Child’s Hymn. In the lovely spring-time, Came the seed-sowing ; Fruit and grain were growing! Fruit and grain in plenty, Enough for ail the living ; Now in cold November Comes the glad Thanksgiving. How shall we thank Thee For Thy constant blessing ? Low on our bended knees, Sins and faults confessing ? Or in the sacred church, Where the bells a-ringing Oall us to greet the day With our joyful singing ? Prayer and song we bring Thee ; But a heart of pity For the hungry, homeless ones Who wander through the aity, And mourn that they are living, In Thy sight, Oh Lord, Ia the best Thanksgiving, To-Day™and To-Morrow, Ii there comes some joy to me, Would you have me stay, With that joy to sweeten life ? * Yes, Heart, stay w-day.” Well, then, if I have a dream Of some coming sorrow, Shall I wait to feel its foar? If unto some loving heart OF 10 Pay Pay it, Baart, to-day.” If Pm foread from hitter wrongs Cruel words 10 borrow ¥ hen, dear Heard, there is no haste ; i Keep them till to-morrow “ Duty, Kindness and Success by slow delay ; # 3 Wi ny ow iy hath a double right A ben it claims to-day; Kindness dies if it must wait; nish 1 stay 10 them comes HO W-WMOrTOW i ney lose to-day n r Nal 1 +} oe | ' Bat for Debt and Doubt and Anger, OF asd ke a8 Sorrow, aid wait a day; i r O-IMOrToew & to-day, borrow, put off ¢ Such a bad to-morrow The Miller's Granddaughter. The summer afternoon waned at last; flaming sun declined toward the | horizon, and a cool, soft breeze, inex pressibly delightful after the heat of | he dav, began to blow. Since early dawn Lizzie Dupont had been toiling at hor needle, but now she threw down her work, and leaving the | wd on the rude plank that rossed the mill-race, and looked eager. ¥ Over the tha the d nn iil st i fields, an Dossy be?” she cried. reaiinl interest which must be by Saturday has made ne I ought to bave listened I am sare something has wped to her. She never was away before. 1 shall never forgive What—what,” she cried, sud- denly ecissping her hands, “if she shonid be drowned ¥ Lizzie Dupont had not always been a resident at the old mill, dependent on her needle for support. She had once wen, aud that not so long ago, the petted dasghter of a merchant prince New York. But her father had failed and died soon after of a broken t, and Lizzie wonld have starved had not been for her maternal father “ Come to me,’ he had rp; “1 am old and poor, but we vil! share our crnsts together. If you have grown up to look like your dear | nother vou will be the apple of my " 3 dzzie, ignored by her relations, had found refuge in this seelnded spot Refuge and peace, but hardly happi- ness. In the days of her prosperity she becwme acquainted with a young lishman, the son of & titied family, had pli:hted her troth to him Just before her father's failure Ross Devereans had sailed for England, in- tending within six months to return and clad is bride But from that day to bis Lizzie had never heard a word shout him. At her letters had een miscarried, and in the faith and ust of her voung heart had ecntinued i But, at last, and after discov lessness of her father's she began to believe that even might be selfish also. “am and he deserts me,” she said beip me! Bat it is, I sappose, the way of the world.” Lately » new trouble had come upon her Her grandfather had been failing iil winter, so that a man bad to be hired to work the mill, and this had brought debt, Already there was a mortgage on the mill, for the grand- had never been a prosperous man, now the interest had fallen ito arrears for nearly a twelve-month. The bolder of the mortgag= was a cruel, avaricicus man. He had often threat 1 to turn out the little family, if his interest was not paid; and two weeks before he had served a written notice, thst, if the arrears were not forthecom- g br the next Saturday, he would be as good as his word. Every day sinee Lizzie had risen by candle light and worked till bedtime. “If [ can only get this embroidery done for Mrs. Wat son,” she said, “by that dreadful dav, I may raise part of the money at least, and perhaps then he will wait for the rest.” Bat, this afternoon, a ne # and greater trouble had come. Dossy, her little pet sister, had been missing all day. The child often spent the mornings playing in the woods, but invariably returned to the noon-time meal. On this occasion, however, she did not make her appearance. Lizzie was alarmed, and would have gone to seek her; but the grandfather took it more | coolly. “She has stopped at some of the neighbors,” he raid, “she will be home for supper; dou't fret, dear.” Lizzie, thinking of the coming Satur | day, bad allowed herself to be persnaded | that ail was right, and bad gone back to her work. But, as the afternoon wore on and no Dossy came. she grew serions. | ly alarmed. At last, throwing down her needle, she came out, as we have seen. | “Oh, Dossy, Dossy !” she eried, when | she had scrutinized the landscape vain- | lv in every direction, “‘where are you? | If God will only spare you, dear—if he | will give you back to us alive—I will | never repine again at anything.” Bat where was Dossy ? Was she really | lost? To explain this we must go back to the afternoon before, and look at Dossy, as she sat in the old-fashioned garden, swaying to and fro in a vrapevive swing, puzzling over the troubles of the family. She was watching a bobho- link that sang in the heart of a lilac bush, and talking to herself the while, “What a nasty, ugly old man that landlord is,” she said; ‘‘and he made poor Lizzie cry so the other day when he was here, He says he'll drive us from our home. Why, then,” with sudden consciousness, “we'll have no place to live in, and I shall never hear you -ing, birdie; nor have my flowers, nor my kittens. Oh, me! Ob, me!” She sobbed a little, then shook off her April tears, and then fell to think- ing in earnest. If they only had some money, What if she could get some ? She puckered her brow into a frown. Just ther some market carts rolled by, laden with produce, on their way to the neighboring little town. On the front seat of one sat an old woman, with a basket of flowers on her knees. A sud- den thought flashed on Dossy, and the puckered little brow cleared np. Why couldn't she sell flowers? Her garden was full of them, especially of pansies, such pansies as were not often seen. She jumped from the swing so quickly that she landed headforemost into the grasses below. But, nothing daunted, she regained her feet and began picking off the golden-hearted pansies and English daisies by handfuls. She ¥ 2 uy self Ol ar writte in Ex al : i a y RQ ved aim i first she thought he neart LIVES, ¥ Wir Ow = (od thew into ather an ened + 1a | VOLUME XIV. Editor and Proorie ator. HALL, CENTRE 00. PA. DECEMBER 2.00 a - , I 1881, in Advance. NUMBER 49. and make ever so much money, they wouldn't have to leave the mill, { and grandpa and sissie wouldn't ory any {| more, She fell to work arranging her | bouquets for the morrow, her | fairly dancing with delight. She put | them together quite tastefully, and hy { the time the summer moon stood over { the pines she had a long row set up 1 the that the dew In the morn ] | i | Oves ovargroons, would set out. Dear, innocent Dossy! She had not she rose Over and over from her little bed and stole on tiptoe the window to look down her on nh I'he morrow dawned olondlessly Breakfast over, Dossy ran down to the garden, crammed posies into Lin me's market basket, and taking it away, fortu sped, past her i ¥ i Hi On she into the very heart of the town Her cheeks were orimson, her breath came tigue, but at last she reached the mar ket-place and stopped in a little correr where the shadows fell cool, and where an old blind womar was selling laces Here, feeling a of safety companionship from the old blind crea ture, she sat down and began with deft bands to arrange her posies in front of her. What a picture she made in her white frock, with its short, puffed sleeves; her eves ablaze, her amber ringlets blown about by the morning breeze, framed, as it were, by a border of yellow daisies and golden-hearted pansies. At the silvery eall of her sense and my pansies ™' one and another pedes trian looked back, a few smiled, and some stopped and purchased. Pres ently a farmers, who had just such a lit tle one at home, bought of her ane dollar. Dossy was in raptures another gentleman came along, time a comparatively young one, but tall and dark, and with a bronzed face. “ Won't you buy a bunch of pansies, this The stranger, who had not noticed her before, stopped and looked for the little piping voice. ** Please, sir,” said Dossy, holding up a posy, “only twenty-five cents.’ The young man flashed a keen glance at Dossy, and drew near, smiling. “To be sure I will,” he said, pleas antly, “if only for the sake of your bright eyes. Twenty-five cents said, I thick,” and he drew out his purse. “Yes,” said Dossy, apologetically, imagining he thought the price too high. * Yon see I have to ask a good deal,” and she shook her curly head with a grave, important air, * for Liz. zie must have the money by Saturday, or we shall be turned out of our pretty home.” As she finished she tendered to her auditor the prettiest of her posies, which she had just selected for him out of her store. The stranger, all this time, had been looking curiously at her. The went and came on his face, his lips trembled, and he showed other signs of color “Tell me,” he cried, earnestly, “my dear, what is your name?” He drew close to Dossy as he spoke, and seemed to be looking in her face, as if for some half-remembered, half. fancied likeness, “Dossy,” she answered, pout.” : His answer was to catch her in hi arms and kiss her again and again, his voice trembling with excitement as he eried, “Dossy! my little pet Dossy don't you know who I am ?” But Dossy struggled from his em brace, smoothed her enrls, and answered haughtily : “I asked you to buy my pansies, sir, and not to kiss me.” The stranger broge into a langh. “and I will buy them, replied, * every one of them. But don't you really know me, Dossy ® 1am Ross Devereanx. Why, yon have sat on my knee many and many a time" Dossy at this stared at him curiously. Then she uttered a gleeful little shout and sprang into his arms. “Oh, I know!” she cried. member youn. Won't Lizzie be Won't she stop erving now 2 Ross Devereanux's swart cheek crim soned. ‘Take me to your home,” he said, “to your sister. Is she here 7 “No,” answered Dossy, *“ we live at grandpa's, at the old mill out of town, you know.” “ Let us go at once then. No need to sell pansies any longer,” cried Ross Devereaux, eagerly setting the child on her feet Lizzie Dupont stood as we have said, gazing across the meadows, heart. broken about Dossy 8 prolonged absence. Suddenly two figures appeared, emerg- ing from the woods beyond in the direction of the town. She gave a great ery of joy, for one was certainly Dossy. But who was the other? Who was the tall, handsome man who held Dossy by the hand? Could it be —no, it was impossible—not yet At this moment, while she was still uncertain; while her heart leaped into her throat, and then stopped beating, while she felt dizzy, and about to fall, and had to clutch at the railing, Dossy’s companion, dropping the child's hand, darted forward, for he had recognized Lizzie, and came hurrying over the meadow, waving his hat. He reached the stile, was over it in a- bound, and the next moment was at Lizzie's side. “Thank God I have found von at “ Dossy Du joyous ne “1 re glad ? form. * Poor, timid darling! Did youn think I had deserted you?” What Lizzie would have replied, if auything, we do not know; but he gave her no chance; hurriedly, as if life and death depended on it, he went on to tell his story. ‘Not one of your letters ever came to hand,” he said. ‘‘ They were inter- cepted, as I discovered at last, | wouldn't mention how, under other cir- enmstances, but you, at least, ought to know the whole truth. The fact is, dar- ling, that while my parents were eager to welcome you as a daughter, [ had a cousin, an ambitious girl, who had al- ways lived with us, and who, it seems, wished to marry me, not, of course,” he said quickly, “ that she loved me, but merely to secure the title and position. Well, to make a long story short, she bribed the postmistress at the village to give her your letters, so that I never fore I intended, to solve the mystery ” misjudged him. eaux, frankly. you dounted me, did yoa ¥ * Indeed, indeed—" began Lizzie. But he stopped her with a kiss. would do it; yes, indeed, she would, Was some time, and one was at New port and another at Saratoga, and a third at Virginia Springs. Before 1 conld do anything came the news of my father's sudden death, and a summons home, for I am, you know, his heir as to both the titles and estates, When 1 had been at Devereaux hall for a week or so the postmistress came up, tremb ling and penitent, for I was now Nix Ross, and she had discovered by this time that my cousin was not to be Lady Devereanx Then the vila plot ; revealed Darling, ever since I have been wild to discover you. I hurried up my and left England at once. But for a long time I was foiled Your city cousins, on whom I had re lied, could not tell me where you had All they knew, and they told it with evident confusion, was that your mother's father had sent for vou, and that he lived in this State, and in this part of it. So [| have visited every square mile of this and four other coun ties, and only lighted on accident, to-day. I didn't Your grandfather's name." I'here was much more to tell, details with which we will not tire the reader, ager questions and as aager replies, Lizzie could hardly credit her happiness, Dossy danced around, shouting in g If you ever visit England, and should ever go in the neighborhood of Dever eaux hall, you will hear everybody talking of the beautiful Lady Dever wax whom Sir Ross brought home America. Should you her will recognize, as we did, in the gracious matron the Miller's grand daughter, ¢ Was business gone, Dossy Kao by even ‘Ww 109, UHI ™ ir BOG y ou Coin, Coin is presumed to be from the Latin wneus, & die or stamp, and itself really is a piece of metal converted into money by a legal stamp. There is a tradition that Pheldon, king of Argos, first issued stamped silver about 746 B. C. The earliest coins struck, both in Asia Minor | and in Greece, were stamped upon one side only. The first coin in England was made by the Romans earlyin the century. The shape varied square, round, oblong—until the dle ages, when round coin was adopts { by all the European nations. Gol coins were first issued in France by Clovis A. D. 489. About the same time they were issued in Spain by Amalrie, the Gothic king. In both countries they were called trienties. The t American coinage was by the Virginia company in 1612. The firstmoney act- ually coined herewas in Massachusetts, in 1652. Thirty-three vears later Con- necicut and Vermont made copper coin, and three years after them New Jersey also made copper coin. among the most certain widences of history. In the latter part the Greek series ther illustrate the ironology of In the Roma series they fix the dates and successi of events. Gibbon observes that if al our historians were lost, medals, in scriptions and other monuments would be sufficient to record the travels of Hadrian. reign Probus might be written from his eo Another word belonging to this olass comes from the Boman coin issned by Servius Tultins, and bore the image of a she ep (pecus), and was thence called t, the term subsequently applied Some coins have first mid- 3 1 i i e Nirst Loins are € of of reigns. ¥ ¢ he of Hans ; CHUN tO money iu general derived their names from their weight as, for instance, the British d, the French fiers, the Italian SOMO from the metal itself, the rupes, from the Sansorit ye, Other coins have got their names from the design, as the American eagle, the angel, testoon (from 14, head.) Others from the head of the state, us the sovereign, the erown ; and others from the monarch's proper name, as the darie (from Darius) the Phillip, Louis 4’ or, or the Napoleon. Then, again, some coins have got their names from places. The florin, which has different values Holland, Bavaria, England and Austria, iz so called be- canse it was first coined in Florence. The French franc took its name from the first syllable of the inscription francorum rer, king of the French. The | sou, which circulates in France as the cent. does in the United States, is from the Latin “solidus,” which was the name of «» golden coin issued by some of the Romon emperors. The guinea derived its name from the coast of Guinea, in Africa, from which was brought the gold from which it was | coined, first in the year 1664. They Poun lire, a8 the cueroce suiver, jesd oa in 1817. The English pound of sovereign in pound was originally a silver, which was divided into 240 pennies, by the Saxons. The shilling has been assigoed a great many deriva The most plausible refers it back to the German “‘sechill” or shield, #0 that shielding, finally reduced to shilling, would indicate a coin on which the prince's shield is stamped I'he penny is a coin of a vast antiqui ty. Its familiar shape, as may be generally known, is a comparatively modern alteration of the silver form in which it was known in ancient times, I'he American cent began to make its appearance from the mint in 1792, and was prepared by Robert Morris, the great financier of the Revolution. The dollur or thaler is said to been first struck in the dale or valley of Joachim, in Bohemia, in the sixteenth century The first coinage in this country com menced in 1794. This silver coin cir- culates in Spain, Germany, Holland and Mexico,— Troy Times. tions EE ——— A Ruse at a Restaurant, It is an awkward thing to be absent minded. The story is told of a certain Philadelphia gentleman, who discoy- ered this at his cost. It so happened the other day that the dining-room of the club which he frequents was quite full, when a man who chanced to know his particular failing came in very hungry. The waiter told the new comer there was no room at present Spying our absent-minded friend com. fortably seated and reading the news. paper, a brilliant idea struck the hungry ma. “Has Mr. A. tioned. “ No, sir,” replied the waiter, ““ Well, never mind, take him his bill and tell him he has had his dinner.” The waiter hesitated a moment, anc dined yet?" he ques. 1 over to Mr. A. and handed him his bill. *“ What is this for ?” quoth the poor fellow * For your dinner, sir.” ““ My dinner —ah! Have I really had it 7” | “Yes, sir,” rejoined the waiter, in all | innocence. | “Dear me. I hod an idea I was wait- | ing for it. What a curious mistake?” And with a contemplative smile Mr, | his table for the nee of the genins who | had profited by his absent-mindedness If there are any.genunine perfection STIRRING ADYENTURENS, Five Meces of News Concerning Odd Ups aud Dewus of Lite, Near Alice Falls, Canada, in a house npan a hill, dwells one of the prettiest girls to be found north of the St, Law Poter Gumblaw went courting thereabout a few days ago, but as what follows will show he had a most dis tressing time. The beauty of the Ausa gave Peter the mitten, He left the house in such a rage that it seemed a good thing to him to go straightway and leap into Ausable chasm. Unfor nnately, the precipice was on his path homeward and so near the dwelling of his oruel lady-J that his anger had no time to cool. As he ran toward the renee, ble Vi to whom he hastily handed his watoh, money and keepsakes Then, as the boy says, the lover gave a wild leap from the brink, The lad was like the velvet gloves of a rabbit, swiftly to the nearest man When the latter reached the rocks by the river he caught sight of Gumblaw in the torrent far beneath, but still above the falls It was apparent that from the intense pur pose of self-destruction the young man now had changed to a keen desire to save himself He was grasping ut the traditional straw, Eddies whirled around, white spray frothed his throat and the rapids roared at his ear, | but he clung to a jutting rock with des- porate energy. Ladders and ropes were hurriedly procured, and he let go his hold to grasp the end of a line just as the ecoentrio current whirled his body downward over the falls. When picked up below Gumblaw was unconscious His left thigh, three ribs and an arm were broken, but at last accounts the pretty girl of the house on the hill was successfully nursing him back to life, Men are now grading the track of the Northern Pacific railroad at a point in Hell Gate canon, nine miles west from New Chicago. One day A crevice blast was set In a rooky bluff twenty feet above the river. The main blast sisted of seven kegs of black powder, which was placed at a depth of fifteen feet. Two auxiliary blasts, with a short fuse to each, wers arranged so that they would open the ¢reviee. The fuses were fred, the men sought shelter, and two eX Posions followed, ane the heels of the other % contmotor, said F. H Anderson, Robert Dunn, Michael MeCarty and Charles Reichenberg: “The shots have Anderson demurred, saving the big blast was still below, but five men walked to the crevice, nevertheless, and began to ex amine the rocks, While they were thus standing directly above the im nmense charge the seven kegs exploded I'hree hundred cubic yards of rock were lifted into the air as lightly as a man raises his hat to a feminine friend. The five men went up with the earth's crust like skyballs shot from the school-boy’s board. Fallow-workmen who witnessed terrific explosion affirm that the were harled at least hundred and twenty feet wpward. They came down in the river—some unconscious. at aon sharply upon Nelson Bennet, to all gone off; let's go down.” tive one was able to eat his svpver that night and draw his wages next day Doetor Torrington, who is seventy vears old and by no means athletic, was hurriedly summoned to the house a neighbor, Mrs. 8. Hadlock, Peak’s Island, Maine, When he reached | Mrs. Had: he found that he was expected to kil with a gun instead of with his medicine chest. An eagle of sweeping wing and flerce scream was circling about the Hadlock ponltry-yard 3 5 and the f 0 ¢ 3 LEH good woman was protecting her turkeys by means of brickbats hurled with Amazonian conrage. The doctor was amazed and amused, for he never before had heard of such boldness on the part of the bald-headed things, ver big their beaks. He was about to take aim when the bird swooped down at him. At that moment Bix year-old child, a grandson of Mrs Hadlock, toddled out of the house, and the eagle pounced upon the little fel- ow. Mrs. Hadlock struck frantically at the eagle with a large roller towel, howe a boring oak. Doctor Torrington put a double charge in the Hadlock shotgun and fired. ‘Tne eagle flew upward and | away over the sea, and its flight showed that it was wounded. Doctor Torring tons shoulder was dislocated by the re- coil of his gun. Before night some fishermen found the eagle's body au half mile off shore, How Lewis Schafer escaped death by the breadth of a .air, afterward climb. ing a hundred feet perpendicularly with oue hand, is told by the Leadville papers. Sohafer worked in a mine on Little Guleh creek. The shaft is 115 foot deep. The hero of the episode, a German of the build and brawn of Hercules, was hammering his drill at the bottom of the shaft, when he heard a strange noise above. Instantly glane- ing upward he saw a heavy beam fall ing with frightful velocity down the shaft. He acted upon instinct, and pressed | to the wall of the parrow hole. The beam struck one shoulder and knocked his head forward against the rock. He remained quivering for a few moments, | and wonld have died but for an effort | of will. Wounded as he was, hel mustered nerve enough to worm his way upward to the mouth of the shaft, a | task that in itself would have appalled | a man with the use of both arms Joseph Meek, a colored man, is known in the Barker mining distriet, Montana, as a lucky hunter. One day he was looking for game in the region slong toward his point of observation. Meek ran down the slope, and upon | what he thought was a good foothold | he stopped to fire. The bear kept on | and the recoil sent Meek rolling in the | snow. When the hunter picked him- self up he saw an outeropping of silver ore, Forgetting the bear, he passed the day collecting bits from the ledge and took them to Benton. The ore assayed $2,100 to the ton. The latest from the hunter is that he is packing cre down Baldy mountain two miles on a mule and selling it at a smelter for 2.50 a pound. Fa Al: Ready to Fight, toberts, of Afghanistan sent in August last to Ger- 8 (ienerai fame, was annual maneuvers of the Hanover and Schleswig Holstein army corps. The Prussian system and its perfection of organization, in his opinion, constitutes | the most finished and easily worked | fighting machine the world has known, | To such perfection has its organization | been brought, he says, that in one night | any army corps can be mobilized. He | was told that in the bureau of the gen- | eral stafl letters were ready stamped {and addressed to every department | and commanding officer of the several army corps, only requiring the dates to | be filled in for dispatch in ten min- | utes. He was assured that all the | horses belonging to private people | throughout the country were marked | off for the regiments and batteries to which they wonld be attached in war ASHIP WITHOUT A MAST, Phe New Siyle of Yesse!l to be Bullet Many ew Applisuces ln Machinery Wonders ful Specd Promised, The New York 7i late date says: A project whieh is to sume great proportions at an early date oame to light in Wall street vesterday It contemplate 8 A BWeeping revolution nes of a likely “an iu ocean steamship budding, and, ao sording to information given the Vimes it has the support of leading and iuflo principally Ma I'i story of the ential capitalists, HH chusetts gentlemen A proposed enterprise, as told by Mr, A Perry Bliven, of this city, who is large iy interested in the scheme, is presented herewith Mr Bliven talked freely with the TYmes' representative, and en tered into a full explanation and dis oussion of the plans which he and his £ colleagues have combined to prosecute “This,” said Mr. Bliven, "is no sud denly contrived scheme. We have heen : and we have taken every step necessary to SUre Our sUCCoss, we believe Capi tal not wanting. An organization has been formed in Boston to push the project through. That organization known as the American Quick Transit SAU (HK) us sO Is 18 i cash That nstraoe association, and has already paid into its treasury 8§200,000 is to be uned for the co tion and equipment of initial ship, and to defiuy such other expenses as may be ineurred. We are now ready to begin the construction of that initia ship, and a contract has just ented betwe en the association and self by which 1 agree to build th and put her in thorough sea going tris complete in every particular. Li work will be done at my yard on (he Hudson, at Nyack, where 1 buil well-known schooner yachts Republic the hittie I X pect to the Hi Deen hh © Visas « tle and Princess, and sloop yacht Ada pleasure of seeing her shoot out upon the river before the first day of next May I'his first will much smaller than those which are to follow will be 147 feet long, with twen tv-one feet beam and feet depth of hold; her draught forward will be five feet six inches, and aft eleven feet, Bo much for generalization. Her deck will be completely domed. Not! ing will be in sight there but the upper portion of the pilot-house, the smoke stacks and ventilators The pilot house will be entered from underneath, i will give an unobstructed view in every direction. being composed of convex glass an inch thick, set solidly in steel frames, The advantage of a vessel with. out any obstructions above deck are too jr Viess {iave Le boat sixteen Ali detailed Fhe limitless amount of i have been weighted down and handi capped has ever been a subject for loud est lament among sailors, suffered as unavoidable ne Nobody, till now, has ever dared atten pt to take such radical steps as would be involved & project 10 sweep AWAY the We have stepped the profile mn by oe a a shell, from stem to Hut it has been ai OORKIlY in menmbrance to solve Iver with us rough whatsoever BOAR Sweeping over us with {foree, the ¥ can damage No spars are ton freight goes overboard, no lost. Evervthing roof. Oaly the top of the pilo and the top of the and ventilators can touched, and upon them Waves have no effect When we announce that we intend completely dome in our doing away with masts and sails, most people will be apt to break out with the ex elamation— What will you do if in mid you de out, lives 18 beneath house SINOKestaohs safe 3 i EL the can $0 shins, ocean yon break a shaft or tear y I'hat's where you will be hopeless without masts and sails “1 there,” Mr Bliven, “ that the difficulty has always been. It is just at that point that ship builders have always halted and de elared that a without valueless, or worse. But just at tha point we claim to have trinmphed. It is in the matter of driving power ap pear our greatest departures from the present type of vessel, Our machinery will occupy less than one-half the room now required by the most modern pat terns in use, and it will weigh not mor than two-thirds of that now used. Bul that same machinery, swaller lighter, will produce more than five times the power given by that now iu Qur boilers, shafts wheels, condensers, and all machinery best and in matter alone we shall obtain vastly perior strength. The new steamship the Servia, 15 allowed to carry ninety to 120 pounds of steam square inch upon ber We shall b to ours pass a government inspection at 1,000 pounds, and will be able to com mand a working pressure of 550 pounds This enormons power we obtain from ap appliance entirely new aud wholly our own. Another new appliance is a triple compound engine, serew to pPlreces ? is just continued ¥ i vessel BDArS Is # and use, engines, steel, wil fron per bolle r have Lo able times as many revolutions per minute the fastest steamships now afloat. There will be a double steel boiler and donble triple compound engines. will have four steel cylinders each, and power, The vessel will Ix fitted with a four-bladed diameter I'hey will ana will in pitch. edges, and times separate, ten feet with eleven feet have fine knife of more than ten an bour. The main shaft will steel seven inches in diameter, fifiy feet long. The engine's four steel cylinders will give a combined stroke of ninety-six inches, with the O00 pounds pressure on piston rods, The engine and boiler rooms will placed amidships, and will be surround giving absolute protection from anecci- dent from without. This machinery cross from Boston to Liverpool inside of five days. calculate to be a fair estimate, No mat. deck insuring us against the necessity to ran out of a storm center The teamer will be equipped in the finest gryle, her interior being fin ished in polished hard woods and handsomely upholstered in silk velvet She will be as magnificently appointed as any pleasure yacht afloat, When completed she will be taken to Boston, and make a trial trip to Enrope from that port. Immediately returning, she will be entered in the steam pilot ser- vice, and will do outside towing, taking disabled vessels off Grand Banks and acting as a general wrecking ves el along the coast. But before she is placed to that nse keels will already have been laid for other vessels, larger, and being in some respects even more marked in their departure from patched to its destination. the prevailing types of ocean steam- ships. SCTENTIVIC NOTES, on the aun IS & Yery poor Heo asserts that the ab of starch and the small propor of matters do not allow it to be classed with any of the ordinary nutritive matters The kernel of the date, thority of M : af Cioorgos, article diet Refine tion albuminous M. Hougeau has lately published a representation of the milky way on a inrge soale, showing the equality of luminous intensity by means of eurves A great oelestial circle, consisting of thirty-three bright masses, is apparent, and in the canter of this our solar world is very nearly situated. A most remurkable discovery has been made in the Hweetwater country, in Wyoming Territory, It is a deposit of sulphuric seid in its natural Ihe odor, chemical action and general AP POATAN Ct of the stuff demonstrates it to be a pure quality of sulphuric seid. The ground is impregnated over a large 100 acres and parties have filed claims upon it. stale, RICH Or more When the rapid increase of the earth's tion was observed, the idea was ad vanced that the moon's orbit was Brow ing shorter, and would end by coming down upon us. But more recent ealou- lation shiows that, instead of the moon coming our day is growing longer, owing the frietion of the tides upon the earth's surface, by which the speed of rotation 1s slowly diminished Hi nearer, to the earth's I'he friends of the Davenport {Towsa) Academy of elaim that that institution possesses the only evidence toat has vel been discovered that the mysterious mound builders had a writ It has in its museum two inscribed tablets which were found in some of the mounds, and which have attracted attention from American and European archmologists,. Mr. Prett, inle president of the academy, believes that the evidence of the genuineness of the 1 sufficient, but the fact must be regarded as still very much | Belences ten language ser pt 1008 18 question EE FAUIS AND COMMENTS, President Garfield's memory is to be honored in London by the founding of a howe for working girls, to be “ealied “Garfield house.” A lady has given $1,200 to a committee for this purpose, The carrier pigeon that is valued at 8500 must be a fine bind, Yet there are several such on exhibition at the pigeon and poultry show recently opened st the Crystal palace, London. Bome of these birds are said to have found their way from Rome to Antwerp, a distance of about 700 miles, in two or three days, stopping, too, on the way to gather food. They have an original way in Venice of protesting against a bad tenor. A gentieman in the parterre of the Teatro Malibran recently opened his umbrellas and held it toward the stage, evidently to keep off the shower of false notes. I'he auditoriam at once became a forest of open nmbrellas. The tenor fled, the eurtaiu fell, and art was avenged. The supreme tribunal of Mexico has just given a remarkable decision. They have determined that certain slaves were entitled to their freedom twenty vears ago, and that the owners of a mine in which they bave been worked for those twenty years must pay them wages for all that time. This decision indicates the growing liberal sentiment The famous big trees of California, 3560 to 400 feet high and proportionately thick, are on public land, subject to entry at $1.20 an acre, and may be bought up and destroved by whoever wishes to make such use of them. The bark has already been peeled from the batt of one for a showman, who sets it up al fairs as an exhibition, and another has been cat down in order to make a dancing platform of the stump. Some curious verdicts have lately been noticed in the courts of this eoun try. Not the least singular is that re- HEALTH HINTS, Antagonize yourself to sickness. De- termine that von will not be sick, then laws of your according to the being. ive The inhalation of air charged with mis vapors, asa remedy for whoop wagh, has heen tried in France with One of the methods of appli ation employed is boiling smmonia in he room where the patient is The An Ng o BUOOORS, o the it 1 drink for relieving sickness of the stomach was introduced Dr. Hallahan, it is said to be very palatable and agreeable: Beat up ne egg very well, say for twenty min then add fresh milk, one pint; water, one pint; sugar, to make it palat- boil and let 1t cool; drink when eold If it becomes curds and whey it 8 useless, i A French investigating buckwheat, the rosuit wheat cake bread following : t by and REG i scientist has lately been the food properties of id gives the following as f his researches: Buock- 8 are equsl to pure white | regards the phosphates or i nitrogenous | principles which they contain, and are | superior to bread in fatty matters. The | general yield of buckwheat when cooked ! about the SE of » flonr used, showing that such flower ! from forty to forty-one per wale Between diferent mand buckwheat there is a larity of composition— one ANNE DEarty times as nitrogen, twenty five times | the amount of phosphates, hundred and fifteen times as much fatty matter, as another. The bran is richest portion of the buckwheat, but cannot be digested by weak stomachs The finest quality of buckwheat flour, and the white mill dust especially, are | very suitable for childr n and persons ir ill health, while the stionger varie ties require a stroug stomach and much ! £ us : : bone making material and is tires Limes #ili of s of gr dissin wii re cent Dato tin ent ated ann seven muehn and Lhe exercise for their digestion Luxury in New York. The lnxury and periection of detail in New York dwellings is passing into a | proverb, Nowhere in the world, prob ably, is so much time and money ex pended upon the furnishing and orna of the homes of the rich as in | this city. The draping of curtains has become a distinet branch of art and every decorator and upholste rer has one or md employes whose sole business is to arrange in graceful folds the drap. eries, which are now indispensable, at doors, windows and fireplace Even { the banisters must now be stuffed and tufted and draped on either side with heavy fringe Ceilings are frescoed and painted in the studios of distin guished artists and then transferred to | the houses that they are to embelish. Hundreds of women are emploved, at | an expense of thousands of dollars, upon | embroidery and art peedlework which are to adorn the sumptuous palaces in { which cur rich men live Paintings, statu | ary, carvings in stone and wood, the | richest fabries of French and Indian | looms, indeed all that is rare and beautiful in nature and art, are brought | to bear upon the decorations of these | republican palaces. Even the stables in which the horses, coachmen and grooms are to be housed are far more | luxurious than the simple homes in| which the fathers of our race passed | their lives. The newly finished stables { of Cornelius Vanderbilt in Fifty-eighth | street far outshine those of the Roman emperor whose sumptuous appoint ments have become a matter of history New York Lett Bars bing menting ar Sweet-Flag Candy, Sweot-flag candy is relished by all lovers of sweetmeats, and it is a valu | able ‘aid to digestion, as it will stop | { the disagreeable rising of gas, so ANNOY- ing to dyvspeptics, Being eaten greedily by children, it is often better than other | medicine. A bit held in the mouth when one is caring for the sick will | often counteract the effect of contagious | germs, To prepare it take fresh, healthy roots of sweet flag, and after a careful washing eut in slices one-eighth of an inch in thickness Pui them into | a stewpan or bright basin, and pour a | little more cold water over them than will cover them. Bet on the stove and | | heat slowly; when the water boils turn it off. If the candy is desired for medi | cine quite enough of the strength has | been removed, but for a sweetmeat it is | batter if boiled up and the water turned | off four or five times. Now measure | the sliced roots, and to each two oup- fuls allow one and one-half eupfuls of | white sugar, turn on water enough to | cover, return to the stove and simmer | slowly, stirring often until the water | has quite boiled away; then turn out | on buttered plates, and stir frequently | until dry, The long simmering after | the sugar is added makes the roots | quite tender, and the candy will keep | nice and fresh for years.— Country Gen- | tleman., Don't throw away your old flour bar- rels, They are useful. hold 678,900 silver dollars, where a woman secured a verdiot of $9,000 from a street railway line for the loss of a hand by an accident to the ear in which she was riding, while a few of only 84,000 was given in favor of & boy who had both legs eut off in an- other street-car accident. There is no department of the Fed eral government where, from the nature of the business, there are such opportu- nities for frauds as in the pension bureau. There are already 700,000 There not been decided, snd new cases | are coming in at the rate of 100 a day It would be naturally supposed that as time passes the number of pensioners wonld be decreased by death, but such The estimated expend- ha ve 18 not the case. hh ih at $88,000,000, and it is supposed that between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 of this amount will be on fraudulent claims. It is now nearly seventeen years | since the postal money-order system went into operation in the United States, and the results prove the system to be a great convenience to the people, while yielding a revenue to the govern- ment bevond the cost of doing the busi- | ness thar During the last fiscal vear more | seven millions of money-orders | were issued The received for these orders smounted to $017,081, against $650,516 as the cost of transmis showing a net profit to the govern business to the amount of The amount of money sent fees ION, ment on the LE Rm Sandi AIL 3 in million of dollars. The SYR m been extended to the postal service be tween the United States and several of the countries of Europe. has | A little girl only fourteen years of | age, vamed Margaret Messenger, has | been convicted and sentenced to death | at the Cumberland assizes in England, | for the murder of a baby whose nurse | The jury found her guilty and | althongh, being at the time | she was also that prima facie, incapable of ecrime—she | was precocious enough to have a erimi nal intent. There is on record in Eng- | land an example of a boy aged eight | years being hanged for burning a barn | in Berkshire. A boy of ten, convicted | of murdering his bedfellow, was unan- | imously pronounced by the judges asa | proper subject of capital punishment, | aud does not appear to have been re prieved. These cases happened ‘ong before the secretary of state was in the habit of interfering in cases of murder a8 he does at present ; and it is proba ble that this young girl may have her punishment commuted to imprisonment for life. cently, A betting man known as “‘Hoppy,” because he is lame, attempted to leave the gronnds without paving those who had made wagers with him. His movements being understood, a ery of “Welsher !” was raised, and several thousand persons quickly assembled The man was attacked in a furious man ner, and his clothes for the most part were torn off The noise soon attracted their way through the mob and sur. rounded “Hoppy,” who, but for the timely assistance rendered, would have most seriously injured, if no! from a wagonette, and considerable crowd remained behind A call was made for paper, and show ers of newspapers, race oards, letters, books, ete., came from the multitude in response, In a few seconds the vehiel: was almost covered with inflammable articles, and these being set fire to, the } on cheering lustily, The appearance of the flames brought a strong body of po- lice to the spot, and after great diff the carriage, well alight, was drawn out of the burning heap of paper. pieces, the horse being allowed to stray Away. A large tract of waste land in South. ern Algeria has been leased to a French- man who has determined ta make it cultural purposes. His intention is to convert it into a lion and panther pre- serve, into the preserve by old horses, mules, work. A luxurious hotel, supplied with a Parisian chef, is to be erected upon | i i i i will sally forth the budding sportsmen i WINE WORDS, Inclination and interest determine the will, : To indulge a consciousness of good- | ness is the way to lose it, Good company and good conversa. If conscience restrains thee to-day it | will to-morrow and all thy life long, The life’free from care, and from any | buffetings of fortune, is a dead ses i All that a man gets by lying is, that | he is not believed when he speaks the truth. There 15 no sadder truth to the human mind than the irrevocableness of the past, Pleasure and pain glide by us like shadows; life vanishes in a moment; it is nothing in itself-—its value consists in the use of it. Rotter a cheap coffin and a plain fu. neral, after a useful, unselfish life, than # grand procession and a marble mauso- leum after s loveless, selfish life. A brain is a very hungry thing, in- deed, and he who possesses it must con- stantly feed it by reading or thi or it will shrivel up or fall asleep. Onur condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst ; Jupiter should grant his request aug we would continue to importune him, The habit of fretting is one that grows rapidly unless it be sternly re pressed; and the best way to over come it is to try to look always on the bright side of things He who learns and makes no use of his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books. Comprehendeth the ass whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of fagots? Any one may doa casual act of good natare, but a continuation of them shows in the tem t of the individual pea In this world a man is likely to get what he gives. Men's hearts are like a i speak softly a gentle whisper comes back; if you scold you get scolded. With the measure you mete it is meas- ured to you again. Heads and Hats, Whether the mighty sons of Anak wore Lats at all is not of so much interest as the question of the circumference of their heads. We read a great deal about the size and bulk of the giants of old, but such extreme stories of sizeare looked upon with just suspicion. Very frequently, when the armor worn by the men-at arms of the sixteenth nd seven- teenth centuries is examined, the con- clusion is that the knight thus protected was less in size than the msn of to-day. But the bulk of the body may have increased or diminished, but what about the size of the head? is the hat we wear to-day as big as the one donned by our grand- fathers? English hatters-—a conserva. tive set of men—declare that in their business the diminution of the skull is quite spparent. Whareas thirty-five years ago, when they reed an assortment of hats, the following were the proportions: Sizes of 21 inches, none; 21 1.2, 1 hat; 221.2, 4; 23, 1; snd 28 1.2 inches, 1 hat. To day they order and sell huts of de creased cireumference: Of 21 inches, Ghats; 211.2 4;22,8;2212, 1,and of 23 1.2 inches none at all. It might be experience of our hatters in regard to the American head- coverings, and fae- tories making hats by the thousand might determine whether the American bead was diminishing in bulk or not. pose that a diminished size of the head should mean less of the thinking or intellectual power. It might be con- intellectual people producing their kind, have been is not always the biggest box that con- tains the finest materials. Perhaps the whole explanation, as Professor Flowers writes in Nature, may arise from the different fashion in wearing hats. In former days the hat was siouched on the back of the head, and it had to be bigger, while to-day we wear our hats on the top of our heads and them. One thing about hats which physicians declare to be true is that the hard black hat, which binds the brows, induces baldness. They agree as follows: That the circulation is hindered, and the smaller veins which supply the hair-making material and leave the bulbs at the base of the hair thateh.— New York Times. Madam Fillosofofll and the Czar. A correspondent in 8t. Petersburg re- cords an amiable action lately performed by the czar. During the last few days the chief military procurator, Filoso- fofl, and his wife have returned to Rus- sia and reappeared at court. The story of their absence isa curious one Under the regime of Gurko it was an easy thing for any one man or woman to be ticketed as “politically suspected,” and dealt with accordingly. a Filoso- foff was a cultivated and generous lady, and she employed her spare moments in frequent gifts to poor and promising students to aid them in their careers. A student of science or literature was regarded ipso facto by the Gurko school if not already a Nihilist there was no say ng how soon he might become one. Madame Filosofofl’s gifts to youths of this class brought her into bad repute, ave been found that she really aided any aspirants, that she curator, was in despair, but his influence of the hard sentence, which reduced mans eall a * straw widower ” At a court ball ghortly after the exile of his wife, the late Emperor Alexander IT went up to Filosofoff and: kindly asked him why he looked so wretched. “Your majesty knows,” he replied, “that T am a lonely man. I am no longer young, I am constantly ill, and I need hardly say that I miss the society of my wife.” “I can feel for you,” said the czar, “and 1 wish that your wife could return to you; bus,” added he, after a pause, “1 find that it is quite impracticable.” Early the next morning, while the procurator was at work in his study, a courier arrived from the czar, with a ncte in the im- perial handwriting. “As your wife cannot return to you,” said the doeu- ment, “you had better go to her. I 2.000 rubles for traveling expenses.— Alexander.” The present czar struckla line across Madam Filosofofl’s name mn tue list of ** political suspects,” und she to return home, and, as our police re- And clonds are fled and sire grows mild And waves plash softly one by one, And weary earth, her oui var Lies like a lovely sleeping ob We feel a joy unknown before n tree and flower snd rain-washed grass, A new deancs in sun, Pain is not sweet, but pain is best ; His cold hand has the magic keys Which unlocks treasures io our eyes Hidden in daily trivial things ; And common comfort, common ease, Respite from common sufferings, The morning's task, the evening's rest Are to us riches past all price, Life may be hard ; but when life ends, And all the hard things sre gons by, And every sche has been relieved, Joy shall for grief make such amends That we shall wonder that we grieved. ; ~ Susan Coolidge. —— HUMOR OF THE DAY. The is only a man who thinks slop, is only The iss man who cannot oi nan Sheena — Somerville Journal, “Bard out,” as the he found the street door hat, avetlions ‘ Arkansas msn was lynched riding a mule on Sunday. It other man's mule, by the 8 young woman's ie al} i 50 nected: As a baby, she's Ingged. a young woman, she's hugged. As a wife she's humbugged. —Springfisid ‘You cross, cruel husband!” she sobbed, ** bave bb-broken h-h-beart I” “If that's the case” the o. ob, Jou will act need the ast you were talking about yester- day” "Yes, 1 will I" she exclaimed, with en vehemence, “ I'm heart Thole on that subject.” — Slobson says that if you should walk up to one of the nobs, those who are the dandies, and ask him to lend you cents, he'd say he didn't is, nine times out of ten he would would be well received Will you allow me to point out suggestion arises from a founded, though very common, that green is the national land? The truth, ho green was never heard o or party color till 1798, ted Irishmen adcpted it, for the ing reason : The ancient flag of Ireland was a golden harp on a dark bine ground, as now depicted in the Irish quarter, the third, of the royal standard, snd the leaders, being anxious to unite fo- gether all classes of being in that respect the converse of the tors, and to join the Patrick, in 1783, the only national color was woald ly have the ribbon but that it appropriated by the ter, w was by the way, the expression “true bl Under these circumstances, it was nally p that the St. Patrick bon should be orange, but, as it would have savored too much of party, it was ultimately determined that it should be the old color of the Garter—light blue Test for Water, A simple test is to cork up a small bottle nearly full of it, in which a of lump sugar has been I u thus excluding the air letting stand in the light for two or three fay there is not a milky cloud seen, but water remains clear, it may be consid ered free from the phosphates which sewage water is im To ascertain if water contains : aglass of water and add toita drops of he mlusies of waigalls suspend a nu it by means thread for twenty-four hourk If be t, the water will become of a a ra, or black color. Prussiate of potash is a still more delicate test for detecting iron. If a crystal ora drop of it, when dissolved, be added to a glass of water containing iron, it will immediately become of a blue color. To ascertain if water contains magne- sia, take a quantity of the water, and boil down to a twentieth of its bulk; then drop a few grains of car- bonate of ammonia into a small glass of water. No magnesia will yet be pre- cipitated k; but on ading » small guan- tity of ate of soda, if any magne- _ rt it will then make its pearance and fall to the bottom of glass. In this experiment it is neces- sary that the carbonate of ammonia be in a neutral state. msi Ot. Telling Each Otner’s Faults, The Boston Post tells of a West End husband and wife who agreed to sit down and have a quiet chat. Each agreed that people are blind to their own faults; so they made an agreement that each should be perfectly frank, and in a friendly way tell the other his or her faults, so they could each Other He correct hose faults Approac ection. It was their > help each other to attain that uy So they began, and in less than ten minutes the neighbors began to take an interest in the transaesion, and stood around and cheered to see the hushand come flying down the front steps hatless, with his coat torn, his hair disheveled, and he making desperate efforts to out of reach of a pair of tougs in | wife's hands. It always works just that _ WAY. Hope is like the sun, journey toward it, cast our bu which, as the aaa Aen De a
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