TOR THX YOUHtt PEOPLE.
ni> re*t.
My tittle rough dog and I
Live a lite that U rather rare,
. We have eo many good walks to take
And eo few bad thlnge to bear;
So much that gladdens and reoreataa
80 little of wear and tear.
Hometlmee It blows and rains,
Bat ettll the eix feet ply j
Ho oare at aU to the following four
If the leading two know why.
"Tie a pleasure to have Hi feet, we think,
My little rough dog and 1.
And when we go all|Otie way,
E T is a thing we should never do,
To reck en the two without the four,
Or the four without the two ;
It would Dot come right tf any one tried.
Because it would not be true.
And who shall look up and say
That it ought not so to be,
Though the earth that is heaven enough
for him
Is lees than that to me I
For a little rough dog can swell s Joy
That enters eternity.
Felly ller.rv'. Pm
It was Polly's—whatever anybody
may say—for she baited the trap and
set it, aud caught the little fellow, and
fed him afterward, and named him John
Henry.
He was a young rat, not much bigger
.4 than—well, not mnch bigger than a
goose'a egg, which everybody knows
the size of, of course. He was*soft and
silky, delicate shades of slate-color los
ing themselves in tho tendereet shades
of gray, and a tail abont the size of a
bran, span, new slate pencil—and such
ears 1 They looked like little brown
shells, in which was the daintiest shade
of pink, and they were so thin that Pol
ly ooold see the light shining through
them. As for hn Henry's eyes, they
were no better ooking than two jet
black—black jet beads, and they
twinkled, and twinkled, and twinkled.
Buch hands as John Henry had ! Deli
cate little fingers, about as big around
as fine zephyr needles, and abont as
long as Polly's eyelashes.
I have drawn John Henry's portrait
carefully, because he was for some time
Suite an important member of our fam
y, and Polly'B chief pet. He was a
baby rat when she canght liirn in the
cage-like trap; but he grew wonderful
ly, and became very tame. He must
have been in the trap for some time
when Polly discovered him, for he was
nearly starved ; his hunger had made
him lose all fear and take food directly
from Polly's hand, and Polly fed him
with all sorts of nice things—bits of
4 cake, pieces of meat, scraps of cheese,
and finally topped off the fine meal with
a thimbleful cf milk, which ho drank so
greedily that we could see him "swell
ing wisibly before onr weryeyes."
And from that day—when sitting up
on his hindlejpi and washing his dainty
little hands with his pink little tongue,
he looked into Polly's face aud saw the
goodness there—he and she became fast
friends. Polly wasn't afraid of him—
not a bit. Bhe would put her hands
into the trap and Btroke his ratsbip's
beck, and even tickle hia ears with his
tail, without remonstrance. John Hen
ry grew tamer and tamer. He would
run and find Polly in any part of the
4 honae if she called him, and he would
search Polly's pocket* for aweetmeata,
and sometimes be would crawl into the
depths of her cloak pocket, nestle down
there among the gloves and the hand
kerchief, and take a nap. Yon see Pol
ly's cloak hung just over the hall regis
ter, and was always warm and comforta
ble.
One Sunday morning, just as Polly
was starting for Hunday-achool In ail
the glory of her new sealskin cloak, it
began to rain, and as a wetting is rather
bad for fur. Aunt Elinor was forced to
insist on Polly's changing her new cloak
for her old one.
"The idea," said Polly, " of anybody
wearing ac everyday cloak to Sunday
school I Nobody ever heard of such a
thing. I shall be ashamed all the time."
But Annt Nell insisted, and so Polly
made the beet of it, and off she went,
brushing a great tear-drop from her
eye as ahe shut the door.
It was late when Polly reached the
Monday-school, and the serviocs had be
gun. They were just singing. Polly
took her place in her class as quickly as
she con I.l,and got settled just in time for
the superintendent's prayer. The school
was very quiet; it was a very gopd
school, and you might have heard a pin
drop while Mr. was praying.
Polly had bowed her head with the rest,
l and was trying to understand every
I word of the prayer, when the little girl
next to her shrieked, and then another
little girl shrieked, and then all the
little girls of Polly's cisss jumped up on
benches, and then the teacher
screamed, and then the boys in the next
class to say: "There he goes.
Here he is—under this bench. No, he
ain't; he's out in the aisle"—all speak
ing right out in the Sunday-school, and
flinging Bunday-aebool books ami lusts
and anything ehw they could lay hands
on, at something on the floor. They
made such a rumpus that nolxxly knew
when the superintendent aaid "amen;"
but presently be was among them with
a cane, jabbing it nnder settees sad un
der the book cases, and anywhere else
he could jab it under. Then the sexton
came with a poker, and ha and the *u-
Grintendent rattled and banged away
e everything.
Polly was bewildered—she didn't
-know what they were after, and what it
all about; and she opened her eyes
vary wide at raeb a confusion in Sun
day-school. She had just made np her
mind that It moat be a rat, when be
jumped right out from behind the book
case. Polly saw him, and gave a little
**" My. my," ahe said, "it is John
Henry 1",
" And sure enough it waa, and Polly
caught him easily enough, poor little
fellow, all bruised god bleeding, and
frightened almost to death. And Polly
him np in ber pocket handker
i&hief, and walked out of school, with a
sense of personal injury on her face
such as I never ssw before.
"The idea," she said, "of being
afraid of John Henry I"
And poor John Henry was siek for •
long time sfteruard. He never wanted
to go to Sunday-school again, you may
bo mire. And yon may bo eqnally mire
that the superintendent didn't want him
there Polly bandaged him,and bathed
hia brained none, and fed him spoon
food for aome daya, and to the delight
of her dear little heart, John Henry re
covered. Ho ia now a very dignified
and gray old rat, and Polly say* he
winka knowingly, aa mnch aa to aay
" Rather not," whenever he heara Bun
day-school mentioned.— Wm. M. F.
Round, in St. Nicholas.
A Colorado Xlning Town.
Eureka, to an Eaatern nan, ia prob
ably one of the moat forlorn, unfinished,
demoralised looking towns in the coun
try, and before going into da tails of the
manners, customs, bnaineaa, etc., of the
place, I will, writes a correspondent,
give a brief description of the town, so
that yon may form some idea of the sit
uation The town proper ia built in a
narrow canyon running about north and
south.
At the eastern side the mountain rises
abruptly above the town several hun
dred feet, the houses being built partly
into it, each house having a storeroom
dug under a hill. On the west side the
slope is more gradual, rising into high
hills some half mile out of town ; while
above and beyond all, tho towering form
of Prospect mountain looms grandly up,
and asserts itself tho monarch of the
range. The center of the town is com
pactly built, extending for about half a
mile up tho length of the canyon, while
the width is not mnch over five hundred
feet from hill to hill. Three streets run
the entire length of tho town, with an
>ccaaional cross-street,stopping abrupt
ly at the foot of the mountain on the
•aat, or straggling up the sloping hilla
on the west side for a short distance,
ending in a hog corral or ore dump, or
anything else that happens to obstruct
its further progress.
Tb6 town has outgrown tho narrow
limits of tho canyon, and is spreading
np the slopes and ravines on the western
aide, but with no regard to system or
order. Men came here to make money,
not to live; until lately very few brought !
their families. They needed a shelter,
and a hut was as good as a palace; they
built into the hills aud under the hills,
Hhanties of logs, of lumber, of stone, of ;
everything that was linndieat and cheap
est. Each man built his cabin where he I
chose; there was no grading, no laying |
out ofstreets, no sewerage; footpathsand
trails wound in and out from one to the j
other, until now the man who is highest
up the hill throws his slope upon his
neighbor's roof, or, if his fire gives out,
walks out of his cabin aud warms at his
neighbor's chimney.
The principal street is Main street,
which is entirely devoted to stores and
saloons. Tho buildings are mostly
mere shanties, one story high, and each
one built in sir.e and stylo to suit the !
caprice and busincra of its owner. The j
general grade of tho hill is quite steep;
each property owner bnihls the side- |
ftlk in front of his premises to suit :
mself, so that, in walking np Main
street you sre continually climbing np 1
steps, the sidewalks being somewhat on !
the plan of a terraced garden. On all
other streets and by-ways there are no
sidewalks; you can take your choice be
tween the middle of the street or nearer
the fence, and navigate as best yon can i
between piles of wood snd lumber or
refuse matter, which impedes progress j
everywhere. Nothing is finished or set
tled.
A street is clear to-day and to-morrow
a pack train of a dozen mnles comes
down from the mountsins snd unload*
n pile of firewood as high as the house
right iu the middle of the thoroughfare;
a house or a cabin which to day looks
as if it had quite made np its mind to
stay where it is, to-morrow is seen
moving gajly down the street to some
new locality. Nobody seems to have
aDy back yard, or if he has he doesn't
use it; all the refuse of the kitchen is
thrown into the street. We have sev
eral times narrowly escaped s shower
bath from the contents of s washbowl
lieing thrown from the front door of a
dwelling.
Rest Required.
The true worker understands the im
portance of rest, snd rarely overtaxes
himself; consequently he can work at
any time. Many a man can work only
at particular seasons snd in particular
moods. His mind is like s hone run
ning loose in the psstnre, snd be can
not always catch it; at least, it will Uka
some time to bring it np and put it into
harness. Now it is evident that s man
can do uothing in twenty minutes if it
takes him half an hour to get his mind
st work ; but the true worker has his
Sowers always st command. In any odd
fteen minutes be can do a full quarter
hour's work. These fragments of time
count np in the long run. The gift of
work must be accompanied with the gift
of resting. To get tne most money ont
of a team of horses, not only mnat they
be poshed hard when nnder harness,
but between work hours they must be
unharnessed, rubbed down, snd made
most comfortable. Some men manage
their mimls in so bad sway as to leave
the harness on over night. They worry
over their work daring the intervals of
labor, so that when they come back to
their toil they are half exhausted before
they begin. Bat the noted workers are
thoee who in intervals of toil take things
more easily. Such a one. when the
work boor is over, drops his task sod
unharnesses his mind. Then, when
called again to his work he can pat bis
whole strength in it
Orange* as a Regimes.
A van! number of orange* ara eaten
by the Spaniard*, it being, in fact, no
nnonmmon thing for the children of a
family to oonanme ten or a doaen
onuigea each before breakfaat, gather
ing them freah for thia pnrpoae from
the treea. Snob wboleaale oonanmption
of what la commonly looked upon aa a
inxnry appears to have no unhealthy
effect upon the system. On the con
trary, the testimony of a late eminent
phyaieian authorises the uae of fruit aa
most wholaaome immediately upon wak
ing in the morning ; he, Indeed, pre
scribed ennh a rtgimtn to a friend aa
the only invigorating and permanent
cure for indignation, faoetioosly remark
ing at the time that he gave her a piece
of advice which, if it were known to bia
dyspeptic patients, would cost him his
practice, aa they might prefer ao simple
a remedy to bia professional visits;
WHAT PEOPLE EAT AND DRINK.
*%• tdilimitou la Maar Art I.
rlaa at CuiaartlM.
The following is from • paper read
before the American Bocial Bcienoe asso
ciation , in Boston, by Mr. George T.
Angell:
Cayenne pepper is adulterated with
red lead, mnHtard with ohromate of lead,
curry powder with red lead, vinegar
with sulphuric acid, arsenic and corro
sive sublimate. It is stated that prob
ably half the vinegar now sold in our
cities is rank poison. One of our Bos
ton chemists analysed twelve packages
of pickles put up by twelve different
wholesale dealers, and found copper in
ten of them. Many of our flavoring
oils, sirups, jellies and preserved fruits
contain poisons. The adulterations of
tea are too numerous to mention. Oof
fee is not only adulterated, but A patent
lias been taken out for molding chicoory
into tho form of coffee berries, and I am
told that clay is now molded, and per
haps flavored with an essence to repre
sent coffee. Cocoa and chooolate are
adulterated with various mineral sub
stances.
Several mills in New England, and
probably many elsewhere, are now en
gaged in grinding white stone into a
fine powder for purposes of adulteration.
At some of these mill sthey grind three
grades—soda grade, sugar grade and
flour grade. It sella for about half a
cent a pound. Flour has been adulter
ated in England, and probably here,
with plaster of Paris, bone dust, sand,
clay, chalk and other articles. lam
told that large quantities of damaged
ami unwholesome grain are ground in
with flour, particularly with that kind
called Graham flour. Certainly hun
dreds, and probably thousands, of barrels
of terra alba, or white earth, are sold
in our cities every year to be mixed with
sugars in oonfectionery and other white
substances. lam told by an eminent
pbysician that this tends' to produce
stone, kidney complaints and variona
diseases of the stomach. A Boston
chemist tells me that he has found
sevonty-flve per cent, of terra alba in
what was fold as cream of tartar used
for cooking. A large New York house
sells three grades of cream of tartar. A
Boston chemist reccntlv analyzed a
sample of the best gra<l, and fonnd
fifty per cent, of terra alba in that.
Mnch of our confectionery contains
thirty-three per cent, or more of terra
alba. The coloring matter of confec
tionery frequently contains lead, mer
cury, arsenic and copper. Baking pow
ders ore widely sold which contaiu a
large percentage of terra nlba and alum.
It is not water alone that is mixed
with milk. Thousands of gallons, and
proliably hundreds of thousands, are
sold in onr cities which have passed
through large tins, or vats, in which it
has leen mixed with various substances.
Recipes for the mixture can be bongbt
by new milkmen from old on payment
of the required turn. lam assured, on
what I believe to bo reliable authority, i
that thousands of gallons of so-called
milk bavo been, ami proliably are, sold
in this city which do not contain one
drop of the genuine article. Large
quantities of the m<at* of animals more
or lees diseased are aold in our markets.
Cows in the neighborhood of our large
cities are fed npou material which pro
duces a large flow of unwholesome milk.
Poultry arc fed npou material which
produces unwholesome eggs. Meats
and flah are made unwholesome, fre
quently poisonous, by careless ami cruel
methods of killing. A California chem
ist recently analyzed many samples of
whisky, purchased at different places
in Ban Franrisco. Ho found them adul
terated with creosote, salts of copper,
alum and other injurious substances,
lie states it, in his published report, as
his opinion that there is hardly an v pure
whisky sold in that city. A gentleman
recently purchased from a prominent
Boston Arm a cask of pure sherry wioe
for his sick wife. His wife grew worse.
He had the wine analyzed, and fonnd
that there was not a drop of the juice of
the grape in it. An eminent medical
gentleman of Boston said to me: " The
adulterations of drugs in this country
are perfectly abominable." I say that
laws should be enacted and enforced
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
these poisonous and dangerous articles
under severe penalties, ami compelling
tbs manufacturers and sellers of adulter
ated articles to tell buyers the precise
character of the adulterations.
A Beautiful Story
Coleridge re la tee a atory to tbia effect:
Alexander, during bia march into Afri
ca, came to a people dwelling in peace
ful hnta, who knew neither war nor oon
qneat. Oold being offered him, be re
fnaed it, aaying that hia sole object waa
to learn the manners and customs of the
inhabitant*. "Stav with ns," said the
chief, " aa long aa it pleaMth thee."
During thia interview with the Afri
can chief, two of hia anbjeeta brought a
case lief ore him for judgment. The dis
pute was this: The one had bought a
piece of ground, which, after the pur
chase, was found to contain a treasure,
for whioh he felt hitnaclf bound to pay.
The other refused to receive anything,
stating that be had aold the ground with
what it might be found to contain, ap
parent or concealed.
Held the chief, looking at the one:
"You have a son;" and to the other:
"You have a daughter; let them be
married, and the treasure given them aa
a dowry."
Alexander waa astonish ad.
" And what," said the chief, " would
have been the decision in your country f"
" We should hive dismissed the par
lies and seised the treasure for the
king's nee."
"And does the sun shine in your
country !" said the chief; " does the
rain fall there! Are there any cattle
there which feed npon herbs and green
greet!"
" Certainly," said Alexander.
" Ah," sab! the chief, "it is for the
sake of those innocent cattle that the
Great Being permit* the bud to shine,
the rain to fall and the gram to grow in
your country."
Popular superstitions : That butter
is made from butternuts. That you roust
Slant eggs if yon would raise egg plant
'hat you can print what's a curd in tha
dairy. That there was something of an
electoral character In the oount of Monte
Oristo. That a tramp will refuse n trade
dollar.— Wlica Observer,
CURRENT NOTES.
Herman Hcheel, with one assistant,
bas taken §lB,OOO from his mine, near
Bilver City, Nevada, in Ave months.
Iceboats are used on the Hndson at
Ncwburg, to transport passengers across
the river, and they scud along at the
rate of sixty miles an hour.
ducting, s murderer in prison at In
dianapolis, being visited in his solitary
cell by a mense, caught his visitor and
amused himself by torturing it to death.
A caller on Benator Burnaide o
Ilhode Island, reoently fonnd him writ
ing a speech on the army bill, using aa
stimulants a pot of hot tea and a music
box, which he now and then wound up.
A thoughtless mother at Goruesse,
France, recently put some burning em
bers from ber oven into a stove with no
chimney, in a room where her two sons,
three daughters and one sister were
sleeping. They never woke.
The proportion of soldiers who can
resd and write in the several armies of
Europe is as follows: Germany, 966 in
1,000; B wed en, 030; England, 860; Hol
land, 7CO; Belgium, 700; France, 686;
Portugal, 496; Hpain, 490; Austria, 460;
Italy, 460; Russia, 116; Turkey, 76.
Quite a flnttirlia* been caused among
the lawyers of Bt. Louis, by the opinion
of Ibe Missouri supreme oourt that the
whole 700 of them are as clearly liable
to taxation as mi rchauts, hucksters or
auctioneers, and must pay their annual
license fee of twenty-live dollars like
men.
The ease of Binjamiu Bcull and others
against the United Btstes, in which a
colossal claim was set up under a Hpanish
grant to 11,000 square miles of land em
bracing twent.% four counties in the
Htates of Missoui i and Arkansas,has lieen
decided by the United Htates supreme
court adversely to the claimants.
Tho father of all deer has been killed
at Devil's lake, Wisconsin. He had
been seen in the vicinity for six or seven
years ; bis hind hoofs hail grown out
about ten inches, so that his track in
the snow wss known to all the bnntora ;
he weighed 288 pounds, and bis antlers
had twelve prongs each.
There will ri'mf to this oountrv from Gary's Boston motor promises to
Rnsaia this y< *r 15,000 Mcnnom'to* to gr*'ly reduce the expense of telegraph
settle in the (treat West. These people itig *Dd change the preeent motli.xls,
are Ocrman Baptists who hare conacien- the apparatnathe inventor haa prepared
tiona scruple* againat fighting. Their l>cing about aa aimple aa that of a tele
ancestora settled in Ilnaaia long ago, phone. A pieoo of aoft iron balanoed
having been guaranteed immunity from °n the neutral line in the magnetic field
military service. The guarantee haa produce* electricity with every vibra
bocn withdrawn, hence the exodna. tion, and, being attached to a lever
which ia manipulated at a key in tele-
An lowa paper report* that William SfiSfeJ^
, L n', n sr®, l i
eleven houra and a quarter. Tlie corn
waa huaked, weighed and cribbed in the
above-stated time. A Rock Inland man An aaaoriatiou baa been organized in
claima to have huaked 126 bushel* in England to protect peraona charged with
eleven houra and a half, but it waa lunacy. The secretary of the a ciety ia
gucaaed at a lady, ami abe makea some atartling aa
aertiona aa to the abuae of thriae alleged
to be insane, and the imperfections of
the British law. She does not pay a
bigh compliment to the gallantry of
English gentlemen, and aaya : "Sup
pression of a wife by lunacy certificate
ia coming to be practiced as an ordi
nary marital right; and that the lunacy
commission* unscrupulously counte
nance the iniquity." Efforts are being
made to obtain the appointment of a
royal commission to inquire into the
whole subject.
Tbrre are now in the United HUtra
ten Roman Catholic archbiahope and
fifty-five biahopa, againat aix of the
former and tw nty-eeven of the latter in
1860. The nntuher of prieata wan then
1,800, and of chnrehee, I,OTB ; while
there are now 6,034 prieate and 5,648
chnrobea. The collegia have increased
from aevenUen to aeventy-fonr, and the
Roman Call olie population haa doubled.
The perfnme man nfarttiror* in the
department of the Maritime Alpn eon
a lime annually 8,000 hundredweight
of roeee, and the neighborhood of (iraaae
aid Cannea ia thiekiv atndded with roae
fprma. On one hectare of two| and a
balf acre* 30,000 bnahea are planted;
a aiogle bnah yielding for twelve yeant.
A ainglo hectare in good cultivation will
net an average profit of twenty-fonr per
cent, per year.
It will aotind a bit fnnny when the
forty-nine Dakotaa take their scats in
the chapel of Hampton inatitute, near
Norfolk, Vs., to bear the " Faenlty
man " call ont behind bia apeca: " Mau-
T hat-Look*-Around, Frank Yellow-Bird,
Langhing Face, Man That Honta, One-
Wbo-Ooroea-Flying. Liuie Hpider ami
Walking Cloud." The government will
pay the inatitnte $167 apiece for one
year'* instruction.
A co-opcrstive store has been estab
lished in Paris by English capitalists,
which omplovs about ninety peraona,
and deals in aJmoet everything required
by housekeeper*. The oapital ia $600,-
000. The London co-operative societies
teport handsome profits One concern,
npon sales of $5,200,000, ia said to have
realised $lBO,OOO clear of expenaea,
though selling about twenty per cent,
below the ordinary retail prices.
An attack by wolves in the streets of
an American village is an nnnanal oc
currence, but it waa the experience of
Mr. Miner, of Joaelyn, Minn. Five of
these animals, sprang at hia borae and
tried to get into hia wagon, but hia dog
coming up diverted the attention of the
animals who immediately seised and de
voured him. His wife and three chil
dren, who were with him, at length
brought assistance by their incessant
shouting.
During the year 1878 forty-eight
American railroads, with a mileage of
8,902 miles and an invested capital of
$811.631,W0, were aold or passed into
the bands of receivers, the totals for
three yeara being 182 roads, 11,623
mils* and $728,468,000 of oapital. In
th at period one - seventh of the total
m ileage and considerably more than one
seventh of the total capital investment
have passed through the final stage of
bankruptcy. ,
An eagle measuring eighty-four inch
es from tip to tip of wing* swooped down
upon e flock of geern m the farm of
Samuel MeOune, near ZancavUle, Ohio,
when a terrible combat ensued for
twenty minutes. Feather* flew in all
directions, the geese standing np hero
ically to the work. The eagle succeed
ed in killing one and wounding several
others, but was himself captured by a
farmer, in a condition of sore distress.
Its naked talons measured two and one
half inch.-a.
California cactus is one of the newest
articles from which paper is made, and
a process has been patented in Ger
many by a Mr. Nordlinger, of Btutt
gart, for rendering the fiber of the bop
plant sufficiently tractable for the pur
pose. The sterna and other parte of
the plant are boiled in water and soap
for three-quarters of an hour, thor
oughly washed and then again boiled
in very mnch diluted acetic acid. The
libera are then washed, dried and
combed, and are ready for working.
The London Daily Arwi finds it not
easy to determine on aooount of what
event the year 1878 is most likely to be
oorne historical. Will it be as the year
of tho Berlin congress f Will it be ss
tho year of the war in Afghanistan ?
With many persons no doubt its chief
title to fame will seem to be the fact
that it is the year of the great exposition
iu I'sri*. Others will probably long
think of it as the year in which Pope
Pius IX. died, others, again, as the year
that saw the death of the first king of
Italy,
At Princeton, 111., throe brothers of
the poet Bryant live, all of them farm
ers ; good, solid men, conspicuous for
a sturdy purpose, and a certain inflex
ible honesty, bnt not more than ordina
rily gifted ; that is, two of thorn are not.
Mr. Jobn Howard Bryant is more than an
amateur poet. Borne of his works have
been widely copied, and a few of them
have fonnd their way into the enduring
form of, book. The residence of Mr, J.
H. Bryant is the finest house that side
of Chicago, and it was a gift from the
poet to his brother.
Indiscriminate kissing does not gen
erally have the very beet reunite, as
some of America's sensational court
records go to show. The physicians of
the late Princess Alice fiave serious
charges against kissing. They have in
vestigated the cause of the peculiar
virulence of the diphtheria which at
tacked her family with such fatal results,
and have agreed that the rapid spread
of the infection was entirely due to im
prudent kissing. A child with a sore
throat ought not to be permitted to kiss
any of its companions.
While John Hogg* end Lewder Mo-
Elfreah were taking ice from Sugar
lake, Kuow, a few feet from the ah ore,
a tree standing at the edge of the lake,
at the roota of which a fire waa horning,
amidenly toppled orer and fell with
cmahing force npon the men and their
wagon. Hoggs waa etmok on the head
by a hoarT limb and waa killed inatant
lv. McElfresh waa badly crippled by
the heavy hranchea, but waa not fatally
injured. A man on the abore warned
the men aa be aaw the tree falling, but
too late ; Hogg* bad barely time to look
upward when he received the fatal blow.
The fire had been bnilt at the tree for
the men to warm by, and had been
burning aeveral days.
A Pelseaed Valley.
Near Batten, in Java, ia a poisoned
valley. It ia known by the name of
Gnevo Cj>as, or Poisoned Valley ; and
following a path which had been made
for the purpose, a rirriting party short
ly reached it, with a couple of dogs and
fowls, for the purpose of making ex
periment*. On arriving at the moun
tain, the party dismounted and scram
bled up the aide of the hill, at the dis
tance of a mile, with the assistance of
the branches of trees and projecting
roots. When at a few yards from the
valley a nauseous, suffocating smell waa
experienced, but ou approaching the
margin, the inconvenience was no longer
found. The valley ia about half a mile
in circumference, of an oval shape, and
about thirty feet in depth. The bot
tom of it appeared to be fiat, without
any vegetation, and a few large atones
scattered here and there. Skeletons of
human beings, tigers, bears, deer and
all aorta of birds and wild animals lay
about in profusion. The ground on
which they lay at the bottom of the
valley, appeared to be a bard, sandy
substance, and no vapor waa perceived.
The aides were covered with vegetation.
It was proposed to enter it, and each
having lit a cigar, managed to get with
in twenty feet of the bottom, where a
sickening smell waa experienced, with
out any difficulty of breathing. A dog
waa now fastened to the and of a bam
boo, and thrust to tha bottom of the
valley. At the expiration of fourteen
seconds he fell off hia legs without
moving or looking around, end eon
tinned alive only eighteen minutes.
The other dog now left the company,
and went to hta companion. On reach
ing him ha waa observed to stand quite
motionless, and at the end of ten sec
ond* fall down; be never moved hie
limbs after, and only lived seven
minutes. A fowl waa now thrown in,
whioh died in a minute and a quart**.
AH 1 IT Dili A CUUOfHTT.
A M a i # Tree " ■ rM , n i nrt
Tewrr 106 freai iteUrMU.
Tbetowerof tbeooortboeneat OrsenS
burg, Ind., ia 140 feet in height.
One hundred and five feet from the
ground ia the water sheet of the tower,
and above that it ia ooversd with dressed
atone, made to fit closely, in slabs two
by five feet, including an angle of about
thirty degrees from upright.
In the summer of 1870, a citizen of the
place was examining the tower with a
glass, when he observed, springing from
the third crerioe about the water aheet
on the east hide of the tower, 110 feed
from the ground, s little twig. Bat
little was thought of it, and it was
scarcely diaoernable with the naked eye.
The next spring some interest was ex
hibited to know if the miniature tree
in its strange and exposed position had
survived the wintry blasts. It bad sur
vived, and when san and spring showsra
came on, put ont its leaves plentifully
and grew luxuriantly all the season.
By this time it was easily seen with the
eye, but as it could not be approached
in auv ordinary manner nearer than
from the roofs of hnildinga on the oppo
site side of the street, its species oould
not be ascertained. The (bird spring
it put forth with renewed life, vigor ana
size. Instead of dwindling and droop
ing from the effects of winter's oold or
summer'a heat and drought, the atmos
phere of justioe from below seemed to
cause it to flourish extraordinarily.
Tli is season it was decided to be a silver
maple, sprang, no doubt, from a seed
carried by a bird or whirlwind, and
lodged in that exalted plaoe. By this
lime the tree had become famous. Ac
counts of it had appeared in the papers,
but the story was not generally believed.
But, nevertheless, the tree lived and
grew. It was there, and no mistake.
And so it has continued until this day.
It ia now more than twelve feet high,
and it is thought to be three inches in
diameter. The top ia quite bushy, and
in the summer season the leaves are
numerous and luxuriant. It on be
seen for many miles around, and the
stranger approaching first teas the tower
and then this phenomenon.
The rapid growth of the tree ia forc
ing the stonou apart. This oan readily
be seen with a glass. Ere long the am
bitions maple will have to be brought
lower or damage to the building follow.
The sheriff has already had several ap
plications from expert climbers to take
it down, but the people will not permit
their tree to be removed yet. An artist,
representing a New York illustrated
paper, called to sketch the cariosity,
but the h area were bff, and he postpon
ed it until a more favorable time. Per
sons approaching the plaoe from Cincin
nati get a good view of it by looking
from the north windows as they draw
near Ore* nsburg. Of oourse it appears
to much greater advantage when in fall
ieaf, and at such a time it ia indeed a
strange curiosity.
About Horse-Can.
John HtcTenaon, who built the first
street car in 1881, is still making them
at New York and shipping them all over
the world. His first oar waa in three
compartments, held thirty passengers,
and waa a cross between an omnibus, a
roc ka way and an English railway coach.
Stevenson's best make to day ia the bob
tail one-horse car, costing man $BOO to
81,000, and ia supplanting the heavier
and less manageable two-horse affair
wherever they have been placed in com
petition. Btevenson has lived to see
nearly 400 street railways built in the
United H tales, and sent his first foreign
shipment to listeria, Java, in 1858. Toe
attempt to introduce street cars in Lon
don caused a riot, in which the roils
were torn np, bat now American ears
are running at London, Liverpool, Not
tingham, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Hall
and Birkenhead, in England; at Edin
burgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, in Boot
land; and at Bwausea, in Wales. In the
British possessions, also, they have
been established at Montreal, (Juebee,
Toronto. Hamilton, Ottawa, St. Johns
and Halifax, in the Dominion; at the
Cape of Oood Hope, the only plaoe in
Africa; at Christ Church, Wellington
and Dunedin, in New Zealand; at Bom
lay, the only plaoe in India; at Kings
ton. in Jamaica; at Adelaide, Port Ade
laide and Gamberton, in Booth Austra
lia, and are aoon to be built at
Melbourne, Sidney, Tasmania and Ho
bartstown, in New Booth Wales. Hie
French protective policy has dint
American street oan out of all that re
public'! cities bat Calais; bat they sirs
running and popular at Berlin. BC
Petersburg, Vienna, Stockholm, Chris
tiana, Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam
and Brussels, on the continent Inks
the British flag, the son never seta on
American street oars, which are also
running at Havana, and at the principal
cities of Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, the
Argentina Republic, Chili, Pars, Vene
zuela, Guayaquil in Ecuador, Ban Joae
in Costs Rica, Mid are to be substituted
for omniboasas at Bogota, the capital of
Colombia.
A Woman mho Saw Wasftdagtea.
The reosnt deoaose of Mrs. Hephxiboh
Thomas, an aged Frieod, at her borne
in Philadelphia, recalls the foot that Mm
waa one of Urn few surviving to so Into a
day who hod a distinct and trustworthy
recollection of having sssaf George
Washington. Her father was Nathan
Bpenoer, who had, eighty yean ago, a
considerable estate jn*i east at German
town, on which, by the way, Godfrey,
the in renter of the quadrant, was buried. •
In 1798, the yellow fever prevailing in
Philadelphia-—it carried off 5.657 per
sons during August and three following
months—Oliver Woloott, who was seme
tary of the treasury in Washington's
cabinet, was boarding with Us wife at
Mr. Bpsoosr's, and the President, ac
companied by his wife—" Lady Wash
ington " by universal usage from
his ont-of -u wTi rnstdscee to sss him.
They rode in the customary etete, in a
ooaeo drawn by tour cream-colored
horses, and tbstr advent at Friend
Spencer's manstrei created naturally no
little excitement. His II tils daughter of
five yearn, after the great general and
the -lately "Lady bad passed into the
Woloott apartments, ran with othsr chil
dren to look St the di-tingnishr.l visi
tors, and peeping in at the window saw
them seated inside. "Why," sold
Hephatbah, "is that Lady Wsa'hirgtont
Why, she's only a woman, after aU."