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The Early Rain.
Down through the- misty air,
Down from the gloom above,
Falling, pattering evoty where,
Tho rain cornea quick with lore.
Boftly tho mixed-thrush
Sings In tho golden storm;
The robin undor a laurel bush
Walta for to-morrow morn.
firlp, drip, drip from the caves,
' Tit, pit, pit on the pane,
8 wish, swish, swish on tho drenched leaves
List! 'tis the song of tho rain?
Orasaos are bonding low,
Oroon is the corn and thick, tf.
Ton ran almost see the Bellies grog, J"
They grow so strong and qulolo .
Soft is the wind from the wost,
Softer (ho rain's low sigh; a
The sparrow washes his smoky breast,
And watches the gloomy sky.
SUrrod are the boughs by the breeze,
Scarcely a leaf is still,
Something is moving among the trees
Like a restless spirit of ill.
.
Standing watching the rain,
Do yon no-, soem to hoar
The voice of God outapeaken
To man's ungrateful car?
Promising plenty and peace,
Gainers with troasttro heaped.
That eocd time and hat-vent shall notecase
Till the Harvest of Earth Is reaped.
Z7i Argoiy.
The Silver Whistle.
We were til traveling with papa in the
Tyrol, when a telegram summoning bun
to Vienna to tho bedside of a dying
friend came to interrupt onr plana. He
installed Lotty and me in a comfortable
room in the floe new hotel at Toblaeh,
gve ns his blessing, a double allow
ance of pocket money, and left us, with
striot injunctions to stay quietly at
home till his return, as he did not ap
prove of his daughters traveling about
alone in a foreign country.
Letty and I amused ourselves vory
well for the first few days, driving over
th piotnresqae roads aud through parts
of the beautiful Ampezzo valley. We
gathered gentian acd mountain straw
berries, and lost our way in the big
wilderness of warden at the back of the
hotel; filled onr presse botanique with
handfala of floral treasures, and then
beiran to weary a little of our strictly
raral pleasures.
We were the enly Americans
in the hotel, and we found few
oongonial friends among the bout
of strangers arriving and departing
every, day. We had read all our
books! written all our letters, and were
feeling very moped it was a rainy day,
dull and unpromising when Letty
spelled out from the German newspaper
the following announcement :
"Her majesty the queen of Italy, on
her way to Lirnz, intends to honor
Sachsen bursr with a brief sojourn, arriv
ing on the 13th. The people of Sacheen
burg are preparing for a grand fete to
honor her majesty."
" Sachsenbnrg, that is not very far
from here, on the railroad, said Letty
" Oh, Helen, lot us go I Queen Mar
. ghenta is so very lovely, ana we may
never have the chanoe of seeing her
again, and the fete, too, will be well
worth seeing. The town will be one
great bower of flowers, and all the
peasants will appear in their best holi
day costume, uo say you win go,
Letty it's bo dull here."
" But have you forgotten that papa
asked us to stay quietly here, and not
go roaming about without inmr
said, gravel v.
"Oh, you dear, conscientious old
goose? it is not traveling to go to
Saohsenburg to see the queen."
Saohsenburg is a ten hours' journey
'from here, and we should have to be
away for three days at least to make the
trip worth while."
" So much the better; I am fright
folly tired of this place, and papa's re
turn is delayed lor anotuer week.'
But I need not repeat our discussion
further. Letty carried the day in this
instance as in most others, and I her
staid, elder sister, her senior by ten
years, and her nominal mentor and
guardian cieekjy gave in to her wishes,
Eauirned with light hand-luggage,
umbrellas aud shawls, we set off in the
omnibus the next day, with many in
junctions from our Wirth to inquire
carefully the hours of arrival and de
parture of the trains, as the time-tables
were often inaccurate in this part of
the world.
Our only fellow-traveler in the rail
way carriage was a gentleman apparent
ly about thirty, with pleasant brown
eyes, a straight, slender nose, and an
indescribable air of good breeding
about him from the slender toe of his
boot to the closely trimmed hair beneath
his soft traveling cap.
He looked often at Letty; not imper
tinently, but as any well-bred man
looks at a pretty girl sitting opposite
him on a long journey. Letty, with her
violet eyes darkening at times almost to
black, her delicate color like an alabas
ter lamn wth a rosy flame within, and
her charmingly graoeful figure, made
excusable more obtrusive admiration
than this man's.
Animation and pleasure at our trip
made her doubly attractive, and I could
not blame the brown eyes opposite for
often wandering to her pretty laca.
I did not like to seem stiff ; so pres
ently I spoke to the stranger, who had
been attentive about stowing away our
lnggpge ad screening us from the bril
liant sun.
,JIf answered pleasantly, in a low,
musical voice that I liked, and we were
soon all three chatting together over
our various experiences of the summer.
He proved to be an Englishman, ana
he nam engraved upon the card which
e presented me in tho course of con-
ersation was Romney Mordaunt, of
lordaiint Hall, Surrey. His destina-
on waH further than outb; and at Reich-
thai, where we were to change car
riages for Sachsonburg, we must sepa
rate. :
Letty seemed to share heartily my
apiroval of our traveling-companion,
and I almost wished sho would not
smile upon him so confidingly, nor be
witch bim with her bright, half-sancy
spcoohofl, for ho was a Btranger, after
all, and might prove unworthy of our
trust.
Gradually I began to think myself a
very poor chaperon for my pretty little
sinter, and 1 tried to loos, lierce and
forbidding, but it was no use, and my
furtive plucks and nudges at Letty
were quite ineffectual. When I flat
titvA myself I was looking awfully
grim, she actually put out her pretty
pink palm at Mr. Mordannt'H request
to have her fortune read.
Tee time sped very quickly, and
shortly before our arrival at Ileichthal,
our companion began to tell us some
amusing stoiies of his life in the Indian
jungle. He showed us a curious litile
whistle that had of'-en served him to
signal his lost companions, which had a
curious shrill, bird-like tone, unlike
anything of the kind we had heard
before.
As Letty was returning Mr. Mordaunt
the whistle a pretty little silver toy
that she much admired he said :
" rioiso keep it, Miss Weir, as
souvenir of one more idler whom fate
has thrown in your way. Imagine that
it is charmed, and if you are in din
tress a note from the whistle would
bring me to the resone if I am worthy
that honor as Oberon new to tho as
sistance of Hnon."
Letty could not refuse the little gift
so gracefr ily tendered, and her evident
pleasure in it seemed to reward Mr,
Mordaunt three-fold.
At about 11 o'clock at night I heard
the guard call out " Ileichthal 1" with
great regret, for here we must lose our
amusing companion, and I could see
plainly that the ploasantest part of the
journey was over for him.
At Ileichthal we made an unwelcome
Hscovery; we had missed connection
with the Sachsenbnrg train, and to
reach our destination we would have to
wait till 5 o'clock in the morning of
the next day.
'What will you do in the meantime?"
asked Mr. Mordaunt. "I have ten
minutes before my train goes; if I
could be of any service to you about
encaging a room at the hotel, or in any
other way, I should be most happy."
'I think, Helen, ft would be better
not to go to a hotel," said Letty; we
should never wake np for the 5 o'clock
tram if we went to bed, and we can
waste so much time waiting for the
next train.
" Yes," I answered. " we could get
some refreshments here and spend the
remainder of the night in the waiting
room it is not quite five hours."
Our lands would not admit of much
extravagance on the trip, as the allow
ance papa had given us had dwindled
during his prolonged absence, and I
was glad of Letty's economical sugges
tion. Somethiug in Mr. Mordaunt's
manner gave the idea that he did not
approve quite of our plan, but he was
too polite to say anything against it.
He oidered a waiter to attend ns, in
quired if wo would be allowed to pass
the night in the waiting-room, brought
us a favorable answer, and then, as the
locomotive whistled sharply, ho re
luctantly took his leave, and disappeared
in the darkness.
" I wish he had staid with us it is
so lonely in this strange place," said
Letty, with a little shiver. .
"Nonsense, child I It would have
been obtrusive and indelicate of him to
give us so much of his sooiety ; we
never saw him before to day, and why
should he alter his plans for us ?"
I spoke boldly but I, too, felt de
serted and forlorn in the little railway
coffee room; a language I but indif
ferently anderstood being spoken about
me -not a laminar lace to be seen but
Letty'a fiightoned one, and midnight
lust past.
We were the only women in tne
place, and I did not fancy the look of
tho men hovering about, some were
playing cards in a corner, and others
sat silently over tall glasses of beer,
giving us lurtivo glances whioh l tried
to ignore.
" Letty, you ought not to wear that
ring on a lournev, or, if you will wear
it, you ought to keep your glove on
it is very temptiug to a thief," I said.
nervously, as the light caught Letty's
diamond papa s present on her birth
day while she put buck her veil, and
made my eyes ache with its sparkle,
At that moment I saw the ugly, dark
faoe of a man close against the window
pane outside watching us intently. He
turned away quickly as he saw me look
ing at him, but I had time to note his
heavy, rough beard, unkempt hair and
coarse big throat.
The horrible thought seized me that
he had seen Letty's ring, and would
try to rob us. 1 said nothing to my
sister of my fears, but lelt intensely re
lieved when the porter appeared wiin a
lantern to escort ns to the waiting
room. He informed us that we would have
the room quite to ourselves, but that
we must consent to be locked in. It
was the strict rule that the door be
locked after the departure of the last
night train, and according to the regu
lations passengers were not allowed to
penrt the night on the premises; ne
had only made an exception in our
favor. Furthermore, we must make up
our minds to disponse with a light, as
every one went away but the guard, and
the place must be left in darkness.
This was appalling, to be locked up
for four hours in a pitch-dark room;
but thoro was apparently no other alternative.
At last, by a judicious fee, I prevailed
upon the man to allow us to bolt ono
door on the insido, so that we would
not feel quite in durance vile.
The clock struck, and the porter, hur
rying us into the dreary little den, went
away with his light before we could get
more than a glimpse of our surround
ings.
"It is a consolation to know tnat tne
guard is on duty outside," I said,
trying to stifle a sigh.
"Perhaps we are not alone in this
dreadful plaoe, after all," said Letty,
stumbling over a chair; "and someone
may lump at us out of the darkness.
At this cheerful suggestion I be
thought me of some wax matches in my
satchel, and lighted ono, shielding its
flame as well as I could from observa
tion outside.
Wo basely explored our prison a
What are you rascals doing ?" revived
her.
Two men came running toward us,
one of whom, to onr amazement and de
light, we recognized as Mr. Mordaunt,
oar traveling companion.
We hung upon him, and hovered over
him with tears, hysterical laughter and
incoherent thanks, and during our con
fused explanations did not notice that
both robber and guard quietly disap
peared.
Mr. Mordaunt acoounted lor nis pres
ence as follows: As he leio us in tne
coffee-room he noticed a suspicious-
lookiog pair of fellows about the plat
form who seemed to be discusning u;
the waiters also were talking together
over the vagaries of the two Ameri
kanerincen who were going to spend
the nigh; at the station, and Mr. Mor
daunt ctncluded that we might be
subjected to annoyance, if nothing
more.
He theicf ore decided to wait himself
for the next train, and not liking to in
trude furtier upon us had whiled away
the time tmoking and chatting with
another belated traveler, within sight
of our temporary prieon.
He had Grayed some distance down
the road, Then the sound of Letty's
whistle reached his ears as a sound of
distress.
" What I oan't understand is this ras-
- Instinct&of Elephants.
If nature has not given intellect to
these animals, it has given them an in
stinct very much aMn to it. A man hai
only to hunt them in their wilds to
learn how wonderfully Providence bta
taught them to choose, tho most favor
able ground, whether for feeding cr
encamping, and to resort to junglei,
where their ponderous bodies so re
semble rocks or the dark foliage that
it is very difficult for the sportsman to
distinguish them from surrounding ob
jects; while their feet are so co
structed that not only can they tramp
over any kind of ground, whether hani
or soft, thorny or smooth, bwt withont
omitting a sound. Some b! their
encamping grounds are models oi
ingenuity some of them perfect fort
resses. I once followed up a herd and
found them in a small forest surrounded
on three sides by a tortuous river,
impassable for ordinary mortals by
reason either of the depth of water, its
precipitous banks, quicksands or en
eu tangling weeds in its bed, while the
fourth side was protected by a tangled
thicket, farther proteoted by a quag
mire in front. To get at them withont
disturbing them was impossible; at
last, when ldid get within shot or ine
foreet, the elephants retreated by the
opposite side to that which I had ap
proached, and after following tnem lor
Darkly Jiow.
We see so darkly now;
Ohl could I place
ily sonl where thine must meet it, face to faoe
Thy justice would allow
That I am wrongod;
nt we gee darkly now.
ffe sec so darkly now,
That I may die,
Nor e'er the wrong thou think'st of me daay,
Nor ever tell thea how
Thou art belov'd;
We see so darkly now.
We sco so darkly now,
Yet One hath grace
Tu make .ns, e'en on earth, see faoe to face, '
To Him my heart I bow
In hope; albeit
We see so darkly now.
11UX0R OF THE DAT.
tall iron stove, a table, some cane chairs ca d d680rtecf his post so several hours I did not get a shot. No
and two long benches with hard leather . .. rMcner. ringing or,a Bnnoa filprdmntu have the rea-
j . . - w w
cushions, none of them inviting repose;
but of other living presence than our
own there was no trace.
Pillowed upon our waterproofs and
each other, we tried to snatch an hour's
sleep, but I, at leant, became preter
naturally wakeful. Here were we, two
unprotected women, dropped down at
an obscure little wayside station at
dead of night, with not a soul nearer
than the mile-distant hotel to help us
in case of need. There were suspicious
characters lurking about, and our only
protection a glass door and the guard,
who might be a coward or a knave ; we
could be robbed and murdered, and no
one would know.
The guard's slow, heavy step passing
at long intervals, and the gleam of his
lantern on his scarlet cap, gave me a
little sense of'security, but I was very
miserable nevertheless, and heartily
wished we had not disobeyed papa. In
the midst of my reflection, I heard
stealthy steps approaching tho inner
door of the waiting-room and the grat
ing of a key quietly turned in the lock.
I becan trembling violently, and the
next instant, to my horror, the door
opened and the dark faced man whom
I bad seen through the window of the
coffee-room, crept softly in with a dim
lantern in his hand.
" Listen," he said, in German, in a
hoarse whisper, fixing me with his evil
eve. "if you are quiet and sensible 1
will do you no harm; but if you mute
the least disturbance, I know how to
silence you " and he showed a murder
ous-lookiug knife at his belt. "I have
come for the diamond the young one
wears on her finger and any other jewels
and money that you may have abont
you. Be quick and silent; give me
these things, and make no resistance as
vou value your lives,
1 suppose l grow very wnite ana
trembling, for Ltty said in a firm voice
that astonished me
Do as he says, Helen our lives
are worth more man a lew trumpery
jewels."
I pushed our small portmanteau
toward the robber with my foot ; he
put it on the floor just before the door
through which he had entered, set his
lantern on the table, and began undoing
the straps of the portmanteau.
How eagerly and vainly we listened
for the tramp of the guard at that
moment, but he appeared to have
vanished from the face of the earth.
The rascal evidently thinks the
other door is locked on tho outside, as
he is not watching us, said Letty,
gliding like a phantom toward the door
next the platform.
While the man busily overhauled our
effects she slipped the bolt with as little
noise as if it glided over velvet, and
then said to me:
"I am coins' to make one bold effort
to save my ring; I shall dash that man's
lantern to the ground with this bundle
of shawls in the darkness we shall
have the advantage of him. as no ob
stacle is between us and the door. We
can rush out and scream for the guard,
and I am sure this wretch will not dare
to follow us."
"Oh. but Letty, the danger!" I
monncd; the man could not understand
us. 'o we could say what we choso,
"Don't think of the danger, but be
ready to open the door as I smash tho
lantern."
Letty, with a well-directed aim, sent
our thick roll of shawls flying over the
table, and we were all in darkness
Tho n xi instant my sister and I were
rushing ite mad creatures down the
platform, shrieking for the guard whose
slouching figure we could see in the
distan oe.
Strangely enough he did not or would
not hear us, and. horror of horrors,
the burglar was hurrying after us, the
light of his lantern gleaming upon his
knife blade I
Letty. in despair, put her silver
whistle to her lips and blew till its pe
culiar note rang cut like a clarion in
the still air.
Directly afterward we heard the
sound of hastily approaching footsteps,
whether for good or evil we could not
tell.
Letty's courage had failed her, and
she loaned on me half-fainting with
fripht, when a voice calling, in Eng.
libh. "Hallo I What is the matter?
at a huge bell which hung near,
Presently lights were seen approach
ing, and a few sleepy-looking men gath
ered wouderingly about us. One of
them stumbled over something lying in
a dark corner.
"What is this!" he exclaimed. "Adolf
Harle, the nightguard, in a drunken
sleep. He will lose his post for this
neglect of duty."
It was afterward discovered that Acton
Harle, the red guard, had been drT gged
ovsr his evening glass of beer by two
ruffiaiiS, ono of whom had invested
himself with the watchman s duties,
antera and cap, while the other
made his daring attempt upon Letty
and me.
" He only got some sham earrings
and an ivory brush from the portman
teau, and I saved my ring !" said Letty,
triumphantly.
Jb riBht and excitement had cooled our
deeire to see her msjesty, Queen Mar-
ghenta, and on the following day we
returned to Toblach, Mr. Mordaunt ac
companying us.
hen papa returned nve days later,
Romney Mordaunt met him with the
request for the hand oi his younger
daughter in marriage, a request which
ry father could not refuse when he
looked into Letty's radiant eyes.
Two Queer, Deaths.
A recent issuo of the Louisville (Ky.)
Commercial savs : About three weeks
........ -v m VM . 1 1
ago William uowney, oi uiacaweii b
precinct, died in a very singular man
ner. His strength began failing on
Wednesday without apparent cause ;
his flesh fell away with alarming rapid
ity, and by Monday following he had
absolutely dwindled away without hav
icg felt sick or suffered the slightest
pain or indisposition. When placed on
his deathbed, a few hours before he
died, he was laughing and talking, and
declared that he never felt better in his
lifo. Such a singular and unaccounta
ble death naturally created considerable
surprise and wonder in the neighbor
hood where it happened, jjui tnese
were increased to consternation
when. in a few days after
Mr. Downey's death, his daughter
Miss Sallie, who is about twenty-two
years of ago, was taken exactly as her
father was, and without sunering tne
fclightest pain or sickness has grown
weaker and thinner each day, till she is
but a skeleton of her former self, and
at our last account was lying speechless
upon what has doubtless proved her
death-bed ere this. The physicians ore
completely nonplussed, aud are unable
to form the slightest idea as to the
cause of nature of their very .trauRO
mulady, and, to add to the confusion
and mystery, the sick-bed of the young
lady has been almost constantly attend
ed by strange and unnatural noises
sometimes seeming like the roar of a
planing mill, then like a sewing ma
chine, and again like many other
things, continually changing, but hardly
ever ceasiug. It has thrown the whole
neighborhood into a fever of excite
ment, and scores of people have visited
the house where the young lady is sick,
and are able to testify to the correctness
of these etatemcnts.
one supposes elephants nave tne rea
noninc nowers possessed by man; 'if
they had. we should be their slaves,
and not they ours ; but their instinct is
wonderful. I will Rive a couple of
instances : When war broke out with
Burmah, a lot of elephants were sent
across from Bengal t J Prome by land,
under the charge of Captain Baugh,'of
the Bengal Twenty-sixth. Among
them was a magnificent tusker. He
took a dislike to this officer, why was
not exactly known. Some said it was
because he had knocked off the ele
phant's neck his mahout ; but be the
reason what it may, this brute tried to
kill Bangh. and him only, several times,
I have seen him thrashed for this sev
eral times by other oleohants armed
with chains, who wielded thera much
as a drummer does the lash at the bal
bords; but it was of no use, his dislike
was inveterate, he got must, would te.ke
no food except from a pet female (he
had two lashed alongside of him), and
eventually died at Shoaydoung. As a
rule, elephants are timid, quiet and in
offensive: but when wounded and
closely followed up. or when must
foei iodioal fits to which male adult ele.
ohants are subiectl. or females with
voung. their furv knows no toandf,
They dread fire more than anything
else ; but one elephant belonging to the
battery in Assam was an exception, and
would assist in putting out a fire, This
same elephant would do what I never
knew anv other to do. viz., when r
beast's neok was cut through, til bu
the vertebrse (it did not matter whet he
the beast was a buffalo, a deer, tisreror
anything else), it would, when ordered
put a foot on the neck, twine
the trunk round the head, and
with a vrrench separate it from
the body and hand it up to the mahout,
I have seen one or two elephants
that would hand a dead bird up; but
most of them will not touch anything
of the sort. Nor would they intention
ally tread upon a fallen man or beast
those used for executions in theGaicor's
territories Baroda have been taught
to do so. Some foolish men teach their
elephants to trample upon a dead body,
and by so doing ruin them for sport.
An elephant, unless vicious by nature,
will only do so at first with tho great
est reluctance, but after a timo, if any
thing falls before it, it is apt to charge,
and if it does not kneel dpwn suddenly
and throw the occupant out of the how.
dah,.it gets the animal bet een its legs,
and plavs a sort of loot ball wi'ii it,
throwing it baokward and forward be
tween the front and hind legs until it is
of tho consistency of a jolly. Men are
occasionally thrown off the back of an
elephant: what would their fate bo
mounted on a beast who had been
taught such tricks? An elephant I
bought from Mr. Tyo had once been cut
bv a rhinoceros. Nothing woul.l
induce her to enter a jungle
where ono of these animals was ; the
very slichtest scent of one would send
her flying. A splendid female muokna
belonging to my department cared
nothing for a tiger, would kick one out
of her path without showing the slight
est signs of uneasiness, but if she met a
pony nothing could hold her. London
Field.
Spots on the son Slipper marks.
When we asked our girl to marry us
she said she didn't mind and we have
since found out that she didn't. Toledo
American.
A gentleman who was asked for his
marriage certificate quietly took off hi
hat and pointed to a bald spot. The
evidence was conclusive.
A Cincinnati iournal remarks that for
men to stand in front of churches when
the ladies are coming out is small pota
toes. As if thera could be no small
potato mashers.
A writer speaks learnedly of "English
Interiors," without stating, however,
that the average English interior is
happiest when full of roast beef and
plum pudding. Picayune.
The many disasters to which our
country has fallen a victim this year
have been in a great measure com
pensated for by the destruction of an
accordion faotory at Breslau, L. I.t recently.
One of the managers of an hospital
asked an Irish nurse which he con
sidered the most dangerous of the many
cases then in the hospital, "lhat,
sur," said Pat, as he pointed to a ease
of surgical instruments lying on th
table.
A 1LATTEB OP OBSERVATION.
A busy retail groeer
Whom we all surely know, sir.
Was asked one day, in a friendly way,
Bv a country cnap who baa come 10 sisy
Till the mail came in at the close of day,
"What are your gross receipts, sir I"
" Ho, be I hb, ha I ho, ho, ut 1"
Laughed the busy retail grocer,
As he pointed ont, with laugh and shout,
The barrels aud boxes ranged about,
"You can plainly sue, beyond a doubt,
What are my grocery seats, sir I"
vamaen jiavane.
Exchanging Horses
An amusing incident connected with
the errand national steepleohase at
Liverpool is going the rounds of sport
ing circles. At one of the fences there
was a tumble and a scrimmage, half a
dozen horses ooming to grief. In the
hurry and confusion, Adams, the jockey,
who started from the post upon Libera
tor, hastily remounted and dashed
home. While weighing in he remarked
to Mr. Gregory, the weigher, that the
old horse had not jumped as he used.
Gregory asked what old horse he meant,
and he made answer that it was Libera
tor, of course ; whereupon he was in
formed that the horse he had ridden in
on was not Liberator, but Ignition.
While the amazed Adams was admitting
that- he had mixed his horses, home
came Liberator, ridden by the jockey
who had started on Ignition. The
ooeurrenoe resembled those mistakes so
frequently made iu exchanges of hats or
umbrellas, with this difference, that the
owner of the best article didn't lose by
the swap.
WISE WORDS.
You should never pull down an
opinion until you have something to
put in its plaoe.
We all change, but that's with time.
Time does his work honestly, and I
don't mind him.
We must learn to submit with grace
to commit the follies which deponed
upon character.
As the shadow that follows the sub-
stance, so the sting of the conscience
follows an evil deed; one dies only with
intelligence.
Truth aud love are two of the most
powerful things in the world ; and when
Ihey both go together they cannot easily
Oe withstood.
It is strictly and philosophically true
in nature and reason that there is no
such thing as chance or accident; it
being evident that these words ;do
not signify merolv men's ignorance of
the real and immediate cause.
American History-Important Events.
1620. Landing made on Plymouth
Rock.
1621. First Thanksgiving kept. No
turkey.
1622. First meeting-house built.
1640. First printing press.
1618. Witches first hung.
1649. Men are oommanded to wear .
short hair.
1062. More witches hung in Salem,
1702. Yale college founded in New
Haven.
1704. First newspaper printed at
Boston.
1705. Coffee is tasted.
1720. Tea is tried, but taxation makes
it costly.
1721. rostonice started.
1721. Potatoes planted as a ouriosi-
ty. Singing by note in the meeting
houses, which caused a greaiuem oi
trouble.
1740. Tinware manufactured.
1755. Ai organ built but not allowed
to be played in the meeting-house.
1756. Ueniamin uranKiin invent vue
lightning rod.
1760. 'First attempt at fashion. Col
lars are worn on shirts and chaises ap-
Pe?I- , T
1765. Jjiberty taikea ox. no muio
using of stamped paper.
1770. Wooden clocks made.
1773. Trouble begins about tea; chests
of it thrown into Boston harbor.
1774. The streets of Boston are
lighted with oil-lamps.
17S0. Umbrellas ued by a few rich
people, and much laughed at.
ITJi. Diltt worms raiseu, anuxumuw
houses silk carpets are seen.
1795-1800. Pantaloons take ine piaoe
of breeches for ordinary wear, and
plates are used at breakfast and tea.
. . i l .1.. rrJn
leu, a. Btoamooaii uu mo uuuouu.
1817. Stoves first appear in meeting.
houses, although some thins tney
showed more fire than religion:
1818. A steamboat on I-iong island
Sound.
1819.
lantio.
1823.
A steamer goes across the At-
Bteel
shirt
Gas in Boston. Coal.
pens take the place of quills.
- . . . . . v. , , a; f.nn
lKi. linmea disappear num
fronts. ... ...
1828. Love apples are tasted nesitat
ingly, but are found novel and palatable,
and are called tomatoes, and used aa a
vegotable.
lt32. A railroad built.
1833. Matches used instead of th
tinderbox.
1837. First paper money used, callei
shin-plasters.
1838. Envelopes first used.
1839. Daguerotypes are taken.
1844, First electrio message sent
1817. Sawing machines invented.
1858. Ooean oable laid. Only one
message sent for about ten years.
1865. Abraham Linooln assassinated.
1871. Chicago burned. ,
1876. Party in Philadelphia called
the "Centennial."
1881. Garfield assassinated.