THE WALLING FOR B COMMUNITY
From o<>rrt*pond*nc of Now York Obatnrtr.
All honor to Bishop Huntington,
Prof. Mean and Dr. llaird. It is time
tho Oneida Community was uprooted,
for already it has thrown out a branch
which, banyan like, has takeu root in
old Connecticut. Four miles from
Meridcn, the home of the nowly-olected
Senator ; twelve from old Yale and its
grand influences and twenty-six from
llartford, the capital of the State, it
lives. And to the disgrace of the
State, be it written, flourishes. Wal
lingford village lies on the north side
of tno river and railroad, the Walling
ford Community on the south. Their
lands cover the bcautiftil hillside, their
flowers, their berries are unsurpassed,
and their canned fruits rarely equalled.
They make no disturbance, no noise,
commit no crimes, save the oue grand
crime of existing.
Two years ago I drove up there with
some ladies. All around was neat;
all the women and girls were in bloom
er costume, and very clean their dress
es were. There were three houses, and
they were building a fine, large one.
I was bound to use a Yankees ina
lienable right of asking questions.
"Do you have religious services on
Sunday ?"
"All days arc God's," she said.
"And you muko no difference of
clays ?"
"No! this difference of days and
property was what led Mr. Noyes to
become a reformer. We have religi
ous services every evening."
"May I ask of w hat they consist ?"
"Heading the newspapers and mutu
al criticism."
"You have no marriages here?"
"No, the angels neither marry or
are given in marriage."
"And you try to bo like them ?"
"Yes, perfect as they are."
"You nave children here?"
"Yes; don't you think there are
children in heaven ?"
"Millions ! but they are earth-born." '
"So are ours."
We all laughed; but I persisted.
"Do they know their own fathers?"
"No; nor mothers."
"The mothers know their own chil
dren ?"
"No; the child is taken away, and
she can never tell which it is. The
children are all cared for alike and
kept together, and all are loved alike,
for no man or woman knows which is
bis own. There is none of the selfish
ness of the world's people among us.
Kaeh lives for all, aud so we go on to
perfection.
"Are you all perfect /"
"Most of us have reached that
height, aud now we cannot sin !"
I longed to, but did not, tell her
what Dr. Kirk once told me a man
said to him : "I am perfect, I have not ;
sinned for five years!" aud the Dr.
replied : "I am sorry to hear you sav
that, for I always before had a high
idea of perfection."
I went to buy a book that contained
their laws and belief, but looking
through it was more than euough.
But they publish a small, spicy paper.
I had one. Tho principal feature of it
was its indecency. One article was to .
prove that Christ and Mary were lov
ers, awl Martha met him frankly, hut
Mary's love made her coy, and after
the resurrection he went to see her be
fore going to heaven!
As I looked on those young girls,
born in sin, fatherless, motherless;
breathing an atmosphere of sin from
their sweet babyhood; reared in sin,
white-lipped and worn in their very
girlhood, with no future for them bet- j
tcr than their black present, I longed
to say: "Ye men of Connecticut, shall
this thin gauze veil, because they have
named it religion, be for them a coat
of mail that you cannot pierce ?"
And wheu standing in the grandly
beautiful, marble State House, I
thought,—"Oh, legislators ! how would
these marble men around you have
purged the State from that blackness
of darkness so near you."
Aroand the World la an Open Boat.
Wmm Um> Bnvtoa Pt.
Lewis G. Goldsmith, a Danish sailor
about 40 years of age, who served in
the Union army and navy in the re
bellion, proposes to sail across the At
lantic from Boston next summer, ac
companied by his wife, in a boat 181
feet long, on a trip around the world.
He will go to Copenhagen, Norway,
Sweden, by the North sea to Scotland,
by the Mediterranean to Alexander,
through the Suex canal to Aden,
across the Indian ocean to India,
through the straits of Malacca, thence
northwest to Singapore, Hong Kong
and Yeddo, and finally across the Pa
cific to San Francisco, which he expects
to make in the fall of 1881. From
the Golden Gate he will come east to
► Boston by rail. The boat is now be
ing built by W. B. Smith, at City
Point It is eighteen and one-half
feet long, six feet beam, with three
feet depths of hold, puilt of oak and
hard pine planking. It is so con
structed as to be a boat within a boat
having nine air-tight compartments,
or chambers, on each side, which will
float the craft, even if the boat ships
a sea and is filled with water. It is
sharp at both ends, has a shifting bow
, sprit, and, by a unique arrangement,
1 is so constructed as to "bail" itself,
—r— —*
"Isn't my photograph excellent?"
mid a young wife to her husband.
"Well, my dear," replied he, "there's
a little too much repose about the
mouth for it to be natural."
A BIG M INTAKE.
Recently our church has had a new
minister.
He is a nice, good, sociablo gentle
man ; but from a distant State of
course he was unacquainted with our
people.
Therefore it huppened that during
his pastoral calls he made several lu
dicrous blunders.
One of them as follows :
The other evening he called upon
Mrs. Haddcn. She had just lost her
husband and naturally supposed that
his visit was relative to the sad occur
rence.
So, after a few common places had
been exchanged, she was not at all
surprised to hear him remark :
"It was a sad bereavement, wns it
not, Mrs. liadden ?"
"Yes," faltered the widow,
"Totally unexpected."
"Oh, yes; I never dreamed of it."
"Ho died in the barn, I suppose."
"Oh, no ; in the house."
"Ah—well, I suppose you must have
thought a great deal of him."
"Of course, sir," —this with a vim.
The minister looked rather surpris
ed, crossed his legs, and renewed the
conversation.
"Blind staggers was the disease, I
believe ?" he said.
"No, sir," snapped the widow, "ajw
plexy."
"Indeed ; you must have fid hiui too
ranch."
"He was always capable of feeding
himself, sir."
"Very intelligent he must have
been. t)ied hard, didn't he !"
"He did."
"You had to hit him on the head
with an axe to put him out of misery,
I am told."
Mrs. Gulden's eyes snapped fire.
"Who ever told you so did not
speak the truth," she haughtily utter
ed. "James died naturally."
"Yes," replied the minister, in a
slightly perplexed tone, "he kicked
the side of the barn down in his lost
dying agonies, did he not?"
"No, sir, he didn't,"
"Well, I have l>oen misinformed, I
suppose. How old was he ?"
" Thirty-five."
"Then he did not do much active
work. Perhaps you are better without
him, for you can easily supply his
place with another just as good.'
"Never, sir—never will I see as good
one as he."
"Oh, yes, you will. He had the
heaves bad, you know."
"Nothing of the kind ?"
"Why, 1 recollect I saw him. one
day, with you on his back, and I dis
tinctly recollect that he had the heave*,
and walked as if he had the string
halt."
Mrs. Hadilen stared at her reverend
visitor a if she imagined that he was
crazy.
"fie could never have had the
string-halt, for be had a cork leg!" she
returned.
"A cork leg! —remarkable. But,
really, now, didn't he have a danger
ous trick of suddenly stopping, aud
kicking a wagon all to pieces?"
"Never; he was not a mad man,
sir!"
"Probably not But there were sonic
good points aliout him."
"I should think so!"
"The way in which he carries! his
ears, for example."
•'Nobody else ever noticed that par
ticular merit," said the widow, with
much asperity ; "he was warm hearted,
generous ami frank!" "Good quali
ties," answered he, unconsciously.
"How long did it take him to go a
mile?"
"About fifteen minutes."
"Not o much of a goer. Won't
his hair apt to fly ?"
"He didn't have any hair. He wan
baldheaded."
"Quite a curiosity ?"
"No, sir ; no more of a curiosity than
you are."
The minister shifted uneasily and
got red in the face, But he returned
to the attack.
"Did you use the whip much on
him r
"Never, air."
"Went right 'long without it, eh ?"
"Yes."
"He must have been a good sort of
a brute?"
Mrs. Hadden turned white and made
no reply.
The minister did not know what to
say, hut finally blurted out:
"What I most admired about him
was the l>cautiful waggle of bis tail."
The widow just sat down and cried.
"The idea of yottr coming here and
insulting me!" sho sobbed. "If my
husband had lived you wouldn't a
done it. Your remarks in reference to
that poor dead man have been but a
series of insults. I won't stand it."
He colored and looked dumbfounded.
"No, no."
"Ain't you Mrs. Blinkers V he
stammered.
"And had not your old gray horse
died T"
"I never owner! a h-horse, but my
husband died about a week ago I"
Ten minutes later the minister came
I out of the bouse with the reddest face
I ever seen on mortal man.
"And to think," be groaned, u he
strode home, "that I was talking horse
to that woman all the time, and she
was talking husband."
"SOMEBODY nailed in my absence.
Did he leave his name?" "O, yes,
sir; be said it was immaterial."
1111 m 4& M
A VERY NATURAL MINTAKE.
From the Rockland Courlar.
A young mun from one of the hack
towns came in to buy u present for his
Sirl last week. HiH wandering gazo
cing fixed by the gorgeous display in
a dry goods window, he entered flic
store and bashfully stopped in front
of pretty young lady behind the
counter.
"How much arc those?" he inquired,
pointing at a pair of handsomely
wrought nicklc-plated garters in tlio
window.
"Seventy-five rents," replied the
young lady, sweetly handing out the
articles in question and blushing
slightly.
"I think they're kinder pretty, don't
you?" inquired the young man, anx
ious for somebody else's opinion.
"Very," replied the young miss;
"they nre the latest style.'
"Everybody wears them, don't
they?" continued the young man.
"Almost everybody," said the young
lady, affecting an unconcerned air.
"I was goiu' to get them for a girl
that I know," said the young man
somewhat nervously. "Do you think
she would like them?"
"I should think she might I don't
know" returned the young lady,blush
ing again.
"Well J don't hardly know myself,"
said the young man, picking up one of
the dainty articles, and examining
closely. "You don't suppose they are
too large, now, do you!
"Why—l—l—" stammered the
young lady, the blush growing deeper.
"They seem sorter big like," con
tinued the young man, not observing
her confusion; "but of course 1
wouldn't be certain. She's middliu'
size, hut not very fat, ami tnehbe these
would he u little too loose. I should
think she was just about your bigness,
and if these would fit you of course
they'd fit her. Now just supixisc you
try them on, an' if—"
"Sir!" exclaimed the young lady be
hind the counter, in au awful voice,
that lifted the young man's hat on the
end of his hair, "you are insulting!"
and she swept away to the rear of the
store, leaving the bewildered young
man standing in his dumb amazement,
holding in his hands what he sup|sise<l
was a beautiful pair of bracelets.
And when one of the men clerks came
and explained his mitake, the young
man from the hack town struck a di
rect line for his team, and in a very
brief sjiace of time was tearing toward
borne at a rate that threatened to ir
retrievably ruin the old family horse.
He won't buy any bracelets now until
he's married.
A Tonrhimr Incident.
From th Prtm.
A lady in the street met a little girl
between two and three vears old, evi
dently lost, and crying (utterly. The
lady took the baby's hand arid asked
where she was going.
"I)wn town, to find nty papa," was
the sobbing reply.
"What is your papa's name ?" asked
the lady.
"His name is papa."
"But what is his other name? What
does your mamma call him ?"
"She calls him papa," persisted the
little creature.
The lady then tried to lead her
along, saying: "You had better come
with me. 1 guess you came from this
way."
"Yes; but I don't want to go hack.
( want to find my jwimi," replied the
little girl, crying afresh as if (ier heart
would break.
"What do you want of your papa?"
asked the lady.
"I want to kiss him."
Just at this time a sister of the child,
who had been searching for her, came
along and took possession of the little
runaway. From inquiry it appeared
that the little one's papa, whom she
wa* so earnestly seeking, hnd recently
died, and she, tired of waiting for hitn
to come home, had gone out to find
him.
('onaterfelt t'oln.
The amount of counterfeit coin now
in circulation over the United States
is said to lie $2,000,000, besides the
Keat number of genuiue pieeca made
ludulcnt by the removal of the
metal. Wholly spurious coins nre al
ways lighter than the. good ones, but
an exception described by the .Scien
tifir American is a $5 piece made of
gold or silver, and really resting the
counterfeiter $3.40 each. Various in
genious mode* are used in stealing
gold from coin. The most common is
"sweating," which is done hy the coin
na the anode in the electro-plating
bath, the gold being abstracted from
it and deposited on another surface.
As much as two dollars worth of gold
can he taken in that way from a dou
ble eagle, without making a difference
that is readily detected except by
weight; a scientific plan is U> file the
smooth parts of the surface, and re
burnish the spots. The most exten
sive fraud is "splitting." The opera
tor saws the coin through neatly; gou
ges out the centre until only a thin
shell is lefr, substituting a base metal,
and joins the parts again. The ring
of the coin is destroyed and weight
lessened. Home timed holes are bored
into the edge and plugs of led put in.
OWE reason why we accomplish so
little in this world is because so much
time is lost hunting up collar buttons
of a morning.
UIfINENE NATURALIZATION.
From Uh lUrrlnburg Patriot.
Mucli fiiii; sentiment bos been wanted
about the declaration of indcpeudcuce,
right* of humanity, and ull that, in
discussing the bill to check the evils of
Chinese immigration to thin country.
Some who scent to buve |x:n<:t rated
much deeper than other* into the mo
liven for supporting thin hill assert that
it in au indirect utlack upon the color
ed race, and that much the same ar
guments based u]ion race inferiority
were formerly employed against the
negroes that are so effective against
the Chinese. But if the Chinese are
entitled to rights of citizenship as well
as other races that immigrate to this
country why have not these rights becu
accorded to them ? A native of China
Cannot he admitted to rights of Amer
ican citizenship, it is true that in
Massachusetts and some other stale*
there have been instances of the natu
ralization of Chinese, but it has lieen in
clear violutiou of the laws of the
United Buili*. In the session of 1870,
when the naturalization laws were en
larged so as to admit native Africans
to the rights of American citizens,
Senator Trumbull of Illinois offered an
amendment *o as to include "persons
Isirn in the Chinese empire." On this
amendment the yeas and nays were
taken, and nine senators only voted in
the affirmative. Thirty-one voted in
the negative, among whom were Conk
ling, Hamlin, Howe and Morrill, all of
whom bitterly opposed the bill to
check Chinese immigration. (So the
right of naturalization was expressly
denied to theChincsc. A native fresh
from (singo may he admitted to the
privilege* ot American citizenship, but
not a native of the Celestial empire, no
matter how learned or cultivated. If
any Chinamen holds naturalization
(tapers he holds them iti violation of
the law of the United .States. This
exclusion was made when the republi
cans had a two-thirds majority in both
branches of congress.
if the Chinese are not fit for admis
sion to American citizenship, the same
reasons hold good against js-rmitting
them to crowd to these shores in such
numbers as to degrade the civilization
of this country. The same arguments
that were employe]successfully against
the admission of the Chinese to citizen
ship i nn be used with greater force in
favor of the measure to check their
immigration. If they are not desira
| hie as citizens, their presence is es|**-
| eially undesirable in a condition of
political inferiority to the mass of the
licople including the colored race,
lad the Chinese lieen admitted to
citizenship when the naturalization
laws were ameuded it is not likely that
manv of them would avail themselves
of the privilege. They would have
contemned a boon which is so precious
to all other immigrants to this coun
try. Most of them are brought here
under contracts to labor for a given
rate of wages for a sjiecificd time, and
' there nre ways for rigidly enforcing
tiiese contracts. Under these contracts
a system of slavery exists that is scarce
ily a whit less degrading than that
which was formerly carried on in Vir
ginia slaves. It was in full view of
this condition of the mass of the Chi
; nesc in this country that congress dc
libcrately refused them the of
! naturalization, a right which is ao-
I corded to every other race that mi
grates to these shores. They In-long
i to the same class of coolies that are
i sent to Peru and Cuba under labor
contracts at so much a head. If-ad
mitted to citizenship their votes would
| lie sold along with their labor in the
: same contract. Utterly unfit for the
duties and responsibilities of citizen
ship thev are rightly excluded from
ita privileges. The next logical step
is to prevent their migration in such
numbers as to cover the Pacific coast
and thence spread eastward over the
whole land. But the hill which has
jHissed congress by majorities so decis
ive and is now awaiting the signature
of Mr. Haves to become a law is tq>-
jwimd so vehemently by a certain class
of people in this country because the
labor of the Chinese is cheap and be
cause the contact with them degrade*
the free labor of this country. With
hahit* which enable them to accumu
ate money upon wage* which would
starve an economical American work
ingman and his family, compctitiou
with them has already ceased in many
branches of industry in the Pacific
states. Unless this Asiatic invasion
is siiecdily checked it will soon mate
rially modify the rate of wages in
other portions of the country braidta
the Pacific coast. Mr. Hayes, in the
sordid interests of those who regard
cheap labor as the highest considera
tion, may veto this bill. In that case
the question will become a real and
earnest one for all who are interested
in maintaining the cause of American
workingmen, in whose prosperity and
welfare the permanence and success of
free institutions in this country must
depend.
Hl* Ylslttag Card.
A very good story is told of the late
Admiral Goldsborough witM regard to
the etiquette of visiting cards. He was
a bluff old sea-dog, and hated sham
and pretence. An airy young diplo
mat, a great man of society and fash
ion, called on the Admiral, and find
ing hipi out, left his card with the
ietteis E. P. penciled on it The brave
sailor was puzzled thereby, and when
the young man Accosted him on the
street and asked, "Did you get my
card, Admiral ?" he shouted out,"Y!
and what's the meaning of K. P. that
you wrote on it?" "Ob, why that
mentis en pereonne, that I called in
person." "It does, eh?" said the Ad
miral, ami went off in a mood of dis
gusted meditation. In a few days he
returned the call by sending his card
around by a messenger, first writing
8. B. N. in one corner. Aguin the
two met. "You received my card, did
you ?" inquired the Admiral. "Yes,
and what doe* 8. B. N. mean?" asked
the jwdite young man. "Bruit by a
nigger!" thundered the Admirui.
FRANCIM C. BARLOW and JOHN B.
(JOB BON.
from lh. lkU>n Tranarrlpt
You may not be aware that it was
General Gordon's command which
struck the Hank of the Eleventh corjm
on the afternoon of the first day at
Gettysburg, and after a short but des
jh rule conflict broke its line and swept
it from the field.
t ln that fight General Barlow, of
New York, commander of the First
division, fell dangerously and, it was
thought, mortally wounded. lie was
shot directly through the body. Two
of his men attempted to bear hirn
through that shower of led from the
field; but one was instantly killed, and
General Barlow magnanimously said
to the other: "You can do me no
good; save yourself if you ca " Gor
don s brigade of Georgians in '• wild
charge swept over him, and he was
found by General Gordon himself, ly
ing with upturned face in the hotjuly
suu, nearly paralyzed and apparently
dying. General Gordon dismounted
from his horse, gave hirn a drink of
water from his canteen, and inquired
jof General Barlow his name and
| wishes.
General Barlow said: "I shall pro
bably live but a short time. Please
take from my breast pocket the packet
I of ray wife's letter* and read one of
I them to me;" which was done. He
I then asked that the others be torn up,
ia he did not wish them to fail into
other hands. This General Gordon
did, and then asked: "Can Ido any
thing else for you, General?" "Yes,"
replied General Barlow, earnestly.
"My wife is behind our army. Can
you send a message through the lines?"
"Certainly I will," said Gordon, and
he did. Hi en directing General Bar
low to be borne to the shade of a tree
:at the r<ar, he rode on with his com
mand. The wife received the message
and enrne harmless through both lint*
of battle and found her husb&ud, who
eventually recovered.
Since General Gordon's election to
the United States Senate Ixith he and
General Barlow: were invited to a din
ner party in Washington, and occu
pied opfxwite scats at the table. Af
ter introductions, General Gordon
said: "General Barlow, are you re
lated to the officer of your name who
was killed at Gettysburg?" "I am the
man," said Barlow. "Are you related
1 to the Gordon who is supposed to have
killed me?" "I am the man," said
General Gordon. The hearty greet
ing which followed the touching story,
as related to the interested guest* hy
General Barlow, and the thrilling
effect upon the company, can better
be imagined than described.
THE SENATE* USUAL W AY.
the Wathiagtn* |Vt.
The deficiency appropriation bill
furnishes another illustration of the
startling rapidity with which such Hills
inrn-ase in site in the Senate end of
the Capitol. Whether this result is
due to a "purer moral atmosphere" or
to the operations of "Ilepuhlican econ
omy" we are not prepared to decide,
hut certain it is that every appropria
tion bill sent over from the House be
gins a course of marvellous develop
ment a* soon as it get* into a Senate
committee room, and bulges out more
and more pronouncedly every hour,
until it is finally sent from the cham
ber looking no more like the bill that
came from the House than the oak
looks like the acorn from which it
grew.
Among the almost innumerable ad
ditions which the Senate ha* made to
the deficioucy hill we will mention
here a few of the most important For
expenses incurred, or that may be in
curred in the "department of justice,"
the Senate tacks on $250,000. This
money has been, or is to be, expended
in prosecuting alleged violations of
the Federal election law of 1871.
There 1* no good reason why the
House should vote one cent of it
There is every reason for. refusing
every cent of it It ha been, or is to
lie, expended for partisan purposes of
the most revolutionary character. The
House should drop the proposition of
a back window.
The Senate committee puts on
$118,407 for transportation of the
mails by railroads during 1878 and
previous years, in addition to $166,-
392 granted by the House in this bill
for the same object; $83,333 to pay
the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for
two round trips of China mail service
under the contract of October, 1866;
SIO,OOO for the expense* of such in
vestigations and inquiries as have al
ready b*en or may hereafter be di
rected by the Senate during the pres
ent Congress; $25,000 for photo-litho
graphing or otherwise reproducing
copies of drawings destroyed or dam
aged by the fire of 1877 in the Patent
office; $15,000 for compensation of
twenty-two third assist sot examiners,
twenty clerks and ten laborers to be
employed in the Potent office during
the remainder of the current fiscal
year iu place of the tcni|*orary clerk*
and laborer* discharged lost Novcm
licr; $75,000 to meet a deficiency in
last year'* appropriation for the coa*t
survey ($35,000 of this for the Pacific
coast).
These sample* give an idea of the
success of the Keuate committee in
building towers, bastions, Mansard
roofs, porches, annexes and other en
largements on an appropriation hill.
The duty of the House iu the preraista
is clear enough. It canuot become a
party to such legislation as these
amend merits projxare. Better an ex
tra session, better a continuous session
from January to December, year after
year, than such wanton, reckless waste
of public funds.
HEI'RET ORDEIK.
Vront th Btlllmttr* KUttdtH.
Masonic and most other secular be
nevolent Orders are based on the
equal rights of men to life, lilicrty
and the ]>ursuit of happiness. They
are the strongest sujusirts of civil and
religious liberty. They enjoin ami
cultivate fraternity and charity, and
are iu their very nature antagonistic
to despotic rule and class privileges.
\N hy is it then that so many members
of royal families, so many nobles, so
i many arirUs-rats become members of
and even hold high offices in them.
| The Prince of Wale* is Grand Patron
of the Masonic Order in Great Bri
; tain; Prince Ithodocanakc is Grand
Commander of the Hupreroe Council
of the A. A. 8. It. tor Greece; the
; Crown Prince of Germany is now
Grand Ma-ter of the German Free
masons; the Duke of Connaugbt and
Priuce Leopold were recently ud
| vanced to the Thirty-third Degree in
the prcaeoccof the Prince of Wale*
and other distinguished pernon* hy
Ixrd Sktdmermale, the Sovereign
tirand Commander, and many of the
highest dignitaries in every European
country are Masons who regard their
masonic obligations AS of itn[>erative
force. Is there anything providential
in this? We think there is. While
Ma-sinry and kindred fraternities tend
to break down the class privilege*, the
bigotrv and abuses of centuries, the
fact that in them are men of posi
! tion, influence and high repute is a pro
| lection to the advance of freedom, and
in a civil convulsion may save many
good men from being crushed by the
fall of effete and evil institutions with
which circumstances have connected
them. There is not a country in Eu
rope in which the rulers are not now
iu deadly peril. Anarchy, bankrupt
cy, famine and assassination float in
the murky air. Secret orders seek to
secure the advance of human freedom
and prosperity, but the same time to
: prevent ruinous excesses and the on
ward march of freedom ending in a
volcanic convulsion and a charnel
house. Even if some men of noble
birth enter the Order for selfish or
sinister purpose* they will become
wiser and better by learning the great
| truths of morality and humanity that
I every Order inculcates, and by "seeing
! in the progress of events the inevitable
will of the people.
A SCIENTIFIC REASON.
The inertia of matter may be illus
[trated by a pleasing experiment.
Balance a card with a penny placed
i upon it on the tip of one of the fin
gers of the left hand and strike it
: suddenly with the middle finger of the
right hand. If properly balanced
and evenly struck, the can! will fly
away and the pcuny will be left on the
finger. There is not sufficient time for
the card to overcome the inertia of
the pennv and impart to it its own mo
tion. When, however, motion has
lieen communicated bv one body to
another resting on it, the inertia of the
latter keejM it in motion.
AH motion would be perpetual if
i there were not forces opposing it. If
there were only one body in the uni
verse and that were set in motion in
any direction it would move forever
through empty snare in a straight
j line, for there would be no matter any
i whore to resist its motion, or to at
tract it away from its onward course,
1 A stone thrown up in the air would
keep on and soon be out of sight and
keep going up if it were not made
stop by forces acting upon it One of
these forces is the resistance of the air
which, from the moment the stone
starts, is destroying its motion; the
other is the attraction of the earth.
The circus rider takes advantage of
inerUa in jumping over a rope extend
ed across the ring and alighting on
the horse's back again without difficul
ty while the animal is galloping at
tull speed. To do this he has only to
leap straight up as he approaches'the
rope, for his inertia bears him along
in the same direction as bis horse. If
he were to make an effort to jump for
ward, with the momentum he already
has, ho would drop several feet before
the horse and perhaps be killed. But
whim he leaps straight up, his inertia
carries him along at the same speed as
the horse, and he regains his footing
precisely on the same spot as he jump
ed from.
An honest ignoramus, who had es
caped a greet peril by an act of hem
ism, was much complimented for his
bravery. One lady mid, "I wish I
tould have seen your feat." Where
upon he blushed and stammered, and !
finally (minting to his pedal extremi
ties, raid, "Well, there uwy be, mum.''