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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,