WAS CHARLEY ROSS DROWNED I A ._Yfckn- lilrn Ills 11 muu llrllrvliiK Miirll IVna the C. "Do I think Charley Hotw in alive?" eaid Mr. Kelly in conversation with a reporter. "No more than Ouiteau, ami I'll tell you in a few words why I am of this opinion. On an October morning in 1878, the Rev. Father McCullom, pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart. Brooklyn; .1. J. McClosky, then stage manager of the Brooklyn l'ark theatre, but now clerk in the Marine court, New York, and myself started in a row boat for staple ton. U. 1., on a little excursion. We remained there until about 1 o'clock, when we again seated ourselves in our boat and prepared to return to the city. We were moving along slowly and chatting over the pleasure we had ex perienced during the day, when inv at tention was attracted to a small sail boat anchored between Robin's Reef light and the Jersey shore. "She was sloop-rigged and painted a dark hue. Thinking it strange that a vessel should be anchored just at that point, and suspecting that it might be a pirate craft, I suggested that we .board her and ascertain who and what she was. I rowed the boat, but just before reaching it Father McCullom ad vised that we should nut proceed fur .ther, as we had no authority to board carance of the • craft and its navigator, but scarcely anything more was said after our arri val home concerning what we had seen. "About a month later Mosher and Douglass, the Brooklyn burglars, were shot dead by a nephew of Judge Van Brunt, who caught them robbing the latter's house at Bay Ridge. The bodies were removed to the morgue on Carlton street, Brooklyn, tin the day of the removal, 1 believe, Mr. Mc- Closky and myself were w-aiking through Myrtle avenue, when it oc curred to me that I should like to see the bodies of the noted robliers, and we visited the morgue for that purpose. To our surprise on examining Mosher'* body we lnith recogni/ed in it that of the mysterious person of the sail boat. The absence of the cartilage of the nose led to his identification. Stories were then being circulated connecting Mosher with the abduction of Charley Ross. It was alleged on good author ity that he had treated with the father under an assumed name for the restor ation of his child. A week or so later a body of a boy about nine years, answering as nearly as could be to the description of the lost Imy as he might have grown since his disappearance in 1874, was found tossed up by the waves on the Jersey tlats near Robin's Reef light. The remains were so decom posed as to be almost unreconlrable, but the feet were clad in men's brogans similar to those worn by Mosher the day we discovered him in the boat. "I believe that Charley Ross was aboard the boat with Mosher on that day. I believe that Mosher, having given tip all hope of securing a reward for the recovery of the child, threw bitn overboard, and that it was his body which was washed ashore on the Jersey Flats. The brogans, I believe, which were fhund on the lioy's feet, were worn by Mosher when we first | saw him. The sail boat was found anchored ofT Bay Ridge on the morning and Douglass were shot This proves, to my satisfaction, and to th* of several others to whom I have "Htßllwi this story, that Mosher on the sail boat, Mosher, the alsluctor, and Mosher, the burglar, are one and the same person. Douglass, when shot, was not instantly killed and tried to sneak. His wound prevented him from doing so, and he died soon after. Had he been able to say but four words I think they would have been, •Mosher drowned Charley Ross."* The Cost of a Railroad Train. A railroad superintendent has given l the San Francisco Call an estimate of Mthe cost of an average train on a first ■class railroad ; For an express train, motive, $12,000 ; baggage car, fl - smoking car, s.'>,ooo : dinfng- car, $12,000 ; five first-class I'ull- slB,ooo each ; total, $120,000 The ordinary express train represents about $85,000. Some Pullman cars i cost $BO,OOO each. The average value I of a freight train Is still greater than that of a passenger train If the rolling stock and value of property are inclu iV-d. • trains aggregate in value from $2. r >o,- j , to $BOO,OOO. About Leeches. ' Something mysterious tied up in a white jar attracted the attention of ■ customers at a prominent drug store, ! and the druggist goodnnturedly untied 1 ■ ! the doth and took out some black, : i wriggling worms. They were round | or elongated at pleasure, and started off when touched with a pencil at a | i rapid pedestrian gait, until headed off : and dropped back into their damp, por | celain pit. "They are leeches," explained the druggist, and came all the way from Holland. Twenty year* ago, when blood-letting was in vogue, they were in great demand. Now they are only i occasionally called for." | "In what class of diseases do they i use them?" 1 ; Disorders of the head; if there is a 1 numbness or pressure of blood on the brain, chronic headache, etc. They ' put them on the temples and let them suck the blood till they are full, when j they fall off. Salt is then throw n on ! them and they disgorge, and are ready ! for use again." j "How often can they be used?" "A number of times. There is one ladv in Detroit who keeps a pet leech. : When her head aches she applies the , reptile to her temple and sits down to read. When it falls off she drops it j into a glass of salt and water, and if her head is not relieved applies it again, until sometimes she lias used it ' three or four times, and lost some ounces of blood." A more convenient way of using the leech is now in vogue. It is slipped into a glass luilb with an orifice small er than the reptile's hi sly. Through this it projects its head and fastens upon the human tlesh, in which its banquet is waiting. There are plenty of leeches in the i neighborhood of Koorcc and other river hamlets, and the laiys often col lect ">0 or I'M) and try to dispose of them to the drug stores, where tbey are re fused as a g- neral tiling; then they of i fer them at the Chinese laundries, where they cook them with rice and macaroni. There are some specialists who use them for a valuable oil they are said to make. In New York there are artificial ponds wlmre the im ported leeches are kept. The whole sale druggists buy them in tubs of black earth packed almost solid They only require air and moisture to keep them alive. When the cover is taken off their jar they swarm out as lively as crickets, and use their ten eyes to good aihabtage in getting away as rapidly as possible. Iloys call them | blood-suckers, and have a dislike to their acquaintance when fishing, as they fasten on to their bare feet with a tenacity that allows no chance of re moving them till tliev havefilled them selves with refreshment, fhtroit l' #l nrvl I'rihuM. Dining in Purls. A Bar is letter to /.oniloii Truth says that the number of dining-plaees in the French metropolis is vast. The ! cheapest are the tables d'hote of the boarding-houses. They are also the best for the prices that are asked, cap ital dinners are given in some of them for 8 francs 50centimes, wine included. The worst of these meals is the com pany one falls in with at them. It is fearfully dismal unless taken in a phil osophical spirit. One often sees high Knglish gentility, at onee pretentious and mean; "old soldiers," retirisl priestesses of Aphrodite, who want to enjoy a little of the ealni of bourgeois life, matrimonial agents, sentimental . widows from Brighton, Bath and I'eck ham, old Indians, Americans in crip pled circumstances, and table d'hote majors, lientiine respectaHlitv also i resorts to the 8 francs Ml centimes ta ble d'hote. I have inet at one an* Kng lish baronet and bis blooming daugh -1 ters, and the wife and daughter of a knight who is. or was, a chief of the i j Irish constabulary. What makes a dinner so expensive in I'aris is the wine. Hereford faille, Hereford cattle take their name from I the county of Hereford in Kngland. Their peculiarities are that they are ! massive, docile, and fatten easily at an early age. They are hardy and pos- , sess all the qualities that go to make a first rate beef animal. In color they are brownish, yellowish, red or hrin - died, with white along the top of the neck, on the throat, dew lap, brisket, fore legs, belly, feet and Hanks. It is said the first of the breed was brought to this country by Henry Clay of Ken - tucky, in 181 ft or 1817. They were, however allowed to mix, and leeame degenerated. Since 1840 the importa j tions have boon large, and no finer an irnals ran lie found in Kngland now [ than the Arrercan Herefords LIFK ON TIIH I'LANKTS. £JMir. *r Prof. McFnrltiml, of the Ohio stuto j university, in tiio HUUroul Mn. the density and bight of the atmosphere, the length of the day. the obliquity <>( the sun's rays, and the thousand and one other things which go to make up the whole temperature ;unl climate, (if the greater part of these -indeed, of almost every one of them as exhibited on other planets, it is absolutely im- j j possible to know anything at all; and a- a matter of course, no one can s|ieak intelligently of the climate on any planet except our own. Hut should all j thesJ items beknown, the further ques tion arises whether it is not possible j that animated beings could live in an environment totally unlike that which surrounds us. The conclusion of the ' whole matter, so far as astronomy and physics can now tell, is this: That tho four large outer planets have not suffi ciently rnolel down to allow life on ! their surface, such as we see on the earth; that Mars gives all telescopic and stereoscopic probabilities of condi- | tions compatible with life as we see it. j that the earth certainly for millions of years has Wen covered with multifari ous life; that of Venus and Mercury we have no certain knowledge; and that the satellites are pretty certainly not fitted for such life as is on the earth; that, in particular, our moon i has no water and no atmosphere, con sequently no climate or vegetable life. If the sun and the planets continually lose heat, then there will come a time In the far future when the sun itself shall go out in everlasting night, and i tlie "eternal snow" would lie hot com pared with the degree of cold through out all space where everything shall lc dead. Origin of Hold. The question of the origin of native ' gold always has been and ia quite likely to remain a disputed question among geologists and mineralogists. I'rof. J. 8. Newberry now conb-sta the theory that the grains and nuggets found in placers are formed by precipitation from chemical solution. He holds that geology teaches. In regard to the gen esis and distribution of this precious metal, that it exists in the oldest known rocks, and has been thence distributed through all tho strata derived from them ; that In the metamorphosis of these derived rocks it has been concen •tratedinto segregated quart/, veins by some process not yet understood : that is. it is a constituent of fissure veins of all geological ages, where it lias been deposited from hot chemical solutions, which have reached deeply buried rocks of various kinds, gathering from them gold with other metallic miner als, and that gold lias Ix-en accumula ted through mechanical agents in pla cer deposits by tho erosion of strata containing auriferous veins. Accord- | ing to tlie report of Hpecial Agent < larence King, of tho census, based • upon information directly from tho producers of bullion, a comparison of tlie annual output of different States shows that the I nited States produce 33.13 per cent, of the gold yield of the whole world, .10..VJ per cent of the silver, and 40.111 per cent, of the total. Of the aggregate supply of tin- pre dons metals. North America furnishes ; .15.78 per cent. Ilow lo Treat Hooks, Never wet your fingers to turn over a leaf, lie warned by the fate of the kinginthe Arabian tale. Never turn j down a corner <>f a page to hold your place. Never put in a soiled card I or a stained envelope, or a Lit of dir- Ity stiing, or a piece of damp news paper. Always use a regular lxjok ; mark. The simplest, and one of the best, is a card as large as a small visit ing card. By cutting this twice lon gitudinally from one end almost to the other, you will have a three-legged bookmark which rides a straddle on tin- page, one leg on the |>ag" lx-low and two on ftie page you wish the ineik to open at. Never allow your looks to get damp, as they may mildew. Never allow them to get hot, as tlie boards may warp, and tlie leather may cra'k. Never put them nu a shelf high up Dear the ceiling lighted with gas, as the results of gas '•oiiibustion are high ly injurious. Never |iut Ixoks with metal Hasps or with decorative nads on the shelves by the side of other looks, for flu- delicate bindings of the other looks will suffer. I'ut all such hedgehogs of books in drawers and trays by themselves. It is best not to cover the txoks of a library with pajx-r. As Mr. Win. F. Hole puts it. "the covering is expen sive, troublesome, and quite as much an injury as • protection to a book. A l*ok covered with paper is likely to need refunding sooner than if it le not . roveri i.' A pom full of looks covered with paper is dull and monot onous; and no one who ha- ever glanc ed into such a room will lx inclined to di-agree with Mr. I'oole when he says that "books lose their individuality by being covered." This is only an aesthetic disal \ ant age, it also reduces tlie usefulness of the Woks, as they are less easily handled and kept apart and in order. However, it may le well to cover children's school books, but with muslin, not |>aper. Never attempt to classify looks on your shelves hy the colors of the bind ings, or hy the sizes of the twzok.s them selves. put the works of an author together, so far as possible, however incongruous their sizes may l*. And j try to keep book* on tho same and kin dred subjects as lose together as may bo convenient Forty-three Year* in Ited. An Independence, (Mo.) letter says : 1 This city, within the last five years, : lias Iteen the scene <>f many romantic incident*, of blood-curdling crimes, of | acts of dare-deviltry unequalled, and of bravery unparalleled, but now ] comes a case of endurance and suffer j ing seldom equalled. In 1*37, Henry i Hodawald, a young cooper, immigrat i ed to this country from Germany. Two years afterward he went back to his native land and married Miss Louisa Hummel. With his wife he j came to this city and settled down to , work. In I*lo Mrs. Hodawald gave | birth to a daughter, since which time she has Iwen unable to leave her l>ed. The most eminent physicians have leen consulted, but to no purpose. For over forty years this unfortunate creature has been in bed, during which time two children have lieen !>orn to her. She is able to sit up but little, yet she Is always cheerful and In a good humor. In appearance she is very lean and white, though it does not show on her rountcnanre the atif ing she has endured. She is very well informed, having spent much of her time In reading instructive books and newspapers. She superintends the , household, giving all orders to ser- , vants, does all the sewing for the fami- | ly. even making her husband's cloth- j Ing. During the long time that she . has leen an invalid. Mrs. Hodawald , has employed but three servants, the ( first one staying with her as a domes- , tic twenty-live years. Mra Hodawald , is now 69 years old and her husband , 71 ' CHILHKKVS COLUMN. -Boot TTi 1 ounninKM* tiling Unit ■ I*l >y on do In to pUy for tho vcrjr first tlmn, I'erk-a-hoof It will hl<) ila little pink face in im Imii'U, Dim crow, nmi ihuw that it im-hi-LuxU What Nurse and Mamma, nnd I 'a pa too. Mean wlusa they hide and cry, "Peak-s-bool" Oli, what a wonderful thing it ia. When they find that liaby can play like this! Ai.d they every ona listen, and think it (rue 'Dial the baby '• gurgle menus I'eck-a-bool I wonder il any one ever knew A baby who never played Peek-a-booT Tl old as the world la 1 believe Cain waa taught it hy Mother Kvo. For Caia waa an innocent babe once, tcx>, Aud I am cure he played Peek-a-boo. And the whole world lull of the children ol men Have all of thein played that game ainoe then. And while the aim ahiiiei and the skies are j blue, ftahio* wiil alwaya [day I'eek-a-hon. Etta ll'liteltr, in Young I'ro/it*. a I'l.a.liaa Incident. "Sitting in ;t station the other day, I had it little sermon preached in the way I like; and I'll report it for your benefit, because it taught one of the lessons which we all should learn, and taught it in such a natural, simple way that no one could forget it. "It was a bleak, snowy day; the train was late; the ladies' room dark and smoky, and the dozen woman, old and young, who sat waiting impatient ly, all looked cross, low-spirited or stupid. I felt all three; and thought, as 1 looked around, that my fellow beings were a very unatniahle, uninter esting set. "Just then a forlorn old woman, shaking w.th palsy, came in with a basket of w ares and went about mute ly offering them to the sitters. No body i>ought anything, and the por old soul stood blinking at the d<*>r a minute, as if reluctant to go out into the hitter storm again, she turned presently, and jH.ki-d a'-out the room, as if trying to find Something; and then a pale lady in bla< k. who lay as if asleepon a sofa, ojtened her eyes, and saw tlie old woman, an have a warm 'fore I goes out again. My eye- i- jx>r. and I don't seem to find tlie furnace no where*.' •"Here it is." aud the lady led her to tlie steam radiator. placed a chair and showed her how to warm her feet. "■Well, now, ain't that nice" said the old woman, spreading her ragged mittens to dry. 'Thanky, dear, tins is proper comfortable, ain't it? I'm al most frozen to-day. being lame and wimbly; and not selling mtirh makes me downs hearted." " 'The lady smiled, went to tho counter, l>ught a cup of tea and some sort of food, carried it herself to the old woman, ami said, as respectfully and kindly as if the poor woman had been dressed in silk and fur: "Won't ! you have a cup of tea? It's very comforting a day like this.' " "Sakes alive! do they give tea at this depot?* cried the old lady, in a tone of innocent surprise that made a , smile go round the room, touching ttie glummest face like a streak of sunshine. 'Well, now, this is jest lovely,' added the old lady, sipping awav with a relish. 'This does warm tlie cockles of my heart!' "While she refreshed herself, telling her story meanwhile, tlie lady looked over the poor little wares in the baa- ! ket, bought soap and pins, shoe strings and tape, and cheered tlie old soul by paying well for them. "As I watched her doing this, I thought what a sweet face she had, though I had considered her rather plain liefore. I felt dreadfully ashamed | of myself that 1 had grimly shaken | my head when tlie basket was offered j to me, and as I aAw the look of inter est, sympathy ami kindness come into the dismal faces all around me, 1 did wish that I was the magician to rail it out. It was only a kind word and a friendly act, but somehow it bright ened that dingy room wonderfully. It changed the faces of a dozen women, anil I think it touched a dozen hearts, for I saw many eyes follow the plain, pale lady, with sudden respect; ami when the old woman got up to go, several persons berkoncd to her and bought something, as if they wanted to rejuiir their first negligence.—Loutna M. AI rot r W. W. Wilioiighby, of Allen County, Go., cut a Ixiard tree which gave six teen three-foot cuts and made 3409 boards, leaving considerable rail-tim ber to the trees. In the tree was a wood-worm that entered at the bottom, making its way on up. In each cut they found where the worm had win tered, and In the sixteenth cut they found the worm still alive, with sixteen wrinkles on him, showing that he waa aixtean years old. "*- Untold. A f*e tnuy bn W"f<'l while Yofima heart tbat'a aching] And a •< <■ may lie fall of light 1 , Or HI ■ heart lh*t'* breaking. Tl uot llie hrarhurt grief Kor which we wear the willow; The learn bring alow relief Which only wet the pillow. Hani may be burden* born. 'IW frierxln would lain unbmd tkaai Harder are cruei* worn Where none aave God can find there. For the loved who leave our aide Our aouU are well nigh riven; But ah ! for the graven we find, Have pity, tender heaven' bolt he the word* are] nweet .'l.at aootbe tlie npoken aoiTOw; A Gal for the weary feet That may not rent to -morrow. HIMOKOI'H. Advice to nn egotistical blower: Shut down your wind, oh! Many a woman who does not know even the multiplication table ran "figure" in society. , Many a young man who works bard during the day allows bis hands to go , to waist during the evening. 1 "I 1)11 the Hill," said Willie, w hen he got into bis mother's preserve closet* "And I foot the llill." remarked papa, i overhearing the soliloquy. Yhe tramp who acour* the country In aearr-li of *ome toad rtr pelf, Would hardly a'er go hungry, If he'd only nrour himself. "1 wouldn't mind it s > much," said the gilded youth, "if he'd bring a dif ferent bill occasionally. Hut I'm bored to death with seeing the same old hill!" : Anthony Trol!oj>e said that an ill fltting shirt-collar would keep him from thinking. This shows Mr. Trol lope's eccentricity. An ill-fitting shirt-collar will make the average man think with great rapidity. Nothing disgusts a young lover in lavender j.arils so much as to find that the piano stoul he lias been occupying for the last hour has l>een used as a "twister" at the children's candy pulling party the night liefore. "I)o birds think?" asks a writer to ojroning a current article, If they do, we would like ti know what a canary bird thinks of the fat woman who stands up in a chair and "talka baby" through the brass wirea of ita cag<. While the arrangements were Icing made for a party a few evenings ago> a young lady present innocently in quirer): "Is the invitation to embrace the young Indies?" "Oh, no!" replied a young man. "the gentlemen will attend In that." And now the young lady wonders what the young man meant. She was in the dimly-lighted recep. tlon room of a city dry goods store; and, walking up to a tall mirr< r placed against the wall, remarked: "Why, how came you here ?" Then, olswrving some surj'r.se. n.'t t<• say amusement, on the fa"-- ■*f the other oconjianta of the room, she saw her mistake and exclaimed in great confusion; "I thought it was my sister; we're twins." Origin of Papa and Mamma. An early instance which occurs to me is in the "Jleggar'a Opera," (1727.) where I'olly Peachutn, I think it is, ajM-aks of "papa." The modern change from "papa" and "mamma" to "father" and "mother" among the upper classes, | which legan a!egan to say "papa" and "mamma." those of higher grade were taught to say"fsther"and"niother." It was among my High church friends that I first noticed this adoption of "father" and "mother." < >ne does not see the con i neotion, but truly such is the feet. When I w as young, "papa" and "mam ma" was universal among what may he called the middle and upppr classes of society, and to this day, "ladies of a certain age" still use these words. King (Jeorge 111, al*>ut the year 17G2, addressed his mother as "piaroma;" so I find It stated in "Oreville Me moirs." But I do not think that Charles 11, unless he was speaking in French, ever addressed Henrietta Ma ria by that endearing term, and I felt tolerably sure that Laity /fTizabeth never called Henry VIII "papa" On the other hand. I would observe that "papa" and "mamma" are faat being supplanted by the old original -father" and "mother." For ten or perhaps twenty years past children in the up* per and middle classes have, so far aa my observation go**, been taught to say "father" and "mother";" and "papa" and "mamma," which are words of extreme tenderness to thoee of my generation, seem now to have sunk into contempt aa a "note" of eo>, del superiority.