aquare j
inch 23,000 pound*. The gauge just
made for the Keely' motor by Thomas
Khaw of Fhiiadolphia, and which ha*
lxx-n on exhibition several Java, will rig
istor to tin- square inch 54,000 jxiunds.
Prof. Kix-ly claims that there i* iu
humbug about his discovery, but that u
will do all it represents —that is with a
few quarts of wab-r, aud with no ex
]iens<-, nn anything from a sewing ma
chine to ail ex{irosa train—that it will
supply power to run any mill in the
country. In an affidavit he says : I
now publicly a**erttliut I have produced
! the results which many persona have
, *<*u in the precise manner bcrebfore
xtited, to wit.: the intrixluction of at
' iuos]iherio air inbmy machine, a limib-d
quantity of natural wnter direct from the
hydrant at no greater tlmn the ordinary
hydrant pressure, and the macliinn itself,
which ia aimtdy a mi-c.hauical structure.
With these throe agents alone, unaided
by any and every chemical eom]x>und,
heat, "electricity, or galvanic action, I
, have prrxluMxl, in an inappreciable
, j period of time, by a simple manipulation
r of the machine, a vaporio *ul>*t*mH', at
, one expulsion,' of a volume of ton gal
lons, having an elastic energy of ton
thousand pounds to the square inch.
, This I solemnly assert, and am r<-ady to
j verify by my oath.
i ■
Hnw Opinm 1* Smoked.
The pipe in which tho Chin one smoke
! opium has a stem probably two feet
long, made of cane such as certain flsh
' ing rods are mode nf ; alxmt twenty
k inches from the mouthpiece, which is au
1 iueli in duiineb r, is Thi* a{>-
' jH-ars b> l>o made of Ixixwood, and is not
unlike a small low coffee ctip, large at
• the top,and atwUL at tbe bottom, writh a
' tight c<rver fitting *in ft. In the center
| of this cover is a small hole. The opinm
is not {mt in the pi|>e, as might lx- snp
• j pdMkl, but in a little wad on the top of
1 the cover over tlie hole. Tlie smoker,
H takes a long needle and on the end of it (
gather* from the little jars a piece of
! o{>inni tin* size of a Ix-an. This lie holds
over the lamp, and thus melts and burns
■ it until it is of the proper consistency.
H Then he places it over the hole in the
r cover ef the pipa, and with his needle
punches a hole throagli it, which joins
the hole in the oovrr. Then lie light* it
aud smoke* away. When it is gone he
e repeats tho proooss.
• The Crop*.
s Full harvest* at home give great im
portation to the crop reports from
o abroad. Gable disjratohe* report a bettor
i yield in England and on the continent
li than was anticipated earlier in the sea
son ; but still, says the New York
t Herald, there is a deficiency in lx>tli
g ' quality and quantity, and it is likely
" there will be a great demand upon this
I country to supply Europe wtth broad.
AYouieii aa Voter*.
A goiiklemaii from t'beyonne, Wyo
nimg Territory, who has ,l'Votil aomo
time fi> gathering the detail*, give* u
the following interesting fact* on th
practical working* of woman auffrnge in
the Territory :
The moat interesting ftu-ts are in re
gard to ladies a* jurors. Good and evil
are strangely mingled in the new Terri
torns, and Wyoming contains a large
pro|MirUou of intelligent and eininelitly
religious mid goo-l women ; it was
hoped, therefore, that great gisxt would
result from placing them on juriea
After a few trial*, liowevir, the sysU-m
xvaa quietly abandoned, and has never
lxH-n revived. The r*Mun* for tin* are
many. First is tbe fact tliat so few
women are eligible. The following
classes are, from the necessity of the
ease, exempt : All nursing mother* ; all
nppriiai'bing a condition of maternity ;
all the delicate, nervous, or hysterical ;
all who from temporary physmal condi
tion ore not fit for sitting on a long trial;
all of notoriously Ixnl character, and all
who are exem{t from tbe same causes
tliat men would lie. Tbese clssi-s in
elude nine-tenths of tbe whole sex.
When to these are added those who have
aiok or very young children, who need
frequent care, it seems that all Wyoming
has no more than a hundred women, at
any tune, fit for jury duty. The system,
therefore, was given up, not as a failure
exactly, but as utterly impracticable.
Another difficulty presented Itself.
When a jury, ooasistuig of men and
women, (five of the latter,) was long de
tained and locked up for several hours,
the resulting inconvenience was so great,
and thw exjwnso so much increased, that
both sexes were heartily sick of the cx
iieriment. The general result i* saiil to
lie that laitli the friends and foes of
woman suffrage arc disapisunted, as
tn-ither the good nor the evil predicted
has come to {lass. One good is clauneil
tliat there is lietter oriier at the polls
than formerly. If any other benefit lias
n suited, it is not ap{on-nt yet. (Some
complain tliat the i*t of nuiniug for
office lias vastlv increased, as the oandl
dates liave to Kring out their Lnly sup
jHirter* iu carrisge ; but the ladies, in
tlieir conventions few week*sincenuani
monsly reaolvtsl against it, declaring
themselves " as aide to walk to tlie poll*
n* to church or market." A few' fights
have rvwulted from challenging the vots
of ladic*. The first ladv whose vote was
challenged at lsarauiie droppel her bal
lot aud indulged in a good cry, wb. re
II|MIU her escort sailed in and malc it
hot for her challenger. After a few
fights on thi* subject challenging ladle*
was, by common consent, dtaeonuutMn], •
and in that {strticuiar at least tin y have
an advantige of the men.
Aa to the effect of suffrage on the
lailies tin-re arc almost a* many <>ptni<>Uß
as then' are jiecple in Wyoming. The
majority, however, dedare themselves
unable to sac aiiv cliange. As far as
can be known tiie htdn-s divide their
vote between parties much as men do,
rather more, {s-rliaps, voting for per
sonal friends. To MUU up, tiie opinion
of the l**t informed is tliat womau suf
frage in Wvoming ha* rcsutUsl in rnak
ing everything jtod a* it was beiure,
only a little more *>>.
Abduct lug and Marrjlug an llclrrn
Last spring Mrs. Guimaraez, widow
of a wealthy Sjsuuard, who bequ<>nthed
her au estate of over a million dollar*
and an almost princely income from roy- (
allies ou all the mahogany and other
valuable timlx-r exported from certain
districts of Brazil, went hi Oswego
county, N. Y., from Bio Janeiro. Ib r
family ctmsiahwl of her ail<q>ted dntigh
ter, Jessie, a girl of great jwrsonal Is-nu
tv, whom Mrs. Gmiliar* z adoptol at
the age of four years, anil who now is
about sixteen, and n Soutli American
girl, still younger, whom she brought
with her to educate. Mrs. Gnimarnt-z 1
was a native of Oswego county, and
adopted Jessie, who also is her niece,
during tlie
whom, as well as herself, the child was n
pet. For several years Jcsuie has lux-n
*ciit Nortli, and has \'i*iteil her mother's
relative* in the town of New Haven, O*
wi>go county, where lives a family named
Simmons, and anotlu-r named Calkins,
whom she also visited.
One day the Simmon***! visited Mm.
| (iuimanw-z, and Jessie was (lennitted to
| go home with them. Jefferson Simmons
i* station kc jier at Sand Hill, n small
i station on the Rome and Oswego rail
, roa.L Calkins, whose wife is a cousin of
Mrs. Guimaraez, ketqxi a petty grocery
l at the same place. It is alleged that
| ,T<ssie wa* iu Calkins' store, ami lie a*k
jml her Ui drink some pop. She drank
one glassful, after which she claim* to
have become unconscious, in which con
ditiou she was token into a carriage by
Frank Calkins, sen of the storekeeper,
who drove to Holinesville, three miles
distant, ami there a minister marriiwl
him to the girl, after which ho drove
lutck to Hand Hill and left her at Sim
mens' house. Jessie say* that the first
thing alio recolle**!* after drinking the
pop is being in Mrs. Simmons' house
and hearing young Calkins telling Mrs.
Simmons that thoy were married. She
has au indistinct recollection of riding
along a road in the interval of unooo-
BciousueK*. The evening of the marriage
voung Calkins went to Oswego, told
Mrs. Giiimnraex that Jessie had inarrieil
him and tried to r coon oil* her to tlie
match. The following moi hug Jessie
returned, acoompaniod by her friends,
and related her story, alleging that she
hal IHNMI drugged. On the afternoon of
the same day Mrs. Guimarnez started
with Jessie for Illinois, intending for
the present to leave her with her
{Mtrents, who live somewhere in that
State, and procure a divorce at once.
The friend* of the girl allege that it
was a job put up by the Colkiusce, who
knew Mrs. Guimaraez's affect ion for
Jessie, and that alio would be tbe sole
heir to her wealth. Calkins has lieen
employed as a traek hand on the Rome
and Oswego lailroral.
Itorr krttpp and lit* GIIII*.
The Philadelphia iVrw any* : Hcrr
Krttpp, tho famous cannon founder of
Germany, is to exhibit one, if not inoro,
of his breech-loader* in onr Centennial
exhibition. He has juxt astonished tlx'
British government by a positive re
fusal to sell one of his great guns to
England. Tin on dit is that his refusal
was conveyed in language more frank
than courteous, lx-ing to the effect that
" lie wns willing to contract for tlie arm
ing of as many forts and ships a* Eug
land wanted, at home or abroad, but he
must decline to part with M|>erimeu* for
ex|x-rimental pur|xws." Jt look* ox if
Herr Krupp fancied his tireach-loaders
might IM- imitated at Woolwich.
Would Certainly he Called.
It was the same old lady who was seen
walking up and down the street in Vicks
burg while the 1 >oat was taking on
freight. She was ticketed for New
Orleans, and the first night alxrard the
boat she opened her stateroom dx>r
just Iwfore retiring, stuck her nose out
and yelled :
"ilapting!" capting!"
"What's wanted, madam!" inquired
that official as he approached tie door.
"I'm a lone woman, cnpling, as you
well know," she squeaked, "and if this
boat blows up 1 depend on you to call
me !"
He agreed, aad she slept soundly and
peacefully.
FKallTlNfi FOR TIIKIU LIVER.
Three V.aa* l.lrl* tllarke* ht • Mark
tkeer while Mewlsa Arrwa • ChaS.
Threw young women, residing near
the Big Bunk l'ond, in Hhoholw town
slop, Fw, started to go lierryiug. Tlnrv
ware obliged to cross tlie |mjU>l to raSU'li
the wissis. Before entering the liost
tliey Maw souietliing in the distance
swmimiug iu the water. Thinking it
was a dog, they |suduo further attention
to it. but started ou their way scows the
{loud, wliioh is alsmt two miles wide.
After rowing for several huudred yards,
the girl who was pilutllig tlie lioad euaw
tliat wluit tliey first thought to lisa dog
swimming in the water was a buck,
which was coming directly toward theui.
Having a clumsy {our of o*rs, it was
some Ume before the Lsjat could lie
turned, ami theu tlie doer hail rem-lied
to within a few yards of Uietn. The girl*
tiecame greatly terrifleri, for the deer
was fast gaining on th.-ui, and from the
way it snorted and plungwd, tliey were
salisthxl it meaUit mischief. While the
one rowed with all her might ihe othet
two |H*ddl<wl, thus aoiuewiuU increasing
thear |MWHI ; but the deer was slowly
gaining on them, and knowing they
could not reach the shore before being
overtaken, tliey cased rowing to pre
{•are for the inevitable I rattle. Wlien
the deer, snorting and {dunging, had
reached to within a few feet of the boat,
it stop|ed for a moment. Then it made
a sudden {'lunge, aud as its head struck
tlie aide of tlie boot tbe brave girls
brought dowu their raised {raddles upon
it with ituoh force as to drive it under
water. The girls again raised their only
weapons, aud aa the bead rirae to the"
surface they again brought their ]raddles
to I war U|KJU it with the same result.
When the deer again raised from the
water it seemed to reoliae that tills was
hi lw the death struggle, and its eyes
gleamed like lailla of Are. It made a
lunge, and threw its fore feet over tlie
side of the boot, near the oar locks.
This nearly oapsised the eiuuisy craft,
and threw Maggie Jordan, the oldest of
the three, into the water ; butaa she fell
she taught the edge of the boat, and was
hauled ill by one of tier oom|niona.
Then the heroine at the oars, as she felt
the animal's breath in her face, raised a
{raddle and struck for her life, and as .
the blow fell across the deer's head, the
bhssi started from its nostrils, aud it
sank track helpless and atwmuigly death
but rtaxllv only stunned. The girls then
starhal for tlie shore, leaving the Jeer
struggling Iwtwcwn life and death in the
water.
Reaching the shore, one of tlie girls
ran to a small log cabin, an t-iglitti of a
mils distant, in which lived a family by
the iiiuuo of Iterger, and told what had
ooootmL Mr. Ik rg<-r seized his rifle
and w-nt to the poud, where lw found
the wonderful deer Vet struggling in the
water, a few rods from the ahore. He
towed out to it, and seized it by the
antlers, cut it* throat, and then towed
the laxly to the shore. The ikvr was
the largest ever killed in the neighbor
hood, weighing 227 pounds.
A Wealthy Tramp.
A Kansas City jraper say* that a* Mr.
Anthony Mitbeney was coming in from
his work on tlie Midland road, ho over
took an old man near the fbur unle
bridge, in Uie K*w Ixittoma. Ho ap
|X'are,l to lx- Xtaggerilig along under tlie
inflneoce of lupior, and, from his rsggixl
1 and dirty condition, Matbeoey at one*
iraiue to tiie ootielusuiu that the old fol
low wras n tnunpiug csimiug into
Kansas City for relief. He {*tv<-d by
him without *|x-Aking, and thought no
more alxmt it. Next day, when lie
started I rack to hi* work, be was some
what surprised to find tlie old man lying
upou the side of tlie nulnrad track, in s
helpless and apparoDtlv dying couii
tion. He approached him, and on in
' qniry found tliat be was quite tick, ami
liad Ixx-u lying out iu tin open air all
night, and was unable to walk. He pave
his name as Align* McGregor, aud tliat
he wax on his wsv from Fort Dodge to
Kanxas City. Mr. MatbAey oama in
and procured tbe assistance of an ex
, press driver, and brought the old man
to his house near tlie water works, ami
left him with his wi.'e. He maintained
a stolid silence until night, but ate a
hearty meal, thus showing that it wax a
want "of food rather than sickness which
h*d caused him to fall by the wayside.
But he was t<*> far gone fur foixl to re
vive him at ouoe, ami when night came
on he wax dangerously ill, so ill tliat
medical aid was deemed necessary.
When he was offered a lied he declined
it, and positively refused to take off or
allow lus dirty rag* to be takeu off his
bodv.
He slept upon a blanket on the floor,
and under no {x-rsuasion would be take
off his boots. The old man lxung un
able to help himself, however, gave up
ami ordered his lioots token off. To the
surprise of every one present, be took
from his lx*>ta between two and three
thousand dollars in greenbacks, nicely
wrnp|xxl up in oil paper, anil nwxl a*
pad* for his sore and blistered feet.
In explanation, the old man said he
had been a soldier in Uie United State*
artnv for the last twenty year*; hail
nerved in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
and Colorado. He had recently been
dixehurgisl from McKenzie's regiment,
in Arizona, and started from Fort
Ihxlge, Kan., abont two w*'ks ago, to
walk to Kansas City. He sayx he is
going home to Glasgow, Scotland, and
tliat be has Wn afnud of Iwiug roblxxl
on bis way borne. He is closo and jw
nurious, and says he could not afford to ;
pny so much for railroad faros. He was,
after great difficulty, persuaded to de
posit his long-hoardixl wealth, ami take
drafts on New York for the amount de
|xi*ited. He is very suspicious, and un
nsnallv reticent altont his own affairs.
Ho paid MaUiency libentUy for the can-
Lrat .wixl up.m iiini, ami {ro}xw>a to
1 , continue bis journey east OH soon as his
1 health will jx-rmit linn to move.
• ™___
Swallowed Spectacle*.
A Paris correspondent writes : An
other rival to the man who swallowed a
fork last year has just come to limid. A
poor fellow named Venet has been ad
mitted to the hospital here on account of I'
having swallowed a pair of s{*-ctaeles.
It npp<-nrx ho {wvrtook ona day rather
freely of a dish of mushrooms, aud hav- ;
ing reason ta suspect after having eaton
tlicm that they were poisonous, he at
tomptod to bring on a fit of vomitiug.
Not succeeding in his first effort, he re
newed hi* sttompt by thrusting hia spec
tacle* down hi* throat. A gasp, a gulp,
and down went tlx- spectacle*, and there
thoy remain at the proxout. As tlie
frames are of silver, no danger of jxiison
is apprehended, but the {HKr fellow's
condition is nevertheless a desjx-rato
one.
Base Ball.
Chicago will invest 83D.IMN) iu the now
niue next year; Cincinnati, 820,(K)(); St.
Louis, 820,000; and Ixniisville is going
into the business to the amount of 820,-
000. Cleveland, too, encouraged by the
lively state of things at present, has
arranged to form an association with a
capital of BF2,(MM), to engage a nine.
Over 8100,000 will be invested in base
ball stock, and iu the stock companies
of Boston, Hartford, New Haven, New
York and Pliiladclphia, not less than :
$300,000 will bo found employed in run- j
uiug professional base ball clubs iu 1876, |
Term: $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE.
la lbs Hslss r lbs riss 111* sf I'arsis Is
lbs Msesbllr ml I slssibls.
The 'lay after the terrible earthquake
in Cueuta, nays a lixral psjx r, jraopls
flocked in on all si-hra, armed with im
pleiuenta for digging ami mules to carry
the plunder "away. Merchant* who at
temptetl to And and recover their safes
tiad to prooend revolver in hand. The
, ullage of the ruins went ou for five
day*, during whi' h time Uiose oamlits
aunt away some fifty mule loads of the
gtxxls of the unfortunates that lay liuried
under tlie ruins of what had been the
flue city of Cueuta in the republic of
Colombia. The streets and lane* oiuoug
the ruins were covered wiUi all kinds of
gmxls aud merchandise. In one plane
1 MJ zee of wins had been ojieued, the con
Cunts drunk, and the bottles scattered
around; in other places cbanduller*,
silk trimming*, furs aud furniture. In
another were to be seen tins of rau'dintra,
salmon, oysters, etc., all in ouuftunon,
and all more or less covered with mud.
In th- midst cf all this there ware some
i people of this unfortunate city setting
off Chinese crackers, drinking wine,
surrounded by dead txaiiea, aud shout
ing : "Now the rich are pour, aud the
pour rich." Ail this was accompanied
Willi the clamors of the living, the groans
of the wounded, and the cries of those
buned alive, who begged to be bellied
out from under the ruins of their fallen
houses. Home pious old woman would
come into view with tier lap full of
stolen articles, murmuring : " What s
terrible misfortune," and then iumlemug
home to count the beads of her rosary
and take an inventory of the valuables
in her posneaaion. Tbe whole scene
smell of the wfemai regions, and seemed
a foretaste of the day of judgment. And
so )mused several days ; those who could,
left, and thuae who could not, did the
best that wnx possible under the ctrcum
stances. The very aid sent to tbe un
fortunate the robbers managed to share,
aud little of it fell to the lot of tint really
diraerving. The chief of the national
force stationed there abandoned his post
The Colombian Guard, as it was called,
mutinied ; and after robbing what it
"OUId dissolved and deserted. Even the
alcalde took to flight and left the robber*
masters of the lives and goods of their
unfortunate fellow citizen*. la fine
Cueuta is now only a natna for a horrible
heap of ruins, with its daad inhabitants,
killed by the hundred during the due
aster, putrifying under them, and send
ing forth s sickening stench.
Brutal Keeper*.
There seem* to tie very little doubt
that the unfortunate man Couolly, who
died at the New York penitentiary, was
to all intents and pur|* *•* murdered
by hi* keejier*. His legs aud the lower
irart of his body were covered with livid
lifwises, and ou of hia great toe nails
• was tors off. It is plain that injuries of
this kind could not have been caused by
a succession of accidental falls, aa pre
tended by tlie deputy warden. Keejier
Fallon declares that OonoL'.y was sub
jected to the most brutal treatment by
keepers Geary, Reese and at hers, and
testifies *i<ecifioally to a number of out
rages committed upon tlie unfortunate
prisoner, which are revolting to every
House of humanity. Tbe fact that the
victim wo* half-witted, if not positively
an idiot, deprivira hia murderers of the
last semblance of au excuse for their
brutality. Tbe commissioner* of chari
ties anil oorrectiou must investigate
this case thoroughly, and take care that
the guilty ore punished. It is not the
, first case of the kind which has occurred.
Keepers of an inferior class think that
tbe only way to keep tbe outlaws in their
charge under subjection is to make an
example of some feeble prisoner who is
unable to defend bunaelf. By beating
and overworking a mau of this kind they
hope to intimidate more unruly and un
manageable prisoner*. Thi* process
they call mazing a market of a num."
Their theory is, of course, founded on '
the grossest ignorance cf human nature
and s naturally brutal disposition. In
discriminate tyranny incites men to re
volt, and if ever "a general uprising
should occur among the Black well's
Island convicts, we shall not have far to
look for the cause.
As Good a* She is Bcautlfiil.
An exchange has received from Carth
age, Ma, tbe following glowing descrip
tion of a rustic beauty:
" I have board a great meny both male
and female spoakind of Pretty faora and
loVj'ly women But the Prettiest far I
Ever Beheld is amonge our Carthago fair
1 >anghtera She has dark Chestnut brown
hair a fall white Brow and the Hand
somest Eyoe I ever saw so mild and gen
tle is those Dreamy gray cyee Hutch
Rosy Chicks and full Coral lips the For
feet Picture of helth She is as God
formed her with out Paiut or Ponder
She is as Perfect as woman ever was She
is not ouly Pretty (for Beauty a lone is
worth But little) But she is Good and
Industrious this noble Girl has made
her own living for meny year* anil no
one con say might against her she does
not sew for a living, neither does she
make lints But alio simply dixw House
work alio can turn licr luuid to eny thing
about a house C<Hiking washing iorring
scrubbing or Milking Chiming or sew
ing or fancy work my wife said alio never
saw a more Perfect laxly in her life
She K<x a Bout her work for more
*ch<xwful tlwn those Porlar ornimeuts and
wall flower* go to the Piana She all way*
1 welooms with a smile she keeps the
house cheerful with her cheerful noise
singing But with all her Cbeerfulneas
there is some tiling about her lnvly face
that shows a sad Grave look as though
some Cruel knife had Poareed tlie true
Pure henrt I will not give her name ahe
ia a inmate of the house of —— aud is
mutch Beloved bv all the fainoly they
treat her a* they do their own Daugh
ter aud she has the Noblest of Blood in
her voiuH."
Ancient Jewish Tradition of Lilltfti.
Lilith wax Adam's first wife, like a
bird, with the fair, evil face of a woman.
Immediately on ber creation and intro
duction to our first parent the two begun
to fight. She said: " I will not give
way." Adamsnidlikewi.se. Lilith said:
"We are equal. Wing formed of the
same clay." An argument, by the way.
for the superiority of Eve, who was not
so formed. In short* liethur would oliey
the other. Then Lilith uttered the holy
name and fled away through tho air. On
Adam's supplication three angels were
sout to bring her back. These three
wen- Sf.noi, Sanscnoi and Sammun
geloph. Tbey found her amiilst the
mighty waters of the Red sea, iu which
] ( >ng after Busiris and his Mempliian
chivalry left tlieir floating oaroamea and
broken chariot wheels, and said: "If
you will return, well; if not, a hundred
of your childreu sliall die daily." Lilith,
with more than half a woman's touder
ness, and with all a woman's obstinacy,
naturally preferred the latter alternative.
Tlie celestial messengers in divine indig
nation sought to drown her; butshecried:
" Suffer ni to depart, for I am created
but s>r the destruction of children."
She had power over tliem for eight
days if male, but if female for twenty.
Then the angels made her swear by the
name of the liviug God that as often as
she should see them or their names or
I pictures inscribed on amalets, a babe
| should be spared.
NO. 39.
Home Hard WOMU.
Millibars sad dressmakers, say* anei
change, lurve sent mors husbands and
vivos to Uie divorce outlets Lima all
other human beings combined. They
are the frmt aowsra of domestic unhap
j lianas. As a class, tlioy ere ua worthy
of the least respect, for they ssidom at
toinjit to do Imaineae on Inmost priori
piss. I'erlisps none of Uu-ir customers
know or cmr wbetlier, in dealing with
thorn, they get the full valus of tboir
money or out; sad, rwlyiof upon this
state- of things, the bonnet staler and
dressmaker almost invariably become
cheat* They go or send over to Pahs
sod grt one or two bonnets as pattern*
(which they contrive to smuggle through
the custom house), cad thru they get
them imitated at a very cheap rate. All
these bonnet* they anil to eager custom
era m the " real, imported article," aud
of oourae uo one is oooteut now with
aaythiug of home make. In the matter
of dress, it is much the same. The ma
terial itself, even though it be of the
fliMwt silk to be bought, costs little in
comparison with the bill for " trim
niings." That will generally range any
where from S4O to gl&0, and no doubt
many of our fair readers oould show us
bills for much larger sums than either of
these. That wonderful " tie back " ar
rangement, which is now thought to be
WJ becoming to ladies, cannot be the
cause of those fimrmuui charges for
to
"trimming," for people bed . per
them before thej began to " tie beck.
The truth u, tbet whatever mav chance
to be the fsail ion, the (lmwmaiuir aooo
makee it the vehicle of extortion—oot to
ate the ugly word robbert. We bear of
failure* in every trade but her*. She
nonet bete aluioat a beggar, and afUr a
few year* abe drive* a abuwv carnage,
aaya a New York paper, and fling* the
dual of Fifth aveuue is the fade of the
people whom ahe haa largely helped to
rate.
Italian Brigandage.
The Court of Aaaixaa at V iter bo, in
Italy, has lately had to deal with a cm*
of brigandage of more than or Unary ce
lebrity. It involved the murder of a
country gentleman, the father of Sign or
Kama, a well known deputy, who was
captured by the band lately tried when
driving near Orrieto in the spring of
1874, and carried off to the mountain*.
Hignor Paina rnoeiyed a letter aoon
afterward informing him that Lua fath-.
er'a ranaom waa fixed at £4,000, and that
the money muat be delivered at a cer
tain apot by a fixed date. It waa acot,
but by mistake to the wrong plane ; and
the brigands, having observed a party of
gendarmes moving in the vicinity,
thought a trap waa being laid for them,
and ordered the youngest of the band
at once to blow out the braina of their
prisoner, who waa a man of aeventy
years of age, and could not be forced off
in the hurried retreat they designed
They gave out publicly that the murder
waa" designed aa a special example of
their justice ; and this tioast, following
auch an act, caused so effective a pursuit
to be undertaken by the authorities that
the gang waa at last, after many escapes,
fairly hunted down. The actual mur
derer lias got off with impriaoameot lor
life, on the ground of his extreme youth
and hit having acted under compulsion.
But the leader, who WM formerly in the
Papal gendarmerie, was condemned to
be executed. On hearing Iris sentence
he sprang OTCT the dock, precipitating
himself Tike a tiger an the accomplice
who had turned approver. But the po
lice mastered and manacled him, and it
is now devoutly hoped that he in his
turn will tie made an example of the
prompt justice he profeaaed to execute
on his unfortunate captive.
An Earlj Kellgioas Lottery Scheme.
The high repute in which lotteries
were held by our ancestors is shown in
an advertisement in the Commercial
(burant of Hartford, Conn., Monday,
October .19. 1801, as follows :
yoawirs xExruro-aocsß LOTTEST.
{ln two classes.)
The Preebstorian Meeting Hcue* u> Nor
wich. firm eoctaty. hiving been the last winter
dartroTed by m ineeodwv. the Ran. Legisla
ture of due State, in Mat last, granted nud
Society e Lottery to enable it to rebuild the
name.
acnata.
i Claea firm |
4. SOO Tickets at Two Dollars, *9.600.
Prueee from *4 to *SOO.
(Claea Second.]
Prixee from *4 to *SOO.
| No two blank* to e prise.)
Prixee to be paid in euty day*
and if not demanded in alt months, will be ap
plied to the purposes of a Lottery.
The object of this lottery, and the scheme to
advance ft. are each aa to engage the attention
both of the • per illative adventurer and thoee
who. from principles and duty and benevolence,
are disposed to con Ui bate to the beet interests
of society, while the former hae a fair hope of
increasing hi* money from the unusual number
of high prixee, and the multiplication of
chances in hi* favor. The latter will posses*
an excellent occasion to dispense their aid in a
work incalculably useful to a Christian com
munity.
A Boiling Lake.
There is , lake of boiling water in the
island of Dominica, lying in the moun
tains behind Roseau, and in the valleys
surrounding it are many solfataraa, or
volcanic sulphur vent*. In fart the
boiling lake is little less than a crater
filled with water, through which the
pent-up gase* find vent and arc ejected.
The temperature of the water ranges
from 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit
throughout the whole extent. The
} mints of actual ebullition change from
time to time. Where the active actum
take* place the water is said to rise two,
three, and sometimes four feet above
[ the main surface, the cone often divid
; ing so that the orifices through which
the gas en,-ape* are three in number.
This violent action of the cones causes a
Sneral disturbance over the whole sur
je of the lake. Though these cones
; :ipieiir to be sp>cial vents, yet the sul-
I phurous vapors arise iu nearly equal
1 density over the full extent of the lake.
■ There seems to be in no ease any violent
i action of the escaping gases, such as de-
I foliations or explosions. The water is of
it dark gray color, and is highly charged
with sulphur. As the outlet of the lake
1 is rapidly deepening, it is believed that
j soon the' water must be dsawn off, after
j which it will assume the character of a
j geyser, or sulphurous crater.
Food for Lean Women.
If any one wishes to grow fleshy, a
pint of milk taken before retiring at
night will cover the scrawniest bone*.
Although now-a-ilays we see a great
many fl.wliy females, yet there are many
lean and lank ones who sigh for the fash
ionable measure of plumpness, and who
would be vastly improved in health and
appearance oonld their figure be round
ed with good solid flesh. Nothing is
more ooverted bv thin woman than a full
figure, aad nothing else will so rouse the
ire and provoke the scandal of one of the
"clipper builds" aa the consciousness
of plumpness in a rival. In cases of
fever and summer complaint milk is now
given with excellent results. The idea
that milk is feverish lias exploded, and
it is now the physician's great reliauoe
in bringing tlirough typhoid patients, or
those in too low a state to be
jby solid food. It is a great mistake to
scrimp the milk pitcher.
Item* af Interval.
Amu falls into an error when be falls
oat with his wife.
Peru will pay tiff bnr debt with guana
•—Moat for scant.
Por Uiiu jiutipla to set suddenly f*i~
Htep on a Italians pool and cotne down
plump.
Massachusetts expects to foot ap 1, -
000 inhabitanta by iha onnmwi now ton g
taken.
Mwaet are the nnea of diversity. They
keep a fiddler from constantly playing
on one string.
Buffalo haa deemed that no mio > i •!
woman shall be a teacher in an j of it*
public schools.
Lawyer* here a clear majority in UH
Indiana Senate, and faraem a qnoram
in the HoOM.
Ed mood About oalla Frauoo a aiok sol
dier of Ood needing to be cured through
the lapee of time.
In apite of grasshoppers, Minneaota
will be able to aell Oft,(WO,000 buabeia of
grain thia season.
There haa not been any one hanged in
lowa for a great many yean, and there
in complaint about it
Eastern Switzerland i afflicted with
the loeoet plague, and nearly all the
grain haa been destroyed.
The African locoat haa apuean d this
Rimmar to Germany, and hud waete the
crops on tt Berlin and AnhaJt railway.
An editor aaya he cannot he independ
ent when he is obliged to oollect h/a
own sobaeriptiona in a town wbweev. i;
body keeps a dog.
The reward of learaing grammar to
found in being constantly shocked by
the oonrareaiiou of those wbo bare not |
learned to talk by rule.
School vacation is now over, and
the good boy may be aeen tested on the
fence nibbing reain on hi* hand* to
toughen them against the ferule.
In St. Petersburg bread i* three time*
aa dear aa to Pari*, and every other eats
We, from butcher's meat downward, is
nearly doable aa coatly aa it waa year*
ago.
Seth Green aaya that editor* can mover
be aucoeaaful fishermen. They get dia
oouraged after a few minutes and throw
down the rod to write au abusive article
on the finny tribe.
" Never mind, sonny. The rain
makes boy* grow," remarked a Ma*-'
chnsetta tramp the other day, wb-u he
took a ailk umbrella awaj from a lad in
the midst of a rain storm.
During the last fifteen months eight
hundred and eight families of Xeunou
ite immigrants, numbering four thou
sand eight hundred and forty-four rar
aona, have settled to Manitoba.
Three months ago the Montana paper*
would have stated that a borae-dmler
had been invited to a bempeo-neektio
aoaaWe; now they say that the eaitoeii*
have put a pull-back crart-t on him.
A subaeriber writes to an editor to the
Wert: " I don't waut your paper any
longer." To which the editor renlisa:
'• I wouldn't make it any longer u you
did ; its present length suits me very
wdL"
"Did my moustache trouble yon,
iharr said Nogg* * sweetheart,
after giving her a hearty osculation.
" No, sweet; considering the stoe and
strength of that mustache, I felt rather
down in the mouth."
A my pretty Sunday-school aoog is
the one "entitled: " Put your armor on,
my boys." Thaw Is, however, a young
ladv who doaant like to bear it. -Sh.
says it sounds like " Put your arm
around ma, boys."
The technical name of " hanks." op
phed to sketoa of worsted yarn or other
thread, it supposed was derived from
one Hsnk'W" de Brabant, a Flemish
weaver, dyer, or fuller, who settled to
York, England, to 1731.
A Parttogtonisn juryman, to Vermont,
recently informed hie fellow-jurymen,
with great gravity, that "no external
isMiiilisin being visible, he would vote
to the defensive." No attempt was
made to change his decision.
"Mv son," said a stern father to a
W>TPD Tear-old hopeful, "I must disci
pline yon. Your teacher say* yoni am
tht worrt boy to the school." "Well,
papa," was the reply, "only yesterday
she told me I was just like my father.
Humility ii the bttlourk of wisdom.
Socrates, whom the oracle—that i*. the
naiUd opinion of tin? world in which he
movod—pronounced to be the wisest
DMD, was content with the title of a
lover, rather than a professor of wisdom.
An exchange says: "A Chicago
chemist, owing to the non-payment of
his fee, refuse* to return the stomach of
a ■*" sent to him for analysis." A
.Jwmmt with such principles is capable
of turning or returning the stomach of
any man.
An artificial spoutiag bath of sulphur
water of the same temperature aa the
springs of Rollioame, at Viterbo, was
prepared in the Vatican for the use ol
the Pope, who had the rheumatism, but
who recovered before the bath was
ready.
•• Figures will lie," said a" young
married friend to our reporter this morn
ing, " and don't you bet on the'flgure of
a woman until you know by actual ob
nervation just w'hat you haw to sustain
your judgment, lis, sir, I know that
figures will lie."
Yesterday, when a 'soman fell down
near the city hall, a man, leaning against
the fence, waved his hand and remarked :
" Zhete's where shay have vantage. Fi
fall down folks thav 1 m shrank Women
fall down an' folks shay she ought*r sue
she city for ton thousand sollara.
There is a youth in Pennsylvania who
ought to have the prise aa a champion
wrong-speller. They gave him "irre
oondkble" to wrestle with, and he
writhed ont the following:
reckonaileable." Anybody eon sjwul a
word correctly, but it require* genius to
be thus ingeniously and ideally errone
ous.
A recent advertisement contains the
following startling information : If the
gentleman who keeps the shoo store
with a red head will return the umbrella
of a young lady with the ivory handle to
the slate roofed grocer's shop, he will
hear something to his advantage, as the
same is the gift of a deceased mother
now no more, with the name engraved
upon it.
During the prevalence of the recent
flood on the Wabash river in Indiana,
two young men were carried away by
the water, and were saved from drown
ing only by climbing np on the limbs of
an overturned tree which had stuck in a
narrow channel. Here they clung for
a day and a half. When they were taken
off, they passed the following night at
a house wnere twenty-four families were
quartered.
Three months ago a discharged conduc
tor was killed by an express messenger,
while the former was trying to rob his car.
Decently, #4,000 was paid by the conduc
tors' mutual benefit Maociatioii to the
conductor's widow, her husband haying
been a member in good standing.
She is an excellent woman, in poor
circumstances, and the asaociation paid
the money without raising any question
as to the way her husband met his
death.
A Chicago gentleman invited a number
of friends to dinner, and they aooepted
the invitation, but none of them appeal'
ed, and the dinner was spoiled. Accord
ingly he sued them for the value of the
viands wasted through their lack of
courtesy. The lower court gave him
judgment for the amount claimod, but
the superior tx'bunal reversed the deci
! sion, remarking that if the principle first
affirmed were correct the risk of accept
ing invitations would be very serious,
indeed.
A lady residing in Laushigburg, N.
Y., hailed a passing car, with her little
son, the other day, to see him safely on
the horse-oar for a trip to Troy. He
stepped on board and scrambled for the
front of the oar. As he was going his
mother said : " Why, aren t you going
to kiss your mother before you go •
The little fellow was so delighted at the
prospect of a ride and in such a hurry
' that he hastily rejoined, looking back
excitedly : "Mr. Conductor, won t you
kiss mother for me I" And of course the
' passengers couldn't help smiling.