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CCfiiiENT IM KA(»KAPU8. aormal school* of the country
about ,*.200 teachers annually. an
Incident* and Accident*. the *0.000 or more ctnif from is
-Mrs. Coleman, wife of Ben J. Cole- problem.
van, a diamond-setter, of Cleveland,
Ohio, died the other day from an over
do* morphine iakitn Ut induce sleep.
—Ernst Kreamer recently committed
auicide at Toledo, Ohio, by tying one end
0f a j-ilk handkerchief around his n« k
Cbd fastening the other end to the root
9t a tree, lie then Said down upon tbe
fcask and rolled hinwlf forward until hie
Brck wa# suspended is tbe sling
—As tbe canal-boat Frank Tbeall w*i
asing under the railroad bridge over
t-^ai tn Syracuse, N. V. lately the
engineer of a locomotive which *i»
Ctoo.stn^r the bridge at the moment found
it convenient to dump a pan of live coals,
which tell into the boat. A load of hay
Ud i-'.mw afforded goad combustible ma
terial and tbe The&ll wif entirely con- i
Nmru Tbe Captain barely bad tune to
run hi* craft against the bank and aave
his family.
—Four masked men recently entered
the bouse of Jame* Breed, of fitusvilb*.
IV. at six o'clock in the morning, and.
Mixing Mr. Breed, tied him to the lounge
with a rope. They asked him where his
money was concealed, but be said he I
bad none. They men put his feet in the
Are to compel him to disgorge. Upon
Marching his pockets they took between
$S0 and $40, ransacked the bouae, and
then mrtde their escape.
—The other evening as Mr. W. R.
Jones of Cleveland, was going to hi#
office in Mechanic Block, he met at the
a voung man drinking the con-
tents of a M'JIHII vial, inqu.ring what he
waa taking, the fellow despondently told
him it was vitriol, and straightway draw
ing a knife from his pocket stabl«cd him
•elf twice in the breast. Mr Jone# look
the man by the collar Hnd conveyed him
to a physician's office, where an anti
dote wan speedily given for the vitriol,
and examination showed that the cuts
were not serious. The would be suicide
refused to give his name, but iid he is
in the employ of the Lake Hhore Itoad,
and he was not grateful for being re
stored. because lilewas a burden to him.
He is married, and his wife had eloped
but it was not that which caused his
grief. He had fallen passionately in
LOTC with another woman she had gone
back on him, sod he refused to be con
torted.
Foreign Gossip.
—TliC total value
personal es
Dr. Li
of
tin
tat* and cfl'ects
of
the late Tr. Living
stone, the African traveler, has been
sworn to as being under $7,.WO.
—An English minister says that if
Scripture said one thing and the J/ondon
Ttnne» another, MX) Englishmen out of
•very !10 would believe the 7'imet."
—Debate is again revived in London
Oftr the question whether there ever wan
WlCh a Mayor in that city as Whittington,
leaving out all about the* famous cat.
—A superstition prevails in the Isle of
an that a child may be preserved from
whooping cough by being placed in the
hopper of a mill, ('hopping its head oil
would be quite as effectual.
—They are going to try and put a stop
la (feminity to the sale of so-called
"soothing syrups" for infants. Physi
cians assert that more babies are killed
these concoctions than by disease.
—A vile wretch of a inan—a regular
•Master in store clothes—residing in Ot
tawa, Canada, recently sold his wife for
the sum of ten dollars. Hhe says that's
more than she'd oiler for him at' any
time.
—The fall season has proved terribly
unhealthy in London. ncariet fever is
the Ht violent disease which the
physicians are called on to encounter,
and against this they are practically
helphss.
—It is reported that twenty barrels,
•enter* as salt meat" and Australian
beef," were seized at Portsmouth, Ic
eland, Oct. 23, and in each barrel was
found the corpse, of a full-grown ne^ro.
They itcb'-d England from the United
States, and vere intended for dissection
is 1/oudou
—In Fiji, they say, tax-paving is
Msociated with alf that* the people love.
The call of the tax gatherer is a festive
occasion, a day for the best attire, the
pleasantest looks and the kindest
word.-.
These interesting islander# hand in their
money with singing and dancing, and
tbe whole ceremony concludes with a
dinner.
—A new method of thwarting safe
burglitrs is proposed in England. The
doors of sales arc to he made sliding in
stead of swinging, aud they are to be
moved by hydraulic pressure, which
is to le maintained during the whole
time that the door is shut. By makinir
the doors very heavy it is thuyght the
burglars will be unable to displace
them.
—An American has Just been appre
hended in Home chnrgeawlth the forgery
of Brazilian batik notes, lit* had lorn
confederate an Italian priest, said to bc
a skill ul engraver, who is also incus
tody. In the apartments of the Ameri
can, who was living in Rome in the
grandest style, were lbund lithographing
stones, engravings, chemicals, and every
thing necessary l'or the manufacture of
tin: notes. When the prisoners were ar
rested ail was ready for printing, and the
priest alSirms that in twenty four hours
they could have xtruck oil notes to the
value of A new issue of
paper money said to be contemplated by
the Brazili.in Government is supposed to
have stimulated the forgers' industry,
and their notes, which are describt as
being skillfully made, were lor the
amounts of $200, $100, and $50 respect
ively.
BelL,'Uu# aud KducatlonaU
—Bishop N'eeley, of Maine, when he
holds service in a tow n where the people
are not familiar with the common pray
er, sings the chants alone, and sometimes
has only oue voice to respond in the con
gregation.
—The New York Gbttervtr says Mr.
A. Paine, the archaeologist of the Ai icri
exploring expedition in Pule* ine,
has made some important discoveries He
has determined the site of Mount Pis ah
baa traced the route of Jacob win he
wa* on his way to meet bis brother 1 au
be has thoroughly explored the lai. I of
Oilead and has located Mi/.peli, Mu tan
arin, Peuiel, etc. He .think* the i-.ook
Jabbok is not the wauy Zerka, as has
been supposed, but is a stream fui ther
to the north.
—Allowing forty pupils to a ten her,
tkc country needs 200,000 Instructors for
Its children of between six and
her
ft.
Hixt^n
years of age. In Massachusetts the
W
's .average term of service is
three years, and this too long a term
far an average of the country, yet, UkmR
iU
iiV'
"h«ncb«T.
Tlie
One of the religion* societies of the
metropolis describing London. &a?s that
the jxViire K-undx/ic» corcr ."iTa square
miles and a population of 4.000^000 of in
habitants: that there are there gathered
more Jew# than there are in Palestine,
more Scotch thsn there are in Edinburgh,
more Irish than there are in Iublin,
more Roman Catholics than there are in
Rome .-.ad that there a great variety in
the languages spoken. There is a birth in
London every five mi n a tea and a death
every eight minutes.
—A new religious denmntnatioe, or
body, has just been organised, having
the following: basis: The Scriptures of
the old and New Testaments are an in
fallible revelation from God. and a suffi
cient rule of faith aad practice. Great
truths of Scripture, held substantially in
tbe same sense by evangelical ministers
and churches, always and everywhere.
All members and churches adopting this
bi»*i» will be recognized and enrolled :is
Union Christian ministers and churches,
•o be known as the Union Christian
Churches" of America. Any minister
who has adopted this basis, but who
docs not deem it expedient to sever ex
Uting denominational relations, shall at
his request be enrolled notwithstanding.
ladnstriaL
-*11 hM been ascertained that on both
sides of the Mississippi, from Cairo up
ascertained, the coal-
to a point not yet
fields stretch out in
i nt!,UB
»\reicn out in almost illimitable
whether the region is richest in metal or
carbon.
—A wild vanilla, which has poisonous
properties, liaB been introduced into
commerce as a substitute for the culti
vated variety, which is harmless. At the
same time the vanilla aroma has been
discovered in pine sap, and will be man
ufactured on a large scale.
—By means of a peculiar kind of com
position casks and similar vessels are
now rendered air tight and water-tight,
so as to prevent their becoming moldy,
sour, or otherwise unsuited for keeping
their contents in a sound condition.
This composition consists of gum san
darac, or colophony, either alone or
mixed with other rosin capable of
being dissolved in spirits, to which
is added for the purpose of
giving Ixtdy and hardness—either carbon,
calcined ochre, burnt clay, or a mixture
of these in a pulverized state. The com
position is applied to the heated cask
with a brush, after which the spirit is
blazed otF and the cask again heated,
until the preparation has thoroughly pen
etrated the flbern of the wood, or it may
be applied in a heated state.
—M. Gautier, in his recent work on
chemistry, estimates that there are an
nually extracted from the bowels of
the earth, and consumed, 1
IK),000,000 tons
of coal, containing, on an average,
75 per cent, of carbon— MH,000,000
tons of carbon being, therefore, annually
transformed into iiw,000.000 tons of car
bonic acid and assuming, as a moderate
calculation, that the remaining cases of
combustion-- wood, oils, etc. -represent
the fifth of the preceding quantity, it
follows that manufactures, navigation,
and domestic economy pour into the at
mosphere the prodigious quantity of
427,000,(K)0 tons of carbonic acid a year.
In the volcanic regions of the globe car
bonic acid escapes from craters and fis
sures in actual toirents, producing a
mass of gas ten times greater than the
prec ding.
—Persons familiar with tbe cost of
iron castings In general business have
often doubtless wondered what there
was in stoves over similar fabrics of iron
to make them so expensive to users of
them. Compared to beds, tables, chairs,
carpets and other articles of prime ne
cessity in household use they are ex
orbitantly high. They last no longer
than domestic wares generally, and it
would seem ought to approximate in
price to other utensils. The life a of
good stove is from five to ten years, ac
cording as it is used, which is no longer
than bedsteads, chairs, tables and other
furniture of similar quality endure. The
froii- Muldern' Ji/nrintl gives some facts
as to the cost of making stoves which
are ol general interest. Mr. John H.
Perry, of Albany, calculates that a gross
ton of iron will make 2,120 pounds of
clean castings which would burnish
seven stoves of JMMJ pounds each. He
further calculates that the cost of mold
ing per 100 pounds is $1 374, which would
make the work on a stove cost $-1.14^ lor
molding No. 1 foundry iron was quoted
in New York, 8ept. 10, at per ton,
which at Mr. Perry's figures would make
the iron in a 300-pound stove cosi $4.28
the net cost for the stove in cjkiestion be
ing $H.40. Such stoves are sold by deal
ers without any furniture or fixtures at
$28 and $H8, according to finish.
Persona! and Literury.
What (-hall we do with our daugh
ters'^" Inquires Mrs. Livermore, ana a
Western editor—an inhuman wretch—
replies: "If they are like their mothers
—wear false hair, comets and high-heeled
shoes, powder and paint—wring their
necks at once."
—Win. B. Astor, the wealthy New
Yorker, attends to his business in person,
making and collecting loans ot great
amounts with the fewest of words. He
massive in size,over blx feet, in height,
and has red hair. He walks with a stoop
and plants his feet with a stamp which
shakes everything around but himself.
Bayard, of the Brooklyn Argus, tells
a fantastic lie of how a horde of sinning
printers and proof-reaitcrs who erred
and sinned as usual in the setting up of
the Khali of Persia's book were boiled
and fed to a typographical society. It
would be a blessed boon to realize the
fact that in one spot on earth stern jus
tice thus held sway.—St. Lnui» Journal.
—At the forthcoming type-setting con
test at Washington the competitors will
be divided into two classes. For the first
there will be two prizes—a solid gold
stick, half size, aud a silver one. In the
second, a German silver stick, full size.
The first class will be open to all in good
standing, the second to those who never
made a record of over 1,400 ems per
hour.
—In a little underground room near
Bleeker, half a mile west of Broudway,
is the well-known pork establishment of
TillesUm, the Quaker. He has been forty
years in that one place and all the while
dcaliuc in one article—pig pork, corn
fed. llis specialties are sausages and
miulaturc chop steaks. When he does not
receive the article he wants he will not
buy anything. Often when his customers
call for goods he has none. It is consid
ered a great favor to get his chops and
things. He divides what he makes
among his customers. The aristocracy
i of New York and all up aad down the
where river patronise him. It is no uncommon
an in- thing to see the coaches of Astor. Li\
inp-ton, Taylor and other wealthy people
in front of tbe
osd
Quaker s door. The
room is without ornament and almost
without furniture. but it is spink-spank
clean and one could eat on the floor
The old Quaker does all bis work him
self, wiil trust
nobody
What for?"
and has amassed
a fortune.—" 2?MJ A'*" York Ijetter
Darlar Theft.
"I Mgr. «p there'" shouted Ml to
»ome roofers who were at work on the
new addition to the Boston Public Li
brary but the men were working so far
above where the noi-y fellow was calling
from that they did not hear him for some
time. Finally one of tbe mechanics
nearest to the gutter looked over the cor
nice into the sireet below, and caught
the eye of the fellow who ivas calling so
loud.
I say, yon roofer."
Halloo.'*
Throw your hammer and chisel down
here for a lew minutes, will ye?"
"Got to fix this plaguey lightning-rod.'
"Use your own tools, then.''
Left 'em at the shop."
"leant help tbftt"
"Say!"
"Well?"
Ju st help me with your hammer for a
few minutes."
"Can't spare it."
Here another roofer crept to the cor
nice and looked over to see who was
making such a noise. He was instantly
hailed by the man below.
Kay, can't you lend us a hammer and
chisel for a few minutes?"
What for?"
Got to fix this lightning rod."
Well, bring 'em back safe."
"All right."
Will you come up andget 'emf
"No. Drop them down."
There was a plat of ground partly cov
ered with grass under the windows, and
so the accommodating roofer dropped
over the spare hammer and chisel, which
were duly picked up by the man below.
hallooing, having
off his
copper
Finally, after much
thus got the tools, he stripped
coat and went to work on the
lightning rods which ran down both sides
or the building.
He seemed to be a very good-natured
fellow, and whistled about his work in a
careless and pleasant way. Indeed, the
lightning rod man must have been quite
a musician, for he whistled very loud,
and he whistled very well, varying his
notes by introducing snatches from all of
the popular operas, marches and waltzes
of the day while he worked his way up
ward from window to window.
At last, after more than an hour's
labor, he had got one of the long rods
nearly oil", all but a couple of fastenings,
when, seeing a policeman standing below,
he called out:
Say, policeman?"
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What do you want?"
44
Just stop the people from coming too
near the building for a few minutes
until I let this rod down. It's nearly
ready to fall and might hurt somebody.
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Very well," said the policeman, tak
ing hi.s stand and ordering the passers-by
to go on the other side of the street.
Finally the lightning rod man got a
rope, borrowed from borne quarter of the
building, and making it fast to the cop
per rod lowered it away to the ground,
apparently well satisfied al the comple
tion of the job.
"All right, policeman. If you are
coming this way bv and by I shall soon
have the other ready to lower."
Very well," said the officer, going
off on his beat.
The lightning-rod man stopped to dis
joint the long rod, and piled it together
nicely before he commenced work upon
the other. This was a much more diffi
cult one to handle than the first, owing
to the portion of the building upon
which it was secured, but patience and
perseverance accomplish all things, and
in less than two hours the musical fellow
had got the second one ready to lower.
Before he cut away the last fastenings
he looked round for the policeman to
keep people from getting hurt if the rod
should fall or go dow n by the run, but as
no officer was in sight lie hallooed vigor
ously to a mason at work on a portion of
the building, and engaged him to keep
all clear below.
Can't stop long."
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Only for a minute,H th$atcd the
lightning-rod man.
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Why dou't you let it down?"
44Going
to. Look out!"
And sure enough the second rod came
down without the rope attachment and
came within an ace of smashing in the
skull of the accommodating bricklayer,
who barely jumped one side ia time to
save his life!
"A miss is as good as a mile," said the
mason, half joking and half seriously,
but that is as near to being killed as I
wish to be."
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4 y
AAV
told you to look out," said the light
ning-rod man, who had now descended
to the £iound.
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Yes, I heard you!" said the other
dryly, as he marcned off to his work
again.
The links in the long rod were care
fully disjointed like the first and piled
together close to the building then the
man remembered that he had borrowed
the roofers' tools and so went away up
to the of the building to return
them.
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Thank ye, old fellow, for your ham
mer and chisel," he said, as he returned
them.
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Oh, you're welcome," was the answer.
The lightning-rod man disappeared for
a little while but soon returned, driving
up to the Library with a wagon. He
quietly proceeded to load his copper
rods, and as they were heavy he took otf
his coat and was occupied some time in
getting them all carefully into the ve
hicle.
In his work altogether he was em
ployed for some hours upon the building.
No one for a moment suspected but that
lie was acting under orders of the proper
authorities, but the truth was he was a
thief! After coolly loading his wagon
he resumed his coat, cracked a joke or
two with the mason who had so nearly
lost his life, aud quietly drove away.
1 he upshot ot lhe whole matter is that
the city of Boston w ill have to pay for
new lightning rods for the Public Libra
ry! N. Y. Wt*kly.
—Messrs I.awes and Gilbert, of Ttotli
amstead. England,, have been making
some experiments upon the value of In
diun corn as food for pigs. The corn
meal alone appeared to bo a defective
diet. With addition of mineral matters
the increase in live weight was quite sat
isfactory in proportion to the amount of
food couaumed. It is recommended to
mix Indian meal with food rich in nitro
gen and mineral matters, in which form
its use w ill be judicious.
V
!JNM f«ra*do at T«*caittbia, Al**—
Appeal for Aid.
Tfrrr.
1.
A tornado struck Tuscumbia about
seven o'clock last Sunday evening. It
I extended over about two thirds of the
town, doing its greatest damage in the
i weetern and northern portions. Eleven
lives were lost. Miss Bettie She rod,
daughter of John .sherod, living four
miie« southwest Irom here, was killed,
their bouse being blown down. Mrs.
Eiia Moore, wife of State Senator J. B.
•ore. and two children, were killed.
T. D. Hodglius, editor of the Tuscumbia
CArw»i», his wife and four children were
killed instantly, and their houe wa en
tirely destroyed. Mrs. Judith Winston
wa* lulled by the falling in of the roof
and upper walls of her house. Mr.
Martin 1). Patterson was dangerousl
injured, his house being blown awaj*.
Mrs. Thomas Gibbs was badly hurt, and
her house blown away. She was blown
across the street.
The railroad bridge was blown away,
arid the eastern-bound train from Mem
phis. which was due at about 7:30
o'clock, was wrecked at the bridge, but
no lives were lost.
An appeal for aid has bees made, as
follows:
At a meeting of the citizens of Tuscumbia,
Ala., at the Court House on Monday. Nov. '£i,
the undersigned were appointed a committee
to publish an address oid to make an appeal
V the public- with reference to the terrible
calamity which ha* bef.illeri
o„ Nov. 'jy, XXnoZdo
paused over our ity, destroying many houses
and putting to instant death a number of our
citizens. Over one-third of our town is laid
in ruins. The Dcshlar Female Institute, just
completed at a cost of some $15,000, the
Catholic Church, several lartre and eleifant
brick mansions and a large number of frame
buildings were totally destroyed. Many build
iiius are also more or* less injured. The fair
ground buildings and twelve mills were i^lso
destroyed. In one house the parents and four
children, composing the entire family, were
instantly killed. The wife and four children
of J. burns Moore were buried beneath the
ruins of his fallen house. Hut two of the num
ber, children, were taken out alive.
The amount of property destroyed is esti
mated at from *100,000 to 1150,000. This ca
lamity has necessarily brought grief, great
distress and destitution upt»n our community.
More than fifty houses being wrecked, many
funiilics are homeless and penniless, and need
immediate aid. The citizens will do ull in
their power to relieve the suifering and
needy, nut help is earnestly solicited from
abroad, as the town is so Impoverished it can
not poseibly supply the needed help, (iod
has brought this desolation upon us, and we
confidently appeal to all persons throughout
the country to aid us in this our Lour of ca
lamity. Donations from any source will be
thankfully reeeive'l, and may be forwarded to
Joseph Ilillman, Tuscumbia, Ala.
signed, in behalf of the citizens:
JosKI'H IILIJ.MAN,
IIOHACB P. SMITH,
T. H. DAVENPORT,
JOHN L. INMAN,
LBWIS B. THORNTON.
The Freaks of an Eccentric King*
WHKN I arrived in Munich tbe Bava
rians were looking everywhere for their
King. He had gone—disappeared from
their gaze. The court was distracted,
the courtiers frantic. They searched for
him at the palace, on the top of his fa
vorite mountains, and nowhere could they
find their master. Suddenly a telegram
arrived from Paris telling us he bad gone
there incognito (rather he had attempted
it). When a royal personage goes off
suddenly without crying "gare" there
must be something in it but what this
particular something was no one knew.
Several days were passed in suspense
when the news came that the King had
gone to Paris to study the chateau of Ver
sailles and the bed of Louis XIV. Some
say the King is only original others that
he is not quite sane at any late he is
young, handsome, and peculiar. He
hates and flies from the world his peo
ple are nothing to him he comes and
goes no one knows where.
He avows a passionate admiration for
Wagner and bis music, and is in love with
the old-fashioned majesty of the King
Louis XIV. To imitate him he is going
to create another Versailles. He has
chosen an fcland in the middle of the
largest of the lakes, called Chiemsee. I
believe there used to be a convent of
Benedictines on it, but the principal at
traction is the beautiful view extending
over the Bavarian Alps, from Sonalie to
Salzburg, in Austria. Here he intends
to n produce the palace and park of
Versailles. The eo»f. and labor of carry
ing all the materials for building across
the lake are matters of little importance
to the voung monarch. He was in the
full tide of another erratic construction
at Falsenburg, costing already four
millions of francs, but that he has now
abandoned after eight or nine years of
hard work. But what cannot a Kinir do?
Poets glow in their praises of his "beau
tiful artistic nature" painters put upon
canvas his glorious deeds even Wagner
makes music at his command and the
populace, awed by such vast ideas, love
liiui, and the mystery with which he sur
rounds himself adds to bis popularity.
He is not like a sovereign.
I forget who it was who was so un
popular that, on some journey, bis
courtiers, fearful lest he should remark
the dead silence that atteuded his prog
ress, had the idea to attach some me
chanical apparatus to his carriage, that
with every turn of the wheel cried
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Vice l' Emperrur." The potentate, half
asleep, would awake occasionally to the
conciou8ness of his people's devotion,
and congratulate himself on the grati
tude they felt for all his benefits. In our
day
we are all actors some kings play
at being comedians, some princes are be
ing jockeys, and like them break their
neckc on race courses but Louis II.. of
Bavaria, plays seriously the purt of
King. Though he litis thirty chateaux
built by his ancestors, all more or less
beautiful and in good repair, he will not
live in them, but prefers one of his own
making. With great labor, stone and
iron are carried by men and beast to the
summit of some pet mountain, and there,
in the midst of the forest, only sur
rounded by bis courtiers, does lie bold
his court. Extravagant stories are told
of him—that he walks about in the cos
tume of Louis XIV doubtless nitli
silken doublet und hose, powdered wig,
and the proverbial nine, preceded by
torches borne by gayly-dressed pages,
und followed by bisCbamberlain. Again,
that in winter lie will go in a golden
f-leigh, rusiiing through villages slumber
ing
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the snow, with a frightful noise of
galloping horses and a sudden gieani of
hundreds of torches. By the time tiie
villagers are aroused nna realize that it
is the King he has disappeared Then
they say that when he wants a little mu
sic he orders the theater to be lighted up,
and at midnight, long after the last glass
of beer has been drank in quiet Munich,
he arrives noiselessly in his box, and the
play begins. The actors do their painful
work of performing a whole opera to an
empty house, and to the dead silence.
Suddenly the King leaves as quietly as
he came, and all is over.
The King comes reluctantly to Mu
nich, but being obliged to appear at
times he has consoled himself by ar
ranging a w inter garden. There orange
trees bloom, tropical fruits thrive, fra
grant fountains play incessantly, birds
of all kinds. Irom the humming bird to
the cockatoo, and music, in soft and
dreamy measures, fill the air—even the
moon, by a wonderful mechanism, rises,
shines, pales and sets every night. On
the occusion of his brother's marriage,
When, during the visit to Paris, he
walked in the streets, I believe his cour
tiers had to beg him to alter his usuai
guit, which it seems does very ~ve!! for
the forests he chooses to dwell in, but not
for the boulevards of Paris. The effect
tlenian dragging one foot after the other,
in the style of tragedy kings in the play,
was anything but imposing, and only less
ludicrous than his traveling coach, all
glass and gilding.—Munich Cor. Boston
Jtmrruil.
UP
IN THE GARRET.
UP in the garret I Mt and jrazti
At the ra?ty relics of other days
Broken arid worn, they are ftowedsway
Under the rafter* rou^'h and gray.
The dual of years that will come no more
Lies thickly over the creaking floor.
The nlender wasps on the windows crawl.
The spiders creep on the dingy wall
They weave their web* in the corners bare,
And nothing human disturbs them there.
I look at the time-worn trnndle-bed,
Where once I rented my infant head
'TIM broken and old and thrown awa
To fall, like the old bouse, to decay.
Now, while I kneel o'er its broken frame,
I think of a long-lost mother's name
Of a happy time, when by her chair
I knelt to'utter mvinfant prayer
Of the loving word»i she kindly said
When Hhe laid me to rest in that trundle-bed.
One. day I saw her like one at rest
With white hands folded upon her breast,
While sorrowing friends stood weeping ronnd,
And words were said with a solemn sound
Then nadlv away her form they bore.
And I looked ou her lovely face no more.
These are the dreams I dream to-day,
Under the rafters rough and gray.
I turn away with a sense of pain
To the toilsome tasks of my life again.
Leaving the garret and broken ware
To the nlender wasp* and spiders there.
—Eugent J. Hall, in Our Fireside Friend.
Fortunes in Small Ways.
The New York correspondent of the
Boeton Journal writes:
4'
One can count
on his ten fingers the heavy merchants
that have stood unmoved during a quar
ter of a century. The heaviest houses
topple down and the richest men pass
out of sight. But there is a class of men
who maintain uninterrupted prosperity.
These are men who began small, had a
specialty, always sola the exact article
they professed, kept grubbing on from
year to year, and waited for fortune till
she chose to appear. One of the heaviest
paper-houses in New York was begun by
a man who was a rag-picker. He began
in the smallest possible way. Wrhen he
had only a small basketful he assorted
them fairly and honestly. He soon got
the confidence of the trade. His rags
were always the quality he represented
and be walked over the course, always
making progress, always making
money. In his immense warehouse
to-day buyers are sure to find
when they get home the exact article
that they purchased. Some years ago a
man set up a little cigar store. His
specialty was that he would not keep a
domestic cigar on his shelves. The arti
cle. that be sold was invariably good, and
he made a fortune. There are half a
dozen old caterers in New York. They
are fifty and sixty years old. Two or
three of them are in cellars or in small
rooms. The floor of each is sanded the
seats are without backs the tables with
out cloths the head of the house watts
ou his customers, coat off, white apron
around his waist, the perspiration on his
forehead he broils and stews and fries
lor his customers. Everything about the
room is just as it was thirty years ago.
In these little dens from twelve to two
one cannot sit or stand for the crowd.
The first merchants in New York till the
place. Chops, beefsteaks, bains, English
mutton are specialties. The man who
waits on these clerks and merchants
could buy a house on Fifth avenue and
live in it if he wanted to."
—There are twenty-five tribes in the
Indian Territory, with a population of
70,000. Many of these people are said to
be educated and wealthy, and all are
trying to become civilised. Among the
Creeks, who number about lo,000, there
are three missions, 2,050 members, 4J4
Sunday-school scholars, tgd $14,:irb is
spent yearly for educational purposes.
The Cherokees, of whom there are
17,000, have 2,000 pupils in their
schools 2,MK) of the tribe are church
members. The C'hoctaws have filty day
schools. Their chief, lions, in a seedwte
of Princeton College.
—The Ballarat Star says: "A ntiggcft
of gold weighing fWirteen ounces fouf
pennyweight was p™kcd up in Macaft
tliur street a few days ago, the fortunate
linder beiug, as is usually thecMe, apoor
workingman. The discovery was rathe*
singular. It appears that he was wear
ing a pair of almost solelcss boots, aud
while walking along the street felt a
bard substance pressing against the bot
tom of his foot. Looking down to ascer
tain it the cause was a sharp pointed
stone he saw tbe point of the nugget
sticking out of the ground, and soon uo
earthed it."
—There are said to be fifty varieties of
tobacco cultivated in the United States-^,
which gives one a wide range to chew6
from.
—The Misses Smith, of (^lastrnbury,
have determined to eat no Tbanasgiving
turkey until they can vote. Spunky.
A Puzzled and Indignant Witness,
A paper in Pittsfield, Mass., related,
following: They were trvbg 11^
case'in court the other day and ti
lawyer was questioning a witness in r^f
erenceto.the animal's habits and du
position. 'Haveyou ever driven
was asked.
41
have,'
T,r
her!:'
was the renlv
W as there any one with ou at
time?'was the next question
not long since, the King cast about in his tion, the lawyer referring to the anim-1
mind for a suitable entertainment for tbe but the witness understood that he meant
royal pair. He could think of nothing the lady. She was,' he replied w
better to offer them than what iiad never she gentle and kind?' asked the
been seen bv other eves than bis own—a limb, and the rpnlr wna in »k«
sang, music played, the pages served
fruit and wine on crystal plateaux, and
the King walked with his new sister in
the jarriin d'hiter quite alone. I wonder
if the young
couple were much impressed
with this attention! This royal brother,
not looking with that indulgence on the
softer sex usual with gentlemen in the
ordinary walks of life, evidently thought
it a great compliment and treat.
tV-
4
Th«»«.
was a lady with me,' the witness
an.
swered, and he blushed a little \y
she a good driver?' was the next nu^f
as
legal
rogation, and a decisive 'No' was the
answer. 'She didn't rear up or kick
over the traces, or put her hind feet
through the dash-board, or try to run
away, or act ugly, or'—the witness w»3
boiling over with indignation by this
time, and interrupted the lawyer with
Do you mean the horse or the lady1
'I mean the mare we're talking about'
thundered the counsel.
4Oh!'
was the
response,41 thought you meant the gal.'
And with this explanation the punraitoif
justice was resumed."
The Evenings Ahead.
1
HX cream of the year is to be skimmed
from Its long and tranquil evenings
which begin now at an eariier hour every
day. To such as dwell in the country
the contrast is a striking one between the
outdoor life of summer and the indoor
enjoyments and attractions of winter.
The evenings that are coming, that are,
in fact, of notable length already, are too
precious to be squandered in stores and
shops, indulging in fickle gossip and list
less conversation. Put to the right use,
they are more than gold and silver to
any one. In the first place, some sort of
systematic reading of a studious charac.
ter ought to be attempted, not extended,
but brief, and such as one is confident he
can master. There are but few supreme
minds in literature, and if any of them
were made the close companion of a w in
ter, the influence on the life ever after
ward would be too plain to be denied.
People do not go along through life with,
out impressions from outside they have
a choice of what those impressions shall
be and whence they shall be derived, and
if they prefer not to exercise it they siin
ply surrender themselves to such as come
and command their attention. A mind
already preoccupied with sentiments and
reflections of its own preference obvi
ously possesses the power to a great de
gree to forbid the intrusions of influences
which are worthless or positively inju
rious.
Because the fanner labors and grows
weary with his work, but not more than
the mechanic does, he too readily sur
renders himself to the habit of thinking
that his mind is tired, too, and requires
rest with his body. The truth is, how
ever, that the mind never becomes tired
it is the body that does that, and then is
apt to drag down its tenant to its own
level but to a much greater extent than
is generally supposed the mind is capa
ble, with repeated exertions, of relieving
physical lassitude and helping the body
to recuperate without falling into forget
fulness.
It is very true that a book cannot be
studied when the one poring over it is
inclined to drowsiness, but possibly
lighter suppers and earlier ones, with
perhaps a brief stretch on the lounge,
would help lighten the physical burden
and give the mind fair play. An exciting
book can keep a sleepy person awake,
and the habitual exercise of the will
over such as do not wholly appeal tc the
imagination might produce an equal
effect. It is in the individual, after all.
To make up the determination to turn
those valuable evenings of the approach
ing w inter to good account is to half do
the work but let not the plan laid out be
too extensive curtail it to even meager
dimensions, and the satisfaction experi
enced from having mastered it instead of
being mastered by it will so stimulate one
that insensibly he will press forward to a
larger conquest.—Masiachusett* Plough
man.
LABORERS, shoemakers, blacksmiths
and all others out of employment should
commence to write Christmas stories.
They will soon be in demand.—Norrin
town Herald.
—A man is hardly fit for a farmer un
less he has heart to love those confiding
and grateful brutes that feed from his
hands and love those tnat feed them.
RKV. E. H. HOPKINS, of Jackson Center*
Shelby Co., O., says: My wife had the con
sumption for ten years, and had been eon
fluecf to hrr bed for some time. I heard o 1 Dr.
L. Q. C. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, and
after using four bottles the woe able to do the
work for her family."
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