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BYAHUBT.
Bv and by I Wa aay it softly,
Thinklmff of a tender kope,
8tirrioc always ia oar boaoma.
Wber ao many longing grop.
Br and by 1 Oh or until greet at
la a Mum that ia to come,
And the faara that mom defeat as.
That shall alt be stricken dumb !
Br and by I Taa m oornf ol sorrows
Clouding o'er oar sky to-day,
8ball be irons la glad to-morrow
- Shall be baniahed quite away I
By and by I We say It gently.
Looking on oar client dead.
And we do not think of oarth-life.
Bat of Heaven's tweet life instead.
Br by I We look In yearning
Toward the Larbor of the bleC
And we aea the beacons burning
la the porta of perfect reat.
By and by I Onr ship shall anchor,
ir the tide and wind no fair.
Some day In the port of Heaven,
Where oar lost and lored ones are.
Bran4byt Oh say it softly.
Thinking not of earth and care,
Bnt the byaKdbf of Hesvcn,
. WaiUn tor a over iter I
(Mot m Month.
Btkdib tisttan).
FETEB CRISP'S SPECTACLES.
Petkr Crisp hd something the matter
with his ryes: he needed s.ectacles to
help him to see. Bat this was bo uncom
mon mijfortune; hundreds of people, "who
do ten good hoars' work every day of
their lives, use glasses anl cannot ret
along without them. N; the chief
trouble in Peter's case w 4 i0t f Wanting
glasses: it was in the specular sort of
glasses that he usedx He had several
pairs, which he al;.,, kept on hand, no
body knew exacjy ncrc : they seemed
to b? hidden fnjewhere about the head
or bis bed, h often got them on before
he was in lbe morning.
One was whal I should call smoked
Pla'ia, such as persons use tn looking at
' sun : they do very well for that pur
pose, preventing the bright ravs from
Ironing the eyes. Bat Peter did not put
them on to look at the sun with : be looked
at everything through them. And this
made everything look dark and ugiy, he
was made to leel accordingly.
I could iron these collars better my
self I" he exclaimed one morning as he
was dressing, after getting op with those
glasses on. And a few minutes lbter,
Not a p!n in the cushion as usual ; "
and presently again, " Who hat taken my
comb and brush t "
Had any of the children chanced to ,
come into the room about that time, it 1
Leonid have been worse for them.
WVl nrt Via flat (Iamii l.u. I. r V
wac a deep wrinkle between his eyes,
cawed by the weight of the glasses npon
bis brow.
44 That Polly Ann never did make a good
cup of coffee in her life," he remarked.
44 My dear," tnrning to his wife, 44 1 do wish
yon would Uke the trouble to go down
once just once, only once and show her
how."
Mrs. Crisp ventured to say in a low
rice tha1: she went down every morning.
xcter had no reply to make to this, but he
puckered his lip? as if be had, been taking
quinine, frowned yet more severely ana
pushed the cup awav from him.
After his cheerful breakfast he put on
bis hat to go to the store, bat turned back
from the front door and came to the foot
of the stairs, where he stood calling out in
a loud voice that he really felt ashamed of
the black around the door knob and tell
handle. In the street a few momenta
afterward, a gentleman joined him, to
whom he was as pleasant as possible. But
when he got into the ccuaiing-room, it
was plain he had the smoked glasses on
BtilL Not one person about the concern
worked as he should do, be said none of
them were worth a cent. It used to be
dlflerent when be was a boy. Then he
went out wiih a look of general disgust.
As soon as he was gone the bookkeeper
was cross to the clerk, and the clerk
scolded the boy, and the boy went out and
abused the porter.
A few morning after that, Peter had on
what might e called his bine glasses. He
as in a milder frame, hut low in spirits.
II was sorry to see the chamber carpet
wearing out, for he did not know where
another would come from. At breakfast
he watched all the children taking butter,
and took scarcely any himself. lie
begged Mrs. Crisp to put lew sugr in his
collee. The frown was gone from his f tee,
but a most d jected look had come in its
place. Spying a hole in the toe of his
boy's f hoe, be took a long breath, and
bearing that the dressmaker was engaged
& day next week f r his daughters, he
sighed aloud. Walking down the street,
be looked as if he had lost a near relative,
and at the store all day he felt like one on
the eve of breaking.
He had one more pair of glasses, the
color of which conld never be distinctly
mt !e out : they seemed more of a mud
color than anything else. He did not
wear them so often as either of the others,
bnt when he did they hid a very singular
effect. It was thought by many that they
be f urged him, rather than helped him see;
for af er puttiug them on of a morning he
would get up and dre3s hardly speaking a
word. At breakfast he would sty nothing,
and not seem to want anybody else to;
const-quently the whole fmily would sit
and munch in silence; then ho would rise
from the table and walk out of the front
tloor as if he wan dumb ; and although it
was a relief when he had gone and made
matt? ts s omething better, still a chilling
influence remained behind him the whole
. morning.
Peter had been wearing these glasses
&iit tuauj Jlir, itucu uiviuiini IAJ
him one day that thing never looked very
cheerful in his eyes, that he was never
very happy, and that perhaps his specta
cles had something to do with it.
" I wih I could get another and a bet
ter pair," said he. Then he remembered
that his neighbor, Samuel Seabright, had
to wear glasses also, but he always ap
peared to see well and to have a pleasant
face on. Meeting him the next morning,
he raid,
44 Neighbor, if it ia not making too free,
mav I a-k where you get your specta
cles ?"
44 Certainlv." reolied SamueL "I am
flad to tell you. They are good ones, and
wish every man with poor eyes had a
pair like them."'
44 1 would be willing t pay a good price
lira pair," said feter.
" That is not needful," replied Samuel
tney are the cheapest glasses you can
get."
" Pray tell me where I can find them,'
said Peter.
"I got mine." said SamueL bv the
help of a certain Physician whose house
you pass every day : and ir you are truly
anxious to get them, I know be will tell
vouhow you can get a pair for the ask
" I donl want them in charity," replied
I'eier.
44 Then you cannot have them,'' eaid
Samuel.
- Well," replied Feter. in a humbler
voice, X 11 take them Tor nothing, or I'll
pay a big price for them, for I want them
above all things."
"Ah," said Samuel, " that sounds more
like getting them. Ton go to him and
tell him how you foeL and he will attend
to your case."
Then Peter did as he was told. The
Doctor looked at his eyes, and said that
the disease in them was one which kept
him from seeing the good in things about
him : all he could see was the evil
44 And those glasses you have been wear
inc," he continued, have only made them
worse, till there is a danger of your get
ting beyond cure."
" And is there no hope for me ?" asked
Peter.
"Oh yes," replied the Dc 'or, "if you
will follow the directions."
" I will do ao," 8id Peter.
" In the first place, then," he continued,
" you must wear those glasses no more.
Throw them away or put them in the
fire, so that you will never see them
again."
" I promise to do so," replied Peter.
" In the next place, when you are given
a new pair," continued the Doctor, 44 you
must always walk in the way which they
show you to be right"
" I will try not to depart from it," said
Peter.
At this there came an invisible hand
that took off his old smoked glasses and
put on new ones, made of pure crystal,
which let the light through Just as it came
down from the sky. Rat oh what a
change they mad to Peter! lie went
home, and as soon as he entered the door
his house seemed like another place to
him : it seemed filled with blessings.
"Is it possible," be exclaimed, "that
those glasses have kept me froa teeing all
these before T"
The next morning when he got up he
told his wife what had bef4llen him and
how he felt la consequence.
"Butwid lie, with, a lovlDg imUe,
1
By Alfred S. Horsley.
how about those badly-ironed collars and
the pins and the weak coffee t"
"Oh," he cried, 44 how could I ever let
such trifles trouble met"
M And then," she continued, "here is the
carpet wearing out, and the boys' shoes
and the girls' dresses."
" Aa for them," he said, u we will hope
to get more when they are gone. Bat
even if we should not have half our pres
ent comforts and indulgences, with you,
my dearest, and our precious children,
about me, I trust I may feel too rich ever
again to utter one complaining word."
80 the sunshine came into Peter Crisp's
house, and he and all his family led a
happier life because of his new glasses,
which were a thankful heart Lippin
colt't Magazine.
ECLIPSES.
BT T. n. SAFFORD, (DIRBCTOR OF THE
DK&RBOBN OBSERVATORY, CHICAGO).
From time to time it is noticed that the
sun and moon are partially or totally
eclipsed ; that is to say, in the sun's case,
a portion or the whu.e of that luminary,
as we usually see it, is hidden by a round,
dark body, now well knon to be the
moon ; and in case the moon is eclipsed,
a dark shadow appears to cross its disc.
We know by observation that when the
moon is eclipsed it is always full moon ;
that the earth is Icterposea between the
sun acd the moon, and that it is the earth's
shadow which produces the eclipe. Again,
when the sun is eclipsed it is always new
moon ; and we always see the slight lunar
crescent called the new moon a day or two
afterwards.
Bat not at every fall or new moon does
an eclipse take place only at certain
seasons of this kind, when the sun, earth
and moon are unusually near the same
right line ; for it the sun and moon be ap
parently in conjunction, that is. in the
same region of the Heaven's, but at the
same time one appears ao tar above tne
other that they escape appearing to touch,
there will be no eclipse. And in the same
way, if the moon at its full does not pass
exactly through the earth snadow, it may
pass over or under it, ana so escape an
ecliDse entirely.
Before going any farther, it may be well
to state that a so-called total eclipse of the
moon does not cause tne moon to disap
pear entirely ; but that even then she still
shines with a dusky light More of this
further on.
There are three kinds of eclipses of the
sun partial, the commonest kind ; total,
the iare8t; and a third kind, annular,
neither partial nor total, strictly speaking.
The reason of this third kind we must
think about for a moment
We all know very well that the sun and
moon appear to us very mnch of the same
size : bat tney are very ouierent in mag
nitude. The sun is much larger, and
about as much further on ; so that as a
pane of glass in my room appears nearly
as large as a great building at a half-mile
distance, so the sun and moon appear rela
tively of the same size. Bat if I go nearer
the window, I shall see the pane larger
proportionally than the budding ; and et
vtr$a it I go away from the window. If,
then, we place the moon at such a dis
tance from us, and in such a placa, that it
will appear just to cover the whole sun,
and the", approach nearer, the moon will
appear to grow larger faster than the sun
does, and a tout eclipse win lase place.
Oil the other hand, if we go farther from
the moon, it will grow (to us) smaller, and
wul not cover the whole sua, but leave a
ring of light outside. And just the same
thing happens in nature, when the centres
of the sun and moon appear jnst in the
same place to us ; that is, when the eclipse
is central," as astronomers call it 1 ne
moon is in this case sometimes so near as
entirely to cover the sun, sometimes so far
as to leave a ring of light aronnd itselt ;
the eclipse in the first case is called total,
in the second case annular or, SB tne tier
mans say, rincformed.
When do the eclipses ot the sun take
place? that is, how can we predict them T
To do this thoroughly and with extreme
accuracy, requires the tables of the sun's
and moon's motions, and a great deal of
calculation, Ltrge volumes are devoted
to the purpose of telling exactly at what
point in the heavens the sun and moon
will be at any future instant, and do so
with such accuracy that we can not for
many years f il by one minute of time in
predicting when any eclipse will take
place ; and when even this degree of ac
curacy is reached, corrections will be made
from the results 01 the dally and nightly
observations now making ia all civilzsd
countries. Bat it is comparatively easy to
predict when an eclipse will take place
with some approximation to the truth,
and by two considerations :
First there are two days in every year
near which a new or full moon is likely to
bring an eclipse. For this year, thes
dates are February 5th and July 30th; and
so we nnd by the more renntd calculation
that there are eclipses ct the moon on
January 27th and July 23J, both these
dates being full moons ; and of the sun
February 11th and August 7th, both these
dates be in if new moons.
Again, tvery eclipsa is followed by a
somewhat similar eclipse visible, now
ever, in a very different part of the earth
at an interval of eighteen years, ten
days and a fraction ; so that the eclipse
which took place in the forenoon of July
28th. 1851, will be followed by one in the
afternoon of August 7th. 18G9. Bat this
eclipse of 1851 was only partial in the
TTnitAd 8tatts. and total in a small rtart of
North America, and through a small belt of
country in Europe ; that of lStoJ will be
total only in a narrow belt in Northern
Asia and North America a belt which
passes through Illinois, as will be men
lioned by-and-bv.
Between these two eclipses, July, 1851
and August 1839. there have been ob
served about seventy others; and it is
calculated that of these seventy, forty on
have been of the sun and twenty-nine of
the moon ; and each one of them, except
perhaps some of the smaller ones, will
have its corresponding eclipse in about
eighteen years and ten days after its own
date.
Some one will here say that eclipses of
the moon are not rarer than those or the
sun; but on the contrary, mueh com
moner. On looking one moment at the
subject we see the fallacy of this.
Eclipses of the moon can be seen every
where in that half of the earth for which
the moon is np at the time of the. occur
rence, but eclipses of the sun are only visi
ble through a smaller space of country. The
neat eclipse of this year has its centre in
Alaska: it does not extend much south of
the equator, nor a great way into Asia ; it
is in some degree visible over the whole
of North America, and a little way into
the Atlantic Ocean ; and covers about one-
fifth of the earth s surface with the va
rious boundary lines of Its visibility.
And when we come to look at the
extent of total eclipse, we see that it ex
tends over a belt of country about one
hundred and sixty miles wide, beginning
in Siberia, thence passing through Alaska,
some 01 the late Hudson's Bay territories.
a pan or uacotah, most of Iowa, a larg
nart of IlilnnU ri.na n. v..iiiu,i,s
part of Tennessee, most of North Carolina,
ana a awe ot Northern Nebraska. Mm
nesota. South Carolina and Virginia. This
ctKspes me louowing
important piaxxa : ijnicago, Bt Jouis, Urn
cmnau, inuia,uapiis ana omaha ; and any
one will find that a belt one hundred and
sixty miles wide, passingbetween Chicago
and St Louis, and avoiding Omaha on the
south and Cincinnati on the north, must
1 . r w J .
passmoout ia uc uuwuuu noove indicated
by the States mentioned above. And you
can represent, in a rough way, the course
of the shadow that is, of the total portion
of (he eclipse by cutting out a slip of
paper of the width of the representative
of one hundred and sixty miles on any
map of the United States, and long enough
to reach from the map-position of Beau
fort, N C, to that of Fort Union, Dacotah.
Place this strip so that the centre of one
end shall be near Cape L-wkout nd the
edge shall just lap over Rock Island and
avoid Omaha. The path of the eclipse,
however, is somewhat curved, and the
maps themselves distort the shape of the
earth, ao that yon will not find such a strip,
made straight to give more than a very
rough idea of the shadow's course. On
the map which I use, for instance, Cin
cinnati n4 Judiampolii would be U)us
H
Li
included, and St Lraia be left too far to
the south. - '
The phenomena attending eclipses are
quite familiar to those who notice such
Dhenomtna. and in renerai are these:
The earth's shadow is seen at the predicted
time to enter npon the moon, first as a
small circular arc, "growing wider and
wider, and often of a pea-green tint, until,
when the eclipse is a large one, it is suc
ceeded by a deep copper hue, finally over
spreading a great part or tne wnoie 01 tne
moon. After this we can see, with a good
telescope, not only the general outlines of
the lunar disc, but also special features,
such as the ranges of mountains, the cir
cular valleys so familiar to telescopic ob
servation, and the great plains called try
the old astronomers 44 seas." After a
while perhaps an hour or two the to
tality ceases, and the partial eclipse recurs
and goes off in the inverse order ot phe
nomena. The most striking thing about
such an eclipse is the deep coppery hue of
the moon's surface.
Partial eclipses of the sun are more
exact phenomena for observation; the
indentation which is seen is produced by
the body of the moon itself, and we some
times see the lajge-i prominences ot tne
lunar mountains This, too, is to be no
ted : that every solar eclipse appears at
different magnitudes for different places,
because an observer at one point can see
further around the intervening obstacle
of the moon's disc than at another ; and,
as will be inferred from what was before
said, the same eclipse may be partial at
one place and total at another.
Partial eclipses of the sun yield in im
portance to annular. In the latter, four
phenomena are to be noticed: first, the
beginning of the partial eclipse or indenta
tion of the sun's disc; next, the beginning
cf the annular eclipse namely, the form
ation of the ring, where the moon is nrst
seen completely within the sun, and its
breaking np as tne moon recrosses tne
boundary of brilliant light: and finally
the end of even- partial eclipse. The an
nular phenomena are much more accu
rately observable than those of a partial
eclipse ; and the formation and breaking
np of the ring are sometimes accompanied
with what are called "Baily's beads."
The rim of light between the moon s edgs
and that of the sun Is, when very narrow,
broken np into points partially discon
nected, Lke a string of beads. It is sup
posed that the jagged points of the lunar
mountains cause this appearance.
But a total eclipse of the sun surpasses
in sublimity, as well as interest all other
astronomical phenomena whatever. Dar
ing a space of time never ever exceeding
eight minutes, we observe the passage
from a sunlight to a darkness almost uke
that of night, and back again. The sky, as
the partial eclipse grows larger and
larcrer, changes its tints to various
hues, described sometimes as . livid,
but mingled with orange yellow,
or purple, sometimes mnch before the
beginning of the total eclipse proper.
The moon advances slowly over the solar
disc, covering more and more of it with
its blackness, and making more and more
obscure surrounding otntc s. tilt when
the last gleam cf sunlight is about to
pass away, the observer sees the moon and
what remains or tne sun surrounded 07 a
bright carona or glory, such as surrounds
the heaas or tne Liord and tne saints in re
ligious pictures. When the sunlight total
ly disappears, nothing is lett to enngnien
objects around, save the scattered rays of
twilight and the corona itself. This glory
is intersected nere ana mere wun nasning
ravs. extending often to considerable dis
tances from the sun, and has been itself
sren nearly as broad as" the sun's diameter.
When the corona gives tne light oy which
obj ects are seen, they naturally appear very
differently from what we see in daylight,
or even at night Tne sharpness and black'
ness of distant hills have often been no
ticed.
Besides this corona, the "protuber
ances" of a rosy color and irregular shape
are a very marked feature. These are
cloud like masses seen projecting beyond
the dark eige of the moon, are not gen
erally visible without telescopes, and have
long been, as well as the corona, mysten
ousia their origin. But it is now made
certain by the spectroscope that tney are
jriseous in nature; it was round out by
photographing them mat they were con-
nee'ed with the sun, and that as the moon
passed over them it hid them by degrees.
If they were phenomena of the lunar at
mosphere they would move with the moon
itself, which they do not do.
AH these phenomena can only be ob
served by great concentration of effort,
and by division of labor. When the time
of observation of the most important eX
tends only from two to eight minutes, it
is plain that much expedition is necessa
ry. In caae of the eclipse of the present
year, tho duration is about three minutes
near the central line.
In past aires the fate of a battle or an
assault has turned npon a total eclipse of
the sun. Xenophon tells ns that the town
of Larissa was taken on account of the
frirht of the inhabitants when the sun
was covered by a cloud. This circum
stance, casually mentioned in the Anaba
ait ( Book HI., section iv ). has enabled as
tronomers to make certain that a total
eclipse took place then and there, and has
even been of use in correcting the lunar
tables. Other eclipses of note in history
were those predicted by Thales, 533 15. V
that connected with the expedition of
Agathoclea against Carthage, B. C. 310
and an eclipse which helped decide the
battle of Stiklastad, in the Scandinavian
annals. Columbus is said to have
acquired great renown among the Indians
by predicting a lunar eclipse, which was
probably his only means of determining
his longitude, and so the distance of
America from Europe. In modern times
we have often heard of the panic terror of
ltrnorant noDulations : and there are even
stories that in the eclipse of 1806, persons
here and there thought the Judgment Day
was coining. Wetter Monthly for Au
gust.
Simon Short's Sob, Samuel.
The following literary curiosity was
constructed for the last number of the
Aspirant, the reading of which forme!
part of the closing exercises of the Con
cord, N. H , High School The writer
Miss Ida Bennett :
Shrewd Simon Short sewed shoes
Seventeen summers, speeding storms,
spreading sunshine successively saw Si
mon's small, shabby shop still standing
staunch, aaw Simon's self-same squeaking
sign still swinsnng, silently specifying
44 Simon Short Smithfield's sole surviving
shoemaker. Shoes sewed, soled super
finely." 8imon's spry, sedulous spouse.
Sally Short, sewed skirts, stitched sheets,
stuffed sofas. Simon's six stout, sturdy
sons Seth, SamueL Stephen, SanL Silas,
Shadrach sold sundries. Sober Seth
sold sugar, starch, spices ; simple Sam
sold saddles stirrups, screws; sagacious
Stephen sold siirs, satins, shawls ; skepti
cal Sanl sold silver salvers ; selfish Shad
rach sold salves, shoe strings, soap, saws,
skates; slack Bilss sold bally unort
stuffed sofas.
Some seven summers since, Simon1
second son Samuel s w Sophia Sophronia
Spriggs somewhere. Sweet sensible,
smart Sophia Sopronia Spriggs. Sam soon
showed strange symptoms. Sam seldom
stayed, storing, selling saddles. Sam
sighed sorrowfully, sought Sophia Sophro-
nia s society, sung several serenades siyry,
Simon stormed, scolded severely, said
Sam seemed so silly singing such shame
fuL senseless songs, "Strange, Sam
should slight such splendid sales t Strut
ting spendthrift! shattered-brained aim
pleton ! "
"8oftly, softly, sire." said Sally. "Sam's
smitten ; earn "a spied some sweet-heart.
Sentimental school-boy !" snarled 81
mon. "Smitten! Stop such, stuff" Si
mon sent Sallv's snuff-box SDinninz. seized
Sally's scissors, smashed Sally's spectacles,
scattering several spools. "Sneaking
scoundrel ! Bam s e nocking silliness shall
surcease 1" Scowlinar. Simon stODned
speaking, starting swiftly shop ward. Sally
sighed sadly. Summoning Sam, she spoke
sweet sympathy. "Sam,8 said she, "sire
seems singularly snappy ; so, sonny, stop
ironing eireota, stop smoking segars,
spending specie superfluously, stop sprnc-
iz an, stop singing serenades, (top short
heil saddles. en saddles sensible ; see
oopa;s Doporpjiia. spriggs, aopni l6;'f
T ' 5i AM,
COLUMBIA,
prightly, she's stable, so solicit sue, secure
Sophia speedily, Sam." .
- So soon r so soon T said Sam. stand
ing stock stilL
So soon, surely, said Sally, smiling
ly; "specially since sire shows such
spirits."
So. Sam. somewhat scared, sauntered
slowly, shaking stupendously. Sam
soliloquises ; Sophia Sophronia Spriggs,
Spriggs Short Sophia Sophronia Short
Samuel Short's spouse sounds splen
did ! Suppose she should say r She !
she shan't she shan't!"
Soon Sam spied Sophia starching shirts,
singingly sof ly. Seeing Sam, she
stopped starching, saluting Sam smilingly.
Sam stammered shockingly.
bpi-spl-spiendid summer season, bo-
phia."
" Somewhat sultry," suggested Sophia.
" Sar-aartin, 8ophIa," said" Sam. (Si-
lenre seventeen seconds.)
"Helling saddles sMl. SamT'
"Sar-ear tin," aaid Sam. starting sud
denly. "Season's somewhat sudorific,"
sal t Sam stealthily, staunching streaming
sweat, shaking sensibly.
"Sartin, said Sophia, smiling signifi
cantly. 4 Sip some sweet sherbert, Sam."
(Silence sixty seconds.)
"Sire shot sixty shelldrakes. ssturJay,
said Sophia.
" Siny T sho I said Sam. (silence
seventy-seven sccsnds.)
"See sinter Basin's sunnawers," said
Sophia socially, silencing such stiff si
lence. Sophia s sprightly aandness stimulated
Sam strangely; so Sam suddenly spoke
sentimentally; "Sophia, 8asans sun
flowers seem saying, 4 Samuel Short, Su
san Sophronia Spriggs, stroll serenely,
seek some sequestered spot some sylvan
shade. Sparkling springs shall sing soul
stirrinz strains: sweet songsters shall si
lence secret sighings : super-angelic sylphs
shall "Sophia snickered; so Sam stop-
" Sophia, said Sam solemnly.
" Sam." said Sophia.
"Sophia, stop smiling. Sam Short's
sincere. Sam's seeking some sweet
spouse, Sophia,4
aopnia stood silent
" Sneak. Sophia, speak ! such suspense
speculates sorrow.
- beek sire. sam. seek sire."
80 Sam sought sire Spriggs. sire Spriggs
said " Martin."
Personal Habits of tbe Siamese Twins.
BT MARK TWAUT.
I do not wish to write of the' personal
Kabitt of these strange creature solely,
but also of certain curious details of va
rious kinds concerning them, which, be
longing only to their private life, have
never crept into print, knowing tne
Twins intimately. I feel that I am pecu
liarlv well qualified for the task I have
taken noon myself.
The Siamese Twins are naturally tender
and aflectionate in disposition, and have
chine to each other with singular fidelity
throughout a lone and eventful lite. Even
as children they were inseparable com-
Damons : and it was noticed that they at
ways seemed to preier eacu other s society
to that of any other person's. They nearly
always played together ; and, so accus
tomed was thei mother to this peculiarity,
that, whenever both of them chanced to
be lost, she usually only hunted ror one
of them satisfied that when she found
that one she would find his brother some
where in the immediate neighborhood
And yet these creatures were ignorant
and unlettered barbarians themselves
and the offering of barbarians, who knew
not the light of philosophy and science.
What a withering rebuke is this to our
boasted civilization, with its quarrelings,
its wrangling, and its separations of
brothers 1
As men, the Twins have not always
lived in perfect accord ; but, still, there
has always been a bona between tnem
which made them unwilling to go. away-
from each other and dwell apart They
have even occupied the same house, as a
eeneral thing, and it is believed, that they
have never failed to even sleep together
on any night since tney were oorn.
How surely do the habits of
lifetime become second nature to us ! The
Twins always go to bed at the stme time ;
but Chang usually gets up an hour Deiore
his brother. By an understanding be
tween themselves, Chang does all the in
door work and Eng runs all the errands.
This is because Eng likes to go out;
Chang's habits are sedentary. However,
Chane alwavs goes along, liug is
Baptist, but Utang is a Koman uamonc j
stilL to please his brother, Chang consent
ed to be baptized at tne same time mat
Eng was, on condition that it should not
count Daring the war tney were
st rone partisans, and both fought gallant
ly all through the great struggle Eng on
tbe Union side and Uhang on tne con
federate. They took each other prisoners
at Seven Oiks, but the proots of capture
were so evenly balanced in favor of each
that a general army court had to De as
sembled to determine which one was prop
erly the captor and which the captive;
The jary was unable to agree for a long
time ; but the vexed question was finally
decided by agreeing to consider them Dotn
prisoners, and then exchanging them. At
one time Chang was convicted of disobedi
ence of orders, and sentenced to ten days
in the guard bouse ; but Eng, in spite 01 ail
arguments, felt oolieea to snare nis im
Drisonment. notwithstanding be himself
was entirely innocent ; and so, to save the
blameless brother trom sunenng, tney naa
to discharge both from custody the just
reward of faithfulness.
Upon one occasion the brothers fell out
about something, and Chang knocked
Emg down, and then tripped and fell on
him. whereupon both clinched and began
to beat and gouge each other without
mercy. The bystanders interfered and tried
to separate them, but they could not do
it and so allowed them to tight it out in
the end both were disabled, and were car
ried to the hospital on one and the same
shutter.
Their ancient habit of going always to
gether had its drawbacks when they
reached man's estate and entered upon the
luxury of courtin g. Both fell in love with
the same girL Each tried to steal clandes
tine interviews with her, but at the critic
al moment the other would always turn np.
By and by Eng saw, with distraction, that
Chang had won the girl s auections ; ana,
from that day forth, he had to bear with
the agony of being a witness to all their
dainty billing and cooing, am, witn
magnanimity that did him infinite cred
it, he succumbed to his fate, and give
countenance and encouragement to a state
of things that bade fair to sunder his gen
erous heart-strings. He sat from seven
every evening until two in the morning
listening to the fond foolishness of the two
lovers, and to tne concussion of hundreds
of squandered kisses for the privilege of
sharing only one of which he would have
given his right band. Uut be sat patiently,
and waited, and gaped, and yawned, and
stretched, and longed for two o'clock
to come. And he took long walks
with the lovers on moonlight evenings
sometimes traversing ten mues, notwitn
standing he was usually suffering from
rheumatism. He was an inveterate
smoker ; but he could not smoke on these
occasions, because the young lady was
Dainfullv sensitive to the smell of tobacco.
Eng cordially wanted them married, and
done with it : but although unang oiten
asked the momentous question, the young
lady could not gather sufficient courage to
answer it while tne was ty. However,
on one occasion after hnving walked some
sixteen miles, and sat nptill neaiy daylight,
Eng dropped asleep from sheer exhaustion.
and then the question was asked and an-
wered. The lovers were married, au ac
quainted with the circumstances applauded
the noble brother-in-law. His unwavering
faithfulness was the theme of every
tongue. He had staid by them all through
their long and arduous courtship ; and
when at last they were married, he lifted
his hands above their heads and said
with impressive unction, " Bless ye, my
children, I will never desert ye !" and be
kept bis word. Magnanimity like this is
all too rare in this cold world.
Br and-bve Eogfell in lovs with his sis
ter m-law's sister, and married her, and
since that day they hare all lived together,
itwhich tMty and beantTful to be,
night anq aay, ia an exceeding sociaou
TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1869.
hold, and is a scathing rebuke to our boast
ed civilization.
The sympathy existing between these
two brothers is so close and so refined that
the feelings, the impulses, the emotions
of the one are instantly experienced b
the other. When one is sick, the other is
sick ; when one feels pain, the other feels
it; when one is angered, the other s tern
per takes fire. We have already seen
with what happy facility they both fell in
love with the same girt Now, Chang is
bitterly opposed to all forms of intemper
ance, on principle ; but Eng is the reverse
7-for, while these men's feelings and emo
tions are so closely wedded, their reason
ing faculties are unfettered ; their liavghU
are free. Chang belongs to the Good
Templars, and is a hard-working and en
thusiastic supporter of all temperance re
forms. Bat to his bitter distress, every
now and then Eng gets drank, and, of
course, that makes Chang drank too. This
unfortunate thing has been a great sorrow
to Unang, for it almost destroys his useful
ness in his favorite field of effort As
sore as he is to head a great temperance
procession Eng ranges np alongside of
him, prompt to the mmnte and drunk as
a lord ; but yet no more dismally and
hopelessly drank than his brother who
has not tasted a drop. And so tbe two be
gin to hoot and yell, an&jthrow mud and
bricks at the Good Templars, and,
of coarse, they break np the procession.
It would be manifestly wrong to punish
Chang for what Eng does, and, therefore,
the Good Templars accept the unto
ward situation, and suffer in silence and
sorrow. They have officially and deliber
ately examined into the milter, and find
Chang blameless. They have taken the
two brothers and mied Uhang rail 01
warm water and sugar and Eng full of whis
ky, and in twenty-flve minutes it was
not possible to tell which was the drunk
est Both were as drunk as loons and
on hot whisky punches, , by the smell of
their breath, x ei ail tne wnue unang's
moral principles were unsullied, bis con
science clear; and so all just men were
forced to confess that ie was not morally,
but only physically drank. By every
right and by every moral evidence the
man was strictly sober ; and, therefore, it
caused his friends all the more anguish to
see him shake hands with the pump and
try to wind his watch with his night-key.
There is a moral in tnese solemn warn
ingsor, at least, a warning in these sol
emn morals; one or the other. No mat
ter, it is somehow. Let us heed it ; let us
profit by it
1 could say more 01 an instructive na
ture about these interesting beings, bat
let what I have written suffice.
Having forgotten to mention it sooner,
wiil remark, in conclusion, that the ages
of the Siamese Twins are respectively
fifty-one and fifty-three years. Packard t
Monthly jor August. -
The Wrong Kan la the Wrong Place.
A frw days since, a voung couple, just
married at Water our y, jonn got on
board a train on the Naugatuck Road,
bound for Bridgeport Tney had a sweet
time, billing and cooing in proper style,
until the train reached the junction.
While waiting there, the groom took a
stroll on the platform, and the bride also
improved the time to walk to the forward
end of the car. As the train started, she
returned, and seeing her husband, as she
supposed, she popped into the same seat,
and lovingly rested her neaa on us snoni-
dcr, while the cars passed through the
covered bridge. Unfortunately she had
mistaken her man, and as the cars
emerged from the bridge a' trembling
voice whispered in her ear that he didn't
quite comprehend the situation. Looking
up. the bride touna an unknown, moaning
youth, while her liege lord was standing
in the aisle, with a look of blank aston
ishment on his face, not knowing what to
make of "such conduct as those, the
error was corrected at once, bat the fua
was too much for the occupants of the
car, and every sleeve contained an enor
mous though quiet laugh.
The Saa Francisco Aerial Steam Car
riagf.
The problem of aerial navigation is
solved. Within a year we shall travel
habitually to New York, Europe and
China by aerial carriages. The trial trips
of the model steam carriage, at Shell
Mound Park, have been entirely and
completely successful exceeding the most
sanguine anticipations or hopes of tne
builders. The power of tne propellers
was ereater. and the resistance of the
atmosphere less than were estimated, and
the 8 oeed attained was proportionately
greater. Protected by its patent rights,
we believe that the Aerial steam naviga
tion Compmy of California and its
grantees will speedily constitute the most
eieaniic single incorporation interest in
the United States overshadowing tne
railroad. steamshiD or teleeraph combina
tions. The thing is done: fully, finally
and completely done. Within four weeks
the first aerial steam carriage, capable of
conveying six persons, and propelled at a
rate exceedine tbe minimum speed 01
thirty miles an hour, will wing its flight
over the Sierra Nevada on its way to New
York and other remote parts. San JTran-
ateo New Letter, Jane 20.
The Wonders of Modern Surgery.
Probably the most astounding surgical
operation ever performed on the American
continent has recently been made in this
city by Dr. G. D. lieebe. The circum
stances, as we gather tnem irom tne nua
band of the patient are briefly these:
Mrs. J. B. Childs. residing at Lee Center,
I1L, came to this city on a visit and was
stopDine on Saneammon street While
there she became aware that an old rup
ture, from which she had suflered from
time to time for several years, was likely
to give her trouble and summoned medi
cal aid. The nhvsician first called regard
ed it a case of "wind colic." but his
treatment not relieving the suffering of
tbe unfortunate woman, ne was aismisseu
and Dr. L. Dodge was summoned, who,
recognizing the true state of the case, re
ones ted that a sureeon be called. A
ctreful examination of the case revealed
the fact that the intestine involved in the
rnntnre had already mortified, and to
allow this to remain would inevitably de
stroy the woman's life. He, therefore,
decided to remove so much of the intestine
as had undergone decomposition, and, by
the extremities of the sound in-
testine, to restore at lengui me nntunu
passages and thus preserve the unfortunate
ladv'a lifi Assisted by Dra. L. Dodge, J.
. 0 . . , . . 1 . 1
8. Mitchell, and A. G. Beebe, this danger
ous and difficult o Deration was according
ly performed, and four feet tix indies of
.the intestine mere rcmoveajrom n pr
tient't body, and may now be seen, pre
served in alcohol, in Dr. Beebe s office.
The operation ' completed, the abdomen
wm ftarefatlv stitched up. the patient en
joined to preserve perfect quiet and to
a.Mtin trom solid lot ha. iuukcu utb
have now elapsed, and, astounding as it
may seem, the good lady has well nigh
recovered, being now allowed the freedom
of her room and a generous diet, which
is heartily relished. What -will not the
surgeons do next ? Chicago Tribune, Ju-
ly'&S. .
Wealth.
Onr great cause of the poverty of the
present day is, the failure of our common
people to appreciate small things. They
feel that if they can not save large sums
iw win not aava anv thins. They do
not realize how a daily addition, be it
a .mall, will soon make a huge pile.
rr th vnnnr men and young women of
tywi.v will onlv begin, and begin now, to
save a little from their earnings, and plant
it in the soil of some good savings bank,
and weeklr or monthly add their mite.
th-v m ill wear a happy smile of com
petence and independence when they
reach middle life. Not only tha pile will
itair iiuvAaaa. bnt the desire and the abil
ity to increase it will also grow. Let clerk
and tradesman, laborer and artisan, make
nnm and at once a beginning. Store up
some of your youthful force and rigor for
future contingency, jjw pareuw wks
thoir rhiMmn tn begin earlv to save. Be
gin at the fpuntain-ba4 b control the
stream of extravagance1, and the work
-Ui eeiV To coow bttwtto. IPWiJ.
He
inr and saving ia to choose between pov
erty and riches. Let our youth go on in
habits of extravagance, for fifty years to
come, as they have for fifty years past, and
we shall be a nation of beggars with a
moneyed aristocracy. Let a generation of
such aa save in small sums be reared, and
we shall be free from all want Do not be
ambitious for extravagant fortunes, but
do seek that which is the duty of every
one to obtain, independence and a com
fortable home. Wealth, and enough of it,
is within the reach of all It is obtainable
by one process, and by one only earing.
Manufacturer ana auuaer.
Tbe Oldest Town In the United States.
Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico.
is said to be the oldest town within the
limits of the United States, having been
built under the auspices of the Jesuits more
than three hundred years ago. it is the
largest town in the Territory, containing,
perhaps, exclusive of the military, about
twenty fire hundred inhabitants, of whom
more than three fourths are Mexicans.
Several wealthy Jewish firms are engaged
in trade here, and do a large and profita
ble business, not the smallest item of
which is in army contracts. The native
Americans outside of the army, who are
not Federal office holders or profetsional
men, generally devote their energies to
selling whisky and gambling. The pub
lic and private buildings at Santa Fe,
with the exception of some wooden houses
belonging to the military department,
and the new penitentiary, which is of
stone, are constructed of adobes, or sun
dried bricks ; yet some of them, being
well finished without and within, present
a neat though far from imposing appear
ance. The majority of tbe houses are,
however, mere mud hovels, with dirt
roofs, ragged walls and earthen floors
uninviting without and squalid within.
Even the cathedral and the dozen or more
churches in which the spiritual needs of
the natives are ministered to, though ex
hibiting some attempts at elaborate archi
tecture, are unsightly objects. looking as 11
they might at anytime tumble down and
overwhelm the worshippers within their
walls.' A view of Santa Fe from a neigh
boring eminence is not calculated to im
press the beholder with an idea of the com
mercial and political importance of the
town.
Most of the inhabitants of New Mexico
reside in towns or villages, of the architec
ture of which that of Santa Fe is a favora
ble specimen. Timber suitable for boards
is very scarce. .Lumber enough tor doors
and casings, shelving, and the flooring of
the more pretentious edifices, is obtained
with much cost and dimouity, ana is found
in but a few favored localities in quanti
ties sufflrieut for the building of frame
houses. Kiln-burnt bricks are very rare,
the ordinary building material being
adobes. These are made of mud in which
straw or hay has been mixed, molded to
the dimensions of 4x8x16 inches and dried
in the sun. In building, the adobes are
laid together with mud. When the walls
have been carried to the proper hight,
they are spanned with vigat beams of
Cottonwood or pine, as may be the most
conveniently obtained; upon these are
closely laid tafaarraiae strong woooen
ribs of the giant cactus, or straght willow
poles, or, more frequently, bushes and
branches of any kind ; upon these is placed
a layer of straw, hay or rushes, and lastly
three or four inches 01 eartn. 1 ne root tnus
formed, having a very sligLt slope, sheds
most of the rain that falls npon it but is
rarely altogether water-tight, and re
quires frequent repairs. The house .is
finished bv nutting in the doors and
windows, and br aDDlvine to the walla a
smooth coating of mud, inside and out
the latter operation being perioral ea ny
women. An aristocratic mansion usually
receives a coating of whitewash upon the
walls, and of dark-colored paint npon tne
doors, windows and casings, by which its
appearance is much improved. Bat the
maioritv of the buildieirs are not aristo
cratic, and the monotonous brown of their
mud walls and wood-work is relieved oy
either paint or whitewash. A building
upon which the mud plastering is renew
ed as freouently as it is rendered neces
sary by washing from rain, win last ior
many years ; but if the walls and roof are
neglected, it will soon fall to decay.
Few of the houses, except in tne r uema
Indian towns, have more than one story.
Manr have but one room, aitnongn
others possess half a dozen or more rooms
arranged in a square, which also in
eludes the stable and corral; the space
between the buildings being occa
pied by high adobe walls. The
larger towns have regular streets and pub
lic squares the pias 01 oauia e oemg
a uite Drettv. though small ; but the smaller
towns and villages have only labyrinthine
allevs. through which a stranger would
find some difficulty in making ms way.
Western Monthly for Auaua.
A Story for Moderate Drinkers.
Ah old friend of the late Judge Fletcher,
of Boston, related to the writer, many
years ago, the following characteristic an
ecdote : Mr. letcner wnen a young man.
boarded in the old Exchange Coffee House.
Without mnch consideration, he had iai
len in with the drinking fashion of the day,
ao far as to have a glass of spirits and
water brought to his room every night, to
be taken on going to bed as " a night-cap."
One night an unusual press 01 company
prevented the barkeeper from carrying np
Mr. Fletcher's usual night dram. The
'Squire didn't regard it as quite the thing
for him to go to tne oar ana get nis grog,
and so he went to bed without his " night
cap." But to sleep, he could not All
night long be tumbled arxrai ior lacs: 01
his accustomed drink. And as he did so.
his active and discriminating mind worked
most diligently. The fruit or nu renec
tions appeared next morning, when, on
rettine no. wearv and worn by his hard
reatless night Mr. Fletcher went directly
tn the har-keener s Mr. . you didn't
hrinir m mv brandy and water last night
and as a consequence I have slept little or
nntiA all nitrhL
The bar tender was very sorry. This
neglect should not occur again. " Not so,"
retained Mr. Fletcher. " Never bring me
another drop 01 liquor uniess 1 oruer iw n
J . ... , j 1 . t e
it has come to this, tnat 1 cam aieep wun
nnt thn heln of a tumbler of toddy, it ii
high time that I stopped drinking
ana
broke up the dangerous habit
From that day Mr. Fletcher became
thorough going temperance man.
Sajlngs by JoshJMlings.
hut dithonett tut iz about az
low down az enny man kan get, onless he
drinks whiskee tu. ,
Error will slip thru a crack wnue truin
will it atnrk in a doorway.
The man who hez just found out be
kant afford to burn green wood hez taken
his fust lessun in ekonemy.
Them is onlv one thing that kin beat
truth, and that iz he who always speaks
it.
It iz hard work, at first sight to see tne
wisdom of a rattle snaik bite, but there is
thonaanda of folks who never think ov
their sins until ther are bit by a rattle
n.itr
There is a grate deal or humin natur in
akrah.ifvn don't Dick them np in the
tnt w vn will discover it
I think now, 11 1 naa an tne money
iz due me, I wonld invest it in a saw mill
' . . . 1 11 .1 .v..
.nd tVtn 44 let her rin
Tk the hnmbuffg out ov this woria
. r ... ,9
and you wont bar much left to do bizzl
neaa with
Advertising iz sed to be a certain means
m anrkeeaa : soma folks are so impressed
with this trnth that it sticks out or their
twnnatnn.
Ekonomy iz a savings bank, into which
men droit nennva. and git dollars ia re-
r K 0 H
Hint
There iz one thing yu kant put out, and
that iz yure conscience ; yu may smother
it bat like a coal nit it kontalns the
h.mwt remaina.
Thetwn richest men bow living in
Amerika that i kno ov, iz the one who haz
got the moat money and the other who
wants tha least s and the last one iz the
nannieat rm the two.
fteremonr is the neceesKr or phools
good breeding ix the luxury ov the wise,
Taw ho agreeable is simnlr to be easily
pleated-It this Is so, ho tVJ FrfW
I ajj It ia (0 bt apwaWa,
RA.L.D.
He whom the good praize and the
wicked hate ought tew be satisfied with
his reputation.
It has been ascertained br a learned
professor, in Yale College, that the wicked
work 50 per cent harder tew get to hell
than the nghteons do to reach heaven ;
wnat a waste of time and muscle !.
There iz mennv who wont know ennv
thing but what they can prove this ak-
kounts for the little they know. Most
people hev fonnd out somehow, that they
- can't serve uoa and Mammon too, and
so they serve Mammon.
A pure heart is like a looking glass ; It
keeps no secrets and dispenses no flattery.
A cheerful old man. or old woman, is
like the sunny side oy a woodshed, in the
last or winter.
Avarice is like a graveyard : It takes all
it can get and gives nothing back.
The best investment that I know oris
charity ; yew get pure principal back im
mediately, and draw a dividend every
time yew think or it
livery thing on this earth Is bought and
sold, except air and water, and they would
be if a kind Creator had not made the
supply tew great for the demand.
A good book is like a good law.
Politeness looks well to me in
every
man except an undertaker.
"Familiarity breeds contemt"
This
only applies tew men, not buckwheat
slapcakes, well buttered and sugared.
Seized by a Lion.
Dr. Livingstone, the African traveler,
gives the following account of being seized
by a Hon, and of his sensations :
Starting up and looking half around, 1
saw the lion just in the act of springing
upon me. I was upon a little height ; he
caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we
both came to the ground below together.
Growling terribly close to my ear, ne
shook me as a terrier does a rat The
shock produced a stupor similar to that
which seems to be felt by a mouse alter
the first shake of the cat It caused a sort
of dreaminess in which there was no
sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though
quite conscious of all that was happening.
It was like what patients partially under
the influence of chloroform describe, who
see all the operations, but feel not the
knife. This singular condition was not
the result of any mental process. The
shake annihilated fear, and allowed no
sense of horror in looking around at the
beast This Deculiar state is probably in
duced in all animals killed by the camieo-
ra, and if so, is a merciful provision by
our benevolent Creator ror lessening the
pains of death. Turning around to re
lieve myself of the weight as ne had one
paw on the back of my neaa, 1 saw ms
eyes directed to my companion, who was
trying to shoot him. His gun missed fire,
and the lion immediately left me.
The August Eclipse.
Thk coming eclipse of the sua is one of
the most interesting scienuac lacts 01 tne
century, while it will also prove to be an
immense popular attraction, commanding
the at ention and suspending the avoca
tions of many millions of human beings.
Oa the afternoon of the vth 01 August
next the moon will pass between the
earth and sun. shutting off a portion ot
the solar light from every inhabitant of
the North American continent and com-
nletelv hiding the orb of day from a belt
of more than 150 miles in width, running
in a northwest to southeast direction
nearly through the middle of the United
Suites. The moon's shadow will sweep
majestically over nearly one-half the
earth's circumference, forming a circular
patch of darkness, the diameter of which
will average nearly 156 miles, and move
eastward in this region at the rate of 2,221
miles per hour, the central point 01
the shadow will strike the earth in Russian
Asia, 165 degrees west of Washington,
m Worth tiautuoe 034, tnence curve
northward into Behrings Sea, cross the
main land of the territory recently ceded
bv Russia to the United States, pass
through British Columbia to the middle
of the northern boundry of Montana,
thence strike across the United States ter
ritory to the Mississippi near Sioux City,
nearlv bisect the States of lowa and 1111
nois. nassing through tinrinefield and Yin
cennes. run across the southern part of In
diana, into Kentucky, and thence through
Virginia, Tennessee and norm Carolina
into the Atlantic Ocean, i he centre will
leave the earth in 9 degrees Eat Longi
tude from Washington, and iy degrees
of North Latitude. The actual time oc
cupied in the passage will be 2 hours and
30 minutes, but the apparent time will be
14 hours and 10 minutes, as measured by
the difference between the clocks at the
nlacea of beginning and ending.
' .. . . . . . . . ,
The following taoie snows tne lamuue
of the central point 01 the snaoow on
each degree of longitude from Washington
within the Western States, also the local
time of the middle of the eclipse at each
point and the duration of Wm?t t
Ismq. from LatUwU
Load 1me, Duratum
p. nu TotniUf.
4h. IS m. Smite.
4 17 8 10
4 S3 3 08
4 S 8 OS
4 33tt 8 04
4 39 8 OS
4 44 I
4 49(4 9 57
4 54 I U
4 59 9 53
5 04' 9 51
5 19 9 49
5 15 9 4S
3 19 9 44
5 95 9 43
6 99 3 40
Wuhingtm
Centre.
3
91
SO
19
13
17
16
15
14
13
13
11
10
9
8
31
44 01
41 )
4 t9S4
4 S9
41 W
41 S9K
41
40 3.1X
40 MJ
89 8l!4
39 (
8137X
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A Bide witb a Lunatic
Th Treasures of railway traveling in
England are vividly illustrated by the fol
lowing incident which happened on a line
near London:
A voung lady got int- a second-class
carriage, where she was soon joined by a
gentleman about thirty years old, whose
manner seemed very strange and excited.
They were alone in the carnage.
As soon as t&e train started, tais man
got up all of a sudden, and began by
throwing his carpet bag out of the Win
dow, saving:
"This carnage is mucn too neavy.
Come, we must lighten it as much as pos
sible."
He then sat down again, but jumped up
a minute alter, screaming out :
" It'a too heavy ! It's too heavy r
And. so saying, he sent his coat out of
the window to ioin the carpet bag. then
away went his waistcoat, his cravat and
his shoes!
He then sat down, and appeared to be
thinking profoundly. All of a sudden he
turned toward the young girl, who was as
frightened as possible, and said 1
"On vour knees. Madam, on your
knees! We will pray for the Duke of
Gloucester!"
And he knelt down.
The poor girl immediately obeyed him
The stranger then began praying fervent
ly for the Duke of Gloucester, then for
the Duke of St Albans, then for the Duke
of York in a word, for all the Dukes in
Great Britain and Ireland.
He then sat down again. The young
lady, more dead than alive,was in a corner
of the carnage, a prey to tne most pro
found terror.
Nevertheless this strange person, soon
heran to feel less auiet
- " This can't go on." he said ; " it is
reallr much too heavy much too heavy.
The train will soon have to stop it won't
be able to go on. Come no, we must
Kffhten it One of us must get out I
won't : so supposing you jump out of the
window!"
And he walked resolutely up to the cow
ering girL
But she said to him. crying :
" Oh, sir, do stay for one Taoment ; we ve
not yet prayed for tne jjuae 01 nortnnm
berland I"
' " You are right we had forgotten him.
On your kneea, and let's pray for the Duke
of Northumberland!"
They were still indeep prayer when the
train arrived at the station, and the voung
girl fainted in the arms of some friends
who were waiting for her.
Her companion was arretted, and toou
recognized as a lusitjo wfco fcid. eicaped
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VOL. XIV.-NO. 51.
Schwan thaler's Statue.
"Rest! that is what you need, dear,"
said the good little wife of the metal
founder. "Think, here is the fifth day
since yon have slept, or, indeed, scarcel
eaten. Oh. I wish you were a sculptor-
painter! Any one whose work grows
under his hand, knows not half the anxie
ty that you, my poor husband, undergo.
irue, my love. auite true: but I am
proud of my power to do what a sculptor
nor painter could never do. It requires
some nerve, some self controlling power,
1 assure you, to make a mass ot such stub
born material as I hare to work, malt into
a perfect figure."
And you have the nerve, I know, Wil-
helm ; but this hut grand work, I fear,
will tax you too much. But I will not talk
to you. Lie down and sleep." 1
And Muller. overcome with so many
nights acd days of excitement and expo
sure to alternate heat and cold, aa he di
rected the feeding of the enormous fur
nace, standing in draughts of air through
the chilly October nights, and fevered with
anxiety, threw himself into a large chair,
and closed the weary eyes whose lids were
so heavy.
It was now quite dark : but Catherine
crept softly to the window, first putting
out the light, lest it should waken hint,
and sat down to watch the brilliant yet fit
ful glow that lighted up the neighboring
roofs and trees, streaming and quivering
from the foundry. For it was Sen wan tha
ler who had undertaken to design the
great work which King Louis L had pro
jectedthat of erecting at Munich a col
ossal statue 01 Havana ; and it was muiier
who had been engaged to carry out the
artist's idea.
Schwanthaler had been three years In
forming his model. It was in clay, and
was sixty-three feet high. The artist was
fortunate in finding a metal founder who
could so truly follow out his idea. Muller
was a man of large capacity, strong per
ceptive facilities, and artistic taste. He
came to his work with a graceful appreci
ation of the honor conferred upon' him,
and a resolution to exceed, if possible,
the expectations of his principals in the
wort
For five days the immense cauldron
which held the metal had been constant
ly watched, the mister taxing his brain to
ascertain the precise amount that would
be required.
There was no judging now long tms
state of things were to last The entire
mass might not arrive at the boiling point
for a week. The air was close ana not as
if a sirocco had passed over the city, and
the poor workmen felt its burning breath ;
yet not a wora or groan aitesieu vaeir suf
ferings. For them, however, there were inter
vals of rest for the master there was no
rest unless the troubled slumber into
which he now fell, might De caiiea so.
His anxiety had been increased by the
after-thought which had occur ed to him
the daring attempt to form the whole into
one grand figure at once, It was a bold
thought, but it was governed by a master
mind. Whenever the molten sea oegan
to boiL iU flood-gates were to be removed.
and its contents would flow into the gi
gantic mould nrecared for its reception.
A single inch of vacuum, a single crack,
even, and the statue would De ruinea.
But Muller slumbered and Agnes
watched. Through the great, wide open
doors of the foundry, she could see, by
the strong light the faces of the six men
nn datv. Their faces, with the dark red
fire quivenng upon them, looked like
those of demons ; and when they stirred
the caldron, it seemed like some horrible
aacrincial rite of nandemonium.
She could distinctly bear tne roar 01 tne
miehtv flame, and every sound struck
npon tbe heart of the devoted little wife ;
f . 1 .1 . 1 K.AW.ifl
ior sne anew kiia. ucr liuinuuiiumuir
cation and disappointment, in case 01
failure, would be intense. And then
Mulleriwas not ncn, and tne pecuniary
loss would half ruin him. She thought or
tbe two sweet child angels, sleeping so
calmly in the room above, unknown to
the cares that hung wearily about their
father ; and she got down softly from her
sear, and put up a wnisperea prayer ior
Wilhelm's succefs.
As she rose from her knees to resume
her watching, the broad glare shone full
upon her face. A moment's earnest look,
and then sho rushed to the chair where
Wilhelm sat in an uneasy slumber.
Oh. wake my husband l she cnea.
"The foundry is on fire!"
In a moment Muller was wide awake,
and thinking that if he ahould try to ex
tinguish the names wun coia water 11
would destroy both furnace and metal, he
rushed to the door and was gone in an
instant.
Another fear seized the wife. In Wil
helm's care for his furnace, might he not
expose his life too recklessly ? Otce she
determined to go to the scene of disaster,
but the sleeping infant mnst not De leu
alone. She obstinately refused to have a
hand maiden in the house, preferring to
work for her husband, while his labor was
so hard. The connnement wouiu nave
been wearing, had not her light, buoyant
spirits triumphed over it
Hhe I an out into tne Bireet, anu neaxu
the people mustering to go to the fire.
She saw two of the neighbors rash out,
and she seized the arm of one and said,
Do nothing until Wilhelm gives tbe
word. I beseech you to remember this,
and keen others from tampering with
the fire to bring destruction upon his
work." . .
She reDested it to others, and assisted
in saving her husband from the accident
he dreaded. When Muner arrived, ne Di
rected the men to put wet clothes upon
the roof, to stifle as much as possible the
flames, for he saw at once that it could not
be extinguished without ruining his work.
The whole building was on fire, lighting
nn the whole midnight sky, from wnicn
the young October moon had long hours
ago disappeared. All at once he cried out
to the men to let the fire burn, for the
metal was beginning to boil.
Breathlessly they waited nntu tne wnoie
teeming mass bubbled up. The burning
heama fell around the caldron, the roof
dropped in, and every heart throbbed al
most audibly aa naiier puiiea me rich
nlnir that confined the metaL and its tor
rent of dark fluid gurgled out into the
mold.
It was a mighty deed for those rude, un
oolished men to do, and they stood with
folded arms and solemn countenances ga-
inir anon their work.
They then extinguished the remains of
the fire, and left the statue in lis coiossai
cradle to harden into perfection. Muller
went home, all traces of fatigue or anxie
ty having left him. It was near morning;
but Agnes made him go to bed, where he
Blent for hours the sweetest sleep he had
ever known.
As there had been prayers for the suc
cessful issue of the work, so now there
was thanksgiving that no accident had
maned the ior that was universally ex
oressed. The workmen naa neen kept
from harm, and the noble statue, ten times
the height of man, met the approbation
of the King and its designer. Mailers for
tunes wera mended oy this revelation 01
his oowers. and the little wife grew
Drouder and prouder of her husband. On
the 11th of October they each year hold a
high festival ia commemoration of that
eventrol night
A Strong Case.
A fat old gentleman, who had been
bit in the calf or his leg by a dog, came
to Jonah in a towering passion, declaring
it was Jonah J dog who had bitten him.
Exnecting an action for damages, the wag
drew ud the following articles as the
irronrid for his defense :
L Bv testimony in favor of the general
good conduct of my dog, I can prove that
nothing could make him so forgetful of
his dignity as to bite a "caiL
2. lieu blind, ana cannot see to mte.
3. Even if he could see to bite, it would
be utterly impossible for him f go out of
the way to do so. on apoqat ? bis severe
lamenes".
4 Granting hi etrs. acd lgs to be
' good, he has no teeth.
8. My dog a tea six weexs nace.
6. 1 never had a dog.
Florida plants sweet po' aloes In the
fill and gathers ihtra to He ipriog.
FACTS AID I1&CSZ3.
L T -
Tsra national debt of Great Brifcli U '
80,861,0(17.
Tw"TT TBTtam bridges in Peoria e" n
ty Hi, were carried off by the r X
raina. .... . ... . - , , ,.
To kjrrr four American artiste ex
hibited thirty-one pictures at the recent '
art display in Paris.
Tn city of New York pays $300 per
year to policemen who are retired from
active service.
Motjht Wbttskt, in California, 15.000
feet high, is said to be the highest peak in
X!
S Boston Directory for izbd contains ,
5.000 store names than that or 1868 ; the
Chicagone, 13,000.
Thk UnversalisU have a member is
Bristol, N. Ywho statedly gives to mis- "
sinn work one pet cent of his income.
Ida Lswis receives many as 75 calls
a day, aud visitors embarrass her by com
ing before the breakfaot things are cleared
ofli, , . -V . . i : : 1
Thb total valuation of the reol and per
sonal property of Nebraska exceeds S40L-
JU (AA T . . A .-.. ' -
wu,uw. ia jcm u was t3 J,UUU.UUGv.
Thk New York papers ny that a latlUt
years of age was arrested lot refusing to"4-
support his wife, a girl of 14. They
were married a year ago.
Rkv. Dr. SPAtrLOiKO is the oldest Br
ing Missionary of the American Board.
ue n 76 years or age, ana nis Deen a
missionary in Ceylon since 1819.
In Great Britain to a population of 24,-
363,000 persons, there are 33 200 minis
ters of all denominations, 34.700 churches .
and chapels.
ALondoit merchant has been fined .
20 and costs for sending five packages of
vunpowderby rail without notifying 01 .
the contents.
Thx Protestant population in the Aus-
train Emoire amounts to 3,140,380, of
horn 1,220,083 are Lutherans and 1,912,-
247 are of the reformed faith.
In 1363 the consumption of flour in
Paris amounted to 2.000.060 quintals
(456,000,000 pounds), which is equal to
about 615.000,000 pounds of bread. .
A cmzaN of Belfast Me., who had not
seen his son for eight years, and supposed
him dead, recognized him as one or tne
acrobats in a circus which exhibited in
that city a few days ago.
A Cincinnati paper claims that one of
the main reasons why the Red Stockings
have vanquished every base ball oppo
nent is because they use no intoxicating
drinks.
Two New York butchers were the con
testants in a recent calf-dressing match
for $500. The winner dressed fivecalvea
in a superior manner in 29J minutes.
A Frkncbman. Monsieur Blum, has
adapted to his velocipede a pair of ssila,
and in a fair wind skims along like a ter
restrial nautilus, at a rate exceeding the
greatest speed hitherto attained with the
ordinary vehicle propelled by the feet
Taa Hartford Covrant says: A .
minister of the Gospel in a neighboring '
State has been detected in deliberately
swindling a Hartford insurance company
to the amount of about two thousand dol
lars, and only through the leniency of the
company does he escape the Penitentiary. -
Tit Prince of Wales his over 53,ww
a year from the Duchy of Cornwall, 40,-
000 a year from Parliament, the interest
npon the io'.u.wv savea aanng an mi
nority, and if report be true, an addi-'
tional payment of 40,000 a year recently
made by tne yaeen ior state purposes.
Onb Warren Warner, keeper of a " gen
teel" gambling-house in Cleveland, Ohio,
has been convicted of gambling for a
living and sentenced to the severest pen
alty allowed by law : Imprisonment in
the county fail for six months, to pay a
fine of $500, and the coats of the prosecu
tion, Thx Hungarian soldiers, by a recent
government order, have been permitted
to work in the harvest fields for a period
of three weeks. Each employer is re
quired to pay to the government three
and a haif kreutzers, or fifteen cents, a
day, for the wear and tear of the clothes
worn by the soldiers.
Thb locksmith who picked the lock on
the outer door of the vault of the Ocean
Bank, New York, has repeated the feat,
the lock having been set this time as it was
on the night of the robbery. He was at
the work about four hours, and after he
had finished said that he would open the
lock at any other combination in half an
hour.
Thb New York Timet is said to have re
ceived, since Mr. Raymond's death, an ay.
alanrha of nronositions from would-be
editors. They are classified as follows:
Persons willing to be managers, ,X5i ;
financial editors, 5.670; leader-writers,
665 ; theatrical critics, 2 076 ; reporter, 1 ;
night editors, 0 ; errand boys, u.
Ammoniac powder, a new material ror
blasting purposes, has been succesrttliy
employed iu Sweden. Its properties are
aaite remarkable from their inconsistency
. . . . . - - . ' 1 . V . 1
wun eacn oiner. it is aaiu m iw
bines considerable eiplosive force with a
tardy inflammability; that it cannot bo
exploded by percussion ; and that it does
not deteriorate irom tne enecia 01 cunuw.
The Roman Catholics claim in Massa
chusetts a population of 350,000, who are
provided witn lz cnurcnes, Dcsiaca o
buildings, 86 chapels and stations, 155
priests, 83 clerical students, 3 male and 15
female institutions, 5 855 scholars in their
2 colleges, 3 lsdies' seminaries and 13 pa
rochial free scnoois, o nospuaia, a asy
lums with 650 orphans, and 12 benevolent
and charitable institutions.
Doctor Bouhm. a celebrated German
surgeon, has just perfl rmed the operation
of separating two icmaie cnuoren, bto
years of age, who were joined together in
the same manner as the Siamese twins.
The German papers state that the opera
tion was attended with perfect success,
bat one of the patients seems to have died
the same day. The survivor is in good
health.
Thk total Italian population in the
United States varies from 180,000 to 200,
000; more than 35,000 are settled in the
Pacific States; from 12,000 to 15,000 in
New York ; 10,000 in New Orleans, and
a large number of Italians are equally to
be found in St Louis, Memphis, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Louis
ville, and all the large cities in the Union,
Ai St Joseph, La, a few days ago, an
alligator was killed which measured
twelve and a hair leet in ungin, iour nnu
a half feet around the stomach, and one
and three-fourths feet across the back
His mouth measured nine inches inside
eighteen inches from jawbone to jawbone ;
two feet from tip of mouth to his eyes ;
eight inches between the eyes. His feet
were two feet long; he hwi ?ixty-four
rings from neck to end of tail, and werg4
four hundred and twenty-five poonda,
Thkrs is " shoddy" in glass as well aa
in woolen fabrics. Coosumersof kerosene
are sometimes almost discouraged, so fre
quently do chimneys break, without any
apparent cause, rendering the cost of
chimneys about equal to that of ofl.
Cheapness being tbe order of the day, a
a great many manufacturers make chim
neys from silicate of lime instead of lead.
The initiated may tell the different quali
ties of glass by ringing them ; the vibra
tions of the lead glass have a clear, ring
ing, bell-like sound, possessing the requi
site strength to withstand expansion and
contraction, as well as the genera) pres
sure of use, and will outlast half a dozen
of the lime glass chimneya Exchange.
A totjuo lad at Lake Station, Miss had
a large kite presented to him, about six
feet by four in size, which he attempted
to fly the other day just as the wind was
increasing and a storm was threatening.
The wind drew the kite so heavily as to
drag the boy along also. To prevent los
ing his favorite, he wound tbe cord around
his body. At last the wind bore the kite
and boy upward, until the young kite flyer
caught in the top of a tree, and was sus
pended seventy-five feet above the ground.
A flood of rain came on, slackening the
line, abating the wind, and allowing the
little sufferer to be rescued, lie was found
to be unconscious, and so bruised and
marred as to be scarcely recognized, but
was restored the same evening and is now
doing well
Thb Detroit Free Frett says that about
six weeks ago a barber, named William
Brewster, ot Chatham, Ontario, wasealJed
to shave a man whose death was occa
sioned by lung fever, and the instrument
was afterward laid by, to be used no more
asarasnr. But being one morning with
out a knife, and desiring to sharpen his
pencil, Brewster used the razor for the
purpose, and during the operation cut a
slight gash in the left fore-finger. Ia an
hour or two the member commenced ach
ing, and continued to grow worse and
worse until tbe whole hand and arm were
fearfully swollen, and the flesh, ia spots,
assumed a mottled appearance. Having
dnetond for four weeks without sue
il among the ohtsicians at CI
firewater came to Deroit to seek
reiie.'.
3, and
He had lost the entire use cf the ana. 1
it had swollen to four times us zzssmf
rize, tbe flesb emitting 1 bsd g&cQi -
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