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A DRONING DIRGE
This was the rhyme she droned
As she rocked In a rickety chair,
In a whitewashed room with a bare deal floor,
With papered windows and wide-cracked
door,
And ceiling as foul as the air :
"A spoonful of sleeping stud
• For hushing 'em when they cry;
There's little ones more than enengo,
And If they don't live they'll die."
Four babies tucked In a crib,
Two Bleep In u chair,
Three more crewllng the plunks nbout,
Two would be burnt but the lire• lh Old
And still there's a cradle to spare.
Some look weary and pale,
/Some look meagre and t hen ;
Seine Heels beetle and fever-turn
All had been better If never born ;
Their sharp bonen !stare, thitogh the sin to
For their mother's hosom—rags;
Far Its nestling softness—straw
For the loving kisses that dimples ral
A bottle, a epoon, the mixture, and pail;
A shake from a she-liend's
Ay, n spoon and a cup on the
A saucepan of gruel ar tr,
A phial ou the shelf with Its potion arllll - -
Tlal IlttleoneW prayerarnal ladirvdening hi.' wit
For Lho Owe here they slay.
I , or often nt morn anti iilv . lll,
trout want of a inotie.r . h Ch re
J.; Hun Death—no; gent 1,--wit hot.y bl. •I
If wities Iheln to a happier 11,1 6
'Their I:111111e a ,11,1 shell bare.
I••nr 11118 is the rhyIIII. shy 111 . 1111.. ii
As slit. 1 . 111..1ced ill a rickety ellsir,
In a NV hiieW.ll,ll 11.111 with a bare [load 11, ,,, ,
\\ • 1111 Papered windnivmand
And' veiling am foul as 1111. air.
•• of sleeping still!'
leer hushing 'end when they ery
'There's 111.11.• titles 11 , 111,
And live they•11(11, - ,
aisallatieotts.
An Unwelcome Visitor
A Thrilling - Slit-felt
The burglary had been very mdive
and bold in their operation in our city.
but as the thermometer had marked
above the nineties for several days, and
I had little of value in toy mow, I pre-
furred to risk that, little alld leave my
window open, although of easy :access,
rather than undergo partial sulliicat ion.
If an uninvited guest made his appear
ance, and I• did awake, I could feign
sleep and let him--take Nv hate: vcr he
might Lind.
" - This class of visitors," I reasoned
" do not generally com
mit personal violence, if they can :Lc
eumplish theft art-I make good their
escape without it."
These wire my I elleetions every
night as I undre.sed and threw myself
on my lied, leaving my castle open to
the enemy. I had been asleep one night
about an hour, when I was awakened
by the failing of a sman china orna
ment. Starting slightly and opening
my eyes, I HMV the gas burning, and :a
•lull, broad-shouldered man with his
hack turned toward use, his l'ae look
ing over his shoulder lo see %vile( her the
noise had awakened me. Our eyes met,
•
so that. toy plat' to ,It•ep would
!MVO IIL,II I%
dill 1101, hi/N:eVel', 1%/I,alie lIIe. What
1 . 0114)N%aal Ile
once of Mind.
01111081(0 010 filth` of toy
about eight feel from il. was the door of
lily room, two or three rt•et from which
were . 4 he stairs hiailing to the lower
hall. The burglar ;mist have used a
ladder in ascending the riot, from
which he entered the window. It was
dome thirty feet from the ground, and
Isolated. y plttl was, not only lo es
cape harm myself, lint to eillait his cap
ture.. I knew the poliveman's beal, and
he would 'nisi in a short lime.
Sitting bolt upright, then, as I opened
my eyes and saw the burglar looking
very unpleasantly at me, I said, rubbing
my eyes drowsily --allhough, to (ell the
truth, I never was more wide awake in
my life Hello, John, what are you
looking for? Can't you come into my
room without making such a confound-
ed noise*.'
The fellow, taken somewhat aback at
being addressed in this way, said, in a
low but menacing voice, and pointing a
revolver at me :
"Shut Op! what do you take me for?"
" I took you fur John !" I replied,
with at well-assumed nonchalance. But
I didn't suppose he Wa..4 alter anything
valuable ill my room, except one thing,
and—by the way, if you are mit the un
luekiest. fellow 11l the world."
" How's that growled my visitor.
" Well, I have a very good watch ;
but ifiyou want to get it, you must pay
a visit to the watchmaker's after you
leave here, Mr I hail wind I considered
the had, but what now seems the good
fortune, to break the spring yesterday,
and left it for repairs."
" You're a precious rent one!" he said,
evidently astonished at my inditrer
ellee.
"What's the use of toy getting excited
‘ir attempting to resist you? You ate
armed, and you see I am not. And if
you Lad Ho weapon, your lighting
weight must lie at least thirteen stone,
while 11111 W Ia nol. more than nine and a
half. I have no idea of interfering with
you. If the room were lilted with dia
monds; I would not lift my linger to
save them. 'fake all you can Ilinf; lam
going to sleep—so don't make any more
noise.
" I fold on !" said the fellow ; where's
your keys?"
" I suppose you want to make as much
of a haul as yOU I said so took ill
Illy pants hanging, over the bedpost
there, and you'll find my pocket-book,
with It few stamps in it."
It was nearly nue for the policeman
to pass, and 1 paused to listen. I must,
In a few moments put. my plan intoex
ecution.
A glance quick as lightning showed
me that the key nl We door was on the
outside.
illy listening expression did not es
cape the sharp and practiced ear of Iny
grim visitor. It was a curious scene, no
doubt, I sitting in my bent, in my night
clothes, unarmed, and this stalwart rur
lien, pistol in hand, glaring half-suspi
ciously, half-I•elociously at our and
altuost in the crouching attitude nit a
tiger about to spring upon Iris prey. Itut
there I sat, coolly conversing with him,
the neressitios ‘,l* the invitient keepiti.g
my wits I.n wide awake Inn allow my
tears to get Idle opi,cr 11:111.1 lia .111 111
" What are of i tie to
the burglar.
" 1 thought I heard :L cry of
ill that instant, and in the dread still
'less 11l the night, I heard the tramp of
the policeman. I t was still some distance
off.
' Von will find," I said, "sonic clothes
amine in the press; they will, however,
be too small fur you. (Mod night ; the
keys are in the middle drawer.
Ile turned to the drawer indicated
and, as he did so, with one tiemendous
hound 1 cleared the space I,eilind tow
lied am] Illeduur, slauuued the dour and
locked it 111)011 Itiut. UllVil/11 , Of my.
dis/mbittr, I sprang to the ,gep.i. I haul
two nights to descend and the door to
open before I could reach the yard, but
iL was hardly possible for !link to tie
wend the ladder more imiekly. Bound
hug rather than running down stairs, I
flung back the holt, and dashed into
the yard. Ile was half-way down
the ladder. Shouting "Pollee!"
lus
lily, I seized the ladder at the bot
tom, and, using all my power, brought
it and the burglar to the ground with
a crash. The pistol he held in his hand
fell from his grasp. I made it dash for
it, and he, springing to his feet like a
cat, rushed at rile, and, as I stooped,
seized me by the nape of the neck. I
turned the pistol upward and pulled the
trigger. It merely snapped—t here were
no more charges in it. With a terrible
oath, the baffled villain Wrenched the
weapon from may grasp and raised it
aloft to deal me what might have proved
a fatal blow, when there was a rush be
hind him and he wan felled to the ground.
The policeman haul heard my shout,
and was just in time to rescue me.
The burglar was soon secured, anti in
wy excitem.mt I was about to relate the
'story I have here told, when the police
man with a smile, suggested that I
might "ketch cold in them clothes."
I then remembered for the first time
since I had sprung from bed, that I was
shoeless and stockiugless, and had noth
ing on but my night shirt, and beat a
hasty retreat. With a long drawn
breath, I took my line gold repeater,
which had such a narrow escape, and
was not at the watchmaker's after all,
from under my pillow, looked at the
hour, turned in, and after a little while
fell asleep.
It is almost needless to add that the
above story, narrated afterwards to a
Jury, when I was in a better trim for
story-telling titan I was when the police
man interrupted me, had the effect of
giving the visitor lodgings in a public
institution, and secured me against a
repetition of his call for at least ten years.
—Cincinnati Trade LlBl.
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VOLUME 72
Little Camilla—Uncle Paul's Walt.
Paul Smith was a poor old man. He
had a back room in the top of a noisy
lodging house, where he slept nights
and munched his meals of bread and
cheese, (or bologna sausage when he
could afford it,) and from whence he
crept, as harmless and unnoticed as a
Hy, down to,the corner of the dingy
street—to the little music shop of Carl
Bertman, a German settler somewhere
in Soho.
t : There he tinkered all day on broken
violins and other musical instruments,
• never absenting himself for a moment,
save on Sunday afternoons, when lie
went to the house of a small tradesman,
to teach the piano to three or four very
stupid girls. Sundays he curled up in
his den, and amused himself, nobody
knows how, until Monday morning.
There are a few certainties: he never
went to church, but lie picked rugged
children from the pavement when they
fell near hi tu, and gave them half-pen
riles when lie had any; shared his din
ner often will a mangy, dirty or, who
acted as a sort of escape-valve; for the
ill-temper of half the net anti women
in the street; and he roused l'at Ilyan
from his midnight in the
glitter many a cold night, toil literally
carried him home to NiVall tht•
" ehilders."
As for hiA hone , ty, a tiehrhbor re
marked, " If he found live shillings in
the street, he'd wear nut ten shillings
worth o' strength anti ,I,o e -teuth, 1'
lindout the owner."
()lie cold night, l'-tul Nvas returning
from his work, with a too.rof bread tin•
der one arm, and a vn.lin under the
other, when al tilt. stmt
bird, and nearly fill Lori a ,I11:1.11 object
crouched on the step.
" 131eva tilt ! what's cried
siriving to gain his equilibrium.
"only rut., bit'! " allti the moult 01/-
j;-.4. stood up, and becapc •3 very pale,
thin .111 rnggetl4:llilll.
are ,oil hart, litilt•
"\TIIII •irt• r ut,t'.inc
" ,thing."
" Why don't, you '4O In,111,? "
" I ain't gut any !"
" Dear nie ! here', j.,ar gill
o n'leaven !"
At this Paul wa, dunibrounded, and
seeing that great tears were stealing
down the child's wan face, he thrust the
violin under the arm which had held
the bread, and putting the other around
the tiny tigtire, he said, "Oh, I've gut
house, n really jolly place! up
and see.
And this is the way old Paul cane• to
have a neat little housekeeper, :mil to
be buying calico gowns and shoes nut
of his poor salary.
People wondered al th , sight of this
bent, old matt, hitherto u neared for, ate
walking daily to his work with his hand
upon the shoulder of the odd, yet pret
ty-raced girl, looking al her with hon
est pride brightening his. eyes, :mil
laughing , as loud as he eonld whenever
tlu‘ joke came in. lint old Paid looked
unco'neerned, evaded the questions of
the curious, toil 4'lll'lll'd 110; Iti tug
better in this world than the iil lie waif,
( 'and Ila.
There was many, many days, \t
hen
rheumatism drew Paul up by the lire in
the old back attic, and drew the very
last penny out of his dilapidated old
purse ; but brave Camilla, never forget
ting how near death she had been on
that bitter night of their meeting, al
ways found a word lu Ward Off hunger,
and courage to keep them both bright
until help came.
The Winter of Ise, came in like a
lion, as many a poor wretch well re
members, and with the first blast came
l'aud's enemy. lie turned, one night, a
sad face front Ilk ill
Ilert
maun's shop among the violins, 111111
bubbled up the street, feeling the ap
proach of the old rheumatic ',Mils, :old
wondering what would become of his
poor little Camilla.
His excitement carried hint to the:
last !light of stairs, and hearing Camil
la's voice, lie paused to rest and to listen.
She WILY singing in that sweet and op
pressive manner which made her voice
seem to him the sweetest and purest he
had ever heard At the end of the stanza
she took breath and another voice said,
"Child, you astonish me. Either 1 am
a poor judge of music, air else your voice
is the finest I ever heard. Von are right
in preferring its cultivation to :myth mg
else."
An electric thrill shot through old
Paul's frame, and quielted his blood to
a rapidity that quite carried his
rheuniatk; pains, mid in a twinkle he
was up the stairs in his little attic.
Ile was terrified at the sound of a man's
yoke, but the sight of a handsome and
pol ished gentleman, with diamond studs
in his snowy linen, a heavy ring upon
Iris dainty white hand, unquestionable
broadcloth upon his back, in close con
versation with his Camilla, whose won
drous beauty had of late started even his
dull perception, was more than Paul
could bear.
He was a very small man—had been
in his youth—and now that Time's with
ering lingers had touched him, he was
shriveled and dried like withered fruit,
but in his virtuous indignation, lie pull ,
ed out to his fullest extent, and in his
falsetto voice piped, Camilla, how dare
you invite any one here "
" Uh, Uncle Paul ! This is Mr. (lever
ing, a gentleman whose—whose—"
" \ Vhose mother she saved from death.
Your niece, sir, a few days since, was
passing through our crowded thorough
fare, when my mother's carriage thew
up to the pavement. 'rile horses were
restive, and, bidding the driver attend
to them, she began to descend unassist
ed. Her. foot was on the step, when
the Unimak slimy ,. forward and Ming
her violently from !ter foot-hold. But
for the sudden act of your niece, who
received my mother in her strong young
:111118, the fall might have proved a fatal
one. My mother at once entered a 811011,
and, keeping your niece near her, sent
for tile. I came to-day, at my mother's
earnest, request, to express our heart
gratitude, and to offer--"
" needn't idler Camilla:a peany,
sir. She'll never suirer while I've•tt
pair of hands to work for her,' said
"You mistake me. Ido not wish t o I
insult you, but would raise the child
from her poverty and educate her, that I
she might be of use to you and to her
self, and become a relined woman.—
Don't let your selfish love stand in her
light, and shut it out front her. She
sings like a prima donna, and wishes to
study music."
The great lustrous eyes or the child
turned to her strange guardian.
"Lot', Camilla, I can't stand in your
way. I know you are every bit a horn
lady, if your 1100 r forsaken toothier did
(lie in a hovel among wretches who
turned her into the cold as soon as the
breath had left her body; but deary
1 can't part with you."
"And you shall not. Let Inc serve
little Camilla, and she shall never leave
you, but shall prove a blessing to you in
your old age."
Paul could say nothing, and the strange
visitor departed, with no further injury
to his darling than all eloquent glance
from an expressive pair of eyes.
Then front a gloomy lodging-house
to a snug set of chambers, a few squares
()IF, went Paul and Camilla, and the
poor wretch began to look like another
being, in his cleaner work-clothes and
Sunday suit, earned from the increased
number of pupils provided through the
willing assistance of their phi lanthi•op
lest friend, Clavering.
Day after day Camilla went with tier
books to the teacher so strangely pro
vided ; and, after a little time, there
came days when passers paused to listen
to the warbling of the rich, young voice.
When she had been there six months,
she entered one morning to find Mrs.
Clavering in the music-master's mom.
" What do you propose to do with
your famous pupil? "said her soft voice.
" Madam, Camilla is capable of doing
anything in a musical way. She will
be a songstress of whom this country
will be proud. Alt, here she is
" You have improved wonderfully,
my child," said the lady, holding out
her gloved hand. " I came to bring you
Richard's farewell. He leaves London
to-night. Here is a little gift as a token
of remembrance."
She did not understand that Mrs. (lay
ering had placed a pretty necklace of
coral in her hand, and then gathered up
Tier shawl and departed ; but when her
teacher spoke she cried out as if in mor
tal pain, and, without a word, flew dowh
the street towards liorne. As she,turned
the corner, she rushed pelf-melt into the
arms of a gentleman, who, on seeing
her pale and tearful, said, " Why, little
Camilla! What is the matter ? "
" Oh Mr. Clavering, you are going
away ! "
Richard Claveriug's fine face grew
- - -
sad and expressive as the tearful eyes
looked into his own, and for the first
time he comprehended that he was a
young man, and that his protege was
stealing from childhood into beautiful
girlhood, and was undeniably a beauty.
" Camilla, I am going away, but will
you wait my return ?"
" Wait for you ? I am not going to
run away."
You do not comprehend. Well, it
is better so. Perhaps two years later
you may understand me. Good-bye,
Camilla. Kiss me good-bye."
It was a very quiet street, and so Ca
milla lifted her head and kissed him. In
all probability the child would have
kissed him in the main thoroughfare as
well as there, and I only mentioned the
fact of the street being a quiet one, to
quiet the startled propriety of those who
are shocked with the impropriety of it.
\Veil, there they parted. He to go
I over the sea, she to remain at home and
improve the opportunities he had placed
before tier. , .
The great heart of the music-loving
public wits agitated with mingled emo
tions of joy, pride, astonishment and
awe. A new songstress had been criti
cized, picked over piece-meal, ground
down to the finest point, dissected, ex
amined through the most perfect musi
cal microscopes, and pronounced per
fect! And now the manager of a first
fashion-patronized theatre had
engaged her fur a single night at an al
most fabulous sum, and the world was
to hear her voice.
The night came The theatre was
crowded from pit to roof. The oreh estra
peeled forth a grand overture, the ex
pectant crowd filled the air with per-
Mine, and soft murmurs of whisper
ing voices and rustling silks arose in a
subdued sound; and then the broad
curtain rolled up and disclosed the
elegantly titling stage.
Suddenly there was a hush iu Lhe vast
building, and eyes grew bright with
eager anticipation, as Iron' the wing
came the debutante.
A tall, graceful girl; with gleaming
shoulders, and white, perfectly-shaped
arms; with a crown of purple-black hair
main the regal head ; with great dark
.-yes scanning the crowd, and then with
almost childish shyness veiling them
selves beneath tin long laspes ; a mouth,
soft, tender and beautiful, and a cheek
as fair as the lure white satin of her
sweeping robe ; and they had seen the
long-talked-of and highly praised beau
ly
A r,mr like the roar of distant waters,
sounded in her ears, anti then swelled
into a thunder of applause • and coming
slowly down in the splendor of the foot
lights, her beautiful head erect, her
eyes glowing with excitement, her
beauty enhanced by the elegance of her
costume; Cnwilla, the poor little waif,
the child of poor old Paul Smith, the
protege of proud Richard ('layering,
received the homage of the assembled
crowd. .
When the acclamation had ceased, the
orchestra began a soft symphony; and
then through the building echoed the
clear, pure notes of a voice that sounded
far away, a dreamy, mystic voice, full
of hope, of doubt, of pain. Nearer, still
nearer, it sou 0 (led, and hope half-drown
ed the doubt, but yet a plaintive sorrow
seemed to remain. It came nearer, and
the sorrow was a half-expectant, tremb
ling glimpse of something better; and
then suddenly the strange voice broke
forth in a triumphal strain, and listeners
held their breath as the wondrous notes
rang out upon the air and then died
away.
For a moment a deadly silence reign
ed, but it was for a moment only ; and
then the building vibrated with a crash
of enthusiasm that came from the music
crazed audience. Men arose in their
seats, and hundreds flung, the floral tri
butes at her feet.
In one of the boxes, above the one
where the mask-master and manager
sat, an old, odd-looking man waived his
handkerchief and cheered, with great
tears falling down his wrinkled cheeks,
❑nd Camilla looked up to that one box,
and gave him the only smile that cross
ed her lips during the night.
slut at length the curtain fell, tint
Camilla, weary and worn, went oil' to the
dressing room. Some one stood in the
shadow of a side scene, and when she
asked permission to pass, caught her by
the hands and drew her out into the
light.
" Camilla, little Camilla, is it you?
I lave I been listening to my little girl
all this glorious evening? Speak to
me! I am bewildered and blind !
"Mr. Clavering ! When did you
collie? Oh, lam so glad, so happy !
she exclaimed.
" Are you glad •\re you happy? 01
is this my welcome? I love you waite
for me, my love, my darling? "
She put her hand over her eyes mu
Inuring, " You do not mean your word.
1 am dreaming! i inn mad ! "
" You are here, wide awake, Camilla,
and I am asking you to to love me and
be my wife.''
She drew him away for a brief moment,
and laid her weary head within hisarms.
Then she passed on to her dressing
room, saying, "Oh, Richard, take me
away ! lam soul-sick of this."
" And you will only sing—"
"In your nest. Come, we lutist n
forget Ii ele foul. lle is Waiting in the
Lux for me."
The box was near at hand and in a
moment they shwad at the door. It was
ajar, and Richard pushed it open to al
low Camilla to enter, and saw the old
man sitting in one of the luxurious
chairs, his head lying baLdt upon thesoft
cushions, and his hands peacefully fold
ed.
"I"ncle Paul," cried Camilla, " Why,
.con naughty boy, you are last asleep:
Come, it is time to go home. Ali."
She started back with a cry, for the
hand she touched was icy cold, and fell
hack, still! and helpless.
" Camilla, darling, conic away. 1 will
attend to him."
" Oh, Richard!"
"Hush. love! He is beyond us now.
Those strains ol• mushc have carried
him to heaven, front Wiitthee they
'atilt."
Tile poor old man WaS dead. \\*nit
the eolisuminittion of his heart's wish,
his quiet, unpretending, unollending
life had passed out into new existenee.
There were loud growls in the music
loving world, but nothing ever came of
them; for Richard Clavering removed
Heir singing bird so deftly that few
- new the cause of her flight ; and now
he sings only to him, and to her brood
if young Claverings.
Earl Fltzwlltlam and the Farmer.
A farmer called on the _Earl Fitzw
liain, to represent to him that his crop of i
wheat had been seriously injured in a
field adjoining a certain wood,wher , his
lordship's hounds hail during the Win
ter frequently met to hunt. He stated
that the young wheat had been so cut
up and destroyed that in some parts lie
could not hope for any produce. "Well,
my - friend;" said his lordship, I am
awge that we have frequently met in
the field, and that we have caused con
siderable injury; and if you can pro
cure an estimate of the loss you have
sustained I will repay you." The farm
er replied, that, anticipating his lord
ship's consideration and kindness, he
had requested a friend to assist him in
estimating the damage,and they thought
that as the crop seemed quite destroyed,
fifty pounds would not more than repay
him. The earl immediately gave him
the money.
As the harvest, however, approached,
the wheat grew, and in those parts of
the field which were most trampled the
corn was strongest and most luxuriant.
The farmer went again to his lordship,
and being introduced, said, "I am come,
my lord, respecting the field of wheat
adjoining such a wood." His lordship
immediately recollected the circum
stance. " Well, my friend did not I al
low you sufficient to remunerate you
for your loss '"' " Yes, my lord I find
that I have sustained no loss at all,
for where the horses had most cut up
the land the crop is most promising,
and I have therefore brought the fifty
pounds back again." "Ah." exclaimed
the:venerable earl, "this is what I like :
this is as' it should be between man and
man." He then entered into conversa
tion with the farmer, asking him some
questions' about his family—how many
children he had, &c. His lordship then
went into another room and, returning,
presented the farmer with a check for
£lOO, saying, "Take care of this, and
when your oldest son is of age, present
it to him, and tell him the occasion that
produced it." We know not which to
admire most, the honesty of the farmer
on the one hand, or on the other, the
benevolence and the wisdom displayed
by this illustrious man ; for, while doing
a noble act of generosity, he was hand
ing down a lesson of Integrity to another
generation.—Golden Sheaves.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 22, 1871
A Remarkable History
How an Inventor Struggled and Won
In the Scientific American we find a
story of the struggles and triumphs
of an inventor which is worth preser
vation. The substance of it is as fol
lows:
In 18.58 Mr. Thomas Sheehan, of
Dunkirk, New York, foreman in the
blacksmith department of the Erie
railway shops at that place, patented a
submarine grapple, which, though an
ingenious invention, proved to be one
for which there was little demand. This
was his first invention, and the cost of
its completion, together with oneyear's
struggle to manufacture and introduce
it, completely exhausted Mr. Sheehan's
means, and reduced him to the extrem
est poverty. He was, in fact, in pretty
nearly the same condition as Palis.sy,the
potter, at the moment of his greatest
distress. A wife and eight children in
Sheehan's family were reduced to the
verge of destitution, and Mrs. Sheehan
became uncommonly bitter.
Just at this crisis, Mr. S. 1). Colwell,
Uenerat Freight Agent of the Erie rail
road, at Dunkirk, chanced to meet Mr.
Sheehan in the streets of that town :did
accosted him, with—
" Well, Thomas, how are the grap-
!s? I hear they have used you ul).".
" Yes" was tile answer, " the grap
ples have done my business; I wish I
had never seen there."
.•
"Th \ V 'em away," advised Mr. Col
well. "]lave you any now finished'. " '
" I have one almost done," said
Thomas.
"finish that; I will pay you 4U for
it, and have it used for picking up coal
at the dock. The money will help you
in your present emergency, and you can
go buck to your old pla - co in the shop
and earn a good living for your family."
" I will," said Thomas.
Back to Iris 10101blu home went the
inventor, with new hope in his breast,
and set himself to linish the grapple
with all due speed. But, upon what
slender threads do the fortunes of men
depend! A tap, the only one our in
ventor had of the size required sudden
ly snapped asunder, and, as it was es
sential to the progress of the work, he
must have a new one or he could nut
go on.
In his straight, he applied to his wife
to lend hitn twenty-five cents to buy
the necessary steel to forge the tap. But
she haying no faith in the grapple, re
fused, for two very good reasons—tirst,
that she believed the money would be
thrown away if she gave it to tier hus
band; mid second, that she had not the
money to give him, even if so disposed.
The refusal was seasoned with some
very hot spice that made it very unpala
table to Thomas. Ilut he bethought him
of a merchant who, in brighter days had
seen the color of his money, and who,
perhaps, would now give Mtn credit for
the small modicum of steel he required
for the tap.
To this merchant to prefer his request,
he began beating about the bush ; and
finally straying into politics, hot words
passed between them, and our friend,
feeling his manliness would sutler too
keenly by ask credit for the steel,
came away without.
With no definite purpose he went
home, pondering upon how he should
surmount:this, now no trilling obstacle,
came away without it.
He found his wife making lye fur soft
soap, but her acidity in no way neutral
ized by the alkaline reaction. I)espoutl
ent and discouraged, he sat down, in no
very enviable mood, when he chanced
to spy a piece of iron laying near:the
tubs at which his spouse was working.
Meditating upon how lie could make
that piece of iron hard enough for a tap,
led him to a rather rude experiment,
the results of Which have in the end
made him a richer man than he ever
dreamed of being.
It so happened that from a distant rel
aflve, a Roman Catholic priest in Ire
land, our friend had inherited iMite a
library of works on cheinhitry—some of
them rare and valuable. He had read
some of these books to very good pur
pose. "There is surely carbon in that
lye," thought he. '' 1f I only could get
that into this iron in the proper propor
tion, I should have steel, and from that
my tap, and so finish my grapple."
With little hope or faith that he
should succeed, he took some of the lye,
and adding, without any particular rea
son for so doing, souse saltpetre and
common salt, made a paste with this
solution and a hard grudged saucerful
of the little remaining flour there was in
the house. He then forged the tap, and
enveloping it in the paste, put the
whole into :t lilted iron-box and expos
ed it to heat for two hours in black
smith's lire. T. his' joy and surprise
when lie took it out, it was hard enough
to cut cast steel. 'rite grapple was fin
ished, and forty dollars flowed into the
faintly treasury of Thomas Sheehan.—
He went back to his old work disgusted
with patents, and resolved never to
have anything to do with one again.
liut the remembrance of the tap, har
dened , in so unique a manner, still
haunted him. Having a great deal of
case hardening to do, he thought one
day he would repeat the experiment,
upon a large scale, which he did with
perfect success.
For twelve months he went on to ex
periment,purchasing the materials with
his own money, and worked in secret
by,night and at odd hours. At the end
of twelve months he, reconsidered his
sentence of condemnation on patents,
and applied for one on his process,
which was granted September 4, 1560,
the claim being for a combination of
damaged flour, potash lye, or lye from
hard wood-ashes, nitre, common salt,
and sulphate of zinc, for case-hardening
iron. in ISIT he patented an improve
ment on the above-named process. In
1868 he took out another patent on au
entirely new process, which consists in
the use of raw limestone, charcoal,
black oxide of manganese, sal soda, com
mon salt and pulverized rosin combined,
for converting iron into steel, which is
now widely used, and - from which he
has reaped quite a fortune.
No less than twenty-three of the lead
ing railways in America now use tiny
proce,s, under license from the !Paten
tee, for hardening the links, guides,
pins, and nutsof Inetottotives,
we are told, no ti-se a saving than from
live to six h un dred dollars annually on
each locomotive, in obviating the lost
motion eonsequept upon the wear a
links, guides and pins.
The inventor has already reeeived for
licenses under his patent of 18118 $29,650,
and has just sold the remainder of his
patent in America for $ll,OOO.
An Irish Turk
During (lie operations of the Allies in
the Crimea, it was resolved to carry the
water in from a beautiful spring of the
finest Croton to the camp. Leather
pipe or hose was employed, which was
laid on the ground. One morning,
while the water was being supplied, the
minaret sounded to prayer, and one of
the Turkish soldiers immediately went
Ilop upon his knees to praise Allah
Unfortunately he went down on the
hose, and his weight consequently stop
ped the current of that " first of ele
ments," as finder calls water.
"(,et up," cried au English soldier.
" Voulez vous aver. la borate, mon
cher Monsieur le Turque," cried a
Frenchman, with his native politeness,
" to get up."
" That ain't no way to make the Turk
move," cried another, " this is the
dodge." So saying, he kicked his tur
ban Still the pious Mussulmau
wentweuton with his devotions.
" I'll make him stir his stumps,"
said another Englishman, giving him
a remarkably hard kick. To the won
der of all, still the unturbaued, well
kicked, follower of the Prophet, went
on praying as though he was a fifty
horse parson.
"Hoot awa mon—l'll show ye how
we serve obstinate folks at auld Reckie,"
observed a Scotchman. He was, how
ever. prevented, for the Turk having
finished his " Allah vis eu Allah," rose
and began to take oft' his coat—then to
roll up his sleeves, and then to bedew
his palms with saliva, and then to put
himself into the most approved boxing
attitude. He then advanced to the
Englishman who had kicked him on
the lumbar region.
" A ring ! a ring I" shouted the sol
diers and sailors, perfectly astonished to
see a Turk such an adept in the fistic
art.
The Englishman, nothing loth to
have a bit of fun with the Turk of such
a truly John Bull state of mind, set to
work, but found he had met his master
—in five minutes he had received quan
twit sufficit. As the Turk coolly re
placed his coat.,.and turban, he turned
round and said to the admiring by
standers, in the pure brogue:
" Bad luck to ye, ye spalpeens ; When
ye're after kicking a:Turk, I'd advise
ye the next time to jist be sure he's not
an Irishman."
The mystery was solved—the Turk
was a Tipperary man.
Fighting a Bear In a Cattle-Car
An Indian Locked Up With Benxi F.
A Terrific Fight----idonkeys rind
Noakes Looking On—Bread,
Turnips, and Si a
Month.
,From the Loudon 1 Canada) Free Press.]
The men on the mixed train going
west yesterday morning, had a pretty
good-sized sensation just as the train ar
rived in Bothwell. As the noise of the
wheels subsided unusual and excited
sounds were heard issuing from a bond
ed car which all along the passage from
the Suspension Bridge had remained
under lock and key, attracting no es
pecial notice from auy one, as no one on
the train seemed aware of its true con
tents. Gradually the noises grew louder
and more excited, scuttling was heard,
accompanied by yells and imprecations
from a human voice, and a series of low,
tierce snarls and growls as from an en
raged and powerful animal ; then a
shuffling to and fro, and snore excited
but perfectly unintelligible exclama•
tions. The men were at, a loss what to
make of all this, and marvelled exceed
ingly. A crowd collected, and noises of
the same character continued within.
There appeared to be a terrible rumpus
inside the car, which each momentgrew
more desperate and alarming. AIL at
once a violent thumping against the
door and the voice of the man, which
had by this time grown more coherent,
but sounded faint and smothered, broke
out in exclamatory appeals, "I;rek door!
brek door: Injin get kill I" After
which the struggle seemed to be renew
ed more furiously than ever, " Injin "
giving vent to short yells of pain nnd
distress.
No time was lost by the men ouLside,
who proceeded at once to obey the call,
and break the lock. ',o sooner had the
door been partially opened than out
sprang a strapping young Indian in a
terribly excited state of mind, minus his
hat, with his clothing hanging in shreds
about his body, and displaying several
bleeding wounds. He was well nigh
exhausted, but did not stop running till
he got behind the station-house in a
place of safety, where he stood panting
for breath for some minutes before any
one of those who surrounded him could
elicit any information from him as to
the nature of the ordeal through which
he had passed. That, however, was
perfectly intelligible to those who wit
nessed his escape, fur he had no sooner
got clear than a large black bear came
snuffing at the door, wanting to get out
too,and pursue his enemy like a roaring
lion to devour him. On seeing the men,
however, and probably not caring to
jump into the immediate presence of so
many persons, Bruin recoiled and sneak
ed into a corner, front which he glared
savagely at them
There were several other animals in
the car, some of them in cages, and some
securely fastened up with chains and
ropes. Among them was a young cub
belonging to the old bear, who at once
took refuge behind his ma in the corner,
apparently somewhat bashful by the
appearance of so many grown men.—
There were also an antelope, a couple of
monkeys, a wild kangaroo, some curi
ous specimens of the feathered creation,
and a box of snakes, which remained
comfortably coiled up in their blankets,
either too tired or sleepy to take any
part in the fuss. The collection, it ap
pears, belonged to a travelling show
man, who proposed to exhibit in a
Western town.
The Indian boy, for he was scarcely
out of teens, although big and muscu
lar, as soon as he could collect his ideas,
and began to realize that he was safe and
sound, related that he was employed by
the proprietor at a month to attend
the animals in their travels as keeper,
that he had been shut up with them in
the car for nearly three days, with noth
ing to eat but bread and turnips, and
with only water to drink, that the old
bear had become restive in the car,
while on the journey, probably fnun
hunger and thirst, and ended by com
mitting an assault upon him, which he
repelled as long as he was able to hold
out. He thought every moment lie
would have to give in, and consent
to be eaten up for breakfast by the
she -bear and tier interesting off
spring. Twice she got her arms fondly
around hint, and would certainly have
hugged hint to death but for the hercu
lean strength which enabled him to
throw her off and spurn her advances.
Being somewhat cramped in her phys
ical energies by the confinement and
routine of show lire, besides being not
so young as site used to be, site was the
more easily overcome, and failed to
make as stout an attack as the circum
stances seemed to demand from her.
The young man from the country
parts, however, was determined not to
be ' taken in" any more by the decep
tions and allurements of side-show hfe,
and then and .there j resolved to aban
don a profession in which he discovered
he had neither the talent nor education
to shine very resplendently.
" He link me big fool!" said he ; "
lu
gin only get d' a month, and a chance
to get ate up into the bargain. No, no,
my friends, that muchly too thin !
Not for Joseph—not if he knows it ?',
Charles Dickens on Oysters
In the June number of the At/mai ,
Mr. Fields gives some funny letters
written by Charles Dickens to Prof.
Felton in IS-12, and iu two of these epis
tles are references to oysters, thus:
I have long suspected that oysters
have a rheumatic tendency. Their feet
are always wet, and so much damp com
pany in a man's inside cannot contri
bute to his peace. But whatever the
cause of your indisposition, we are truly
grieved and pained to hear of it, and
should be more so, but that we hope
from your account of that farewell din
ner that you are all right again.
Perhaps you don't know who
Dando was. He was an oyster-cater,
my dear Felton. He used to go into
oyster-shops, without a farthing of
motley, and stand at the emitter eating ,
liatiVus, until the man whoopened them
grew pale, cast down his knife, stagger
ed back, struck his white forehead with
his hand mid cried, "Von are Dando!"
He has been known to eat twenty dozen
at one sitting, and would have cater
forty if the truth had not flashed upon
the shopkeeper. For these offences he
was constantly committed to the house
of correction. Du ring his last imprison
ment he was taken ill, got worse and
worse, and at last began knocking vio
lently double-k nicks at death's door.
The doctor stood beside his bed, with
his lingers on his pulse. "Ile is going,"
said the doctor; sec it in Iris eye.
There is only one thing that will keep
life in 'din another hour, and that is
—oysters." They ss'ore immediately
brought. Hand° swallowed eight, and
feebly took a ninth. He held it in his
mouth and looked round the bed strange
ly. "Not a bad one, is it'." says the
doctor. The patient shook his head,
rubbed his trembling hand upon his
stomach, bolted the oyster and fell back
-dead. They buried him in the prison
yard and paved his grave with oyster
A Motto's rower
A moment's work on clay tells more
than an hour's labor on brick. So work
on hearts should be done before they
harden. During the first six or eight
years of child•life mothers have chief
sway ; and this is the time to make the
deepest and most enduring impression
on the human mind.
. .
The examples of maternal influence
are countless. Solomon himself records
the words of wisdom that fell from a
mother's lips, and Timothy was taught
the Scriptures from achild by his grand
mother and his mother.
John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to
say : " I should have been a French
atheist were it not for the recollection
of the time when my departed mother
used to take my little hand in hers and
make me say on my bended knees,
' Our Father who art in Heaven!'"
"I have found out what made you
the man you are," said a gentleman one
morning to President Adams, " I have
been reading your mother's letters to
her son."
Washington's mother trained her boy
to truthfulness and virtue ; and when
his messenger called to tell her that her
son was raised to the highest station in
the nation's gift, she could say : " George
always was a good boy." A mother's
tears dropped on the head of her little
boy one evening as he sat in the door
way and listened while she spoke of
Christ and hie salvation.
" Those tears made me a missionary,"
said he, when lie had given his man-
sittettigot?
hood's prime to the service of the Lord.
Some one asked Napoleon what was
the great need of the French nation.
"Mothers!" was the significant an
swer. Woman, has God given you the
privileges and responsibilities of mother
hood': Be faithful, then, to the little
ones. You hold the key their hearts
now. If you once lose it yok. would give
the world to win it back. Use your op
portunities before they pass.
And remember, little ones, you never
will have but one mother. Obey and
honor her. Listen to her words, and
God will bless you day by day.— 7"e;
Christian.
The Losded Dice.
It was in the Fall of IS3O that the
writer of this sketch, while detain( d at
Louisville awaiting the rise of the Ohio
river, to begin his journey to New Or
leans, first made the acquaintance of
Mr. Harris, a wealthy young merchant,
of the above named city, who had been
spending the Summer in Cincinnati,
where he had gone to settle up some ac
counts of long standing. He was now
on his way home, carrying with him a
large amount of money which he hail
collected for the firm of which he wa
a junior member.
The season had been retnal kably dry
and iu consequence the river was low
er than could be recollected by the old
est settlers; but as the autumnal season
advanced, when the semi-annual rise
of water might be confidently expected,
many travelers arrived at Louisville to
take advantage of the earliest boats for
the lower country.
After many disappointments the river
began to swell iu good earnest, and all
hurried on board to their respective
steamers to secure their passage home.
Mr. Harris and I, after having select
ed our state-room, and seen to the safe•
ty of our baggage, had leisure to look
around us and make the acquaintance
of our fellow travelers. We found to
our intense disgust, it had been our mis
fortune to take passage with as large
and accomplished a set of gamblers an
ever disgraced decent society. They
were bound down the river on a " pro
fessional tour" through the Southern
States.
As soon as we were well under way,
the implements of their nefarious trade
were brought forth. " Faro . ' "rogue
et noir," and various other games, were
exhibited to tempt the unwary to risk
money. At first many of the gentle
men on board objected to having the
cabin turned into a gambling hell ; but
the professionals loudly protested that
they played on the square, and further
more declared should one of their num
ber be detected in cheating, the stakes
should be fo-feited, and he put on shore
at the nearest land. After this no more
was said, and the numerous gatues went
on without interruption.
For some time Harris, who was
known to have a large amount of money
in his possession, and who was the ob
ject of the gambler's especial regard,
firmly declined all invitations to try his
luck. But one evening after the sup
ier table had been cleaned, he, weary
of their opportunities or yielding as he
afterwards told me, to a natural love for
the excitement to play, consented to
make one of a party of four who were
about to sit down to a game of cards for
small stakes, "just to pass away the
For awhile my iutetest ill the for
tunes of Harris induced me foremanu at
his side and watch the chances of the
game but as the sums staked were
small, and as the parties seemed evi
dently matched in point of skill, I soon
tired of such uninteresting employ
ment, and retired to a distant part of
the cabin to amuse myself with a book
—in the contents of which I almost hu-
mediately became absorbed. I read for
an hour and a half; but while pausing
to cut the leaves (the book was a new
onel, I became conscious that an unu-
sual stillness pervaded the room. There
was no longer to be heard the rattle of
dice, the sharp clique of the ivory 'farce
check' or the subdued murmur of the
players. Raising my eyes to see what
could be the cause of the'subdued still
ness, I saw that all the 'blanks' had
been deserted, and the players were
standing motionless around the table at
which I had left Harris and his com
panions engaged in euchre.
Wondering, what could induce men
who were accustomed to risk the largest
stakes on the turn of a card to take such
an interest in so 'small a game, I threw
down my book, and approachinu , the
party, soon made way to the table. I
saw at once that a great change had
taken place since I had been a looker
on. The stakes were largely increased
and two of the party either unable or too
timid to risk such large amounts, had
withdrawn from the table. Barris and
one of the gamblers, however, still re
tained their seats and with eager faces,
and slinking their hands, shunted the
cards. Fortune scented to have favored
Harris for just as I reached the spot he
marked the last point in a closely con
tested game, while the professional,with
a deep oath dashed down the cards and
challenged him to give him his revenge
with dice, to which proposition, after a
moment's hesitation,Harris assented.
'the dice and the cups were produced
and the excited gamesters again betting
their money, but no longer with the
same result. Harris' good luck seemed
to have deserted lam, and his antago
nist won stake after stake. Harrisseem
ed now will with excitement. He
doubled every time until no less than
ten thousand dollars lay upon the table
to be won or lost at a single throw of the
dice. Again the gambler was successful.
Harris now sprung from his chair, and
calling on hisantagonist to remain where
he was, repaired to his stateroom, and,
returning in a few minutes, he dashed
down upon the table a large roll of bank
notes, saying at the time to the gambler:
" You have already won from me over
fifteen thousand dollars. The bank bills
represent double the amount; dtire you
risk a little sum, and let the ownership
of the whole be decided by asingle cast?"
The gambler at once expressed his
willingness to do so, but declared that
lie line not so 111001 money in his pos
session. The deficiency was, however,
made up by others of the fraternity, and
they prepared to the game.—
llwre war , . a large carving fork lying
Bear Harris, which the waiter had neg
lected to remove when lie had cleared
the table„that evening. 'flits Harris,
with a careless and apparently las he
took his seat; accidental movement of
Iris arm, drew close to his side.
All now drew near in eager expecta
tion. Iharris seized the cup, and shak
ing the dice violently for a moment,
dashed them down before him. I could
hardly suppress a cry of exultation when
I saw he haul thrown double fives, within
one of the highest linulber it is possible
to make.
The professionals cast uneasy giallo( s
upon each other but I arr is' antagonist
only smiled scornfully and drew the
ivory cups towards him. Just, however
as he was placing them in the box, they
slipped through his fingers and tell on
the floor. Ile. stooped and recovered
them in an instant, but as lie reached
forth his hand to take the cup, Harris,
whose eyes had a fixed determined look,
which had never for a moment been off
him, suddenly seized the fork, and with
a movement quick as that of the deadly
rattlesnake, stuck the sharp prongs
through his wrists, literally pinning it
to the table, at the same time presenting
a cocked pistol full at his . head. There
WAS a yell from the wounded man, and
a volley of imprecations burst from his
associates. A dozen weapons were
planted at the breast of Harris. He,
however, was equal to the occasion. Not
a muscle of the face moved, and his voice
was not raised the least when lie spoke.
" One moment, gentlemen," said lie,
"You yourselves have declared that,
should one of your number be detected
in foul play, the stakes should be for
feited and he summarily punished. If
the dice under my hand I now hold im
prisoned be not false, then do with me
as you will. If, however, I prove cor
rect in my assertion, I demand the ful
filment of your threat."
By this time every male passenger had
collected around the table, and the gam
blers saw by their looks, and drawn
weapons, that they were notto be trifled
with. So they were forced reluctantly
to admit the truth of what Harris had
said. .
The gambler was held secured in his
chair, the fork withdrawn, the dice ex
amined, and found to be loaded—the
true pair were concealed in his sleeve.
His fate was sealed in spite of his des
perate resistance. Strong arms strip
ped him of his weapons, forced him in
to a boat and rowed him to the nearest
land, a low sand bank entirely sur
rounded by the river, and whose rapidly
rising waters promised soon to sub
merge it. Upon this Island, deaf to his
piteous appeals, they forced him, and
the steamer resumed her course down
the river.
But long after we had lost sight of him
in the darkness there came to us out of
the black night, wild cries, that sounded
in our ears high above the dash of our
ponderous wheels and the dash of the
mighty river. Screams for mercy, fear
ful imprecations, and chilling blasphe
mies.
Harris hid his face in his hands and
wept like a child. Strong men turned
pale, and the very gamblers looked at
each other with white cheeks and trem
bling lips.
Of his fate there could be no doubt.
_'he strongest swimmer could not for
one moment stem that fearful torrent,
and to remain upon the land was nut to
choose a lingering and inure fearful
death.
• • .
There was no more playing on board
the boat that trip, and at the first land
ing most of the passengers left her, flee
ing front it as front a place accursed.
Among those who left was Harris.
Years had passed when we met again,
but he trembled when he spoke of that
tearful night on the Ohio, and said he
had never touched d card since then.
The Late Empire
Sale 01 the Imperial Elreet , ---A Prlnee•s
Paris Utlrrespothlettee o 1 the Dully News.
The publicity given by the London
press to the civil list sales is beginning
to bear golden fruits. The bidding on
October 25 was exceedingly spirited,
owing to the presence of English sym
pathizers with the Chiselhurst exiles.
The vein of the table linen was the "Bee
Service." It had been ordered, it was
reported, to serve at the coronation of
the Emperor and Empress,which would
have taken place in Notre Dame, the
Pope officiating, had the Germans been
beaten by the French. But I ascer
tained, on making inquiries, that it
was W oven With a view as well to
the rival entertainments given in
I si;7. This table-linen was manufac
tured in the north of Ireland. It look
ed us bright as satin, and was delicious
to the touch. The borders were filled
iu with laurel wreaths, Carlovingian
crowns, Es and eagles; and bees, with
wide-spread wings, were scattered over
the ground. A lot of two table-cloths,
eight yards in length, and three dozen
napkins, were purchased at the high
price of Tel francs by a young English
gentleman. Agents for the Ex-Emperor
hail instructions to buy for him all the
Bee sets that were going cheap. They
obtained for him sonic of the ban
queting table-cloths, but did not buy
in any of the others. The Prince Im
perial's bed-linen was hotly contested
by searchers after relics. A dozen plain
pillow-cases, made to tit small pillows—
wedge-shaped, I presume, from the long
triangular gussets in the sides, and a
broad overlapping hem at the top—were
sold for 153 francs. Half a dozen bols
ter-cases to match fetched a larger sum.
They were all rotten, and many neatly
darned. The English lady who is now
the happy possessor of them was all the
better pleased, because the repairs and
marks of frequent washings atiorded her
a presumption that her relics inust have
come in direct contact with "the little
Prince's head." The Prince Imperial's
toys and school-room belongings have
been ail disposed of. 4 veloci
pede, very elegantly constructed, and
with silver mounting, said to have been
the one presented to the Prince Imperial
by Alphonse of Spain, was bought by a
wealthy petroleum merchant from Oil
City. There were cases of mathematical
instruments io the school-rOom lots, on
which both fancy and money had been
lavished. The steel parts were covered
with Damascus arabesques. The toys
were generally well-preserved. Few of
the playthings of early babyhood were
produced. What were disposed of dated
within the last eight or nine years. The
mimic cannons were very nearly execut
ed, and quite capable of killing a poodle
at fifty yards.
A world of pains hail been evidently
taken with the Prince who was to have
inherited the Empire of the Napoleons,
to get into his head, by means of object
lessons, the technicalities of Vauban
and Cohorn. He was given toy for
tresses with lunes and demi In ties: toy
ditches, toy counter -scarps, toy posi
tions—such as woods, hills and streams,
whose-tin beds could be flushed ; toy
siege guns, and endless hosts of toy
combatants capable of being fastened on
movable slabs in regular or irregular or
der. Then be had raised plans of Chal
ons and of Luneville, with microscopic
tents to pitch on the plateau of the Mour
melon. A fortress supposed to be Cher
bourg with aglass sea in front and atleet
manieuvred by means of loadstones, got
crushed and broken,' and was finally
thrown into a heap of rubbish. The
Prince Imperial was fond of marionettes.
His Punch and Judy Theatre, the play
thing that had seen most service, was
beautifully got up. The dramatis pe r
sonic included the usual functionaries,
who serve as butts for Guignol's witti
cisms, with the additions of kings and
queens of imaginary states, and a talka
tive dentist serving as laughing-stock
for all those sovereigns for whom he
fetched and curried. A military subject
taken from the gallery at Versailles,ded
icated to the glories of the First Napo
leon, adorned the curtain. The sun of
Austerlitz, flanked by eagles gazing
boldly thereupomwas repeated on many
of the large theatrical toys.
The Prince Imperial, it is very prob
able, would have become a first-rate arti
san if he hail remained a few years long
er at the Tuileries. He was debarred by
his rank from that wholesale rivalry
with boys of his age which finds vent in
out-door games and trials of strength,
fleetness, wind and pluck. His little
steam-mess used to be very cleverly
manipulated. In a case belonging twit
there-are sonic imaginary state papers,
probably intended for a 'practical joke—
the work of the young Napoleon.
This press had grown rusty from long
lying in the Garde Meuble, and was,
with many other things, knocked down
as old iron. A charming box of small
sized carpenter's tools and polished wal
ut bench were also the worse for damp
and dust. Along with them were thrown
Ina lundle of ivory-handled turning
instruThents and some awkwardly-turn
ed peg-tops, balls and draughtsmen.—
Then there were locksmiths' tools made
for little hands, and locks whose evi
dent destination was to be taken to
pieces and put together again. In my
whole life I never saw-1 will not say to
gether, but hr all the iron-mongers' shops
I have entered put together-so many cop
per stew-pans, patty-pans, sauce-pans,
dripping-pans, grilles, boilers, shapes,
skimming-ladles, roasting-jacks, and
other cooking utensils. The auctioneer,
fearing that if he sold in detail he would
not get through them in a month, dis
posed of them by the lit) or :toil pounds
weight. No department in theory or
practice, was so important as that of the
boache or cooking department. The
amount of victuals consumed daily in
the Tuileries must have surpassed in
quantity those gigantic feeds of Gargan
tua. Wine-glasses, tumblers, tea-pots,
sugar-bowls and decanters, were not less
numerous than the culinary coppers.—
But if they were plentiful they were
coarse in quality. There is not much
wine to be set up to auction. The Em
peror's cellars were extensively requisi
tioned "for patriotic purposes" by the
Government of National Defence.—
ithout telling hypocritical stories, the
men of the Commune, as Luther poet
ically expressed it, "poured high the
wine of victory" bottled for the use of
Imperial personages. After the wine
the liveries will be sold. They are to
wind up the liquidation of the (AV!! list.
Curiosities of Memory
John Kemble used to say that he
could learn a whole number of the
Morning I'ost in four days ; and General
Christie made a similar assertion ; but
it is not known how far either of them
verified this statement. Robert Dillon
could repeat in the morningsix columns
of a newspaper he had read over night.
During the Repeal debates in the House
of Commons thirty-seven years ago,
one of the members wrote out his
speech, sent it to the newspapers,
and repeated it to the House in the
evening; it was found to be the
same verbatim as that which he had
written out. John Fuller, a land agent
in Norfolk, could remember every
word of a sermon, and write it out cor
rectly after going home; this was tested
by comparing his written account with
the clergyman's manuscript. Scaliger
could repeat a hundred verses or more
after havinglread them:a single time.—
Seneca could repeat two thousand Words
on hearing them once. Magilabecchi,
who had a prodigious memory, was once
put to a severe test. A gentleman lent
him a manuscript which was read and
returned. The owner, some time after-
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wards, pretending he had loseit, begged
Magliabecchi to write out as . much as he
could remember ; whereupon the latter,
appealing to his memory, wrote out the
whole essay. Cyrus, if some of the old
historians are to be credited, could re
member the name of every soldier in his
immense army. There was a Corsican
boy who could rehearse 40,000 words,
whether sense or nonsense, as they were
dictated, and then repeat them in the
reversed order, without making a single
mistake. A physician of Massachusetts,
abouta half-century ago,could repeat the
whole of" Paradise Lost" with out:a mis
take, although he had not read it fur
twenty years. Euler, the great mathe
matician, when he became blind, could
repeat the whole of " :Eneid,"
and could remember the first line and
last line on every page of the particular
editiou which he had been accustomed
to read before he became blind.,
One kind of retentive memory may
be considered as the result of sheer hard
work, a determination towards one par
ticular achievement, without reference
either to cultivation or to memory on
other subjects. This is frequently shown
by persons in humble life in regard to
the Bible. An old beggar man at Stir
ling, known some forty years aga us
Blind Aleck, afforded an instance of
this. lie knew the whole of the Bible
by heart ; insomuch that, if a sentence
were read to him, he could name book,
chapter and:verse ; or if the book,chapter
and verse were named, he could give the
exact words. A gentleman, to test hint
repeated a verse, purposely making one
verbal inaccuracy; Aleck hesitated,
named the place where the passage is to
be found, but at the same time pointed
out the verbal error. The same gentle
man asked him to repeat the ninetieth
verse of the seventh chapter of the book
of Numbers. Aleek almost instantly
replied, "There is no such verse; that
chapter has only eighty-nine eer,es."
The Early Days of Delsarte.
The Autumn of found him a
shabby, almost ragged applicant for em
ployment at the stage-door of the
Opera Combine. Repeated rebuffs fail
ed to bathe his desperate pertinacity.
One day the director, hearing of the
annoyance to which his subordinates
were subjected by Delsarte, determined
to abate the nuisance by one of those
cruel coups-dc-iman of which Frech
men are preeminently capable. The
next night, during the performance,
when De'slate called, he was. to his
surprise and delight, shown int t the
great luau's presence.
" Well, sir, what do you want
" Pardon, Monsieur. I came It) seek
a place in your theatre."
„ There is but one vacant, and you
don't seem capable of tilling that. I
want only a call boy."
" Sir, I out prepared to till the posi
tion of a pi, among your
singers "
.11111:elle ."'
Monsieur, if my clothes ale poor,
art is genuine.'
Well, sir, if you will sing lor me, I
will hear you shortly "
He left Delsarte alone, overjoyed at
having secured the manager's ear. In a
few moments a surly fellow tells him he
is wanted below, and he soon found
himself with the managers upon the
stage behind the green curtain.
You are to sing herq' said the di
rector. " There is your piano. In one
moment the curtain will be rung up.—
lam tired of your importunities. I give
you one chalice to show the stuff you're
made of. If you discard this opportu
nity, the next time you show your face
at my door you shall be arrested and
imprisoned as a vagrant."
The indignation excited in Delsarte
by this cruel trick instantly gave way
before the reflection that success was a
matter of life and death with him, and
that perhaps his last chance lay within
his grasp. He forgot his rugs; every
nerve became iron ; and when the cur
tain was rung up, a beggar with the
hearing of a prince advanced to the foot
lights, was received with derisive laugh
ter by some, with glances of surprise
and indignation by others, and, with a
sad and patient smile on his counte
nance, gracefully saluted the bright:au
dience. The courtliness of his Man
ner disarmed hostility; but when
he sat down to the piano, run his
lingers over the keys, and sang
a few bars, the exquisite voice
found its way to every heart. With
every moment his voice became more
powerful. Each gradation of emotion
was rendered with an ease, an art, an
expression, that made every heart string
vibrate Then lie suddenly stopped,
bowed and retired. 'I he house rang
with bravos. The dress circle forgot its
reticence, and joined in the tumult of
applause. He was recalled. This time
he sang a grand lyric composition with
the full volume of his voice, aided in ef
fect by those imperial gestures of which
he had already discovered the secret.—
The audience were electrified. They
declared that Talma was resuscitated
But when he was a second time re-call
ed his tragic mood had melted. there
were " tears in his voice," as well as on
his cheeks.
After the fall of the curtain, the di
rector grasped his hand, loaded him
with coin plimenLs, and offered him an
engagement for a year at a salary of ten
thousand francs. He went home to oc
cupy his wretched attic for the last time,
and, falling on his knees, poured forth
his soul in prayer.—A tlantic .liont/dy.
Military Rule In Month Carolina—Worse
E=l2
As was presumed, military ',loin South
arelina has culminated in the inevitalile
. .
outrages of an irresponsible anti drunken
soldiery. The following statement is made
by the Chester Reporter:
Several days ago a series of outrages were
perpetrated upon some of the most respec
table citizens of Union! by the troops sus
tioned at that point. A number of the bus
iness men were placed in durance on the
charge of being members of the Ku-Klux.
After locking them up, and threatening
them with death on the :narrow, their cap
tors then proceeded to the homes of their
prisoners, and under the plena searching
for the identical men that were already in
carcerated, they entered the most private
apartments of the ladies, making sail havoc
among fine dresses and toilet articles.
( if course, theft was nominated, and in
suits and indecent language prevailed.
After volunteering to the ladies the infor
mation that " in the morning their rela
tives would suffer death," they departed•
One of the ladies lost a tine gold watch and
chain. This has not been recover ed.
On the morning following the night of
their arrest, the commandant of the post
dismissed the prisoners, as there were no
charges brought against them then. While
these arrests were being made, the troops
(a United States Marshal was in the com
pany) made tb reats frequently that i f resist
ance were made they would lay the town
in ashes.
Now collies the strange part of the trans
action. After the release of the prisoners,
the authorities stated that It was only a
drunken spree." A notice was sent to the
publisher of the Unionville fimr.v to the
effect, that if he dared publish anything in
regard to the affair, they would tire the
town and swing him to a post. Wo un
derstand that the Town Council have since
taken the affair in hand.
An investigation has been gone into and
the evidence, duly sworn to, printed in
pamphlet form. We also learn that copies
of this pamphlet have been forwarded to
Attorney-General Akerman and District-
Attorney Dick Corbin.
Virginia Threatened
A Washington paper, generally credited
with reflecting the views of the administra
tion, is diasatistiod with the result of the
Virginia election, and in a disquisition
thereon uses the following language, in
which the threat Is plainly enough implied :
"There have been few acts of violence in
Virginia on account of political opinion, but
this is owing to the factthat the Democrats
have had the State, and no such acts were
necessary to enable them to retain or per
petuate their power. The combination or
conspiracy referred to by the President, as
existing in South Carolina, is doubtless
also in existence in Virginia, but it is, for
the present, dormant."
Democratic Conference
A New York correspondent writes under
date of the 10th inst.:
About the 20th of this month there will
be a conference in Now York of as many
leading Democratic politicians as can be
got together from different sections of the
country, to compare notes and take coun
sel together with reference to the present
position and future course of their party,
with particular reference to concert of ac
tion in the coming Presidential election.—
If your correspondent is not misinformed,
the invitations to this conference have been
in the form of a printed circular,
signed by
the Chairman of the Democratic State Com
mittee.
Pursuit of Knowledge under Threaten
ing Drawbacas.
A gentleman engaged in inveptigating
the charges of carelessness against the work
men in the Scranton mines found after
wards that, during the investigation,hehad
been given an open kegof powder to aiton,
while he held a lighted candle in his hand.
sore Soisthern Clotrapit
Grant's itaftunotis policy towards the
South is being daily extended, and is con
Unitary growing mote infamous in its chat
enter. Notwithstanding the contrary stat,
month gieen is highly • lira ,
ble that certain counties In Georgia w,
shortly be proclaimed under martial la
and the writ of habeas corpus in the.
be suspended. As a matter of fact th
subject is now under consideration b .
Attorney-General Akerman, and 'there
no present warrant for any allegation th,..
his conclusions will be against the enforce
meat of the Ku-Klux ac ti at least th—
northwestern part of the State. No (limb
Akerman, for special rensons '
and the ad
ministration, upon general principles,
would be glad to dispense, if they could,
with the enforcement of an act that is only
tolerated by the dominant party on the
score of necessity and accepted by no party,
and it is still more certain that wherever
it is put In force the necessities of the case
will be pushed to the front. From current
indications it is quite possible that the Ku-
Klux act will, before long, be in operation
in several other of the late Insurrectional - 3
States.
Under the license which is given Grant's
hirelings to pillage South Carolina, th. ,
Federal cavalry we raiding In North Cnr
olina, and seizing citizens without process
of law. Advises from there state that not
a little excitement has been created lien
both in civil and official circles, by the re
ported invasion of this State by United
States troops operating in the district under
martial law in South Carolina. Governor
Caldwell, it is said, has received official in
formation of the fact, and the local pros.. ar.•
loud in their demands for Executive actiot.
in the premises. There has been no oppo-.
sition to the officers of the law in this Stat..
United States Deputy Marshals, ,
have made wholesale arrests on the chat}
of Ku-Kluxing. Men have been
ed and held for trial for months, and ten. ,
who were bailed have, in every install...,
made their appearance, at the proper tin...
before United States tribunals for trial .
Such arrests and imprisonments are r.
in due course of operation under the Ku
Klux law, and large numbers of citl,.•••
are either held or bailed to appear:for i• .•
•
beforo the United State,' Circuit Color
the 27th inst.
In view of such a peaceful state of le` :•
the invasion of this State by troops .
South Carolina, for the purpose ofarr•
ciitzens of the latter State, is 100k up
LIS an almost unwarrantable anti ii. ...,!
aggression upon the rights of the Stan •„oi.i
upon the people of North Carolina in p ;i i
tinnier.
lvOra week since a large sgmbl of 1,1,
airy front York county, S. C., came tivm
into Cleveland county, In thin State, mid
arrested a number of refugee citizens
former county and took them to Yo 4•1;
where they are imprisoned.
The latest invielion, however, was that o.
a similar body of troops, which caste fron.
South Carolina un Wednesday night lasi,
and made a raid un the citizens or Shelby.
or the purpose of arresting the anew,'
South Carolina IV' 11-K x. The troops come
in the night time, in a very disorderly mar
ner, and their entrance into town, When
the people had retired, created a panic and
terror that cam Only be experientied in ..
time of war. A scene of confusion onions'
that is indescribable, many persons !teeing
to the woods tor their night-clothes, until
the military lilt the town.
It is reported that the Invading squad di.l
not succeed in finding nay of the peril(' •
they were in search of.
WHO BILTHN ED CH Ill'AUo
•1 Nig ailleaat Sentence tliered In Ibe
Williamsburg Mormon Tabernacle.
Eider Unitsloy, of Salt Lake City, preach •
ed yesterday in the Mormon Tabernacle,
Williarnslntrg. Speaking of the reported
flight of Brigham, he said : " Twenty year ,
ago, when 1 was preaching the Gospel in
England, I was told that he had run awa
from his people. To-day thu same is said,
I've been in Salt Lake since the troubles
began. The Saturday before I left, three
weeks ago, I saw hint in the Church of the
Prophets. Ito on speaking to us of tie
troubles, said : ' I fool as calm as the SUM
filer morning.' Ile is possessed of greet
coolness. When the Marshal and Mu rt.-
ligions hypocrite of a Judge read the in
dictments against him he smiled and ask
ed if that was all. Brigham has not run
away. Every Winter lie goes down to tl"
rim of the basin about 300 miles south oY
this city to his relatives. Do people think
Mormonism in about to die, and that the
persecutions waged against it will blot it
out? I tell you they will not. If it anti
the gospels are not of God It will die out of
itself. When I left I was told that I woulo
do a groat deal of good while away. I
think 1 will bring some back with nat.
Let you who are bore in this resting place
husband your moans, and lay, prepared to
seek your temporal and spiritual happi
ness among the mountains. We are (it'd's
chosen people. lie is working. A few
weeks ago Chicago was destroyed. This
but a drop of water to what will soon hap
pen. Wo were driven Trona the State, anti
God through his prophet said they should
not live there."
Fotollryy Among l'ow•Wow•ern
In some of the German districts of Burks,
and even in parts of this city, them is pram
Used an absurd system fur the curing of
diseases, or any of tne ills or accidents that
nosh is heir to, known as pow-wowing. It
consists of a series of incantations and
manipulations over the afflicted person,
the aid of the Deity being sometimes In
voked in the formula. A singular fatality
Loa couple of practitioners of their super -
stitious rites has just occurred in (Soy
township. A man by the nalllo of .11.Ufflo
Rhoads, residing in Pike township, Barks
county, near the line of (Bey, while on a
recent visit to Philadelphia, was attacked
with the small-pox upon his return. The
neighbors, hearing of his illness, visited
him, as is customary. Among the visitors
were two men of the neighborhoodonnued
Benjamin Conrad and Josiah Sutphen,
both citizens of Uley, who pronounced the
disease erysipelas ' or " wild-lire," and un
dertook to cure Mr. Rhoads by pow-wow•
Mg. They went through with their in
cantations and manipulations accordingly.
Mr. Rhoads recovered, but sad to say tlr
friends above named, who undertook
cure, both took the disease in its w• •
form and were among the first victim
the epidemic. Mr. Conrad tiled last. -
urday and was buried last Monday. Mr,
Sulphon died on Sunday morning,, an •
was buried last Monday. Mr. Sulphie,
died on Sunday morning and was burn d
last Tuesday. The deceased wore ea,
over fifty years of age. There aro a nlllll
- of cases of small-pox still in the vicin
ity, but the above are the only fatal tints
that we have heard of.—Reading Times.
The reuses statistics fol" the blind show
a singular disparity between the sexes, es
pecially at certain ages. The total numbs r
in the United States and Territories Ic
10,11130, ot which 9,0-10 aro males and 7,32 i;
females. Between the ages Mono and live
years the ratio is 120 males to 115 females,
and the ratio increases from that ago to
. . .
between .91 and 50, when there are 1,29'2
males to (NS females. From that point up
wards to between CO and 90, the ratio di+
creases, when the latter predominates the
numbers 551 males to lilB females; be-
. . _
wean 90 and 100 there are SS males to 1:11
'amnion, and above 100,10 males to 2?, to
nales.
Ilttawry Pentisylvmuln
The Washington correspondent of the
Now York Timex cheerfully writes:
" Ur all the people to scramble for °Mc°
the Pennsylvanians are the worst. The re
moval of one officer and the death of an-
other in Philadelphia, within the past few
days, have brought a swarm of persons
here interested in the various applicant:s.
The contest now is over the position of
United States Marshal, made vaunt by t he
death of (;en. t Iregory."
Literary LO/INCII
Among the losses, in a literary way, sus
tained by the Chicago lire, wore throe sets
of the national archives, including the an
nals and debates of Congress and the Cur,
gre.wrionetl Globe. ()no of these SON was in
the Tribune library, another in the library
of the Historical Society, and the third in
the private library of Perry 11. Smith:-
There is but ono other complete set MP,
and that la in the library of the I lniversity
of Chicago.
Inaugurallna . the Campaign
The Senatorial campaign has opened al
ready in Ohio. denator Sherman has taken
rooms at the Neil House, Columbus, which
are being titled up for his reception in the
most gorgeous style, without regard to eX- ,
pense. It is understood that the variety
and quality of wines, liquors and cigars
will exceed that of any former similar oc
casion. The "all the morality" know how
to manage these things.
A Pecuniary Oversight
At Birmingham, near Pittsburgh, they
were burning the bedding upon which a
man had died of the small-pox, when the
old mother of the deceased rushed into
the flames and snatched a roll of ills worth
$5OO from the mattress. She had forgotten
that the money was concealed in the bed
ding whemahe sent it away.
Female Voting In New Jersey
One hundred and fifty-eight women voted
at the late election In Vineland. Their bal
lots were deposited In a box specially ap
propriated to them. This is the fourth year
the female suffragists have gone through
these motions in Vineland. Tho Wood
hulls and Cliiilinti should all move there.
Prosecutions of no.;Cse
The New York Tribune says: "No
measures that have vet been undertaken
are likely to prove of more permanent value
than the prosecutions for fraud at tho
polls." In Philadelphia, such prosecutions
are of no use when the convicted malefac
tors are pardoned in time for the next suc
ceeding election.
A Michigan Fent:*le Suilfragird.
Mrs. Nannette B. Uardner, of Detriii:.,
who'cast her first vote—and the first veto
of any Michigan woman—last year, again
'voted at the last election, and laid no diffi
culty in doing so.
liossuth Again Agitating.
Kossuth, it is said has issued 4 manifesto
demanding the separation of Hungary front
Austria. In it, be appeals to the Magyars,
Croats, Wallachians, Moidavians, and Bul
garians to establish a Danubian Confeder
acy.
Spread of the Cholera
LONDON, November 14.—Letters from
Constantinople represent that the cholera
is spreading in that city, and that the num
ber of deaths from the epidemic increases
daily.