In the Long Ago.
OooL salt air. and ths whit* wave* breaking
Restless. eager, along th* strand,
An evening sky and a snnset glory
Fading over the sea and land.
We two aitttng alone together,
Hide by aide, in the waning light;
Before ns the throbbing waete of wwtra.
Behind us the sand heaps, drifted whit*.
Ship* were sailing in the distance,
Down to the lands where the sun has gone.
The rough, freeh wind blew o'er our faces.
And the shadow* of night crept slowly on.
It ie a dream that 1 remember
Home ghoet of a hope that will (Mine no
more,
W* two sitting alone together,
Hand in hand on the ocean shore.
Woman.
An angel wandering cnt of heaver,
Ai d a I too bright for Kden even.
One* through the paths of Paradise
Male Utminons the auroral air.
And walking in his awful guise
Met the Eternal Father there -
Wh<\ when he saw the truant sprite.
Hauled love through all those ho were of
light
The while within hie entranced apt 11
Our Eden aire lay slumbering uaar;
God saw and salt it :• not well
For man shine to linger here—
Then took that angel I y the hand *
And with a kt* it* brow tie pressed.
Ai d ohiepering til his mild command.
He laid it near the tleepet's breast.
With earth enough to make it hnniau
He chaiued its witij. and called it Woman.
And if perchance some stains of rust
Upon her pinion, yet remaiu,
'Pis hut ths mark of God's own dust.
The earth mold of that Eden chain,
—T. f? Rrud
THE MOTHERS STRATAGEM.
One sunny mc-ruing, a few Tears ago,
J*n Kammerick came np from the cabin
of his barge which 1m men were slowly
working through a lock near the quaint
and ancient city of Autworp—and set
his huge feet upon the deck. His first
act was to bellow ferociously at the
good uatured follows who were doing
their best to get the barge through
without even so much as scraping the
fresh paint on her side-; his next was
deliberately and cruelly to kick a small
boy who was lying on his back, and
looking up at a carTed wooden figure
whose grotesque head grinned from a
side rail.
Many of the loungers along the banks
of the hack knew old Jan Kammerick for
a mean and cruel Flemish boor, who
maltreated his wife, his children, his
bargemen, and who sometimes fiew into
such terrific fits of auger that be
thrashed his own sides with his round
fists. No one in Antwerp—not s market
woman on the shore of the Scheldt, nor
a bargeman on river or canal—liked the
choleric and brutal Jan Kammerick;
many times the wretch had narrowly
escs{*\l a ducking at the hands of a
mob because of his cruelties; and on
this occasion, seeing the poor child who
was kicked begin to cry and to crawl
away toward a refuge under a pile of
rope, every one shouted;
" Jan Kammerick ! Jan Kammerick 1
you are a mean, bad mac, and no one will
be sorry when you come to harm!" or
"Jan Kammerick! you shall be com
plained of to the judge of the district 1"
The women shook their fists at him,
and the men muttered that the boy
must be taken away from his cruel
father and cared for. Kammerick's
poor wife, who was washing her pots and
kettles on deck, looked as if she in
wardly sympathized with the people on
ahore; bnt she trembled, and dared say
nothing.
Jan was in such a dreadful temper
that the cries of the people on shore
made him more furous still.
"It's none of your busihess," he
shouted. "how much I pound and kick
thia Lrat! He is good for nothing bnt
whitt i g and breaking knives. If he
craves any more of his padding facet
oat of my boat rails I'll send him
adrift. Then yoa will have what yon
want! Then, neighbors, yoa will have
a pauper on your hands; and when yon
feed him in your kitchens be will carve
doll pnppeU oat of your table legs."
Then he vanished down the hatchway,
followed by the maledictions of the by
standers
"If I were yon," one of them to
the boy. " I would run away."
The barge went on through the locks,
and the boy still crouched in his corner.
Tne tears yet dimmed his eyes, but he
had aLrea ly forgotten his bruises. There
was no resentment in his heart toward
his wretched father. His miud was fill
ed with a thousand beautiful and fan
tastic images—delicate fanc.es which he
now and then sought to embody in bite
of wood thit he laboriously cirve i with
clumsy knives or chisels. He longed to
be free from the rn.'e work which he
was compelled to do njou the barge,
and to study, that be might become a
great sculptor in wood. When the
barge passed near some of th curiously
adorned old houses of whiih there sr<
so many in Antwerp—houses whose
roofs, whose arches, whose doors were
richly and profusely adorned with carv
ings of birds and foliage, of bea-U ami
dragons, of mystical figures from my
thologies, or comical transcripts from
every day Dutch life—he studied them
carefnlly and witn deep adoration. He
had never been allowed to go into the
streets, and look at them for hours at
a time, as he could have wished to do ;
for old Jan, who plied to and from a
little village on the banks of the Scheldt,
at some distance from Antwerp, would
never allow his child to go on shore
daring his tri weekly visits to th city.
He yearned for a sight of the grand
churches of which his mother had told
him—cathedrals in whose solemn still
ness he ooold stand undisturbed all the
day long, drinking in beauty at every
pore. The harshness an l hardship of
his life, the Ix-atings of las unnatural
father, would have ls-en as DOthing to
him if he could have been allowed to
learn some thing of art. Cut old Jin
not only refused to allow Liin to work,
but bad thrown into the river many
beautiful imag<*s of saints, of birds, of
dragons, which the child bad curved by
stealth when the bargeman was not near,
and had then offered to the boor, asking
him to sell them and buy tobacco for
himself with the money.
" No child of my shall waste his life
over such mummeries," said old Jan.
While the boy wai musing bitterly on
his Jot, his mother, who had finished
washing her pots and kettles, came to
him, and while she wruug ont her dish
cloth with her lean and blistered hands,
ihe said, ill a low voice :
"Jan, boy, yon are small and feeble,
bnt you are now thirteen, and I think
yon would be brave and resolute. The
good soul down stairs " (she always call
ed Father Jan good soul, because she
knew that he was an old brute) "the
good soul has ma le up his mind that
you are to be a bargeman, and he is
stern, as you know. Now—do not
speak —we must try a new way to get
you launched in the world. " (Here the
mother's tears began to fall fast, and
alia thought of the beatings which she
might receive if ehe carried out her
plan.) "My child, you must leave u;
you must run away r
FItED. KURTZ, Kditor mid Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
Tho boy's eye* diihi'il; ho rows and
limped toward hia mother.
•' Nevwr !" he said. " 1 cannot loavo
you uiotlietkin I Leave you with that
rnau I"
" Listen, child !" alio said. "Wo will
try a little* way which tho giKnl thai has
put into my head. Von will l>e a genius,
my sou—ono of thoae great people who
can express just what they waut to say.
You will cairo out your thought* iu
wood —iu stone, perhaps. Tonight,
whou tho Itaige ato( near tho lock, 1
will make an errand for your father on
aliore. I will give you a few piece* of
mouey out of tlio sum which we had
saved* for Berths'* dowry, aud you shall
tly. Your father will not liuut for you;
hi* heart is hard, and he will ay that
he is glad you are guue."
The boy looked at his mother with
wonder iu hia eye*. But there was no
longer auy aigu of tears iu tliem. A uow
tire lit them up.
"Go," aho continued, "to Gaaker
Willems, iu the little street near Bt.
Andrew's. There take a ohamler, aud
may God lie with you ! Now and then,
perhaps, I may come to see you. But
it is better that 1 should uot, and that
your father should think you gone
-way, uo one kuows when*. But —aud
now listeu *rue*tly—in a year from this
day, toward suuset, I will bring your
father to Saint Andrew's church. It was
(here that he tlrst saw me, twenty years
ago, there by the great carveu pulpit,
w Inch you, poor child, have never seen,
but which will delight your eye*. Jan,
oue year is uot a long time but you
have already done much, aud perhaps,
befoie twelve mouths have passed, you
will have doue a uoble work. Meet us,
th n, by the pulpit in St. Audrew's
church iu a year from this day, at the
sunset hour. Bring with you some
delicate carving as au offering to him,
aud at the same time say that you wish
to return to us. Perhaps his heart will
have been softened by your absence;"
and the good little mother almost
smiled, aud looked very wise through
her tears.
" Motherkin," said Jan, " I will obey
you."
Then the poor child begun to tremble
at the thought of going out alone into
the worl But his courage came to
him finally, aud he kissed his mother
again and again.
" If anything dreadful happens I will
let you know," said she, "but father
Jan must not hear from you, uor see
you, until a year from this day."
"Farewell, then, mothvrkin," said
the child; " farewell for a long, long
year. By the carved pulpit in Saint
Andrew's, in a twelvemonth !"
They took their farewells theu anil
there, lest old Jan should suspect them,
if they were crying toward evening.
At uightfall, as the barge approached
the lock again, after its station near a
market all day, the mother went on
shore to get a pail of clear water; old
old Jan folioweil her, storming and
threatening, as she knew he would be
cause supper for the worxmen was not
ready. The boy took the little bag of
clothes and the money which his mother
had prepared for him; as the loat grazed
the si le of the look he jumped out, and
was speedily lost to view in the crowd.
Two hours later, he had Iteen received
at the house of Gasker Willems, iu the
little street n ar St. Andrew's church.
He aiept in an old carven bedstead.
wh'*te headboard was a pictured history
of the destruction of Pharaoh's host,
whose feet were griffins' claws, whose
curtain posts were lovely angels with
uplifted laces.
A year brought sad changes to old
Jan Kammeriek. At first when he
learned of his sou's flight, be ascribed
it to meddlesome neighbors, and his
rage knew no bounds. He stoutly in
sisted that he would never try to bring
back the vagabond wood haokr. He
would not hear the boy's name spoken.
Sometimes, when he saw that the moth
er looker |>aler than was her wont, ami
that she wept silently when she was
polishing her pots and kettles, his con
-cience smote him. Bnt he would
never have been really sorry if misfor
tune bail not come upon him. One of
his bargemen, whom he had once
leateu, scuttled the barge and fled. Jan
and his wife had a narrow escape from
drowning, and. Lad it not been for
friendly aid, would have lost all their
pots and kettles. Young Jau had been
•ant away to Brussels by the good Gas
ker Willems, a few days before this, and
knew nothing of it nntil many days
f erward. He was busy with his art.
in which he made a*toni*hiug progress.
The next misfortune wb ch befell old
Jan wa the loss of his little house on
the ii&nks of the Scheldt. A fire burned
•ut the interior, sud cracked the stoue
walls. Old Jan had not money enough
to rebuild it. Then his limlm l>egaii to
fail him; they shook and trembled
The neighlxirs said: "It is because he
kicked and I teat his son !" Ard old Jan
himself Itegan to be very much of their
opinion. He had now only a small
I large; was obliged always to live in it,
and was very poor and discouraged.
Sometimes his heart was softened towurd
his patient wife, and he would sav:
" You will le the first to be killed by
my (toverty. It would have been bettor
for you if I never bad seen you in Bt.
Andrew's church."
Then she would answer: " No, in
deed I Onr fortune is yet to come out
of that church, Jan."
Bho said this so often, and with such
emphasis, that one day he looked at her
curiously and said:
" Why, Anneken, what do you mean ?"
" To-morrow," she answered, "we
shall see. Jan, it is many years since
we have taken a holiday. We are as
good as th rest of the world; let us
live our youth over again; let tis stay in
Autwerp, and at sunset to morrow let
us visit St. Andrew's church, and stand
by the carven pulpit where "
" Stuff!" the old man was saying,
when the mother put her hand upon his
month. He no longer threatened or beat
her; his punishments had sobered him;
his h art almost yearned for his lost son.
" By the carven pulpit," continued
the mother, " where we may say a
prayer for our lost son."
" Well, if yon will have it so, An
neken," he answered, almost gently.
• • •
In the Netherlands there are many
churches filled with rare and exquisite
carvings, with altar pieces, shrines, pnl
pits, choirs, vestries, fonts, and sacris
ties laden with a wealth of intricate
work, done in wood by skillful hands;
and in Antwerp tbo richest specimens of
this curious lairor are to be found. In
the great cathedral of Bt. Jacqnes,
where Peter Paul Ilubeus, the painter,
lies buried, there are hundreds of rich
and fantastic carvings, ont of which the
fancies of the elder artists peer curi
ously at the prosaic present. Some
times the birds are a little too odd to be
real, the dragons are almost too funny
lor a cathedral, aud the flowers and
leaves are not conxtrncted strictly in ac
cordance with botany; but, on the
whole, you feel that if things in nature
are not like those in the carvings, they
at least ought to be—so charming, so
droll, so satisfactory are they I
In St. Andrew's church,of which young
Jan's mother had so many tender memo
ries, stands a large carven pulpit, of a
peculiarly daring design for artists who
work in wood. It repr sento a rooky
crag near the seashore. Just beneath
the crag liae a fishing boat, in which
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Uu>l tlio figure* of tho Apostle* An
drew ami IVter. Behind thorn, ou tho
right, thoir fishing lie'* hang ii|>on a
tree Tho |HM|ICN aro looking earnest
IT at a figure of tho Savior, which
stand* iu au attitude a., if beckouiug
them; an if saving : "Follow iuo, and I
will mako ye tishcrs of men." Two of
tho cleverest art ml* in tho Netherland*
gave much timo and talont to tlua de
lightful i-arving. Van Hool did tho
foliage, tho nolo, tho rooka, Vau Gbeel
tho figures of tho apo*Ue and tho Sa
Th>r. Tho lattor figure sceui* to ha*o
genuine itiapiraUoii in it; tho eculptor
ha* wronght marvelou*ly. bringing ef
fect* out of atublioru WHHI rarely ob
tained before. Wlion ovouing light—
last ray of tho declining miu, reflected
through tho ataiuod gla*e* of tho
church, an I softened to tho delicacy of
auuimor twilight—fall* goutly IIJKIU tin*
group, tho sacred tlgnroa seem to have
all tho auprouio dumb of marble—uay
moro, thoy ap|>oar to live!
80 thought tho goodmothor Auuokou,
aa on tho appoiutod day. ono vour from
tho timo whou alio had aout forth hor
child into tho world to giro goniua
scope, and to e*cu|> irom hia hard
ho*/tod father, alio led tho fooblo and
uow quite aubdued old Jan Kammerick
into 8k Andrew' church. Aatheoouplo
camo iu view of tho pulpit, memories,
endearing and eolemu, camo to thorn;
tho sjwvUr* of tlioir vani*hed youth
roao up livforo them, uot in mocking
shape, but aa good spirit*, come to
cheer thom ou tho path of life. Old
Jan remembered how he had aeeu tho
fair maideu standing near tho pulpit
with ber hands foldod ami hor eyee
closed in prayer, aud how ho had sworn
to win hor a* his wifo. Ho was glad ho
had ooino into tho church, and thou—ho
thought of hia acu.
At that moment there was a joyful cry
from the mother, and young Jan, won
derfully improved in voice, iu mauuer,
and in health, rushed into her arms. A
hundred kisses, and a half a hundred
words sufficed for them ; for the good
little mother hail kept herself informed
of all her sou's progress, through the
medium of old thinker Willems. But
the father was astonished beyond meas
ure. He stepped back, trembling ; and,
shading his eyes with his hands, he
looked long at the youth.
"Hey day, sou!" he cried; "we
thought we had lost you! But here you
are l>ack again, aud uo word of repent
auoe I"
Old Jau tri< d to lie severe, but his
voice softened at every word.
" Father," said the youth, "I bring
you a peace offering."
Just ttieu l tanker Willems came hob
bling up, bearing a large box, which he
placed npon the cathedral floor. Young
Jau opened it. and took from it a piece
of wood carving. *
"Quickly!" said (tasker Willems,
after he hail been greeted ; " look at
this before the beadle sees us, for it is
time when many stroll into the church.
Quickly, and then let us ail go 10 my
bouse."
Young Jan stepped to a point nest
the pulpit, where the light still fell with
some sharpness, aud held up tile rarving.
Theu the astonished parents saw that it
was an exact reproduction, on a tiny
scale, but done with surpassing finish,
'{ the pulpit before which they sto.nl at
that instant. But this was not all. In
front of the miniature pulpit, stood a
maiden, with eyes downcast, aud hands
folded iu prayer; aud near her, watch
ing her reverently, with parted lijs and
expectant air, was a brave young barge
man, exactly like those one may see
every day on the Scheldt. In this carv
ingolil Jan and his wife saw the story of
their first uioeiiug told, as the mother
hail so often told it to her son.
" Father," said the youth, "this, and
another like it, have beeu my year'-
work. The fellow to this hi* Ix-en .-old
to a prince for a largo sum of money ;
and the prince wishes to help im> to
-tudy until I can help myself more. But
( shall not need him ; ami neither moth
er nor y -u will ever work more, for the
prince's bounty, with my future work,
will be enough for us all. Father, will
you t-ike my off> ringf"
Old Jan flowed his head, and took the
carving. He set it down upon the ra
thedral floor, and took his sou to his
arms.
" I was an old brute," lie said ; " how
did I ever lieoome such a so mud re! f"
On the way to danker Willems", where
the party took supper, the good moth
er told the husband of her stratagem
to help ber child. Old Jau said but thia:
"A good wife i-i a good thing; but 1
have not merited one !"
Gasker Willems, who was bringing up
the rear with the carving in his arms,
said :
"Say rather that yon have merited
nothing like the ret of ti* ; but that
God is good, aud moves in mysterious
wavs ; and that your tough heart could
onfy have txen softened by the strata
gem which He seut into the mother's
mind !"
" Well, well!" said old Jan, " I must
try and get grace enough to thank Him
properly."— St. NicffAat.
Mind Your Own Business.
When you first begin life make two
resolutions, and stick to them : First, to
mind your own business; second, to let
the business of other people alone.
Those people who are always meddling
with the affairs of others are a nuisance,
and ought to be legally abated like any
other nuisance.
We would rather live near a soap fat
boiling establishment or a p troleum re
finery than near one of them.
If yon belong to that class of nuis
ances we pity yon, for your life is an nn
e&ny and unsatisfactory one. You can
never be happy, becanse it is utterly im
(lossible that you can ever fiud out
everything that is going on i i your vi
ciuity.
What is it to you if your neighbor
does bring home a brown paper pmckage
and a covered basket ? Yon will live
jnst as long if you never know what
they contained. It is none of yonr
business.
Suppose Mrs. B. has a new bonnet,
how does that concern yon f Your life,
liberty and sacred honor are in no way
injured by the fact. Suppose she did
pay 810 for it. The money did not
come ont of your pocket, and conse
quently it is none of your business.
What if the minister does call on Ann
Eliza Smith twice a week 1 Why exer
cise yonr brain over it? What if lie is
courting her) Dot him court away. Sup
pose she has an awiul temper and pow
ders her face, as you say he does, her
temper will not trouble you.
Don't be forever poking yonr nose
into everybody's business. If one
young lady "cuts out " another young
lady it is nothing to you. n isn't
making love to you nor any of your
folks.
What if they do have thiee pairs of
stockings apiece over at Squire Hill's.
Haven t they a right to) As long as
you don't do the washing it need not
trouble you at all. If Hill's shirta are
three inches longer then common, don't
excite yourself about it. If you hadn't
been watobing the clothesline you never
would have known anything about it,
and " where ignorsnos la bliss, 'tit folly
to be wise.''
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., LA.. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1870.
the Jains of India.
Tho Jam* of tho Pact Indie* aro very
peculiar iu tlioir idea* of animal life.
Thoy constitute, pcrhapn, tho most <fH
cieut " society for tho prevention of
cruelty to animal* "iu tho world. It is
a cardinal duty imposed by their faith
to preserve and care for the live* of the
brute creation. Animal food they will
not partake of ou auy account. They
have erected hospitals for sick and
maimed animal* la luanv place*, aud de-
vote it groat d-al of money and time to
this excessively Ix-uevoleut otj< ot. Their
" Puijrapol," or annual hospital, at
Bombay, la a largo mat conspicuous
building iu tho con tor of tho Black Town,
which l>c*r comparison, in point of
architecture ami spaciousness, with
many of the Hindoo temple*. The Jain
who, as ho |t*Me* aliiug tho city aired
or country road, tluda a wounded Is-ast
or hiril, is iui|>ellod to take it up tender
ly, to carry it home and minister to it,
or to oouvey it to tho Piujrapob This
institution l* conducted much as are
human hospitals. The four logged pa
tieut is kept and nursed until it is
cured ; or, if its injuries are permanent,
the hospital is its residence for life.
Konadolol's brief and picturesque uo
oouut of a visit to the rwjrapoi is curt
ous and amusing : " Yon go, in the
tirst place, into a largo court surround
ed by aheds, iu tho midst of which are
kept a number of oxen. There is uuth
mg more curious than this assembly of
sick quadrupeds, Home have bandages
over their eyes ; others, lame or in a
helplens condition, are comfortably
stretched on clean straw. Their attend
ants rub them down, and bring the
blind and parah xod their food. From
this court we pass into another of less
extent, containing dogs and cats in the
same pitiable oocditiou. A little further
ou is an luclosure resei veil for bipeds.
Aged COWS spend their hves peaceably
in comi>auy with bald vultures and bux
cards tliat liave lost their plumage. At
tho other oud of the court a heron,
proud of his wooden leg, strutted about
in tho rniiist of blind ducks and lame
fowls. All the domiwtio animals, and
those that dwell in the viciuity of man
kind, have here their representatives.
Hals are to be seen in great numbers,
and display remarkable tameuess ; mice,
sparrows, parrot.-*, peacocks, aud jackals,
have their asylum in this Jam hospital.
However ridiculous this institution may
seem, it is yet an example of the kind
ness and humanity of these people,
whose charity would not allow any be
ing created by the Almighty to suffer ;
and are can forgive what appears to us
an übstinty to those men who can boast
that they have covered India with th ir
* dhaminnaia-i ' for jHior travelers, aud
have enriched tho hospitals by their
princely donations."
Made lu Egypt,
Egypt furnishes an illustration of her
own somber architecture. There were
many plaster casts of Egyptian aculp
ture, queer brass ornaments, old armor,
unfamiliar Eastern products. The sen
timental eIYWt was marred, however, by
tue cards of prices affixed to many arti
cle*. A sti'l greater departure of my
mind from retrosjiective thought, a cor
respondent says, was caused by what 1
saw iu one of the glass cases. The arti
cle to which 1 allude is lalsded: " Night
.Shirt—priii', S7O Sold to Miss Ord
way." The privilege of selling any ar
tide on exhibition is accorded by the
maUHgers, tho ouly restriction Is mg
that a delivery to the purchaser cannot
be made lie'ore the dote of the show
and that the regular duty mat be paid.
MIHS Ordway'a night shirt is beautiful,
peculiar and open t . bjeotion for ue
in this changeable rliui itc. The t< iturr
is like a web, so slight that it will inter
pose no barrier to sight or oold. M >a
quite* will reach Lctween the threads
and bite Miss Ordway if they are not too
polite. Every br< <ri will blow upon
her body unchecked. Hand worked
upon the gossamer fabric are fanciful
figures in gold thread, and the fouuda
tioii tieing so slight, they look at a little
distance as though entirely unsupport
ed. Miss Ordway, when arrayed in tliis
night shirt, will depend largely upou
herself for the beauty of the effect. The
cloth will not cover her more thickly
thau a veil, and the embroidery wiil
neeni to rest upon her flesh. She will
have old leaves and vines on her I nick, a
cluster on each shoulder, another on her
breast, and vines will trail down her
arms. The effect will be at least unique.
In the subdued light of her sleeping
room—clad only, to all the iuteuts ami
purjMisea of appearance, in a few gold
leaves and vines—she will depend for
beauty, as I remarked liefore, entirely
upon herself. Coming down to a prac
tieal consideration, I wish to record my
prediction that she will catch cold. The
garment is nnatiited to any bnt Cleo
patra's scorching clime. It will ooat,
with the duty, aixmt 8100, uul is abort
for the price. It must hang in the case
until Octolier, to bo admired l>y thou
sands of women. Miss Ordway, I learn
by inquiry, is a beautiful girl of Head
ing, Ta.
Transfusion of Itlood.
Frank Gray was stabbed in the
neck by Thomas Kerwin. at George
town, Colorado. Ho bled so that it was
not believed he oonld live, and lay in a
semi unconscious state. The attending
physicians determimsl, as a last resort,
to try the effect of transfusing blood
into his system. Kerwin, who stablied
Gray, agreed to supply the blood, and
the experiment was made.
The poor fellow seemed in the very
grasp of death before the operation com
menced. Physicians oould detect no
pulsation whatever at the wrist; his
bauds aud feet were oold an .1 clammy,
like those cf a corpse; the eyes hail
only a vacant stare, l**trnying no intelli
gence ; and when spoken to ho api>oarod
entirely unconscious of the import of
the words spoken to him.
BIIMNI was drawn from Kerwin'a arm
and kept at the temperature of the body
by immersing the howl containing it in
water, the temperature of which was
regulated by a thermometer. The
flbrine or clot was then carefully re
moved, an incision made in a vein of the
right arm ami the blood forced into the
incised vein through a small syringe.
About four ouucea of the blood drawn
from Kerwiu's arm were injected into
(iray's and in a short time the pnlse was
quite perceptible, the extremities re
sumed their normal coudition and be
cume warm, consciousness returned,
and although he did not attempt to
speak he evinced a knowledge of what
was said to him and replied to queations
by maunal sigus. The strength given him
by this acoeaaion' ofbloodj p rohably pro
longed his life some hours, bnt abont
one o'clock the next morning he breathed
his last.
BIIQUI>AB EPITARA. —On a tombstone
at Bhutostmry, Mass., is the following
epitaph, dated 1793 :
Hie Jsent Johannes Straw,
Who forty year* followed the law i
When be died, the devil cried
" I oka, give a* year paw'
A Haiti out! king.
Amoricau rich men are of all race*.
Girard was French; llopkiu* wa* Pug
li*li; Jacob Barker wa* Yankee; tho Liv
iugntouoH were Hootch; the Barrotia were
Spanish; Antor wa* a German; and
Stewart, Irish; Vunderbill suit Garrison
were Dutch, of Holland stock. Com
modore Vauderhllt, without going far
from home, and merely improving the
ceutury's great op|>ortuuitiea a* they lie
gun and consolidated in tho wuU-rs of
New York, gamed a gigantic fortune.
He took to the water in chihlhtsst, arose
iu tin* infancy of steam navigation, and
lived the whole |striod actively tirlweeu
the eras of Hols-rt FulbU and George
M. Pullman, between the stage coach
and the |wince oar. The extent of rail
roads in America iu the oomtuodore's
eighty second year of age is 75,000
miles; the earliest American locomotive
engine builder, Peter Coojier, is still
alive. A tnuu has just jtasaed iu eighty
hours from New York to Han Francisco,
or leas time than was commonly required
to go from New Yotk to Waahmgtou
wheu Yanderbilt beguu steamboatmg.
There are in 1h76 HO.OOO miles of rail
toad in North America, and 1H4.U00 in
the world. The heir of the Ptolemies
has failed as the owner of a railroad and
a realm, aud hissultau is defamed. India
is full of British railways, and so was
Polynesia.
Length of days and opportunity count
vastly in the returns of a merchant's
life. The sti amhoat was invented in the
sight of Vauderbilt's birthplace, ou
Stalon island, and he saw and protwbly
knew Hubert Fulton. Up to that time
he had been a mere waterman and aloop
captain, sailing no further tliau New
Brunswick, on the Haritan, or Shrews
bury, or Kingston. His knowledge of
the waters led him to IMI employed by
the steam boat rivals of Livingstone and
Steveus as earlv as 1816. He was more
properly a product of Long Island than
of Stateu island, and of New Jersey
than of New York. It is fourteen miles
from Hlaten Inland to New Hrunswick,
six miles to New Y'ork, one mile to Kite
alietbport, and eight miles to the UJHUI
ocean. Within these limits the young
Yanderbilt ki.ew every shoal, current,
and sounding. He was lieanlrs i..t !li
geut, bold and athletic; so he was nu
mediately needed when capital and in
ventloli were prepared with the steam
boat. Eluat>elb|M>rt wan the eud of the
main road across New Jersey to New
York, rucks *nd marshes intervening
above that |>oiut ao that no road was tit
for travel beyond it, wheu Wan lung ton,
proceeding to New Y'ork to !• maugur
ated, took a barge from Killatwth jmiut
to the first cwpiul. The man who ad
ministered the oath to Washington ou
tliat occasion introduced Fult>u and the
stoainlioat to America.
" Vauderbilt's confidence was seeu in
his driving," say* one who knows him
" He was so hiind be conld hnrdly see
the hair on his horse, aliti yet he rode
out every day, iieing several times
thrown iuto the road. H<< had just sense
enough to believe that if he kept the
middle of the road people would get not
of his way. That * the oourso he took
IU all thing*; he never turned out un
less oomjw-lled to."
The grandeur of Vanderbilt's finan
cial transactions was shown in his Har
lem corner at the clow of the war. The
was selling at forty m the market,
par at fifty. If there were 70,000 shares
it required only £1,800,(KM) to buy the
whole stock. At par Vanderbilt Co.
ts'Ught up the whole stock, while the
"shorts" offered sixty. Having got
the stock, it went up gradually to SIBO,
at or alxrat which figure the broker* and
their principal* had to settle or break,
making a profit to the Vanderbilt ix*>i
of say uine millions, or nearly tliree
times the whole amount of the invest
:uent. One of his greatest days was late
in December, 1868. He had purchaeial
or controlled alwiut 180,000 shares of
New York Central stock. Getting tee
gether a quorum of directors in night
session, they declared a dividend of
eighty |>er oent. and announced it next
morning. The stock almost instantly
jum|>ed from 120 to 165, and the short
interest had to pay over five millions of
dollars to the commodore's coterie. His
great age befriended him; for he made
the balk of his fortune after he was sev
enty years old.
In a Bay's l'oeket.
A teacher's letter contains the follow
ing: A noise one day breaking the
silence of the schoolroom, the offender
was swiftly brought to justice, aud his
sjxHtl confiscatciL Another minute, anil
another noise from the same delinquent
—this time a file. Reflecting that
•conomy of time might be useful in the
case, I desired Master George to bring
me all he had, and reluctantly there was
poured forth such an nnending stream
of treasures that I dispatched an assist
ant for the saucer of a flower pot in
whicii to place them. A list is in order:
A rubber liall gnawed at ouo side, fonr
yards of twine, throe peewoos, two slate
pencils, a piece of soap, a copper, six
board muls, a pickle, a fishhook, a ban,
a letter which hail once been pink, bat
now, alas ! —five lozenges, a top, a doll's
| Ixxit with the handle in it, a gold stnd
I weepingly confessed to be " My mam
mio's," a patent lock, key attached, a
piece of gum with tooth impressions, a
leaf from a speller round a treacherous
piece of tar, two kite-knobs, n scissor, a
watch kev, a pipe Ixiwl colored and
scented after the latest epicun-an style,
a shoestring, a whistle, four scarlet
beans, an inch doll, two bobbins, an
Irishman's jackknife, a lampwtck, three
pieces of raiulxtw coal, five jacks ones,
a photograph, a tuck hammer, a ring, a
skillet leg, a metal toe, a rabbit's tail.
Total, sixty-five I
Floating.
These plain directions from the San
(aria.t, if remembered, mny Have the life
of one Mho fall* into deep water, even
if he has not learned how to swim : Men
are drowned by raising their arms above
water, the nnbnoyed weight of which
depresses the head. Other animals have
neither notion nor ability to act in a sim
ilar manner, and therefore swim natu
rally. When i man falls into deep wat
er, he will rise to the surface, and will
continue there if he does not elevate his
hands. If he moves his hands under
water, in any way he pleases, his head
will rise BO high as to give him free lib
erty to breathe; and if he will use his
legs, as in the act of walking for rather
walking op stairs), his shoulders will
rise above the water, so that he may use
' 'he less exertion with his hands, or ap
ply them to other purposes.
Floods in Switzerland.
Caatern Switzerland is suffering se
verely from floods caused by heavy
r tins and melting snow. The canton of
Thurgnu, which ia entirely inundated,
is 384 square milea in extent, and has
about 95,000 people. The serious dam
age the railroads have suffered is one of
the worst effects of the mountain tor
rents. elnoe it will retard the aid that is
•ant to the homeless.
Tin: I Mil AM Will
Tkr Ftakl .Ilk lb. kla.i HM.b.4 I r..k
A ll..l>.r*i. I •■•lci-.Tk. Miasm fr.-
*ar4 lor SH.iialr Klsklla#.
An important battle ha* been fought
at the head waters of Koaebud creek, be
tweeit the hostile Sioux, uumlan<
'i,500, uuder Sitting Bull of the North,
and the column uuder the command of
Brigadier Geueral George Crook, cum
(Mined of I.HOO mounted soldiers. The
tight lasted five hours, an I resulted in
the Jiscouifiture of the savage*, although
uot before .hey had inflicted on the
triMipn * loan of ten killed and twenty
wounded. Ou their own aide they aac
rillued by the bold attack which they
made about oue hundred warrior* and
an equal number of ponies, but thereby
saved for the tune beiug their village,
which, according to the guide, lay a di
T snce of ouly MIX mile* from tho battle
field. Details of the battle arc given as
follows ;
The troops left the camp early in the
morning and had inarch* d about ten
mil-MI up the valley of the creek, when
a sudden halt wa* made at a wild *ignal
of the friendly Snakes, with the troop*
galloping up and shouting: " Sioux I
Sioux !" at the name time nhot* were
ttrtvl rapidly beyoud the low hill* bur
dcring on tlie stream.
Tin* Huakra and Crows, numbering
250, with the troope ooald not be kept
back but ilanlirsi forward at once against
their ancient enemy, charging the Bioux,
luid on the first ouaet made them rapidly
recede. Then ensued a desultory tight
for half an hour, the troops in the val
ley being delayed from rendering sup
jKirt by the necessity of saddliug their
animals. Captain Kane's infantry com
pany was the first to advance to the mat
of the ridge north of the valley and
there ojasued fire. Seeing the Crows
and Snakes pressed back by the masses
of Sioui and dying before them—a high,
steep ridge being peopled by them, and
their tire deadly—the infantry charged
directly up the narrow backbone, stop
ping at every crest to level a volley af
them, but saw them retire only to hold
against them still higher points beyond.
The Sioux had taken a magnificent
iHMUtion on the stream, commanding the
ravines through which the troops would
prolwhly have {i*saed, and where they
might hate been slaughtered like sheep
.tefore a charge could have been made.
The conflict was almost s hand to hand
fight, the Sioux confident in their large
uumtH'rs and the position which they
held. At a moment when the advanced
line of troops hail gained a decisive ad
vantage and the soldiers were eager fur
a charge, an order came from (ten.
Crook to fail lack and connect with the
right of the line, so as to concentrate
and make a general advance. This
movement was disastrous.
Tiie Sioux heUlall the highest ground,
and from several points swet t the lower
ridge in our rear with a terrible eufilad
mg fire which pressed tOe line of retreat.
As the cavalry retreated slowly on foot
and nkirmtshtug, the Sionx ramie re
pealed charges ou the flank and were re
pulmxl by the resolute courage of the
men, who, although principally recruits,
*4ood their ground as bravely as veter
ans. lu forming a junction with the
main ootnui.nl a wide hollow must be
crossed, which was swept by a raiu of
tire from the bluffs, and the Sioux were
already preparing to charge from both
end*. Th y made every exertion to keep
tlic command divided, and their fight
mg at this moment was masterly.
Colonel K yall sei.t to General Cr*>k to
ask support, lut before an infantry
cotn|>aiiy took position to protect the
retreat tie was pressed back so that his
men fouud themselves suddenly in the
hollow, the Sioux charging upon them
on two sides and a dropping fusillade
cutting them dowu. Nine men arte
killed here and twenty wounded.
Captain Henry was horribly wounded
in the head. The infantry, taking posi
tion behind the west incline of the
ri.lge, opened Are. At this moment
Captain llaudail, seeing the peiil of
the cavalry, set the Crows and Snakes
at full speed into the hollow and the iat
tor fongl't the Sioux nobly. One of
them, after Captain lleurv had fallen,
stood and protected him until the sol
diem made a dash and bore him off.
Sergi-aut Von Moll Separated in the n
treat from hi* oompany, and, surrounded
by Sioux, was rescued by Old Crow,
single handed. A* soon as the junction
of the line was effected the Sioux begau
to yield, and the infantry, under Majors
Burrows and Burt, drove them at last
from the high oone which they had held
so long. The Snakes caused their flual
flight ami pursued a party of four Biotix
two miles, killed them all and took their
soalps. At one o'clock the firing had
ceased, and the wholecommand followed
in pursuit; but after moving three mihw
forward the country apjicarcdso danger
ou* that General Crook determined to
fall liack to the point where the battle
begun.
Meanwhile the Crows were counseling
on a bluff about the circumstance*
of the light, and expressing the belief
that the soldier* had not promptly snp
portod their first advance against the
Hionx (which was true), and had deter
mined to return home. The ammuni
tion, only one hundred round* to the
man, was half exhausted, anil General
Crook concluded to return to the camp
and make another advance after giving
rent to the troops, meanwhile hoping to
conciliate the discontented Crows. In
this he did not succeed. Tliey left for
their village, which they fear the Hionx
tiave visited during their absence. The
Snakes still remain, but their steadfast
uess cannot be relied on.
Some of the minor incidents of the
fight were horrible. A small squad of
cavalrymen, acting as a rear guard on
the march, wore ordered to hold a point
ou the left. Th Hioux surrounded
them and shot them in the face, ouly
two escaping.
Private Richard Bennett's body was
disemlHiweled by the savages and the
hands and feet cut off.
The troops behaved gallantly in res
cuing their dead and wonnded.
A corporal of T oonijany, Third cav
alry, made a gallant charge to rescue a
comrade from the scalping kuife. The
Hionx only obtained one scalp, while
the friendly Indians captured thirteen
of the Sioux, who dragged many of
their dead from the field behind their
ponies.
< leneral Crook reports nine white men
killed and fifteen wounded in the Third
cavalry, two wonnded in the Second cav
alry, three wounded in the Fourth in
fantry, and Captain Henry, of the Third
cavalry, severely wounded in the face.
The Uss of the Indians cannot be es
timated, but thirteen dead lashes were
left on the field and many had been re
moved.
How ToCHTKTAi.Ltns FKOTT. —l'ickont
the tiuest of any kind of fruit, leave on
their stalks, beat the whites of three
eggs to a stifi froth, lay the fruit in the
l>eaten egg with the stalks upward, drain
theni and lieat the part that drips off
again, select them out one by one and
dip them into a crap of finely powdered
sugar; oover a pan with a sheet of flue
paper, place the fruit inside of it, and
set it in an oven that is oooliug; when
the icing on the fruit beoomes firm
pile them on a dish and set thsm in a
cool place.
TKHMB: a Year, in Advnnoe.
A lotted Execution.
Nnar Clermont Mills, in Hartford
county, Md., Almira Street, the young
est daughter of Roger Street, wa* mur
dered by Christian KloUt, a youth from
the Maryland house of refuge. The
Mr> . (* are oue of the largest and most
respected familin* in Hartford county.
MUM Street wa* seventeen years of age.
Her ls>dy ww iouud at the foot of the
cellar stairs of the bouie about half
pa*t seven o'clock, with the head nearly
severed from tho body, aud an ax, with
which the deed is supposed to have
lweu committed, lying near by covered
with blood. The victim had been en
gagaged preparing breakfast and had
gone into the cellar fur some thing, when
she was attacked by the young man
with the ax, who dealt her re|eated
blows, sa was shown by several gashes
left ou the neck of the corpse.
Before the arrival of the sheriff and
State's attorney, Klutz confessed the
crime and aaid he had no motive for
killing Miss Street, but that he com
milted the murder ont of pure wicked
tMMß.
A rope was procured and Klotx was
taken to the wood*, about one hundred
yards from the house. The rope was
placed around hi* neck, the end of the
rope WM thrown over the limb of a tree
and he wa* polled np from the ground.
Home pcreon* in the crowd objected to
hanging him and he wa* cut down be
fore he wa* strangled. Klotx, seeing
that death wa* inevitable, asked for a
gnu that he might shoot himself. It was
then suggested by him that he might
just a* well hang himrelf, and be agreed
to do so. He climbed the tree unaided
aud placed the rope around hia nook.
He then asked it it wa* properly ad
justed. Upon being informed that it
was, he ©oolly tied the end of the rope
around the limb on whiah he ast and
saying "good bye," let himself drop.
(iranite In Shirts.
A letter in the London Mvnrtary Ga
vtte aays : 1 was walking along the canal
tMinks in the town of Bolton a abort
time ago and my attention was called to
a barge load of a pearly white substance.
On examination it proved to be china
clay, aud in my innooenoe I asked where
the porcelain works were located, as I
take great interest in such manufactures.
My inquiry was received with loud
laughter, and I was informed the kaolin
was consigned to Messrs. , a well
known firm of notton spinners. Apropo*
nt this little incident, and somewhat of
a commentary thereon, let me ail J that
a gentleman who professes to be ultra
religious told me the other day that an
eight-pound shirting now never oontaius
more than six pounds of cotton, and on
my asking him if he traded in this fsah
ion he piously added : "We must go
with the stream." Perhaps the mar-Am
Utf (sewing machines) are not aware
that the frequent breaking of their
n< edles ia mainly caused by the resist
ance and friction of this mineral adul
teration, which i found in abundance in
almost all the cotton they sew. Geolo
gists tell us that china clay i* deoom
posed granite; no wonder, then, that it
should be gritty and break needles. It
alao makes eminently unhealthy the oc
cupation of the mill hands, a fact which
I r--commend to the special attention of
the society of the protection of women
and children. Manchester, Manchester !
this chins clay adulteration will be thy
death!
The Tree Question.
Notwithstanding the heal of India,
there i, incredible as it may appear, a
daily growing demand for fuel in that
country, and it ia suggested by the In
dian agriculturist* that some law abonld
tie framed for counteracting the effects
of the wasteful destruction of trees for
burning and constructive parpoaes. In
some countries the laws enforce the duty
of planting trees. In Japan every per
son who cut* down a tree is requited to
plant another in its stead, while in Bis
cay a land owner ha* to pu*. down two
plants for every tree he may fell. In
Java a fruit tree i* planted on the birth
of each child, and is carefully tended a*
the record of his or her age. In the dis
trict* of Aximghur and Goruckj ore the
late Mr. H. C. Tucker greatly encour
aged the cultivation of trees by suggest
ing to the laud holders that tbey should
plant six trees on the occasion of every
marriage and two trees on the birth of
every cliUd. Hueh a practice, if en
forced by law or encouraged by advice,
would commend itself to the population
of India, whose natural taste* incliue
them to it, and in the end lead to bene
ficial results, especially if the mors valu
able deseriotion of timber trees were
cultivated.
The Battle of Waterloo.
Sixty-one y< ar* ago on Sunday, June
18, 1815, the Emperor Napoleon at
tacked the Dnke of Wellington at the
Belgian village of Waterloo, on the very
same ground where a large French
division hail been cut off from the main
army by the Duke of Marllxirough on
August 17, 1705. The allied force*
numbered 67,664 men with 156 guns.
The Euglish r< sistod the tierce French
onslaughts from ten a. n. till five p. m.,
when 16,000 Prussians reached the field,
increasing by seven o'clock to 30,000
with 104 guns, with Field-Marshal
Bluaher at their bead. The French were
completely routed amid immense car
nage ; so fierce was the struggle that the
allied armies had nearly 23,000 men
placed Aor* de combat. The changes
since that day are great. But few of
the surviving veterans graced the
Waterloo banquet with their presence in
London. Not only the principal actors
in that great historical tragedy are long
since gone, but a second French empire
and another Napoleon have been over
thrown. Let us hope, too, the world
has grown a goixl deal wiser and better.
A New Industry,
The employment of corn cobs for fire
lighters has given rise to quite a consid
erable trade in France, one of the estab
lishment* for manufacturing them—that
of La Hociete des Alhanettes Landaisos,
in Paris—employing a large uumber of
workmen to produce the immense quan
tity of the article demanded, these light
ers being employed with advnutoge and
economy liotli in private housea and for
lighting furnaces. In one of these pro
cesses, they are first steeped in hot wa
ter containing two per oent of salt
peter. and, after being dried at a high
temperature, are saturated with fifty per
cent, of resinous matter. By another
process, the cobs are immersed in a
mixture of niity parte of melted main
and forty parts of tar, after which they
are taken out and allowed to dry, and
then subjected to a scVxrad operation,
which consists in spreading them out oa
a metallic plate heated to a temperature
of 212 deg Fall. They are finally as
sorted acoording to sUto, sod tied <*
bofidlee for the frads.
NUMBER 29.
A Beautiful Lovs Htory.
The youug lady waa Mia* Mary M.
Cochran, of Boston. Hhe ia a remarka
bly fine looking per eon. apparently
twenty one or twenty two year* erf age.
Hhe waa eery rtytishly drraat*l, ami pre
am tod a moat iutoreatiug appearance.
It stem* that two years ago thia apring
MiwCuolimj, accompanied by her moth
IT and a number of frienda from Boston,
went to Enrope to apeud the aammer.
During a brief Uy in Carlarohe, Ger
inauy, Miaa Cochran became acquainted
with a young German named Char lea A.
Brandenburg. He waa a young man of
great ability, well educated, and of re
spectable parentage, although they were
qutto p our. The many noble qualities
of heart and bead completely won the
heart of the young American, and abe
fell desperately in love with him. Thia
feeling waa mutual, and during the in
ter* lew this young man related tbe con
dition of things at hia father's boose.
The family waa in tbe hands of a cruel
house owner, who not only owned the
small house in which they head, but
waa also proprietor of tbe nulla ia which
the father, son, and brother earned their
scanty pittance. On acootiut of aome
difficulty, which ocean*J aome years
before, this man, whoa* name was btoin
man, cherished a deadly hatred against
tbe Brandenburg family. Bo deep waa
thia hatred that be would do everything
in his power to keep them down, al
though aome of the greatest improve
mante in hia mill had been made by the
elder Brandenburg. He so exercised
hia authority that they were kept in pov
erty, and every effort they made to net
tor their fortune waa overthrown by the
relentless land owner. At last Charles,
the eldest son, determined to coma to
Americ , and try to do something to
help himeali and family in this country.
Bach waa the stale of affairs when she
knew him first and loved him. Two
month* after they plighted their tooth,
and Brandenburg nailed f n America
Boon after Mue Cochran returned to I
Boston. A correspondence was kept up
for over a year following their aepara
tion. Then the young German, who had
been working in New York, and Phila
delphia set out for the West and the let
ten came leas frequently, and finally
there were none at ail. f luring all this
time the young lady remained true to
her first love. When she heard no mor*
of her lover she waa alor-at crazy, and
aa the time grew on, ber suspense be
came almost insupportable. At last,
about two weeks ago, she learned
through a roundabout way that the ob
ject of her affection waa in Indianapolis.
Hhe determined to ascertain the truth of
the report. Bo ahe and ber mother left
Boston for Indianapolis.
Hhe was bound to find ber lover, and
it he cherished the same sentiments as
he did two year* ago, when they last
met, and seven months ago when ahe re
ceived her last letter, there would be a
marriage.
The wish waa gratified, and the young
O tuple, who loved each other devoted! >,
are now united for life.— Toledo Btade.
An Indian Lover.
It seem* that something more inspir
ing than his pay as a aoont ha* induced
the half-breed Kanaka to offer his servi
ce* to the government and join the ex
pedition agaiust the Sioax Indiana ; and
quite a romantic story is afloat concern
ing the motive* which prompt him to
rink capture, and certain torture and
death if caught.
From various sources it ha* been
gleaned daring the past five years, that
in Craxy Horae's Tillage there was a cap
tured white girl, now grown into beauti
ful but untutored womanhood. Indeed,
so young was she at the time of her cap
ture, that she appear* to have no knowl
edge of her situation, and no reoollec
tutu of her past She is respected and
even reverenced by the Indiana to such
an extent, that none of the young men
of the village are permitted to beoome
her suitors ; and she remains m°> pure a*
when she was born from the embrace of
father and mother. DoutHleas she won
ders at her fairer complexion, more del
icate physiognomy and softer hair, nev
er having seen a whit r-en or wtman
since; but it ia thought she attributes
the possession of these to supernatural
interposition, whereby she was created
a princess among her people, in which
belief she is encouraged by their unre
mitting attention and re*jwet. She ia
called Fetah Ban, or the White Cow.
Such is the singular history of this
unfortunate young woman, for the truth
of which Frank Gruard vouches. More
over, he confesses that her beauty and
gentleness first won his d miration, and
subsequently, as his cupidity progressed,
the warmest attachment and devotion,
which were in a measure reciprocated.
To him she owes the only revelahon of
her condition ; but they were either in
explicable, or else she scorned to receive
them. Frank was, however, untiring in
his affection and seal for ber welfare,
and before his escape, made as many a*
twenty unsuccessful sttempts to carry
her off. laud winter he led the troops
to what was supposed to tie Craxy
Horse'a village, but it is believed now by
most of the officers who participated in
the campaign and fight, that it was that
of Ltitile Big Man—the instigator of al
most a massacre at the Black Hills coun
cil last year—and hia band of renegade
Cheyenne* and Bionx. The three aeouta
will set out on their mission as soon as
it is dark, and will travel only at night.
To Restore Drowning Persoas.
1. Lose no time. Carry ont those di
rections on the spot.
2. iicmore the froth and moons from
the mouth and nostrils.
8. Hold the body, for a few seoonds
only, with the bead hanging down, so
that the water may run out of the 1-ugs
and windpipe.
A Loosen all tight articles of clothing
about the neck and chest.
6. See that the tongue is pulled for
ward if it falls back into the throat. By
taking hold of it with a handkerchief it
will not slip.
6. If tho breathing has ceased, or
nearly so, it must be stimulated by pres
sure of the chest with the hands, in imi
tation of the natural breathing; forcibly
expelling the air from the liiugs, and al
lowing it to re-enter and expand them by
the elasticity of the ribs. Remember
that this is the most important step of
all.
To do it readily, lay the person on his
back, with a cushion, pillow, or some
tlrm substance under the shoulders;
then press with the flat of tho hands over
tho lower part of the breast bone and
the upper part of the abdomen, keeping
up a regular repetition and relaxation of
pressure twenty or thirty times a min
ute. A pressure of thirty pounds may
be applied with safety to a grown per
son.
7. Rub the limbs with the hands, or
with dry cloths, constantly, to aid the
circulation and keep the body warm.
8. As soon as the person can swallow,
give a tablespoonful of spirits in hot
water, or some warm tea or coffee.
9. Work deliberately. Do not give
up too quiokly. Suoeess kas rewarded
the efforts of hours.
* float of lateral.
London thieves onrry a pfee# at oai
ia their pocket, believing that it five*
them good lint
Of the 117 young women ia the Michi
gan University only four have taken to
(he legal profession.
A Cherokee husband and wife, aged
ninety-five and ninety-two, died within
an boar of eaoh other.
Mexico offer* 900,000 to eny one whe
will eetehlieh a woolen factory there
with e capital of 9100,000.
Man may learn wisdom from a poetage
stamp. ft Htieka to Ha legitimate baat
ness. L-ttor* profit by it.
In Beth ( England) abbey is to be seen
the following:
{ " Here MM Ann Mann,
She tired eu old aatd and died an aid Mann."
Forty wren million pine made daily
in the 'United Ktatos, and yet if a man
want* one he baa to torn tbe honae Bp
aide down to get it
The ft rat prime in EngUak composition
at tbe Hopkins grammar school in New
Harm, Conn . lias leeu taken by Bpea
onr Laiaon, a Ohineae lad.
An English doctor aaya that aterong,
passionate lore will bring on heart die
eaae, and it therefore stands u* all ia
hand to lure mildly and with a good
deal of lethargy.
The very last cariosity spoken of is
lhe paper* ia a wheel that came off a
dog a tail when it waa a waggin'. Tbe
man who discovered it has retired from
public life. * •
Hhooting affray* have beoome com moo
in Dallas, Texas, and the rffemmerotef
nays that " the gentle bosa of the ballet
rivals the bee that bambleth and the
mosquito that hummeth."
A divorced woman, whoee children
had been taken from ber in Northamp
ton, Maes., baa sever 1 times attempted
to drown herself, and a guard is kept
over ber night and day.
A circular from a wholesale stationer,
recently failed, aaya that having eettled
with bu creditors at fifty per emL, he
is in a position to offer customers un
precedented bargain*.
Tlie newspapers generally oommend
the consideration of Um Indiana |tn lie
men who, when hie wife'* health (ailed,
bought tier a oewax half a pound lighter
than the old one, to *pht wood with.
A faoulj of eight peraonawu* patented
to deatbin Lonou., n. 0., b* strychnin*
which a fanner had pot into pen. He
had loot meat several time*, and took
that wa/ of poniahing the thiwvea.
Richard Grant White aays there ia no
each thing m "in our midst;" bnt wa
would hkc to know where be would lo
cate the pain that makea paregoric a
popular beverage among the young.
In Ave Bute* the law at hanging be*
now been abolished. These are, with
lite date* of their abolition, as follow* r
Michigan, 1t46; Rhode Island. 18(2
Wisconsin, 1858 < lowa, 1872 ; Main*.
1876.
Aunt EUwood, a motherly old oolorad
woman of Boston, responds to a soldier
who aaka the nomber of her children:
♦•I have three, hooey, that I has to
scuffle far—and three as oan scuffle far
themselves."
Of the font teen tunnels between Ism
Angela* and Caliente, Gal., the Ban Fer
nando ia the largest, Iwing mora than a
mile and a quarter in length. It will be
oompbtej by the end of July at a oont
of 85 *IO,OOO.
The Spaniard drink* little bnt water,
but Urn bulk of the aoooulent vegetable*
and fruit eaten by hia is •urpnsing;
half a pound of bread, an ordinary soup
plate Ailed with stew, and a pound or
two of grape*, would be no mora than an
average meal.
A neighboring fit can boast of one
of the beet boy* in the world. Ha aits
on the back porch and watches the birds
and aings: "There ia rest for the
weary," while hia moth or breaks her
baek'prodding around in the onion bed
with aaaeakufa.
•' My acm," said an afleotiaaate moth
er to her son, who lived a little way
from her, and expected in a abort time
to get married, "you are getting very
thiu." "Yea, mother," he replied, "I
us, and when I come next I think you
will see my rib."
The desert of Sahara cover* shook
2,000,000 square miles. Moot of it i*
about 1,500 above the sea level, but a
portion covering 126.000 square miles ia
below the aea feed, and a project far
inundating it from the Atlantic ocean is
neriously talked of.
In Shetland, which is the part of
Scotland whence Shetland ponies origin
ally came, aome of the minister* live on
8100 a year. They are expected to baas
hardy aa the poniea, and to live as cheap
ly. One minister, who ha* a wife and
four children, gets about 8185.
A Kansas City man rot angry with a
banker of that place for demanding a
heavy discount, and when the banker
asserted it was "business," replied :
" Business? Business! You ait here all
day ypd rob a man barefaced before hia
back, and call that buainaaa
It ia a well authenticated (sot that clean
cuffs have an unaccountable tendency to
secrete themselves somewhere in the im
mediate vicinity of the elbows, whila
dirty owe exhibit a willful and exas
perating determination to remain ob
trusively in the vicinity of the knock tea.
Circumstantial evidence: " Circum
stances alter eaeaa. yon know." remark
ed a Scotch lawyer to an old farmer
client " Terra true, air," replied the
fanner, "and case* alter circumstanosa
as wed; for, man, I mind when ye wera
young and had but few oases, your cir
cumstances werna ower braw."
Oeorge G. Whittaar. an old man of
seventy, rode into Biddeford, Me., the
other dav, attired in the regimentals
which he used to wear to "general train
ings" fifty years ago. Some rode boye
threw atones at hi* boras, the old man
was thrown ofl, and received injuries
from whidfche shortly died.
Erwin Darin was a San Franoiaeo
•took operator in 1888; Balskon canned
hia failure; he went in penury to London
and operated; is mid to hare financiered
so as to produce the Heraegonnan war;
has retained rich to California; thinks
the Sntro tunnel will mre the Comntoek;
he will attack Flood and O'Brien for su
premacy.
Howerer doctors may differ as to the
proper methods of treating diseases, all
seem to agree as to the importance of
the proper regulation of diet as a sani
tary preventive. The extreme warm
weather admonishes to eat sparingly of
meat and other beating articles of food,
and to substitute, as far as possible, good
fresh vegetables and fruit, milk and
bread.
T e banns of Daniel SaUirw and
Bliss Gribbon were twine published in a
Toledo church, and at each assembly far
a wedding Daniel was absent, putting
Miss Gribben to shame and astonishing
the guests. His excuse was a presenti
ment that they would not lies happily
together. After his last offense she sued
him for breach of promise, and got a
verdict of 810,000.
When a man, says an exchange, has
been paying devoted attentions to the
lady of his choioe for about two years,
and she suddenly writes to thank him
for all his kindness and to say that aha
has given her hand to another, it is the
eminently proper thing for the rejected
lover to write a most oordial letter of
congratulation. It don't mean much,
but it reads well in the family rinds.
St. George, Utah, where Brigham
Young dedicated a new Mormon temple,
has a population of 1,500 souls. It is
located in almost a desert, and was built
on the strength of a special revelation
from the Lord to Brigham. The temple
is a huge, ungainly looking structure,
without the least pretension to beauty,
and the estimated cost is $6,000,000, to
raise which oppressive tithing s have
been oolleoted from the faithful.
A man working in a weO in Lock land,
Ohio, was covered with a fall of stones.
Although imprisoned, he was unhurt,
and could talk to those who set about res
cuing him. A new peril appeared, how
ever, in the rise of the water in the welt
Slowly the doomed man was submerged,
and tne exertions were redoubled to get
him out; but the water reached his face
and drowned him before he oonld be
saved. His prayers and strugglce to
escape wore pitiful