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"POETRY.
A TWILIGHT MEMORY.
Ocktlt fen tte twDlsat shadows
O'er the sunset's aoollow Kht,
' And w nt the angels liifhtinj.
. One by one.lhe lamp of night.
I am tired." my staling whlxperod, '
" And I lone se much to sleep ;" .
I could hear the robins calling.
From the shadows don and deep. '
Hold me on tout bosom, mother;"
Paint and low her whispered words,
Bat torn the j held the manic
vi a thousand singing birds.
And I held her to my bosom.
Close against my aching breast.
Bat the mother-arms ahoat ner
Could not oath her into rest-
lnethe dear old cradle ballad
That you used to sins to se
When roa hashed me into slumber
And 1 sat upon your knee.
Then I sane the simple ditty
- To itt old familiar sir.
Whils my eyes were dim md handed
By the tears that gathered there :
" Hash, any child. He still and slumber,
. Holy smreh rnsrd thy bed,
Heevenly Messing without number
Gently tolling on thy head."
Then a lisrht shone oh so softly I
From the shadows of the west.
And It touched my darling's eyelids
With the blessed balm of rest.
Oh. that Usrhtl so mild and tender I
I hare often thought since then
That an anori touched my darling,
And he charmed away her pain ;
For she slept the lat sweet slumber
That a weary mortal knows.
And ber bee grew strangely quiet
In a deep and calm repose.
Yes. she slept, to wake at morning
On the calm. Eternal Shore
Ton new and strange existence.
Full of rest for evermore.
(Met a MontA.
MISCELLANEOUS.
History or a Waif.
During the peat flood of 1847, when the
Ohio river bo Sir overleaped the bounds of
propriety as to come up to jearl street
without any invitation, a great many
dwellings located on the riverbanks were
swept away and came floating down upon
the pitiless tide. Loss of life not un fre
quently attended these disasters, as when
a family, unconscious of their dancer, were
asleep in their beds when the waters rose
about their house and lifting it from its
foundations bore it away amid the dark-
ness and the turbulent flood.
On the left bank of the . Ohio at that
time, between Marietta and Pomeroy,
stood an humble dwelling occupied by a
small farmer and his wife, together with
five children, the youngest an infant girl a
mm; over a. year oia. i ue river roo du
ring the night while the family were in
bed. i ne rocking of the house as the
surging waters claimed it, awoke the in
mates, and through great and hasty exer
tion the farmer was enabled to get all his
lauiuy, as lie supposed, to a niaceofsafetv.
though he lost everything else. Standing
n. a little eminence near by he saw,
through the gloom of that dreadful night,
Lis house with all its contents yield itself
to the grasping avaricious flood and float
down the river, where It was soon lost in
darkness. He supposed that all were
naved, but alas, it was soon discovered that
their infant girl was missing.
In the confusion and excitement of the
moment the baby was left asleep on its
bed, and had been swept awav to destruc
tion with the house. Great was the grief
i me parents at me loss oi tneir youngest
born, and although due efforts were made
to learn whether or not she had been res
cued, nothing was heard of her, and it was
very naturally supposed that she was
drowned in the river.
Such, however, was not her fate. A
hundred miles below where his dwelling
was swept away, some people on the
river bank the next morning saw some
thing peculiar floating down on the cur
rent. They thought it was the form of an
infant A boat was procured and the ob
ject was indeed found to be an infant girl,
deeping calmly and profoundly upon a
bed.
She w as taken in charge by a family in
the vicinity, who took such means as they
knew to ascertain to whom the child be
longed, but there was no clue to guide
them, and soon the little waif that had
floated down to them came to be considered
as their own child. They ad( pted her the
more readily, perhaps, on account of being
themselves childless, and because of their
sympathies being so greatly excited by the
peculiar circumstances of the case n in
fant floating all that night of terrible storm,
amid wrecks and bridges and dwellings,
protected from danger by an unseen
jtower, that seemed to direct her to their
love and care. It may seem strange to the
reader that the parents were not found for
the child, or the whereabouts of the
child made known to them, but it
must be remembered that newspapers
were not so numerous or accessible twenty
years or so ago, as now, and that people
lidn't advertise the lost as they do now.
Besides, all the parties were in humble
life, and their circle of acquaintance, as
well as their means, was very limited.
Meanwhile the waif grew into a beauti
ful girl, and became as dear to her adopted
parents as though she were their own.
She had mourned for "mamma" a little
time, but, ere long, all recollections of her
early surroundings were but dim and
shadowy, and her new home became all-n-all
to her. A few years and the family
moved into Illinois, settling on a farm near
Chicago. The man prospered there, and
was enabled to give his beautiful Ohio
river foundling an education fitting her
graces of person, her amiability and her
virtues. A short time ago her hand was
nought in marriage by a worthy young
farmer in the vicinity of where she lived,
consent obtained, and the happy day ajv
poiuled. One day the family were in Chi
cago purchasing her wedding outfit. At
a dry goods store a clerk who was wait
ing on them observed our heroine intent
ly, and seemed singularly affected so
much so as to attract attention.
" Excuse me," he said, in some confu
sion, addressing the young lady, "don't be
offended at my staring at you, but the
truth is you are a perfect picture of a sis
ter of mine at home, and I couldn't help
thinking you looked just as another sister
of mine would have looked, who was
swept down the Ohio in a great freshet
and lost."
The words attracted the attention of the
young lady's adopted parents. The resem
blance spoken of, and the incident of the
freshet taken in conjunction, could hardly
have failed to do that. Explanations fol
lowed, and it was pretty satisfactorily con
cluded that the clerk and the young lady
were brother and sister, as indeed, was
afterward proved to be the case.
Iler parents, too, had emigrated to Illi
nois, and lived not far from her own home.
The families were brought together, and
what was liefore believed to be true, was
established beyond question, when the bed
on which the child was found was pro
duced, and the garments she wore; for
what frugal house-wife would'nt recognize
one of her own beds, and what mother
would not remember the garments worn
by her favorite baby?
There is little more to tell Our heroine
was married to the husband of her choice
last week, and had the satisfaction of hav-1
ing her own as well as her adopted parents
at the wedding. We don't consider it nec
essary to give the names of the parties,
but the story is a true one, and we hare
the facts from one who is tlroughly con
versant with them. Cincinnati Times, Au
gust 12.
- Another Dodge.
Somebody from New York, signing
himself as Secretary of the Merchant's
Union Law Company, has been sending
circulars to the lawyers in this vicinity
and throughout the country, asking them
for the location of their business, residence,
date of admission to the bar, and other
items, which he states he desires for the
purpose of using them in the new law
register and official directory for 1870, and
further stating that the book is to contain
such information in regard to every law
yer in the United States. Upon receiving
this information he sends another circular
with the following preface: "If you do
not remit the required subscription of ten
dollars toward defraying the excnses of
publication, and for a copy of the work,
the following particulars must necessarily
be omitted therefrom.'' The particulars
referred to are those previously requested
to be sent New JIueen Courier.
Mrs. Eleanor R. Campbell, of Kansas
City, Missouri, gives notice in the papers
there, that she will release all her interest
in a large amount of property, sold recent
ly by her deceased husband, and conveyed
by deds which omitted to convey her
dower. She proposes to do this without
fee or reward, "not wishing to make
money at the expense, or by the mistake
of others, but to do unto all as she
would have them do unto her.
There Is a project at Indianapolis to
buy forty or fifty acres near the city and
build up a large manufacturing town de
voted exclusively to agricultural machine
worki and the residences of the workmen.
V
1
By Alfred S. Horsley.
MOTION AXD IMMENSIKOFF.
BT A 8KOWVA3f.
When I traveled in the country with a
caravan I had a giantess and a dwarf in
my collection of natural curiosities. The
dwarf was a Polish gentleman, Minnikin
by name : the giantess was from Russia.
and we called her Immensikoff, the title of
a music hall song which was in rogue at
the time having suggested an appropriate
alias for her. I did very well with them.
The dwarf had an outrageous temper, and
would sometimes refuse to attend the vis
itors at his levee ; but the giantess was al
ways at hand to supply his place on the
list of attractions. She was the most
amiable creature in the world ; and she
stood seven feet eleven inches nd three
quarters in her slippers, or, s-i'irinir in
rouau numocrs us ve ui ,i rn tne fouls
eight leet six. i no dwarf wa9 turee feet
five, but he cmd bring himself down to
three zi whenever he wss In a good teni
"Jier and the show was fulL In a general
way, however, he may be said to have
been about three feet two. We had all
traveled the Midland Circuit together, and
we were going up North, when an acci
dent happened Minnikin and Inlinensi-
aott eloped.
It happened In this way. Minnikin,
being a man, had naturally cot an ascend
ancy over Immensikoff 's mind, and nsed
this power to borrow half-crowns of hef
when his own purse was low. This hap
pened very often, for, although he drew
an enormous salary, he lived above his in
come, and as he could not hold enough to
eat and drink his money away, he gambled
with cards, and played at billiards, Hand
ing on a chair, till ft was all f one, and he
was pretty deeply in debt. When he left
the chair in the billiard room it was only
to mount on anotner in the parlor of the
caravan and whisper an order, rather than
a request,' into the eafofthe benevolent
giantess for a loan to pay for his dinner.
She used to declare that there was some.
thing in his eye which made it impossible
for her to refuse him ; and so she would al
ways dip into the old school satchel in
wuicn ue Kept ner savings, ana give mm
what he wanted. He would then eat a
whole kidney for his supper, and drink a
cruetful of wine, and when the latter had
got into his head, would make such a
commotion in the tent that to pacify him
she was generally obliged to give him a
shilling more. lie saw her dip so often in
the satchel that he fancied its contents
were proportioned to its size; and one
day, he, as it were, ordered her to marry
him, which she was too weak to refuse to
do. He told her to keep their intention a
secret from me, and she obeyed, although
I had hitherto been her chosen confidant
Taking advantage of my absence in the
town, he ordered a van to be sent round
to the door of the caravan one evening, as
if some furniture were to be removed, and
by this means conveyed her to a neigh
boring railway station. Mean to the last,
he made her pay the expenses of her own
elopement, for the van was discharged
with her money. When I came back I
found nobody but the jaguar in the tent,
and a note written on a sheet of brown
paper from Immensikoff, asking my for
giveness. I was angry enough at the moment, as
may be supposed, but I made the best of
it ; and what with turning myself into an
aborigine, and advertising the beast as a
tiger, I managed to keep a roof over my
head. But I always kept on the lookout
lor a new giantess i made up my mind to
have no more to do with dwarfs and one
day, some months after my loss, I found
one on show in a very inferior locality of
the town of Portsmouth. I paid my penny,
and went in. It was Miss Immensikoff!
She gave a sob when she saw me that
rnghtened the people out, and when they
were cone she gave full vent to her feel
ings, till the very glasses in the room
seemed to share her sorrow.
O, how changed she was! Profession
ally, perhaps, the change was for the bet
ter, lor she was now so thin that she
looked at least nine feet high ; but as a
woman it was painful to behold ner. In
spite of her looks, however, I told her I
hoped I saw her in good health, and I
even inquired after her husband. The
mention of his name soon brought her
whole story to her lips. He was alive and
depraved as ever, and had lately quite
given up exhibiting, and had taken to
playing nine-pins with a cricket-ball, in
which sport he was engaged when I found
his wife.
nis sole object in marrying her had, it
appears, been to live on her earnings, and
do no work himself, for there was nothing
he hated so much as keeping himself clean
for company. But he very soon discov
ered that her slender store would not suf
fice to support his extravagance for a
month, for, careful as she had been, she
had long had to send remittances to her
father and uncle in Podolia both giants
besides ministering to her suitor's wants.
He had simply been deceived by the size
of the bag in which she kept her savings,
and he was mean enongh to be revenged
on her for the failure of his own mercena
ry calculations. Forgetting that he had
undertaken to cherish and protect her, he
began to treat her with studied cruelty,
though for a time this cruelty was not of
such a character as made it easy for her
to complain. He was simply neglectful,
and appeared to be unconscious of the ex
istence of his wife ; and one day, when,
having just touched her brow "with his
lips in response to her tearful entreaty, he
was aked if that was the kiss of duty or
the kiss of affection, he replied that he
declined to answer the question.
Thenceforth he threw off all conceal
ment and all restraint, and, like the wolf
in the fable, never suffered himself to be
at a loss for the indulgence of his 111
wllL Her housewifely care was some
thing remarkable, and 'when, after prying
into all the angles of their lodging, he
failed to find any dust which had escaped
her broom, he would turn round and bit
terly taunt her with the partition of Po
land, as if she had had a hand in that
crime ; and lie would positively ask her
what she thought of the battle of Warsaw
when she ventured to remonstrate with
him for playing at loo till two o'clock in
the morning.
Sometimes his ill treatment seemed to
be -dictated by the most fiendish malignity.
Under pretence of liking fresh-cooked
food, he would order her to make a pud
ding for the dinner of a size proportiona
ble to his own appetite and nature, and,
halving this meagre dish with the pen
knife which he used at table, would ironi
cally bid her " fall to" on a portion that,
while it was ample enough to serve for his
necessities, would not make her a decent
mouthful. It was the same with the food
of the mind ; she had a taste for the beau
ties of our literature, and was accustomed
to enjoy the classics in folios, but he in
sisted on her reading them in diamond
editions. - -
These were the main points of the story
she told me, with many tears, and in a
manner that would have touched a heart
of stone. When she paused she drew out
a handkerchief to wipe her eyes, and in
doing so, she accidentally brought out of
her pocket a garment which turned out to
be the dwarf's great-coat, and which had
found its way there in a manner she could
not account for, except that she had taken
it up unknowingly in one of those period
ical fits of mental distraction caused by
her husbaad's brutal behavior. It often
happened, she informed me, that she fell
into little mistakes of this kind in tidying
up the place; but Minnikin made no al
lowance for them; on the contrary, they
aonroH hm as excuses for further ill-treat
ment; and he had once indulged in horrid
excesses of violence because she had inad
vertently made an apron-string of his
dress-cravat
I took my leave of her without waiting
to see the dwarf, and told her in all sin
cerity how sorry I felt to see her thus
placed in the power of a tyrant I felt that
whatever my own misfortunes were in
losing her services, they were as nothing
compared with her own surrendering her
freedom and happiness to a wretch who
did not know the value of his position ; and
I was so anxious to be of service to her
that I made up my mind to open my own
noor show at the other end or the town, in
order that I might have an opportunity of
seeing her from time to time. I aid so,
and made several calls, paying for admis
sion each time, for I was determined to be
in no way beholden to a man I detested.
HE
It was beautiful to see hef In the inter
vals of the levees trying to become a good
; e . t: itt uk - - -, . . .
wue io ittinuisio, uui ouy penorming me
household work with the neatest m
and making the puddings so small that they
iuua,cu iis.e uumpungs in ner nana, put
even trying to bring her capacious mind
into harmony wien the narrow under
standing of her lord. Her vieWs were
naturally broader than Ms, for his head
was certainly not larger than a Spanish
onion, tout she tried to narrow them by all
the means in her power, and sometimes she
succeeded by a treat effort fti forming
false Judgment 6 one of the subjects of
alt a J.aa, til . . .
t would bring this out along
v i.u uic materials tor nis supper, ana u ne
deigned to say that he was inclined to be
of her opinion, the headache it had cost
her to blunt her fine perceptions and to
do violence to her conscience Would Im
mediately pass awav.
But all to no pttfnose. One day I called
Upon her and found her so agitated she
Could scarcely speak. That morning the
ruffian had added personal violence to his
other crimes. He loved to dabble in house
hold affairs, and she was holding him on
hef arm, according to custom, trmiable
him to clean the windows of their dwell
ing. when an opinion she chanced to ex
press in favor of the abolition of the slave
trade in Brazil excited his ire, and he
struck ber a mow on the bead with so
much force that it hart his thumb. :
I could endure it no longer. Great as
was my reluctance to interfere actively in
the quairels of a married pair, I felt con
strained to give her certain advice. She
said it was is novel as it was terrible to
her thoughts : and she at first felt extreme
lv reluctant to take it I made her promise
me, however, before we parted that, she
would give it a trial.
Exulting in the license riven to his evil
nature by the removal of the last barrier
to the free course of his temper which
duty and manly feeling had imposed, the
dwarf renewed his threats of ill-treatment
on his return home that night from a
carouse, and the next morning he com
manded the trembling woman, in a voice
of thunder, to take him np in her arms
again that he might finish the top panes.
In vain she suggested a pair of steps; he
was inexorable, and told her to hold her
tongue. Unfortunately, it was impossible
for her to control her eyes. He was using
the dry duster with great energy to im
part the final polish, when he discovered
on it traces of a tear which it had caught
as it lay in its resting-place on her shoulder.
He turned savagely and was about to strike
her again, when she very deliberately let
him fall ; and in less than a minute he
came to the ground with a horrible noise.
Half stunned as he was, however, he
was about to rise for retaliation, not doubt
ing that his punishment was owing to her
inadvertence, when she saved him the ef
fort by lifting him in mid-air with one
hand, in the same way as one lifts a favor
ite cat, and, with the other, belaboring
him till the dust flew out of nis little coat
She then, although it was early in the day,
put him to bed, and ordered him
not to utter a syllable for his life.
He was so much astonished and so
frightened that hitherto he had not been
able to speak ; but no sooner did he find ,
himself in temporary quiet than he made an
effort to regain his moral supremacy by
opening his mouth. But his wife at once
assumed a determined expression of coun
tenance, and he gave way. He hid his
head beneath the bedclothes, and lay quite
still in that position the rest of the day. It
was quite a revelation to mm tnat sue
could hit so hard, and he reflected on it
with considerable profit
As for the gentle creature who had ad
ministered the lesson to him, as soon as
her first excitement was over, she felt
quite broken down, and she was obliged to
close the show for the day, "in conse
quence of the indisposition of the proprie
tor," as the notice stated. After she had
done that, and placed a little refreshment
on a chair by Minnikin's bedside, she
withdrew to her own room, where she
spent some time in weeping over a love
letter written on the back of a railway
ticket and a little wisp of hair, which
were the sole memorials of affection she
had ever received from her cruel lord.
She was sorry, and, if the truth must be
told, afraid, for such was the influence of
habit that it was difficult for her to divest
herself of the belief that Minnikin was
physically, as well as morally, the very
emlKtdiment of irresistible force. She
thought her present victory over him was
entirely due to chance and her own wild
temerity, and she fully expected to feel the
weight of his vengeance on the morrow.
At the very moment these reflections were
passing through her mind, Minnikin was
asking himself in a kind of sickening ter
ror whether it was likely she would beat
him again that day. So that each, as we
see, knowing nothing of the fright of the
other, was ready to give in ; and victory
was only awaiting to declare for the first
claimant
Matters were in this state, when Immen
sikoff, with scarcely concealed terror, en
tered the room where Minnikin lay, in
the morning, and began making the prepa
rations for a simple meaL She carried
the cups and saucers most tenderly lest
their rattle should wake the terrible crea
ture, who, she hoped, was as yet uncon
scious of her presence, for she had not
dared to look. The terrible creature, on
his part, was awake enough, and was
noiselessly shifting about beneath his
coverlet in order to obtain the best pos
sible position for receiving what he did
not doubt would be the speedy visitation
of that dreaded hand. He had gradually
advanced one eye beyond the coverlet, and
then the other, and finally had brought his
little nose to light It was much changed
since yesterday. Anxiety writes its record
on this feature more than anv other. It
was round at the end, and flushed with in
solence and wine the morning before; but
now you could have picked np seed with
it it was brought to such a point, and all
its color had fled. It was at the moment
that the nose appeared that Immensikiff,
stealing a timid glance towards the bed,
beheld it standing sharply defined between
two eager eyes.
Women are not always good physiog
nomists. She thought the nose boded
fury and dire revenge, and all her little
remnant of firmness gave way. She ran
hastily across the apartment and was
about to tender a weak woman's submis
sion to authority upon her knees, when,
to her inexpressible surprise, the dwarf
bounded from his bed with a yell of ter
ror, and throwing himself at her feet, im
plored mercy in the most abject terms, and
Eromised repentence and amendment. He
ad simply mistaken her intention, and
he was conquered. She was sensible
enough to conceal her real feelings, and
she obtained from him the most solemn
guarantees of good behavior before she
allowed him to get up and take his break
fast. .
When I called three days after, I found
the dwarf for the first time at home, and
attending to his work. He was industri
ously exhibiting himself as Napoleon and
as Cupid, while his wife was taking the
repose so necessary after her protracted
exertions. He took me in to see her
"Poppit," and she seemed to be complete
ly happy.
They are both now at work in my shop
again, and a more affectionate couple does
not exist. She often thanks me, when
Minnikin is out of hearing, for teaching
her that it is sometimes good to pay the
oppressor in his own coin. CatsdXt Maq
ceins. Spectrum Analysis.
Bktokd all comparison, the most bril
liant and startling conquest which the
human mind has yet made over the domain
of nature, consists of that group of dis
coveries which is described by the term
Spectrum AnaLysi. It provokes amaze
ment in every aspect In the first place,
the developments have been made with a
rapidity that is almost astounding; the
whole thing has been done in ten years.
Dr. Wollaston discovered, in the year 1802,
that by looking carefully at the solar spec
trum with a spy-glass, dark lines could be
seen crossing it In 1815, Fraunhofer, a
German optician, rediscovered and made
a map of several hundreds of them, and
from that time they were called, after him,
Fraunhofer' line. But few supposed that
there was the slightest possible signifi
cance in them ; they were regarded as
mere optical curiosities, haying no higher
fOfJ 3-, .? - f t :
UOLU
COLUMBIA,
use than to serve as landmarks for meas
uring the spaces of the colored spectrum.
But in 1839j the two German chemists,
iurcnon ana uunsen, made the capital dis
covery that each chemical element when
burning in a flame, gave out a light that
had its peculiar marks or iine so that
thee lities could become a means of de
tecting the element A totally new mode
of chemical analysis was thus hit upon,
far more delicate than anything hitherto
anown, ana a method, moreover, which
Was capable of becoming a recelator of the
. -A.. . 1 1 f .
uiKwouvn m vie universe, inemisiiy, at
a single stroke, was fused with astronomy.
and the universal agent of light became
the powerful servant of the laboratory.
. At the very first step, several new ele
ments were discovered, the existence of
which had never before been suspected.
Examining with the spectrum the ash of
some mineral waters, Prof. Bunson thought
he saw some lines which did not belong to
the substances already known. He then
boiled down forty-four tons of Durkheim
Borlnff water, and got a counle of hundred
grains of residue, from which he extracted
two new metals, Caesium and Rubidium,
which resemble potassium. This- Rubi
dium has since been found in the ash of
oak, of bee '.-root, of tobacco, coffee, tea,
and cocoa.
The spectrum analysis, however, is not
a mere instrument of original chemical
research ; it has a 4 practical applicability.
i ne .Bessemer process, as it is called, is a
method of converting cast iron directly
into stceL Cast iron contains more carbon
than steel, and it is converted into steel by
burning this carbon out of the molten
white-hot mass by a blast of atmospheric
air. In this operation five tons of cast
iron are converted in twenty minutes into
five tons of cast steeL But the success of
the process depends upon being able to
stOD it at iust the right time. If contin
ued ten seconds too long, or stopped ten
seconds too quickly, the batch is spoiled.
The flame, of course, is an index of the
advance of the combustion, and, by watch
ing it with the spectroscope, the appear
ance and disappearance of the lines indi
cate the exact moment at wiucn tne opera
tion is to be arrested.
The spectroscope promises also to be
come a very valuable instrument in medico
legal investigations into the evidences of
cnnunauiy. Xkioou-siaius may ue ueiect
ed by it with extreme delicacy. Mr. Sorby
has shown that the one-thousandth part of
a grain of the red-coloring matter ot a blood
stain may be detected with the greatest
certainty.
But it is in its celestial applications that
the spectroscope has performed its most
wonderful achievements. The constitu
tion of the sun.for example, which, ten years
ago, was a matter of the purest conjecture,
is now a matter of definite and positive
knowledge. We know what it is composed
of its chemical constituents not as com
pletely, but with the same certainty, as we
know the chemical constitution of the
earth. Sixteen of the elements with which
we are familiar upon earth, are proved
also to exist in the atmosphere of the sun.
They are the following : sodium, calcium,
barium, magnesium, iron, chromium,
nickel, copper, zinc, strontium, cadmium.
cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, aluminum,
titanium.
The stars have also been subjected to
spectroscopic study with equal success.
They are skown to resemble our sun, their
light coming from white-hot matter in
their atmospheres. About eighty lines in
the spectrum of the light from Aldebaran
have been mapped, and it has been ascer
tained that the atmosphere of this star
contains sodium, magnesium, hydrogen,
bismuth, tellurium, antimony and mercury.
binus contains sodium, magnesium, iron
and hydrogen. About sixty other stars
have been examined, and all seem to have
some chemical element known on earth.
Appkton't Journal.
Love, Jealousy and Bce-Stlngs,
The presence of the green-eyed monster
is as frequently perceived in high as in low
estate. Pretty young ladies are, it is said,
peculiarly liable to the queer disease. It
creeps into their hearts in such insidious
disguises that the artless little beauties are
not aware of its existence until it crops out
in such passionate excesses that it frightens
them to contemplate it.
No doubt it was in precisely such a way
that a young lady on Franklin street, Al
bany, became amenable to its influence.
For some time past she has regarded a
youth with special favor. Charlie possesses
many attractive qualities. He dresses in
the latest mode, wears an " Alpine," and
cultivates a moustache. Yet he is fickle in
disposition, and while his lips are attuned
to the harmony of sweet words, and a low,
passionate recital of love's anguish for
the fair Julia's ears, his mind is enumerat
ing the attractions of the pretty little
widow around the corner.
Now, this widow is no friend of Julia or
she of her. For her life she can't see what
Charlie admires in her. Indeed, Charlie
denies any special interest in the coquettish
beauty, but he goes to see her none the
less. The fact that Julia disapproved it
had no effect in changing his practice, and
longing with a woman's curiosity to know
what it meant, Julia determined to find it
out She forgot her self-respect, and be
came a spy. The pretty Julia became an
eaves-dropper.
Seeing Charlie entering the front door
of the cozy little cottage wherein the
widow abided, she hastened to admit her
self into the yard by the rear gate, and
peeped in at the window. Just under
neath the window, however, was a little
square box, on which Julia stood to get a
good look into the room. Her worst fears
were realized. On a sofa just large
enough for two, the pretty widow and
Charlie sat, with heads inclined, and a
low, monotone issuing from the lips of
either, telling, as plainly as words might
have done, of love a confessions.
Julia stepped back, the box turned
over, and innumerable angry little insects
issuing, proclaimed it a bee-hive. Of
course they stung ber. Fierce as mimic
warriors the angry little demons laid hold
of her sliapely extremities, popping a
sting into the plump little hand, another
in the rounded cheek, and even the silken
hose were no! protection to the exquis
itely fashioned ankle. She rolled on the
ground and crushed ruthlessly in mud and
mire her hands, feet and body.
The house was alarmed and the inmates
came rushing out to learn the cause of the
uproar. Even the impudent Charlie
looked cunningly over the widow's
shoulders; but that might be pardoned,
had he not asked sympathetically, " if the
bees had stung her?" Hartshorn and
camphor were called into requisition, and
Julia, swathed in flannels and poisoned by
the sting of the bees, consigns both Char
lie and the widow to very disagreeable
lives hereafter. Albany Evening Journal.
Effects of Candy on Children,
As the town enlarges and the confec
tionery shops increase, I see more and
more the ill effects of candies on child
ren.
"My child is so restless and thirsty at
night said Mrs. B . " What can be
the matter with her stomach?"
"Do you allow her to eat candy!" I
questioned.
"O dear! yes," was the reply. "I
wouldn't deprive her of the happiness of
anticipating and receiving the package of
candy- wnicn uranupa Drings every mgnt
for any thing. She is so fond of candy
that she often prefers it to her dinner. But
you wouldn't believe how much water she
drinks at night I always place a large
pitcherful by my bed, and sometimes she
will drink it all before morning. And then
this thirst makes her so restless and wake
ful, that we are all disturbed by her.
Can't you give her some medicine for her
thirst r
The subject of this appeal was a Blender,
waxen-faced little girl, with thin, sharp
features ; a dusky yellow half-circle under
her eyes ; hands so thin as to be translu
cent, the blue veins standing prominently
out ; the tongue of an angry red color,
showing an inflamed stomach ; pulse irri
table, weak and quick; tenderness over
the stomach ; bowels tumid the group of
symptoms indicating a sub-acute inflam
mation of stomach, excited by indigestible
substances (candies in her case), and fol
lowed necessarily by loss of appetite, thirst,
and an impoverished condition of blood.
I have so frequently had to advise in
this class of cases latterly, that I have
MBIA
TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1869.
learned that success is not tobeattaiend
by a direct attack Upon the candy, but by
a more general argument thus: "You
know that, the stomach of a child is very
delicate, very settsttive-quite as much so
as the eve ! ft will bear milk, and so will
the eye ; but if you add to the milk, pep
per, tne eye Decomes red, and so does the
stomach. Cold water is grateful to the eye.
to relieve this Inflammation, and it Is
equally so to the stomach. Now, candy is
but little less irritating than pepper; it
creates the same redness, the same grade
of inflammation, and there is the same de
mand for water to quench the inextinguish
able flame. In such a stomach, healthy
digestion ceases; the appetite fails; the
blood becomes poor and watery, and the
tissues are all impoverished. It is not the
sugar that does the harm, for cure sugar
is healthy ; it forms part of the milk of
tne intant, and enters iargely into many
of our best vegetables. It is the sugar
mixed witn various other articles, often
poisonous, and the process of manufacture
tnat render candy so injurious.
" You mean to do well by your child, but
you are slowly and certainly effecting her
t . . I.; 1 ' l e . , i
ruiu. ai iuui critical penoa oi ner iiie,
when, for proper development and growth.
she needs a large supply of nourishing and
easuy digested iood, you give ner these de
testable compounds of burnt sugar and
poisons, which not only slowly poison her
system, but worst of all, deprive her of
appetite and even or the power of diges
tion. If yon persist in this course, it is
not dimcuit to predict the result; the
chances that your child will reach woman
hood will be diminished ten-fold; if she
reach adult years, it will not prove adult
life in her case, but rather a dwarfed and
imbecile maturity. Her certain inheritance
will be dyspepsia, a morbid appetite for
crude and indigestible articles, and chronic
and incurable diseases which will render
her irritable and peevish, and lead to pre
mature old age and death in mid-life.
"The cure is certain, and the remedy is
at hand : remove the particle of dust from
an inflamed eye, and the redness soon dis
appears; so cease to apply to the surface
ot uus mnamed stomach' the foreign sub
stance which irritates it and it will re
cover ; the thirst will subside : her apne'
tite will be restored; her lips and cheeks
will become red, and she. will regain the
flesh which belongs to her. An Eminent
t nysman, tn Hearth and Home.
THE MARGATE BATDING WO
MAHT8 LAMENT.,
It nearly broke my widowed art.
When first I took the notion.
The parties didn't as they nsed.
Take reglar to the ocean.j
The hinfanta, darling little soles.
Still cam quite frequent, bless 'em !
Bnt they is only aixpencoe ach.
Which hardly pays to dress 'em.
The reason struck me all at once.
Says I, " It's my opinion.
The grown-up folks no longer bathes,
Because of them vile Sheenions."
The last as cum drest in that style.
Says, as she took it horf her,
" I'm sure I shall not know the way
To re-arrange my quoffur I"
By which she ment the ed of air.
Which call it wot they will. Sir,
Com doubtless off a convict at
Hillbauk or fentonvillc. Sir.
The Farliment should pass a law.
Which there's sufficient reason
That folks as wear the Sheenions should
Bathe reg'lar in the season.
From Punch.
Playing with Edge Tools.
On Wednesday, a lady named Robert
son, living out at the Mission, left her
child, a little boy about 4 years old, play
ing in one ot the rooms ot her house and
went to a house several rods distant After
half an hour's absence she returned, and
on entering the house she beheld a sight
that nearly made her heart cease to beat
There on the floor sat the little boy Harry,
nis lace, hands and clothing covered w ith
blood, and bleeding profusely from a num
ber of deep and gaping wounds. In his
hands he held an open razor, which he
showed to his mother on her entering the
room, and said, "Mamma, I've dot papas'
shaver." It seems that the boy had, by
means of a chair, climbed on the table and
from there had reached his father's razor,
which was in its accustomed place on a
shelf. The nearly distracted mother seized
her child in her arms, and rushing to the
door screamed at the top of her voice for
help. She then laid him down on the bed
and ran to the nearest house, and soon re
turned with a number of neighbors. A
surgeon was sent for, and on arriving
found that little Harry had inflicted
wounds that will disfigure him for life.
There was a wound about three inches long
on one of his cheeks, another deep gash in
the neck, several slight cuts on the face
and hands, and five or six long and deep
wounds on each of the forearms. For
tunately no large arteries were cut San
Francisco Timet.
Embroidery Extraordinary.
A remarkable fine piece of worsted
embroidery on canvas,, representing
"Mary of Scotland Mourning Over the Dy
ing Douglas," has been on exhibition dur
ing the past week in a show window on
Broadway, New York.
It was worked by Mrs. James Bennett,
of Brooklyn, a lady of unusual taste and
artistic ability, who has devoted to it the
principal part of her time during the last
eight months. Its dimensions are 36 by
29 inches, and it contains 686,000 stitches,
and 168 different colors. Fifteen richly
dressed human figures, two horses, a dog,
a group of trees, and a castle, are the
principal features of the picture, which is
worked in what is called "quarter stitch."
that is, the stitches are only one-fourth of
tne usual length; tne Dcst judges, among
the many who have lately examined and
admired this work, suppose that it must
have been done in Europe, inasmuch as
very few America ladies possess the skill
or tite leisure necessary to produce with
tne needle so spirited and perfect a picture.
The Whittemore Brothers pronounce it
by far the most meritorious of the more
than five hundred works of the kind
framed by them, and consider it undoubt
edly one of the finest pieces of embroidery
ever produced in America. It is valued
at $1,500, the Sum refused by a gentleman
on Twentieth street for a larger, but much
more coarsely embroidered, copy of the
same scene. jxew loric irioune.
A Fighting Editor.
The proprietors of the Boston Saturday
evening express nave recently engaged
the services, as a permanent fixture of
their establishment, of a fighting editor.
Theythus announce the fact:
" We have the sublime pleasure to an
nounce to the deputy State constables,
and all others interested, that we have en
gaged at an immense salary, one of the in
dispensable adjuncts to an independent
newspaper esiabiisnment to wit a fight
ing editor. This course has been taken" by
us in order that we may have an equal
show with all belligerents who desire to
get proper satisfaction for anything we
may say. The gentleman engaged for this
purpose informs us that he has been in the
business for some fifteen years, and that he
is fully competent to attend to all the du
ties required of him. As a recommenda
tion, he informs us that during his career
as fighting editor of various newspapers he
has succeeded in biting off some sixteen
noses and twenty ears, and gouged out
nearly forty eyes, having them now all
nicely preserved in a glass bottle, which he
is willing to exhibit to any one who de
sires it He also informs us that, besides
being a good biter, he has broken several
arms and legs of his numerous antagonists.
He has also killed six men by throwing
them out of the editorial window, and has
broken three spinal columns by knocking
the owners thereof down several flights of
stairs. He is an infidel, and has no fears
of a hereafter.
" Aggrieved parties who desire a settle
ment are hereby notified to apply to him
at our office at any time, and they will be
accommodated. Our associate v a little
over seven feet high ; his age is thirty-five,
and he weighs one hundred and sixty
pounds. He lives on raw beef exclusively,
and is never fed enough at any one time
to take away his appetite for more. He
was born in Fighting Hollow, Gouge
county, Arkansas, and never had a
brother.
44 He proposes to conduct his department
on the barber's plan : first come, first
served. All orders will be promptly exe
cuted, and gentlemen can examine a map
ot Mount Auburn Cemetery while waiting
for their turn. State Constables served
first, suckers next, after which indignant
members of the dramatic profession will
be attended to. Weapons constantly on
nana, lor which there will be no charge.
He will not undertake to give explana
tions alter tne nrst interview, tor the rea
son that they will not be required, Lost
noses, ears, &c, will be properly labeled
and put carefully away for future reference
of friends. Dead bodies properly buried at
relatives'- expense.
" His department is elegantly and sub
stantially fitted up, and is sow open for
business, both wholesale and retail.
"P. 8. When not fully engaged at our
office, contracts can be made with him for
any other newspaper that may require his
services."
A Remarkable SchooI-MLstress.
Dr. N. T. True, School Superintendent
of Oxford county, Maine, has made a
special report concerning a school-mistress
in that State and her work. Her name is
Vesta Howard, and she teaches in the
town of Bethel She is fifty-five years old,
and has taught seventy terms of private
and public school Yet, says Dr. True,
she is far in advance of most young teach
ers instead of being antiquated. The fol
lowing are extracts from the account of
the school :
" She commenced her afternoon session
by saying that she did not think it best to
set the children immediately to work upon
their studies, because they had been at
their play and were not in the best condi
tion for close application.' She therefore
took a second Progressive Reader, and
read a story as badly as she could and let
them correct ner faults. She then read it
correctly, and as one would talk, and all
eyes were fixed on her. She then called a
register of scholars by their names and
ages. Among them was a Wmfield Scott
General Fremont, and other prominent
names : and as thev were announced she
had a word to say about their history, with
out scarcely stopping ner register. She
then made them all take their books out of
their seats together, without noise. No
slates were to hit the desks, or books to be
shuffled. She selects a captain for each of
me smaller classes, who steps out and calls
me class out Dy numbers, .books are all
held alike. This makes them-executive
scholars.
In reading, small children repeat the
same word until they can command it in
the sentence, and then read it in concert
In spelling they all fold their arms, with
the book under the left arm. Sometimes
she spells the words and they pronounce
them. This was a fine exercise. She
made them pronounce correctly, cow, how,
now, bow, row. They made a graceful
bow in leaving for their seats. Each class
has a definite time for studying their les
son, and the teacher calls their attention
to it at the moment
" They came out to read with folded
arms, read with strong emphasis, and nat
urally. She makes them look at her lips.
and she pronounces words round and full
and makes them do the same after her.
While hearing the class reading, if a class
is studying geography, she wul suddenly
call their attention to some point in the
1 J At 1 . 1 . I 1
lesson, sou men go rigai on wun tne reau
ing. She will call upon a scholar by sur
prise to rise and tell something about the
lesson she is studying. This was done
with great promptness. This kept them
on the alert
" She has bouquets all around the room.
and maps and pictures on the walls, to
make the room Iook pleasant Her order
is perfect. Not a book or pencil is heard
prominently. - - - - - -
she questions them on what they have
read. In spelling, they give familiar defi
nitions in their own language, and are re
quired to pronounce each letter fully and
forcibly."
Heartless Transaction.
One of the meanest, most contemptible
and heartless confidence games that it has
been our lot to curomcie lor some time.
occurred in the city yesterday. An old
man, 57 years of age, with dimmed sight
and crippled hands, arrived in the city
yesterday, with a large and almost help
less family, from Schuyler county, III This
Iamiiy were on the way to some part of
Arkansas, where they intend to settle.
and engaged passage on the steamer
City of Cairo to Memphis. The old man,
having procured tickets. conrratn1atptl
himself on having a small sum left to
carry them through to their destination.
lie promenaded tne boat in anxious ex
pectation of the steamer soon getting un
der way. While sauntering about the
deck he was accosted by a well-dressed
stranger, who made his acquaintance, ex
pressed himself interested in his behalf,
and who represented that he was a mer
chant of Memphis, going down on the
same boat. He pointed to stacks of freight
on the boat that he had purchased. In
order to pass the time more agreeably, the
stranger invited the old gentleman to ac
company him,and see a very fine boat.which
wstied up at a short distance. They went,
and on the way the old gentleman was
more than ever agreeably entertained by
his new companion. On arriving at the
boat designated, its fine model sea going
qualities, and beautiful workmanship were
duly pointed out About this time
another chap came up, and accosting
stranger number one, presented a bill
which he wanted cashed. As usual, num
ber one fumbled about his pockets, and
not finding the amount he required, he
turned to his friend, the old man, with a
modest request that he would loan the
funds required, as he, not expecting to
have such a bill to settle, had left his
money on the boat Of course the old
man, unsuspectingly, believing that all
things were on the square, drew his wal
let and loaned his friend $92, being all
the money he had, except $1 30. Having
obtained the money, the two confidence
men readily got rid of the old man, and
left him to ponder on the evil ways of
mankind. He reported to a police officer,
and a person was arrested ; but on arriv
ing at the police station, the old gentleman
was unable to identify the man arrested,
and he was released. He went back to
the boat, when the extent of his loss was
more forcibly impressed upon his mind.
He was in a deplorable situation. With
only $1 30 in his pocket, he saw his help
less family before him. His two sons
men grown were sick. They had their
wives along, and some children. His old
lady was also a member of the party. The
poor old gentleman became almost dis
tracted. He attempted to jump overboard
and end his miseries at once, but he was
held back, and finally, we presume, be
came reconciled to his hard fate. St. Louis
Times, August 12.
Tea Brands and Their Meaning.
" Hyson " means " before the rains," or
flourishing spring, that is, early in the
spring ; hence, it is often called " Young
Hyson."
" Hyson Skin" is composed of the refuse
of other kinds, the native term for which
is " tea skins. Refuse or still coarser de
scriptions, containing many stems, is
called " tea bones."
" Bohea " is the name of the hills in the
region in which it is collected.
aPecoe," or "Pecco," means white
hairs, the down of tender leaves.
" Pouchong," " folded plant"
" Souchong," "small plant"
" Twankey " is the name of a small
river in the region from whence it is
brought
" Congo " is from a term signifying
"labor, from the care required in its pre
paration. A Woman of Nerve.
We learn from" Mont Anderson, that
Mrs. Eliza Colyer, a widow lady living
about three and a half miles south of this
village, a week from last Saturday night,
killed an immense wildcat
The circumstances as we get them are
as follows : For two or three nights pre
ceding Saturday the family noticed that
the house dog had kept no a great noise
just back of the garden, but no particular
. T I . V 1 . 1 I L .
attention was paiu to mm untu tuc mgui
in Question, when, from the dog's excess
ive demonstrations, the lady determined1
ERALD.
to investigate the cause of the trouble.
She went to the place from whence the
barking proceeded and discovered some
thing jumping from tree to tree, but in
the darkness could not distinguish what it
was. She returned to the house for ner
lantern, and went back to the grove, when
she found that the animal which proved
to be a wildcat of the largest species had
engaged the dog in combat, but immedi
ately upon seeing the light released itself
irom the dog, and made a spring ror Mrs.
C, who had, upon starting from the house
the second time armed herself with a bro-
ken-tined pitchfork. When the animal.
sprang, the lady assumed a position known
in military language as "guard against in
fantry," and iu alighting the " varmint "
found himself impaled on the broken tine
or the fork, which had entered the crea
ture's throat and penetrated the base of
the skull wounding the brain mortally.
Mrs. Colyer deserves a pension for her
bravery, and we recommend some of the
weak-nerved, fastidious "ladies of this place
mat mey spend a lew days with her, tat
ing lessons in the art of self-defense. Ap
ple River El.) Gazette, August 9.
A Desperate Suitor.
We learned yesterday partial accounts of
a serious anair which took place at the
Nicollet house, Minneapolis, on Thursday
evening last, about 8 o'clock. It seems
that a young lady of very prepossessing
appearance, named Alice Ferguson, who,
until recently, had been living in the
family of R J. MendalhaU, Esq., but who,
for a short time had been engaged at sew
ing at the Nicollet house, had unconsciously
won the affections of a young man named
Anthony Cochrane, a bricklayer in Min
neapolis. The young man was a very ardent
lover, but, unfortunately, his love was not
returned by the object of his affection. He
proposed and was rejected. The coldness
and indifference of the young lady drove
him almost frantic. His attentions
amounted to persecution, and greatly an
noyed the young lady, who is not only
veiy beautiful, but as good as she is lovely.
She had reasoned again and again with her
unreasonable admirer, nntil her patience
was about exhausted. On Thursday eve
ning he again forced himself into her room
in the Nicollet house where she sat sewing,
and again urged his suit Again he was
retused, when, finding persuasive words of
no effect he resorted to threats, and draw
ing a revolver, he told her she could have
her choice, either marry him or die. Se
riously alarmed, but not intimidated, she
persisted in her refusal when he fired, the
ball taking effect in her hand and arm,
which she had thrown up as a protection.
This probably saved her life, as he had
aimed at her head, and but for the ball
striking the bone of her arm, and being
thus turned aside, she would bave been
killed instantly. Immediately upon firing
the cowardly wretch fled, and up to our
latest accounts had not been arrested, al
though strong hopes were entertained o
his arrest yesterday. The young lady's
arm is badly shattered, and may have to be
amputated. The feeling in Minneapolis
was very bitter against the young man, and
had he been found when the facts first be
came known, they would have lynched
him. St. Paul Pioneer, August 1th,
How the Greatness and
Laboncheres Was
Wealth of the
Created.
A rather apocryphal account is given
as to how the greatness and wealth of the
LAboucheres was created. The father of
the late Lord Taunton, a clever young
clerk, by an innocent stratagem got a rich
wife and a partnership in the then first
banking house in the world. Being clerk
to the Hopes, of Amsterdam, he was sent
over on a confidential mission to the house
of Baring, in London.- Being plentifully
supplied with a quality which the vulgar
call "cheek," he asked the great Mr. Bar
ing for the hand of his daughter in mar
riage. The millionaire was dumbfounded at
the youth's assurance, and when he had
recovered his breath he asked him how he
could think of a daughter of the Barings
marrying a penniless young clerk. Young
Laboucherc, nothing daunted, said : " But
suppose I was a partner in the house?"
" Oh, replied Mr. Baring, " that would be
a very dulerent matter. ' Ihe aspiring
youth posted off to Amsterdam, and im
mediately asked the author of " Anastasi"
for a share in his business. " What" said
the great man, "you a young clerk of only
twoyears' standing, to be made a partner
of Hopes, of Amsterdam ! Nonsense."
But, said young Labouchere " suppose
I could get Miss Baring for a wife!" "In
that case," replied Mr. Hope, " the thing
might be practicable." And in that way
it was practicable, as, by thus playing the
two great men, one against the other, the
young clerk got a rich wife and a share in
the great bant, and thus was founded the
noble house of Taunton.
What Makes the Heart Beat.
The beating of the heart does notTde-
pend on the general nervous system, cither
cerebrospinal or sympathetic, as may be
shown by the fact that the heart of a tor
toise continues to beat for many hours
after it has been cut out In fact it may
be cut into parts, and these parts will con
tinue to beat The fact is explained by
Prof. Foster, of London, in a lecture re
ported in Appleton's Journal, as depend
ing on the character of the nerve of the
heart The ordinary nerves consist sim
ply of fibers, and can only convey impres
sions made upon it by nerve cells, such as
are found in the brain, or ganglia, or in
the Pacinian corpuscles at the extremities
of the nervea Now the nerves of the
heart combine both fibers and cells, and it
is the action of these cells that affects
the nerve fibers, originating nerve force,
and thus governs the muscular movement
of the heart
A Popular Error Corrected.
To the Editor of the Detroit Tribune :
Some years since. I saw it stated in a
public journal that the 4th of March was
selected for Inauguration Day because it
never recurs on Sunday, and I have late
ly seen it in print that the 4th of July will
not again occur on Sunday for twenty
eight years.
These are errors. The 29,h of February
is the only day that recurs on the same day
of the week only once in twenty-eight
years. All other days of the year recur on
the same day of the week four times in
twenty-eight years, averaging once in
seven years.
Subjoined is a statement of years in
which the Fourth of July occurs on Sun
day, and underneath is a list of the order
of differences whose sum is twenty-eight
years:
18B9 1875 1890 1886 1897
6 5 6 11
The order cf differences always consists
of these numbers; but it commences dif
ferently according to circumstances.
There may be four cases, viz.: 1st Where
the starting point is in the year (of 365
days) following the 29th February ; 2d,
where it is in the next year after; 3d,
where it is in the second year after ; 4th,
where it is in the third year after.
In case The order of difference is Sum.
No. 1 I S 11 6 5 H8 years.
US S S 11 tM -
" S I 11 S 5 ( 8
"si S 6 11 S 2 "
The reason why the 29th of February
recurs regularly, and all the other days ir
regularly, is that every period of four
years contains the same number of days
(1,461); but the separate years are equal
in length.
The reasons why every seventh 29th of
February recurs on the same day of the
week, are:
1st Because each term of four years is
equal .
2d. Because it is not an equal number of
weeka
3d. Because seven is a prime number,
for, if this term of 1,461 days were divided
into weeks of six days each, for instance,
it would contain 243 weeks, and there
fore two terms would contain an exact
number of weeks; consequently the 29th
of February would recur on the same day
of the week once in eight yean.
If every year contaLiea 365 days, any
day in the year would recur on the same
day of the week once in seven years.
If a year had exactly 52 weeks, it is evi
dent that any day or the year would al
ways recur on the same day of the week.
If a year had 363 days and a week had
six days, each day would recur on the same
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day of the week once in three years.
a year had 363 days, and a week six days,
the recurrent would come once in two
years, etc.
As Inauguration Day comes only once
in four years, it follows the same rule as
the 29th of February, and recurs on the
same oay or the wee it once in twenty
eight years ; and in that time it occurs on
every aay in the week. It comes on Mm
day in 1877.
"I Don't Mean Him."
The following anecdote of Rev. James
Axlev. familiarly known as "Old Jimmy "
a renowned and redoubtable preacher of
East Tennessee, was related to Hugh L.
White, for many years a distinguished
Judge in that State, and afterward a con
spicuous member of the Federal Senate
It was noised through the town of Jones-
borough that Mr. Axlcy would hold forth
on the morning of the ensuing Sabbath.
The famous divine was a great favorite
with none more than with Judge White.
At the appointed hour, the Judge, in
company with a large congregation, was
in attendance at the house or prayer. All
was hushed in expectation. Mr. Axley
entered, but with him a clerical brother
who was "nut no" to preach. The con
CTC!?ation was composed of a border popu
lation ; they were disappointed ; this was
not tne man they bad come to near; con
sequently, there was a good deal of misbe
havior. Tne discourse was enueu, ana
Mr. Axley rose. It is a custom in the new
country when two or more preachers are
present for each of them to nave some
thing to say. The people opine that it is
a great waste of time to come a long dis
tance, and be put off with a short service.
I have gone into church at 8 o'clock in the
morning, and have not come out again
until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Short ad
ministrations are the growth of thicker
settlements.
Mr. Axley stood silently surveying the
congregation, until every eye was riveted.
tie then began :
" It may be a very painful duty, but it
is a very solemn one, tor a minister to re
buke misconduct and sin, whenever and
wherever he sees it But especially is this
his duty on Sunday and at church. 1 bis
is a duty I am now about to attend to.
"And now," continued the reverend
speaker, pointing with his long finger in
the direction indicated, " that man sitting
out yonder, behind the door, who got up
and went out while the brotner was
preaching, stayed out as long as he wanted
to, got his boots full of mud, came back
and stamped the mud off at the door,
making all the noise he could, on purpose
to disturb the attention of the congrega
tion, and then took his seat ; that man
thinks I mean him. No wonder he does.
It doesn't, look as if he had been raised in
the white settlements, does it to behave
that way at meeting? Now, my friend,
I d advise you to learn better manners be
fore you come to church next time. But I
don't mean him."
" And now," again pointing at his mark,
" that little girl sitting there, about half
way of thj house I should judge her to
oe about sixteen years old that's her with
the artificial flowers on the outside of her
bonnet and the inside of her bonnet ; she
has a breastpin on, too, (they were very
severe on all superfluities of dress,) she
that was giggling and chattering all the
time the brother was preaching, so that
even the older sisters in the neighborhood
couldn't hear what he was saying, though
they tried to. She thinks I mean her. I m
sorry from the bottom of my heart for
any parents who have raised a girl to4ier
time of day, and haven't taught her how
to behave when she comes to ciiurch.
Little girl, you have disgraced your pa
rents, as well as yourselt. Behave better
next time, won't you ? But I don't mean
her."
Directing his finger to another aim, he
said: .
" That man sitting there, that looks as
bright and pert as if he never was asleep
in his life,- and never expected to be, but
that just as soon as the brother took his
text laid his head down on the back of
the seat in front of him, went sound
asleep, slept the whole time and snored ;
that man thinks I mean him. My friend,
dont you know the church ain't the place
to sleep T iryou needed rest, why tluln t
you stay at home, take off your clothes,
and go to bed ? That's the place to sleep,
not at church. The next time you have a
chance to hear a sermon, I advise you to
keep awake. Rut I don't mean you.
Thus did he proceed, pointing out every
man, woman and child, who had in the
slightest deviated from a befitting line of
conduct; characterizing the misdemeanor,
and reading sharp lessons of rebuke.
Judge White was all this time sitting at
the end of the front seat, just under the
speaker, enjoying the old gentleman's dis
quisition to the last degree; twisting his
neck around to note if the audience rel
ished the "down-comings" as much as he
did ; rubbing his hands, smiling, chuck
ling inwardly. Between his teeth and
cheek was a monstrous quid of tobacco,
which, the better he was pleased the more
he chewed ; the more he chewed the more
he spat, and, behold, the floor bore wit
ness to the results. At length, the old
gentleman, straightening himself up to his
height continued, with great gravity :
"And now, I reckon you want to know
whom do I mean. I mean that dirty.
nasty, filthy tobacco chewer, sitting on the
end of that front seat" his finger mean
while pointing as true as the needle to the
pole "see what he has been about!
Look at those puddles on the floor ; a frog
wouldn't get into them. Think of the
tails of the sisters dresses being dragged
through the muck!" The crest-fallen
Judge averred that he never chewed any
more tobacco in church. Rev. W. II. Ma-
burn.
A Shrewd Colored Man.
We have heard a irood story of a colored
man named John, who resides at a place
not quite a thousand miles from cavannah.
John has a " boss" who is fond of the ex
citement of playing at the game known as
seen in such offices, and so he furnishes
John with the numbers and the money to
play upon them. Now John has learned
f read, and some seven or tight months
ago he read a story about a lady who was
in the habit of dreaming about numbers
and giving her husband money to play at
"lottery policy;" how the husband put
her money in a box and did not purchase
any policy ticket hut took home a copy ol
ihe drawing eerv night and paid her all
the prizes she drew, and how on New
Year s day he told her she had at last
" hit " the lottery and drawn a handsome
little prize, and gave her the money which
remained in the box, after paying all the
prizes she had drawn during the year.
Upon reading this story, a bright idea
made its way through John's wool He
reckoned up the amount of money his
" boss " had given him to buy tickets and
the amount of prizes drawn, and found
that the former largely exceeded the latter.
From these premises John reasoned.
EfSo John procured a small tin box, in
which he deposited all the money his
"boss" gave him with which to purchase
" lottery policy tickets," but bought no
tickets, lie continued, however, to take
the numbers and the money from his
" boss," to furnish him with a copy of the
drawing every day, and to pay him from
the box all the prizes which his "boss"
would have drawn upon the numbers fur
nished if he had purchased tickets, and at
the end of six months John counted the
money in the box, and found that after
paying all the prizes drawn by the num
bers furnished by his "boss," it contained
the handsome little sum of $200. At first
John was very much elated with his suc
cess in winning money from his " boss,"
but after a while he began to feel uneasy
about the $2,0 in the box, and began to
reason with himself thusly: " My ' boss '
pays me good wages, he gives me plenty
ot good victuals to eat and a good bed to
sleep in, and he don't require me to work
hard, and now I have got $200 of his
money in that box, which did not cost me
a cent, and I don't feel right about it so I
don't Something tells me that I ought
to give him the money and tell Urn
how badly he has been fooled. But sup
pose I had purchased the tickets as he
told me to do, would not the lot
tery man have had this money, and
would he now think otgpaying it baak?
"-j
Certainly he would have it, and woull
never think ofpaying it back. Why, then,
should I not keep it? I paid all the prize
drawn, just as the lottery man would hava
done (in fact I was the lottery man), and
therefore I have fairly won the two hun
dred dollars, and have just the same right
to keep it as the lottery man would havo
if I had purchased the tickets from him
and he had paid the prizes as I did."
John had never heard of a logician or a
professor of ethics, but he looked at the
money in the box, and somehow or other
he could not help thinking that it belonged
to his " boss," and that it was not right for
him to keep it and so he went to him and
told him all about how he had obtained the
money, and proposed to return it His
" boss." however, told John that he had
learned a lesson worth more than a thou
sand dollars, and therefore he begged him
to accept the money as a present Both
John and his " boss " have come to the
conclusion that the game of "Lottery
Policy" was made to win, and that the
man who plavs against it is simply a fool.
Savannah Republican.
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FACTS AXD FIGURES?
Philadelphi a has shipped L,734,470
gallons of petroleum during the present
year.
TnR Baptists of Germany have in
creased to ninety-six churches and over 17,
000 members.
The French Government has authorized
the French Cable Company to lay a wire
from Brest to England.
Up to January 1, 19, eight life insur
ance companies in Hartford, Conn., had
issued 153,633 policies.
. A Bostox tooth-pick factory has the
monopoly of the business, and sells 4,000,
000 or 5,000,000 per day.
The model of the bust of the late James
T. Brady, ordered by the New York Law
Institute, is completed.
Tax Russian Railroad Gazette says that
Russia has already paid upward of 200,
000,000 rubles to American railroad con
tractors. A clergyman in Iowa City preacher
three times every Sunday, each time in it
different locality, and during the week cul
tivates a farm of 160 acres.
A small garter-snake with two heads,
each exactly alike, and standing out the
same distance from the neck, was killed
near Nashville, a few days ago.
The robe worn by Princess Louisa, of
Sweden, on the occasion of her marriage
to the Prince Royal of Denmark, was
made in Berlin, and cost $24,900.
The father of a deserted wife of Sioux
City has obtained a judgment against the
rortpoa n r hnormnl Trm Kasf an I Ka f 1 a
ivvilqui uiuimaiu sis au taxau uvntu na uiy
last two years, amounting to $1,380.50.
Ih a recent seizure of a champagne
making establishment in New York, the
articles found on hand were four barrels of
common white wine, one barrel of molas
ses, and one barrel of vitriol
A. T. Stbwart says his business never
was better than this year, and that he
never advertised so much before. He
gives his advertisements credit for keeping
his trade lively in dull times.
A mas in Bridgeport formerly a sol
dier, has a walking cane composed of 463 s
pieces of leather, and made from a pair of
old boots owned and worn by President
Lincoln previous to his assassination.
Tub first instance of the marriage of a
Hindoo widow occurred in Bombay on the
22d of June, and was the occasion of much
public interest It took place under the
auspices of the Hindoo Widows' Marriage
Association.
Is New York city, during last year, 92,-
272 poor, blind, insane and drunkards were
provided for at a cost to the municipality
of $10.23 each during the year. In De
cember, 183rt, there remained nearly 7,000
Eersons in the various city prisons, poor
ouses, &a
It has been definitely ascertained that
the total loss by the Crimean struggle was
as follows : French army, 93,01 3 ;' Erglis'A
army, 22,182; Piedinontese, 2,194;
Turkish, 35,003; Russian, 620,000 total.
784.99L
Dcrino the year 18G8 the number of
letters delivered in Great Britain and Ire
land was 808,118,000, or an average of 28
letters to each person. There are a million
of depositors in the postofflce savings
banks of the United Kingdom.
Mb. Jokx Bullock, of Bristol R. I,
100 years old on the 2d day of last
June, never drank a glass of alco
holic liquor in his life, and
never has had any need of, or
used spectacles. The old gentlemen can
see to picR up a pin or needle irom tne
floor as quick as any young person.
It is a little singular that the two links
of railway necessary to make an absolute
connection between the most eastern
point of our Atlantic coast and the Pacific
Ocean, should be the short line between
San Francisco and Sacramento, and a road
of about the same length in the State of
JIaine.
TnEitn is a man living in Adams county,
11., named Wood, who claims to bo 108
years old. He recently walked to Quincy,
a distance or eight miles carrying under
his arm a clock to be repaired, lie ap
pears vigorous as most men at 30, and if
as old as claimed, is probably the oldest
man in the country.
Sometime since a Portland, Me., man
had his pocket picked of $500. Shortly
"after, he received a letter from the thief.
suiting that he had started in business with
his stolen capital and that he should pay
interest on it until he was able to return
the principal Two payments of interest
have already been made.
A letter toa New York paper states that
there are now about 300,00) contributing
members of the Order of Odd Fellows on
this continent, comprised in 3,400 lodges.
Total receipts of the order in two years,
nearly $o,0J0,00O; aggregate amount ex
pended in the same time for relief of tb
distressed, burial of the dead, succos
the widow, and education oi me orpnan,
about $2,000,000.
At the iron furnace of Mr. J. P. Burton,
at Massillon, a piece of limestone was re
cently found, in the center of which was
imbedded a round white mineral subctance
resembling feldspar, about the size of a
nkkii,andin the center of this, set like
mosaic work, was, to appearance, a sprig
of four leaved clover about a quarter
grown, each leaf and the stem perfect and
distinct
The leading French journals are count
ing up the itinerary round the world as
follows: Paris to "New York, 11 days;
San Francisco, by rail 7 : Yokohama, by
steam, 21; Hong Kong, 6; Calcutta, 12;
Bombay, 3 : Cairo, 14 ; and go back to
Paris, 6 ; total 80. And out of all this im
mense line of route, there is only a dis
tance of 140 miles, between Allatrabad
and Bombay, which Is, pro tern., not per
formed by steam, either on land or water.
They get rid of their marriageable
children by means of fairs in Roumania.
When the fair is opened, the fathers climb
to the top of their carriages and shout
with the whole power of their lungs,"!
have a danghter to marry. Who wants a
wife?" The call is answered by some
other parent who has a son he is anxious
to pair off. The two parents compare
notes, and if the marriage portion is satis
factory, the treaty is there and then con
cluded. The Laconia, N. H- Democrat savs
there is a cajf in Gilmanton, otherwise all
right, that has not a sign of a taiL While
a group or persons were looking at the
calf, the other day," and wondering how he
would manage in fly time, they were join
ed by a city bred individual a graduate of
Dartmouth college. 1 he learned gradu
ate, after listening to the comments, in
quired how old the calf was, and being in-
tormpri innnrontlir satrjl Tr mIvim
, ... . .j - Avr vwiwvi
that age usually have tails?"
The Icelanders have a curious custom.
and a most .effectual one, of preventing
noraes uum straying, l wo gentlemen, lor
instance, are riding together without at
tendants. Wishing to alight for the pur
pose of visiting some objects at a distance
from the road, ihev tie the tail of one
horse to the head of the other, and the
head of this to the tail of the former. In
this state it is utterly impossible that they
can move either backward or forward, one
pulling one way and the other the reverse ;
and, therefore, if disposed to move at all,
it will be only in a circle, and even then
there must be an agreement to have their
heads in the same direction.
At the recent examination for women.
held by the University of Camhridm
England, in Group A, including religious
knowledge, arithmetic English history.
literature and composition, ten ladies were
placed in the first class, eight in the second,
seven in the third. In Group B. (lan
guages) two were placed in the first class,
two in the second, tea in the third. Sev
eral ladies obtained special marks of dis
tinction in religious knowledge, arithme
tic, English, French and German. Oas
passed in mathematics, three in political
economy, two in drawing, and on in
music. Thirty-six ladies entered their
names. Of these eleven were either ab
sent from the examination or failed to sat
isfy the examiners.
