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YOLV3IE I.
The Idyl <r Battle Hollow.
I War of tlio Kclifllimi. IS'-.'
N<.. I won't thi.r.r.inv. ! Atel it ni'.'t i."'hin'-
n ( >! .
Ami -har’a nor. In to I that vm 1011.- yer don t
Amt it- lir-110. :<• I it-, do!" and il " Belle, i< it
true?”
And " Wft'ii (hi- jor yarn f the Major ana
Til! I'iri 'ifk <f V all ho J: • but I f’pogn j
'lhrt in it' tilin’ to you * * oil, then, listen . j
[• r tli tight, atul nn> md U' all night
11 * , V. . I-I I in' in• a rowcrtul sight
• . . ... ;: ,[. i titd and Aunt ( hlo* was
And Vii.l-v and Mi ly <re hid in the shod :
Au,| I rvn 'in at daybreak and nothin was
Uh , „ . i • ,i
lat the growlin of eannnn low down in Du
sky.
And 1 saw not i thii g . I rar to the spring.
Hut a splintered fo,ce-r;::l ami a broken down
*■ ing,
S . i K : hoe!” as i sat on a tret.
to sec me:
An I I tillr i ui' iny pail and was visin’ to go.
When up conus the Major a canterin’ slow.
When he saw me he drew in his reins, and the:;
threw
On the gate-post his bridle, and—what doe
he do
But come down where I sat; an l he lifted his
hat.
And he says—well, thar ain’t any need to tell
that—
’Tw.t -omi foo!i*hness. sure, but it. 'mounted to
this.
Thct he asked for a drink and he wanted—a
kiss.
Then I .‘■aid T was mad). ” For the water, my
lad. . . ,
You’re too big and must stoop; for a k us, it? ns
1 ad -
You ain’t near big enough.” And I turned ir. a
huff.
When that Major he laid his unite hand on my
cuff.
And he. savs. ” You’re a trump! Take my pistol,
don't fear!
But shoot the next man that insults you. my
dear.” •
Then he stooped to the pool, very quiet and
cool,
L cavin’ me with that i istol stuck there li a
fool.
W hen there flashed on my sight a quick glimmer
of light
From the top of the little stone lence on the
right,
And I knew 'twas a rifle and hack of it all
Rose the face of that bushwhacker, Cherokee
Hall!
Then I f-!t in uiv dread that tiro moment the
he -d
Of the Major w as lifted, the Major was dead :
And I stood still and white, hut Lord! gals, in
spite
Of my care, that domed pistol went off in my
fright!
Went on--true ; s (*• •-1 i 1 ;r d strangest of all
Itactooally injured that Cherokee Hall.
Thet’s all row, go long. Ye.-, some folks thinks
it’s wrong,
And tbar’ssome wants to know to what side I
belong;
But 1 says. "Served hiiu light!” and I go, all my
might.
In love ( r in war, for a fair, stand-up fight ;
And ns fur the Major -sho! gals, don’t you
know
Thet - Lord' -thnr’shis -too in the garden below.
- bret Jlurle in the Atluntii Monthly.
A WAHMNb TO .IK A LOUS WIVES.
TRANSLATED PKOM THE GERMAN.
Thu vouiio Countess Von F , a
beautilul and i*l<q*aiit F. tisian, though
only wedded two y ars, was conscious of
a hligl.t inattention on the part of her
handsome husband, which caused many
uijrlin mi d tear •.
While tie hu-l aud visited the cluh,
as lu* said, the v. iff. who was formerly
never .i!--<*iit from Ins side*, remained
alone in her large hotel.
“ Wd! you not attend the mask hall
at the opera next Thursday, dear
Franz?’s. d she one day at the table of
the Count.
“ Nex 1 . My d< ar child,
the hall < laski .tii the mooting of m
club, which I :.m obliged to attend, a • 1
behmg to the committee.”
“ Do you m t love me sullicit ntly to
give it up for m\ sa' ?"
1 . ui nt reasons
for 1 1 i lie, who ■
ot yiebii!’ ■ i —pi si?ion, ceased to urge
him an\ lurih i. Formerly she had
sacnlic'd her o>*. u\u in t > accomjKiiiy
him to th fashionable balls <>f Pari .
and now 1. retu*< dto gratify lu r in o
smalt a m iter. Ihe poor lady was con
the ball
without her, for nevei before had be
been wiiLi.g '.o m. s one und r ; ny cir
cum ( iu<- . What little was needed to
confirm hi f aiot: suspic n, Hi riuine
Von Cum, h'-i nn-'t intimate ir.end,
suppiu d.
•* l will wag u-■. t Hermine, that
your hti-hmi aiii not tail to attend ti e
ball, lhec’.u 'ii ait et on .'Uch oc
cn ion , ! evvij one w -lit to go to
the ball.'
the poor young wile, sadly. **U.i ’ if I
coul <i on iy km*\v . e truth of it!”
44 1b < <’m f -dy be h*und out. Ill>
poor Charlotte. *
44 But h \\ ?
” You know yi ur husband s carriage
his who)
will pioLp.L y d • 1 w.il pr vide two
1
doimuveb. All hour i,.-utiiclent ime ’
search ;ne salon thiough. If you do
not find him you can 1 el -aiistied t* A
he has told you tin* truth.
“Provide <o-iume- and ticket-.”
The fatal TlVurduy ariiveti. After a
five t/e.oik diuiier, the Count k • i
hi
inti, (hied lu r eyei . : ih . found
her.-elf auji c i i.ei ido
o! find n . . ui t tin i .
-
nui <• i . iv. ■ ; at . even 1.0.1, ..
provided . . t.: ii ait-in isk - and doui 1 u< •*.
left tit iio i. A hack lonveved them
t> the opei '. Elegant masks ilitttd
hither and :hit.er tirrouith the bril
liantly lighted saloon. C.iarloite hung
with beating heart on the arm of her
friend ; in every mask she imagined she
saw her unfaithful hu-mand. Two fe
male figures promenading soon attracted
attention. A Pasha, in (lowing cov
tame, soon followed them.
*• Hi i nline,” whispered the Counter ,
“ tliv.t Tu k who follows us so persiht
ently, is, 1 really believe, my hu>hand !
Look—it is just his fi.uiv and hearing!
Perhaps he has iccogni/.ed us.”
44 Well, if it i i, it just
be; for he now sees that you found out
his duplicity. He poos to the. ball with
out you, tli ere tore you have a right to
go without him. liu-h! See! lie up
pi ouches a group of females—lu* bpeuk*
to the Obelisk—we will go nearer, and
listen to what lu* is saying.”
1 he Pasha seized the hand of the Ob
eli- U, a beautiful, voluptuous figure, and
dirw hr ; into the dano<. ! hey d.’sij
p ared iu the mazourka, which was just
beginning. Charlotte would have sworn
that the Pasha was lu i husband, and
that lit* had donned this dress in honor
of his companion. Her sufferings were
intense. The more sin* watched him, i
the more fully :ho became convinced :
that it was indeed he. It was precisely
his manner in dancing; it was his brown
hair curling on the neck ; it was hO j :
beautiful goatee showing ’neath the
m.'t'k ; it was, in a word, his elegant 11
lounutre, which always distinguished i
him in every crowd. And how tender- |
ly his arm embraced the slight, elastic '
form of the Obelisk, who floated light
as a sylph through the dance. Suddenly
both dancers disappeared.
44 Come, come,” whispered Hermine, i
as she drew her friend alter her.
4i Where?”
44 Into that alcove into which the
P.sha went.” Charlotte allowed herself
to be drawn forward without resistance;
Indore the two ladies could reach the
alcove situated in a corner of the large
saloon, they were surrounded by a party
of punches and harlequins who were
fully availing themselves of the unre
strained liberty of the scene. They
struck at each other with their clattering
sticks, they groaned, yelled and battered
ouh other with the coarsest jests. An
other crowd of comic masks soon joined
them, and in a few moments the friends
were separated. Poor Charlotte found
herself alone in the crowd of harle
quins, who with jokes and grimaces
danced around her. Peals of laughter
from the spectators greeted their ma
ncouvres, which naturally induced them
to double their insults.
Charlotte was ready to faint; she
feared some ont* would, or had already,
perhaps, n cognized her. To her plead
ing gestures they answered with laugh
ter. The tumult grew worst just us a
new mask stepped into the saloon. The
harlequins must have been intoxicated.
A man's tall form parted the melee. He
wore an elegant black domino, a line
hall’ mask and a black cap with a white
plume flowing over the shoulder.
’• Back!’’ cried he, in a loud voice,
and his eyes flashed with anger; 44 this
lady is under my protection.”
At the same time he pushed the har
lequins aside. A loud murmur arose,
hut the domino took no notice what
ever of it.
44 1 pray you take my arm, madam,”
said he calmly.
“Take me out of the saloon, sir, I
conjure you,” gasped the distressed
lady.
The domino quickly obeyed. Five
minutes later they stood on the portal
of the Opera House. Charlotte clung,
half dead, to the arm of her protector.
She could scarcely stand. A fierce
snow-storm had set in, the night was
cold and raw.
“ A carriage, sir,” murmured she, “ I
am so exhaled I cannot walk.”
The domino called for a hack. As
had luck would have it. there was, just
at this moment, not one to be had. The
icy wind threw clouds of snow over the
thinly-clad lady.
** nere we cannot remain,” muttered
tin* domino compassionately.
” For mercy’s sake, do not carry me
back in the saloon.”
*• But you are unwell, madam. Where
shall we go? Ah ! just opposite is a cafe
still open. Follow me; 1 will procure a
hack there.”
The Countess submitted. Her little
let t, encased in white satin slippers,
must wade through the snow. Trembling
wit li cold and exhaustion she entered
the cafe, where she sank down in a
swoon. The domino was much con
cerned for his companion.
*• Madam, you cannot go home in
this situation. You must take some
thing. You must refresh yourself. Al
low me to prescribe for you; pray he
my guest. Waiter, the bill oi fare. Two
bottles of champagne.”
Charlotte tried to refuse; her gen
on us protector would not hear a word.
”We will sup together, madam; then
1 will order a carriage and you can go
quietly home.”
1 In* behavior of the domino was so
.nil.able and gentlemanly that Charlotte
übmitted to the gentle power of his
<•l* quence, and believed him to be a
true gentleman. They spoke of the
uproar at the theatre. He was all in
•h;. nation. In his anger he consumed
•it tiles, pastry, baked fowl and vegeta
h* -in short, the best the bill of fare
<Horded, and this he washed down with
i bottle of the champagne. The poor
C amt* > - tasted the viands not to seem
unthankful, lit* finished his repast in
iml! an iiour.
• How do you feel, madam?” in
quit * d tie.
‘ I am better, thank you.”
‘ Wry well, l will order a carriage.”
How can l over thank you, uiy dear
-ir?”
•* By refusing to believe that I have
pla •*•! y< u under the slightest obliga
tion ; any gentleman would have done
th* s me in hkecin umstances.”
• Oh, then, crown your magnanimous
onduct by getting in * u carriage in
stantly.”
By the time you take a cup of tea 1
will be i uck. Waiter, a tup ot tea, with
ihe domino laid down his napkin
it • ha tily left the room. Charlotte
.v i t. i ten, twenty minutes—a half
iio si h** hid not ictuni. Other masks
refreshments,
i h ft ar that h< i hu-hand might return
home before her, decided the Countess
to vva.t no longer.
’ T ut* stranger cannot find a hack,”
h thought; 44 he will forgive me if wo
never meet again.”
•Sho wrapped t *r>elf in her domino,
preparatory to leaving. The waiter came
toward her.
*• My friend,” whispered she, ,4 if the
g. in It in hi in the domino returns please
iy to Inm that I heg his pardon tor my
' abrupt departure.”
“Consider it done, madame; hut
i please settle with me 1 < fore you leave.”
■ 1 b* t ountes* was shocked ; she re
member* d she had no money with her,
* as ll ratio h i under! ken the whole
of the arr ingenieuts.
- *• Her** is the bill,” continued the
; waiter ;*• as the gentleman went out he
referred me to you.”
44 T0 me?”
I 44 * My wife will attend to it,’ lu* said
to me.”
t If the lower part of the Countess’s
face had not been hidden by her
i mask th* writer would have seen how the
r blush of shame man tie* l her cheeks, as
r she found she had f dleu into the hands
\n Independent Paper—Devoted to Literature, Mining, Commercial, Agricultural, General and Local News
FROSTBURG, ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 187?
of mi adventurer, who had gotten a [
most elepant supper at her expense. The |
bill was 65 francs. The room was rapidly
tilling with masks. The waiter eyed her ]
suspiciously. )
“Take this, take this,” said she, as | (
with trembling fingers she unclasped j ,
one of her bracelets. “ To-morrow ,
I will pay the bill anil get the trinket.” (
Charlotte dreiv a long breath as she f
found herself in the open air. A large |
group of hacks stood before the Opera | ,
1 louse, in which gayety was at its height. f
.She entered a carriage and was driven |
to her door, where the porter paid the t
driver. Scarcely had she entered her |
own room when the Count arrived ; she ,
knew it was he, by the opening and ,
shutting of certain doors. After all, did
she know whether or not he had at- j
tended the mask ball? or did she pass s
a miserable night? Early the next _
morning Hermine came to see after her ,
friend. Charlotte told her adventure, ,
and begged her accomplice (as she did (
not wish to trust a third person) to go .
for her bracelet. Hermine took the uc ■
count and left. In an hour she re-en- .
tered the room of the expectant
Countess. ,
“ Where is my bracelet ?”
“ The waiter said wonderingly to me ]
that the gentleman who ordered the sup- ,
per there last night had about an hour (
before redeemed his wife’s bracelet with .
sixty-five franc*.” (
The Countess grew pale—she had lost (
a bracelet worth 1,500 francs; hut as ,
she. wished the adventures of the even- ,
ing to remain unknown, she had to bear ,
her loss in silence. ,
“ These are the fruits of jealousy,” ,
cried she.
A few days later she learned that on |
the same evening the Count had lost ,
1,000 fracs at play in his club.
“That was an expensive night,” said ,
Hermine, as the news was related to ,
her. ,
“I pav it cheerfully,” answered Char- |
lotte, “for I know now that the hand- j
some I’asha was not my husband.”
Neither the black domino or the ,
bracelet were ever heard of again.
Current Items.
Tii e tunnel under the river at Detroit i
lias penetrated to a lateral depth of 155 '
feet.
Bostonians are gorging themselves
with strawberries, which they can get
for 50 cents a piece.
A desperate wrangle is now going on
in Millport, Conn., over the vacant
postoffice. The emoluments are sl6 a
year.
Ihvise service has been held in the
First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth,
N. J., without missing one Sunday for
207 years.
Hanniiial, Mo., mourns the death of
a blind dog who for some months could
navigate with no accuracy save by using
his tail as a rudder.
Wn.AT’s in a name? There is a town
in lowa with tiie delightful name of
Cascade, the people of which have to go
five miles for water.
llenrv Luis, a German, now ending
his days in the almshouse of Alleghany
county, Maryland, claims to be one
hundred and seven years old.
As Oregonian, who bought a package
at a sale of unclaimed express goods,
was displeased on finding that it con
tained only tlio hones of a dead China
man.
The Great Western Railway Company
of England has had a baby—that is,
had it on its bands some time, as it was
found in one of the company’s cars, and
has not been claimed.
Alburn, a little village in Maine, and
almost unknown to fame, nevertheless
turned out $3,000,000 worth of shoes
last year. The average weekly ship
ments were 800 oas-s.
Peter Olson is ihe hero oi Geneva,
111. A few days since, he broke through
the ice on Fox river, and actually swam
a considerable distance under the ice,
until he reached an opening.
A Virginian, recently deceased, left
his farm to ten of his former slaves, who
had voluntarily remained with him
until the day of his death, taking what
wages he chose to give them.
A negro near Andersonville, Ga., last
Sunday, put his head on the railway
track, in front of an advancing train,
and could only he removed by an appli
cation of boiling water from the engine.
A New Bedford man vented his spite
by paying a judgment of S2B a limb of
the law had obtained against him, in
one ceut pieces. The lawyer says he
never before thought S2B was so much
money.
Boston had a snow-storm on Friday
hut, in which about half the flakes con
sisted of greenish-brown worms, an inch
long. They crawled away in a lively I
manner as soon as they struck the
ground.
X New and Juvenile Fiddler.
Truly artistic performers upon the j
violin are not common, but a star of
this magnitude is beginning to shine
rather brilliantly upon the musical
world here with a very hopeful prospect
of extending her reputation. Miss
Persia Bell is not one of the soulful
spirituelle artists, hut a good honest
looking American girl with a remark
able talent for music, which she has
cultivated, making the violin a special
ty. She is a native of Leavenworth,
Kansas, only thirteen or fourteen years
of age, though with a plump English
face and figure she looks older. She
has been a pupil at the Boston con
servatory since February, 1869, and has
several times lately made a successful
public appearance here. The distin
guishing quality of her style is vigorous
and true intonation. —Boston Letter.
i Isaac Newton, a Louisville printer,
and a philosopher on general principle!,
discovered a law of gravitation which
i drew him irresistibly in the direction of
I i Kate Stringer. Isaac is a married man,
I but Kate strung him, and he absconded
i with her on Saturday night last, leaving
r ! his wife ami a child in destitute circum
• I stances. Mrs. Newton says she will
- | cuuse the astronomical Isaac to see stars
i' if she catches him.
Farm anil harden.
How to Plant the Potato. —A oorre- j
spondent of the Prairie Farmer says: ;
Plant never less than six inches deep, ! i
better seven; in sandy soil never less i
than seven or seven and a half. The
reason is this, and 1 will show how !
many points it will cover: It will put i
the crop beyond the hurtful influence <
of the heat and the drought; it will i
bury the seed so that the frost cannot
reach it, early as it is put into the i
ground; and if it should reach it, being <
buried so deeply, it will draw out grad i
uallv, which will save it. It is as well
here, the seed is, as in the cellar, and i
may better sprout here than in the ;
cellar. It will thus show above the
ground in due time, when the frosts i
have disappeared and the growing sea- ;
son sets in. The soil being well drained
—an indispensable thing—the rest will
not hurt. There being a good mellow i
soil, with humus (vegetable matter)
charging it, it will be comparatively dry
and warm. This will save the seed,
providing always it is sound ; otherwise, i
affected with rot, it will be lost. i
The distance of planting apart must i
depend upon the sort that is plante 1. i
A spreading potato—spreading in the s
hill—must h ive more room. Thus, •'
we plant the Peach Blows farther apart i
than the Early Rose. The latter will 1
put its tubers close together, a nest of i
them, and the Hills can be put close to- ;
gether, say twelve to fourteen inches,or
drop the seed (a single eye or two) con- 1
tinuously eight inches apart, the rows <
as near together as will permit with the i
cultivator, the nearer the better for the ;
close-growing roots. By thus planting, J
as will be seen, rather close, there will i
be no overgrown, and, consequently, I
coarse, and it may be, hollow potatoes.
Neither will there be necessarily many 1
small ones, especially with some sorts,
of which the Early Rose is a beautiful
example. The. size, will be medium,
large enough—just the thing for cook-
ing; and there will be improved quality
—a thing, we need not say, of no sec
ondary importance. <
Select such see 1 for planting as is
wanted to be grown, of the best, the
finest qualities all round, and divide
into as many eyes as it pleases—a few
eyes only in a hill.
Oats for Lambs. —A correspondent of
the Journal of the Farm says: The im
portance of having lambs ready for
market at as early a period of t lie season
as possible, is a matte l ' which every
farmer, who lives in the vicinity of large
markets, understands or at least ought
to. It may perhaps not bo known to
all farmers that lambs are able to eat
oats when from three to four weeks old,
and my experience has been that there
is no provender with the use of which
I am familiar, that appears to have such
an immediate and salutary effect upon
they). All that is necessary to be done
is to moisten the oats, and place them
in a trough raised about six or eight
inches from the floor, and where the old
! sheep cannot get at them. Those who
aroskep.ieai in regard to this matter,
can very readily test the value ot this
suggestion on a single lamb or a pair.
Sinail Horses. The Southern Firmer
says: The arguments may all bo in
favor of great size, but the facts are nV
the other way. Large horses are more
liable to stumble and be lame, than
those of the middle size. They are
clumsy, and cannot fill themselves as
quick. There is nothing more surpris
| ing to Western men than to visit Mon
treal, and to see the small, but stout,
Canadian horses hauling large, two
seated carriages, full of people, with ap
parent ease. A horse weighing 900, in
Maine, takes a chaise or Concord wagon,
with two men in it. and nukes fifty or
sixty miles in a day, over hills that
i might have terrified Hannibal. But
j their weight is where it ought to he. It
I is compact, ami not lying around loose,
j It is muscle, and not pulp, that we want
| in a horse.
Durable Garden Stakes. —A correspond*
I ent wishes to know the best way to
| make durable garden stakes, for sup-
I ports and otiier purposes whore the
j wood is thrust into the ground, and
j soon decays under ordinary exposure—
I and mentions red cedar, gas tar, pe.ro*
j leum, etc. He wishes io make a supply
during winter, lied cedar, where it can
he had, is excellent for stakes, splittirg
straight and clear and lasting for a long
time. A common fence-post, selected
for its even grain, will make a large
number of common-sized garden stake s
—this is the easiest and cheapest way,
if the cedar can be had in market.
Next to red cedar, gas or coal tar is best
lor the pait which runs into the ground.
The best way to apply it is to put the
tar into a coarse boiler, heat it, being
careful to prevent its catching tire, and
then put in the stakes rather further
j into the hot tar than they are expected
I to go into the ground. In a lew min
j it tea the tar will have penetrated the
i pores, and they may bo taken out to
! give place to a second place parcel, and
j -o on ; a large number may thus be pre
' pared in an hour or two. We have thus
i made light j orous wood last at least
twenty times as long as without any
such protectian. Where exposed to air
and sun, the gas tar is of very little use,
and for such exposed parts crude petio
leum, washed over the surface and ab
sorbed by the wood, is far better, and
one of the cheapest and best of all pro
tectors of exposed woodwork. We
have lately seen an account of a mode
of protecting stakes by gas tar, by which
they may be made to last many years
when subjected to continued exposure,
by rolling the tarred portion in sharp
sand as soon as taken out of the kettle,
and after they are perfectly dry giving
them another coat of tar and of sand,
i This would obviously give them a water
proof and frost-proof casing, as a mix
ture of tar and sand is affected by
neither moisture nor freezing.— Country
Gentleman.
(.'apt. J. S. Stockdale is building an*
other boat at Pittsburgh for South
America. The hull is 160 feet in length,
37 feet beam, and 6 feet depth of hold;
cylinders 'l2 inches in diameter. 6 feet
stroke; 4 boilers 22 feet long, and 44
inches in diameter. She is intended to
i ply on the Magd dene river. South
Ameiicu, and makes the third boat
I Capt. Stock dale has built for that trade,
How a Wife Curbed her Hushaiiil’s I'n- |
governable Temper.
The following, from the Utica Herald ,
mtv bo of interest to some of the mar ! i
ried down-trodden : \
I found the cherished face of Maria t
Ann wreathed in smiles the other even
ing when I returned from my arduous 1
daily toil. (I am engaged as standing 1
man at a saloon. So many candidate i >
are treating, that the saloon keeper 1
hires six of us to be treated. We all l
drink with every candidate who comes 1
in, and it makes business pretty brisk.) | i
Said mv chosen one, “Joshua, I am
afraid you do not always find me an i i
angel in disposition.” ! :
Said I, “ That’s so—hie—my dear, I '
don’t seldom find you ’nungel in—in I
anything.” ! 1
“ And,” she added, “you arc not al i
ways the most pleasant man in th I
world.” 1
I did not feel called on to reply.
“ Now,” said she “ read that.” I
She had cut an item from the col- 1
umns of some paper wherein a demented i
writer told about some impossible j I
woman, who being troubled with a bad ! 1
temper, counted twenty-five every time J 1
she got proved, and thus became a j <
sweet, amiable, and dearly loved oma- j I
ment of the house of her delighted l
husband. I read the article as well as *
the condition of my head would allow, ’
and remarked. “ Bosh.”
Maria Ann paid no attention to me, :
but unfolded her plan. She said that j
every time I got mad I should count j ’
twenty-five, and every tinn she got mad .
she would count twenty-five. I asked I :
her who she thought would pay our j l
rent while we sat and counted twenty
five, over and over all day long. Then
i*'he said I was always raising objections
to her plans for our mutual improve
ment, and I said I was not, and she said
I was enough to i.ry the patience of a
saint, and 1 said she was too, ami she
came for me, and I told her to count
twenty-five; but she forgot all about
that, and just tallied one in my left
eye.
Then I was going to remonstrate with
the poker, and she told me to count
twenty-five, and I said I would not; but
I did before she had pulled more than
half my hair out. Then she made me
count twenty-five over and over, until l
was out of breath and felt real pleasant
and good natured. So wo went to sup
per. Now, the cat was cut led up in my
chair, but I did not see it until I sat
down ; and I did not see it then, but
1 wa; pretty sure it was there, in fact 1
knew it was there as well as I wanted
to, and more too. I felt inclined to rise
up suddenly, but as I gathered to spring
she brandished the tea-pot, and mur
mured: “Joshua, your temper is ris
ing. count twenty five or I’ll break your
head,” and that cat was drawing a map
of the Tenth Ward with her claws
around behind me with ttie streets and
boundaries marked in my blood. I rose
to explain, and said, “My dear —I—”
but she caromed on my head with a ,
well-shot tea cup.**md sprinkled my
face with a quart of hot tea, and I sat
down and counted twenty-five: but it
killed the cat. The old fellow died hard,
though. I could feel him settle as his
nine lives went out one by one.
A few days’ practice of this rule, un
der the loving instruction of Maria
Ann, has enabled me to conquer my
temper completely. Nobody can get me
mad now—l am in a state of perpetual
calm; and 1 want to see the man that
wrote that story. 1 want to fit him for
the hands of the undertaker, and make
a demand for mourning goods among
his friends. Then I can die happy—
counting twenty-live.
Plate Llass.
Plate glass, such as is used for mil |
rors, is properly called cast glass, for it !
is in reality cast in a iron mould, and
afterward polished. A quantity of
melted glass is poured from the pot
upon the cast iron table, and is then
rolled out by an iron roller. In this
way a large slab of glass is made, ami its
surface after annealing, is ground down
and finely polished by friction with
another slab of glass. An immense
amount of plate glass of this description
is produced annually, amounting to
many millions of square feet. It is used
in a rough state, also as a covering to
railway stations, and for other similar
purposes, being found well adapted to
such uses.
Another kind of plate glass, with a
number of longitudinal perforations in
it, lias come into exten&iye use for the
puipose of ventilation. This glass may
be described as being oast in a mould,
and then perforated with a plate of
iron, studded with thin projecting
pieces, so that the plate is perforated
wherever these pieces have been | laced.
Mechanical means are also used to give
a ribbed surface to plate glass, in order
to make it more depressive of light,
this rort of glass being much employed
as a substitute for ground gla s.
A peculiar sort ot molded glass is now
considerably in use for windows. The
pattern is pressed in the glass by a
mold, and then by a subsequent pio
ces.-, glass of another color is allowed to
flow into it. The whole is then ground
down to a uniform surface; and the re
sult is, an inlaid platter of glass of one
color in glass of another. Among the
triumphs of the plate glass maker, must
he reckoned those vast specimens which
are to be seen in some of our metropoli
tan 'tores and warehouses. Nothing
can exceed the clearness, purity and
brilliancy of some of these magnificent
and costly sheets.
The Randall's Island Murderer.
The boy murderer, Justus Dunn, who
killed keeper Calvert at the Randall’s
Island House of Refuge, had a talk at
the Tombs with a reporter on Thursday.
He says he was badly treated by Cul
vert and fed on slops, and that though
lie didn’t intend to kill him, he is glad
, he has taught other keepers a lesson.
Ilis father, he says, is rich, but he ex
pe ts no assistance from him. Stokes
i had told him he must have a good law
, yer if he wants to get clear, and he has
; employed two of the best he had heard
t of. He says he got his knife from a
1 pretended relative who visited him,
> who also furnished him with tobacco
i and gave him the knife to cut it with,
i He speaks with indiflereuce of hanging
, or any other punishment
linttlo HWyvitii Bootblacks.
From tho Milwaukee New*.
During a siitillt lull in business her**
yesterday, two little boot blank.s, one j
wliitt* and one blank, were standing at
tho corner of Second an 1 Francis
stroots, doing nothing, when tho whit**
bool blank agreed to blank tho blank
bootblack’s boots. Tho black bootblack
was of course willing to have his hoots
blacked by his follow hoot Mack, and
tho bootblack who had agreed to Mack j
tin* black bootblack’s boots went t<> 1
woi k. When tho bootblack had blanked
one of the black bootblack’s boots till
it shone in a manner that wouM make j
any bootblack proud, this bootblack '
who had agreed to black the hi >ck boot- i
black’s boots refused to Mack tie* other |
boot of the black bootbl tek until tin*
black boot black, who had consented to
have tin* white bootblack black Id* |
boots, should add five cents to the j
amount the white bootblack had made j
blacking other men’s boots. 'Phis the !
bootblack whose boot had been blacked j
refused to do, saving i* was good enough
for a black bootbhn k to have one boot |
bl.acke<l, and lie didn’t care whether I
the boot that t he bootblack hadn't black
ed was blacked or not. This made the
bootblack who had blacked the black
bootblack’s hoot as angry as a bootblack
often gets, and he vented his black
wrath by spitting upon the blacked
hoot of the black bootblack. This
roused the latent passions of tho black
bootblack, and he proceeded to boot the ,
white bootblack with the boot which !
the white bootblack had blacked. A
fight then ensued, in which the white
bootblack who had refused to black
the unblacked boot of the black
bootblack, blacked the black boot
black’s visionary organ, and in which
the black bootblack wort* all the black
ing off his blacked boot in hooting the
white bootblack. The fraternity of!
bootblacks afterward convened and do j
nounced the action of the white ard !
black bootblack as one of the blackest j
in the pages of bootblack history.
A Real Tragedy at a Theater.
It is not often that a theater is the
scene of actual crime—still loss of blood- j
shod. A short time since in Kngland, j
however, a man was hanging to the
flies of the Alexandra Theater, She!- !
field, and in the dressing-room lay the
unconscious body of a woman, covered
with wounds, and by her side a blood
stained hatchet. The pair were, identi
fied sis man and wife, Lradshaw being
employed as watchman of the theater,
while liis wife frequently stayed with I
him. There was a romance in the mis
erable man’s life which accounted for
the double crime. He had been long
away in India, and found on his return
his wife remarried—believing, or affect
ing to believe, him dead. When the
first husband came back, she separa*< d
from the second one and rejoined Brad
shaw : but jealousy and distrust con
tinued to prey on the latter’s mind.
On a Monday night he went on duty as
usual, and on the Tuesday morning fol
lowing the discovery was made of the
wife half murdered and the man self
killed. Mrs. Bradshaw was removed to
a hospit I, where she has since died.
Glycerine and Nitro-Glyeeriiiu.
Glycerine is the sweet principle of oils
and fats. It is made by boiling oil with
litharge and water until the acids of the
oil are converted into lead salts, which
are insoluble, while the glycerine re
mains in solution. Nitroglycerine is
prepared by dissolving glycerine in a
mixture of equal measures of the
strongest nitric and sulphuric acids,
previously cooled, and pouring tho so:u-
I tion in a thin stream into a large volume
of water. The nitro glycerine is then
| precipitated as a colorless, heavy oil.
If a drop of nitro-glycerine la-placed on
an anvil anil struck sharply, it explodes
with a very loud report; and it a piece
of paper moistened with it. he struck it
is blown into small fragments. On the
application of a flame or a red hot iron
to nitro-glycerine, it burns quietly, and
when heated over a lamp in the open
air, it explodes but feebly. In a closed
vessel, however, it explodes at about
three hundred and sixty deg:* * s 1 h
renheit with great violence. It is o ten
ignited like gunpowder under water, by
means of a wire and a galvanic battery.
Altogether too Literal.
A residentcf a Georgian town a und
id a camp meeting recently. Tho fir-.t
d:• v, he “gett religion the second, the
officiating clergyman preached power
fully from the text, *’ If thy right hand
offend thee, cut itjofl’ ami cast it horn
ihee.” The new convert was only too
ready to make a sacrifice for his faith.
On his right -foot- wen three itmnen-e
corns, which ached day and night. It
was *i clear case, and a deftly-apphod
razor relieved him of the offending
member at once. ID* was found half
dead from loss of blood, and if he re
covers, will be a cripple for life. The
text in question is a dangerous one. In
1867 a London fanatic quoted it as bis
reason for having gouged out one of his
eyes, and in 1871 a crazy Pennsylvanian
plead it as an excuse for his folly in
liaving chopped oil’ all his tingeis.
Too lligli.
The Chicago 'rimes of tin* 19th in*t.
says : “ On yesterday morning a laborer
climbed up the inside of a smoke-shatt
some sixty feet in height, standing on
the corner of Elm and North Clark
streets, to remove the accumulated soot
therefrom. And when he found that
he was up, and caw far down below the
pigmy forms of men, his courage fled,
and in terror he shouted for help. A
large crowd gathered about the foot of
the chimney, but could see no way t<
aid the unfortunate fellow, who didn’t
like that for high. The arrival of a
fireman solved the problem. Snouting
to the man to ‘hold like death,’ lie ran
for a fire-escape, and, after an hour or
so, rescued the climber, who was almost
paralyzed with cold and terror. He
goeth up no more shafts, not he.”
Small-pox is an artistic disease it’s
always sketching. It is so sympathize
ing—all its victims are sure to he pitted.
Prison convicts pine for it—it enables
them to break out. r lhe bare apple*
hension of it has something vaccinating
about it—yet we are not happy.
Kditors and Proprietors.
NUNUKH 29.
License or No License.
Vote ” yen.” anil tiio lava lido of Heath.
O’er coMnffo. hall and bower.
Shall roll its dark, blood-errsind wave.
While madness rules tho hour.
Vote " no." an I tho whito-wingo 1 angel.
Shall dwell in tho drunkard’s home;
And beams of lYmpemnc©. truth and light
Dispel the withering gloom.
Vote “yes.” and the care worn heart will break;
The pule lip hu h its prayer ;
The wretched drunkard d wnward haste
To realms of lark despair.
V to “ n an 1 the mohorV heart will leap.
The si-tor’s eye b > dry :
The poor inebria’e e’.isp bi< h.irulj
And ruLo his voi *o on high.
i Oil. then, by tho li r - wbioh (1 >l ha til given .
I'.y your powers ; > ours • <r bless ;
F y your tea s> h*'l and hopes of heivn.
Let not your vote ho “yes.”
By tho eheri-hrd heart’s bitter wrong,
By the spirit’s deathless woe, —
In name of Un i and name of man
Let every vote bo "no.”
Sweat heart.
When, first, thy winning grace I found .
When, after, grace with love was crowned .
When, later, love was marriage-bound .
I was ail thine. Sweetheart.
1 By all the joys that love has grown ;
By all the comforts home has shown .
By all the happiness we’ve known ;
I am all thine, Sweetheart.
While love shall l>o our daily sun ;
While hand in hand our work is done ;
While life shall hold us still as one .
I’ll be all thine,
Scribner's for Aprif
Varieties.
There’s one thing which can always
he found, and that’s fault.
A young man’s a fleet ion may not lm
wrong, but it is sure to bo niissj laced.
Because horses are used to reins, it
docs not follow that they are indifferent
to wot weather.
u Some one, speaking of the red nose of
! an intemperate man, said “ it was a very
j expensive painting.”
i Pat was asked the other day if ho
I understood French. “ Yes, yer honor,
if it’s spoken in Irish.”
Soft soap in some shape pleases all ;
I and generally speaking, the more “ lye”
I you put into it the better.
i 4 * Hi ” Simmon us, of Higligato, Vt., is
I seven feet high. Barnaul has unsuc
! cessfullv tried to higher him.
A tailor who in skating fell through
the ice declared that ho would novel*
again leave a hot goose for a cold duck.
Dandy (to shoemaker) —“ 1 say, can
you cure a defect in my boot, here?”
| Shoemaker—“ 1 won’t promise a cure,
hut I’ll agree to heel them.”
Probably with the intention of
“stocking” the vicinity witii farm im
ploments, an Atlanta man advertises
“ garden and plantation hose.”
A lady wished a seat. A portly,
handsome gentleman brought one, and
seated the lady. “Oh! you're a jewel,”
said she. “Oh ! no,” he replied; “I'm
a jeweler. I have just set the jewel.”
A negro who was suspected of surrep
titiously meddling with his neighbor’s
fruit, being caught in a garden by
moonlight, nonplussed his detectors by
raising his eyes, clasping his bunds, and
piously exclaiming, “Good Lord! dis
yere darkey can't go nowhores to pray
any more widout being ’sturhed.”
A San Francisco street-car conductor
just beginning tocollect his fares, placed
his hand in the side pi cket of bis coat
to draw forth his nippers, when out
came a formidable five-shooter from a
miner’s hip pocket-, accompanied with
the exclamation, ‘ Look hear, stranger,
1 kim from the mountains, but yorcan't
get the drop on mo.”
Hal, a medical student, calling on
Aunt Hetfv, presumes to offer a propo
sition for the feline lying on the parlor
rug: “Aunty, give me that cat for
anatomical purposes.” “ Yes, indeed,”
returns Aunt Hatty, who pets and wor
ships her young dt ctor. “ I’ll iun and
fetch a covered basket.” But from tho
door of the apartment she glanced
back, hesitating, with “Anna Tom -
who did y*u say ? What you want the
vat for? Tain’t anything will hurt her
lor a mom- r. i it ? ”
Too Many Williams.
A family living in the country hired a
new coachman, Mid his n uuc was Wil
Hum. A-- both the gentleman of the
house and his oldetA son wore named
Wild im, it was thought advisable, to
avoid confusion, to ml! the coachman
by his I t-1 name. William had no ob
jection to this plan, and was asked to
stale his surname.
“Deary!” said he with a diabolical
grin.
The family shuddered. Think ot
it! How would this L ort of thing
sound ?
•• Deary, come here n minut “ Cut
me some flowers lor a bouquet, Deary.
“How long I have been waiting tor you,
Deary !”
The family resolved to stand by \Y il
bam.
Belonged to the Same Family.
A lofty lady named Mis. Dike, once
occupied a situation as housekeeper in
a literary family of New York. Mrs.
Dike was very proud heisell and Iter
connections. She held up her head
v ry high, and was extremely haughty,
more so perhaps than the celebrated
Queen of Hermanstadt. One day the
dikes of Holland was mentioned in her
presence, and she pricked up her ears
“Do you know anything of those
' dikes?” asked one of the young la
dies.
‘‘Oh ! yes, indeed !” rep' ed the
haughty house keeper, “ we’re all ot the
same family.”
A Narrow Fseape.
An employe at the Hazardville (Conn)
powder works, upon going into a store
house where one bundled open barrels
of powder were waiting to be headed,
, put a pipe he was smoking in his pocket,
as no smoking is allowed on the prom
i isos. He sat down on the edge of or
i of the barrels a few minutes, when he
- was called out to roc a visitor. Arriving
outside the door he discovered that his
i coat was on fire, the pipe not having
- been extingui lied. A moment more
r and the whole establishment would
have been blown into atoms.