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HUNTINGDON. PA:, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1880.
Ely
Withered
1;1" .N,)1!)1AN CI'NN
I am glad the dear Octobe-,
With its changing leaves. is here,
For it seems to me the brightest
Of the months of all the year.
Though the summer days are o•.er,
Anti the flowers from oil• the la wa--
Where they 1,10, , 50nte , 1 in the sun , ll;fle
With their brilliant tints, a gn,,•.
For the oak is robed in eardiz,l;
The needles of the larch
Have a pleasant falling rz:lle
In the dial oil forest arch:
And I know that one is waiti,,!,
And that he will shortly e:‘1!,
And we both shall go a-nuttier
'Neath the chestnuts, in the Fat
An& if, as we co a-nutting.
Ile should talk to me of Iny , s.
With the saucy, chirping F quit- rel
In the branches just above.
Then the days of dear fletoli , r
Will be dearer far than
And no one shall know ou,
Bat the squirrel on the l:ctu:.;1!.
Ab, the nak has turne,l to ear,lin:-!,
And the sa, , afr,:s
Ant! October hasten= war.l.
For its days are growing .14:
But, alas! the bright-eyed maiden,
Every wind of Autumn crieves,
Vol above her rest are
the trees the ui:her••l laa
Our Foreriothers
Down the vista of
Through its aim and
'relning with their• toils and s:r:.g4ies,
Joys and ,orrow.i, hove, and f eat s.
Come th e voice of voillt, women,
Who, with fathers, lin:hands, bro!ber:
Kept the faith and I..:lrrit the liattle
For the right—our Li awe foretnotherA.
W.anen who, when Free.lont, fel to,
Shook its chains, ilefiane, herled:
'TwPs their hands that lit the beaeon,
Theirs, the flag of troth unfurlel.
Theirs, the fingers, swift an.' E .
Spun the flax as white as snow;
Wore the cloth that clothed the artnie•
Which for frec.,l•,in t rn , k the Mow,
When the e:au,ls of w:sr!'are tlark,no , l,
And the couotry's woe sernied near,
Theirs, the brave hearts, full of rearage,
That the doubting helped to cheer;
Theirs, the hearts, that true and tender,
Knew no faltering or distrust;
Cheered the hopeless, soothed the wear;;,
Witir their words of faith and trest.
'if to-day, tlese noble matrons—
; islets, wives—who sacrificed
All they had for home and country
Could from their long sleep ari,“.
lean fancy they would ealwiy,
Atter their quaint fashion, steak
Something to the vain and giddy,
Words of wisdom to the weak :
"Women of the nineteenth century,
With your wondrous gifts so rare:
Freedom from all oll.titue thralldom ;
Freedom now to do or dare ;
Look not on the world's great confliets,
Through your curtain's filmy laco: .
But with hearts and hands be doing
Something to nth ;Ince your race." •
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THE STRANGE HUNTER.
Those who go to bunt iu the forests
meet with strange adventures and mishaps.
Often; after toiling through vast swamps
or over steep mountains, the huntsman
passes days without shooting anything,
while at other times, when he least expects
it, he has the finest sport. rometimes his
good fortune comes to him during sleep,
as happened in the following case, which
was told to me by an old hunter in the far
West :
This man's name was Slowtrap ; he was
a strange character, who never made a
quick movement, never laughed, never be
trayed any excitement of the mind, and
was so accustomed to live in his own for-'
ests and to constant limiting, that he never
coughed or sneezed, except in his own hut,
as it were on the sly, and then each time
he would look cautiously and anxiously
round as if' to see whether he had not
frightened away some wild animal.
After the war of American Independence,
Kentucky was still in an unsettled state,
rich in game, and inhabited only by war
like Indian tribes The first settlers there
had to contend with terrible dangers and
difficulties and, if they were able easily to
' maintain themselves by hunting, they were
never sure whether the report oft heir rifle
would not bring down upon them the wild
beasts which were everywhere prowling
about, so that from being hunters they
' might soon become the hunted. It was an
extraordinary wild life which they led
there, and full of adventures.
Well, my old friend Slowtrap—then a
robust young man—had settled down in
the forest with a few comrades and built a
strong block house, where, at night, at all
events, they were secure from any attack ;
they had iedeed always to keep a good
watch, and all day they roamed about one
by one in the neighborhood in pursuit of
game. That there was danger in this
made it only more interesting for these
bold men.
Thus it happened then that Slowtrap
went out one morning to shoot a stag
There were plenty of stars there, and also
many wild turkeys ; but bears and panthers
abounded, for where there is much game
the ravenous beasts who live upon it are
plentiful, too. Panthers, especially, lurked
in those forests; they never attacked men,
but, on the contrary, were timid, and
started off at the slightest noise which
they thought was caused by man It was,
therefore, very difficult to catch them.
As his custom was, Slowtrap had been
gliding about in the thickets without firing
•
a single shot. Now and then, indeed, he
saw herd of game, but it never stood long
enough for him to take aim, and the Amer
ican huntsman never shoots an animal in
motion. At last he became tired of this
wandering about.
According to the sun it must be about
three o'clock in the afternoon, and the
hunter determined to take a couple of
hours' rest under a tree. Toward sunset
the wild animals which hide in the thickets
at noontide are generally again on their
feet, so he hoped still to bring some game
home with hum in the evening. When he
had found a concealed spot where the In
dians would not easily discover him, he
soon fell asleep With his face resting on
both his aims, so that the mosquitoes
sheald not annoy bim. His rifle lay close
beside him, so that if danger threatened
he could seize it at once. But now let
old Slowtrp tell his own story ; he said :
"How long I lay thus I do not exactly
know, but' suddenly it seemed as if a
stormy wind was raging awing the yellow
leaves upon which I lay, and I felt how
they were fluttering over me in hundreds.
At first I was half asleep, and did not
know whether I was dreaming or waking,
but when I came to myself I felt as if
some coo were throwing and covering me
over with dried leaves, with which sand and
earth were mingled.
"At the first moment I was so surprised
—so stupified, that I did not know what
to do, Lot, quick as lightning, I reflected
it could not he Indians, as no sooner would
they have discovered me than they would
have given me a blow on the head with
their tomahawks or axes. Sonic danger I
certainly expected—but what? Before I
could resolve what I should do, whether
to remain lying motionless, or to spring up
and seize my rifle, I heard soft footsteps
among the brushwood, which cautiously
but rapidly retreated.
"Now, I must at least see who has been
. L 7 icing themselves so much trouble about
me, and raising my head as cautiously as
possible, and turning toward the side where
I heard the noise I saw the light form of
a pinther which almost in a moment
plided away into the neNt thicket. That
was indeed a strange thiog. From my
earliest youth I had Lved in the forest and
associated with old hunters, and had never
herd of a similar c,reunistanee from any
of them.
"1 of up, elclned all the sand out of
n;y rifle, loaded with fresh powder, in
order to be sure of my shot, and leaned
the trusty weapon against a tree while I
thought over my plan. I wanted to see
if' I could not for once outwit the cunning
panther. It must by no means perceive
that its supposed prey had fled before the
time ; I placed, therefore, a piece of thick
broken ly..anch of a tree on the place where
I had lain, and covered it carefully with
dried leaves, then I slung my rifle over
my shoulder, and climbed up a little
stunted oak, ;.e.. - !reely fifteen paces from
the spit, from whence I could fire down
upon the place. There I made myself as
comfortable as possible, and with the rifle
ail ready to fire on my knee, I patiently
awaite the return of the panther and the
l in
end of y adventure.
"I %%Is well acquainted with the panther's
ways, 4n , 1 I knew that they generally re
ervedta torn and half eaten piece of game
to fl e 0 upon afterward, it' they_ found
notilink fresh in the meantime. had the
panther fixed npott the fer a supper or
hreakfa:it ? it could not have been
hungry or it surely would in begun a
local on the spot.
••Moreover; there hail not been much
danger, for deubtles, the beast seeing me
lie on my face took me for dead. But I
kit e - ,nvince.l that it would certainly come
back bete again, and I determined to wait
to see what the creature's teal intentions
were and how it would behave.
' I had quite made up my mind to tarry
t
till fa into the night, fur as the creature
appar ntly was not hungry, it would pro
-I,anly ein no hurry to return. As the
moon, which was nearly full, shone from
the sky, I did not think that even at night
I should miss it at that short distance. At
all events I would see what it meant to do.
"•I bad been sitting up there a little
more than half an hour, when I suddenly
heard'll light rustli►►;g among the leaves,
and turning my litad in that direction,
"" I —s. l ws were
rteing moved to and fro.
"It was not long before I saw the yel
lowish-brown head of the beast, with its
sparkling eves, kept close down to the
ground. Very cautiously it glided up,
surveying. and smelling the place where I
had been lying amotig the bushes. No
wild animal enters a half-open place with
out carefully loAing around to see if any
danger threatens. Fortunately I was sit
ling so that the wind blew from the pan
ther to me, and I might easily have shot
it dead ; for when I first heard the noise,
I had raised my gun and covered it with
good aim. But I Ind grown curious, and
wanted to see what the beast would do
next.
"Whr_.n the rointher saw all was safe, it
crept forward with its whole body; but it
was not alone, for close behind it, and also
stnellin,; the ;:r. - :und in the same manner,
there crept ahng two young panthers, the
one to the right, and the other to the left
of the mother, and the old one every now
lnd then looke , i around after them, pro
bably to see if her young ones followed,
with due caution. The cubs might be,
perhaps, four or five months old ; they
walked quite well, and had pretty cat like
fares
" inched,
Now, it was fortunate that I no
longer lay on the ground. I must confess
I almost forgot my rifle at that moment, so
anxious was I to see what the brown,
creeping beast would do with my supposed
person under the leaves. Cautiously and
noiselessly the panther-mother and her two
little ones glided up to the branch hidden
under the leaves, and when they were five
or six paces distant from it, the two young
ones still to the right and left of the old
one, she crouched down to make the decis
ive spring, and the next moment flew like
an arrow from a bow straight on the piece
of wood, into which she buried her claws.
"The little ones did exactly the same,
only that they did not reach the place
with one spring, but required two or three
to do so. But I did not regard them much
now, as T felt at this moment my time had
crone to fire if I did not wish to lose the
old one, for she would not stay long in the
place as soon as she found that all was not
right.
"As soon as she had fastened her claws
into the wood, she remained for a moment
in the same position, as if quite astounded
for she had not expected to find any hard
body under the leaves. But the nose of
my rifle was now directed at her head, my
finger was on the trigger, and with the re
port the ball entered her skull, so that she
fell dead upon the log of wood, and re
mained lying there. The two young ones
trembled at the shot, and looked around
territied at their mother ; and as she did
not move, they did not know what to make
of it.
"Up in the fatal tree where I sat so
cramped up, I could not load again. Tak
ing., therefore, my rifle quickly in one hand
I let myself down with the other by
by the branches, I jumped to the ground,
and then ran, hallooing loudly, upon the
little animals. One ran a few paces, and
then climbed up into a young tree; the
other fled among the bushes. I stepped
at once up to the tree on which the young
one had taken refuge; I loaded my rifle as
quickly as I could, and then I shot it. I
loaded again, and placed myself behind the
old one. I knew that the other poor little
cub would come back to seek its mother as
soon as it thought the danger was over and
it heard no noise. I lay thus a good time
and at last the second young panther came
creeping through the branches, and now
from quite a different direction from that
in which it had fled, and, as soon as it
showed its head, my bullet pierced it.
"Thus, though for mouths I had not
seen one, I shot three panthers in one day,
and I brought my companions enough to
keep us alive, and to keep our saucepans
boiling for some time.
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Ribccilang.
Garfield's Magnetic Power.
A THRILLING INCIDENT CONNECTED WITH
LINCOLN'S ASsASSINATIoN
Cincinnati Gazciti• j
The following reminiscence of General
Gat field's power during the greatest crisis
the country ever passed through has been
furnished us by a distinguished gentleman
whe was present, and shows the intellectual
and moral power of the Republican nomi
nee for the Presidency over a surging and
maddened crowd : "I shall never forget
the first time I saw General Garfield. It
was the morning after President Lincoln's
assassination. The country was, excited
to its utmost tension and New York city
seemed ready fir the scene of 'the French
revolution. The intelligence of' Lincoln's
murder bad been flashed by the wires over
the whole land. The newspaper headlines
of the transaction were set up in the larg
est type; and the high crime was on every
one's tongue. Fear took possession of
men's minds as to the fate of the govern
ment, fur in a few hours the news came on
that Seward's throat was cut, and that at
tempts had been made upon the lives of
other government officers. Posters were
stuck up everywhere, in great black let
ters, calling upon the loyal citizens of New
York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and neigh
boring places to meet around the Wall
Street Exchange and give expression to
their sentiments. It was a dark and ter
rible hour. What might come next, no
one could tell, and men spoke with bated
breath. The wrath of the workingmen
was simply uncontrollable, and revolvers
and knives were in the hands of thous
ands of Lincoln's friends, ready, at the
first opportunity, to take the law into their
own hands, and avenge the death of the
martyred President upon any and all who
dared to utter a word against him. Eleven
o'clock A. at. was the hour set for the ren
dezvous. Fifty thousand people crowded
around the Exchange Building, cramming
and jamming the streets, and wedged in
tight as men could stand together. With
a'few to whom a special favor was extend
ed, I went over to Brooklyn at 9 A. ar.,
and, even then, with the utmost difficulty
found way to the teception room for the
speakers in the front of the Exchange
Building, and looking out into the high
and massive balcony, whose front was pro
tected by a heavy iron railing. We satin
solemnity and silence, waiting for General
Butler, who, it was announced, had started
from Washington, and was either already
in the city or expected every moment.
Nearly a hundred generals, judges, states
men, lawyers, editors, clergymen and oth
ers were in that room waiting Butler's ar
rival. We stepped out to the balcony to
watch the fearfully solemn and swaying
mass of people. Not a hurrah was heard,
but for the most part a dead silence, or a
deep, ominous muttering ran like a rising
wave up the street toward Broadway, and
again-slown toward-the fiver on the right.
At length the batons of the police were
seen swinging in the air, far up on the left,
parting the crowd and pressing it back to
make way for a carriage that moved slowly
and with difficult jogs through the com
pact multitude. Suddenly the silence was
broken, and the cry of "Butler !" "But
ler !" "Butler !" rang out with tremendous
and trilling effect, and was taken up by
the people. But not a hurrah ! Not once !
It was the cry of a great people, asking to
know how their President died. The blood
bounced in our veins, and the tears ran
like streams down our faces. How it was
done I for g et, but Butler was pulled
through and up, and entered the room,
where we bad just walked back to meet
him. A broad crape, a yard long, hung
from his left arm—terrible contrast with
the countless fl igs that were waving tics
nation's victory in the breeze. We first
realized then the truth of the Pail news
that Lincoln was dead. When Butler en
tered the room we shook hands. Some
spoke, some couldn't. All were in tears.
The only word Butler had fur us all, at
the first break of the silence, was, "Gen
tlemen he died in the fullness of his fume !"
and as he spoke it, his lips quivered and
the tears fast down his cheeks. Then, after
a few moments, came the speaking. And
you can imagine the effect, as the crape
fluttered in the wind, while his arm was
uplifted. Dickinson, of New York State,
was fairly wild. The old man leaped over
the iron railing of the balcony and stood
on the very edge, overhanging the crowd,
gesticulating in the most vehement man
ner, and next thing to bidding the crowd
"burn up the rebel seed, root and branch,"
while a bystander held on to his coat tails
to keep him from falling over. By this
time the wave of' popular indignation had
swelled to its crest. Two men lay bleed
ing on one of the side streets, the one dead,
the other next to dying; one on the pave
ment; the other in the gutter. They had
said a moment before that "Lincoln ought
to have been shot long rgo !" They were
not allowed to say it again. Soon two
long pieces of scantling stool out above
the heads of the crowd, crossed at the top
like the letter X, and a looped halter pen
dent from the junction, a dozen men fol
lowing its slow motion through the masses,
while "Vengeance !" was the cry. On the
right suddenly, the shout rose, "The
World !" "The M , rhl ."' The office of the
Wor/d! " World .' "World I" a nd a
movement of perhaps 8,000 or 10.000
turning their laces in the direction orthat
building began to be executed. It was a
critical moment. What might come no one
could tell, did that crowd get in front of
that office ? Police and military would
have availed little or been too late. A tel
egram bad just been read from Washing
ton, "Seward is dying." Just then, at
that juncture, a man stepped forward with
a small flag in his hand, and beckoned to
the crowd. "Another telegram from Wash
ington." And then, in the awful stillness
of' the crisis, taking advantage of the hes
itation of the crowd, whose steps had been
arrested a moment, a right arm was lifted
skyward, and a voice clear and steady,
loud and distinct, spoke out, "Fellow citi
zens! Clouds and darkness are round about
Him ! His pavillion is dark waters and
thick clouds of the skies! Justice and
judgment are the establishment of This
throne ! Mercy and truth shall go before
His face ! Fellow-citizens ! God reigns;
and the Government at Washington still
lives !" The effect was tremendous. The
crowd stood riveted to the ground in awe,
gazing•at the motionless orator, and think
ing of God and the security of that hour.
As the boiling wave subsides and settles
to the sea when some strong wind beats it
down, so the tumult of the people sank
and became still. All took it as a divine
omen. It was a triumph of eloquence in
spired by the moment, such as falls to but
one man's lot, and that but once in a cen-
tnry. The genius of Webster, Choate,
Everett, Seward, never reael-ed it. What
might have happened had the surging and
maddened mob been let loose, none can
tell. The man for the crisis was on the
spot, more potent than Napoleon's guns at
Paris. I inquired what was his name. The
answer came is a low whisper, "It is Gen
eral Garfield of Ohio !"
Wanted--A Printer.
"Wanted—a printer," says a cotempo
rary. Wanted—a mechanical curiosity,
with brain and fingers; a thing that will
set so many ems a day ; a machine that
will think and act, bah. - still a machine; a
being who undertakes the moat systematic
and monotonous drudgery—yet one the
ingenuity of man has never supplanted
mechanically, that's a printer.
A printer; yet, fir all his dissipated
and reckless habits, a worker—at all times
and hours, by day and night; setting up
in close and unwholesome offices, when
gay crowds are hurrying to the theatres ;
later still, when street revelers are gone
and the city sleeps; in the fresh air of the
morning, in the broad and gushing sun
light, some printing machine is at its case,
with its eternal, unvarying click ! click !
Click ! click! the polished cubes :fan
ieto the stick; the mute integers of ex
pression are marshaled into line, and
march forth as immortal print. Click'.
and the latest intelligence becomes old,
the thought a principle, the simple idea a
living sentiment. Click ! click ! from the
grave to gay, item after item—a robbery,
a murder, a bit of scandal, a graceful and
glowing thought, arc in turn clothed by
the mute and impassive fingers of the ma
chine, and set adrift in the sea of thought.
lie must not think of the future nor recall
the past; he must net think of home, of
kindred, of wife, or of babe. His work is
before him, and his thoughts are chained
to his copy.
You know him by his works, who read
his papers, and arc quick at typograpical
errors ; whose eye may rest on this mute
evidence of ceaseless toil ; correspondents,
editors and authors, who scorn the simple
medium of your fame, think not that the
printer is altogether a machine. Think
not he is indifferent to the gem of which
he is but the setter. Think not a subtle
ray may not penetrate the recesses of his
heart, or the flowers he gathers may not
leave scene of their fragrance in his toil-
worn fingers. But when you seek friend,
companion, advisor--when you would ele
vate one who, from sympathy, may fitly
represent either or both—when you want
Judges, Governors and Presidents, 0, ye
people, advertise : '•Wanted—a printer."
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A Waspish Pastor.
Dr. Thorn was a pastor by himself. Ile
was thin as a lath, lank as a .tune shad,
and solemn as a tombstone. He had no
gestures, and seldom lifted his eyes from
his book. If screwed to the floor he could
not have been more immovable. lle la
bored daily like a ditcher, and got his liv
ing mainly from his farm. When he took
••••• a cm- atrliple _the,
key note when he said : "The Lord keep
you humble, and we will keep you poor."
The minister kept his farm, and his farm
kept him. lie went from the hay field to
the funeral, and went back again before
the hearse started. He called his clerical
garments "regimentals." and kept them
hung in the garret. His "breeches" were
wash leather, dyed black, lasting through
a generation. Into these enduring and
never yielding habiliments the old dominie
was shook at the very beginning, and they
never stretched ; so much room and no
more. One Sunday morning Mr. Thorn
went into the garret to array himself. The
bell tolled from the old tower, and the par
son had no time to spare. Mercy ! what
a sight 1 A colony of wasps in the old
man's breeches ! The farmer preacher
had a conteit now and then with this in.
i , ect. Ile knew how venomous a colony
of wasps was. The bell was slowly near
ing, the end, and something must be done.
A long stick and an adroit manipulation
ejected the intruders—except two vagrants
who were on a foraging expedition in the
seams. The pastor entered the church on
the last stroke of the bell, and the sermon
was reached without disaster. Then trouble
began, as the wasps intimated that they
were crowded. The staid and stiff dominie
became agile. lie clasped his hands on
his side, leaped from the floor, skipped
from side to side, and gave other signs of
his annoyance and agony. He saw the
agitation, for the people thought he had
gone stark mad, without doubt. Implor
ingly he raised his hands, and cried out :
"3ly dear brethren have pity on me. I
don't know what's the matter. I know the
word of the Lord is in my mouth, but I'm
afraid the devil's in my breeches."
To Tell the Hour.
Seat yourself at a table. Attach a piece
of metal (say a shilling) to a thread. Hav
ing placed your elbow on the table, hold
the thread between the points of the thumb
and forefinger, and allow the shilling to
hang in the centre of a glass tumbler ; the
pulse will immediately cause the shilling
to vibrate like a pendulum, and the vibra
tions will increase until the shilling strikes
the side of the glass ; and suppose the time
of experiment be the hour of seven or half
past seven, the pendulum will strike the
glass seven times. and then lose its mo
mentum and return to the centre; if you
hold the thread a sufficient space of time,
the effect will be repeated, but not until a
sufficient space of time has elapsed to con
vince you that the experiment is complete.
We need not add that the thread
must he held with a steady hand, other
wise the vibrating motion would be con
tracted. At whatever hour of the day or
night the experiment is made, the coinci
dence will be the same.
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AN advertiser of a new liniment mildly
calls our attention to the fact that his no
tice should read: "There is ntlpain this
liniment will not relieve," an idea sug
gested to him by the last issue of the Dan
bury icews in which a compositor had ta
ken the precaution to substitute the word
"revive" for "relieve."
A Sioux chief, after lbflowing a survey
big party on the Northern Pacific for some
days, mildly remarked that they might go
on, for he'd be d—d if he'd freeze to death
for what hair there was in that crowd.
A PRINTER was boasting the other day
about his wonderful ability to set type.
•'I know what you can't set," said a com
rade. "What ?" "Two hens on one
nest."
THE umbrella which Washington used
to carry is to be seen in Boston.
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Cremation appears to be making rapid
progress in Germany. Eiftcen cremations
were performed last year at Gotha, and
forty-eight bodies have been burned in
Milan during the past three years.
From the fact that the lower animals
arrive at maturity much earlier than man,
and the inferior races of men develop
more rapidly than the superior, a French
biologist infers that precocity indicates a
low order of development.
A curious feature of the creeks and la
goons of northern Queensland is mention
ed. It is called 'floating grass." It grows
on the surface of the water, putting forth
stems and roots which become so densely
interwoven that, even with twenty feet of
water underneath, horses have been known
to cross on the mats thus formed.
Among the recent discoveries is "nat ;•.-
al lime," which occurs in Kansas. It is
found in large beds. It is of a clear, white
color and fine texture, and is readily con
dition by the addition of sand and water.
The mortar thus prepared has apparently
the same qualities as the best made from
"burned lime•" It sets and hardens
quickly, and turn very white.
Prof. Thurston, testing pieces of the
wire cable of the Fairmont Suspension
Bridge, recently taken down at Philadel
phia, after being in use about forty years,
found the iron to be fully equal in tenaci•
ty, elasticity, and ductility to the best wire
of the same size found in the market.—
This fact and similar results obtained by
another experimenter in 1878, lead him
to the important conclusion that iron sub
jected to the ordinary strains of properly
designed bridges does not deteriorate with
age.
At a conference in Hamburg, in Octo
ber, 1879, Lieut. Weyprecht's plan of es
tablishing a circle of international observ
ing stations around the polar regions was
considered. As a result several govern
ments agreed to organize such stations
during the present year, and active prepa
rations are now being made in various
parts of the world to carry the scheme into
effect. The United States Signal Service
proposes to locate an observatory at Point
Barrow, in Alaska; while the Howgate
colony will form, at Lady Franklin Bay,
another station in the international series.
Most of the ferns found in our woods
contain more or less starch, and when prop
erly prepared are very 'palatable and nu
tritons. An attempt was recently made
in France to popularize them as an article
of food. The young shoots of the com
mon brake fern, when exposed above the
soil to the air and sunlight, becomes ex
ceedingly fleshy, white and tendar. The
hill tribes of: Japan live on ferns all the
year round, eating the tender leaflets in
spring and later in the season the starch
extracted from the roots. A certain fa
mous French painter is known to pride
himself on his fern omelets.
The height of tides is augmented by
converging coast lines. As laid down by
Bache. the eastern coast of North Ameri
ca has a Oat "southern beTween
Florida and Cape Hatteras, a "middle bay"
between Hatteras and Nantucket, and an
"eastern bay" north of Nantucket; and,
while the tide is one to one and one-half
feet at Southern Florida, two feet at Cape
Hatteras, and only one foot at 'Southeast
ern Nantucket, the height is seven feet
within the "southern bay" at Savannah,
five feet in the "middle bay" near New
York, and ten feet in the "eastern bay"
at Boston. In the narrow bay of Funday
it reaches forty feet, and sometimes seven
ty feet at the spring tides.
Some peculiar medicines are employed
by the Chinese. Calcined and powdered
antelope horns are used in cases of convul
sions, rheumatism and even apoplexy.—
Plasters of elephant skin are believed to
cure bruises very quickly. Pills made
from the sloughs of catterpillar larvae are
taken to expel worms and relieve headache.
Inflammation of the lungs is treated with
glue from the bides of donkeys. Alcohol.
ic preparations of scorpions are given in
all kinds of maladies. For most internal
diseases a powdered insect, the name of
which has not been determined, is admin
istered. The skins of serpents, applied to
the body, are supposed to cure leprosy,
rheumatism and paralysis, A mucus ob
tained from toads and mixed with flour is
used to stimulate the nostrils in cases of
faints and convulsions.
The trite aphorism, "There is nothing
new under the sun," seems again exempli
fied by a statement to the effect that the
Japanese were practically acquainted with
the art of luminous painting nine centuries
ago, thus anticipating the inventor of the
supposed new phosphorescent paint. A
Japanese cyclopedia cites an account of a
wonderful picture of an ox which left the
frame to graze during the day and returned
at night. This picture came into the pos
session of an emperor of the Sung dynasty
(A. D. 976-9980 who sought an explana
tion, which none of his courtiers could give.
At length a Buddhist priest showed that a
certain nacreous substance obtained from
oysters, when ground into color-material,
rendered the pictures painted with the lat
ter luminous at night and invisible through
the day. The figure of the ox was painted
with this phosphorescent pigment, and, be
coming invisible by day, the superstition
arose that the animal had gone out to
graze.
Manners Which Will Bear Copying.
One of the highest merits of the French
system of manners is that it tacitly lays
down the principle that all persons meeting
in the same house know each other without
the formality of an introduction. Any
man may ask any girl to dance Jr speak to
anybody at a private party. This in no
way extends to public gathe:ings, where
the guarantee of supposed equality which
results from the fact of knowing the same
host does not exist. But in drawing rooms
the role is absolute, everybody may.talk to
everybody. This is an intelligent and
most practical custom ; it facilitates con
versation ; it dispels awkwardness towards
your neighbor; it makes it possible to pass
a pleasant hour in a house where you do
not know a soul ; it gives a look of warmth
and unity to the room. No one is obliged
to set gloomily and in silence between two
repelling strangers. If you want to speak
you are sure of a listener. Of course, peo
ple are often regularly introduced to each
other by the master or mistress, especially
at dinner parties ; but in those cases the
object is to put a name upon them, not to
auehorize them to converse ; for that act
no permission is required.
A CHINAMAN in San Francisco talks
Spanish. We have sometime seen them
walk Spanish."
NO. 28.