Wedded Bliss, God bless the wives | Who ill our lives With little bees and honey ! They cane life's shooks, They mand our sooks, But-~don’t they spend the money ? When we are sick They heal ns quick That Ix, if they } f not, we die, And vet they ery, ve us; Aud raise tombstones above tis, A Sermon in Rhyme, If you have a friend worth loving, Yos, and let him know That you love him, ere li Love him fo's ovoning Tinge his brow with sunset glow, Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend--4ill hoe is dead Sang by Praise it, Wait deserve Why should one who thri th hi IY WX Lack y JOF YOU Ay imps If you hear ¢ By its In it. Do not lot dow before his God alone, Why should not your trot The strength of © NO or Uae If you From a brother's wi soe the hot tears filling VON, Share them. div shariag Own vour kinshiy Wi W ¥ ROBO R0Y Ol «1 pever would conviei a man on cir- cumstantial evidence if I were a juror never! never!” The speaker was a dist inal lawyer of nearly forty years’ practice, and whose fame extended far bevond the limits of his own State. We had been di in which, upon purely ecircun inguished erim- active sonssing a recent cams cnled mar 1 stantial evidence, a man had been con victed of an atrocions murder, although many of those most familiar with the cir cumstances of the case entertained the gravest doubts about the justice of his conviction: and he had been swung of into eternity protesting his absolute in- nocence with his latest breath, and eall- * ¢- ing upon God to send his soul straigh way to perdition if he were not telling the truth. As most of onr party were lawyers | the conversation naturally enough drift- ed into a discussion of the dangers aris- ing from convicting accused persons, whose own months were closed, upon purely circumstantial evidence, in th absence of any direct and positive proof of guilt, and case after case was cited in which, after conviction and execution, once of the supposed cul- been clearly demonstrated, e laymen present agreed wit the distinguished lawyer, whose very positive expression of opinion has been quoted, while the majority of the law- vers contended, with that earnestness for which lawyers are noted when advocat- ing their own side of any question, that justice could rever miscarry wheh care- ful judges guard against the possibility of unsafe verdicts by refusing to permi pt when every link in a conviction exce al evidence has nd the the chain of cireumstanti been established beyond doubt, th whole chain been so perfect and com- plete as to leave no room for any con- sistent hypothesis of innocence. “The first murder case I ever tried,” said one of them, *“‘was siranger than fiction, as vou will admit, and 1s quite as remarkable as any of the cases you have referred to where innocent men have been wronginlly convicted on ecir- cumstantial evidence. It ought to have been reported as an example of the unreliability of the direct and pos- itive testimony of eye witnesses who tell what they believe to be the truth.” | He then related the main points of what was certainly a most remarkable and dramatic trial, and which consti- tutes a fair offset to some of the mem- orable cases to be found in every work n circumstantial gvidence. The nar- rative produced so strong an impression upon my mind that subsequently, with his consent, I put it into the following shape, having first carefully compared it with his notes of testimony takea upon the trial of the case. It can be relied npon as absolutely correct, with the exception that I have used fictitions names, for reasons which will readily be appreciated when it is known that most of the actors in the drama are still living. One?! winter evening, abont 8 o'clock, in the early davs of the war, in the quiet little town of ——, while patroling the streets to pict up strag- glers from the camp on the ountskiris of the town, Corporal Julius Fry was shot and killed by one of three men of bad character, who were in company and upon terms of open enmity with the soldiers, The men were arrested, com- mitted to prison and brought to trial at the next term of the court. Two of them were gamblers and desperadoes, and supposed to have more than once had their hands stained with human blood. The third, whom I shall eail Short, though beaming an unenviable reputation, was regarded as one unlikely to slay a fellow-man, except under eom- pulsion of circumstances. On acconnt of the character of the men and the | trouble they had already brought upon | quiet, law-abiding citizens, the senti- ment of the whole community was strongly against them. In order to clearly understand the | force of the testimony given upon the | trial and the subsequent result it is im- | portant to bear in mind the physical pe- | culiarities, dress and general appear-| ance of each of the three prisoners. | Short was a small man of not more than five feet six inches in height, slen- | der, weighing scarcely one hundred and | thirty pounds, with bright, fiery red | hair and side-whiskers, and at the time | of the murder wore a white felt hat and an old light blue army overcoat. Ryan was fuily six feet in he jplt | robust frame, with black hair anfl mus- | tache, dressed in dark clothes, and wore | a black Derby hat, | Grey was a heavy, broad-shouldered | man of medium height, weighing fully | two hundred pounds, with a full, black | beard reaching nearly to his waist But | as the evidence subsequently showed | that he had not fired the shot, it is un- | e a ft ail he entire inne prits Most of t i more minutely. Certainly it is difficult to imagine two men more unlike than Short and Ryan, or less 1'able to be mistaken for no possibility here for a case of mis- taken identity. Short and Ryan were tried together with their consent—Grey having asked for and obtained a separate trial—and VOLUME X1V. [cditor and a “) “ry 1881. in Advance. NUMBER 21. {0 the pos cause of death and the body of the d 3 wie Sooasod as it i the indi dicly named wealth called as woman, Mary Bowen reputation, but 3 purpose to tell, reluctantly i The prisoners Wert nobody ques tha hala tyuth LAO Wie 1 1} EE all her fi HOrsS 10 Li Was 1 Unio y 1 his squad. ?} ¢ oral call had known plied, t her si arp ih $ ah ini WORCHIng, rned wot ed. While 1 she saw Ix th ng at the corn her, and after she went home. is alley was by high fences lown to a wide and y traces of footsteps were { of eam stream { three th ' Lose Od sir RE Was the soldier ‘ x . a deceased when th ' 3 Ard wie, nd stood close by th . Ya + irst shot was fired 8] i > xy thar ¢ ing aather ol + ' t + t tha ho had he alley as the man : : 3 dressed and whit 1 3 directe he person w fired and ra with 3 aire 1 - Side WillsKers, army overcoat being ree prisoners 1 © Snort as the shootin the be heard. monwealth at t seemed as audible through court-room, for he was safe; not one word of testimony a or any any previous arrangement im and Short. After a whisy tation be tween the counsel for the def of them rose and moved the court to direct the jury to forthwith return a verdict of “ not guilty ” as to Ryan, in order that he might be called as a wit- ness for the other prisoner. was resisted by the district attorney, and after lengthy and elaborate arguments the court decided that it was bound grant the motion, i, accord Ryan was declared the verdict recorded. Then came a those present as anything ever nessed the stage. Without opening spe« ch by Short's counsel, Ryan, in obedience to a nod from attorney, stepped out of the prisoners’ dock and into the witness-box, looked around the court-room, took np the 3ible and was sworn to tell “ the truth, the truth and nothi but truth.” Every head was | orward, every ear was on the alert, eve fixed on the witness—something ling was expected. Would he to show that Short had done the shoot ing in self-defense? That seemed the only thing possible. Dut how could he be believed in the face of the positive stimon witness of one was . ‘ “ nwwsetanss tan circumstance tending or Conc h ii 3 rel qpered consul y, One Chis £ 3 } scene as drama on -} 3 whole the ir > TY ove wi 4 HLATH attempt ! t h of toes 1y of three 8, two them liviog and in the court-room, of them dead-—murdered? Ryan stood for a moment looking down, and then slowly lifting | to the bench, in a silence in which the falling of a feather might have been heard, he said: “ May I ask the court a question ?" The venerable judge, evidently sur- prised at being iuterrogated, looked at him and said: “ Certainly, sir.” “ I understand that I am acquitted,” said Ryan, pausing for a moment and then continuing: “I want to know from the court whether anything I may say now can ever be used against me in any way?” What did he mean? What need for Every one looked at his neighbor inquiringly. The flushed face of the judge showed that he, at least, understood what it meant—an attempt to swear his guilty i134 €YeSs Then, in a tone of unmistakable indig- pation, came the answer: “1 am sorry to say, sir, that nothing you may say now can be used against you; that is, on a trial for murder. Yon have been acquitted.” Ryan’s face grew pale and then red, and he said, slowly and disfinetly: “Tt was 1 who fired all the shots— not Short.” Most of the faces in the court-room wore looks of incredulity; some of in- of the man who had just been declared | innocent, and who, by his own state- | ment, had been guilty of murder, if he | wad not guilty of perjury. But quietly and calmly, without a | tremor, as coolly as though he were de- | scribing some trivial oceurrence which { he had casually witnessed, Ryan went | on, step by step, detailing all that had occurred, and when he had finished his present who was not fully | it Ryan had i tt o that he h it als self-defense, o t 1 { SOIl-U@IOse, Of Bt IX amstances of danger as t cant y 10 acquit iled how he had fired the BUY JUL y pu give his challenger a scare, the alley, and the deceased t Yi y Fall Ow upon r drawn and raised to = he was compelled to pull out a revolver l s toward his purs r closely pursued by Fog CARL, 3 3 nil ¢ sat wile 110% io y ded over a large stone at this 3 Ai 2% Rais i Ty 3 Mok at slightly hus pre ssl, he t { last shot, whieh furth and fired the shot uently proved fatal. He Ol Yecoveriug 5 witnesses of alled wm of | . fit COOGIION Of i 3 who cor 118 cheek within late day. cen —— Florida's Everglades, Blox { Florids 8 «1 for gral davs, al 1 5 . 08m, ( attention State. i of § 1ntereste . » met a / : uestione que tHe reporier, Everglades » of Flos every tropical Large portions ery well adapted Cane ETOWS n his part I'his t only a good deal of labo ! expensd for the seed. sugar-caue-growing land which will be reclaimed by the drainage of iv | be of this description.” sstion of the feasibility n ald 341 : mstrated the cf the drainage of a large portion country around Lake Okeechobee, vari ously estimated at from seven to twelve of This land will ¥ On the Upper Caloosa hatehiee are some of the most productive lands in the State, and these will be re claimed by the Philadelphia company.” “* How do the people of the State re- have fully dem millions acres, be ery valuable. gard the enterprise 7’ “ Most favorably. on and We want emigra- capital, come from whatever t may. We give the Northern uts a hearty welcome and look to the capital of the North for ‘elopment of the State. The Phil- the Everglades have reat energy and plack, and 1 v confidence that they will put ane through to the great benefit State and to their own profit.” | there be any question about the title of the Philadelphia company to their portion of the reclaimed lands “None whatever. This land was given age and reclamation by the United States, and the board of trustees of what is known as the International Improve- ment fand, have absolute and undis- puted right to make the contract which has been made with the Philadelphia company. Under that contract the company receives one-half of all the land reclaimed, and there ean be possible question raised as to the title.” Philadelphia Press, —————— Deeds of Peculiar Atrocity, There occurred on Saturday Sunday nights, says a recent is the New York Evening Post, two epi sodes so peculiarly shocking that the heart almost stands still in the ence of their atrocity and horror, Pat- rick Quinlan, an umbrella maker, shot and 8] arm with a revolver, die, and thus to atone for her offense against her son, which was that of re fusing to give him money with which to buy drink. A similar, if less fright. ful, erime was that of Rosa Smith, who on Saturday night broke her mother's leg with a chair because she interfered Sy assaulting her father. We Lave unhap- pily seen of late years too many proofs of a weakening sense of the obligation to Lonor their fathers and mothers, or, indeed, anybody or anything else on the part of the younger members of the community, and that, it may be added, in no one social grade. But that such | impiety should go the length of the in- | fliction of grievous bodily hurt, and, yet further, to assassination, seems al- most incredible. One cannot well read of sueh things without wishing to fol- | low the familiar precedent of old Rome. | This was furnished at a time when no punishment was set down in the stat utes for the erime of parricide. Such a crime was deemed impossible, Bud | when at last a misereant appeared who | was capable of committing it, he was | forthwith sewn up in a sack and pitched Claver aud Hye for Hogs, In my experience, says a writer, I have found nothing so y pasture as clover an profitable vo preferable, fon use rye profitable should be spring rye { pastuaring sO WI will be when ripe ally grow among grat until t ith the weads t What siege Trees to Bay, IrCiiasers trees : hx} of 8 ipposing taal the large t the greater ti i en Waren Weeds. y WAP Onl weds b 1s tt i ti ith t Roop IL up without ever thor roots, mowing them od Smolen dest rove d which y above gr ted to nu will die t ting wads as succun The Canada t yoke le v + § nickly che i months in Bn wh # al PIE y field crop Celery. Celery needs rich, friable and much moi It 1s tient of any The 1 ment will not restore plants that stunted to a condit free, tender growth until much has been | I 1 Culture of ’ O bi n once ion of time probably t first, ost, and the sesson passed. tf Erows very slowly i and does not endure transplanting well when large. So, as it must have the whole season in order to growing best when the rather cool and humid i to sow the seed in sl) in large air i it 18 customary a small bed or frame in May, to set the plants out, four inches apart, as soon as they can be | handled, and then lifting them to thei | final rows, where they must be much further apart, in ground that has been well manured for some such early crop as potatoes, onions or peas. The hot weather which ripens these also stops { the growth of the celery. During this partial rest—in July--the celery plants { can be lifted each with a good ball, or else carried with the roots it water or otherwise moist ; and then, if set neatly and rapidly, and watered freely, they will grow on withont drooping, and the barbarons practice of covering them completely dark with boards not be resorted to. If there are slugs is | the soil, set bran to attract them to | their death, or keep the surface rough and dusty, impassable to them by fre | quent strewing of sifted dry coal ashes or charred rubbish. , In growing the large sorts there is | much advantage in getting them in com- pact rows-—generally a double row, | plants six inches apart—in the bottom of n narrow trench. Here they have cooler and moister air through A 8120 ~ 1 iy i need Angast, and when the stems are large enough to be earthed up in order to blanch them it is done with less earth and labor, But the soil must be deep and rich, for it is absolutely necessary that the roots have | prime soil to extend into. Fine friable soil or sifted ashes is necessary for the earthing up. It must only surround the stoms, and not come in the wav of the | new leaves shooting up out of the con- | tral plumule, Little rings of tin, of | two or three inches diameter for me dinm sized sorts, are convenient to hold | tho stems erect ; for they naturally in | cline to spread, and are apt to break if | bent much, The rings guide them up- | ward, and are easily slipped higher when earthing, saving time and frouble. { The earthing should be deferred until a | good growth has been made, yet it | must be done while there is yet two or | three weeks of September or October | growth, as neither thy leaves nor the | stems whiten merely by being kept in { the dark—warm and growth are requi- {site for it, Celery stored in a dark at 0 low i cellar wbove freezing) | (just will come out with the leaves of as fine a green changed. in adde d before all versed come out with of HAY coval preci th eI order ¢h th Hn plant tou WY Wanls much { cannot —————— Naming Her Baby, City tra ] t with a bal y © 10) ir you want to Jefferson “1'11 do i woman. “That's business, Here and named Jef me kiss him promptly replied the tae orson Len ie W } L1InOs, The baby was ratulated, and a ) [ train with his mother tickled half to d LOY cami eath over the matter, until the condne along and asked: “Did you pay her anyghing to nam that baby after you *” “Yes-—twenty dollars, per, and don't you forget 1t. “ And so is his mother. She's down in the Detroit House of Correctaon, and the woman who had Lim takes care of him for two dollars a week |” “N-.o-al!” “ Fact." The old man's mained fixed on the ute, and then he fell with the exclamation “Chaw me! Everybody has called me a fool for the past twenty years, and now I know they were right, conductor!” “Yes.” “ Please mop the floor with me and break my neck, and step on me a thon sand times, and then throw the mangled wreck into some swamp, for I won't be 1} {roid He's a clip " fell, his eves re coiling for a min- back in his jaw seat no more good in this world I” Fro P FERS. A Dead City, Ww. H. Howells, in one of his books of travel, speaking of the dilapidated walls and towers of an ancient city, ae scribes them as ‘““mere phonographbic consonants dumbly reprosenting the past, ont of which all vocal glory has departed.” The rapid changes of habi tation in parts of our own country leave silent examples to justify that striking figure quite as well. Out in the White Pine district, Ne vada, stands the city of Hamilton, In 1869 were 40,000 inhabitants there, Now there aro less than 200 Great brick and stone blocks stand | tenantless, and rows of wooden build ings are vacant, | Every family has a whole block to itself, or can have it if it wants to. A Detroiter and his friend rode on horse- back through the deserted city, and all | the inhabitants turned out to see the sight of a live stranger. there —————————— The medical faculty of Vienna have | been studying a young man who wears | hia heart on his right side, his liver on his left, and in other respects has the | ganism completely reversed. He is Glimpse of Lishon, Wie this down the Tagus, the glittering panorama of the unf before foldin marble-like stone, A floated morning ouy i us. Its houses, bor hill-sides, forming a stately Of ¢reamny 1 the AS A to the water's edge. We puts hie r claim; whatever ranked first for beauty of be jueen not I situation, Lishon Can i second of the al mosphe re (ar RY classed no among all glob Its bathed all The tiled which, seen nearer, ork bedquilt the sunshine from i BE sl (in Iden glamour. 154 hung out AL X lazed surfaces Ii ) IADY gems; and themselves in KY 1 shrivel IMAL, ClHuiva utlined {lower ns CX un We 4 t Greek explorer i air { i Hq roils ts, while 4] i distant nieture He Qistant pieture, bon's stree AEETee 110 viel + Lhemselves nd alleys or ler alike at ower classes, Americans styles displaved "We and well-to-do. iio {UARYE, nd Gallegos nies dmped with a shawl, at the part) windows, where a against a dark ibrantesque Wy Fined Broadway of th Bq em sprouting up mn ickly-pears, Indi ks, and figs, an PEDDe IY CAPS) “BOI over the he fluted Everywhere it 1s {1 a adonnas glorve selves nt 8, and saint ti a she RAlNls nages in AB0D0L Were y 41s vi § advent th Nas, Ld the obscurity 's Mao in 1 in in $e, Exiles Live, jig arrival the prisoner Is driven the police ward, where he a police officer who is nd master of the district, of the g How Russian wernment y answer the following wold? Mar Addr “8 ds? An d in the promise is of him that he will not s of any kind, or try to teach that every letter he writes ‘ he will follow no occupation oemaking, carpentering or He is then told that he is he same time is solemnly wld h § t hii town eo ati mj t to pass 10 idl Ix dog rather than be allowed and shonld he be taken vgent off to Eastern Siberia ther formality than that of 's per sonnl or ier follow takes he sl » shot : his little he has ture and life he street, A wd emaciated, take him to of their miserable lodgings and feverishly demand news from home. The new comer gazes on them as one in a dream: some are melancholy mad, others usly irritable, and the re- evidently tried to find They live in commu nities of t d threes, have food, a scanty provision of clothes, money and books in common, and eonsider it their to he Ip each other in every without distinction of sex, rank « The noble by birth get sixteen shillings a month from govern. ment for their maintenance, and com- mi only Winter lasts eight months, a period during which the sur ng country presents Appear lifelogs, frozen communication world, means of In course of time almost every is attacked by nervous convulsions, followed by prolonged apathy and prostration. ‘They begin to quarrel, and even to hate ea sh other. o some 16 Nnervo solace in drink. WOs an 1 sacred duty emergency, Ww AEC. IOs ten, y ronndi aoe vice Of B noiseless, roads, no th the outer no wi O80 0, Ap 1 individual exile ome of them contrive to forge false passports, and by a miracle, as it were, make their escape; but the greater ma iority of these victims of the Third See tion either go mad, commit suicide or die of delirium {remens, on IRN His Assets, Here is a man who smiled at his pov. erty and wrote a list of his assets in jocular vein as follows: LL A. B, a wi mnly declare I have but little money to spare, I have 1 little house, 1 little wife, 2 little bovs, 2 little trade, 2 little land, and 2 little money to command, TIO Old Commodore * Ericsson in New engine, which is to drive a locomotive across the desert of Sahara by means of heat from the sun's rays focused on mirrors and directed upon a boiler. What, We Send Abroad, While Europe is pouring into these United States millions of gold and thousands of emigrants (during the first week of the present month 17,798 emi. grants landed at Castle Garden), this country is every year augmenting its ex- ports to the old world, One of recent shipments to Farope is wild game from the West. The trade has already se sumed considerable proportions. The principal points of shipment are Chicago and Bt, Louis. Last year's business in the former city is estimated at §1,500,. 000, and in the latter considerably over £1,000,000, The shipments consist chiefly | of quails, prairie chickens and wild vi. The birds, closely packed in barrels, are put in eharge of the stewards of the transatlantic steamers, Ordin- | arily the bulk of the shipments is deliv. | ered fresh and sound. Venison is also | shipped across the Atlantie, but till now | all quantities. The export trade | of wild game is yet in its infancy. Vari- | ous Chicago and Bt. Louis dealers confi. | dently prediet that before a great while : it will reach at least $10,000,000 per | annum, | There is no department of the world’s | larder which Brother Jonathan cannot | fill. The alarm among British farmers | about the sharp competition of Ameri. | can cereals, meat, butter, cheese, ete, their roducts in their own markets | mtinnes to form the groundwork for | numberless editorials in the English | papers It is not easy to see how the problem of high land rents and sue- | cessful competition with American food | roducts grown on land that pays no ent is to be worked out by the British Ml He must pay every vear 10 a | Arner andlord a larger sum per acre in the | orm of rent than the cost of a good un mproved lows farm. The American | armer is lightly taxed ard supports | nly his own family, The English | r pays heavy taxes and helps sup port in luxury the family of his land- | lord, The fipal triumph of the pro ducer in England is, it appears, to be | reached in the exportation of oranges | fre Florida. The Pall Mall Gazelle | states that a box of this fruit was sent | as an experiment from Jacksonville, and, although the voyage ovcupied three weeks, the oranges arrived in good lit London, and were pro- : be much finer in quality wee from Spain and Portugal, to pglish are accustomed. As i farmer cannot raise oranges if, he will probably welcome this importation without grumbling. | There is no reason why the transporta- tion could not be accomplished in much | { the trade | is farme 1 iid EEF less time than three weeks will warrant it, The exports of machinery and manu. | factured goods are steadily growing. Of late years locomotives have been | Russia, South Americaand Aus- | And now comes another custo. | Ihe Rogers locomotive works shipped last week nine locomotive en- gines and tenders to Spain for the Valle Valleneuva and Barcelona railway. The material was loaded into the steamer at pier No, 14, East river. America is making herself known in | Europe by the most powerful of mod- | ern influences, that of material interest, | The sovereign powers are compelled to recognize America as their equal. They would prefer to judge of it on a par | with Brazil, or Spain, or Australia, or! India; but imperious facts forbid.— | New York Telegram. i ———E——— ii sant 10 ralia, mer. a3 Interesting Facts About the Electric | Light, i The London Grophic contains an illus. | it of the Swan electric light | which will prove to be of especial inter- | the country or in places wherea flow of water sufficient to turn a small tarbine wheel can be so- cured. After the cost of the lampan ]its accompaniments no other outlay is necessary. The experiments made by Mr. Swan himself at Cragside, in Eog- | land, were with his perfected lamp, which makes use of a continuous carbon conductor inclosed in a glass bulb her metically sealed. At a distance of three- quarters of a mile the overflow of a pond | was used to propel a six-horse power | turbine wheel, and produced the clec- tricity, whiel carried to the Louse trated aceon: est to people residing in : } ich 1s over a double row of eopper wires. The lamp itself is said to be exceed- ingly simple, and may be hung from the ceiling, placed in a bracket on a side wall or in the porcelain body of an | old oil or kerosene lamp of the style so | much used at present. It consists of a | glass bulb about three inches in diame- | ter, from which a cylindrical arm ex- | tends. Two platinum wires connected | with the intermediate carbon conductor pass through this arm and into the bulb | and are hermetically sealed by fusion of | the glass around them on entrance into the glass wall of the lamp. Thecarbon filament is a special feature of the lamp, and is * wonderfully thin and elastic.” looking, in the engraving given of it, | like a piece of looped wire. Since the air is exhausted from the well the car bon does not decompose, in fact it be- comes harder from continued usage. I'he carbon thus used by Mr. Swan in his experiments has lasted uninterrupt- edly since last October. It is claimed for the system that the light can be ab- solutely divided without sacrifice of economy, forty-five of them being in use at Cragside, each lamp giving a light equal to that of three ordinary lamps and the current being turned on | or off by small switches inserted in the wall. C—O The Nihilistie Organization, It is found impossible for the Rus- | sian government to get into the Nihilis- tio cirele, the Nihilists being too loval to one another, too well informed and too intelligently organized. For in- stance, the government has learned that one of the rules of the Nihilists is that every member shall return to his lodg- | ings every twelve hours, when one of | his companions pays him a visit to see | if all 18 right. When the visit of the | inspector 1s made, if the lodger is absent, | it isconcluded that he has been arrested, | and the inspector makes away with | everything of a compromising nature. | The same rule forbids any Nihilist | arrested to tell his name or address un- | til twenty-four hours pass, The dis-| covery of this rule was made by the police in the case of Isaieff. No tor- | ments could diaw from him his name or | address until the day after his arrest, when he gave both. The police went | to his house and found nothing but a | small pile of ashes before Isaiefls fire- place. The discovery of this rule only tends to increase the government's dis- way at the completeness of the danger would have t) ascertain the identity of every man found making a visit. “The whisper of a beautiful woman,” But the man yer of his wife as she leans over the of her beauty. His chief thought is how much he would like to exchange his boots for a pair of wings, Waste Forces, How to apply and economize the waste forces of the world are the prob lems which scientists and mechanicians are constantly trying to solve. It is an undisputed fact that the most powerful natural agents have altogether escaped, or but reluctantly succumbed to, the guiding hand of man. The force the young men spend in twirling their canes listlessly in the air, if seized upon and concentrated, would turn all the grindstones in the world, but it would not necessarily sharpen the wits of the cane twirlers. The amount of breath blown through sive of thet which shapes itself into a | tune, would make 8 continuous trade- wind that would send all the shipping of this country, including the navy, around the world and back. If the quick, jerky motion the young men affect when tipping their hats to their lady acquaintances could be util ized, it wonld farnish power for a cata- pault that would send every circus per- former in the country clean through the | canvas in search of a $200 prize comet, | The time wasted by young ladies in | preparing their toilets that they may | make a sensation on the street, would | give three days extra “grace” to every | The smoke from cigars, pipes and | cigareties that is now all red with | the atmosphere to itd great detriment, if condensed and used would smokeall | the bacon Chicago and Cincinnati cure. | The morning “chin music” over kindling the fire, which always resulis | in an unpleasant, cross breakfast, could | be att discord that would establish shouting | communication with the moon. The steady rise and fall of the mater | nal hand upon young hopefuls of the | land, all wasted, would farnish strip hammer with force enough to forge an | axle on which the world might torn, | The gentle swaying to snd fro of | the fan by the women of the world, if | harnessed into one grand hurricane, | would set every windmill in creation | running st such a lively rate thatall the ! corn and wheat could be ground into | flour by them. i The turning of the gates on their | hinges as Arabella and Augustus fondly lean upon them, would furnish power | enough to saw all the wood in the | country, This doesn’t say that Angus. tus had better be sawing wood, but we | think he had. The buming of needless gas and kerosene, even though burned low, for the benefit of our courting population. is an awful waste. If it could be con- | centrated into one grand calorie fur- nace it would boil all the potatoes and | : ai sa picnic. ! The continual stream of beer, gin | throats of our young men, would turn all the water wheels in creation, and we | are not sure the Keely motor, start the solar system | along at a more rapid rate. : This list of waste forces could be ex- | tended without limit. We only dropped | these few hints in order to give a prac- | tical turn to the mind of those thought. | jess individuals who are, for the most part, Recponsihie for the great waste of | power that is going on in the world. | If you imagine that you were placed in | the world for any purpose whatever, | look out for the waste forces, and get’ about the business of your life in an | — New Haven Register, 55. A United States Boundary Line, The northern boundary of this eoun- | try is marked by stone cairns, iron pil- | lars, wood pillars, earth mounds and timber posts. A stone cairn is seven and a half feet by eight feet, an earth mound seven feet by fourteen feet, an iron pillar eight feet high, eight inches square at the bottom and four inches at | the top, timber posts five feet high and | eight inches square. There are 382 of | these marks between the Lake of the Woods and the base of the Rocky mountains. That portion of the bound- ary which lies east and west of the Red | river valley is marked by cast-iron pil- | lars at even mile intervals. The British place one every two miles and the Uni- | ted States one between each British | post. Our pillars or markers were made at Detroit, Mich. They are hol- | low iron castings, three-eighths of an | inch in thickness, in the form of a trun- inches square at the bottom and four | inches at the top, as before stated. | They have at the top a solid pyramidal | cap, and at the bottom an ovtagonal | flange one inch in thickness. Upon the | opposite faces are cast in letters two | inches high the inseriptions, * Conven- | vention of London” and * October 20, | 1818." The inscriphions begin about | four feet six inches above the base, and | read upward. The interiors of the hollow posts are filled with well-sea- soned cedar posts, sawed to fit, and se- curely mi through spike holes cast | in the pillars for the purpose. The average weight of each pillar is eighty- five pounds. The pillars are all set four feet in the ground, with their in- scription facing to the north and south, and the earth is well settled and stamped about them. For the wooden posts well-seasoned logs are selected, and the portion above the ground painted red, to prevent swelling and | shrinking. These posts do very well, | but the Indians cut them down for fuel, | and nothing but iron will last very | long. Where the line crosses lakes, | mountains of stone have been built, the | bases being in some places eighteen feet | under water and the tops projecting eight feet above the lake's surface at | high-water mark. In forests the line is | marked by felling the timber a rod wide | and clearing away the underbrush. | The work of cutting through the tim- | bered swamps was very great, but it | has been well done and the boundary distinctly marked by the comgpissicners the whole distance from Michigan to Alaska. Female Execution in Russias Sophia Perofskaja’is the first woman ever judicially hanged in Russia, and, in fact, the only woman executed in the czar's dominions since 1719, in which year a governess named Mary Hamilton had her head publicly cut off—proba- bly with a sword - at St. Petersburg, for having made away with her three children. Twenty-five vears after that event Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, abolished the punishment of death, and it has | never been reintroduced into the Rus- | sian criminal code since. Hence, | when any one commits a more than | usually atrocious crime in Russia, in order that the death punishment may be awarded, the eriminal must be tried by a military tribunal, as was done in the case of all the Nilulists who have been tried during the last three years, or else by a special high court of jus- tice like the courts which tried Solovieff for firing at the late czar in St. Peters- burg (April, 1879), and the persons who ultimately succeeded in taking his life. Of the eight men who ran on ths four presidential tickets of 1860, only one is alive to-day—-Hannibal Hamlin, Our life-work down, sud lot our hands fi where they will : : Fall down to lo quite still. And if some other hand should eo to find : The threads we carried, «0 that if could Beginning where we stopped; if it should to keep Our life-work guing; seek To carry on the good design Distinetively made yours, or mine, What would it find? Some work we nost be doing, traeor false; ome threads we wind; eum purpose so exalts Itself that we look up to if, or down, As toa cron To bow before, and we weave threads Of different lengths and thickness some 3 shrods— And wind them round + Till all the skein of life is bound, Sometimes forgetting at the task To ask The value of the threads, or chooss Btrong stuff to aes, No band bot winds sims thread ; It cannot stand quite still $i it is dead But what it spins and winds a Jttle skein, God made cack hand for work —not toll-stals 1s required, but every hand : Spins, though but ropes of sard. If love should come, Riwoping above when we are done, To find bright threads : That we have held, that it may epin them HUMOR OF THE DAY. Always willing to give his note ~The music teacher. s The Philadelphia Chronicle has dis. eovered trichin in this year's crop of ice-cream. : Jorh Billings says Le has never known a sekund wife but what was boss of the situashun. . “Will the cgmisg wan fiy” He probably will when coming woman gets after him, advises youto The Detroit Free Press jeti if you wante to be talked about, The Rochester Democrat hears of couples being married on the ran. OM man after them with a shotgun, per- haps. We know a man so near that be can't recognize s credi ign gut passes ope on the street.— Keokuk Gate City. Soldiers are always the most adept lovers, because they learn how to sent arms and salute. — Baltimore Saturday. This is his first season ons farm, and he has ted Sen nares with tomo cans. He ex the ground duces pls of canned am ~ Philadelphia jcle. When a baseball club is beaten . Boston Commercial, A horse died in Campion, N. H., the was found of hoop fifty shingle nails and pi - curse of our iron, Indigestion is t A “three-year-old” discovered the In a most indignant tone she reported were “ wiping their feet on our grass™ Of all sad words of tongue or The saddest are these: > Hart you a ten? Of all sad words of tongue or pan, = are these: ** We haven't a ten.” —Slewhencille Herald We hear of a man who justifies bis meanness toward his wife by asserting that he and she are one, and, therefore, by refusing to furnish ber money he practices the hercie virture of : denial. - Can anybody tell ns why a woman, emerging from s crowded car, makes believe she is going to gét out at one side of the platform, until two or three men have jumped off in the mud, and then steps off at the other side? She always does it; and we want to know the reason why. — Phi The young folks will never be en- the electric light into private residences are invented and applied is, yon must hsve the full blaze or Egrptian darkpess. The latter is not exactly proper, and the former, for ob- vious ressons, will never do.— Elevafed Railway Jowrnal., A youth was heard to remark tos jolly and fat Teutonian as the cirens pageant passed the city ball this mom- ing: * Haven't I seen you before ? Your face looks familiar” “Is Jot so? said Hans. * When you get so old as me your face will look familiar, too," and strolled up Delaware avenue, hum- ming “ Embdy is de baby, his gradle’s gone.” — Buffalo News. gE = Lemons for Smallpox. An Ironton (0.) phrsician treated himself for smallpox with lemon Juice, and reports the process and ts as follows : I squeezed all the juice I pos- sibly could out of one lemon into the glass, to which I added about two ta- blespoons of water, and drank it. I then opened the rind and sucked the balance of the juice. In about t : minutes I took another lemon, and = it in the same manner. In ashorttime I felt very cold, as if I waslyiog in close yroximity io & large mass of snow or ice. Ny pulse had dropped to sixty. 1 shut my eyes to see if the unpleasant visions wire gone. I not only found they were gone, but by placing my hand upon oy Lead, 1 found the pox on my head gone also. My bead was bathed with grumous-like fluid which had exuded from the pox. It stained the napkin I had applied to wipe it off. It as if each had given up its contents and wilted down to a level with the surface. The same had taken place with those upon my face. My beard was glued to- gether with the same kind of fluid. Those upon my neck had not bursted, but bad shrunk away and diminished in size considerably. I laid down and slept two hours comfortably. I awoke, I presume, from cold, although I had plenty of eover over me and the fire was still burning in the grate, I felt sowell pleased that I took a little more lemon juice. I kept my pulse at from sixty to ared from my skin. I'then bid good rye to lemon juice and smallpox. So strongly am I convinced in the power of lemon juice to abort any and every case of smallpox, if administered as I ad- it as a specific of as much certainty and power in smallpox as quinine isin in- termittent fever. I therefore publish my experiment, hoping every icin having a case of will give it fair trial and report the result to me. I The following is said to be a for weak or sore eyes: Geta eel cake of elder flowers at the druggist's and steep in one gill of soft water. It must be steeped in bright tin or earthen- ware. Strain nicely, and adl three drops of laudanum ; bottle it tight and keep in a cool place. Use as a wash, letting some of it get into the eyes. Follow this, and relief is certain. Ifthe eyes are painful or much sore, make small, soft compresses, wet them in the mixture and bind over the eyes at night. I can warrant the above as and sure, having tried it in a number of cases where i Soe skill and re had utterly failed. If the eyes are badly inflamed, use it very freely. A tea made of elder flowers and will help to cleanse the blood. Pure rock salt and water will eyes if you bathe them daily TO OA sms.
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