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DAVII) AM) UOLIAH.
TIIE STORV AS TOLD BT A PREACHER
IN TIIE SOUTH WEST.
Last week, my brethren, as I was a
readiti' my Bible, I found a story of a
big fight (I .Samuel, xvii.) It was
powerful interestin', and I studied it
almost all the week. There was two
armies a campin' en two mo ntains
right forneust each other, and a holler
aud, I reckon, some good bottom land
and a medder lot lyiu' between 'em.
In one of the armies there was a big
fellow—a whoopin' big fellow —and
every day he went down into the med
der lot aud looked up the hill to t'other
camp aud just dared 'em. lie told
'era to pick their best man send
him down and he'd fight him. And
he just strutted around there in his
soger close and waited for 'em to send
on their mau. Aud such soger close I
never heard tell on afore.
He had a brass cap and brass trou
sers, and a coat made like mail bags
where they are all ironed and riveted
together. But the fellows iii t'other
camp jest clean flunked. They daren't
light the big fellow, nary one on 'ciu.
They jest all sneaked away* and the
big fellow he weut mck to camp. But
he didu't quit thar, the big fellow
didn't. He was spihu' for a tight, and
he was bound to have it. He jest went
down into the bottom land, into the
medder lot, every day, niorniu' and
evenin', and dared 'cm and dared 'em.
I ley you he pestered "em mightily.
The old fellow, Saul, the Gire ul, he
felt more chawed up and meaner than
the sogers, and, when he couldn't stau'
it no longer, he told the boys that if
any on 'era would go down ami lick
the big fellow he'd give him his gal
and a right smart chance of plunder.
But they was ail so skeer'd that evcu
that didn't start one of 'em. The big
fellow went down aud dared 'em and
pestered 'em more'n a month—forty
days, the Bible says.
I don't know what they'd a done if
it hadn't a-been that a jwart little fel
ler had cotue down to camp one dav to
fetch some extra rations,to his three
big brothers that their old dad sent to
'em from home. Kind old pap he was,
and sharp, too, for he sent along a big
preseut to the boys' Cap'eo. Well,
jest as the little feller drove up, they
was all gwine out to fight, and the
little fellow left his traps with the
driver, and legged it after the sogers,
and told his big brothers howd'y.
Kight thar the old big feller came out
and dared 'em again, and they were
all so skeer'd that they just run like
mad. The little feller heered him, and
then went back into camp and heered
all the sogers talking about him. and
what the old Gineral would give to
have him licked. He asked 'em n
heap of questions about it all, and his
big brother he got mad at him, and
twitted him about keepin' sheep, and
gave biiu a right smart of sass. He
was plucky, but you sec lie had to
stan' it, 'cause 'twas his big brother.
Big brothers are mighty mean some
times.
But the little feller talked a heap
with the other sogers, and they told
the old Ginernl about him, and he
told them to tell the little feller to
come and see him. The little feller
was mighty plucky, and he jest up and
told the old Gineral Saul that he'd
fight the big feller! TheGineral looked
at the handsome little feller—he was
real handsome—and sos he, kinder
softly, "I reckon," and shakin' his
head, "it's too big a job; you're onlv
a chunk of a hoy, and he's an old
fighter.'' The little feller spunked up
and told the old Gineral that he'd had
one b'ar fight and he had killed the
b'ar. He said there was an old lion
and b'ar got among bis dad's sheep,
and was gwine off with a lamb. lie
broke for 'im, and as soon as lie met
up with the b'ar he larnm'd him till
the b'ar turned on him for a hug; but
he got one hand into the long h'ar
under his jaw, and lamm'd him with
the other'n till he was dead. He'd
killed the lion and the b'ar, and he
know'd he was euough for the old big
feller.
Then the little fellow talked real
religious to the old Gineral. You see,
he'd got religion afore that, and he
knowed that the Lord would help a
feller, if he was all right, and got into
a tight place. He told Gineral Haul
that the Lord had made him mighty
supple, and looked out for him when
the old lion and b'ar tried to get their
|nws into bim; and he knowed He'd
see him through the fight with the big
feller, for he was just darin' 'em and
peslerin' 'em to make gameofveliginti.
When the old Ginprai seed he was so
plucky and religious, too, he knowid
them's the kin' that fight powerful, and
he told him to go in, and he made a
little prayer for him hisself. Then the
old Gineral put his own soger close on
the little feller, and strapped his sword
onto binfe But they were a heap too
big, and ne shucked 'era off directly,
and made for a dry branch down in
the bottom. Then he hunted five little
rocks, smooth as a hen egg, put 'em in
a little bag where he carried his snack
when he was a-tendin' the sheep, jjot
his sling fixed all right, and hurried
up to ineet the old big feller in the
medder lot. When he seed him comin'
lie was powerful mad they'd sent down
such a littlo fuller, aud jawed awful.
But the little feller jest talked back
religious, aud kept his eyes peeled.
And I reckon the big feller couldn't
a be'n a lookiu'. I've studied a heap
on it, and I just know the big feller
couldn't a be 11 a lookiu'; for the little
feller got out his sling and drew away
ami shied a little rock at him, and lie
popped him aud down he tumbled,
i'hen the little feller rushed up and
mounted him, jest as an old hunter
loves to get on a b'nr after he's shot
him ; and he out with the big fellow's
long sword and off went his head.
Then it was them Philistine sinners'
turn to be akeer'd, and they broke for
the brush; and all of them chil'u of
Israel fellers jest shouted and chased
'em clean over the mountain into a
valley, anil then cotn'd back and got
all their camp plunder. My brethren,
that is the best story of a light I ever
read of, and you can buy no belter
story book nor this very Bible.— Dr.
I 'if reon '* Hem i• i itcencc*.
A Word on Education.
We clip the following clear, com
| prehensive, common sense article on
j educ .tion from a recent number of the
National BaptitL The article is from
the pen of a cultured, clear-headed
lady who him hud ample opportunity
of substautialjug whnt she says, from
the fuct of her being personally en
gnged in the training of children in
the higher, as well as the lower
branches of studies.
"A gentleman of high educational
and religious position recently said :
'Woman should not have the same
course of study as man, because of her
physical weakness. Htudy tends to
produce nervous disorder in every one;
and woman should not, therefor, lie
taxed on account of transmission.'
It appears to me that God did not
intend that one part of the nature lie
has given should be developed in such
manuer as to sacrifice othegs equally
e-sential to success ami happim-s. To
me it is uuaccouutable tliut when the
cud of education may be ns perfectiv
attained, nay far more perfectly, by
what may be termed a more practical
course,and should IK> SO blind to their
own prejudices as to tight against it.
If education produces nervousueas,
then some physical law of God is tran
greused. Have wo any right to sin
against our body? Why not the laws
of the body be so fully studied, and
the curriculum so arranged that these
laws may be obeyed ? Have we not to
answer to God lor breaking them ?
Surely, we need not teach our chil
dred to MII habitually. There should
be a chair of medical science in our
Colleges, and similar instructions should
be given to our girls, and the course
should be so arranged that physical
laws shall not be broken, but observed
with religious conscientiousness.
The education of (be moral li-elings
should go hand in hand with every
study, for there is a link binding nil
knowledge to the knowledge of God,
ami the Christian teacher never severs
that link. All man need* to know
may be Iwst studied in such connec
tion. 'The Bible directs our atten
tion both to the teachings of nature
and providence,or science amj history,
which would exhaust a large part of
what we lalxir for years to look into.
Kducation is the mind God has made,
seeking to know as much as fxmsihle,
lie it more or less of itself and of his
other works and of his nature. Kdu
cation being the means of conveying
to our minds a knowledge of God and
of his loving kindness to mankind.'
What will improve the taste for
every kind of beauty? What will
serve to brighten and enlarge the in
tellect equal to a knowledge of God
and his works ? Why, then, is most
of the time in our schools occupied
with the study of Greek and Latin or
the study of mail's works? Have we
not living languages which contain all
that is needed to be studied without
the objectionable features of the dead ?
or, if these are so pure, will not a good
translation do, and save our time for
those branches which will yield both
discipline ami knowledge ?
Our educational system is not prac
tical. While much is said about edu
cation preparing our children for the
duties of life, in many instances it un
fits them for life's duties. Life, it ap
liears to me, is made up of business,
tusiness in the house and business in
the mart, business in the study and
business in the pulpit and cottage. Is
the preparation as practical as it needs
to lie for the transaction of these vari
ous works? Is there a chair for the
study of elocution, for the lienefit of
ministerial students ? Are they trained
and encouraged to make human na
ture, with which they have to do, a
practical study by mixing among busi
ness men and learning their modes
and channels of thought and various
experiences, that their instructions and
encouraging words may not be lost
upon them ? The l>ook human nature
issme which should have attention and
study next to God'town Word? I'iety
ami talent being equal, that minister
will tie far more successful and useful
in every fc>nse ' pecuniary and religi
ous) who has best executive busiocse
knowledge.
Why do not social and political
sciences occupy a large space in - in
struction. Girls now acquire a dis
taste for home duties through study,
and this will continue until they arc
educated in the business of life ; tsught
to put poetry and love into, and get
poetry and love out of, daily duties ;
taught the relations jo each brother
and mater in life; taught to lend a
helping hand, especially to the poor of
their own aex. They need a social
acience to teach them how to do thin
beat. We need to have all acliool
hooka written upon a religious basis.
Ia it not high time Christian parentw
took this matter into their own handa,
and made preparation for life prepa
ration for Heaven also. The ideal
man and woman will he reached by
giving attention practically to health
and making morul attainment not
theoretically but practically the hiyhett,
and reaching the intellect through these.
Then our children will he prepared to
meet and overcome every obstacle and
discharge every duty in a spirit which
will clothe with moral dignity the
most trivial action and which will it
self he strengthened by each outward
act of life."
A Cheap Fire* Escape.
The .Scientific American rcceutly
contained a suggestion which, if it hud
been carried out hv the owners of the
"World Building,' might have pre
vented the loss of life by the lire.
The suggestion was to the etiect that
there ahould la: a law compelling the
owners of factories and of other high
buildings in which large numbers of
[ample are employed, to provide at
each window u cheap and efficient
fire es<*a|e, in addition to the appli
ances nod stairways required by exist
ing laws.
This lire escape for each window
should be one that would always he
ready, easily understood, ami usable
by any person of ordinary intelligence,
even under excitement. Such a one,
it is said, could lie made in the follow
ing tnauuer: To a stake firiyly driv
en in the wall over each window at
tach a ro|M' or cord, say three-eights of
an inch m size, and long enough to
reach to the ground. Thi* cord should
lie well made and pliable, and might
lie knotted at intervals of twelve or
or fifteen inches. The cord should
then IK* rolled into a coil or a hall, and
tits! ina place by a small cord or strap,
ready at a moment's notice to he un
tied and the end thrown out of the
window. Men, and even women,
could descend this rojie with little
difficulty: and the stronger aud cooler
headed could tie it around the I todies
of the weaker and quickly lowi r
them to tho-e ready to receive theiu
below.
It would be a wise [dan fur those
living in or occupying the upper .-to-'
rics of high dwelling houses to have
such a roiie convenient, as it often hup
pens that a fire gets such headway that
escape is only effected by running
through the flames. This is at the
best dangerous, and the person who at
tempts it, il he cscajs-s death, is liable
to lie seriously burned. With a rojie
handy, whru escape hv the stairways
is cut off, one msyca-ily let himself or
herself down to the ground unharmed.
i'l HI; K.M AI'KS.
The I..ih of lVnnjhanln.
An A't to I'rot ■lf i >r fAc H'ttrr Sentritu '*
l.tje and I.imh in Gun of k'trt in UnftU
/>. I rlhrr Jituliin/i. i June 11,
IT9.
WHEREAS, In consequence of fin-*
breaking out in hotels, factories and
other high buildings, many lives have
been lost and great personal injuries
suffered, through the want of efficient
means of escape therefrom, indepen
dently of the ordinary iuternnl stair
ways; therefore,
HkxtioN 1. Be it enacted <fre., That
all the following described buildings,
within this commonwealth, to wit:
Kvery building used as a seminary,
college, acadecnV, hospital, asylum or
a hotel for the accommodation of the
public, every storehouse, factory, man
ufactory, or work shop of any kind, in
which employees or operatives are
usually employed at work in the third
or any higiier-story, every tenement
house or building in which rooms or
floor* arc usually let to lodgers or fami
lies, and every public school building,
when any of such buildings are three
or more stories in height, shall be pro
vided with a permanent safe external
mums of escape therefrom in case of
Are; and it shall be the duty of the
owners or keepers of such hotels, of the
owners, superintendents or managers
of such seminaries, colleges, acade
mics, hospitals, asylums, storehouses,
factories, manufactories or workshops,
of the owners or landlords of such
tenement hooe, or their agents, and
of the board of school directors of the
proper school district, to provide ami
cause to be aflixed toevcry such build
ing such permanent fire escape.
SECTION 2. It shall he the duly of
the hoard of fire commissioners, in
conjunction with the fire marshal of
the district where such commissioners
and fire marshal are elected or appoin
ted, to first examine and test such
fire escape, and after upon trial, said
fire escape should prove satisfactory,
then the said fire marshal, in connec
tion with the fire commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall grant a certifi
cate approving said fire escape: /Vo
vided further, That in districts where
uo such fire marshal and fire commis
sioners exist, then the school directors
in each said district shall be the board
of examiners, and upon their certifi
cate, or a majority of them, of oppro
val of said fire escape, shall be sufli
cen£ authority for the erection of said
fire escape in said district.
fltteTioi* .1. Kevery persnh whose
duty it is by the first section of this
act to provide and cause to be affixed
to any of *atd buildings such external
fire escape, arid every such school dis
trict, shall also be liable in any ac
tion for da tun get, in case of death or
personal injury sustained j u conse
quence of fire breaking out in any
such building and of the ahstncc. o
such efficient fire escape; and such ac
tion may he maintained by any jier
son now authorized by law to sue in
other cases of similar injuries; all per
sons failing to comply with the provi
sions of this act, shall lie liable to a
penalty not exceeding (sdnO) three
hundred dollars, to lie collected n *
fines and forfeit urerea are now liv
law collectible.
♦
The Coming Transit of Venus.
I'rovi'lftttrc Journal
Venus is a morning slar until the
2'ltli, when she comes into superior
conjunction with the sun, and is then
evening star for the re-l of the mouth.
She easily wins the place of h nor
among the planets, for when, after
conjunction, sbc passes, to the eastern
side of the sun, she enters IIJMUI a ca
reer which, at its close, will culiiiiuate
in the greatest astronomical event of
the year, and perhaps the greatest
event of the century. This event of
transcendent importance is the trau-it
of Venus outhefith of' December, I**2.
She the.i re dies her inferior conjunc
tion, paasii"; directlv between us nod
the sun, and is projected on the sun's
disk like a round blink spot. The
transit will he visible throughout the
\\ esuTii hemisphere, so that our side
of the glolw is the fortunate one tlii*
time in regard to locality; and the
transit in thi local ivy will continue for
six hours. It seems like nuuouiicing
an event u great w hilt- liefore its oc
currence, but astronomers all over the
globe have long sounded the busy
notes of preparation. It i* said that
some of them have la-en twenty-five
years getting ready for llii* long an
ticipated transit. American astrouo
iners will bring all tneir scientific ap
paratus into the field, the IM-I tei -
sctjjA. transit instruuieiits, photograph
ic methods, and everything else tIIHt
can IH- made availablcou the occasion.
Kuropctin astronomers will conn- o\<r
the sea by the hundreds, and- eh
the tin -t eligible localities for ulilt/;og
their line instrument* nnd liner brain-.
Intelligent observers who are not
scientifically trained, and who enro
nothing for contracts and nuithcmati
•at niceties, will bring into n-e every
ucci-s-iblc te|<--copo and spygla--. < b>
servers who have keen eyesight will
view the great luminarv, deprived of
hi- glare by stnoked gloss, and per
haps discern with the naked eye a tiuv
Idack dot making it- slow wav over hi
faces
Halting Almost I car lleforc ( (aim
ing III* llrlilr.
*. Tort Worl.|
f>n the 21 Id of March, 1881, a gen
tleman, accompanied by n lady and
"Otnc witncwses, called UJMIII the Kev.
Dr. Joseph 11. Rylance, of St. Mark's
Church. He introduced himself a.*
Mr. Washington Irving, and the voting
ladv its Mias Susan Rhea Harvard, and
stated that they wished to Ire married.
The iiece**ary blanks Wing filled and
signed. Dr. Rylance performed the
ceremony and thought tin more about
it. Oil Weduetday last a gentleman
called u|K>n hitn, ami saving that he
wf Mr. Bayard, asked, it his sister
had liccn married to Mr. Irving in
March last. I)r. Rylance refered trim
to the church book*, kept hy the sex
ton in the safe. There the record of
the marriage was found, and then Mr.
Bayard Uild a curious story. For
sonic time prior to the marriage Mr.
Irving had been engaged to Miss Bay
ard. the consent to the engagement
Wing somewhat unwillingly given bv
the parent* of the young lady. It was
not supposed that the young couple
were in a hurry to marry, uor at that
time did Mr. Irving'* circumstance*
justify any such step, a* he was only
a clerk in an insurance company on a
small salary. Nothing was said about
the marriage at the time it took place
to an? of Mia* Bayard's relations, nor
was the fact that the ceremony had
Iwen performed even suspected. Af
ter the marriage Mrs. Irving returned
to her mother's house and lived there
as usual. A few days ago Mr. Irving'*
salary wa* raised and he, thinking that
he could support a wife, applied to the
astonished relations of the lady for hi*
bride. A* might have been ex|>ected
the *1 affluent made hy Itoth of them
that they had been married was warm
ly disputed, and Mra. Irving'* brother
at once took *tep* to ascertain if the
*tory was trite. Convinced that hi*
*iter wa really Mr*. Irving, he at
once gave publicity to the fact hy ad
vertising the marriage and surrendered
the wife to her husband, with whom
she now i*.
OUT ON THE NEXT DEAI.— "Hut
I |ia*s," said a minuter recently in dis
missing one theme of hia subject to
take up another. "Then I make it
spades," yelled n man from the Kl
--lery, who was drdiiming the happy
hour* away in an imaginary game of
euchre. It i* needle** to ray that he
went out on the next deal, agisted by
one of the deacons.
A LcnrtfJb firm recently sent a lot
of hills west for collection. The list
came hack with the result noted against
each name, one being niarkid dead.
Three months after the same bill got
into a lot that was forwarded, and
when the list camo hack the namo
was marked, "still dead."
I'lctures of*,\ indent MMratuiraiire,
Cramms, when a candidate for the
consulship, a Oust of 10 Odd tables,
to which all th cilisenaof Konin were
indiscriminately invited. Ocar. to cele
brate the funeral of a daughter, gave
one of 22,0(10 tables, with accommoda
tion for three guests of each. This en
tertainment was repealed and exceeded
for his triumph, lie brought together
more gladiators aod wild beasts than
wi re produced on any former occasion
in an amphitheatre, but his exhibitions
of tills kind were so completely outshone
that it were > waste of time to dwell
upon them. In a document annexed
to his tests men t, Augustus states as a
a title to public gratitude that he had
1-xhlhited K.OOO gladiators and brought
more than 3,.W0 wild beasts to be killed
jin llie circus. In the course of the fen
tivities instituted bv Titus to celebrate
the opening of the Colosseum, KS|
wild beasts were let loose and killed by
I gladiators. The Kraperor I'robus col
lected for a single show ] IST> JIOIIS, pgl
1 lionesses,|(K) Libyanand HriSynan leop
ards, .'OO Iseais and oO<i gladiators. Hav
ing caused the circus to be planted Willi
trees to resemble a forest, he let loose
1000 ostriches, I,(M> stags, 1,000 does
and 1,000 bears, to be lturiO-d by the
populace, who were to keep whatever
I they could catch or kill J lie fiercer
animals were encountered by the gladi
ators. It docs not appear how long this
! show lasted.
I iberms, a hose life at Capri was a
disgrace to human nature, fonder of
saving money than of spending it, left
HI immense sum in the treasury, which
i Ins successor, t'aligula, liiansged to di
■ipate in two years by extravagance of
the most senseless kind. As i! in rival
ry of Cleopatra, he SM allowed precious
•tones dissolved in vinegar, and caused
ins guests to lie helped to gold (which
they carried away) instead of bread and
meat, i lio> ol bis favorite amusements
wis showing money among the popu
.see from the I'asdjicu of .'ulius t u snr.
He I utlt galleys of cellar, covered with
| jewelety. and large enough to contain
I Vines and fruit trses, and bad canal*
•ut for them along the coat. The sta
hie of his favorite horse, which be talke 1
of naming Consul, w* of marble. the
trough of ivory, the harness of j urple
• n<i the c 'liar of pearls. I tie el of
-m-ralds ami |><-*rl* worn by one of hit
wive*. I.oliin i'atllitia, Was Valued at
I i **J sterling.
I tie printl l >al extravagance of Claudi
u* wa in the public game*. <ne of the
shows organized for hitn was a naval
combat on a lake, in which the galley*
wen- man lie I by 1 *#,ol ej men He ns
, loud ol g<xi cheer, ami wa in the hah
it ol Ili v it i tig himself to the table* of the
rich. He cauie on one occasion With
olsl persona in his train.
It was to Nero that Tacitua applied
the expression lai-rrc/'ium •-•< ifier.
l.at he not only desired hut nrbiev>d
111 I lie way of cruelty and vice would he
i declared incredible if human history
iiad not already ahonrn what revolting
: atrocities may tie conceived hy a (ii-i-as
• '1 imagination and executed ty irre
-(•onsible power, Aftir burning the
city he gratified j ( j, t issst<•. in entire dis
regard ol the proprietors, in rebuilding
it. He at once appropriated a number
of the sites and a large |*orlion of the
putilic grounds for his new palace. The
porticos, with their rank* of columns,
were a mile long. The vestibule wa
| isrge enough to contain the collo*.al
• laiueol him in silver and gold, lit) feel
high, from which the Colosseum got its
iiaruca. The interior wtsgdded through
! out and adorned w ilh ivory and moth
er of pearl. I fie ceilings ~1 n,e dunng
ruotua were formed of movable tables ot
ivory, which shed flowers ami perlunies
on the company I the principal saloon
had a dome which, turning day and
night, imitated the movements of the
teircstrial fxxl.es. When this place wxa
finished tie exclaimed : "At last I am
lodged like a man.'' Hit diadem was
valued sit half a million. Hie dresses,
which he never wore twice, were stiff
with embroidery and gold. He fished
with purple lines and books of gold.
He never traveled with lea* than a
thousand carriages. The mule* were
shod with silver, and the, muleteers
clothed with the finest wool and the at
tendants wore bracelets and necklace*
ol gold. five hundred she asses fol
lowed bi* wife Popin< in her progresses,
to supply milk for her bath. He was
fond of figuring in the circus as a chari
oleer and in the theatre as a singer and
actor.
He prided himself on being an artist,
and when hit possible depoaiti n was
hinted to him he said that an artist
could never he in want. There was not
a vice to which he was not given, nor a
crime which he did not commit. Yet
the world, exclaim* Suetonius, endured
this monster for fourteen years ; and lie
was popular with the multitude, who
were dazzled by hit magnificence and
mistook his senseless profusion for lib
eralily. On the anniversary of biadeath,
during many years,they crowded to cov
er his tomb with flowers.
The utmost excess in gluttony was
reached by ViteJlu*, who gave feasts at
which 2.000 fishes and 7.000 birds were
served up. He prided himself on his
culinary genius, and laid every quatier
of the empire under contribution to
supply material* for a dish, which con
tamed liver* of mullet, brains of pheas
ants and peacocks, tongue* of flamin
goes, roe oi lampreys, etc. Tacitus stale*
that he spent what would bo tanta
mount to several million* sterling in
less than eight month* in eating and
giving to eat.
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A IMscotrry la Marble.
The Knnxville (Tenn.) Tribune My*
a quarry of remarkable marble has been
discovered three mde* from that city.
The Tribune declare* that "to speak of
1 Ihe color of the marble is to mention
the rainbow. It show* every color in
the I let, with the most beautiful lint*
that can be conceived of. The prevail
ing color is Mlmon or pink. The mark
ings in this ground are piece* of India,
running into all shade* of red and pink.
A small bit of the most brilliant orange
also appear* which seem* to be a small
molluak of some description. Then sdd
to this spot* of blue running into shade*
of green, with white and a thousand
nameless compound colore, and try to
conceive of the splendor the composi
tion gives. The stone polishes like
glass, snd is of the soundest crystalline
structure,"
A Cjclniie.
In examining cyclones, phenomena
occasionally present themselves which
strongly suggest the idea that they in
-1 elude within tln ir circuit, a* an inde
pendent meteor, the whirlwind or the
tornado, the phenorueua in question
being most lr< quently met with in those
! cyclone* which present, in clone conti
nuity, masses of nir differing verv
! widely from each other in tcmfieratur'e
and humidity. Of MJ ' |, cvclonen the
| great storm of October 14th last ap
pear* to lie one. On that Oceanian the
changes of temperature „ I|( | humidity
were sharp and sudden, particularly
from the Orauipiana to the Cheviots,
the great full occurring when the wind*
changed to northward. Off the Jh-r
--wiekshiro coast the darkness accom
panying the change* of wind, teiiijx ra
ture, and humidity wan denser ami
more threatening than elsewhere, ami
almost simultaneously with the aji
proach of thse change*, a hurricane,
or rather to-,undo broke out with 11
devouring energy which bore every
thing In P.re it. ihe tornado charac
ter of the storm off Eyemouth is showu
I by the accounts of some of the survi
vors, w ho describe the wind as blowing
straight down from the skv with HU
irnjH tuosity so vehement and overmas
tering that the M-a for some extent wan
beaten down flat into a stretch of seeth
ing foam, in whiih many boat- sank
as if driven down beneath the foam bv
the wind, while outside this tract the
waves SI 'I IIH-II to be driven up to a
height absolutely appalling, which in
their turn engulfed many of the boau
y<*t n*mait)iri(s. Hitnilar M-a* ( v\i*h
level waste, lit seething foam, hounded
immediately by waves of a height and
threatening a-pi*-t never before wit
ne.ed, were encountered by several
jwi II appoint*d steamers out in the
! middle of the North S-a during thi
storm, thu* confirmii gt he oh.* ri at ions
of the J'.vemouth fi-hertnan. These
Cui is MI M to point to one or js-rhaps
more turnadoe. ol no incousiderahie
dimensions, with slanting coluinns, the
terrific force of the g\ rations of whose
lowi r extremities played no inconspi
cuous part in tin* devastation wrought
during tl i l ojiinjuain e ol this memor
able storm.
or Course. IN the ||.
From i „ H s i,
\Vmld it n<<( b- a<ivi*nh]<- tori-viie
theol t law -t.il < ;irri-<i on our statute
U k- against profanity, ami enforce
it ' If there waiter a liioessitv f<r
| such n law. Ml r< !v that jx-riod \i*ts
at tin |>r<-ml time. >t all modern
vice- it wern to I* the one that grown
!a*t'-t: <v. n t lie thir-t f.-r strong
cannot equal U HI gaining prose
lyte*. Jt make* victims even earlier
than intc m|>c rance. and seldom relaxr*
it* hold after it ha-owe lieen fixed on
a man. The citizen- of the town of
hrie have heen no often outraged by
one of these professional bla*pln rner*
that the ancient law has been evoked
again*! the offender, ami much to his
surprise lie wa* compelled to pay ff'i.TO
fur divesting himself of ten oaths, or
at the legal iat<- of sixty-seven cents
for eve rv oath. Not having the mow v
necessary to liquidate the tine, lie wa*
-e nt to jail, where he still remains.
What woakl I* tin (fleet if this law
wa* enforced in this rounty? The
exninty treasury. wrould lie filled to
overflowing or the county jail lie in
adequate to accommodate one-tenth of
the profane offenders who would be
sent there. There are organizations
| for the suppression of cruelty to ani
mals and men, for the suppression of
vice in nearly every form. Why is it,
therefore, that some of these organiza
tions that look after the morals of the
, community do not take the chronic
swearer in hand ?
"VOI R arguments are sound mv
son, and delivered with force," said
the clergyman to his boy, who hati heen
hanging away at his drum for an hour
or more; "hut we have heard quite
enough on that head."
A CURE for whooping cough, accord
ing to a superstition, is "(Jet a piece
of bread baked by a lady who didn't
change her name in marry ing and eat
H ___
It is now asserted thai a few pots
of flowers in a sleeping room are not
injurious to health. Neither is a bar
rel of flower in the kitchen.
Ai Cambridgepnrt, Mu., the barrel
l factory ol Janes A Co. was burned, with
fifty car load* of headings and stares,
worth 911,000 ; 92000 worth of boop..
!*OOO flour barrels, 500 sugar barrels, 500
syrup barrels, rslued at 97.750. In ad
dition, about 91.000 worth of rough lum
leer and six box cars loaded with hoop*,
stares and headings, worth 96000, were
consumed.
A bickering pair of Quakers were late
ly beard in btgh controversy, the bus
band claiming : "I am determined to
hare one quiet week with thee!" "But
how will thou he able to get it?" said *
the taunting spouse, in that sort of reit
eration which married ladies so pro
rokingly indulge in. "I will keep thee
a week after thou art dead," was the
Quaker'# rejoinder.
Tai editor of a Teaas exchange ears
he does not like turkey ; that if he
can't bare jxissum to celebrate with he
font want any at all; but his neighbors
still continue to lock up their turkeys
after dark. Some people don't beliese
everything they read in a newspaper.
The editor can't play M 'possum" in
them that way.