The Milling or l'eter.
A rOLK-SONO.
" Behold, Satan hath desirjit to have you,
that ho may silt you aa wheat."— St. Luke
xxii. 31.
In St. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter in the days ot old
Was sitteu;
And now, though ngos intervene,
Sin is the same, while time and seena
Are shitted.
Satan desires us, great and smalt.
As wheat, to silt VJB, and we all
Are tempted;
Not one, however rioh or great
Is by his station or estate
Exempted.
No house so safely guarded is
Bat he, by some device ol his,
Can enter;
heart hath armor so complete
But he can pierce with arrows fleet
Its center.
For all at last the cock will crow
Who hear the warning voice, but go
Unheeding;
Till thrice and more they have denied
The Man ol Sorrows, crucified
And bleeding.
fine look ol that pale, suffering lace
Wilt make us feel the deep disgrace
Ol weakness;
We shall be silled till tho strength
Ol self-conceit be changed at length
To meekness.
Wounds ol the soul, though healed,
will ache,
The reddening scars remain, and make
Confession;
Lost innocence returns no more;
We are not what we were belore
Transgression.
But noble souls, through dust anil heat,
Kiae Irom disaster and defeat
The stronger,
And conscience still ol the diviue
Within them, ],o on carlh supine
No longer,
H. If. Lofig/-//ow, (n Harprr't Mngazin*.
The Romance of a Water-Color.
Pretty Marie lawrenec sat in the ele
gantly furnished library, dividing her
attentions between the bonk she bad in
one hand and the sprightly little kitten
in her lap. which playfully toyed with
the trimming on her dress, when her
father entered, hnving returned from his
office intent cc gelling the cream of the
day's news before dinner was served by
a hasty scanning of the daily papers.
"By the way, Marie," he said, rather
absent-mindedly as he settled into a
large easy chair, " there's a little package
on lite table in the hall which the ex
pressman left at the office to-dav."
" For me, did you say. pa? Why, I'm
not expecting anything by express."
The matter was quickly settled by
Marie going into the hall and returning
with a package about an inch and a half
thick and peril tips a foot bv a loot and a
half square. There could be no mistake
about it, lor there were the name and
address as plain tut could be. The small
red label showed that it hud come from
New York,
" I don't see what it is or whom it is
from,"she said, as she laid it down to go
in pursuit of something with which to
cut the binding cord and wrapper.
A moment later she held at arms'
length a little landscape done in water
colors and enclosed in an artistic gold
leaf frame.
Site was not long in recognizing the
locality, however, from which it was
sketched, for if was perfectly fami iar
toiler, being the old mill in the town
where she sp< nt a portion of every sum
mer. Yes, tbefe was the pond stretch
ing back till it was lost in the distance;
and the little stream as it crossed tho
roadway under the single-arched stone
bridge seemed true to nature. How
often had she visited that old mill,made
dear to her perhaps by girlhood's mem
ories!
But who was the artist that had
painted it, and why bad it been sent to
her?
Sure enough, among her long list of
acquaintances there was not a single
artist.
In the lower right-band comer there
was a cipher which had escaped her
scrutiny, and which on closer examina
tion took the form of " J. H."
Mr. Lawrence regarded the picture
for a minute, and as he handed ft hack
to his daughter he said that whoever
the author of it was he was far from be
ing a novirv, for such blending of light
and shade was rarely seen.
The remainder of the household were
taken into the library alter dinner to
look at the picture, and many were the
utterances in admiration of it, and
many were the surmises as to why it
had been so unexpectedly sent to Marie.
The mother said that probably it would
be explained in good time. And sure
enough, for the next racrning's mail
brought a letter for Miss lawrcnce
which- partially cleared up bo mystery.
" And so Jerome Hart is a : artist and
strives to enter Into com pondence
with me. does he!" and Marie stamped
f.er orctty foot in an impetuous manner
and threw the letter to her motl cr.
Mrs. Lawrence read it slowly, .nd as
she returned it to the envelope she
asked her daughter if she had any idea
who Mr. Hart was.
"Mot the faintest, only that the letter
says m is an artist and has his studio at
No. 165 street. New York." came th
response, "and he must be as poor in
judgment as such people generally are
in pocket to send me a picture one day,
followed by a letter on the next, saying
that bslias bad a desire for some time U>
know me, and trusts that I will keep
the sketch, which of course means to
'tat a correspondence with the fellow
by writing a note of acceptance," she
continued, showing her disph asure as
much in her expression as in her speech.
"To be sure," Mrs. Lawrence said,
tt was a peculiar way of seeking an
aeounintanci ship which must ot course
foi'ow should the picture be kept,"and
she quickly decided that it must be ra
tioned. So the next express to New
York bore the package which had
created the admiration and at last the
dhpleasure of the family. A letter
written by Mrs. Lawrence was placed
within the package, in which she briefly
but concisely stated that BIIC could not
for a moment think of lior daughter
keeping tho wa'cr-color witliout the IMV
quaintanee, by legitimate means, of its
painter. Surely, Mr. Hart's letter was
on its face honest in purpose, but there
was no alternative: the rules of eti
quette must not be disregarded, or the
lovely Marie might become connected
with a vagabond adventurer.
Months passed, but the circumstance
would not free itselt from Marie's mind,
and her father and mother had spoken
of it more than once.
One day the mail brought n letter to
Miss Iawrence from Margery Isivejoy,
a dear friend, who summered at the
same rural town with her, and who,
womanlike, pretended to be a regular
correspondent; but it was only when
she had Borne bit of news of a social na
ture to communicate that she ever
wrote.
" Do you know. Marie," wrote Miss
Lovgjoy, "that I have found out tho
name and all about the young gentle
man with the tine, manly face and lovely
physique who stopped at Dixon's
up at (Jrosvenordale for a week last
summer. You will remember him. and
how we used to drive our heads almost
crazy witli wondering why betook such
long walks every day, always carrying
a portfolio under his arm. There is on*'
thing which you will certainly remem
ber, and that is that you did nothing
but rave over him, and when he caught
your eye one afternoon, as we passed
him while out strolling, you declared
that you knew you could love him with
just a little urging. Well, 1 won't keep
you in suspense any longer. A short
time ago I went to New York to visit
my aunt Julia, and one evening cousin
Tom took me to the theater, where
i almost the first face I noticed was that
of our —or your—admiration of last
summer. After making sure that there
was no mistake. I ask<"l Tom if he knew
who the young gentleman was, point
ing him out in an unobserved way with
my fan, and he said it was young Hart
Jerome Hart, lie beliiwed—and that
he was the young man whose water
color paintings were exciting the ad
miration of every one who saw them,
artists and connoisseurs alike. When
I my cousin saw that my interest was not
mere curiosity he told me that Mr.
Hart was received everywhere, not be
cause he was a person of wealth or
family, but because he was a person of
rare refinement and marked genius
Everybody said that bis fame would be
world-wide in a few years."
Marie couid not deny that she had
thought of the young gentleman daily
since her country sojourn—so much so.
in fact, thai she fancied that hir heart
had becomed steeled against any one
else, although the subject of her grow
ing affection was unknown by name.
When she read the name her heart gave
a jump. Yes, it was the same person
who sent her the picture n few DMM II
previous. To think that it was the one
whose image was so impressed upon her
heart.
For days her brain was in a whirl,'and
her agony wa* intense.
"Oil!" cried she, "why were we so
hasty in deciding to return Mr. Hart's
picture and letter? He is gone from nic
forever. I shall never know him."
She kept her grief to herself, not car
ing to tell her parents, and tried hard to
hide her sorrow, and to appear in ber
accustomed joyous spirit; but it was of
no use: she <-ould-never forget the young
artist, and could never forgive herself
or her mother lor their haste in giving
propriety its proper record.
Four years later Marie, at the age ol
twenty-two, found herself the wife of a
moderately well-to-do country physician.
Stie had married Dr. Outrunner, not so
much that she had any love for him. but
that it was the desire of her father, who
had from an early period doted on the
union of the Ostrnnder and Lawrence
families, the doctor's fat! ?r having been
a college chum of Mr. Lawrence, and
they had become more and more at
tached after leaving their homes
Ix'ing favorably situated for such friend
ship.
Six months before h"r betrothal all
the New York dailies and journals de
voted to art had contained lengthy
notices of the departure of Jerome Hart
for Europe, where he had gone to reside
in furtherance ol his profession, and
where his ability would lie accorded the
attention it so richly deserved.
Marie made the physician a good wife
considering her regard for him ceased
with admiration, and they were con
tented and hnppy. His practice wis
quite extensive, and he had accumulated
some property during the three years
he had been there, iiaving wedded Marie
a year after entering into the active
duties ol his profession. It was with
tender hands that she nursed him dur
ing a lingering summer fever, hut the
disease seemed to baflle the skill of his
attendants, and just as the sun was
sinking in the weston a sultry August
afternoon his soul took flight to thebet
ter world, and Marie was a widow.
A few months were spent in the set
tlement of the estate, and when n pur
chaser for the little house had been
found, Mrs. Ostrander, not caring tore
tain it, returned to her old home.
Kven the luxurinnt Abiding place of
her youth seemed to have lost its
charms, and she daily grew paler, until,
by the advice of her physician, her
parents and friends, she decided to take
a foreign trip, in hopes that a change
of climate and scene would rnlly her to
her old self.
So in the early sprinr it was decided
thatshe should go abroad with Mr. and
Mrs. Loveioy, who wire to spend a
year and a half in travel.
The little party spentn month in visit
ing places of interest in England and
Scotland, and then went to Norway and
Sweden; and it was not till the winter
sea Hon that they arrived in Paris, at
that time lieing in its gayest attire.
Mrs. OsiHinder mined considerable, and
the last letter from Mrs. Ix>ve|oy to
Margery raid that they had great hope*
of bringing her around to the bright
and robust woman that tbey had so
wished for.
Among the few Parisians whom Mr.
Loveioy had letters of introduction to
was M. Meunier, an exceedingly refined
gentleman and a pleasai.t acquaint
ance. Several times be had told them
of the royal academy exhibition, and
explained to them that it waa there that
the best srtists of ali Europe entered
their productions for prise competition,
and so great was the strife that who
ever was fortunate enough to take even
a second or third prise his star was as
cending to the zenith of notoriety,
and when a first prise was swarded
an artist it nve him rank with
the leaders of the various de
partments. M. Meunier had promised
to take them to the gallery on the very
first opportunity when others than
members of the society were admitted.
At Inst, on a pleasant afternoon, his liv
eried establishment drew up in front of
their stopping {dace, and a mirutc later
the t liree Amerieans were in high glee,
for their benefactor had brought the in
formation thnt the salon would be
thrown open on the morrow, but
through the kindness of a friend, a
member of the academy, he had obtained
permission to take his friends there on
that afternoon, nnd lie would call at
three for them. To be thus favored
seemed to hove a noticeable effect on
the whole party, nnd it is almost need
less to say they were in readiness some
minutes before the time appointed for
the start. Marie gave several expres
sions of her enjoyment during her nrive
to the gallery, and by tin* time the build
ing was reached she was the happiest of
the party.
An hour or more was spent in the de
partments of sculpture nnd drawing, and
nearly an hour in the grand gallery
where the paintings were exhibited. It
was understood tiiat this was but a fly
ing visit; they would give a day to each
of the departments later in the season.
It was getting late in the afternoon
when M. Mounter suggested that they
should go to the water-color department
his favorite room, lie expressed it.
Marie wns beginning to show signs of
fatigue, hut of course she would oblige
liim
Alter the pictures on one side of the
room had iieen hurriedly examined, and
the party finding they would be late for
dinner unless they made haste, SI. Meu
nicr proposed to cross to the opposite
side to see a famous picture, and then
they would depart.
" Why, what is the mutter with
Marief See, she is ill!" came the quick
words from Mrs. I/jvcjoy, who was the
first to notice her blanched fiu-e as she
stood like a monument with eyes riveted
on the picture which their escort had
taken them to see—the picture of a
country mill with its pond at the side
and a single arched bridge spanning the
stream as it crossed the roadway as if in
a iiurry to get away from the ponderous
wheel whien but a moment before had
made use of it. Marie would have fallen
to tiie floor had not the two gentlemen
made haste in supporting her.
A few minutes later she was assisted
to the carriage, and the driver wns told
to lose no tune in reaching the hotel, a
mile distant. On the way Mrs. Ostrander
came out of her swoon sufficiently to
realize that her triends were deeply dis
tressed about her.
"It was only a sudden attack of a
heart trouble, something she was sub
ect to," she said.
She was taken to lier apartment im
mediately on arriving at the hotel, and
her friends who had MOMpaM her
up-stairs. fearing that site was going to
to be seriously ill, were told to have no
alarm. " No. it was unnecessary to call
a physician. 1 she said. Mrs. Lovejoy
remained with her nntil midnight, when
her patient fell into a sound sleep.
The next morning Marie was a trifle
Inte nt breakfast, and when she came
down it was noticed that her face which
had begun to have some color in it, was
still quite pale, but she appeared ouite
cheerful, and inquired after their friend,
hill made no allusion to the occurrence
of the day before.
Early that afternoon he called to in
quire after the health of Mrs. Oatrander,
and she went alone to their private re
ception room to §e him. her com
panions hcingabscntnn a shopping trip
He was delighted to find Iter able to
see him. and hoped she had fully re
covered. Had lie kept theut too long at
the academy?
Mrs. Ost Hinder assured him that sueh
was not the ease, and when asked if she
enjoyed the visit, aside fnun her illness,
she replied that until they went to the
water-color department it had been very
pleasant. She then, in answer to a
second interrogation, told him that the
sight of the picture of the oid mill
brought up an unpleasant remembrance
wlilo.h, she was frank to say, was in a
measure the cause of her fainting.
" How peculiar, 1 said he, "that that
picture of ail should tend to make one
ill. On the contrary Hint was the most
noted work of art in the entire eoliec
tion. Why," lie continued, " that is the
masterpiece of Hart, the eminent water
color artist, who was taking all Europe
by storm by his brush. It had taken
the grand prise, and its value in itself
was a fortune. Had she n-ver heard of
Jerome Hart? He was an American,
he believed."
"I have heard of him," she replied
faintly, and then she asked to he ex
ruscd as she was afraid that she wns
going to have a headache, and Mr. and
Mrs. Ixiveioy coming in at that moment
relieved tuc get tleman of embarrass
ment.
" Is it destiny P" Marie murmured, as
she threw herself upon the sofa in her
room, and gave way to the tears which
she had kept from the gaze of Mr.
Mennier during a part of their short in
terview by only the greatest exertion.
She took her tea and breakfast with
out going down, and when Mrs. Love
joy came to her room for the third or
fourth time she was assured that it was
only a headache, and that she would be
down in time for lunch at noon.
That afternoon she thought she did
not feel well enough to go out with Mr.
and Mrs. Lovejoy, and consequently
hey started alone.
As soon as they had derarted Marie
hastened to her room and dressed for
going out, and in less than a half hour
she entered a cab. which was in waiting
for her, having t sen ordered by one or
the liotel atiem anti. and drove off
alone, going direct to the academy
She crowded her way through the
immense throng until she sUxxTbefore
the picture of the old mill. Yes, there
was the same cipher before her that she
had seen six years before. To he sure
it wa not the same picture, but the
same scene in larger form and more
minute in detail and finish; but it was
the same to her.
As she stood there it had another In
tent admirer, she thought, although the
surging column of people at her hack
made general expressions of comment
as they passed it. It wns a gentleman,
she could see without raising her eyes,
and when she did look up sbeYound that
his gnse was not directed on the pieture
but at her.
"At laatt" were tbc only words he
spoke, as he grasped both her hands in
his.
Mrs. Ostrander had an escort on her
homeward ride, and before he had left
the hotel it hsd ail been explained,
flow lie had aeen her at the little village
ol (Jrosvenordale, and from the time he
hud caught her glance when passing her
on the way hack to his boarding place,
from a short sketching trip, he had a
longing for her acquaintance, and hid
finished up th< very skrtoh of that day.
and learning her name and address from
the Dixons before kis departure the
next dny, he had taken the libertv of
sending her tfic water-color, although
with the conviction that it was just u
trifle improper, but he couldn't help It.
For a couple of daya his suspense was
agonizing, and wiien the picture came
back accompanied bv the freezing letter
lie was almost broken-hearted. From
that time lie had loved her!
Conveniently removed from Paris, in
a suburban district, is now a charming
villa, where Jerome Hart, justly called
the greatest water-color artist in the
world, and his wife live tiie happiest of
mortals. In the richly furnished draw
ing-room of the house hangs a picture
of tiie old mill, but not the one from the
royal academy. It is a smaller one. and
Marie Hart thinks she likes it belter.
lilves of Two Very Old Women.
A recent letter from Newburg, N. i
to a New York paper says: Esther
Yates, the Amazon of Plattekill, Ulster
county, died n few days ago at her
home, near Breakneck hill, m the
mountains, in that U wn. She was iiorn
in the town of I'lattekill in 1788, and re
sided there until the day of her death.
Physically she was more like a man
than a woman; her shoulders being
broad and well developed. She acquired
little or no education. She is credited
with having been self reliant and asking
no favors from any one. During the
winter season Mrs. Yale* cut cord wood
on the mountain, and, in the language
of one of tiie natives, "it look a good man
to swing : n axe alongside, of lm .' On
several occasions she cut as much as
three cords of wood in one day, in ad
dition to performing the honschnld du
ties in tier home alter sunset. In the
summer time this remarkable woman
cut grain for tiie Piattekill fanners, and
was rated as " a good hand " She cul
tivated a small garden-patch of her
own. the product of which she sold
principally in this city. She carried her
ftrden truck in two large baskets.
aimers, while driving to ship their
hay on the boats, would offer her a ride,
and her invariable reply was: " I am in
a hurry: take you all day to get there."
She could easily outwalk any team with
a load lichind them. Six years ago a
horse while passing her home on Break
neck, fell nnd became fast-in the harness.
The driver and several other men could
not succeed in getting the animal loose.
Mrs. Yates lifted the horse up boldily,
but in o doing fractured her leg. The
bone never set. Her spirit, however,
was not curbed, even if she was an octo
genarian and a cripple. Though suffer
ing much pain, her daily employment
consisted in chopping up kindling wood
on a block while she sat in a chair in
front of her house. A short time pre
vious to her death her general health
began failing, but she retained her fac
ulties to the la.-t. Prior to the accident
she never was sick a day in her life.
Mrs. Yates was buried from the Platte
kill Methodist Episcopal church, of
which denomination site wns an ad
herent. Mrs. Yati-s was married twice.
She leaves no fsmiiy.
Two milne noithnuil of the house of
the " Amazon " resides on- of the play
mates of her childhood, Mrs. halite
Pressor. This lady is the oldest inhabi
tant oi the town of Plattekill. In May
next she will be 100 years old. She was
born in tiie haraiet of PostertownJ frotigc
county, hut has resided nearly all lier
life in Plattekill. Mrs. Premier's eye
sight remains good, but bor hearing is
defective. Every day she performs man
ual labor about the bouse of her son,
contrary to his wishes. The old lady,
during the winter months, busies her
self knitting stockings. Mrs. Pressler
lives liAnpily surrounded by h< T children
nnd their children's children. She has
a vast fund of historical reminiscences.
The citizens of Plattekill and adjacent
towns propose giving the old lady a
banquet when she celebrates her cen
tennial.
iCit'i Fight Willi a Rattlesnake.
Tlir Amcricus ((la.) Republican <i( a
recent date lias the following: Alw>ut
three weeks ago. during I lie beautiful
sunny weather we have liad which in
duced the tree* to hud and bloom, 1 ww
walking in my garden one morning,
thinking nbout preparing for an early
start for spring vegetables, when I saw
a large rattlesnake sunning. My tirst
iuipu.se was to go to the house, get a
gun. and kill it. But looking around. I
i saw a very large house eat cautiously
creep upon the reptile. Anticipating a
tight, and equally desir ms of getting rid
of the cat, which killed chickens, I con
cluded to witness his attack upon the
snake. The eat erawled upon its stotn
neh. pulling along on Its feet, whisking
its tail from side to side, and every now
and then stretching its neck to view the
snake. When about eight or ten feet off
the snake suddenly eoiied up. sprung Its
rattle, fared the eat and darted its
forked tongue out rapidly. The eat
commenced a rapid circle around the
snake, so fast in fact that the eye could
hardly keep up with it. At last it got
near enough and made a dart at its
enemy, hut through providential rea
sons it went hirn above the snake,
which also struck at the cat, thus
breaking its coil. The cat went too far,
and by the time it bad turned to face its
foe the reptile was again eoiied and
ready for the attack. The same method
was adopted and carried on for four or
five times, occupying at least half an
hour. The cat wished to catch ttie
snake, hut seemed aware that if it missed
the neck it would be certain death. At
the sixth assault they met and instantly
the snake was wrapped in several folds
around the body of the cat, which used
its sharp claws with dead I v effect The
cat had been bitten on the bead and
neck several times, and both continued
to fight. The snake was torn nearly to
shreds, but did not unloosen its noil
around its victim. The poison was
swift and deadly, but before the cat died
it caught the snake's head in its mouth
and crushed it, and fighting they died,
the snake enwrapping the cat in its
coils. The snake measured four test
eight inohes and had thirteen ratt.es.
The Largest *f Land Animals.
In the American Journal of Science and
Arte, Prof. Marsh describes the largest
land animal yet known to have existed
on the globe. Its name is Ailamtotauru*
immnnit. The thigh bone of this creature
is ov< r eight feet long, with a thiekneea
at the larger end of twenty-flee inches,
though the bone has no true head. A
comparison of this bone with the fe
mur of a crocodile would indicate that
the fossil saurin, If of similar propor
tions, had total length of lift wet.
That the reptile was 100 feet long when
alive is at least probable. The other
bones of this animal that have been
lound are proportiongtely gigantic;
caudal vertebra has a traverse diameter
of more than sixteen inches. All the
bones of this reptile yet disoovcred are
in the Tale oollaw museum. They are
from the Upper Jurasetaof Colorado.
R KLIUIdI'M JEWQ ATI? MITES.
There are more than sixty I'roteslant
Kpiscopal bishops.
The first native Baptist missionary
has just been ordained in Japan.
There will be upward of thirty colored
delegates in the Methodist (leneral Con
ference.
• The Friends have jn England 827
meeting-houses, 295 recorded and 400
unrecorded ministers, and 14,600 ruem
bcrs.
Tlie new parish church of Haworth,
England, is to cost #.60,000 and contain
a memorial window to the Bronte
family.
The total preaching power of the Eng
lish Methodist ehurcnes amounts to 38,-
000 preachers, the great majority of
whom are laymen.
The Episcopal Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews has mis
sions in eighteen dioceses. It IB said
130 Jews are ministers in the Church
of England.
There are sixty-four societies of
Swcdenborgians in England, witli 4,997
members. Tlie Mormons have eigbty
two churches, and the Jews ninety
synagogues and 150 ministers.
Tlie pastor of a colored Baptist
church in Nashville. Tcnn., the Rev.
N. G. Merry, received into his church
last year 287 members, a net gain of 223.
and the church raise<fs4,4R2.
The Soutli Carolina Methodist Con
ference (Northern) reports 27,044 mem
bers and 0.293 probationer, 213
churches and 347 local preacher*, show
ing that it lis*grown rapidly. The col
lections, however, are extremely small,
indicating poverty.
The Rev. Burr Baldwin, believed to
be the oldest surviving graduate of Yale
college, died recently in Montrose,
l'enn . aged ninety. lie graduated from
Yale in 1809, and spent his life in the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church.'
According to one of tbe Lutheran al
manacs. the Lutheran communion in
this coutitry pained last year fifty-two
ministers, eighty-seven congregations,
and 17,917 members. According Wl an
Other, tbe gain of members was thirty
nine. -md of congregations forty-eight,
while there was a loss of 1.3,003 mem
bers.
The superintendent of the northwest
ern department of tbe Sunday-school
Union states that his missionaries report
for the year past 409 new schools organ
ized, with 1.559 teachers and 12,010
Scholars; 5,750 other Sunday-schools
visited and aided, having 5.750 teach
ers and 52,045 scholars; 3,047 Bibles and
Testaments distributed; 0,145 families
visited; 2,000 sermons and addrrsiMi
delivered.
Tbe Church of England has two arch
bishops, twenty-eight bishops, four
Kuflmgon bishops, thirty deans, seventy
four archbishops. 010 rural deans.
23.00(1 clergy of all classes, one-fifth of
whom have n<> parochial charge. One
archbishop—Canterbury—and t wenty
four bishops have seats in the hoti-c of
lords. The income of the prelates
ranges from #75,000 to $ 12.000 a year;
that of the deans. #15,000 to #i.025.
The number of churches i* about 16,
000. Tbe gros< income of the Church
from all sources is #4O 000.000 per an
num.
The American New Testament re
, vised represent seven denominations,
as follows; Dr. T. D. Woolsoy (Con
gregational). New Haven. (Chairman);
! Prof. J. H. Thayer (Congregational),
: Andoyer. Ma**.; Prof. Ezra Abbot
' (Unitarian), Cartridge, M.a*s.; Dr. J.
: K. Burr (Methodist), New Jersey; Dr.
Thomas Chase (Friend), Pennsylvania;
Drl Howard Crosby (Presbyterian),
1 New York; Prof. Timothy Dwight
(Congregational). New Havn; Dr. A.
i C. Kendrick (Baptist). Rochester, N. Y.;
Bishop Lee (Episcopal). Delaware; Dr.
M. B. Kiddle (Episcopal), Hartford;
Dr. P. Behalf (Presbyterian), New
York: Dr. Charles Short (Episcopal),
New York: Dr. E. A. Washburn (Epis
copal), New York. * •
The (IroateM Hanger of Railroad
Travel.
Tlie risk of sudden death is- very
trifling compared with the inevitable
injury sustained by every individual
who yas to make a long journey by rail.
The traveler really take's his life in bis
hand whenever be sets out. Tbe
danger is less from accident than de
sign, Wa from misplaced twitches than
from misplaced ventilators, less from
bad roadbeds tlisn from bad air. We
are not now speaking of the barbaric
nuisance of having to smell, breathe
and hatlie in tlie smoke, soot and cin
ders pouring in from the engine, which,
until some other method is fouud to ob
viate the difficulty, ought to he in the
r<*r of the train, instead of the front.
Of all conductors, hrakemen, porters and
pnssengcrs, probably not one in the
thousand understands the vital im
portance ol pure air, nor, indeed, do
tliey know what pure air is. To the
conductor's mind, as to that of the
minority of his passengers, tlie comfort
of the ear depends upon the tempera
ture—it is a matter of warmth or cold
entirely. A warm ear, or more com
monly a hot car, is tlie one desideratum,
albeit tbe warmth is the product of ani
mal heat from fifty bodies, many of
them not very e'ean. and of exhalations
fron, fifty pair of lungs, with little
chance for the -eeape of vitiated air or
tbe ingress of pure air—a condition of
things tending to produce a state of
" blue blood " not contemplated by the
hautton. When the life current comes
on to the lungs to be changed from
blue to red, to throw off there the car
bonic acid and take in oxygen—and Uis
whole volume of blood makes this cir
cuit once In every half minute, or over
ono hundred times an hour—if there is a
lack of sufficient vettilation in the car
or sitting-room or sleeping-ioom. the
blood cannot undergo this vital transfor
mation. It goes hack to the heart, and
from thence is pumped through the ar
teries firm crown to sole, throughout
the complicated mesh-work of the ca
pillaries. In a state entirely unfitted to
perform its functions of supplying oxy
gen to all parts of the body, of carrying
off the waste particles resulting from
the "never-ceasing death " of the atoms
composing the body, and of rrplacing
these with fresh, living atoms, or, as it
is usually put, "repairing the waste "
Journal of CkentiMry.
France has just been able, fen years
after the event, to figure up the cost to
her of the Frsaoo-Gcrman war. It was
93.000,000,000, aside from losses to com
merce and industry.
The liolrt Diggings *r I'ciHnrt
Ahboaglt Ireland i* not generally r,
gnrded as on" of the golY pro'lm/,,
countries of the world, gold Inu. VJSS
found there in paying fiu:ir.liti^
cially in the county oi Wicklow
Tradition commonly attribute .,
original dUcovery of the \yi<klow rod
'"ilt 11 • * P"" r "ohoolmaater, win,
whlie flehlnglnoneof tliaamallsu*.,,,;
which descend from tlieCroghnn moua
tain*, piek.-d upa piece of shining met-,
and having ertained that it , w
gradually enriched himself by the ue
'*? ,°f h , U researches in that and th
neighboring *tream*. cautiously di*w
ing of the produce of hi* labor to a go ,(
smith in Dublin. He I* said to 1,-,-
preserved the secret for upward of
twenty year*, hut marrying ~ v „ Unif
wife he imprudently confided his di>
eovery to her, and *he, believing
husband to b<- mad, immediately r<
vealed the circumstance to her reia
tinns, through whose means it w,
made public. Tills was toward the
close of the year 1795, and the effect it
produced was remarkable. Thousand>■
of people of every age and *e x hurri< d
to the spot, and from the laborer who
could wield a spade or pickaxe to tie
child who scraped the rock win, „
rusty nail, all eagerly engaged in tin
search after gold. The Irish an a r-o
pie possessed of a rich and quick fancy
and the very name of a gold mine
carried with it ideas of inexhaustib •
wealth.
During the interval which 'lapel i
tween the public announcement of tli<
gold discovery and the taking po-n-,ion
of the mine by thegovernm< nt—a period
of aiiout two months—it is supposed tin
upward of two thousand five hundnd
ounces of gold were collected by the
peasants, principally from the mud and
sand of Hallinvally stream, and disposed
of for about ten thousand pounds a
sum far exceeding the produce of the
mine during thegovermmnt operation
which amounted to lit Ale more than
three thousand five hundred pounds.'
The gold was found in pieces of
forms and sizes, from th" smallest per
ceptibie particle to the extraordinary
m.-uss of twenty-t wo ounces, which -old
for eighty guineas. This large piece ivs i
of an irregular form; it measured four
inches in its grcaU-st length, and thro
in breadth, and in thickness it varied
from liaif an inch to an inch; a gi.t i-ast
of it may be seen in the museum of
Trinity college. Dublin. So pure wi
the gold generally found, that it was the
custom of tbe Dublin goldsmiths to p U '.
gold coin in the opposite scale to it. and
fcive weight for weight.
The government works were carried
on until 179*. when all the ma h
was destroyed in the insurrection. The
mining was renewed in 1801. but not
being found sufliciently productive to
pay the expenses, the search was a ban
doned. There prevails yet, however
a ling'ring belief among the pea-anu
that there is still gold in Kins'lla. and
only the " lucky man " is wanting.—
Ihirp< r'.s Foutf rcvplc.
One Hundred and Eighteen learn Old
A Washington correspondent write-:
Washington now claims, besides other
things, to liave the oldest man in
America as one of it* residents. The
oldest man is a colored man. Rbadwh
Nugent by name, a Mar\landv :>y tdrth.
but for over sixty years a resident of
Washington. Ho claims to have Ix-c.n
born aiiout 1762, and that b< is no* over
119 years old. Many of them in this
section at least claim to have Is en at
tunes servnnts of fbjiric Washington.
Nugent makes no such claim, though he
says he often saw (Jeorge Washington,
and that he has shaken hands with < very
I'rcshh nt tiiat this country lias had from
Washington down. Whether he is 11-
years old or not is not known to any
thing like a certainty, but lie has docu
ments from many of t lie old'-st and 1m st
known citizens certifying that they had
known him from forty to sixty years.
Tiie gentleman who says lie lias known
Nugent lor sixty years says tie was at
least forty years of age when lie came to
tili* city, and that lie may have beet
much older. This gentleman's letter was
written several years ago, which niak->
th * proof tolerably clear that be is over
10 He drove a cart for the father
of the Iron. W. W. Corcoran, our phil
anthropist and hanker, w hen Mr Cor
coran, trie father, was but a young man.
Tliis is important in view of the fail
that W W. Uorcoran recently cele
brated bis eighty-second birthday. ID
lias records nthis birth and other pa; :s
referring to the same incidentally, which
have ls en copied iroiu the court records
at Frederick. Md .showingundoubted.v
that he is nearly that age. He" fit into"
the revolutionary war a a !v>dy sen'ant
of Lieutenant firoff. whooomnianded an
indepcnd-nt artillery company which
was organized nhout Frederick In IMS
he saw the public buildings in this city
burned by Uie British. tiiougb be. like
many others, viewed the burning from
a point in trie adjoining woods, several
miles distant. lie is yet able to walk
about tlie city, using a cane. Although
be has iost the sight of his ieli eye. lie
can still read bis Bible, which is bit
strongest bold. His heiJth, as a rule, is
good and always lia* been. Ills-teeth
arc as sound as they over were, while
his hair is now a* straight as a white
man's and snow white, but very thin.
Mow Lafayette's Maine Came lo Wear
a Frown.
Tlie San Francisco FoA recalls an in
cident connected with the oo!oal eques
trian statue of Ijftfajette, fronting the
east entrance of the agricultural depart
ment in Washington. The statue was
finished by its designer, a youfijt Italian
sculptor without means, early in IMfl
but, on one excuse or another, payment
for the work was put off until the dedi
cation. which occurred in the spring of
1851. By this time the artist had became
weary of assailing Congress with his im
portunities for relief, and had sunk into
absolute poverty—indeed, had become
quite forfrotten. The unveiling of his
work took place at last, however, amid
pompous ceremonies and the booming
of cannon. As the canvas drapery was
drawn aside, amid the hnaxa* of the en
thusiastic multitude, a tattered, miser
able ohject was discovered seated astride
the bronco steed, just in front of- the
figure of the great French general, and
apparently sleeping pencrftiliy, protectcd
by its huge bmnce arms. The commit
tee of ceremonies, among wliotu was a*
uncle of the writer, approached and an
grily ordered the tramp to withdraw.
But the sleeper uid not stir, and when s
ladder w.-w lifted to remove the impu
dent intruder tliey found the starved
lorm of the sculptor dead. With his stiff
ened cheek resting upon the breast of
his own creation.
There i§ a local tradition that the
statue's face has borne a frown ever
since.