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<. 11. WALKER k It. ODER,
VOLUME I.
The I Sobol ink.
Throat brimful of munic—
Cannot keep it in :
Bless mol Wouldn't have you try :
Twoulii almost ho a sin.
Should think ’twouhl choke you. though, soine
times.
The aperture’a so small
That all this noise must struggle through
Or not set out at all.
on the lily cups,
I iding in the clover.
Prince of comic vocalists.
Saucy little rover.
OivousAKcm from Mozart,
A taste of Mcyerboer,
Or a morceau from Rossini.
Fit for cultivated ear.
Cannot? Well, stop trying;
Your own wi'd notes are best.
Stick to the tune you’ve practiced.
Never mind the rest
Stretch-your mouth to the utmost.
Pour forth your pearly song.
Marred by no taint of ny-gone grief
Or shade of future wrong.
BRIYKINL OF THE ICE OKIOOK.
Men have their peculiarities, ho have
rivers. You must live with people to
know them, ami, on the same principle,
the experience gained on the hanks of
the Hudson will not do for the Ohio,
nor the last for the St. Lawrence. This
l found out for myself, in the narrowest
escape with my life that I ever had, or,
I hope, ever will have.
The early spring of this, my most
eventful year, found me stopping at the
village of St. Quel’qu’ur, Lower Canada,
on the great river of the Dominion.
Two tilings, tin* most important in life,
had brought me there, namely, love anti
business, the object of my liist being a
Miss A<lele Ange, an acquaintance made
in the pursuit ot mv second, as agent
for a wholesale stationery firm in New
York. My host, Mr. Ange, was a French
Canadian, though no mere peasant, like
most of those around him, but a gentle
man of means, retired from business,
and surrounded by a charming family—
the most interesting member of it to me
being the before mentioned Miss Adele.
Their residence faced the River St. Law
rence, which here expanded into a
small lake, about two miles wide, and
then, further down stream, as suddenly
contracted, and divided into two short
branches by the island of St. Helen’s.
This feature of the great river, to
gether with an exceedingly swift cur
rent, causes a peculiar phenomenon to
occur just here, as well as in other parts
of it. When the intense frosts of winter
bring down immense blocks of ice from
the lakes above, they gradually accu
mulate in the narrow passages ami shal
lows, until they dam up the waters,
which rise to the height of twelve or
fourteen feet above the summer level,
lifting the ice with them, when, the
banks being full, the current finds way
enough beneath the masses, which
freeze together, and form a solid ice
bridge, from shore to shore, for the
rest of the season. This is taken ad
vantage of by the country folks to con
vey their produce to market; and many
were the exhilarating sleigh-rides I had
on its snowy surface, when fortune and
my good-natured host favored me.
During my stay, a wedding took place
among some* of the relations of the
family on the other shore, and being all
invited, we set out with our sleighs, in
high glee, to form part of the customary
cortege to tin* parish church.
Although the river had shown some
signs of the expected hreak-up, the
knowing ones said that it was not time
yet, and that there was no danger.
Sure enough, we arrived safely, and had
a jolly time among the wedding guests,
dancing nearly all the night, and drink
ing the bride and bridegroom’s healths,
rather too frequently lor my unseasoned
head, so that 1 became as reckless as any
of the young men in the company.
My memories of that part of the even
ing are considerably mixed up, being a
jumble of a wedding service in a dark
old church, among priests and pictures,
along with fiddles and dancing, pretty
girls and ugly Frenchmen, etc. How
ever, 1 managed to pretty well monopo
lize the attentions of my own particular
charmer, and on doe Valliant, the son
of the host, insisting on her testing the
speed of Ins fiery ponies, I followed him
to the door, as he was helping her into
the sleigh for a short drive, when sud
denly Adele found out that she had for
gotten her gloves, and asked doe to get
them for her. Now was my chance.
As lie turned his back, I snatched the
reins, sprang into the sleigh, and drove
off, amid the laughter of my fair one,
and the yells of doe for me to stop. The
moon and stars shone with a brilliancy
unknown to more southern climes, and
exhileratedwith the beauty of the night,
as well as that of my companion, 1
drove wildly along, until we arrived at
the river front, with its ghostly expanse
ot snow and ice shining and twinkling
from myriads of jagged points before us.
1 at once proposed a drive across and
back. 'Fhe temptation was irresistible.
Adele, after some little demur, ac-
I looked backward where she pointed,
and beheld a long black streak extend
ing and widening up and down stream,
just where we hud crossed two minutes
quiesced, and down we went on the face
of the harbor like a shot. An exclama
tion of fear from Adele, and the splash
ing of water, told me that something
was wrong, but supposing it to be only
the usual rise over the edge of the ice,
1 forced the startled horses forward, and
soon felt the solid path clear before us.
We now went merrily enough for
close upon a mile, without heeding the
signs around ; but on slackening the
speed to converse more freely, I became
aware of an oscillating movement in
our seemingly solid roadway. The
horses, too, had noticed it, as evinced
by their snorting and uneasiness. It
was too late to turn back ; we were more
than half way across. lat once applied
the whip vigorously, the good team
dashed on like mad steeds, hut still the
motion underneath increased. A noise
like the explosion of a cannon took
place, and ran beneath in lines of sound
in every direction !
1 cast a look at my companion ; her
lace was ghastly in the moonlight.
“ Mon l)ieu , won Dieu /” she cried, 44 the
river is open behind us.”
before. From the height of excitement
I became as cool as the glaciers around
us. I addressed a word of nope to her.
and bending forward, urged the scared
animals on with whip and voice.
But the horrid tumult increased, the
rocking motion made it almost im*
possible to gain a stop, while the dark j
; gulf behind wan widening quickly, and ;
| seemed about to swallow us up. netting |
| <*ut of the sleigh. I seized the horses by <
I fhe head, and with desperation strove
i to win my way amid the crash of huge
blocks rolling down over the unsteady I
path, and the deafening sounds always
continuing. Lanes of water also began
to open across our way, and only by
efforts produced by extreme fear could
our horses drag the sleigh over and
across the obstacles that beset us on
every side. To my horror I found that
the whole field was moving slowly down
ward. As far as 1 could see, the shore
line seemed almost at rest, but acceler
ating in moti *n as it neared the center,
and touched the black, rolling tide*
where the masses of ice seemed engaged
in a furious contest for the supremacy;
leaping anil tossing against each other,
appearing and disappearing in hundreds
at a time.
Further progress with tin* sleigh be
came impossible, it felt to me like a
horrid dream. What a fate had my mad
ness brought me and this innocent girl
to! She was praying fervently. I seized
her by the hand, and begged her for
giveness for tin calamity I had brought
upon her. Adele was a true heroine,
and a brave-hearted woman. Wasting
no time in reproaches, she said :
“ 1 ought, myself, to have known bet
ter. 1 should have warned you of the
danger of trusting to the ice at this time;
but see! yonder is the island of St.
Helen’s. Could we not endeavor to
reach that?’
Fresh hope inspired me at her words.
We seemed to he sweeping down to
ward the point indicated ; but the fear
seized me that, even should the mass
we were on remain firm, we might he
taken past the point, and so down into
the narrow channel between, where all
would be lost.
It was time to exert myself. Lifting
Adele from the sleigh, 1 wrapt the
buffalo-robe around her, and taking out
mv knife, cut the horses loose, leaving
the long lines and part of the harness
still on ; then bidding her hold fast to
the reins, I encouraged the horses on,
trembling as they were. Clambering
over great blocks, springing across gaps
of surging water, slipping and falling at
nearly every step, we came toward the
edge of the large raft that we were on,
and I could plainly see the effects of the
stream on its circumference, pounded
and ground ;is it was by its neighbors on
all sides.
Fhe true channel ot the river, hap
pily for us, did not seem to widen much.
Between us and its black waters inter
vened at least a quarter of a mile of
lumps, varying in size from that we were
on to pieces rolling over like cannop
balls. Still we glided slowly on, no fur
ther exertion.was possible, when, with
a loud report, our raft cracked almost
under our feet.
1 had just time to draw Adele back to
the center, as the rest separated. A
huge gulf yawned between us and our
horses. Such was the thickness of the
ice, however, that they were borne off
lowly toward the island; at the same
lime the pressure around appeared to
increase.
A shock took place that threw us oil
our feet. Despair took possession of me.
< >n every hand were pieces rolling over
the edge of ours, and adding to the
weight upon it. Quickly we were near
ing the island. Should we he carried off
on one side, or stranded on tin* point?
I again rose to my feet, to take any
chance that might oiler, and tried to in
fuse some confidence in my nearly ex
hausted friend. She replied feebly to
my words, but seemed to have lost hope
again.
Suddenly a terrible blow struck the
cake we were moving so swiftly upon.
I grasped Adele in my arms, expect
ing nothing but to feel the touch of the
cold waters; but instead of that, there
appeared to be more solidity to our craft
—all motion edased at once, as if an
chored fast. I guessed immediately that
we were stranded on the shallows !
'Fhe point of the island was not more
than one hundred yards from us, and
the jam that had taken place was hold
ing the ice fast for a time.
“ Now! now! for our lives, Adele ! ’
I cried; and holding her tightly, 1
stepped from one block to another, and
by the mercy of heaven, I kept my foot
ing until near shore, and dragged my
wet and half-dead companion on the
blessed land!
Fiie lights from the lbrt above gleam
ed cheerily out; ami half leading, half
carrying Adele, I managed to get to a
house occupied by the soldiers’ wives,
where we had every attention paid to
us, amid a torrent of questions as to
how we had escaped almost certain
death.
Some of the soldiers, on leave of ab
sence for the night, hurried out to see
if anything could be found of our horses.
Extraordinary to relate, they were found
shivering on the shore, which instinct
or accident enabled them to get to in
safety, though bruised with their rough
journey.
We staid on the island a day or two,
until communication was had with the
other side, where we were received as if
brought from the dead.
1 reimbursed .Joe Valliant for the loss
of his sleigh : but whether Miss Adele
received pioper compensation for her
dangers by marrying me, I never could
get her to tell me.
A Sensible Charity.
The women of Hartford, Conn., and
Newark, N..]., have inaugurated a most
sensible charity. In each city a “Day
Nursery” has been opened, where poor
mothers may leave their children in the
care of competent nurses while they
themselves are at work. For the care
of each child from morning till night
there is a charge of a few cents. The
receipts from this source do not begin
to meet the expenses of either establish
ment, but such a plan destroys that
baneful possibility of getting somethii g
for nothing, which is the fruitful mother
of pauperism and crime. The system
is capab e of almost indefinite extension.
Alexis, JIL, a growing town on the
Rockfird, Rock Island and St. Louis
railroad, forty-five miles south of Rock
blind, was started last November, anil
has now 125 houses.
\n Independent Paper—Devoted to Literature. Mining, Commercial. Agricultural. General and Local News.
FROST
HR(i, A L LERA NY COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE -2D. 1872.
Personal.
Fiie coining prima donna is an Illinois
■ girl, m native of Chicago. Miss Kmnia
I A. Abbott is her name, and twenty years
j her age.
Miss Paulina (4ive.v, of the Des Moines
Registers is said to be the only lady in
lowa who is given to journalism.
.James Mi Draw, of Warsaw, Indiana,
drank nine glasses of whisky, one day
last week, to induce insensibility to the
pain of toothache. 'Fhe experiment was
a permanent success.
Dr. Short, late Bishop of St. A-aph,
Wales, had one habit unlike that of any
prelate whose peculiarities have attract
ed tin* notice of tie* press. For twenty
years, in storm or sunshine, he strewe i
flowers on the grave of his wife.
Julia K. Yallet, aged *22, has obtained
a decree of $16,01 K) damages against
Fhomas (i race, aged 60, for broach of
promise. Both of Providence, R. I. No
cards.
(iRATiFViNii evidence that the Roths
childs are removed from any immediate
danger of want is furnished by the state
ment that Baron Lionel recently pur
chased 'Fring Park, in Hertfordshire,
England, for which he paid the trifling
sum of $1,000,000. This estate com
prises nearly 4,000 acres, and was once
a possession of tlie royal family. Other
members of the family own large estates
in that vicinity, which is one of the most
beautiful and attractive in England.
Miss Lizzie Barrigan is the champion
swimmer of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
She can swim faster and further, dive
deeper and come out dryer than any
one else in the place, and altogether
she is a “duck of a woman,” though
some envious detractors allude to her
as a ** little goose.”
Miss .Jane Parker, of Pittsfield, Mas
sachusetts, died last week from the ef
fects of pricking a finger with a pin
while washing some clothing the week
before. Her arm began to swell rapidly,
and before anything could be done to
check it, gangrene commenced its dead
ly work, eating the flesh so fast that be
fore she died her arm as far as the elbow
had mortified and dropped oft*. The
doctors think the poison was in the
soap.
The Philadelphia Press says “it don’t
hurt a bit to say that the busiest man
in this nation, Col. 'Fhomas A. Scott,
goes to the opera or the play like an
old-fashioned fellow, drives his family
through Fairmount Park in a very dem
ocratic establishment, and gave the
most elegant entertainment in Phila
delphia to the congregated doctors—
because he is not in anybody’s way for
President.”
Spring Pigs.
No stock on the farm is more inclined
to roam than the few weeks old pigs,
who find out the smallest crevice in a
fence, and break out into fields, front
yards, gardens, in squads, bent on mis
chief, and giving infinite trouble, and
oftentimes causing considerable dam
age. Many farmers deem it the best
course to let them roam, thinking
thereby something is gained in the way
of food, and perhaps hardiness II we
were breeding pigs for races, ami want
ed hard muscle and tough nerves, this
practice would be commendable. But if
sleek, plump, contented porkers are the
object, then closer confinement is far
better.
Until a pig is nearly or quite three
months obi, he is better oil'll' restricted
to a comfortable pen and yard. We say
comfortable inclosuie, because that
condition is certainly quite essential to
his health and thrift. It should he dry,
sheltered and not too confined. We
venture to say that a litter of pigs thus
confined will, when three, months old,
weigh one quarter more than if let
run meantime. And in both cases they
shall have consumed the ame food.
Besides they will have more quiet dis
positions.
At this period, or when weaned, we
would let them in a clover lot, supply
ing other food in abundance, and if
convenient, let them glean the stubbles
and orchard after harvest. Then they
should go into the pen for final fatten
ing if that is to be their fate when they
are yet pigs. —American Rural Home.
The Hurricane at Zanzibar.
A correspondent of the London Times ,
writing from Zanzibar in relation to tin*
hurricane which occurred there on the
15th of April, says the shores surround
ing the harbor arc studded with wrecks.
The Sultan has lost all his vessels with
the exception of two small steamers.
Reports from the interior are to the
effect that not only have most of the
cocoanut trees been uprooted, but that
all the cassava, ‘he sweet potatoes, In
dian corn, rice, and other mere import
ant crops, forming the property of per
haps 800,000 people, and on which they
depend for a mere subsistence, has been
utterly destroyed. Fhe loss of life in
the town and harbor was immense. The
storm was so terrific and unexpected
that means for safety were not used.
The native dhows, with their crews, sunk
in the harbor, and many inhabitants
perished in the wreck of their houses.
Fhe damage done will probably amount
to £4,000,000 or £5,000,000 sterling.
That more than half of the commerce
of Zanzibar has been destroyed for years,
is unquestionable; but what the im
pending effects on native population
may be, one can hardly form an estimate.
Who Ate Roger W illiams ?
The burial place of Roger Williams
and his wife was discovered some time
ago, alter they had been buried 183
years. Only the outlines of the coffins
could be traced in the clay, with here
and there a rusted nail and one braid
of Mrs. William's hair. Above the spot
of burial is an apple tree, which sent
down in to the grave of Roger one of its
main roots, which struck the precise
spot where his skull lay, and going
around that hard old cranium, had fol
lowed the direction of the fbackbone
to the hips, of course absorbing every
thing of the mortal remains of the
founder of the State of Rhode Island.
The question now is, “ Who ate Roger
Williams while partaking of the fruit of
that tree ?”
lion. John Samlflcbl Machmahl.
• Hon. .1. S. Macdonald, Premier of
t ; Ontario, who has just died at (/ornwall,
; j Canada, aged about 65, was one of the
| most eminent politicians of the Domin
| ion. In early life he was very poor,
j but by study and hard work achieved
, success at the bar, entered politics, and
| became, with the Hon. George Brown,
the leader of the Liberal party in Cana
da, and the great rival of Sir .lohn A.
Macdonald. 11“ served as a Speaker of
Parliament, led the Opposition for many
years, and was Attorney General and
leader of the Government in 1564 5.
<hi the occasion of the union of the
Provinces, he brcame Premier of the
Administration in < bitario. He was the
“ father of the Canadian Parliament/*
tin* next oldest member being Sir John
A. Macdonald. As a speaker he was bit
terly personal, but unusually successful
on the stump. lie was an accomplished
politician, keen and reckless, a dis
tinguished parliamentarian, and a cool
and clever party leader.
Napoleon’s Wine Cellar.
A catalogue of 100,000 bottles and 57
butts of the Emperor Napoleon's wine
invites attention to an auction sale
thereof at the Louvre. The sale is ex
pected to last a foitnight. The great
quantity takes the public by surprise,
tor it was announced that what with the
Prussian occupation, the siege of Paris,
and the Commune, the imperial cellars
had been pretty well cleared out, and
that but a small portion of their con
tents remained to be brought to the
hammer. It would seem, however, that
the bulk of the wine must have been
preserved from all foes, for tin* auction
eer classes the treasures which he Inis
the honor of submitting to public com
petition under the respective headings
of “ Tuileries,” “ Fontainebleau ” and
“ Compeigne.”
Old Maids.
The worth of this excellent and too
often abused class of women is duly
recognized in an article in Hearth and
Home. The writer truly says : It is no
disgrace to a woman to live single, to
belong to a class honored by such wo
men as Florence Nightingale and Doro
thea Dix and Mary Lyon and Clara
Barton, and that noble milliner of* Bris
tol, and an army of other sisters of
mercy, too numerous to be catalogued.
It is far nobler to marry nobody than it
is to marry a nobody, or to marry a
knave, or to marry mercenarily, or to
marry unworthily in any way. The
fact that a woman has lived single does
not prove that she is not vendable, but
it doej prove that she has never been
sold.
Living Without Food.
The Springfield Republican states that
Kate Donovan, who e singular absti
nence has been before noted, still lives,
and retains her plumpness of appear
ance, although, if reports be true, fif
teen months have passed since she has
retained anything in her stomach long
enough to receive from it any nourish
ment whatever. Six weeks as.o the city
physician gave her a teaspoonful of beef
tea, and lor the fifteen minutes before
it was thrown up her sufferings were
fearful. Since then no similar attempt
has teen made to force nourishment
upon her, and she has taken during
those six weeks only a small quantity
of water.
Preserving Hams.
A writer in the American Agriculturist
furnishes the following recipe for keep
ing hams :
After your meat is well smoked, pro
cure some clean, dry ashes, and have
some water handy; take down the
hams, moisten them a little so that the
ashes will stick, put. the ashes on them,
and give them a good rubbing, and
hang them up again. Any person try
ing this will find that the meat will
keep sweet and nice, and will not be
troubled with any insects on the hams.
I have put mine up in this way for
three seasons, ami tind it does well.
How to Select Flour.
Look at the color ; if it is white, with
a slightly yellowish or straw-colored tint
buy it; if it is very white with a blueish
cast, or with white specks in it, refuse
it. Kxamine its adhesiveness ; wet and
knead a little of it between your fin
gers ; if it works soft and sticky, it is
poor. Throw a little lump of dry flour
against a dry, smooth, perpendicular
surface; if it falls like powder it is bad.
Dkcidedlv a unique feature of the In
ternational Exposition at Vienna will
be the baby department. It is not pro
posed to have an exhibition o infants
alter the manner of Barnum, but to
make a collection of nursery furniture
and tin* meeli inicalappliances by which
the babies of different countries are
reared, amused, and instructed. There
is said to be great anxiety on the part
of the direction to procure a large repre
sentation from America, for a reason
that is explained by an Austrian corre
spondent in these words : “ It is thought
here that a nation producing men of
the intelligence and general good char
acter of the Americans must, of neces
sity. be brought up in a certain eute
way, that sticks to them all their lives,
and results in the production of the
celebrated member of the human family,
the ingenious, all-conquering Yankee.”
The famous African explorer, Kohlfs,
says that with proper treatment Africa
might again be turned into the para
dise that some portions of it were under
the Carthagenians and Homans. He
declares that Central Africa is as rich
as India, and that a grand highway to
the kingdom of Soudan might easily be
constructed across the desert from a
port to be established on the site of an
cient Carthage.
The religious scruples of Judge Moore,
of Koatsoke, Va., prevent him from
giving a man the baiter on Friday, hang
man’s day. He reasons thus: Christ
was crucified on Friday, and he is un
willing to bring the blood of a criminal
in juxtaposition with that of our Saviour;
and says, if he is on the bench a hun
dred years, and sentence* ten thousand
criminals, he will never name Friday as
the day of execution.
Foreign Gossip.
f ; Europe is supposed to contain 4<K),-
000,000 people. One hundred years ago
* the estimate was 60,000,000.
Girsv maidens have fallen to $5 a
| head in Persia on account of the hard
I times.
Two thousand women or girls are cm
j ployed in Birmingham, England, in the
i brass-founding trade.
Mr. Ciiari.es Mathews, Jr, son of
tlie veteran actor now playing at Wal
lack’s, lias been admitted to the bar in
London.
M adeira used to yield fifteen thou
sand pipes of wine per annum; now the
yield is not one hundred pipes of
genuine.
The site of the building for the Vien
na Exhibition in 1874 will be erected
six times larger than that on which the
Exhibition Palace was constructed in
Paris in 1867.
The Swedish Government offers a
prize for an essay on the best means of
putting a stop to the rapidly increasing
emigration from that country.
Some “ port wine” analyzed at Liver
pool lately, contained molasses, alcohol
and logwood.
The Irish agricultural returns for
1871 show a general decrease of grain
acreage and production, and though
there was a considerable increase in the
acreage of potatoes the crop was largely
deficient.
During the last three years England
lias lost one iron clad, with all hands;
four have been on the rocks and ren
dered well nigh useless ; and many offi
cers of the navy have been wrecked in
prospects and reputation.
Edmond About has become the edi
tor in-chief of the new Paris .journal,
The Nineteenth Century. Many noted
writers are associated with him.
The ravages of the small-pox in
Montreal have been for the most part
confined to children under twelve years
of aye anil to French Canadians. The
reason of this is not any lack of cleanli
ness, but a general and strong aversion
to vaccination.
Another morganatic marriage is on
the tapis in Paris, which has created
quite a breeze among the American
colonists there. The parties are Baron
Carl Freilander von Forstner and Miss
Emily, daughter of Mr. Addison S.
Wheelwright, of New York city.
According to returns recently pub
lished tin* Prussian census of 1871 has
given the following results : 2,001,064
in Habited bouses contained 5,152,890
households, composed of 12,051,2.42
males and 12,490,776 females, or alto
gether 24,642 486 persons of both sexes;
against 24,971,447 in December, 1867.
The luxury of a fresh sea-water bath
without the expense and fatigue of
journeying to the coast will probably
soon be attainable in London. A bill*
before Parliament will empower a com
pany to bring the water pumped from
the ocean at Brighton by a series of
*• lifts” to the summit of the South
Downs, whence it will gravitate through
enameled pipes, along the turnpike
road to the West End of London,
where a constant supply, at the rate of
half a million gallons per day, will be
delivered.
Statistics prove that in Home there
are 247 times as many chances of being
murdered as in England, and 133 j
times more than in Prussia.
In England, one murder occurs for
every 178,000 inhabitants ; in Holland,
one for 163,000; in Prussia, one for
100,000; m Austria, one for 57,000; in
Spain, one for 4,114 ; and in Naples, one
for 2,750 At Home tin*re is one homi
cide ior every 750 of the inhabitants.
In Loin‘on there are, for every HK)
legitimate births, 4 illegitimate; in
Loipsic, 20; in Paris, 48 ; in Munich,
91 ; in Vienna, 118; and in Home, 244.
Lively Shooting Affray in a Circus.
A correspondent of the Leavenworth
(Kansas) Tribune furnishes the following
particulars of a lively scene enacted un
der Dan Hice’s circus tent, during a re
cent performance at Baxter Springs :
Wesby Taylor, the City Marshal of
Baxter, attempted to arrest one of the
candy and lemonade venders in the cir
cus for selling without a license, whereat
Spaulding, one of the proprietors of the
circus, interfered, saying that no man
could be arrested inside the tent, and at
the same time drawing his revolver.
Taylor generally carries such a tool him
self, anil naturally ‘‘went” lor it. As
he was drawing it Spaulding fired at
him, which Taylor returned, and then
the two settled down to business and
cracked away at each other until four
or five shots apiece were exchanged.
Two of Taylor’s balls took effect in
Spaulding, one in the lower part of the
stomach, another in the left side, and
another grazed his breast, inflicting a
s iglit wound. His injuries, it is thought,
will prove fatal, though there is a chance
for recovery. Taylor came out of it with
a slight cut on the thumb, a flesh
wound on the arm, and the skin cut on
his breast. Spaulding was taken to the
Wiggens House, where he now lies in a
critical condition. The ring-master of
the circus, Terwilliger by name, was also
shot and mortally wounded. The tent
was packed lull at the time, and, as
might be expected, the excitement was
immense. The screaming anil fainting
of the ladies and children was huge,
while the colored brethren made a bee
line in a body lrom that tent, and, if re
ports are authentic, are running yet.
After the row was over, the showmen
sallied out in a body, caught an unof
fending printer, named Wiggens, and
pounded him pretty severely, besides
inflicting a stab or two in the breast. It
is stated that Spaulding and Terwilliger
have both died since.
There are no leeches or mosquitoes
in Thibet, nor are maggots or fleas ever
seen there, and in Dingeham or Thibet
proper there are no bees or wasps. A
curious disease, known as goom-took, or
the Uughing disease, at times attacks
both the men anil women of this coun
try. It is attended by excruciating
pain in the throat, and often proves
fatal in a few days. |
Curious ami Scientific.
Careful surveys have shown that
Lake Michigan has an average <lej>th
of 1 .S'.IO feet. Lake Superior 900 feet,
Lake Ontario 500, and Lake Kric of only
1.0 feet, which is said to he constantly
decreasing.
The were wolves, or man tigers ami
man hyenas of by-gone popular super
stition, were, according to Mr. A. R.
Wallace, probably men who had excep
tional power of acting upon certain sen
sitive individuals, and could make
them, when so acted upon, believe
they saw whatever the mesmeriser
pleased.
“ In till- region of Marseilles, Trance,
a beautiful white paper is made from
hop vine, and its strength, in Conner
tion with its pliable texture, renders it
a favorite with those who have tested
its merits bv actual use. The hop vine
is well known as a very strong, pliable
fiber, and there is no question but that
it would make an excellent paper. Its
scarcity, however, will not allow of its
extensive use for such a purpose.” We
find the foregoing in an exchange, and
regard it as a suggestion of possible
value to both American hop growers
and paper makers. —Rural New Yorker.
A miniature dead sea has been dis
covered in Nevada. It lies in an oval
basin, lot) feet below the turface of the
plain, the banks shelving down with as
much symmetry as if fashioned by art.
The water of this lake is impregnated
with soluble substances, mostly borax,
sods, and salt, to a degree that renders
it almost ropy with slime, and so dense
that a person can float on it without ef
fort. This lake has no visible outlet or
inlet, but being of great depth is
thought to be fed by springs far down
in the earth.
Brain-work costs more food than
hand-work. According to careful esti
mates and analyses of the excretions,
three hours of hard study wear out the
lody more than a whole day of severe
physical labor. Another evidence of
the cost of brain work is obtained from
the fact that, though the brain is only
one-fortieth the weight of the body, it
receives about one fifth of all the blood
sent by the heart into the system.
Brain workers therefore require a more
liberal supply of food, and richer food,
than manual workers.
Tiie St. (lothard tunnel is now the
great engineering project in Europe.
The success of the Mt. Cenis tunnel has
aroused the fears of Switzerland and
Germany regarding the future of the
Asiatic trade. In order, therefore, to
be on an equal footing in this respect
with France, it is proposed to pierce the
Alps near tlie St. Gothard Pass. The
estimated cost is $.'17,000,000; the tun
nel will be twice as long as the Mt.
fields, and the rockß are much more
difficult to manage, but it is thought
that with the experience which lias
been gained in other works, it can be
constructed in a much shorter time
than was required for the Mt. Cenis
tunnel.
The operations of the British Pales
tine F.xploration Society continue to
be prosecuted with much vigor and
with very successful results. In the -
month of January, the base line having
been previously measured, the triangu
lation was carried over nearly one hun
dred square miles, of which eighty
have been tilled and laid down on the
large sheets. The triangulation in
cluded Jaffa. Numerous identifications
of Scripture places have been made,
some of them quite different from those :
heretofore adopted. Rock-hewn tombs
were found in various places, and cxca
vated cisterns, shaped like bee hives or
inverted funnels, are very common.
Subterranean store-chambers were also
met with, ami are still used by the na- ,
tives.
Keeping Cream.
Next in importance to having milk
perfectly pure and sweet, and freed
from all animal odor, comes the matter
of keeping the cream after it is taken oil'
the milk. In the tirst place, the less
milk there is with the cream at the
time it is set in the cream jar the bet
ter. A great deal of carelessness is
shown in this matter; for be it known
that milk makes cheese, while the
cream only makes butter, and the more
milk there is in the cream at churning
time, the more cheesy-tlavored will be
the flutter, and therefore the more
likely to spoil afterwards unless exces
sively salted. Really pure good butter
requires very little salt, while but
ter as ordinarily made will soon spoil
unless well salted, or kept covered in
brine.
Secondly, the cream jar must be of
the very best quality of stone ware ;
thick glass would be still better; and it
must have a ccver that will exclude all
dust and insects.
Thirdly, the cream jar should be kept
in a place where no noxious odors or
gases can be absorbed when the jar is
open to add more cream, and also
where the temperature can be kept
cool and equable, say at al out fio° ; and,
lastly, the cream is to be made into
butter as soon as it just begins to sour,
and when the jar is emptied it is to be
thoroughly cleaned and scalded in boil
ing water before being again used. —
Boston Journal of Chemistry.
In a hospital of St. Louis there died
a short time ago a soldier who had borne
the name of Fisher. lie was of Scottish
birth, and was a man of culture, lie
had always been very reticent concern
ing his own history, but just before his
death he revealed to his physician that
he was a member of the Aberdeen
family. Many circumstances led to the
inference that when very young he left
home to see the world, but that, having
become dissipated, his pride prevented
his return. He served in the Union
army, and was honorably discharged.
He left a wife and child, and before
his death had written to his friends in
Scotland, requesting that the property
which legally belonged to him should
be given to them. Such is the romantic
story of the scion of a noble Scottish
family.
What fruit does a newly married
couple most resemble V A green pear. I
Editors and Proprietors.
NUMBER 10.
Spring Cleaning.
SV A SCKFERKR.
The melancholy days have come, the saddest of
the year.
Of cleaning paint, and ecrubhinit floors, and
scouring far and sear.
Heaped in the corner of the room, the ancient
dirt lay quiet;
Nor rose up at the father’s tread, nor at the
children’s riot:
Hut now the carpets are all up. and from the
stair-case top
The mistress calls to men and maid to wield the
broom and mop.
Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms, the
house but now presented.
Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, so cosy
and contented ?
Ahisl they’re turned all upside down, the uuiet
suite of rooms.
With slops, and suds, and soap, and sand, and
tubs, and pails, and brooms.
Chairs, tables, stands are standing round at sixes
and at sevens.
While wife and housemaids fly about like me
teors thraueh the heavens.
The parlor and the chamber floors were cleaned
a week ago.
The carpets shook, the windows washed, as all
the neighbors know:
Hut still the sanctum had escaped, the table piled
with books.
Hens, ink nnd paper ull about, peace in its very
looks:
’Til fell the women on them all, as falls the
plague on men.
And tnen they vanished all away, books, paper,
ink and pen.
And now, when comes the master home, as come
he must o’nighta.
To lind all things are “set to wrongs" that they
have "set to rights."
When the sound of driving tacks is hoard, tho’
tho house is far from still.
And the carpet woman’s on tho stairs, the har
binger of ill.
lie looks for papers, books or bills, that all wore
there before.
And sighs to find them on the desk or in the
drawer no more.
And then he grimly thinks of her who set this
fuss afloat.
Ami wishes she were out at sea in a very leaky
boat:
He meets her at the parlor door, with hair and
cap awry.
With sleeves tucked up. and broom in hand, do
fiance in her cyo;
Ho feels quite small, and knows full well, there's
nothing to be said,
So he holds his tongue, and drinks his ten, and
sneaks away to bed.
Varieties.
Mending a clock is an effectual way
of “ improving time.”
One of the “ voices of the night”—
S'cat!
What is taken from you before you
get it? Your photograph.
“ Teeth extracted with groat pain,”
is the rathfr ambiguous advertisement
of a dentist.
Connected with the Ring —The bell
handle.
They “beautify the fronts of the
churches” in Uanbury, Conn., by set
ting up posts for the young men to lean
against while waiting for their sisters.
With what musical instrument, would
you catch i fish ? Cast-a-net.
Queen Klizahf.th always displayed
her worst temper in her clothes. She
was dreadfully rutiled then.
Where is money first mentioned in
the Bible? When the dove brought
the yreen back to Noah.
A cei.eurated wit was asked if he
knew Theodore Hook. “Yes,” he re
plied, “ Hook and eye are old acquaint
ances.”
A city missionary was askod the cause
of his poverty.” “ Principally,” said
he, with a twinkle of the eye, “because
i have preached so much without
notes.”
A iiumu man recently went to law with
a deaf man. The latter, of course, was
the deaf-endant.
A man in Windham county, Conn., is
said to be working up a saw-log thirty
feet long into a fife for Gilmore’s Jubi
lee. It will be blown by nitro-glycerine.
Fish are so thick in Clear Lake, Cali
fornia, that a veracious citizen says:
“It is only necessary to wade in and
choose your fish, the difficulty being
which fish to choose.”
“Salts of demoniac” were recently
called for at a country store in Western
Massachusetts. The apothecary filled
the bill with a pint of New England
rum. Anything more demoniac than
that, he said, wasn't down in his materia
medica.
A Kansas paper, in reporting a trial,
concludes with “ the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty, but if the prisoner
is sharp, he will leave town without loss
of time.”
An old gentleman is living at the
Astor House, New York, who registered
his name on the books of the hotel the
first day it was opened, and has been
there ever since, a period of thirty-four
years.
An ingenious youth, in Quincy, 111.,
has been doing a thriving trade in sell
ing rats’ tails, planted in llower pots, to
nnsophicated florists, as specimens of a
new species of cactus.
“Who is he?” said a pas.ser-by to a
policeman who was endeavoring to raise
an intoxicated individual who had fallen
into the gutter. “Can’t say, sir,” re
plied the policeman; “ he can’t give an
account of himself.” “Of course not,”
said the other; “ how can you expect
an account from a man who has lost his
balance?”
“ If 1 were in California',” said a young
fop, in company the other evening,
“ instead of working in the mines, I
would waylay some miner with a bag of
gold, knock out his brains, gather up the
gold, and run.” “ 1 think you would
do better to gather up the brains,”
quietly responded a young lady ; “ a
man should always secure what he is
most deficient in."
A young man in Hartford read some
where that more deaths occurred at five
o’clock in the morning than at any
other hour, and now gets up regularly
at four, in order to be out when Death
makes his morning calls.
There are two reasons why some peo
ple don’t mind their own business. < >ne
is that they have no business, and the
other is that they have no mind.
Jas. A. Bridges has died in Spring
field, Massachusetts, from diseases of
the blood, resulting from a bad corn.
After cutting the corn, he irritated it
by walking, so that the toe had to be
amputated—too late, however, to keep
the disease from spreading through his
| system.