A. lVItsoS, Jr., VOLUME III. 5scellancou8 Selections THE REJECTION. SY ADA noWESA CAHXAHAS. down 7 comc nom 5"0,,r 1,1,0 mansion juu in inur 'IV. 1 , V,,. :lurn'nB na culture have placed you so novc my liTu's lcvol. T n.,w ,.,, it. nm k up so,ne lit,le wllUJIower from It And lmvc none chide the look. ''P."1.!' B.?t.nr. drop from the sky for n flowor. r , ,1. i mat no or;,,tur will wonder or Tn ."T.or.fi,ny ,llat 11 hn8 he power lo climb into stur-lnml, will no one deride? let a Hotter may have pride, grace lnri )h ! ii , V,..; .V"" on are, . ...v.. .ii'ii.uiiown, ' 'S LcnTe for my euUure, "tie said '.t1" ""'j nivfiiieine power to uUccrn wince ann Ueaiiiyy And you, though you may W "learn lcai'nmg en0,,Kh t0 l'lease me, if you nut my loye to return "For never a star in the heavens am I, 1 i.rjrS4.v5,m.irBd-w"- "Arose! T fli.1 it-nil r , . .. Sr e'";1 18 htvoWn musr8,m h" t'o ntenp JLet" Si '1 ' H1'"1;'1- "' treasured an I our ,, '"J,1 'l tl.'c to I'" trampled on then "Anil Vftll lhMi,h T M.U " ... . SI? 1 )ou W"u hold me a A.i'!,nir' "'fhecatisc I am triaceful and fair. ii 1 1? " . "'J1 1" transplant me entire. mvw ,uur "'ei would have, lor But to shine and to bear. II A.l I .1 .. .. 'us "one inese well, I would have done A pnrtl' yU W0"IJ S'TC mo 8ul'Prt for your For siimetliinir to lean on, would irlve me a wall i.o.V "owenu with n warm human NVould fain lean on a heart. Xov rVI ,m,Cn,'. ni'1."! hcn 1 Rl,flke of n TU ., i .' "wl " "iiinun, my Heart for . .v (Krasi sHion, and it needs no bower. JJtit only a home; space, adornment, and art. Of a home are small part. "And only the love between equals is true! It you, on a level, to-dav, by my side Stood suyinp, '(live back Hie love 1 irive to you. liriii . iuw- my Heart and my llotu would be satisfled. "I could not look np were you mine, nor permit 1 on, then, to look down ; it is better by fur I stay in the station for which I am fit, 1 u shine in your liifrh heaven mill as a star It is better by far." THE FLEA A1 THE TKOFESSOR. Thekk was once nn aeronaut with whom things went badly; the balloon burst, tumbled the man out. and broke into bits. His boy lie had two minutes before sent down with a parachute tht was the boy's luck ; ho was unhurt and went about with knowledge enough to make him an aeronaut too, hut he had no bailout and no means of acquiring one. Hut live he must, and so ho applied bimself to the art of legerdemain and to talking in his stomach; in fact he be came a ventriloquist, as thev say. He was young, good-looking, and when lie got a moustache and had his best clothes on. he could be taken for a no bleman's son. The ladies seemed to think well of him ; one young ladv even was so taken with his charms and his great dex terity that she went off with him to for eign parts. Thrre he called himself l'to- iessor tie coultl scarcely do less. His constant thought was how to get himself a balloon and go up into the air iin ma iiuiu niiii, uul as j ei iney iiau iiu means. "They'll come yet," said he. " If only they would," said she. "We are young folks." said he."and now I am Profe-sor." She helped him faithfully, sat at the door and sold tickets to the ex- HiDition, and it was a chilly sort of pleas. lire in winter time. She also helped him in liiu line vi ins art. lie put ms wile In a table-drawer, a large table-drawer: theti she crawled into the back part of the urawcr, anu so was hoc m tlie front part, quite an optical illusion to the audience. But one evening when lie drew the drawer out, she was als i out of sight to him : she was not in the front drawer, nor in the back one either, nor in the house itself nowhere to bo seen or heard that was licrtoitt ot leirerdeii:ain,her entertainment. She never came back again ; she was tired of it all, and he grew tired of it, lost Ids rood-humor, could not laugh or make okes : and so the people stopped com ng, his earnings became scanty, his clothes gave out; and finally he only owned a great Ilea, which his wife had left him, and so he thought highly of it. And he dressed the Ilea and taught it to pertorm. to present arms and to lire a cannon off, but it was a little cannon. The Professor was proud of the ilea, and the flea was proud of himself; he had leained something, and had human blood, and had been besides to the larg est cities, had been seeu by plnces and princesses, had received their high praise, and it was printed in the newspapers and on placards. Plainly.it ws a very famous flea and could sup port a professor and his entire family. The flta was proud and famous, and yet wnen no anu ine I'roiessor traveled tney took fourth-class carriages on the railway; they went just as quickly as the flrst-class. They were betrothed to each other; it was a private engagement that would never come out ; they never would marry, the flea would remain a bachelor and the Professor a widower. That made it bal ance. " Where one has the best luck," said the Professor, "there one ought to go twice." He was a good judge of character, and that is also a science of Itself. At last he had traveled over all countries except .the wild ones, and so he wanted to go l mere. iney. eat Christian men there. ;o be sure, the Professor knew, but then i was not properly Christian and t.!i floa 'as not properly a man, so tie thought hev mierht venture to trawl thorn and lave godtl success. Iney traveled by steamship and by sail- ring; vessel ; the flea performed his tricks, ana so they got a free passage on the way and arrived at the wild couutry. Here reigned a little Prin cess, bhe was only eight years old, but she wjs reigning. She had taken away the power from her father and mother, for she had a will, and then she was extraordinarily beautiful and rude. Just its soon ns the flea had presented arms and fired off the cannon, she was so enraptured with him that she said, "Him or nobody !" She b.-came quite wild with love and was already wild In other ways. ' Sweet, little, senti'ilo child!" said her own father. "If one could only first make a man of him!" "Leave that to m old man," said she, and that was not well said bv a little Prin cess when talking with her father, but she was wild. She set the Ilea on her white hand. "Jfawyou we a man, reigning with me, And, clothed with humility, bounty, and n-iHly may look in the face of a sin". i . 1 nns mane me as Rood in mv n rtiiu us mn.p.r no ...m ... Editor ami PnblUhrr. iui?M,1Vn!a11 d0 wJ1Rt 1 want y to, i ?. ? U1 H111 y and eat the Professor 1 lie 1 rOll'SRnr hllll rrnnnt 11... i n.i, - i 111111 iu live in. I he walls yere made of sugar-cane, and .hwC?V"diickIIth.em' hM h ww not a i 'Yln in a bai f T J' "8 "'ways wished for him muS wf.9 his constant thought. .7i V r.T11 th0 I'rincess, sat tin !; 1 , " , 1 mKen a lln,r from fi?I Jt,ea,(1 and mB(,e the Professor tie it to t,h Tina 'a Ini i a. - . the flea's leg, and so she kept him tied to tne creat red onrpi iimn ,i,i.,v, i, . i," i, .: .v... tim.i,,, onu nureiu ear-up. vvnata tlelightful time the 1 rincess had, and the flea too, she thought, but the Profnissnr woo nr.; p.nmfir.rf.iKlrt 1Ta .nn . . 1 . ... ..".uiuivi "o nun a iraveier; lie Ilkctl to drive from town to town, and read aDout his perseverance and cleverness in teaching a flea to do what men do. But l" 1 . . . ""3 iiuuilllllUK. lounged about and had good feeding, fresh Dird s-esffs. elenhniit.'a iiu uul uiic ii nnn tnrn i,ia v. .. M ... t. js'iniie. i eopie mat eat. men do not liv 11 it 1 , J i unsi . f cooKeu men -no, that is great delicacy. "btiotllder of children with sharn H iuce," said tne Princess's the most delicate." mother. 4iis ine Professor was tired of it all and w OUUI rather fn sv fmm ,n.i i i 1 . V "J .'v-uinrenuiiiuiiu, but he must have his flea with him, for ao...0 ii.niigy, anu ms oread am butter. How was he to get hold of himi 1 nat was no easy matter. He strained an 1118 us, anu men he said, "Now I have it." ' "Prii eesfi'a Fnthnr t rri- - r. Hay I summon your subjects to present themselves before your Hoyal Highness ? fhat is what is called a Ceremony in - the ngn and mighty countries of the world. Can I, too, learn to do that?" aski ;he Princess's father. "That is not quite proper," replied the Professor; "but I shall teach your wild nft urifi, 1 A ..":r. . : ? r itLiiersniD 10 nre n mnnnn nw if j. nuuniiS. une sus nign up aioit. iiiuii uu ii. f;ues oriiown no comes. ' iei me cracK it off!" said the Prin- cess's tatner. iiut in all the land there was no cannon excent tbo m iho n.,o i,.,.i . , f - win. .11 .iti ll.iu uiuugur, anu mat was so very small. "I will cast a bigger one!" said the Professor. '-Only give me the means. I must have line silk stuff, needle and thread, rone and cord, rnu-orhnp dial drops for the balloon, they blo.v one uii ffi vastly nnu jfive one me neaves ; tliey are what make the report in the cannon's inside." " By all means," said the Princess's itner, anu save linn whnr. bo pjill..ri foi- All the court and the entire population ame together to see the great cannon ast. The Professor did Tint. Riimmnn them before he hud the balloon pntirMltr ready to lie filled and go up. The ilea sat on the Princess's hand and looked on. The balloon was filled, it bulged out and could scarcely be held down, so violent uiu it uecome. "I must have it up in the air before it can be cooled oil," said the Professor, and took is scat 111 me car which hung below, But 1 cannot man nee nnd steer it. nlmm I must have a skillful companion along to help me. There is no one hero that can do 'hat except the fla." 1 am not very willing to let him," said the I'rincess, but still she reached out and handed the Ilea to the Professor, who jjt.it:eu mill oil ills liaiul. "ijet go the cords and ropes," he touted. "Now the balloon's going." hey thought he said "the cannon " nn.l so the balloon went higher and hirhnP. nn above the clouds, far away from the wild Hill. The little Princess, all thp. fnmliir nnrl the people sat and waited they are wait ing still; and if vou do not believe it. Inst take a journey to the wild land ; every child there talks about the Professor ni.ri the flea, and believes that they are coming back when the cannon is cooled off; but they will not come, tkey are a' home with us, they are in their native country, they travel on the railway, first class, not fourth ; they have good success, a great balloon. Nobody asks how they got their balloon or where it came from : they are rich folks now, quite respectable folks, indeed the flea and the Professor! Hans Christian Andersen in Scribner's for April. Sight-Work. In reply to the question, how long a time should be regarded as tlio minimum to be spent in bed iu each twenty-four hours? the Lancet says: We are of course speaking of adults ; and we think we may place the minimum at six hours for men and seven for women, with an additional hour, or even two, being taken whenever it is practicable. Then as regards night-work : how far Is that specially prejudicial t We believe that for the voung it is re.allv Inlnrlnns by (he mere fact of its being night-work; but for those whose organisms are con solidated we greatly doubt if it be at all injurious, perse. But there are sundry conditions inexorablv rponlrino- to h observed, if night-work is to do no harm. First of nil, there must be no curtailment of the allowance of bod above mpntinm rl and this allowance of repose must be taken in a continuous manner. A man who works tin to 4 a. m. should after that lie in bed till 10, and, if possible, should get an additional hour's eleep and a meal after it. Secondly, the light by which he works at night should be very white, powerful and steady, and should te carp. fully concentrated, by a green shade, on his books or naners : insufficient, flicker ing, or too difl'used light is one of the most serious causes of the brain-irritation which afflicts night-workers. A Jewish Legend. According to Jewish and Moham medan tradition, King Solomon, who was wise beyond all other men, knew the lan guage of animals, and could talk with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. A Kabbinical story is told of him, which is in tills wise : "One day the king rode out of Jerusa lem with a great retinue. An ant-bill lay directly iu his path, and Solomon heard its little people talking. " Here comes the great king, he heard one of them say. 'His flatterers call him wise, and lust, and merciful, but he is about to ride over us, and crush us with out heeding our sufferings.' "And Sdlomon told the Queen of She ba, who rode with him, what the ant said. "And the queen made answer, 'He is an insolent creature, O king ! It is a bet ter fate than he deserves, to be trodd h under our feet.' "But Solomon said: 'It Is the part oi wisdom to learn of the lowest ana weak est.' And he commanded his train to turn aside and spare the ant-hill. "Then all the courtiers marveled great ly, and the Queen of Sheba bowed her head and made obeisance to Solomon. " 'Now know I the secret of thy wis dom. Thou listened as patiently to the reproaches of the humble as to the flat teries of the great.' " Whitlier. Cleansing Woolen Garments. To clean woolen garments, take a rough sponge, dampen it well with weak soap suds, and rub tjje spotg thoroughly. Try T' I If r'nTTVmr mrr-m KIDGWAY, Home-Made Book-Shclrcs. Among the objects that are most easily made, and that afford tho greatest con venience, are book-shelves. When a fami ly possesses a hundred volumes orso and most families own as many as this the books are a source of a constant an noyance. When they are allowed to lie on their sides on tables, if we wish to con sult one we are frequently obliged to toss over the whole of them ; they accumulate dust, and get shaken, soiled and injured generally, all which might bo avoided by the use of a few simple shelves, and these may be easily made of very cheap ma terial and very simple construction. The best material Is pine, since it is cheap and easily worked. It is not generally known that a plain pino board, if stained and varnished, may be made to look very like mahogany, rose-wood, or black-walnut, and the process of staining is so simple that any housewife can perform it. We know a ladv who has stained nnd vnr. dozens of pine shelves that her husband nas ntteu up during his leisure moments, and to-dav thev look ns if thev wpre. ma. hogany. To stain shelves a ninhop-nnv-color take a pound or two of logwood chips and boil them In water, so as to make a stronir uucuviiuu. ie itavo ioum mat tins gives better results than can bo ob nined bv .1 . . . . : ii' , . . . .... . " tiding exrraci ot togwoou. wet the hoard thoroughly with this decocti- n; when dry it will have a reddish-yellow color. and must then be varnished with what is known as spirits of shellac varnish lhis varnish can be bought ready- made at tne paliit snons. nut we jrcfer to make it by dissolving good shel ac in alcohol. Put a ouantitv of good shellac into a wide-mouthed bottle, cover it with alcohol, cork the bottle tightly, anu iet it stanti until tne snciiac is dis solved. No skill is required in the appli- canon oi mis varnisli. which dries verv rnpiuiy, ami lorms a naru glossy coating on the surface of the board. When drv the shelf must be carefully smoothed off wnn sanu-paper anu again varnished. the second coat will give a verv bright appearance to tne snett, out it we Sawd p.tper it before applying the first coat the siaining win prooaoi.r De removed in spots and the shelf will not iook well An application of the sand-naner after the second coat will still further improve the miisn ot tne woou ; out this, or course, involves a third coat of varnish. Bv add ing the least quantity of alkali, such as washing soda, to the logwood decoction, the pine will be made to resemblo rose wood. In all cases, however, the shelves do not acquire their proper tone for some months ; but if well done that is, if the decoction be strong, the varnish thor oughly applied, and all roughness re moved by means of the sand-paper at me enu oi a year nine persons out of ten will take them for mahogany or rose-wood. as the case may be. Every fiber of the pine fhowsso that the grain Is as annnrent as if the shelves were made of hard wood and polished. The appearance is, there- iore, greatly superior to that of any ordi nary painted work, and the process is so simple that no intelligent housekeeper 1 .1 .1 - J !1 "... . 1 . mien urenu a lauure. ve nave now in mind a set of shelves prepared in this way by a lady whose husband, although not a mechanic, fitted up tne wood-work as an amusement during the whiter eveninea. and they compare favorably with much of tin- i-auiiicb-wurn llliu WU UUU ill 1UUIKCL. Harper s Bazar. The Disabled Cable. The late tidings of the silence of the Atlantic cable of 18U5, while causing tem porary uneasiness, ought to raise no fear for Its ultimate restoration. It mav be there are yet some vital lessons for the cientilie world to learn before our great transoceanic telegraphs are secured from interruption ; but every ray of light that has been brought to bear on the feasibility of long cables is cheering. When the cable of 1SU5 was laid, it was only alter it had ueen suuiecicu to crttrial tests and proved to be many times more nerfect than Imri been required. Sir William Thomson and Mr. Varley. who represented the Ailantip. Company, and tested the mighty strand as it lay coiled in the Great Eastern, re ported that the current of electricity pass ed through it so fully that, "of one thou sand parts over nine hundred and ninety nine cams out tit tho other end." Th galvanometer enabled its inventor, Pro fessor Thomson, to detect the slightest flaw in the cable or fault in the current, and when the first monition came that the ctf rent was not llowing freely, the spot in deep ocean where the injured or defect ive piece lay was instantly fixed upon. On this occasion, and subsequently, when a piece of wire not longer than a needle was found to have been driven througli the outer cover, and as when a nail driven into the North Sea cable had destroyed its insulation, tne miscmei was traced to hu man hands. During the Great Eastern's voyage from Valentin, Bay exquisitely sen sitive was the copper strand that the elec tricians at Valentin could tell by the in dications on the mirror galvanometer, in comparably sensitive, every time the big ship rolled. The final fracture of the ca ble, when the shores of Newfoundland were almost in sight, was also traced to malicious interference with it in the ship's hold, and not to any magnetic storm, "sweeping wildly across it, with the fury of a voiceless tempest," as a London pa per explained its silence, l'here are no known difficulties in the submarine geog raphy itself likely to affect the cable of ItiOo or any other, and we may feel confi dent that any interruption to its working cannot be more than temporary. N. y. Herald. Jury Reform. The difficulties that surround the sys tem of trial by jury are exciting more and more the attention of English jurists. Even so great an authority as the Attorney-General, Sir Jhn Coleridge, has been enlisted on the side of radical reform in that direction. He has recently intro duced a bill to reform the procedure in ) ury cases. The amendments that ho pro poses are, we believe, too sweeping to find favor in conservative England. First, he proposes In all except capital cases to do away with the ancient twelve jury, men, and to reduce that apostolic number to seven. Of thete seven a majority are to determine the questions In issue ; and the trial is to go on even though two of these Jurors Bhould be absent from sick ness. Certainly this would do away with theendless disagreements of juries, which now are the cause of so much vexation and expense to suitors. It would also greatly diminish the burden of jury duty, and make it unnecessary to summon the large panels now required. On the other hand, the opponents of the bill in sist that it would lodge too much power in the hands of four men, and that the bribery of jurors would be resorted to more frequently than at present. What ever the fate of Sir J. Coleridge's bill, it is probable that at no very distant time tho method of trial by jury will be modi fled both in England ami in this country, at least in civil cafes. By making the agreement of tt-n men sufficient the obsti nate or purchased twelfth juror who ap pears in so many cases would become an MD known quantity, It is undeniable, REPUBLICAN PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1873. however, that to do this would be to over turn a fundamenftil principle of Englls Jurisprudence which has survived the test of many centuries of practical application -X. V. Sun. A Remarkable Slander Suit. A remarkable slander suit brought to recover $5lK),000 damages is now in pro. gress in Lexington. Kv. In September. 1871, Jacob and Betsy narper, brother anu sister oi old John uarper, the famou racing man, were brutally murdered I vjieuiueiown. iourteen mnes irom ,ht Ington. and rumors gained currency that one Aiiam narper, a ncpnew or theirs was implicated In the crime. Adam Har. per accuses another member of the fami ly, J. Wallace. Harper, of being the author oi mese reports, ana it is against him that Adam has brought this slander suit.. There are two counts in tho petition for uamages, ana to Doth ot them the defend-. ant sets up a denial, though he declares that ho is still constrained to believe the prosecutor guilty, and shall so continue to believe until the latter proves to the contrary. The plaintiff has already pro- ui.tii a. uiimii vi witnesses wno nave tes tified in the strongest terms to his irre- proacnaoie character; while lor the de fense another cloud of witnesses nnvp borne equally emphatic testimony to his geiierm wuruiiessnes! But in addition to tne evidence regarding character, tes timony has been elicited which shows that the plaintiff in the case was very per sistent in his attempts to foist the guilt of the murder on innocent negroes. It Is said that Betsy and Jacob Harper were worm several hundred thousand dollars, and that although there were money and valuables in the house when the muwer was committed neither was touched, while the wills of Jacob, Betsy, and John were stolen. Adam is one of four neph ews who would have been the heirs of the oiu people in case of their dying Intestate, and it is asserted that his name had been omittea irom the missing wills. N. Y. nun. Sunshine. Do what you can to make sunshine in the world. Lift up the curtains. We do not mean the curtains of the room. hut. the curtains which darken the spirit of uur uroi.ner, your mend, your neigh, bor, or even of a stranger, if the curtain, strings are within your convenient reach Lift up the curtains, and let the sun. shine In. Light is better than d irkness. and how cheap it is I A kind and cheer ing word to one who is in trouble and is perplexed, and almost tliscniirno-prl; word of heartfelt svmnathv to the milier. en, a loving word ot counsel to the ug ; a word of assurance to the doubt, ing; a "soft word which, though it but ters no parsnips, turnuth away wrath,' to the prejudiced and unreasonably pro voked ; all such words as these are sun shine to those to whom they are spoken "1 have never found anything else so cheap and so useful as politeness " snid an old traveler to us once. Ho then went on to state that, earlv in life, finding how useful it was, frequently, to strangers, to give them some Information of which thev were in search, and which he possessed, he had adopted the rule always to help everybody lie could in such little oppor tunities as were constantly oflprino- in his travels. The result was, that out of the merest trilles Ot ass stance... x&mlprp1 in this way, had grown some of the pleas antest and most valuable acquaintances unit, u nau ever iormeu. How many great men have testified that their whole lives have been influenced bv some single remark made to them in their boyhod ! And who cannot recall words spoken to himself in his childhood, to which, pernaps, tne speaKer attached no importance whatever, but which sank deep and immovably into his memory, and which have never lost their power over him? Make sunlight! the world at. hest. la dark enough. Do what you can to make it more cheerful and happier. Exchanqe. Beauty of Old People. Men aud women make their own hemi- ty or their own ugliness. Lord Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man " who was uglier than he had nnv hncl. ness to be ;" and if he could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and ts good-looking orthe reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisel of thought and emotion are eternally at work. Beauty is not the monopoly of blooming young men and of whitc-and-i ink inaiil..ns. There is a slow growing beauty that onlv comes to perfection in old age. Grace be- ongs to no period of life, and goodness Improves the longer it exists. We have seen sweeter smiles from a lip of seventy than upon a lil) of seventeen. Thprn fi the beauty of youth and the beauty of holiness a beauty much more seldom met, and more freauentlv found in rim arin-chair by the fire with grandchildren around his knee, than in the ball-room or promenade. Husband and wife, who lave fOUght tho World Side bv Birin n-hn have made common stock of joy and sor row, and aged together, are not infre quently lounu curiously alike in personal appearances, and in pitch and tone of voice just as twin pebbles on the beach, exposed to the same tidal influences, are each other's second self. He has gained a feminine something, which brings his manhood into full relief. She has gained a masculine something which acts as a foil to her womanhood. Lady's Magazine. Activity or the Mind In Sleep. Undoubted proof has been afforded that the energy of the Intellect is sometimes greater during sleep than at other times, and many a problem, it is asserted, .has been solved In sleep which has puzzled the waking sense. Cabanis tells us that Franklin on several occasions mentioned to him that he had been assisted in dreams in the conduct of many affairs it which he was engaged. Condillac states that while writing his Course of Studies he was fre quently obliged to leave a chapter incom plete and retire to bed, and that on awak ing he found it, on more than one occa sion, finished in his head. Ia like manner Condorcet would sometimes leave his complicated calculations unfinished, and sfter retiring to rest would find their re sults unfolded to him in his dreams. La Fontaine and Voltaire both composed verses in their eleep, which they could re peat on awaking. Dr. Johnson relates that he once in a dream had a contest of wit with some other person, and that he was very much mortified by imagining that his antagonist had the better of him. Coleridge in a dream composed the wild and beautiful poem of Kubla Khan, which had been suggested to him by a passage he bad read in Purchas's Pilgrimage be fore he fell asleep. On awaking he had a distinct recollection of between 200 and 300 lines, and, taking writing materials, began eagerly to set them down. Unfortunate'y he was Interrupted before a quarter of the task wa done was called away to attend to some business which detained him an hour and found when he returned to his writing that the renu liider had vanished from his memory. The most remarkable testimony of this kind Js perhaps that f PARTY. Sir Thomas Browne, who declared that, if it were possible, he would prefer to carry on his studies in his dreams, so much more efficient were his faculties of mind when his body was asleep. He further adds that were his memory as faithlul as ids reason is then fruitful, he would prefer that season for his devotions. A Wonderful Exploit. On March 3, 18G8, a train on Benning ton and Portland Railroad was snow bound about three-fourths of a mile from Shaftsbury. The weather was intensely cold; there were no provisions on the train ; fuel was nearly exhausted ; night TTuani'iHunuiiii, Hnu BC niuiBtion Degan to look desperate. Mr. Hills' two small children were with him, and one of them, too young to be fed with arguments, clamored for something better. The su perintendent of the road, Mr. F.C. White, was on the train, but strange to say, the snow wouldn't clear thp r.rnelr for a mill. road king. In his helplessness he was entirely at a loss for any means of relief, until Captain Hills, without instruments of any kind, except the wire on the nnlpo. proposed, nevertheless, to telegraph to Rutland. The superintendent was in credulous, out Captain 11. quickly cut the wire, and communicated with the officers of tho road at Rutland, merely Rtriklnir the ends of the wire together thus mak ing and breaking the telegraphic circuit as hn would have done with the k-pv of nn ordinary operating instrument. An engine was immediately sent to the re lief of the blockaded train. But the en tire operation required the receiving, as well as the sending of messages. This was the crucial test of Capt. Hills' inge nuity, emii, anu nerve, anu. until rn is was accomplished, the superintendent and passengers felt no assurance that the mes sage sent had been intelligibly commu nicated to the officers at Rutland. Strik. mg his wires together, he wrote to the operator at Kutlaiv.l, as follows : "Trouble. Answer slowly. I nm wort, ing without an instrument: I will receive yutir answer tnrougn my tongue." lie touched the frosty wire to his tongue, with the same result, at first, ns thm on. joyed oy tne hoy who undertook to lick the irost Irom his skate-steel, but found that the. steel knew more nhoiir. lli limr than he did. The wire wouldn't let go until it was warmed, and then kindly took the skin off with it. So the wirp wsia lengthened and carried into the car. Alter it was warmed, Captain H. received the messages by nutting one end of the wlrP above and the other end under his tongue and letting the electric current pass through it, when he was able to read by the succession of sharp and somewhat painful elee'ric shocks. His success was perfect and he not only sent and received tiipannrpa fiii Ilia Diinoi.!nfnHl.l. u... r. ...... .r. mv. ot'll lIllCllUt'IlL UUb lUr several of the passengers. The only ill consequence of the exploit was the total loss of taste which Captain H. suffered for several days afterwards Chiennn Tribune. Decadence of the Prize Ring. And now even Lord O'ttuMwln. thp gigantic smasher, has set his face sternly against the prize ring. It is too vile a tUing to receive his sunnorr,. IT. hns given it a patient trial, and at last isorced iw liiiuw up ms nanus wiui an exclama tion of disgust. O'Baldwln has suflered much for his profession since cominp to America. Ho has borne imprisonment iiitu a martyr, due tne lail tprrnrs con r not drive him from his high and hoiv mission. He cared not for nrison hnrs ho long as his friends rallied around him in the brief days of his liberty, and applauded him as a heroic representative of ihe man ly art of self-defense. But when these friends turned against him, and with cowardly blows struck him down in a ring where a rude kind of chivalrv nnd physical manhood were presumed to go land in hand, the proud heart of O'llaiil- win was touched, and he resolved to suffer martyrdom no more. From the lail at Steubenville the Irish pugilist sends forth a manifesto closing with these portentous words! "Since prizefighting no longer deserves the name, and the question at is sue is not who is the best man, but where he was born, and if his nativity does not suit, what other means can be adopted, even to murder, if necessary, to prevent his defeat. I abandon forever the prize ring to such men as Kllev, Geohegan and their cowardly tools." This Is Rd. and yet it is cheering. Sad for the reason that O'Baldwin should have wasted so much of a vigorous life in a cause which he is forced to confess Is without manhood or honor; and cheering because the retire ment of the Irish giant from the ring gives rise to the hope that prize-fighting as seen its best days in America. When lie ring becomes so low as to be branded as the synonym of thievery and cowardice by a professional bruiser like O'Baldwin, then let us trust it is indeed past redemp tion. Having retired from thejring in dis gust, we are a little bit curious to learn how Lord O'Baldwin proposes to make himself useful. Will he carry a hod, or run a gin mill? Turf, Field and Farm. Female Clerks. We are sorrv to record that the women employed in the Treasury Department nave Deen accused as a Dody, both on the floor of Congress and elsewhere, of being loose and immoral in their character. It is doubtless true that some improper wTunen have been employed in the Trea- Bury. It would be miraculous if out of so many women employed it were otherwise, under the former Imperfect system of ap pointment. But that mors than anlncon siderable proportion are otherwise than virtuous and modest, we confidently deny, and our denial is based on a thorough acquaintance with the facts. The simple truth is that these women as a class are as virtuous, as modest, as intelligent, as respectable, and as discreet and lady-like in their demeanor as the ladies of any corrmunity of which we know, and that even the few who constitute the unfortu nate exceptions to this encomium are compelled, by the force of the common sentiment oi ootn men ana women in the Department, to conduct themselves dis creetly and properly while there. could their cruel traducers but visit the Department and observe the deportment of the woman clerks, dav after dav: could they see them at their fatiguing employ- iueui; rouia iney Know mac mostoi tnein have either children or young brothers and sisters or aged and infirm parents dependent upon them for support ; that many of them lost the strong arm which they had honed would shield thpm from want and misery during the late war; that many were inemseives on the field of bat tle or in the hospital, ministeriug, as only woman can, to the sick, the wounded and the dying, and that most of them if de prived of their positioH8 would have scarcely any other resource for tho sup port ot themselves and families than the charity of friends or of the world, we are sure that an end would be put at once and forever to the detraction of the women who earn their bread bv hard labor In thn Treasury Department. ScribnerU for The phoenix was raised in a hnt hprl. nnrl tliut'o mVi.. ui " ' hhv 9 vw miiAceuim oar, longevity. To have a good chance for longevity, an originally good constitution that ia a sound Internal mechanism is of im mense advantage; though to this primary excellence we must need add carefulness in the art of living. Iven philosophy docs not wear men out, unless when their constitutions are naturally weak. Vol taire, who, at his birth, was put into a quart-pot, could never, by any other mode vi inu mini uiu on. no cnose, nave Deen floated on to eighty-four ; whereas no one was surprised to see Theophrastua tod ding about the Agora at a hundred and seven, or Dcmocritus enjoying hi8 last laugn at AOdura, when time had wreath ed his brow with the laurels of n hundred and nine years. The lives of such men, always active, and therefore always nleas. ant, may be regarded as worth more than a thousand years of such vapid and worth less existence as tnosc ot tho 1 oghis, even uiougn it snoutu ee true that they some, times reckon up two hundred anniversa ries of their birthd iys. They do nothing io auorn or sotten numan lite, Dut Instead grovel in self-torture, and the hideous gratification of vanity, as long as they de- iorm tne eartn. ii mere De a secret or long life, it is nature only that holds pos- bvsiuii ut iu. man neiuier Knows nor can know how it may be fabricated ; but when the germ of longevity has been con celvedinthcframo.it may either be suf fered to spring up, flourish, bear fruit, and then in obedience to the hidden law which originally gave it force, decay, and become extinct, when that force has been expended, or, by previously contracting me ocsigns oi nature, oe cut snort of its career, so that tho vitality originally meant to enaure possioiy lor a hundred and eighty-five years, may at any inter mediate stage ba forcibly quenched. Like clocks, the machinery of our frames mnv be wound up for this or that length of nine, aim go on ticking tor that period, if left to Itself; but it is no doubt possible to put a 'spoke in the works, and stop them by vice or folly, whenever our mad ness may prompt us to such a deed. It is witnin every one's experience that hun dreds of their acquaintances, with good chances of longevity, have literally thrown away their lives through sheer perversity ol conduc t. '1 hey would die, and their wish lias been gratified. Chambers' Jour nal. The Symint-s Theory of the Earth. According to this, the earth Is trlnhnlnr hollow, and open at the poles. The diam eter of the northern opening is about two thousand miles, or four thousand miles from outsideto outside. The south open ing is somewhat larger. The planes of these openings are parallel to each other, but form an angle of 12 deg. with tho equator, so that the highest part of the norm piane is directly opposite the low est pait of the south plane. The shell of the earth Is about one thousand miles thick, and the edges of this shell at the openings are called verges, and measure, irom uie regular concavity within to the regular convexity without, about fifteen hurdred miles. The verges occunv about, 25 deg., and If delineated on a man would show only the outer half of the verge. while all above or farther from the colla tor, both north and south, would lie on the apex and within the verge. All the puuir regions upon tne present map would be out of sight. The meridian lines extend at right angles from the equator to the outer edges of the verges, and then wind around along the surface of the verges, terminating at the points directly tinder the highest parts of the verges both north and south. 1 lie line which marks the location of the apex of tho northern verge begins at a point in Lapland about C3 deg. N. and deg. irom London on a meridian traversing Soitzbergen. whence it passes southwest across the Atlantic Ocean and the southern part of Greenland, through Hudson's Bay and over tho continent to the Pacific near Cook's Inlet, thence across the Fox Islands, to a point about 56 deg. N. and KiO deg. W., nearly south of Behring's Straits. Then it passes over the Pacific, crossing the south part of Kamtchatka, continuing northwest through Siberia, entering Europe across the L'ral Mountains, in latitude) about, fitt deg. N., and passing near the Arctic coast, over the mouth of the White Sea, to the point of starting. Atlantic for April. Proving too Much- Walter Savage Landor used to relate an anecdote of one of our judges. Being on circuit, two old men were brought before mm as witnesses, and. according to cus tom he began to chat with them, among other things, about their age, for the pur pose of giving a moral lesson to the young barristers. " Well, mv good man." said he to tb first witness, "how old may vou be?" " About eighty-seven, my lord." " I daresay, now-vou have lived a verv sober life?" Yes. my lord : I haven't been tlnRv for the last sixty years." "There!" cried his lordshiD. turning to the gentlemen of the bar, " you see wnat a nne thing sobriety is ! The wit ness looks as though he would live twen ty years more." J. he barristers nadded assent. In his turn, another witness came forward, who looked particularly hale and robust. 'And how old are vou. friend?" in quired the judge. --iMuety-nve, my iora," was tne repiy. " Ninety-five ! I'll answer for it. vou have led a sober life haven't you ?" Witness hung his head, and anwered : " I don't like to say afore all these gen tlemen." " Never mind ; speak out." " Well, then, mv lord. I haven't gone to bed sober for the last seventy years." At this his lordship looked rather blank. and the bar smiled. The judge then said : " We will proceed with the case, gentle men." Chambers' Journal. The army register, for the current year, shows that the commissioned por tion of rate United States army includes 12 general officers, 15 adjutant-generals, 8 inspector-generals, 10 judge-advocates, 1 chief signal-officer, 69 quartermasters, 28 commissaries, 163 medical officers, 54 paymasters, 103 engineers, 61 ordnance offlcers, 30 posOchaplalna, 425 cavalry officers, 274 artillery-officers, 881 iulantry offloers, 8 professors, 293 cadets, and 297 officers retired from active service. making a total of 2,730. There are 2132 officers on the active list ; and, contrary to tue general impression, only uuu, or less than one third of them, are graduates of West Point. In regard to disagreeable and formida ble things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage. He who wishes to walk In the most peaceful parts of lite with any serenity must screw bimseit up to resolution. Let him tront the object of his worst apprehen slon, and his stoutness will commonly make ms tear groundless. Emerson, A drinking saloon has for one of its signs : " Man wants but little hero below, out want inai niue strong Two Dollnra per Annnm. NUMBER 5. Restoration of Burned Currency. The identification and retoratlon of notes which have been burnt ia a difficult and interesting operation. Every one has observed that a printed paper after having been burnt, If not subjected to a strong draft or roughly handled, retains Its origi nal form, and that the printing is distinct and legible, and appears aa if it had been raised or embossed on the paper, but that if it Is touched never so gently it orumbles into dust. Notes In this condition are fre quently received at the Department for redemption. The counter subjects each note and fragment of a note to a careful Inspection in a strong light, under a pow erful glass, until she determines the de nomination and issue, and then pastes it upon a piece of thin tough paper in order that It may oe safely handled. But this pasting, by destroying the raised or em bossed appearance, at once and forever precludes all chance of again identifying the kind or denomination of the note. Henceforth it is but a plain, black piece of paper, giving no Indication that it ever represented money. It is therefore very necessary that the counter should be quite sure that her judgment is correct before the note is pasted upon the paper. She must also, a most difficult task, deter mine whether the note is genuine or coun terfeit. And yet counterfeits are discov ered by these experts among the charred remains of notes with almost as much certainty as among perfect notes. Charred notes of National banks have occasionally come into the possession of the Depart ment, and have Deen restored in this man ner and returned for redemption to the banks which Issued them, accompanied bv the affidavits of the counters that thev were the remains of notes of the banks to which they were returned. In most cases they were promptly and cheerfully redeemed. But occasionally a surly bank officer, unable or unwilling to trace any re semblance to bank notes, or at least to the notes of his bunk, in the plain black pieces of paper returned to him, and influenced by a desire to eflect a little saving for the stockholders, refused to redeem and chal lenged the Department to the proof. All positive ocular proof having been destroy ed when tho notes were restored and pasted, the Department was compelled to submit to the loss. Once some of the exnerts were "ranted leaves of absence, without pay from the Government, for the purpose of restoring a large quantity of burnt money belong ing to the Adams Express Company. This was permitted partly because it was known that there was no one else who could perform the service, without which the company n otlld be Ktihieeterl to crrent: loss, but principally because the company offered to pay them much more for their time and labor than they were receiving from the government, and it was thought that their long and faithful services justly entitled therri to this addition to their meager salaries. The money was taken from safes recovered from the wreck of a burnt steamer which had been lying for four or live years at the bottom of the Misslsssnpi. and the notes were so burnt. decayed, and damaged as to be absolutely worthless, unless identitied and restored. Yet nearly every note of the one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars in United States and National Bank notes recovered was restored with unerring certainty and reueemeu at its lun lace value, l lie Chi cago and Boston fires have for the last year and a half furnished burnt notes enough to keep all tho experts of tho office pretty constantly employed. Scrib ner's for April. Ruining Mirrors. Many fine mirrors are spoiled, and their owners cannot understand the reason. The Mercantile Journal says : It Is a fact worth knowing, but which does not seem generally understood, that the amalgam of tin foil with mercury, which is spread on glass plates to make looking-glasses, is very readily crystal ized by actinic solar rays. A niirror hung where the sun can shine on it is usually spoiled ; it takes on a granulated appearance familiar to housekeepers, though they may not be acquainted with its cause. In such a state the article is nearly wo-thless. the continuity of its surface is destroyed, and it will not reflect outlines with any approach to precision. Care should therefore be exercised in hanging. If any of our readers have mirrors which appear to De spoiling, it would Do well to ascertain whether the di rect sunlight strikes them. If thus ex posed, thev can probably ho saved from further injury by simply changing their position, i tie Dack as well as the lront must be protected. A small glass hung in a window, where the rays strike it be hind, is peculiarly exposed. The back should always be covered where tho beams are likely to touch it. The greatest danger to looking-glasses, however, is in transporting them. Very expensive ones have been seriously in jured by careless handling when merely curried across a street. The men wno move furniture are seldom fully aware of these possibilities, and need to be cau tioned and watched. Frequently a man or boy mav be seen in the street carrying a mirror in such a way that the full glare .. .i . ' i i i.i ... ut a nuuu-uiiy huh hu lives unu injures it Owners of euch articles would, as a rule, be able to keep and use them much longer if they would exercise more caution in this regard. To re-silver a pier-glass often costs as much as one-fifth of the original price of the article, while the common glass is seldom worth resilver- It is also well to avoid hanging a mir ror near a stove or fireplace where the heat radiated can reach it. If this pre caution is neglected, granulation is likely to occur, even in a comparatively dark room, by the influence of warmth iustead of l'ght. A lamp, or gas jet, if placed too close while burning, though it may not crack the glass, will often bring about the same injurious crystalization, and will even some times cause the amalgam to men ana run on. Those of us who have flattered our selves that we were descendants of Dar win's monkeys will be plunged into a gulf of deep despair on hearing Prof. Conn's tneory mat tne numan race an sprung from a yeast fungus. Prof. Cohn has given this matter such candid considera tion that there can be no doubt about the correctness of bis .theory. He ia now making investigations with a view of as certahung what brewery furnished the yeast. Detroit Tribune. The little postofflce at Rockland. Me.. takes more foreign money orders than New York or any other office In the coun try. A large number of Scotch, English and Irish stone-cutters are employed in tne granite quarries there, who take thU mode of sending money to their families In the Old World One ounce of wahoo (winged-elm) bnrk, added to a quart of pure whisky and thken in doses of one teaspoonful half an hour after each meal, ia very excellent in dys pepsia. A wqbp to the wise keep bo,
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