a
. Wed.
White-robed she comes, my love, my own,
Yet purer than the robe she wears;
White flowers she holds, the fairest known,
Yet sweeter than the flowers she bears;
80 white, so sweet, yet I could seek
And find, beneath that white veil hid,
Love's hue upon that gentle cheek,
Love's light beneath that long-tringed lid.
Clash out, brave bells! Ring far and wide,
And laugh the piping birds to scorn,
Fair kinsmen, kiss the bonny bride,
She wanders far with me this morn;
And if her eyes are dim with tears,
I grudge them not their tender rain,
My love can chase the misty fears
And kiss the sunshine back again.
« Hugh Conway.
TR I SRT,
Perseverance.
Ope step am
And the
Ume stitoh and then another,
Al
One brick upon another,
is made;
}
1 then another, i
longest walk is ended:
{ the largest rent 13 mended; i
And the highest wall
One flake upon another
And i
ve deepest snow 18 laid
So the little coral workers,
By their
Have built
in
And
Man's wisdom
slow and constant motion,
ih _— Ya 3}
LA0ED aRellY Imaanas
irk blue ocean;
|
YHA
the distant «
he noblest riakings
hath conceived,
By of
Have been patiently achieved,
3
3 . Liat as 3
en do not looked disheartenad
On the work vou have ta do,
An say that such § ghity task
You never
But iu
Another point t
Aud soon the:
pan get rough:
, day by day,
Will prove wu
“ Rome was not builded in a day,
I'he ancient proverb teaches,
by her (rees and Sowers,
1 Same swes! sermon preaches.
§ x
ol of lar-0ff Guties,
duties which are near,
k
nd having onoe begun to wor
Resolve to persevere,
“STACY'S GAL"
The colonel, [ think, was the first
person to propose to her, He did it in
the oratorieal style for which he wa
noted in the camp and was promptly re-
fused, much to his own and the boys’
astonishment. 1 believe the juage was
the next, but as he had fortified his
courage with a large quantity of whisky
his breath was strong enough and his
words thick enough to ensure speedy
rejection. He was considerably mor-
tified at it and never able to expiaia the
cause of his defeat, but when a Mexican
woman drifted into the camp shortly
afterward and engaged in washing for
the men the judge tried his hand again
and was accepted. Ittook him a month
to get loose from the bonds and he
swore he would ** never give any other
female critter a chance to hook him
again,” and he carefully avoided all
Indian squaws and homely senoritas
who occasionally passed through Min-
eral City. After the judge a dozen or
more ofthe boys offered their hands and
fortunes to «* Stacy's gal” and far d in
precisely the same manner, while old
Stacy himself quietly elinekled and “bet
on his gal every trip,” as he afterward
explained.
She had come into camp a week or
two previously to the greatest surprise
of everybody, including her father.
Old Stacy a good many vears before,
some eight or ten, had lest his wife, and
so great was Lis grief that he could not
be induced to remain longer in the place
she had made a little heaven for him
Se he placed his dsughter—his only
child—in the fashionable female semi-
nary of the State, provided her with
everything that was necessary for her
comiort or happiness, and then struck
out for the San Juan silver mines to for-
get his loss among the excitemoents and
privations of the frontier. Stacy was
one of the fortunate few out of the un-
ucky many that enter a minjng country,
and in a few years he was possessed of
*
i O
properties yieiding him an excellent in-
come from their hard, white quartz.
He mn corresponded with his
davghter, and kept her supplied in
yoney far in excess of her needs
ements, but he never went back
it, and when that young lady
was duly graduated with high honors
he determined to seek out her long-
vy ar
= AREal
d
sae
absent paternal progenitor. With an
independence and courage, the wonder-
ment of the boys, she traveled across the
plains, took passage on the stages and
finally rode into Mineral City on horse-
back, the first white woman in camp
and the object of the shy adoration of
the men.
It was some time before the boys
could stand their ground and face her,
instead of scampering away at her ap-
roacl:, as had hitherto been the ease:
ut the Western miner is not long in
getting accustomed to strange thines,
and it was not over ten days after her
arrival that the colonel immolated him-
seif on the altar of his affections. En-
couraged by his example and unterri- |
fied by his unceremonious defeat, the
boys one after another tried their luck,
though, as I have before mentioned,
with no better suceess.
Stacy was a partner of mine in the
Ajax mine, in which there were three of
us interested, and as we were doing con-
siderable development on the vein I
was of necessity much in his company
and consequently in that of his daughter. |
She was a very pretty girl, with dainty, |
delicate ways far more befitting a house |
on Walnut street than a rough mining
camp; but she loved her father with an
earnest, clinging affection that would
not listen to her leaving him. and so she
continued to reign queen of Mineral City
all through the summ r of 1878.
I don't know when it was that I was |
unduly attracted toward Nellie. I think
it was when she asked me to call her |
thereafter by that name. She made the
request so innocently, so sweetly, and
so tenderly, alleging that as I was her |
father's partner, a gentleman by birth |
and education, and such a kind friend to |
her, it would be ever so much nicer for |
me to say Nellie, instead of Miss Stacy, |
which sounded so formal, that I came
very nearly adding other words to the
name that our short acquaintance would |
not justify. After that I spent most of |
my evenings with Mellie, and sometimes
of an afternoon we took delicious little |
rambles together on the mountain sides |
and into the heavy timber linirg the |
valley or canon of the Uncompahgre. |
One evening, as we were returning |
home, we stopped to rest on the rock- |
crested summit of Mineral Point. A
few hundred feet below us lay the little
mining camp, its log cabins looking
doubly picturesque in the gathering
gloaming The blue smoke was curling
from a dozen chimneys as the men pre- |
there, over the various trails, a blue-
shirted miner, with pick and drills across
his eb oulder, came striding home. The
sun sinking behind the Wasateh moun-
tains, one hundred and sixty-five miles
distant. cast great long shadows across
the surrounding peaks, and veiled the
ravines and gulches in decpening dark-
ness.
Nellie sat on the croppings of a vein
of quartz and I lay stretched out at her
feet, watching her pretty, tender eyes as
they wandered about the horizon, drink-
ing in the beauty and the grandeur of the
scene. ‘She had some light, fleecy ar-
rangement—a nubia, I believe it is called
— wrapped loosely about her head and
shoulders, and her hair, in whose meshes
the sunbeams seemed to have caught,
peeped from beneath, helping to frame
a face stamped with innocence and pur-
ity. Young people always get senti-
mental in the evening, when surrounded
by quiet, and I was no exception tJ the
rule, and almost before I knew it I was
toying with the little hand, so white
and soft, lying carelessly on the flinty
quartz.
“Nellie,” I said, after a few moments,
* don’t you ever long to leave this rough
place and go buck to the Bast?”
* Not now," she said,slowly, “ theugh
1 might uader some circumstances.”
** Why not now?”
* Oh, because—because—I don’t want
to leave papa.”
« Is that the real reason?” I asked,
her shyness and evident avoidance of
my eyes giving me hopes that set my
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“Let us go down,’
as she arose,
** No, not until yon answer me,
I caught again the little hand.
*
‘and
i
aown
I made
a saucy “Come,” started
ion ¢n the way, but Nellie always
my heart: and vet when 1 left her at her
fathecs door
hand, and 1 thought 1 detected. a soft
pressure as 1 took it in mine. A mo-
ment, and she had vanished, and 1 no-
ticed a rosy flush on: her pretty cheeks
and an unusual light in her tender eyes.
I went back to my little cabin with a
strange admixture of certainty and
doubt in my feelings, and a quickening
of pulse that made me oblivious to my
rough surroundings.
After supper I lit my pipe and sat
upon my roughly-hewn door step. The
sun had gone down, but yet
was light enough for me to see her cabin
£
&
best prospector in camp and the third
owner with Stacy and myself in the
Ajax. I turned my head and saw the
lights in the shaft-house of the Big
Giant mine on Red mountain gleaming
away in the distance; I heard the clung-
ing blows of the blacksmith at his forge
as he sharpened the wols for the morn-
ings work, and the deep hoom of the
biast in the Little Emily mine came
floating through the still night air. Then
my eves wandered back to the cabin
which held Nellie, Bob was still there,
his tall figure and broad shoulders con-
in the doorway. What was he doing
there so long, 1 thought, and I puffed
my pipe viciously as | saw Nellie a mo-
ment ater join the two. The night set
tied down and the cabins faded from
view, their presence only revealed by
the lights shining through the little
square windows or the sparks streaming
out of the stone and mud chimneys, It
the ashes out ef my pipe and re-entered
my little home and stirred up
smouldering embers on the hearth.
hour went by and the moon sent
beams across my little table, with its
An
and rocky floor, touching lightly my
and resting softly on the rolled-up coat
that served me for a pillow. I turned
timber were silvered by the moonlight,
dark background of the tall spruces.
The sound of singing came up from the
sa.oon, and the wind sighed fitfully now
and shen. Apd so I fell into a sombre
reverie, and Nellie was the center aoout
which all my thoughts revolved.
ently there was a knocking at my door,
tered.
** Hello! Philadelphia,’
kinder thought you wasn't in.”
+
interruption. though Bob was
brown beard, without feeling better and
less out of spirits,
girl.
Good
somewhere around the
your chances, partner?
.
}, eh?
‘Come in, Bob, and stop your non-
sense. Here, fill your pipe and sit
down.”
pulling up a stool, sat down near the
fire and, as he filled his pipe, said:
* I've dropped in on a little business—
ing to a mine of his and one of the best
in the camp. “You know I'm obliged
to sink—ain't got no chance to tunnel.
and the surface water is getting Lhe best
of me.
do anything—this bailing water out by
the bucketful when she's coming in near
as fast is of no account.
that?
I nodded assent.
** Well, then, Philadelphia,” as he
lighted his pipe and gave two or three
kind ot a dicker I can make with you
about running the mine. I ain't got the
money to get an engine and pump,
though I guess I could borrow it. and
besides I've got to go East on business
inside of a week, and- I don’t want to
ea
it.!
“Why don't you
Stacy?” I said.
cash.”
sell her to oid
’
to sell his own mines.’
“Going out—Staoy?” 1
to it.
back to the States. This ain't no fit
place for a pretty
you know."
Nellie going to leave
Jove, that wouldn't do.
I would, too.
_camp! By
No, if she left
“1 tell you, Bob, 1 don't know that 1
shall stay much longer myself. Per-
if I can; I would be very glad to.”
I wonder if o'd Stacy would sell out
“Oh, 1 guess 80,” I said; “especially
if he is at all anxious to get away. I'll
“He said the other day,” continued
Boh, a8 thoug!. he were carefully weigh-
ing the proposition, * that he'd sell to
go my security.”
*“ Would he take me, do you tink?’
“Take you? A great sight sooner
than any other man in camp.”
*“ Well, then, Bob, you give me a
mortgage on the mine, and if his figures
are not too high 1'll indorse your note
and turn you over my interest beside.
The mine is solid yet, I guess, though 1
haven't been to it for a week.”
“That's the gal’s fault,” grinned Bob:
“but it she wasn't good 1 wouldn't
want to buy. I believe I'll go down
and see the old man—it won't take
long,” and Bob buttoned up his coat
and started out.
Half an hour later Bob returned with
the necessary papers by which Stacy
conveyed his third interest in the Ajax
mine to him for eight thousand dollars,
payable within thirty days. I indorsed
Bob’s note for the amount, he assuring
me that if the mine continued to pay, as
it had in the past, he could easily take
itup when due, besides which, I rea-
soned to myself, that I would soon be
Stacy’s son-in-law, and, in case of Bob's
failure to meet the note, the old man
would not be hard on me. 1 also trans-
forred my third interest to Bob for a
like amount, and secured myself for
both sums by a mortgage on the prop-
oY, and so I went to bed that night
and dreamed of the little wife I soon
expected to have.
saw Nellie the next day, and though
she smiled sweetly and De most
padly 1 wasn’t satisfied, as owing to
er getting things in readiness for the
trip next morning there was no oppor-
tunity for a uiet Jittle conversation. I
told Stacy 1 was oing out, and he
and éaid Nellie had spoken of it
and he * didn’t know but what it was
a good scheme for his gal, cause it could
hardly be expected that me and Bob
would be good company;” and so the
matter was settled ry collected my
traps together, and those I din’t care to
take with me, 1 distributed among the
boys. They all knew what I was going
out for, and goed-natured witticisms
Lieart heating with quicker pulsations.
were freely indulged in at my expense.
| triumphs over the colonel and the
{judge and the others who had tried to
| win the little treasure that 1 had carried
off, but had miserably failed.
sat in my oabin that evening—the
inst 1 should ever spend in Mineral City
| —and somehow I got terribly blue and
out of spirits, It telt like parting with
{old friends. Every tree and every rock
| seemed to have a hold on my affections,
and the rough logs of my little home
had a warm pincd in my heart, 1
couldn't shake off my low spirits, apd so
I went down to see my little oné and
from her sweet moe and pretty eyes
draw the consolation 1 felt I needed
| found her looking tired from her ar.
ranging and packing efforts, but she
seemed most glad to see me, and we sat
on the doorstep and were soon chatting
in a warm, confidential way. As | was
about to go 1 took her little hand in my
| big palm and said
** Are you really glad that I am going
{out with you?"
“You know I am,” she said, earn-
estly, her eyes dropping and her soft
little fingers involuntarily pressing
mine, and somehdw before 1 fully real
ized what | was doing 1 had leaned for.
{ ward and pressed a hot, passionate kiss
i on her pretty lips, and with a little ex.
| clamation expressive of surprise and
| not of anger she turned and vanished.
| I was a happy fellow that night.
Our trip wagbegun the next morning
and in due course of time we all of us
came to a halt in New Yerk,. What a
delicious time I had had of it, and how
considerate Stacy and Bob were to me.
i They never intruded their presence, but
let me have Nellie to myself, as though
| they had no connection whatever with
fus. I felt grateful to them and medi-
| tated often upon what I could do to
{ show my appreciation of their thought-
| fulness and good Jeeling. Nellie was a
{ little paradox, however—an enigma |
| couldn’ solve. had proposed to her
half a dozen times on our way East,
but though she showed that her heart
was mine and permitted me to squeeze
{ her hand, whisper soft nothings and
kiss her good-night when she retired,
she would give me no answer to my
pleadings, but kept me off with a
coquetry in itself most attractive. And
so the days spun around and | seemed to
he no nearer than when we left the old
mining camp, and I got irritable and
| out of sorts, and one day Nellie sug-
gested that 1 had better run on and see
my family and get sweetened up a little,
and 1 savagely replied that I would, and
{ I should not return until she sent for
me, ete., eto. She smiled sweetly, and
looked tenderly out of her pretty eves,
i and I took the tmin for Philadelphia,
{ in a terrible temper, and yet feeling sure
tthat I would be buck again within
| forty-eight hours, and I was. I asked
he clerk to send up wy card, and he
{ sald it would be useless, as the lady
with her father and the other gentle.
| man, had left the night before, for the
South, he thought. They had left a
etter forme, however, and--1 snatehed
the letter, and tore it open. “There
were several enclosures, reading as fol
OWS:
»
4
*
THURSDAY,
My Dear Carrer: You must par-
don my terrible flirtation with you of
the past few weeks, but it was the last
[ should ever have and you are the
dearest of fellows to finish upon. 1 dare
| say you will feel a vexed, but
you'll get over it, Charley, and when
{ Rob and myself get settled down to
| housekeeping—which 1 trust will bea
long time yet—you must come and see
i us and be n good friend to your penitent
| NELLIE,
{ The next was:
DEAR Purtangirmia: You've had a
good time with my intended wife and |
{ haven't interfered; ‘ou indorsed my
i note for $8,000 and I won't cheat you
{outof it. I trusted you and you came
“time:" you trusted me and here |
iam smiling. I 2nclose with this my
note that you indorsed and deeds con-
veying to you the whole of the Ajax.
i ain't
$tes}
ire
tlie
Oo
{ She's pinched, Philadelphia, anc
| worth a cuss. You sabe now the busi-
i ness that called me Eust. eh? Ta. ta.
i MmxeraL Bos
{ T have never seen them
i don't want to. I went back to the old
{camp the following vear. The boys
don’t tease me now, but I thrashed two
of them and got thrashed by three be-
fore this silence on the subject was ob-
| served. — Philadelphia Times.
EE ———————————————————————
since. 1
{ Hunters’, Skaters’, and Coasters’
Perils,
At llion, Ohio, three
| drowned while skating.
A breech-loader in the hands of Ross
Grier, of Griswoldville, Ga., caused the
loss of one of his feet.
Peter Cramer, of Plymouth, Ind. fell
{on the ice while skating, and was so
| seriously injured that death followed.
| Mrs. Jane Davenport, of Ann Harbor,
i Mich., fell on the ice, and striking her
| lead against a sharp plank was instantly
| killed.
| E. H. Loomis, of Brooklyn, Mich."
| shot a squirrel, and climbed the tree to
i
boys were
jgetit. He fell forty feet, and had sev-
{ «ral bones broken.
Owing to a broken shoulder and con-
cussion of the brain, William 8. Pollard,
| of Virginia City, Nev., will not slide
| down hill for some time.
lexander Jameson, seventeen years
of age, of St. Louis, went hunting on
Sunday. His time is fully occupied
now tending a shattered leg from letting
his gun fall.
Frank Fagan, twenty-five years ol
age, of San Francisco, Cal., went duck
shooting, got excited at the sight of
game, lost his head fell out of his boat
und was drowned.
John Braidwood was surprised to see
the ramrod of his gun go through the
He was trying to draw a charge, at
Bruce, Mich.
While dragging his gun by the muzzle
through a piece of brush, Harvey
Ecker, of Hastings, Mich., thought he
was enjoying Sunday. But the charge
intended for the game went into his
body, owing to a treaclierous twig, and
his friends buried him on Tuesday. He
was sixteen,
O55
A Man Survives a Braining,
Jolin Harris, who had his head split
open by a falling axe at the new Yellow
Jacket shaft, some two Years ago, is
again on the Comstock. Although that
axe fell about 160 feet upon his head,
and he lost in consequence a strip of
skull-bone four inches
and a half inches wide, he has taken
that head to England with him and
brought it back, and thinks a good deal
of it and with it yet. His is one of those
exceptional cases in surgery of which
there are not half a dozen in the books,
and which ranks with that where a
tamping iron. blown by a prematurely
discharged blast, passed through a man’s
head from chin to crown, and yet failed
to kill him,
The gash made by this axe in Harris’
head was large enough to kill half a
dozen men. When the bones were taken
hy the surgeons from the wound the
large vein between the lobes of the brain
sent a torrent of blood gushing forth.
It was stanched with lint and the man
rallied. The surgeon feared to remove
the lint lest he should bleed to death,
and it remained some two weeks till it
became so far decayed as to force its
removal. Contrary to expectation no
blood followed, nor was there any sec-
ondary hemorrhage.from the wound.
Harris has pretty much recovered from
the effects of the accident. He says he
experiences no head trouble whatever,
but Lie has a hitch in his walk, a sort of
Jerk, a let-go-and-go-on movement,
which is the result of the hurt. He is
a wonderfully good man for one upon
whom the experiment of dropping an
axe 160 feet upon his head was success
fully tried.— Gold Hill (Nev.) News.
Emigration at the port of New York |
for 1879 was larger than for any pre- |
vious vear since 1879. Returns of the |
commissioners of emigration show that |
for the year ending December 31, 1879,
there were landed, at Castle Garden, a
total of 175,580 emigrants, of whom |
135,070 were aliens
In 1878 the total
arrivals were 121,360, of whom 75.347
were aliens. The principal national
ties of the emigrants who arrived last |
year were: Germany, 33.5684; Ireland,
2.624; England, 921,585; Sweden, 13..
304; Italy, 7.200: Scotland, 6.087: Nor.
way, 4,983; Switzerland, 4,083; Russia,
3,103; France, 2,331.
A sportsman expinins why he re-
ceives the many sea-serpent stories with
a grain of allowance. He was hunting
on the shores of a' lake in the wilds ol
Michigan, when he saw what lie be-
lieved to be a monster snake, fifty or
sixty feet in length, and ten or twelve
inches in diameter, with humps on its
back two feet in length. At first its course
was almost directly toward his place of
concealment When he was about to
run for his life, the ** serpent,” then a
few rods away, changed its course, and
resolved itself at once into a colony of
otter swimming in single file. His in. |
ference is that sea animals may some. |
times travel in the same manner, and |
give sailors the opportunity of drawing
the ong bow,
i
i
i
|
The suit of Budd Dobie vs, the South- |
ern Ohio Fair association, of Dayton, |
Ohio, has just been tried before the
United States district court for that dis. |
trict. The suit was brought to recover
$£2.250 from the association on a con-
tract, in compliance with which that |
amount was to have heen paid for an
exhibition of speed by Goldsmith Maid
on the track of the association, Sep- |
tember 30, R75 The association |
cinimed that it was not an exhibition |
of speed, the time being 9:994, 2:94, |
2:4u4. The plaintiff made a ples for a
indgment for a quantum mers, that is,
for so large a proportion of the con-
tract price as the performance was |
worth, if not the whole amount. The |
ed, as a point of law, that no |
such partition could be made in a special
contract, and that the claim must stand
or fail in its entirety. A great deal of
expert testimony was taken as to the
merit of the performance, but the jury
failed to agree,
ne — :
The annual reports of the English and
Secoteh co-operative stores are now being |
ublished. The profits divided among |
we members of the societies range from |
one shilling three pence to two shillings
eight pence on the pound sterling of pur-
chases made dering the year, and seem
to average about two shillings, or ten
per cent. Stating the amount in dol.
inrs, a member of one of these co-opera-
tive stores, about which Mr. Holyoske
gave so much interesting information
during his late visit to this country, re-
ovives at the end of the year $1 in the
way of profit for every $10 worth of
goods he las bought. This is clear gain
to him, for he gets his goods at the reg.
ular market prices, and is besides ns- |
sured that what he buys is of good
quality and free from adulteration. The
Manchester Co-operative Wholes le so-
ciety, from which co-operative
stores buy their goods, is a federative
institution composed o! 584 societies
comprising 305,161 members. Ithasa
capital of $705,000 on which it pays five
per cent. interest, and its profits are di-
vided among the branch societies in pro-
portion to their purchases, just as the
societies divide their profits among the
individual members,
jodge decid
nD
}
ul
thie
“ Grab-Staking.”
A. A. Hayes, Jr., has an article in
Harper's Magazine on the Colorado
mines, entitled * Grub-Stakes and Mil.
lions,” from which we extract the fol.
lowing:
One can acquire an interest in mining
property in many ways. He can find a
mine himself; he ean supply another
man with food and tools, and give him
a share in what he may find (and this is
‘grub staking); he mav buy a mine
when found, or a share of it, bearing in
{ mind the Western saying, that *'s pros.
pect hole is not a mine" or he can in-
{ vest in stocks. Grub-staking a good
| man, and, if possible, accompanying
im on his search, may be called the
best way, for, said an old hand, “you
mike your loss at the start.” Buyinga
claim or claims is not infrequently satis.
factory; but said, with quaint gravity,
another “old-timer”: “If I was a capi-
talist, and I'd see a mine worth half a
million, I'd want to buy it for about
twenty-five thousand dollars, and have
{some advantage on my side. A man
can't see very far into the ground.”
It is stated that no geologist ever yet
{found a valuable mine—the humble
prospector being always at the front—
and even then owing much to accident.
With his burro laden with a little bacon
and flour, perhaps a little coffee and su-
gar, a frying-pan and a coffee-pot, and
with his pick and shovel, this hard-
working pioneer traverses the length
{ and breadth of the mineral region, un-
dergoing many and great hardships,
often facing danger, often indeed Inying
his bones on some desolate hillside or
in some lonely canon: and then—only
fortune! We hear of late years that
mining has become as regular and legiti-
mate an occupation as manufacturing:
and it is undoubtedly true that method
| and system have been largely introduced
mines and successful smelting works
may rightly claim that they are engaged
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nauts, from our poor, sanguine pick-
user and burro-driver to the New Yorker
who, without the slightest real knowl-
n Wall street, it is as certain asthe sun
rises and sets that the gambling and not
the commercial instinct predominates
A bank was pointed out to the writerin
a large mining town which, with a capi-
tal of $50,000, had deposits off from
which had
made £43,000 profits in nine
months,
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them can make in mining. When a
fellow can go out and make a forty ar
filty thousand dollar strike, banking
Could anything
better illustrate what has just been
said?
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The World's Greatest Iron Bridges
and Viaduets,
The following list comprises struc-
tures of this class of the greatest extent
in length:
Fret
Parkersburg Bridge, West Virginia, United
BIALOB. .ovv oss rsne 7,045
St. Charles Bridge, Missouri, United
6,636
Over the River Ohio, near Louisville,
Ky., United States
Over the River Delaware, Pennsylvania,
United States
Over the East River, New York
Vietorin Bridge, 8t. Lawrence River,
Over the River Rhine, at Mayence, Ger.
Over the River Tongabudda, Bombay-
Madras, .... +
Over the River Mississippi, near Quiney,
United Bates. oes srvoraiivane
Over the River Missouri, near Omaha,
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Over the River Po, near Mezzano-Corti,
Italy ... dasanseressniv ranma yiBs
Over the River Tamar, near Saltash....2,190
Oyer the River Lek, near Kuilenburg....2,185
Over the River Mississippi, near Dubu-
que, United States. , ..........
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A NEW ERA IN AGRICULTURE.
Horatio Seymour an the Conflict Between
American and European Agriculture,
Ex Governor Horatio Seymeur pre-
sided at the annual meeting of the New
York State Agricultural society, held in
Albany, and delivered an address on
“The Conflict Between
European Agriculture The follow.
ing are the more interesting parts of the
address:
The immediate causes of our prosper.
ity have been the abundance of the
»
We cannot count upon these in our own
for the future. The next summer will
reverse the fact and Europe may pro.
from unfavorable influences upon the
fields. Will they pass away with the
year just closed, or has there been de.
veloped underlying conditions which
have been gradually forming, and which
power and in grand propertions? This
is, for us, the overshadowing question
of the day, and it will lead us into many
inquiries and investigations before it is
solved. 1 believe that our country has
entered upon a new era in its relation-
ship with Europe. While it is not prob.
able that our exports of food the next
year will equal those of the past, still
the channels of commerce which have
been opened will not be closed, but will
radually grow wider and deeper. These |
will make permanent chan
dealings with that continent
This fact that North America, with
ges in our
now almost touches Europe with its
over-crowded population, is one which
follow, pearing upon all phases of civi-
History |
There is now what properly may
be called a conflict between our a
ture and theirs, During the past year
“bombarded Europe
quarters by their effects, not only upon
their agriculiure, but upon social and |
political organizations. It Las become
between American farmers
l#t us com.
pare the power and resources of the
combatants. As the Canadas are oecu.-
pied by a people speaking the same lan-
guage and living under laws similar to
our own, I include them in my terms
when [ speak of our side in this compe.
tition. When I speak of our continent
I do not include Mexico. The variety
farm products is a protection
against disasters from unfavorable sea. |
sons, as some grains are helped by causes
which harm others, [If an entire wheat
crop should be cut off. it would ne a
great loss, but it would make no hun.
ger here, for it amounts to only a quar.
ter of the products of Indian corn. We |
have not only a greater variety of the
fruits of the earth, but our climate gives
them to us in successions which add
greatly to their value and the comfort
and enjoyment of our people. But it is
not only in extent of territory, aband-
ance and variety of products that nature
favors us, While in Europe short |
quent ranges of high lands which hinder
commerce, with us lakes and rivers
States together with silver
links in wavs that give us a ready and
cheap exchange of ail that we raise or
make.
In ten years our numbers will be
about twice those of the united king- |
dom. We have now 50.000.000, and
iess than’ the usual ratio of increase will
give us 62,000,000 in 1890, Many who |
now live will see 160,000,000 of busy in-
habitants within our borders. The |
mingled European races have a vigor
superior to any single lineage. We are
forming what is not yet fully developed
thie American character, Those who
study the influence of this intercourse |
upon the common grounds of our coun-
try, will be pressed with its mutual
improvement of all minds snd charac-
ters. Emigrantsdo not merely give us |
numbers, but also wealth in a way un-
known elsewhere. The money they |
bring with them amounts in the agere-
gate to a large sum. But this is unim-
portant in comparison with another
tact. We have millions of acres of rich |
lands, which the government holds at a
nomin&] price, or which it will give to |
actual settlers by our hemestesd laws. |
While they are vacant they are of no |
value. When in the course of a few
years a million of hardy emigrants, |
usually in the prime of life, land on our |
const they may be without wealth.
But the moment this multitude of poor
men and women plant themselves upon
the millions of acres of land, of no
vious value, the union of two kinds of |
poverty evolves, as if by a chemical ne- |
tion, enormous wealth. Mere occupas
tions before a crop is raised give prices
o the soil which make & vast amount
of real wealth. This does not fall away
as time goes on, but it grows each year,
In our new States, the wealth of our
farmer does not merely come from the
sum he gets for his products; but be-
yond this, the land he took up for a
homestead, or which he bought for a
trifle, gains a value which makes an es-
tate ranging from a few to many thou-
sand dollars in value. Wealth cannot
grow in this way in Europe. It is this
fact which gives our country its swift
increase of wealth.
Beyond cxtent of territory, variety of
productions, facilities for intercourse
ard growth of numbers, there is another
advantage we enjoy. We cannot cor-
rectly scan the future unless we regard
the political conditions of the two ccn-
tinents. ‘Let the lines between New
York and Pennsylvania represent the
hostile borders of France and Germany.
How long could we endure this division
of territory thus represented; the bar-
riers to intercourse aggravated by dif
ferences of language and laws, and the
burdens of great armies, the evils of
national hates and the curse of bloody
wars ? The boundaries to each of these
divisions would limit the spread of
knowledge, and the progress of civiliza-
tion. and the growth of sympathies
among mankind. Every industry would
be disturbed and taxed by the cost of
great srmiep. Their rulers would stand
as they now do in Europe, armed against
each other, as if they deemed their fel-
low monarchs robbers who watch their
chance for plunder.
In smaller countries farmers labor to
meet the wants of those about them,
They are confined to home markets,
and they seek to raise the crops which
will meet their limited needs. Their
pursuits in such cases do not stir the
minds or teach the wants and conditions
of other regions and populations. The
reverse of this is true with us. Our
agriculture is shaping itself into grand
departments, each covering extents
greater than those of most countries,
These lead to improvements in their
several pursuits, which cannot be de-
veloped when carried on a smaller scale,
Each shapes the business, commerce and
transportation of its region in ways
which cheapen production and the cost
of reaching markets, This System im-
proves not only farming, but the farmers
as well. The influences of these great
departments of agriculture are not more
striking in their results upon produo-
tion than they are upon the intelligence
of the producers. The active and wide-
spread intelligence thus generated by
our departments for the production, and
our methods for the sale of products,
gives assurance of our ability to hold
the ground we have gained in the
markets of the world. he intercourse
and intellizence which grow out of these
great departments of agriculture do not
merely elevate our farmers and give
us commercial success; they make
the bonds which hold our Union in
firm compact. Party passions may
threaten it; ambitious purposes may
for a time stir up sectional prejudices;
re- |
but since the late sad war the growth o
*
made a conservative, intelligent in-
purposes which threaten peace and har.
mony. It is plean-ant und assuring to
know that nature in its forms and pur
suits gives life and strength to our
that our Union will have nature's en-
durance
If all the statements I Hinve made are
people of Kurope have heretbfore been
Why can they not hereafter, with the
same labor, on the same soil, raise
enough to supply their wants, except
for the small amount which they have
heretofore imported? Why can we ex.
pect, with ordinary seasons, that we
can sell them more than we have in past
years; that, although we may raise
grain and make provisions for less than
merely to reduce the price which farm.
ers will get and not the amount of fond
they will produce? These questions
bring into view some facts of great in-
terest in many respects. In the first
piace, where farmers own their lands
ns they do with us, all they ean get for
what they sell goes to those who labor
upon the soil, But as & rule in Europe
is made upon farms must support at
ienst two and sometimes four classes of
the landlords, and usually some agents
ov middlemen, who hire and sublet to
tenants. Church rates and many other
charges must also be paid. When ou
cheap grains reach their markets, as
they will hereafter, and govern the
prices of produce, they disturb the ex.
isting arrangements. The tenant must
have enough to live upon then as now,
taxes and tithes must be paid, and only
alnss ave to suffer, If you read the de.
bates in parliament, you will see that
an attempt is made to excite sympathy
for British farme But the parties
who really are affected are British land-
lords. The conflict is not between
Amerioan and British farmers, but
American and British landlords. If the
cost of produce falls, rents must come
down, for tenants can pay no more and
landlords will get no more than prices
will give,
fall upon the owners
Beyond this diminution of the reve.
nues, there is a difficuity which affects
the structure of political and social or.
ganizations. The nobility are land.
lords. As this rank is hereditary, it
tates. Our cheap and jertile lands, and
Hurope, may work greal changes in the
bly will
and buy most of their grain and many
of the provisions fron us, and our
markets in future will be thus en-
larged,
[fihey tax imported food they will
break down their manufactures, destroy
their home markets and bring disaster
upon their country. If the Continental
and other burdens, they will drive away
their young sad sctive citizens and re-
duce their miliary strength. Mon-
archs will be
food is cheap and abundant.
they deeply concern us: but
not overiook home transactions, which
which agriculture has given toall other
industries and pursuits will now reast
in its favor and make ew demands for
Nearby cities and towns
They buy many things which will not
bear long transportation, and which are
free from a widespread competition.
For this reason, in their vicinity lands
For
these reasons, the farmers of New York
West. These
Manufacturing and mechanical
industries built up by cheap bread make
demands for vegetables, fruit, milk, but.
ter and other articles produced in the
immediate vicinity of these home mar-
I know that some think that if it
cost more to bring produce to us, if
charges on canals and railroads were
This is a great error. They
They
gaged in raised industries, but of more
than two-thirds of our farmers. They
would diminish the population of towns
and cities, and thus drive away our best
customers. Most of my own property is
in farm and lands, and I have given
much thought and study to this subject.
The great cities of the world are
placed in a belt running round the
earth, following a certain mean tem-
Juasire. As the climates of different
atitudes vary, this belt follows tem-
perature whenever it sways to the
north or south. There may be more
fertile lands north or south of this belt,
but their cities are not as large or farms
as valuable, The reasons for this
that there is the most activity and
wealth where there are the most wants,
with the means for meeting these wants
by industry and intelligence. It is in
our country that these truths are seen
in their clearest light. Here there are
more business activity, larger cities and
towns in proportion to our population
than in any other part of the world.
This is due to the fact that we have
more wants and more means to meet
these wants than any other people.
Those of an American are at least one-
third more than those of an English.
man in the same condition of life. At
the South, where the great majority are
tillers of the soil, although they have a
monopoly of furnishing the world with
cotton, yet their cities are small, their
wants are few compared with ours, and
their wealth far less. Our seasons, our
wants, our habits, will ever so multiply
varied industry that the farmers of the
northern belt of States will have a large
proportion of home consumers, and of
nearby markets in great cities, than can
be found in any part of Earope in pro.
portion to the number of those who
till the soil.
IO 1130
Starved Herself to Death.
The autopsy of the remains of the
woman who starved herself to death in
Cincinnati has not revealed any materi-
ally diseased condition of the stomach.
The fact that she lived for thirty days
without using any nourishment whats
ever would. justify the conclusion that
persons possessed of strong will-power
and having the halldcination or delu-
sion that they are suffering with some
organic disease or bodily disorder ma
live until the body is entirely consumed.
This lady was possessed of great power
of will, and she had a delusion that she
had no stomach, and therefore made up
her mind that she would take no food or
drink, and continued in this condition
until there was a general exhaustion of
the nerve-centers and mental faculties,
when she went quietly into a calm sleep
and died without a struggle. Tae
pathological condition ot the passages
leading to the stomoch all being nor-
mai, with no obstruction, and all the
organs in a healthy state ready to per-
form their various offices, would war-
rant the conclusien that this lady would
have lived a great many years if she
could have been induced to partake of
sufficient nourishment to sustain life.—
New York Tribune.
Mrs. Margaret Turney, a dyspeptic,
starved herself to death at Cincinnati.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
| Dr. James B., Shaw has begun his
| fortieth year as pa tor of the Brick Pres.
byterian church in Rochester, N. Y.
Mr. Spurgeon continues very ill at
| Mentone, and will probably be unable
| to preach for some time to come.
| A hundred years ago the Moravians
{ baptized the first negro convert in Dutch
| Guiana. Now the mission has 23,301
| members,
{ The Boston Young Men's Christian
{ Union (Universalist) has been psid the
| sum of $50 000 left it by the will of Mr,
| Joseph B. Eaton.
| A bell costing $1,000 has been pre.
| sented by Baring Brothers, London, to
[the Payson Memorial Congregational
cliurch, Portland, Maine.
| The Church Exte.sion Loan Fund of
| the Methodist ehurels is steadily increas
{ing. It has now a paid up capital of
| $325,000 with $200,000 in pledges and
subscriptions yet te be paid in.
Methodism was introduced in New
England in 1780,
There are seventy PresbyterianSunday-
schools in New York city.
The Greek church, like the Protestant
church, is making rapid progress in
Japan,
The English church has 23.000 minis.
ters, the Irish church 1,900, and the
Scotch church 223.
New York Israelites are agitating the
question of the proper observance of
their Sabbath
The dying words of Bishop Gilbert
Haven awere: ** There is no river here
it is all beautifgl.”
Protestants constitute sixty-4iwo and
a hall per cent, of the population of the
{ German empire,
| The Churchman says that twenty-nine
| ministers of other denominations have
| joined the Episcopal church within a
| year.
{ In England, Scotland and Wales there
{are 2211 Catholic priests, which num-
| ber shows an increase of fifty-four since
the year 1877.
| London has 872 churches. In New
| York there is one for every 2,613 inhabi-
| tants.
{ One thousand dollars have been sent
| by the Baroness Coutts to an Episcopal
| eharch in Canada.
| Rev. Charles Miller, of St. Mary's,
| Harlow, England, eighty-three years of
| age, has been dismissed from the churelh
| for habitual intoxication,
The progress of Christianity in the
{ Fiji islands is marvelous, the ehurch
members numbering 23,274, and 5.431
being expected soon.
. —————
Cure for Diphtheria,
When a member of the family is at-
tacked by this fearful disease, the best
medical ald should at once be called.
| The danger is too great to allow this
| advice to pass unheeded.
| in apparently light eases, that appear to
| be progressing to a speedy and favor.
| able termination, the patient often sud-
{denly dies, and what _are called the
| sequelae of the diseases latter effects
| on the organs and tissues of the body—
| frequently result in death, or protracted
| disorder and suffering. It wiil, there.
fore, be seen that intelligent professional
| treatment is necessary to prevent, if
possible, such serious results
But in some cases sa plivsician may be
80 far sway as to render his assistance
practically impossible. For such we
| say there are three principal remedies,
ihe first is the saturated solution of
chlorate of potash, given in teaspoonful
doses every hour,
cians rely largely on this.
The second is chiorine water, di
uted with from two to feur times as
much water. A prominent physician
of Springfield. Mass., has for the iast
sixteen years found it almost uniformly
{ effective. Prior to its use, he lost haif
| his cases.
The third remedy is sulphur. Dr.
Field, of England, has obtained re-
markakle cures with it. His preserip-
tion is, we believe, to mix a tablespoon-
ful of the flour of sulphur in a wine
| glass of water, and give it as a gargle.
If the patient is unable to gargle, blow
some of the dry flour through a quill
upon the diseased parts of the mouth
and throat; or burn some of thesulpbur
on a live coal, and let the patient inhale
its fumes; or, filling the room with the
fumes, Jet him walk abut and inhale
them.
The patient should always be kept
warm, the bowels open, and the sys-
om well nourished with easily-digested
food.
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An Englishman's Impressions of Amer.
ican Kindliness,
As I have touched upon this point, the
kindliness of the American character, 1
will say a little more about it. for I
think that Englishmen «don’t often un-
derstand it. The Ameriéans in this re-
spect resemble the Scotch. The * kindly
Scot” is a proverbial character. All
observant people who have lived in
Scotland and associated with all classes
of people there know that there is always
a great, broad vein of kind liness running
through a Scotchman's character, and
that if you appeal to that feeling you
very rarely indeed appeal in vain. Itis
{ just the same here. Having lived so
| Jong in Scotland, and ty learned
| to recognize this streng national charac.
teristic, I am able to detect its presence
very quickly in another nation. Oneot
| the first discoveries I made in America
{ was that in Jealing with officials of all
ranks and kinds, if [ wanted anything
done for me, the best thing I could do
was to tell them that] was a stranger
in the country. The most imposing
official, and I have had occasion to pene
trate into the presence of some very im-
sing ones, at once meited when he
jeard that. However gruff and non-
chalent he might be at first, no sooner
did he know that 1 was a stranger than
he became my kind and attentive friend.
It is the same all through. The Ameri-
cans, like the Scotch, may not have the
external politeness that is so agreeable
in the French character; but, like them,
i. e., the Scotch, are at the bottom
among the most kind-hearted people in
the world, Boston Transcript.
Edison's Daily Routine.
At 10 a. x he starts for his office,
where for about two hours he is in-
tensely occupied in attending with his
private secretary to the mass of corre.
spondence piling in upon him at the rate
oftentimes of over two hundred letters
a day. After disposing of his corre.
spondence he devotes his time to a
yerusal of the numerous papers, pamph-
Pe documents and books scientific
and otherwise, that come to him from
all parts of the world. He reads with
great rapidity and yet with astonishing
thoroughness, as days afterward he
readily recalls what he has been over.
By 2 p.m. he is in his laboratory re.
viewing the results of the experiments
and work of his assistants performed in
his absence. Consultations with Mr.
Batchelor, his chief assistant, next oc-
cupy him for a considerable time. After
this is over he may be said to be fairly
in the midst of his labor of love. A re.
cital of the experiments he daily tries,
the plans he devises and the suggestions
he offers would seem exaggerated were
it not that hundreds of record books in
his laboratory bearing the marks of his
labor attest the same with unimpeach-
able accursncy. The majority of days
his meals are served him at his work.
The hard work of the inventor, how-
ever, begins after dark. The work of
the day is more of & preliminary charac-
ter—a getting ready for the herculean
efforts that one by one grow and de-
velop until they finally reach as a whole
a perfected invention.
Intéresting Statistics of the Presidency
The | hiladelphin Press anys: The
following is an anslysis of the occu
paney of ihe Presidential office from
the organization of the govornment un-
the present term, showing the length of
service of the incumbenis, and the
States of which they were residents:
Southern Slates. States. Dates. Ve Mo
Washington. . .... Virginia, 1780-1797 8 ..
Jelflerson Virginia, . 1801-1800
Madison . Virginia. 1809-1817
Monroe Vig nia. . 1817-1826
Tyler*, Virgluia. . 1841-1848
Southwest’ n Biales.
Johnson® .....
Western Slates.
cons IB41-1841
v sess dilinois. . 1861-1865
cre ase Htinoks, . . 1860-1877
1877-1881
1
i
Middie Blates.
Van Bures.......N. Y.....1807.1841
Fillmore* N. Y..... 1850-1853
Buchanan . 1857-1861
Eastern Siales.
J. Adams ....... Mass... 1797-1801
J.Q. Adams .... crassa 1825-1828
1855-1857
RECAPITULATION,
Middle and Eastern States. ..........
Western and Southwestern States...
* Elected Vice-President,
It will be seen that the Eastern Sas
elected three of their citizens to tha
high position, serving one term sci:
The Middle Simates elected two an in-
Lerited a fraction of & term by the de—
mise of a Southwestern President. The
Western States elected four, who, if
death had not interposed, would have
held the office twenty-four years. but
by the decease of two early in the terms
for which they were chosen, a Virginian
and Tennessean reduced the period
nearly eight years. The Southwestern
States elected three, whose service,
with nearly a full term by another in-
heritor, made over seventeen years.
The seeptre departed from the South-
ern States proper when Jackson, who,
was more of 8a Western than a Southern
man, was elected, but it had its rule in
the chief magistracy for more than thir-
ty-six years—every incumbent being a
Yirginian!
Assuming that the Eastern and Mid
die States bear au similar relation wo
each other, politically, as that of the
{ hnve been the most favored and have
{ had the President for more than thirty
| three years, while the former aggregate
{not quite twenty three. So, ton, the
| Western States exceed the Eastern—
sixteen to twelve Strangely enough,
the two largest States of both the latter
localities are the only ones favored—
| New York and Pennsylvania, and Ohio
and Ulinols.
How Long Bees Live.
A correspondent of the Western Honey
Bee gives the following result of an ex-
periment made to ascertain the duration
of life-in bees: “1 thought 1 would sat-
isty myself in regard to the life of the
heein the height of the working seuson.
I bad a stand of the little biack bees of
the genuine stingers, and on the morn-
ing of May 30 I killed the queen, and
| by carefully looking through their hive
that in the evening of the same day. 1
out in a cell for a yellow queen on the
second of June. She dus Latched out.
and there were a few yellow boes in the
hive on the 30th, in just twenty-one
days from the time the eggs were de-
posiied. On July 7, a lew yellow
es were to be seen playing around the
hive, and on the thirteenth day of July.
| just fourteen days from the time the yel-
low bees were hatched out, a few were
seen at work with the black bees. Now
any one can see that if the yellow bees
hatched in twenty-one days, the iast
black bees were all out by the thirtielh
of June, and if the yeliow bees went to
work on the twelfth of July, the last of
the black bees must have gone to work
on the fourth of July, making fourteen
days from the time they were hatched,
uniess one will go to work sooner than
the other, This stand contained noth-
ing but black bees when the black
of July, just forty-nine days from the
time the biack queen was destroved:
thece was not 8a black bee to be seen
about the hive. [opened it. Not one
was to be seen inside. Now [ know
that bees will live longer at any other
season of the year, and thought this
would be a good chance to test the
height of the working season. The
hive was examined every day doring
the whole time, so that no mistake
might be made.” From the above it
will be seen that the life time of a honey-
bee, in the busiest working season, is
but four weeks or twentv-eight days.
History of Billiards,
A New York paper says: Billiards
are played so much in this country that
the game is not unfrequently mentioned
as American, although its origin is
either French or Italian—it is uncertain
which. The game, however, was im-
ported into Britain froma France. and
was known to Englishmen by name as
early as the sixteenth century, since
Shakespeare speaks of it—he seems to
have been littie less than omniscient—in
several of his dramas. He even portrays
Cleopatra as amusing herself with bii
liards, but this is unquestionably cne of
the palpable anachronisms to which he
appears to have been indifferent, and
which he scattered throughout his
lays. The game itself was, in ali like.
Rod, medio but as played nowa-
days is comparatively modern. or
two centuries it was played with onl
two (white) balls, and when the third
(red) ball was imported into Britain,
{the red winning hazard, or holing of
| the red hall, was well-nigh the sole ob-
{ ject of the players. The billiard-tsble
lof tie present is as different as it well
can be from the biiliard-table of two
hundred years , a8 persons know
who have noticed their evolution as
represented by the tables of divers eras.
The greatest billiardists are the Rus-
sins, Spaniards, French and Amwmeri-
cans, who now play far more than any
other nation. The popularity of the
game has increased greatly here within
the last twenty years. It is said that
there are six times as many tables in
the country as there were at the begin-
ning of the civil war. Europeans sup-
pose that all Americans play billiards,
irrespective of sex, age or position,
arvelous but True.
If a musket ball be fired into water it
will not only rebound but be flattened ;
if fired through a pane of glass it will
make a hole the size of the ball without
cracking the glass; if suspended by a
thread it makes no difference, and the
thread will not even vibrate.
Cork, if sunk two hundred feet in the
ocean, will not rise on account of the
pressure of water.
In the Arctic regions, when the ther-
mometer is below zero, persons can con-
verse more than a mile distant. Dr.
Jamieson asserts that he heard every
word of a sermon at a distance of two
miles.
At Hamburg, in Germany, the longest
day has seventeen hours and the short-
est seven. At Stockholm the longest
has eighteen and one-half hours and the
shortest five and one-half. At Finland
the longest has twenty-one and one-ha.f
hours. At Wondorbus, in Norway, the
day lasts from May 21 to July, the sun
not getting below the horizon during
the whole time. but skimming s'cn
very close to it in the north. ‘At Spitz-
bergen the longest day lasts three
months and a ha.f,
teach,
While o'er the eyés the wool they pull,
Nor prastige what they preach.
The monstrous * beam ¥ is never seen,
The “ mote ” provokes thelr soreesh.
The whils seductive vice they sereen.
Nor practice what they preach.
Sweet charity take by the band,
Fair justioe’s height to reach,
Where others slip, you firmly stand,
‘And practice what you preach.
Precept is good, example’s best,
Bo ohary then of speech, :
So live that very life attest
You practice what you preach.
Modern Arge.
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
A wold —an_ icy answer. — Bosion
r Snap y answ 0
One concern in Maine has order
for 10.000 sets of croquet.
Held for a further henring—The ear
trompet,— New Fork News. y
The Russise Czar is said to be guarded
Vis,
by three American
Wilkie Collins, the novelist, says Le
Las earned $150,000 with Lis pen, is
Eighty-five per cent, of the
of the Utah legislature are poly
Half a million people visited the
Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition last
year
Te Denver { Col. Herald that
the mines of C ear yiclded
$25,335,483 ’
New York city’s assessed valuation
is $946.527,000, an increase of $2.
| 293,000 during the last year.
hier being asked to define =
: It is usually the termin-
| ation of a misunderstanding,
If you boast. of a contempt for the
, avoid getting into debt. it is
giving to gnats the of vipers.
St. Paul's eathedral, London, occupied
thirty-seven Jean in bu'lding, and cost
£5.000,000, rais~d by a duty on coals.
The thrifty man will always put
something away dos & rainy day, even if
it is nothing a stolen umbrella. —
Picayune,
We sieep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weny-
ing when the sun went down, is weav-
ing when it comes up to-morrow.
| Nearly sll the leading London shops
{are very old esisblishments. Hedge &
: Butler, wine merchaats in t street,
| were wine merchants to Charles IT.
A young man rec bad a nose
grafted ina New York We
have seen noses bud apd . but
never heard of grafting them before,
The pian of an Evansvilie (Wis.)
gatble cuter to get [rsh was to muti-
ate pinety tombstones in a graveyard;
and it succeeded, for he a stone
during the next year in prison.
Iren bolts in wooden structures may
be kept from rusting by costing the
holes in the wood of : Jive filings and
grease, The iron us galvanized,
snd is preserved from o
Said one of society's smart
to a Indy triend : ** This is leap-y
I suppose you'll be asking somebody to
marry you?” “Oh, vo,” was the reply,
“my finances won't permit me to sup-
port a husband.” — Derrick
J. R. Holloway, of Marion county,
{ Tenn, grew 1.500 bushels of peanuts
EE Nerriiig shout Ti
srofilabie Cc op. A
seb ean be utHlined. The vines and
leaves make a most t fodder.
To ascertain the length of a
night multiply the hour at the
sun rises by two: the resuit will be the
leagth of the night. Multiply the hour
{ at which the sun sets by two, and the
{ result will be the length of the day.
| Ttis said in Arizona that a miner,
{ doubting the capabilities of a certain
[ assayer, got an old potato, dried it
| thoroughly, pounded it up fine and then
| submitted the powder for assay, and the
yieid of $40
| result «f the assay zave 8
| to the ton.
A Presbyterian clergyman in Chicage
has upon the * wickedness” of
entering church after sérvice has com-
menced and disturbing the congregation
| assembled. Since the sermon, the num-
‘ ver of tardy worshippers in his church
| has decrensed,
There are 150 varieties of in Ne.
brasks, luxuriant in growth, excellent
in quality, and they are mmong the
grandest resources of the State. They
sre the herdman’s stock in trade, and
fz1 steers, mutton, wool and Cairy pre-
ducts are the pet resuits.
Wheelbarrows are in very little de-
mand in Brazil. “owing to the almost
burdens
{ on the he Not ong ago the Ameri-
| ean consul saw a study negro exiryiog
a wheelbarrow on his head through the
streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Why is it that when you meet a max
* ker ciuck™ on the sidewalk he a’ways
turns to his right while yon turn tc
your left, and not sati with that
he immediately turns to his jeft and you
are just fool enough to turn to your
right.— New Haven Rectisler
A subscriber in the Norristown Herald
| asks: ** Will the last shoe be made on a
| shoe last? The Herald says we must re-
| fer him to Proctor. He isthe only person
| in the country—we believe he is still in
| this country—who knows what is goi
| to happen 190,000,000,000,000,000,000,
| years hence.
| A submarine diver was in the Grant
| procession at Philadel>hia He stood
| on a platform wagon, wearing his huge
| brass helmet, ru suit and heavy
| leaden pistes. The weight was very
| burdensome in the air. though just the
| thing for water, and Le has since died
{ from the effects of it.
| Jake Tucker, a noted driver in
| Nevada, can lasso a goose with his whip
[at a distance of forty feet while he is
driving a six-in-havd at full aliop.
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ornaments
ear, and
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Jake's passengers suddenly found his
pistol hand lassoed and himsaif drag-
ging along after the ** hearse” as they
call a stave out there.
When a life insurance agent eomes in
and tells you that only last week & man
insured with him for $20,000 and yaid
one premium, and to-day he is dead and
his family has the money, it doesn't
make us any more anxious to insure,
though it may be a convincing argu-
men in (ovor of the beauties of the sys-
ten. — Boston Jos.
sa
ded
The Denver (Col) Herald
mines of Colorado last year yie
335,483. and that the estimate for 187%,
adopted by the mint authorities in
Washington, placed the State's cold and
siiver product for the year at $8 751.344,
to which Superintendent Hertuan Silver,
of the Denver mint, added $590.000. as
the valueofshipments scat Fast through
private sources, thus piszing the highest
relinble estimate of that year's product
at 89,951.34. :
If longevity, as a mational character-
istie, be a fair test of the heaithiness of
a country or the tough vitality of its
people, then Greece umy claim to beat
the civilized world on the score of its
sanitery perfection. Of all countries in
Europe it seems to possess the greatest
number of what may be called very old
prople—that is to say, of people from
ninety years of age sand upward: out
of a population of 1,457,804, it has of
these veterans no fewer than 1.368
A Boston lady, whose husband was
frequently afflicted with nightmare. was
one night awakened by a noise, and to
her horror saw her husband sitting u
in bed saying in a whisper: “Now
have him. he can't escape!" and pomnt-
ing his pistol at an imaginary burglar.
His finger was on the trigger ard he was
aiming directly at the head of the baby
in its cradle. Quick as lighming, his
wife said in a low tone; *: Too low! aim
higher!” He raised the pistol, she
snatched it from ‘saand and the dan
£OT WAS OVer. :
What it Costs to Run a Locomotive.
The New Jersey Central Railroad
Compas keeps a record of the cost of
runn & Iaco motives, Is shows v8 Has a0
average day's tance ve
a, 100 miles. The work for
a month is 2.600 miles; but loco-
motives exceed this, as in case 0.
No. 121, which in December last made
6, 80 miles. In d this 133 tons of
coal were used and thirty seven ga:lons
of oil to ke p the machinere in orcer.
The company says that $12.86 is the
average cost for 100 miles for fuel
and repairs. In thé case of
eost for repairs for the
*
the