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B I members at Marine, in that comity,
DUO. was attacked in the same way. The
parents died, but the children are re-
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ston Post.]
condition. Dr. Lathrop writes * the r(
se.--Trich-
suit of a microscopico
examination of
case. He says:
The specimen of human muscle tat
the human from a person after death, and also
itozoon, the sausage he had eaten, which you
ed in a num- me, supposing them to contain
°wary. The trichinae spiralis, I carefully exa'
aas a denizen under the microscope, both alo'
men and oth- with Dr. Hadley. The ptuasi'
Tar wn for some found in both, in great abuodar
n
1 of a special in different states. In the inns(
ests.t a recent dis- from the human body the we
r* ysiologists, free while in the sausage it w•
itries have oc- ed. In the first I fitiled to
- .ntion called to worms inclosed in a cyst. 1
S ranee presented often more or less wiled t
ortions of tissue turns, of au eliptical form
iled, under the the shape was not regular,
iiled worm, sur- dont straight.. The irregr
rus envelope, re- which the worm was four
.ngular position. bly caused by tearing am
w
ad that could be I muscle, to render it thin
to have died of i come transparent under
.es
' and as no 1 the normal shape beir
(.1 be referred to coiled. Under the
aN
sp worms were re- ( worm could be readily
et- were regarded as , power, and'presented
es ad merely as ob- led head, a body inc'
, Sity. I the tail, which had s
years the medical I cated appearance, 1
.ty has had .its at- i There was an appea
5
w .in anomalous cases ! canal running the
cted to be cases of body, somewhat i
.;lieniical investiga- with granula mat'
suspicion, further : In the pot Lion
ed in all of the sub- ed, the worms w
wesence of trichinae cyst, and here 1
,
As the trichinae ' scraping the in
: exist in the flesh of cyst. They
.viote; investigation 1 the free worm
4 ibility of the trans- , cupyiug the
from animals to man, most cases f
iakened, experiments observed it
finally demonstrated separate fr(
were not killed by a ing an ext ,
thus in imperfectly were elos ,
awing them might be ' which ha
) the - digestive organs. been ptu<
ion revealed also that the spac
.
ra animals thus released separate
nt ts nt in a few days gave I did
dis• sof others, which int- The a'
an
th- eneed to perforate their magi)
nd• re intestines and sur- worr
re.
making a straight path cyst
)f all ptirtions of the mu
. those of the limbs. rat'
ion of parts by millions ne
worms was attended with w
# e or less violent, depend
eir numbers, and the
T , h ea lth of the victim
the coats of the bowels
kg often arose, stimulating
mine., and many person s
.:
n, justly suspected of thi
persons eating food prepa
had been thus alartnizq
the worms made their v
;cle, pains like those of rl
ups, weakness or entire
;embling paralysis, cur
the numbers of tri ,
, wasting exhaustion
ved. Persons escapin
e disagreeaiile tenants
r degree from similw
e
gradually recovere('
on of their muscles,
nified, revealed the
; their destination
; various stages of
nt.
r.
I 'ectual remedy for,
been discoveree
;n made to remo'
I itines by emetics
• I !ss resorted to ea'
Y , I
ms have appear
t. I. Parasitecide
I n found to affo'
.i ience has been
. as yet is to p
mi.. Swine a
tt 1 Giddy inhabit
suer only is
t A, but cases
I to ragouts,
Sold in th
!Lich were
t . A of di s
ages frpm
~ '-poked,
mrmg the
~.. file: Are (
44, mains ~ 1
' - : entire subs i
Waynesburg. On
C. A. Mitch., Pres't. J. LAZICAR, Cashier
DISCOUNT DAY,
WEDNESDAY
'Rea 11. 1961-1 v
Nticee' lanbing,
DAILY MAIL HACK
RUNNING REGIILARLY BET% 'ERN
UMW in RIM' NIB.
TIIE undersigned respectfully informe the generous
Public, that having the contract for the carrying of the
snail between the above points, he has placed upon th e
route two new and commodious Hacks for the ac
commodation of the tray tilluyt community. ( lite wil
leave the Adam's Hooce, W aynesburg, every morn
ing, Sundays except...l, at o'clock, and will arrive
at aicee' landing in time for the Boat to Pittsburgh,
the other will !mitre Lauding at the saute lime
and arrive in Way iseplit.rg at noon. No paine will be
pared for the ac
TIMOTHY UOUGHER. Proprietor.
uglipt 7th, 1861. no. 9.
WAYNE:SHUPE STEAM MILL.
WS.(NARA respectfully inform • Ills friends and
the public that he has leased the NEW t)TEAr
tll td. at Wayneaburg, )'a., where I. e will always be
Found ready to accommodate all who may call on the
shortest notice. Grinding done on the Caine terms as
by water raffle. FLOUR and FEED teat citustantly
on hand. Orders for either can be It ft at the at
!color's stole {Jan. lel% 1862
[From the Boston Post.]
and Strange Disease.--Trich
ina Spirelis.
of infestation of the human
y that singular entozoon, the
.Spiraiis, are reported in a num
iocalities in this eowitry. The
of this little worm as a denizen
tuscular system of men and oth
aals has beer: known for some
:it the recognition of a special
due to it alone is a recent dis-
I the German physiologists,
omists in all countries have oc
. dly had their attention called to
b 'ittr spotted appearance presented
.an muscle, and portions of tissue
irked have revealed, under the
n,- ope, a minute coiled worm, Ku
m, • , 1 with a calcareous envelope, re
ietly in its singular position.
A • '_!s of this kind that could be
presumed to have died of'
lized diseases,
and as no
which could be referred to
tf.• ace of these worms were re
co , the worms were regarded as
h. , ss, and described merely as ob
je.. f scientific curiosity.
within a few years the medical
p• lu of Germany has had .its at
re: : ,ailed to certain anomalous cases
of —3e, first suspected to be cases of
ac Poisoning. Chemical investiga
tioc this suspicion, further )
inv ,tgations revealed in all of the sub
jec. -vamined the presence of trichium
in ; minibus. As the trichinae
w e r ; k now also to exist in the flesh of
swn. and as provion:; investigation
had the possibility of the trans
fere .e of entozoa from animals to man,
" ions were awakened, experiments
try -rd it was finally demonstrated
that these worms were not killed by a
' 4. - 1-10; and thus in imperfectly
cc meat containing
them might be
ti,...siaed alive to the digestive organs.
Careful investigation revealed also that
to of these animals thus released
Iprisonment in a few days gave
hundreds of others, which
ini
, Atediately commenced to perforate their
--- through the intestines and sur
naming parts, making a straight path
to the muscles of all portions of the
body, especially those of the limbs.
This perforation of parts by millions
microscopic worms was attended with
symptoms more or less violent, depend
! ing upon their munbers, and the
strength and health of the victim
Whilst passing the coats of the bowels
violent purging often arose, stimulating
arsenical poi;odne., and many persons
had been unjustly suspected of this
crime, when persons eating food prepar
ed by them had been thus alarmingly
c‘iszed. As the worms made their way
into the muscle, pains like those of rheu
atism, cramps, weakness or entire loss
ower resembling paralysis, ensued,
when the numbers of trichinae
ere large, wasting exhaustion, and
. eath fbllowed. Persons escaping with
of these disagreeable tenants suffer
smaller degree from similar symp
, but gradually recovered, and a
portion of their muscles, removed
I magnified, revealed the trichina;
.ived at their destination and under
:llg the various stages of calcareous
..vstment.
• effectual remedy for this disease
yet been discovered. Attempts
e been made to remove them from
intestines by emetics and purging,
unless resorted to early, before any
• toms have appeared, this is in-
Parasitecide medicines have
nc •, - en found to afford relief; and all
i
J. science has been able to do for pro
'
to • r: as yet is to point out the source
of - mi.. Swine and cats are the an-
Mlly inhabited by the parasite.
The Alner only is supposed to be used
for f .d, but cases are said to have been
traced to ragouts, ostensibly of hare or
sold i n the Parisian restaurants,
am !Lich were shrewdly suspected to
be , !s of dishonest substitution.—
So ages frpm swine's flesh, smoked
but ..noked, are favorite articles of di
et among the Germans, and in these
richin:Are often found. Under done
tain them living, but if the
of the meat be raised
to the temperature of boiling water,
the vitality of the worms is distroyed.
The appearance of the disease in this
country makes the above facts of value
to tke public. We annex the descrip
tion of a ease recently occurring in New
York stated to be the first
in this country) taken from the Buffalo
Courier a. The June numberof the Buf
falo Medical Journal contains a long ed
itorial detailing the facts concerning a
newly discovered disease which has ap
peared in Cheektowaga, Erie county,
N Y. The discovery was recently no
tea in Germany, but the cases described
in the Journal are the first which have
been positively identified in this coun
try. The disase is caused by the pres
ence in the muscles of a worm or para
site, known as the trichina spiral.. and in
the case recorded, the victims have be
come infected from eating the flesh of
swine in which the worm chanced to
abound. The credit of discovering the
disease is due to Dr. Kroinbein, of Buf-
iSAPI IC,
tido, who in connection with Dr. Day
ler, of Lancaster, in the middle of May
last, attended two patients, a man and
his wife, in Cheektowaga. Both of
these died. Another family of seven
111
nee
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1864.
members at 'Marine, in that county,
was attacked in the same way. Tile
parents died, but the children are re
ported alive, though in a dangerous
condition. Dr. Lathrop writes the re
sult of a microscopic examination of the
case. He says :
The speclinen of human muscle taken
from a person after death, and also the
sausage he had eaten, which you gave
me, supposing them to contain the
trichinae spiralis, I carefully examined
under the microscope, both alone and
with Dr. Hadley. The ptuasite was
found in both, in great abundance, but
in different states. In the muscle taken
from the human body the worm was
free while in the sausage it was encyst
ed. In the first I failed to find the
worms inclosed in a cyst. They were
often more or less wiled two or three
turns, of au eliptical form ; but often
the shape was not regular, though sel
dom straight.. The irregular form in
which the worm was found was proba
bly caused by tearing and scraping the
muscle, to render it thin enough to be
come transparent under the microscope
the normal shape being more or less
coiled. Under the microscope the
worm could be readily seen with a low
power, and'presented uniformly a point
ed head, a body increasing in size to
the tail, which had somewhat of a trun
cated appearance, with a slight fissure.
There was an appearance of an intestinal
canal running the whole length of the
body, somewhat undulating, and filled
with granola matter.
In the poi Lion of the sausage examin
ed, the worms were enclosed in an ovoid
cyst, and here were ilmnd free. Even
scraping the muscle did mt rupture the
cyst. They were much smaller than
the free worm, were tuways coiled, oc
cupying the centre of the cyst, and in
most cases single. One cyst only was
observed in which were two worms,
separate from cacti Other, each occupy
ing an extremity of thi; cyst. The cysts
were closed by the muscular fibres,
which had the appearance of having
been pushed aside, and at either en s d
the space where the muscular fibres
separated was filled with fat gloubnles
I did not find a cyst without a worm.
The appearance was as here represented
magnified over 200 diameters. The
worm occupied about one third of the
cyst space. In one small piece of the
muscular tissue of the sausage, I should
rather say small collection of scrapings,
nearly thirty cysts containing worms
were counted.
Eating Economically.
What kind of food has the most nourish
ment and costs the least?•is a question of
great practical imi.ortance. The following
tables may be studied with considerable in
terest by every family. They will show the
mode of preparation, the amount of nutri
ment, and the time required for the digestion
of the most common articles of food placed
upon the tables. A dollars worth of meat ,
at twenty-five cents a pound, goes as far a
fifty cents' worth of butter, at halt a dollar a
pound. Three 'minds. of flour at eight cents
a pound is said to contain as much nutriment
as nine pounds of roast beet; which, at twen
ty-five cents, is $2,25; that is, twenty-five
cents worth of flour goes as far as rune times
that much money spent for roast beef, as
weighed at the butcher's stall. A pint of
white beans weighing one pound, and costing
seven cents, contains as much nutriment as
three pounds and a half of roast beef, cost
ing eighty-seven and a half cents. Ot all
the articles that can be eaten, the cheapest
are bread, butter, molasses. bean. and rice.
A pound of coin meal (Indian) goes as far as
a pound of flour; so that fine family flour at
sixteen dollars s barrel, and corn-meal at
four cents, the latter is just one-half less ex
pensive. It corn and wheat were ground,
and the whole product, bran and all, were
made into bread, fifteen per cent. or nutri
ment would be saved, with much greater
healthfulness. These are standard tables:
Kind of Mode of Amount of Time of
Food. Preparation. Nutriment Digestion
Cucumbers, Raw, 2 per cent.
Turnips, 13oileil, 4 " 2 30
Milk, Fresh, 7 " 2 15
Cabbage, Boiled, 7 " 4 30
Apples, Raw, 10 " 1 50
Potatoes, Boiled, 13 " 2 30
Fish, Boiled, 20 " 2 00
Venison, Boiled, 22 " 130
Pork, Roasted, 24 " 5 15
Veal, Roasted, 25 " 4 00
BOA Roasted, 26 " 3 30
Poultry, Roasted, 27 " 2 45
Mutton, Roasted, 30 " 3 13
Bread,(wheat) Baked, 80 " 3 30
Bread, Baked, 80 " 330
13eans, Boiled, 87 " 230
Rite, Boded, 88 " 100
&Ater and oils, 96 " 3 30
Sugars and syrups, DO " 3 30
—(hall's Journal of Health.
ffirlfrs. Dora Clinton, an inhuman mon
ster was recently committed to the Tombs
in New York to await trial for homicide in
having caused the death of a child which
had been adopted by herself and husband.
It wag shown before the Coroner's jury that
Mrs. Clinton had frequently administered
severe punishment for trivial offences, and
that on one occasion she and her husband
absented themselves an entire day from
their abode, leaving the child tied to a bed
post, in n dark bedroom. The guilty woman,
having been committed to the City Prison,
expressed deep contrition, and at length suf.
tered mental depression from constant dwell
ing upon the subject of her crime, and a day
or two since died of remorse.
EXECUTION OF THE OIHONDISTS.
BY JOAN S. C. ABBOTT
During the progress of the French
Revolution, there were two parties
which arose, and for a long time con
tested fin. the supremacy—the Girondists
and the Jacobins. The mob of Paris
was at the disposal of the Jacobins, and
sustained them in their most atrocious
measures. "We must," said Murat,
one of the leaders of the Jacobins,
"strike into the hearts of our foes. It
is our only safety." The Girondists at
tempted to arrest the progress of the
frightful masacres in which the Jacobins
were engaging. They thus exposed
themselves to the dangerous charge of
being in sympathy with the aristocrat.
The strife which ensued, a strife involv
ing life or death, was one of the most
terrible recorded in history.
Madame Roland was one evening urg
ing Vergniaud to rally the Girondist
party at every hazard to arrest the mas
sacres. "The only hope of France;"
said she, "is in the sacredness of the
law. This atrocious carnage causes
thousands of bosoms to thrill with hor
ror.. All the wise and good in France,
and in the world, will rise to sustain
those who expose their own hearts as a
barrier to arrest such enormities."
"Of what avail, was the sad reply of
Vergniaud, can such exertions he? The
assassins are supported by all the power
of the street. Such a conflict must ne
cessarily terminate in a street fight.—
The cannon are with our foes The
most prominent of the friends of order
are massacred. Terror will restrain the
rest. We shall only provoke our own
destruction."
For several days the strife raged in
the convention with the utmost intensity,
between the Girondists and the Jacobins.
The party which could obtain the ma
jority would surely consign the other to
the scaffold. M. Roland, the Girondist
Minister of the Interior, was a man of
great power, but Madame Roland, with
a brilliance of genius seldom surpassed,
prepared for him his speeches in the
convention. France recognized her mar
velous abilities; the one party regarded
her with adoration, and the other with
hate. Probably never before in the his
tory of the world has a woman occupied
such a position. It soon became evident
that the rage of the Jacobins would de
scend upon Madame Roland, and she
was urged to escape front Paris. The
heroic woman replied:
'I ant ashamed to resort to any such
expedient. I will neither disguise my
self nor make any attempt at street es
cape. My enemies may find me always
in my place. I owe my country an ex
ample of firmness and I will give it."
She remained in Paris, and soon per
ished upon the guillotine. The conven
tion consisted of eight hundred members.
Twenty-one of the most illustrious men
of France were considered leaders of the
Girondists. The Jacobins accused them
of treason, and overawing the members
of the convention by a mob, carried the
accusation and condemned them to
death. It was then voted that all Paris
should be illuminated in view of the tri
umph of the people. At midnight the
whole convention, in procession, trav
ersed the brilliant streets, leading, to
grace their triumph, the doomed Giron
dists. They were all then consigned to
the Conciargerie, there to await the final
trial. Summer came and went, while
illustrious men lingered in their dun
geons. With fortitude, the record of
which has enobled their memories, they
struggled to sustain each other to meet
that fitte which they knew could not bo
doubtful.
At length the hour of final triumph
came. With the most imposing military
ar►ayof infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
to guard against the possibility of any
counter revolution, the prisoners were
conducted in a long procession, two by
two, to the judgment bar. It ►vas tl►e
30th of October, 1793. At eleven o'-
clock at night the verdict was brought
in, and they were doomed to be led the
next morning to the guillotine. As the
sentence was pronounced, one of the
Girondists, Valanc, plunged his dagger
in his heart, and fell lifeless to the floor.
Another in the delirium of enthusiasm,
shouted: ''Tis is the most glorious day
of my life." It was midnight when the
victims were conducted back to the
Conciergerie. As they marched along,
their voices burst into the Marseillaise
Hymn, in tones which reverberated
through the corridors of the prison, and
echoed through the streets:
"Come, children of your country, come,
The day of glory dawns on high,
And tyranny has wide unfurled
Her blood-stained banner to the sky."
They were placed in one large hall,
and the lifeless body of their companion
was deposited in one corner. By decree
of the Assembly the remains of V alane
were to be taken, with the rest, to the
guillotine, and the ax was to sever his
head from the lifeless body, and all the
heacress trunks were to be interred to
gether. Some friends to the Girondists
Immediately sent to them a sumptuous
banquet, their final funeral repast. A
large oaken table was spread. Servants
entered witk brilliant lamp. The rich
est viands of meats mid wines were
brought in. Vases of flowers smiled
where flowers never bloomed before;
and the most costly dishes appeared one
after another until the board wag cov
ered with luxury and splendor.
In silence they took their places at
the table. They were all men of brill-
L ant intellect, and most of them eloquent.
A priest, Abbe Lambert, who had gain
ed admission, with his pencil noted
down their words, their actions, their
indications of heroism. The repast was
prolonged till the dawn fiintly entered
the grated windows. When the cloth
was removed, and the fruits, the wine,
and the flowers alone remained, the
conversation became animated, with
j occasionally bursts of gayety. A few
of the unbelievers in immortality en
deavored thus to meet their doom.—
But it was hilarity unnatural, and un
worthy of the men and their condition.
Death is not a jest, an J he who attempts
to so regard it does but dishonor to him
self.
"What shall we be doing at this time
to-morrow r asked Ducos.
"We shall sleep," responded one,
"after the tatignes of the clay, to wake
up no more. Death is but an endless
slumber."
, -No," rejobed Fonchet, "annihilation
is not our destiny. These bodies per
ish. These thoughts never die. To
morrow, in other words, we shall think,
feel, act. We shall have solved the
problem of the the destiny of the human
mind."
All turned to Vergniaud as by a com
mon impulse. His discourse was long,
and has been described as the most el
oquent which was ever uttered by hu
man lips. "Death," said he, in con
clusion "is the greatest act of life. It
introduces us to a noble existence.—
Were it not so, there would be some
thing greater than God. It would be
just man immolating himself' uselessly
and hopelessly for his country. No
Vergniaud is no greater than God.—
God will not suffer Vergniaud to-mor
row to ascend the scaffold but to justify
and avenge him in future ages.
As the light of day penetrated the
dungeon, some sought a moment's sleep,
others wrote a last line to friends, while
others gathered in groups for conversa
tion. At four o'clock the gens'd arms
entered with the executioners. The
long hair was cut from their necks,
that it might not impede the axe Gen
sonne picked up a lock and sent it to his'
wife, saying :
"Tell her that it is the only memorial
of my Live which I can transmit to her;
and that my last thoughts in death were
hei s."
Vergniattd scratched upon his watch
a few lines of tender remembrance, and
sent it to the young lady to whom, in
a few days he was to he married. Five
rude carts conveyed them to the scaf
fold. Each cart contained five persons.
The streets through 'Which the sad pro
ces-ion passed was thronged with count
less thousands. It was one of the most
splendid of October mornings. As the
carts moved the Girondists sang the
Marseillaise Hymn. At the end of each
verse there was a moment's silence, and
then the strain was renewed loud and
sonorous. Arrived at the scaffold, they
all embraced. They then resumed
their funeral chant. One after another
ascended the scaffold, continuing the
song till his head fiAl into the basket.
There was no weakness. No voice fil
tered ; on each succeeding moment, as
head atter head fell, the song grew
more faint. Vergniaud at last stood
alone. Long confinement had spread
a deadly palor over his intellectual fea
tures. He ascended the steps, the cho
rus having now died away into a solo
of surpassing richness. For a moment
be gazed upon the headless bodies of his
friends. He then, as he surrendered
!himself to the executioner, commenced
anew the strain—
"Come, children of your country, come,
The day of glory dawns on high."
The axe fell, and his lips were silent
in (loath. Titus periihe I Vie Gitornlsts.
Th e history of the Prewelt Revolution,
in an its sublime annals, has not a trag
edy more thrilling.
A Boy's Trials.
ILLS REGULATIONS Willi THE "OLD MAN."
We suppose the first severe trial a boy
has to undergo is to submit his will to
the old man, whom he is taught to con
sider his father. To be restrained in doors
at night, to be forbidden to go in swim
niing five times a day, or to be hindered
from pinching the rest of the children
just for fun, is an interference with mi
n ttural inalienable rights, everyway inju
rious to his feelings. And, then, when
upon some overwhelming temptation,
the boy asserts his independence of pa
ternal control and receives a tanning
with a switch from a quince bush upon
the back or bare feet, it really becomes
a very serious thing. We never could
see that the smart of an operation like
this was assuaged by the affectionate as
surance that it was bestowed out of pure
love.
TOE FURST LONG TAILED COAT
We do not think that any boy ever
put on his first long tailel coat without
a sense of shame. lie first twists his
back half off looking at it in the glass,
and then when he steps out of doors it
seems as it all creation was in a broad
grin. The sun laughs in the sky, the
cows turn to look at him; there are flees
at every window; his very shadow mocks
him. When he walks by he lo Jks up for
his life. The very boards creak with
consciousness of the strange spectacle,
and the old pair of pantaloons that stop
a light in the garret window nod with
derision. he is obliged to pass a group
of men - oye, the trial assumes its
most terrific stoge; his legs get all mixed
up with embarrassment, and the flap of
the dangling appendage is felt against
them, filo% ed by the wind of his own ag•
itation: he could not feel any worse,
were it a dish rag, to be worn by him as
a badge of disgrace. It is a happy time
for him when lie gets to church and sits
down with his c:)at tail under him ; but
he is still apprehensive with thinking of
the Sunday School, and wonders if any
of the children will ask him to swing
his long tailed blue.
GOING lIONIE WITH THE GIRLS
The entrance into society may be said
to take place alter boyhood has passed
away, yet a multitude take the initiative
before their hearts are presentable. It is
a great trial to a tender or a tough age.
For an overgrown boy to go to a door
knowing that there are a dozen of girls
within the knock or ring with an abso
lute certainty that in two minutes all
their eyes will be upon him is a severe
test of courage. To go before these
girls and make a satisfactory tour of the
room without stepping on their toes, and
then sit down and dispose of one's hands
without putting them into one's pocket,
is an achievement which few can boast.
If a boy can get so fir as to measure off
ten yards of tape with one of the girls,
and cut it short at one end, he may stand
a chance to spend a pleasant evening ;
but let him not flatter himself that the
trials of the evening are over. There
comes at last the breaking up. The
dear girls dawn their hoods and put on
their shawls, and look so saucy, so mis
chievous and unimpressible, as if they
did not wish any one to go home with
them. Then comes the pinch and the boy
that has the must pluck makes up to the
prettiest girl, his heart in his throat, and
his tongue clinging to the roof of his
mouth, and crooking his elbow, stamm
ers out the words "shall b see you homer
She touches her lingers to his arm,
and thus walk home about a foot apart,
feeling as awkward as goslings. As soon
as she is sate inside her own doors, he
struts home, and thinks he has really
been and gone and done it. Sleep conies
to him at last, with dreams of crinoline
and calico, mid ho awakens in the morn
ing and finds tha d ,ors of life open to
him, and the pigs squealing for break
fast. —Spring/0d
The Blood Red Sun.
The mnrky c mdition of the atmos
phere on Sunday and Monday was a
subject of general remark. The ob
scurity which it imparted to distant ob
jects was less than that of a fog, and
more than that of an autumnal haze.—
It was smoke, but so fine and fleecy
that there was no smoke in the air.—
Telegrams from remote points in the
State speak of the same phennoenon,
and attribute it to the great fire raging
in the northeastern forests. In some
places, miles from the scene of con
flagration, the smoke is so thick as to
eclipse the sun, and render candles nec
essary at mid-day.
Sabbath evening, while the sun was
still many degrees above the horizon,
the smoky medium through which he
was discerned gave to his disc a blood
red color. It was the arterial blood
tint, copied from nature more closely
them Solfi-ino dye. Ifts fierce rays
seemed to have been quenched in blood.
Every intelligent observer knew that
the long batik** tenuous smoke lying
close to the earth, and stretching away
for a hundred miles towards sunset,
wrought this change from tl.e clear sun
that had been throbbing out his white
light all day overhead.
And yet there was something strange
and awful in the sight. It was not
portent ; though to minds not fortified
against superstition, it might have pres
ented itself with all the thrilling force
of a sigh fl•oui heaven. Natural phen
omena which might have been explained
by scientific investigation upon grounds
as simple and natural as Sabbath's
blood-red suu, have, in former days,
passed for omens of terrible import.—
The "dark day" which occurred in New
England during the earlier part of the
present century was one of them.
The accounts which are handed down
to us of that remarkable phenomenon,
agree that the day was darker than was
ever known during a total eclipse.—
Neither was there any thick stnok' from
any forest tit.% nor any black overhang
ing thunder-clouds that presently broke
in rain. The event stands unexplained.
It caused a feeling of terror even among
persons of more than common intelli-
Bence.
The "falling stars" of 1833; the &-
mous auroral display of a few years later,
which turned the sky to a scarlet., and
reflected, with an awful sanguinary hue,
on the snow beneath; the eimet of 18-13
—were regarded by many as omens of
coining evil. Some thought they por
tended a great war;.o.tOrs, the end of
the world
Science explodes all such fantasies.—
But it is a proof of the element oT super
stition which still lurks in human nature,
and which not all our civilization can ex
pel, that the first thought which came
into the mind of the spectator. as ite
turned suddenly and saw that Wood-red
sun of the Sabbath, was of an omen.—
This thought being instantly rejected,
the next thDaght was of the painful an
alogy. ' which it afforded to the sun of the
Republic going down in a sea of blood.
A short time before, the solar orb.had
been high in heaven, giving light to the
world, the fount*: of joy for millions of
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 12.
human beings. Now, his glory was
near extinguished, and the scanty light
which he still cast, shed a lurid glare over
the earth more gloomy and oppressive
than night itself. '1 hank heaven! it
was not an omen; but only a startling and
painful suggestion drawn from a little
smoke clouding the sun.---Ar. Y. Journal
of Commerce.
Mr. Dicey, in his new book on Den
mark, gives this sketch of a thorough
old-fashioned Danish town called Seven
borg :
"Nestling in the centre of the Thor
senge is the town of Sevenborg. On
either side of it stretch the tideless wa
ters of the strait which leads from the
Store' to the 'Lille Belt ;' behind it
rises the low, sloping forest-like wood
ed shore of Taasinge. But, beautiful
as the position is, there is nothing in
the look of the town, seen from the wa
ter, to add to its picturesqueness. A
confused mass of low red-tiled roofs,
the high, whitewashed tower of the
parish church and a few lofty warehous
es—these are all the features that etch
your eye as you sail up towards the port.
When you enter within the town there
is not much to please a painter's eye.
The streets are narrow, winding and ir
regular, but there is little beauty even
about their want of symmetry. With
the exception of a few new stucco-dwell
ings of modern dimensions, the houses
are very small and very low. Even in
the main streets there are many houses
not more than one story high ; most of
them are plastered over with a sort of
gritty compost, such as you see used in
English •village cottages, painted pink
or slate color; windows are very plen
tiful, and the pains are very small ; each
house has stone steps before its door ;
gable ends and high-peaked roofs are
common ; of foot-walks, there are next
to none, and the pavements sre con
structed of round sharp stones, dread
ful to walk upon, and worse
_to ride
over. The shops are about of the same
stamp as you would find in a small
Eee , ,lish market town ; taverns are not
plentiful, and any place of public amuse
ment appears to be unknown. The
one charm about the place, to my mind,
consists in the exceeding cleanliness
and tightness of the dwellings—not a
brick is out of place, not a tile is loose
upon the roofs, not a pain of glass is
stuffed up with paper even in the poor
est houses. In the whole of Sevenborg
I have not seen a dwelling where a rich
man in England would be likely to live,
or where, as far as warmth and shelter,
and outward cleanliness is concerned,
any reasonable man would complain of
being forced to live.
“The same absence of marked con
trast between wealth and poverty is
visible in the look of the townsfolk.—
Everybody is decently dressed—no
body handsomely. Every woman, be
longing in any way to the well to do
classes, is in mourning—as is the case
over all Denmark—for the late King ;
common women wear white caps and
warm woollen dresses of sombre colors.
Crinoline has hardly made its way here,
and hats are but seldom seen. Mon
and boys wear cloth or fur caps, and
long brown coats, reaching down to
their heels. • Wooden shoes are very
common, and every body has a super
abundance of woollen comforts and
worsted mittens. Of private carriages
I Lave not met one about the streets ;
but then I have also not seen a single
beggar. I have spent most of my time
here in going round with my friend to
visit the different merchants and ship
pers with whom he has business con
nections. Everybody is friendly, every
hody is hospitable, and everybody takes
it unkindly if you and your friend
and your friend's friend, will not smoke
and drink at his expense, and shake
hands a score of times, with or without
the slightest provocation. To those
accustomed to English merchant life it
seems incredible that these homely,
shabby looking traders, with the air
and dress of elderly clerks not over
well-to do, can be men of capital, or
that business of any large amount• can
be transacted in these poky little dens
of officers. You go into a small room,
the whole furniture of which consists
of a deal desk, a safe and a couple of
rickety chairs, and are told to your sur
prise that all the vessels whose pictures
you see hanging upon the walls belong
to the firm, and are sailing in the Indi
an Ocean, plying between China and
Amsterdam, or Liverpool and Rio. Al
together, I felt as it I had got transport
ed Nick to the old fashioned English
traders whom you read about in Defoe's
works. Tho offices of the Sevenborg
merchants form part of their dwelling
houses. The sons are the fathers'
clerks, and everything is done . by the
principals themselves, from copying let
ters to accepting bills. Business ap
pears never to be at an end. From
daylight till late in the evening the tra
ders are hanging about their offices,
and, though the streets are empty by
nine, the shops are kept open till near
elevon•”
Pitoomm.—London is now connect
ed with Sidon and with Jerusalem by
Telegraph : How strange to see the
old Bible Lands invaded by modern
inventions and improvements. In an
other year our shores may be within
in
one day's ccinunicatiou with the
'Holy Land. A telegram dispatched
from Jerusalem at noon may reach as
before noon of the same day!'
rue, it.
A Danish Town.