A Little While,
Oh, soul, a little while
And thon shalt be released,
And fortune shall have ceased
To frown for thee or smile.
A little, little space,
A few brief months or years,
Too brief, Oh, sonl, for tears,
Then to thy resting-place,
Oh, wherafore art thou stirred
With weak and idle rage
To beat against thy cage
Like to aloaptured bird
Be still, poor soul, be still ;
He soos the sparrow’s fall ;
Thy woes He knoweth all;
Hush, hush, and wait His will,
VOLUME XIV.
Unwritten Music,
Wo hear its low and dreamy tone
Like some sweet angel spell,
me to take a chair, while
what my work was to be,
writing a history, or text
he was an enthn
wanted it d for the pre
work of re-wniting the whole thing
legibly was more than he wished to un
de rtake, advertised
Amanuensis,
After this had been explained to me
Mr, Humphroys started up. “Get
Meott, I want to show you
Among the wood-haunts wild and Jone,
Where the young violets dwell ;
Where the deep sunset flush hath thrown
AT,
HAs
COP IRS,
ts glory on the sea,
Wa linger for its ceaseless moan
That wordless minstrelsy ! 50 he for an
The primal world its echoes woke
When first the anient sun,
Ia all his freah’ning day-spring, broke,
His regal moe to run;
It floated through those lonely skies,
Each immemorial hill,
Where now such countless cities rise,
The might of human will |
¥
you
The cavern'd depths of the wild sea
That gather in their lair
Such shrieks of mortal agony,
Such pleadings of despair,
Upon their turgid billows wreathed
Such lulling strains have sped,
As if their charnel waters breathad
No requiem for the dead.
know whether
away now, bu
Th TEE i ¥ vive hy
The diapason of the main, bomet 1 ow, and perh
mare reasonable.
\
next dav Mabel
Oh! earth hath not a lonely plain
Unblest by mystic song;
Its anthem to prolong,
The seaman, in his home-franght dream
Upon the moonlit waves,
Hears, in its undulating stream,
The chant of wat'ry caves,
thran
before,
Wold
nail
Was
av
Through
recogn
" A ROCHSIRTENney
I'o every old rt 1 ,
b ttle disappo
Its storied legends clung. thie asapix
It &lled the wild Baotian hills
With fabled visions bl
And murmured through t
3
hud pleased 100K
A malady unspent, 3
friend not §
hanghtiness, hardly
gust? Whatever I had expected,
nothing at all but pleasant, meaning
loss w ords, great
) 1 had ¢
with, and could have
intimacy that form
Mabel Humphre
cott he was one man
another. And so the days
and she was always friendly with
father’s copyist.
Toward the
phreys came
Butter-Scoteh
Steele's baptis
unt he had
friends Bntter
fondness f
Foon — |
I upon the wind,
rlorious dower ;
politeness, great civil
ity hing
A vol ;
By every glade
But most, at twilight’
co the forest
ri
Wl
%
i
i
Half shadow and half
A FASCINATING GHOST.
wim.
roung gentleman who kno loathed.
wl wathed him sc .
: ’ } ¥ wus a rumor afloat
{ salary is | was making up her mind &
the bangs and ban
an advertisement I cut out | 8nd henceforth stick to Butter
Post one spring after- | Of course this of itself was enot
An. ; IoREe me contemplate placing
In the old davsI had been book- | traordinarily bent pin om his chair,
keeper for the late concern of Skinflint, | converting aren! Pou
Starvehimout & Co., and while with repository fo
m I had been getting a good salary, | But independently «
to my sorrow said, lived distinct and positive
y it: so as I made noth. | loathed the man just a
i failure of the concern, and be ever succeeded in xn
t wy place as well, I had come | OF not. Of course it was n
down very low. I had saved a little, | business, but it did seem a pi
nore by good luck than from fore. DY aud see her become the:
thought, and this little, used with the | thereby completing the
strictest economy, and added to by a | Such a molly-coddle.
few dollars made here and there in odd | On? morning I was stan
ways, was all that had Zept me alive for A Piszza—just finishing a very
However. I didn't Mr. Humphreys had presen
the day before, with the
he didn’t mind a man smoking
a while, if he smoked tobacco, |
sbominated ecabl n 11
came out.
“Mr. Wolcott,” she
g to be busy fora
1
le 80 nen
there
This was
1
Nis (
r af }
er Of |
1
r
it elt
Wis, whet
i Mal
py
to
eighteen months,
feel quite disposed to go to the dogs
et, for there was always a chance of
something turning up ’in a great city
like New York.
As I looked around my room that
evening I realized how bare it was of .
either furniture or adornments; how 80 3 kor 4
unlike— Ah, well, there was my paper; | _ 1 SHENK Dot, Wo] ;
and I nnfolded it with all the glee of a Humphreys doesn’t Hh
child over a mew story-book. There Dbalf an hour yet.
was, of course, the usual political news, | “Then will you : - :
the usual number of railroad accidents 8round and finish your cigar there?
and -eriminsl proezedings; there were * Certainly,” I
items of interest to investors and | Pleasure.” :
theater-goers and travelers; but nothing: * Iver to the croquet ground we strc
for me. I had no money to invest, or and Mabel sat down on one of the r
for theaters, or traveling. So I skipped seats, Without preamble of any k
all that and went on to the advertise. | She began: - : 1s
ments, and the only one of them all “I know you have a friendly feeling
worth reading twice was the advertise- | for us all, Mr. Wolcott, and I want to
ment quoted above. ask your opinion and advice. .
I read it two or three times, and then I bowed, for she was unquestionably
decided it was worth trying. So I
atc, "are
few minutes:
replied.
fo 1
thin
il 1
you come to the croquet
answered: * with
right about my friendly feeling, but 1
hunted up a sheet of paper and ad- wondered what was coming. :
dressed X— as follows: She went on: ** What do yon think of
“ My Dear Mr., Mrs., or Miss X.: T| Mr. Steele?
Why : : ) Well, that was a poser! What did 1
notice your advertisement in to-day’s ew WOE A DE se
issne of the Evening Post. My hand. | think of Butter-Scoteh ? That he was a
writing yon can see for yourself. My fool, of course; but I reflected it wonldn't
Dy . . . J Ty A 11h a . ion la s 3 f 'O Wak
spelling, I think, is nsnally correct, and do to tell her so, particularly if she was
there is uo doubt I am a gentleman, | 800g to— Ob, nol it wouldn't do at
As to salary, I don’t know what to say— ®
I dort wish to value my services at : ri o
more than they're worth. Shonld you “I will tell you frankly. There is a
mean by ‘remain in employer's very strong inclination on papa's part to
1 ” i HY + ’
house,’ that I would be boarded and | Duy the store house.
1
Os
“Why do vou ask, Miss Humphreys?”
lodged at your expense, my price—that | Y¢8 I know there is.’
is, asking price—is five dollars a week.
“Yours respectfully,
“James W. Worcorr.”
The next afternoon I heard from my
friend X., who proved to bea man, His
letter ran thus:
“James W. Worcorr, Esq.:
“ My dear Sir—You may be a gentle-
man, write a good hand, and know how
to spell, but you're a fool. I inclose
sixty-three cents, the fare to — You
will take the 7 a. ». train to-morrow
morning from Grand Central depot, and
when yon arrive at ——, ask for my
carriage, as it will be there to meet you.
“Yours, ete,
“Sor. HoMpureys,”
Sol. Humphreys |-—the last man in the
world I would voluntarily have written
to, and for employment, too! Two years
before I had a very nice little flirtation
with pretty Mabel Humphreys, and it
had gone go far that if the erash in mv
affairs had not ocenrred, I believe the
might have been an understanding, ii
not an engagement. But as it was I
put away all thoughts of love and love-
making and dropped pretty Mabel very
And now to think I had fairly got
“And I don't want he to.”
“ May I ask why not?”
Jecanse it's haunted.”
“1 don't see how that
Steele—he isn't haunted.”
Mabel langhed. “I don't suppose he
is, But that isn’t what I mean, I want
to know if he is conrageons enough to
go there and see if it really is haunted
“Oh, I guess he's preity brav
says he is, and Mr. Huampbrey
80 too, I believe.”
“Yes, papa is so enthusiastic over
Mr. Buot—I mean Mr. Steele's kind
heart and religious feeling; he thinks
he must be a good man, and not easily
frightened.” Bhe looked at me squarely.
“And 1 want to know if he's a man
fully to be trusted —"
“ With untold wealth ?”
“No; to see a ghost,”
“Ah! I see!”
“ You're brave, too, aren't you, Mr,
Wolcott?”
“You're very kind to say so, but 1
assure you there never was a worse
coward than I am. I've no conrage at
all--I'm all brain! Now there's the dif
ference between Mr. Steele and my
self.”
Mabel rose.
affects Mr.
« ha
: h
: hin leq
8 thinks
“Yes, 1 see the differ-
1 might not see much of Mabel, after
all. Bo much the better. Bread and
butter was a necessity and I must go
and make the best of it.
The next morning I caught the train,
but missed my breakfast, and by the
time I reached the house I was decid-
edly hungry.
Mr. Humphreys met me at the door,
and I was pleased to see he did not
seem to remember me at all. He put
up his eyeglasses, and inspected me
from head to foot.
“So you're James W. Wolcott, are
you, young man?”
1 told him be was not mistaken.
I always had that name—born with it, I
believed.
“And you think you're a gentle-
man?”
I begged his pardon—didn’t th nk
anything about it; it was a self-evident
fact.
The old fellow grinned. “Suppose
you come in and have some breakfast.
You haven't had any, I suppose ?”
I said I had not.” .
« Well, come in and have some.”
After breakfast Mr. Humphreys led
the way into the library and motioned
I wasn't sure whether he would
Brain is a good thing,
| so is courage; I prefer a happy mixture.”
{ And with a pleasant little nod she sailed
| off.
| Inever saw until afterward what a
| comparison I had made—one all cour-
{age and no brain, and the other all
| brain and no courage. I had muddled
| things badly, that was evident, and the
| worst of it was that she never gave me
an cpportunity to let her know I had
not intended any disrespect to her
future liege.
All this time Sol. Humphreys never
ceased talking about buying the stone
house. At last Mabel made the propo-
sition that some night we three, Ned,
Butter-Scotch and myself, should go
there and stay until morning, and if our
report was “no ghosts,” she would not
scheme; bnt if anything diabolical or
mysterious happened, that her father
Icditor and
we advanced upon the
ng about
ed by
rior were
Eh
¥ 0ClOok,
th
0 INA in
in
il
Si A
mune
and bolted after us, ny
1
BAKO OU axplorations in
d
escendad,
ald be opened instants
wed ghost were disp pnt d to be
gi t
11 1 3 ¥ y . &
Or use language unfit fo
I was thinking h
there a crash
house,
.
ped Ned,
:
t
you i
11 3
followed by an assortm
POON,
18 and fire
ROOSI8
It was entertainix £, bul
1 th, he was sl epy.
8 there
somethi
Was
} 3
dg KNowi-
t was where
me courage; it was
1 pleasant as a woman's,
y arms and grasped
It shrieked and start d,
, and the ghost was
't get away. I didn't
contrary,
it
id, BO didy
feel afraid of it then: on the
it seemed afraid of
“ Dear
“1 won't hurt you.
The answer
“* What
¥
me,
3 * »
ghost, sweet
4 "0
came
are
rn
iy that's ¢
yw do you know she is?
“Oh, I know well enough. Yon must
be a smart ghost not to know that
“i She doesn't love him."
“ Oh, yes she does. My sweet little
phantom, you're entirely mistaken.
Come, I'll see if I can't light the lan-
tern, if that insane booby hasn't smashed
it all to pieces in getting out.”
“ ot go, please,” the
begged, in a very polite manner, and as
it spoke the words sounded to me very
much as from a human voice disguised,
and vet I couldn't see for the life of me
how anything human could have got
into the house after we came in, or how
anything human conld have made such
an everlasting row, and rattled its bones
go unpleasant jut the ghost's hands
had flesh on My curiosity was
aroused, so 1 “No, 1 cannot let
you go.”
“It's wrong—hugging me, when you
love another.”
“Whom do I love ?"
“Mra, Butter-SBeotch, of course,
know all about it,"
“You do, eh? Then I suppose you
know how it all happened 7”
“Yes, of course I do.”
“Do you know why I stopped ?”
‘‘ Becanse you hadn't money enough
to ask her to marry you.”
“You're perfectly right, my dear lit-
tle ghost, but neither you nor I know
whether she'd have married me even if
I had happened to have plenty
money. I wish vou'd tell me that.”
“I won't do anvthing of the kind. I'm
perfectly surprised at myself for talking
to a mortal so long, Good-bye, man, Go
back to the Humphreys and tell them
what you have seen. If the old man
buys this house won't I make it hot for
him! Good bye, mortal.”
But I wouldn't let go of the ghosts
arm.
‘Please let me go now,” the phantom
beseeched.
A bright idea came to me.
“Can 1 trust you?
good for anything ?
With great dignity
“ Yes: I never lie.” :
“ All right. If you'll promise to meet
me to-morrow evening under the old
apple tree on Mr. Humphrey's place at
10 o'clock, ’ll let you go.” Andas Ire
leased my hold the ghost seemed to
vanish away, and I opened the door and
went ont. My senses were dazed in the
open air; the evening had been so
strange, so almost suspicious, that I
could not fathom it all at once. Be-
| sides, I had allowed the ghost to go be-
fore it had given the promise to
| meet me again. I remembered my
stupidity with regret, but somehow I
felt the ghost would consider the prom-
me ghost
Ye
iv
them.
aad]
ala.
I
of
I said:
Is a ghost’s word
it answered:
trysting-place,
was to give up the idea. "Our consent
> | persuaded to enter that house again
being asked we cheerfully gave it, and
| until daylight. However, the thing was
decided to make the experiment that | our report unquestionably, but with
night. ; : | great regret, and the next morning Ma-
Armed each with a stout stick and | bel was informed of the result, At last
IRE HALL,
Mabel had retired with a head
the rest of us smoked
: AS peared 10 1 arose
nd strolled off to the old
I had been there but a fow
| saw a white figure ap
if the adjoining
Hn ii
straight to me and
if
ing from
IY and
stopped at my si
I lifted
said,
The nanto
iittia
il came
de
my hat. *“ Good evening," 1
ni responded with a neat
“ Mortal, 1
ostly courtesy,
ver tell a lie,” it said.
“Will vou shake hands? Truly a
"8 Wi rd ean be believed,” :
The phantom me its hand, buat
aftor L had bh decent length of
time, tried t« possession of it.
“ Does the old ge ntleman
HON
Save
eld it a
} Fegain
believe
asked the ghost,
“ Yes; it's all right
he won't buy the
house now,
You can remain alone in it
in undisturbed possession.”
to stay alone in it
: phantom, 1 don't
how you're going to fix it. Haven't
ny relatives to come and help you
"
sweet
“No, none.”
“That's bad. I know the dust-pan
ire-iron business is jolly, and then
yand awfully cheerful to have
downstairs; but it’
illiards ts monotonous
any one to play with.”
for?" 1
rhost
Would vou like to be an
ommon mortal person ¥
And get married?”
I don't know."
fond of
5 80
very dear
you,
‘ont. You're fond of
I, well; you told me that before,
and I don't deny it; but, my sweet little
ph ntom, she don't two
» now,”
“ How do you know
“Oh, I know it very well
** You're wrong. Why don't you go
and ask her?’
“ I'm not going to insult her.”
“Do you call that an insult?"
‘Yes—from my position
Sweat ghost” 1 NINE Nearer,
“let's make believe you're my angel,”
my arms around her, and draw-
Care
one in
said, o
yon don't love her?"
e contrary, it's because I love
hat I want
re Miss Mabel."
t submitted
t forgot
“James I”
arried me
to make be-
with a good
her assumed rhostli-
she said, and the voice
back two years, and my
§ POY aled tO me,
I said,
Al YOu ove
vy
Lh #4
» * .
r I was aclerk on a good
salary, an A 18 later Mabel and
I were married. jut the secret of our
i the stone house and under
00 was never told, and from
orth 1 had no fear of ghosts
particular little
shield and my protection,
ga
©
my owl
SL Was m
Psy & ]
Precious
ow
¥
3
5
WISE WORDS,
Whoever conquers indolence ean con-
quer most things,
Gaming is the child of avarice, In
the parent of prodigality.
Applause is the spur of noble
the end and aim of weak ones.
We cannot think too highly of
nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Act well at the moment, and you have
performed a good action to all eternity.
minds,
our
True benevolence is to love all men.
Recompense injury with justice, and un
kindliness with kindness,
Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice the
air, link us with nature and
and are something to love.
jnnocence,
The firmest friends have been formed
in mutual adversity, as iron is most
strongly united by the flercest flame,
This al thine own self |
And it as thi
Thon eanst not then Ie
wo adl--to
must { Ww,
Nua kespeare,
It is by what we ourselves have done
and not what others have done for us’
that we shall be remembered, — Francis
Wayland.
To pronounce a man happy merely
because he is rich, is just asabsurd as to
pronounce aman healthy because he has
enough to eat
Right habit is like the thread on which
we string precious pearls. The thread
perhaps 1s of no great value, but, if it be
broken, the pearls are lost.
Were we as eloquent as angels, yet
should we please some men, some
women, and some children much more
by listening than by talking.
Wherever the slanderer is found,
there humanity is arrayed against itself,
and there the honey and balm of life
are turned to gall and nettles.
If you would not be forgotten as soon
as you are dead, either write things
worth reading or do things worth
writing. Benjamin Franklin.
A firm faith is the best divinity; a
good life is the best philosophy; a clear
conscience is the best law; honesty is
the best policy; and temperance the best
physic,
Usually the greatest boasters are the
smallest workers, The deep rivers pay
a larger tribute to the sea than shallow
brooks, and yet empty themselves with
er in the erannied wall,
kK you out of the erannies:
on here, root and all, in my hand,
Tow but if I could nund«
nre,
reatand
3 root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Tennyson,
Je careful that you do not commend
yourselves, It is a sign that yonr repu-
tation is small and sinking if your own
tongne must praise you; and it is full-
some and unpleasing to others to hear
such commendations. Speak well of
opportunity, Never speak ill of them
or anybody, unless yon are sure they de-
serve it, and nnless it is necessary for
their amendment or for the safety and
benefit of others.—8ir Matthew Hale,
—
A tramp with his arm in a sling called
on Gilhooley for a quarter, alleging that
1i8 arm had bsen injured in the recent
railroad accident near San Atonio, “But
yesterday you bad the other arm in a
posin’ I had. Don’t you think a fellar's
Beside, I have got concussion of the
brain and can’t remember half the time
which arm was broken,” — Zexas Siftings.
B
00. PA.,,
LANDING A SWORDFISH,
i
i
A Cemmunicntive Skipper Dilates so the
Fan of Catohinglin General,
““ Now, then, all together!”
A swing on the peak halyard of a trim
smack, and a fourteen foot swordfish
rose in the air and was skillfully low
ray that had been backed i
Ww,
ered into a d
call
vessel said,
“That's what 1
eaptain of the holding aside
the nendable
pride, 80 that the re porter could eateh
its points, “ Just
that sword, Bee how sharp | ; and |
then over the body-—-how the lines
round up. The whole fish is made for
speed-—a regular privateer, F
1714
ing
a roarer,” the |
piece of canvas w ith «
cast your v& over |
@
t 1
1 al
» the market,
it weighed 400
kind of
y meat i= white and rieh and
RC KE i: fact,
y mackerel family, 80
nr ne ¢
¥ sy rover t
y i one goes t
lge that
make the finest
On in
i
ey
'
mn
sport
hem, but vou get used to it,
hing . I've
wenty-two vears, and have eanght some
pretty big fish, I can tell you. We
nailed this fellow up the Bound, off
Montauk, on our way to Martha's Vine
yard, and as 1 had
se freight here 1 brought hi
coast
catching
like every
in the business
g at
great
been
t
:
l
t
t else,
t
offer to bring
in my-
is the
around
“il
wy
Si dl
10 give you
of the by
nds are canght
S200 000 In
busi
ind for Liverpool.
ni day off the
eel when a
08, only
fe there was
OI 6
gull
il Was
ght,
ches of wats r,
a going off and
had started a
nto Tynemouth, |
gland, where the bark |
iy d¢ ck.
v4
ak
we
wit 3
aL 3
ruck
was damaged
n the
was sl
{
x 1
Owiliers © & own X
1 alll
companies, who
¥
vi
t
not
%
ti
Hey were
to
Wo k,
kind of a
a hoo
Coax them
rigged on
top sings
ow to fol
low him 3 young Bos
m fellows out last yead ney hired
i anted to do
They
or the places, and
w' Hole Was
w%, another was
themselves,
ono
I rees
at the helm, and another
lashed in like Farragut
there was no end of ¢
sighted : }
we got
port.
iwich, and when
v in the bow let
i the tail, and
stling over the
ovel
iy
~
$
nt, Liu
off he went, the rope
side and the boys a d
mad to keep ont of y 3
make the line fast to a barrel and
it over and let the fish tire himself out;
but this didn't suit, so they made it fast
to the painter of the dory and launched
her, and tumbled in just as the slack
taut, The dory jumped shead
down went in a heap,
and one them tumbled clean
overboard. We picke d him up
and filled away after the boat. First
they tried to hanl the fish in, but this
started him in another direction, and
the rope got foul with the rowlocks and
over she went. They all piled to the
wind'ard and managed to keep her up,
though she half filled. He towed them
for about two miles before he let up at
all, and then they to take
it, and such hanling and getting hanled
you never saw. One minute they would
make ten or twelve feet on him, and
the next he would make a rush, tearing
everything and dragging the dory into
the water, so that one had to bail out all
the time. Before we got up to them I |
saw a coat waving, collar down—a sig- |
nal of distress—and, as they had worked
to wind'ard, we sent the dingy after
them, and soon had them in tow, They
had ull the fishing they wanted, and
were glad enough to give it up. Their
hands were all cut up with the rope, end
thoy were wet through. One said the
rope got wound round his leg and
nearly broke it, and altogether they had
enough to lat them over night. It was
a big fellow, though, and weighed four
hundred pounds."
“Don’t they grow larger than that?"
“ Bless von, yes,” continued the skip-
per, who was evidently on a favorite
topie. “1 erossed the Bay of Bengal |
once, and one evening, it was a dead
calm, mind you, we saw some kind of a
craft tearing down on us about the size |
of a ship's cutter with a leg o' mutton |
sail rigged fore and aft, It came with
a terrible rush, the sail a waving to and |
fro, colored blue like, and in a minute
had shot by astern, and we saw it was a
swordfish near thirty feet long, If he
had ever struck us, They
generally
108s
CRIN
and
$ w
ney
‘
{
t
of
h
}
gil
commenced
good-by ©,
fin is about fifteen or sixteen feat high
when they are on the surface it stands
out of water just like a sail, and the!
when cut off would be about
thirteen feet long and a good lift for a |
man. The fin 18 colored a beautiful |
blue, and as they come rushing along, |
the sail whistling in the wind, with a |
wave of foam ahead, I fell you it'sa|
pretty sight. 1 afterward saw a boat |
smashed by one. The natives along |
the coast tackle them, and have a big |
log fastened to the rope, and when they |
strike they toss the log over, and get |
out of the way as fast as they can, and
when the fish is all played out they tow
him in. The one I saw had about five
boats around him. As soon as it was
struck it made a rush and went clean
through one, and ent at the pieces right
and left.” The men managed to get
away and so did the fish. I saw the
boat on the beach afterward, and some
“Yes; I have often seen a swordfish
rush into a school of menhaden. They
ish are the
thickest, apd you can sectually follow
fishes, When they have killed
enough they sink, and pick up the
pieces as they sink, They're great
jumpers. I've one clear ten feet
into the air, and thrash around as if
crazy, dart off on the surface and turn
over, all on account of a little parasite
that bores into the skin and drives them
almost erazy., In the Bouth sea the
people use the bills as swords, fixing
some kind of a handle on them, and in
some of the large ones, where the sword
seen
both hands, and form terrible weapons
in the hands of a large wan, who could
bring down two or three persons at a
blow.
“Sawfish and swordfish never seem to
get along together,” continued the skip
per. * I was coming out of Chesapeake
bay once, drifting along about five miles
to the south'ard of Cape Charles, it
being a dead calm, when all at once we
saw a great splashing around about
thirty yards astern. 1 went aloft and
saw a sawlish and a swordfish fighting
like mad, The sawfish's best chance
was to keep in close quarters, and the
way he pounded that swordfish was a
caution. The saw wonld swing so fast
you couldn't see it, and then the fish
would back off as if he was trying to
tear the other. The swordfish hacked
away at the same time, but the skin of
the other was too thick, and so they had
it, now out of water and now in, for
about ten minutes. All hands were
watching in the rigging, but all at once
the swordfish made off, leaving the other
lashing away as if blind with rage. It
wasn't a second hardly before a big fin
was seen ten feet off, and like a shot the
swordfish had struck the other and
jammed his sword clean through him.
1 hey both rose in the air with theshoek,
and then the struggle commenced again,
swordfish was fast and couldn't
haul out, and the other was half dead,
80 right here we took a hand, lowered a
boat and harpooned them both, rigged
a tackle and got them aboard. The
sword had broken the backbone of the
other fish, aud it was so wedged in that
they would both have been gobbled up
by the first shark that came along.”
Here one hailed the skipper
with the information that the tide was
on the ebb, and we parted company.
New Y ra Sun,
some
Annoyances of Editors,
Not editors alone but nearly all busi.
Hess men daily receive communications
from individuals in whom they have not
the slightest interest, but who, neverthe-
loss, feel terribly aggrieved if the most
senseless inquiry isnot immediately an-
swered by the long-suffering portion of
humanity whose trials Job himself could
scarcely have borne with patience.
Some persons seem to havea mistaken
impression that the business of other
people conldn't be carried at all
withont “valuable suggestions and ad.
vice ym themselves,” said **advice”
in a badly spelled,
en missive, informing the
“he's an 1diot,
the writer always knew he
all dissatisfied cor.
ondents don't express their opinions
straightforward manner,
, in the end, really
amounts about the same thing.
As a rule, editors are not unwilling
to answer respectful queries, or those
in any way benefit the ques-
tioner or the public; but when, during
a political campaign, somebody wants
to know if the aspirant for gubernatorial
honors really did throw his mother-in-
law over a mammoth two-inch boulder
into a roaring, rushing, foaming, fathom-
less washtub below, or why it isn't
grammatical to say “them ink bottles
is mine,” the average editor is apt to
pine for a “lodge in some vast wilder
NOGRN,
Another annoyance is caused by as-
pirants to literary honors, who begin by
saying:
and asking why they can't write length.
wise and and diagonally
across the paper when they send an
article for publication. If some such
original genius didn't take special pains
to say be took the pen in his hand, al-
most any editor would be just foolish
enough to imagine that the writer
shoved it up under his left optic, or
tied it to a lock of his auburn hair, but
the positive statement that he holds the
pen in his hand precludes the possibility
of any conjecture on the subject, thus
saving the editor's valuable time, as he
might otherwise spend several precious
minutes speculating on the matter,
Then there are the * chronic grumb-
lers” who never were satisfied with
anything, and never will be, and who
send delightful autograph letters to the
unfortunate publisher of some paper,
complaining that he * prints too much
trash, and too little sense, or too much
sense, aad too little trash,” anything in
fact that will do to growl about, and
make people think the sun is under a
permanent eclipse. Then, too, the
“ gwoet affection” that exists between
the editors of rival papers must be a
source of intense gratification to all
concerned, and be accused of conduct.
ing any publication simply from merce-
nary motives, when everybody knows
that editors are dead-heads, and poverty-
stricken beings anyhow, must soon
cause regret for the vanished days of
happy childhood, when they could play
“mumblety-peg” with the tolerable
certainty of hitting somebody with the
deadly weapon need in that delightfel
game, These are but a few of the daily
trials to which editors are subjected,
although * life is not all dark” to them
anymore than individuals who follow
some other profession, Most people
have as many friends as they deserve,
and doubtless the delight of occupying
a conspicuous position at circuses and
public entertainments more than coun-
terbalance any trifling annoyance like
the few herein mentioned, —/na 8. Hud-
som, in Detroit Free Press.
RII
Lions in Afriea
on
coming
ritt
Ww
SOUTHG
» above
BRAY Wh
that can
CrosSswise,
A recent traveler in equatorial Africa
gavs: Lions are one of the dangers
between Zanzibar and the great lakes.
They sometimes hunt game in packs of
six to eight. Some animals show fight
against them successfully, Lions never
venture to attack the adult elephant,
and even avoid the buffalo, unless they
are more than two to one. In general
they do not attack caravans, and never
in daytime.
while passing through the brakes and
jungles. Bat it is otherwise at night.
When lions scent the caravan from afar,
of burden, they approach and announce
their ,vicinity by terrific roars. Never
clear the obstacles, and marksmen from
behind palisades can pick them ofl’ with
almost unfailing aim. There is danger
only when the camp is not completely
inclosed, or when those inside go out
to attack them,
w——
lishment,
Sn OA
2.00
18, 1881.
$
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,
In a recent sun disturbance a pro.
tuberance was thrown up from the sur-
face which was 205,000 miles long, but
in a few hours it subsided to only 18.
000 miles, :
A Paris manufacturer claims to have
discovered a process for substituting the
leaves of the eucalyptus tree, which in
burning emit a delicious perfume, for
tobacco leaves in making cigars,
The director of the bureau of statis-
ties at Vienna has 1aale some interest
ing researches concerning the compara
tive longevity of women and men in Eu-
rope. He finds that out of 102,831 in.
dividuals who have passed the age of
ninety-nine years 060,303 are women,
and only 42,628 are men. In Italy 241
alleged centenarian women are found for
141 men of that age.
A spider's web affords an excellent
barometer. An old sportsman of Cold:
water, Mich., claims that one preserved
in his house has proved almost invariably
correct. When rain and wind are ex.
pected, the spider shortens the thread
which suspends the web. When reefs
are let out, fine weather may be certain;
but if the spider remains inert, rain will
probably follow within a short time,
Near Bchunga, on the western shore
of Lake Onega, Russia, a new kind of
coal has been discovered more highly
carbonized than any formerly known.
On analysis, it gives about ninety-one
per cent of carbon, seven or eight per
cent. of water, and one per cent. of ash,
In appearance the coal has an adaman-
tine luster, and it is very hard and
dense. Its specific heat is set down as
0.1502. Although the proportion of
carbon is so high, it yields none of the
reactions which would justify its elassi-
fication as a true graphite.
At a mesting of the Physical society,
London, on June 25, Dr. Guthrie showed
a new experiment in magnetism. When
s magnet is suspended over a disk of
copper and the disk rotated the magnet
is repelled upward, In the experiment
a horseshoe magnet was suspended
from one end of a scale beam and coun-
ter weighted, As an explanation of the
phenomenon of repulsion it was sug-
gested that the vertically resolved force
of induction current before the
et might be greater than that
~t
the
a
mag
behind the magnet,
The printers of Vienna propose to
celebrate the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the introduction of Gauten-
burg's art in that city in a manner be-
fitting so memorable an event. Anillus.
trated book, prepared in the best style
of the printer's craft, and treating of
the history of the art in the Austrian
capital from its infancy, is to be one
feature of the celebration. Another
will be an exposition of all the inven-
tions and improvements made during
the gradual development of printing.
Twenty prominent printers and pnb.
lishers of Paris will attend the festivi-
ties, and all the leading cities of Eu-
rope are expected to send representa-
tives,
A Forest Scene Beside the Amazon
On the third evening after our de-
parture from Bogota we encamped on
the banks of the Rio Patamayo (a tribu-
tary of the Amazon), in a grove of ma-
jestic sdansonias or monkey fig trees,
High over our heads we heard an inces-
sant grunting and chatiering, but the
evening was too far advanced for us to
distinguish the little creatures that
moved in the top branches of the tall
The next morning, however, the
noise recommenced, and we saw that
the grunters were a sort of small rac-
coons, and the chatterers a troop of
monos or capuchin monkeys.
After a consultation with the Indians
we fastened our monkey, Billy, to a
string, and made him go up the tree as
high as we cou'd drive him without be-
traying our presence to his relatives
We had no traps for catching them, but
our plan was to let them come near
enough for us to shoot one of the
mothers without hurting her babies,
Billy's rope, as we bad expected, got
entangled before long, and finding him-
trees,
the attention of his friends in the tree.
top. We heard a rustling in the
branches, and presently an old ring-tail
made his sppearance, and seeing a
stranger his chattering at once brought
down a troop of his companions, mostly
old males, though. Mother-monkeys
those in the tree-top seemed to have
some idea that all was not right.
and nearer, and had almost reached
Billy's perch, when all at once their
leader slipped behind the tres like a
dodging squirrel, and at the same mo-
ment we heard from above a fierce,
long-drawn scream; a harpy-eagle was
circling around the tree-top, and com-
ing down with a sudden swoop he
seized one luckless mother-monkey that
had not found time to reach a hiding-
place. The poor thing held to her
branch with all her might, knowing
that her life and her baby's were at
stake, but the eagle caught her by the
throat, and his throttling clutch at last
made her relax her grip, and with a sin-
gle flop of his mighty wings the harpy
raised himself some twenty feet, mother,
baby and all. Then we witnessed a
most curious instance of maternal devo.
tion and animal instinet-—unless I
should call it gres*noe of mind; when
branch after branch slipped from her
grip and all hope was over, the mother
with her own hands tore her baby from
her neck and flung it down into the
tree, rather than have it share the fate
she knew to be in store for herself. 1
stood up and fired both barrels of my
gun after the robber, but without effect;
the rascal had already ascended to a
height of at least two hundred feet, and
he flew off, with his vietim dangling
from between his claws.—Dr F.
Oswald, in St. Nicholas,
‘recious Dirt,
Great care is taken in the shops o
jewelers and others where articles are
manufactured of gold to prevent the
waste of the precions metal. Every
preserved for the assayer.
wheels on which gold or silver are pol-
ished, when they are worn out, are
particles of the precious metals that
cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Even the sweepings of the shops are
| kept, and are worth about §70 a barrel
after the most scrupulous care has been
taken to prevent stray pieces getting in
to it. It is said that the Scotch assayers
are most successful, Sometimes assay-
| ers will buy the sweepings of a shop at
| of what they will yield.
Whenever a shop floor is to be taken
| that the dirt accumulated in the crevices
floor. Jewelers say that the value of
the shop dirt is owing to the dust of
metals that is blown about the place,
| and not from any carelessness.of work-
| men. Even after the assayers have got
| hough the loss on jewele:s' stock is
i
generally about two per cent, This in-
cludes whatever ‘may be taken, if any-
thing, by dishohest workmen.— New
York Sun. y
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5 ARH TA ASIP I TASTE WL RA
in Advance.
NUMBER 32,
sors rome
“OLD HICKORY'S"™ NOSE.
Licutennnt Randolph's Attack on Presls
dent Jackson,
A Washington letter gives the follow-
ing socount of an affair which created a
great stir at the time it occurred, Lien.
tenant Randolph's attack on President
Jackson in 1833 :
Lieutenant Robert B. Randolph, of
the navy, on board the frigate Constitu-
tion, was appointed by Captain Pattor-
son, in the year 1828, to assume the da-
ties of acting purser, in the place of
John B, Timberlake, the purser, who, |
ina fit of drunken delirium, had com- |
mitted suicide, Timberlake was the |
first husband of the future Mrs, General
Jolin H. Eaton, nee Peggy (Neal, who
eujoys the dabions honor of having |
eansed the dissolution of Genersl Jack- |
son's first Cabinet. Randolph took |
charge of the office or duties of purser, |
and, in his statement of the ease, he com-
plains that the survey and inventory re- |
quired by the regulations or the law’
were not made, and that he was held |
accountable for an amount of stores
which were not on hand. After some
years he was found to be a defaulter, on |
what he insisted was an assumed state |
of facts, when he took charge of the
pursership. A court of inquiry was ap- |
pointed to investigate his accounts |
Their report exonerated him from an
intentional misuse of the public - 1
erty, but not from the defanlt. They |
reported him to be careless or neglect. |
ful, though not dishonorable. Other- |
rendered the country valuable service. |
On this report General Jackson dismiss- |
ed him from the service, in spite of the
strenuous efforts of influential friends
in his behalf. It was to avenge himself |
for this injustice, as heregarded it, that |
he made the violent assault upon the |
President. The friends of General Jack-
son were never willing to admit the fact, |
but his opponents insisted that Ran- |
dolph pulled the old hero's nose. That |
seems to have been the purpose of the |
ruffian, st any rate ; and the blood upon |
the general's face would seem fo prove
that the attempt was succeseful.
The opportunity for this outrage was |
farnished by a {trip of the President, a’
portion of his Cabinet, his private secre- |
tary, and other friends, down the Poto-
mac to Fredericksburg, in Virginia, to
witness the ceremony of laying the cor-
per-stone of the monument to the
memory of the mother of Wash. |
ington. The boast stopped at
Alexandria for a few moments, and
while there a number of persons came |
on board, and among them Mr. Ran-
dolph, the late lientenant in the navy, |
who had recently been dismissed from
the sorvice. He entered the eabin
where the President was seated and en- |
gaged in reading a newspaper. He ad-
vanced toward the President as if to ad-
dress him, and seemed to be in the act
fo drawing hisglove. “The Presiden,”
says the account in the Globe, “not |
knowing him, and supposing it was.
some person about to salute him, and |
seeing him at some difficulty in getting
off his glove, stretched out his hand to- |
ward him saying, ‘Never mind your |
glove, sir.” Randolph having then dis- |
engaged himself from his gloves, thrust
one band violently into the President's
face, and before he could make use of
the other received a blow from a gentle.
man standing near by him with an um-
brella. Almost at the ssme time two
other gentlemen in the cabin spran
upon him, and he was dragged back gn
thrown down.
“The moment he was assanlted
the President seized his cane,
which was lying near him on the table, |
and was forcing his way through the
gentlemen who had crowded round
Randolph, insisting that no man should
stand between him and the villain who |
had insulted him ; that be would chas- |
tise him himself. Randolph by this |
time had been borne toward the door of |
the cabin, and pushed through it to the
deck. He made his way through the
crowd on the deck and the wharf, being |
assisted, as is believed, by some ruffian |
confederates, and made his escape. He |
stopped for a few moments at a tavern |
in Alexandria, and passed on beyond
the district line. The grand jury, then |
presentment against him, and the court |
issued a bench warrant. A magistrate |
had just previously issued a warrant,
but beforethst officer pould arrest him
he was gone.”
An eye-witness, writing to the Rich- |
mond Enguirer, gives some additional |
sarticnlars, as follows: “When the
Pe riaant said, ‘Never mind vour glove, |
sir,’ Randolph said in a low tone that he |
came to ‘take his revenge by pulling his |
nose,’ suiting the action fo the word. !
The President exclaimed in astonish- |
ment, ‘What, sir! What, sir!’ Ran-|
dolph on the instant was struck by Mr. |
Potter with an umbrella a very severe |
blow, which knocked him against the
: YK ae 0% x i,
Yel *ng among the sheaves,
where one ay —— -
In uobvn with Gog, oar as} ia rosight
The 0 ui future Fivud fn cy
And ours the grate :
Comen day by day thdT¥i00 whence
The hope, the trust, the plPonse;
The fountain and the noonda¥e, Sayed,
John 1,
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
“1 love thy rocks and drills.” as the
| voung fellow sang to the rich miner's
daughter, — Salem Sunbeam,
Rocking-chairs wonld be more com.
fortable if they were less tidy. Chaff
rot aa wi, occu {4
oil on r, ways. us
a head-light,— Statesman
The hen now sits on the garden fence
But ean no mischief hatch,
b Because the seeds have all come 8p;
Plants are too big 100 scrateh,
«= Wit and Wisdom,
“ A rolling stone gathers no moss”
but one that sticks in the same place
continually gets so covered with moss
that it can’t see its way out.~~58i, Lowis
Sprit.
It is the easiest thing in the world
to write fun. Allyou've got todo isto
sit down and think of it and then write
it. We could write columns of it—if
we could think of it, —Mildletowen
T'ransorivl.
a 1 hy i Lenshent t
lion recently held at ay
was read showing a large : a
defect in sight among scholars, whi
would seem very nsturally to arice from
the disorder of the pupils.—Sta/esman,
One can't be too careful with fire.
arms. A Marathon boy carried a pistol
in his coat ket, and one day last
week while was in swimming
pistol unexpectedly went off. He has
no ripen an bo who took it.— Mar
“Will coming man ily? is the
conundrum that the Somerville Jowna,
man is wrestling with, and thinks it will
Ww think it he afte 5
8 4 more
whether the coming woman an
poker,
Danbury hes a baseball nine called
the Aquenuckaquewsok club. Whena
member is seen with his jaw tied nit
is not known whether be stopped a
ball” with his cheek or simply atte
iy again pied
*
The Chinese written Ia con-
sists of one hundred Row Jen, oft 05
acters,
All the natives of high northern lsti-
tudes are short, measuring little more
than four feet.
Let him who regrets the loss of time
make proper use of that which is to
come in the future,
The Druids gathered their sacred
mistletoe with a gold knife when the
moon was six days old.
In domestic animals, such as the
horse and cow, the coat is of a some
what lighter color in winter than i
summer,
the body of a deer, wool of a sheep and
neigh of a horse.
Leland mentions a feast given
reign of Edward V., oe y a
sheep, 2,000 geese,
000 custards were consumed.
It is asserted by Sir Gardiner Wilkin-
son that Egyptian mummies have been
discovered with teeth stopped wi
gold. There is nothing new under the
sun.
Ordi rate of speed per second of
8 ping is four feet, of a horse
twelve feet, a hare cighty-one feet, a
twenty-four pound cannon ball eighteen
hundred feet.
An suk’s egg was sold in London not
long ago for $500; only fifty of these
eggs are known to be in existerce, but
the fabled roc’s egg could scarcely
command a higher price if offered for
sal
5
a,
The objection to horses with white
feet, though mostly considered a mere
caprice, is reaso enough, for white
hoofs are more brittle than black ones,
and are much more liable to break and
contract than those of a dark color.
In some countries, especially in the
East, obesity is considered a beauty,
and Tunisian young ladies are fattened
before marriage.
the contrary, used to
daughters before the ceremony, to give
them leanness.
There are few printing offices so ele-
vated as that of the Brothers Benziger,
at Einsleden, Switzerland, a village on
a mountain lain, more than 3,000 feet
above the level of the sea, and at the
foot of the far-famed Mieten. All
kinds are printed there, and as the
plsce is one of the four most famous re-
work done at Benziger's is in some way
connected with foe of Sharaster o the
lade, and a great is done in pic-
re of the saints executed in chrome-
lithography.
Feat of a Surveying Party.
Ambrose Lomprax, of Natchitoches,
1a, was with a party of surveyors that
were attacked by Apaches south of El
Passo, in the State of Chihuabua. Lom-
rax says be joined the the day
ore the attack, and that night he lost
berth, Captain Brown June} bi a a howe aias hired DO saw what
dragged him with violence m the he ed as signs of the presence
President, and Major Donaldson rushed | Indians in the neighborhood. The next
toward the table in his anxiety day the party started, and he lingered
to protect the President. It was gbout half a mile behind. When the
the work of an instant. The President = party reached the Sand Hills the fight-
exclaimed, seizing his stick, ‘Let no | ing began. Lomprax says the parly
man interfere between me and this per- were well armed and were brave men,
sonal assault; I am an old man, but but they had no leader, and did not
perfectly capable of defending myself know how to fight Indians. He tried to
against, and punishing adozen cowardly ' join the party, but was prisoner
assassins.’ It is said that a person by the Indians, and would have been
named Thomas approached the Presi- | killed had not his lost Mexican boy ap-
dent, and, tendering his hand, observed | and told she Indians that he was
he wonld murder the dastard. The | was secured and could not see the fight.
President put by his hand, saying : ‘No, | The surveyors, thirteen in number,
gir; I donot wish the majesty of the | fought desperately against the Indians,
laws insulted for me. I am capable of | who numbered forty-five or forty-six.
defending myself against insult.” Six of the latter were killed and nine
cn —————— | wounded, and al of the Whites were
: ‘killed, six of them being dispatched
Bow Literature Pays. ' while lying on he field RE Lame
Milton received $25 for * Paradise | prax says the Indians were under
Lost;” Pope $40,000 for his * Transla- | most rigid discipline. After the battle
tion of Homer;” Edgar Allen Poe 810 | they took Lomprax into the Sierra
for “Ihe Raven;” Dr, Holland $12,000 A Madre mountains, where they buried
for “Bitter Sweet,” $8,000 for ** Ka. | their dead. For more than a week the
trina” and $5,000 for the * Mistress of A Indians depredated under Uuris in So-
the Manse:” Mr. Bonner, of the Ledger, | nora, committing a number of m
paid Tennyson $5,000 for a single poem; ' They went down the coast of the Gulf
Augusta Evans Wilson, author of of California, snd in crossing to an
« Beulah,” has made $100,000 in eight | island Lomprax made his escape and
years out of her novels; Sir Walter | got safely to Guaymas, after a severe
Beott made £259,000 out of his; Bret five days tram Lom says the In-
Harte received 510,000 for * Gabriel dians were under the command of Vie-
Conroy,” Dickens $15,000 for the copy- | torio, as he knew that chief very well
right ‘on * Barnaly Rudge” for six | by sight.
months; Stanley has already received |
£50,000 for his “Through the Dark! A board of trade return just issued
Continent;” Shakespeare got $25 for | shows that the mortality in the British
« Hamlet;” Boucicanlt $250,000 for | merchant service from all causes was
“The Shanghran.” | 4,100 last year, an increase over the
me ——— year before of 408. This increase is
The First Lady Smoking a Pipe. nown to be far in excess of that which
roperly have been antici
“Aye!” remarked an old man on Sat- e improved condition the
urday evening, as the people gazed upon | oarrving trade. The record appears
the White House windows, wondering | gti] worse when the deaths through
then show that 675 more sailors-were
+ dtowsed:by wheel £ in 1880 thaa in
the previous year, the respective totals
being 1,653 and 978, Of the 4,100 sail-
ors who lost their lives last year in the
teen are returned as having died
muhiral ousiges Tiamugh be
ever, eaths
cy diseases are excluded
fled
i cop
— 1
1
might
from
I entered that house I was told I should
find our President (General Taylor) in
to the right. As I walked song a
my olfactory organs, I entered the
room, and ice, gentlemen, I saw Mrs.
General Taylor seated at tl eside
smoking a clay eg ar
Queen,
In England, as late as the Reforma-
tion, eating flesh in Lent was rewarded
with the pillory. :