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B. F. SCHWEIER, . , THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW3. . Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXIX. ' MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXNA., MAY 19; 1S75. NO. 20.
HOT LOST.
Tbe look of sympathy ; the gentle word
Soken so low that only angel beard ;
1 be secret art of pore self-sacrifice,
luttepfi by men, bat marked by angels' eyes ;
These are not lost.
The narred mtmic of a tender strain.
Wrung from a poet 'a heart by grief and pain.
And rusuted timidly, with doubt and fear.
To boxy crowds, wlio acareely pause to bear :
These are not I out
Tbe silent tears Uiat fall at dead of night
Over soiied robes, that ouee were pore and
white
1 be prayers tliat rise like inoeiute from tlie
souk
I bilging for Christ to make it clean and whole:
These are not lest.
The hippy dreams- that gladdened all our
youth.
When dreams had less of self and more of
truth ;
Tbe childhood's faith, so tranquil and so sweet.
Which eat like Mary at the Master's feet:
These are not lost.
The kind plans derised for others' good.
So seldom guessed, so little understood ;
The quiet, steadfast lore that strove to win
Some wanderer from the waya of sin :
These are not lost.
Not lout, O Lord ! for. in Thy City bright.
Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light.
And things long hidden from our gaze below
Thou wilt reveal, and we shall sorely know
These are not lost.
Tea Tbonnand s Year.
BY W. WATBKIDOE, ESQ.
When I was abont eighteen wears old
(I speak of a very distant period), I
used to go on Saturday afternoon,
daring tbe beautiful season, to spend
the Sunday with my mother, who lived
at V , some five miles from my place
of labor. I usually went on foot, and
was sure to find sitting nnder an old
oak on the route great fellow, who al
ways cried out to me in a squeaking
voice : "van you give a poor man a
little something, my good sir f"
He was pretty sure to have his appeal
answered by the clinking of a few
coppers in his old felt hat.
One day, as I was paying my tribute
to Anthony (for so he called himself),
there came along a good-looking gentle
man to whom the beggar addressed his
squeaking cry : "Van you give a poor
man a little something, my good sir f"
The gentleman stopped, and having
fixed his eye on Anthony a moment,
said : "Von seem to be intelligent and
able to work why do yon follow snch
a mean vocation here? I should be
right glad to draw you from it, and
give you ten thousand dollar a year .'"
Anthony began to laugh, and I joined
in with him.
"Laugh as much as you please," re
plied the gentleman ; "but follow my
advice and you'll have what I promise
you. I can show it to you also by ex
ample. "I have been as poor as you are ; but,
instead of begging, I made out of an
old basket a sort of sack, and went from
house to house and village to village
and asked the people to give me, not
their money, but their old rags, which
i then sold readily to the paper-maker.
"At the end of a year I did not ask
the rags for nothing, but paid the cash
for them ; and I had besides an old
horse and cart to assist me in my work.
"Five years afterwards, I had six
thousand dollars, and I married the
danghter of the paper-maker, who took
me into partnership with him. I was
but little accustomed to the business,
I co u fees, but I was young and active ;
1 knew how to work and to undergo
privation.
"Now, I own two good houses in the
city, and have turned my paper-mill
over to my son, whom I easily taught
to labor and to endure hardship with
out murmuring. Now, do as I have
lone, my friend, and you will become
as well oil as I am."
haying this, the old gentleman rode
u, leaving Anthony so absorbed in
thought that two ladies passed without
hearing bis old falsetto supplication ;
"dive a poor man a little something,
if yon please, to-day I"
Twenty years afterwards, I had occa
sion to enter a bookstore for some pur
chases. A large and well-dressed gen
tleman was walking through the store
and giving orders to some half-a-dozen
clerks. We looked at each other as
people do who, without being ac
quainted, seem to have some faint im
pression that they have met before.
"Sir," said he to me, at the further
end of the store, "were you not in the
habit twenty years ago of walking out
to V on Saturday afternoon ?"
"What! Anthony, is it you?" cried L
"Sir," replied he, "you see Anthony;
the old gentleman was right. He gave
me TEX THOCSAND DOLLARS A TEAR I"
. A Trtssly Boy.
A few years ago, ways a, New ori
paper, a large drug tirni in that city
advertised for a loy. Next day the
store was througed with applicants, and
among them came a queer looking little
fellow, accompanied by his aunt, in lieu
of faithless parents by -whom he hud,
tfa aLandoucd.
Looking at the little waif, the mer
chant in the store promptly said :
"Can't take him ; places are full, Be
sides, ha is Uk small," .
"I know he is small." said the woman,
1'lmt he is faithful and willing.-1
There was a twinkle in the boy's eye
which made the merchant th'uU again
A partner iq the tinu volunteered ta
remark that he did not see what they
wanted of such a boy ; he wasn't bigger
than a pint of beer, But, after consul?
tat ion, the boy was set to work.
A few days later a call was made on
the bovs in the store for some one to
stay all night. The prompt response
of the litUe fellow coutraated well -with
the reluctance o the others. In the
middle of the night the merchant looked
in to see if all was right in the atpre.
and presently discovered his youthful
protege busy scissoring laliels.'
"What are you doiug T" said he. I
did not tell you to work nights."
"1 know you did not tell me to ; but I
thought I might as well be doing some
thing." In the morning the cashier got orders
to double that boy's wages ; for he was
willing. ,
Oulva few weeks elapsed before a
show of wild beasts passed through the
streets, and, very naturally, all hands
in the store rushed to witness the spec
tacle. A thief saw his opportunity, and
entered a rear door to seize something,
but in a twinkling found himself hrnily
clutched by the diminutive clerk Rtqro
said, anl after a struggle was captured
ot only a roliliery was prevented,
but yaliiiihle articles taken from other
storesrecovered. When sK.e4 .olwj-9
merchant why he stayed behind, to
watch when the others quit their wort,
the reply was. "'you told me never to
Uave the store when others were ab
sent., and 1 thought I'd stop."
"Ihiuble the bov's waires;" said the
merchant, "he's willing and faithful."
In 1'7 that boy was receiying a
salary of 2..Hnt, and in 19 he became
a juirtner in the establishment.
TOLD AT NIGBTFAI.U
It was a stomiv Seritenilwr
Guy I'requehart and my resisted self
umies .iungHione. painter were
sitting in the studio window of his de
lightful little villa, at Frasrati, near
Borne, high over the rounded tops ot
woods now luriil in the red setting sun.
lieneath a leaden sky the gloomy Cam
paima stretched like a tlead sea, and
with its far riai cut the disc, a poi teu
tons blood-red baH, slowiy slowly-sinking.
Guy and I had lieen old friends and
school-fellows in Kngland. He wan two
or three years older than myself, but
that had niade his fellowship for me all
the tenderer, and mine for him reveren
tial. Besides I had looked on Guy as a
kind of genial young saint." I had
always felt rather wicked in his com
pany, because he really seemed, quite
naturally, never to do anything wrong-,
or to have so much as a wrong thought,
lie would have chosen art as his pro
fession, I know, had he been allowed a
voice in the arrangement of his own
future; but the bilious old father who
ruled his destiny made a civil engineer
of him, without the slightest reference
to any possible fancy or protest of the
lad's. Naturally, he did uot take kindly
to the work, though he buckled to it
conscientiously.
When I came to Italy to stHdy art,
Guy and I kept np a pretty brisk cor
respondence for about a twelvemonth.
But in my second Italian summer his
letters suddenly ceased to arrive. I
wrote to him in vain hope of answer
for six months, and then let the corres
pondence go with a sigh. j
I easily ascertained that he was alive
and well, but could find out nothing
else alout him that was more Tellable,
than the gossip retailed out by certain
English military men, who had thinned
their lazy Might across flie sea one
winter and perched in Home. "(Jot into
a scrape atout a woman, and didn't
behave well to her. orsomethinerof that
sort," drawled out one of these amiable
gentlemen. And this was all that I
could discover about lKXr L'rquehart.
But at last I heard from Guy himself
once more. Lo! he had inherited a
small fortune from a distant relation :
he had thrown civil engineering -over-board;
he was coming to Kome forth
with to study art id earnest at last : and
we must spend the ensuing summer in
Villcgg-iatura together, eating tigs at
Tiisculum. At the time my story be
gins, he had been about six weeks in
IUiine. and had already Daintcd one or
two capital little pictures.
Xo village in the world drives such a
roaring trade in scandal as grand old
Home. You have seen how L'rquehart's
character went before him, as Sir I'eter
Teazle's stayed liehind. for the comfort
of the community, and what merry it
met with. .Now, when circumstances
are served np in this mixed up way,
there are generally certain facts which
one may trace like pebbles through
disturbing waves. I felt convinced
that I should do so in l'rquehart's rase,
if ever it pleased him to give ne his
commence.
But I could not try to thrust nivself
into any chamber of his past not freel v
opened to me. I could not help guess
ing that there was a shut and locked
door, liehind which lurked the solution
of a mystery. This mystery was the
great and grievous change in m v friend,
not to be accounted for by the mere
lapse of two or three years. And this
change was all the more remarkable
that it was not always obvious. No
two men could le more nulike than
Lrquehart to Urouehart in different
moods. It seemed to me as if much
evil had flowed into his heart by some
rent w here much good had run out.
On this September eveuing. as we sat
together. Guy had been muttering some
very bad sentiments, which would have
grieved me more if I had not attributed
them in part to some unripe peaches
and the state of his stomach.
"Gny." said I suddenly. "I've found
a key to much that makes people gasp
and stare at you."
"V hat do you mean I ' returned lie
rather roughly.
.Most persons," 1 went on, are half
angel, half devil, they say. But your
angel and devil seem to share their
lodgings on the ntoct curious terms of
mutual forbearance. They seem to
take yon turn and turn about, in
watches as it were. Yonr angel never
torments your devil, or interferes with
his mode of enjoying himself, his Wal
purgis night with his man: and your
devil, with equal politeness, never in
trudes himself on the angelical prayer
meetings. They could not possibly
come in contact without disturbing the
harmony of the system ; but they seem
to agree to diner, like certain pouie
married couples." . ; : , , I
l'rquehart took his pqtc from his
mouth, and blew, out a long smoke
wreath. Then lie leaned bead and I
shoulders out of the window, and stared
far away at the sun, now like a clot ot
blood on the lived horizon, till even the
crimson speck was absorbed. Then he
brought himself bark to his former
position in a corner of the ricketty old
sofa, and from that dnsky corner spake.
" ou hooked a tine flat nsti there, my
young friend, with vonr moral critical
line. Your sagacity really deserves
pattin? for having snapped up snch a
good head of game. Still, yon don't
know how the devil got into me; how
should you t He bad hardly set claw
on your friend when we were lioya to
gether, and 1 rather the better boy ot
the two.0
"Ten way well say that old fellow !
At that time tand what a little while
ago it is after all !) you really seemed
incapable of evil, or even of compre
hending it. ' Yo.ii trusted everybody
implicitly, because you yourself were "
An ass I" roam Un.uehart. r "And
now listen.1'
So, as the night fel, aud "the case
ment slowly grew A glimmering square"
in the blackness, l'rquehart's tale was
told. . .
''Fourteen months ago, I was lodging
for the summer in a farm house in a
village, no matter where. The ouly
house there belonging to gentlefolks,
except the wretched old parsonage, was
Squire KingwoodV It was a big
stupid-looking mansion, on a hill star
ing down overbearingly at the poor
little tenements huddled together tie
low ; and the burly squire himself was
for all tlie world like his house, as he
sat on his tall horse, and looked down
pompously over his vast waistcoat at a
frightened crew of village children.
The squire had an ugly, sickly-wife and
daughter, and they had an humble
companion that wag an angel of beauty.
I fell in love with her at chumh. tli,
the church in the west country, bid in
the bowerv orchard hollow ! Oh, the
sudden delicious gust that littered the
graves with blossoms! your mother s
grave, Charley; has the dear woman
the violets I planted there ! or did they
die like the faith and hope she set in
met I fell in love with Fanny ale
before I knew the name; I learned that
from the farmhouse folks with whom 1
lodged. heytaTd me, moreover, that
she was a young widow, and stiU In
weeds when site came t lodge Very
hurnbly in tiie village six months be
fore tliat the squire' wife and daugh
ter had taken a fancy to her, and had
adopted her into their family, as a kind
of reader and usefnl companion of all
work. I made her acquaintance by a
note which 1 threw at her feet oyer a
hedge the first time I spied he? waiting
alone. I need not cwear to you that I
never bad an evil wish or thought almut
her. To me a woman was a holy thing,
desecrated hy no lowness of condition,
deserviug of any man's love and rever
ence, if endowed with certaiu qualities.
1 lii-se qualities 1 now took ou trust,
and, iM'iug entranced by her teauty,
saw also the perfection of moral loveli
ness in her face. Such an angelic face,
Charley ! There she sat lu the squire's
jew, iM-siue ner Uirly patroness, with
such intelligence in her melancholy
blue eye and fair half moon of brow,
such a breathing sensibility . in her
silence ; and when I came to know her,
what sympathy in her smile, what
silken manners, so stiff, graceful, car
essing, yet modost and full of dignity !
She did uot answer uiy note ; but when
I went to the copse behind Kiugwood
house, where 1 had implored her to
meet nie she was there. She came,
she said, only to beg me to come, and
write, no nioie. She was a poor de
pendent, and the least suspicion falling
on her would cast her homeless and
friendless upon the world. I will not
dweJl on this stale love story; it was
perfectly comprehensible of "its kind,
except that the dupe nas not for once,
the humble beanty, but the gentleman
fnm London. She consented to be
my wite; and at the summer's end
without asking her a single qnestiou as
to her past, without knowing more of
it than the farm folks volunteered to
tell me the first d:iyl saw her, 1 brought
the girl to Loudoii. and married her.
That's what came of being too good for
this world, incapable of evil, or the
comprehension of it. ' I had written to
tell father ot my intended marriage to
(I frankly confessed) perfectly obscure
and iK-uuiless youui; woman, that had
of course everything but position and
wealth to recommend her. I wrote a
respectful letter which 1 received back
in a blank rover. Yet mr heart yearned
to the cross grained old man, and from
the glory and jov of my fool's paradise
I emerged voluntarily. In-fore the
honeymoon was over, to seek a recon
ciliation w ith my father.
When I got to his door ho drove me
away like a beggar, like a strange dog,
with hi.-- lilted stick, with Ins moulli
lull of curses. That is the last
ist 1 ever
saw of him. He died, six months alter
implacable.
I hurried back to town, to be con
fronted by the angel of my house. I
retnrned sooner than I was looked for.
I opened the door by a latch key, and
went softly up stairs to surprise my
wife. It was alumt two iu the alter
noon. Our little drawing room had
folding doors, which were now ajar.
Xo one was in the front room, but 1
heard I heard my wife's voice iu the
other. I heard her voice and a man's.
I had but to step forward, and 1 saw."
It was quite dark by this time, and
here the voice that had come out of
I roiieliarts black corner suddenly
broke into an awful sob.
"Don't go on," said I much distressed.
"Let me alone," gasped l iqiichai t, !
savagely. j
In less thau a minute he resumed,
steadily.
"1 saw my wife with her arms round
entreating mm not to leave tier: lie was i
tryiug to release himself. 1 he next I
moment they saw me, and started I
apart. Then instantly my wife, that I
tender angel. Hung herself at me like a
w ild cat. She did not scream, but
through her shut teeth, she said, "I'll j
kill you, 111 kill you, if you touch him !" j
Her blue eves glared much like yonder I
blue lightning that keens Hashing out I
there, and something glittered close to
my face. She had snatched up her j
scissors and I verily Is lu ve would
have dug them into mv temple if the
nun, ner ioer, nan noi ronie ami ;
pulled down her hand. Site was going
to fall into his arms again, lint he put
her from him, not very gently, and told
her to sit down. She ols-yed him in
stautly. I cannot in the least describe
my state of mind all this time, which
was only a minute or two, 1 suppose.
My impression is that I had ceased to
feel ; that if my brain and heart had
been 8coocd out, I could not have been
emptier of emotion and thought; that
1 was not conscious of any vindictive
rage, or any transort of despair. Some
IM-ople may think 1 ought to have
kicked that u.au down stairs. I neither
did so, nor felt any desiie to hurt him.
It was he who took the initiative, and
made me a sign to go into the front
room with him, which I did. Then,
when 1 stood there face to face with
him, I said suddenly, aud, as it were,
iu voluntarily
"Who are voul"
"I am sorry for you," said lie in a
gentle drawl, looking at me quite com
passionately ; "this woman has treated
you very badly. SUI I, you know, von
have only yourself ts thank. Your
conduct has really been quite incon
ceivably rash, you kuow "
"Who are vou f" I repeated, stu uig
at him bluntly. ;
"I am Captain Edward llingwood
This woman isaii actiess, with whom I
Is-came acquainted about a year or two
Ix-fore you flrst saw her. I assure you
I knew nothing of your love affair or
pnqioseil marriage. If 1 had known it
iu time, I should certainly have con
sidered it mv duty tu warn you of the
awful bluuder you were making. When
I wetit abroad with my rcgiu.ent, it
seems she chose to go down and wrig
gle herself into my family- What her
motive was 1 can't imagine. She is a
most artful, dangerous jK.rson that is
clear. She saw tuy return to Kngland
in the patH-rs yesterday, ami sent me to
come and seelicr at this address, which
I did. I give you my won! of honor I
had not Ih-cii here ten minutes when
you made your appearaiMt. She has
just toU! t.i ft she'wils married, and this
was your house; upon which 1 got up
and wished her good day." .
By this time I had found myself nn
able to Ktand aud was sitting on the
sofa with my head between my hands.
When Captain Uingwood left oil' sneak
ing, 1 looked np, meaning to nay some
thing, but forgot what it was and only
stared at htiu silently.
He was' a fair, slight young man,
alxmt thirty, with handsome, tl. in fea
tures and large, light-brown whiskers.
He stood there looking at me with the
same goal natured concern in his face
that he had expressed ia words in his
faakiouablc, allotted way. : - -
At last I recollected what I had been
going to say, and told him 1 w isluxlto
lie left alone. He silently took out his
card, laid it on the chimney-piece, and
went out
I don't know how many hours I re
mained lying on the sofa, with my eyes
shut, in that strange torjior; but it was
night When l'oeiied thuui, ai:d found
my wife standing by me. She had
lighted the candles on the chimney
piece, and was stooping down over me.
She started upright as my eyes opened
but she did not avoid them. SLe con
fronted me, arching back her hyrpth
like figure and leaning one uand ou a
table liehind bet-. I felt no emotion at
sight of her', but looked at her as if she
had been' a'rietnre. Her beauty was
splendid.- All her fair golden hair was
turned off her white face in a sort of
glittering aureola. Her great turquoise
til lie eyes Hared nnder slightly con
tracted brows; the nostrils of her deli
cate, straight nose and her infantine
mouth expressed rage aud pain.
"I am glad you are awake," said she :
"I want you to hear me say 1 hate you!"
"I don t care,1 said 1, wearily, ,"t;o
away " . . . -
Her face tlamed oat with the fury
that was burning her heart.
"Hut you do care !" she fried ; "yon
shall care ! I tell you I always laughed
at you and despised you. 1 only mar
ried you frro pique liccansc he left
me. I got into his family, and toadied
them, and made myself their servant,
only to hear ot him. and to feel nearer
liini, and le where he had leen I love
him so! 1 love no one else in the
world I never did. " I would Kill yon,
and a dozen like you. to save him from
a tingerache, 1 would rather a thou
sand times have a blow from him than
a kiss from you a hundred million
times! When 1 think of him. ami that
you are U-tween us, 1 hate you 1 abhor
yon! How dare you smile at me T I'll
kill vou.r .i ,
"1 was quite unconscious of smiling,
hut she darted at me and struck at my
throat. 1 caught her hand ; this time
she had a penknife in it. and I felt that
she had pricked nie. That instinctive
act of self defence roused me, and
probal'lv saved my wits as well as my
life. When I had mastered her, and
throwuthe kuifeaway, 1 held her hands
in mine till she put down her face and
bit them savagely. I tied her wrists ,
with my pocket handkerchief, and she
sank panting on a chair. All of a
sudden the unhappy creature burst out
crying as if her heart was broken as it
well might lie. 1'iolial'ly kiugwood's
cool treatment of her th'ronglnnit the
interview recently passed was at the
liottom of that frenzy of vit npeiation,
that desperate behavior toward me.
She did uot hate me, but was i-implv
mad with pain, and raved and struck
out in her delirium. I think she really
liked me nheii she married me, not
withstanding her assertion to the con
trary, and meant and wished to lend a
new life ; but the sight of Kiiigwood's
name in the papers and the knowledge
of bis nearness, in my absence, revived
her passion for him, in which her good
resolutions burnt like straw. I re
leased her hands, and brought water
and put it to her lips; and when she
was iptiet through exhaustion, 1 ad
vised her to lie down, and hoped she
would go to sleep. As 1 was leaving
the room, she called me back, in a low
I broken voice, and when 1 stood beside
incsoiaon wuicu sue lay, sue joineu
!" ' nanus, ami asweu nie, uiin si ream
ing eyes, to lorgtve her. 1 did so
freely, i if course Kingwood was I ight,
1 had no one but myself to thank. My
infatuation had been so monstrous that
1 could no mole complain of tiie con
sequences than a man, solier, can com
;.V..i ,. r ... K""lu-
drunkcii lol i.
-I.:.. . 1 f
iii no, iiiomiiiKi iook runny away io
a farmhouse in Kent, a place she knew , -
i Ti h rTlra u:
jas q met and humble, and apparently ;
broke.i-sp.ntcd. I ,t she did not re- .
ma there a month ; i.or do l know ;
vh.tlier she went, or where she i';"
been ever s i.ee. helore she left i
wrote me a long letter expressing her ,
remorse at her Is ,-miv or toward im-: '
I .ad as I am," ended she, "I will never ,
trouble you more. I do implore you to
lie sure of that, and to forget me, or !
think of me as dead.r j
1 am afraid to think of her at all. 1 ;
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" l hat's all." added rrqn. hart, after !
i moment's pause : "and there's !
listoryof yourfiiMid and the wife nl :j
.is bosom ; mid if you si ill wonder how ,
I
h
or wtieu my devil got into me, 1 lion t.
. . " . . .
I oeiicve you love nie enongu-to Hunt
lie is not so lilack a devil as lie is
painted. 1 nin not the kind of man in
whose heart such a gash could be made
and heal, and leave no mark. For a
long while this wot Id seemed, and often
!I,M ' r''i,"-v; ;,n mierno; no imig
hut plunging and breaking one s heart
"J a swamp of Build ing, witii intervals
"', r " ".,';
ocspo.r.- j k uai icy : now i isueu ,."-"'-"- -"-.r -. -your
mother had Ueu alive! I wanted jcilix was erected in memory of the mnl
some kind woman, that was honest and , titudes of Christians who suffered mar-
pure, about me: we men all do in our
dark hour. Htmla! let us go down to
thedrawiug room, aud our friends and
the lamp. Bv .love what a Hash!
there s a mighty storm brew in
voiingj
j
u now."
An
KpiKOde or the
I lorence.
Siege r
This period of the strife om-iici1 n it Ii
a chivalrous incident. I.udovico Mar
telli and liiovauui I'andini had 1-ccn
conspicuous among the ardent youths
who took part in the lirst revolutionary
movements, flic latter was the Admir
able t'richton of his sphere, and as a
natnral consequence of his extra allow
ance of brains his republicanism cooled
with the progress of events, until he
was now, ith many another high-horii
Florentine, in arms against the city.
Not so his friend, who had developed
into one of the wildest of tlie democrats.
Iu neit her case, however, was this diver
gence altogether the result of political
convictions. The preference of the
lieautifnl Marin Kicci had something to
do with it. She was an ardent, i'al
Icschi, aud, then-fore, the two suitors,
particularly the rejected one, Martelli,
took opposite sides with a little more
fervor than they might otherwise have
shown. The lady iem;sjnnd in tin-city.
a.iJ Martelli, very uuwisijy, omitted
no opportunity of seeing her. Ou one
of these occasions she treated him to a !
set homily on the numerous in-rfci tion
of Bandiui, dwelling es; lally on his
knightly accomplishments . "1 hoie
soon to shew you that I am not so inte
rs J" to him even in these things as yon
seem , to siipjiose,'' replied Martelli.
Next morning a challenge, drawn up in
proH-r form, wasdi:i).atched with a tlag
of truce to Bandiui. It was accepted
by the hitter w ith a reluctance that did
him no discredit, and, after a tedious
negotiation, the details of the duel were,
arranged. It was to take place on
Saturday, the T-'th of March, to lie a
tight ot two against two. tlie weapons
swords the manner on foot, and the I
l - "I. II
Prince of Orange to provide and keen
the lists. The last consisted of an
inclosnre of sufficient size, divided into
two by a roiie stretched across it, for it
was agreed that the parties were uot to
assist each other iu the tight. At the
appointed hour the champions made
their appearance, and were led into the
i tamp Wo with all the nsnal minute
forms Martelli was accompanied by a I
I 1. 1.1! - - l' A '
pronounced Kepuulican of mature
years, Dante C&stiglionc : and Bandiui
had for a friend a mere youth, one of
the pupils of the sculptor LI Piftero.
Kach had his head bare, was clad iu
hose and shirt, the latter having the
right sleeve cut off at the elbow, and
wore an iron gauntlet on the right hand,
liaudiai had provided tbe wcatxins and
the challengers were allowed the lirst
choice. The former bending back his
blade, as if to prove it, snapped it iu
two between his fingers. A dis;?n.e
arose, Baudiui's friends pressing to
have the broken weapon, ic-phu ed, and
Martelli's opposing ihe proimsition as
against the laws aud usages of the
duello.; aud as the umpires allowed it
U be correct, Bandiui w as compelled to
tight with the stiiiup.Tlietwoclivouutcrs
iH-gau at the same moment, but that
between the seconds was the first deci
ded. Tho young artist immediately re
ceived two wounds one on the sword
arm and the other ou the face. , Then
he quickly repaid with three, one of
them a severe one through the right
arm. J he advantage was now w ith mm
forCastiglionewascomiN-lled to gr;t-.p '
Ins sword with lioth hunds. Uut the l
youth lost his temper, made a blind
rnsh, and teceived a 'terrible thrust,
whiii: isbop-ated through the month to
tlie hraiu. He screamed, dropped his
weapon, and falling headlong, rolled
over and over in agouv, being removed
from the lists to die the same evening.
Castiglione turned to see iiow the bat
tle went with his friend. It was a sick
ening sight. Martelli rushed blindly
at Bandini; the latter sprang aside and
cut him over the head. This was rep
eated many times. M artel I i next gras
ped his antagonist's sword, who drew
it through his lingers gashing them
fearfully. He then att tempted to par
ry Banditti's strokes with his left arm;
and so the tight went on nntil he was
covered with wounds and blinded with
blood. As a last effort he planted the
hilt of his weapon against his breast and
rushed ilcsjicratcly forward. But Bau-
dmi easily avoided the onslaught, and
dealing linn a last stroke over the head,
called on him to surrender. .Martelli had
no alternative; he simke the fatal word
anil was earned away even more woun
ded iu mind than body. As for his an
tagonist, he received only two slight
hurts. sua
The lady paid one visit to the defeat
ed champion; Imt.as she had been com-IH-Ued
to take this step much against
her will, it did more mischief than good.
Three weeks after, .Martelli died.
Ono on each side having fallen, the
victory was ascribed to neither a deci
sion that soielv puzzled the sncrsti
tious who hail looked upon the duel
from the lirst assyuibolicof the waraud
its issue. The CornHIl Magazine.
Diking la Itl!aal.
In Hutch drainage-work the dike is
a very impoi taut elemeut. These vary,
of course, according to the circum
stances under which they are required.
I n the North Sea coat, where they
are built to withstand tides rising teu
icct lieyond t heir average, and, lashed
by storms they conlitute a work of
stupemliiusiuagnitudc anil cost. In the
case of a polder of a few acres, they
may be the work of a single man.
Occasionally in their construction
serious engineering difficulties are pre
sented: especially is this the case where
the dike is to lie constructed in the
wafer. Ifcie the two sidesof the foun
dation, which must reach, from the
solid earth to the sui -face of the water,
are made by great rafts of fascines made
ot willow osiers, often from inotol'H)
yarils square, suoug'y secured together,
and making a compact mass. These
are floated over the place they are in
tended to occupy, where they are
guided by poles sunk in the bottom,
and are loaded with stones or with
eaith until they sink. I pon this first.
' n IU UT'lll III'
a second and smaller one, and often a
! third, and even a fourth, alwavs de-
i ,.,.., : :,, ;.. ,.,. . ,, :,
space lietwecn the two walls is
tilled with solid earth, and on the top
f thu s,.(.lre fl,un,,ati((ll tlie (Uke i's
h if ,lt. dike is to remain exH,s, d
u mnit f, ,
Iole,..d by jetties, or by mason-work,
J,r ,v wattles placed upon its slope. ,n
, ;(U ? , k k f '
? tlIls, -s r sometimes I .y brick walls.
Srrih.rr lr May. '
J
Tlie Kuiiiau t'elomeuui.
In 1S13 some extensive, excavations
. wur(J jn tho Co,0i8eum at ,.jme
j with the
of ascertaining what
nT". "Win might ext-t
a'.d whether tiie wild beasts were kept ,
t'"'rp- These excavations disclosed a
cumber of covered nuder-ground pas-
1 sages uu was reasonably awmimeu
; . 1 . i ii ,
, niai tue oeasts were conuoea mere i
previous to their introduction into the I
arna. O.-teusiblr in Consequence of ;
the nialttiia supposed to have been en
gendered by exposing these ancient
ptssages, but no doubt chiefly in order
i to re-establish tbe holy stations and
; tiie crncifix iu the centre of the Colos
; seum, the ex "avated places were filled
I nn .;nl. fnlWm m Th. .rn.
tyrdoni iu the arena dnriug the second
and tiiird centuries. The holy stations
or chapels, erected arouud the edge of
the ar i,a. marked the singes of the I
',i f Vmojj, the dovotional exorcise ofj
the HcuiHU Catholic Church eommemo-!
rat.ve of Christ's progress to the scene I
of the crucifixion. These devotions:
are still performed in the Colosseum i
t- i i I
oj 1 rid..y of each week.
-" "' "
r.iuuK .. .,.r ..iu,...,
no uw. iuiug ou sfiuu, uia bun M i' .1 n
will probably not have the power of in
terrupting them again. .
It' I fl.ul Bat Utile Nail.
Mire upon a time, a lady, whom we
knew, liudii.g a beggar at her door,
gave him a meal of entice, meat, and
bread mid butter; which he sit dowu
iu the area to cat. A moment after
wards, however, lie rapped lieseccli
inglv at the door again, and on its
being opened, remarked, with his hand
upon his heart :
"If I had but a little salt I should be
perfectly happy."
if course iie got the salt. He was
more easily made happy than most
people.
Human nature is always sitting down
to some Isiuutiful repast or other with
the siiiue rema
k. It would lie liannv
if it had bnt a little' salt, which, alas!
is uot always forthcoming.
Youth would be glad to be youth if it
only had the salt of Wealth. YVcallh
would rejoice could youth sot urn to add
a avor to it.
l.ove could go gloriously' into its
earthly paradise on so much a year. So
much a year would know what bliss
means had it but love,
The childless mother looks from her
gn at plate-glass window, and envies
the poor woman with the baby wagon.
Tho poor woman w ishes for the plate
glass windows to keep the baby iu.
i ne-great, riuiuy iarnier pines c
cause he has no fame or position. The
t . r .1 1
famous man longs for the lusty frame
of the Li ruier. . .
A Peculiar ( onvcjaui r.
A Florida correspondent s.-iys: '-f
wonder if a di-seriitioii would serve an
artist as a model for :l sketch of a style.
equipage much in layor lit lorid.i
.fust imagine a small, -hort cart, iien-hed
. . . - . 1
Dlgn oti two wheels.-ilmwn i- a cow
than nhii h the 'lean kiuu' ill Pharaoh's
drenni were never leanerso degradist
and miserable tlmt all hair sr.-i.nls up
the wrong way (the representative cow
has generally lo-t one (torn and the
iinM of her taili. and then then- i-.
curled ujMiu tlie floor of the cart an old
colored woman, extremely dilaidats
as to i-o-tiime, smoking the stump of a
i-iK, and one or two ji.ung women iu
front, will, a man, w bore remarkable at
tire is mnn picturesque than servicea
be, sitting on the shafts driving. This
conveyance, animal and all. appears to
be peculiar to Florida ; certainly I have
never sccu anything like it elsewhere,
and it would Is; quite as striking iu a
picture as the group of gyp-ies that
painters are so fond of." '
ti tle iteming in Russia.
In past ages the Russians were very
mncli distinguished as wife beaters, and
Purchase went &o far as to say that, "if
in Mitsfuvy'the women are not beaten
caii a month, they will not be. good.
anu inereiore mey iook ror it weeKiy;
and the women say, if their husliand's
did not beat tueui. they should not love
them." This seems incredible, but,
singularly enough, Mrs. Atkinson, in
one ot the moot rc-cut works on Russia,
con funis this, statement.
A little girl wanted to say that she
had a fan, but had forgotten w hat it
was called ; so she descriUil it as '-a
tbin to bru-h the w arm all oft" w ith."
Picture Belter Thaa Storied.
We are constantly endeavorin;; to im
press iion our readers the advantage
w hich a picture oaesses, either a.s a
direct substitute for verbal description
or as explanatory of the same. A rough
sketch will, in uine ca-es out of tea,
convey one jHTson's idea b another
more clearly than pages of Ialsirwl.
w ritteii details; and this is why we ak
people who send us questions alsnit
machines, or mathematical or mechani
cal problems, to use their pencils as
.illicit as possiltle; while we counsel
others who cannot sketch to acquire
some knowledge of that very useful
aceompli-lnueiit. Time is a very valu
able commodity; and the mechanic or
professional man, whise leisure time is
ecldoiu great, has little liking for poring
over a long description when half a
dozen lines, in the form of a sketch, will
enable him to seize the gist of the idea
iu perhaps as many seconds. This is
one of the reasons why we advise the
inventor, w ho has a new idea to show to
the world, to exhibit it by a picture
liei.ever iiossihle, ami to distribute
that picture widely among the s-ople
whom his production U likely to in
terest. The value of pictures, or rather their
superiority over words story teller,
is exii llenil v illustrated by a couple of
Incidents which we find related in a
foreign coutcniporary. In a village in
India, recently, it became liei-essary in
the course of some engineering iqwra
tions to tr:iusMrt an enormous mass of
inelal, weighing several hundred tons,
from one h. hit of the town to another.
Ordinary means were out of the ques
tion; ami as the engineers found them
selves unable to devise any process, they
did the next hen thing and wrote to
oilier engineers ill Kngland who were
constantly sniM-rvising such work. The
latter, instead of w riting out nice large
pages of foolscap, lieaiitil'ully embel
lished with tJreek letter for.nnhe ai"l
red ink, quietly waited until the next
big piece of metal hich thev had to
transMrt offered a favorable opMrtu
nity. Then they prepared a earners,
and photographed every step of the
operation, together with all the tools
and appurtenances and forwarded the
prints from the negatives to India.
These the engineer. in the far-off coun
try followed, and with liltlo dilKeulty
ac ei.iiipli-ln d llu ir ta-k. .
Another iiistauee is that of a bridge,
also to lie constructed in India but not
yet completed. This work involves the
placing of very heavy weights ami cer
tain ililliciilties incident to the rapid
change of level of the water to lie
crossed. At the present time just such
another bridge is in procv-s of erection
iu London, and the assistance of photi
graphy is again called in. As the I-on-don
bridge advances toward completion,
photographs are constantly made; and
so when the Indian engineers begin
,,1(.ir w)rk t,..r ,
in iMis-ie-i-n.il
id' a ct of guides of invaluable ai-t-
: m e to them.
Kalea It WpelHig.
.,-,. r,,,,,,,,., rilI,.4 sIllll(, H. ,.ar,.
fv eoniniill.sl
to
memory as llu
u ;n 1 1...!
i,,,,,,, ,.,.r,.
..it:,t jn mIh.oi the spelling of common
ttrds hich is treamei.tlv exis rieni eil
them
even liy lie well-educated.
Ititle I. All monosyllables ending in
I. with a single vowel U-fore it, have
double I at the close, mill. sell.
Itule II. All monosyllables ending iu
I. with a double vowel Is? fore it, have
one 1 only at the close; as wail. sail.
Bute III. Moiio-yllaMcs ending ill I.
when eiHiiMiindiid. retain but one I
each; as fulfil, skilful.
Bute IV.-S-All words of more than
one yllahle ending in I. have oiip I
only ill the clo-e: as faithful, delightful
except recall. Iiefall. unwell. Ac.
Bub' V. All derivatives from word-
"u ' u:" . '""' ;.-., "I"'"'"
'""''.'f1 '.! p
'"' rr or ,v: a" """ "r5
lull, f nil -
Bule V l.-All participle-i ing from
verlh. ending iu e, Ioom the e final
as
bjvt.! having: amuse, amusing:
exi-pl
they come trom vcrlis ending in doiilile
e, and then they retain IhmIi: as -ee,
seeing; agree, agrwing.
Bule V II. All verlis iu Iy,aud l.o.n.s
iu ii.ent retail, tl.ee final of their prim
al Ives ; as brave, , bravely : refinement ;
except judgment, .ickliow ledgellieut.
Bule VIII. All derivatives from
words ending in er retain the e liefore
the r; as refer, referent; except hind
rance from hinder; reuienilirance fro...
ri-meiulicr; disastrous from disaster;
monstrous from monster; wondrous
from wonder; cumbrous from ciiiiiIm t,
Ac.
Bule IX. All ctM.iounil words, if
Im.iI. end not in 1, retain their primitive
parts entire; as millstones, chargeable,
graceless; t-Ki-ept always, also, deplora
ble, alt hough, almost, admirable, Ac.
Bule X. All moi.iisyllal.les ending ill
a consonant, with a single vowel before
it. double that consonant iu derivatives;
as sin, sinner, ship, shipping, big,
bigger, glad, gladder, tic.
; Bule XI Mouo-yllahlfs ending in a
consonant w ir la a double vowel U-fore
if, do not double the consonant in derivative-;
as sleep, sleeping, troop.
tioH-r.
Bule XII. All words of more thai,
one syllable ending in a single conso
nant, preceded by a single vowel, and
accented ou the la-t syllable, double
that consonant in derivatives; as com
mit, commiltev ; c.iin l, compelled; ap
p:il, appalling: distil, distiller.
Bule XIII. Nouns of one syllable
ending in V, change y into ies iu the
plurai ; and verbs ending in y preceded
by a consonant, change y into ies in the
third -rson singular of the present
tense, audie in the juist tense and ia--t
participles; as fly, flies; 1 apply, he a
plies: 1 replied, ur have replied, or have
replied, or he replied. If they lie pre
ceded by a vowel this rule rs not appli
cable; as key. keys; I play, be plays;
we have enjoyed ourselves.
Bule XI".---f'oiupotlliil words whose
primitives mil in r,-chaug y Into i: as
beauty, beautiful; loveliness. ..).
"f folw'tii.H.
The Horard Owl.
The owl is a pretty bird nnder all
circumstances so lithe aud graceful
n figure, and so romantic in expression
of countenance ! An American pwt. in
describing a certain Japanese heroine,
speaks warmly of her "charming wide
mouth smile, he might have gone with
the owl. and praised its "magnificent
oien-eyed stare". Especially is the owl
handsome when his goggle eyes are
seen staring out of a bush just at dusk,
looking like two infuriated gig-lamps
and w hen the 's-holder is a small lioy
who has lately been doing something,
Wadiug to the r lief that "Old Scratch"
is renting af tei ..in at an early period, j
To add to that bov's felicity, it is I
only necessary that the owl shall raise i
his lieautifnl voice in a boot or twoi
and at alsmt that peritxl. Flora Temple j
might be distanced by a couple of Hying i
feet. Perhaps the horned ow l, w hose j
-'horns" really consist in a pair of I
feathery ears, is even handsomer than i
the others of his tribe. His eyes have
the diameter of saucers, and tbe pro
fundity of a deep well at midnight; and, I
taken altogether, he may be considered '
as one of the highest developments of
tlie ornamental in creation.
Temper is so good
should never Iu it.
a thing that we
YorTsr roixn. :
IV Mou p. for Motiik.r. "Is there
a vacant place in this bank which I
could fill T was the inquiry of a boy.
as witn glowing enecu, ne stooa
before the manager. ;
"There is none.1 was the reply.
"Were you told that you might obtain
a situation. ho recommended your
"No one recommended me. sir.'
calmly answered the lioy, "I only
thought 1 would see. '
There was a straightforwardness iu
the manner, and honest determina
tion iu the countenance of the lad,
which pleased the man of business.
and induced him to continue the con
versatiou. He said:
"Yon must have friends who could
aid you is obtaining a situation ; have
you told theniT
The quick flash of the deep hlue
eyes was quenched in the overtaking
wave of sadness as he said, though
half musinzlv:
My mother said it it would be use
less to try without friends" then re
collecting himself, be apologized for
the interruption, and was about to
witudraw, when the gentleman de
tained him by asking him why be
did not reinaiu at school for a year
or two, and then enter the business
world.
"I have no time," was the reply.
I study at home, and keep up with
tlie other boys.
"Then you have a place al ready f
said the interrogator. "Why do you
leave itr
"1 have not left it," said the boy
quietly.
"But you wish to leave it; what is
the matter.
For a moment the child hesitated
then be replied with half reluctant
frankness 1 must do more lor my
mother!'
Brave words! Talisman of success
anywhere, everywhere. They sank in
to the heart of the listener, recalling
the radiant past. Grasping the hand
of the astonished child, he said with a
quivering voice :
"My good boy, what is your name?
You shall till the nrst vacancy for
an apprentce that occurs in the hank.
If, meantime, you need a frieud, come
to me. Why do you wish to do more
for yonr mother? Have you no
father!"
Tears tilled the Imij's eyes as lie re
plied: ".My father is dead, my brothers
and sisters are dead, and my mother
and I are left alone to help each
other. But she is not strong; and I
wish to take rare of her. It will please
her, sir, that yon have been so kind ;
and I am much oblged to yon."
So saying, the boy left litttle dream
ing that his nobleness of character had
bceu as a bright glance of sunshine
into the busy world he had so tiem
blingly entered. A boy, animated by
the desire to help his mother, will
always liud friends.
How- lloi.i.s akk Bokn. A letter
from (lermany says: A visit to a Son
ueberg doll manufactory is an exceed
ingly pleasant and surprising affair.
1 visited one manufactory where eighty
liersons were employed, besides 1"0
others who do work at theirown homes
The manager informed me that on his
trade list he had MO sorts of dolls
each sort having again six varieties; so
we come to the fact of the existence
of over -i.uuo varieties of dolls. There
are wooden dolls pot-faced dolls
papier inacho dolls wax dolls; in the
making of which are engaged not only
the modelers wax varnishers, etc., but
hundreds of children and girls to make
I loots, dresses to curl the hair, aud
other important operations on these
fearfully aud wonderfully made crea
tures. Ihe dolls with wooilen heads
and wooden limbs and pore-lain heads
are the lowest germs of the Sonnebrg
doll.
The heads are imported, but the mov
able limbs aud bodies are cut, carved
and put together by the dwellers of
the mountains many of whom follow
other occupations Thus in Judeubach
I saw whole families, old and young,
male and female, engaged in the inter
esting occupation of making wooden
dolls
The smallest children would have
some simple operation to do, such as
cutting or sawing the wood into the
proper length, an older child would
le able to cut the limbs in the rough,
the older memliers would do the finer
work and fix all the anatomical parts
together. When the children are sent
out to guard the cows or the sheep
they take wood with them and a sim
ple knife and return home at night
with a stock of legs aud arms
The Wiiklu un a M-h k Okan;e.
Xow, my busy young friends in case
any of you should come across a nice
round, yellow mock-orange. I'll tell
you w hat to do with it provided your
grandmother already has a good one
in her stocking-basket. If not, you
should give it to her, and get your
self another one. A canary-bird told
me that the way old ladies darned
stockings was to put a big yellow hall
in them, and then pick at them with
a queer sort of shiny steel bill; and
though his description wasn't clear, I
knew what he meant. Well you take
your round mock -orange and force a
knitting needle clear through it from
the stem end.so that it will turn evenly
on the needle. Then, with a blunt
needle, you mark tbe grand divisions
of the earth upon it tiirope, Asia.
Africa, and America (you see I know
thcni) in just the right shape, and
then you put in your oceans and
islands and what not, all complete.
Next you go over all the markings
with a camel's-hair brush dipped in red
or violet ink, India ink, or any water
color you choose, taking care to
wipe the orange off instantly with a
soft, damp cloth. The color will sink
into the markings and leave the
surface of the mock-orange clean.
Then yon have yonr glols complete.
And yon can make a little wooden
prop, if you are ingenious that wUl
let your glolie revolve on its knitting
needle or axis, at precisely the right
angle. After a while it gets dry and
if yon please you can go over the
markings with a tine pen dipped in
the proper color.
How did I know all this
I heard a little girl telling another
little girl and "you can't think," said
she, "w hat splendid fun it is."
Whit is Or m Akabh-T After the
rainv season in Morocco,a gummy juice
exndes spontaneously from the trunk
and branches of the acacia. It grad
ually thickens in the furrow down
which it runs and assumes the form of
oval and round drops, abont the size of
a pigeon's egg.of different colors, as it
comes down from the red or white gum
tree. About the middle of Ilecmher
the Moor encamps on the bonier of the
forest, and the harvest lasts a full
month. Tbe gum is packed in large
leather sacks and transported on the
backs of camels and bollocks to sea
ports for shipment. The harvest occa
sion is one of great rejoicing, and the
people for the time being almost live
on the gum, which is nutritious aud
fattening.
A Hindoo author thus elegantly in-ruh-ates:
'The -anlal tree imparts its
fragrance to the very axe that liews it
Those who Is-lieve that money -an do
everything are frequently preiiared to
do everything for money.
Tiiimn.
Rank is a great beaut ilier.
The original greenbacks Frogs
A sr, idle man. cannot bean honest
man.
A friend imleed Is one w ho is not in
need.
The latest thing iu front door bs-ks
Xight keys. .
Man is the weeping animal lM.ru lo
govern all the- re-sr. .
Heaven is to Is- gained by a ladder,
not by a leap; step by step, uot at one
hound.
Two members of the British House of
Commons are said to be worth about
l,jOO,UU)ayear. .
People who do wrong seldom have
any ditlieullv in finding out excuses and
jirstiricatioii for it.
The only good that a miser iloes. is to
prove the little bappiuess there is to he
ion nj in wealth.
It is the pale passions that are the
fiercest; it is the violence of the chill
that gives the measure of the fever.
We learn to climb by keeping our
eye, not on the hills that lie behind.
but on the mountains that rise before
us.
The total area of all the anthracite
coal basins in Pennsylvania is estimated
at four hundred and seventy-two square
miles.
The nuu.lier of coal "establishments
in the state ot Pennsylvania is five
hundred and ninety-eight anthra
cite, and bituminous.
If you know anything that will make
a brother's heart glad, run quickly, aud
tell of it; but If something that will
cause a sigh, bottle it up.
It is said that during the past few
months the water in the Ray of Panama
Las been very phosphorescent, Iu the
dark each wave as it broke ou the surf
looked like a w reath of bluish name.
'What liccoincs of all the pins?"
Ex. If the writer of that will movs
around the house iu his stocking feet
after a day of dress-making, be will get
more real valuable information on the
object than all the Iss.ks in the world
can give mm.
The ShakesiM-are Library, founded in
Kdinbiirgh a few years hack by Mr.
Ilalliwell, contains. In original or fac
simile, every edition of Shakespeare's
plays, issued before It WO. and is be
lieved U. lie the only library iu the
world that has the series complete.
Ioyoii know that a hundred thousand
years ago, the stars, w hich now form
tbe "big dipiier" were arranged in the
form of a large cross, and that, a hiiu-
Iretl thousand years hence, thev w ill as
sume tbe form of an elongated dipper,
very different iu shape from the one
now seen.
The Loudon l(A.r4 states t'lat Mr.
George Smith has discovered among the
Assyrian tablets in the British .Museum
the legend of the building of the Tow er
of Babel. This discovery Is quite, as
iiuHjrtaut as that of the tablet relating
to the IH-Iuge, made know u hist year by
the same gentleman.
It seems to be a well-settled fact that
at least one-third of the population of
the globe are now governed by two
women Queen ictoria, w ho rules
over England ami Kugland's extensive
liouiidaries and colonies; and Tsze-An-Twaii-Y'ii-K'ang-K'ing,
the empress
dow ager of China, who holds fnlf sway
over the empire until the child cHi-ri.r
has arrived at the agtt ol discretion and
understanding.
Man is but a reed, ami the weakest in
nature; but then lie is a thinking reed.
There is no occasion that tbe w hole
universe should arm itself to dcstrov
him; a vapor, a drop of wafer is suffi
cient to kill him. But slum Id tbe w hole
universe conspire to crush him, be
would still Is- more noble than thai
w hich destroys hi..., Iiecat.se be knows
that be dies; while the universe would
l insensible of victory over him.
In S-otland a new industry has
sprung up w hich promises to Is ini
Mrtai.t, consist ing of tbe use of calcin.il
granite instead of clay for the manufac
ture of pi lies and other earthenware
articles. It is stated that the material
w ill resist a strong fire and is not af
fected by transitions of heat and cold.
Any preiK.rat.on of the material when
once projierly finished may lie heated to
whiteness without Injury, the new
process of making earthenware will be
lisartily welcomed by housekeepers.
Among English physicians the "Mu
seum hcadiu-he' is now a recognized
ailment. The great reading-room of
the British Museum is very crowded,
very hot, anil very poorly ventilated,
according to recent resrts. There are
also many literary and scientific men
who work nearly all day in small un
healthy rooms in the Museum. Suite
of them have been forced to give up
their work entirely on account of their
health, being i-onsci.ms all the while
that the ill-veutilated rooms hail done
the mischief.
One of the Paris almanacs has this
story, signed I-ds.ulaye: A lazy girl,
who liked to live in comfort and do
nothing, asked her fairy godmother to
give her a good genius to do everythin-'
for her. I hi the instant tbe fairy called
ten tlwarfs w bo dressed and washed the
little girl ami comlstl her hair, ami fed
her, and so on. All was done so nicely
that she was happy except for the
thought that they would go away. "To
prevent that," said the godiuotbsr, "I
will place them erinaiiently in your
ten pretty little fingers." And they
are there yet.
Tlie French Bishop of Canton has just
sent to the Jardin d' Aii liinatation, at
Paris, a plant whine flower changes
color three times a tlay. It is spoken of
as another wonderful evidence of Chi
nese art in leading Xature out of her
customary paths It appears, however,
that it is, if not tbe same, at least not
more remarkable than a natural floral
freak found in South Australia. It is
a beautiful flower, similar to our well
know n morning-glory, with five streaks
of color on its hell-sha-ed calyx. In
the early morning the color streaks are
(Kile blue. Tow aril noon they turn to a
rich purple tint, which changes to a
light pink during the aftcrnoou. As
the day declines the color fades, disa
peariug entirely after sunset, when the
flower closes and dies.
A Georgia journalist draws this pic
ture of Southern dependence on
Northern industry; "A Georgia fanner
uses a Northern axe helve and axe to
cut up the hickory growing within
sight of his door, plough hi) fields
with a Northern plough, cliops out hiss
cotton with a New Kngland hoe, gins
his cotton npon a Boston gin, hoo it
with Pennsylvania Iron, hauls it to
market in a Connecticut waggon, while
the little grain that lie raises is cut ami
prepared for sile with Yankee imple
ments. We find the Georgia housewife
cooking with an Albany stove; ami
even the food, especially the luxuries.
imiM.rteil from the North. Georgia's
fair daughters are clothed in Yankee
n.ilslins, ami decked in Massachusetts)
ribbons and Rhode Island jewellery.'
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