Marriage a la Mode. A hat, a cane, A nobby beau! A narrow lane, A whisper, low, A smile, a bow, A little flirt! An ardent vow That's cheap as dirt! A hand to squeese, A girl to kiss Quite at one’s ease Must neads be bliss A ring, a date, £ A honeymoon To find too late It was too soon! The Long Journey. When our weary feet become heavy and On the Amd the x And we vallovs and mountal i : hh id DIA We cannot t us hope, tl That oases may bright FROM 2 Baroness did and ine t splen ir vall FE. vallrant RUALAAES these pleturesque MIL ORIOLS, § fa TY irequen i tl ¥ oy LY 8iAal COL fabu lonsl ana ousted le r, he »«d her vast es- er wheat elds, ng and hating th steur, the Fren i v x the rrenci ATONE ss. But Rak this f i 3 * 11 LP Small 1 > 3 21. 5 noticed tins Inline complimen na Eliz went iperor spoke also of 1 ¥% hich k the necklace nukavina Eltz was apt to ifleently well she had gre a8 bine as her eves rubies which the baron had given her (the old baron, twice lier who went down into Roumania for 1 she was fifteen); and she had ids, of course—every rich lady has diamonds—and a grand boxful oi epgraved amethysts and antique gems. Some, that Cardinal Antonelli gave her in Rome, for he, too, had admired the wild baroness. Indeed, if the Paroness Rukavina Eitz had ever written her memoirs what a story she could have told! But the end of every woman's history is that she finally falls in love; and such was the beginning of the end of the story of Rukavina Eltz. She went to England one summer, and there was a young Lord Ronald Somerset, or a Lord George Leveson Montague, or a young Lord Howard Plantagenet (they mix them up 80, these English words, they are not half so individual as our Hungarian names), who could ride better than she could. This was a dreadful blow to the baroness, and she wished herself dead. But when at dinner the soft-voiced, handsome, tall young Englishman, Sir ot i at 3 \ <ditor and baroness, for money her. Let have her the money to sell known.” The people gi derful necklace ; police put in his % ing the woman Neusied The baroness went back and allowed Madam Pasten: wretched She wo nothing. All Vienna was alive when the great ase came on, and not a few ladies were glad to hear that the Rukavina Eltz jewels were in pawn—that envied neck lace ! Neusiedler came to his wife's rescue, and told the story over again. The evidence against the baroness was damn- ing. She had, according to his story, lived far, far beyond her income, and he had supplied her with money from the money-lenders. 1 the y y pthered aron night. She had fabricated the story of the lost necklace to try and ame after all) sat next to her and talked so well and was so complimen- tary to her seat, cross-country, and x 4 i he emeralds, with his lips,and the neck, with his eyes, Rukavina Eltz forgave him and began to talk of her home near Somlyo, and it ended in a large English party eoming to the Er valley, under the shadow of the Er Mellek, for a long summer visit. And how they raved about everything—the wine, the horses, the scenery, the wild, barbaric splendor of the baroness’ housekeeping, and how they all hated Neusiedler, and his big, black-browed wife, who were in- vited up to the balls, There was an English lady, one with very long tecth, and a very long nose and very high eyebrows, and they called her Lady Louisa. She was very i i i | i and here was the baron’s will, which she was about to try to disregard. His will, saying that she would never marry, estates, * Baroness Rukavina Eltz, what have you to say to this? What is your de- fense ?” said the prosecuting counsel, “Only this!” said the baroness, hold- ing up in her hand the pearl-colored pearls and the emerald drops, the real necklace! On the judge's desk lay a fac-simile of the famous necklace; the two ornaments looked exactly alike. ‘“ Let an expert be brought and say which is the real necklace and which the imitation one, made in Paris, and used by me to lure this wretched and destruciion I” said the baroness, with a lash of Roumanian fire in her eyes, Ek HALL, CE > A 4 CO., PA.,, THURSDAY, JULY nn”, Sonnets from the Afghanese, a —A DK L Water 14 tiring! Ere tunnel, A Hot Qs diver, ted Comstock mines at v, Nevada, of the vast quan wt water which is encountered affords an outlet to 12,000 tons four hours, or about Some of the y O00 ns 1t water, v into the mines, h fn tem ) , while four miles »month of the tunnel the tem- ure ranges from 130 to 135 degrees. viate the which i] 11 1 10 degrees ine mvenience I, the low is conducted through the entire unnel, four miles, in a tight flume made of pine. At the point of exit the is lost but seven degrees of heat, it below the mouth of the tun- t water is utilized for turning belonging to the company, from whence it is carried off by a tunnel 1,100 feet in length, which serves as water way. Leaving the waste tunnel the water flows to the Carson river, a mile and half distant. This hot water is being utilized for many purposes. The boys have ar- ranged several pools where they indulge in hot baths. The miners and others use it for laundry purposes, and ar rangements are being made whereby a thousand acres belonging to the com- pany is to be irrigated. It is proposed to conduct the hot water through i juantity of water would give of 1 { i { water 1 Sixty fe nel the machinery el y io a WAY a near the roots of thousands of fruit trees which are to be planted, and in a similar manner give the warmth to a number of hot houses to be used for the propagation of early fruits and vegetables, Gen, Tom Browne says that “when the Naval Academy Board unanimously | voted the nse of tobacco an injurious habit, which ought not to be tolerated | among cadets, every member of it had | a cigar in his mouth.” THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, Farm and Gavden Notes, uted, will yt | Lie the trick of egg inerease | older. When break g ash compost, made of equal sifted, unbleached wood an rypsum or land plaster, This will pro he young plan® from the * stripe ng,” and its may be conti with advantage until the got strong as not to care for thisenemy. As a top dressing to almost any garden crop it will be found beneficial. Flies greatly annoy horses, some be ing ve ry sensitive and suffer greatly from them. It is said that strong f hickory leaves, put on with a sponge ashes 1 i uso mtinued vines 80 Oi and renewed daily, will keep away flies, A thin 1 oiten a great th Le cotton sheet will keep them comfort to Darkening stable dui ing the daytime will help keep ont the flies. The cleaner the stables the less annoyance at the house from the flies, A London gardener planted a berry bed four feet wide across den, on one side of which I planted. These were dug end of June, the ground raked smooth, so that the tablished themselves and found a new bed. The next season a similar process was pursned, and thus a movable straw berry bed was created. At the end of three years the original plants were ex- hausted dug up, though the bed annually grows wider without renewal or transplanting. 18 SLraw '] Hatton wore ug up about the and ranners es. leveled and o has made the drainage of land a great success, writes that when quicksand or unsound ground oceurs drains should be ent wider and in some cases deeper, with their sods trampled down along the bottom, be fore either tiles or stone condnits are in- troduced. Bods thus placed always ad- mit water freely, and the substrata in consequence very ¢ solid. He recommend sods in preference to clay, because at the bottom of drain the frequent variation of the clay between a drenched and a dry state are calculated to disarrange or absorb the materials. A correspondent wh aon become Hecipes, F'rorr Biscuits, — One coffee cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup raisins (seedless are best), one egg, three tea | vanilla and lemon extract to taste ; the raising to be chopped fine. Roll out and cut thin with a biscuit eutter. Bake in a dripping pan with a greased paper in the bottom of tin. Mock Oreanm Pre.—Roll out the upper and under erust with a little flour be- as soon as baked, and set them away until wanted for the table, then fill them between with a custard made with | one pint of boiling milk thickened with { two eggs, two-thirds cup white sugar, | two tablespoonfuls of flour, salt, season, 2.00 28. 1881] Weary cattle seek the stalls, Dirds are in the nest, By-and-bye the tide will turn, Change come o'er the sky, Life's hard task the child will learn, By-and-bye, By-and-bye the din will coase, Day's long hours be past, By-and-bye in holy peace We shall sloop st last, Calm will be the sea wind's roar, Calm we, too, shall He, Toil and moll and weep no more, Byand-bye, in Advance. “Hl — NUMBER 29. The Dark and the Pawn, FOR THE LADIES. Halls at Kidean Hall ¥ thie mond which reads Co —— Toads in the Greenhouse, ll wo part of y upper “d'Alsaco, with a patten rosebuds and forget-me nots colors, thrown bad karo i } over nd. Eacl + Jx 11CH 1 brown A trimming. These drdsses are round without any train, 11 ide at 1814 A Bear With a Strong Head, ng and good-natured } Park, a CW (davs 3 I'he white lac balayeuse tucked nd mu with ns does edge. Frillings of nply hemmed and arow lace are put show boy f heart presented the bear fir of Bruin ascend d uncorking 13% 14 FONeros iin sit with a be 144 it Vv ( set] @ trimmed around the neck and sleeves. As 1 aded now very fashionable, and tl handsomest of them are I MANY la- dies who have t working their own. Tulle 1 for ed m transparent net tacked over ing worked heer atten { throne, bottle, drank refreshed amused that he bonnet crowns are Hie an extent ind gave rform ul § M8 * gen y design to be us i CRC a bottle of At 1's it was alt aticd | cmora d green, ox in the delicate shades weliotrope, china bine, or wholly of d crystal beads style of combing the hair straight off the face and twisting it into tight coils, fastened by long jew- eled ping, is now as greatly favored by many leaders of fashion as the Greek coiffare, which is really becoming to but few The former style of hair-dressing is quite as becoming to blondes as to brunettes, though the fashion seems to be more followed by ladies who have dark or black hair; but where the face is oval and the features regular there can be no more becoming manner of arranging the hair than in this novel and unique style Sr ———— nine uff, The co to be discovered between n himsel teen glasses ANY 6 only differen the two was docile, and chain with Japand sO that brain was quiet and walked to tl end of his his usual dignified tread, while the man imagined that he was the czar of all the Russias, and was momentarily expecting to hear an ex plosive missile burst abont him. He was finally conveyed home * upon a shutter,” while the bear quietly walked his beat and looked anxiously for the appearance of another fun-loving visitor who would “set 'em up,” —Hot Springs {rk oe faces, Evening Star, ———— The Fishermen. Yesterday forenoon there was a party of five persons on the wharf waiting to may be seena fair example of what is take the boat for St. Clair Flats, and | generally considered a good, park-like each man had fishing tackle and other | cemetery. Shrubs and trees are planted preparations for a good time. After | about in irregular fashion upon a lawn. looking the crowd over from his seat on | The lots are clustered here and there a salt barrel, an old eynic of a dock | in groups, and their boundaries are loafer approached one of the gentlemen | designated by small stones or stakes and inquired: hidden in the grass, the graves them- “ Goin’ a-fishin’ 7” selves being made in an injonspicuous ‘Yen, sir.” manner. With the exception of creeping ““ Expect to catch any ?” vines, not a tree, shrub or flower is “I hope so.” planted unless by permission of the “ (GGoin’ to lie about their size ?" authorities. Flowers are allowed on the “Bir I" graves, but no plants bearing flowers “ Goin’ to lie like blazes about their | may be set out except under these size and number?” restrictions. Everything is under the “Sir! Iam a truthful man.” | control of a central authority, which is “Oh, youn are, eh! Then you'll let | supposed to know exactly how to pro- the other follows do the lying and you'll | duce the finest landscape effect possible swear to it! I see—I see!" Detroit | under the circumstances. That such Free Press. | effects are actually accomplished may | be fairly questioned by competent stars can he seen with judges; but that is not the fault of the system, — Scribner, The Cemetery. In Woodlawn cemetery, New York, About 3,000 the naked eye. FACIES AND COMMENTS, ty i t the rapid destruc. ; vigorous efforts preserve them But of nada Were il many suppose the the Northern demolished: go the eastern portion of found a little tract of Fite Yad i 11 fi rest not vel enlled out, go of the Btate of New York, mt trees which often rise to the of 1560 and 175 feet; and often el wn the ints forests ud HAY IM § i ft - 3 correspondent relates an ich Bi aks volumes upon Italy, A lot of factory recently ling eighteen cents a day instead of fif hours, which They upon thei doyers promising them an increase I the old hours of yw readily be perceived st3e11 " juasiion in 1 ii Bs Lemp twelve hi nurs labor, n cent Of ¥ had been t y tarned Lo Wor, fourteen receiving. however, re. for proceeds of organ ieeping mm anut sian ( } in zling wealth tot as i i i » } ould + like das Lie Italian 1 tv-two vears there have it assassinations at old world's : ‘ : HOE AYE Dosen directed CAT Russia one in 1866 at Paris, the it! last two ¥y¢ Napoleon times, and Or istions of the of or his offi AT rs ars, Te g x 4 (veered. : was assailed three his in twice; Bismarck Austria twice; Alfonso, of or Emanuel and y 1 each; Lhe presi bells, all jradl a H { five re, od Bot iS 80 FEVER ioe ith American republics greens idea of police eonrt be was over and ae- rahbi differant , it the age of hrough a1 and got a wife. ed she broke took out one e dollars it hay IPINEess 1 i twer iy trad 41 accused hie rr O » whom the couple was the honeymoon yuneh encour- that what a wife's, and what $+ Sav ¢ Ins man fainted whe waem ior supporung was to nocently corroborate man's training as a aguity x a natural manner, simuiating im sufficient agil of t extraordinaay was made totelly blind when man by the bursting of a gun. ite of § i the sd men of the pro- hematician, and widely read and history. He can handle with wonderful of commons he is Bre atly hat, he 18 one of day; a SUCOOBS, iim to the door, and there ready hands are always to be found to direct sightless minister to his place. When he 's addressed he turns his head, lie could see the person to whom his reply i The most emarkable feature about his speech is his wonderful id of facts and which, thanks his acute Le masters with marvelous and retentiveness. He : aided by his wife, whose attain- s are almost equal to his own. was made postmaster-general ys introduced many reforms, im- sroved the postage stamps, introduced a now system of money orders or checks the 3 1 8 directed. commal to is the postoffice receives stamps as depos its in savings banks, in order to carry yt his favorite idea in offering the poor thrift, Mr. J. 8. Potter, United States con- sul at Crefeld, Germany, in a private lotter, gives an interesting description of the steel works of Herr Krupp, whose | recently visited. The average number of men employed is 18,512, representing | a population of more than 50,000 per- sons dependent upon the industry con- | trolled by a single man. Mr. Potter | was particularly impressed by the per- | fect system, order and quiet which pre- vail at the works, and does not remem- ber having heard a single loud word | spoken among the thousands of work- | men as he passed through the vast | buildings, covering 650 acres. Herr | Krupp, who, thirty years ago, was a poor man, provides everything for the | great community of which he is the cen- | tor—homes for all, schools, churches, | preachers, supply stores, bakeries, | slanghter-houses, butchers, doctors, | bathing establishments, life insurance and fire companies, pension institu. tions, hospitals, undertakers and fune- | In reply to a question concerning the | vast responsibility, anxiety, care and | difficulties in managing such a complex and extensive establishment, he said he | had little anxiety and no difficulty in { managing his increasing business. ercised in the selection of men for posi- {tions of management. He had no | friendship for * bosses” who were not engaged to fill, and no mercy for those found negligent or ineflicient. To his | caution in the selection of managers he i | attributed the chief success of his life. Young lady (to her old uncla): “Oh, uncle, what a shocking thing! A young girl was made crazy by a sudden kiss!" Old uncle: “What did the fool go crazy for?” Young lady: “What did she go crazy for? Why for more, I suppose.” + The glow against the western sky Has faded into tender gray; The breezes in thelr fitfol sigh Betoken soon the end of day. The shadows creep from vale to hill, The ehill mist settles o'er the river; The things the day brought now sre still, The hinllings In the night air shiver, HEALTH HINTS, Under the Lead, “How to Keep Healthy in Summer,” a medical writer gives the following seasonable hints: | As 8 general mle sunstroke attacks those exposed to the direct effect of the sun, more particularly on the third or fourth days of a heated term. With but little care and sitention to a few Pr rales, sunstroks among those whose occupations expose them fo a ought to be a very mare oc wn ont the woodland’s darkling glade Two figures take thelr silent War: Across thelr path hes conie no shede, The world to them Is fair and gy, The paling light that wraps the earth Is more to them than bright sdorsing; Bat marks the token of the birth, The dswning of love's fairest morning, even great heat currence, In the first place, people as a general ing eat t meat during he bot months, I have krown many families who feed their children, while vet guite on salt bacon, fat gravies, butterand such complications of dishes, flavored with hot condiments, and it is a great wonder that not more during the hested term. These people who must work and who cannot avol | the piercing ravs of the sun, can at least avoid all such articles of food which have a tendency to fire up the system ; and then, in the next place, everything should be carefully avoided that tends to check perspiration, In fact, when the skin becomes dry persons may drink water until they perspire ina War history: * What is the greatest free manner, When the skin is in good charge on record ¥ asked the professor working order there is not much dan. of history. And the absent-minded ger of becoming overheated. A straw student answered: ‘Seventeen dollars hat is a good covering for the head, and for hack Live for sell and girl for two a good plan to keep the head cool is to hours.” wear a leaf, previously dipped in water, “ There goes the celebrated Mr, QC, in the crown of the hat. Every oppor- the lame lawyer,” remarked & lady to tu h i} oo much young, salt fish, HUMOR OF THE DAY, The fly that walks on oleomsrgerine is not the butterily.— Fivayune, Melinda wants to know the exset length of a lumber yard. — Philadelphia Sun, It is a mistake {0 assume that a rose by any other name would smell as wheat, — Yonkers Gazelle, aie nity shonld be taken to remove the Ler companion as Le passed thems on “ Excuse me, madam,” said and removes any fen. he, turning sharply, “ you ave mistaken; dency there may be to a slight eonges- 3 lame man, not a lame lawyer.” Hon of the brain. . ; “ Jam waiting, my darling, for thee,” AlX strong dnnks 30 he warbled; and yet when the old man avoided without Sheapiion The use of tj, rew up 8 chamber window and assured alcoholic beverages have a greater in- him that “he'd be down in 8 minate,” fluence to overheat the body, by pro- | 4, jou Lis grip on the melody snd went ducing fevered action of the heart, than ' ot of the wailing business, all the predisposing causes together. How is this for a three-year-old? An It is a safe rule never to drink ice : : ; wd 1 : 1% old man was passing the house Sands water, vet those who are in the habit of old man -oedi gre h $ The Radnalrs’ oe Rint: umm ry of hy ang exceaQingly TE Eeps, drinking ice water it will not hurt so little one looked at him for several much as those who only occasionally minutes and then eried out: Msmma, People from the country om a 2 : : es Joo ~ ’ ion't he walk stingy? — Springfield celebration davs drink ice water, ice Union 2} ! a 1 » edt ¥ lemonade, and eat ice cream all day ™ Pei and Ch 2 long, snd often thus contract a disease of Ea anf ee sys & of the stomach of whieh they are never enp of water in the oven while 3 1 A cured. Another pernicious habit which will prevent bread and cakes from. . nial drink ia ctor im. Ing. Thanks for the information. And people have, 18 to drink ce water im- fo Md bov. loose in th 1 mediately after eating fruit. For exam- a 3 n-Year-o et wh co e pei ar, ple, a young fellow with his sweetheart will prevent apples } from spoiling. . 4 saws e prin to the ice cream saloon and not un- About one boy to four barrels of appa, ¢ doctor. — Hawdeve, frequently they eat a dish of strawber- _ If you want to get the reputation of at when in the shade, as the fresh sir the street. th ree cools the head should be nse it. goo: ries, a dish of lee cream and then drink a glass of ice water. Such violation of knowing a heap do as Professor Proctor nature's laws will produce congestion does. He guesses what happened three of the stomach, and the body becomes or four million years ago, and overheated by increased activity of the what is to happen fifteen million years whole vital organism in aso effort to save hence. It is only a few years since he life and rid the system of the intruder, commenced, and now he ean get credit and now this feeling of heat is attrib. at any groecer7.— Detroit Free Press. uted to the hot weather, when it comes A Syracuse girl broke off her engage- from a want of knowledge of physiol. ment bocsuse her lover joined a base- ball elab. She felt that she would be taken as to the never be happy with a mans who had quality of the food d. Partially de- six fingers and his nose broken, and aved fruit, berries and vegetables are | four teeth knocked ont, and who was more frequently the immediate cause of | ligble to dream that he was batting for a large number of the cases of diarrhea a home ran and kvock her clear scross and digestive troubles that pe ople suffer the room. go from during the hot snmmer months A city merchant who had formerly Muskmelons and watermelons may be po. o resident of a country town was very pleasant to taste, especially ip the habit of making annual visits to when on ice, but perfectly ripe | is native place. On one of these oe- and fre hh are often the source of much casions he missed s minister who had trouble, : preached there for many years, and on To persons when very thirsty, and as asking for him one of the deacons said: a rule in very hot weather, lemon and w()h “you mean Mr. Chancel; ves, we walter 1s a ve ry pleasant { The or- sent him his resignation last fall” diniry lemonade SUESL 1% He was a tall, thin old man, with a long beard, very black, except where there was an inch of gray, all sronad his face. He said to a yonug man who was reading one of the cheap paper editions se popular nowadays: ** Why will you read such trash ? Now, what is thename of that book? The young man re- plied: “If you were young I would say that it is none of yourbusiness. It is Froude's Cesar.” OgY. Great care shonld 11 isd 0 the 1 BDIeER vis made ild 3 11d be taken Milk for ch 0 much, Care sl in obtain. ing milk free There perhaps no other article of diet so easily rendered unfit for use as milk. Exposed short time to impure air, it is alone spoiled, but is rendered abso- drink. not too ell, from poison. is © even fora not a close withont 1 ation for a night will poison the system. Te avoid spuriouscholera, cholers-morbus, biliousness, fevers, sun- like disorders, it will pay for people to give some attention tothe It took just about twenty years’ time few simple here given. ! to carry the first experiments in voean There is no subject perhaps more neg- steam navigation to the practical success lected than a study of the rules of | which was emphasized when the first health applicable to habits and methods Cunarder left the Mersey. As early as of life during the hot weather, 1819 the Savannah, a vessel of some three hundred tons burden, had struggled across the Atlantic in twenty- six days. The thing could be done— It would be tedious to recount the that was clear, =o far as the overcoming history of the comets which have been of physical difficulties was concerned. looked upon as provhets of ill to men But so long as a steamer, with ber ter- and nations, but a note should be made rible consumption of fuel and her small of one particular time when all things capacity for cargo, took as long a time seemed to combine to show that theend (on the voyage as a well appointed of the world was at hand. This was | packet ship, commerce could have noth- the year 1000 after Christ, the time of ing to say to the matter. Brains were the millenninm, when the devil, having | at work, however, both on the Clyde been chained up for a thousand years, and on the Avon, and the Clyde grudged was to break from Lis prison house and | the Avon none of the praise that re- roam through the world seeking whom | sulted from the first voyage of the ie might devour. Poets in the cloisters Great Western from Bristol to New were writing of the day of wrath, and York in the unprecedented short time monks and friars were preaching to the of thirteen daysand a half. This was multitudes of the dreadfal hour when in 1838, when the experimental period the earth was to pass awsy in smoke and | of steam navigation was drawing to a flame. Then appeared a comet which close. The day of the ship with pad- glittered and grew in the skies for nine | dles--and the Great Western, much as days and, as Professor Proctor quotes | she Sulfpitne her predecessors, was es- from an old chronicler: “The heavens | sentially 'this--was at an end. It was opened and a kind of flaming torch fell | on the Clyde, and for the Cunard mail upon the earth, leaving behind a long | service, that the idea of ocean steamer track of light like the path of a flash of was worked out. Stout, bluff-bowed lightning. Its brightness was so great vessels they were, built with the solidity that it frightened not only those! of frigates, and at a cost which nothing who were in the flelds, but but an extravagant subsidy could justi- even those who were in their fy. Well, however, they did their work, houses. As this opening in the sky | burning coal at a rate frightful, in slowly closed men saw with horror the these more economical days, to contem- figure of a dragon, whose feet were blue | plate ; jogging out to sea deep laden in and whose head seemed to grow larger | placid indifference as, to weather ; jo2- and larger.” The terror was great, and | ging punctually into port with funnels all things considered it was more rea- | white to the top with salt water, keep- sonable than a like feeling would now | ing up alone for full ten years the be. Fortunately, however, the year | thread of steem communication between passed and old earth went on as merrily | the old world and the new. Then be- as ever around the sun at the lively rate | gan the inevitable competition which of some twenty miles the second. Aled to the establishment of various little more than 500 years later (1528) | transatlantic steam eompahies. a comet appeared, of which Andrew Pare said it *‘ was so horrible and dread- ful and engendered such terror in the minds of men that they died, some for fear alone, others from illness engen- dered by fear. It was of immense length and blood-red color; at its head was seen the figure of a curved arm, | holding a large sword in the hand as if ready to strike. At the point of the sword were three stars, and on either side a number of axes, knives and swords covered with blood, among which were many hideous human faces with bristling beards and hair.” This accurate description was given only about a century before the birth of Sir Iswac Newton.— New Fork World. room Progress in Ocean Steam Navigation. stroke it i Iggeslions I ———— Comet Terrorism, Met a Violent Death, The shooting of the President recalls the fact that the first Fourth of July orator this country ever produced died in a similar manner. In 1778, just two vears after independence had been de- clared, the day was celebrated in Charleston, 8S. C., and an oration was delivered by Dr. David Ramsay. The latter was an able author, as well as a physician, and published the first history of America. He married the daughter of Henry Laurens, the distinguished patriot, who was for a time imprisoned in the Tower of London for his devotion to his country. It is a curious fact that this very David Ramsay was in bread daylight by a lunatic, this being at the time a new feature in crime. The weapon was a pistol and the wound was immediately fatal. Dr. Ramsay was a member of the first Congress. It con- vened in this eity in 1789, and included a remarkable representation of the talent and patriotism of the country. He was the first instance of assassination among our public men. The patriots of the bi 1 nd oth the Ee esca violen , the’ ex OO in James Otis, who was killed by lightning, and also in Button Gwinnett and Alexander Hamilton, both of whom were victims of dueling. — New York Corr Rochester Democrat, Blast furnace slag or cinder is turned | to a useful purpose at the Sclessin iron | works, near Liege, Belgium. After the | | molven slag has escaped from the fur- | nace it is conveyed immediately to a | stream of cold water. The effect of | this is a division of the slag into a sub- stance very like coarse san’. This sub- stance is then raised by an elevator and | deposited in wagons, which convey it | away to places where it will be applied {as an excellent ‘‘ballasting” for ra | roads. “This is a voyage?! around the whirled,” said the old gentleman who steered his way among the waltzers,
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