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A LOCAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL.
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TUB WAT. OF THE WORLD. '
When nt nwrnlns-jou start on the Journey! of
lire,
With your heart full of hope mid your pock
et of gold,
When the air seems with sunshine .and hnppl-
bcss rife, ' ..
You think you can never grow wonry nnd
old.
The path lies before tho ascent Is but slight,
And tho soft springy turf with fresh dew
drops Is pearled, ' .o., J
When your spirits ore bright and your foot-
step is light, ,' ' . . ,
It's a very nice way is the way of the world.
When surrounded by friends you stride gaily
along,
And each weaves for the other green gar
lands of bays;
While you lighten your journey with laughter
and song,
'Twill he sunshine, you think, till the end of
your days.
If steeper tho path grows as still It nsccuds,
What prospects ot bliss are before you un
furled, Willie the storm stl! impends, ere you're left
by yon- nuncis,
It's a ver -mootli way Is the way of the world.
But, ah, when the tempest o'ertakes you at
last,
When clouds nnd thick darkness the pros
pect enfold,
When you wrestle In vain with the force of
the blast,
Till It leaves you exhausted, aud naked, and
cold.
When the path you were climbing is shattered
nnd cleft,
And sharp splintered crags nil around you
are hurled ;
When your friends have all left, nnd of fortune
you're reft,
It's a very hard way is the way of the world.
A CONFIDENCE GAME.
Jack Gildoroy's last season at Newport
effectually cured hiin of Lis one besot
ting weakness. Throughout all his
bachelor life he had been a most uncon
scionable flirt. Since that memorable
epoch in his career when he first emerged
from roundabout jackets and frills, into
the more consequential dignity of a coat
with a genuine boot-jack tail, he had
been an object of admiring interest to
the ladies, and hnd, at the age of twenty
five, become the hero of more hairbreadth
escapes from matrimony than could be
reckoned by any three of the most des
perate lady-killers in Jack Gildoroy's
acquaintance.
lie was much to be pitied, perhaps,
for this unfortunate propensity, for, al
though it is undoubtedly a pleasant
thing to know that your charms are ir
resistible by the feminine heart, it is
also very disagreable to have at your
heels an army of furious rivals, who are
only deterred by the conventionalities
of polite eociety from skinning you
nlive, and then eating you raw. Be
sides, Jack had finally obtained a bad
name among his acquaintances, and cau
tious mothers with marriageable daugh
ters began to eye his advances with sus
picion, while prudent fathers and guar
dians forbado their wards from anything
like intimate relations with the young
rascal, in blissful unconsciousness of the
fact that they were thus only providing
a more enticing bait for the very trap,
which tho dear creatures hnd been only
too ready to fall into before.
So when people heard that Jack was
really caught at last, that he was actu
ally and undeniably engaged to Nellie
Trent, they shook their heads doubtfully.
Yet it was really so, and when " society''
became convinced of it, it opened its
eyes and wondered.
Evidently, an astonishing transforma
tion had been worked in Jack. He was
attentive, tender, devoted To all ap
pearances he had become what he pro
fussed to be Nellie Trent's most abject
slave. He had fallen heels over head in
love with several dozens of women bo
fore, but never so deeply as now.
Generally, he had succeeded in re
covering his balance before there was
much harm done to his own affections,
at least ; but at last, for the first time in
his life, Jack was in earnest. At any
rate, ho said he was, and although he
had said that a great many times on
previous occasions, the statement had
never had quite such solid foundation
upon truth us in the present instance.
Yes, he really loved Nellie, and he
would certainly have gone on loving
her, and would have married her, and
mude a good husband to her, had it not
been (to use his own language, subse
quently expressed) for that "blasted
Jeremy Diddler in petticoats " who
wheedled him out of his affections and
his money, and played the very deuce
with him generally. .
I will tell you how it was.
He saw her first upon the piazza of
the Ocean House one morning when he
sat with Tom Aldiue, listening to the
music, and enjoying a Partaga cigar, i
By Jove !" exclaimed Jack. " Who
is that r
" That," replied Tom, looking in the
direction indicated " that's the latest
arrival a Miss Madge Leon, I believe.
Stunner isn't she '("
A lithe young girl, not more than
twenty at the most, with a figuro like
Hebe, stood, at the far-end of tho long
piazza. A mass, of luxuriant dark hir,
bound up in simple braids, and adqrnpd
with a single tuberose, framed" a face
which might have belonged to St. Agnes,
so full of purity, faith, and truth, did it
appear. A pair of deep browri eyes,
swimming with delight as their owner's
little slipper tapped the measure of the
inusio on the piazza-floor, were fixed in
tently upon the leader of tho band, and
over tho lady's superb shoulders fell a
. light lace shawl, which a delicate blue
veined hand found necessary to arrange
at intervals as it fell carelessly from Us
proper position- ,
,"Do you know her'r" queried Jack,
.earnestly. . '. r,' . .v '
' f No. ' Pound out her name from the
register in tho office. Her governor- i
here, with ner-rouud 01 a lanoyoia cnap
diamond 'pin, "yon-know, and all that
sort of thing.
" Oh, thunder I" said Jack, in the in
tensity of his feelings. "Who does
know her ? I must get acquainted, you
know. She's the handsomest woman I
ever saw.
" Now, look here," said Tom, removing
his cigar, n go slow. It don't look nice
for a follow in your position to be run
ning round 'attor stranare women. ' it
you cut any oapers witn jmss ljeon, 1 11
peach to Nellie." . . '
MStult T cried jock, lumping up nas
tily. " I shan't flirt, so you needn't be
gin to preach. When I've made Miss
Leon's acquaintance, you will -be : glad
enough to do tho some thing." t
- " You re engaged, and L ain t. '
To this Jack vouchsafed no reply, but
went into the house to hunt up Nellie
and make inquiries. Unfortunately,
Nellie could not help him. No one
seemed to know the beautiful stranger,
or to have learned much abomt hcrrex
cept that 8',e Wft8 travelling with her
father, all elderly gentleman, answering
very well to Tom Aldine's epitomized
description. But although Jack finally
despaired ot getting into Miss Leon s
graces by any of the conventional meth
ods, his luck, always famous, had not
deserted him. A golden opportunity
was thrown in his way the very next
morning.
He was strolling down to the beach
for his daily constitutional dip in the
surf, when a clatter of horse's hoofs, and
a little scream behind him, caused him
to look around, to see Miss Leon de
scending the hill on horseback at a rapid
pace, with her saddle-girth broken, and
her own pretty self just disappearing
over the animal's side.
" By Jove I" thought Jack, " hero's a
chance."
In an instant he had caught the bri
dle, and was assisting the lady to the
ground. It was a very trying moment
lor the young rascal, as he held her
Elump figure in his arms, and felt, for a
ricf second, her heart beating against
his own. She clung to him in a delight
fully terrified way, too, and as she slipped
to the ground, Jack had a glimpse of a
ravishing foot, and an ankle oh, Chris
topher Columbus! . i
When the lady had regained her feet,
she looked flushed and pretty.
" I am very much obliged to you, sir,"
she said.
" Don't mention it, I beg,"' replied
Jack, in his politest manner. " What
shall we do with the saddle '("
" If you will help me np again." she
said, smiling, " I will not be so awk
ward." "But tho girth is broken, m ademoi
scllc." She looked so bewitching as she
stood there, rosy and dimpled, that Jack
came very near saying " my dear !" but
an afterthought saved him.
" Oh, dear," she cried, with a look of
real distress, " I can't walk home in these
long skirts."
"No," said Jack, looking at her
critically. " I'll tell you what we can
do, though. The saddle will stay if you
don't ride faster than a walk. I will
help you on again, and, if you will let
me, I will lead tho horse."
" But it will be so much trouble ." he
said.
"Not a bit. Nothing will givo.rae
greater pleasure !" which was true.
He took the horse to a great stone by
the roadside, and easily lifted his lovely
charge into the saddle again. Then he
grasped the beast's bridle, and led him
slowly back toward the hotel, while
Miss Leon clung tightly to the mane.
In this way they climbed the hill, and
advanced along the Bath Itoad, the lady
profuse in her thanks, and Jack making
himself as agreeable as ho knew how.
His new acquaintance, however, re
quired a great deal of attention.
First her foot refused to stay in the
stirrup, and Jack was repeatedly re
quired to fix it. Then the saddle began
to slip again, and so Jack gave his hand
to the lady to steady her, and she elapsed
her little, soft fingers so tightly around
his digits that his arm thrilled clear up
to his shoulder.
During the entire journey she kept up
a continual fire of witty pleasantry and
naive nonsense, which soon reduced
Jack to a state of utter imbecility.
When they reached the hotel he would
have stood on his head at her command,
and the lady herself was quite well
aware of it.
It was somewhat provoking that Nel
lie should be standing on the piazz i with
Tom Aldine as Jack led Miss Leon's
horse to the hotel steps, although tho
look of evident chagrin on Tom's face
was almost a compensation for Jack's
annoyance on -Nellie s account.
" Nell needn't look so troubled," mut
tered Jack, to himself. " I haven't fallen
in love with Miss Leon yet, by a long
way." . ,
The romaniic introduction of that
morning was tho commencement of a
very intimate and familiar acquaintance.
It was the most natural thing in the
world for Jack to meet Miss Leon, ac
cidentally, of course, on the beaoh nearly
everyday, ..Then, the evening hops at
tne hotel turnisned turtner opportune
ties for ripening their friendship.
. Jack could not be expected to dance
with Nellie all the time, and Miss Leon,
although perfectly aware of. Jack's en
gagement, seemed to do her very best to
monopolize ms attentions as tar as possi.
ble. In this, she appeared in a fair way
of succeeding.
, Poor Nellie looked on in silence, but
gradually fell into a , pitiful habit of
crying lierseir to sleep nights in the
privacy of htr room. She loved Jack,
and had been happy in the thought that
he was really fond of her. ' It was cruel
to be obliged to stand helplessly by and
see her golden castles tumble slowly to
the ground. But she came of a family
renowned for indomitable pluck, and she
would have given her ears before betray
ing tne nrst evidence of pain to the
pretty rival who was so successfully be
seiging Jack. -
As for Tom Aldine, he, too, watched
Jack's unfortunate, infatuation silently,
and,-although lie made -no remark, he
still did what he ouuld to- offer Nellie
his sympathy,' She was never without
a partner at the hops if Tom could help
it, and many were the long strolls'' and
drives they had together when Jack was
occupied elsewhere with the bewitching
miss teon.
One hot afternoon, Jack found him
self on Purgatory Cliff, with an umbrel
la and an odd volume or lennyson in
his hands. He had really had no idea
of meeting any one thero, and had come
for an afternoon of quiet reading, where
he could enjoy the boundless lookout
over tho blue sea.
But, singularly enough, as he turned
a jutting corner of rock to gain his fa
vorite seat, his eyeB fell upon the pretty
figuro of Miss Leon, sitting in the shade,
witn her teet drawn up under her, and
with her hat tossed carelessly off, to al
low the breeze full liberty with her
abundant wealth of hair.
She was not aware of his approach
until he had advanced quite close to her.
" And what are you doing here r he
asked, pleasantly. "Dreaming of for
tune, a lover, or of far-away countrios
which Y"
"Neither." I've been dreaming, but
dreaming of nothing," she replied, turn
ing toward him.
" ihen you are lust in the mood for
listening to my reading," he said, taking
a seat beside her. ' I will bore you with
a little poetry, if I may. If you don't
want me to do so, you know, you must
say so, and send me away."
" Uh, I do want you to read I she ex
claimed, eagerly. "Nothing could be
more delightful I Is it Tennyson ? And
full of pictures V Do let mo look at the
pictures I"
Sue placed her hand upon his arm
and bent her head to look over his shoul
der at the book which he held in his
lap. Her floating hair swept his face ;
her sweet breath mingled with his ; her
damask cheek almost touched his own.
He certainly was not to be greatly
blamed if he yielded to the temptation
offered by this extraordinary opportu
nity to kiss a very pretty woman. He
turned his head, and his lips met hers in
a tender salute, which was all the sweet
er for being brief.
juiss .Ueon gavo a frightened little
scream, and drew back hastily.
Almost at the same moment a loose
stone, dislodged from the rock above,
caused Jack to look up. His eyes fell
upon Tom Aldine, witn .Nellie Trent
upon his arm, standing upon the verge
of the hill, and looking down at him.
Nellie s face was white as marble, and
both herself and Tom seemed rooted to
the spot in amazement.
1 think all parties took in the situa
tion at a glance, and arrived simultane
ously at the same conclusion.
Miss .Leon blushed, Jack hung his
head sheepishly, and the intruders, after
standing motionless for an instant, with
drew as silently as they had come.
That night Jack received a package
at tho hands of one of tho hotel waiters,
with the intimation that it was from
Miss Trent. It contained his letters, his
engagement ring, and a number of little
keepsakes which he had given Nellio at
different times.
He could not mistake the meaning of
all that, and he tossed the package of
letters savagely into the fire, remarking
to himself that they burned with more
" vim " than they read. He tried to see
Nellie, and explain ; but his card was
coolly returned to him, and his efforts
were in vain. Feeling desperate, mise
rable, and ugly, he sought Miss Leon on
the following morning, resolved, since
he was in tor it now, to go the whole
figure while ho was about it.
He found that charming littlo lady in
tears. He thought at first it was on his
account, but he was quickly disabused
of that idea.
" Oh, I'm so glad you've come !" she
cried. "What shall I do? Such a dread
ful misfortune '"
V Is Fide dead ? Have you got to go
home? Or has Miss Joues got a new
bonnet precisely like yours?" asked
Jack, with sarcastic pleasantry.
".Now, dont be provoking, she re
plied, pouting her red lip? and looking
up through ner tears. " it 8 worse than
anything that could happen. It's per
fectly dreadful. Father will kill me
when he knows ot it im sure ne will!
Jack felt a valorous spirit rising with
in his breast, and assured her that if it
came to killing, she would find at least
one faithful champion to protect her.
" Tell me all about it," he said. " Can
I help you?"
Then, with many Bobs and heartfelt
paroxysms of tears, she unbosomed her
telf of the fact that her father had left
Newport for Boston on the previous
day, leaving in her keeping a wallet
containing the sum of five hundred dol
lars. She had put the money carefully
away in a bureau drawer, where, as she
thought, it would be quite safe. This
morning Mr. Leon had written to her
with a request to send the money to
him immediately by express. She had
opened the bureau, and found the money
gone.
" Stolen ?" exclaimed Jack.
"Yes, and I I don't know what
what I shall do."
" Poor little girl !" said Jack, tenderly.
" If it is gone, it's gone, and it can't be
helped, so don't break your heart over
it any more. There isn't much use in
looking for the thief in this big hotel."
' This was evident, but not very conso
latory, and was only cause for a fresh
flood of tears, more agonizing than the
last.? .';.
" Father will kill me when he hears
about it. You you don't know him.
He's a ter rible man."
"Hush !" said Jack.' ' "I can help you
out of your trouble very easily. If you
will please me by accepting my check
for the amount, your father can pay me
when he comes back. I will intercede
for you then, and besides, if it is not
convenient for him to pay it at once, it
is no great mutter. Any time within a
year will do." .
- She brightened up instantly.
" I couldn't think of accepting it from
you," she said.
Nonsense," he replied, taking a pen
from the table, and proceeding to fill up
a blank check. " Say nothing about it.
How can I ever pay you for your
linrlnnsa V" uhfl aKkad. as she took the
'paper fpia him.. ."It cannot be meas
ured -oy the inony.-
He took herf'e between his hands,
crushing the flexible features together
so as to give them all an impartial kiss,
saluted her, laughed, and left her. Why
the deuce he didn't ask ber to marry
him then and there, and so cancel the
debt forever, was something he could
account for afterward only on the theo
ry of a special dispensation of Providence.
Early next morning there was a ter
rible rumpus iii the office of the "Ocean."
Two ot the boarders had suddenly and
clandestinely decamped, leaving their
bills unpaid. Two large trunks, which
they bequeathed to the proprietors ot
the house as memorials of their visit,
were found to contain fine assortments
of old scrap-iron. The landlord was fu
rious, and scolded the clerk. The clerk
was savage and ugly. No one seemed
to know precisely how the delinquents
bad made their escape, although it was
thought that at least one of them, a
lady, had lett lor JNew York on one ot
the Sound steamer the night before. At
about seven in tho morning Tom Al
dine burst into Jack Gilderoy's room in
a state ot intense excitement.
"She's gone!" he cried to Jack, who
was engaged in dressing for breakfast.
"They've both gone."
" Who is gone ?" osked Jack, brushing
away at his hair.
" Miss Leon and that old swindler who
passes himself for her father."
" Gone ! where ?"
"To the deuce, I hope," said Tom,
digging his hands into his pockets with
an air of desperation. " They were both
a couple of old operators, you know.
She swindled me out of two hundred
dollars yesterday with an infernal yarn
about her money being stolen, confound
her pretty picture ! She cried and looked
interesting, nnd I was just fool enough
to rush right into the trap."
Jack dropped the hair-brush, and
turned pale.
" Miss Leon ! Impossible ! There's
some mistake."
" Not a bit of it. They didn't pay
their board bills, and thoir trunks are
filled with stones and old iron. I ain't
the only victim, either. There's some
consolation in knowing that several oth
er fellows were bled in the same style.
I wonder how you managed to escape.
You wero so sweet on her, you know.
But, then, you always have such luck !"
Jack turned to the window, and whis
tled. Then he seized Tom's hand im
pulsively, and said :
"Tom, that woman has made me
dance to the tune of five hundred dol
lars, besides expenditures for ice-cream
and carriage hire. She has broken up
my engagement with Nellie, and made
an egregious fool of me generally. For
God's sake don't tell of it until I'm out
of tho way. I'm going home to-night,
and if you catch me in Newport again
within live years, I'll promise to swallow
every bathing-house on the beach."
He was not so utterly crushed but
that he had still pluck enough to make
an attempt, the following autumn, to
regain his lost position in Nellie's good
graces. On her return to tho city, two
months after tho unfortunate events
herein related, ho wrote her a very
humble letter, full of penitence and self
accusation. It was answered by one
from Tom, assuring Jack thut as Miss
Nellie Trent was soon to become Mrs.
Thomas Aldine, it was utterly impossi
ble for her to comply with Jack's sub
missive petition. In the meantime, the
happy pair hoped ever to be regarded as
true and earnest friends, etc., etc.
For the satisfaction of the reader, it
may be as well to add that Jack has
since taken a grim pleasure in learning
that Miss Leon, alum Smith, alum Jones,
alias Brown, with the unprincipled
scoundrel who assisted her, is now weep
ing her pretty eyes out in the peniten
tiary, as the result of some one of her
many confidential " operations."
Modem Toys.
Few persons have any idea of the
amount of capital employed in the
manufacture of toys, and of the scien
tific ability that is devoted to their pro
duction. It is true that we have been
told over and over again of the fortunes
that have been realized from some cheap
and successful toy, such as the return
ball. But these cases are in general re
garded as exceptional j perhaps, in a
measure, apocryphal. But when we
consider the steady and heavy trado
that is carried on in what may be called
the staple articles of toy trade, we must
see at once that toys form an important
feature in the manufacturing industry
of the world. Even such minute and
subordinate departments as tho manu
facturing of dolls' eyes furnish business
tor wealthy nrms, and give employment
to hundreds.
But it is not all from its mere commer
cial importance that this subject claims
our attention. Those who have read
the delightful littlo work by the late
Dr. Paris, " Philosophy in Sport Made
Science in Earnest," a work which has
been extensively used by more recent
compilers without a word of acknowl
edgment, must have been struck with
the extent to which scientific principles
enter into the construction of even our
ordinary toys. The kite, the spinning
top, the common leather sucker, and
others, form the most strikirg and lucid
examples of many of the fundamental
principles of science, and have been
used for purposes of instruction by the
best teachers, both in their lectures and
their writings. No man ever succeeded
more perfectly in making science popu
lar than the late Dr. Faraday, and those
who have read his published lectures
will remember that no man ever used
common toys more freely as illustrations,
Of late years, the tendency has been to
embody the highest mechanical and sei
entifio knowledge in the construction of
toys. Chemistry has been laid under
contribution for serpents' eggs, magio
photographs, magio ferns, and other
strange devices, while mechanics have
given us various automatons and auius
ing objects.
The influence of this tendency upon
the minds of the youth of the present
day can hardly fail t be beneficial. The
little girl may not tear the dress of her
doll tor the purpose of studying it
mechanism, but when it is worn out her
brother may possibly take it up and fol
low out its interior arrangements, and
in any case, it impresses upon both i
true sense of the capabilities of me
chanical science.
Fifteen Follies.
First To think that the more a man
eats, the fatter and stronger he will be
come.
Second To believe that the more
hours children study at school the faster
they learn. ' ' '
Third To conclude that if exercise
is good for the health, the more violent
and exhausting it is, tho more good is
dono.
Fourth To imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained.
Fifth To act on the presumption that
the smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
Sixth Toargue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel immediately better, is
" good for tho system," without regard
to more ulterior effects. Tho " soothing
syrup," for example, does stop the cough
of children, and does arrest diarrhea,
only to cause, a little later, alarming
convulsions, or the more fatal inflamma
tion of the brain, or water on the brain,
at least, always portraits of the disease.
Seventh To commit an act which is
felt in itself to be prejudicial, hoping
that somehow or other it may be done
in your case with impunity.
Eighth To advise another to a remedy
which you have not tried on yourself, or
without making special inquiry whether
all the conditions are alike.
Ninth To eat without an appetite, or
continue to eat after it has been satiated,
meroly to gratify the taste.
Tenth To eat a hearty supper for tho
pleasure experienced during the brief
time it is passing down the throat, at
the expense of a whole night of disturbed
sleep, and a weary waking in the morn
ing. Eleventh To remove a portion of the
clothing immediately alter exercise,
when the most stupid drayman in New
York knows that if he docs not put
cover on his horse tho moment ho ceases
work in winter, he will loso him in a few
days by pneumonia.
Twelfth To contend that because the
dirtiest children in tho street, or high
way, are hearty and healthy, therefore
it is healthy to bo dirty ; forgetting that
continuous daily exposure to the pure,
out-door air in joyous, unrestrained ac
tivity, is such a powerful agent for
health, that those who live thus are well,
in spito of rags and filth.
Thirteenth To presume to repeat
later in life, without injury, the indis
cretions, exposures, nnd intemperances
which in the flush of youth were prac
ticed with impunity.
Fourteenth To believe that warm
air is necessarily impure, or that pure,
cold air is necessarily more healthy than
the confined air of a close and crowded
vehicle ; the latter, at the most, can only
cause fainting and nausea, while enter
ing a conveyance after walking briskly,
lowering a window thus while still ex
posed to a draft, will give a cold infalli
bly, or an attack of pleurisy or pneu
monia, which will cause weeks and
months of suffering, if not actually
death within four days.
rittcenth To "remember the bab-
bath day " by working harder and later
on Saturday than on any other day in
tho week, with a view to sleep late next
morning, and staying at home all day to
rest, conscience being quieted by tho
plea of not feeling very well.
German Hospital Trains In France.
A correspondent of the Chicago Jour
nal, writing from Frankfort-on-tho-Main,
says: "
On Sunday morning, the 2d inst., the
first actual hospital train started for
Metz, in order to empty the hospitals in
the vicinity of their severely wounded.
Formerly, all wounded soldiers were
transported in ordinary goods wagons,
little straw being all the bed they
were provided with, and without ade
quate care during the journey. Although
hospital cars wore much in use in
America during the war, these things
were not known in Prussia in 1800.
In 1SG7 a commission appointed to re
form the field sanitary service adopted
the principle of hospital trains. No
further steps, however, were taken
toward bringing it into actual existence.
The Minister of Commerce indeed caus
ed two hundred fourth-class passenger
cars on the State railways to be altered
tor this purpose by the removal of the
seats, etc., so that the entire car formed
one large room. Doors were placed fore
and att and the perrons were joined by
bridges so that communication was es
tablished throughout the whole train.
Professor Yirchow, of Berlin, first con
ceived the idea of using a number of
these cars for the purpose of emptying
the hospitals in r ranee ot tne badly
wounded. His proposition met with
readv support from the Ministrv of Com-
merce, and thirteen wagons were imme
diately placed at the service of the Ber
lin llilteerein, for which the latter gave
4,000 thalers to fit them .up in a proper
form. Within six days the litters were
ready, and the 120 beds were provided
with, mattresses, sheets, blankets, etc
from the society's hospitals.
ihb single cars are so built that on
each side or the central way there are
four posts the length of a bed distant
from each other. Between each post
two litters or stretchers are- hung by
means of India-rubber bands, in order to
modify the jolting of the cars, so that
each wagon, therefore, has three beds
above and three below right and left of
the central way, or, in all, twelve beds
to each. The train in question consisted
ot ten hospital cars, and therefore car
ried in all 120 beds. Although, as said,
200 wagons were provided for such
transportation, only very few have been
used during the war, most of them being
lost among the remaining multitude of
wagons.
In addition to the above-mentioned
ten hospital cars, there was a cooking
car, provided with every requisite
another which served as a provision
magazine, in order to render the train,
independent of external aid; even a
great water-butt was carried along. "A
third car was provided for the directors
of the train, a third of it being portioned
off as a directors' room, while the other
part is occupied by necessary medicines,
instruments, etc., and two beds. In ad
dition to these, two other can were
joined to the train, one serving as a
utensil depot and the other for the ac
commodation of tho necessary pertonnel.
Professor Virchow and three other phy
sicians accompanied the train : there
were also eight attendants, six sisters of
mercy, and five volunteer Krankentragcrs
from the upper class of the gymnasium.
Two cooks completed tho arrangements.
Railroad Signals.
Tho varieties of the " toot " of the lo
comotive, and gyrations of tho arms of
the conductors by day, or lanterns by
night, are about as intelligent to most
people as first-class Choctaw. The fol
lowing will give the reader a correct
idea ot their signification :
One whistle " Down brakes."
Two whistles" Orf brakes."
Three whistles " Back up."
Continuous whistles " Danger."
A rapid succession of short whistles is
the cattle alarm, at which the brakes
will always be put down.
A sweeping parting ot hands on level
of eyes, is a signal to " go ahead."
A downward motion ot the band, with.
extended arms, " to stop."
A beckoning motion of one hand, "to
back."
A lantern raised and lowered verti
cally is a signal for " starting ;" swung
at right angles or crossways the track,
" to stop ;" swung in a circle, " to back
the train
A red flag waved upon the track must
bo regarded as a signal of danger. So
of other signals given with energy.
Hoisted at a station is a signal lor a
train " to stop."
btuck up by tho roadside, it is a sig
nal ot danger lor tho train ahead.
Carried unfurled upon an engine, is a
warning that another engine or train is
on its way
A Capital Joke Aud all the more
palatable because it is true, and can be
vouched, took place a few Sundays since,
at one ot the prominent New Jersey
churches. It seems that a worthy dea
con had been very industrious in selling
a new church book, costing seventy-live
cents. At the service in question the
minister just before dismissing the con
gregatiou rose and said, " All you who
have children to baptize will please pre
sent them next Sabbath." The deacon
who, by tho way, was a little deaf, and
having an eye to selling tho books, and
supposing his pastor was referring to
them, immediately jumped up and
shouted, " And all you who haven't any,
can get as many as you want by calling
on me, at seventy-hve cents each
Tho preacher looked cross-eyed at the
brothers, brothers looked at the clergy
man ; the audience punched the audi
ence in the side, the bubble grew larger
until it burst in a loud guffaw ; ladies
colored up, crimsoned, blushed, and
thanked the Lord for the low price of
peopling the earth. There was no bene
diction that morning worth speaking of.
The deacon, after he had found out
bis mistake, changed his pew from the
tront ot the church to the third from
the rear ; nnd though he cannot hear
the sermon, he is consoled with the
thought that the young ladies can't
snicker at him.
ili ATI AO WITHOUT APPETITE. it IS
wrong to oat without appetite, tor it
shows there is no gastric juice in the
stomach, and that nature does not need
food, and there not being any fluid to
receive aud act upon it, it would remain
thero only to putrefy, the very thought
of which should be sufficient to deter
any man from eating without an appe
tite, for the remainder of his life. If
" tonic is taken to whet tho appetito.
it is a mistaken course ; for its only re.
suit is to cause one to eat more, when
already an amount has been eaten be'
yond what the gastric juice supplied is
able to prepare.
JLhe object to be obtained is a larger
supply of gastric, not a larger supply of
tood ; and whatever tails to accomplish
that essential object, fails to have any
efficiency towards the cure of dyspeptic
disease : and as the formation of gastric
juice is directly proportioned to the
wear and waste ot the system, which it
is to be the means of supplying, and this
wear and waste can only take place as
the result of exercise, the point is reached
again that the efficient remedy for dys
pepsia is work outdoor work benefi
cial and successful in direct proportion
as it is agreeable, interesting, and profit
able. : i
A Pkomisino Boy. A certain judge.
while attending court in a shire town,
was passing along a road when a boy
was letting down the bars to drive some
cattle in.
His father stood in the door of Lis
house, on the opposite side of the road,
and, seeing what his hopeful was doing,
shouted out:
" John, don't you drive them cattle in
there'; I told you to put them in the
pasture behind the house."
The . boy took no notice whatever of
the remonstrance, and his father re
peated the order in a louder tone, with
out the least effect, and the third time
gave positive orders not to drive the
cattle in thero.
The son didn't deign to look up, and
disobeyed the parental injunction with
a coolness which positively shocked the
judge, who, looking at the culprit, said,
in a tone of official dignity j
" Boy, don't you hear your father
speaking to you f"
" O, y-a-a-s 1" replied the boy, looking
at the judge ; " but I don't mind what
he says. Mother don't neither, and,
'tween she aud I, we've about got the
dog so he don't !"
Thickness of tiik Eakth's Or.usT.
To enable the earth to resist the-genera-ting
force of the sun and moon, so as to
leave the phenomena as they lire actur
aly found, Professor Thompson considers
that its crust must have a thickness not
less than two thousand or two thousand
five hundred miles. Such a conclusion
is of course quite inconsistent with the
hypothesis that the earth is a mass of
molten matter inclosed by t thin, solid
shell.
31I.SCEIXANE01JS ITEMS-
There are about 200,000 Jews in-. the i
United States. ' :-"' '" '
Tho Diabolism of Divorce" i tue
subject of a woman leoturer ill Indian'
Coal mines are now being worked,
seven counties of Kansas. . , ,
One-half the slats pencils used In tne
world aro made in Vermont. r Jj
A lifln UTaino o-,Vl nf fmirtfWUl wants
a divorca from her husband of foityrfive.
It is said that Texans are 10 fond, of
riding that they will walk three miles to.
eaten a norse on wnicn 10 go a u-' i,
The cultivation of peonuta has. b'
tried quite extensively in Minnesota.the
present year, and with good success. .
San Francisco lias just finished its first.
silk factory, and is now talking of a cot
ton manufactory, i -us:t
Western corn husks have given Jars'
numbers of hogs a disease called tne
"mad itch." . !:.' r
A young and beautiful German lady.
at Blairsville, Ind., recently dranlCro
glasses of beer in honor of Napoleon s
surrender. . ,,
"The Fire Place" is tho name of
drinking saloon in Chicago.. Any. one
can get warm by it lor ten cents, or reu
hot for a quarter.
A larsre needle factory is about to be
established in Newark, which will turn
out 400,000 self-threading needles per
day. i ..i v!i :
New Haven claims the only original
oil portrait of General Leo in existence.
It was painted by J. M. King, of that
city, soon after the close of the war and
is valued at tf'liii). j
Miss Lucy Lee advertises in a Missis
sippi paper that she is of good birth and
education, and wants a husband.. ' She
is willing to marry an editor believing
herself able to support one. ' ' '. ' '
Miss Caroline Wood has been engaged
in the wood business in Iowa to sonw
purpose. Sho has cleared 1C0.' aoret of
land, and planted 2,000 fruit and 4,000
maple trees, all with hor own hands.
The Belfast and Moosehead Lake
Railroad, Maine, is completed, and ready
for transfer to the Maine Central Hail
road Company, who have agreed to lease
it for fifty ytars from the first day of
November. . -
A Young rural lawyer in Illinois is go
ing to take the stump during the fall
campaign, nnd proposes to " grasp a ray
of light from the great orb of day, spin
it into threads of gold, and with them
weave a shroud in which to wrap ' tho
whirlwind which dies upon the bosom of
our Western prairies."-
The way a Colorado deacon laid up
treasures iibovo is thufc touchingly re- .
corded on his tombstono : " When cir
cumstances rendered it impossible for
him to attend the stated preaching of the
Gospel, ho made it a sacred rule to kill
an Indian every Sabbath."
Of the twelve surviving widows of
Revolutionary eoldiers who are one hun
dred years of age and over, three live in
Maine, their names, residences, and ages
being as follows: AnnaPlance, of Port
hind, 100; Happy Mouse, of Portland,
100, and Hannah Andrew, of Lowell, 101.
Two young clerks in New Haven
blessed unlike most clerks, with but lit
tle to do, got into a discussion the other
day as to their relative physical ability
to labor, and ouded it by a trial at street
cleaning with hoes. They attracted such
a crowd that the police interfered and
ended their harmless sport. : ,
Mark Twain has this adviao for young
men with literary aspirations : . " Write !
without pay until somebody offers pay. '
If nobody offers pay within three years
tho candidate may look upon this cir
cumstance with the most implicit confi
dence as the sign that sawing wood is
what he was intended for." v . , , ,
The newly married woman's property
law in England has gone into effect. A
woman's earnings are hereafter her own ;
a polioy of insurance is her own ; she
may sue and be sued separately; a hus
band is not liable for his wife's ante
marriage debts. Theso obvious deficien
cies in English jurisprudence have .been
long met by the laws in New York and
by the coda Napoleon.' ' ' : i
The La Crosse Leader tells this t Not
long since, while one of the river boats
was taking on some live-stock, among
the lot was one largo gray mule, that re
fused to walk the staging. ' The urate
sung out to a roustabout to "twist his
tail, and he'd come." A coroner'B jury
have decided that the man came to his
death "by obeying orders. VI . . . . r
There are two enthusiastic little eirls " J
in 1TAm.!mantr XT IT i. r. wl .1 A 1 I
years, who are doing a thriving business
in snaring partridges for the . Boston
market, it is saia xuey are wide awako
at an early hour in the morning, and be- 1
fore many city people are aware of the I
peep o' day they are visiting snares that 4
they have set the day belore Thev fre-
quently travel over an area of three or
tour miles or territory, and catch from
six to eight game birds a day., , , ;
Mr. Martin, in a papor presented bv
him to the'Sociute Thtffapeutique.de
T?,. " 1T1. 41,.. !,,.. '
.-iau.c, .Mi . tug I.UUUUU11 BUn-
Hower, extensively cultivated, has the
effect of neutralizing the .unwholesome
vapors which are sq fatal to health and
life in marshy districts. , ; The Dutch, '
who live only by dyking and draining
their1 low lands, aud are therefore good
authority, pronounce sunflower. culture
a speciuo ior intermittent fever, the
scourge of Holland. They assert that
it has disappeared from every district
wueie uie experimeux nag been tried.
It is not yet.known whether this is the
result of its rapid growth, produolng
oxygen, or whether it emit oe and
destroys those germa, aninjal and vege- j
table, which produce that ftiiasma which (
brings fever tin its train. -Wtiifo Bctentiao j
men are settling the cause, it would be I
well for New Jersey and other fever-
u ?i .1 u m i a ratyiiitia . . v.lani n 1 '
.1..1.. w yiaub euunowers vy
the acre and the township, if need bt
and thus to remove a curse which ha
long rested on some of the most beautL
ful regions of our country. ' '
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