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VOL. XIV. NO. 9. TIONESTA, PA., MAY 25, 1881.
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Tho Old Farmer's Elegy.
On it green, grassy knoll, by tho banks of the
brook,
That so long and so often ban watered bin flock,
Tlio old farmer rests' in his long and laat sleep.
Whilo the waters a low, lapsing lullaby keep.
He has plowed his lost farrow, has reaped bin
lust grain; .
No morn shall awake him to labor again.
Yon tree, that with fragrance is filling tho air,
So rirh with its blossoms, so thrifty and fair,
By his own baud was planted; and well did bo
nay,
It would livo when its planter had moldered
away.
IIu has plowed bis lant furrow, has reaped Lis
Ust grain; . ,vl "
No ntorn shall awako him to labor again.
There's the well that he dug, with its waters so
cold,
With its wot, dripping bucket, so money and
old,
No nioro from its depths by the patriarch
drawn,
For the "pitcher is broken," the old man is
gono. '
He has plowed Ins last furrow, has reaped bis
last grain;
No moru shall awake him to lalwr again.
'Twas a gloomy-giving day when the old farmer
diod;
Tho stout-hearted mourned, the affectionate
cried;
And tho prayers of the just for his rest did
ascend,
For they all lost a brother, a man and a friend.
Ho has plowed his last furrow, has reaped his
last grain;
No morn shall awake him to labor again.
For upright and honest the old farmer was;
His God ho revered, he respected the laws;
Though famclcHS he lived he has gone where
his worth
Will outshine, like pure gold, all the dross oi
this earth.
. He has plowed his last furrow, has reaped bin
ast grain;
No moru shall awake him to labor again.
Joxiah 1). Canning.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
It was dreadfully dull at Elderbush
Farm. Mr. Poyntz had hired the farm
for six months.
"If my girls are eo bewitched after the
Sft"5f9rv' said he, "and the country, 111
uaud fcTtf-yr)Tighot it 1"
Elderbush Farfi Pi,the estate
market at a low rate, and Mr. Poyntz
engaged it, ready-furnished, with a gard
ener, a cow, and the pony phaeton, with
a blind pony thrown in.
Mrs. Poyntz and the girls, bowever
Buc.h is the perversity of human naturo
did not seem pleased when they heard
of the bargain which had been driven.
"But, pa," said Miss Imogen, "we
didn't mean a one-stoned house in a
swamp of salt marshes 1 We meant Cape
May, or Atlantic City, or else that dear,
picturesque Delaware Water Gap 1"
"There's no society here," sobbed
Alexia, the second daughter, a blooming
girl just out of boarding-school.
"Nothing going on," said Mrs. Poyntz,
a stout matron, who did a great deal of
parish work, and belonged to at leaBt a
dozon "leagues," "societies" and "com
munities," in the city.
"You can make butter and cheese,"
said Mr. Poyntz, who had discovered tho
remains of an ancient barrel-churn in the
cellar. "And there is the ocean view,
and the pony, and the new row of boarding-houses
just around the Point."
: "It's all very well for papa," said Imo
gen. "He cau go up to town every day.
1 Jut we shall be bored to death down in
I this wilderness 1"
) Unfortunately, however, there was no
appeal from the paternal dictum, and
! the Misses Poyntz took to drawing in
I water-colors, walking, and boating in a
. venerable skiff which they found at the
J back of the barn, whilo their mother en
deavored to modernize the house with
Eastlake chintzes, muslin draperies and
home-made lambrequins.
One day, Israel, the hired man, came
in.
"Heard the news ?" said Israel, who
was one of those free-and-equal sons of
the republio who never dream of the
wide social gulf that exists between em
ployer and employe.
"No, said alias Alexia, who was re
duced by circumstances to be glad even
of a trossip with a "hired man." "What
rws? I didn't know they ever had
ai-y news in this benighted region.
"Once in awhile," said Israel, with a
chuckle. "Mis' Parker's got a new board
er a poetess, from Philadelfy. P'raps
you've heard of her Miss Emily Eglan
tine?" Alexia and Imogen clasped their hands
enthusiastically. I hey were both in
clined to be literary.
"Heard of her V" cried they. "Why
we know all her delicious poems by
heart. We've read them in the Trans
cendental Weeklti ever since we can re
member. Miss Eglantine I It has been
the dream of our lifetimes to see her.
Israel chewed a straw, reflectively,
"I read some pretty verses once that
she writ," said he. "I do suppose, now,
it's qrite an art to sling rhymes together.
never could do it, I know."
"But what is she like V" impatiently
cried Alexia. "Tall, slender and wil-
owv. with "
'I only seen her trunks," 6aid Israel
"two on 'em markod 'E. E.' with
canvas covers on ; big enough for smoke
houses. I guess Mia' Parker had a jol
ly old time, pottin 'em up the crooked
staircase. Pete llawley, the express
man, he told me about it.
And he went out to harness the old
pony, to bring Mr. Poyntafroin th eta-
Imogen and Alexia looked nt each
other.
"How shall we contrive to get ac
quainted with her ?" said they.
"We muHtn't soem pushing," sugges
ted Alexia.
"Of cq'urso," said Imogen. "Wher
ever sheigooH, Bh.e jg tormented to death
with people, begging introductions."
"No," said Alexia ; "the matter must
be quitcr spontaneous. An acquaintance
of this sort must bo formed accidental
ly, or not at all."
. "There will bo plenty of chances," ob
served Imogen. "She must be here for
tho benefit of tho sea-air, and she'll walk
a deal on the beach. You and I will go
boating, Lex, and o it will bo the most
natural thing in the world that we shoidd
meet. Dear me ! to think that Emily
Eglantine should l as good ns our
next-door neighbor I How I should do
light to have her aatograph in my al
bum !"
Tho next morning Alexia, who had
been abroad early to secure fresh eggs
for the omelettes, in which her father's
matutinal soul delighted, returned with
the news that Mrs. Parker's new board
er was out walking on the beach.
"What is she like ?" cried eager Imo
gen. "Short and stout," Alexia answered, in
accents Which denoted a slight degree
of disappointment.- "And she wears a
poke-bonnet, and thick boots, and
stamps up and down tho Bands, with an
umbrella under hor arm, and talks to
herself."
"That ia genius," cried the delighted
Imogen. "I dare say tho mood of in
spiration was upon hor. Oh, Lex, how
I shonld like to see her 1"
"I watched her for a long time," said
Alexia, "bnt I don't think she saw me.
She's decidedly eccentric, I wager."
"So are all talented people," laid
Imogen. "Tell Israel to get the boat
ready at once, Alexia. I do so long to
look into her deep, intellectual eyes."
"I think you'll be disappointed in
her," said Alexia.
"I never can be disappointed in the
sacred fires of genius," said Imogen,
with enthusiasm. "Emily Eglantine 1
Why the very name is a pass-key to my
heart of hearts 1"
And she went to put on her prettiest
boating-suit of dark blue serge, with
white silk anchors embroidered on the
collar.
"Come, Lex," said she, to her sister.
"I shall want yon to pull the stroke
oar." "I'd like to go along too," said Is
rael, wistfully. "I've always wanted to
seo a live authoress 1
"No I" said Miss Poyntz, with author
ity. "We are better by ourselves." And
then, as Israel went dejectedly back to the
woodpile, she added : "That fellow is
so intrusive I"
"I think he's very nice," said Alexia,
"And his father owns tho largest farm
on the beach. And they've been offered
ten thousand dollars for it by the Salt
Sea Park Association !"
"Onininns differ." said Tmocren. drilv.
as they pulled out inio deep water. "Oh,
Lexl there she is, pacing thoughtfully
aloncr. her eyes fixed on the shininpr
sands I
1'erhaps, even now, some poem
ing itself within her brain. Oh,
is forming
what a thine it is to be an authoress !
"Hush 1 whispered Alexia. "She is
looking this way. Pull a little nearer
to shore, Imogen. Uh, do listen I bb.e s
speaking !"
Good-morning r said tne stout young
woman, witn tlio poKe-bonnox ana the
umbrella.
Good-morning 1" the two sisters an
swered, in chorus, infusing an accent of
the tendcrest respect and admiration in
to their voices.
"Going out sailing?" demanded the
inspired one. "I'd like to go, too !"
Imogen cast a glance or scarcely-re
pressed delight and triumph at her sis
ter.
"We shonld only bo too proud," said
she, making haste to draw her boat up
alongside tho sandy beach. -
The young person stepped in, rather
clumsily, it must be owned, for one who
was supposed to be ephemeral as air, and
sat down.
Alexia pulled off, and Imogen made
an effort at conversation. .
"I am one of your unknown admirers,"
said she, a little abruptly.
"Eh ? said the poetess.
"I am so delighted for an opportunity
of knowing you personally," added Miss
Poyntz. "Every syllable oi 'Eglantine
Spray' is impressed upon my memory."
The stout young woman siareu. Imo
gen perceived that she was not progress
ing favorably.
"Perhaps, she thought, "she s a little
shy and sensitive about her own produc
tions. I'll try another topic." And she
added, aloud : "I hope you like tho coun
try here ?"
But the stout young person seemed
intent upon something else she was
trying to take the oax from her inter
locutor. "Would you like to row? sweetly
asked Imogen.
"Get out of this I said the young per-
... i i i . i M
son, with a bnsit diow oi ner uinureua
handle, aimed at Imogen's head. "Come,
jump ! both of you 1 lam the Queen of the
Alaska Islands, and i am going up to
see my dominions !"
Alexia and Imogen looked at each
other in blank dismay, as they warded
off the brisk play of the umbrella-handle.
"She is insane !" cried Alexia.
"No more than you are yourself!"
bhrieked the young woman with the
poke-bonnet; and, seizing the unfortu
nate Miss Povnta bv the shoulder, bbe
endeavored to fling her over into the
"I'm a deposed queen," said she ; "but
I will be obeyed 1"
Imogon, dropping her own oar with a
scream, liastened to the rescue, and a
struggle ensued, during which the frail,
boat upset, and all three of the wome.n
were in tho sea.
Not ono of them could swim ; 1 ut,
fortunately, rescue from the shore was
nigh at hand. Mr. Tarker pulled out
in his flat-bottomed fishing-boa, and
stout Israel Teck was not far be'aind.
"Well," said Mr. Parker, scratching
his head, when ho had gotthe stout
young female, now all wet ard dripping,
into his boat, and 'iaw that Ip jael had been
equally fortunate with tla0 two Misses
Poyntz, "it's a rod thng sho hadn't
killed 'er. SIhj'b as vnad as a March
hare, poor dear ! It's, my wife's sister.
As we thought, wa air and plenty of
fresh milk would bo better for her than
the asylum fare. But if these are the
capers you ire going to cut up, Adeliza
Mary, you'll have to go back again.
And so peaceable as she's been of late,
too 1"
"I I though t it was Miss Eglantine,
the poetess," -said poor Imogen, with
blue lips and -chattering teeth.
"Bless you,, miss, no," said Mr. Par
ker. "The trunks are here, but she
don't come -down until next week."
While Al exia, sitting under the Bame
rug with Israel Peck, had not a word to
say upon, the subject. And they all went
home tr Lot tea, bottles of boiling water
and we 11-warmed blankets.
Adeliza Mary Stubbs went back to
tho asylum. Miss Eglantine came down
the n ext week, an elderly lady, in blue
spectacles and a cap, whom Imogen
Poyntz pronounced "decidedly stupid,"
and Alexia became ongaged to Israel.
'Ho saved my life," said she, "when
wn were out in that horrid little boat
with the crazy woman. And he's so
good and substantial worth a dozen
city dandies, according to my taste."
And Imogen's enthusiasm about au
thors and authoresses ia considerably
lessened.
The Origin of the Xante 'Artemu8
Ward."
There has been not a little specula
tion as to how Brown came by his nam
de plume, "Artemus Ward." Dr. Shat
tu;k says, that having some confidential
business with him during one of his
lr,st visits to Waterford, he took the oc
casion to inquire in particular about it.
Brown said it was in this wise: While
engaged at the Plain-Dealer office, in
Cleveland, unio, he made the ac
quaintance of an eccentric old gentle
man whose actual name was Artemus
Ward, though assuming some more pre
tentious titles. This man waa in the
show business, having a few "wax
figgers," birds, " snaix," and a kanga
roo. While waiting on the printers for
his. bills he amused Brown by telling
an. endless number of anecdotes, all of
which were duly treasured up. Among
t'nese were some of the incidents in
33rown's article entitled "Edwin For
rest as Othello." He referred to the
following as one of the contributions of
the original Artemus V aid:
"Ed was actin' at Niblo's garding,
I ?i t Vint Mnvo T cistt i fwr in
pit took out my spectacles and com.
,n0nced peroosin' tha evenin's bill
As i was perooHin the bill, a
grave young man who sot near me axed
me if I'd ever seen Forrest dance tho
Essence of Old Virginny.'
"He's immense in that,' sed tho
young man. Ho also does a fair
champion jig,' the young man con
tinned, ' but hia big thing is the Es
sense of Old Virginny.'
"Sez I:
" Fair youth, do you know what I'd
do with you if you waa my sun ?'
'"No, sez he.
"Wall, sez I, 'I'd appint your
funeral to-morrow arternoon, and the
korps should be ready! You're too
smart to Jive on this yearth.' "
The old man claimed himself to be
the hero of this story. Brown, however,
wanted the credit of correcting the
spelling and of dressing the Btories up
in good litetary style. Pleased with
the name, he attached it to several of
his comic productions, and finding that
it took with the public, adopted "A
Ward" as hia ovm.Scribner,
It Was Then.
It had been raining for six long hours
Saturday when a man wearing an old
beaver cap and a faded army overcoat
entered a hardware store on Woodward
avenue, shook the water off his back,
and said :
"About eighteen months ago I left my
umbrella in this store.
"Yes."
"It was a bran new umbrella with a
white handle.."
"Yes."
"And now I guess I'll bike it away."
"Certainly. Where did you leavo it ?"
"Behind the door."
"Well, there it is."
"Ah ! Any charge for storage T
"Nono."
' "Well, I'm much obliged."
"Not at all. Any time yew leavo an
umbrella here it will be bafo for ten
years. Good day."
There are hundreds of men in Detroit
like that merchant. They might pass a
trade dollar on a stranger, but they
would never appropriate his nmbrella.
Free Press.
Lewis Hamilton, who lately died at
Nelsonville, Ky., was eccentric. His
daughters were named Avenue Belle,
China Figure and Hebrew Fashions ;
and his sons, London Judge and South
ern Boil. He hail ample mean", yet Ins
children were reared in ignorance and
FCX AT WEDDINGS.
'ftar Ilomorons Hide of Mntrlmany ns Ob
served by Clergymen.
Marriage is said to appall the stout
est heart, and is generally encountered
with fear and trepidation. It and death
constitute the dread unknowns. This
element of uncertainty, joined with tho
solemnity of tho occasion, seems to
conspire to evoke ludicrous incidents at
weddings, and there is not a minister in
the land who has not a score or more of
them in his remembrance. As illus
trating the nervousness incident to such
occasions, all of them have had similar
experiences to tho one narrated below.
A few years since a young gentleman
from the interior of the State came to
the city for the purpose of meeting hero
and marrying a young lady who, being
left an orphan a year previous, had
found a homo with an aunt, who was de
cidedly opposed to the match. Tho
plan waa for the gentleman to come to
Detroit on an early train, make the
necessary arrangements and meet her at
tho depot at 7 o'clock in the evening.
Accompanied by a friend, a parson was
found who consented to the ceremony
being performed in his own parlors,
and, all preparations completed, tho
gentleman repaired to a hotel for a quiet
smoke before the train should arrive.
While so engaged the intended bride
groom bethought him of the financial
phase of the transaction and inquired
of4hia friend what waa tho customary
foe, and how and when it was to be paid,
apologetically adding, with a little
nervous laugh, "You see, my boy, I
never was married before."
The desired information was given,
the soon-to-be Benedict withdrew to
a side table, procured paper and an
envelope, and indited a note to the
clergyman thanking him for his kind
ness, and asking his acceptance of the
inclosed, at the same time wishing he
was able to give more. The reverend
gentleman decres that he wished the
same, for the envelope did not contain
a penny.
Almost equally common is the experi
ence of marrying those who resort to
all manner of schemes to evade pay
ment. A well-known clergyman nar
rates an instant in point. He was then
preaching at Dexter, when an appar
ently verdant couple came over to his
study from the hotel. They had come
to town on purpose to be united by this
clergyman, they said, and were going on
a " tower." The ceremony over, the
groom thrust his hands deep into one
pocket after another, and then with well
simulated annoyance, ejaculated: "I
declare, Jane, I have left my money in
the trunk over at the hotel 1" He would
go right over and get it, and be back in
a minute. The clergyman, however,
had been bitten before, and blandly
suggested that inasmuch as he waa com
ing back so soon the bride could wait
there until his return. I his arrange
ment seemed to bo satisfactory and the
groom started lor the hotel, lie soon
returned and said : "Jane, I can't un
lock that pesky trunk of your'n. You
will have to come over and do it,
Evidently the trunk resisted their com
bined efforts, for the clergyman never
saw them afterward
In ono instance the clergyman upon
going to a residence to perform tho
marriage ceremony found the contract
ing parties and their guests all seated in
the parlors unmistakably awaiting his
arrival. In a low tone he requested
them to rise, but the groom was nervous,
tho bride abstracted, and neither heard
the request. He repeated it in a some
what louder tone of voice, but the re
sult was the same. Then one of the
spectators reached forward and, givirg
the groom a poke in tho back, whispered,
loud enough to be heard all over the
room, "Git up, Gil, git up!"
One day as an old white-haired minister
was writing in his study, a domestic
came in with tho announcment that a
couple were outside who wished to be
married, no told hor to admit them,
and in they came, three pairs of them,
and all arm in arm. It was impossible
to decide which waa the pair, but select
ing the most confused looking couple,
he commenced the ceremony. All went
inerrily until it came to the charge, " If
there be anyone among you who knows
of any?HiHtson why this couple should
not be aed in wedlock, let him now
speaK, o rever alter noid nis peace.
Here thewi'snal brief pause wasmade.
but was quickly terminated by the
groom ejaculating, in a suppressed voico,
Go on, parson, go on ! There ain't no
reason !"
One of Detroit's oldest clergymen
narrates an incident that occurred soon
after he located here, when ho know
but little of tho people and nothing
whatever of the localities, lie was
waited upon by a not very prepossessing-looking
man, who wished him to
come down to Franklin street to "marry
me and Lize." To tho minister, Frank
lin street sounded as aristocratic as
would Washington street, but he admits
that he waa a trifle taken aback when
he followed his guide into the house
and found he was in a saloon. How
ever, 6aloon-keepers must be married as
well as other people was his thought,
and he followed on through the room,
up a flight of stairs and into a sitting
roam. Then the guide, who proved to
be a groom as well, stepped into the
ball and shouted, "Come on, Lize!
Come on, girls; the parson's cornel"
and into the room trooped a crowd that
bhowed him that ho had got among the
slums. The opportunity was too good
to be lost, and under the guise of that
marriage ceremony he preached such a
sermon upon the subject of morality as
those present had probably never before
Jitt-,ned to, That his fcddrei-s had been
of no avail, however, ho waa convinced
of the forcible and expressive remark
by the groom, as, smiting his fists to
gether, he triumphantly shouted:
1 Ihere, Lize, I d like to see that fellow
get you now !" Detroit Free Press.
The Wild Sheep of the Sierra.
At the base of Sheep Rock, one of the
winter strongholds of the Shasta flocks,
there lives a stock-raiser who has the
advantage of observing the movements
of wild sheep every winter; and in the
course of a conversation with him on the
subject of their diving habits, he point
ed to the front of a lava headland about
a hundred and fifty feet high, which ia
only eight or ten degrees out of the
perpendicular. " There," said he, " I
followed a band of them fellows to the
back of that rock yonder and expected
to capture them all, for I thought I had
a dead thing on them. I got behind
them on a narrow bench that runs along
the face of the wall near the top, and
comes to an end where they couldn't
get away without falling and being
killed; but they jumped off and landed
all right, as if that were the regular
thing with them."
" What !" said I, "jumped a hundred
and fifty feet! Did you see them do it?"
" No," he replied, " I didn't see them
going down, for I was behind them;
but I saw them go over the brink, and
then I went below and found their
tracks where they struck on the loose
debris at the bottom. They sailed right
off, and landed on their feet right side
up. That's the kind of animal they is
beats anything else that goea on four
lega."
On another occasion a flock that was
pursued by hunters retreated to another
portion of this same cliff where it is
still higher, and on being followed they
were seen jumping down in perfect or
der, one behind the other, by two men
who happened to be chopping where
they had a fair view of them and could
watch their progress from top to bot
tom. Both ewes and rams made the
frightful descent without evincing any
extraordinary concern, hugging close to
the rock and controlling the velocity of
their half falling, half leaping move
ments by striking at short intervals and
holding back with their cushioned, rub
ber feet upon small ledges and rough
ened inclines until near the bottom,
when they " sailed off" into the free air
and alighted on their feet, but with
their bodies so nearly in a vertical posi
tion thattheyappearedto.be diving.
Scribner's.
OJRI0CS FACTS.
The numbor of bones in the human
body is 210. The average number of
teeth is thirty-two.
A magnet weighing two ounces sus
tains a weight of three pounds two
ounces, or twenty-five times its own
weight.
There is a species of the crow in Flor
ida that gives vent to a series of haw !
haws ! in exact imitation of the human
voice.
A wild elephant may generally be
tamed so as to be conducted from place
to place unfettered, in about six months.
If the crab ia often interrupted he
will, like the spider, pretend to be dead,
and will watch an opportunity to sink
himself into tho sand, keeping only his
eyea abovo.
.Tnnnn Vina A !.'17 nnutnfllppa. ftnd the
asarettata leneth of its mail routes in
operation is 42,293 miles. The money-
order system is employed to tno public
satisfaction.
The tiger docs not naturally possess,
bnt easily acquires, a love of human
flesh. When ho has once tasted it, the
spell of man's supremacy is broken, and
ever after that, it is said, ho prefers it to
any other.
if tho earth could be suddenly
stopped in her orbit, and allowed to fall
unobstructed toward the sun, under the
accelerating influence of his attraction,
she would reach the central fire in about
four" months. But such is the compass
of her orbit that, to make its circuit in
a year, she has to move nearly nineteen
miles a second, or more than fifty times
faster than the swiftest rifle ball, and,
moving twenty miles, her path deviates
from perfect straightness by less than
one-eighth of an inch.
Boiler flxploslons.
There is a most inexplicable dispro
portion between the English and Amer
ican reports of boiler explosions in 18h0.
For the United States 170 explosions
were reported, and for England but
twenty-eight, although it is added that
the English total is considerably below
the average. The loss of life was for
England sixty-eight, and for the United
States 25'J. In England the wounded
numbered eighty-two, and in the United
States 555. In the United States the
boilers cf wood working mills formed
by far the most fatal class, while in
England the explosions were chiefly in
iron works. In the ieriod from Octo
ber. 18C7. to 1880, there were in the
United States 1,2'J'J explosions, which
killed 2,505 persons and wounded 2,612.
But since July, 18C1, there were in Eng
land only bo explosions, wnicn Kiiica
1,001 persons and injured 1,790. In each
case the figures are taken from the re
port of a company for tho insurance of
boilers. Two contrasting statements,
which may throw some light on the dis
crepancy, are ono by the English com
pany that no boiler insured by it ex
nloded. and a second bv thft American
company, that during the yea1" it abso
lutely condemned JJ77 toilers. b"11111010
over discovered 5,11 1 dant;eroa-defects,
besides botnn tens of thousfods of miner
ones.
THE BLACK DEATH.
Krnpprm-nnrp of the Great Plngae Which
l)evnlnled the Middle A urn.
Already Europe is becoming alarmed
at tho appearance of the plague, or
black death, in the East, und fears are
expressed that' it may spread westward.
It, therefore, becomes important to
know the character of tho disease. The
London Standard states, on pathological
grounds, that it is a " very malignant
form of contagious fever," which
breaks out suddenly in certain localities
and spreads with frightful rapidity, and
that the present " type" is as virulent
as that of th Middle Ages. It ia char
acteristic by swellings of the lymphatic
glands and by carbuncles, and beyond
doubt one seizure Booms to afford no se
curity against a second attack. This is,
however, a point upon which physicians
have not often had a chance to study,
since " the pest" does not usually leave
the same individual a chance of
experiencing its symptoms twice.
It has been contended that it
ia not contagious, but in almost
every case of an outbreak the disease
has been traced to persona who have
come from infected districts. In the
Astrakhan epidemic of 1879, and in
that of 1771, which cut off 100,000 peo
ple in Moscow, tho pestilence was
known to have been brought, in one
instance, from Central Asia, and in the
other from Choczin. Again, during
the latter outbreak, tho 1,100 inmates
of the Imperial foundling hospital, who
were isolated, and in 1813 the town of
Jegla, in Malta, which was shut off
from Valetta, where the disease was
raging, entirely escaped. Quarantine,
however, aa a preventive against the
ravages of the cholera, has been proved
to be utterly futile, and it is very gen
erally allowed that it is not much more
potent aa a barrier against the plague.
No other form of death has ever enlist
ed into its service historians of such
brilliant talent. De Foe could not
have been an eye witness of the
horrible scenes of 16G5 in London. But
he had doubtless talked to many who
had survived those dreadful times and
were familiar with the tales of the corpse
carrying wagon going its dismal rounds,
of the living being unable to carry out
the dead, and London deserted by the
I court, and, indeed, all who could escape
into the country. In "Kienzi the late
Lord Lytton has given an account
scarcely less pictorial of the- plague in
Florence, and in almost every other Eu
ropean country the " pest which crept
like a foul miasma over Asia, Northern
Africa and Europe, from Naples to
Archangel, and even to distant Green
land, where it smote the Esquimaux
by thousands, has secured 6uch able
chroniclers that, at the slightest
sign of its reappearance, Western
Europe naturally grows alarmed. In the
vears 1318, 1361, 13G3, 15C9 , and 1G02
Loudon was visited by the "black
death," though those early attacks of
the disease, sink into insignificance
when compared with that which deso
lated the city in 1G05, the year which
will ever be known as " the year of
the plague." In reality, however,
though it caused before Christmas a
mortality of 98, 596 out of the five hundred
thousand people which the metropolis
then contained, it did not abate till
16GG, while in the thirteen subsequent
years there were many latai cases
recorded. But after 1G79 no death from
plague is j know to have occurred, and
in 1701 so entirely had it disappeared
that the name of the disease was actually
omitted from the bills of mortality.
Niw York Herald.
WISE WORDS.
Help somebody worse off than your
self, and you are better off than you
fancied.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar
with fine sense is like attempting to hew
blocks with a razor.
The sublimity of wisdom ia to do
those things living which are desired to
bo when dying.
Let him who regards the loss of time
make proper use of that which is to
come in the future.
" The book to be read," says Dr. Mc
Cosh, " is not tho one winch thinks for
you, but the one which makes you
think."
Any one may do a casual act of good
nature, but a continuation of them
shows in part the temperament of the
individual.
Conceit and confidence are both of
them cheats ; the first always imposes
on itself, the second frequently deceives
others too.
If men knew all that women think,
they would be twenty times more auda
cious. If women know what men think,
they would be twenty times more co
quettish. Like dogs in the wheel, birds in the
cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious
meu still climb, and climb, with great
labor, and incessant anxiety, but never
reach the top.
Memnon's image imparted not its
mysterious strains except at the touch
of the sunbeams, nor will manner yield
its true witchery from any inspiration
but that of the soul.
Three things too much and three
things too little are pernicious to man
to spend much and have little ; to pre
sume much aud be worth little ; to talk
much and know little.
A curious fact has been noted by Pro
fessor Von Tieghem. The cells iu tha
roots of an apple tree underwent alco
holic fermentation when the soil wus
very damp. The tree thtn presented
very biokly appearance.
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