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DAILYEVENING BULLETIN.
VOL. 2 NO. 189. MAYSVILLE, KY. SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1883. PRICE ONE CENT.
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The Hoe of the Brontes,
A Tyrannous' and Vain Father
and an Uncomplaining
Mothor.
v A Surrounding LnnilNcnpc Where
Moor .lolncd Moor, While With 8 now
in Winter nnil IllncU In
Rook Reviewer In Boston Transcript.
Miss llobinson's "Life of Emily
Bronte" gives a vivid picture of a
flue character formed by tho stern,
hard realities of life. Tho father of
the gifted sisters, Patrick, was ono
of ten children of a poor Irish peasant,
named Prunty, in Ahaderg,
County Down, whose chief subsistence
was potatoes. Fatriqk was a tall,
handsome, gainly lad, wtyh an impressive,
vivacious manner that covered
up tho selfish, hard temperament
so apparent in after years. On
entering St. John's University at
Cambridge, Patrick chanced his namo
from Prunty to Bronte, nnd separated
himself entirely from his fuinily in
Ireland, although he sent 20 a year to
his mothor during her life. At Harts-head,
in Yorkshire, where he helda
curacy after leaving college, he fell in
love with Maria Brariwell, a quiet, refined,
well-educated woman. Although
the engagement was a short one, it was
nothaupy, for Miss Branwell was
haunted oy the fear of losing the affections
of a lover who added to his im-,
pulsivo, violent, Irish disposition tho
weakness of personal vanity. In 1S12,
however, they married and settled in
Ilartshead, and three yeare later they1
moved with two baby" girls, Maria
nnd Elizabeth, to Thornton. Mrs.
Bronte describes the country as
bare and dcsolato, and sho was very
lonely, as her husband passed most of
his time in the study. During tho next'
four years, .Charlotte, the red-haired,
boy Branwell, Emily and Anno were
born and Mrs. Bronte's heart began to
fail. Tho family then made a final
move to gloomy llaworth, a villago in
a rough, bleak country, whero hill
after bill stretches to tho utmost limits
of the horizon: not a wood or river
'can bo seen; too only beauty is where
moor joins moort white with snow in
winter and black in midsummer. Only
in early autumn, when tho heather is a
mass of purple, does any tint of color
brighten tho scene. llaworth Parsonage
was a gray stono houso with a graveyard
on both sides. At tho gate was a
stonecutter's shed, piled with slabs
ready for uso, and the dreary chip, chip
of tho cutter's chisel was incessantly
heard recording tho " In 3Iemoriams
of tho dead. This is tho homo for
which Emily Bronto had 6uch a passionate
love in after years, Mrs.
Bronte's health became rapidly worse.
Unablo to enjoy tho moors or her children,
Hhe uttered no complaints of tho
tyrannous, cruel husband, who fired
pistols at tho ack door to express tho
wrath for which words wore too weak,
tore her silk gown in shreds, and
threw tho children's kid shoes into the
firo becauso ho was too proud to aceopt
such presents. Fortunately, her
wretched lifo soon ended, and tho six
little babies passed their days toddling
hand in hand through tho graveyard,
and over the moor or in tho nursery
talking politics. Mr.Bronto saw the children
at breakfast and tea, and enjoyed
telling them frightful stories of Irish
life, which tho quiet Emily enjoyed.
They were not allowed meat, as Mr.
Bronto thought tho potatoes upon
which ho grow up were enough for his
children. Maria, aged seven, read the
daily newspaper, and discussed the
Parliamentary debates with hor father.
Sho preferred Blackwood to any other
magazine, and said that tho best way
of spending her time was in " preparation
for a llappy eternity." Anne,
when only four, told her father that
she desired " ago and experience "
above all elso in the world.
Deprived of playfellows, children's
books and toys, theso little babies
made up plays amongthemselves about
Bonaparte and tho Duko'of "Wellington,
and years after, when some school
children camo to tea, they had to ask
their visitors pathetically to teach
them how to play tho gamesj of which
they themselves know nothing. This
was tho childhood that shaped the
wayward gonius of tho Brontes. Little
wondor that a woird gloom should
darken their writings! Their fiojdof
observation was narrow, but their insight
penetrated every cranny. Their
passionato father and dissipated
brother; tho wrctchod achool whero
two of tho sisters lost their lives from
neglect; the violent, drunken squires
around these are tho materials from
which thoir imaginations oreated such
wonderful pictures.
For Not Bottling. .
Cinchnritl Drummer.
i A man knocked another down for
not settling hio account.
" I'll pay you for that, seo if I
don't," said tho party getting up, hold
ing his jaw.
flYcu will, will you?".
" Yes. I will."
I'll be mighty glad if you do, for I
never heard of your paying anything
before, and J boliovo you are lying to
mo now," and ho hit him another
whack, , .-- -.. ,
u.
A GHASTLY VISITOE.
He Shown Himself to a Stranger ut
tho Cabin Door.
New York Tribuno.
Two young Englishmen sailed together
on board a Canard steamer from
Liverpool to New York a short timo
ngo. They had never mot before, but
they happened to coino togcthor in tho
first evening on hoard, and finding that
they had a good deal in
common, soon became something
moro than mcro acquaintances.
They wcro both University men:
ono had been at Oxford and
tho other at Cambridge. They wcro
both fond of sport, and each was crossing
for his first timo; that was quito
enough to recommend them to ono
another, and bofore thoy had been two
days at sea they had becomo fast
friends. It wa3 a roUgh passage, and
they woro seldom able to get on deck ;
so they spent most of tho timo playing
ccarto in a corner of tho saloon. The
saloon of an Atlantio steamer, however,
is never a very airy place, and ono day
the atmosphere got so bad down thero
that these two young fellows agreed
that anything was bettor than sitting
there; so they pocketed their cards,
made a mental memorandum of the
score and whoso deal it was, and
then adjourned to ono of their cabins
and sitting, ono on tho lower
bunk, and tho other on tho couch,
thoy went on with their game. It
waB between tho deals, and tho ono
who was sitting on the bunk (whom
wo will call Mr. A.) was shuffling
the cards, when both became aware
that a third person was standing at tho
cabin door looking at them.
" Good God, Jack I " exclaimed Mr.
B., jumping up from tho couch; " how
on earth did you get hero? "
Tho figuro at tho door said nothing,
but quietly turnod round and walked
away again. Tho boat was rolling
badly, and when Mr. B. had done
rumbling over tho portmantau and had
mado his way to tho door somo few
seconds had elapsed. A. was naturally
somewhat astonished at the mysterious
interruption and tho way his friend
had treated it, so ho threw the cards
"on tho bed, and hanging on to tho door,
scrambled out after him. When ho
got into tho passage he saw B. standing
somo ten yards off looking up and
down in a bewildered kind of way, and
nobody else in sight. A. stoward came
alone from the saloon just then, and on
being questioned ho said ho had met
nobody but tho cat that way; and as
tho two men had been playing in "the
last cabin but ono, it was not likely
that tho strange visitor had gono tho
other way."
" Who was it?" asked A., as the other
came slowly back to him after questioning
the steward. " I have not seen him
on board before."
" lie was my brother, and he is not
on board," was the startling answer".
" I loft him in Liverpool, and I know
ho can't have come away."
" Nonsense, my dear fellow; it must
have boon ono of tho passengers. I
certainly don't believe it was your
brother. He was as utterly unlike you
as ono can be unlike another; ho was
tall and you are short; he was fair and
you are dark ; ho was stout and you
me slim, and your faces aro completely
different."
" Yes, I know. I call him my
brother, but he is really my halt-brother.
His name is 0. and we arc
totally unlike each other. But that
man was ray half-brother, Jack 0. as
sure as I am standing hero, or his
ghost."
Well, there was no more ecarto that
afternoon ; nono of tho officors or passengers
had seen anybody answering to
tho description of the supposed 0.,
and ho never appeared again until they
reached New York.
When they landed B. found a cable
message telling him that his half-brother
was deao.
Now, so far, this incident was not
different from a score of others which
havo been reported and published at
various times; and, beyond tho fact
tho apparition was seen by two persons,
it supplies no further evidence of the
existence or appearance of ghosts or
" doubles" than lias been adduced over
and over again. But thero was a sequel
to this which lends a ghastly
to the wholo affair, and
makes it very hard to laugh tho matter
off as a mere optical illusion.
A. last sight of B, entirely a few days
after arriving in America. While the
former went West at once, tho latter
stayed in New York three or four days
and then crossod to England. Two
years had passed before A. wont back
again, and ho had protty woll given up
puzzling over tho mystery, when ono
day when ho was walking along
ho saw tho man who had appeared
in tho that day coming to
meet him.
" Pardon mo, sir," he began, " is not
your namo C. ?"
" Yea," was tho answer, " my namo
is 0., but I must confess you havo tho
advantage over mo."
" I daro say. I only saw you onco
before, and that wai on board tho
steamship Papua in mid Atlantio."
"Good heavens I Then your namo
ia A., and you woro with my half
brother, CKarlio B., when ho saw
Jack. No. That was not I that
was my brothor. We were oxactly
aliko, and woro continually being taken
one for another. Charlio is utterly
then Jack and I took
after our father. I wish you would
turn in hcroj" ho said,, painting .to a
club house close at hand. " and fell me
all about that day. You know, of
course, that Jack died that very afternoon?"
,
Oh, yes. A. knew it well enough,
but tho horrible difficulty was this:
He had never seen Charlie B. until ho
met him on board ship, and had never
seen cither of tho brothers C. at all.
The only knowledge which he had of
their features, or could .have, was from
that one short glimpse on board shin.
Whom had he peon, then? Scarcely
another person altogether, when tho
remembrance of his features enabled
him to recognize his brother. If it
was nn optical illusion it was a very
wonderful one, that could so picture a
face which he had never seen before;
and if it was not an optical illusion,
what was it?
Full Toilots of Paper.
Now York World.,
It bo instructive to walk into a large
commodious store and look upon
twenty, thirty or fifty figures in full
toilets of paper, and so artistically
nado and draped that at a cisual
.jlanco thoy seem to be silk or satin.
The first of those figures was'iimde
just thirty years ago, when French
tissue wan used for tho dresses,- since
then English tissue paper has usurped
the placeif tho latter, as it lasts longer
and is stronger. Tho domestic nulls
have not as yet succeeded in manufacturing
more than two colors successfully,
pink and grecu j eonsequently,the
figures dressed in pinks or greens are
per cent, cheaper thau the
other figures.
These dresse3aro first cut and pasted
together; the trimmings, whether of
cordings, puffings or flounces, are then
added. If tho garniture is to represent
braid or galloon the patterns aro
first delicately traced on the paper
and then cut out with scissors. The
samples of tissue come in every conceivable
shade, electric blue, mandarin,
apple green all tho colors are
renroauceu, out in main paper, oo in
this season of brocades and em
broideries all the figures must bo
designed and cut out by hand, then
pasted on; for instance, a deep electric
blue, adorned with palm leaves
of different colors, was in hand one
week bofore its completion.
It would seem a simp o thing to
make a paper frook, but to paste
these figures on successfully there must
bo tho nicest estimatot of mucilage,
so thero will be no shinincss around
tho edges of tho figures. Fringe
and ribbon are reproduced with
great fidelity, and the colors and effects
aro studied from cloth and silk costumes.
The dresses aro not placed together
cither for simplo effect, for
taken apart they prove to be exact and
reliable patterns of tho latest btylcs.
Many of the other patterns are duplicates
from them. The cost of the
making of these dresses is almost as
great as the cloth costumes would be,
but thero the expense ends, the materials
not being estimated at all.
Tho Joraoy Butter To3t Record.
Some years ago certain owners of
Jersey cows kept accurate accounts' of
the quantity of butter made in a
jKriod from the milk of their
favorites. These accounts were, in
some instances, published, and gradually
led to a more general testing ol
Jersey cows, that strong and unquestionable
proof might be had to support
the broad general claim that the Jersey
stood superior to all other breeds,
as a breed, in the production of butter.
The result is that hundreds of
Jersey cows havo proved their ability
to produce fourteen pounds or moro of
butter in seven consecutive days, scores
have produced between fourteen and
eighteen pounds, a few have made between
eigtcen and twenty pounds, nnd
some cows of remarkable merit have
yielded over twenty pounds of buttei
in the period mentioned. No stronger
evidence can be given of tho value of
the proof thuB ohtained of tho justness
of the claims mado for tho Jerseys
than is furnished by the doubte expressed
by their opponents as to tho
correctness of the accounts thus published.
Theso doubts and denials
show that the owners of cattle of
other breeds do not beliovo that their
own cows aro oapablo of produoing
such quantities of butter; probably
they havo sufficient reason for thinking
so.
Tho interest in butter has become so
general, and the number of authentic
records has become so largo as to make
their collection and arrangement in
convenient form almost a necessity.
For soveral years tho Bov. Andrew J.
Fish, of Van Wort, Ohio, an enthusiastic
student in matters relating to
breeding, has been gathering and verifying
information relating to buttei
tests. E. W. Perry, of , Chicago,
known for years as a writer on live
stook matters, has also been long engaged
upon liko work. Tho mass of
information thus gathorcd has been
arrangod in convenient form, and will
soon do published in tho form 'of a
book entitled. "Tho Jersey Butter
Test Record." About 500 authontio
records havo already been received,
and tho book will contain not less than
1,000 pages.
Incompatibility of Comploxion.
"I hoard it was all ' off'botwoon
you and Mjss Rowoshall."
son rosthctio " Yos; incompatibility
of complexion 1 Sho didn't suit my
furnioharl "
. FASHIONABLE SOCIETY.
The Gospel of Six Per Cent An fAp
petite Tor Excitement (lulckcncd by
tho CondtmentM of Vice-" Frencby "
Ktovclu nml Unholy Marriages.
llev. Georgo H. Hepworth, in a
nowspapcr article descriptive of New
York " fashionablo " society, says of a
certain largo class: They havo money,
but that is only'another way of saying
they can afford to do their worst and
procure partial means of concealment.
Their peculiarities aro chiefly developed
in secret and after dark. They
daro not tell tho half thoy know about
their neighbors, nor listen to half what
they know about them. Their gospel
is tho gospol of six per cents, and beyond
a large income and an unchecked
passion lies tho terra incognita of
morality, which they havo no desire to
explore. Their timo is spent in a round
of pleasurea, suggested by painful
ennui. Intrigues of tho most compromising
character are not infrequent,
and tho air is at times
made foul with scandals which point
to tho hopeless wreck of domestic happiness.
ow tho wonder of this wholj
matter is that pure young girls can hi
fascinated by a man I use the misno
mcr in tho way of politeness who
ought never to throw his shadow on
their path. A marriageable girl who
feels herself to bo in tho market is
not in tho slightest degrco shocked
her lover dare not tell her where
ho goes when ho leaves her; on the
other hand, his known impurity seems
to bo an added charm in her sight.
Sho has not boen taught to sot any
high valuo on virtue, neithor docs she
regard it as indispensable in a husband.
Sho excuses tho incxousable
and ignores tho primo conditions of
happiness. So she havo money, she
ceases to ask questions. It is better
bo, perhaps, becauso if sho were at all
curious she would nover marry. Old
maidism istho purgatory oi social
lifo, and so, rather than live in
atoryt sho moves into a palatial
in the nameless region beyond.
Who does not know thatin the set to
which sho belongs simple honor
aud fidelity aro regarded as "slow,"
and that tho nppctito for excitement
is so quickened by the condiments
of vico that excitement is
tasteless and insipid unless it is
highly seasoned with immorality.
Nay, the wholo community, for that
matter, is wallowing in tho pit. In
dramatic representations, for example,
Shakespeare is adored with a
sham adoration, but never listened
to with oven tolerable patience. In
the rivalry between Shakespeare and
a semi-lewd play, tho bard of Avon
is voted out of tho house. The
Bcnsational drama, iu which tho
totters in tho first act on the
dizzy edge of a vicious precipice,
and in tho last act falls into tho
fathomless depths of domestic infidelity,
rouses us to tho highest pitch
ot enthusiasm. Nothing pays so well
in a play as disguised indecency;
and if tho disguiso bo very thin,
wo do not allow our scruples to
mar our eujoyment. Good reading,
also, has suffered a characteristic
"sea change."' In order to
bo really interesting, a novel must
have a sulphurous plot, ono tho
heroine or horo of which has a reputation
which ought to bring a blush to
tho cheek or tho reader, but which
generally foils in tho accomplishment
of that end. We uso tho word
" French " to express, not the nationality
of a book, but its character that
is. its bad character. James or How-
ells may bo found on tho sitting-room
table, sham representatives of the
stylo of writing wo must enjoy; but
Zola, always kept out of eighty has
thumb-marks which show that it is
the source of oft-repeated pleasures.
Tho most salable books are mado up
of tho piquancy of broken vows and
tho delights of a lifp of shame. This
Moloch worship, which demands that
mammas shall turn their daughters
into tho open fiery and consuming
arms of an unholy
is far more prevalent than
wo t,hiuk. Young girls aro drilled
into the belief that an oiegant mansion
on a corner lot in a matrimonial in-
fcferno is preferable to an honest snug-
gory on a siuo street iu uiu umiruuuiuui
heaven. Money must bo had at any
cost, and since tho only merchantable
article in hor possession is herself, tho
young girl sets the largest price the
market offers, and runs tho risk with
tho man who pays it I uso tho word
risk, but that implies a chanoo of hap-
and tho ohanco is bo small that
5incss. as woll bo a little vioro exact,
and say that sho gets tho largest price,
endures tho new relationship for
awhile, and then cither seeks her own
pleasure in hor own way, or apnlio3 to
a divoreo court for relief. A blasted
lifo with fashionablo sooioty or alimony
as a last resort, is tho history of
Boorcs.
SUEGEET and medicine
JbM Proctloed Instinctively by the In.
ferlor Anlmulu. .
S. A. Lotttmoro In Tho Continent.
In a recent communication to tfio
Biological Society, M. Or. Dolaunay
observed that medioino, as praoticcd
by tho animals, is thoroughly empirical;
but at tho same timo may bo said
of that practiced by inferior human
races, or, in other words, by tho majority
of tho human species. Animals"
instinctively choose such food as Is
best suited to them. A largo number
of animals wash themselves and bathe,
as elephants, stags, birds and ants. Man
may well take a lesson in hygoiino
from tho lower animals. Animals
rid themselves of parasites by
using dust, mud, clay, etc.
Thoso suffering from fever restrict
their diet, keep quiet, seek darkness and
airy places, drink water, and sometimes
even plunge into it. When a
dog has lost its appetite, it catu
that species of grass known as dog's-grass,
which acts as an emetic and
purgative. Cats also cat grass. Sheep
atd coW3, when ill, seek out certain
herbs. When dog3 aro constipated,
they eat fatty substances, such as
oil and butter, with avidity, until
they aro purged. Tho same thing
is observed in hordes. An animal,
suffering from chronic rheumatism,
always keeps in the sun as
much as possible. The warrior
ants have regularly organized
ambulances. Latreille cut the antenna)
of an ant, and other ants came and
covered the wounded part with a
transparent fluid secreted from their
mouths. If a chimpanzee be wounded,
it stops tho bleeding by placing its
hand on the wound, or dressing it with
leaves and grass. When an animal
has a wounded leg or arm hanging on,
it completes the amputation by means
of itsjtcoth. A dog, on being stung in
the muzzle by a viper, was observed to
plungo its head repeatedly for several
days into running water. This animal
eventually recovered. A sporting
dog was run over by a
carriage. During three weeks in
winter it remained lying in a brook,
where its food was taken to it; tho
animal recovered. A terrici dog hurt
its right eye. It remained lying under a
counter, avoiding light aud heat, although
its custom had been to keep
close to tho firo. It adopted a general
treatment, rest and abstinence from
food. Tho local treatment consisted in
licking the upper surface of the paw,
which it applied to tho wounded eye,
again licking the paw when it becamo
dry. Cats also, when hurt, treat
by this simple method of
uous irrigation. M. Delaunay cites
tho case of a cat which remained
for some timo Jying on the
bank of a river ; also that of another
which had tho singular fortitude to
remain for forty-eight hours under a
jet of cold water. In view of these
interesting facts, we are, lie thinks,
forced to admit that hygiene and therapeutics,
as practiced by animals, may,
in tho interests of psychology, bo
studied with advantage, lie could,
thinks the British Medical Journal,
go even farther, and say that veterinary
medicine, and perhaps human
medicine, could gather from them
some usuful indications, precisely because
they are prompted by instincts
which are efficacious in tho preservation
or the restoration of health.
Insect S'iddlers.
BelRravlo.
An observation of Mr. Bates, in his
"jNaturalist on tho Amazons," clearly
shows the purpose servo dof the "
as tho faculty of producing
sound is named in insects. A male
like some gay troubadour,
has been seen to take up his position
at tho entranco of his burrow in tho
twilight. Loud and clear sound his
notes until, on the approach of a partner,
his song bocoines more subdued,
softer, and in its nature,
and as the captivated and charmed
ono approaches tho singer, she is duly
carcssod and stroked with hisnntonnro,
as if by way of commendation for
her ready response to his lovo notes.
Thus insect courtship progresses much
as in higher lifo, although, indeed, tho
siren notes belong in tho present caso
to tho sterner sex, and thus revorso tho
order of things in higher existence.
Tho sound-producing anparatus in
theso insects consists of a peculiar
modification of tho wings, wing-covers
and legs. Thus tho grasshopper's song
is duo to tho friction produced bythe
first joint of tho 'hind leg (or thigh)
against the wing-covers or first pair of
wings a kind of mochanism which
has been aptly compared to a spooies
of violin playing. On tho inpor sido
of tho thigh, a row of very
teeth, numbering from eighty to ninety
or more, is found. When tho
or first wings are in turn inspected
thoir ribs or "hervures,"
are seen to bo very sharp, and of a
projecting nature, and theso latter
constitute tho " strings," so to
speak, of tho violin. Both "fiddles"
aro not played upon simultaneously;
tho inseot first uses ono and
then tho other thus practicing
that physiological economy which
is so frequently illustrated by
tho naturalists's studies. Somo authorities,
in addition, inform us that
tho base of tho tail in th,cso insects is
hollowed so as to constitute a veritable
sounding-board, adapted to increase
tho reasonanco of tho song. And this
latter faculty is still more plainly exemplified
in certain oxotio insects
allied to tho grasshoppers, thoso foreign
Tolations having the bodies of tho
males distended with air for tho
purpoio of increasing find intestifying
thO SOUnd. ;- .-
