The Brookhaven ledger., November 11, 1875, Image 1

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VOU.o7 BROOKHAVEN, MISS., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1875. NO. 11.
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JIMeJVair »' Kins,
attorneys at law,
15KCH)KI LAV EX, MI *S-,
Will practice in all the courts of Lin
coin and adjoining counties. All
l ess promptly attended to. M‘p -d tl.
j.K. SKsStoNS. H. CAB8KDY, JK.
Sessions *V (asset! ff,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ItrooU list vcn. - - ^ **■*•*
Will attend promptly to all civil Imsi
ness entrusted to them in the counties
„C Li,.In. Fi link I in. Pike. Lawrence
and in the Supreme Court at Jackson,
j. Sessions will practice alone m
criminal cases. Sept. 2-1 yr.
J. \V. MAIMIN'. M.MAKTIN.
Mtrs. J. 15*. A* / «W. 'Warlin
Offer their profess.onal services to the
citizens of
Brookliavon and Adjoining Vicinity.
rjgpserv ices „(• |lotli can he had with
out extra charge. sept.2-1 vr.
I*. BB. I rafts,
SURCEON DENTIST,
IlrooKlia von. tliss-.
Is p re; it red, with all the latest im
jirovcnients, to do work in the heM
stale known to the profession, lcnns
res son aide, and strictly cash, office
corner Moutieello and Jackson streets.
Sept. 2-lyr.
Strop in a!
the office,
IlvE COPE, Proprietor,
AND WET YOUR WHISTLE.
He keeps all kinds of
WINES, BE,ANDIES, WHISKIES, ETC
Call and see him. . Sep!, lti-tf.
John .Virholas Srhivatl,
BOOT db SHOE
MAIiEH,
(cherokee Street,)
■Iroo^hami, ... Miss.
Orders solicited, and promptly attend
ed to. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Sej»t.*2-lyr.
Protect Vonr Property!
Having received the Aueney ot the
PLANTERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY,
of Mississippi,
I am prepared to take risks on tlwelliliar*,
stor. houses, stocks of merehaiicliBt?,
i‘te. on tin* most reasonable terms.
Office at It. It. N ithers & To,. Railroad
Avenue, ltrookhaveil. Miss.
Sept. '1 if. U. It. NVITil KIW.\
Sam Zjiffht foot,
FASHIONABLE HAIR DRESSER
lias opened a sliop under the Court
house. where lie is prt pared to do all
work in his line. Mis prices Ini' Sha vinr
rutting Hair anil Shampooing are re
markably low. He solicits the patron
age of the public, and guarantees salis
!action to all patrons. Sept. 2-1 w.
Stern's Hotel.
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JACOIt STKRX, Proprietor.
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Sept. 1-tf.
* TIa.vtecl!’s
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Star and Milliard Saloon.
West side Front Street,
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Iiaii71. Attached is a splendid Hilliard
Table. Sept. 2-tf.
3231.130 S *11 if.
1 have removed mv
SADDLES? SHOP
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in l lie Tneliatscli brick store, next
door to L. I.ewentlia!. 1 can sell a sad
dle and In-idle for JR ■'»); buggy harness,
$15011; wagon breeching, per pair. $7 on;
riding bridles. $1 50; and all oilier goods
low in prooortion. Call and see
THUS. CUMING, Sit.
MMo Ton IIV/Hf
A NEAT BOOT OR SHOES
If so give your measure to
"Wm. Atoshascn,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
(Adjoining Storm A Son,) Cherokee Street,
BROOK HAVEN, MISS.,
Who is prepared to make the neatest and most
fashionable hoots and shoes on the shortest no
tice.
A PEREECT FIT GUARANTEED.
Keeps always on hand for the purpose, the
finest and best leather. Sept. 2-tf.
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CHAS. P. BOLIAN,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
RROOKIIA YEN, MISS.
He is now prepared to do all kinds of cutting,
■ making ami repairing. A good fit guaranteed.
There is no use sending your work from home
when you can have it done., as cheap and good
| here. Shop in rear of Italy building. Sept. 2-tf.
MSrookhtiven
- Male Academy,
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The next scholastic year <>f this insti
tution will open
‘ WEDNEYSDAY, SEPT. 22(1, 1875.
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The year will be divided into two
’ terms ot f> imntlis or 20 weeks each cor
i responding to those of Whitworth Col
r lege.
, EXPENSES
FOB FIVE MONTHS, IN ADVANCE:
Primary Department.U5 0*
* Intermediate. 20 0(
Higher ami Classical. tl*
Board and Washing will cost. 75IX
Incidental, per term. H*
Pupils received at any time and chary
ed in nil cases to the close of the ciirreu
term. M. IS. SHIRK,
Sept. 2 Principal.
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The*. .. .4.. .-Id | ''
A sea-view from a r - ,
Which ever to me doth recall
Bwoct memories of a far-off land.
X brought it with me o’er the sea
Many, aye many a year ago,
When 1 sought tin: land where liberty
Made e’en the poor mini’s heart aglow.
With fortune’s smiles 1 have been blest,
] own my houses and my lands,
1 know lliat tho wealth which is the best
Js earned by labor’s willing hands.
Hut among the dearest things I prizo
Is this old pictureou tho wall;
It looks at me with loving eyes
And tender grace o’erspreads it alk
It ’illimls me of a time when we
One summer evening rambled, where
We saw tlie moonbeams kiss the sea,
While the breath of clover filled the air.
Toward the land of the lofty pine
We saw thegreat ships sailing away,
Ami a hope grew in her breast and mine,
A hope to reach that land some day.
Fulfillment cr<»vned our hope, and wo
Have ill that land lived many a y.ear,
Our lives have passed most happily.
Our eyes liave seldom felt a tear.
And now when we review Hie past
And many memories recall,
The sweetest memory ’round us cast
Comes through that picture on the wall.
A WOMAN'S HEROISM.
Bound home to No’v \ ork trom the Sand
wich Islands, the ship Hampton, was bowl
ing along through tile Haul lie Ocean, under
a cloud of canvas.
The crimson rays of the rising sun had
tinted the blue, rolling waves, when Bertha
Winthrop, one of the passengers, came on
deck.
She was a lovely girl of eighteen, with
1 1 I • 1 . * ... i. . :.i . ..
skin, and perfect features. Nothing could
have been more charming than the contour
of her well-formed head, balanced on a neck
as round and smooth as if sculptured from
marble, yet full of life and expression.
The supple grace of her whole form,
from the sloping shoulders, the lithe, flexi
ble waist, down to the small, well-shaped
feet, was remarkable, perhaps partially due
to her habits of exercise in the open air,
not only in walking and riding; but also in
swimming.
She had been to Honolulu, i it to
some relatives, and was now returning home
under the escort- of her lover, H ,-i.eii Wel
don, a handsome naval officer of twenty
three, who ha 1 obtained leave of absence
from the o ui, ..n,ter of his vessel, lying oil
Maui, Sun; <• i Islands.
Bertha w - not at all demonstrative in
ui,inner. Some people said she was cold.
U, r ca lm s.-lf-poss .union never deserted her
She would look with still, clear eyes upon
her lover, when lie Vpofcjjf to ifer she seldom
blushed, or stood y i>a doxipihg lashes bu
ll**. <
This at times woundel Herb -i-t’s vanity.
Me wondefed if it was possible she did nut
care for him, after all. True, her voice had
faltered, he had heard the floating of her
heart and felt tile* trembling of her hand,
when he won from her many months before,
the confession that she loved him. liut
these signs of affection soon passed sway,
and she seemed as.calm at ever.
There are some men who can not like
such women; there are others who adore
them.
Bertha was not long on deck when the
young officer sought her side.
The two conversed. Finally Herbert
said, “If we have good weather, we will
reach New York in throe months. Then,
dear girl, 1 will make you my wife,’’
“Yres, Herbert/’ she answered ia a low,
quiet voice.
“I think we nra/well matched,’ as it is
called/' he went on—“don’t you!'”
“Certainly.” she replied, in the same qui
et waj'fji slight smile on the pr.-tty lips.
“Mine for ever ! My.o-.vn to love, cherish,
and protect! Oh, Bertha, you cannot im
I a/nue 1U»W ± nmu
happy time!”
“Oh, yes, I can understand all that!” she
replied, calmly, raising her soft clear eyc3,
anu looking him steadily, yet not boldly, in
the face.
A shadow crossed Herbert’s brow. Could
she love him, and yet. be so calm ?
"Bertha,” he suddenly said, "I wish you
would say sometmng—act in some way to
let me know that you think as much of me
m- I V of youl”
t au instant the girl flushed from brow
iv t Then she became pale.
ibert,” she said, quietly, “you must
aover doubt me.”
The young man was not satisfied. When
Bertha left him, and went into the cabin,
without having spoken again, he felt cha
grined.
The sun had risen, but it was vailed by a
hazy vapor. Masses of heavy black clouds
were rushing along from the -windward.
The ship’s captain was ordering sail to be
taken in.
Hither and thither about the decks went
the active sailors, pulling and hauling on
braces, sheets, and clewlines. Then up the
rigging they darted to furl the topgallant
sails, the fore and mi/.zea topsails, and to
close-reef the main. ■
While all the gale
came shriekin_. „ ring on the
ship.
With her lee-rail scooping up the white
waters, her shrouds whistling and bending
to the gale, her masts swaying and creak
ing, her timbers groaning and humming,
away she wont, driving through the mad
water.-, vailed in a shroud of spray from
bow to stem.
Amidships, holding on to a pin on the
main fife-rail, stood Herbert, watching the
men who were furling the jib.
Suddenly the ship made a mad plunge;
a great torrent of water came sweeping,
like a huge, moving waif, over the weather
rail.
Ere the young ollice: could avoid it by
running aft, it struck his form, washing
j him overboard like a shot. 'I here was a
| slender, half-rotten rope hanging from the
j waist, attached to a rail. Herbert seized
to is as he went, with ready self-possession,
tv r: it around ins waist.
i'ho wild mass of w ater swept over and
past him; there he was, hanging by tlie
end of the rope, about ten yards from the
ship’s side.
Bertha, who had come on deck just as her
lover was swept over the rail, now ran
amidships, with pale cheeks - and wild eyes- i
calling on the ship's officers to save the j
young man.
No boat could bo lowered in such a gale.
The officers ran to the rail, however, and
commenced hauling on the rope, to which
the imperiled one, half-hidden by the rag
ing, foaming waters and the flying spray,
was still clinging.
As they continued to haul, an ominous,
snapping sound was heard. The strands of
the rotten rope were giving away!
“He must go!” cried the captain, de
spairingly. “No earthly, power can Bave
him now ! The rope "ill part ere we get
him alongside 1”
Nearer—nearer to the ship was the young
officer drawn. When he was within five
yards of it, the rope held him by only or.e
of its strands!
This, going round and round, must part
in a few seconds.
With clasped hands, and eyes gleaming
large and bright, Bertha watched Herbert,
her lips tightly compressed, as if by the
power of her will alone sho would prevent
the rope from giving way.
The strain upon that one strand was
tremendous. It cracked and snapped, but
still held.
The first mate stood, reaching far out
over the rail to be ready to seize Herbert
the moment he should be drawn within his
Tlia ftorit.nn lvrwl t-itttn 'A. Iwvwllnfi
hitch on the end of the main topsail hal
liards, thus forming a noose, which he
stood ready to throw if the strand should
part ero Herbert was pulled to the ship.
To throw it now' would probably be at
tended with fatal results. The noose
would strike the other rope, and not slip
down over the young man further than his
neck, thus strangling him.
Nearer—still nearer !
Bertha could now see her lover looking
up from the white, foaming vo h«x. his
eyes bright with th. ’ pc ’ saved.
Ho was•ojily two yards ti vessel's
side. The first mate, lean mg far over from
the outside of the ship, to which he had
lashed himself, could almost reach him.
•‘Thank God ! he is saved!” cried the
man, hoarsely, as he made a clutch at Her
bert's hair.
He had just seized a few threads of those
bright lock—lie was endeavoring to obtain
a firmer hold, when a loud, snapping sound
was heard, as the rope parted !
The man with the noose threw it, but it
fell short, dashed aside by a heavy sea,
from Herbert, as the ship rushed past him.
With a gurgling cry of despair, the young
man drifted t•.» leeward !
But not he alone; for Bertha, uho, the
moment she saw that the strand must part
had quickly fastened the end of the main
topgallant halliards about he waist, had
sprang bravely into the wild sea, and,
striking bravely into the mad waves, as the
turns of the rope which she had thrown off
the pin slackened, she fast approached her
lover.
Reaching him, when he was about twen
ty yards astern, she threw her white arms
about him, and held him firmly, while the
men on deck now hauled on the rope.
Although half suffocated by the raging
waters—although her beautiful waist was
compressed hyfhestraiuof the rope upon it,
so that she could hardly breathe—yet, with
her white teeth firmly set, her large wild
eyes gleaming like stirs through the foam,
her long wet hair sweeping t.hoyouugman's
face, her warm liosom beating against his
own, the brave girl still held firmly to her
lover, determined to save his life !
At last the two were drawn to the ship’s
side and helped aboard, amid the ringing
cheers of sailors and officers.
Herbert then bore into the cabin the
noble girl, who, exhausted by her exer
tions, had nearly fainted when she reached
the deck.
As he hung over her applying restora
tives and kissing her again and again, she
smiled and said, gently:
“Have I not done something at last to
prove how much I love you P”
“You are a noble girl!” he answered:
“and I now understand you. Another
woman might have been want to express
her feelings to me in passionate language
and with burning cheeks; but she would
have stood helplessly by and seen me
perish. You are one of those glorious crea
tures who are demonstrative inaction rather
than in speech !”
And so he still found her, when, a few
months later, he made her his wife.
» '- --
An Akron physician tells us of a little
Akron boy who come to him and said :
“Doctor, I want some ipecac.” “What do
you want it for?” “Never mind, just give
it to me.” “Who sent you hero?” “No
body sent me ; come myself.” “I can’t let
you have it unless you tell me what you
are going to do with it.” “Well, Doctor,
our hired girl haS swallowed a silver quar
ter, and she said that if I would give her
something that would bring it up I might
have it.”
THU TKI.KSCOl'K.
The principles of the telescope were dis
covered by children while playing with
spectacles. The theory was afterwards de
monstrated by (ialileo, who constructed a
telescope magnifying thirty-three times
and with which ha made the astronomical
discoveries which immortalized his name.
In the San Francisco jail is a girl onh
sixteen years old. She ii^xcessively sli)
anil demure, blushes vd^jjBlooked at bj
visitors, and faints wf^mijnkards an
brought bleeding and Veiling into tin
prison. Her face is - <fe«&M<nd expres
sive of retiring mode# *»<t gentleness
Her name is Annette Gilllard, and she is
awaitingtrial for stabbing a man four times
with a big butcher knife, and then smash
ing his skull with a brick.
•THK COMING AGE.
A well knov speaker said in a recent ;
Bpeech that the time was coming when wo
might communicate instantly with San
Francisco without wire or operatoi-. The
audience laughed at him. Perhaps his
statement is not so extravagant as it seem
ed. Had the ordinary work now done by
the magnetic telegraph been predicted forty
years ago.it would have been received with
the same incredulity. The truth is that
science, like politics and love, always devel
ops in unexpected directions. Modern sci
ence is a paradox. Water, which was al
ways considered the most incombustible
matter in nature, produces the greatest
heat known. Watch cprings burn like
pitch. The chemist prepares delicate mus
lin so that it can be cleansed by fire. Ar- |
senic is prescribed for dangerous diseases, j
Frozen feet are saved by plunging them in
to snow-. Children are told to keep away
from iron during a thunder-storm, yet j
hardware stoics are never struck by light- i
ning. Persons suffering from hydrophobia
go into convulsions at the sight of water.
A French physician, however, has cured fif
ty eases of this malady with hot baths. An
editor of a New Vork newspaper lost his
'sight until a surgeon put a knife into his
eyeballs, whereupon the man recovered and
went about his work. The wildest imagin
ation is unable to predict the discoveries of
the future. For all we know, families in
the next century may puifip fuel from the
river, and illuminate their houses with ice
and electricity. Iron vessels, properly
magnetized, may sail through the air like
balloons. An intelligent fanner may turn
the soil of a thousand acres in a day.
American grain may lie shot into Liverpool
and Calcutta through iron pipes laid under
the sea. By means of condense! air and
cold vapor engines, excursion parties may
travel along the lloor of the ocean, sailing
past ancient wrecks and mountains of coral.
In those coming days our present mode of
telegraphy will be classed with the wooden
ploughs of Egypt, and the people will look
back to steamships and locomotives, as we
do bow look back to sail-boats and stage
coaches.
A MI It At l'1.0 IS I'llKSKKVATIOJf,
A writer to the London Times writing
from Copenhagen, says:
"A Norwegian paper is relating a tale of
an almost miraculous preservation. The
cap hi i n of the schooner Am izon, of Stavan
ger, recently arrived at Bergen with a car
go of salt, reports that in passing the Brit
ish Channel he had the opportunity of sav
ing a British lad of fifteen under very pecu
liar circumstances. The Amazon was about
i twelve geographical miles from the British
shore when the captain thought he observed
through his telescope something boating on
the water. Ho altered hi- coarse -So as t‘>
get nearer, and soon discovered that it was
a small boat, in which a lad was lying fast
! asleep.
“The shouting from the schooner did not
awaken him, b“a when a log was tin-own
over inlo the boat ho awoke with a sudden
start; an end of a line was thrown to him,
and he was just able to fasten it when he
swooned and had to be carried on board the
vessel. In the boat nothing was fouud but
a pail- of oars and a Bible. The lad, when
brought back to life and strength by the
tender care shown to him, gave the follow
ing account of his fate : He was sitting on
the shore, reading liis Bible, when some of
his companions came down to him and teas
ed him with the manner in which he spent
liis leisure t iuio. To escape from their ban
ter he got into a boat and kept on reading,
when suddenly he discovered, to his great
dismay, that his persecutors hid cut the
line and left his frail boat to the power of
the quick running ebb.
“He tried to use the oars, but struggled
in vain against wind and water, and, as a
dense fog set in, he soon lost sight of land.
After several hours of alternate struggle
and powerless despair he fell asleep, and
sleep remained in fact his only comfort
against hunger, cold, and the deep pangs of
his isolation during the three days and two
nights which he had spent in his frail boat
when he was at last seen and saved. Un
happily, neither the name of the lad nor of
the place where his parents live is given,
but that will, I suppose, not be difficult to
get at when the fact obtains your wide pub
licity. The name of the captain of the Am
azon is Thompson.”
"TICKETS, Silt 1”
This was the way it happened. One of
the regular attendants at Central Church,
is a railroad conductor. He is regular, not
so much from any personal inclination for
Calvinism, as from the fact that he has a
first-rate Presbyterian wife who keeps him
in the way he should go. A few Sundays
since one of the deacons was absent, and our
conductor was requested to pass the plate.
Of course he consented. For the first dozen
pews everything passed off well. There
was a regular financial shower of nickles
and dimes, and the railroad man watched
sharp, but couldn't see that anybody “got
away” without responding. Finally he
came to a seat where the occupant was ei
ther busted or disinclined, for he shook his
head, but made no attempt on his pocket.
The conductor looked at him sharply, but
no cash appeared. Then he nudged his
shoulder, and softly called: “Ticket, sir!’’
Again the man's head wagged horizontally,
but the stamps didn’t come, “Pass, then!"
whispered the conductor. Still no response.
Just a3 the railroad chap was about to call
up the firemau and brakeman to help pitch
the impecunious worshiper out of doors, the
regular deacon came in, and relieved hi»
proxy. The conductor says he believes in
running a church the same way you would
a railroad-train. If a man won’t pay, or
hasn't a pass, let him git.
IVhat’s the use of a long treatise or
the best method of fastening corsets
when two or three buttons and perhaps
a husband or a sisicr or bo are nil that i>
necessary ?
SAGACITY or Tint PAIiTlillXIB.
Instances of the sagacity of the partridge,
woodcock, and other birds have often boon
related. But the most sin gulir illustration
of the deception practiced by the first of
these wily species to protect their young is
given by Mr. Henshaw, of the Government
Survey west of the one hundredth meridian.
While riding through pine woods, a brood
of partridges, cont lining the mother and
eight or ten of about a week old, w;is come
upon so suddenly that tlio feet of the fore
most mulealmost trod on them. The young
rose, flew a few yards, and, dropping down,
were in an instant hid in the underbrush.
The mother meanwhile began some very
peculiar tactics. Rising up, she fell back
again to the ground as if perfectly helpless,
and imitated the actions of a wounded bird
so successfully that for a moment it was
thought she had really been trodden upon.
Several of the men, completely deceived,
attempted to catch her, but she fluttered
away, keeping jii3t out of reach of their
hands until they had been enticed ten or
twelve yards off, when she rose and was ofT
like a bullet. Her tactics had successfully
covered the retro it of her young.
A NKV/ FUKL.
The proposition to supersede coal by the
use of carbonic gas extracted from chalk
has been subjected to a practical test by its
inventor, and with very satisfactory results.
Extracted and applied to anthracite, it pro
duces a strong flame and heat, and at so
slow a rate of combustion that a good tire
was maintained for twenty-nine hours in a
furnace which heats a church with only fif
ty-six pounds of anthracite and an equal
quantity of chalk mixed with it during that
time. During the last twenty-four hours,
moreover, the tire was untouched. Through
the aid of this remarkable property of chalk
the lignite known as shale may be used foi
the production of an illuminating gas to an
extent which will appear incredible. Even
the coarsest clay of this singular formation
is full of gas, and the experiments made in
England, though imperfect, show that one
taa of this substance, together with a due
proportion of chalk, will yield as large an
amount of gas as eight tons of ordinary
coal. From these tests the inventor argues
that London will be warm ‘1 and lighted at
a fifty per cent, cheaper rate; th it *1e
smoke, dust and other nuisance might be
abolished; that every good-siaed country
house and every village might be lighted
with gas; and the kitchen t.ro, with some
slight alteration in the grate, might supply
the house with light, Finally, lignite and
anthracite la .s would become valuable
property, and ehilk would be exported as
coal re n'oTv. The English papers say
that the prospect seems almost too good to
be true.
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ORIGIN OF Tllli GOO UY3IKS.
Danchet, the French poet, tells us, re- j
speeding the deification of Hymen, that he
was a young man of Athens, obscurely bom,
but extremely handsome. Falling in love
with a young lady of-distinction, hedisguis-J
ed himself in a female habit, in order to I
get access to her and enjoy the pleasure of
her company. Ac he happeued to be one
day in this disguise with his mistress and
her female companions, celebrating on the
seashore the rites of Cores Eleusina, a gang
of pirates came upon them by surprise and
carried them all oil. The pirates, having
conveyed ,tiiem to a distant island, got
drunk for joy, and fell asleep. Hymen
seized his opportunity, armed the virgins,
and dispatched the pir.it i s; after which,
leaving the ladies on the island, he went
in haste to Athens, where he told his ad
venture to all thif^kints, and demanded
her he loved in maAjk;e as her ransom.
His request was gr ' .1 so fortunate
was the marriage, 1 ante of Hymen
wits ever aftervviird invoke 1 in all future
• nuptials, and iu progress of time thetGreeks
enrolled him among their gods.
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BEMAKKAISLE A BT ESI AN WELE\ |
One of the most remarkable artesians
wells of our own time (siys the Garden) is
that of Gronelle, in the Paris basin. It
was undertaken in 1831, up to which time
no successful artesian sinking had reached
a greater depth than al>out 1,000 feet. It
was calculated that the water-bearing stra
tum sought would be reached at a depth of
1,500 feet; but that was not deep enough.
The boring continued, with intervals, until
1811, when on tho 2Gth of February, the
boring-rod was observed to descend sudden
ly several yards. In a few hours the water
reached the surface, eventually rushing up
with immense violence, mixed with sand
and mud. ]3ut the sand and mud soon
ceased, leaving a magnificent flow of pure
water, which has continued over since. A
high tower is erected, and the water rises
through pipes with sustained force and vol
ume, to the reservoir ai t'uo top, at the rate
of fully half a million gallons per day.
SINGWLAB MATHEMATICAL FACT.
Any number of figures you may wish to
multiply by 5 will give the same result if
divided by 2—a much quicker operation ;
but you must remember to annex a cipher
to the answer, whenever therein no remain
der, and when there is a remainder, what
ever it may be, annex a five to the answer.
Multiply M't by five and the answer will be
2,320; dividing tho same number by 2 and
you have 232, and; as there 'is no remain
der, you add a cipher. Now take 357, and
multiply by 5 ; there is 1.785. Divide the
same number by 2, and you have 178 and a
remainder, you therefore place a 5 at the
end of the line, and the result is again
1,785. _
There is no great loss without some
small gain. A medical journal pro
pounds the query, “Has any physician
ever seen or treated a baldhuultd con
sumptive ?
$he groohlmvcn
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KABLY PBINlINti IN AMKUICA.
The Puritans evidently believed that a
free press win necessary tc the existence of
& free people. Eighteen years after the
landing on the bleak coasts of Now Eng
land the Pilgrim Fathers established tho
first printing press on this side of the At
lantic in 1(133, and at Cam bridge in 1(130
the first publication was made by Daye,
and was entitled "The Freeman’s Oath.”
Daye hail been brought over by Joseph
Glover, a rich nonconformist preacher, who
also brought with him a stock of printing
material. An old sea captain, one William
Pierce, edited an almanac in the same year,
and in the following the Revs. Weld and
Eliot produced “The Psalms Newly Tuned
Into Meter,’’ which passed through seven
ty editions in one hundred and fourteen
years, and w.is also reprinted in England
and Scotland. Some other books of a re
ligious nature were issued, and in 1041 a
book called The Body of Liberty, contain
ing one hundred colonial laws, appeared.
Daye’s work was full of typographical er
rors, hut he was superseded by Samuel
Green, mistakenly called the first printer
in America, for we find that Daye obtained
a grant for three hundred acres of land in
Massachusetts for “being the first who set
up printing.”
Then comes the poems of Ann Bradstreet,
wife of the Governor, and several other
smaller pious works.
In 1053 Eliot printed the catechism ill
the Indian langu age, and in 1054 the print
ing of all the laws of the court begun. The
first American edition of the Bible was is
sued in 1(101 and 1(1(53.
The first copyright was passed in 1(572,
stipulating that no printer should print or
sell any more copies than were agreed up
on, and paid for by the owner, and the next
enactment secured the copyright for seven
years.
THE SLANG OF THE Slot K EXCHANGE,
Gamblers of every gride, says a con
temporary, have tlieir slang terms to con
vey to the initiated just what they mean ;
and however blind it may be to the unini
tiated, it is perfectly intelligible to those
possessed of the high civilization (?) ne
cessary to “manipulate stocks.’’ Four dif
ferent forms of contracts are known under
the general term of stock privileges. The
“put” and "call” are single privileges. A
"straddle” and "spread ’ are double privi
leges. A “put” is a contract giving the'
holder the right of delivering a certain
amount of stack w ithin a definite time at a
stipulated price. A "call” is exactly the
reverse of a “put,” being a contract giving
the holder the right of calling for the stock
instead of delivering it. A double privi
lege is a “put” and "call” on the same
stock, in one contract. When a double
privilege is drawn at the market pr.ee of
the stock, it is called a “straddle,” and
costs from two and a half to five per cent,
premium. But when drawn at a distance
of from one or two and a half por cent,
above and bolow the market price, it is'
called a "spread,” for which a fixed prem
ium of two per cent, is paid. Tile distance
from the market at which a “spread” is
drawn depends on the elass of stock and*
the activity of the m irket.
ELEPHANT LAUOKEK3.
It would be too long to relate all the uses
to which elephants are applied in Burmah.
Let us watch them at work among the
woodyards where the trunks of tick wood
tree, which come flatting down the river, are
piled. Every working-elephant is mounted
by a driver called a “cornac,” whose prin
cipal business is rather to excite the ani
mal than to direct it.
In the season when the roads are cut, the
trunks come down the bar much faster
than they can be disposed of in the saw*
niLiis, anu vntjjr i«:cuiuuu4M3 iu vaou (juiimr
ties all along the banks. It iff necessary,
therefore, to drag the trees out of the wa
ter and arrange them in piles until such
time as they can be cut up. There are on
ly three sects of piles, varying with the
size of the trees. First au elephant in the
water clears the logs from the mass and
tinges them one by one upon the river
bank. He carefully examines the chaos of
logs and proceeds with tusks and trunk to
disengage the tree he has selected and
which he intends to carry to land. As
soon as the tree is placed on the bank
another elephant is harnessed to it and
drags it to the woodyard, where he leaves
it. Two other elephants now come up, and*
one of them takes one end of the log upon
his trunk and drags it to the pile upon
which, in view of its size, it ought to be
placed, while his companion assists him by
pushing the log with all his might. As
soon as they reach the proper pile the first
elephant lifts the top of the log upon the
j ile, then lie forms a kind of ring around
the log with his trunk, while the other with
a vigorous blow of his head shoots the log
into its place. The intelligence displayed
by those animals is almost incredible, and
we should scarcely have believed it if we
had not seen their movements as described
above.
A SUICIDAL SCOKPION.
The statement that a scorpion, when
inven to bay by its enemies and unable to
escape, w ill kill itself by a blow from its
venomous sting has usually been regarded
is lather mythical. A well attested in
stance, however, of the suicide of the in
insect has lately been published by Hr. de
Bellm<me. The write# states that, having
captured a scorpion, he converged the rays
jf the sun on its back by means of a burn
ing glass. The insect became furiously en
raged, and finally raised its sting and
struck itself, dying within half a minute
if terwai-d.
While TParis reporter was looking up
the particulars of a murder, he got into the
•vroi.g a ppartment. and was nearly smoth
ered with kisses by an emotional old pair
.vlc> mistook him for their returned son,
1 whg had been absent about twenty yean.