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VOL 20.
STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. OCTOBER 24, IS6I.
KO 40.
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by
Theodore Schochi
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ted with neatness and Jesp.Ucli, on jca&onalileteinis
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I LOVE TO COURT.
I love to court in winter,
The many girls I know,
When all outside is dreary
And covered up with snow ;
I love lo court in winter,
Because the oik folks dread
The cold and stormy weather,
And hurry off to bed.
1 Jove to court in spring lime,
When all is brig lit and gay,
When Nature smiles so sweetiy,
To chase the cold away;
I love to court in spring time,
Uecnuse the girls, you know.
They look sco awful pretty
In dresses cut so low !
I love to court in summer
When all things are in bloom,
And yet I think that courting
Will ever he my doom;
For I have asked just twenty-one
Of all the girls I know,
To have me for their loving one,
And they have answered No!
Tea.
The same plant produces all the vari
eties. Tie different titses of gathering,
and moilci of preparation, cause all the
difference between those kinds known by
so runny distinct names both of green
cud black. The leaves are pioked, and
not the flowers; they are rolled with the fin
gers. These dried rapidly in iron ba?iti3
over a fire become green tea, while those
thrown into very hot basins, then taken
qaickly oot, ?spo-ed to the un for a while
and afterward dried over a fire, become
bbuzk lea
The.e psns, as some writers call them,
tut more correctly, bowls or basin-, for
juey are ucui y ?cun-iuuuiui iu nuapo
ud about eighteen inches in diameter,
are always of iron, never of copper.
A
Rjixture of rru-ciai! blue and ejpaurn is
ued in the preparation of soaie grccu
"lea-; but the bitter qualities are general
ly perfectly pure.
The native building on the North Gate
street, :n nhich we lived during the firt
jcar of our residence at Shanghai, was
rented, after wo left, to a tea merchant.
On vi.-itisg it affct-rward, I found he had
turned our former kitchen into .tcacohr
ing room. There were around the sides
of the apartment fourteen of these iron
bowls, set ic moitar ou the top of as many
trick furnaces in which moderate fin-a
were burning. Thirteen of the bowls
were half filled with tea leave, and a man
fctood at each, rapidly stirring them with
bis hand.
The retraining bowl tontainod a quan
u joum, R tru.T,UiS,
u,cu uUiu... -
one, the men from the others would come
-very few minutes, and taking from it a
tmall quantity of the content-, would re
turn aud stir, each into hi-? bowl of tho
leaves till they had acquired the requi-ite
hue. The exceedingly minute quantity
of Prussian blue that any persons could
imbibe in driukine tea froca the leaves
thus prepared, precludes, in ray opinion,
iUO .-iuim; . '"j j o
-frin- '
The significations of some of the names
"by which teas are known, are as follows
making due allowance for the changes an J
corruption iney uu-iureu u .u.tu
found, in being anglicized Hyson means
before the rain or flourishing spring, that
is, early in the spring. Hence it is oaen
called Young H yson. Hyson skin is com
posed of the refu?c of the other kinds,
the native term for which means tea skins.
Refuse of a still coarser, description,
containing many stems, is called tea-bones
Boluca is the name of the hills in the re-
gion wnicu n conccicu. u.
means wuue uair?, iuu uuwu uu hu wu-
der leaves. Pouciong, folded plant. Souch
ong, small plant. Twankay is tho name
of a stream in the provinco whence it is
brought. Congo is from a term signify
ing labor, from tho care required in iti
preparation. Taylors China.
A Cat Story.
An old woman, wbo died a few years
ago in Ireland, had a nephew, a lawyor,
4o whom she left all she possessed. She
happened to bavo a favorite cat, who nov
cr left her, and even remained by tho
corpse after her death. After the will
wasread in the adjoining room, on open
ing the door the cat sprang at the lawyer,
seized him by the throat, and with diffi
culty was prevented from strangling him.
This man died about eighteen months af
ter this scene and on bis death bed con
fessed that ho bad murdered bis aunt to
get possession of her money. Miss
Knight's Autobiography.
When a pickpocket pulls atyouvatcb
tell bim plainly that you have no time to
spare.
Publii
The Trial of the Nation. j
The Rev, Thomn. Starr Kin delivered
' I M I0 'l T rCCCBt!? 1D
which he uttered the following striking,
lanyuaiTG :
God intended the Saxon race, here, I
r o
clieve, for this sca.e of ground work or
puwm iur iucii uLiru. jjui ue tries ev-
ery race oncefto ee if they are worthy
of their preat Irus-K Nob he calls on us
to cam our geography. We paid to Na-
poloon some millions of hard cash for half
the Mississippi and the whole of the MU-
soun; cut now rroviacnce tells us to gain
uuuiiMHiu uj UU1 uuaidciui.
Ho tries us to see if wo are worthy to
secure the perpetual warrantee by our
vuiui. j. uc ivucia urn ticgeoeraie. xney
care nothing for the Upper Mississippi,
for the Sierra, for the Lakes, for the
Hudson. They are all williug to let
them all go. Their hearts have no pne-
cion that reaches into cold weather, or
1 K.I. J. . mi
Deyomi wliere a negro can hoe, and dance
ana turivc. uc asus us it we can send
our plosion southward, or if we are wil-
i i .i , .
iing to pay our geogrnptty ana tne nerit- "ng auouc nuy cents a pair tor oottorn
ac and pride of our children at the first ing.
pressure on our purses and our labor, for j Good workmen are now having steady
a peace that shatters the Atnericau do- employment and making from S! 00 to
main. It is our crisis hour of trial. SI 50 a day. Sis hundred thousand
Shall we not be ; stern aud patient, najbi- pairs of sewed shoes are being made up
tious to retain the privilege and truft,,iu Massachusetts, for which Uncle Sam
and to eave for ourselves and posterity, will pay considerably oser a million dol
and the dependents of the short-sighted, ! lars. A low average of the amount paid
unpatriotic, maddened rebels, the majcR-'for work bottoming, fitting, boxing, &c.
tic benefaction which only patience and would be sixty cents a pair, equal to S3C0,-
valor can retain I
A Natural Bridge in Wisconsin.
A correspondent of a Philadelphia pa
per, writing from Pine river, Wisconsin,
gives the subjoined description of a natu
ral bridge discovered in that region :
At tho mouth of the wct branch of
Pine river is agreat curiosity a natural
bridge almost as wonderful as the one o
ver Cedar creek, iu Yiryinia. Here a
fctreas: much larger than Cedar Creek,
is spanned by a biidge of rock and
earth, the handiwork of nature herself.
n't. . . i i- t n- - a
j. uc west urauco oi i ine river uOws;"ut tBi, ouu men uisiiena was aueuuy
through a most beautiful and fertile val-Uery great. Their hollow fiauks, droop
ley, eastward, until it ncars the main; ing heads, and low, melancholy moans
stream, when a high bluff seems to; uttered at interals, told but two plainly
forbid tho blending of the waters. But' told their misery, and went to my heart
"where there is a will there is a way,' j like daggers, My poor horse was no lon-an-i
the branch fiuds on opening through jger an animated creature, but a spectre
hn liirrti 1.1 il fF tntii,!i cL-irl tUn n-njlnrn I nf liimsfllf n Tnnnt s t n rtcfl ri il nr plrolpfnn
shore of p,ne ri aod thcir water8
. ... rT,,irmr nn ,nrj tun,lFntu
tnm-
father of
rivers.'' Here is a
natural tunnel, from
fift en to twenty feet high, right through
a rocky hill, whose altitude is 80 feet.
The bill is covered with tall pines and
foliage down to both rivers with a dense
growth of evergreen. .The bridge is wide
enough for three teams to drive abreast,
and, from its location, I have no doubt
but a thoroughfare will at some future
time be established along this romantic
way. Sufficient water passes under the
bridge, even in the sultry month of July,
to set a-rolling aud a rumbling a- dosen
of the largest mills in the State.
A War Episode.
A young Philadelpuiao who enlisted
in a Minnesota regiment on the breaking
out of the war, and unkuowu to his pa
rents resident in this city, had gone to
Wa-hinston, and thence with his regi
ment to Manassas Juuotion. After the
battle, when the official report of the Miu-j
ncsota colonel was handed in, the name i
of the lad appeared as fallen, and the ti-j meat. The Yankee was very anxious to
dittos fell like death upon tho household divide ho that he could get both bind
that he left. Mr Warthman was direc-1 quarters, and porsuadcd the Frenchman
ted to inquire into the ca-e, and his hopes that the way to divide was to out it a
were dissipated at once, on arriving at cros the back. The Frenchman agreed
the field, by receiving personal testimony I to do it on condition that the Yankee
from comrades of the lad that he had would turn his back and take -the choice
fallnn in tp onrliniii-of the fii'ht. mortal- of nieces alter it was cut iu two. The
, woun,3ed. He at once telegraphed the '
u op lor3 o leu liict, nut do it cay ten in witn
a soldier who bad left the fight in compa-'
ith thc supp0sod deceased. The two i
walked t0(,cther for tevcQ meBt BUi
(owq Qn lhe ouod t0 hjet.p hido by
When the Mmne-otian awoke the
Pennsylvanian was utis.-ing, and had not
afterward been sen. This awakened a
, faint hope of the lad's escape, tut, a'tor
awaiting tor days, this small consolation
failed, and the parents of the lad gave!
him up as dead. Ye&terday they awa-1
kened to find upen the threshold a wan-
rirl rl ii wf t. moii vptttl il n ji T linnn 111")
check to indicate his calling, and no pen
caD deBCribo their delight at recognizing
- .t- a j i j
in mis person tne auseu. auu lamameu
boy. He had strolled off in the woods
at night, was taken prisoner, and, again
escaping, wandered up and dowu seeking
rest, which he at last found in the loyal
camps. Obtaining a furlough, he came
to find himself set down as dead. He
has again buckled on his armor and gone
... . . .
to dare death.
m-KX an evening party, lately, a '
young man from England was boasting
s-rn. onlfh H imrtftn
of his ancestors.
"0, yes," said Sam H., "your father
and mine spent part of tbeirjives togetb-
"Where was that!" sharply inquired
.
tho other.
"In the Bloomingdale poor house,"
..ui:"- !"Ji"g P
was the stinging reply
Wbon a dentist pulls out an aching
tooth for us we call it a dental operation;
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DU II u- nwiv. iv ism. uvv u w w. - - - - -
r
Bieau, w auuu.u va t uu r
.-.j t u ;i nn ..i nn.
) should call it
cfation: shouldn't we!
Extensive Trade in Army Boots and Shoes
The -Shoo and Leather Reportcr gives
?I 'f ' ,D? Slal,ST : , ,
1 bo doaand for acwed army abooa, for
the United Sf..its trnnnq nu troll no fnr
' ..-r, ......
sewed and pegged shoes for the different
. n A .-.1 . . I. e . I. J ! rr
btatea show no signs of diminution. Last
wee a ucuucuiau oi tnuianapoiis leit two
orders for Gve thousand pairs of pegged
, hoos each for the State of Indiana, and
several lots, ranging from three thousand
to five thousand pairs of sewed shoes woro
disposed of at good prices for New York,
iHibSouri anu otner estates. Lrovernment
uunuota uiau p.aeuu in uomou ior
about twonty-five thousand pair.1 of cav-
, airy boots at profitable rates. These
' i i l i- t i . j
gouua are to uo made irom eigne ana a
half ouncea of upper leather. Some of
our manufacturers who received contracts
'. on Saturday were cutting and giving out
stock on Monday ready to turu out the
goods at the rate of from one to two huu-
dred pairs daily, in every shoo town in
tne otate worumen are engaged in making
sewed army shoes, on which they are get-
. l c t. . f i
000 distributed amoug the journeymen in
the State for making the bhoes. This is
exclusive of tho large amount of both sew
ed and pegged work for the State, as well
as of cavalry boots, which will not fall
s.hort of one half the above amount or
S1S0,000. The department will com
mence paytDg for goods about tho middle
of September, when our contractors will
have a chanoe to
Sam's gold.
fingor sonic of Uncle
Effects of Thirst.
The oxen hud now been four days witb-
i i j: i 3 ..
The change that had come upon him with
in the last twenty-four hours was incred
ible. From time to time ho nut his head
'into the wagon, into any one's hands, and
J looking wistfully and lauguidly into hu
jface, v.ould reproachfully (his look 'con
veyed as much) seem to say "Cruel man
don't you see I am dying why don't
you relieve my burning thirst?" The
dogs again ceased to recognize my ca
resses. Their eyes were so deeply sunk
en in their sockets as to be scarcely per
ceptible. They glided about in spectral
silence; death was in thsir faces. The
waggon was heavily laien, the soil excee
dingly heavy, the sun in the daytime like
an immense burning glass, and the op
pressiveness of the atmosphere was great
ly increased by tho tremendous "veldt"
fires which, ravageing the country far
and wide, made it like a huge fiery fur
nace. Andersons
Okaranao River,
A Yankee and a Frenchman owned a
pig in co-partnerahip. When killing
time
came iney wisued to divide tne
Yankee turned his back accordingly.
nrenonman viou piece win you uave
ze piece wid ze tail on him, or ze piece
vat haint got no tail? Yankee Tho
pieco wjth tbe tail on. Frenchman Zen
by ar J0U can tako him aili I taij() ze
ozer one. Upon turning round, the lan-
kee found that tho Frenchman had out
off the tail and stuck it iuto tho pig's
mouth !
jgThe soldier, notwithstanding all
his troubles, trials, aod dangers, is fre-
quently a quaint genius. When McLmw
ill moila liij I n ri n in. Ko.ro mo ma.Vi(i fid
yanco on Manassas, a Connecticut regi-
ment was detailed as advanco
hkirmish-
ers, ana upoo aruvmg at uuuuuvmo it i
:wa9 drawn up in double file (open) to al- J
0w tho grand army to pass through.
Fifty thousand men thoroughly equipped,
and armed, with their long train of ar-
tillery, passed through in grand array;
presenting a very foroft of bayonets as
i n..t :n,. :
. . . 1
far as tho eye could reach iu either
01-
az mm. - .-. 1 .1 . . . .i. I. n itiiinnccnii rrio
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giouu wwwiuw.w, r
....... w cvtinroiio ivnrn miinn I m 11 1 eapuu
with the magnificence and solemnity or
the scene, and felt their hearts thrill with
, nlnar.ble nrido as they reviewed in
these long columns, their country a
strength. But as tho roar guard was
passing, all their sensations received a
tcrnoJo DacK net dj loe louowiug ijuu
ry, propounded by tho (almost)
!mnn'' tlQur Imvn vmi anoTI fill
last
.S l.nvn rn., Rnen auvthioi?
i man
of a man with a gun ou his shoulder, go-
-in.naathorer Asked in a tone as "se-
ing past
rious as a funeral."
Tho effect can easi-
ly bo imagined.
t- .
! ftfS-Tod. a Democrat and tho Union
.
"TT. ; , i-k. i.i.
nnniiioate ior uoveruor ui vuiu, iiua iwwu
, , . r Kn ,mn
j " -
I'lectod dv a maioniy oi uvui
How it happened that the Secessionists'! " " George WPson " f
did not take Louisville. J A fow JCBra ino RS Mr. Gallaudet1
, hC t -that -f not"WM iogin the streets of Hartford,
. take the city of Wville instead of there eono running to him o poor boy. of
stonnirifT nf. firoon Minor rolw.rn l.n ,. 0
A nA I. . - - ! . . t l , i -r
-rr .....v, uc iuu-
ded Kentucky on the line of the Louis-
"Villo and Nashville Railroad, is due not
tu uuy ioroatgnt or iorco oi tuo Umted
Mates authorities or of the Union men of
Kentucky, but to the loyalty, courage
and tact of ono obseure individual. The
oooessionists bad lafd their plaus to ap-
pear suddenly in Louisville with a pow-
riui ioroo. inoy Dad provided lor
"-p.iauuu 1Uui uuuuieu cjir udu ut-
teen locomotives, and had eight thousand
men, with artillery and camp equipage,
n U 1 'Pi i i j .i.
" xuey uaa seourcu mo scrvi-
ces of tho telegraph operators, ono of
whom forwarded to Louisville a dispatch
explaining the(detcntion of trains ou the
road, and were moving forward at a
grand rate. Everything was going well
witu tnom, anu Lioutsviiie, with, perhaps,
( lU0 cicepnon oi a lew. secessionists, was
j uuexpecting and ungarded, Gen. Auder-
. .. ... u.I :.. .. . r . 11 r
son beiog iuuocont of any knowledge of Mr. Gallaudet, and he became appreo-: would not bear his weight. Now ho was
the movement, James Guthrie, President ticed to a cabinet maker in the neighbor in a dilemma, five miles from any habi
of the road, totally in the dark, and Gen. i hood. There the same integrity won for tation, ioside of a Btump twenty feet high,
Rousseau lingering in camp on the Iudi- j bim the favor of new associates. To , with no prospect of any assistance, with
ana shore. But at a station just beyond f gratify his inclination for study, hi mas-1 uothing to subsist on but the goose eggB;
urocu xyver, mere was a young -man in
tne service or tne roau, wno was a warm
friend of the Union, and who, compre
hending the meaning of tho monster
train, when it came up, seized a crow-bar
used for taking up rails to make repairs,
and while tho locomotive wero being
wooded and watered, ran across a curve,
and in a deep narrow cut, wrenobed the
spikes from four rails. Tho train came
along at good speed, the rails spread, tho
locomotive plunged into the ground, tho
car3 crashed on top of it, and it wa3 twenty-four
hours before the traiu could go
ahead. In the meantime Louisville was
saved. The hero of the ocoasion had not
had timo to get out of the cut before tho
crash came, and was taken, but in the
confusion and excitement got away, and
is sfe. These facts are related by Dr.
R. S. Newton, who was in Nashville when
the Secession army advanced, was de
tained there several days subsequently,
heard the circumstances narrated thero,
and was told of them afterward by Gen.
Ruckner and other officers of the Confed
erate army . Cincinnati Commercial.
I . 1 at
A "Wonderful Dog-.
Wc have a remarkably intelligent
Scotch terrier in our office. Among oth
er peculiarities, he will not allow a stran
ger to open an account book on our desk,
unless either the book-keeper, or ono of
us, is prtseut. His strict guardianship
of our interests in this particular has
been repeatedly tested, though we nevor
took any pains to impress upon him that
such familiarity with our books would of-
fend us. It is almost unnecessary to any
that his canine accomplishments bh ro-
lates to the art and my-tery of rat-catch-
wit nn nf n mnst. evtrnnritiruir w kind.
On a recent occasion ho cornered one of
the vermin, and being unable to get at
hire, he actually starved bim out hav
ing never deserted his post for some
three days and nights, during which pe
riod bis food was carried to him. Tho
rat then gave up, and was destroyed.
On the 21 inst., he came into the office
with a bit of dirty paper in his mouth,
and laid it dowu very carefully by the
stove. No ono noticed the circumstance
at the time, but shortly after, one of us
sat down by the stove and observed that
he'was holding this ditty paper with bis
paw, and licking off the dirt. Presently,
when ho thought it was clearf enough, he
very politely look it in his mouth, and
. J . . . . i
poked it into our hand. uuriosity in -
duced us to osamino it more cloaoly,
when, to our astonishment, wo found wo
hnrl hnon nrnsnnted with a fen dollar bill!
It proved to be a good bank bill, but had
evidently been trodden iu the mud for
for some time. Wo had uo dilnculty,
however, in getting the silver for it.
Who's got a more intelligent dog than
this? Hartford Times.
g&Among tho soldiers now at Fort
Sumter, is James Cahel, an Irisiman,
who, a fow days ago had the bravery to
say that when tho Uuion fleet hovo in
sis-ht he intended to spike the guns of tho
fort. For this expression Captain Rhett
(son ot tne editor oi cue mercury u.uu.-
0(1 "ltu 10 00 ueu acroBS buu lu uu
: htrmmi to receivo one uuuureu uuu
-- rr . f.
twenty-five lashes, well laid on. llio
soldiers in the fort rebelled against tho
infliction of this punishment, and so a-
larming was tho mutiny, that Khctt sent
to Fort Moultrie for soldiers to quiet it.
They came and tho man was whipped.-
, a. ii i a i u ui u u u k, iiu.wu ww- . .
.9 inrmlnnl tv II 11 II nrPIirrfII Illlt I. V U
or three weeks ago. "bows the state oi
fonlinir nmnnir the so diers in JJort oum-
w w . . .. n
j 1 1 it foroii.nnrs nnd
xm-j 7 i.o .innn tfnrfc
Northern men, who bating no work,
were obliged to go into the army to live.
A Lively Interest for the ftlen!
A Cincinnati paper, in speaking of tho
overthrow of tho rebels at Phillippi, soys
that iust beforo the Federal troops enter-
ed the town, a certain Indiana compa-
ny, almost worn out w.tn tno marcn, wero
straggling along with very little regard
to order.
Hurrying up to his mon tho
captain shouted: "Close upl closo upl
If tho enemy were to firo when youro
straggling along that way, they oouldnt
siragguufe aiuub tuuu j, j
v. n ..EH nno nf woul U1080 upi
- . .... -
i . nj1 uVH eioae(i imriiediateiv.
w j
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inrolliru or f?,i ,, r.n "r
verv orainnrtr nnrpgrnnm hiif. ahnyi. kiia
ccntlenian as the bov icouired
Rr onr, tll m.. f
WOuld like a boy to work for him and
learn him to read!"
j "Wbo-o boy are vou. and where do
1 you live!"
l ha'vo no parents," was tho reply,
"and have just run away from the work -
nouse, because tbey would not teach me' vines, which he pulled op and to peep in
to read.'5 jaud get poasvsiou of the eg"8 After ho
i "TIia o-ontlnmnn mnrln nrr.nm.nk ' J.i(i snnnpoft,! ; CJ f
. . . D . . . O
with the authorities of tho town, and took
the boy in his own family. There he 1 eggs some sis or eight feet down iodide,
learned to read. Nor was this all. Ho j The neft, Le supposed, was on a TTrm
soon acquired the confidence of his new ' foundation, and he accordingly let bitn
associates by faithfulness and houesty. ! self down inside; tut when he struck tho
He was allowed to use his friends library, substance on which the nest was built be
aDd made rapid progress in theacouifi-
tiOD of knowledge. It became necessary
after
a while
that
-in-
necessary
George thould leavo'
; ter had a little room furnished for him
in the upper part of the shop, where he.ly exhausted, no ono coming within bear-
devoted his leisure time to bis favorite ing ditauce. On tho third day after his
pursuits. Here bo made lare attain- 'incarceration' two gentlemen wero out
ments in matheroatifs, in the French Ian-! hunting aod came within bearing di3 -guago
and other branches. After being itance. Tbey were much frightened at
in this situation a few year, sitting at tea 'hearing a man grganing inside of tho
with the family one evening, he all atj stump and they could not reconcile them
once remarked that he wanted to go tofsclves to whatit meant, but having learned
franco.
"Go to France?" said
his roaster, Fur-
prised that the apparently contented and
happy youth should thus suddenly bo- They procured axes, and soon the prison
come dissatisfied with his situation: 'for er was liberated. Ho swears be will
what!"
r i
"Ask Mr. Gallaudet to tea to morrow
evening," coutinued George, "and I will
explain."
His kind friend was invited according
ly. At tea time the apprentice presented
himself with his manuscripts, in English
and French, and explained bis singular
wish to go to Franco.
"In the time of Napoleon,'' said be,
"a prize was offered by the French gov
ernment for the simplest rule of measur
ing place surfaces of whatever outline.
The prize has never been awarded, and
that method I have discovered. "
He then demonstrated his problem, to
the surprise and gratification of his
friends, who immediately furnished him
with tho means of defraying his exDen
pes, and with letters of introduction to the
Hon. Lewis Cass, then our minister to the
court of France. He was introduced to
Louis Phillipi, aud in the presence of the
king, nobles, and plenipotentiaries, this
American youth demonstrated his prob-
lem and received the plaudits in the
court. He received the prize, which he
bad clearly won, besides several presents
from the king.
He took letters of introduction, and
proceeded to the Court of St James, and
took up n similar prize, offerd by the
Royal Society, and returned to the Uni
ted States.
He was prepared to secure the benefits
of his discovery by patent, when ho re
ceived a letter from the Emperor Nicho
las himself, one of whose miui?ters had
witnessed bis demonstrations at London,
inviting him to make his residence at the
Russian Court, and furnishing him with
means for his outfit.
Ho complied with the invitation, re
paired to St. Petersburg!!, and is now
Professor of Mathematics in the Royal
College, under the special protection of
11 tUn 1? lucinl Jii run nf Clnni.
1 u" fcUU -j
jjgyAvery curious calculation has
been made relative to the Union troop-
on the banks of the Potomac Taking
as a basis the regular allowance of room
" required IOr a au.uiei tunauu uF
rifrht, aud with his musket at 'Shoulder
arms," and placing them in close single
file, it would require tho whole roadway
from Jersoy City to tho Capital to form
the lino. If the samo troops had to be
reviewed it would take a railway tram,
going at the rate of sixteen miles an hour, thej nra aianufactured in the North.
ever fourteen hours to pass along the L,.t weeij five members of the Indiana
liuo of soldiers. regiment, northeast of tho Chain Bridge,
wore out scouting, and succeeded in kill-
ggrThc basement of the Capitol build- Dg one 0f tne eoemy: the othera fled, lea
ing has been converted into an immeuso viug ono, who bung over his dying com-
i i t . r i...: .j;.. .. ii. nn.Af
jgyuoy u.
Rocauso they are regularly shaved
nersi
! by tho Government contractors
. , . . it. 1 .1
u uu ubu t.- r "W V
kiss the rod. When a beautiful fomale
f ,,q wo sbnnld
oyo luuu.i ipwiiuti.j " "
.... il. i..u
ki33 the lash.
uaKo uouse. iu iub uunmug iucib au;rade, probably a relative, until ne was
eight large ovens in full operation, oai-j captured. In his possession wero discov
ploying forty bakers and turning out fromjered a namber of Miuie Balls, each of
20,000 to 24,000 twenty-two ounce i wjich had a deposit of arsenic in it cov
loaves.pcr day. Iu the vaults, outside ered wjln tallow. He was asked what
of tho building, there are six double o-ltu0 Q,joct was in using those balls. He
yens, enploying sixty bakers, and pro- eXplained that the contcuts were a poison;
duciug daily from 30,000 to 40,000 ti,at tbey had not many of them yet, and
loaves. One huudred and nixty per-' Wcre only used by thoso sent out on pick
sons are employed at these bakeries, re- ct 0r scouting duty. He said that thoy
eeiving from thirty-fivo to forty dollars cam0 from the North that they had not
per month. Tho monthly pay-roll a- received many yet, but were promised a
mounts to o?or six thousand dollars. j larger upply. In connection with this,
.. I my informant, a very reinble brigade sur-
A tipsy Irishman, leaning against a cqu a tbftt a wag shot jQ
lamp post aa a funeral was passing by, pourtceula Massachusetts Regisacnt, by
was asked who wan dead. "I can t ex- a rebej pj0tet, who3e body, immediately
actly say, sir," said he, "but I presume it afler lhe baH eDtcrod h;3 Qesbt 3Vcllcd up
is the jintleman in the coffin. jand t,0 patrent died. The surgeon con-
" 77- a 'siders this a clear case of poison, con-
A MiraculonV Es-ane
The Memphis Argus eivC the folio
ingacceuutofa miraculous escape Kom
starvation of a gentleman residing in
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nt-. v:,.t.
I 11 il orrt n I o onnt.lp ' nnno:i.
near
! "Lfst week
ha was out
bunting in
u'l,r, t,Mtnm ; !,;, " j i..
observed a Hd goose fly oat of a larc
cvpretump. which was some twenty
feet high. Ois knowled.-e of the habit
of these geese led him to believe that tho
goose had anest in the staiap. On iho
; outside of tbe Etump were a number of
. r r
top of the
stump, he discorered a large number of
di-cov-red thit ho bad no foundation and
uimseit sinKing to tne bottom ot the tree.
bin
"The inside of the tree was rotton and
, he screemed and yelled until he was near-
that the gentleman had been missing from
home several days, they soon were satis-
' fied that it wasjuo 'ghot' inside the tree.
never attempt to rob a goose nest, situa
ted as that one was, again."
Hundred Dollar I3ote to itoo
Old Y. a well to do farmer in Illinois.
bad some four marriageable daughters;
and being one of the mon who think their
girls should get married as soon as they
arc out of their short clothes, felt some
what chagrined that his girls should re
main on his hands so long
Now there was a young fellow in the
neighborhood wbo had been waiting on
the V. girls for some time, and had gone
the round from oldest to youngest; and
the old man had been anxiously waiting
for, and especting young R. to "ask con
scut," for some one of the girls, but as
yet ho waited in vain. B. however, had
proposed and had been accepted; but tho
old folks had not been made acquainted
with the fact.
Now, in the mean time, young B. had
purchased a fine horse of the old gent and
had given his note on six nJonth's time
for one hundred dollars. Well, pay day
was fast approaching, and B. had not the
"ready" to meet it; so the day before tho
note became due, young B. made his way
over to the old. gent's, determinod to ask
him for his daughter hoping thereby to
get an extension on the note at least. As
good luck would have it, he met the old
man iu the yard, aud was about to go
through with that interesting ceremony
of "asking consent," when imagine bis
surprise arid joy, the old man broke out
with the following:
"Look bore B. you young racal. you
bavo been eourtin' my gals for more'n a
year; you.ve been gaddin' and cuttiu'
round with the hull on 'em. "Now.-your
note come' duo to-morrow, and I'll tell
you what I'll do. You shall marry one
of my gals I don't care which and 111
give you a good scttin' and your hundred
dollar note to boot; aod if you don't I'll
sue you by thunder!"
"It's a bargain," said B. I'll do it."
And the next week there was a "tall"
wedding dowu at tho old man Y.'s; and
td this day B. chuckles over tbe way old
mau gave his consent without asking,
"and a buudred dollar note to boot."
Poisoned Ulinie Balls.
There is tho most positive evidence that
poisoned Miunie balls arc used in the
rohnl nrmr r.nd ncntaneo i afforded thnfc
. . . . . . t i
tained in tho ball.
Some genius has conceived tho brilliant
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military, serv.ce-bceause ,tbcbarges
ro sn ureat that no ono could Vtfcand
- a ",r
vm