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TIMELY TOPICS.
Experiments in London prove that
dry heat, when it can be applied, is prob
ably the most efficient of all disinfect
ants, and that the old plan of stopping
up crevices and fumigating with sulphur
and charcoil is more efficacious than any
other proceeding with more modern dis
infectants.
It really seems as if Ireland's day had
begun to dawn at last, and that, too,
when other countries are in throes. An
Irish landlord, writing in Frazier's Mag'
azine, nays that " There never was a time
in the memory of any one living when
Irii-h tenants were making so much
money, or rents were so well paid."
Potato bugs, few or many, are to be
f und crawling about every ship along
the piers. Americans probably would
be glad if every bug should emigrate ;
but forwign port wardens might feci jus
tified in placing ships thus infested in
quarantine. Such pests as the Norway
rat, the house mouse, the garden snail,
and a large number of destructive insects
have been spread abroad by being car
ried in c.irgoes from their native coasts
.V. 1'. TrU,uiv.
Dur.ixo the closing hours of the ses-i-i
m the disorder became so great that
lie sergcant-at-arms took down hissilver
mace and walked around though the dis
affected provinces. What he would have
done with it had any irate member
" swatted him across the smeller," noth
ing but divine wisdom can say. A more
useless piece of stage business can hardly
lw conceived than a sergeant at-arms
with a silver axe and bundle of rods,
bonanza Iictor, loafing around the
tempe tuous legislature like the tambour
major of a colored band, lie didn't hit
anylxwly, however. If, he had, the lic-
tor wouiu nave got licked.
The leading dry-good houses of Chi
capo have lor several years been buying
in burope instead of New York. A. T.
Stewart fc Co., are to open next month a
buge dry goods house in Chicago and to
make a straight bid for the country
trade. Their agent, Sabin K. Smith,
told a reporter of the Post that they
" would take a stand from the start as
though they had been eaablished for ten
years in Chicago : there would bo no
question alxmt time, style, credit, orany
Jiing but they would continue their
trade as they had been doing in New
York, saying tJ their 'customers on their
way cast, stop right here and et your
g'ods, and save the jourrey."
A frontiersman suggests the follow
ing benevolent plan for clearing out the
"Injuns." He says: "If I wuz the
gover'ment I'd buy lots of barrels of
whisky and lots 'o big knives, and I'd
put 'em somewhar in the west, an' invite
every redskin in the hull land to what
they call a conference. After they'd
got thar I'd knock in the heads 'o the
barrels and scatter the knives all 'round
loose so they'd le handy. Then I'd go
away and leave the Injuns to themselves.
Of course, they'd take the whisky and
the knives, and before sundown thar
wouldn't be more than one redskin left,
and then I'd go and knock his brains out
afore he could do any more damage.
That sir, 's the only reel way to settle
the Injun question. I've been among
'em, 'an I know. I'lenty of whisky an'
long knives '11 fix 'em out, an' nothing
else will.
The Scientific American suggests as" a
s.-arecrow, fitted to intimidate the bold
est bird, tw small looking-glasses fast
ined back to back, and hung by one cor
ner to an clastic pole. The bra vent crow
will depart if one of the lightning flashes
from the sun's reflected rays fall on him.
Another terror involves an artificial
hawk made from a big potato and long
g;se and turkey feathers. It is aston
ishins what a ferocious-looking bird of
prey can Ikj constructed from the above
simple materials. It only remains to
hang the object from a tall lent pole, and
the wind will do the rest. The bird
makes swoops ami dashes in the most
h'-adlon ' and threatening manner. Even
the most inquisitive of venerable hens
has lccii known to hurry rapidly from
its dangerous vicinity, while to small
birds it carries unmixed dismay.
Wi: see it slated that the recent report
of Mr. A Vat son to the British govern
ment upon the state of Florida has at
tracted the attention of all Europe in
that direction, and it is Itclieved that
the state will largely profit during the
coming year lrom the emigration rapidly
tending toward it. In this connection
it is interesting to note that a great deal
of attention is leing given in Europe to
ngineering projects in this country
more particularly with regard to the
ship canal from the gulf of Mexico to
the Pacific, and that across the peninsula
of Florida. There is little doubt that
the latter canal, which can easily be
built, will Ikj constructed within the
next few years, the basis being too good
to le neglected in times like-thesc, when
there are millions of money seeking for
investment. The Paris correspondent of
the New York Times says, in his last
letter to that journal, that the money
an readily he found in Europe, and
that IVIxvsseps, who built the Suez
canal, is Wginniug to turn his attention
to the Florida canal, not only as an en
gineering scheme, but as one of the rur-e.-t
sources of immediate profit that, to
it -e his own phrase, "could be picked
out from thousands which have been
brought under his notice since the com
pletion of the Suez canal." In the com
mercial part of this work he sees the
tvrtainty of large and speedy returns,
and ays that, so far as he can judge
from the maps and rejorts; the engineer
ing work would offer no difficulties, and
ould le done at a figure even below the
si imates. Pittsburg Commercial.
Parallel ok the Sexes. There is
at admirable partition of the qualities
between the sexes, which the Author of
our being has distributed to each with a
wi-'dom that challenges our unfunded
admiration :
Man is strong woman is beautiful.
Man is daring and confident woman
is diffident aud unassuming.
Man is great in action woman in suf
fer ng.
Man shines abroad woman at home.
Man t ilks to convince woman to per
suade and please.
Man has a rugged heart woman a soft
o:i.
Man prevents misery woman relieves
it
Man has science woman has taste.
Man has judgment woman has seusi
bility. Man is a being of justice woman an
angel of mercy.
THE man, who, weary of his wife's ab
senceon a visit to her mother, had a photo
graph of his house taken with himself and
bis neighbor's wifestandingon the porch,
which he senttohisbetter-half.hasarival
in the one who simply s iw that bis letter
contained, as if by accident, a red hair
alsiut three feet long. His wife wouldn't
have waited for the next train to get
borne, could she Lave sent herself by
telegraphy.
r
By HORSLEY & HEMPHILL.
LATEST JSTEWS.
MO ITT II AFfO HfEJI.
California m-ancer estimate the sur-
plus wheat this season at six hundred tons.
The rice hands of Beaufort, S. wnave
struck for higher wages.
The east branch penitentiary is to be
built at RuskTexas.
W. II. Hunt has been appointed attor
ncy-eeueral of Louisiana, vice iielus, ofr
ceased. '
Two companies of United States troops
from Mcrherjon Barracks, Atlanta, have
been ordered to rendezvous at Edgefield
courthouse.
The new rice crop is beginning to ar
rive at Charleston. S. C.
John Iteardon, or Redding, one of the
Dallas, Texas, bank robbers, has been cap
tured.
The first bale of cotton from North
Carolina wa sold at the New York cotton
exchange for 12 M cents per pound.
Fifty-one workmen from Paris, Bor
deanx, JTavre, Marseilles, Lyons and other
cities in France, sent by the trench govern
meut to visit the exhibition at Philadelphia
and study the improvements which are mat
in; iu the different trades they represent,
have arrived.
It is now reported that the prospect
for an abundant cranberry crop in the St.
Croix Valley, Miss., was never more prom
ising. It is stated that the crop this year
will pay lor all the improvements made on
improved marshes. The berry crop this year,
so far, has been good.
The cut-off in the Mississippi river at
Yicksburg, Miss., does not as yet leave that
citv "high and dry." The Vicksbnrg Her
ald says: "Just its we predicted before it
occurred, the cut-off has been a benefit to
the citv instead of an injury. It has relieved
the suspense in regard to the matter, with
out inflicting, as yet, the least damage, and
with nothing worse to fear in the future than
possibly a small outlay to keep the harbor
clear."
A general Drder from the war depart
ment directs Col. Ituger, on assuming com
maud of the department of the south, on or
about September 1, to transfer the headquar
ters of the department to Atlanta, Oa. The
companies of the second infantry, now in the
department of the gulf, ill be lr.uir.ferred
to the department of the south and head
quarters, and the companies of the sixteenth
infantry, now in that department, will be
transferred to the department of the gulf.
The Turkish minister at Washington,
Aristarchi Bey, has received an official declar
ation by the Turkish government, dated the
l!tth, giving the history of the beginning of
the hostilities with Servia and Montenegro,
representing that the Porte was compelled
to repel aggression by force, and that the
Porte had religiously adhered to the treaty
of Paris, and that the onus of having broken
their treaty stipulations rests on the princes
of Servia and Montenegro.
Strenuous efforts of the English and
German iron firms, says the Springfield Re
publican, to supply the rolling stock of Bra
zilian railways have failed to set the trade
away from American- manufacturers. The
American good are preferred for tiieirquil
Uy, after a trial pi the European, and the
exportation TTTbaflocomotives and cirs has
revived, one brig carrying out pins of twelve
common-gauge and two narrow gauge loco
motives and a half-dozen cirs, the other day,
to be assembled on arrival.
A dispatch from the Yellowstone ex
pedition, from the steamer Josaphine, near
the mouth of the Yellowstone, August 20lh,
by way of Bismarck, August 25lh, says, that
since the junction of Crook and Terry, it is
hoped to overtake and force a fight with the
Sioux. The command moved west to liie
Horn mountains, where, on the fourteenth,
a trail five or six days old and two miles
wide, being the heaviest ever seen on the
prairies, was discovered. This trail finally
separated, and the Indians were found to he
in lull retreat, one nanu neaciing lor me
north, toward the Brilish possessions, with a
probable intention of crossing the line; the
other going south, along the Little Missouri,
for the purpo.-e of crossing tiie Missouri river
above fort BerthoM. There is every indica
tion that the hordes have been heavily rein
forced by the agency Indians. They have their
families, and evidently intend remaining
noith this winter. The army has a difficult
programme, and it will be almost miraculous
if thev overtake the savages, who are well
mounted, and when the supplies are ex
hausted the soldiers will have to return to
the supply camp. A later dispatch, 'latei'lAu
gust 2"d, by way of Bismarck, says : " Crook
and Terry, after following the trail discov
ered on the twelfth, moved thirty-six miles
dow n the Rosebud. The northern trail was
abandoned on the fourteenth, and the com
mand pursued the southern trail, crossed
Tongue river to Goose Creek, thence re
turned to Powder river, followed it to its
mouth, which they reached on the eight
eenth, where they went int.i camp, and will
remain until the twenty-fourth. The wagon
train and all supplies at the mouth of the
Tongues are being shipped to the mouth of
Powder river, and it is expected that the
wagon train will reach there to-morrow
morning. The Indian trail diverged from
the east bank of Powder river, about twenty
miles from its mouth, south; again toward
the Little Missouri river, whence the com
mand will follo speeuily. The entire com
mand is short of supplies, and unless other
wise ordered, General Terry will march such
as are not needed over to fort Abraham Lin
coln. General Crook's command will scout
towards the Black Hills and via Fetterman,
home. Crook aud Terry both thiuk it too
rlate for extended field operations. The In
dians on the southern trail are believed to
be making toward the agencies, and Terry
will, if possible, intercept them. The cam
paign is therefore practically closed, unless
further instructions come lrom the lieutenant-general.
kst. -
Intelligence lias been received from
New York that the beef which was shipped
from the abattoir to England by the Canard
steamer Abyssinia arrived in an excellent
condition, and brought good prices iu the
London and Liverpool markets. The meat
was as fresh and tender as if killed only two
days previously, and the Knglish cattle mer
chants were amazed. The American beef
was rapidly bought up at less thuu half the
price charged for Euglish beef. Now that
regular ice compartments have been provid
ed on certain steamers, arrange in en t have
been made for shipping five hundred cattle a
week to England.
The whaling bark Catalpa arrived at
New York Saturday from New South Wales,
bringing Michael Harrington, Thomas Dar
ragh, James Wilson, Robert Cranston, Thom
as Henry Hassett, John J. Breslin, alius Col
lins, Thomas Desmond, alias Johnson, John
King, alias Jones, and Thomas Brennan,
alias Hall, escaped Fenians. They were wel
comed by their old comrades with hearty
greeting, and taken to O'Donovan Rossa's
hotel. Among those who met them was
William Foley, who had served ten years
penal sentence for treason, aud knew them
all intimatlev
rOREIUR.
The coroner's investigation into the
death of Mr. Bravo is convulsing all Eng-
1
A
land. lie was the husband of a young and
handsome rfoman, who is suspected of kill
ing her first husband, and who, after her
marriage with Bravo, fell in love with
one j
Dr. Gully. The evidence indicates that
Bravo was poisoned by antimeny furnished
by Gully and administered by Mrs. Bravo.
The counsel for the defense, several in num
ber cost the defendants an aggregate of 275
per day. This fact alone makes it difficult
determine when the case will close.
Earl Russell has addressed a letter to
Lord Granville on the eastern question,
which he says: "It seems to me that
to I
we
ought, with our fleet at Besika and our am
bassador at Constantinople, to insitt on an
instant termination of tne attrocities prac
ticed in Bulgaria and other parts of Turkey.
A thousand men landed from our fleet would
accomplish the object, aud if they fail, they
might be reinforced. Ultimately, if we can
not keep the Turks from being barbarous
and cruel, we might ally ourselves with Rus
sia, and concert means to accomplish our
objects. The whig party toast is, 'Civil and
relicious liberty all over the world.' From
this cause 1 shall not depart."
Disraeli has no children to inherit his
earldom. He is wealthy. Besides his own
fortune, he has received In bequest from ad
mirers about $200,000, and he has for some
time received a pension of $10,000 a year
from the government as au ex-minister.
Further reinforcements will be dis
patched from Madrid to Cuba at the end of
September.
A PERPLEXING MAUICIAN.
H'ondrrfal Feat or a Newly
Arrived
Frrnrb PrnlMlcltatcnr.
New York World.
M. Marius Cazeneuve is a small gen
tleman with a large head and fingers,
whose dexterity would shame the most
energetic shuttle in any woolen mill the
country boasts of. He is owner of innu
merable gold badges and testimonials of
bis art, five of which he exposed on his
nimble person last week. He appears
even to deadheads in full evening costu me,
ind combines in his deportment the
grace of a Frenchman with the volubili
ty of a lanitee. A small table having
leen arranged directly under the noes
of the investigating audience. M.
Cazeneuve appeared smiling behind it
with nothine in his looks to warrant a
belief of his league with the devil.though
a hundred years ago, he would certainly
have been burned ere the evening was
over lor just some such doubtlul rela
tionship.
Picking up a pack of neat, French
playing cards, he first began his dev
iltry by holding them under the nose of
a reporter, ana while yet their lresh,
clean smell was in the nostrils of that
gentleman, causing them to disappear,
subsequently extracting them from the
inside or his coat. Ihia was only child s
play, however. Une or two reporters
being found willing to touch the cards
after some persuasion, a few were drawn
from the pack, looked at and replaced.
A, salver containing dice-box and dice
was next passed around, and as these
gentlemen threw the dice it became a
horrible reality that the total numbers
of their throws recorded exactly the nu
merical position from tne top of the
cards they had drawn and replaced. A
gentleman who was said to represent the
Uaily ltness handled the dice-box in
an ague manners but, shake it as he
would, he could not avoid the supernat
ural result.
The next demonstration waseven more
lerplexing. A blank card was handed
the spectators upon which they were re
quested, one alter the other, to place
four mimericals ; the total amount thus
set down amounted to 19,547, upon
which the reporter of the World opened,
not without trepidation, a sealed envelope
that had previously been intrusted to
his care, and lo! the self-same product,
10.517, appeared written in plain charac
ters within. At this point there might
have been a wholesale conversion to
spiritualism or almost any doctrine pro
posed, had not the macigian candidly
informed his audience, in excellent
French, that he claimed not to do the
mvsterious or unnatural. The slight-of-
haud tricks of M. Cazeneuveare not, how
ever, his only stock in trade. He has a
tolerably good memory, which serves him
in some stead ; to illustrate : He handed
to three gentlemen in the audience three
books, the "Chronologie University,"
"('ours Astronomic," and "Tablette
Chronologiques de L'Histoire Univer
sale," volumes each of several hundred
pages ; to several other gentlemen he
next intrusted a dozen or two playing
cards, toothers be gave dominoes and
lotto counters. Having distributed these
good gifts, he begged the gentlemen with
the books to open a page each at random,
upon which he gazed pensively for the
space of a moment, ana then visiting the
other holders was allowed a momentary
glance at the faces of their cards, their
dominoes and lotto counters. Shaking
his head then several times, as if to shake
into the several cells of memory the va
rious inventoriesof his outstanding stock,
he begun a recital of the list, first re
peating the entire pages that had been
opened to in the books, and next, telling
accurately the cards and dominoes, etc.,
held by each of the gentlemen by whom
they were held. This did appear a trifle
perplexing, as the gentlemen who held
the cards, dominoes, etc., had been al
lowed to draw them from the box and
pack themselves, and as the nature and
size of the books used made it appear to
the average mind a lite study to commit
to memory any portion of them.
After this a little recess was taken, the
audience having the pleasure of realizing
that at any given date in the tuture M.
Cazeneuve could without difficulty in
form them or their friends of the precise
number of beer glasses emptied and cock
tails consumed.
The second portion of the entertain
ment introduced a simple little trick.
one or the audience was given a sealed
envelope to hoid, while another gentle
man proceeded to unwind a ball of string
which was presently cut by the shears of
the magician: in the meantime cards
and dominoes had been passed around,
various people helping themselves, and
behold after all this, when the sealed en
velope was opened, there appeared a
written statement of the exact length of
the cord cut at random and a list f the
cards, dominoes, etc., chosen among the
audience. After this it was no matter
of treat surprise when another double
sealed envelope was found to contain a
paper upon which various parties had
written whatsoever they pleased, and
which they had subsequently seen de
stroyed in the flames of a sulphur match.
The performance concluded with the
celebrated box mystery. Mme Cazen
euve under cover of a screen, succeeding
in getting inside of a trunk, which, tied
and sealed up, was placed inside of an
other also secured, in the space of forty
seconds, several seconds quicker than the
best time ever made by any spiritually
assisted pe'rfonner. M. Cazeneuve pro
pose soon to apjear before the public,
whom he intends toenvert finally and
forever from all belief in spiritualism.
Occasionally barbers get hold of a
poor quality of bay rum, and when such
is applied to the face of a man just shaved
it smarts like fire for a few moments. A
case of this kind occurred in one of our
barber shops, the other day. "Whoop!
hld! holy Moses!" yelled the man,
springing wildly from the chair, and
clasping his burning cheeks with both
hands; "ym may skin me that's all
risht but I'll be essentially cussed if
I'm going to have pepper-aauce rubbed
ou it afterwards! Jow, you hear me!"
HERALD
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY,
OUR MINISTER'S SERMON.
The minister said last night, said he :
" Don't be afraid of givin';
If vour life ain't worth nothln' to other folks,
Why, what is the use of linnp ?'
And that's what I say to my wife, says I,
There's Brown the mis'raole sinner.
He'd sooner a beggar would suurre than giTe
A cent toward buying dinner.
1 trfl you oar minister in prime, he is,
Rut I MinMn't tinilA HptprminA.
When I he vd him a givin' it right and left,
Just who was hit by bis sermon.
Of course there couldn't be no mistake
When he talked of long winded prajnn',
For Peters and Johnson, they sat and scowled
At every word he was sayin'.
And the minister he went on to say,
There's rarious kindsof cheatin'.
And religion's as good for every day.
As it is to bring to meetin'.
I don't think much of the man that gives
The loud amen at my preachin',
Aad spends his time the ollowin' week
In cheatin' and over reachla'.
I guess that dose was blttor enmigh
For a man like Jones to swallow ;
But I noticed he didn't open his mouth,
Not once after that to holler ;
Hurrah, says I, for the minister
Of course I said it quiet
Give us some more of this plain talk,
It's very refreshing diet.
The minister hit 'em every time,
And when be spoke of fashion,
. And riggin's out in bows and things,
As womans ruling passion,
And coming to church to see the styles,
I couldn't help a wlnkin'
Andanudgin' my.wife.aodssysl, "That's you,
And I guess it set her thinkin'.
Savs I to myself, that sermon's pat,
But man is a queer creation.
And I'm much afraid that most of the folks
Won't take the application.
Now, If he had said a word about
My personal mode of sinnin',
I'd have gone ta work to right myself,
And not set there a grinnin .
Just then the minister says, says he,
" And now I've come to the fellers
Who've lost this shower by usin' tneir friends
As a sort o' moral umbrellas.
Go home," says he "and find your faults.
Instead f huntin' vour brothers'.
Go home," says hn, " and wear the coats
You've tried to fit lor others."
My wife she nudged, and rirown he winked,
And there was lots o' smilio',
And lots a lots o' look in' at our pew,
It sot my blood a biiin'.
Savs I to myself, our minister
is gettln' a little liitter,
I'll tell him, when the meetin's out, that I
Ain't at all that kind of a critter.
Nnc Haven JUgUter.
to i
KNOWN AT LAST.
BY PHILIP KOl'KKE MARSTON.
From Harper's Bazaar.
A June night: such a June night!
warm, blue, and breathless, and moon
lit.
I am sitting alone in the dear old
London garden, and the canal which
runs by the end of it. silvered by moon
light occasionally darkened by the
shadow of a passing barge, looks quite
so t and Italian.
Papa has had a few gentlemen to din
ner, and till they are satisfied with wine
and politics, I prefer the garden to the
drawing room the garden full of moon
light and the searching scent of the
thorn. I am not long, however, to enjoy
my solitude, for here is a step close by
me, and a glimmer of a cigar.
"Ah! Miss Paisely?" says a low
musical voice with which I am very fa
miliar. " Did you take me for a ghost ?" I
said laughing.
" Hardly. I never yet heard of a
nhost wearing flowers. I left the dining
room before the others because I wished
to liae a few minutes' gerious talk with
you."
" Oh, don't be serious," I cry, piteous
ly, and making a wry face.
"Oh, put by jesting," he rejoins, in
rather a weary tone of voice ; " after this
I shall make no further exactions upon
your time or mood. '
My vanity is wounded, and I say,
sharply, " I can be as grave as the most
of people when the occasion requires it;
but there are persons who mistake mo
roseness for gravity and good spirits for
heart lessness."
" Very likely," he goes on, hardly
heeding my sally; "but I have not come
to defend my own conduct, but rather to
plead for another. I am going I am
going to speak about mv j'oung friend
Hamilton. Look here, llhoda Paiselv.
you may nirc with ninety-nine men.and.
though it may hurt your vanity to hear
it, do them no lasting harm : but with
the hundredth it may be different : you
may at last drive him to madness or per-
TT -1. I . . n .
anion. Hamilton is one ot the finest
young fellows that ever lived."
" An excellent young man, doubtless,"
I put in, with some thing of a sneer.
?sot noticing the interruption : " He
is, I know, not generally attractive to
women, r rom a boy he has been physi
cally very delicate ; his nature is hijrh-
strung and nervous. Now you know he
loves you.
"Indeed, you flatter me," I say, look
ing down to hide a blush, which I fancy
(though I know really it is not visible in
the darkness) can not escape his gray,
penetrating eyes.
But he says, quietly, " You can not
evade me; you know he does. Now
what I will have from you is this : How
will you answer when he puts to you the
supreme question of his life? Silent !
But I demand an answer."
" And I command you to desist from
your present impertinence, an-i to leave
me," I cry, springing up in a passion,
and flinging far from me the rose with
which I had been toying; "and if you
are a delegate from your friend, he has
indeed been unfortunate."
" Ne, upon my honor I am not that,"
he rejoins, earnestly. Then he stands
aside and bows gravely as I sweep
past.
I hasten u the drawing-room, and
soon the gentlemen come in. William
Hamilton comes over to where I am sit
ting. He is certainly handsome, though
not in a way attractive to us women ;
tall and slight, with an aristocratic, mo
bile, though somewhat feminine face, lit
up by large, aofr, melancholy eyes; bis
hands, beautifully fashioned, are thin al
most to transparency. He leans with his
arm on the back of my chair and begins
talking about some book he has given
me. To all his questions I reply with
warmth and animation. Colonel Gordon
is observing us; his face always bright
ens when he hears me talking less frivo
lously than is my wont. I cannot help
contrasting the two friends; the younger
and so much the younger, too so fair
and fragile ; the elder, certainly not at
all handsome, but strong of limb and
broad of chest, with the dark resolute
face, worn and beaten by the storm wind
of the world. I think I make myself
very agreeable to poor Mr. Hamilton.
We sit by ourselves all th evening apart
in a corner of the room, apparently lost
in one another, till something he says
puts me out of tune, and I leave him in
a tiff, poor fellow. Only, when he is go
ing away, I am so sorry for him that I
can not resist saying, " I hope you do
not think me too quarrelsome ?" Then
I look up piteously in his face and cast
another look of proud defiance at his
friend. Soon our little gathering breaks
up, and I am glad that the evening is at
an end.
Another superb day, just as hot and
cloudless as yesterday : but in spite of
the beautiful weather, and all the roses
in the garden, I got up feeling cross
and out of spirits. Am I merely a flirt?
something too light and frivolous? A
woman, I think, should be something
better. After all, Col. Gordon was
right, and when I see Mr. Hamilton
again I will show him firmly but kindly
that he baa no reason to hope. I am
somewhat comforted by this resolution,
but I have no will to read books or to
pay visits. I have no mother, and I
am an only child, so my life is rather
solitary.' t somehow the day wears itself
away, and at six o'clocck, punctual as
the time itself, comes the quick familar
ring, and X hasten to meet my dear ol4
fathet after his omciat duties, l over
mehim by kisses and complaints.
Ch, i am so glad you nave come
back!' I say ; " I have been horribly
dull I and hasn t it been hoti no cool
cornr in the house, and no shade in the
gard
Hejreturns my kisses affectionately.
but b? looks so grave that 1 say. anx
iouslj:
" Iianvthing the matter, dear?"
" "ifes ; I have very sudden and bad
news' he answers, taking me into the
dinnijg-room and stroking my hair with
his datr hands. " Young Hamilton is
dead a was found dead this morning in
his beV " It appears he was always sub
ject tOjheart complaint. 1 met Uordon
in thektreet, who gave me the sad news.
Poor fellow, he seemed quite broken
down.f
I am terribly stricken, uead I i say
the wotd over and over again, yet can
not resize the full meaning of it. But
when I go to' bed I tu rn my face to the
wall.'ol which one long ray of moonlight
is playkig, and sob as if my heart would
break ; aud yet I know I did not love
him. O. soft melancholy eyes! Per
haps isot melancholy now, but glad and
rtdiantand full of a new triumphant
lierht. O. poor troubled heart! That
has. I hope, found rest. But I think of
the little kind things I might have said
and done, and of all the things said or
done so much better left undone.
Well, the tedious summer days go by,
We never see Col. Gordon now; he
seems to have given us up; even papa
seems to wonder at his silence. One hot
August day we leave noisy, dusty Lon
don behind and take wing for the conti
nent. We have got over the first shock
of poor Mr. Hamilton's death, but I am
not quite what I was, and I think if Col.
Goidon could see me now he would
think me less frivolous. I have a half
hope that we may meet him in our wan
derings. I look anxiously at all the
hotels into the books of the visitors.
where his name is not registered, and
after two months of mountain and sea
air we come back to the old London, the
old house, and the old life. We have
been home a week ; to-day papa has got
to his office occupations again, and to
day I feel terribly sad and cheerless
a sadness which all things around me
tend to deepen ; the rustle of dead
leaves on the garden paths, the moan
ings of the wind in the lealless!
branches, the cold gray aspect of
the sky. Is there nothing 1 should
like to do ? I think, a3 I wander rest
lessly between the garden and the
house. Ah ! ves, there is one thing
ha.-e always intended to do, and why
not to-day? 1 gather a nosegay of au
tumn flowers out of our own rrarden
knowing that, if living, that would have
pieaied him most, and l set out on my
pilgrimage. They have laid my lover to
rest at Norwood, in the dim vaults away
under the church. As 1 walk up be
tween the long rows of tombs a chill rain
begins tailing, beating m my face ; but I
do not feel frightened or lonely in this
capital ot the dead, nor do 1 shrink as,
lit bv a faintly glimmerine taper, I fol-
i j ii - rj? -- - i ii
low uown me winding staircase into me
sad populous resrion below, thoueh
shiver at the dank air, in which death
seems to become almost palpable. My
guide looking carefully at the names, tn-
per in hand, stops before one. I signify
to him that 1 would be alone tor a lew
minutes, and he retires. I bend down
and read the inscription: "William
Hamilton, born May 17, 1851 ; died June
y, 1873. He gi veth his beloved sleep.' "
Is it indeed sleep for him, and unmarred
by any dreams; 1 think or how be
loved me and that love which I held
so lightly and the plenteous tears
come. But here is a step. The custo
dian of the place coming back, I sup
pose. 1 raise my lace hurriedly, and
meet the dark well-known eyes of colonel
tjorden ; but they have in them a
milder, sweeter look than I have ever
seen there before. He takes my hands
in his and holds them, looking long and
lovingly at the inscription on the cothn
We do not speak a word, but we leave
the place together and come out in the
gray windy light of the fading d&y. He
draws my arm in his, still holding my
hand, and we walk a little ways in si
lence. At lenght, he says, very kindly,
" Thank you for this, llhoda ; I did not
know vou loved him so much.
" Stop," I say, " I am very sorry for
him, I leel so grateful that ho should
have cared for me ; but in the way you
mean I never loved him. All you said
to me that night was right and true, and
I have been better for it."
" No harm has been done," he rejoins;
"and if he died thinking you loved him,
he died happier. But you are not look
ing well. Is anything troubling youi"
" No ; I am not happy ; and now he
has gone, I have no one who I think
really loves me."
" You are mistaken there," he replies
quietly. " Don't you know that I love
you ? and then more to himself than
to me " as my life, as my soul. I loved
you, llhoda, from the first day I saw
you ; but then he loved you too, and he
was so unable to buffet the waves of this
world, if you could have loved him and
made his life happy well, dear, you
understand. I have said more than I
meant to say; consider some of it un
said ; only remember, if ever you should
want a iriend, you will know where to
come; and," he adds, with rather i sad
smile, " I will not even in jest ask you
to become my wife."
" Because you consider me so worth
less?" " Because I will not give you the pain
of saving no."
" Because you will not give me the
joy of saying yes."
"That could not be, ne replies, witn
almost childish incredulity in his voice:
" why, I am fifteen years older than
you.
"And it it were iwice mat, it, wouia
be nothing," I reply, warmly. "But
must you beat all the pride out of me ?"
He turns 'round now and jaces me,
laying his hands upon my shoulders,
while I gaze into his eyes so frank and
featless. " ltemember," he says, iu a
solemn voice, "the place from which
we have iust come, remember all that is
at stake, and then tell me if you can say
from the bottom of your Heart I love
you."
Mv heart does not falter as I echo his
last words, and I know that he will never
ask me that question again at least lor
the want of confirmation. He folds me
. . , .
in his arms, and, rjenaing uown, Kisses
my lips long and passionately. "I came
in here," he says, " one of the weariest
men in all God's earth, and now I am
surely the most blessed." We go back
. .... 1 ! w .
to Lndon, both nappy, ooin supremely
happy; and as we drive home through
the shrieking London streets, I shudder
to think how nearly I had missed the
great peace and happiness of my life.
He had kept nis secret, maniuny ; dui,
thank God ' it had been known at last,
and not too late.
The World's Stock or Coin.
The stock of coin in the commercial
world is put down as follows :
YtarA.D. Stock qf Coia. Authority
17m 1.4l",n),ino Jarob.
iwv. l.fi.7,ori.ftfcO Gorboux
. 2..w,rtm.nn M'Cnlloch
172. .. .vno,Vrt Ernest Seyd.
U7K 4,.lJU.
Of the four billion dollars of coin in
existence iu 1876, Ernest Seyd estimates
that at least two billion three hundred
million dollars aT infgold alone. Not
far from one-third of the annual produc
tion of gold and silver is consumed in the
arts, for domestic purposes, and by wear
and friction. The other two-thirds pass
into circulation as money, say one hnn
dree million dollare annually.
AN
D
SEPTEMBER 8, 1876.
A HEROINE OCT OF LUCK.
Career of m Wealthy, Roi
Homely Female.
New York rimes.
antic and
Another warlke adventuress has come
to grief. This time it is not doctor and
major Mary Walker, of American fame,
nor the American princes Sabn-Salm who
befriended the Hapsburg emperor of
Mexico. The new heroine is Mile. Mer
cus, a young lady of Dutch birth, who
has been playing the mixed part ot Joan
of Arc and Florence Nightingale in the
foervian war. 1 he exGentnc young per
son is said to have been endowed with a
large fortune, the accumulated savings
of the thrifty Hollanders, her ancestors.
Most likely, in some Dutch boarding
school she read the life and adventures
of La Pucelle, or she may have read
Jueadie s dime novels, surreptitiously con
veyed to her under cover ot ber bread
and butter, or in her weekly washing;
such, we believe, being the custom with
all ill-regulated female students, b ired
by the example of the Alaid of Orleans,
intoxicated by visions of glory which the
careers of the empress Helena and Flor
ence Nightingale brought into her imagi
nation, Mile. Mercus made up her mind
to strike for liberty and a career. No
sooner was she emancipated from the re
straints ot a boarding-school and the
thraldom of pantalettes than she started
out, as we should say in America, " on
her own hook." Here, at least was
one woman who not only had romance
and onnortunitieshutJolentv of monev.
lho first duty of Mile. Mercus was to
1 1 ii - - .
build a temple at Jerusalem. 1 his vo
tive ofTering was probably intended to im
part a sort of religious tone to her future
career, and earn for ber the reverence of
the christian world. The temple, which
is still extant, is described aa being
something unique in architecture. It
was designed and executed by some Bel
gian (but not profane) 31 u lieu, it was
rected near the monument which marks
the spot where our Savior's tomb is sup
pose to have been. At an age when most
girls are flirting in the surf, or prinking
before a mirror, Mercus was up to her
eyes in mortar and masonry at Jerusa
lem. This pious work cost her about
$75,000, but it failed to awaken for her
that holy enthusiasm which she had ex
pected. Not long after this the troubles
in t ranee engaged ber attention and 6he
threw her womanly influence as well as
her cash, on the side ef the communists.
She wore a Phrygian cap on special occa
sions, and was quite as ready to play
the part of the goddess of reason as she
had been to be offered up a sacrifice to
Moslem hate, if the 1 urks bad reararded
her with other feelings than those of
blank amazements. She approved, in a
judicially bloodthirsty way, ol the mur
der of the hostages, and thought the
sacrifice of the archbishop of Paris a very
proper act. It is hardly necessary to add
that this portion of her career has
made enemies for her in Paris. And the
gossips of that wicked city do not hesi
tate to say that Mercus is more like Lola
Montez than the maid of Orleans, except
that Mercus does not pretend to be adan
seuse. Various other dreams of fame absorbed
the energies and dollars of this extraordi
nary young woman, but ber taste for
glory and gunpowder usually led her to
the devious verge of battle fought wher
ever there was a speck of war. When
the Herzegovinians broke into hostilities,
she emulated the example of a well
known American female, and aspired to
the command of a military force. She
promised to raisie a battery for the insur
gents, and intrusted twelve hundred
pounds to a gentleman for the purchase
of guns. This person, with the heartless
duplicity of the sterner sex, put the
money in his pocket, and went on a pleas
ure excursion, lrom which he had not,
at last accounts returned. Mile. Mercus
was not discouraged, and she yet possess
ed half a million dollars. The Servian
invasion promised more excitement than
the Herzegovinian affair; besides, she
had failed to get her artillery command
She built a hospital atShabatz, forty-four
miles west ot Belgrade, and went into the
Nightingale and Geneva Cross business
with great spirit. She seems to have
combined political instruction with nurs
ing and medical attention. hile
she bound up the broken beads of
Servian soldiers, she pit ached republi
canism, ihe variety ot republicanism
which Mercus brought from the Paris
commune is not lashionable in feervia,
where the ruler, though not a fnll-fledged
sovereign, is nevertheless a prince of the
blood royal. A cable dispatch tells us
that this modern and revised edition of
Joan of Arc has been taken to Belgrade
with a view to her expulsion from Ser
vian territory. This is an ignoble ending
to such an exceedingly lively career.
Doubtless the young lady would prefer
a littly romantic martyrdom, just now,
for the sake of keeping up appearances
to the end. But the days of burning at
the stake, like the days of chivalry, are
now no more, the most that the t?er-
vian government could do for her would
be to conduct her to the frontier, or to
swear her and let her go, as we should
have dons under similar warlike circum
stances. Unhappily, the lady, though
rich and under thirty, is not pretty; and
as she is small and dark-faced, it is not
likely that she could coax a job out of
an American congress, or wheedle an aged
philanthropist into posing lor his statue,
if she should choose art rather than war
as a field of adventure. We may well
be sorry for Mercus. She had good in
tentions, and if she has failed as a vol
unteer skirmisher on the battle held, she
may console herself with the reflection
that she is not the first who has seen men
shut the gates of honor on womankind.
Beautiful Jewesses at Long Branch.
Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Long Branch is the place for beautiful
Jewesses. They grow fair in skin, yet
preserve all their splendid contrasts of
nc eyebrows and oriental eyes aim
tresses here. Domestic, well appetized,
taking their leisure most philosophically,
thev make willing mothers, and at mid
dle life are troubled with nothing mor
than excess of flesh. There is a hotel
called Jauch's at the Branch, pronounced
Yoek, where the middle class family He
brews stop among French and a medley
of foreigners. As it is a good place for
bachelors, having meals a la carte, I
stopped there a week and made, after a
fashion, a trip to the Holy and. The
husbands and lovers arose at half-past
fiv hat.hed with their faces towards the
east or their heels in the air, and, taking
only a cup of coffee, darted off to New
1 OrK. All IXU v "" -. v.
mother was up looking lor her boys, who
were chasing the rig or the torn cat
across tne jawn. iue uiicij vmmri
was reading a novel, or practicing a min
strel ballad down at the piano, or flirting
with a christian with a pocket handker
chief. They breakfasted light and went
off to bathe in plain muslin or bunting
dresses, blue being a favorite color.
Emerging from tne Dam nouse, ciau in
hifiirrated blue trimmed with white, the
daughter of Judith stands, and, as in the
olden story, she drives the nails in the
temples ox lioioiernes, dui is now imiy a
toe-nail ; for we see her milk-white feet,
turned at the tips like the shell of an
ivory enail, planted on the sand like the
base of a recovered sphinx. There she
is, fresh as the riddle the sphinx pro
pounded, and older than its creation in
tha undiminished vigor of her race.
Sh stands the type of Miriam with her
tabor and Mary with her Joseph. Uieo
natra is dead and all the sons of Anthony,
and in their place there rules a turban
and a Turk. But the gold that ratbt
sustain his tottering power and ours is
the thrift of the wandering Jew. lie
truvpla from land to land with gold dust
jn his garments, his wife with diamonds
MAIL.
hidden iu her mouth. They are cast out
of cities; they lend to kings. Antagon
ized for ages, they have yielded at last
to tne soitening innuence oi toieranou
and kindness. Assured against molesta-
tion, they have became holder of land
and lots in the cities of the new world
They held about one-third of the best
real estate in the city of New York ;
their synagogues lift their rich facades to
the light, where the Moorish horse-shoe
and bulbous domesof silver gilt are inter
mixed with texts' of chaldean. Many
of them give liberally to build christian
churches and to christian charities, but
in worship and in marriage their faith
fulness seldom wavers. We agitate to
keep the Sabbaths we will not keep, but
silently and not to proselytize, the Jew
puts up his shutters on his own seventh
day, and loses the lucre of two Sabbaths
without a whine.
The Jewish maiden takes her bath,
and as she leaves the water, with her
clothes clinging to her, she is stalwart
as a section of Solomon's temple. Her
thick, black hair is fit for bow-strings;
like shafts of cedar are her limbs. She
lunches heartily on cold meats and a
bottle of beer, and goes up and dresses
for her lord. When ho arrives in the
stage she is on the piazza wearing a vel
vet dress with an overdress of lace cur
tain, a Maria Stuart collar, big diamonds
in her ears, and a straw hat lull of illu
sion pinned down with a tulip of gold
and carnelian. They address each other
in three or more languages during the
same sentence, being true cosmopolitans,
and in a minute the carriage is up for a
drive. That night, about ten or eleven
of the clock, they are eating the entire
rassover lamb, drinking champaign, and
laughing like the happiest people in the
world, all dressed richly, bareheaded,
taking the world for all it is worth.
CHAMPAWXE.
How It la HlHde and Where
Ihe Real
I'M be Found.
London Saturday Review
It is not, of course, to be expected that
the finest champagne should be givenon
ordinary occasions ; this would be a
throwing of pearls to people who had no
time or opportunity to judge their lustre
properly. Indeed, when one considers
the labor and skill employed in the mak
ing of the finest champagne, one is apt to
think that, according to a French fash
ion, they should be d'unk only after din
ner, when it is possible to give compara
tively uninterrupted consideration to
their merits. The grapes from which
champagne is made are almost entirely
the black and white Burgundy two
thirds of the black, roughly speaking, be
ing used to one-third of the white in the
making of sparkling champagne.
Very line champagne can be made only
from the black grapes that are grown in
certain favored districts, such as Ay ;
but the wine made from white grapes
only is, though it gives a fine flavor, de
ficient in body, and would be too light
and acid if used alone. In the cham
pagne country the process of cuttingand
paring the grapes is simple enough, as
the grapes, being of good substance, do
not require the very delicate handling
found necessary in other districts. The
branches ars carefully inspected, and,
when all unripe and rotten berries have
been removed, they are put under the
press,, a powerful machine worked by
hand, and made, with the exception of
an iron screw, entirely of wood. It may
be pleasant news to some champagne
drinkers that the treading out of the
grapes by barefooted or leather blioed
men and women, practiced in seme dis
tricts, is not here employed. After the
pressing the wine is put into a large vat,
where it is allowed to ferment for from
twelve to eighteen hours, after which it
is drawn off into casks, where a second
fermentation takes place.
Up to this time the wine is pure fer
mented juice of the grape, but, if lottl-d
in this condition, the wine would lie still,
and to give it the required sparkle the
addition of sugar is necessary. The nec
essary amount of this element is deter
mined by means of an instrument which
discovers the quantity of saccharine orig
inally contained in the wine,the quantity
lost in the fermentation, and conse
quently the amount which has to be
added. It vs ill be seen that the use of
this instrument requires great experi
ence, care and skill. The saccharine used
for the finest wines is composed of the
purest white cane candy dissolved in fine
old wine reserved for the purpose, while
for the commoner wines coarse sugar and
spirits are used. After the preparation
of the wine in caks, brilliancy is given
to it by the process of " fining" with
pure isinglass, and after that it is ready
for bottling about the month of May af
ter the vintage. It is stowed away in
deep cellars in stacks of from ten to thir
ty thousand bottles, from any part of
which stacks a single bottle can be re
moved at any time for examination
without disturbance to the pile in which
it is laid.
Although the wine is perfectly bright
when bottled, it soon throws down a sed
iment which must be removed before the
wine goes into the market. In order to ef
fect this the bottles have to remain in a
horizontal position for a year or more ;
wheji it has been ascertained by a care
ful examination of the bottles that
this has taken place, they are put in
wooden racks with the necks slightly de
pressed, so that the sediment slides
toward the ccrks, and each bottle is gent
ly agitated at stated intervals by prac
ticed hands, who,itissaid,can,aftersoini
experience, shake several thousand bot
tles a day. Vith every shake the moutlm
of the bottles become more depressed,
until they stand nearly on one end,
when the sediment is settled in the neck
of the bottle close to the base of the cork.
In this position the bottles remain un
til the wine has to be prepared for con
sumption by the process of getting rid of
the sediment, or, to use the technical
term, "disgorging." This is done by a
skilled workman, who takes each bottle,
and with a special instrument strips off
the iron clip which holds down the cork,
when the pressure of the fermenting wine
forces out the cork and with it the sedi
ment. The wine is allowed for a second
or two to froth over in older to cleanse
the neck of the bottle of all impurities ;
the bottle is then placed on a frame un
der an upright stopper, which checks all
further waste oi gas or wine. ine in
this state is termed brut, and is abso
lutely dry and sugarless to the taste ;
there are some people who have, and
some who anect, a taste ior cnampague
in this condition which only the wines
of the finest vintages can support. It is
therefore ntcessary for general purposes
to add to the wines in bottle at this point
a certain further amount of saccharine.
the quantity of which is determined by
various circumstances, cuiei auiuug
which are the quality of the wine itself
and the quality of the maiket to which
it is destined.
It is irratifving to know that the least
quantity of saccharine is used for the
English market, and that therefore finer
champagne is, as a rule, to be found in
England than elsewhere. While three
per centum of saccharine is used for th
first and from eight to ten lor the second
quality of champagne sent to England,
eighteen to twenty per centum is needed
to catch the taste of German, American
and even French champagne drinkers.
It is obvious that fine wine disguised
with this amount of sirup has no chance
ot ascertaining its true merit, and it is
natural that the purveyors of champagne
should pay some attention to this lact.
And it Is therefore fair to conclude that
be who wishes to possess the finest
champagne had better look for it in
the English rather than in any other
market.
At the fame time, a often happens,
VOL. XXII. NO. 0.
where the best, there also is the worst to
be found. The fashion of drinking good
champagne as a festal wine has led to the
j custom of supplying what it is hoped may
I pass for good champagne, and what may
I be a harmless preparation of cider or
some other indigenous egervescingliquid,
or a harmful compound imported from
abroad. A year or two ago there was a
kind of panic a? to ball-room champagne,
when it was suggested that petroleum
was largely employed to poison unsus
pecting people under the guise of hospi
tality ; and this panic was the exaggerated
expression of a fear which had some foun
dation. It is not difficult to produce imitations
of champagne, if not by the agency of pe
troleum, oy that of, among other things,
chloroform water, which, like many other
chemicals, has been pressed into the
Rervice of ordinary tradesmen. It is per
haps not surprising that many people
should waste their substance in "the pur
chase of riotus and spurious champagne.
But it might be well for such in-ople to
consider that fine wines produced bv
such processes as we have described are
of necessity costly. And they might with
advantage turn their attention to the ex
istence of cr-rtaTh sparkling wines which
cost little, and yet have the exhilerating
and harmless qualities of fine champagne
without, of course, its delicate savor,
such as the Austrian Voslauer or the
French Vouvray.
The Explosion at II11 Uale The En
tire Mass to (Jo at One Time.
N. Y. World.
The great explosion at Hell Gate is
now certain to take place during the lat
ter part of September, and contrary to
reports which have been generally cir
culated the entire mass of rocks will be
demolished by one terrific explosion.
The work of tunneling and boring is now
ended, and nothing remains undone ex
cept the preparation and insertion of the
cartridges.
The tunnels radiating from the main
shaft, and likewise those crossing them,
are all cleared out, leaving the upper
crust of rock supported on one hundred
and seventy-two piers, each eight feet
square, but varying in heigth from twen
ty feet near the shaft to ten or twelve
feet near the outer circumference. In
the roof of rocks thus formed S,.r()0 holes
have been bored in an upward direction,
ranging in depth from three to eleven
feet, with a uniform diameter of three
inches. These holes will be the recepta
cles of the explosive material, which will
be dynamite where the rock 13 hardest
and ordinary vulcan powder where the
superincumbent mass is more friable and
easier to blow to pieces. As the floor of
the tunnel slopes outward from a depth
of thirty two fet to fortv feet below low
water, and the depth ot water required
for navigation in the neighborhowd of
New York is only twenty-six feet at
mean low water, it is plain that after the
explosion and the subsequent dredging
there will be ample room for the largest
ships in the world to reach New York
bay through the waters of the sound
and thus make a saving of time on the
voyage to and from Europe.
Nitro-glycerene was for a time con
templated as the most suitable explosive
agent; but on mature consideration it
was rejected, not only as being too dan
gerous in the manufacture, but also be
cause some of the charges are liable to
slip out of the holes prepared for them,
and in such an event nitro-glycerine
would be liable to explode prematurely.
Dynamite, which is composed of twenty
five per cent, of clay and seventy-five
ler cent, of nitroglycerine, was finally
selected ; and it is calculated that each
charge will break up twenty cubic yards,
there being in or aliout seventy thou
sand cubic yards in the entire mass to
be exploded. A bomb-proof chamber
has been prepared for the operators, at a
distance of three hundred leet southeast
of the main shaft and in the direction of
tho Ravenswood road. In this chamber
will be placed at least two hundred gal
vanic batteries of the pattern known as
Groves', and each of these will explode
from seventeen to twenty charges. A
most ingenious scheme has Iteen devised,
by which all these batteries are brought
into action at the same time, and then a
complete circuit will be formed, setting
off the entire 3,000 charges together, and
utterly destroying the great plateau of
rock which has made Hell Gate so dan
gerous to navigators.
General Newton has been unceasing in
his exertions, and has kept up a constant
series of experiments to insiiro perfect
success when the great day comes; and
there is no reasonable ground for fear of
any untoward accident occurring. Ihe
avistant cugineers, who will have practi
cal charge ef the oieratious on the day
of the explosion, will, according to the
popular belief, be placed in a jxisition of
great danger; hut this is only visionary,
as the utmost foresight has been used to
prevent any harm to the operators.
1 he engineers are of opinion the only
apparent effect of the explosion will le
the hurling into the air of a huge col
umn of water, with perhaps some bits cf
rock, as the as-istanceof the superincum
bent water will prevent any except a few
of the smnller masses from being ejected
beyond the surface. . As soon as ever the
explosion is over the work of dredging
will begin, in order to throw the channel
oien to navigation at the earliest possi
ble moment.
Sea ymphs anil Their Toes.
From Georje Alfred Tow nsend's CaW Hay Letter
to the Philadelphia Times.
Stockings of blue, red and striped are
worn this summer in the bath, knee high,
with a coquettish little white seam down
the side, as if it was a rip. What cun
ning has not woman ! She is aware that
heiTfbot is almost always inferior to a
man's in grace and plant. A man stands
like a marble statue, with the blue veins
cut clearly ; a woman's foot is the trade
mark of irresolution and only half devel
oped, and th ' tees take hold of nothing.
Iter big toe points upward and her little
toe shrinks into the sand. The precise
connection between woman and her
squeal I could never ascertain. Origi
nally, no doubt, when she was alone with
Darwin, the squeal was all the language
she had. Development came along and
the caudal part ot the lady became an
imperfect bunch of toes, while the object
finally learned to articulate. Yet on all
trying occasions she resumes the squeal
runs up the line of breakers at Cape May,
as the cold water strikes threo thousand
ankles. Then we observe the uniformity
with which every daughter of Thetis is
armed in her corsets. Their diminished
proportions confirm the story of Adam
that it took only one of his ribs to make
a whole woman. But these general de
fections of form only make more admira
ble the perfect of her sex. She is from
Baltimore, and weighs about one hun
dred and thirty pounds, at the age of
sixteen. Her hair is a rich copper brown,
flung loose like mane. Her feet and an
kles are as white as the fleety soul of a
billiard ball, which has invisible legs of
ivory. She wears a suit of dark red,
with a skirt and slender breeches, and
dashing down the sands and into the
soap suds of Mrs. Neptune, she hrarsthe
email boy exclaim, perforce : " What
a pretty daughter our washerwoman
hasl" .
"I jess see my gov'nor, boss ; the ole
man my daddy. I ain't seed him 'fore
for a long time, and he jess tole me how
ole I is. I wants you to calcilate de
ting for me. De old man ez I was born
in 32. Now, how is er ?" " You mean
1832, Sam." " No, s a h ; no, sah ; 832 ;
dat'a what de old man sez, and he
knows." "Well, that will make you
one thousand and forty-four .years old.
"No! isdat so, boss? Well, well, dis
chile is certaily ole."
FACTS AM) FANCIES.
Old age appears to overtake a fast man
soonest. N. O. Rciblican.
General Butler is a red ant In tho
Massachusetts pantaloon leg. Danbury
Newt.
Authors are the vanguard in the
march of mind, the intellectual back
woodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wil
derness new territories for the thought
and activity of their hr.ppier brethren.
Carlyle.
ilVE or six months of married life, re
marks a veteran observer, will often re
duce a naturally irascible man to such a
condition of angelic humility that it
wouldn't be saf j to trust him with a pair
of wings.
The London Milk Journal says that a
pint of milk heated a littie, but not
boiled, taken every lour hours, will
check the most violent diarrhoea, stom
ach ache, incipient cholera, and dys
entery. Man, picud man ! dressed in a little
brict authority, most ignorant of what
he is most assured, his glassy essence, like
an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks
before high heavens as make the angels
weep.- -ShaLspeare.
A southerner, writing from Capo
May to his home pur-cr, wonders why a
Crudish girl who will dance with no one
ut ber brother will run along the lieach
"naked as to the knee," and kicking
sand at her beau.
It is said that in I7r0 George Wash
ington sent to England for nine pounds
of mixed candies, and this was at a time,
too, when a girl would desert home, pa
rents and kindred, and cling to a man for
four pounds and a half.
An Indiana girl wi-hing to see if her
lover really loved her, hired a Ikiv to
yell "mad dog" as they were walking
alone. Careful lover juincd a fence
and left, leaving her to be chewed up
alone. She went oil' and married a dry
goods clerk.
" Mamma, if we cross the bridge at
night must we pay loll?" "Of course,
my dear ; why do you aik ?'' " Why,
because the river has gone Lome lo
sleep." " Oh, the liver never sleeps."
" Then why has it a bed. mamma?"
There are brains so large that Ihey
unconsciously swamp all individualities
which come in contact or too near ; and
brains so small that thev cannot take in
the conception of any other individuality
as a whole, only in part or parts. Mr.
Jamron.
We Americans, who are all plain es
quires, with here and there a general, or
a colonel, or say a majah, can fiord to
smile at our English cousins, who speak
of Victoria as " the queen's most excel
lent majesty," and of the little whiper
snapper from France as " hi imperial
highness, the prince iinerial."
There are few plcnsanter sights in
this selfish world than to see a coroner at
a pic-nic urging, with all the warmth of
disinterested friendship, the over-heated
to drink freely of ice-water and passing
the cucumbers and other cholera mix
tures assiduously to his companions.
A youno lady received the following
note accompanied by a boiiouet ot llow-
ers: "DEAR : 1 send vou ti the
boy a bucket of flours. They is like
mv love for yon. The nite shade
menes kepe dark. The log fenel
menes I am 3'ou slave. Posla red and
jiosis puil, mv love for vou shall never
fale."
A generic difference. School girls
out for a walk :
First schoolgirl (sweet sixteen) I am
so tired of walking along by twos and
twos in this way! It's as bad as the
animals going into the ark !
Second ditto (ditto ditto) Worse!
Half of them were masculine 1
Let us play the fool ; with mirth
and laughter let old wrinkles come, and
let my liver rather heat with wine than
my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Why should a man whose blood is warm
within sit like his grandsiro cut in ala
baster, sle-p when he wakes, and creep
into the jaundice of lx-ing jeevish.
Shahprarc.
NoTHiNd will supply the wi'nt of sun
shine to peaches, and to make the
knowledge valuable, you must hav the
cheerfulness of wiwlom. Whenever you
are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
The joy of the spirit indicates it
strength. All healthy thing-tare nweet
temjered. Genius works in sport, and
goodness smiles to the last. ICmerton.
When f ioethe says that in every hu
man condition foes lie in wait for us,
"invincible only by cheerfulness anil
equanimity," he does not mean that we
can at all times le really cheerful, or at
a moment's notice, but that the endeav
or to look at the better side of things will
produce tho habit, and t lint this habit is
the surest safeguard agairi.it the danger
of sudden evils. Lriyh Hunt.
Every human soul has the germ of
some flowers within, and they wouldoiien
if they could only find suriHhine and free
air to expand in. I always told you that
not having enough of sunshine was what
ailed the world. Make ltcojrle happy,
and there will not be half the quarreling,
or a tenth part of the wickedness thero
w.Mr. L. M. Chill.
When the president of the French re
public and hero of Woerth and Sedan was
run over by a cart, he no doubt ex
jierienced feelings similar to those of tho
American veteran who didn't mind
dying, but thought it extremely hard to
go through the battle of New Orleans and
the Cherokee and Seminole wars, and
then I "butted to death by a billy
goat."
Writing of a foolish little countess
and other women, a Paris correspondent
says: " Here was the jx tite brunett
dressed plainly, yet as she stood she was
worth in dry gooc's and jewels (omitting
her bracelets) over $'J,HrO in her prom
enade costume, not lo mention her other
toilets. Worth has some lady clients
who srcnd $12,000 a year lor dreis
alone."
There seem to be some jersons, the
favorites of fortune and darlings of na
ture, who are born cheerful. " A star
danced" at their birth. It is no super
ficial visibility, but a bountiful and len
eiicent soul that sparkles in their eyes
and smiles on their lips. Their inborn
geniality amounts to genius their raro
and difficult genius which creates sweet
and wholesome character, and radiates
cheer. WldpjiU.
A mischievous quack in Altoona
City, Penn., advised a young man with
more hair than brain to ue molasses
water, Ihe theory lciiig that after tie
water evaporated the r hellions locks
would coalesce and keep iu pla'. Ho
made his toilet of a Sunday morning, arid
taking a prominent jew, concentrated
the attention f all the Ihe in the
church, much to the relief and edifica
tion of the congregation. Alter striking
wildly about and damnginga palm-leaf
in undue vehemence, he made a brek
for the door with the flits swarming
about his well-seasoneJ poll.
Preachino ver;ji h Pkactice. Mrs.
McGill, says the New York Post, sat in
the parlor talking with the minister.
"What I do love," said she,"isto see the
children enjoy themselves." And yet
when, a moment alter, a base ba'l came
singing into the room, scattering the re
mains of a fifty-cent gtas-i, do vou sup
pose she leaned out ol the window and
cried: "Here's your ball, darling, never
mind the old glass " Not much. She
sailed out the front door like a cyclone,
and banged the head of the boy who
owned the ball against the railroad until
he thought the Fourth of July had ar
rived two months ahead of l ime.
They were sitting on the front porch
enjoying the evening air and gazing at
the canopy of heaven thickly ttidded
with gliteiing star. "How incompre
hensible," exclaimed Mr. Posonby, "i
the vastness of nature! Each glittering
orb of the myriads we now liehold is a
sun more glorious than our own and the
center of a grand planetary system, and
their centers in their turn revolve
around other centers still more magnifi
cent. How wonderful are the eUrnal
laws which hold this univer-te of worlds
in tlieiruncbangingorbits, and " " Ves,"
said Mr. Posonby, "and the man didn't
bring us half enough Ice to-day. and I'm
ju!t certain that corned beef willsixiil be
fore morning. Did you order those piack
rel to-day?"

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