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Swallowed.
T'other day as I was twining
Hoses for a crowu to diue in,
What, of all tilings, 'midst tlie heap,
Should I light on, fast asleep.
But the little desperate elf,
The tiny traitor Love himself
Uy the wings I pinched liira up
.Like a boe, and in a cup
Of my wiue I plunged nnd sank him ;
And what d ye think I did 7 I drank him !
faith, I thought him dead. Not he !
There ho lives with tenfold glee ;
And now this moment, with his wings
I foel him tickling my hoart-striugs.
1 Leiqh Hunt.
THE STOKY OF THREE BEAKS.
FOn LITTLE FOLKS.
' A tale which may content the minds
Of learned inou and grave philosophers.'
Oasoovsk.
Ouce upon a time there were three
boars, who lived together in a house of
tfJieir own in a wood. One of them was
a little, small, woe bear, and one was a
middle-sized bear, and the other was a
great, huge bear. They had eacji a pot
for their porridge ; a little pot for the
little, email, wee bear, and a middle-sized
pot for the middle boor, and a great pot
for the great, huge bear. And they had
each a chair to sit in ; a little choir for
the little, small, wee bear, nnd a middle
sized chnir for the lniddlo bear, and a
great chair for the great, huge bear.
And they hud each a bed to sleep in ; a
little bed for the little, small, wee bear,
and a middle-sized bed for the middle
bear, nnd a great bed for the great, huge
bear.
One day, after they had made the por
ridge for their breakfast, and poured it
into their porridge-pots, they walked cut
into the wood whUe the porridge was
cooling, that they might not burn their
mouths by beginning too soon to eat it.
And while they were walking a little old
woman came to the house. She could
not have been a good, honest old
womau ; for first she looked in at the
window, and then she peeped in at the
key-hole ; and seeing nobody in the
house, she lifted the latch. The door
was not fastened, because tho bears wero
good bears, who did nobody nny harm,
nnd never suspected that anybody would
harm them. So the little old woman
opened the door and went in ; nnd well
pleased she was when she saw the por
ridge on the table. If she hod been a
good little womau, she would have waited
till the bears came home, and then, per
liaps, they would have asked her to
breakfast ; for they were good bears a.
little rough or so, as the manner of boors
is, but for ail that very good-natured and
hospitable. But she wu.4 an impudent,
bad old woman, and set about helping
herself.
So first Bhe tasted the porridge of the
great, huge bear, and that was too hot
for her; and she said a bad word about
that. And then she tasted tho porridge
of the middle bear, nnd thrt was too cold
for her; and she said a bad word about
that too. And then she went to the por
ridge of the little, small, wee bear, and
tasted that; and that was neither too hot
nor too cold, but just right; and see liked
it so well that she ate it all up; but the
naughty old woman said a bad word
about the little porridge-pot, because it
did not hold enough for lier.
Then the little old woman sat down in
the chair of the great, huge bear, and
that was too hard for her. And then she
sat down in the chnir of the middle bear,
and that was too soft for her. And then
she sat down in tho chair of tho little, i
nmuu, on Mum, mm uiul wan ueuiier ioo ,
hard nor too sot t but just right. So she
seated herself in it, and tiere sat till the
bottom ot the chair came out, and down !
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came herself plump upon the ground,
And the naughty old woian said a wicked
word ubout that too.
Then the little old woman went "P
stnirs into the bed-ehamlx'r in which the
three bears slept. And fifst she lay down
upon the bed of the great, huge bear;
but that was too high at the head for her.
And next she lay'down upon the bed of
the middle bear; and tlwt was too high
nt tho foot for her. Ami then she lay
down upon tho bed of tjie little, small,
wee bear; uud that was neither too liigh
at the head nor nt tie foot, but just
right. So she covered Up comfortably,
aud lay there till she fell List asleep.
By this time the three bears thought
iiieu-jioiiiugo wouni ie cooi enougji; so i
iiiey came nome to biraklast. Now the
little old woman had left the spoon of the
great, lingo hear stufiding m his por
ruige.
oOmeDOdy nail Deen at mV
porridre !"
said the great, huge bear, in his great,
rough, gruff voice.- .Ind whon the mid
dle bear looked at 1,1 1 ho saw that the
spoon was standing m St too. They were
wooden spoons; if tlly had been silver
ones, the naughty old Woman would have
put them in her pocki
" Homebody las been at
my porridge !"
said the middle bear, inAis middle voice.
Then the little, small, 'vee bear looked
at his, and there was tie spoon in the
porridge-pot, but the pnridge was all
gone. ;
' Somebwly hat been at my porr fc'yti a.irf Aim taten it
all up!"
said the little, small, wee benr, in his lit
tle, small, wee voice. I
Upon this the three betrsj seeing that
some one had entered their i house, and
eaten up tho little, smal, Iwee bear's
breakfast, began to lok afcout them.
Now the little old womni bid not put
the hard cushion straight whtn she rose
from the chair of the great huge bear.
" Somebody has besn I sitting
in my chair I"
said the great, huge bear, in his great,
rough, gruff voice. j
And tho little old woman had squatted
down the soft cushion of tht middle bear.
" Somebody has been sit
ting in my jchair !"
said the middle bear, in his middle voice.
And you know what the little
.woman nnd done to the third chair.
" Smnebmly hat been titling in m rhair, and ha
mt the bottom of it out I"
said the little, small, wee
bear,
his
little, Bmnll, wee voice.
Then tho three bears thought it neces
sary that they should make farther
search; bo they went up stairs into their
bed-chamber. Now the little old woman
had pulled tho pillow of the great, huge
bear out of its place.
"Somebody has been lying
in my bed I "
said the great, huge bear, in his great,
rough, gruff voice.
And the little old woman had pulled
the bolster of tho middle bear out of its
plnce.
Somebody lias been ly
ing m my bed ! "
said the middle bear, in his middle
voice.
And when tho little, small, wee bear
came to look nt Ilia bed, there was the
bolster in its place ; nnd the pillow in its
place upon the bolster; and upon the
pillow was the little old woman s ugly,
dirty head which wns not in its plaoe,
for she hnd no business there.
11 Somebody has been tying in my bed nnd here
she ' ."
said the little, small, wee bear, in his
little, small, wee voice.
The little old woman had heard in her
sleep tho great, rough, gruff voice of the
great, huge bear; but she was so fast
nsleep that it was no more to her than
the roaring of wind or the rumbling of
thunder. And she had heard the middle
voice of the middle bear, but it was only
ns if she hnd heard some ono speaking in
I a dream. But when she heard the little.
small, wee voice of the little, small, wee
bear, it was so sharp and so shrill that it
awakened her at once. Up she started;
and when she saw tho throe bears on one
side of the bed, she tumbled herself out
at the other, nnd ran to the window.
Now the window was open, because the
bears, like good, tidy bears, as they
were, always opened their bed-chamber
window when they got up in the morn
ing. Uut tin? little old woman jumped;
and whether she broke her neck in the
fall, or ran iuto the wood and was lost
there, ov found her way out of the wood
and was taken up by tho constable and
sent to the House of Correction for a va
grant as she was, I cannot tell, lint the
three bears never saw anything more of
her.
A Murderer Convicted.
Albert Brown, the negro murderer of
little Com Greenleaf, near Minnequa,
Bradford county, Pn., ono of the most
fiendish crimes' ever perpetrated, was
found guilty of murder in the first de
gree. Brown, at the time stated, was in
the employ of a Mr. Gnxmleaf, the father
of his victim. Being an unusually iu
intelligeiit negro, nnd professedly very
pious, he wns permitted many liberties.
He hnd a class in Sabbath-school, nnd
was a great favorite with the cliildren,
especially with the child ho murdered.
One day, in August, Cora was left in
charge of Brown during the absence of
her parents. Tho negro took her into an
upper room, where ho first violated her
and then cut her throat. He fled, but
the crime being tliseovercd shortly after
its commission by the parents of the
, child returning, search was nt once insti
! tuted for Brown. He was found next
day nt a station on the railroad, lying at
the depot with both legs broken. He
had attempted to commit suicide by
jumping in front of a train of cars.
I When his crime, was made known the!
I flivv of the iirtl-inln,11 of fli nfnt!,,, ....t. .... i
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intense that it was only by great effort1
that the negro, mangled as'he was, could i
be snved from lynching. He was taken I
tr, Tnwmi.lu mil in i wntr. vi.,i
i the wuy he was shot nt several times by
'persons in the crowd thut followed.
Several of the shots took effect, but none
struck a vital spot. It was not thought
I that ho could survive his injuries, buthe
j recovered, nnd was tried and convicted
i as stated.
Railways in (ireat Britain.
According to a rejent report made to
the British Board of Trade by Capt. j
Tyler, an inspector of the railways of j
tho United Kingdom, the average divi
dend made iu 1873 by tho companies
was nve per cent, on ordinary capital,
while the average earnings were 40 per
cent. "By the running of trains
over
SIVVS
a distance ot rjy.ao-i, iiv miles,
the report, " 55,075,421 wero received
during the year, of which .50,000,112
were expended in working and main
tenance, and 25,015,301) remained as
net profit; so that 54 per cent, of tho
Rro8q r('ceilts we expended in earning
to after making iivo per cent, dividend
out of 40 per cent, net earnings is not
stated. The average cost per mile of
working trains was 30 shillings 57-100,
while the net profits were 31 shillings
14-100 per mile. Tho report also says
that 10,083 miles of railway were had
down at the enormous outlay of 30,
500 per mile, or about 8180,000. When
it is stated that American roads cost from
$40,000 to 75,000 per mile, according
to the nature of the work, it will be
seen what immense sums English capi
talists think necessary to lay out upon
the mere construction of lines.
Just Like Them.
A bidl in Santa Fe, Texas, was attended
by the members of the best society in the
place, but an incident showed that border
usages are not confined to border
ruffians. George Stone, the son of the
leading lawyer, and John Collier, the son
of the leading physician, were among the
daners ; and Miss Townley, regarded as
the handsomest young lady in Santa Fe,
was there, too. She is a coquette, and
that night she accomplished the common
feminine exploit of making each of two
admirers believe that he was most agree
able. At last their attentions clashed,
and, without a word of controversy, Col
lier drew his revolver and fired at Stone,
the bullet making a terrible wound in
the shoulder. The wounded man at once
shot Ins assailant dead. As both lay on
the floor juiconscious, Miss Townley
dropped the coquetry that had made the
deadly trouble, and revealed her prefer
ence for Collier by throwing herself
wildly upon his dead body. Stone will
recover.
The C'ontlnpntnl Cnrrrnry ol the t'nilpd
Hltilrn nnd Whnt WnsDnue Wllh II
Paper money, hi various forms, was
uirenuy laminar 10 ine people ot tuo
American colonies when the Revolution
broke out. Massachusetts had issued
bills of credit as early as 1G!)0. nnd her
example was followed soon thereafter by
Xew York, Pennsylvania, and the other
colonies. I he total amount of tins cur
rency iu circulation just prior to 1775 is
variously estimated at from $7,000,000 to
JKi),lMHUMn. It hnd depreciated in com
parison with specie differently in different
places. In New England it fell until it
tooii six shillings to equal a Spanish dol
lar, the par being four shillings and six
pence. In New York eight shillings, and
in Pennsylvania seven sliillincs went to
I the same dollar. These rates seem to
have become accepted as permanent, and
it is only a few years since New Eng
enders were accustomed to reckon by
snmmgs oi one-sixtn oi a dollar eacn,
New Yorkers by shillings of one-eighth,
and I'enusylvamaus Ivy stullmgs of one-
seventh of u dollar. When, therefore, in
May, 1775, the Second Continental Con
gress addressed itself to the' business of
raising money, it seemed to everybody
the most natural nnd proper thing in the
world for it to order the printing of paper
money. There wns indeed no other
means nvailable. The total amount of
specie m the country did not exceed
85,000,000, aud, ns wo hnve said, tho ex
istiug currency did not exceed 825,000,
000 more, and was probably less than
that amount. e had no credit abroad.
om" commerce had been destroyed, and
direct taxation was not only impolitic,
but impracticnble. Promises to pay were
easy to make, aud, thanks to the patriotic
zeul ot the people, were readily accepted
as casn.
ine total amouut ot Continental cur
rency put into circulation during the
year 1775 was 85,000,000; in 1776,
89,000,000 ; in 1777, 88,000,000 ; iul778,
805,500,000 ; in 1779, 8114,500,000
making a grand total of 82H),000,000.
During the same period the individual
colonies, mid even private citizens, were
also at work issuing paper money of
their own, the aggregate amount of winch
is estimated to have equaled that issued
by Congress. It thus came to pass that
a country of 3,000,000 of inhabitants Was
supplied with a currency amounting to
8400,000,000, which is about the same
thing as if, with our present population
of 42,000,000, we should have a circula
tion of 85,000,000,000 !
For the first year of its existence the
Continental currency remained nearly at
par with specie, and the 'only effect it
produced was a steady advance in the
prices of all kinds of commodities. The
beginning of 1777 found it at a .dis
count of fifty per cent., or, as wo should
say iu these days, gold had risen to 200.
By the 1st of January, 1778, specie was
worth four times as much as paper ; by
December, 1779, forty times as much ;
and during 1780 the depreciation went
on so rapidly that before tho end of the
year it took 8525 in pajier to buy 81 in
specie 1 Then by common consent the
currency went out of use altogether.
The bills ceased to circulate as money,
and became objects merely of curiosity
and speculation. As such tfiey fluctuated
I in value irom ouu to l.uuu tor one. Their
disappearance caused no panic, and was
universally rejoiced over. No attempt
was ever made to redeem them, though
j the coin value actually received for them
by Uongress had been 830,000,000.
One thing which hastened the catas
trophe was the enormous number of
counterfeits that were added to the
volume of tho genuine money. As, dur
ing our late war, counterfeit Confederate
notes were made in the North and car
ried to the South, so the British Govern
ment, as a war measure, lent every pos
sible assistance to counterfeiters of the
Congressional currency. Advertise
ments offering to supply it to persons
going into tho colonies were published
in the official newspapers printed iu New
York, aud flags of truce were taken ad
vantage of to introduce it within tho
American lines. The very paper used
by Congress was imitated, so that little
or no risk of detection was encountered.
All efforts to prevent these practices
failed, although whole issues of the genu
ine money were, from time to time,
called in and destroyed in order to render
the counterfeits useless.
The effects of the inflation wero simi
lar to those which followed that of our
times. Shrewd men, forseeing what was
coming, bought at an early period all the
property they could lay tlieir hands on,
and ran in debt for it to the extent of
their credit. The paper being a legal
tender, debtors took advantage of its de
preciation to swindle their creditors by
paying off loans received in specie nt a
miserable fraction of their original
amount. Widows and orphans, whose
money had been invested before the
war, wero the chief sufferers in this way.
Speculation ran riot, and fortunes wero
made and lost in imagination, just as
they were in Wall street in 1804 and
1805. A WTiter in the Penmyleunia
1'acket says : "I had money enough to
buy a hogshead of sugar. I sold it again
and got a good deal more money than it
cost me. Yet what I sold it for, when I
went to market again, would buy but a
tierce. I sold that, too, for a great deal
of profit, yet the whole of what I sold it
for would afterward buy but a barrel. I
have now more money than I ever had,
aud yet I am not so rich as when I had
less."
Congress endeavored, too, to arrest
the downward career of its currency.
Besides making the bills a legal tender
for the payment of debts, all sorts of
pains and penalties were prescribed for
those disloyal citizens who refused to
take them in the course of trade. To
keep down prices, which naturally rose
as the currency depreciated, laws were
passed regulating the wages of laborers,
the charges of innkeepers and common
carriers, and the amount of purchases to
be made by any one person at one time.
To prevent owners of goods from send
ing them away for sale and thus escaping
these arbitrary restrictions, an embargo
was actually hud in 1778, and continued
for several months, prohibiting the ship
ping of wheat, corn, beef, pork, live
stock, and other provisions. To crown
all, in the last days of December, 1778,
an official denial was issued of the re
port that " Congress would not redeem
the bills issued by thera to defray the
expenses of the war, but would suffer
them to sink
holders!"
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Finally, in Felrfunry, 1781, after every
expedient had been tried in vain and the
currency was hopelessly gone, Congress
unpointed Robert Morris Superintendent
of Finance, and he, by boldly throwing
his personal credit into tho broach, saved
the failing fortunes of the country. In
Mny, 1781, the Bank ef North America
wns chartered, with a capital of $400,000,
nnd its notes payable in cash on doniand
were made receivable for taxes and
duties. By the aid of this bank, and of
lonns raised abroad to the amount of
842,000,000, the war was carried on and
brought to a successful terminntion. So
grent, however, was the public abhor
rence of an irredeemable currency that
when our present Constitution was form
ed no power was given in terms to Con
gress to issue pnpor money, and it was
expressly forbidden to the States.
An Important Matter.
Many persons eat far too much flesh,
and would be the better for a more copi
ous admixture of vegetables. Others
have too much vegetable, and especially
farinaceous food, and not enough flesh",
regard being had in either case to the
work which the individual has to do, nnd
to the power of digestion. Too exclu
sive a flesh diet is the vice of many rich
peoplo, who even allow their children at
school to indulge in gnmo pies and other
articles of tho highest class, such as un
fit boys for plain tare, and deprive them
of the help which a higher diet might
afford them hereafter in ense of illness.
Too much animal food is uudnlv stimu
lant, renders children restless and ouor-
relsome, youug men sensual and Philis
tine, and elderly men gouty nnd dyspep
tic. Too exclusively vegetable or farin
aceous a diet, especinlly if tried too sud
denly by persons unused to it, has for its
first effect to constipate the bowels,
which become loaded with musses of
undigested potato, bread or rice. We
believe that it Diay be hud -down as an
axiom, that, other things being equal,
the more the brain is worked, t he greater
need is there for animal food. Town
people must have more meat, as a rule,
than couutiy folks; the children of pro
fessional men more than the children of
agricultural laborers. Still rich towns
people on the whole should use loss
flesh, nnd the pcor ones more.
There are plenty of vegetable stimu
lants, some combined with nourishment,
as in mushrooms and onions; others im
combiued, ns the peppers and spices.
Aud the way to insure the greater uso
of nutrient vegetables is to confer on
them some of the flavor nnd stimulating
properties of animal food. By this
means the people who cat too much
flesh, and the pevipid who cannot get
flesh enough, would each have the best
substitute. Rich people who can afford
what they like, may lessen the cousuuip-
uou oi uieai. iy liitroiiueiug various ac
cessories as stewed fruit with roast
meat and by substituting tho most
cvhn'chc vegetable dishes for cntrcrs of
meat. Poor people, who wish to reduce
tho quantity of flesh for economical rea
sons, must fall back upon the fannacea
and on vegetables generally, and en
deavor, by appropriate admixture of
vegetable condiments to imitate the
stimulating and satisfying qualities of
animal food. In fact, puddings and
other dishes which are too commonly
eaten with sugar should be made savory
by the addition of the condiments that
generally accompany moat. Medical
J tntn ana Uazruv.
What a Fire Itevcaled.
There has been a Are in Georgetown,
Massachusetts, nnd the Newbuiyport
Hi rat' I, published in the same county,
makes the following blood-curdling state
ment concerning the awful secret revealed
by that fire :
In the Masonic building were two
hulls, one occupied by the Masonic and
tho other by a secret society known ns the
" Doduuks," or " Hell-cats. " When the
building caught fire, both these halls
were speedily dismantled and certain
estreet l,v the ureverentfirer where
wondering crowd. They were a diaboli
.
cal-looking set of implements, some of i
which would have graced the dungeons I
of the Inquisition. Of course, nobody
was anxious to claim them; the Doduuks
swore tin y belonged to the Masons, who
indignantly declared that tho rubbish
was none of their "houseu-stuff," and
was finally lugged off or destroyed by the
boys. The most conspicuous object was
a dummy giant, about twelve feet high.
His pants were made of several nical
bags, ou which was the name of a promi
nent graiu-dealer. The cut of his coat,
which was of booking, and, like Joseph's,
of many colors, pointed to a fashionable
merchant tailor, The boots were No. 22,
"saddle-seam. He was stuffed with
meadow hay. The mask that formed his
face was hideous enough to frightau a
saw-horse. Then there were a lot of
devils, hoofs and horns, tails aud all,
which, with a box of brimstone, some
blue lights, red fire, etc., were probably
intended to treat the candidate to a mild
representation of the place where the
"rich man" went. There was also a
huge gridiron. Next in order was a
skeleton supposed to be the framework
of some unfortunate member, who was
broiled on the above-named gridiron for
having divulged the secrets of the Lodge
to his wife, who told them to all the
other women. Then there was a sort of
treadmill, where the hopefid candidate
was put through his best paces ; also a
large cask, hung on a crank, in which
he was treated to a turn or two ; a mill
with huge wooden rollers, where he was
" ground over;" an old boiler, on which
the "Devil's tattoo" was beat with
clubs, while he crawled through ; a pair
of boots, in which he had to walk up an
inclined plane ; a two-gallon syringe,
with which he was baptized into the Or
der; the bonis, big enough to blow down
the walls of Jericho without a miracle,
and many other elegant little arrange
ments "too numerous to mention," all of
which the delighted candidate must have
fully appreciated.
A Washington judge has decided that
in the case of a drawn bet, the stake
holder may either keep the money him
self or devote it to better purpose iu
charity.
nanus oi their UHr Foreign Imports. FIGHT WITH A HIPPOPOTAMUS.
We -give below the importations into
the United States from foreign countries
of several articles for the fiscal years
1873 and 1874 respectively, and show the
amount of the decrease of imports and of
duties:
Ton.
181.327
92,041
1873 Pig-iron imported.
1874 Pig-iron imported.
Decrease of importation in 1874 .... 89, 286
Duty of $7 per ton $624,802
bar inoK.
Pountls,
1873 Im)Krted 166,016,035
1874 Imported 74,031,633
Decrease 88,984,502
Duty of 1 cent per lb 889. 845
BAB, SCROLL AND HOOP IRON.
Pound.
1873 Imported 25,660,711
1874 Imported fi, 955. 950
Decrease 19.704.7G1
At average duty of 1 cents per lb. $295,671
BAILROAD IRON.
7'oui(f.
1878 Imported 481,009,461
1874 Imported 40,759,006
Decrease 440,250,455
Dutv of 70 cents per 100 lb .
S3.081.752
Tons.
204,078
51,357
SCRAP IRON.
1873 Imported
1874 Imported
Decrease 152.721
Duty at S8 per ton . $1,221,708
STEEL RAIL.
Pounds.
1873 imported 320,083.100
1874 Imported 292,821.945
Decrease 27.261.155
Duty at 14 cents per lb S340.704
RAW WOOL.
Pounds.
1873 IinKrted 85,496,049
1874 Imported 42,949,206
Decrease 42,546,843
Dutv at au average rate of
cents per lb 5.318.355
RECAPITULATION.
Falliug off of duties on Iron aud
steel rails 6,454.502
Falling off of duties ou raw wool. . . 5,318.355
Total on two articles 511,772,857
In 1873 the United States collected
8184,929,041 duties, derived chiefly from
the following articles:
Live animals & 1. 952. 779
Breadstuffs 2.449.218
Cotton manufactures 11.557,173
Lineu goods and tlax 7,212,791
Iron and steel 18,237,308
Leather : 8,734,828
Salt 741,939
Sugar aud molasses 32,048,562
Wood 2,143,02H
Wool and woolens 38,490.628
Lead 1,365.848
Tin plates 2.451,726
Earthenware 2,394.191
GlasB aud glassware 3,952,777
Drugs aud chemicals 8.298.462
Hemp and Jute 1,684,089
Total from sixteen articles
The duties on so-called
luxury were;
Bilks, etc
Spirits aud wiue
.132,715,428
articles of
. 17,283,315
8,714.402
6.291,317
Tobacco and cigars . . .
Clocks, jewelrv, fancv goods, aud
furs, about 4,000,000
Total 6 36.289,034
Fooling With a Bear.
The captuiu of the propeller Benton,
iu winter quarters at Detroit, has a half-
grown bear on board, and tho animal has
been annoyed so much that he does not J Such determined and unprovoked fiuy
hesitate to use his claws whenever ocea-1 as was exhibited by this animal had never
sion offers. Saturday moruing a lanky been witnessed he appeared to be rav
stranger from Sandusky happened along ! iug mad. His body was a mass of f right
the wharf and saw the bear iu tho gang-1 ful scars, the results of continual con
way. He stopped and began teasing fliets witli bulls of his own species ;
tho oear, and bye-and-by the captain
said :
" Look out, mister, or you'll get dread
fully tickled."
" I guess I've seen bears afore now,"
replied the niun, indignantly, nnd he
Kejii on culling me uear, spilling ui mm,
making false motions, etc.
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false blow threw Sandusky off Ins feet
and he rolled dowu to the bear. Bruin
uttered one growl nud went to business.
and the way the broadcloth, suspenders
and white nnd red shirt flew was hand
some to liehold.
" Call off yer b'ar 1 help ! police !
police !" yelled Sandusky; but the police
were far, far hence, and the captain has
a lame foot and can't get around very
fast. The whole back of the man's coat
made only one mouthful for the bear,
and ho wasn't a minute in gettiug down
to hide and blood.
" Oh 1 oh ! Marcy whoop gracious
step yelp! yelp!" howled the man,
as he rolled around the deck; but the
bear would have been playing with him
vet but for the captain and a handspike.
When Sandusky was hauled out of the
way aud jerked to his feet he was all
blood and rags and bites and scratches.
" Didn't I tell you not to fool with the
bear ?" asked the captain, as he stood
back aud surveyed the man.
" Yes, capting, you did," replied San
dusky; "and the next thing is to lend
me an army blanket and show me a first
class hospital !"
Gold Fish.
Seth Green says this as to tiie proper
care and treatment of goldfish: Never
take the fish in your hand. If the aqua
rium needs cleaning, make a net of mos
quito netting and take the fish iu it.
There are many gold fish killed by han
dling. Keep your aquarium clean, so
that the water looks as clear as crystal.
Watch the fish a little, and you will find
out when they are all right. Feed them
all they will eat, and anything they will
eat worms, meat, fish water and fish
spawn. Take great care that you take all
they do not eat out of the aquarium. Any
decayed meat or vegetables in the water
has the same smell to a fish that it does
to you iu the air. If your gold fish die,
it is attributable, as a rule, to one of the
causes liandling,8tarvation, or bad wa
ter. An Arkansas grocer has been sent to
the penitentiary for six years for shoot
ing a man who " kept helping himself te
the crackers."
ThcMIonnter In Ills Nntlve Iiiuii(nTeua
clous of Life.
A tragical incident occurred not long
nfter the establishment of the camp of
Sir Samuel Baker, in Africa. There was
an old blind sheik who frequently cross
ed the river to visit the new-comers.
One day he was returning with his son.
when the cnuoe was charged by an angry
hippopotamus. Seizing the frail bark at
the end where the sheik was sitting, the
monster crunched it to fragments be
tween his ponderous jaws,aud so crushed
and lacerated tho poor old man, that, al
though rescued by his comrades, who
hastened to his assistance, ho died du
ring the night. The hippopotamuses
were often the source of great annoyance,
and sometimes of danger, to the expedi
tion. One beautiful moonlight night,
when tho flotilla was quietly nt anchor in
a lake close to tho White Nile, one of
these monsters made a most determined
attack upon the diahbeeah belonging to
Sir Samuel Baker. The vessel was close
to a mud bank, covered with high grass,
and about tliirty yards astern of her was
a shallow part of the lake, nbout three
feet deep. A light boat of zinc was full
of strips of hippopotamus flesh, and the
dingy was fastened alongside. Every
one was soundly sleeping, when, says
oir Samuel, "I was suddenly nwnkened
by a tremendous splashing ciose to the
diahbeeah, accompanied by tho hoarse,
wild snorting of a furious hippopotamus.
I jumped up, and immediately perceived
n hippo, which was apparently about to
attack the vessel. My servant, Suleiman,
was sleeping next to the cabin door. I
called to him for a rifle. Before the
affrighted Suleiman could bring it, the
hippopotamus dashed nt us with inde
scribable fury. With one blow he enp
sized nnd sunk the zinc boat, with its
cargo of flesh. In another instant he
seized the dingy in his immense jaws,
and the crash of splintered wood be
tokened the complete destruction of my
favorite boat. By this time I had pro
cured a rifle from tho cabin, where they
were always kept fixed in a raw, loaded,
and ready for action, with bags of breech
loading ammunition on the same shelf.
lhe movements of the animal were so
rapid, as ho charged and plunged nlter
nutely beneath the water iu a cloud of
foam and wave, that it was impossible to
aim correctly at tho small but fatal spot
upon the head. The moon was extremely
bright, and presently, as he charged
straight at the diahbeeah, I stopped him
with a No. 8 Reilly shell. To my sur
prise, he soon recovered, and again com
menced the attack. I fired shot after
shot at lum without apparent effect.
The diahbeeah rocked about upon the
waves raised by the efforts of so large au
animal. This movement rendered my
aim uncertain. At length, apparently
badly wounded, he retired to tho high
grass. There he lay by the bank, at
about twenty-five yards distant, snorting
nnd blowing."
Thinking the creuture must be dying,
Sir Samuel went to bed, but in about
hidf an hour was awakened again by an
other furious charge. A riflo ball m the
i head rolled the monster over, and ho
floated helplessly down tho stream.
This time he must sm-ely be dead. To
the amazement of all, he presently re
covered, and only gave up ufter receiv
ing several bullets in his body. On the
following morning a pot-niortrm ex
amination showed that he had received
three shots in the flank and shoulder ;
four in the head, one of which had
broken his lower jaw; another had pass
ed through his nose, and passing down-
ward, had cut off ono of his largo tusks,
some of the wounds were still unhealed.
There was one scar about two feet in
length, and about two inches below tho
level of the surface skin, upon the flank.
He was evidently a character of the worst
description, but whoso madness render
ed him callous to all punishment. The
attack upon the vessel was probably in- j
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zinc boat was filled. The dead hippo
potamus that was floating astern, lashed
to the diahbeeah, had not been molested.
The (roup Among Children.
This is one of the most common mala
dies of early childhood, says Science of
Health. Scrofulous and plethoric chil
dren are most subject to it. All "rich"
(gross) kinds of food predispose to it, as
candies, sweet cakes, greasy admixtures,
fried dishes etc.
The early Nymptoms are wheezy in
spiration, with some dilliculty of breath
ing, without fever, soon followed by the
shrill, ringing inspirations and oppressed
breathing, which are peculiar to the dis
ease. The patient now manifests tho low,
or typhoid, form of fever, which is one
essential accompaniment. After a few
hours or days, the symptoms will gradu
ally disappear, or the patient will die of
exhaustion or suffocation.
The essential point in the successful
treatment of croup, is to check tho exuda
tion into the windpipe, aud prevent the
formation of what is called a false mem-
! brane, as this must necessarily be de
tached from the mucous surface, and if
it is not expelled through the narrow
glottis, the patient must be inevitably
choked to death.
The throat must be enveloped in cold
wet cloths, the colder the better, and
often renewed until the preternatural
heat is subdued. In extreme cases,
Sounded ice is better. If the surface is
ot and feverish, tepid ablutions are in
dicated, as in the hot stage of all fevers
and inflammations. If the superficial
heat is unequal, and the extremities in
clined to coldness, the warm bath and
hot applications to the feet are necessary.
The expectoration of' the adhesive excre
tion may be facilitated by means of sips
of warm water, aud tho vapor or steam of
hot water. The early treatment should
always be prompt and vigorous, as, in
most cases, the result depends on arrest
ing the morbid excretion at once.
Stovb Polish and Soapsuds. If
stove polish is mixed with soapsuds, the
luster appears immediately, 'and the dust
of the polish does not fly around as it
usually does.
A Bad Manager.
What a picture for "those about to
marry " is thus given iu the Saturday
Jtevlcw of a wife who is a bad manager:
" Her dress is always stained with the
droppings of her teacup, and she hns no
intermediate state between untidiness
and finery. She puts ou her best clothos
for a morning walk, and keeps nothing
for her visiting days. Her piano always
wants tuning, and sho never remembers
the date of the tax-collector's visits. She
forgets her gloves or her card-case till
sho hns arrived nt the hall door, nnd when
they ore brought the gloves nlwnys wont
buttons, aud there are no cards in the
case. She never learns the rate of post
age, and writes her foreign letters after
the mail has gone out. A drive iu a cab
involves a light about the fare, and she
brushes the muddy wheel with her dress
iu getting out. Slie expects her servants
to do everything without instructions,
and usually speaks of them as 'wretches.'
While she exacts obsequious respect
from them, she talka before them of their
shortcomings. Sho gives them needless
trouble by her laziness or carelessness,
and, wliile she does nothing for their
comfort, expects them to study hers con
stantly. Sho will thoughtlessly ring
them up to the top of the house to put
on the coals which are in the scuttlo be
side her chair, and will heedlessly send
them on three or four errands when a
little forethought on her part would have
made one enough. She never interests
herself in their welfare, hardly knows
their names, never spares them when
they are ill, or thinks of how she may
save them trouble. She provides no
wholesome literature for their leisure
reading, and does net inquire nfter tho
proper investment of tlieir little savings.
Tlieir wages are always in nrrear, and she
habitually tempts tlieir honesty by leav
ing her purse or her letters lying about,
and yet frequently suspects them without
cause. She charges them with theft nud
untrutlifulness on the smallest grounds,
and constantly fancies that they are look
ing at her through the keyhole or listen
ing behind tho door. She is indignant
when they give her notice, and refuses
them a character when she finds that
they cannot compel her to give them
one. She knows nothing of them after
tliey leave lier, and never concerns her
self to get them places. She expects
them both to be up before her in the
morning and also to sit up late for her at
night. If she is ill they must attend her
like nurses, rise to her call at all hours
of the night, nnd work for her in every
respect as if they loved her. "
The Beautiful Snow.
Shortly after the lamps and candles
were lighted last evening, say Ave
o'clock, remarks the Danbury man, it
commenced to snow. It had been rain
ing all day a cold, miserable rain and
now they said it was snowing. I could
not believe it until I went out and saw
for myself. At nine o'clock I went out
again to observe what progress the storm
had made, with as much interest as if I
was a boy, and the next day a Satiu'day.
At that hour thero was about two inches
of snow on a level, and it was still coming
down. I gathered up several balls of it
and carried it into tho house, to the hys
terical enjoyment of the ladies. This
morning the hills and valleys were
covered. The men servants have been
engaged for au hour shoveling paths, and
tho snow is still descending. I have
been out on the back corridor looking
down the yard upon some debris of
timber, where some repairs have been
going on. It looks wonderfully home
like, but it is not comforting. You who
have been brought up in affluence, with
no call out-doors, and a sitting-room to
be comfortable in, and not obliged to
hover over tho kitchen stovo with its
dreadful proximity to an outer door, can
enjoy tlus snow, and look out over the
hills and plains aud see only tho purity
and beauty of its frosting. But to a
chap who lias lived on a farm, or been a
builder's apprentice, the first snow has
no charms. It is white and beautiful to
others, but to him it is terribly damp,
and he knows by experience how it takes
hold of a pair of fiue boots which have
not been greased recently. How dread-
iuiij iitibiutlA bliu CAiuncu muo 11 oiniLlb
lings and floor boards looked down there ,
in the snow. I knew to a hair's breadth
the size of the chill which went over the
apprentice as he pulled tho pieces out
with his bare hands, and I knew to a T
what were his sensations and thoughts
i as ho knocked the clinging snow lrom
his boots and went inside of tho wiu
dowless building. On a ripping cold day
there is electricity in the air which stimu
lates your blood, nnd urges you into an
activity which produces warmth. But in
a snowy day like this the air is as flat as
a dish-cloth, and the dampness permeates
every joint in your carcass, and bids de
fiance to the shuffling of feet and the
swinging of arms..
Ignorance aud Crime.
We doubt, says the Scientific Ameri
can, if more striking evidence of the
necessity of compulsory education laws
and the provision of means for their rigid
enforcement could be found thou appears
in a suggestive fact in the pages of a re
cent report of tho National Prison Asso
ciation. This volume, which is filled
with copious statistics of prisons and
convicts in this country, deals inciden
tally with the causes of crime, making
its deductions from the various prison
reports of the mental and social condition
of the incarcerated. Ignorance is proved
to be the worst evil with . which a com
munity must struggle. Forty-eight per
cent, of all the convicts ih the United
States can neither read nor write, and
only one per cent, of the aggregate have
acquired a superior education. We trust
that the enforcement of the compulsory
laws already enacted in some of the
States will soon justify the wisdom that
prompted them, and lead to an improve
ment in the average education of the
lower classes.
The most repulsive member of the
Brighton aquarium, says the Danbury
News man, was the octopus. It is diffi
cult to describe it. . Its body is in front
of its head, and consists of a yellowish
watery bag, like that of a spider. Its
legs, of which there are any number, are
long and slimy, and armed their whole
length with suction tubes. Once fastened
to any enemy it would be a difficult matter
for the unfortunate to escape. An oc
topus is the most dreadful looking object
I ever saw. I would rather wear earring
than be an octopus.
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