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.
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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,