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Tho night comoa down on vale and hill 1 Ko Bhaugcly strWI cannot clone My eyoB in Hleop I Waohman goes Abofltthe littlo town to Tufp All sufo at night. I cannot bleep t Bo dark ! So dark ! Save liero and tboro a flittering spark, The firefly's tiny lamp, that makes The dark more donpo. My spirit quakes With U rn rs vague and undefined I Hto the hills loom up behind. . Bo near ! 80 near I Those solemn mountains, grand and droar Their rooky summits I Do thoy stand Like Bentinels to guard the land ? Or jailors, fierce and gtiiu and storn, To Hhut ub in till day return ? I hoar a sound, A chirping, faint, low ou the ground; A sparrow's nost U there. I know The birdlingg flew throo days ago; Vet still return each night to rost And Bleep in the forsaken nest. No fear! No fear ! Bleep, timid heart ! Bleep safely here ! A million helpless creatures rest Bccurtly on Earth's kindly breast; WLile Night her solomn silonoe keeps, lie wakes lo watch who never sleeps. Joy Allison. THE ACROBAT'S REVENGE. Tho sun was setting behind the hills of Maldon, one Juno evening in the year 1 o 10, wneu fin acrobat, with his wife, were seen plodding along the road to ward the next market town. They were weary and sad. The acrobat himself was a man about thirty, of dark complexion, with raven-black hair curl ing over his forehead. His eyes were Di nek und piercing, and there was sonie- t.nng in his look which bespoke a nature above that of a mountebank. His wife was some years younger, and carried an infant child on her breast. She too had the appearance of a person superior to her lot, and her fuce wo oimely to look upon. Their life was a hard one. but thev bore it well. Nor, as yet, had all the hardships which poverty had brought iuto their door sent love, as the proverb has it, flying out of the window. t$hey were now journeying to the mar- Ket town of Maldon, and as to-morrow would be market day, Duval thought he might come in. for a portion of the money that would bo changing hands. Hut a it was very desirable that he and his wife should have supper after a long day V journey, and a place to sleep in, he was anxious to earn a few pence in the town or before reaching it, and presently an opportunity orose by which, as he thought, he might do so. Almost opposite to him, at two or three hundred yards distance, was the lodge and noble gateway of a gentleman's park. As Duval approached it he heard voices sounding high and mirthful in the air the voices of children making merry, with their light, young hearts, and their clear, ringing laughter. As he came nearer and looked through the gate, be saw between twenty and thirty children, in holiday attire, playing upon the lawn before an old and spacious mausion, which had belonged to the Windus family for many generations, and was now in the possession of Sir Windus, the tenth baronet' ! and it was the birthday of his little daughter which the children were celebrating. The acrobat's eyes kindled as he looked in at the bevy of holiday-makers. Hero was a grand chance for him. Surely it would delight the children to see him flash his golden balls in the air, whirling them up and up, like the ever springing stream of a fountain. Surely all the other wonderful things he could do would be the very thing for them. Surely the great and weulfhy parents would pay handsomely for the amuse ment of the little ladies and gentlemen. He paused for a moment, then Rlowly pushed open tho gate, and walked in to ward the lawn, followed by hit? wife. Had there been any ene there whose permission he could have Hsked, he would have done so. . Hut there was no one but the children themselves; and, therefore, addressing one of tho oldest, he asked her if they would like to tee some of his feats. The girl smilingly replied that they would; and all the lit tle faces, with their great eyes', were turned upon the acrobat and the wonder ful box which he took from his shoulders aud laid upon the ground. Ami now the eyes of wonder opened as far as they could go. And so intent was his littlo audience in watching the acro bat, und so intent was Duval in catching his brass balls, that none of them per oeived that Sir William Windus was ap proaching with his gamekeeper. lie came forward with rapid strides, aud when within a few paces of Duval, he called out to him, in a voice of thunder: " Vagabond 1 how dare you enter here ?" For a moment Duval stood astounded and dumb ut this sudden interruption, lie saw before him a gontleman much taller than himself, in shooting coat and boots, with a felt hat, narrow shouldered, fair, with a shaven lip and chin, but bushy whiskers of deep tawny hue; his eyes, of a bluinh gray, large and bright, and his bearing that of an aristocrat, with a strong dash of the bully. " Come, pack up your trumpery and begone I" said the baronet, seeuig that Duval stood looking at him. But the acrobat had recovered his elf-possession, and now said, with a firm voice: " I meant no offense, your honor, nor to harm any one or anything belonging to yon. I saw the children, and made bo'd to enter, thinking it would please them to see my" " Oh, that's a veryCold story," said the baronet. ' When thieves and gyp sies prowl about gentlemen's parks we all know that their intentions are per fectly innocent." 'Do you call me a thief, sir t" said Dnval, his dark cheek colonng and his eyes Hashing Are. "Scoundrel 1" exclaimed Sir William, his blood rushing into his face and mak ing it in a moment red with rage ; do you think I would chat logic with a strolling vagabond like you? I told you to pack up and be off. Do so at once." And as the baronet uttered his 00m roaud he raised the hand in which he held the whip as if about to strike the acrobat. Duval looked at him with a savage glare of his keen dark eyes, and slowly, in a deep voice trembling with suppress ed rage, said : "You had better not." "Duval," said his wife, gently pulling him by the sleeve, and in a tone of mingled pathos and humility, "never mind the gentleman. We shouldn't have come in without his leave. We humbly ask your pardon, sir. Oome, Duval, let us go." " Take your wife's advice, my man," said the gamekeeper, ' and don't come into gentlemen's parks no more till such times as you're specially invited. There now; gather up your toggery an 1 get CUtv" While Martha and the gamekeeper had been sneaking Duval's eves remain ed riveted on Sir William's. The baronet had dared to threaten him with a blow with a blow of that whip with which he was wont to chastise dogs. Duval would have died sooner than endure such a de gradation, and he felt half inclined to i-pring upon Sir William as it was. and show him that when it comes to close lghting between man and man, wealth und rank make no difference in pride of manhood or strength of limb. Sir Wil liam saw the fierce spirit that was strug gling in the acrobat's breast. He felt r.bat he could not bear the steady gaze 1.- n 1 1.; 1 1 - 1 1 '"j um tiu mm, iwu mat 111s prouu anu overbearing nature had met its match: Uis blood boned with rage. "Impudent villain I" ho at last ex- tlaimed, stamping on the ground, " do you dare to beard me, to browbeat me with your insolent look ? Take that." And, lifting his arm, he brought down his whip with a thud on tho acrobat's "ack that could be heard as far off as the Lodge, Mad with rige, frenzied with insult, Duval, with a tiger spring, rushed nt the oaronet, and dearly would Sir William have paid for his rash act if the acrobat oould only have had one blow at him delivered with the prodigious strength of his muscular arm and broad shoulders. But, as Duval rushed forward. Leo. one of the noblest hounds in Sir William's kennel, which had for some time watch ed the parley between his master and Duval with grave, sedate face, sprang upon the acrobat and intercepted his at tack. Meanwhi'e two under gamekeep ers had arrived. And Lady Windus. from hfr bedroom casement, saw tho struggle between the man and the dog. and wondered what it all could be about. "Dowd, Leo. down!" cried Sir Wil liam, and tho dog sprang away from the man. and. Bat down by his master's side. "Now put him out." said the baronet. as he turned away and walked off toward the hall. "It's no use making any more fuss about it," said the good-natured game keeper, as Duval sprang upon his feet, his face and hands oovereilmwith dust and blood. "You were wrong in the beginning. Be advised, and go your way quietly." And Duval was advised, the more easily because of the appealing look his wife gave him as she gently wiped the blood from his face. He flung his box once more over his shoulders, and walk ed slowly toward the gate. He passed through it, closed it, and then, pausing, he cienohed his hand, and, lifting it up toward Heaven, cried out, in the agony of his heart: "My God, I only ask this favor of Thee that I may one day be revenged!" bo he and his wife resumed their journey. Presently a pony-chaise, driven by a lady, was heard behind them; when it came close to them, the lady drew up, and asked them, with slight agitation, the way to Natwich; then asked Martha whether the infant she carried was a boy or girl, looked at it, kissed it, dropped a sovereign into Martha's hand, and sud denly drove off. It was Lady Windus. CHAPTER II. Two years passed, and a beautiful lady reclined upon a sofa in a large and richly furnished drawing-room of a country mansion, everything about which betokened the great wealth of the proprietor, who sat by the window, patting the head of a noble mastiff, which every now and then looked up at its master, and gave a bark, as if to ai.k what he oould do for him. There was not much that dog or man oould do for the wealthy owner of Windus Park, for timo had lavished on him all her favors ancient descent, great wealth, a beau tiful wife, and two promising children, Weli might Sir William be proud. Suddenly the luxurious silence of the room was disturbed by a loud clamor in the hall, in which questions were heard rapidly put by some one in an agitated voice: "Where is my lady? Where is Q; XTTlll.'om 0" 41 . . 1 l )Ll TTUUdiu I bUO lit-A L lllUlijeillf Emily Carter, Miss Joan's maid, rushed into the drawing-room. Sir William and Lady Windus started np. " What is the matter ?" demanded the baronet " Oh, Sir William ! oh, my lady oh my dear, good lady " And then Emily shrieked three or four times running, and, turning white as death, fell back into the chair in a fit. " Heavens and earth I" exolaimed Si William; "what is the meaning of all this ? Chambers, do you know ? ' "Only, Sir William," said Chambers. very slowly, and selecting her words with a precision which showed that she was resolved neither to nnder or over fat.A wliaf. litiA li Oil It oar1 frrtyvt Trrtilw . t . V T A L l I ' J UUIM JJUU1 T , " only, Sir William, this much. Emily Uarter came to the door, as I were look ing out of the lawn, and with an awful countenance and everyone knows what Emily's countenance is when Emily's in one of her " " Confound it, woman ! come to the point I" cried Sir William. "So, sir, she says to me," said Cham bers, suddenly quickening her pace 'the children,' says she; the boat says she; Where's my lady?' And when I told her, Bir, where you and my lady was, she rushes in, and as my name's Sarah's, Chambers, that's all as Emily Carter Baid to me." Though Chamber's information was neither copious nor distinct, it conveyed forcibly enough that the children were in danger, and that the boat had some thing to do with it. It is impossible to describe the ghastly face, as the thought flashed across his mind that his children had been drowned. But he hod hardly time to realize the possibility 01 such a calamity, when in stole the curate, with a soft step and smiling face. " There is no imminent danger," he said, at once. "There is yet half an hour, during which it is quite possible to save them. But lose not a moment in sending a messenger on horseback to the nearest fisherman, and bid him bring round his boat directly. If you 11 lend me one of your horses, I'll go myself." Orders were given for the immediate saddling of a horse, and meanwhile Sir William learned from Mr. Ling that Master William had run his boat upon a sunken rock; that she had filled and gone down ; and that the boy, with his sister, were now upon a point of rock a qnarter of a milo from the shore from which they were cut off by the flowing tide, Jn half on hour the point on which they stood would be a foot below water, and unless a boat could be pro cured by that time they would be in peril. In a few Eeconds more the saddled horse stood at the door. Mr. Ling mounted it, and rode off. "By this time, .however, Lady Win dus was on her way to the shore. The moment she heard of the boat, she guessed all the rest. The truth, however, was that Emily and Miss Joan had been sent out in the phaeton, under the charge of the page, for a drive ; that William, seeing the equipage, ran his boat in shore ; and that, as Emily decliued to venture on account of her tendency to bile and her dislike of sharks, he took his sister, of his own lordly will and authority, under his protection. The boat struck, filled and went down ; and, by the greatest good fortune, William, with Joan in his arms, was able to reach the point of rock on which he now stood. What were the feelings of Lady Win dus when she reached the shore and be held her children on a small spot of rock, with the sea all around them smooth almost as glass, it is true, but with the tide flowing, and every minute covering a fresh portion of the rock on which her babes were Btanding. But in vain did her mother s heart swell within her, till it was well-nigh bursting, as she saw the little dimpled hands of her Joan stretched out toward her, and her brave boy take off his cap and wave it cheerinclv to her with a manly courage, which he drew from, her own generous blood much more than from Irs sire s. But could nothing be done ? Sir William now appeared on the road which ran along the shore. He was fol lowed by the old gamekeeper, by Emily Carter, who had recovered, by Sarah Chambers, who wished to see with her own eyes what the precise extent of the danger was, by the housekeeper, the stable boy, and a rat-catcher who hap pened to be passing along the road at the time and was drawn to the beach by that love of the terrible whioh kings, philosophers, high damsels and low, noble marquises, baronets and rat catchers share-equally among them. Well, was there no one there who could swim f Unhappily Sir William could not, nor the game-keeper. The rat-catcher be ing applied to by Emily Carter, looked at that young person solemnly for sev eral seconds, and then quietly closed his eyes, and thus addressed her: " Young woman, do you see this here rat in this here cage ?" " Well ?" demanded Emily, with much dignity. " Then, unless some on you can swim f urderer nor me, or unless a boat comes up, or unless somethink else happens, which I sees no promising sign on, I wouldn't give the life of this here rat for the life of them two children." And the tide was rising. Smooth as glasa smooth, spacious and smiling as a lying hypocrite it was rising, and Lady Windus could see that it was already licking tho feet of her children. "Look, look, William!" sheexclaimed, at the same time directing her husband's attention to the rock; " he lifts her up. Tho water is at their feet I ' My God I can we do nothing ?" Yes, it was true. The water was at their feet. William had raised Joan in his arm; and as he saw his mother direct the baronet's attention to them, he called out, though she couldn't hear him: "All right, mamma; there's plenty1 of time yet." Tlenty of time ! The sea was flowing in. Often as the party on the shore turned their eyes in the direction in which Mr. Ling had ridderrto procure a boat, there was nothing in sight. Lady Windus had fainted. Sir Wil liam stood a picture of agony, looking at his children. Sarah Chambers, Em ily, and the stable boy were grouped round the old game-keeper, who assisted them in shedding many tears, but had nothing better to offer to his young master and Miss Joan, though he avowed, and perhaps truly, that he was ready to die for them. The rat-catcher had seated himself on a stone. "Are those your children ?" asked a baan who stood at Sir William's side, but. whose approach had not been noticed. The baronet did not turn to look at the speaker. It was some seconds, indeed, before he recognized that any one had addressed him, but when he did, he replied, in a very deep whisper of despair. "They are!" The man's gaze was fixed upon the children. Sir William's was fixed upon him. He thought he remembered him, and so he did, for it was -the acrobat. ' It was Duval ! Duval, who had prayed for vengeance as the sole favor for which he would trouble heaven. It wbb Duval, at whose door, if he could be said ever to have had one, all the miseries of life had knocked, and at whose hearth they had seated them selves. For did not she, whom he had loved more than himself Martha did she not lie in her cold grave, with her baby by her side, in the same pauper's coffin 1 And now, what was left to Duval ? only to wait for death. Nay, something more to live for revenge. No boat made its appearance, the tide had risen six inches more, and now they saw ine ooy Kneei aown in the water. and look up as if he was praying. And only Duval oould save him and his sister only Duval. He alone of all who stood there oould breast the flood to the rock and back again with the boy. Why not tell Sir William bo ? Why not indeed. Is not revenge sweet ? And still the tide was rising. Lady Windus, restored for a moment to consciousness, but no sooner realized her position than she relapsed into insensibility. ir wiinam, said JJuvai. "i see you remember me. Once I thirsted for revenge upon you. For two years I thirsted for it. Heaven has sent it to me. A bright light shot from his eyes as he said this, and then he walked slowly down to withiu a few paces of the water. He undressed ; he waded into the sea till it came up to his breast, and then. throwing himself forward, struck out for the rock. We shall not describe the joy with which the parents, who had watched in agonized suspense the acrobat's attempt to rescue their children, received them back into their arms. But while they were fondling them, Duval had dressed and slipped away. He had regained the road, and was pursuing his journey with a light step and a light heart, for he had had his revenge. No, not all of it. Sir William no sooner missed him than he'went in pur suit of him. " Here." exclaimed the baronet, when at last he came up with him, endeavor ing to put a well-filled purse into Duval's hand. "You have saved my children, 3 I'll- 1 T i.Tl.l-1 1 anu are enuueu x Bay enutieu 10 a reward." Duval drew back his hand. " I have had it !" he exclaimed, dart ing a look of fierce and withering scorn at the baronet, and then, turning from him with an expression of contempt, pursued his journey. And the proud baronet stood looking after him, rebuked and humbled. Pyramid Lake. Pyramid Lake, among the mountains of Nevada, and little known to the world, is described as a singularly pic turesque, unique and lonely spot. It is away from civib'zation, and miners and fishermen are the only people who go there. After the Great Salt Lake it is the largest body of water west of Lake Superior, being fifteen by forty miles in extent. It is 4,000 fert above the sea. and sounding lines dropped 1,000 feet have failed to find a bottom. There is no outlet to the lake, the dry air of the place absorbing the water rapidly. At intervals pyramids of rock rise out of the water in fanciful shapes, having been worn by the waves and storms. One of these islands has a height of 600 feet. A San Francisco Bulletin corres pondent, who visited the place a month ago, says vegetation is very rare. Sev enty or eighty goats roam at will and afford shooting for whoever considers the game worth the powder. They live on alfllaree, which is getting plentiful, and a bunch of grass which grows in crevi ces, and are as fat as if stall-fed. The whole place is alive with rattlesnakes, and a man might kill a dozen in an hour's walk. A gentleman, who is the oldest inhabitant, told the correspond ent he hod seen 250 tons of duck, geese and pelicans' eggs there, and not con tent with that huge story, added that in another place, which he pointed out, he had seen "100 acres of solid pelioans-" There are 854 churches in London and its suburbs. TIMELY TOPICS. Flies totally disappeared from the dis tricts affected wifh yellow fever. A Louisville young woman advertised in the papers for an escort to a concert and forty young men replied. By rolling it in a blanket soaked in hot mustard an apparently lifeless child was resuscitated at Wcthersfield, Conn., recently. In England and Wales there are 68,538 persons of unsound mind, an increase of 1,902 over last year. The ratio to population is 27.57 to 10,000. The Prince of Wales in going next year to A jstralia, China and Japan, and Gen. Grant, at the same time, will visit India, China and Japan, returning to tne united Btates by way of California. The lady conductor of a well-known English magazine recently cut out a leaf from an entire edition of the period ical because a novel running through its pages contained a reference of a libel ous nature. Statistics show that the actual con sumption of eggs in the United States is about 1U,6UU,U00 barrels. The poultry marketed or consumed in 1877 is esti mated at 680.000.000 pounds of the value 01 swj.uuu.uuu. Edison, the inventor, proposes to pros spect in California for ore bodies by means of electricity, and thinks he can determine by the resistance to the cur rent the extent of any ore body, and also ueiermine 11s relation. According to a Mohammedan priest of Medina, the end of the world is fixed for July 11, 1879. This information was imparted to him by the Prophet Mohammed, and a proclamation to this effect is posted in nearly every mosque in India. Much litigation is likely .to grow out the mill explosion in Minneapolis. Tho insurance companies refuse to pay the whole damage, on the ground that they nre liable only for the actual loss by fire; but the mill owners held that fire caused the explosion, and that, there fore, the entire loss was in consequence of fire. They have anovel mode of discovering a criminal in Japan: The magistrates of the village of Awa, being unable to discover the author of a series of mys terious crimes, opened a poll, inviting every citizen to name on his ballot the person whom, he thought guilty. One notorious ne'er-do-well was elected as tho culprit by a great majority, and hav ing confessed his crime was promptly executed. At the Paris Exposition there is a curiosity, maderof all the different kindB of lace that could bejused for the pur pose, is a reproduction of the Cathedral of Milan, a structure of wood with every spire, cupola and minaret covered first with blue then with the different "points" selected. The stonework is close crochet, which imitates carving, the fret work is Irish, the rugged parts are grained tape lace, and one is remind ed of Napoleon's curious remark : ' 'Those towers," he said, "are as delicate as Flemish point, and to this day look as if taken out of a box." That the electricity of the atmosphere is asnecessary to vegetation as sunlight, air, and water has been established by experiments made by M. Grandean, Pro fessor of the French Eoole Forestiere. In April, 1877, he took two tobacco Slants, each weighing 3 grammes and aving four leaves. They were both planted in -boxes containing mould of identical quality, and placed Bide by Bide in a position favorable to their growth. But one of them had placed over it a cage, consisting of four rods one metre fifty centimetres high, join ed at the top and covered with wire gauze, which permitted the free circula tion of air, light, and water, but com pletely protected the plant from the ac tion of atmospheric electricity. They were left uninterfered with until the middle of August, when the results ob tained were as follows: The plant in the open air had attained a height of three feet five inches, while the other was only two feet four inches; the former weighed 273 grammes and the latter 140 grammes; when dried their respective weights were thirty grammes and fifteen and a half grammes. Similar experi ments made with maize and wheat gave analogous results. A Novel Fight. A New Orleans gentleman tells the following curious anecdote : In Natchi toches parish a pedestrian noticed on a lonely road a frog fighting desperately with a tarantula, and the tarantula re turned the compliment by stinging the frog. Every time the frog got stung he would hop to the side of the road where Borne green plantain was growing, and mouieon a piece, alter swauowing wuicn he would hop back to the fight. This being repeated half a dozen times, the human spectator resolved to satisfy his curiosity, took out a jack-knife and lopped off the plantain close to the root, while the frog and tarantula were carry ing on their duel. When the frog got stung for the seventh time he leaped back to where the plantain had been, and not finding it, uttered a peculiarly helpless cry, etiggered a little, vainly tried te hop into the high grass, shud dered, fell over on his side and ave up the ghost. Items of Interest. A well-read officer General news. A home journal the grocer's book. Some editors own real estate, have lota of fun, that is. The number of savings banks in Cali fornia at this time is twenly-nirie, with deposits amounting to $71,331,025. A Massachusetts chemist analyzed the pickles put up by twelve wholesale deal ers, and found copper in ten of them. An eminent German traveler in Africa speaks in the highest terms of petrole um as a protection for men and animals against musquitoes. To my inward vision, things are aohieved when they are well begun; The perfect archer calls the deer hit own while yet the shaft is whistling. 1 27 Apanith Ifypmj, Some time since the Free Pres inquir ed incidentally if fish could talk. One paper answered "seal skin." Another, more recently, says, certainly, out in Colordoa, Pikes Peak. It is a fact demonstrated beyond dis pute that the person who is entirely alone when slipping down on the side walk is more hurt than if he were sur rounded by scores of unfeeling people. A Nevada newspaper tells how a Tiute squaw shoots: "She will throw herself on her back, clap bothrfeet to the bow, draw the arrow with both hands and, let ting drive, send it clean through the body of the deer." The women of Cyprus, like all the Greek women, chew great quantities of mastic, imported by the island to Scio, -and deem it graceful to appear always biting this gum, and it will soon be in order for a later Byron to remark "Maid of Cyprus, how we've oome. Leave, oh, leave off chewing gum." Of General Lafayette's personal ap pearance an old newspaper gives this description: "General Lafayette was cne of the finest looking men in the' army, notwithstanding his deep red hair. His forehead was fine, though receding; his eye. clear and hazel; his mouth and chin delicately formed, and exhibiting beauty rather than strength. His mien was noble, his manner's frank, and ami able, and his movements light and graceful. He wore his hair plain, and ' never complied so far with the fashion of his times as to powder. MARX'S LITTLE COHM. Mary bad a little corn Upon her little toe, And everywhere that Mary went The corn was sure to go. Ccimdfn 1'ost. And to the cooling ocean's shore It followed her one day; But the little ache corn was so sore Bhe ooulda'tplay croquet. isand Review. " What makes the corn hurt Mary so? The other players oried. " Because she wears her boots so tight," - A looker-on roplied. Seaside Press. 'And you a little lump upon Your toe can grow to suit, By putting on a 'Ave' sized foot A number two sized boot." Boston Traveller. And so the doctor dag it out, 1 , Which made poor Mary bob; . And now no corn she knows about Except what's on the 00b. New York Qraphie. 0,iieen Victoria's Narrow Escape, Apropos of her majesty's review of the ironclads at Spithead, it may be in teresting to recall the fact that the queen can look back npon at least one danger ous maritime adventure. Cruising off the Isle of Wight in tha yacht Emerald, while she was yet Princess Victoria, the beeeze freshened into a gale, and before the vessel could get into Cowes road the decks were swept fore and aft. The com ing queen, however, undauntedly re mained a witness of the scene ; when sudden squall took the Emerald aback, and crack went the topmast immediately above the cap. The pilot, Mr. Saun ders, quick as thought, sprang to where the princess was Btanding. lifted her id his arms to a more safe position further aft, and the next moment crash came the topmast down where the queen had originally stationed herself. But for the prompt action of Mr. Saunders the queen would probably never have lived to wit- ness the ponderous procession of the ironclads. Indeed, her majesty long ago acknowledged that the escape was something to be thankful for, as the Eilot, at her instance, was promoted to e a master ; and when the Princess ' Victoria became queen of England, he was early invited to court. Moreover, at the death of Mr. Saunders, some few years after, her majesty made considerate provision for his wife and family. Useful for Reference. In general, 20,000 pounds is a car load ; it is also seventy barrels of salt, seventy of lime, ninety-nine of Hour, sixty of whisky, two hundred Backs of flour, six oords of hard wood, seven of soft ; eighteen to twenty head of cattle, fifty to sixty head of hogs, eighty to one hundred head of sheep, 6,000 feet of solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 33, 000 feet of flooring, 40,000 shingles, one-half less of hard lumber, one-quarter less of green lumber, one tenth less of joists, scantling and all other large lumber ; 340 bushels of wheat, 400 of corn, 680 of oats, 400 of barley, 360 of flaxseed, 860 of apples, 480 of Irish po tatoes, and 1,000 bunhels of bran. The foregoing table may not be exactly cor rect, for the reason that railroads dorn t agree in their rules and estimates ; bur it approximates so closely to the aver age that shippers will find it a g" convenience a a matter of referem'
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