MASSACRED IN RED CANON.
CftlEr.ral. Mill, rtfce Male Narvlvsr la a
Part? al Mevea, Tallin* lha Ninrr.
A recent Black Hills letter savs : Our
discussion of mining locations, prospect
ing parties aud other subjects kindred to
• mining centre has br<a suddenly
changed by the return to the frontier
of William Q. Felton, better known as
" California Bill," whoee reputatibn BK
a scout is widespread on the plains. His
return brings to mind the Indian mas
sacre of April 16, 1876, known as the
Bed Canon massacre, from which in a
party of five men and two women, Cali
fornia Bill alone escaped. The party,
consisting of Andrew Mets and wife.
John Bnrgeseer, of Carton, Nevada, a
Mr. Orasliam, of Missouri, Mr. Stimp
eon, of Colorado, and a colored woman,
started from Ouster City for Cheyenne
April 14, 1876. They were attacked by
Indians in Red Canon two days after
ward, and all the above were killod out
right, or reoeivod wounds that soon re
sulted in death. California Bill received
a number of wounds, but escaped. Those
wounds, however, have made an invalid
of him. Though as yet uot really recov
ered, he has returned to the frontier
full of fight. He has related the storv
of the massacre, particulars of which
have not before been published:
" I started from Custer City on my
way out of the Hills to Cheyenne on the
morning of the 14th of April. The first
night we spent in Pleasant valley. Next
morning we moved on, reaching Big
Springs early in the afternoon of the
16th, and there going into camp. I felt
assured that the passage through the
Bed Canon would be unsafe for a small
party, and oonclmled to await the arrival
of a larger one that was expected to
overtake us. A short time afterward,
Metz'n party arrived with two two-horse
teams, having Mr. and Mis. Mets, a
negro woman from Custer, and a Mr.
Stimpson as passengers. They stopped
to water the stock at the spring, and
laughed at my fear of trouble ahead,
saying that they were not afraid of In
dians. With this they went on, and at
the continued urging of my passengers,
though against my own judgment, I
hitched up and followed. We traveled
together undisturbed in the afternoon,
aud went into camp at the head of the
canon about five o'clock. Everything
went off peaceably daring the night,
and early on the morning of the 16th,
Easter Sunday, we started down the
eanon, seven in number. About hull
way down the canon, where stands a
giant cottonwood tree, there is a line of
low hills, and close to the side
of one of them, skulking well down,
I discovered ten or twelve of the
painted imps, nnder the lead of Sioux
Jim, well known at the Bed Cloud
agency, waiting for us. This was about
ten in the morning, and my party was
then about a quarter of a mile ahead of
the Metz outfit On seeing that thev
were discovered, with a terrible yell
the Indians fired at us, putting a ballet
through Burgesser's leg and one through
my hip. Seeing the attack upon us,
the Metz party turned about their
teams and endeavored to turn up the
canon. Oraspiug my rifle. I jumped
from the wagon, and using it as a
breastwork, returned their fire with in
terest, knocking two of the cowardly
scoundrels off their pins, and keeping
the dust in a cloud around them, where
moat of my hurriedly sighted shots
struck. As I began to Are, Graham
started to run, and was shot through
the stomach. He fell. After several
volleya, sending a shower of bullets
over our heads and into the wagon, bat
doing no further damage, the Indiana
disappeared behind a neighboring hill,
and thinking they were running after
their ponies to cut us off, we mounted
the wagon and again started to ran the
gauntlet. We had gained only a few
soda, however, before the red fiends ss
ruddenly appeared on an adjoining j
ridge, and gave ua another unexpected
volley, plugging me through the left
arm into the breast, through the fleshy
part of the calf of my right leg, and
again through my shoulder. For a
moment it seemed ss though I was per
fectly riddled with bullets, but I leaped
to the ground just as another volley
came, one of the ballets striking Bnr
gesser in the thigh, knocking him into
the wsgon box. Keeping close to the
front wheel fnrthest from the Indians, I
drove and ran alongside the wagon for
half a mile down the canon, when in
crossing a small stream the axle
broke, and the wagon was left in the
mad. There we were, all severely
wounded, the Indiana close upon us, and
we nnable to move. There was no time
for thought, and though rapidly losing
courage and strength from many
wounds, I quickly unhitched the two
lead mules, managed to get Burgesser
on one, and while Oraaham. who did not
then appear to be severely wounded,
ran on down the canon, I mounted the
other and sent them forward as fast ss
possible. After riding about s mile
and a half we met a party of six en route
to Ouster, and they took us to the
Cheyenne river stage station, where
Burgeeaer and Oraaham died on the fol
lowing morning.
"The mutilated bodies of Metz and
his wife and Htimpson and the colored
woman were found the next day. Metz
and Stimpson bad evidently been shot
out of the wsgon. Mrs. Metz and the
colored woman must have jumped from
the wagon, tried to escape, and been
murdered some distance from where the
bodies of the two men were lying. The
bodies were brought into camp, and all
buried side by side, sod on the evening
of the !7th of April I found myself the
sole survivor of this ill-feted party.
" After lying, more dead than alive,
for eight weeks at Cheyenne River, "con
tinued the scout, "a few soldiers of
dept. Eagan's company took me to Fort
Laramie hospital. Four months after
ward I was sufficiently recovered to
return to my home in Colorado; but
two years have passed, and the wound
in my hips is not folly healed. I'm
back again in the Hills, he concluded,
with much emphasis, "and though a
little the worse for wear, am ready at
any moment to mount the eaddle, throw
the cartridges into my pet rifle here,
and give the red men another chance
to get the scalp of California Bill."
There are 777 potteries in the United
States, paying annually *2,247,781
wages, and turning out products to the
nine of $6,046,536. f
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The American Reindeer.
The artist, Mr. 0. 0, Ward, haa a
paper in Seribnrr on " Caribou-Hunt
ing," from which we quote as follows :
The auimal is very compact in f< rm,
poancared of great speed and endnr.. ioe,
and is a vory Ishraaelito in its wander
ing habits ; changing, as the pest of flies
draws near, from the low-lying swamps
and woods where its principal article of
diet, the Cladonia rangrtferina, or reiu
deer lichen, abounds, to the highest
mountain fastnesses; then again as the
oold nights give warning of the chang
ing season, descending to tho plains.
Horns are common to both sexes, but
the horns of the bucks arc seldom car
ried later than the month of December,
while the does carry theirs all winter,
and use them to defend the fawns
against the attacks of the bucks. Both
sexes use their hoofs to clear away the
snow in searching for mosses on the
barrens. In their biennial migrations
they form well defined tracks or paths,
along which the herds travel in Indian
file. I bare often studied their habits
on the extensive caribou barrens between
New river and the hosd of Lake Utopia,
in Oharlotte county, New Brunswick.
These barrens are about sixteen miles
in extent, and marked with well-defined
trails, over which the animals were con
stantly passing and re-passing, here and
there s pending a day wli toro the liohens
afforded good living, then away again
on their never-ending wanderings.
A friend of mine, who visited New
foundland on an exploring expedition,
informs me that there the caribou holds
almost exclusive domain over an un
broken wilderness of nearly thirty thou
sand square miles, in a country wonder
fully adapted to bis habits, and
bountifully supplied with bis favorite
food—the reindeer lichen.
Tbe caribou in poMessod of much
curiosity, autl does not readily take alarm
at what he seen. Where hia haunts
have been unmoleated, he will uncon
cernedly trot up within rango of tho
rifle. lam inclined to believe that a
great deal of this apparent fearlessness
ia due to defective vinion. If thin ia no, he
ia compensated by having A marvelous
gift of noent, quite equal, if not supe
rior, to that of the mooee. And well
for tho caribou that he ia thus gifted.
The wolf follows the herda throughout
all their wandering*. On the plaina or
on the hills, where the poor caribou re
tire to rear their young, he is constr. ..ly
lurking mar, ready to pounce on any
straggler, or—if in sufficient numbers
—to boldly attack the herd.
The woodland caribou is very swift,
and cunning in devices to escape his
pursuers ; his gait is a long swinging
trot, which he performs with his head
erect and scut up, and there is no ani
mal of the deer tribe that affords better
sport or more delicious food when cap
tured. The wandering habits of the
caribou make it veiy uncertain where
one will fall in with him, even in his ac
customed and well-known haunts. When
once started, the chase is sure to be a
long one, and its results doubtful—in
fact so much so that an old hunter sel
dom follows up a retreating herd, but
resorts to strategy and tries to head
them off, or at once proceeds by the
shortest way to some other barren in
hopes of finding them there.
The caribou is very fond of the water,
is a capital swimmer, and in jumping he
ia more than the equal of any other
deer. His adventurous disposition, no
doubt, in some degree influences the
geographical distribution of the species.
In the month of December. 1877, a cari
bou was discovered floating out to sea
on a cake of ice near Dalhouaie, on the
Restigouche river in New Brunswick,
and was captured alive by some men
who put off to him in a boat.
It is said that in very severe seasons
large numbers of caribou cross from
Labrador to Newfoundland on the ice.
His admirably-constructed hoof, with its
sharp, shell-like, cutting edges, enables
him to cross tbe icy floes ; when travel
ing in deep snow, its lateral zpansion
prevents him from sinking.
A Strange Romance.
A trump'* qnnr romance is reported
from Lebanon, 0., patbetic in it* details
and crnel in it* termination. A yourg
woman at Westchester, Pa., bad a lover
at Wilmington, Del., tome year* ago,
<i her father smiled on the suit, until
illiam Udderzook wan hanged for
bntehering Goes, to get the i nan ranee
on his life, and it wa* known that the
lover wan a relative of the criminal.
Then the father forbade the auitor to
come to hia house, which threw the
daughter into an insane melancholy,
and angered the young man into a course
of dissipation. The old man finally sold
hia Pennsylvania home and mo red "to
Ohio, but the maiden was true, and a
few afternoons ago threw herself into
the arms of a tramp who came to the
door to beg for bread. It was the miss
ing lover, who had a sad story to tell of
a downward career and of wanderings,
in which he bad been to the South Afri
can diamond field*. The young woman
wan too glad to find her lover to recoil
at bis rags or st the story of his diasips
tion, bnt when the father appeared on
the scene he was possessed with an in
sane fnry, and boat the tramp so that
his life was despaired of. After going
for the doctor, the father became insane,
and the danghter waa with difficulty per
tuaded to leave the wounded man long
enough to allow the doctor to attend
him,
Hew He AnUnislied the Ball.
A Olen Sutton (Vt) oorrospoudent
relates that while a young man named
Pel kin was ont hunting s few days ago
be chanoed to espy a for industriously
digging for mioe about a decayed stump.
Between himself and the monao-bnntcr,
reclining upon the ground, quietly
chewing bis cud, was Z. D. Wilson's
bull. Cautiously advancing, our hero
reached the unsuspecting bovine ; drop
ping upon hia knees and carefully rest
ing his gnu across the animal's back be
pulled the trigger. The aim waa true,
and sly Reynard fell dead. Bnt wasn't
the bull astonished though I Springing
to his feet with a roar, he ran over Pei
kie about forty times, and rushed away
snorting with terror. The first thing
our friend saw on opening his eyes was
the bull's tail cleaving the air like me
teor. about a mile away, and the dead
tot lying upon the grnnndbard by. The
sight of die latter reassured him. and
securing it, he limped hbmcwartl, re
solved that though crest the tribulation
be would never again nsea lire boll for
sbfogstwoek.
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CARPET*.
Where Thar Caaa Cram, M'ba Dee Thaw,
una llaw Melr.
Carpets come from the Kant, says an
American paper, and their manufacture
dates far back into antiquity. The
Babylonians made tbem; they form
ed a noted brunch of manufacture in
Turkey and Persia before they were
known in England. They belong to
that Oriental luxnriousnesa of taste
which was the exact opposite of the
Baxon. The Mohammedan who prostrates
himself many times a day upon the
gronnd found it convenient to have
something on which to kneel and which
he could easily carry with him, while a
like habit of sitting cross-legged upon
the floor made the same material first a
comfort, then an ornament to his honse.
To these uses wo may probably traoe
the custom in all Oriental countries,
copied largely by France, of having car-
Kta in one piece and then to only par
lly cover the floor, or of the use of
rugs merely before the principal pieces
of furniture. It is only in America,
England and Oermany at the present
day that carpets are universally used
covering the entire floor, and where the
plan of waxing floors, as in France, is
almost entirely unknown. Those who
have painfully walked through some of
tho palaces of Europe, shuffling along in
felt slippers, or endeavoring to stand
upright without tbem, realise the com
forts of a well covered floor, as well as
the groat addition to the beauty of a well
furnished house.
It iii somewhat singular that the Eng
lish thonld have been so late as they
were in discovering tho utility of car-
Gt, for while they did not need them
H' the set of worship, the climate would
nutnrally snggeet such an addition to
carmth. Yet we learn from history
that as late as the reignn of Queens
Mary and Elizabeth rashes were used,
even in the palaces, though carpets had
t>een imported to some extent from the
East Bhakspeare occasionally refers
to them, and Bacon, who was contempo
rary with him, describes a reception
thus ; " Against the wall, in the middle
of the half-pace, is a chair placed before
him with a table and a carpet before
itfrom which it will be seen that the
first carpets in use then were the same
as we find in the East DOW. mere squares
or ruga. At that dav they wore consid
ered as luxuries, and for common daily
use the English adhered as tenaciously
to their straw and rashes as they do now
to their roast beef and ale.
Not much is known of the earliest
Eastern fabrics, bnt as these nations
change bnt slowly it is safe to assume
that the first carpets were thin tapes
tries, made by hand, as they are made
at the present day. The process of fast
eoing tufts of woolen into a warp with !
the Augers was exceedingly slow and
tedions, but this is of small aooonnt in i
countries where labor is of so little
valne. The same process in France at
the present day makes the Gobelin* i
tapestries of immense valne, so that they ;
rarely, if ever, come into the market,
bnt are reserved for royalty. Many
years are sometimes occupied in pro
ducing some of the more ornate pieoea.
Portraits and pictures of birds, animals j
and flowers are accurately and beauti
fully reproduced, and-wbat is more won
derful is, that the artist does his work i
with the back of the tapestry toward
him. lie can only see what he has ac
complished by going round to inspect l
it when he stops for dinner or lesves at
night.
From this tapestry has sprung un
doubtedly all onr modern carpets.
When the manufacture was takeu up in
England, devices were employed to mul
tiply the fabrics and to cheapen them.
This led to hand-loom and subsequently
to machinery and the use of power.
Good imitations of Turkish carpets were
made at Axminster, and were called
after the name of the town. Few people
have any idea of the process of manu
facture. It is one of the few remaining
branches of Turkish industry.
The methods of work in the anoient
towns of Ouahak, llon]a and Ghoirdofa
are of the simplest and rudest descrip
tion. A vertical frame supports two
horizontal rollers about five feet apart.
The warp, of any required length, con
sisting of an npper and lower thread, is
wound around the npper roller and the
ends fastened to the lower one by the
girls, who sit cross-legged in a row be
fore the frame. Each workwoman has a
certain width allotted to her, and pro
ceeds to knot the tnfts which form the
pile in rows, nsing different colors to
form tho pattern. The tying of the tnlts
and the picking out of the various color
ed wools, which bang in balls over the
frame, is carried on with surprising
rapiditv, the pattern being worked
solely from memory. Yet with the aid of
the rude frame, a pair of shears and
comb, the workers contrive to produce
the most harmoniously colored and cer
tainly the most durable carpets in the
trade. European taste has done much
to foster this manufacture, bnt has
never been able to improve it A live
lier elaas of goods is produced to meet
the American demand than those used
by transatlantic purchasers.
It would be interesting to follow the
growth of this manufacture, and to de
scribe the machinery by which it is pro
duced, bnt that ia impossible hero. It
is only fair to say, however, that no
country has made more rapid strides
than tni* branch of manufacture.
More has been accomplished in one
hundred years than in all the centuries
preceding. Public taste, united to a
desire to eoonomiaa, has led to an im
mense production of ingrains, three
ply* and Brussels, and this demand baa
stimulated the inventive renins of the
weavers and artists, until, in colors,
designs and quality of frbrie, there ia
nothing left to desire. It ia a perfect
mystery how goods uniting each qualities
of beaut* and of substantial wear can be
produced at such prices. The ingrains
nan be had as low as the homo-mada
" rag " carpet, and the Brussels as low
as the ingrains were formerly, while in
the latter there is hardly an end to the
patterns that may be prod need.
The largest ooneeru in Amertoe runs
700 looms end employs thousands of
hands. There, is e different form or
manner of mechanism employed for
every carpet, from the methodical East
lake to the elaborate Queen Anne.
Wonderful affects are produced in
tapestry.
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' Mr. Ator, of New York, has an tar
come (A 1800 an hoar.
Natural Ulster/ Studies—The Baby.
" What animal ia this?"
" This is a baby. He is now about
three years old, and at the wiekedost
point of bis earthly career."
" What countries does the baby most
inhabit ?"
" Ho can tie found in every inhabited
country on the globe, the ssme as mos
quitoes cud boils."
" Gau they bo tamed f"
" Yes, quite easily. After a little
jndlcioua discipline they cease to strug
gle, sod become subservient to the will
of man."
" Does the baby est grass?"
" Yea, or anything else. They swal
low pocket knives, thimbles, buttons,
spools or any other object a little smaller
than a teacup. If offered milk they
seldom refuse it"
" Do they graze during the day, or
only at nights?"
" They are si ways grazing, paying not
the least heed to tiie hour. When not
actually eating they generally give
utterance to a peculiar cry. Btrong
men often jump out of bed at midnight
in the coldest weather when hearing
thia cry."
" What moaning ia attached to thia
cry ?"
" Men of deepest thought have agreed
that it signifies to wake up the neighbor
hood una have some fun."
"Of what benefit to mankind is a
domesticated baby ?"
" They are of no earthly acoountlfor
the first few years, but by-snd-by they
can slide down hill on s cellar door and
carry articles out of the house and trade
them for a wooden sword or lose them
in the grass."
" Do you know of any instances where
the baby has attacked the household
and killed or injured any onef"
" Bncb instances have been related by
snob eminent naturalists as George
Francis Train and Texas Jack, but we
don't put much faith in them. How
ever, if the baby was maliciouslv and
persistently provoked, there ia no know
ing what it might do."
"Are i hey a healthy animal t"
" No. On the contrary, no druggist
could make enongh profit in a year to
bny him a pair of Arctic overshoes bnt
for the presence of the baby in every
household. There is hardly an honr in
the day that the baby does not demand
peppermint, paregoric, milk, sngar,
cordial, cod-liver emnlsion, ipecac, or
something else costing money.
" What machinery is made nse of to
compel the baby to take a dose of castor
oil?
• There are several patent machines
for trie purpose, but most people follow
the old rale of knocking him senseless
and getting tb dose into his mouth be
fore he recovers."
" Is t e bald-headed baby more do
mestic than others t"
" Not a bit. He kieaa around after
the same fashion, and has even a worse
time fighting flies and mosquitoes."
" What music do tbey seem to pre
fer t"
" A baa* dram is their first choice,
bnt tbey have a heavy tendency toward
the sonnd of the stove-handle knocking
the noss off the pitcher with the empt
ings in it. This t* all abont the baby."
—iM/roit Frte Prrtt.
A Washington Nwletj Incident.
A Washington society correspondent
writes : la the last year of the reign of
Mm. Fish, M the wife of the secretary
of state, there happened an amnsing in
cident, which I will relate to instance
the trouble to which the wires of public
men are often nnneoeaaarily put, I
will call the lady Thomas. Her hna
band is a clerk, on small pay, in one of
the departments. She made no social
pretension, lived in a quiet, humble
way, in a very petite bouse in the sub
urbs, kept no domestic, and did her own
work. All this greatly to her credit
Ileing one Wednesday afternoon in the
neighborhood of the "Fiah mansion,"
she proposed to her sister "to go in
just for a look and see what the high
fly em were doing." At the door the
footman presented his aalesr for a card.
Ther had none. The assistant servant
banded another salver with a blank
card and a pencil. The little woman
wrote her name and address, thinking
it a mere form, and the twain were is
sued into the drawing-room, where the
courtly Mm. Fiah received them with
all the impreeemrnt due a queen.
About ten days after this (be industrious
housekeeper was mounted on a step
ladder in front of her modest little
home, engaged in the unpleasant task of
washing windows.
Hhe noticed coming down the street
an elegant carriage, with servants in
livery, driving superbly-caparisoned
homes. It aame on and presently halted
at her door. The footman sprang down,
came to the window took a card, and,
approaching the ladder, asked :
" Does Mrs. Thomas live hers f"
• Yes."
" Is she st borne?"
" No," replied the quick-witted
housewife, ss she took the pasteboard
and stowed it in her pocket. The story
ras too good to keep, and her husband
told it in great glee to a friend of ours
who gave it to me. Mrs. Fiah was WIT
punctilious about returning visits, and.
no matter how o been re the person from
whom she received the compliment of •
visit, she never failed to go in parson
and return it.
" Pith sad Prist"
Word crashed to pulp will rise again
—in the paper mill.
How many men are born before the
world is ready tor them ?
" Early to bed and early to rise," but
above all ootns early to advertise.
Be plain in your speech and dress,
particularly if your features are plain.
The figure one, when we express
"ten" by numerals, is next to nothing.
" We come to this eon elusion," ss the
last leaf of the book said to a yawning
reader.
We have always detected a mean
spirited man by Ids wholesale denuncia
tion of others selfishness.—/fas Fork
AWs.
Said a mother to her little son: "There I
Your toes are out of your stockirga
again. Seems to me they wear ont In a
hurry." Giving a comical lesr, ha said :
" Do you know why stockings wear ont
first at the toes?" "No." " Because
toes wriggle, sad heels don't"
Christmas Corel*.
Carol i> said to be derived from nan
tare, to aing, and role, an interjection
of joy. That quaint writer, Jeremy
Taylor, observed that "glory to God in
the highest; on earth, peaoe and good
will to men." which the angela eenp at
the birth of Christ, waa the first Clirist
maaoaroL
In Bhaks pea re's time carols were sung
in the a treats at night dnring Christmas
by the waits, who expeoted to receive
gratuities for their singing. The
" wakeful ketches on Christmas eve "
are mentioned by many a writer of old
times and customs. After the reforma
tion, the singing of Latin hymns waa
•boliabed in the churches, and the sweet
Christmas cards substituted. There
were two kinds of Christmas carols,
those of a religions nature, which were
sang not only in the churches, bnt also
through the streets from house to house,
on Christmas eve. and, after that, morn
ing and evening until twelfth day; the
others are of a livelier character, and
adapted to the revel and the feast Borne
of these la* ter were also called waaaail
songs, an I originated with the Anglo-
Normans, who were of a most convivial
nature. No Christmas entertainment
waa considered complete without the
singing of carols, and thence oame the
old motto: " No song, no supper," for
every one at the table was expeoted to
join in the csro'. Bays an English sqnire
at his Christmas feast:
Not a man bar* aball t? my March boor.
Till a Christmas carol be dose sine.
Then all clapped their bands and shouted and
sung
Till the ball and the parlor did ring.
Prom a qnftint o'd work we clip tbe
following: "The antientest mat< r of
the revel la, after dinner and snpper, to
sing a carol, or aong. and to command
the other gentlemen present to aing
with him and tbe oompanie."
Home of theee Christmas osrol* had
queer titlea enough, and they eeem to
have referred to all aorta of subject*.
Here ia tbe dedication prefixed to one
in the laat century:
" Christmas raiol on ' Peko Tea '—a
(tarred carol, which, like tea that ia per
fectly good and fine, will be moat grate
ful and uaefnl all the year round, from
Chriatmaa to Chriatmaa forever. Hum
bly addreaaed to Queen Caroline and tbe
Princess Caroline and the Royal Fami
ly. By France* Hoffman. London,
1729."
A rurioua piece of antiquity ia the old
ChristiiM natui r *t. It waa aomething
in thia manner: Tbe oock croweth,
ChrUtvM natus r*t —Chriat ia born. The
raven aaked, Qi umdo t— when ? Tbe
crow replied, //<*c noctr —thia night.
Tbe ox eryeth out, I 'bit Übi t— where ?
where ? The aheep bleated out, Rrihr
trm— Bethlehem. A voice from heaven
aounded, Gloria in ezceJzU— glory be
on high
Another carol represents the Virgin
contemplating the birth of the Divine
Infant:
" lie mother shall he clothed
In purple nor in pall.
Hut all In fair linen.
As were babies all;
R- mltbrr snail be rock'd
Hot ta e wooden cradle
That rocks on Lbs mold. '
Carol ainging continued in all its vigor
nntil the eloae of the late century, since
when it ha* gradually declined, except
in the achoola or churches, where the
sweet Chriatmaa carols are chanted by
young voioea.
But in tbe northern part of England
they still aing carols; and even in the
great some solitary
veteran, who bad not forgotten the
merry customs of tbe good old days,
may sometimes be beard upon Christ
mas eve, singing, in a plaintive voioe,
" God rest you, merry gentlemen !"
Words of Wisdom.
Despise no one, for every one knows !
something which thon knoweat not.
Where gold and silver dwell in the
heart, faith and hope are out of doors.
He who thinks be baa nothing to fear
from temptation* is most exposed to a
fall
The higher you rise the higher ia
your boriaon; so the more yon know,
the more you will see to know.
No single moment in sny life accurate
ly represent* the motive and worth of
that life; yet who thai judge* others
take* more than the set of a moment to
judge by.
Kindness seems to know of some se
cret fountain ol joy in tbe soul which it
can touch, without repealing its locality,
and cause it to send its waters upward
ami overflow the heart.
Prosperity has this property: It puffs
up narrow souls, makes them imagine 1
themselves high and mighty, and rook
down npon the world with contempt; 1
but a truly noble and resolved spirit
appears greatest in distress, and then
becomes more bright and conspicuous.
Tbe tree-frog acquires the oolor of
whatever it may, for a ah.art time,adhere
to. If yon always live with those who
are lame, you will yourself limp, is a
Latin proverb. A man ia sure to be
influenced by those with whom he asso
ciate*. Tbe future success ami prosperi
ty of young people depend largely upon
their inclination to associate with their
superiors in age, got dneea and intelli
gence.
If we can by honest effort change a
way-worn thought to a manly purpose,
encourage the halting mind to correct
view*, remove all prejadisss, nohisuSe
chants desires, and strengthen a noble
purpose, oar efforts in life shall not be
in vain. Feeble our efforts may be, as
the breeee that kisses the mountain
summit, yet it may be the morning
breath that shall belp on his mission of
mercy, virtue and usefulness, sane
waiting pilgrim.
Reiigteea Htattstim *f Barege.
According to Hnbner the following
arc the religious statistics of Europe:
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taad, m jam IBM Iflwaaa utt Afi flftt
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mark are not included in this table.
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A Torpedo-Beat.
The aeoond exhibition of tiie Hardy
torpedo-boat took plaoe at Pamrapo,
N. J., in the preaenoe of nnmerona
naval offloera and representative# of
foreign govern men te, ami waa a com
plete ancoeaa—the operator directing
the movements of the deatractive boat
half a mile at M by means of an eleo
tric current, tranamitted through a wire
unreeling from the a tern of the craft.
Tbia formidable opponent of the heavy
tronclada ia an iron abell, cigar-like in
form, and tapering at both roda to a
point. In the shell are three chamber*.
That in the bow ia prepared to hold
dynamite, which will be exploded either
by percuKiion or an electric spark. The
central chamber of the ahell contain*
tanka of carbonic acid and the engine
which propels the torpedo. Thia en
gine ia driven by the expenaive force of
carbonic acid gaa generated under prea
aure in the tonka, and drive* a screw
propeller. In the chamber in the stern
of the shall ia a reel of insulated wire
oonnected with a battery on shore. By
touching different keya of tbia battery
the torpedo ia Dut in motion, turned to
the right or left, backed or stopped, as
desired. A spark from thia battery can
also be used to explode the torpedo,
if explosion by contact ia not found to
be the better method. The length of
the shell ia abont twelve feet, and its
greatest diameter nearly eighteen inches.
At 1.30 o'clock the signal waa given and
the torpedo waa gently lowered to the
water. It waa nearly submerged by its
own weight. Little red pennants floated
from slender roda at the bow and atern.
Hardy, the inventor of the torpedo, who
has worked for more than twenty years,
struggling against discouragements of
every kind, in order to perfect his in
vention, manipulated the keya of the
battery. The boat rested tor an in
stant quietly, sod then Hardy touched a
key of the battery. A sharp hisa of es
caping gaa followed. The water bub
bled under the atern of the torpedo and
the blades of the screw began to churn
tha water. The torpedo moved for
ward, at first alowly, then faster and
faster, heading straight out to sea, and
cutting through the water like a rocket.
A broad ripple extending many yards on
IxHh aides marked its course. It
swerved from aide to side in response to
the various keys of the batterv, the trail
ing wire running off the reel like a long
serpent Half a mile out Hardy pressed
another key and the boat ■ topped abort
Then it began to turn alowly to the left,
and awnng around with a grand sweep,
nnder perfect oontroL The torpedo
waa ont of sight nnder water, but the
line of the little flags at her bow and
stern marked her motions perfectly.
Coming up from ber sweep to the left,
she described s corresponding circle to
the right, and returned to the same
point, baring cut a figure eight on the
water. Then she shot backward and
forward, as Hardy touched the keya.
" Let her go at fnll speed, Hardy," ex
claimed a delighted stockholder. The
torpedo obediently started off, hissing
through the water, while a slander jet of
spray forced by the escaping gas
through s bole in the bark of the shell,
drenched the little flag in the stern as
it felL The spurt of the torpedo ended,
it turned docilely and headed for the
wharf. The little flag at the bow waa
seen plainer and plainer. The bow waa
driven nnder water, bnt the stern rose
above the surface aa the reel of wire
unooiled. Near the wharf the hissing
gaa waa abut off. The ahell shot on
with its own momentum and came
quietly to a stop at Ha starting place.
Tfcp HUUee Index.
Mention M made of a device adopted
on the Now York elevated railroad to
supply the place of the mollow-voioed
brakeman tn letting the paaaengera
know the name* of the elation* the train
oomea to. The details of the invention
are as followa: A shaft made of wood or
iron, one-third of an inch in diameter,
runs from end to end of the ear above
the windows, and to it is attached a
crank wheel that is worked by the oon
dnctor, who stands on the platform.
The wheel is jnat above the window at
the side of the door, and is to be about
six inches in diameter. On the shaft is
s spool, around which thin canvas or
linen-cloth rolls are wound, and on this
canvas are painted at regular intervals
the names.of the different stations. In
the sides of the boxes which moloae
these rolls are windows about fifteen
inches long and six indies wide. One
turn of the wheel by the conductor on the
platform revolves the spool in the imii
cator-box and place* before the vuAw
the name of the station the train will
next reach. The model shows three In*
dicstor-boxes, one at each end of the
car and one in the middle. Over the
windows are painted the words " Next
Station." The boxes at the end of the
car are jnst over the doom. The boxes
can be put cm any pert of the shaft and
s many of them as may be necessary
; can be put on. When the conductor
clones the platform rate he tarns the
i wheel and the name of the next station
| appears in the windows of all the indies
tors. As the train nears a station the
; conductor prills a knob attached to a
i wire, which strikes a gong Mar the ten
! ter indicator, and thai warns the pass an -
: gen that they are near a station; and
when the train starts from the station
the gong is again struck. Tba appara
tus ess ss spSiini from both ends of
the oar sod thus ana man can work two
asm. The wheal is tamed In one dirso
tion until the and of the mate is
reach ed. On tae retain trip the wheel
ia worked is the reverse direction. The
indicator-boxes am to be of wood, and
about twelve inobas square. The names
of the stations painted on canvas rollers
will bs la plain, bold lsttsra fonr inobas
in height.
At a dinner recently given by a well
known English peer, one of the guests.*
very yonag man, made himself ob
sexkms by psmiataotiy tiffing down the
law an every passible entdect, and talk
ing long and Uy. At length be ex- j
pressed, is no measured terms, hi
hatred of a elaaa of pes >pta whom bo '
called Philistine#. An elderly jp-ntk
taas, silting opposite !o him, mildly in+ft
cuirod, " And pray, air, hew do you da- P5
fine a PhilieUno r The h*t interposed,
saying, "1 will give yon the informa
tion. rhftlriines are persons who are J&M
inconvenienced by the jaw of an sea."
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