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Colonel Baker, who was killed at
Ball s Bluff during the late rebellion,
was well known in Springfield, Illi
nois, and it was of him Mr. Lincoln
used to tell the following story:
Colonel Baker was very courteous
to ladies, always treating them with
great politeucss and attention. He
was starting on a journey at one time,
when a lady was placed in his care by
an acquaintance. Now the Colonel
knew nothing whatever of this lady,
1 'ut she proved to be a pleasant trav
eling companion, and he made her as
comfortable as possible in the old
stage-coach. On the next morning
they stopped for breakfast in Galena,
and while that meal was being pre
pared they were shown into a parlor
on the second floor. Here the lady
seated herself by an open window
looking out on the street, while the
Colonel paced the floor, with his hands
folded behind him, as was his custom,
tor lie always seemed as restless as a
caged bear when confined in a room.
Other passengers were in the parlor,
ami they were speaking of some late
defaulter, some blaming him, others
saving he had done what he could to
save h s creditors. At last one of the
gentlemen appealed to Colonel Baker,
asking whit he thought of the defaul
ter.
"Think of him!" exclaimed the
Colonel. "Why, that he should be
hung without mercy. He is a scoun
drel."
At this the lady left her seat, and,
standing in front of the Colonel with
flashing eyes, said, "Colonel Baker,
perhaps it may interest you to know
that the gentleman you so readily con
demn is my uncle!"
The Colonel ceased his walk, and
giving one appealing look to his fair
friend, he began to draw off his coat,
and approaching the open window,
said, ' I have nothing more to say,
madam; but give the word, and 1 will
throw myself from this window."
The sacrifice was not demanded,
land they continued their journey in
peace.
.Several powder-begrimed veterans
gathered at the police station the oth
er evening, says The Ijouisville Cour -
ier-Journal, to keep out of the rain,
and while there discussed the following:
"1 remember," said one, "that a bul
let passed clear through George Gay's
body and never killed him."
"1" said a third, "know well when
like doctors thought Henry Hill's life
was gone up, as a minie lodged within
an inch of his heart, but he lived."
"Jake Johnson's head was {Merced
by a ball, and he lived," exclaimed
the last man but one. These remarks
produced considerable surprise and
excited speech frôm all save a tall,
slim, sleepy individual, who waited
till his companions concluded and then
drawled, in piping accents: "Those fel
lows were a little tough, I allow; but
Jim Jones, who fit aside of me, was
shot in the neck so that his head just
hung by the skin."
"Great heavens!" ejaculated all;
"you don't mean to say he lived, do
you?"
"Oh no, he dicd,"drawled slim-sleepy.
* Senators Jones and Sharon, of Neva
da are worth jointly about $18,000,000.
The property of all the United States
Senators combined will not exceed in
value $7,000,000. Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, ranks next to the Nevada
Senators in wealth, being worth about
| 1000000 Salisbury, of Delaware, is
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lowest In the list, Ms property
estimated at $16,000.
The metric system was legalized by
congress in 1866, and though used in
the most important of our great pub
lie works, the United States Coast
Survey, and by members of the scien
tific profession, it has not been as gen
erally adopted as its superior merits
demand.
The following simple tables give
all that there is in the metric or deci
mal system of weights and measures:
MONEY.
10 mills make a cent.
10 cents make a dime.
10 dimes make a dollar.
10 dollars make au eagle.
LENGTH.
10 milli-meters make a centimeter.
10 centi-meter8 make a decimeter.
10 deci-meter8 make a meter.
10 meters make a dekameter.
10 deka-meters make a hectometer
10 hecto-metcr.s make a kilometer.
10 kilometers make a myriameter.
weight.
10 milli-grams make a centigram.
10 centi-grams make a decigram.
10 deci-grams make a grain.
10 grams make a dekagram.
10 deka-grams make a hectogram.
10 hectograms make a kiloograra.
10 kilograms make a myriagram.
capacity.
10 milli-liter make a centiliter.
10 centi-liters make a deciliter.
10 deci-liters make a liter.
10 liters make a dekaliter.
deka-liters make a hectoliter.
A knowledge of the works of Chau
cer is recommended ns a part of the
English education of young men who
desire to become officers of the British
army. This recommendation was dis
cussed the other night bv the House
of lairds, some poors fearing that the
study of any poetry tended to soften
the mind and make the oflicer unfit
for his robust military duties. On the
other hand, it is said that Alexander
the Great was passionately fond of
poetry. Julius Cæsar was not merely
fond of enfeebling his mind by read
ing poetry, but was actually himself
a poet. Frederick the Great was
given to reading and writing bad po
etry. Wolfe, as he crossed the St.
Lawrence to take Quebec, kept recit
ing Gray's Elegy; Marlborough stud
ied Shakespeare's historical plays;
and Napoleon saw great merit in Os
8ian. Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Wal
ter Raleigh were not bad at poetry
and soldiering, and Theodore Korner
scribbled a poem on his saddle just
before his last gallant charge.
Great Fatality. —The latest esti
mate of the Colombian earthquake is
14,000 lives and $10,000,000, the de
struction of the city of Cucuta alone
being reckoned at $7,000,000. All the
better and more substantially built
houses were of course more dcstruc
■
tive in their fall, so that the wealthy
classes were the special victims of the
disaster, affording tempting booty to
the criminal classes, freed from all
restraint. The Chicago Tribune foots
up the destruction of human life by
famine, earthquakes, floods and disas
ters, as amounting to 97,500 already
withiu the present year.
twelve inches calibre, carries a six
They have just finished, at South
Boston, Mass., the largest breech-load
ing rifled cannon in the, world. It is
steel lined, weighs 82,280 pounds, is
hundred pound shot, and requires a
beingjeharge of seventy pounds of powder.
It is destined for Sandy Hook.
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The earth is inhabited by about
1.400.000. 000 inhabitants, namely i
360.000. 000 of the Caucasian race;
560.000. 000 61 the Mongolian; 190,
000,000 of the Ethiopian; 200,000,000
of the Malay race; and 1,000,000 of
the American Indian« All these res
pectively speak 3,064 languages, and
possess 1,000 different religions. The
amount of deaths per 'annum is
33,333,333, or 91,594 per day, 3,730
per hour, 60 per minute, or one per
second. This loss is more than com
pensated by the number of births. The
average duration of life throughout the
globe is 33 years. One-fourth of its
population dies before the seventh
year, and one half before the seven
teenth. Out of 10,000 persons only
one reaches his hundredth year, only
one in 500 his eightieth, and only one
in 100 his sixty-fifth. 1 Married people
live longer than unmarried ones, and
a tall man is likely to live longer than
a short one. Until the fiftieth year
women have a better chance for life
than men; but beyond that period the
chances are equal. Sixty-five persons
out of 1,000 marry. The month of
June and December are those in which
marriages are most frequent. Chil
dren born in the spring' are generally
stronger than those born in other sea
sons. Births and deaths occur chiefly
in the night. The number of men able
to bear arms is but one eighth of the
population. The population of the
United States is now over 40,000,000,
of which one-eighth are negroes, with
20,000 Indians, and three times as
many Chinese .—Danbury News.
Tue manufacture of stamped envel
opes was begun in 1853 by the Gov
ernment, and has so increased that
during the past year 149,766,400 were
made. The work was done in New York
city, by George H. Reay & Co., for
eight years previous to last Septem
ber, and since by the Plimpton and
the Morgan Envelope Companies com
bined, at Hartford. Uncle Sam under
sells the trade, furnishing envelopes,
exclusive of the stamps, at lower pri
ces than the stationers can afford. A
large proportion of the stamped en
velopes used are printed to order,
with the names and addresses of the
purchasers, and a request to return
the latter if uncalled for. In the man
ufactory, 225 persons, 36 stamping
machines, and 70 printing presses
are employed. A Government inspec
tor has a general supervision of the
manufacture, his duty being to exact
a rigid compliance with the contract.
At the recent goat show, the first*
ever held in London, one hundred an
imals were exhibited including one
which gives five, quarts of milk a day.
The flesh of the goat is extremely pal
atable, and that of the kid strongly
resembles lambj but the defect that
has been found hitherto has been the
leanness of the animal. A kid killed
and cooked will have very little meat
on its bones, but by breeding goats
carefully all the characteristics of an
imals that fatten can be obtained, and
this is one among the objects that the
promoters of the Hiow have in view.
One of the Siamese Ambassadors,
on returning home from Europe, gave
the following description of a piano
forte, or, as he called it, "a great
trunk set upon legs." He said, A wo
man sits in front of this, and, ticking
a sort of tail it has with her, toe, pro
duces a variety of sounds by beating
rapidly with her fingers on a number
of little bit* of ivory iu front of it."