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Spring". O
ErSIA'a J-:.
tut of Ohio will begin to enjoy, it
self sod npoj the tate.
This freeze before n snow has put the
wheat in parenthesis, as it were. But
we can spare a great deal of wheat next
year. .
To the Dayton Journal: How can you
peak of General TJ. S. Grant as a "lame
duck," and of Tanderbilt's $200,000,000
as "hard earnings" ?
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth is now
ixtv-ve year old, .and is writing her
wxty-fifthnffrel.1- 'Tfis a harmless dissi
pation, and the 0l3,iady enjoys it. It is
better employment for old age than taking
snuff or drinking gin.
The contest between Alderman Kirk
and Mayor-elect Grace for the mayoralty
of New York is a pleasant holiday pastime
for Gotham. Both have been sworn in;
and the police have been called in to
swear one of them out.
The innocent Republican editor who
cheerfully t peaks of Cleveland's letter a
promising the retention of "capable non
partisan Republican officeholders" should
be inoculated with a bacillus, or,-microbe,
or a gem of some kind thould save
him from contagion,
The eovernment.'orouSl1 5tJ L
partment,has.sntseveral jJjgT It
lars ia.J" CaPta!tialhim,
w,.tfto aUch'uimjipJ,, whh da;,y
and fill tfe counfj,r0ress 0f j tr;aj
telegrnjjfgt forever.
rJ?TKend Bickham, of the Dayton
-IfSurnal, is not & civil-service man at all.
at alL He declares, with the emphasis char
acteristic of him, that the whole thing is a
hypocritical pretense and a humbug. We
think the Democratic administration will
Nmonstrate that Bickham has the true
ocratic idea on this subject.
A lot of miserable whelps in the
government buildings at Washington will
labor from now till the 4th of March and
after to show that they were not partisan,
nor "offensive." nor "indecent," and really
oot Republicans at all. And they were
not; but they will nevertheless, as they
should, be led by the ear to the door and
kicked out into the street.
The Sandusky Register takes a mean
advantage of General C. L. Young, of
Toledo, Democratic candidate for the
mayoralty, by asserting that he is a "total
abstainer!" But perhaps his political
friends can prove that he only totally
abstains from the nse of cold waterl In
which case he would be an ideal Demo
cratic candidate and the boys would
"whoop him up" with a will.
It has been lately leaking out into the
minds qf the striking miners of the Hock
ing Valley that some of their leaders have
completed their payments on property
partly paid for before the strike, though
these leaders have not done a stroke of
work or earned a cent for six months.
As a queer coincidence, these leaders are
counseling submission. The men are get
ting hot under this sort of leadership.
The
UUSINESHSIPEOVESIENT.
The exact truth should be told, so far bb
it can be ascertained, as to the business
situation of the country. Facts, whatever
they may prove to be, should be accepted,
and the best possible use made of them.
No good purpose can be served by paint
ing the situation loo black or too red, and
we have, in these columns, taken care not
to excite fahe hopes or to allow the idea of
distress to be exaggerated. We would
have been glad, at miy time, to announce
the advent of better times, but have been
very careful, when we have undertaken to
do so, to secure for our prophesies a solid
foundation of fact.
The heart of tho financial difficulties
and troubles has been found in the iron
trade, with Tittsburg m '" cPitaL In
that trade has there been the largest pro
portion of over-production, and in the
city named has there been, apparently, the
largest proportionate number of men out
of ctnpIo5ment- Now, we are glad to say
that the Pittsburg papers, in their holiday
reviews, report that "a reaction is already
at hand and under way." Were this not
true, in a good, appreciable measure, it
would not be safe for the journals of that
city to make the assertion. There would
at onco be a public outcry against
such a tampering with so serious
a matter. But the Pittsburg pa
pers are not satisfied with making gen
eral and promiscuous prdictions. The
Dispatch declares not only that "Iron and
steel men seem inclined to take a favora
ble view of the present situation," but
that there are still "a number of mills
running double turn." Among these arc
"puddling forges that did little or nothintf
in December and January a year g-
No less than thirteen of these mi"s ftrc
running double turn, making ' 'east 900
tons of muck iron from 42 furnaces."
Then the papers gi.e a '"K lt mills
which are running "Rle turn," with the
mention of only oae mill likely to be "shut
down." and at a nan mm.
We bart olreidy given the report of the
m 7nd Trnn Trndp Ttpvip-w. of the V:
w" vt,.
of a large number of iron manufaf
only-ten of -homth.nk thegj, hope
while "fourteen areuj think fte
ful for the bestT w SQme bcliev;ng lhat
buslness JTalready begun, and none
the "giffurther off than April"
, in addition to this, and better than
all, the Pittsburg Dispatch announces and
commends several new enterprises in iron
and steel, which are now being organized,
and declares that "there is no more favor
blc time" (for new enterprises) "than at
just such a juncture as the present;" that
"everything is at hard pan; whatever
is to be bought or built will cost
less than it has for years;" that "new
works will be given the the smallest possi
ble burden of investment and will bo in
the best possible shape to meet future
contingencies."
Were wo to make a local application of
this we should advise persons who wish to
invest in real estate, to do it now. Many
pieces of property can be bought very low,
and the transactions, when consummated,
would relieve persons who are financially
embarassed, and thus, to thnt extent, re-J
licve the general situation, and those per
sons of means who wish to replace old
buildings either residences or business
property with new, can never find a
more favorable time for making such im
provements than the present, as real estate,
building material and prices of labor are
at the lowest point, and, most assuredly
would a general movement of this sort
give employment to a large number of
men now out of work, but it would, there
fore, necessarily give a healthy impulse to
local trade, and greatly improve the local
situation.
The Habits of Birds.
Birds not only cough and sneczo, but
lliev dreaiu and snore, makins most
. distressing sounds, as If strangling.
lliey lilecougli a very urollallair it is,
too, anil they faint away. The gold
finch spoken of above, being frighten
ed ono night, in his struggles wa
caught between tho wires, and E0.. a
erv like the squeak of a mouso In dis
t ress. On my hastening to bis release,
ho slipped out into tho room, and Hew
wildly about till ho Wt something and
fell to the floor. wa3, Vlcke1 P;
anil his fright culminated in a dead
fiint Tho ,ittl0 "caJ drooped, tho
body" win li"'P- apparently perfectly
HfoUisd, nnd ho was laid in his cage,
ready to bo buried in tho morning.
llo was placed carefully on tho breast,
however, and in a fow minutes ho hop
ped upon his perch, shook out his ruf
fled feathers, and composed himself to
sloop.
Ono feat sometimes ascribed to man
is in the cao of birds a literal factt
thev can sleep with ono cyo open. This
curious habit I havo watched closely,
and I find it common in nearly all tho
varieties I have been able to observe.
Ouo eyo will closo sleepily, shut tight
and appear to havo a good nap, while
Iho other is wido awake as ever. It is
not always the eyo towards tho light
that sleep, nor is it invariably tho ono
from tho light. Tho presence or ab
sence of peoplo makes no difference. I
havo even had a bird stand on my arm
or knee, draw up ono leg. and 'seem to
sleep soundly with ono eye, whilo tho
other was wido opon. In several years
closo attention I havo been unablo to
find any cause, either in tho position
or the surroundings, for this strango
habit.
No "set old woman is moro wedded
to her accustom "ways" than aro
birds in genera' to theirs. Their hours
for eating, nPPng. and singing arc as
regular ours. So, likewise, aro their
habitsJ" regard to alighting places,
even t0 tno vcry tw'g tucv select. After
a neck's acquaintance with the habits
of a bird. I can always tell when some
thing disturbing has occurred, by tVI
piaco in wuicu no is iuuuu. "uuuinL
will make the desk his favorit' Ji
and freely visits tables, th another
chairs, and the &"&&, of chairs,
conlines himself, to , g icture framM
tho tops of cago2 quented tha bu.
One hermit thm and th(J
reaa, tholoo map which had
toP 3j8und till tho upper edgo was
wF?ircular. On this edgo ho would
for hours, and twitter and call,
t no other bird ever approached it,
Still another would always select tho
door casing and window cornices.
Every bird has his chosen placo for
tho night, usually tho highest perch on
tho darkest sido of tho cage They soon
becomo accustomed to tho situation of
tho dishes in their cages, and plainly
resent any change. On my placing a
drinking cup in a new part of tho car
dinal's residence, ho carao down at
once, scolded violently, pretended to
drink, then looked over to tho corner
where tho water used to be, and re
newed his protestations. Then ho re
turned to tlio upper perch, flirting his
tail and expressing his mind with great
vigor. A fow minutes passed, and ho
repeated tho performance, keeping it
up with great excitement until, to pac-.
ify him, I replaced tho cup. Ho at
onco retired to his usual scat, .smooth
ed his roughened plumage, and in a
few moments began to sing. A dress
of new color on their mistress makes
great commotion among theso closo
observers, and tho moving about of
furniture puts tho tamest ono in a
panic Olive Tlwrnc Miller, in De
cember Atlantic
Worth has a largo establishment in
tho Ruo do la Pair, whero 400 young
women stitch, stitch, stitch, not at afi
in poverty, hunger and rags. His em
ployes number 1,200 in all, and during
tho Commune, when nobody ordered
dresses or anything else, Worth provid
ed for seventy of his workwomen,
though he. too, suffered for want of
j decent food. Worth is English, born
Brains were his only capital. That the
man is a genius in his profession is as
evident as tho multiplication table. Ho
inherited his ability Irom his mother,
who possessed excellent taste.
o
Tho Scnato's Official Stenographer.
We should be very glad to believe that
the temperance question could be mac
aged by the minority as easily in this ses
sion of the legislature as the Commercial
Gazette thinks it can. But there are iro
practicnbles and unmanageables in every
I general assembly who, though they may
be cust, can not be caucus!.
Scientific Miscellany.
Experiments ith'tho electric light la
forcing plant-growth aro showing less
effect thn was expected.
A new motor driven by tho explosion
of mall charges of gun-cotton has been
produced in England, and is said to bo
applicable wherever small powers ara
required.
According to a French authority, tho
vibrations caused by a moving railway
train a ruilo distant may mako tho uso
of delicate astronomical instruments
impossible for the timo being.
Attention has been drawn to a treo
of Southern India tho "Tuchmig" of
the Chinese orPrameria glandulifera of
botanists from which it is said largo
supplies of caoutchouc can bo drawn.
A French savant, Mons. Forel, af
firms that during tho months of July
and August last a red halo or corona
surrounded tho sun, which, though dif
ficult to sco at low altitudes, becamo
quite brilliant at COO feet abovo tho sea.
Ho witnessed tho phenomenon several
times from heights ranging from 3,000
to 10,000 feet.
Tho French astronomer, Mons. C.
Flaramarion, has received anonymous
ly the sum of 5.000 francs, to bo given
as a prizo to tho author of tho best pro
ject for tho reform of tho calendar.
P.ipers must bo sent in by October 1,
188."'. A committee will mako tho
award, and propose tho reform to an
international congress.
A species of ant observed in tho is
land of St. Thomas has been described
to tho French academy of science. A
large tiro having been kindled at a cer
tain distance from tho ant-hill, the ants
were seen to precipitate themselves-'""
to it by thousand's until it vfaom
plctcry extinguished. It is pr'i'oseu to
call tho species Formica ip-ora-
Ithas just bcca.jr00. known that
during the Trc510111110 disturbance
at KrakatQa--iCPfl.onic. communication
was alnx llnPOss:ble in Singapore, 600
n'jj-,-o.vay. On a subterranean cable,
.aoout two miles in length, words
'were drowned bv peculiar sounds re
sembling pistol shots. Tho phenome
non seemed to bo of an electric nature,
rather than acoustic.
Authorities are not agreed concern
ing tho poisonous properties of tho ani
line dyes. Dr. Grandhomme, who has
had the benefit of prolonged observa
tions in German aniline is of the opin
ion that they aro poisonous only when
containing arsenic. Messrs. Poincaso
and Nassias, however, consider them
dangerous even in a stato of purity,
magenta being the least dangerous of
all.
Ono of tho remarkable things which
botanists tell us is that wo havo moro
plants of tho Japaneso flora than Eu
ropo has, and that even tho Pacific
coast of America has fewer than aro J
found on tho Atlantic slope. A fow
American plants may have reached Eu
rope by natural means; but in tho main
tho course of plant migration has been
from tho old world to us from west to
cast.
A bridge at Lyons, France, has a
stono parapet, pierced at intervals for
light, forming a passago which play
the part of a gigantic llute. The rush
of tho air currents through tho openings
causes tho bridge to emit such sounds
of music at dillerent parts of its courso
that "one might believe it haunted by
legions of ih lsiblo naiads pursuing tho
passengers with their plaintivo mclo
dios."' In recent experiences, tho images of
candles were seen through tho clear
water of Like Geneva when sunk to a
depth of about 100 feet, tho electric aro
being still visiblo when somo ten feet
lower. At. greater- uoi.iiia -tuti clear-
images disappeareL4jjjng replaced by
diffuse light, faintly perceptible when
tho luminous bodies had reached a lit
tlo more than 100 feet in depth. Sun
light affects photographic plates after
passing through a thickness of about
800 feet of tho water.
Kerr of
In Elephant Hunter.
The coolcslhmg I ever saw don. In
elephant shofrg wa? T y3e
and a friend f re sitting in the bunga-
r'yS---eirr!nn;
" , L .i. i...tra ow. which was mere
ly a wooden ? '
ary shelter at'
old pcrcussn
o now clearing, was an
shotgun, used chiefly
w hair at tho logs of
nnrv itfinvJi' " - v
r..u"u5...!tX.fTcetcallns at nfeht
n I tho onl? HQt we tad if I may
shotPwiti, ..feff, ";
lifaTUtllt "iwum
so wo set to work
Thnro was.
i . n.i 4i,nin,
1 cu " t "omT rough bullets, as wo
were del rmd to have a shot at the
etonhant even If jj " a P,sto1
r t nrn,iding Tits to toss up
whoshounrh0attl.oshot.anditfellto
mVnenwo-wi It was found that
tho elephant wfr not in the coffee, but
on a strip of "rfna." or gr.w, along
side ofT j.7' 7
to the tournamit. 'J .f1
safe distance d chew on the , knight.
WhcnJ.gotoiho patna, .he saw
that tho bruteiio was go ng against
was evidently aWo" of the wors
description, ac begs in t o trumpet
verr loud Tfl 3 the first thing a
'roquo" docs. suppose ho thinks ho
will put tho fcapf death in tho hunter.
The next part oho show is for Jumbo
f wm, riftf down on you, still
r,mpX."rdVinghistr1ik until
tvI,.i down goes o trunk, and at tho
oamo time, ho lours his head. This is
tho timo to fire, ao" the only placo you
have any chance i bringing him down
byhittinf is a all oval space just
abovo tho trunk. Jhis is a vital spot,
nnd if you hit thi is sura death to the
clephant. J. wafln. old hunter, so ho
calmly awaited Mi Jumbo s approach.
Just at tho right ment up went his
gun to his snouier, anu uwaiicu
breathlessly to seio flash and behold
tho roquo fall. B no flash came, and
presently I saw J.Tunning backward
facing the clephad and evidently feel
ing in his pocket ft something. The
explanation was n easy, the infernal
percussion cap hadsnissed fire! Luck
ily ho had anotherimd in a moment,
just as tho clephani.was upon him, I
saw his gun again jup- Thcro was a
flash, then a reported down tumbled
tho huge beast justt J.'s feet; iaiact,
so close was ho thahc had to jump
asido to prevent th body falling on
him. lhere are feimen I know of,
and I havo met a foimenof nerve in
my time, that wouldtvo tho coolness
to run backward in tip of a charging
elcnlmnt. reinovo thold cap and feel
in his pocket for a nr one, and then
kill his quarry. I kbw of nothing
moro inclined to makene run the first
timo of trying than tojrait on an ele
phant which is charging but a bctterj
snirit comes ovcrvouiad jou shoot
without a tremor. Awrican Field.
Unr Philanthropist. " r "
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'm Sllk-Oi
maw-omen
naVO snont m
I
the philanthropic class
i ears in trying to de
viseeisy, butjprofitable work; csdc- 1 PJ Ul i
ciallyt0-rwom living In their own ll fi
Caniballsu
The Death of Fear.
silvery Bland, chairman of the
committee on coinage etc., gives forth the
opinion that his committee will not report
favorably on Buckner's bill for the sus
pension of the silver-dollar manufacture.
And in the senate the finance committee
have agreed to defer the silver question
IJJMJpasSiJlSSJl'ated Jones of Nevada ar
rives. Both the Ebnseand the senate are
counted as against the suspension by large
majorities.
Brother Randall is giving the South the
old Pennsylvania doctrine of protection
through the Democratic escape-pipe.
Protection as protection is unconstitu
tional, you know; but as a tariff for reve
nue only, or for revenue exclusively, you
can not have too much of it Randall's
argument is ingenious and plausible,
but not strikingly grammatical. But,
Lord bless you, the Southern gentlemen
don't mind that.
The interested parties at Washington
have been pondering Cleveland's letter to
G. W. Curtis with more critical care than
they have given to any other little piece of
literature since they went into office; and,
after having put it through and through
the threshiugmachines of their buzzing
intellects, they have reached the mangled
and torn-up conclusion that its meauing,
translated into North-American Indian, is
to wrench of! the scalps from under their
already lifted hair. Or, in the plain En
glish of the O. S. Journal's Washington
special, "the expert constructionists be
lieve that the men who left their posts of
duty during the late campaign to engage
in the affray, or who contributed to the
funds so generally solic'ted for, or ic any
way stepped aside from the beaten path
for the exercise of the common franchise
will be superseded."
Tlio Romance or Uayuu 1'lseon.
Election day came, and. as everybody ex
pected, the Republicans arose as one man and
voted for Foutelieu. Lite iu the afternoon
the boxes were closed, and then the count
began. By 9 o'clock every box included In
the election proclamation had been footed up,
and a crestfallen Democrat (not in the secret)
sent to New Orleans the despairing message,
"Fonte!ieu wins by eight hundred."
It was at this juncture that the trap was
sprung and the trans'ormatioc scene brought
on while the Democrats were beating their
breasts over another crushing downfall, and
the Kepublicns were painting the bir-rooms
red with wassail, when n solitary horseman
might have been een cantering down
the St. Martinsville road and making his
way to election headquarters He was an
untutortd rhild of the Attakapas and he
smelt of catfish; but he sat upon bis mus
tang proudly, tor, gripped in his sinewy arm,
he held a ballot-box, not down upon the pub
lished programme, yet one which fitted the
situation like a gautc de tutJt.
Ok bad come from the. howliog swamp
some thirty miles away to the northeast
from Bayou Pigeon, the Ionelieit and mjst
desoUte part thereof. Biyou Pigeon is one
o! a network of streams which cut into a
thousand islands that vast uninhabited
territory known as the Atchatolaya
swamp. It is a territory peopled only by
alligators. It Is annually Eubmcrgel fiom
four to twenty feet by the surplus escaping
waters of the MiiS'fsippi. During the tall
ana tarty winter the lumbermen set up their
Camps and cut timber in great quantities. In
the spring, when the overflow tikes place,
they go bjck at.d float out their ra'ts to the
saw-mil!s of the Tecbe. At the time of th s
election referred to the whole Bayou Pigeon
country was under waier. At the bst of
tirpes it is about as desirable for a residttue,
and about as densely populated as the Honda
everglades. Yet this simple, unostenta
tious Caiien hung his pony to a
swinging limb, nnd, entering to
the Democratic managers, d sclojed a
box which be had broagbt that night from
Bayou Pigeon and which contained the vote
of that thriving aud populous pracincr. Alona
he "threaded the bosky mazes ot the swamp,"
someti'nes by pirogua down the P geon's hur
rying stream, sometimes on foot, aud last up
on the stolen plug without. But he had
come, and with Mm victory! For in tlat box,
so hardly borne by flood and field, were
found 1,300 honest Democratic vot'S no
less, no more. Thirteen hundr d votes for
Gates, none for Fontelieu. There were no
Republican alligators in Bavou Pic-eon swamn
jttwijibey were aaliil lor Democracy and
f rfonrnan apecuu.
"Yes, I have been a good while at
it,' said Mr. D. F. Murphy, tho official
stenographer bf tho Senate, as ho sat in
the handsomely-finished stenographers'
rooin at the Senate end ot tho Capitol.
Its windows look out upon tho spacious
grounds at tho front of tho Capitol, for
it is ono of the most eligible rooms in
the entire building, just by tho massive
doors, and looking out upon the marble
portico of tho Senato end of tho east
front of the Capitol. On tho ceilings
.are beautiful and highly artistic fres
coes, reminders of tho dead Brumidi,
and stretching around the wall aro long
sases filled with official documents,
bills, reports and other documents of
this sort that aro most likely to bo need
ed at a moment's notice.
'Yes, it's over thirty-five years,"
he said, "since I began reporting the
Senate proceedings. A long time, is it
not? and yet it has gono quickly, and
with it a good many men of grca't abil
ities and reputation."
"Your recollections run back as far
as Webster, then, do they, Mr. Murphy?"
"les," ho answered musingly, "I re
member him very well. A very slow,
careful speaker, easy to report because
of tho extreme moderation with which
he spoke. Yes, I reported Webster
and Clay and Cass, and, later on, tho
great men who took their places, Sum
ner and Soward and all tho others."
"Do you join in tho often-expressed
opinion that greatness has departed
from the halls of Congress, and that
tho statesman of to-day is a pigmy
compared with that of a quarter of a
century ago?"
"yo; on tho contrarv.I think that tho
Congress of tho United States, tako tho
members as a class, averages better
now than it did in oarlier days. Thero
aro not, perhaps, ju?t now, any very
great minds which tower up beyond all
tho rest, as seemed to bo the case with
Webster and a tew others then and
since, but, tako the avorago statosman
then and now, and I think ho of to-day
bears comparison very well."
"How long has Congress been steno
graphically reported?"
me oenaiu was nrst so reported in
1 '!'!.. . ... .
ajjwu nuiu uuu ur mu uueiujus
18-18.
earlier, but they were unsatisfactory
anu soon auanuoncu. i no present sys
tem bogan in 1848 in tho Senate, and
about 1&50 in tho House, and has been
continued since."
"Will tho present much-criticised
system.which permits members to ro
viso their speeches beforo publication,
be remedied, do vou think?"
"Doubtful, I think. Thero has al
ways been talk about it. but onlv talk.
There woro efforts twcnty-livo years
ago, perhaps more, to havo that fsaturo
eliminated, and to havo tho debates
printed exactly as they occurred. I re
member that Jeff Davis was one of the
mo-t rigorous in denouncing revision
and in urging that tho debates be
printed oxactly as they occurred. And
yet Davis was one of tho fastest speak
ers of tho Senate at that time, and it
would seem that if anybody needed to
reviso his remarks or the stenographic
report of them it would be he."
"Did ho often do so?"
"No. Ho scarcely over looked at his
speeches in manuscripA" Letter ta
A curious and interesting pagan rite
was recently performed at Shikarporc,
India, and is described at some length
in a native paper. Tho ceremonies
took place about a hideous image of an
earthen god representing fear. The
imago, huge out of all proportions
wore an e.tremclv dreadful atinonr-
ance. About 7,000 people assembled to
cclebrato the death of this god of
dread. An old woman was sitting by
the image, representing tho mother of
tho dreaded deity. A circlo about fifty
feet in diameter "was formed round the
image, in tho midst of which moved
hundreds of spectators, men and wo
men, crying at the top of their voices,
"Fear is dead!" "Fear is dead!" Tho
old woman near the image, on hcarin"
the death of her son, broke out into S
mentable strains, mourning tho loss of
her beloved child, the god of fear.
Somo women again, afraid, wo should
think, lest tho deity of fear might not
be actually dead, and might turn his
wrath against those who v;ero shouting
his death, reverently approached tho
idol, kissed his feet, and scattered ful
lahs upon it to propitiate it-, anger.
The moral which tha natives draw
from this extraordinary ceremony is
not stated, nor aro wet. Id to what
causo they attributed the decease of the
god of terror; but for him who seeks a
moral it is sufficiently ea to draw one
in this age and land. Our nation has
of late years greatly gWen itself up to
rejoicing that fear is dead. It began
with the death of tho fear of the king,
and went on until there remains rever
ence for no authority whatever unless
indeed tho fear onco directed in diller
ent channels has resolved itself into a
consuming dread of being afraid of be
ing so. In this we are like tho women
who tremble lest the god may after all
bo only asleep, and who offer propitia
tory ollerings to appea-e his anger. Wo
fe?r fear; wo dread lest we bo betrayed
into referencing soniethiiir.
Iho eUect of this death of fear is tho
decay of authority. Tradition and law
are aliko dependent for thu.r power up
on a reverence of which fear is at least
an essential ingredient, ami in otirday
both aro falling away fiom their high
estate through the growth of bravado
and the decline of dre.nl. The cere
mony of Shikaporc might well bo re
peated in tho miiUt ot our civilized
community, and it would by no means
lack pungent sigiiiiiciuee. Boston
Courier.
llale'D Anecdote.
Minncapolu IVibune.
John P. Hale, in a d-b.ite in the sen
atom January, 1859, riilitt.'edarcmark
which had been made In Senator Cle
mens, of Alabama, that'thu union was
already dissolved. -Sir." said Mr.
Hale, "if it is not a matter too serious
for a pleasant illustration, let me give
you one. Once in m life, in the ca
pacity of a justice of "i lu peace for I
held that office before I n is a senator
I was called on to olliet ite in unitino
a couple in the bonds of imtrimonyT
They came up and I m-.do short work
of it. I asked the man if he ould take
the woman whom im held h tho hand
to be his wedded wife; he replied, To be
Mire i win; i camo here to do that vcry
thing.' I then put the que-tiun to the
lady whether she would ii:ne tho man
for her husband, and when sho answer
ed in tho attirmat'uo, I o!d them they
were man and wife then. Sim looked
up in astonishnie.it, and inquired, 'Is
'J;?1 all?' 'Yes,' said I, 'that's all.'
U ell, said she, 'it's not such a mighty
affair as I cxnected it to 1m. ?., ,.ll
If this union is already diolcd it has
Thcro is a certain ward attractirj'
ncss about the subject ot cumibrvlisij
a grim fascination in itspizly horror,
that is not easily to bo uplained, bit
which, although fow of will adnjt
it, most of us have experitneed. Br
haps it is in subjcctivtcannibalim
lono that this uncanny straction Ex
ists; objectivo cannibalise may lot
possess tho same ccrio iarm. 3ut
tho very fact that cannifiisEi cincr
exists now, or over existed,! howefer,
denied by somo skepticipersors
mostly strict and rigid vegetriansvono
would think who arguo thiwildand
I nattical races Jit juen cami- aj do.
not lust tor llesh. Iho laorenuns
tho same. f
It seems that this tirahojored
practice crime, many unthima and
unjudicial people would call 1 jhoso
opinions have been formed Vfhout
consideration of tho relation eirimo
to custom has, at different tia, ex
isted in every part of tho et. It
seems to havo lingered longesb the
most beautiful regions of it IPoly
ncsia, namely, whero the write this,
but for a fortunato and timely jning,
would himself havo fallen a Tbi of
tho custom for which ho has aiding
of respect, if not exactly of attion!
Our remote, possible foMthers
themselves, tho prehistoric caHea of
Europo in the Quarternary peri were
addicted to this habit, wh"ich tjivate
feeling of respect for our,cstry
should alono prevent us fron rac
terizing as a crime. Evifcos of
their occasional little anthroppkristio
failings, in tho shapo of scajl and
chipped human bones whih Isides
being cooked, are broken in'a nnner
too scientific and skillful to tho
work of animals, aro not infreennt.
though it is bclived by palontotists
that the custom was ruorc cf an icep
tion than a rule. Animal food 'gin"
plentiful at that timo in thesecold
northern latitudes, tho weitest fcen-
tivo to cannibalism was vantingand
the very practice of it shows a tcneicy
to epicurean indulgence and hury
that already(from a very.'ong wajjft)
pointed to tho future jxtinctioj of
their race. Tho ancientlrish, toi in
moro recent than Qtiarfernary ties,
ato their own dead; andour own Ston
forefathers must hao possesal a
knowledgo of tho custon if they dioot
in early times actually practice iti is
shown by tho Saxon word mafia,
which occurs not infrequently in Seir
literature. .4. St. Jokmton, xn Potfar
Science Monthly for Dacmbcr. f
Delaware claims to hivo the lajest
grape-vino in the world It is onth0
farm of Mrs. Chandler, in Chrisna
Hundred. Tho main :rnnk is abot 6
feet high, averages in circumferice
over CO inches, and is 67 inches aroad
in tho largest place. Somo half-dten
branches issuo from tho trunk, eaclof
which is as thick as a man's arm.'id
spreads itself for many yards overid
through tho branches of several !,
trees that seem to have reared th
selve3 especially for the developmeeof
mu gicai. wuu. ieanya uozensprirc
of pure water riso a few feet away, jd
aro a source of never-failing nourt
racnt to tho vino. Tho vino is of a
raccoon variety, and produces bctwa
twonty-fivo and thirty bushels of grata
voarlv. T
horaes. Thcy"" mai,o many foolish
,a!Jgestions. Pl ono of the most irri
tating fa tha "women, children and
Invalid," shaJ8nSaSe 5n "silk culture."
Silk cu!ture team the raising of mul
bcrry trees P procure leaves upon
which to fecsilk-worms, tho care of
the worms tPmsnlTCS an'l tho reeling
of the niifc m tho cocoons.
1 the firsplace, a dwelling house is
not a ptopcjplaco 't which to raise silk
worms my Jioro than it is to raise
chicken ari Vl53- They mako the
house almcJ unendurable on account
of thefc jjkening odor. Tho little
beast danes his skin four times in
aboat hfc3y-ono d-tys. and ho must
not bo fonrbed while engaged in this
toilet ptocjss. Hence, tho incidental
filth mfttie allowed to accumulate as
well as y carcasses of the worms that
dio inrcianpng their clothes. Of
course, iB thii would be most detri
mental lotho health of "women, chil
dren andinralids," not to mention tho
ilk wcrss themselves, which do not
thrive nidsr unfavorable conditions.
Theyreqtfr? a building especially fitted
np for ftjr accommodation, tho cost of
which, ta experienced silk cnltnrist
states, wuld be at least 8700. This
bring nito the matter of expenso con
nectedththe"easy way of earning
a living.'or indigent women, children
and ievjids." ouch peoplo do not of
ten hifl the $700 to build tho small
silk hoo wo have referred to. But
snppos they had- In addition to that
triflinrttcm thero is the food which tho
wonnjeat to be provided. It consists
of thijeavei of tho mnlberry tree. As
many rormj as would occupy a $700
honsi would cat before they were full
grows 10,00) pounds of leaves. Sup
posiif that Iho silk cultnrist had trees
enoyn on tScir places to produco that
amount it wiold require great labor to
C-olkt 10,001 nounds of leaves. More-
overthe onl mulberry tree that thrives
wellat tho 5rth is thewhite mulberry, ,
audits ionaj) is so small that it would
rehire tretnndous effort in picking by
hsd and a sjall forest of trees to get
thfoodroqured. There is a larger
laved tree, 4e morns multicaulis, but
ijdoes not tbjvo well in the North,
Md, what is lore, its leaves are unfit
Jr the worm vast numbers of which
e when fed m them. To put it gen
u this propoed silk cnlturo business
b a means ofsupport for poor people
p misdirectedeffort. Vie flour.
I
f The CoachfngCraze.
WuV. then. I-i wMl-iiTriffkt-nTiT?rwi
ladies find cothmen irraistible? Some
of our most fahionable sen, the repre
sentatives of far oldest fftnilies, devoto
their entire tiao during fee summer to
unvingccache. In onfcr to imitate
more closely ftc professicaal coachman
they condesctnd to reeeivo pay for
their work. When Maj. Auje drives a
coach aud caries passengers for a dol
lar each from tno roadsiifihotel to an
other he isadniredfor tie thorough
ness of his efforts to initato a rr.nl
coachman. LaJics. voungind old who
'7 pussiigu nuns coach ate aeiighted
with the closerass of his Esembiance
to a real English coachmaaand young
men who have aoither tho tmo nor tho
ability to drive coaches, Bgard him
with tho utmost respect. lor the last
threo years fashionable sseiety has
shown that it regards an amateur
coachman as the noblest woi of of
well, as a particularly noble vork, and
tho moro indistinguishable indress and
manner the amateur coachma is from
thprooiiional concliuran tiwjnore ho
is admired. Xov, what i Hwrra-rtrrat-f
effect of this state of things jpon tho
daughters of fashionable society?
They arc inevitably led to beivo that
tho professional coachman is ie high
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At Moffitt's gallery wo saw a pho.
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a well-known citizen of 50 years'
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spirit medium there he askeu for a ges
uinc test of spirit-writing. Ho did nij
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bold it thcro with one hand, takin
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tng on. In ten seconds the writing wai
done. Ho left Boston and camo to a
relative s house in Springfield. Nod
till he reached his sleeping-room did ha
break the sealing-wax, and then he saw
tho message. Tho handwriting was!
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