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,