A Change.
flowery paths we long to tollow,
the hili’s tail orest abides,
murmurs from the bosky hollow
vigor in the eager brain,
footsteps of the angel Hope,
d valley that we loved of yore
w benesth the setting sun,
mnoe lights the goldea head
Ty
hg around her feet, we worship yet,
In as we kneel, we see her altar,
«Ril the Year Round.
The Conduct of Life,
Be it good that we do, let us do it,
Giving soul and our strength to the dead;
Lat us pierce the hard rock and pass throug
it,
And compass the thing that we neal.
Does tate, as a dark cloud, bang over,
And cover our bends from the light?
Does hate mock the heart of the lover?
Must wrong be the victor of right ?
Yet in fate there is freedéon for each ane
To make or tolmar, as he will;
And the bolts of il] fortune that reach one
May maim, but they never shall kill.
Ever onward and upward pursuing
The aim that is thine to the day,
Thon shalt gain it, por faint by the way.
Though menial thy labor may be,
Do thy utmost in that and in all things,
Thou still shalt be noble and tree.
Dost thou love? let it be with full measure;
Nor mingle with coldness or hate
fothers the joy of thy pleasure,
‘The passion that crowns thy estate.
Be to every man just; and to women
Be gentle, and tender and true;
For thy own do thy best; but lor no man
Do less than a brother should do.
So living thy days full to awmber,
In peace thou shalt pass to the grave;
Thou shalt lie down and rest thee, and slum.
ber,
Beloved by the good and the bmave,
- Timaley's Magazine.
A Romance of Avenue A.
American metropolis, and most of the
sitosied on that great street of tenement
houses, Avenre A. All the characters
and the historian lived together; occu.
pying between them one flat of a tene-
ment house pine stories high. Our flat
was the seventh from the ground, and
being the only lodgers on that floor we
speedily became well acquainted. Being
which was study, reception-room,
ment.
an elderly Irish woman with her two
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“Perhaps ye're in airnest.”
a little passionately.
| thrue word spoken in jest,”
| “Well, I am in earnest.
| Patsy, and if he'd ask me to marry him
| this day, I'd jump at the chance.
{ there, now, you have the truth.”
Then the door was slammed, and 1
i heard Teddy walking slowly back into
his mother's room. Presently there
came a knock at my door, and when 1
joried “come in," Patsy's freckled fave
i appeared on the threshold,
{ him kindly and invited him™to have a
i chair, He sat down, and I saw that
{what he had heard had sobered him,
| After a moment's silence he cleared his
{ throat and began
I “Did ye hear what she said?
* Yes, Patsy,” 1 replied.
{ continued, eagerly.
: “I have no doubt of it."
“God bless her swate soul! I'm not
ithe man for her, an’ I niver to't she
{eared for me, U1 could only bring me.
{ sell to belnive it's thrue, I'd be a differ-
{ ent man."
i then rose to go. When he reached the
{ door he turned and said :
: I was a bit dhrunk when I come
| home to-night. It's hard work beyont
| there in the tunnel, but [ sWware to ye
that afther to-night there'll
of pwhisky pass my lips."
1 bade him good-night and God speed
| in this new-formed resolution, and he
shook my hand warmly. Mrs. Horley
| per together. Teddy was out. 1 took
i the oross-streets walking together,
jinarm. I did not hear what they were
{ clared his love and been made happy
{ pon was rec .
The next morning Palsy came to my
room before he went to his work. He
| seized my hand, and a look of supreme
: happiness shot trom his gray eyes.
“She sez she'll have me, sor,” hesaid,
“an' we'll be married ez soon ex I get
through work on the tunnek I'm a
God knows
Land than bring harm to
“Oh, that will be all right. He'll get
1 said, to console him.
“I wish I couid think so,” he said,
| moving towsgrd the door, and these
tendent. and the men rushed pel!
toward this only avenue of esoape,
{ was standing by the inner door of the
air lock, and threw it open for the men
tO pass through.
* Quick, boys!" he cried. "Get into
{the lock!" And instead of passing in
among the first he stood by the door
helping one after another in.
Six men passed, among them Patsy
Horley. He looked around and ealled
loudly for Teddy. There was no re
sponse. The seventh man Was passing
through. He pushed by him into the
tunnel,
mell | THE HIDEOUS FACE OF WAR,
et! i
| Some Instances of the Deadly Work Done
In Battle, }
In the excitement of battle the fall of |
in comrade is soarcely heeded, and half |
8 SOMDITY might be wiped out and the |
other half tight on without the knowl |
fedge of it. Ic is only after the loud-
mouthed cannon and the murderous
musketry have ceased their work that |
the hideous face of war shows itself to |
| make men shudder and turn away. |
| Soldiers who have not gone over a
* Teddy bye!” he ered. | battlefield or been one of a burial party |
“ Here I" shouted a voice at his side, | have missed half the grimness and |
“Get through quick!" he said, and | swluiness of war, Vs
i pushed his brother through. After Gettysburg, one of the Union |
He would have followed him, but an. | burial parties buried eighty Federal |
other of the men stepped in front of | soldiers in one trench. They were all |
from a New York regiment, and all |
This man was almost through when | seemingly fell dead at one volley. They |
| the awful weight of the mud and water | Were almost in line, taking up but little |
[tell against the door, pinning him so more room than livé men. All were |
| fast that nothing could have freed him | shot above the hips, and not one of |
| in time. them had lived ten minutes after being
| The door was fast. One man was | hit, Here lay what was then a full
fastened in the doorway between the | compuny of men, wiped out by ome
| other nineteen and their last chance of | single volley as they advanced to the |
life. The eight in the lock were thus | charge, Some had their muskets so |
| almost lost, for there was no longer a | tightly grasped that it took the full
| chance to close the inner door, and the | Strength of a man to wrest them away,
flood was closing on them, Swiftly the | Others died with arms outstretohed, and |
water rushed into the lock; it rose knee | others yet had their hands clasped over |
| deep where they stood, and the air was their heads, and n uever-to-be-lorgotie ni
| compressed by all the pressure of the | expression on their white faces,
air above them in the little chamber, At Fair Oaks, the Third Michigan |
| the door of which was securely fastened | had its first real baptism of fire. The
against them. They could not open this | boys hiad been held back on other occa. |
i door, nor could they break it from the | sions, and now when given opportunity |
| inside. But in the lock were two dead- | they went for the enemy posted in the |
lights of massive glass, eight inches in | edge of the woods on the double-quick, |
diameter, and these the men knew were [and with yells and cheers. A part of |
the regiment had to swing across a
glade, and while so doing lost fifty or |
sixty men in the space of sixty seconds,
““Kape cool, men, kape cool,” an- Une company lost twenty men who
| swered a voice from the river side of went down together in one spot and
i the tunnel. Tiddy rushed to the bull's. scarcely moved a limb after falling.
{eye and looked through. There stood Details of five men were made from each
{| Patsy and the superintendent side by company to advance as sharpshooters,
| side. their faces white as death. ' and of Ao fifty men who plunged into
{ “Keep cool,” cried the superintendent | the woods as a skirmish line only six
{ through the crack of the door; “noth. came out alive, and every one of these |
| ing can be gained by excitement.” | was wounded from one to three times,
“ But shure, sor, the wather is gainin’ | At Cold Harbor a shell exploded inan |
| him, and he helped him into the lock.
{ to be broken as a last resort.
“My God! the water 1s gaining on
: 2 3% a
i us.” said one; ** what shail we do?
| tery, and sixteen men were wiped out in
an instant, Of these nine were blown |
to fragments and the others horribly |
mutilated. The battery was firing thirty |
or forty shells per minute, and this was
Teddy caught him by the neck, and | the work of a single one. One discharge |
| several others sprang to his assistance, [of grape in this same fight killed tour-
{ They pulled and tugged, but it was no teen men in a Michigan regiment, and a
luge. Every moment was agony to the New York regiment which went in with
{ the shaft.” :
“The water is covering me up,”
| moaned the poor fellow who was
| crushed by the door. “Can't you get
ar
| me out of this?
TIMELY TOPICS,
The proof that petroleum sources are
almost world-wide appears to be abund.
ant, and its use would also seem well
nigh coeval with civilisation. In one
of the lonian islands there is a spring
which has yielded petroleum more than
2 000 years. The wellsof Armenia, on the
banks of the Zaro, were formerly used for
In Persia,
too, near the Caspian sea at Baku, nu.
merous springs of petroleum have been
known from the earliest times: and
said to have yielded before the general
introduction of petroleum among evil
oil per annum.
Among the patents recently taken out
is one which claims to he a “new and
cipitating rain-falls from rain-clouds,”
as a protection against drought, The
invention consists in sending balloons
into the cloud regions, carrying torpe- |
does and eartridees charged with explo.
electric force, It is also claimed by the
inventor that not only can rain be pre.
given locality by causing the rain-clouds
to be discharged belore they have
reached that place. Harper's Weekly
cable and successful, might equalize the
A London periodical gives some re.
retzarn by the board of trade for 1879, In |
the Upited Kingdom the trains have
traveled 232 000,000 miles, and have ear.
ried more than 565 .000.000 passengers.
disaster in Seotiand, by which seventy.
three persons were killed, this enormous
amount of work has been done with the
loss of only two lives by acoldents. And |
less than in previous years. This speaks
highly for the carefulness of the em.
ployees on the railroads; but the report
adds that, owing to the negligence and
misconduct of the passengers, eighty-
tality.
Some of the most eminent scientific |
men now accept the view taken by Ad. |
hemar, namely, that continents have |
not heen depressed, but overflowed by |
the ocean. Owing to the precession of |
the equinoxes, the mass of water is |
transferred from one hemisphere to the |
occupied
rooms had as an occu
Every reader has heard of the terrible
originally from Massachusetts. She
worked at shirt making in a large Canal
written on the
The Horleys and
quite intimate,
brothers, large-formed, red-headed and
that be didn't have a three days’ growth
gray eyes, and these were the most strik-
ing of his facial organs.
which grieved his old mother sorely.
: Teddy
and Patsy Horley were employed in the
tunnel as laborers, and worked side by
went to their work as usual, and for the
first time in their lives spoke never a
word of kindly cheer or brotherly badin-
streets. The better to make plain what
follows, it will
the entrance to the tunnel proper, on
lar, perpendicular shaft, thirty feet in
diameter, and
which is used for the reception o! waste
matter, as it is excavated, and before it
is taken away. Thirty feet below the
tion between the tunnel and the outer
air. It is necessary to keep the air in-
sixty odd years old, fat
to 8 “weakness”
body, which prevented the
of labor.
the window all day long knitting at a
never finished blue woolen stocking.
Her “byes” were very good to her.
Teddy gave her all his earnings. Patsy
most all. Teddy was the reverse of his
brother. He was six f@8t in his socks,
finely proportioned, handsome. His
eyes were black, his hair and mustache
dark brown, but curly. He was consider.
able of a dandy and ** dressed up ” every
night after work. There was a deep
affection existing between these broth-
ers. They loved each other, and this
devotion was apparent in every act of
their lives.
Miss Alice Layne was, as I have be
fore stated, a lonely little maiden,
pretty, and with a tender heart, sus.
iptible to the slightest wvariation of
life's compass. Less than a week after
taking up my quarters in the front
room I made a discovery. Alice Layne
was in love with Palsy Horley and
Teddy Horley was in love with Alice
Layne. It was an interesting study to
watch the various phases of this cross
passion, and I never tired of it. It was
very evident to me that Patsy Horley
admired the little shirtmaker, but he
kept the secret safely locked in his great
big heart, and only took it out at odd
moments when he thought no one would
notice the treasure to gloat over it and
worship it as his mother did the figure
of the Virgin at the Lead of her bed.
1 don’t suppose the honest fellow ever
dreamed that his love was returned.
How could hie when hie so blindly wor-
shiped the superior physical gifts of
his younger brother. For Patsy was
very proud of handsome Teddy, and
never tired of praising hira. "Alice,
with a woman's intuition, saw the nohle
in Patsy's character, and although
Teddy's good looks and fine dress and
“flowers” made an impression upon
ber it was only a transitory one, which
vanished as soon as she caught sight ot
Patsy's big, homely face and honest
gray eyes. Like al good-looking men,
Teddy Horley ‘was just the least bit con-
ceited, and he imagined that it was on) y
necessary to declare his passion to find
himself in undisturbed possession of
Alice’s heart.
One warm afternoon I was lying on a
lounge in my room, endeavoring to in-
cerest myself in “The Light of Asia.”
Mrs. Horley was downstairs visiting a
neighbor, and I was nodding over the
poem, when Alice Layne tripped up the
siairs and entered her apartments. |
heard her singing softly to herself as she
made preparations for supper, and, mis-
anthrope that I am, envied her that
bird-like lightness of heart which triiled
through every measure of the song. 1
was brooding over the melancholy past,
when a heavy footstep sounded on the
the stairs and Patsey Horley, in his
rough working clothes, and a little
under the influence of liquor, opened
the door of the room: adjoining mine
and threw himself heavily on the bed.
He got up directly, opened a little win-
dow over the door which separated the
two rooms, took a drink of water and
lay down again. It may be well
t o mention that this chamber was a dark
room, and was occupied by the brothers
asa sleeping apartment. A few minutes
after this Teddy Horley bounded up the
steps and entered the living-room, which
was between the dark chamber and his
mother’s bedroom. Finding his mother
absent, be crossed the hall and knocked
at Miss Layne’s door. The little maiden
hushed her song and opened it.
ou Teddy, it’s you, is it?” she
“ Sure it is, swateness, Who else conld
i Hiought it was Patsy,” she said
tantalizingly.
Then there was a struggle, a stified
gcream, and a smack, smack of lips.
The noise disturbed tipsy Patsy, and he
rose from his bed and opened "the door
entering into the hallway. The scuffle
outside continued and there wus more
smacking. Presently Alice cried:
“Oh, Teddy Horley, you're perfectly
horrid. and 1 don’t like you one bit,
ere
© Now, darlint!” began Teddy.
“Don’t darlint me, I don’t Vike you,
You are better looking and finer dressed
than Patsy, but he is a thousand times
better than you.” :
to maintain a pressure of seventy pounds
to the square inch, and the * air Jock”
canal, equalizing the pressure of the air
to those passing in or out, asa canal
lock balances the level of the water. As
a matter of course, there are two doors,
one at each end of this lock, only one of
which ean be opened at once, while the
lock itself is fifteen feet long by six feet
snd gix inches wide, allowing for the
passage, in case of necessity, of thirty
men at once.
As they were preparing to go down the |
brother and whispered:
“It'd'a quare feelin’ I have in me this |
mornin’, Teddy. May the plissed Vor-
gin protect us from harm.”
Teddy isughed. * It's the pwhisky,”
Lie said, and turned away, not so quick
along smoothly until noon. Then the |
to lunch; the remainder worked on. |
their tools and prepared to leave the
tunnel. Patsy was in the first squad,
Teddy in the second. The men return-
preparatory to leaving. It is probable
that if they had delayed this for even
a minute the,accident would not have
happened, for she leak, which was dis-
covered just too late, might easily have
been stopped if discovered in time. As
the two squads met just at the moment
of shifting. a peculiar hissing sound was
heard, with which all were familiar. It
meant & leak, and a leak meant death!
“ Back and stop the leak!” shouted
the superintendent, and the order was
obeyed almost before it was given.
As many as could get there jumper
for the place, where all knew the dange
was greatest. The brothers worked
side by side.
“It's the maneing of the quare feelin’,
Teddy,” cried Patsy, as they both plied
pick and shovel. **May the Vorgin
save us!”
The joining of the temporary roof of
the turnel with the wall of the shaft
wns necessarily imperfect. It was in-
tended to make all secure with a three
foot wall of brick and cement, but it
was impossible to set the foundation of
the brickwork until after the circle of
the tunnel should be completed, so that
this Imperfors jointure was continuall
watched, With reasonable diligence it
was easily to keep it closed, and the
material to close was plenty and at
hand. The chinks were stopped. with
the silt, of which the river bottom is
largely composed—a clayey mud, of the
consistency of putty-—and a man should
have been at this part watcuing the
chink.
No pen ean describe the terrible
struggle which followed. It lusted
scarcely two minutes. The men. were
nerved by a full knowledge of the great
danger of their position. Not a man
but knew that he carried his life in his
hands wherever he went to work, and
not a man failed to know that the
supreme moment had come All
worked well. The brothers did the
work of ten men.
It was too late!
The leak that one man could have
stopped if he had been there at the right
moment was now wide enough for the
foul current of corruption and death to
flow in from the river bottom, and
the only safety lay in flight. Be.
tween the spot where they were and the
open air there were two locked doors,
only one of which could be opened at
once. The little rift above their heads
became a chasm. ‘The compressed air
escaped until there was no longer pres-
sure enough from within to maintain
the portion of unfinished work. The
electric light by whieh they worked
was extinguiched, and darkness added
1t8 terrors to their great misery.
In the confusion the brothers, who
the water and mud poured in upon them
were separated. Patsy reached out his
hand and it was clutched by some one
in the darkness.
poor man, and he would beg piteously
i to be let alone. The water got higher
{and higher.
i “They'll have to sthop the orack,
| sor,” said Patsy, and the superintendent,
his white lips moving in prayer, nodded
{ his head.
* Take off your clothes, men, and stop
| the erack of the door,” he added.
i Some one said that that would eut oft
{ what little communication there was
| between them.
“Niver moind us, min," said brave
“ But then—"" began Teddy, who was
| in tears. ‘ 3
“Do as you are ordered.” cried the
The men sprang forward, and Patsy
reached his great freckled hand through
the crack,
“Good-bye, Teddy,” he said choking.
ly. “Tell the mother 1 died ioike a
i He could say no more, and in a mo-
| ment the men had patched the crack of
the door with their ciothes, and the
rapid increase of the water was checked.
perintendent, as his hand tightened on
Patsy's.
* Blessed Mary, save us!”
Irishman.
Teddy ran to the bull's-eye and looked
through. He saw the superintendent
and his brother
peering in at him. The faces of both
men were pale, and were only a few feet
above the water that gurgled about
them, He heard Patsy's muttered
prayer, and a deep groan burst from his
ups.
** Patsy, brother!” he shouted.
Patsy smiled and nodded his head.
“* Be kind to Alice,” he said, and then
raising his voice, shouted: ‘Break.
open the outside bull’s-eye!”
* Yes, knock out the-buil's-eye; knock
it out, [ say,” commanded the stern
sobbed the
The men in the air lock knew that to |
companions,
hesitated. Again it come:
* Knock out the bull's-eye!" and then
and they
faltered a little as it added, * and do |
what you can for the rest of us!” :
Blow upon blow fell upon the thick |
glass, and was answered from the out. |
| arrived with crowbars. The glass flew |
wife and babies!” muttered the superin- |
Patsy's.
* Poor Alice!” was all the latter could
articulate through his sobs. Instine.
tively the eyes of both men met, and
their souls stood side by siae.
The outside door was started a little,
and suddenly flew open, With the rush
of air came the rush of water. The door
behind gave way, and the living, the
dead, and the dying were hauled out
toward the working shaft. The bodies
of all in the inner tunnel must have
caught in the outer door. Only Patsy
Horley's come out with the rush of
water. Two of the men seized his body,
and the whole party hurried up the lad.
der to the ground
Then, and only then, had the two men
an opportunity to pause and reflect that
behind them, beneath the water that
boiled and seethed in the dim light of
the tunnel, were the bodies of their dead
comrades and the brave superintendent.
Professional business called me to
Brooklyn the day of the accident, and
when 1 returned to the tenement house
in Avenue A, they were making prepar-
ations to wake poor Patsy Horley’s
body.
He was
mangled by the rapid rush
of waler, and only ived two
hours after he was taken out of the
shaft. He was conscious, and his tel-
low-workmen carried him tenderly
home. Teddy followed, weeping bit-
terly. They laid the wounded man upon
the bed, and a doctor ministered to his
sufferings. The wails of the poor
mother were heartrending. Patsy had
been laying with his eyes closed, but he
finally opened them and asked for
Teddy. The brother knelt by the bed-
side and great sobs shook his frame.
** Be a mon, Teddy,” whispered Patsy.
* Sind for Alice and the praiste!’
When the little shirt-maker was led
weeping into the room, Patsy asked
that they be left alone, and over that
last interview let us draw a veil. Finally
some one stole into the room and found
them clasped in each other's arms.
Patsy was Binking fast, and the priest
approsched the bedside and adminis-
tered to him the last rites of the church.
Then the dying man was propped up in
bed. He called Teddy and Alice to the
bedside and made them join hands.
. *1 m a dead mon,” he said huskily.
Promise me, both ov yees, that ye'll
be thrue to aich other!”
Both bowed their heads. He beckoned
for the priest and whispered a few words
in his ear.
A smile of thankfulness beautified the
homely face of Patsy as the last words
of the impressive service fell from the
Prien, : dips, and srstching out his hands
ore any cou ¢ yr
Detroit Free Press. Pench him
terribly crushed and
A smart American girl calls a youn
fellow of her uaintance Hong
suckle,” because he's always hanging
708 men in line came out with only 360,
On one acre of ground the burial party
found over 700 dead men. In a bit of
woods where the battle lines had clashed |
more than 2.000 dead were found in a
space po wider than a square in a city
and no more than three times as long,
At the battle of Savage Station. during
McClellan's change of base, a solid shot |
fired from a Federal fieid-piece into the
head of an infantry column marching by |
fours, killed twenty-one men and a horse
before its progress was checked. The
first ten men were reduced to bloody |
pulp, and the others crushed and bruised
to death. At this same battle a Con- |
federate shell exploded under a Federal
gun and killed four artillerymen, dis- |
mounted the gun, wounded two men,
ard the butt of it flew off at a tangent |
and killed a second lieutenant of intan-
try who was eighty rods away,
At Fredericksburg, as the Union in- |
fantry marched in solid masses up the |
valley beyond the town, the Confed. |
erates opened fire from behind a stone
wall. The fighting along this line was
over in ten minutes, and 5,000 Federals
jay dead within reach of each other. |
In many cases three or four men had
faglen across each other. A shell from |
a gun on the hill exploded in the midst
of some New Hampshire troops and
killed a sergeant, a corporal and twelve |
privates and ®ounded six others, Be |
fore the Union troops crossed the river,
and while shelling the town, a shell
struck a house and exploded in a room
where there were five soldiers and a
citizen. All were blown to pieces, and
three citizens ina room directly over. |
head were also killed, |
Perhaps the most destructive work |
made by a shell among troops occurred |
a fow miles below Vicksburg. A Fed. |
eral gunboat was fired upon by light |
‘artillery from the bank, posted in plain
view. There were two six-pounders |
with a sixty-four-prunder. The shell |
The guns were thrown high in the air |
d came down a wreck. The eighteen |
under cover rushed up just as the cais- |
son exploded. Of the fifteen cleven |
were killed outright, three wounded, and
one escaped unburt but so dazed that
he sat down and waited to be captured
by a boat which pulled ashore. Two of
the wounded died the next day, leavirg
only two men alive of the thirty-three
who had composed the battalion. Noth-
was left of the gun-carriages but
The only remains of
of one wheel filled with broken
spokes. Most of the dead had been
blown to fragments, and the bushes
were covered with shreds of flesh.
When the caissen exploded the head of
oue of the victims was blown high in the
air, and fell into the water within a few |
yards of the gunboat.—Delroil Free |
Press,
Words of Wisdom.
A men of true genius is generally as
simple as a child, and as unconscious of
his power as an elephant.
Gain the confidence of your children
in their younger years, and they will not
be atraid to trust you later in fife.
Such is the constitution of things that
unwillingness to goodness may ripen
into eternal voluntary opposition to it.
The good things which belong to
prosperity may be wished; the good
things which belong to adversity are to
be admired.
Happy is he who has learned this one
thing—to do the plain duty of the
moment quickly and cheerfully, what-
ever it may be.
The winter's frost must rend the burr
of the nut before the fruit is seen. So
adversity tempers the human heart to
discover its real worth.
No man can ask honestly or hopetully
to be delivered from temptation unless
he has himself honestly and firmly de.
termined to do the best he can to keep
out of it.
The ills we suffer in this life do not
always, or often perhaps, come from our
own personal transgressions. It is not
true that he who sins most suffers in
this life.
IIIS
«It yearly takes 200,000 acres of forest
to supply cross-ties for the railroads of
the United States. It takes 15,000,000
ties to supply the demandg for which on
an average the contractors get thirty-five
cents apiece, making in the aggregate
£5,250,000, In building a new road the
contractors figure on 2,700 ties to the
mile, while it takes 300 ties to the mile
to keep a constructed road in repair.
The average of a good piece of timber
land is 200 ties to the acre and twelve
ties to the tree. White or burr oak is
considered the best timber for the pur-
pose, although cherry, maple, ash and
even locust have been used. The busi-
ness gives employment to an army of
choppers, who are paid ten cents apiece
for each tie. A contmued practice makes
the choppers expert in the use of the ax,
and a ingle man has been known to get
out thirty-five ties in a day, yet the
nverage is only ten, while an expert
other once in 10,500 years, and the sun |
remains eight days longer in one hemi. |
sphere than in the other. At the present |
time the winters of the southern pole are |
eight days longer than with us; the foe |
continent has consequently formed |
there, and the mass of ocean isto be |
found in the southern bemisphere, and |
the ice covers the space upon and around |
the south pole more than twice the area |
of all Europe. The extreme of cold at |
600 years ago, since which time the oli- |
mate has been becoming milder, while |
that north of the equator has been grow. |
ing colder.
Almost any man cun stand adversity |
but it takes a strong mind to grapple |
with sudden prosperity. An instance of |
that comes from Washington. Augus- |
jail, sleeping off the effects of a big |
spree, He was a man of rare ability, |
and invented many useful things. One |
it. But Ambler had no money, and he |
took in company a couple of St. Louis |
men, and they in turn took him in. |
They patented the invention in their |
own names and let Ambler ambile out in |
the cola. He sued them and for years |
the suit went on. Resolutely for years |
the determined man fought the wealthy |
swindiers from one oourt to another. |
ishment, he won the case, being aw. .ded
1.375 shares in the company and $677.
434 in cash. The success turned his
head, and he went on a prolonged sprite. |
He was sent to jail lor twenty days.
There is a British goat society, and
from the report of a meeting of the as.
sociation which was. held recently, we
fearn that the Earl of Rossiyn is presi.
dent, the Baroness Burdeti-Coutts is a
patroness and the Duke of Westminster
and tne Earl of Shaftsbury are vice
object of the society is to direct attention
importance of the goat as a source
of milk supply, In Ireland the goat is
regarded as the poor man's cow, and one
during the greater part of the year. The
expense for keep would be almost nomi.
nal, for the goat ate every kind of herb
or vegetable. The flesh of the kid is de
glared also to be very delicious eating,
and the society resolved to give a kid
dinner in the Agricultural hail during
the dairy show in October. The goat
bids fair to become a popular and useful
animal,
Life in a German Schloss,
The routine of life was quiet, even
monotonous, but to an American woman,
fresh from the * fitful fever” of Ameri
can housekeeping, sweet and restful.
The servants were numerous and well
trained, and performed their duties with
little noise, and at the right time and in
the right manner, It must be said in
passing that it took ten men and women
to do the work which half that number
would be required to perform in an
American household. Then, on the
other hand, it must be stated that they
have nct half our conveniences. Their
utensils are primitive and cumbrous,
and they have much to “fetch and
carry;” but, looking at results, one can
only indulge in an envious and useless
sigh. The absence of those pests of
American housekeeping, the weekly
washing and ironing days, is one reason
why the German servants are able to go
about their work with so much more
regularity and thoroughness. In Ger-
many the family wash is done no oftener
than once a month—in many places not
oftener than once in three or six months
~gand then is done by extra help hired
for the occasion. On Monday of the
week devoted to this work, according
to my observations, the women came
and began preparations. The clothes,
eto., were sorted under the supervisien
of the Indy's maid or housekeeper; the
wood laid ready for lighting under th
great boiler in the wash-house, and
every tub, hogshead, ete., filled with
water. The water was pumped labori-
ously, and brought from some distance
in cumbrous buckets. The carriers wore
upon their shoulders for this purpose
heavy wooden yokes, like ox-yokes,
with a chain and hook at each end, to
which the full buckets were attached,
The next morning at three o'clock they
were at work, busy as bees, and out
chattering the swallows in the ivy
w hich grew about the wash-house eaves,
Washboards, those instruments of de-
struction, were unknown, all rubbing be-
ing done between their horny knuckles.
I'he ironing is done in Germany by
means of a mangle, where possible, and
the clothes are beautifully smooth and
clean.
The whole atmosphere of the place
was peaceful and drowsy. Pigeons
cooed, swallows twittered, from morn
until night. These and the musical
baying of the hounds, the lowing of dis-
tant cattle, and the muflled of wagons
upon the chaussee, were the sounds to
which the ear became attuned. The
cceasional shriek of a locomotive was
the cnly reminder of a world outside
this sleepy hollow of a place —Atlantic
Monthly.
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Mark Twain, lecturing on the Sand-
wich islands, offered to show how the
cannibals ate their food if any lady
would lend him a baby, The Jeeta
over the front fence in the evening.
will probably get out twenty.
was not illustrated — New York News.
“Old Probabilities.”
As “Old Probabilities," General Myer
was well known throughout the eoun-
try.
ployed near.y all over the world, By
means of this system warning of ap-
proaching storms is sent by telegraph to
the regions that are to be traversed,
long before the violence of the storm is
felt, There is probably no class who
will so deeply regret the death of “Old
Probabilities” as those who follow the
gen, and it would be hard to find a
sailor, either in the eabin or the fore.
castle, who is not familiar with the
square flags, the burgees, and the lan-
terns of the signal bureau. A scene that
is frequently enacted down the bay fairly
illustrates the resp ct with which mas.
ters of ships regarded * Old Probabili-
ties'” danger signals. When the square
red flag with a black square in the cen.
ter is hoisted over the signal bureau
ships bound out are run in under the
lee of the Horseshoe, and the masters of
vessels which have just hauled out into
overhaul their ground tackle and clear
away their bower anchors. To such
efficiency had Genera! Myer brought his
bureau that last year the probabilities
fully verified amounted to seventy per
oont, ; while those that were verified in
part amounted to twenty per oent., and
those that failed were nL ten per cent,
The last Congress gave General Myer
what he had long desired, a full briga.
dier-general’s commission,
The causes which are said to have led
to the organization of a weather bureau
here are interesting. In November,
18564, while the Anglo- french fleet was
operating in the Biack sea inst Se.
bastopol, the tidings were flashed along
the wires that a mighty tempest had
arisen on the western const of France,
and was on its way eastward. The dis.
patel was sent from Paris by the French
minister of war, and it reached the
allied fleet in time to enable the ships to
put to sea before the eyelone had trav.
eled over the intervening 500 le
afterward wrote: * It appears that b
the aid of the electric telegraph an
barometric observations, we may be
apprised several hours or several days
in advance of great atmospheric dis.
turbances happening at the distunoe of
1,000 or 1,500 leagues.”
Black sea storm there appeared in an
American paper a formal proposal for
toe establishment of a system of daily
transmission of storm warnings to the
General Myer established nu series of
signal stations, extending from the
Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, and
thence northward and eastward, both
inland snd on the const, taking in the
great lakes and the highest mountain
peaks. At each station he placed onre.
ful observers whom he had himself se.
lected, These persons were regularly
enlisted in the army as sergeants, and
the code which he selected for their
guidance has proved thus far a bar to
carelessness and incompetency.— New
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Sheridan’s War Horse,
The New York Star, in an article de.
soribing t¥ duriosities in the army
museum on Governor's Island, says:
Leaving the museam and walking a
short distance to the south end of the
office of the ordnance department, the
visitor is shown General Sheridan's
famous war horse, Winchester. Sheri.
dan himself subscribes to the follow-
ing:
* Winchester was of Black Hawk
blood, and was foaled at or near Grand
Rapids, Mich,, Iate in the full of 1858,
according to the best of my information.
He was brought into the service by an
officer of the Second Michigan cavalry,
to which regiment I was appointed
colonel on the twenty-fifth day of May,
1863. Shortly afterward, and while
the regiment was stationed in the little
town of Rienzi, in the State of Missis.
sippl. he was presented to me by Cap-
tain Campbell in the name of the officers
of the regiment, and from thar date to
the close of the war he was ridden b
me in nearly every engagement in whic
I took part. At the time he was given
to me hie was Fising Harte years oid, so
that he must have been in his twentieth
vear when he died, on October 2, IRR,
He was an animal of great intelligence
and of immense strength and endurance.
He always held his had high. and by
the quickness of his movements gave
many persons the idea that he was ex-
ceedingly impetuous. This was not so,
for I could at any time control him by
a firm hand and a few words, and he
was a8 cool and quiet under fire as my
old soldiers. 1 doubt if his superior as
a horse for field service was ever ridden
by any one.”
The horse is fifteen and a half hands
high. The coat is quite dark, but now
somewhat faded, with white fetiocks.
He was wounded twice, once on the left
side of the neck by a bullet, and again
by a fragment of sheli near the left
flank, which he received at Mission
Ridge. The bullet wound was received
at Opcquan Creek. General Sheridan
Jook at his old chaiger. One could see
that there was much affection there. He
atted the animal on the neck as he
requently did when the horse was alive,
and looking up at his blank and expres.
sionless eyes, said : ** Poor oid fellow, 1
could always depend upon you in a
pinch.”
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An Armless Bigamist,
A London letter to Harper's Basar
tells these stories:
goose so gray.” says the poet, “but
der for her mate,” and the same thing,
it seems, may be sa'd of the gander.
man without arms was brought before
the magistrate last week for bigamy;
mitted, but the father of the first wife
testified that she put the ring on her
knuckles and that the bride m
“shoved it on with his teeth.” ** That,”
observed the Junge. “is not according
to the rubric.” The bigamist, however,
was acquitted on other grounds, the
first wile having deserted him for seven
years.
Even this does not equal the once
famous case of Miss Biffin, who found a
husband albeit she had neither arms
nor legs. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to
add that she had property. Indeed,
she moved—or rather was carried about
-~in good society, There is a story of
her being left by accident in the assem-
blv rooms at Cheltenham after a bail.
When the lights were all put out she
began to scream, and the night porter
came up to know what was the matter
“ I have been left behind and forgot-
ten,” she cried. * It is most shameful.’*
** Then step this way, ma'am.”
“1 can't; I've got no legs.”
This frightened the man, for he had
never heard of Miss Biffin, and of her
fondness, like Dickens’ dwart, for *‘ go-
ing into society.” However, he mus.
tered courage and approached her
with: * Put out your hand, ma'am."
* 1 have got neither hands nor arms,”
was the sstounding reply, at which he
fled, exclaiming, very iilogieally, * that
she must be the evil one.”
Captain Carter and Mr. Cadenhead
have been murdered by King Mer-
cambo, in whose African domain they
were exploring. They had been sent
out by the Belgian branch of the Inter
national Society for the Exploration of
Africa The leading object of the ex-
pedition was not so much geographical
discovery as the establishment of cen-
ters of civilizing influence and com-
merce at various points of the interior,
| “ERACE CHURCH BROWN”
The Story of the Carpenter whe Beoame
& Leading sexton and an Engineer of
New York Fashion,
{ A New York paper has this sketoh of
the late “Grace Church Brown.” the
inoted New York sexton: Mr. Brown
| was born in this city, in Duane street,
| near Chatham, in 1818, After attaining
| 8 common school education he was ap-
| prenticed to a carpenter, and worked at
| that trade until 1836, when Grace church
| was completed, He received the ap-
| Rointment of sexton under Rev, Dr.
{ Thomas H. Taylor, the predecessor of
| the present year was seldom absent from
| morning service in the church. * *
| Many humorous anecdotes are told of
| Mr. Brown, in connection with his busi-
| ness, On one oconsion he was in charge
| of a reception to Baron Rothschild, dur-
| ing the visit of the latter to this eoun-
| try. The affair took place in Eighteenth
| street. Mr. Brown also had of
| another reception on the same night,
| immediately opposite the house where
| the baron was being entertained. The
| Inter desired to attend the second re-
| ception, but when he reached the curb.
| stone there was no carriages to be had,
| Mr. Brown took the nobleman on his
back and carried him in safety across
| the muddy street. The late Peter Btuy-
| vesant was an attendant atGrace ch s
and had a thermometer banging imme.
| diately over his pew. One ne morn-
| ing Mr, Stuyvesant arrived at the church
porch. The heater did not work prop
erly, and the old gentleman shivered
i with cold. Mr. Brogrm knew that Mr.
| Stuyvesant wowid consult the ther-
| mometer as soon as he reached his pew,
| and, unobserved, cunningly put his fin.
| ger on the bulb of the thermometer and
[sent the mercury up to about ninety.
| When Mr. Stuyvesant reached his pew
| he looked at the thermometer, and con.
{eluding the church must be warm
| enough, sat down without making any
| remarks.
| Mr. Brown's portly figure and slow
{ and solemn pomposity of step have far.
| nished the theme of more satirical dog-
i gerel probably than ever fell to the lot
| of mortal man before. One of the clev-
| erest of these squibs, by William Allen
{ Butler in bis witty * Nothing to Wear"
| style, recalls the thermometer incident
with laughable truth to nature.
In certain circles Mr, Brown's word
| a8 to what was en regle in the conduct
of a wedding or an entertainment was
| about as absolute as that of Worth in
| reatters of costume,
| In the period when so many large for-
tunes were made suddenly there were
| hosts of new people who wished to get
{into society of some sort or other, and
for the fashionable erush invented about
‘this period Mr. Brown, probably more
than any other man, was respoasible.
| His office was besieged by fahionably
, dressed women with whom to get Mr,
| Brown to manage an affair was to be
‘sure of a “crush,” done in the latest
style, Tomeet the emer , the .
lar sexton effected the zation of a
| corps of handsome young fellows, clerks
in wholesale houses—sometimes styled
| “Brown's Brigade,” and sometimes
| “Brown's Five Hundred.” They were
bound to dress fashionably. Good dano-
ing was a necessity, and there were cer.
tain rules that had to be observed. They
| were not; for instance, to presume upon
(an acquaintance formed at a party to
| wich the invitation had come through
Mr. Brown, and must not lift their hats
to indies on the street merely because
i they had waltsed or flirted with them a
{little the evening before. The arrange.
iment was perfectly understood, and
| when Brown could be induced to under.
| take the affair the lady was sure of an
(array of handsome young fellows that
‘wouid make her “crush” the envy of
| her pext neighbor, But abuses finally
| crept in, undesirable acquaintances were
| formed, and the brigade was disbanded.
| Of course the members of the brigade
‘were never by any sccident suingglen
| into the drawing-rooms of the old i
| lies. For the new people Mr. Brown
would not undertake an affair save on
| his own conditions, and no man could
snub a suppliant in velvet more gor-
| geously than he,
| But he never snubbed blood; his
| reverence for ** family " was unbounded.
{It was a boast of his in his old days
{that no plebian could deceive him on
{that score. It was someth to see
| him, years sgo, encounter a Livingston,
| for instance, and mark the courtly grace
{with which he bowed almost to the
| earth, and to hear the respectful saluta-
| tion, uttered in a tone so elevated that
| every bystander distinctly caught the
‘name. He was discreet, too, in an-
nouncing the names of arrivals at a
| party or reception, snd while distin.
| guished guests were sure to be trumpeted
{in tones that couid be heard to the
i farthest corner of the drawing-room,
| the obsoprities were allowed to slip in
| without undue publicity. At one time,
| before fashion dese the district
south of Union square, the sexton of
{Grace church was reputed to have
{amassed a large fortune; and it is cer-
‘tain that in those early times he was
i often paid fabulops prices to manage an
{entertainment. Mr. Brown's list of
| funerals was scarcely smaller than his
wedding list, and many curious anec-
| dotes are told of his mingled shrewdness
and solemnity. He had a set formula
| of sympathy, in which the social stand-
| ing. splendid physique and many virtues
| of the deceased were enumerated. While
he took the measurement he now and
then, in undertone, suggested double-
plated trimmings, extra diamond
screws, eto. —as though he regretted
extremely to descend to these trivial
| details, Thus mingling his eulogy with
practical suggestions in parenthesis, he
took his orders without appearing to
come down to prose atall. He was the
very ideal of a master of ceremonies at
‘a funeral, with his ample dress-coat,
| solemn breadth and heaviness of coun-
| tenance, and slow and measured move-
ment,
Me! Beecher on Elocuntion,
I had from eliildhoon 8 Shickiess of
speegh arising from a large palate, so
that when a boy I used to be laughed at
for talking as if I had pudding in m
mouth. hen I went to Amberst,
was fortunate in passing into the hands
of John Lovell, a teacher of elocution
and a better teacher for my purpose
cannot conceive. His system consisted
in drill, or the thorough practice in-
flexions by the voioe, of gesture, posture
and articulation. Sometimes 1 was a
{ whole hour practicing my voice on a
ts 1 Yond have Ww
take a posture, frequently at a mar
chalked po the iy Then we would
go through all the gestures; exercising
each movement of the arm and throw-
ing open the hand. All gestures except
those of precision go in curves, the arm
rising from the side, coming to the front,
turning to the left or right. was
drilled as to how far the arm should
ceme forwerd, where it should start
from, how far go back and under what
circumstances these movements should
be made. [twas drill, drill, drill, until
the motions almost became a second na-
ture. Now, I never know what move-
ments I shall make, My gestures are
natural because this drill made them
natural to me. The only method of ac-
quiring effective elooution is by prac-
tice, of not Jess than an hour a day,
until the student has bis voice and him-
selt thoroughly subdued and trained to
right expression. —Christian Union.
err ARO
It is calonlated that the 10,000,000
barrels of beer reported by the brewers’
congress as having been gold last year
would have filled 8 canal five feet deep
and twenty-one feet wide, Oxtending
from New York to Philadelphia, and
that it would take a pump throwing
thirty gallons a minute twenty-one
years to pump it dry.
in vain,
Happy Hollow feiloff a C., B.
& avy Holl bot falloff & Cul:
, and knocked a pebble out of
iis eur that had destiojel his
three Jens ago. And b
acral le to his feet he heard Mr. Pum
p a
A Jlforaon wrees serchant
dentally d s nine-year-old cen-
tury plant, pot and all, out of s second
sory window, the projectile
her husband in the back, the shock dis-
lodging from his windpipe an obstrue.
tion that had kept him coughing every
night for a week.
A tramp from [llinoisslipped through
an open grating in the dark, fell through
into the sewer and lit smack on a
silverwatch and a t ollar hill. The
watch will stana repairing at Watson's,
as usual, but the tw bill is in-
tact, wherever it is.
An Eighth street man suddenly
thirew out arm as he tossed in rest.
jess slumber about m
profane vociferations
frightened away two
just on their way up the
leaving on the stairs in
and hasty flight thirty-nine dollars
worth of solid silver, two silk dresses
and a neck chain they had stolen in
some other house.—Burlinglon Hawk-
abn Qi] if lec fd
08, W a
fected it. This is the only trial of the
process in Connecticut, and, with
tingle exception, the only one in New
an one-horse power engine
used th which somewhat
¥
sme, Thi SL
w capable of ty-
five tons of this feed. The rein
sixty pounds of steam ean cut up four
tons an hour, or half fill the vault in a
day. When the vault is filled and closely
packed down thirty tons of stone are
pinced on 2p. It
* fodder” Hiveep glotn and retain its
fweetness so ong 18 it is kept covered,
thus making it one of the best as well
as the ch kinds of feeds obtain-
able for cattle the year round. 1t is not
Be
be soid as
could not be, as after twenty-four
hours’ exposure fermentation would set
in, which of course would ruin it. It
can of course be taken out onlya little
atl a time as it is needed for use. The
process is called the “ ensilage ” system.
- New Haven (Conn.) Palladium.
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A Califoreia Squirrel.
Five Ilisn woodchoppers who are
in the employ of L. B. Rathbun, a farm-
er of San Juan, California, recently set
their wits to work to protect a
field from the depredations of an army
of ground squirreis. They found the
holes in which the squirrels burrowed
and drove a solid stake close ww the
mouth of each pole. They then took a
piece of small-sized wire snd fastened
one securely to each stake and made a
they placed in the mouth of each hole.
The ee it was that When a gqujerel at
tem to emerge m his
place he wouid run his head drat
into the noose, and that was the last
him. As many as eighteen of the vex.
a'jous animals were caught in this
manner one day. The trappers, how-
ever, discovered one old chap who
bailied their inge ult and :
e of ensnaring him they r
Pol their nooses and p
the hole occupied by the wary animal,
thinking that if he passed th one
the hole occupied by the wary animal,
thinking that if he passed through one
or two of them he would be caught by
the third one. Judge of their astonish.
ment on finding securely fastened within
two of ihe nooses, instead of a squirrel,
an in sense rat e, wearing on his
netier end sixteen rattles. The
was fastened tightly by two of the
nooses, and was soon dispatched by the
trappers.
Rest and Repair,
It may be sufely assumed that those
have been mistaken who supposed that
physiological rest consisted in inaction
and that repair goes on during quies-
cence. Nutrition—and therefore repair
- is the concomitant of exercise. Ap!
tite is one thing, the power of
food another. A man may feel ravenous,
and consume large quantities of mate.
rial containing the elements of nutri-
ment, but be unable to priate the
supply furnished, or, in other words, to
nou himself. It is so with rest.
Mere inaction may be secured without
rest, and idleness without the restora-
tion of energy. The faculty of rec)
and recuperation after exercise is in di.
rect proportion to the vitality of the
organ rested. Tis faculty is sot to be
ed into action by i vity. It fol-
lows that relief and recovery from the
effects of what is improperly called
“overwork " eatiot be : b sim
piy going away for change. or by indul-
gence in idleness. A new form of exer-
cise is necessary, and the mode of action
chosen must be one that supplies
urate exercise to the yery part of
system which is ui to rest
restore, th seekers often err in
trying to recover their powers by sim
diversion of energy. Iv is a
error to suppose that when the PoP
overworked the muscular system should
be exercised by way of counteraction.
The part itself must be worked so as to
stimulate the faculty of nutrition; but
it should be set to fresh work, which
will incite the same powers to act in a |
new direction.— Lancet. :
®
It is
safer 0 3 time by the forelo
to take a mule by I .
Bentinel,
An Arkansas man was offered 8 plate te
oh piay off any
} i S0up, L 3 41 "
bited Sha ae on him. " ie
in ike
Til ei EE
Sour " of the family. ie
mated "nt 7000.00
double that of 1878.
was only 14.000 000,
We
and we
fanits,
in like manner.
: and all the chambers
revolvers were emptied in the darkness
Two of the combatants were dead whe
relighted,
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vat you,” asked Mr. Vanderbilt,
“a preference, a affectior , for
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as 100,000 + he wouldn't selk
I never think of it without a real Thi
“ Ah!" said Mn Vanderbilt. he
few days after Meissonier was to
dine with Me Venderbilty He onured
saloon, His Dresden the
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