FOB THE FAIR HEX.
Onljr Thvielf,
Vbr tallowing roi Appeared many ymm
Mnrc in an Ktiglmh provincial paper, but al
toactixl less attention than their great lamuty
merit*, 'lire speakers area dying girl au<l
her lover. The ardent ]<aaaion liianiii-ated by
Mio youth miggeat* to the girl neveral iiniige*
•nder which ahe nuppoaea tliat lie will delight
to peiNonity her after death. The ntannta are
hi the form ola dialogue—the girl anggeating
Mir particular images in aucceseion and the
Bver reM)H>nding:
" Kven um a flower ?"
"No, I'uircet, be not to me aa a flower.
The uncertain sun call* forth ita odorous I
hreuth;
Tlie awecteat perfume gives the speediest ;
death—
'lhc sport and victim ola summer hour.
Fairest, tie not a flower!"
" Even as a star ?"
" No, brightest, be not to me as a slur;
Tin one of the millions, and the hurrying
clottd
Oft wraps the glitt'ring splendor in its
shroud;
Morn pales its luster, ami it shines alui
Brightest, lie not a star'"
" Kven ns a dove?"
Mo, purest, be not to ine as a dove;
Tito *| oiler oft breaks in upon its rest,
Itohbing the downy joys of its soil nest,
▲mi plunging silence through its native grove.
Purest, lie not a dove"'
" Even as a rock ?"
•• No, my moat laithlul, be not as a rock;
h It mocks the embracing wave, or stands
alone
la loveless gloom, in dreary waste* un <
known.
Senseless alike to fortune's amile or shock.
Changeless, bo not n rock!"
" Even us—inyucll ?"
"My soul's best idol, he but as I by sell,
Brighter than star, fairer than flower;
Purer than dove, and in thy spirit's power
Steadier than rock'
Yes' tie thyself, thyself only thyself 1"
Yrin nntl .Intra t <r tVnmrn.
Two American ladies astonislb-d the
Wutbituli of Borne by it velocipede
•ace tiie otlirr day.
T!e city guilds of l-ondon have set 1
apart jU.'Uki annually for the training of
women, establishing a school of wood
engraving.
Worth, the Parisian man-milliner,
will not make a dress, material supplied
by the customer, lor less t lan i?.ttK> or
flluO, and he has all lie ran attend to at
that price.
Paulina Kunze, an Alsatian girl of
eiglitis'ii, lias Is-en sentcnceil to three
months' imprisonment for speaking
disrespectfully of the Grand Duke m
Bad. •n, at the aiglit of his photograph.
p At Nashville, Tenn . the degree of
It aster of Arts was conferred by the
faculty of Vandcrbilt University upon
Miss Kate Lupton, because,ns the clian
eellor stated, "slic bad won it in a mas
terly manner, having passed most satis
factorily all the examinations to which
•lie young men were subjected."
A new order of anniversary weddings
b. End of one year, the cotton wed
ding: two years,tile paper ; three, leather
or straw; tive, wooden; seven, woolen;
ten, tin; twelve, silk and tine linen;
fifteen, crystal; twenty, porcelain and
delft: twenty-five, silver; thirty, pearl
and ivory; forty, rubies and garnets;
fifty, golden, and seventy-live the dia
mond wedding.
1 A woman speaker at a recent tem
perance convention in Ohio remarked
that women work persistently. Last
summer, on her way to Lake Side, site
saw a man and woman hoeing corn. As
tie- train Approached, tic mm stopped
work, leaned on the hoe-handle, and
gazed at the Hying carriages. For
aught she knew he yet stands th re look
ing. But the woman hoed right on.
only glancing nt the passing train.
Antoinette Itrown Black well writes:
"Family interests, instead of suffering
from the wideningof womanly iniluence.
must lie surely ennobled and benefited
proportionately with the wider sympa
thies of a more enlightened motherhood.
Tenderness is not incompatible witli a
reaeh of intellect, nor bave brad
and heart been so constituted by
the AII-Father that they must dwell in
perpetual rivalry."
A flourishing Parisian art threatens to
take root in Isindon. It is an old trick
in Paris for extravagant young women
Intake their lovers into jewelers' shops
and to induee these Inters to purchase
for them, at an immense price, articles of
jewelry made of paste, the ladb-s and
jewelers sharing the profits between
them. I now hearof a dressmaker hav
ing in her pay certain elegant females,
who get men to order hamfsome dresses
from her which are never sent home.
This will probably be accepted as the
ncwi-st development of the co-operative
system.— l/mdfm Mayjair.
Ij*dy 4amhtfr.
The number of lady gamblers in Lon
don is in<Tcr. ' x steadily. A corros
• pondent of ti,. fkarulard states that
there is more gambling among women
at the present time than has been the
aase since public gaming fables were
put down by act of Parliament. The
harmless bet of a few pairs of gloves at
the race meetings is now considered far
beneath the notice of a dashing ma
tron or fast maiden. There are not n
few female "plungers" on the turf who
"put the pot on." as the Idiotic jargon
•f the race course has it, with as much
eagerness as most dissipated subaltern
at the Raleigh, who stands to win n
heap of money at Ascot or at Goodwood,
with the alternative of ruining his old
father, the country rector. If he loses,
and allowing his sisters' portions to be
•wallowed up in pHying his "debts of
honor." If the female plunger he un-
marriisl she has recourse probably to
™ some accommodating dressmaker, or
worse still, accepts pecuniary help from
•ome male friends,and perhaps puts her
self for life in the power of a man who
will one day make her pay dearly for her
■discretion.
Cieobulus was Imm at Lindys, on the
Island of Rhodes; one of the wine men
of Greece, lie was a brilliant literary
•harayter. We find in Rev. John Cor
mack * " Lives " two following hcautilul
•nigma of which lie was the author;
"I am a father who has twelve sons,
' each of whom has thirty daughb r-. but
the degrees of their beauty are very dif
ferent; the eountcnances of sonic are
white, of others very black; tlfey are
all immortal and yet thef din < very
day." This implies'the year.
An Ex-Uonrict's Story.
In one of the least inviting portions
of Water street. New York, Michael
Dunn, a man who hits spent nearly Ills
whole lifetime in England and American
prisons, has set up a house of industry
anil a refuge for ex-convicta, who, like
himself, resolve to abandon evil ways
and live by honest labor. Calling there
a Herald reporter found Michael quietly
engaged in superintending the work of
two sad looking young men, who were
putting the finishing touches on some
curiously wroughtahawls and licdquilts.
Habituated to tic customary silence in
separable from prison life the house was
qui"t as the grave, each lIIH.II performing
his work without even a whisper being !
heard. Dunn hl-nsclf is a pale faced, !
thin man, about forty-five y< ars old. and
having careworn lines plainly marked I
on his anxious countenance. He is not
by any means devoid of intelligence.
While the writer was watching the pro
cess of shawl making Dunn remarked,
We get a good price for these things,
but the trouble is we are not able to sell
them fast enough. Some of our men
are traveling in New Jersey now, trying
to dispose of shawls like these you see
here."
"By the way, 1 understand you have
had considerable expi rienec in prisons?"
"It is true. Until tin- past eighteen
months I may say 1 have lived in prisons
altogether sinee I was eight years old. I
psent seven years in Van Dieuian's Isind,
ten years in Australia, live years in Gib
raltar, fourteen days in Manchester
(where I was lMrn). two years and four
months in Sing Sing (tin- first time),
three years in a solitary cell at Miiyanicn
sing, six months in the Montreal nil,
two year- and nine months in South Bos
ton, and four years (the last time) in Sing
Sing, when I was innocent and every de
tective in the city knew 1 was innocent."
Afbr answering several questions in
regard to tin- use of the " paddle "as a
mean of punishing refractory prisoners,
Dunn continued:
"And mark my words, cither a! Sing
Sing, or Auburn, or Trenton, some of
these days there will lie outbreaks ami
terrible murders by tlx convicts. It will
be worse than the mutiny at Norfolk Isl
and, near Australia, in I*l7. wln n Un
convicts re volt, d and murdered sev.-ritci n
lirison ollieials, and tliev would have
.illed tin- r.-iiuiinder but that half a regi
ment of soldiers formed a hollow s juar.
and in that way saved them from the fury
of tin- ronvii ts."
" Were you there at tin- time?"
" No. but I recollect tin- affair well. It
happened during tin- year I bc-ann free,
after serving seven yean In Van Di< man's
Land. For that outbreak there were sev
enteen convict* hang'sl, im-ludie - tin
ringleader, hundreds fioggist and hun
dreds of others put in irons. A man
known as ' Ja< -ky-Jncky,' who had liecn
a desperate husliranger, was tin ring
leader. He harangued the convicts in
the tin-sroom one niorningon theoppn-s
-sion and tyranny which they wi-r. un
dergoing and wound up by shouting,
•Thus, who want liberty, h-t them follow
ma.' Th.n the whole convicts
rushed out of the nn- -room and, having
arund tlicmselvi-s with all kind* of In ivy
tools, nttaek. d tin- keeper* and slaughtered
tin-in right and left until the soldiers ar
rived When the soldiers were drawn
up. ' J.-n kv-J.-n ky.' Went in front of them,
ton- open hi- -hirt and baring his breast,
a-keil th- rn to shoot him, but tln-y re
fused."
A ('aacurone Ihill.
The following description of an inter
'"♦ting Spanish festival which is cele
brated in California is part of a paper
contributed to & ritm> r by Mrs. Mary
Halloek Foote, the artist: The music
was excellent of its kind—two violins, a
guitar, a flute and one or two brass
pieces. During tin- waltzes one could
hear but a single united shuffle, as if all
the dancers in the room moved with one
pair of tret. Full dres for the young
men was a fliort velveteen eoat.'bla.k
trow ■ . v! H v * and n bright silk
scarf, knotted with j arti. ularly hapr-y
effect ovi r the slum.dors. outside the
coat. Some of tin young men wore the
uniform of the flour-fighter*—red flan
nei shirts, black truvwr* with red stripe
down the sides and a silver star on the
' breast. The crowd was too great and
the motion too rapid and incessant for
any attempt at study of individuals.
One received an impression of extreme
vivacity of speech and manner—bright
ribbons, scarfs and serapas—waving
heads and hands, swaying line* of figures
joined in tin* davo, circling lines of
( iigur-*, winding and separating into
couples, waltzing away in a ni ir." of
color, music, laughter and tobacco
smoke. The ceiling was dim with
smoke from the cigarettes of the dow
agers and the cigars of the lounger* on
- the piazza, who leaned in at the open
windows. Win n the dance flagged.cries
of" I'ii-rt. ritv."' sounded from all parts
of the room, and gave new life to the
tuusie.
Among the company was a young
South American, with a high, nquiiinu
proflle, and a crest ol bushy curls, rising
from hi* receding forehead, like the
. sculptured manes of tin* horses on a
Greek bass-relief. I noticed him, first,
because of his bright and sinewy graee,
afterward, because ho was the partner
of such a pretty girl—a tall, slight, dark
beauty, with the most joyous uncon
•piousness of expression and movement,
like a child or a beautiful animal. It
was worth corning to the ball to see
these two dancing together; it was the
very spirit of revelry, without conscience
or care. I found the canker in the rose,
afterward, when I iconic i that my joy
ous girl hod been a wife for two year* at
least, and that while she was dancing at
the cMoaroM ball, htr young hpsbaad
was in prison, awaiting his trial for stab
bing a friend in a Christmas brawl at
j the Guadeloupe.
The war of cnscaroncs did not fairly
1 begin until the danm delguerro , at miu
j night. hut there were scattering shots
and salli-*, and skirmishes In all direc
tions. The cascaronns were crushed
over the heads of the senoritas, hut the
young nun were soundly clapped on the
head, and the shells were well rubbed
into their thick black manes. The girls
generally hunted in couples or packs, and
set upon tlu-ir chosen victim with
shrieks of glee; then a charge of young
men to the rescue would scatter tln-m in
all directions. The prettiest ghls got the
most salutes, and looked nil the pretlle
with the tinsel powder sparkling on
their dnrk braid*. There were some
wild young romp*, whose nudaciou*
charge* upon friend and foe cost them
at last their feminine prerogative;—
they were pursued and surrounded
and bombarded nnd battered with
shells, until what hair tlu-y had
left could hardly have been worth
combing out in themornlng. The Mex
ican* save egjg-shellf all the year for this
ball: Improvident as butterflies, they are
capable of great forethought where
pleasure is the object.
Two Nnake Stories.
Granville Mowrer, a boy aged eleven,
son of Isaac Mowrer of West Vincent
township, Chester county. Pa., wiut sent
to a neighbor's on an errand. In getting
over a fence on tlie way the lad was bit
ten in the leg by a snake, supposed to be
a copperhead. Tlie venom from the bite
took immediate effect, and tlie Ixiy he
came almost blind, suffered intensely and
was unable to get home. He was found
in a field shortly afterward, his limbs '
and body swollen, both hands being black '
from the fingers above the wrists. A j
woman, wlio had some idea of what was
lu st to be done, drenched the boy with '
liquor, and tliis probably saved ids life.
He was delirious for several hours, and
is still ill a critical condition. Tie hoy!
says tliat a black-looking snake Irit him
as lie was getting over the fence, striking
on the hare leg hcluwiiis trousers, which
was short, ami slipped up some distance
above the shoe.
Ki/./ie Allison, living on tlie railroad
two miles west of Wayncsburg, l'a.,
went in the morning a hull mile from
the house to gatle r some Iwrries. While ,
engaged in picking the fruit she felt
something move undir h>-r feet, and
looking down beheld a huge snake. She
dropped hr bucket and sprung away.
She got a stake and went lack to look
for tlie serpent, but could not find it for
some time. I'pon raising a large grape
vine tliat lay on the ground alio saw it
coiled underneath. It "prang at In r and
came n> ir biting in r, hut she ward'd it
off with the stake. At last she got th"
stake across the serpent's body in such a
way that by putting her weight on tic
end of tlie stake she could keep it from
getting away.
She then set up a cry for help. Her
mother, an old woman, heard In r, and
thinking that she must he hurt, shouted
to tin- neigh bora. Ki/./i'-'s brother Jim
mounted a mule and galloped to her re
lief. All tliis while kiic had stuck to the
end of tlie slake, unable to do n or- tha
stand tin-re and watch tlie sn.-il i ,-trike
and bite everything it could reach. Mr.
Allison soon dispatched the snake,
and found it to be ius't three feet
long and very thick in proportion. Mi*-.
Allison was seared badly, hut declared
she would have stayed there till some
one came to kill the reptile if it took a!
day. Hnulino ( /k) //i mid.
Ten Men's Narrow Escape.
At Virginia City. Nevada, as tin *hifi
was h"ing changed at the Yellow Jacket
mine shaft, ten men had a narrow escape
from dentil. These men, says a local
paper, got on Itoard of the small skip at
tin - ",300 station to go to the Initio.u of
the shaft. They had gone but a short
distance before the IS'. ' Tillies of the don
key engine broke, and the skip, with its
living freight, started f>r the Is.tiom at
lightning speed. I' McCarthy, tie <n
gineer, knew that tlie de-rending skip
must IM- stop]" d or all on lioard would he
dashed to piece* at tlie bottom of til'-
-haft. H' instant!v seized Aln .-ivy plnnk,
tic end of which lie thrust b-rwr. n tic
pinion shaft and the reel or drum from
which tin- ruble was paying off. Hv
hauling down on tic end of tlie plunk (t
a> t'"l as a brake, and finally brought tic
skip to a stand when it was within
twenty feet of tlie Is'tlom of the shaft.
The drum was revolving at lightning
speed when tic plank was first intro
dueed, and the friction produ <1 streams
of lire and smoke, hut thepr> -surrgradu
a!h told, slowed down tic sp ed of tic
-kip. and fimillv stopt"- i it. To tliriist
tic plank into the rapidly-revolving nis
ehin-'ry wa* a dang< rou* experiment, and
might have ist Mr, MeCiuihy hi* life,
hut lie got tin- right hold in tlie start, ami
held on with bull-dog tenacity. To do
the right tiling, ju-t a- he did, at tic
right moment, reipiired great quirkni -s
of thought. Tlie plank, the pla< e where
it was to 1c inserted, and how it was to
bettaed man all luve been thought out
in a -ingle instant. During the d. ml
of the klp one man h-apisl from it and
enuglit tic b< 11-rope, holding to which lc
managed t<i swing liimsejf to a wall
plate. tnotlcr jumiMsl and caught a
wali-ijlate, hut lad bb hold and fell, hut
ill failing caught a nsl passing horizon
tally h t wen tic sinking-guiiles, some
ten feet over tic skip, where he held on
till it stopped. Thus it will he seen tliat
this man did *<> me lively traveling. He
got "(T tlie skip, and not finding a good
landing-place on the wall plate, he went
down until lc overtook the skip, wlcn
tie got alxiard of it at the |-oint which
seemed niost convenient. Aside from a
' severe shaking up and a bad scare, the
men all came out of the scrape aimut as
sound as wlcn they got into it.
t'harles Sumner on Profanity.
In a letter to tlie Hartford I\mrltd,
Templcton, tlie Boston correspondent,
relates the following in relation to the
late Senator Sumner:
We were talking about the profanity
of a v. ry dintinzui-dcsl American state
man not now living. Mr. Sumner (who
j never swore hints. If) said: Well, I nave
! heard him sw> ar severely; hu*- as a rule
nobody swears in my presence. Tic
• greatest mortification I ever received in
my life in tliis way was wlcn I was at a
! breakfast abroad with 1/jrri Brougham,
i We sat down at the breakfast tabic,
wlcn somelswly brought a newspaper to
| Lord Brougham. It contained personal
attacks upon him. Tl e article w.i*
marked and lie read it through. Wlien
1 lie hail completed it he began a volley
- of the most scathing oaths tliat I ever
heard fail from the lips of man. There
was no limit to tlie euncj tliat lie rained
' upon tic lead of tlie author of tliis
I piece. 1 was shocked and stricken dunih,
said Mr. Sumner. Tha only other oc
cupant of tic table, except I/ml Broug
ham and myself, xvas Brougham's
mother. She sat nt tlie lie.ad, opposite
her son,a venerable and courtly lady,
witli an elevanee and grace of tnann< r
that I never saw excelled. I dared not
look nt her for some moments, but when
I ventured to turn my eyes in that direc
tion I found not a muscle of her face wa*
moved. She was as ralmly unconscious
of what lcr son was saving n* if lie was
talking in Arabic. Tlie breeze soon
blew over, ami we had a very cnjnynhlr
breakfast.
A Prophecy.
Whole hooks of latter-day prophecies
were once founded on tlie similarity of
tli' names of Napoleon and Apoilvon, or
Apoleon, thedark nngel; and one Franch
K-publienn. lor writing and analyzing,
produced the following:
N A POI.VO*.
Apot.ro*.
l'oi.ro*.
Ot.ro*.
Lro*.
ROM.
OM.
Which Icing arranged in tlie form of a
sentence, gives " Xojmli-oti on olron Iron
eon apoleon poleoa." This is the Greek
for " Napoleon, being the lion of tlie
people, was marching on, destroying the
eitira."
The llend of the lionapartes,
Hrfi men and hoys now
living wlio bear tin* name of HemApartc,
namely, three nephews and five granel
nephews of the First Napoleon. They
are: I'rinep Jerome Napoie-on, son of
Jerome, fourlti hrotfier of Naitoleon 1.,
and his two sons, tlie Princes victor and
i/ouis; tiicn the descomlantji of Prince
Charles, son of Luo'nn Bonaparte, sevond
brother of the gi t Emperor. Tills
Prince Onirics' sons are Prince Lucien
Bonaparte; tli" Cardinal Prince Nap<-
Icon CharlfH, ex-president of tie Con
seil-General of Corsica; Prin I/mi*
Lucien, formerly senator, and long a |
resident of 1/melon: anil lastly Prince ;
Pierre, whose son, Prince Poland Bona
parte, is studying at the military school
of St. Cyr. I
i he interest wit l w hi> h Prince Jerome '
Napoleon is now regarded as the head of
the Honaparte family, and the chid of
the imp'rialist party, amply justifies any
details that may he givi n respecting him". 1
A larger man tlian cither the first Napo
leon or Ids father, Prince .Jerome re- 1
semliles the latp r more than the former,
though in his earlier yean his lik>m-s
to the ureal Kiiipcror was simply extra
ordinary. His expression is placid and
often extremely agreeable, hut now and
t h< n the fire of tin- < 'orsican hums in ids
eye and his line)v ebb I. | mouth add- to
tlie intensity of his I'sik. Tin prim e i„
fifty-"- I'll years of nee, not yet e r "y,
thoueh ouie what bald. IJ in head. savs J
ienotus, is a superb one, wor'hy alike'
of the prim e ami tin- thinker, and second
only in what Uieenthusiastie reactionary
writer calls aristocratic h-autyto that
of the < ompt< ile Cliainlsird. At home
lie uoi.'.lly walks to and iro while con
vcreing,smoking cigarette*, and k.-nine
one or both hands in Ids pockets. Sud
denly he stops before the visitor; his >
language beconn s animated, ami even
vehement, while his words teem with
color and pietures.|ueness. lie never
laughs, but only smile#, Tba prince
lei .a wonderful collection of Anecdotes
nt his disposal. In the street Prince
Jerorue mav Is- n><-ogni/.d by Ids broad
lirimmed hat; miming along, lie will
sudd Illy ijllicken liis ste ps win n he is
deep In thought. He rides every morn
in:.', Im ing acconipnnie<i on Thursday*
by Ids two sons. Alt hough a fair hors -
man, lie docs not riiine particularly in
tlie siuldle. Now for tlie two sons, tin
Prim • a Victor and l-ouix. The former
is tall and looks more tlian ids age,
svents en. Tlie upper part of is face is
tii.it of Napoicem, the lower reminds one
of tie llap-hurgtype. Quiet, intelligent
and mortrtd is thla Prince Victor,
i'riii" fl/iuis is thirteen, and, nn 1 ik• - Ids
brother, small for liis age. Jit is pale,
and as yt resembles none of tin-im ni
ls rs of the royal and imts'rial families
from which he is dcm-cmled. His hair
i- v ry Ida- k and lie is 'vely and intelli
gent. He is full of fun. nut l.arillv a
prodigy at ( school. Sueli is tlie family
which has just ts-' ti rnisisl out of —• -ni
ids> urit vto that fieri-e light which h* its
upon a throne.
The tlieory was pronoundl a short
time ago. ays a London paper, tliat
Prin • JI rome Napo icon's familiar ni> k
name " I'lon-i'ion" took its origin fr<>m
his h< r- >i' b' ha% ior in tlie ( 'riuu a, wlnTi
he "smelt had" with such frequency
and relisti that thcoflr-crs of Ids division
ticstowi-d upein him tlie d< - riptiv
-obri juct of " Plonib-l'loinh." A corre
spondent, leiwi ver, pronounces tliis de
rivation of tlie ni -knanie t<> be in nrre t,"
f iting that Ji- had l'imself learne-ei from
the life of the iaf. Minister of Htat<\ von
S> ur tli, the exact ■ ir um-'an' es wld' h
saddled Ids imperial higliness f,,r life
with s., quaint a -"briquet Prince
J'-roni' resided during Ids i-arly child*
h<>od in the royal castle at Stutlg.ordt
It wiil be rotiieinh'Ted that he was at
one time a subject of WurtitnW*, and
tliat Id* first military service w,a per
formed in the army of tliat State. Th"
late King William of Wiirt'mlwtg wns
very fond of the little prince, and fre
quently pluvial with him in the royal
gardtSM. At first time tliat he naked
voiing Jerome "what his name w.-i-.''tin
lit!■ r. who could not speak distinctly,
replied, " i'lon-l'lon," instead of "
hsin." King William sub-' qtiently ;w,kc
to anei of liitn hy tliis pet name.
It was eventually adopte-el bv tin- court
and by Wurtenib' rg society in general,
and has stuck to liim ever "ini-e. TJie
sohriqui-t of i'lon-l'lon, therefore, was
Itcstowed ufsn tlie prince fiy himself and
none otlu r.
The Sutro Tunnel.
Win ii tlie flooded mines of the Com
stock w ere relieved by the completion
; of tie- Sutro tunnel, tlie Inundation of
the shaft* was reduced 100 fi-rt in eiglit
liour. Mr. Sutro. when honored with
a scp nado, made the longest speex-h of
his life. "It is almost fifteen years,"
i aid lie, " since I first proposed the con
-1 strui tion of a deep tunnel from tlie Car
son valley to tlie Comstock lode, and
i almost ten y> rs ago the first nick was
| stru k in beginning a w ork wiiieli lias
been -ontinuid sini-e, by day and night,
without any Interruption, with an ex
pi nditure ill fii.OOO.noo. To-da v. for tlie
first time, the water from tlie Comstock
min< < flowed through the Sutro tunnel,
and it gladdened ail your hearts to see
tlie stream of limpid water, tliat had
caused many of tlie mines on tlie Com
stoek fxde to iie idle for years in im- I
potent effort* Ui tret lliem from it, make
its appearance at the tunnel entrance, j
Home people wlio had foresiglit sufficient '
knew more tlian ten y< ars ago tliat tlie 5
day would come when tliese mines could
he worked no longer; but tlie great |
untliinking wlio only live from
day to day, looked upon the undertaking
of piercing these mountains as one so
gigantic and protracted tliat they ridi- ,
culeil the idea, and gave it hut little en
couragement. The day w ill come when
thefe will lie avenues under tho*e nmun-j
tains in every direction, with trains of I
ears coming and going throughout the
day and night; ami when we shall reach j
under tlie top of Mount Davidson at a
deptli of 3,600 feet beneath its summit,
treasure* may be untoldisljif which none
of as liave any conception.
A JfoveiYnrf.
Tom Johnson, of the poorhouse, lia* a
faculty of getting eonsidernble work out 1
of tlie Inmates under his charge. There :
was one wlio made up hi* mind not to
work at all, although he wm capable of '
doing considerable. To nsroid it lie
kept in lied and made out to be ill, de
manding the attention of the physician.
Tliat gentleman staled that thero was
nothing the matter with hint. Tom
thought he could cure him, and the
other night placed a coffin in hi* room.
When the old man awoke the first thing
that met hi* gnxe was tlie " wooden
overcoat," which stood at the foot of the
bed. Till* seemed to animate him. He
arose early, dressed himself and informed-
Tom tliat lie thought lie wa* better, and
asked the steward if there wasn't some
thing lie could do around tlie house.
He has been busy ever since.— Hubuiue
Herald. '
TIMELY TOPICS.
New England has over S3 armers
clubs, witli 72,(XX) active members and
library iiooks to the number of 21 '"00,
and in the United States tli urly
2,(XX) agricultural societies, 68, (XX)
volumes m their libraries, and with ac
ta** to 300 different agricultural publi
cations, all exerting a direct influence on
the intelligence and future prospects td
tlie tillers of the soil.
I lie ( aliloi nla lam liman or farmer is
t' a certain_extent demoralized by the '
climate, wiiieli allows him to perform
outdoor work the year round. Unlike
the Eastern farmer, therefore, lie is in
clined to let tilings go by the hoard.
I here if- a lack of thoroughness in build
ing, in planting and in the care for ani
mals. ili -,e is little concern for ap 1
pej riii'-i ; th,, soil of many years re-'
mains uudisturlwd U|on tlie wagon
wheels; ii, flower garden is well cared
for; they m ml the li.-irie -s-s witli Lit*
>f ropo, and they trust little or nothing
to the vanity of paint.
I lie English " court" w< nt into mourn
ing for the French prim-e imperial for
one week after tills Style: The lodic* to
wear black dre-o'K, white gloves, iilaek
or wliite shoos, feathers and fans, pearls,
diamonds, or plain gold or siherorna
nn-i.ts. Ihe g' ntleineii t> wear black
court dr> with hlaek swords and
buckle*. Then tlie severity of the in
signia of grief was modified for three
nay, the ladies to wear black drc"cs,
with colored ribbons, flowers, feathers
and ornaments, or gray or white dresses
witli black ribbons, flowers, feathers
and ornament*, and on tie- tenth day tlie
court " .vent out of mourning."
Twenty nine years ago two >M>ys,al*out
a do/.< ny urs of age. were playing
"tag" in l/'WHton, Mi'. They Were
merry and active hwis, and were frolick
ing with HchoollMiy cntliusiastu and
rare!' -n< -s. ()fie lad e uiglit tlie other,
struck liis loads and playfully tipped
it im over, liis whole Weight came down
U|M>n liis fading plnvmate, wlinss spine
was seriously injured in eonsequ'-nep.
He was con veyed home, and it wasfound
that ii" was a physical wreck. For two
years tie was aide to walk around
uvciy little, and then, as the results of
liis iniuri' gradually grew mon-s'-rious,
In was obliged to be carried from one
place to another, entirely losing the use
<•! liis lower limbs. At length his w hole
body became rigid, and lie was povver
1' For twenty-three years Mat hew
Kankins lias sat fixed in liis chair as in a
vise night and day.
The New York Herald thus desi rite s
a hor*e-powr : " Tliis question is fre
quently ;isk<-d : What is understood by
a horse-jKiwer. and why came tliit way
of reckoning to t>e adotit'-d and hrouglit
into genera! Use'-* It. fore tlie tiower of
-t'-ani w is generally known and applied
: te> m's-hanieai purisen*, tiors<-s w-r-
Wad to rais< gai and otto le ivy
i'-s. Mr. M'sits, in his extx-riments,
carefully eonipar'd lie relative power
of tli" diffV'ient hr-i ds of horse*, and
found it* av• rag" equal Uj raising 33,txx)
pounds on<- f"-t r minute, or. wii it ii
' qllivalent, to r>l*e 330 pounds 1(10 feet,
or Ino pfuinit- 3,'ttl f.-et during tliat sj a
<if time wh"ii att.-e te-d to a lever or
sw<s-p of giv ii i'-ngtii. Tills aft'Twarrl
lc -.me the st indani of lII< isuringpower
or fore" applied i> me* lumi- a) purposes,
ami wlii' II is still retained in e>.tnmon
use "
A remarkable story, showing tie
gr< at ads antag'-s of ignoran <. is p.!d ot
a French T-cmk who won a prin- in tic
late lott'-ry. Sle luid f, t certain, long
bclore tlie drawing of tin' pitas, tliat
No. 27 would turn out a winner; and
site managed to buy it. and awaited tlie
result with anxiety, hut without fear.
Tlie list - am< out in due time, and surely
enough No. 27 had won a big prize
ll'-r ma ter tiereforc. questioned her
about it. asking to te- informed why she
f. it so sanguine. Tlie explanation was
simple ' Why, sir," sire re-plied, " I
' dream -■' thr<s nights running that No.
* would Im v a lucky numlwr; that is liow
1 came to Im sure, because thrv-e times
'•igiit is t we-ntv-feven." Thiscviok
not in tlie Vast a.-rw witli the poet who
said that a little kneiwlcdgr is a danger,
ous thing; she had very little knowl
edge, ineieed. of arithmetic, but found
the result quite satisfactory.
The sailing freun foi ;It.
Arctic seas ef tlie exploring steam-yacht
Jeannette, under the auspice* of Mr
James Gordon Be nnett, editeir of the
New York Herald, is an event e>f more
than eereimary inte-ri <t It is the first time
nn ntta- k lias ix e-n madeunon the Neerlli
Fok fa a the direction nt tlie- I'acifle
tliat i hy way of Beliring's Straits.
Expe dilions liave sailed tliat way Itefore,
hut tie v were after traces and remains
eif Sir dohn Franklin's luckless venture
and not in <iuc*t of ge-ograpliical dis.
eoveries. explorations for which, to the
nortli of the West' rn lie-mispliorc. have
invariably pre>oeeicd through Baffin's
bay. TlicJc.annetterested in tlie Itarlsor
of San Francisco for several months, hut
the time of eb-parturo was purposely de
layed. that tli>' Sirait* might l>c reached
as near as possible at the hrcak-Un of
the i'-c i,i August or early in Septenilmr,
before' which it would he vain to at
lempf a passage.
Miye,r J. M. Walsh, who has tssoime
famous in the Indian country a* thoeiffi
ce-r of tin* Uanaeiian Mounted Polieo, in
charge of tlie camp of Sitting Hull anei
the I'ncnpnpa Sieux. has contributed
scveTal columns of opinion anei narrative
tee a Chicago paper lie thinks Sitting
Bull is well eii-jeose-d toward the United
States, hut criticism of the In
eiinn policy : " You can't make two gov
ernments —one feer the Indian and one
for the white' man. You don't need
them. Ttvat the Indian like a white
man from the start. Show him that you
recognize the fact that he lias rights, anei
point out to him what tlieise rights are.
Teach liim that the white man s rights
anei liis are identical. Then show him
that he will he protected in liis rights,
i and that lie will iw punished if lie in
fringe* on the rights of other*, and the
husine** is sHtleai." And it i hy en
-1 forcing tliis policy, he say*, that Canada
has been enabled toilve at peace with the
savage* for a generation.
We find this interesting question and
answer in the "Nette* and Quexio*" de
partment of the Onicntifir Atnrrimn .- "J.
A. M. aaks: Are glass insulators indis
pemsable or not in putting an lightning
rods on huildings. for protection against
the electric current f Some parties haw
been putting up rods here wltlmul in
sulators, using emit strips of xlne to hold
tlmm to wails and roofs. Our pev>ple
are itnorant on the subject anei would
lie gta! to tee a full explanation in your
valuable scientific journal. A. fnu-
I later* should not he used. Tlie roe)
should be fa*toned directly against ii,o
building. Hut the moat important pre
caution in to make dure that the bottom
'•nil ol tli*' rod ha H a large oonductinff
Murfiu ein contact wiUi the earth. Better
imve no rod than simply to bury the end a
l< w feet down into dry earth; the proper
way in to Bolder the bottom end of the
r>xi to a metal water pipe or gM pipe in
the ground. If there are no pijos, then
make a long trench and putin dome go<>d
conducting material, nueli m fine char
coal, or hard coal dust, iron ore, or old
iron, unking a g'H>d rennoition between
the bottom end of the rod and thin con
ducting material."
In the Matter of lilet.
Old Mm. Kieklepineh says the
present id a very unheaitliy season of
y ;r, and that people mudt exereiiw
(rreut care In regard to their diet. She
► ay* they eunriot cat ey rylhing.
And Mm. N., is quite correct; people
cannot eat evi rylhing and keep well and
hearty.
It id very unhealthy, for inftauoe, for
a p rron to eat Htove wr<aieh> either
I oil. i|, fried „ r on tic half hie ;!. for it
would probably give I im the ".hak<if"
immediately.
Shoe brush'-- in all forms should Ixi
avoided a* a steady diet. 'J hey are very
apt to give one tic black tongue.
Hee bread should be partaken of very
sparingly, ax an attack of hived id af
n < -t -uretei follow an indulgence of this
kind.
i'oihhing iri' k.edpe< ially, should Ixt
avoided, either mariud ~r whole. for
th'-y generally bring on uu attack of
SCOU rs.
bands of all kinds, either sea sand, or
dinary rand or thenands of time, arc par -
tieuhtrly hurtful in warm weather, as
grav i almost always follow t a meal of
this kind.
I'i-li eloths.ei! her eiiopj" d tine or fried
in hatter, are unhealthy, and a!rw-t stir*
to result in sour stomach.
I samp wh king used m. a relish. •*-
[• i illv wiien eaten with oil. induce*
lieai tburn or light head.
M inorandurn book-. with or without
cover-, when partak* n of too heartily,
often eauw a severe and diatrchsir.g at
tck ofdtary.
Needles and pins, especially when
• at* n hurriedly and without sufficient
ina-tc ation, are eondu ive of prickly
heat.
SaW-IiOTM *• shoule! net b<* part sk'tl O
late in tic* * ve-ning unl<> one w ishes to
be yi| p-d hy nigiit mare.
t>rven "trash,'" such as grs.-, leave*,
bnieiiH k-. I'at is grei n, e-tc .i- a; to giv#
on* th* hlui'd.
Stovepipe, either Itu-riari or Ameri
can. I,* ing tubular, i iik- ly t/i make* a
! rson hollow with pain, if eaten freely.
I,nu irbo ite only obc dented Joint at
•i dinner recently sniel it did not soot him.
ile evidently felt the* torment* eif ths
mi tned.
Sauee of all kin<!. i ,-j * ially hand
aws, dlioulethe avoid* ri. Th* y are surd
ilenth to wooden nun.
(lr* .-nl ei'kl, when partnk'*n eif teo
finely, are apt to make a person bilifius.
Nitrite of siirer relieve* a stomach
* lii* h i- gorged with gn* nba ks.
Iron in thee blood Ik quite essential,
but that is no reason why padlo-k*
should lee bolted indiscriminately.
Many more hint* might be given in
r* gin I to eating in warm weather, but
enough have already been here sighted
to enable a blind man to s* that Mrs.
Nik,* pin* It isright in her assertion. In
oneiti-i'n it maybe said that a plain
!i t (either hand or ma liin<* planed) ii
est (ur the summer Ixiard of all man
kind.—Jionu Scnlinti.
Hydrophobia.
An aeldn - * was "d* lie* red m*ently at
Cooper Institute, N< w York, Ix-fore th*
American Farmers* Club by John P.
(> rrisli._M. lb,on hydrophobia. Among
other thing* the speaker said: Hydro
phobia never originate* spontaneously.
It must always come from the inocuia
tion eif virus received from an imimal.
The period of incubation is generally
from thn* to seven weeks. Tlx* longest
j* rienl dex* net exceed three month*.
lln sympt' ii • of hvdrophohia are un
usual powe i-s of eneiurancc, loss of ap
petite. iner* i-eof thirst, dilation of the
, puj . ol Uu * ye, and in the run of ani
mal . craving after earth, sticks and
storms and para ysis of the hinder
part-. There Is ao a peculiar spasm
of tlx* pharynx. The reason why
water i refused is not that there jg a
fear of it. as the word hydrophobiaTm
piics, but i -ause tlie contraction of the
mu* le of tlx* throat make* it difficult
and painful for the patient to drink.
For the disease* to lie received thd
virus must come in contact with an
abrades! surface* eif the skin, e>r a surfacs
that ran absorb it. as that of the mouth.
<)f those* that an bittern by rabid dog*.con -
trary to the general impression, neit
more than a third suffer from hydro
phobia Ilahicsnnd bydroplxibia are un
kneiwn in some countries. In South
America they an* not known. In th
Madeira islands, wheredeigs abound and
NuffV*r every other disease, they are not
known. In Prussia, em the other hand,
l.ufifi eases oeeurred at one time, within
ten years. Flxperimenta of eminent
French physician* have shown thai
hydrophobia is not caused by want of
water or by want of fexxi. Science has
now so far advane*e*d that many cases
under certain eire-umstances e*an bs
cured. The disease is not now abso
lutely incurable.
1 net lan Itabies.
That an Indian mother loves her babe
i clearly shown by the care which she
bewtows upem its cradle, adorned with
tlx* richest beadweirk and e*nibroidery.
The founelatiein of this rraeile is an un
yie-lding heiard upon which the haby ewn
be firmly lashesi at full length en its back.
This lniard is usually rove red with softly
dreseeel buckskin, with (lapsand pouchew
in which to envelop the baby; other
trilx*s neit rich or feirtunate enough to
procure this material, have reeounw to a
neat combination of shruhwtxxi poles,
reesl splints, grass matting and the soil
and fragrant ribbems eif tho bass or lin
den tree bark. Sweet grass is used here
as a bed lor the youngster's lender back,
er else clean dry mess plucked from the
bended limbs of the swamp-firs; then,
with htie-kakin llionga or cord*of plaited
grass, the baby is hound down tight and
secure, for any and all disposition that
its mother may see fit to make of it for
the next day or two. Perhaps for two or
three hours out of the twenty-four the
babies are allowed to roll about on tha
grass ; hut the minute It begins to whim
per the mother claps it bark into its
cradle, where it rests with emphasis, for
H can there move nothing save its head;
so far from disliking these rigid conches,
tho babies actually sleep better in them
than when free, and positively cry to bs
returned to them when neglected and left
longer than usual at liberty. This fact Is
certainly an amusing Instance of the lores
of habit.