TO HALT© DRUNKARDS.
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A Hvrrlkltat'a NUUmeat.
"Someof your statements made in
your address before the Woman's Tem
perance league, elicited considerable
discussion," said a Witness reporter
who was present at that meeting, to the
lecturer of the evening, Mr. Garnsey,
in an interview.
'Ofou refer I suppose among other
things, to my classification of habitual
users of tobacco ns 'drunkards.' It
was not n slip of the tongue. It is a
startling fact that a tobacco-user is a
drunkard. Especially is this true of
tlie smoker."
" Many excellent men, leaders of the
people, are smokers, who would reject
a zlass of liquor with moral aversion."
" 1 agree with you Unit many a man
can discern the alcoholic mote in his
hrofher's eye, notwithstanding the
rloud of tobacco smoke in his own. I
would, however, say to such an one:
"Cast out the beam out of thine own
eye; and then shalt thou see clearly
to east out the mote out of thy brother's
eye."
" Let me explain the statement that
an habitual tobacco-user is u drunk
ard." continued Mr. Garnsey. "Medi
cal men look upon any b.ain that is ex
cited into unusual or beyond natural
activity by a narcotic, as being in an
intoxicated condition. The brain,
rtlsely and unfairly acted upon, is in an
intoxicated state, whether the acting
agent is alcohol, opium or tobacco,
these three poisons each act in a differ
ent manner. Alcohol excites its vic
tim: opium puts him to sleep, and he
lies like a dead man; tobacco takes a
middle ground—produces inactivity,
stupor, loss of energy. A thoughtless
ami indifferent tone of mind results,
when not under influence of the weed.
The brain has been trained to act only
when intoxicated by the narcotic, to
bacco. When the mind must be active,
users chew twice the quantity of the
wred. If tlieir supply is exhausted be
fore the task is accomplished, how they
sigh! The workman throws down his
implements. 'ltis no use! I must
have a chew ol tobacco, or I cannot do
the job,'—or discipher the problem, or
whatever it may be! Now, I ask, in all
candor, is such an one a sober man, or
is he an intoxicated man when, the
chew being orthcoming, his nerves be
come quiet, his brain rebounds with
new power and he accomplishes his
task ?
" He would argue that the result was
gwi, that the stimulant helped him,"
suggested the reporter.
" Bpoause he had trained himself to
work only in an intoxicated state. It
affects the stomach as a deadly poison.
In course of time it utterly destroys di
gestive functions. If tobacco does not
affect the mind, what lias the number
of pounds sold to do witfi the number
of suicides in any part of tire country!
There are men who if jou will give
them the number of the population in a
certain district and the number of
pounds of tobacco shipped to that dis
trict for immediate consumption there,
will tell you almost to a man the num
ber of suicides that occur annually
among them. This is a fact. Habitual
tobacco users are men who seldom draw
a sober breath. The smell of their
breath is almo-t equal to the gas of a
sewer pipe."
" Public sentiment has a great deal of
tolerance for the tobacco-user."
" The pubiir is not intelligent on the
subject and does not care for informa
tion. The agency of tobacco is masked.
A strong, well-looking and hearty man.
who has sapped all the vitality from
his system, and has spat it out under his
feet, meets with some little accident,
perhaps has some sudden sickness and is
gone. ' What caused his death?' Friends
answer, ' Palpitation of the heart.' Now
tobacco is a direct cause of this disease.
Another died of bilious fever. Tobacco
is a direct cause of indigestion and con
stipation. Another. 'Ob, he had pul
monary consumption.' Tobacco" is
known to be a direct cause of throat and
bronchial affection, and it is a grave
question with medical men whether
tobacco is not the main cause of so much
consumption in our land to-day. It was
no. always so."
" What relation has the use of to
bacco to,tlie appetite for alcohol?"
" A craving for alcohol is aroused by
the physical conditions produced hy
the use of tobacco. General debility, j
weariness, nnd a marked prostration of
he whole system are just the states
(hat alcoholic medicines have been pre
scribed for. for centuries. The sudden
stimulus of alcohol produces such an
exuberant feeling, the victim drinks
deeper and deeper till all self-control is
lost. Delirium tremens, and death re
suits; ar.d I believe the self-murderer
from this course will lie railed in judg
ment as any other suicide. It is a sin
gular, yet nevertheless true, statement,
that the use of alcohol alone never pro
duces delirium tremens, but it is a dis
ease natural to tobacco, and ia hastened
by the use of alcohol.
" I)r. Kianchard of this city," pur
sued Mr. Garnsey, "asserts that in fif
teen years' practice he has never seen
or ieard of deli rum tremens except
where tobacco had been used for years;
nnd he says that though a man should
drink all his days and not use tobacco
he might die from the drinks but the
delirium tremens Would never show it
self; and that it is produced directly
through the agency of tobacco, whiofi
completely shatters and wrecks the
nervous system, so that it cannot stand
the sudden hard shocks of alcoholic
stimulants, and the delirium tremens is
a natural result of surh a condition.
" From tobacco, fourdistincland sure
poisons can he extracted. We have no
* other mineral or vegetable substance on
the gloM> of which this may be said.
Two of the four poisons can be procured
from other sources, while two are only
known to tobacco and arc peculiar to
itself. These two are the most deadly,
namely, nieotianni, a concrete or
solid oil: the other, nicotine, which
is a limpid, colorless liquid. Dr.
Virgil Blancharo (ells flint he took
a piece of a broken stem of
a mecrsclinuni pipe and scraped
witli a knife on the inside; gave one
eighth of the scrnpings to a Scotch
mastiff weighing sixty-five pounds, and
it killed him in ten seeonds.
" The use of tobncco was carried to
such excess in the Sandwich Islands
many years ago, that many would fall
down senseless and suddenly die.
"Two drops of oil ol tobacco placed
on the tongue of a cat will kill it in four
minutes smid horrid convulsions.
"Dr. Clay, of Manchester, England,
states that a little hoy, eight years old,
was afflicted with scald-head. His
father steeped mime tobacco and bathed
the parts affected at five minutes before
two in the afternoon. The child almost
instantly complained of giddiness, vom
it<Hi, his limbs tottered, grew pale, lie
was covered with a cola sweat and at
half.paat five o'clock, three hours and a
half from the time of application, bodied
of convulsions."
Mr. Garnsey gave a number of inci
dents, some occurring in this city, show
ing the poisonous character of the weed.
"Why,'' said he, " from one pound of
ordinary tobacco, forty or sixty grains
cf nieotianni and nicotine can be pro
duced, which would kill one hundred
human creatures in fifteen minutes.
Yet, men roll the dangerous stuff as a
sweet morsel under their tongues! We
have stores entirely devoted to the sale
of it, and smnll boys buy and use it with
perfect liberty! it completely copper
celors the stomach and its delicate
beings. After death, upon examination
of the stomach, it can be told with eor
tainty whether the person was a user of
tobacco or not.
An alcohol drunkard, if lie tries to re
form, must tight tobacco, too, if he has
been addicted to it. It is a medcal fact
that in case of reformation from [strong
drink, if the patient continues to use to
bacco lie is generally a victim of the cup.
again in three years or less. This is so
near a settled fact that it is so claimed
by some. The nervous system, under
the influence of tobacco, has a craving
for alcohol which sooner or later refuses
to be denied.
Mr. Garnsey also spoke of great num
bers of snuff-takcrs in lunatic asylums,
and of the hurtful adulterations used to
give it pungency and stimulus.— New
York iFtlness.
Snow Two Hundred Feet Deep.
The following remarkable account,
rora the Ixindon Times, of enormous
snowfalls in Northwestern India, shows
what a world of vapor is carried inland
on the monsoons from the Indian ocean
to strike against the loftiest mountain
chain in the world, and f>e precipitated
in such snow and rains as occur on the
foot-hills of the Himalayas. About the
sources of some of the great rivers of
India occur the heaviest rains ever
known; and further east, in Cashmere,
it seems the snows are sometimes ter
rific.
Some interesting details of this extra
ordinary snowfall in Cash mere in 1877-43
are given in a paper in the just issued
number of the "Journal" of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal, by Mr. Lydekker.
Early in the month of October, 1877,
snow commenced to fall in the valley
and mountains of Cashmere, and from
that time up to May, 1878, there seemed
to have been an almost incessant snow
fall in the higher mountains and valleys:
indeed, in places, it frequently snowed
without intermission for upward often
days at a time. At Dras, which has nn
an elevation of 10,000 feet, Mr. Lydekker
estimated the snowfall, from the native
account, as having been from thirty to
forty fectthiek. The effects of this enor
mous snowfall were to le seen through
out the country. At Dras, the well
built traveler's bungalow, which has
stod somo thirty years, was entirely
crushed down hy the weight of snow
which fell upon it. In almost every vil
lage of the neighboring mountains mora
or less of the log houses had fallen, while
at Gulniarg and Sonomarg, wh< re no at
tempt was made to remove the snow,
almost all the huts of the European vis
itors were utterly broken down hy it.
In the higher mountains whole hillsides
have l>cen denuded of vegetation and soil
by the enormous avalanches which
swept down them, leaving vast gaps in
the principal forests, and closing the val
.eys below with the debris of rocks and
trees.
As an instance of the amount of snow
which must have fallen in the higher
levels, Mr. Lydekker mentions the Zogi
pass, leading from Cashmere to Dras,
which has an elevation at 11,300 feet.
He crossed this early in August last
year, and then found that the whole of
the ravine leading up to the pass from
the Cashmere side war still filled with
snow, which he estimated in places to
be at least 150 feet tlilck. In ordinary
seasons this road in the Zogf pass is clear
from snow some time during the mon h
of June. As anoflo r instance of the
great snowfall Mr. Lydekker takes the
valley leading from the town of Dras up
to the pass separating thnt place Iroirt
the valley of the Kishengunga river.
About the middle of August almost the
whole of the first-mentioned valley, at
an elevation of 12.000 feet, was com
pletely choked witfi snow, which in
places was at least 200 feet deep. In the
same district all passes over 13,000 feet
were still deep in snow at the same sea
son of the year.
Mr Lydekker gives other instanees of
snow in places in September where no
snow had ever liefore been observed
after June." As to the destruction of
animal life in the Upper Ward wan val
ley large numbers of ibex were seen im
bedded in snow; in one place upward
of sixty heads were counted, and In
another not less than one hundred were
counted. The most convincing proofs,
however, of the havoc caused among
the wild animals by the great snowfall is
the fact that scarcely any ibex were seen
during last summer in those portions of
the Wardwan and Tilail valleys which
are ordinarily considered ns sure finds.
So, nls , the red hear and the marmot
wcrdTar less numerous than usual. Mr.
Lydekker estimates tha* the destruction
to animal life caused by snow Irs far
exceeded finy slaughter which could be
inflicted by sportsmen during a period
of at least five or six years.
Words of Wisdom.
There is no good preaching to the
hungry.
Better go supper less to hed than to
run in debt.
The wild oats of youth change into the
briars of manhood.
The lesson of disappointment, humili
ation and blunder impress more
Good men have the fewest fears. He
has but one who fears to do wrong. He
has a thousand who lias overcome that
one.
The hardest working men and women
are those who do the working and plan
ning; and they arc lew, for most people
consider second-hand goods the
cheapest.
Good words do more than hard
speeches, ns the sunbeams, without any
noise, will make the traveler throw off
his coat which all the blustering wind
could not do-
It is easy enough to find plenty of men
who think the world ones them a liv
ing, but hard to find a chap who is
willing to own up that he has collected
tiie debt in full.
If a man's word is not as good as his
bond the best tiling is to get on with
out either. If this can't be done look
well to (lie bond and treat the word as
' though it had never been spoken.
FOR TIIK FAIR HEX.
■•Hmhlon Not*#.
Among tho Intent importations arc
quaintly - colored French cashmeres
wrought all over with polka dots of the
same color; these come in gray, brown,
olive and blue. They are to he used lor
the principal part of a costume that may
be completed with silk, satin, or velvet.
I here are also separate embroidered
pieces representing vines, (lowers and
foliage, though all ol one color, and
scalloped on the edge; these are to bo
used for side-panels, aprons, scarfs, and
for edging the square-cornered revers
now made lengthwise in front and side
breadths.
Iu selecting velvet, it is desirable to
get, that with elastic pile, that will be
least easily flattened by use. Some of
the richest velvets, with thickest pile,
are often the most easily marred. The
way to test this is for the purchaser to
obtain samples, and crease them by
pressing a sharp-edged paper-knife
against the pile, or in other ways, and
also moistening it slightly. If the pile
does not come up after the pressure is
removed, it certainly will not resist that
which comes with even the most careful
Usage. w
rtieOriental cashmeres areso popular
that they are now imported in pale rose,
blue and gold tints to combine witli the
light colors of evening dresses. The
white Utile religicutc, or nun's cloth,
which is really all-wool French bunt
ing, is very popular this winter for full
dress toilets for young ladies, and this is
especially effective when combined witli
pale cloth of gold, which is really
Oriental cashmere with many gold
threads in it. Some velvet, either dark
garnet or peacock blue, is then added to
give character to the dress, and a most
picturesque toilet is formed.
For streetsuits that have figured cash
mere basques there is now the Tallien
overakirt of plain silk or wool widely
boniered with the figured material.
This new overskirt is merely a long but
very scant round overskirt caught up
high on the left side almost to the waist,
Wving the opening very far forward.
The short skirt is then made of length
wise plaiting* in alternate clusters of
the plain fabric and the cashmere.
The Spanish marriage has brought
Spanish colors and stylos into vogue in
Paris, and modistes are combining red
and yellow in very rich toilets. The new
est Parisian costume iB a skirt of dark
Capucine satin de Lyon, with a basque
of garnet velvet. The Spanish veil is
also much in favor, and is shown by
modistes here in both hlaok and Vhite
Spanish lace. Red and yellow ostrich
plumes also trim hlaok satin or lace bon
nets.
1/ong black kid gloves with a bracelet
of small yellow rosebuds at the top is
one ol the caprices of semi-dress toilets.
For a debutante to wear with white and
blue toilet, white undressed kid gloves
bail a band of tiny blue forget-me-nots
forming a bracelet at the top ol each
ust below the elbow.
The newest lare cravat ia a large lace
bow called the Mervoilleuse, in imitation
of the bows worn during the French
revolution. It mny be made of any
trimming lace by sewing the straight
ends together, and of this forming an
ordinary bow of two long loops and two
ends strapped in the center; below this 1
the lace ia then formed into a jabot:
shaped like a fan, the two shell-like !
rows coming together in a point below. !
This point reaches nearly to the waist \
line, while the large bow ia high about
the throat—indeed, just under the chin.
Another bow, called the butterfly, has
two little plaited pieces of white India
muslin strapped tightly where they are
joined, and this forms tlie center. Wide
lace, either or duchcase, or
Valenciennes, is then sewed to the
plaited ends, and when the bow is worn
the upper end of this lace is pinned high
about the collar, and it is Allowed to fall j
open below and display the pretty de- :
sign wrought ui>on it. The butterfly
bow is also made of black Cliina crape I
edged witli the black hand-painted lace !
which is new this season.
Artificial ImuquMa for the corsage are
worn both in the house and street, and j
are seen on the dresses imported from j
the best Parisian houses. Natural flow- ,
ers are, however, greatly preferred, and j
ladies who can obtain them use fresh
natural flowers all winter. Small yel- I
low chrysanthemums, as bright-tinted
as buttercups, are as popular as the
daisy bouquets worn during the sum
mer. and will remain fresh several days,
fjirge creamy tea-rose buds, and the
darker Isabella sprunt rose arc worn
with garnet, peacock blue, invisible
green, or black toilets on dressy occa
sions.— Ifarpcr'i Baxnr.
■Smithy Women.
A writer, in urging the necessity for
more attention to the physical culture,
notes as a favorable sign, to the fact
that "the pale and interesting" type of
female beauty is fast losing its popular
ity, and tiiat men of position and influ
ence are declaring for the healthy
standard of womanly beauty, such as
was over recognized by Greece and
Home. This is certainly an important
and happy change in public taste, and
already the effects of it are to hv detected
in nn Improved condition of feminine
health, for it will hardly he denied that
on an average the women of to-day arc
physically superior to what they were
a few years ago, when tight-lacing and
similar destroying customs prevailed.
Young women fake more exercise than
they formerly did. They ride and walk
more and arc more in the open air. They
liave not the insane dread of the sun's
rays which they once had. Rut therein
much room for improvement yet. Many
homes are still presided over by invalid
wives and mothers, who furnish a con
stant spectacle of sadness and misery to
their family and friends, and are a sub
jected unllroitedj expense to tlieiribus
hands. In such homes the greatest of
nli blessings that could be hoped? for
would f>e the health of the mistress re
stored ; but too often it is the one bless
ing tHiieh never comes.
American homes, morn than any
other, perhaps in the world, have been
saddened by sickly women. If this
■hall be so no longer, it will be a great
blessing to the nation. And the remedy
is simple. American men are as strong
and healthy as those of other nations;
there is no good reason why American
women should not be. All that is needed
is proper attention to dress and exer
cise. I<et women dress, as men do, so
that their bodies shall not be squeezed
and pressed together, but lipvo free room
for motion, and let tnem go out into the
air and sunshine, as men do, and exer
cise their bodies, snd the race of Ameri
can women will not become extinct, as
It once threatened to.
On the contrary, it will he Improved,
built up and beautified, and a time will
shortly come when a healthy man will
not have to hunt a whole country oxer
•
to find a healthy wifr. We are on the
right track now ; all that is needed is to go
ahead, and jlie result will soon be mani
fest. Women will die to be in fashion;
therefore lot the fashion of female beauty
be vigor and strength, and all the ladies
in the land will be swinging dumb-bells,
practicing archery, riding on horseback,
and walking as for a wager, but they
will be in stylo.
Inherited' Memory.
Are there not scientific men —and is
not Dr. Carpenter one of them ?—who
consider that when wo say an event has
made "such an impression on us that
we shall never forget it," we are not
merely using a metaphor, but stating a
fact? Now, if something analogous to
"making an impression'" on the brain
really takes place whenever we commit
anything to memory, is it not possible
that, if the impression bo deeply fixed,
the impressed brain may be transmitted
by the parent to the offspring, who thus
"inherits" its ancestor's memory?
When we remember that birds take the
same journey year after year, genera
tion ufter generation, century after I
century, nuy, even for ages after ages, I
think we shall feel that there
are ur.re marvelous tilings in uature
than what I am usking you to consider,
namely, the possibility hat the young
bird ut least inherits a knowledge of
the wuy, and is capable of performing
the journey alone. If "inherited mem- !
ory" be accepted as a fact, what a flood
of light is thrown on many puzzles 1
which have hitherto been classed as
instincts;" snch as the building of
birds' nests, the pointing of pointer
puppies, the knowledge itosscssed by
young unimals of right and wrong food,
and of friends and enemies; lam not
sure that it will not even throw light on
some mysteries iu human nature. When
I was a child I had a dread of wolves (a
very common thing with children), and
I find the dread reproduced in one of |
my own children. Yet wolves have been
so long extinct in England that we
should prolmhly have to go back many
generations liefore we met with nursea
who qnieted crying children by threat
ening to give them to the wolves. May
not this be a case of "inherited mem
ory."— Mature.
The Horseshoe Superstition.
The origin of the horseshoe supcrsti
ion lias never been satisfactorily ex- j
plained. Among the theories offered, !
that contained in the following is among
the possibilities: The horseshoe of old
was held to be of special service as a
security against the attacks of evil
spirits. The virtue may have been as
signed, perhaps, by the rule of contra
ries, from it a thing incompatible
with the cloven foot of the Evil One; or
from the rude resemblance which the !
horseshoe hears to the rays of glory
which in ancient pictures were made to
surround the heads of saints am. angels: I
or, finally, from some notion of its puri*
tv. acquired through passing through
the fire. This latter supposition receives
some countenance from the method re- |
sorted to for the cure of horses that had
ltecomc vicious, or afflicted by any dis
temper which village farriery did not
understand; such disease was invariably
attributed to witchcraft, and the mode
of cure seems to imply the belief that j
the imperfert purification by fire of the
shoe which the animal wore had afforded
an inlet to malevolent influences. Ac- ;
cordingly, the horse was led into the
smithy; the door w closed and'bnr- i
red; the shoes were taken off and placed
in the fire, and the witch or warlock was
speedily under the necessity of remov
ing the spell under whirl! the animal
suffered. Sailors are, for the most part,
careful to have a horseshoe nailed to
the mizzenmast or somewhere on the l
deck near midships, for the protection ;
of the vessel. The Chinese have their j
tombs built in the shape of the horse- j
shoe, which custom is very curious, as
it.may as a branch of |
the superstition long prevalent among
ocrselves.
A Carinas Relic.
Miss Mary Mcllenry,'of Philadelphia,
has sent to General Dunn, to he placed
in his Lincoln collection, a curious relic
of Wilkes Booth, with the following
statement: In August, IHH4. Mr. J. j
Wilkes.Booth registered as a guest at
the Mcllcnrv house, Meadville, Pa. He
was there on the thirteenth of that
month. After bis departure it was
found that he had, with a diamond, in
scribed upon a pane of the window of
his bedroom, these words :
Abe Lincoln,
Departed this
Li c. Aug. 13th, IW>4,
By the effects of
Poison.
Theglass remained in the window un
disturbed until the country was shocked
by the murder of Mr. Lincoln on April
14, lflf>s. A few days alter that event
Mr. R. M. N. Taylor, proprietor of the
Mcllenry houe, cut the pane from the
window, framed it over a bar-king of
black velvet, placed with it the auto
graph of Mr. Booth, which Mr. Taylor
cut from the hotel register, and sent the
whole to me. just as it now is.
Afghan Cruelty.
A Cabul correspondent of the Ixrndon
Timet writes: As a specimen of the,
rule which we come to deliver the
Afghans from I give the following,
winch 1 heard Irom Major-General
Hills, before whom the case against
Ibrahim Khan was tried. Ibrahim
Khun, who is a brother of Yakooh Khan,
when he left Cabul with other royal
sirdars to join our camp at Kushi,ln
structed a confidential servant to bury
some of bis treasure. On Ibrahim's re
turn with us the confidential servant
and the hiding-place of the treasure
was not to be found. Ibrahim, how
ever. laid hands on the father-in-law of
the mnn who had been entrusted with
the business, and giving him credit for
knowing something about it—whether
justly or upjust.ly does not appear—tor
tured him to death by fastening up bis
head in a bag of snuff and tobacco,
which was eventually set on fire, as the
milder preliminaries -had no effect in
throwing light upon the whereabouts of
the treasure.
A man had a tooth extracted by'a
Chicago dentist, and expresred regret 1
for the loot. A girl whose jaws were
overcrowded with teeth entered the
office to have two ol them taken out.
The dentist suggested the experiment of
transferring one of these sound teeth to
the wacancy in the man's mouth, and
tho operation was performed with sue
cess, the tooth growing fast and firm in
ten days.
TIHRLT TOPICS.
Mr. A. S. Fuller, of Ridgewood, N. J.,
whose etomological cabinet Is said to
contain " fi,ooo species of beetles alone."
is credited with the declaration that of I
the hundred thousand species of insects
in the United Slates, there is "not one
hundred whose true history is well
known." So lie reminds active young
men that there is a little room still left I
for them in this line of study, and men
tions for their encouragement that one
person bug-hunting in F.orida " found
under a dead palmetto fan hundreds of
hup that were previously rated at $7.1
apiece."
Many of our greatest discoveries have
been the result of accident, rather than
a fixed and definite purpose. "It is
curious to note," says the Chicago 7Vi
bune, " how nearly every invention that
lias proved to be a service and a blessing
to mankind has been the result of what
is popularly termed an accident. It is
well known that many great discoveries j
in the arts, in science, and in mechanics |
have come to the knowledge of experi
menters in a line quite different from the
one in which they were operating, and
what they called a blunder at the time
led the way to the most important re
sults. It is said that the Goodyear pro- \
cess of utilizing rubber was purely an :
accidental discovery, and now it is
claimed that Mr. Edison by a fortunate I
accident discovered that carbonized I
paper, instead of platinum, was what he
was after."
The reigning Czar possesses in full
measure the family love of being present
at great fires,which bis younger orotlier,
the Grand Duke Nicholas, is enabled to
gratify at will by hi i position as head of
the St. Petersburg lire brigade. On one
occasion this passion for "running with
the machine all but proved fatal to ;
lioth. When the German Lutheran j
church, on the Moika canal, took fire '
n the middle of the night, the Czar and
his brother were among the first to reach
the spot, and, while directing the opera
tions of the fireman, incautiously ap
proached too near the burning build
ing, the belfry of which was already be- i
ginning to totter. Suddenly a huge
beam, at least twelve feet in length, fell
blazing from the roof, and struck the
ground with a tremendous crash close
to the spot where they stood, injuring
several of the crowd with its flying
splinters. General Trepoff, then minis- !
ter of police, at once stepped forward,
and succeeded in persuading the Czar
to withdraw, but the Grand Duke
Nicholas , unained to the end, and saved i
the greater part of the building.
If Mexican robbers, who have always
been one of the many curses of ill- I
governed, distracted Mexico, were dealt i
with as were the robbers near Guana
juato, according to a recent account,
we should hear of fewer depredations
there upon travelers. Thirty highway
men, having attacked a mail coach with
Winchester rifles, were put to flight,
five of their number killed and several
wounded by two young Americans, only
one of whom was hurt. So the account
reads, and it might seem to be a gross
exaggeration, considering the disparity
of numbers, were not most.professional
lawbreakers, especially those in Mexico,
arrant cownrds. who never take the
offensive unless backed by greatly su
perior strength One might imagine
that the Americans had been armed
with Gatling guns from the destruction
they wrought, but their most effective
weapons were, no doubt, coolness, cour
age and resolution As one of them,
George Green, is from Texas, and the
other, Frank Sen ter, is from Massa
chusetts. the honors of intrepidity are,
a* respects section, equally divided.
They are obviously of the right ma
terial; just such citizens are wanted
there, and many of them. A hundred j
brave, firm fellows of their stamp would
be more effective tlian 10,000 pronuncia
mentos in favor of honest government
and strict administration of justice.
The education of the two Americans has |
unquestionably been of the kind most
needed there. Their parents have, very I
plainly, in their case taught the young
idea how to shoot.
Edison's Rirnl.
Edison is all very well in his way, !
but the inventor that will be remem
bered when all others are forgotten is a
party named Miekley, who has just
rendered his fellow-men an inestimable
service by producing an apparatus called
the " Married Man s Indicator, or the j
patent " Domestic Barometer." This
ingenious device is simply a wonder
fully sensitive arrangement of the ordi
nary barometer, which infallibly detects
the most minute alterations in the
atmospheric conditions. The married
man. returning late from the alleged
" lodge," or other locally contraband ol
war. Indulges in no fearful speculations
as to his reception He simply takes
his " indicator" from its case and inserts
a projection, arranged for the purpose,
. through the key-hole. Instantly the
domestic temperature within is recorded
Iby the dial. If it marks S. F.—set fair;
S. A.—sound asleep; or even C. B.
cross but sleepy, he brings his propitia
tory box of fried oysters well to the
front, chews a fresh clove and enters
boldly. If, however, the faithful little
instrument reports 8. B.—storm brew
ingr or V. 8. L.—very squally. With
lightning, he doesn't waste any valuable
time in warfare, but hies him to the
nearest hotel and sends an "up all
night with a sick friend" note, wfth
some matinee tickets and a new bonnet,
home in the morning. Truly, if science
keeps on in this way, the world will be
come quite a comfortable place to live
in after a while.— Botton Herald.
Wards or Wisdom.
Life is a flower, love is its honey.
Pleasure becomes an ill when it costs
regrets.— Roehebrune.
Beauty without modesty is like a
flower broken from its stem.
A small evil ought not to be done,
even for the sake of a great good.
That civility is best which excludes
all superfluous formality.
It is very dangerous for any man to
find any spot on this broad globe that is
sweeter to him than his home.
Write your iwme by kindness, love
and mercy in the hearts of thousands
you come in contact with year by year
and you will never be forgotten.
| Anyb.dy can soil the reputation of
any individual,however pure and chaste,
by uttering a suspicion that his enemies
will believe and hit friends never bear
of.
Events are only the winged shuttles
which fly from one side of the loom of
life to the other, bearing the many-col
ored threads out ol which the fabric of
our characters is mods.
BIG THINGS.
Mammoth Mramahlp-A SOO.OOO Pran<
Mtonr—Pll.a of titld-Patttit Cow la
the World.
A new steamship, to be named the
t'ity of Home, which will be the largest
and finest merchant vessel in the world,
is now being built at Barrow, England.
Bhe will ply between Liverpool and
New York. Her length of keel will be
54 feet, and length over all 590 feet,
with other dimension* in proportion.
Her measurement will be 8,300 tons, or
over 2,000 tons larger than either the
City of Berlin or the Arizona, and 800
tons larger than the Servia, the new
steamship, which will be completed
this fall. She will lie over four-fifths
the size of the Great Eastern. The
engines of the City of Uome will be of
8,500 horse-powrr, with six cylinders,
three of which are high-pressure and
three low-pressure. There will be
eight boilers, heated by forty-eight fur
naces, and the vessel can be propelled at
the rate of eighteen and a half knots an
hour. She will carry four large masts
and three smoke funnels. There will
be 275 revolving chairs at the saloon
tables, and the staterooms will easily
accommodate three hundred first-class
passengers. A drawing-room, which
can be occupied by one hundred ladies
at once, will be placed on the deck, im
mediately over the saloon. The smok
ing-room will be above the drawing
room, and will accommodate one hun
dred smokers at one*. The saloon will
contain six bath-rooms. There will
be room on board for almost any
number of steerage passengers, ana
space for an enormous quantity of
freight in the hold. The City of Home
is to be built of steel, with a double
bottom and eleven bulkheads. She
will have the highest classification of
any vessel in the Liverpool red-book
and in the British Lloyds.
The largest stone quarried in 3,000
years was used in the construction of
the obelisk to the memory of Major
General John Ellis Wool, which ha*
just been exposed to public view in
froy, N. Y. General Wool was a dis
tinguished soldier of the war of 1812,
having been shot through both thighs
at the storming of Queenstown, and
having covered himself with glory at
the battle of I'lattsburg, two years
later. Moreover, as second in com
mand lie helped Taylor at Buena Vista.
General Wool left $50,000 for a monu
ment to iiis wife and himself. The late
Wil'iam Cullen Bryant became inter
ested in the monument scheme, and be
fore his death wrote the inscriptions for
it. The stone for the immense shaft,
weighing about 500,000 pounds, was
obtained from Vinalhaven, on Fox
Island, Maine. Its transportation to
Troy cost about $7,000. The huge mono
lith was placed by skillful engineering
on a barge and towed through tempest
uous waves to the Hudson. It was
feared quite often that the stone had
sought the bottom of the sea. The
monument, as it now stands, seventy
five feet in height, on the summit of an
eminence, may be seen for many mile*
around Troy.
Perhaps the largest payment made in
gold coin since the revival took place in
Chicago recently. Then one of the
hanks of tliat city paid out in settle
ment of its clearing house balances
$1,650,000. Of this sum $1,500,000 wa*
in gold coin. The coin was received
from New York in twenty kegs, each
keg weighing three hundred pounds
and containing $75,000. The transpor
tation through the'street* was attended
by five men to handle and guard the
treasure. By an arrangement between
the banks and the clearing house offi
cers the gold was delivered directly to
the several creditor banks. By this ar
rangement the transportation and hand
ling were simplified. The coin was
sent thither by Jim Keene in payment
for wheat, and with other remittances
of like character, will largely enter into
general circulation in Chicago.
P. I Annan, who handled all the cattle
at the Centennial, is now a dealer at
Sail Lake City. Utah, where he now
exhibits the carcass of "the biggest
bovine in the world." The animal was
i a heifer. She looked to be approaching
! elephantine greatness, and so thick liad
! the fat become on the animal tliat she
| could scarrely walk, and her hide was
stretched to its utmost tension She
weighed before the slaughter over 9,500
: pounds, and after dressing over 1.300.
The butchers of Salt Lake City are oi the
I opinion tliat she was the fattest oow In
i the world. Some idea of her vastness
can be formed from the knowledge that •
on the thinnest part of?the rib measured
the fat was seven inches in thickness.
There comes from Duluth, Minn., an
authenticated yarn about a pig which .
had iust been aroused from a sleep of
142 days. The pig belongs to Miner
Eblerhausen, of Little Bay. The animal
slept so soundly that it* owner built a
gall around it. and on tearing the wall
do *n recently he heard a grunt on the
inside. Its appearance when taken out
WHS rather funny. The ribs on each
side seemed to have met. The haras
had vanished and only the hip joints
stood up, gaunt and angular. The
vertebrie could be counted and the ears
drooped from the large skull. The eyes
looked ont of the deep bony sockets
with a profoundly melancholy expres
sion, as though their owner had been
in the other world and had found there
cspe, tally hard times.
Business Affair*.
A careless business man is morally
unsound. Bhow me s man who never
pays liis notes when they sre due, and
who shnus the psvment of his bills
when it is possible, and does both
tbiugs as s habit, and I shall see s man
whose moral character is, beyond all
question, bad. We have had illustrious
examples of this lack of business exact
ness. We have had great men whose
business habits were simply scandalous
—who never paid their bills unless
urged and worried, and who expended
for their personal gratification cvorv
cent of money they could lay their
hands upon. These delinquencies
have been apologised for as among the
eccentricities of genius, or as the un
mindfulneas of smell affairs which natur
ally attends all greatness of intellect
ami intellentual effort; but the world
has been too easy with them altogether.
No matter how many amiable and
praiseworthy trait* of character such
men possessed, they were dishonest and
untrustworthy in their business rela
tions, end that simple fact condemns
them. Xam reedy to believe any bed of
e men who habitually neglects to fulfil
his business obligations. Bush e man
is oertainly rotten at heart, end does
I not deserve respect.