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1UDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1871.
NO. 36.
VOL. I.
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NETTING.
IIT ISAAC T. BATON.
All I could find I poured at her feet
Of brown nuts fulling before the frost ;
A harvest ripened with summer's heat,
High on the limbs that twined find cross'd
Too strong for summer winds to toss.
Upon the mossy bank she sat,
Which carpeted an old oak's base ;
The curls escaping from nor hat
Framed in with gold as fair a fuce
As over did a maiden grace.
She sitting there, I found for her
The butternut with its mellow rind,
The chestnut with its shaggy burr,
And nuts of every shape and kind
I In the autumn woods could llnd.
The old tree moaned because so few
The leivesupon its branches bare,
Envious to let the sunbeams through
To nestle in her wavy hair
And gather brighter color there.
" As if the poor Imprisoned fawn
Close held within the forest's shade,
With loving eyes was looking on
The nymph who to his feet had strayed,
And longed to clasp the dryad maid.
And I, while adding to her store,
(My love did deem it all the less,)
bid long to offer something more
A gilt of name or wealth's largess ;
A' crown, it crown's gave happiness.
Ah, did she know, with maiden's art,
Which reads our longing looks so plain,
That I had given her my heart,
And could not get it back again,
Nor so desired, for that wore pain ?
But with my lips close to her cheek
This did I tell her as I could :
With stammering tongue I dared to speak,
While silent all the forest stood
As though its mute heart wished mc good.
from attempting to abate the price, he
added to the money he gave ner a small
flask of lavender-water or cake of scented
soap. He wanted to know how Father
Hugh was, and all about Barquette, the
cow, whose excellent milk maintained
the rosy hue of the milker's cheeks, and
about the sheep providing the wool with
which to knit those pretty stockings eo
snugly fitting those little feet M. Fir-
nun, in his tour through, l" ranee, naa De-
come very impertinent ; nig presump
tion might have offended the young
rustic had not her interests obliged her
to dissimulate, and to be somewhat tol
erant. Ho asked her to bring him eggs
who sluill tfw
the
ter to the one
whitest hands." , . .
Father Hugh uttered theso last words
with marked emphasis. , . .
Miooutet was almost reauy to aie witn
Yet tn the ecstacv of the blissful sea
son that comes but onoe, such thoughts
can have but brief duration there is
but little time to spare out of the hap.
piness. out of the marvel, or mis new
erief. Working in the fields had made being starting on its course like a new
his hands drier than so much pumice-
stone. The baker and barber, on the
contrary, always working in butter or
soap, had hands as soft as the satin folds
of a duchess s dress.
The poor rustio felt that he was set
asido, regarding the forthcoming strug
gle as calculated oniy ior city gauanss.
The latter, animated by equally well-
founded hopes, spent the week in getting
star. Death fled from the place a mo
ment Bince the great breath of life blew
in there ; ana their neans nave just oecn
set beating in time and tune with all
humanity. Their heart have caught
the key-note of the lives neiore ana
the lives that are to come;
for certainly the childless must
be aware that they drop out of the
world like dead leaves, that they send
liK'L IV UHllti 111111 fLK3 I AUUlUJ'-i uv-uv -t ...... I 11 .
the next day, and butter every time she their hands in proper condition, using no strengtn or viwiiw uu ""
emptied her churn ; and, notwithstand- unguents of the most mollifying charac- they have no bond with it, no part in
ing his impertinence a fault in young ter, and they became as fragrant and as it, no right or room in the great ana
i..; o. a.n,in nhixh f.imulnfeA their perfect race which one day shall blos-
pride to the highest degree.
Micoutet had not even the courage to
wash his hands in the brook, so inferior
did he regard himself to these town
gentry. His grandfather Simon, per
fectly familiar with the world ever since
li liad etnmnprl through it on his old
j u:. :ii -1 iii,t tj. ..,tol.op and nhnvu oovnrtlv regard- that child lite: and they fancy that,
nadotte; and he became so worn out by ing him through his white eyelashes, carrying their noblest hopes and their
this way of living, that he resolved to comprenenaea u euiuinrouicu u . " " . .6,"
get back both his sleep and usugal tran- came to his assistance. virtue and heroism of its own, it will
Micoutet, my boy, said ne, nanuing
him a little gray bag covered with dust,
" put that in your pocket and keep your
appointment at Father Hugh's. When
tho time comes to show your hands,
plunge them into this bag, and fill them
men which young girls often complain
of to satisfy their consciences uer
nadotte found the hair-dresser quite as
agreeable as he was attentive.
Micoutet, the ploughman, was daily
in the field, no matter what might be
the state of the weather, and at the
earliest hour, because he could not sleep
som out of this ; they fall by the way,
and are no more.
But that first baby is a plodgo and an
assurance of perpetuity to its parents ;
it links them, little creature that it is,
with the destinies of the planet as noth
ing else can do ; they will live again in
quillity. He betook himself to the
father of her who had robbed him of
his renose. and, cap in hand, with down
cast eves and a stammering voice, spoke
to him for a longtime about Bernadotte,
nraisinc her vigorous arms, made for
THE WHITEST HANDS;
OR,
WHO Mil ALL, WIN TUE r ltl7.fi f
This is not the story of a king, but of
a humble peasant girl ; the scene is not
laid in a camp, but in a village, at a
timo when Bonaparte's wars had not
vet given to the simple name of Ber
nadotte (little Bernard) the historic glow
which etill surrounds it.
A man and his wife had an only
daughter, and they were so proud of her
that she had scarcely come into the
world when they began to think of her
marriage. The man, laboring with the
greatest perseverance, sought to accum
ulate for her one of those attractive
doweries which fascinate rich young
bachelors ; the wife seconded his efforts
so courageously, grabbing in tne ground
all dav and scheming all night, con
stantly preparing the bride's outfit, that
she tell sick ana aiea, not Deing wiiiins vo
call in the doctor, that she might save
the cost of the remedies.
Father Hugh, left alone with his
daughter, was only the more anxious to
have a son-in-law. some sturdy laborer
possessing a competence, one who would
insure both the prosperity of his house
and the happiness of his beloved Ber-
nauotte,
work, and the good health apparent in
every form and feature, and finally de
manded her haud.
Father Hugh did not say yes, and
still less no. He knew full well the
value of those little words of few letters ;
like his coins, he would not let them go
without certain guarantees of their be'
ing properly placed. He put off the
young man to the following Sunday,
and. in the meantime, communicated
the proposal to his dauehter.
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" Micoutet is a very nice young man,
said Bernadotte. " I stop and talk with
him every morning on passing his farm
He has fine oxen, good fields, and an ex
cellent vineyard. Casterez, the baker,
however, appears also to good advantage ;
would it not be well "
' Casterez, the baker ! replied Father
Hugh, in a reflective mood. " By Our
Lady, thero is always bread on a baker's
counter I
" And tarts on the dinner table, add'
ed Bernadotte.
I will find out, my child, what tho
baker means before deciding.
"His meaning, father, is plain enough.
He buys every morning all that I take
to town, and without higgling about the
price, please you. If I were to to ask
him double, he would not niaice tue
slightest objection.
" Without higgling about tne price i
with the uncuent it contains."
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" liut, granttiatuer, my bkiu is as uik
and coarse as tne oarit 01 an 01a Tree.
How can vou V
"Follow my advice, my boy. The
washball I gave to you is so efficacious,
that the most obdurate spots will not re
sist its action. Its use is ot very ancient
date, and time has not diminished its
virtue."
Micoutet took the soap-bag, and re
sorted to Bernadotte's house. The baker
and the barber were not far behind him.
CaBterez first showed his fingers ; they
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were wniter man tne Diossom 01 tue
dosrrose. The hair-dresser then display
ed his, and they looked as fresh as a lily
but lust in bloom, it now came Micou
tet s turn. H irmin ana uasierez oegan
to laugh as he drew his huge hands from
his pockets and held them forth, when
Father Hugh uttered a cry of admira
tion, for they were filled with bngnt anu
beautiful crowns.
" Ah I my boy, that is the real dur-
ablo whiteness which I love. Bernadotte
is yours, for you have courted her with
out leaving your field, and you know
the whiteness most appreciated in the
hand of a son-in-law.
The two abashed and mute candidates
returned to their shops with their oars
hanging lower than a nound after losing
a hare, iiernadotte ana micoutet gooa-
glorify their passive and undeveloped
traits into splendid deeds, vital charities
traits that have slumbered unstirred
in them as the seeds of oak and maple
slumber beneath the shadow and density
of dark primeval pine forests.
Well, little perambulators, as we look
at you trundling on in the sunshine, we
can not help thinking something of the
same thoughts that your owners think
concerning your laughing and cooing
inmates. Your little wheels are wheels
of fortune and wheels of time ; the
world waits upon you. And if those
who guide you understand as much,
and guide you well, calling health and
wisdom to their side, it will not wait in
llaiyier t Bazar.
comes from the oven door a suspicious
smell of smoke his biscuit are burning.
All sorts of things in pots are boiling
over. She rushes to his assistance. Both
burn their fingors. lie has mislaid half
the stove-covers, and cannot find them.
One is discovered a fortnight afterwards
upstairs, under the bed. How did it get
there ? He says he didn't know he was
carrying it up at the time. Absent
minded. He was looking for a clean
towel.
His wife, in despair, goes to her room
and cries, and thinks of her happy girl
hood days.
The Great raymcnt.
repeated Father Hugh, who did not do naturedly invited them to their wedding,
hnuinnsH in that wav. " That vounar fel
low is very much Bmitten I We will look
into the matter, Bernadotte ; and if his
granary and bis purse are as well stocked
with flour and cash as his heart seems
to be with love, we will try to make some
arrancements."
When she not to be eichteon years of . ?tner "Sn r.?uo." " BB0
-o there was no lack of suitors. Father the baker, who, dolignted witu tins pro-
A 4 nQ 41, a ranufa.- CeUUUlE, SUOWUU miUUBll UUUIUV rnuiu-
ureu.
" Which of the two?" exclaimed Fath-
ago
Hueh
tion of a man in easy circumstances;
one who had cleverly turned his pennies
to account by making short loans at a
rate of interest not sanctioned by the
code ; but all young men wishing to
marrv took very eood care not to re
Tiroach him with any infraction of tho
atatuto ; the sin would remain with the
father-in-law, and the profits with the
grandchildren: so they rubbed thoir
hands and repeated the universal pro
verb. " 'Tis an ill wind that blows no
body good I"
Bernadotte, worthy of her size in
economy and in activity, trudged to
town every forenoon to sell her chickens,
eggs, and fruit. She frequently en
countered young Micoutet, the plough
man, who would drive up his oxen to
the end of tho furrow by the roadside,
and keep them standing a long time to
bid her good morning, and to chat with
hr about the rain, and the fine weather,
and the chickens, and the cows, and the
growing corn, and the beans that wore
about drviner. Bernadotte, 110 matter
and they had wit enough to go, as
townsmen hardly ever neglect to enjoy
what is good in the dwelling of a dis
dained peasant. The happy couple,
happy as everybody is with as much
money as eood tomper, labored through
out their lives to swell tho contents of
the soap-beg, tho gift of their venorable
grandfather.
'flic First Baby.
er Hugh to himself. " The thing works
well. We will set them to competing ;
goods in demand increase in value.
He returned home, and communica
ting the baker's sentiments to his daugh
ter, promised her to decide quickly
which of the two it would be the best
to marry.
" The baker is a very nice young man,"
said Bernadotte, the same as she had
said of the ploughman Micoutet, " but
there is another, the hairdresser Firmin.
He buys something of me every day, and
keeps me an hour talking about hu tour
through France, the yarn my stockings
are muae 01, ana my gooa mucu cow.
He assures me that he has never seen
any one more engaging than she whom
he has the pleasuro of looking at when
he looks at me.
"The compliments of a barber I in
terposed Father Hugh. " Everybody
knows what they are worth I Ho mat
ter the work progresses ; competition
what might be her haste to get to mar- among three makes the profit all the
ket, always had a few moments to spare
for her talkative little friend, and even
after leaving him to go back repeatedly
in answer, as far as he could make her
hear them, the last kind words which he
u.mt nftar her over the hedges.
Arrived at the market place, the first
customer whom Bernadotte usually
found there was the young baker, Gas
t(ppK. who. nnde.r the pretext of 6
amiuing her eggs and fruit, prolonged
the conversation a full hour, praising
the bright feathers of the chickens, their
remarkable plumpness, and bestowing
thousand compliments on tne cievur
greater I We will see the hairdresser, my
dear, and find out what to expect from
his admiration."
Hugh again returned to town, where
he had an interview with M. firmin;
and, as ho knew that the larger the com-
I11 these pleasant days, when peram
bulators fill all the pleasant places,
pushed by their neat attendants, and
nuea witn a priceless parcel mut, um 01
all its foam ot laces and emoroiaeries,
winks and wonders at the world around
it, we are constantly led to remark upon
the transcendent qualities, not of the
sixth or seventh half as much as of the
first baby. The lovely little beings that
follow may tumble up in such clothes as
are alruady at hand, with only here a
rulile and there a scollop of their own
good enough for vagrants but the first
heir is to be, and is, a mass of delight-
fu'ly dainty newness, flannel is not
warm enough for it, swan's down is not
soft enough, and, if the hoar frost of the
hedges, bediamoned with the dew of
the morning, were available, lace would
not bo good enough for it.
What a rapture that first baby is in
the house where it comes. What impor
tance belongs to all related, with their
new dignities and weighty titles, while
the voung mother. iuBt escaped from the
awful gates, Bees the little bundle on her
pillow, composeajy sleeping or starting,
as if it had an equal right there with any
An Editor's Misfortunes.
A special from Chicago to the Cincin
nati Commercial says : " One of the first
men 1 met on landing from tue train.
early yesterday morning, was one of the
Mcuuiiagn tirotners 01 tne vinicago ue-
jmblican. He had both pockets of his
overcoat stuffed full or currency, tne pro
ceeds from the sale of what he called his
" morning handbill." Ho said he didn't
know where he could get his breakfast,
1 witn his pockets full ot money.
" Mack " lost $25,000 invested in the
Reiiullican and $15,000 cash in the
Traders' Bank. The office was insured
for $45,000, but how much of any of
these sums will be recovered remains to
be seen. The contents of their safe
ledgers, subscription list, and insurance
policies wero charred to indistinguish
able cinders. Mr. Henry Reed had a tin
box iii the safe, containing some silver
coin, all of which was melted and run
together. Mr. Reed has determined to
leave Chicago permanently. " Mack " is
undecided as to his future course, as his
partners seem to be discouraged on the
subject ot future investment, lie eays
he worked up the RepuUicun. to a paying
point, the edition that was burnt con-
. . .. . . .
taming nearly a thousand dollars worth
of city advertising. The city owes the
Republican six thousand dollars, and the
owners have recently sold their job room
for $22,500. The man who bought it
lost all in the tire, and, like his sureties,
can t pay a cent ; and the notes he gave
are burnt up anyhow. The Traders'
Bank, in which " Mack " had his fifteen
thousand dollars cash, loaned its capital
to Chicago merchants, and they are bank
rupted. This is a sample of the accum
illative losses that nave overtaken bo
many thousands of the industrious and
enterprising business men 01 Uhicago,
literally compelling them to return to
the point where a living is made by one's
wits.
Tho Man Who Cooks.
Every old Californian, having in '49
baked his own bread and boiled his
beans, writes Prentice Mulford, deems
himself a good family cook. He main
tains even a greater conceit than this
He deems himself a cook superior to any
woman in the world, when he chooses to
concentrate his mind on culinary af
fairs.
On such a man, when, duly married.
there breaks out once or twice a year a
culinary mania. He must cook ; ho will
cook, lie watches tne opportunity
ed her af ter-
The largest sum of money ever con
tracted for in one bargain is the indem.
nity to be paid by France to Oermany
in consequence of the recent war. It is
so large that its payment disturbs the
money markets of the whole world ; and
no intelligent forecast of the financial
future, even in New York,' cannot
be formed without understanding tho
progress already made in it, and that
soon to be made.
Reducing the payments in every case
to American money, the account, ac
cording to the last advices by telegraph,
stands thus : .Franco has paid, as a con
tribution for the city of Paris, $40,000,-
000; for the maintenance of German
troops in France, from March to October
1871, f uo.ouo.ouu ; ana ior a nrst pay
ment upon the national indemnity,
235.000.000, besides $05,000,000 allowed
as the purchase money for the railroads
Alsaco and Liorraine; in au f wo,-
000,000. Of this, perhaps $5,000,000
must be deducted, as spent in France by
the German troops for supplies, leaving
$330,000,000 for the amount of specie ac
tually moving to Germany, and causing
the present disturbance.
Thero are due to Germany in the
spring of 1872, $100,000,000, to be paid
in six instalments of $16,000,000 'each,
beginning with January 15 ; the re
mainder of $1,000,000 to be paid April
besides more than $30,000,000 for in
terest, at five per cent, per annum, upon
tho remaining $U00,0UU,UUU. The total
amount of money to be transferred from
country to the other for the year
ending April 1, 1872, is, therefore, more
than $4U0,00U,UUU. England u the only
medium through which the payment
can be niado, iu the present disorgan
ized state of tho French currency, and is
indeed, the only market in which French
credit can obtain cash on a large scale.
Hence the alarm of British financiers at
the prospect of a heavy drain of coin and
bullion from their vaults.
It remains to be seen how London is
to escape a " Black Friday " of her own,
which now threatens to come to her be
fore February next. According to all
precedent, thero will bo a severe strin
gency iu the money market there, a
panic in securities, a long list of mercan
tile 1 allures, a minimum uanic rate 01 ten
per cent. all as the consequences of a
drain of specie from the Bunk of Eng
land ; and then, alter endless miscniet is
done, the government will step in, sus-
Eend Peel's banking act, enabling tho
ank to expand its loans and circulation
without so much coin in its vaults ; and
publio confidence will gradually return.
X110 DHUK lost ?zo,uuu,uuu iu cum uunug
the month ending October 7, and $29,
000,000 in its total reserve; and this
seems to have been but the beginning of
the drain, since the German government
is very slow to restore the funds to gen
eral circulation, and there is every pros
pect that, by February 1, it will have
$300,000,000 locked up irom use as care
fully as is the coin reserve in the United
States Treasury.
But publio attention has been called
to the subject in England, and in full
view of the dangers yet in prospect, tbo
alarm which the first great movement of
coin caused has subsided. If the confi-
one else : and she feels a surprise as great
as if she had never expected it, together when his wife has prolongei
panv of buyers the more activo the bid- with, perhaps, something like an awe of noon visit a little longer than usual. He
ding, he invited each of the competitors herself on account of the great mysteries invades the kitchen. He kindles a firo
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to come vu uib uuukj iuo luuumug uuu- tnrougn wmcn sue was passeu. auu i iu iuo stove. na unugs n vuu iryiug
either parent looms in the other eyes
into a wonderful and mighty guardian
angel, to be venerated, for the time
being, beyond words.
Truly what a pathos, as well as a rap
ture of hopes and anticipations, hovers
around those folds of flannel the pity of
dav after mass
" Humph 1" he muttered to himself, as
he canvassed the situation, " the plough
man courts my daughter, but without
neglecting his work or spending a farth
ing : the baker is doing the same thing,
loitering about the market-place, and
a
hrkimolrnano wlirt IrTlnnr how tn 0 et them
into such a nice condition. Passing spending his money to win the sales- it ieit the half of those anticipations
from words to acts, he would bargain for woman ; the barber overwhelms Berna- should never be fulfilled. And what
thn Mitira lot. unneiir Tftrfotlv satisfied dotte with fulsome compliments and moment the minor matters take upon
with th nrin. n.l oattv the basket off trifling presents. There is no hurry ; themselves ! What contentions arise re-
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Tho Dutch Churches in Now York.
. The Christian Intelligeruer, alluding to
the approaching centennial of the llo
formed Dutch Churoh says :
Down to the year 1800, the Dutch
language was used in nearly all the Re
formed uutcn puipits in oxew lorn.
The minutes of our ecclesiastical bodies
were in a foreign tongue, and our Con
stitution was not printed in English
until 1794. With the general, introduc
tion of the English tongue, there came
progress, enterprise, and improvement.
Butgers College at length, in 1825, was
placed in a fair working condition.
Twenty-five years of educational train
ing and aggressive work of many kinds
brought the Church down to the year
1850. Then began those elemental throes
of conscious power, feeling after de
velopment. The development followed
on the heels of much friendly agitation,
and what has been gained within the
last twenty years is an inspiration and
encouragement to larger efforts than
have hitherto been attempted. Within
this latter period, our collegiate and
theological institutions have been nobly
endowed.
Our Church boards, twenty years ago,
were but two in number, viz.: the Board
of Education, and of Domcstio Missions
the Foreign Board being then only a
nominal affair. But now the Reformed
Church has the complete apparatus for
large and effective work, and its several
boards find their fiolds and their oppor
tunities widening nud increasiug every
year.
Brazilian Turtles.
The size of these creatures may be
imagined from the fact that the flippers
and feet of one, in crawling over tho
sand, leave the tracks of two irregular
grooves, three r four feet apart, as
though a great wagon with cog wheels
had been driven over the ground. It
is an easy matter to find a turtle's nest
by this track. She comes out of the
sea and travels far up on the beach to
lay her eggs in the sand, digging a hole
a foot and a half or two feet doep for
the nest. Professor Hartt, who was in
Brazil with Professor Agassiz, says that
he Baw a turtle deposit one hundred
and forty-three eggs in one of these
nest. Tho eggs are ull laid at one sit
ting, then covered up cloBely with the
sand and left to hatch. The eggs are
rather larger than hen's eggs, round
and covered with a tough white skin.
The Brazilians eat the eggs, and also tho
flesh of the turtle. Tho creature is cap
tured in a curious way. Two persons
go behind it, and taking hold of the
shell, turn the animal on its back, in
which position it is at the mercy of its
captors, as it is impossible for it to turn
over on its feet again. The hunters are
obligod to creep up behind it cautiously,
for as soon as it is alarmed, it thrusts
its fore paddles into the sand and
throws it behind, so that if the pursuers
do not quickly close their eyes they are
likely to be blinded.
TUB OLD BAIIN.
No hay upon tho widespread mows '
No horses In the stalls, - . i ? ' : ;e
No broad-horned oxen, sheep or cows , , , . ,
Within Us time-worn walls.
The wind howls through its shattered doors,
Nw swinging to and fro ; . t :
And o'er its ouce frequented floors
No footsteps come and go. '-
I - :
But once, alas 1 each vacant bay, - , ; i
And every space around, . . ,
Was teeming with sweet-scented hoy,
The harvest of tho ground.
And well-fed cattle in a row, , ,
At mangers ranged along,
Each lastoned by an oaken bow, -
Stood at the staucmous strong. - ,
But where so long old Dobbin stood,
ills master's pride and enrc.
And from his hand received his food,
All now Is vacant there.
Then these broad fields, from hill to plain,
Waved in the summer air, . ;
With choicest crops of grass or grain,
Now lell so bleak and bare.
How sweet tho muelc of tho flail,
Kcsounding far aud clear,
As borne upon the passing gale
It reached the distant car. ' '
The blackbird hailed the dewy mom
From out his rushy perch ;
The sparrow sang upon the thorn,
Tho cat-bird on the birch.
The robin from tho highest tree
Sent forth his whistle clear, ' ' '
Ills soul partaking of the glco
That wakes the vernal year.
And childhood's merry shout was heard
Tho farm-yard choir among,
Which, mingling with the note of bird.
Enriched the tide of song.
The master on his daily round
With conscious pride would go,
His faithful dog, close by him found,
Attending to and fro.
Old honest " Trip " long since has gone,
Aud moulders 'neaththo wall;
No more he takes tho welcome bone,
Or hears his master's call
Tho kindly master, too, has died,
The matron in her grace,
And dead, or scattered far and wide,
The mmnaut of their race.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Comfort for Travellers.
The Boston 2'raiucript says, for the
benefit of railroad travellers, that the
desideratum so long sought for by in
ventors, namely, a practical spark and
dust arrester, after repeated experi
ments aud failures, has at last been
brought to what may be termod perfec
tion, by a gentleman of Massachusetts.
The invention is simply a curved smoke
stack, in nearly the shape of a " horn of
plenty," attached as ordinary smoke
Btacks are, tho mouth running backward
toward the centre of the locomotive.
Within, near the enlargement at the
upper cur ve, is placed a wire screen at
an anglo of about forty-five degrees
with the direction of the smoke, and the
usual screen is placed over the immedi
ate outlet.
Just below the first screen a perfor-
horizontally
A learned writer assorts that, after all,
energy quite os often drives off disease
as it brings it on.
In a libel suit cguinst a newspaper at
Little Hock, Ark., for $30,000, the plain
tiff obtained $1 in damages.
Negotiations are pending betweun
Germany and the United States for the
mutual recognition of trade inarkB.
A Tennessee girl, in ordor to make a
sure thing of it, allowed two young raen
to take out a license to marry her. She
probably kept her matrimonial books on
tho double-entry system.
It is said that a number of Californ
ians, men of lueans and position, as well
as many men of other States, will peti
tion Congress at its next session to place
hfavy restrictions on emigration, so as
tj stop the great influx of Chinese, if
not to repeal our treaty with that coun
try altogether.
A snake, said to have been at least
five feet long, and as thick as a man's
wrist, was killed in the ladies' car of the
traiu going from Nashville to Chatta
nooga, near that place last week. Tho
reptile was discovered crawling along
the aisle, and croated a terrible sensa
tion before he was despatched.
Some twenty months since a guntle
man in Lawrence, Kansas, put up a
corn-crib on the corner of Rhode Island
aud Hancock streets, and filled it with
six thouBaud buBhols of corn at an aver
age price of fifty-one cents per bushel.
A Lawrence firm have recently bought
ated steam-pipe is run
through tho smoke-stack, connected
dence and hope now expressed have any with tho boiler by a valve-pipe under tho entire lot at thirty cents per bushel.
iiot!Anait'nn if Tin 11 uf Via that l 4! 11 DTI I .1. nAnt.nl rf Vi ii ii.i ri n a A ri Trill As. I . . . . . .
jusuav..., . - " V? , A machine has teen invented by a
ciers oi iionaon nave in view soma way, ttie reiuse matter irom tne xurnace passes - h which ia described na
the fine spray ejected from the perfor
ations, thus deadening the particles and
increasing their weight. Striking at
the inclined angle named above against
the first screen, they are prevented from
passing through, and fall to the under
curve of the stack, whence, through the
natural motion of the engine, they are
directed by a tube to beneath the boiler,
and thrown upon the track in a moist
and consequently harmless condition.
which is not clearly understood by oth
ers, of keeping their own money at home
without producing a panic. N. Y. Keen-
tng I out.
o his shop, where the fair merchant al
ways found some refreshments ana a
couple of nice tarts garnished with
sweetmeats.
Bernadotte, on returning home from
market, lightened of her load, passed oe
fore the shop of the hairdresser Firmin,
a young dandy as frizzled and smoothly
shavedjas the little St John in the pro
cession of the Fete Diea. M. Firmin
had just completed his tour through
France, as stated on a handsome sign in
big letters, adorned with a pair of
things can be cleared up and the charac- garding those chameleon eyes ! what re
ters of these gallants tested, to make semblances are discovered to family por-
thom solve one of my riaaies. traits, ugly yesterday as unknown snaa
When Sunday came liernauotte niaue nws. but glorious to-day as Daoy sances
herself look as beautiful as the virgin tors ! by what divine instinct does it
queen of a May-day lesttval. biie put
har host Scotch muslin cap, calico
nfitticoat. red cotton handkerchief and
morocco shoes, and awaited the appear-
RTion of hr suitors, who, on presenting
themselves, the father welcomed in theso
terms
" You three wish to provido a husband
suck its thumb ! and what miracle that
it should not happen to be misshapen I
To think of the day when it will go
alone ; to con lecture the voice in which
it shall repeat "The Stag at Eve;" to
imagine the hours when it may undergo
these same experiences iu its own turn ;
to dream concerning the fate before it ;
niutm.ii tv. :.t a,-.tir.,,aW in this ever uq- the thing is too intoxicating, not to need In the niidf
anv L.;.. wtrV Krv scholar who goes the shading of tho reflection of stiller chaos, smoke, grease, soot, rags, and
w I . - . i : A. I ... ..... ,..,. ...l..m . Ii n inntlipr I V l Tl IT onn I tl nn v Iha .in tn
scissors and a razor, after the fashion of fQ, mv daughter, and you all cherish the to know that this atom now of a day's
tfc uenuuiu Buiau m uuuuid I -a me OulOCt. A custom vviigvm uci w i cAjiuiicm-u nuw - -j
device, the selection of one; she
. . in. H ,, ... I . . i. i . av. :.. Anni
" Heigh I uernaaotte, en
1 1 -1 - l. .. V. .... haM w nil i
snuwi ukuwi Jv- sg w vwuuu tuni. - -o - o - .-.
M ma fcrwUv r" tn onlWa -naa-Bi five or six year in as- moments, wnen tue iuoiu,
... ... m n i I . . i l. .. i
iiernadotte noaaea amrmawveiy. one i certaining whetner ne win wew m
Varl hflnn careful to conceal a dozen from I form of soldier, the robes of a lawyer,
the wholesale buyer, Casterei, purposely 1 0r that of a doctor. A young girl may
be excused if she asks eigui aays tu u-
cide what kind of a noose she will put
Come back here next
pans he can find into use. He sets their
sooty bottoms on the clean pino table.
He contemplates making tea.. He re
flects as to the quantity he used in the
mines for a " making." He cannot re
collect exactly. lie crams saveral fist
fuls into the tea-pot. He will have
enough anyway. No one who drinks
thereof sloops that night. Nervous.
He essays to make biscuit. lie won
ders how much saleratui they used in
the mines to got a good rise on. He
uses enough. He kneads hit dough.and
wandering vacantly about the house,
leaves traces of flour at every step. It is
in the parlor, on the door knobs, on the
bannisters. He can cook. He says he
can cook better than any woman iu the
world if he " was only a-mind to give
his mind to it." This conceit is never to
be taken out of him. It it peculiar to
all old Californians : for he made bread
in the mines. It was good bread, too
good to kilL They say that two M pard-
ners " who " cabined " with him, died of
Treed by Bears.
Tho Detroit Free Press, of the 4th inst.,
gives the following account of how the
hunter became the hunted :
A man named Chas. Tyrell was hunt
ing on the St Clair river when two bears
appeared. Somewhat excited, ho lev
elled his rifle and fired, aud the next
moment both the bears were coming
down upon him at full speed. The hun
ter saw that they meant business, each
uttering fierce growls, and he dropped
his gun, caught hold of the limb of a
small oak tree, and swung his legs up
iust in time to save his boots. As he ex-
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pectod, one 01 tnem was not ioDg in at
tempting to secure a closer acquaint
ance. The animal got up about seven
feet, and then the limbs refused to let
him by. ' He pawed, bit, and growled at
a great rate, and, in matting a Dig enon
to push away the limbs, fell to the
ground. Tyrell commenced shouting,
which excited the bears, and one of them
was quickly up to the limbs agaiu, when
the hunter struck a match and dropped
it down on bruin's head, frightening
him so that he went down the tree at a
heavy bread indigestion. He was given
The time is too bright, the success of twenty-four hours to leave that camp.
miust oi ail tuu culinary riot,
a hava aoma left for M. Firmin. Fru-
denoe is the mother of certainty, Mioou
tet was undoubtedly very attentive,
C as teres very devoted, but M. Firmin
was no less agreeable, and nobody knsw
and
holding that tinv hand w hers, foels
that what she has become herself she
has made this child ; that where any sin
has struck its dark tap-root into her
blood, that sin has gone to her child;
that wrong wishing, evil imaginings,
selfish acts, now all corns back to plague
their inventor, and more than that, to
around her neck,
Sunday, mv friends, in vour best attire
I am 1 ; . t., ln -tin intarAftta
of my dear Bernadotte, and I have al- plague and clog this precious spirit on smoking lard. It sitzles and sputters all
flour, the wife comes home. She opens
the hall door, and u oppressed by the
cloud of smoke. She knows then that
the culinary fit is on her husband. She
steps into the kitchen. There he stands,
red, heated, flustered, caught in the act,
with a big spoon in one hand, a tormen
tor in the other, a spot of black on his
nose. The frying pan is xuii oi not,
A Hairy Family but no Chance for Bur
num. The following account of a hairy fami
ly appears in the Indian Daily Hem, an
East India journal :
The hairy family of Mandalay consists
of a woman of about forty-five years of
age, a man of twenty, and a girl of
eleven, with hair over every port of their
faces, forehead, nose, and chin, varying
in length from throo inches to a foot,
and exactly the color and texture of that
on a Skye terrier. The hair of their
heads, on the contrary, is just the same
as on any ordinary Buriuan : they ap
pear to be quite as intelligent as the or
dinary Burinans. The father of the wo
man was the first of the hairy progeny.
He married an ordinary Bur man woman
and the issue of the union was the pre
sent hairy head of the family. She mar
ried an ordinary Barman, aud has issue,
a son about twenty-three years ot age,
follows in the Scientific American : " This
invention relates to a machine that,
when drawn through a field of standing
corn, gathers the ears, drops them into,
au elevator, cuts off the knobs, slits the
shucks whilo on the ears into traverse
ribbons, doing such cutting at the samo
time the ears aro being elevated, drops
tho ears from the elevator into the
shuckor, strips off the husks, throwing
them out of the machine, and finally
conveys the ears off to one side of the
apparatus, where it lets them fall into
any receptacle that may be provided."
Hydrate of chloral seems to devolop
fresh virtues every day. A case of rat
tlesnake poison has lately been cured by -it,
at Point Pleasant, N. J. A young
n-Hii bitten by the rattlesnake, and ex
hibiting the usual violent and alarming
symptoms, was treated with the hy
drate, five doses of twenty grains each -being
administered, wheu sleep follow-
ed, and the patient awoke after Boveral
hours with every symptom of the poi
soning gone. At tne same time wo
would warn non-profosbional persons
against tampering with this powerful
agent, the officinal strength of which
does not seem to have been agreed upon
by the pharmaceutists.
Nevada is capable of supplying the
world with salt. It. abounds in salt
springs, salt marshes, salt mountains,
aud great plains where the evaporation
lively rate. The hunter had about a
A n ... . ii V fia ..ft, V i n anil DvurV t.imA
the bears started to climb he would not hairy, and the boy and girl alluded .ege has left deposits of salt almost
iivl,ton and let it fall, the trick never to. The Burmese explanation of the ""uiuauie in extern, xur mmuig vui'
failing to stop their ascent. After a phenomenon is, to say the least, curious,
time both seemed to go away, aud the and might possibly possess a special in-
hunter carefully commenced to descend, terest for Mr. Dar win. These hairy peo
He was just about to touch the ground pie would be worth a fortune to the en
when both the bears came charging at terpriuing Barnum if he could get hold
him out of the darkness, and he had to of them, but tho king will not allow
go up again, one of his boots being raked I them to go out of his dominions'
by claws before he was above the limbs.
The eggs wereiooordingly handed to ways felt somewhat superstitious in the its upward fliglt, till she expiates the over him as be stands there with his
r v;..T.Tn oho fnnnii thir freshness matter Of tidiness. You muBt not oe xauiw oi years in too iiiureunm. u uu w mo !"! -.v.
-,,ih nf her who brought them. Far surprised if you see mo give my daugh- suffering of an hour. I thing for many
feet around. There
The animals made no further effort to
climb the tree, but tore around for a
full hour at its base. Tyrell dared not
descend for fear that they bad laid a
snare for him, and passed the entire
night astride of a limb. In the morning
he found the bear he had fired at dead at
the foot of the tree, but the other had
disappeared, and the hunter got safely
oil with the Bpoil.
The Hon. C. F. Clarkson, of Grundy
county, Ohio, says that one of his ten
ants was short oi help the other day,
when the man's helpmeet oame forward,
took a fork, mounted a stack of barley,
and pitched the whole stack over to the
machine a distance of fifteen feet in
forty-seven minutes, the stack yielding
132 bushels of barley. The woman is
48 years of ago.
poses the salt of these deposits requires
only to be shovelled into sacks and
transported to the place of use. For
table and dairy purposes it is not quite
equal to Eastern salt. It contains a
slight per cent, of impurity, which
would have to be removed by re-evaporation
or some refining process to reu
der it marketable for domestio use. This
may not be the case with all the depos
its of this character within the State,
but applies to such ti them as have been '
worked. Within fifty miles-Of rlUno,? ecu
and not more than one mile from the
railroad, are some of the finest salt
springs in the world. One gallon of ,
water will evaporate three pounds of
the best quality of salt