fie Tw6 Dollars per Annum. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL, DESPERANDUM, VOL. III. What to do With the Apples. SOME DOME8TI0 saiirii. When nicely pared and deftly cored and cut in quarters first, Ton wrap them tenderly in foldi of light and shortened crust, And boil them faithfully an hour, or Btcam, if that's your choice : You dub the mixture Apple Dujj, and eat it with a eauce. - Or roll your pastry out with care and spread it on a platter, Xay on the apples evenly, and sugar o'er them scatterj Add spice, in kind and quantity to Buit your ap petite, Then spread more pastry on the top and close the edges tight. Some people fancy with a key tho outor odgo to embellish, But with or without ornament 'tig snfe to Bay 'twill relish. And this we christen Apple Pie it eats with cream tip-top The only difficulty is, you don't know when to stop. Or roll your paste in little bits, like biscuit, only thinner, Wheno'er you wish a dainty bito to tapor off your dinner. And hide an applo in each one of all tho nu merous pieces. Then with a Beries of brisk pats obliterate the creat.es. Till round and smooth and fair they lie ; then flour the surface lightly, And tie each in a separate cloth, snugly, se curely, tightly, And steam or boil them full an hour, perhaps a trille over, Then cat them with a creamy sauce you'll think you live in clover. Such crevtur comforlt well deserve a notice and a name, And Dumpling is tho cognomen with which we greet the came. Again: you banish fckina and cores, again in quarters Bcver : A larger quantity this timo, to last well, not forever, But '.hrough the year if need require, or least wise through cold weather, And string them on strong thread or twine all lovingly together ; Expose them to the sun and air for quito a little season, And measurably to the frost for known and ob vious reasons ; And aa the seasons roll around, and fruit meets swift decay, The palate hankering after att, you'll find Dried Apples pay. Or take sweet apples, large and fair, audj put them in a pan, Get in, by dint of packing close, as many as you can, And bake them till they're brown and soft an hour's about the rule , Then give them opportunity (they're better so) to cool ; And when you've eaten your fill, with cream, I shouldn't be surprised To hear you say that Apples Baked were not to be despised. Again : take apples not bo sweet and bake them as before, Then tenderly remove the skins and banish every core j And when they're cool, with vigorous stroke you'll beat them smooth and fine, Then add of sugar half a cup the granulated kind ; Then gently break a frcBh-laid egg, the yolk put in a cup, And to the pulp and sugar add the white, and beat it up. Beat on, nor let your courage fail, until before your eyes The mixture white and whiter grown, increasing still in size ; . And when it holds your spoon upright and looks like flakes of snow Thrown up in drifts by Boreas (you ken he loves to blow), ' Ton have a dish called Apple Snow by some (Bathetic cooks I simply call it Apple Foam and how d'ye like the looks ? Have ready-mado a custard soft, and eat the two together ; 'Twill boost your carnal nature up till you're Just like a feather. Again : rob apples of their skins let stems and cores remain And put them in a vessel lined throughout with porcelain ; Add sugar, in small quantity if your fruit is saccharine ; If vice verta, and you're not by birth and nur ture mean, Throw sugar in ad libitum, regardless of hy giene j Add water, put it on the stove, let flames around it play, And bring it to the boiling point, and keep i there a)l day, Not cooling off, not boiling up, but merely hot and quiet ; And then I fain would sound its praise, but epithets run riot ; I'll merely modestly assert it makes a fattening diet ; Bat Polled Applet have obtained a wide-spread reputation, And need no added words from me of praise or approbation. Again : take apples in their prime, and with a knife of silver The same material as the bow of little Dickey Dilver Was forged in, so the classics say ; of course tho tale's no fiction, Though marvelous in circumstance, extravagant in diction Blice them up thin, and as you Bhce, on all oc casions festive, With alternating bits of cheese, to aid the powers digestive, Eat them, with thanks and gratitude that such a constant sinner Obtains pei mission thus to spend the moments following dinner. "We fight with ideas," said Heine, "and newspapers are our fortresses." There is probably no such force in the world to-day as the press. In spread ing freedom and disseminating knowl edge, in shattering shams and destroy ing nonsense of various kinds, in search ing out all kinds of truth, and then daring to declare the same, it has been achieving the capital victories of the world lor the last 25 years. ONLY A FISHERMAN. Alone tho const of New Jersey are numerous protective stations, un a rough; lonely point of land, nenr to some treacherous bar, that shoots its deadly tongue far out into the bosom of the ocean, stand these houses of the coast-guard. A long, low building is there, containing a surf-boat, life-lines, rockets, mortnr, and nil the appli ances for saving life, when, struggling through the foam and sprny, some staunch ship goes to pieces. At the southern extremity of Barne gat Bay stands Barnegat 'Light, and nenr to it is one of these mentioned stations. There was a time, not so mnny years ngo, when no beacon was here to warn the sailor of the treacher oifs const upon which he was journey ing. Often when sailing down the beautiful bay in the moonlight, have we listened to the stories told by some old weather-beaten coaster of the days and doincs of Barnegat. But now all is changed ; nightly the bright light in the tower Hashes out over the water, warning the mariner miles nwny of the sands and hidden dangers at its base. Should a vessel go ashore, (as they, alas! sometimes do, for winds are mighty and waves engulfing,) kind hearts ami strong arms nre nlwnys ready to aid in the noble work of saving human life. No mnttor how dark the night, or how fierce the tempest, the wreckers are ready when called upon. Around these Btations little settle ments have sprung up, the families of men who find their living in the broad Atlantic. Rough, uneducnted fisher men, who know all nbout the tides, and can rend the signs of the weather by the sky ; who are familiar with every line and sail of a vessel, and who can handle their tiny craft in the narrows and channels when tall ships make for the open sea ; but who are ignorant of all else, and have never been many miles from home iu their lives. In one of these settlements on the shores of Barnegat lived two young men, fishermen, who might well be compared to David and Jonathan, so great was their love to each other. Together they owned the boat in which they made their excursions after the different fish, and "share and share alike " did they divide the proceeds of the catch when sold at the neighboring towns. From boyhood these two had been bosom companions ; and as they crew up the intimacy cemented in a strong and lasting friendship. They were named Amos and James. Uther names they probably possessed, but it i . i n ii may ue quesiioneu ii even tney inem selves remembered what they were ; Amos was Amos, and James was Jim ; and nobody asked for more. Amos, was domineering, sometimes cross, but the other had a sweet tern per. Nothing provoked Jim ; he never gave his partner an angry reply, but with a cheery "All right, old fellow," went on with ins work. No fair weather friendship was it either, for they had stood by each other when death, in its most appalling form, stared them in tho face. It was the talk of the whole place, this love that outlasted the change of years. Led by a mutual feeling, or by some other similar instinct, they both fell iu love with the same girl Hetty, tho belle of the place. For the first time in their lives, a cloud threatened to come between them a cloud no bigger than a woman's hand. For a short while there was coolness ; but one night, when Amos wenl to visit the girl, Jim took his lantern and started off to fish for bass by firelight. The next day, when he eame in, he quietly told Amos that he should think no more of Hetty, and that he had better secure her for himself. And he seemed so unconcerned that Amos nor anybody else dreamed of the struggle that had tnkeu place in tho bosom that beat under that dnrk red shirt. Jim was a true gentleman : and Amos, feeling re assured on the subject of Hetty, thought he had been mistaken, and went in and won the girl Amos married Hetty, and his friend went home to live with them. From that moment, netty was to James as a sister, just as Amos was his brother. Years pnssed. Children came. The neighbors said they would wean the father's heart from his early companion, But they seemed to make no difference whatever the two friends were one in love and in life. The last born was a little boy, whom they named Denny. No one could ever understand why it was that James took such a fancy to this child. If it had been his own he could not have loved the little fellow more. The house was filled with beautiful shells and sea plants, brought by him from long dis tances for his darling to play with. Often when he returned, tired and hungry from a hard day's toil, Denny would run to meet him, crying for a sail in the boat ; hunger and thirst would be forgotten, the sail would be hoisted, and together they would go skimming the clear water, far out among the white caps that tossed and fretted on the bar, only to return wnen darkness had set in. It was Jim s de light to explain to the boy the secrets of their simple navigation : to show him how to Bet the sail, and tack and steer : to teach him how to take tue fish, and tell him stories of the wrecks which lay. like skeletons, with their ribs whitened and bare all around them. Amos and his wife sometimes asked their bachelor guest why he didn't get married, and nave a lioine of ins own but he would laugh and say he was too well suited where he was. One Sunday evening, after a day of quiet and repose, the little family were all assembled in the one room that served the purpose of parlor and kitch' i i t ii .. i t: en, Jjenny Iiau uneu uaiet-jj iu mm Ian. his head resting on the broa bosom, while arounu me cimu a umi was thrown a brawny arm blackened by . ... i ii. i i. exposure. AnioB was reading the Uibie Ktnm on a Sunday night, floater love hath no mun than this that a man lay down his life for his friends." As the words fell from the reader'i lips; the words of one who spake as never man spake; Jim looked up from tha alppr.inff child. Somehow that pas sage had struck a responsive chord in his heart. He remained very quiet, lost IlIDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, in thought; Hetty spoke to him, asking why he did not put the childin hiscrib, but he never heeded her. Rising, she took Denny from his nrms nnd laid him away in bed, Jim neglecting to givehim his customary good-night kiss. At length he arose nnd taking down his pipe from the shelf, slowly and abstract edly filled it with tobacco from the pouch. When lie hnd finished, he reached over to the table and, pioking up the candle, lighted the tobacco with a few vigorous puffs. " Going out, Jim," said Amos, look ing up from his book, which he was then reading to himself. "Only a little while; I'll be back soon," Jim replied, putting on his hat and opening the door. He did not go very far: only to a bench just outside the door. Throwing himself lazily upon it, he smoked away quietly. It wa a benntiful. starlight night. He could see the flashing signal in the light-house, glittering and gleaming ike some eye of hre set in the heavens. The air wns full of music that wild, sad melody that the breakers make as they fall unceasingly on the beaten shore. Jnmes thought of that night, several years ngo; that particular night when the unknown ship went to pieces ust over there, where the yeasty waves gleamed out in the darkness on the Spit. Not a soul was saved the only living thing that came ashore was a Newfoundland dog, which was even now sleeping iu the kennel just a few yards from him. He remembered how the next mor ning Amos and he walked down the beach and found, lying upon the sands, the dead bodies of two young girls clasped in each other's embrace. They could not part them without using force, so they made one grave and buried them together, within sight and sound of the ocean in which they perished. He supposed they were friends who loved each other ; he and Amos decided that they were not sisters ; and when the fatal moment came they passeu into the world beyond, locked breast to breast. But the good book said, "to lay down his life for his friend." Yes, that was true friendship ; the friend ship enjoined by Christ : if a time came when one or two close friends might be called upon to stand up and say, "I, instead of him." The smoke from the burning tobacco had wrapped thickly around him, and it might be that in its fleecy clouds he saw, as by some subtle instinct, a vision of a day not far distant, when his love for his friend should be tested accord ing to the standard set up nearly two thousand years ago. His mind that night wns curiously solemn ; Amos and his wife did not know what had come to him. One bright November morning, ere the sun had risen, and the nightly dew lay thick upon the grass, Amos and James started for a run down to Squann. Many were the reports that had come up to Bnrnegat of the quanti ty and the quality of the eaten oi nsn at the former place ; of the immense shoals of snapping-mackerei ; oi tue fine king of the table-fish. So to Squann the two men were going on that late autumn morning. Stepping into the smack and hoisting the sail, they glided swiftly over the water, until Denny, standing at the door of the house, lost sight of them in the hazy distance. Amos had the tiller, and James sat on one of the thwarts, quiet and absorbed iu thought. He had never been noisy ; but latterly a snd and gentle mood seemed to have fallen on him. A good run ; nnd when the sun was well up in the heavens, Squann was reached. Af ter a thorough trial, they found that the reported good fishing wns like many other much-circulated stories, untrue. It might have been excellent once, but it was very poor now. "Let's go out to the banks," said James, who had long before given up trying. "We shall have to hurry, then, to get home by dark," replied Amos, looking wistfully out to wnere me wune sans oi the boat looked like gulls in the omng, The anchor was lifted, the sml again set, and straight as the crow flies, full fifteen miles out on the open sea, went the light craft; both the men vexed at returning empty. "How s fishing to-day? asked Amos of a man in a pleasure yacht, who seemed to be very busy at the work. "First rate, was tho answer. "(jet your hooks in." Ho they droppea ancnor ana cei; 10 work, and in a couple of hours caught enough for their wants, it was now nearly four o'clock in the afternoon. They'had a long sail before them, and the day was short. "Anything but a southerly wind!" exclaimed James, throwing the kedge into the boat; and his tone sounded like a prayer. Amos looked up. Sure enough, the wind had shifted, and was now blowing from the south. They knew what those pleasant breezes from that quarter meant white squaiis, mat uaa seni many a stout follow to the bottom of the sea. "Straight for home, Jim, fast as we can go! saia Amos, in response to the question of his companion as to whether they should stop at Squann village on their return. But they did not go straight home. On the contrary, in about an hour, as they were steering for it, a squall came up, whicn in a lew moments converieu the quiet ocean into a scene of terror and confusion. The men knew there was uo danger, for one of these little boats can outride a tempest that will shatter and dismantle a large merchant man; but they were being driven with alarming rapidity far out to sea. Thus they were driven when night came on, and the thick darkness closed around them; still driving on to the open water, and further and further away from home, and wife, and children, and' Denny. All at once James started, raising his hand warningly. "Listen!" he cried. Both were all attention. Distinctly above the roar of the storm the sound grew plain: it was the splash of paddle wheels; James threw up his hands and gave a cry of borrow and alarm. . A large steamship was upon them 1 They cried out, hoping -that the men on the steamer would, hear them and avert the threatened danger ; but in thnt turmoil their feeble voices were unheeded. , Down enme the iron monster, cutting the little vessel in two ; and then, un conscious of the mischief it had done, passed on( and was lost in the black ness. The two men were thrown violently into the wator. ''Amos I Amos!" cried James, in a voice of pain, ns soon as he recovered his senses sufficiently to comprehend what had taken place. No reply. No answer. But there came floating hy a dark body. He reached out his hand and caught it. , It was a part of the mast and rigging ; and, entangled among the ropes and cordage, lay Amos, perfectly unconscious. James extricated his friend nnd bound him with ropes firmly and safely to the floating timber. He then climbed upon this frail support, nnd committed himself to the mercy of the winds and waves. They might have been thus in the water about twenty minutes, when James saw, or thought he saw, a boat directly in front of them. " Ha'llo ! Boat, there I" He had succeeded in attracting their attention this time, for he saw a dark figure lean over the stern, nnd directly after came buck the words " Who's there ? What is it ? "Our boat was run down, and we are floating on a piece of the mast." " Who are you?" was the next shout ed question. "Amos and Jim, from Barnegat been down to Squaun." They must be friends or acquaint ances, thought the wrecked man, when he saw that upon the mention of the names they rounded to ns well ns they could ; for this boat was also crip pled. a, 1 1 ft, I 11 1 Can you take ns nooaru r caneu Jim, as they passed him. " We re nearly sinking now. it we took you two in, none of us would ever reach the shore. James Faused. "Can you take one of us safely ? "Yes. responded the voice from tho boat. "We might take one of you not two. "All right I throw ns a rope! After successive trials, Jim caught the line thrown to him, and pulling himself up was soon alongside of tho welcome vessel, the occupants of which he recognized as 'acquaintances, living a short distance from his home nt Bar negat. " Jump in. Jim." said the man nt the tiller, as he recognised him in the dark ness. "Did you say you could take only one of us ? " Jim asked, in reply to the invitntion. " Yes. only one two more in here, and we'd never see Barnegat ngain." "Then take Amos. Help me with him. He has been hurt, and does not know anything." The man spoken to looked over the side of the boat and saw the motionless, pallid figure tied securely to the float ing timber. "He's dead. Jim." " No, he's not," Jim quickly said, " he a only swooning, like. We were struck by a steamer." " Come in, Jim," cried another of the fishermen ; " come in, man. Amos is as- good as dead. Come, get in nnd save yourself." " Mates," replied Jim, and his tone was solemn and impressive, " may be I shall never see you ngain. Promise me that you'll take Amos safely home winiyou! And see to him as soon as he's aboard : I could do nothing for him here." " We've no time to parley," said the man, getting impatient. " If you will have it so, Jim, you must. Here, boys, lend a hand, and let's get him iu." The cords were cut, and the unconsci ous man was lifted gently over the side. He began to exhibit symptoms of re turning reason, and Jim knew that the leave-taking must bo short. Drawing himself up the side of the vessel, he caught hold of the cold, wet hand, and held it. " Good-bye, old friend ;the partner ship's up." This was all. Climbing ngain to his mnst, he loosed the rope that bound him to the boat, and in an instant she had shot ahead and was rapidly going out of sight. Long and anxiously he watched the fleeting boat ; at least it seemed long to him ; for one does not turn his back upon life and the beautiful world without sorrow and longing. Smaller and smaller it grew until at last it dis appeared. On floated Jim, his strength fast fail ing him. All around was soon inky darkness, into which he peered anxious ly, as if looking for some sign of succor; but save the white caps of the waves, which broke threateningly over him, he could see nothing. The wind, which was still blowing with terrible violence, whistled around him, chilling and cut ting him to the very bone. Alone on an angry ocean ! Now on the top of some tall billow, now down in the trough of the sea ! He thought of Amos and Hetty, and wondered whether his friend was almost home. Then rose up little Denny I God bless the dear baby, how he loved him ! he would never in this world see him again. When he thought of this, when he remembered all that was beautiful and pleasant in the life he was leaving, his courage failed him and he cried out, " Oh, God! if I might be saved!" It was not a cowardly cry from this man, who had undertaken to die for his friend it was the involuntary uprise of weak, frail nature against the wish of a brave, true heart. And we read that the Redeemer of mankind, he who had come into this world for the purpose of suffering an ignominious death, on the eve 1 his great atonement, cried out with trembling lips: "Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me." So Jim prayed. Not that he wished to recall his resolve: but it was only the moment of doubt and fear, as he stood on the threshold of the great un known. How long had he been floating thus ? It seemed to him to have been many hours. But he knew that it could not have been so very long, for there was no sign of morning. .. Ho was getting weak and benumbed, and he felt that he could not hold on much longer. If the cold, sharp wind would only cease blowing 1 It chiljed him bo. 'Once despair and suffering got the better of his resolution, and he thought he would close his eyes, slip off the spar, nnd go quietly down to his death ; but he dismissed the wicked thought with a prayer, and grasped more firmly the saving piece of wood. He cried aloud for help 'until he was hoarse; for he was a strong man, and would not go unresistingly to death ike a frightened sheep. He had saved Amos' life : and he would like to save his own next, if that might be. But no ono heard his shouts. They were lost in the roar of the ocean. How tired and sleepy he felt ! The end could not be far off. To his memory there arose nil the scenes and incidents of his past life. From child hood until now, back from the misty past, came the departed days. Up from their graves rose tne long Durieu dead, and he saw them face to face just ns plainly as when they talked with him in the flesh. But foremost in his thoughts was Denny. . Denny would never again climb upon his knee ; he would never again take him sailing down tho bay, or out to the bar. Oh ! how hard it was to leave his child love I But the time had come. For an instant, with the clutch of death, he frnnticnlly grasped the spar, nnd cried out, nmid the storm and tempest : " O Father 1 forgive me my sins, lor Christ's sake, and bless them nlM Then his nerveless hold relaxed its grasp ; it fell nwny, and he slipped off into the water. Just ns Amos renched his home, and his wife nnd children gnthered around him, Jim went down into the angry ocean, there to remain until tne great day when the sea shall give up its dead. " tireater love hath no man tnan mis, that a man lay down his life for his friend." The Art of Hanging. As long ns capital punishment is the law of the land nnd hanging the mode of accomplishing it, there is satisfaction in the thought that men are to be found who, regarding it as a scientino pro cess, or an art, if you will, nre ready with advice to make it perfect. An English clergyman, Rev. S. Haughton, who is also a Fellow of Royal Society, has been publishing a work on the " Principles of Animal Mechanics," in which he does not disdain to devote a portion of the space to this subject. He says that the method in use is un worthy of the present state of science, and the long drop, which causes in stantaneous death by the fracture of the vertebras, is recommended, the length of the drop to be obtained by the following rule : Divide 2,210 by the weight of the "patient" in pounds, and the quotient will be the required length in feet. This rule is simply obtained by sunposing (as was found to be actually the case in one instance) that 2,240 foot-pounds of shock is suf ficient to cause fracture in any case, no allowance being made for differences of age, weight or sex; thus, by this rule, the lighter the criminal or "patient" the longer must be his drop, and the longer the time of his agony in the nir. Besides an immense number of measurements, of dissections and experiments on the bodies of animals, in order to obtain data for his calcula tions, Dr. Haughton has made experi ments on the living subject, sometimes of a somewhat amusing character. But the above is the practical result at which he has arrived, and we would suggest that there is ample means in mis cuuu try for testing its value. The Clown's Vletlm. On Wednesdny night, July 23, a wo man by the name of Mrs. Lottie War ner, committed suicide at Sierra City, California, by taking poison. The his tory of this case is a sad one, and the moral it points is not obscure. The de ceased was the wife of a man by the name of Warner, clown of the circus which pnssed through there a few weeks ago. At Sierra City she was taken sick, and was necessarily left behind. From this sickness she had nearly recovered. She appears, however, to have been tired of the life she was leading, and the bad treatment of the man she had forsaken home and friends to follow. During her stay at the city she told the fol lowing story : When but sixteen years old she forsook her home and friends in Cincinnati (O.) and was married to Wil liam Warner, the clown in tho Paris Circus, since which time she had fol lowed his fortunes. She states that at times he had abused her, even going so far as to knock her down. In her de lirious momentB, durttg her sickness, she imagined that her husband was with her, nnd begged nnd pleaded of him not to beat her any more. During her con- valesence she often expressed her de termination never to live with him again, and expressed her desire to find some employment whereby she might earn 1 . . . ! .- 11 11. i- 1. ner own living. At mo niuu bub ran away from her home, lured by the gaud and tinsel, the spangle and glitter of circus trappings.- she was a mere child of sixteen. Four years only have pas sed. and now. still but a child in years, she is ready for the grave older in suf fering, if her own statements be true, than many of her more favored sisters whose locks are frosted by the hand of time. She died at Bush's Hotel. Tenal Servitude for Life. - The trial of the Bank " of England forgers has "ended. After George Bid well had conducted his examination of witnesses for the prosecution, he de livered an address to the uourt, in which ha exonerated Austin Bidwell and Edwin Noyes from all complicity in the frauds, and declared that he and George MacDonnell were the only guilty ones. MacDonnell also addressed the Court, bearing out the statement cf Bid well. The case was then given to the jury, who, after twenty minutes' delib eration, found the accused guilty. Mr, J ustice Archibald immediately senteno ed each of the prisonei s to penal servi tude for life, the highest punishment under the laws lot wevc oflence, 1873. Friction Matches. ' ' The Springfield Union soys that enrly in 1830 the subject of friction matches attracted the attention of Mr. L. C. Al lin, now foremnn of one of the depart ments at the Armory, nnd then a young man employed there under his father, who was foremnn before him. At that time a phosphoric match imported from 1' ranee, hau come into limneu uj iu the United States, but was a cumber some affair compnred with the matches used now-a-davs. It was made by dip ping the match-stick first into -sulphur, and then into a paste composed of chlo ride of potash, red lead, and loaf-sugar. Each box of matches was accompanied by a bottle of sulphuric ncid, into which every match had to be dipped in order to light it. To do away with this bother, and make a match which would light from the friction caused by any rough surface, was the task to which youug Allin npplied himself. . He succeeded, but took out no patent He was urged to do so, and on inquiry found that a pntcnt had just been ap plied for by one Alonzo D. Phillips, of Chicopee, for precisely the same iuyen tion. Phillips was a peddler, nnd prob ably picked up through a third party thn results of Mr. Allin's study. Patents of all kinds were considered of small value, in those days, and the idea of Mr. Allin's lficrn.1 adviser was that he (Allin) won hi do better to have the right to manufacture under Phillips's patent (which Phillips gave him without charge in consideration of the waiving of his claim) than to bear tho expense of the ligitation which was feared to be neces snrv ta estnblish his claim in the first place, and to defend it from depreda tors nftprwnrd. So the inventor of friction matches bacame sirnnlv a manufacturer under another man's patent, and a little facto rv was started, whence matches were shipped to the principal cities of tho country while some where even sent to South America. But the inventor had to r.onr.pn il no-ainst a strange and sense less prejudice in the public mind. A newspaper in this town aeciureu umi thn manufacture of friction matches . . i 1 1 1 1. 4- ha nrohihited bv legislation. on account of the eaBe with which they could be used by incendiaries, and the consequent great danger to property. Cnnt.ions citizens would not allow them to be stored in their buildings ; the or dinary means of transportation werb plnsprl to them. In 1837 the financial revulsion killed the Springfield manufacture, but not the manufacture elsewhere. At present there are no less than 75 match factories in the country to say nothing of young ladies' boarding schools, sometimes facetiously classed under that head which emnlov 2.C00 hands, use $1, G00,000of capital, and turn out annually ,000,000 worth ot matches. The Saratoga Hops. If the afternoon at Saratoga says a letter, is fie time for the discussion of such exciting topics as Ciesarism, the evening after supper and up to the wife linrr hour is tno time aevoieu io It may be a full dress, a mas miprnde. or a hop it matters not all are well attended. Those who frequent fhotn rlo not alwavs go there to ihuirp. either. Many a quiet ' iu nnopiit. little flirtation may iiiBe nl app while the Lancers are in progress or while waltzers are circling the ball room in time to the strains of the musio of Straus. Not unfreauently do the ladies provoke criticism and comment by their toilets. Of course they may expect it, and, iu fact, they rather like it. I have frequently known young ladies to create a sensation in three separate ball-rooms on the same night. It is not nn unusual thing for one of these belles, attended by her escort, to indulge in a gallop in one place, hurry off with a waltz in another and be in time for the lancers at the third. There is nomonotony in your Saratoga balls or hops life, excitement and new faces all the time. The reign of a belle here is brief indeed. Rivals arrive with every train, and then it is so easy to steal away in search of new conquests. Liudies this season do not, as a ruie, dress as extravagantly as during former seasons. Thnt gaudy snoauy uispiny which ever oflends good taste and sug gests vulgarity is not very noticeable this year. There IS some oi u. nowever but. thank fortune, it is the exception, not the rule. Silver ornaments seem to be superseding gold ones, for the time being at least. Oxidized silver buckles, large enough for saddle girths, are all the vogue in ladies belts, and some ladies fasten up their hair with daggers formidable enough for a uowery Mac beth. The number of gray or white head 3 one sees in a ball-room now is as tonishing. Ludies are proud of gray hairs young ones especially. une lndy was pointed out to me as coming from New York for the sole purpose of making an exhibition of her fine white head. Power of Electricity. Recent studies have done much to de termine what the action of electrieity really is iu the excitation of a muscular irritubility iu dead bodies. The con tinuous current seems to act on mus cular fibre after the manner of heat. If dead muscle be exposed to cold, the current restores contraction for a limit ed period, but finally destroys it by in ducing persistent oontraction. ii, ou the other hand, the dead muscle is left at its normal temperature, the current merely shortens the periods of irritabil ity by quickening contraction. Experi-1 ments lately made with the Leyden jar demonstrate that with a sufficient cur rent, small animals and birds can be made absolutely rigid for the moment in the position in which they stand ; and so suddenly is the work done, so completely is the posture of life pre served, that nothing uut .aciuai exam ination with the hand can impress on, the mind the fact that the creature has with that sudden shock passed from the living. ; "Cannot something be done to pre vent voung ladies from being insulted on our streets at night ? " asks a Cincin nati paner. There can. Just have the girl's mother tuck her into her little bed about eight o'clock in the evening and lock the door ou her. "NO. 28. Items' of Interest. 1 ' rti-mrrea hnvo . already been organized among the farmers of Penn sylvania. : ' There are 10,712 policemen in u; u don, and they have to patrol 7,012 miles of streets. Chloroform will remove paint from a garment or elsewhere, when benzol or bisulphide of carbon tans. . The iron trado in the United States gives employment to 137,ri-li operatives, and tho lumber trade to 1C3.3U7 opera tives. in tobacco, next to that grown in Connecticut, is said to be the ( best for smoking purposes raised in tho United States. ' ' Caleb Gushing says thnt he believes v his late affair nbout the yellow dog has given him greater: notoriety than any , other net of. his life. Golden City, Colorado, is rejoicing, over a bar oi uincit snnu nine umw ong and one mile broad, which yiems $200 gold to tho ton. The hull of the British ship Conflenee, . the flagship iu the battle of Lake Cham plain, is being raised from tho bottom of that lake nenr Whitehall. . . ; Tho TJailwnv nnd Warehouse- Com missioners of Illinois hnve fixed the pas senger tariff on first-class railroads in that State at 3 cents per mile. . ' Mr. Colas attributes the blue color 'Of, the water of certain lakes-ljake ue neva, for instance to the presence of minutely-divided gelatinous sinrn. mu blue color of tho sky is credited to the same cause, the particles of silica being very freely divided, and of a gelatinous nature. Vermont is the banner state in its fi- m. 1 I ! It. - CL-L 1 .-.l nancps. ine cteut oi me piute jo umi 195,649, and the treasury hit's almost a quarter of a million donnrs;ann lscreu ited with a large nmoilntrof- uncollected taxes. -The current liabilities. are anoui $30,000, and the government is econom ical. .Last year ss-i.uu i 1116 w"8 paid. In an editoral on the horse disense the Congregcitionalist suggested thnt it might be well to sit at the . feet of a horse and ! learn humility. "Just so," said the California News Lcitcr, sit down at the hind feet of a mule, nnd if he don't humiliate you.pnllhia tail and tickle the inside of his leg with a stable fork." In 1029 Wouter von Twiller was the old Dutch Governor of New York, nnd under his administration there seems to have been no use for a regular jail or prison other than the log4ionse or cala boose. If the prisoners became tired of remaining long in one spot, they could, pick the jail up and remove to some place more congenial. Several frame buildings, once used ns government stables, and a ropewalk ad joining, near Louisville, Ky., were fired' and nearly consumed. A colored man named Willis, his wife, and four chil dren, living in one of the houses, were all burned to death, except Willis, who is not expeeted to recover. Two of the suspected incendiaries have been ar rested. A poor widow in Cullen, Ky., was hoeing potatoes the other day when she struck lipon nn old stone jar, and, natu rally lookiug to see what wns in it, she found 85,000 iu gold. She is plunged into a state of great distress by tho dis covery; nt one time she laments thnt the sum is not $10,000, and at another she. for. fear thnt some claimant win nppear. A dog supposed to be mad was killed in Detroit, and the crowd had not dis persed before the enraged owner ap peared. "Who killod my;dog!'"he yelled, trembling with passion. lha crowu lniormea iuiniuev uuhiiuhu stances the animal had been killed, when the man exclaimed: "Mad! What a set of dnrned fools ! Why, that's a licensed dog ! A floating item informs us that Jeru sha Bryan slew a panther with a pine knot iu Pennsylvania. She is not mar ried. "And she won't be, either, for all us," snys the St. Louis Journal. " We wouldn't go home intoxicated to such a woman for all that could be offered no, not for worlds ! Better would be a din ner of herbs and a stalled ox therewith, or something of tho kind." It wns lately ronde subject to boasting by a French gentleman to nn American friend that the premium on gold in France did not reach a half of one per cent., when the American replied that two or three Broad street men whom he could name could go to Paris and put gold up there to 110 in less than three weeks.. "Possibly," said the other; "but we should put them in jail in less than two weeks. A Louisville paper furnishes the fol lowing "answer to correspondents :" ' "A youthful correspondent desires to know how we would like to sail with Professor Wise on his balloon voyage to Europe. If you will go, my dear boy, and climb the least of the many pilesof twenty-dollar gold pieces that would be required to hire us to undertake such a voyage, you will find that its summit is wrapped in perpetual snow." Precautions against cholera are very numerous at present. Taking all the advice given, we learn that if a man subscribes and pays for his newspaper, eats nothing, drinks no liquors, drinks no ice water, drinks no warm water, drinks nothing else, wears flannels, bathes three times a day, keeps hia back-yard clean, pays his taxes, avoids water, drinks brandy, eats ripe fruit, wears nothing, does not Brocket and fol lows such other methods ot prevention as his common-sense .may dictate, he need have no fears of cholfcra. Miss Canda, to whose memory , the beautiful monument in Greenwood Cemetery was erected, met her death by i i i . 1 1 e i 5 Deing violently mrowu inuu net curri age, on returning to her house, on the evening or i ebruary aa, iio. tsne had made her entree into society ou thnt day, it being her seventeenth birthday. The coachman had got off his seat to ring the- bell at the door of her father s residence, wljen the horses attached to the vehicle became ftightened, and ran off, striking the body of the carriage against a post. The violence of the col lision was so great that it threw the lady out, and instantly killed her,
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