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HI )t Del a to a r t 1' t ö n i' r. VOLUME VI. NEWARK. NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1883. NUMBER 40. SHIRTS! This Is the Season for New Shirts. Wc offer a fine lino cf Ready-Made Stock, unexceptionable in material and work manship. Shirts Made to Order a Specialty J Materials ihe very beBt, Fit and Make subject to approval. Our prices justify our claim of having the 0 CHEAPEST AND BEST So place in the State. A full line of Collars, CufFs, Neckwear, Hosiery, Suspenders, Drawers, Undershirts, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Scarf-Pins, Cuff-But toim, 1 Men's Furnishing Goods Generally, CnnRtintly In stock and of tho latest inn tei ns. You cordially invited to Let ChristfLelà & Best, No. 515 Market St., Wilmington, Del. In llculquartera Craddock's Phila. Daily Puck I go Express. Charges moderate. A. J. XiILliElY, Manufacturer of all kinds of RAG Next to Button's Shops, NEWARK, DELAWARE, ied l my tic a NT ALL WORK GUARANTEED. PUR33 DRUGS, MEDICINES, rf CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES, SOAPS, BRU8HE8, PERFUMERY, 8PONGES, ETC A.T JAY'S DRUG AND CHEMICAL 8TORE, MAIN STREET, Newark, Del., Near the P. O. Prescriptions Carefully Com pounded at all hours, Day or Night. DR- T. J. GOSLIIsr, DENTIST, l W Cor. EIGHTH flr SEIPLE T 8T8. Wilmington, Dbl. All operations in dentistry performed at Cready reduced prices. Sets of teeth, $8 t0, 15, aud 2«. Fresh gas daily for the painless extrac tion of teeth. Home Economie». Foh Washing Black ok Navy Blur Linkns, Percales, Etc.— Take two potatoes grated into tepid soft water (first having peeled and washed them), into which put a tea epoonfull of ammonia. Wash the goods in this and rinse in cold blue water. Starch will not be needed, and, if at all practicable, they should be dried and ironed on the wrong side. It is said that an infusion of hay will preserve the colors of buff linens; au infusion of bran will do the same for brown linens and prints. —To Wash Printed Goods which have a black ground with a white pattern : Dissolve two ounces of red chromate of potash, three ounces of common salt and two and a half ounces of sal-soda in a wash-boiler of water heated to boiling point. Put the dress into this hot bath for live minutes, aud frequently turn and stir it. Then wash it thoroughly in clean water. The black ground will not be dull and "foxy," aud the white portion of the goods will appear perfectly bright and clear. Edible and Poisonous Mush rooms.— The stem of a genuine mush room is sliort, thick and white, marked under the head with a prominent ring. The head ia white and regularly con vex, the edges are bent inward, the flesh is white and firm, the under leaves deep pink, and separated as they approach but do not touch the stem. When the mushroom grows old the net l ike shape changes ; it becomes brown, flat and scaly. The under leaves also turn brown. It is better when eaten young. Spurious mushrooms have their heads covered with warts and other membraneous substances, which adhere to the upi>er surface ; they are heavy and spring from species of bulb ; they generally grow in bunches. When the mushrooms are doubtful sprinkle a little salt on the under or Bpongy part If it tunis yellow they are poisonous, ii black they are good. —To HAVE NICE HARD BUTTER for the table in summer, without the use of ice, put a trivet, or any open flat thing with legs, in a saucer ; put on this trivet the plate of butter, and All the saucer with water ; turn a common flower-pot so that its edges shall be within the saucer and under the water. Plug the hole in the flower-pot with a cork, then drench the flower-pot with water, set in a cool place until morning, or if done at breakfast the butter will be hard at supper time. —A FEW DROP8 OF OIL OF LAVEN DER will save a library from mold. One drop will To Remove Tan —An excellent wash to remove tan is made of sliced cucumbers soaked in milk, and ap plied nightly to the face. It should not be wiped off, but left to dry on the face. Xu the morning wash in luke warm water, and let it be rainwater, if possible. a pint of ink. I ing day the the I, rest, sit, seek for more? What ib red of out and I his my ily but by of to a I to in WHAT 18 THE USE. What is the UBe of this impetuous hasto ? The end is certain. Let u* And hoard the vital forces that day has take waste •hed its golden Before prime. J WhÄt fc {jJ|J e After old age, its furrows, its white hair? Why need 0 r go half way with hands stretched out. to Care r but wait pause, 1 of rushing with upent hurry so to welcome Thero is All thing« will find say, We can out That lieti a way. So let üb take . Dear heart, if . Let K<> beyond the silent gate snort day s journey down the time in youth s lair bow The summer seaHon ia so brief at best: Let us look on the stars and pluck the flowers. And when feet grow weary, let take time for love and its delight; sweet thing that pays The bitterness of life, for Sorrow's blight. For Pain's despair and Death s funeral pall. Let It is tho ■ ! In that lost was excuse. Now has that time come bark to you— Why should when the world was new, i's first pursuit and life's and L ill. Rl.LA WlilCKI.KK. Sis Brown's Fortune. To begin with, I am a young person with big bones and plenty of them— and I don't care a button if my hair is ied 1 1 have good reaaon to know that l am not considerable beautiful ; that my nose, for instance—but there's really no need for such distressing de tails. My father, Peter Brown—the best farmer living in all Fail fix, be the dead one whom he may—is the unfor tunate possessor of thirteen children, every single one of them girls—and the married ones, too, for that matter I Of course, girls are all very well as tar as they go, but one gets too much of a good thing sometimes, and so when poor pa takes a notion to upbraid fate because all his boys turned out girls, I must say I rebel against the decree that condemns me to slavish frocks and frizzes. Most good folks sing out that they want to carry harps and be atigela, but I—if only I were Peter Brown, junior, and had a farm like pa ! I don't blame ma, of course, but I really do think the even dozen ought to have contented her—and, what's more, I say, so, when pa aud I get beyond the subduing influence of lier eye—for there's nothing trifling about ma 'a eye 1 When pa and ma's love was young, and their future a rose-colored ro-ie— there ! I've heard pa Bay ii a dozen times, but when a girl happeus to be shackled with a memory Tike a bey's pocket upside down and the middle nowhere, and got that memory from her ma, I suppose there's to be allow ances—anyhow, the first gills got the beuefit of it all in the way of mugs aud coral, and names as fine as fiddle* ; then there came such a disastrous lull in pa's enthusiasm that ma says, when he panted up from the fields one hot noon and found out dear old twius waiting, instead of his dinner, it set him so fran tic that he threatened to bunch the whole family together like a string of fish and do a dark and desperate deed. But ma just kept on having her way—which means girls— until by the time she wound up tho home circle with me—at your service—she had so worn her intellect down at the heels thinking up double-barreled names for the other dozen, that she handed my christening over to pa, and pa ever lastingly disgraced himself, in my esti mation, by heartlessly calling me Sis— a 1)3 flutely nothing but Sis. If I had been a boy this indiguity, at least—but there are some wrongs so great that the only thing one venieutly do is to forgive them 1 But, though pa has been cheated of his bishops and senators and things (poor dear, he never dreams that sons of his might have turned out farmers like himself, ouly not half so good) the girls have certainly made up his loss in husbands. Indeed, pa seems to have more sons-in-law than he* knows quite what to do with—and as to »grand sons! ; a on All be a ap the if I con " If one could only feed them like chickens !" sighs poor ma plain tively. After that little business talk pa and I had behind the barn I've settled in my mind that the Browrs have got to economize, and I mean to start with the grand children by way of a noble beginning. "Now look here, ma," I say to the dear old soul who is already swearing at me with big anxious eyes, like a hen with her feathers ruffled, "this thing has gone on long enough, and I just mean to hitch old Calico to the cart and dump every scrap of a grandchild at his own lawful door—I do ! It's down right mean in the girls to impose on us in this everlasting way—as if there wasn't work enough of our own "There, there, sis," interrupts ma, pathetically, "they only mean to please . "And a nice way they take to do it ! Pa's an old man now, aud after pinch ing and slaving all his live for us army of girls, what right have they to keep him pinching and slaving to the lastv Oh, you needn't look at ma, dear; children, like good man ners, ought to be found at home—hi, you, Tom, Dick, Harry, etc., etc. ;" and when at last 1 have packed them in the wheezy old cart, and we go laughing, scratching and squalling down the road, I feel like the pied piper of Hamelin, only there's no hill with wide; greedy jaws, wait like that I ing at the end of the trip—more's the pity l" That sounds as if Sis Brown was not fond of children : but I reallyam, when they come like silk frocks and other oc casional luxuries ; considered as every day affairs, however, if I lowed a preference between the two— why, give me the locusts of Egypt and accept my grateful thanks. When I bave impartially divided their howling household gods between the eight sisters who live tably near, the sun is sinking behind the trees in a blast of glorious yellow. There is a long road with many leafy turnings, that Calico knows as well as I, and while she dawdles along it with languid elegance that suits us both, 1 sit, tailor fashion, in the bottom of the cart, thinking, heedless of whip or rein. I read a story once of a devil-fish crawling over the roof of a pretty cot tage by some southern sea. I don't supi>ose there was a word of truth in it ; but, some way, ever since pa made a clean breast of his troubles, I can't get that shiny black monster oht of my thoughts night or day. I should say, indeed, that a mortgage like ours was a trifle the worst of the two, because there's only one weapon to fight it, and where in the world is pa to get the first red cent of that terrible three thousand dollars? If pa had only told me in time, perhaps I might have done some thing heoric with my poultry—a flock of grey geese did grand things for his tory once on a time—but no, he kept as dHmb out myself, and The way of it was : Ma started me down to the meadow one evening last week to see what pa meant by keeping supper waiting, and when I found him leaning against the barn there as quiet and gray as the twilight shadows, why, I think the One who doeth all things well must have put it in my heart to wake him up and tell me the matter. There is no woman in all this big glorious world so weak as Samson with his head shaved, and so he told me 1* tween sobs- I don't ever want to see my father cry again—how the big fam ily had gobbled up the small earnings, and how at last there was nothing to do but to borrow money on the dear, shab by old place, and now of some sort was coming due. "Never mind, dad,'' I said, "come along to supper ; I'll get you out of your fix." I don't think pa realized at the min ute—and I'm sure L did not—that I had never so much as seen a hundred dol lars in all my life together, for he fol lowed me home contentedly, put his head under the spout while I pumped, and then, with his hand der, went into the house and ate supper enough for two ! The next day pa out of his head with a fever, and now to see him prodding about the farm with a stick in his hand and a pain in his back—poor, dear pal Of course, the first thing that suggested itself at his bedside was blood, and plenty of it, and I did saddle Calico and race off to mur der the mortgage man—but I might have saved myself the trouble, for the vile creature wasn't at home ; then I turned the old family sons-in-law, but there wasn't a husband among them who had the cash to spare—they don't seem to spare any thing quite as conveniently as children. decided to "Say, young woman 1" I am not a ceward, but the creature who has brought the cart and my thoughts to such a sudden halt looks so like some great famished wolf standing there at Calico's head, that I shiver from liead to foot, and he sees it. "You needn't be afeard," he gasps, in a rasping sort of whisper. "I haven't the strength to harm you, if my will was good for murder—look at this.'' His eyes turned toward his breast— his right arm lies stiffly across it, clotted with something that must be blood and the fingers look like the flesh of a dead of to M h1 unnnnfor I Cheops, until I found it all thanks to anybody. if I villainous bill my shout - 's liead toward the I I think be understands that I am sorry for him, for before my heart can jump back to Us right place again he drops the reins and touches his man gey cap. "I've been skulkin' in these 'ere woods Miss, nigh onto a week, and what with starvin' and the pain o' this, I'm most about dead played out." "If you will cut across the .fields to that farm house kindly, I am sure—for God knows I pity him from the bottom of my heart —"I will see that you get a good sup ; there, 1 ' I said per. "I couldn't crawl there much less walk, and my time for supper is for this world, I reckon." I am so sorry for the poor, misery-rid den creature standing there in the summer twilight, with the fragrant woods all around him, and the birds chirping sleepily in the trees—so very sorry, and I tell him so. He totters as I say it, and 1 ara just making up my mind that Calico and I have a disagreeable job before us, when he lays one miserable hand on the wheel aud drawing his face to see the ghastly seams ! ;" go enough for that want lias seared there, cries im ploringly : "There's them that hunting me to my death ; for God's sake won't you help me ?" All my life I have wanted to be a man, and now the time has come to act like rubbing Calico down in her stall—pa and I being the ) only men—I mean pa being the only ! man about the place, we do this sort of thing ourselves—when the dear old 1 ; I fellow way and puts his head in the door. "Sis," he begins, with wide excited eyes, "did you meet a big fellow down the road—a dark chap with lots of bumps, and black, frizzled wisk hobbles down the path a I bad not, and said so. "Well, he came by here bunting up some scamp who robbed a bank in Richmond and got down to these parts with the money in his pocket and a bullet in his flesh. I started him down the main road, I wonder you didn,t see him." "I drove arouml by the mill, 1 answered quietly enough considering I feel like a tornado : "but he won't catch his scamp to-night, dad." "Think not? Why ?" "Because I've got him snug in the barn 1" "Goodness gracious ! then I'll just I I Pa is making his way toward jus tice as fast as his weak legs will let him, when I steady him against the stable door and take away bis cane. "Dad," I cry savagely, "1 adore you, but if you take another step to harm that man why—you've only got a dozen daughters to go through the rest of your life." "C< 1" gasp pa—and I wonder the wisp of straw he has been chew ing does not strangle him black on the spot—"a child of mine help a thief-" "Exactly ! and she means to make accessory after the act. Now, see here, pa, I don't set up to be a cherub, but when a fellow crea ure, starved and bleeding, asks me help him i mean to help him if I break every law in Virginia to atoms—so there !" you the name of God why 1 Pa looks stuuned a bit, and then big brown paw on my laying head, as likewise expected, know ing pa's way as I do, cries stout iy: "Spoken like a man, Sis, and uow let's have à look at your villian." When we stand at last before the poor fellow he looks so pitifully help less stretched out there on the friendly straw that pa's loving heart gets the best of his law-abidirg principles, and he bathed the hurt arm tenderly as if it had never been raised in crime. When pa first notices the jug of water I have brought him from the spring, and carriage-robe rolled up for a pillow with the rough side in, he looks at me wonderfully for a second, and then ejaculates with most contented happi ness: "Thank God, Sis, you are only a woman, after all 1" 1 suppose i>a meant well, but it does not sound encouraging I've been trying to do my duty like a man. Even fath ers are human ! "It'd use," moans the poor crea ture, when pa ha* done his best with the wound. "I'm goin' fast, boss. but she said they should not—touch me "Don't worry, my lad," cries pa, cheerily. "Right or wrong here you stay until-" "It won't be—long—I feel it coming fast—and hard—I would have died out there on the black roadside except for her, God bless her l If you—don't mind"—and here he looks at me so like some gaunt, faithful dog, that I lean over him by pa to catch his dying words—"if you don't mind—will you take tlÿs bag from—around my neck ? It chokes me—it chokes-" "There, there," says pa, tenderly, "aud now, my lad, before you go to— sleep, tell, me, does this money belong to the bank ?" "Yes, yes," cries the dying man, with an imploring glance at pa, while he tries to touch my hand with his own poor, feeble lingers ; ' 'take it back, boss, and tell them—tell them—that the—reward—belongs to—her " Yes, that is tjie true aud simple story of my fortune, no matter what the pa pers said. For a loug time pa would not let me touch a penny of that $5,000, but when the people at the bank insist ed that business was business, I had earned the money and there it was, why Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper . I —No insect, properly so called, has ever been proved to take up a perma nent abode in the human* alimentary canal. Their presence, where they were found, was accidental, as when swallowed on a piece of meat upon which the eggs had been deposited. Butoccasionally larvæ may give trouble. Dr. Wacker (Medical and Surgical Re porter) has published the case of a boy, aged 21 years, with colicky pains, ful in epigastrium, constipation and frequent fits of nausea, and tendency to syncope, especially when in a close atmosphere, such as that of his cottage or a stable. Dr. Wacker prescribed some Hunyadi Janos water, to be taken every morning on aru. empty stomach. On the third day a vast mass (over two litres) of larvæ, partly alive and partly dead, was passed 1 ' from the rectum. The patient at once recovered, feeling no more unpleasant symptoms, even when in a hot room. On examina tion, the grubs were found to be larvæ of a common dipterous insect, An themyia cuniculinæ, closely allied to the house-fly and blue*bottle ; fly. I to a to the ) —OtisKeilholtz,a prominent Democrat ! of Baltimore, and Speaker of the last House of Delegatee of Maryland, died, old 1 aged 45 years. Within an Inch of My Life. it if to it During the earlier part of my medico military career I was selected as the assistant surgeon of the Army Lunatic Asylum then established in one of the eastern counties of England. At the time of the appointment I was given to understand that it was one which paid a high compliment to my professional abilities, and was bestowed as a reward for good services done ; but as I did not see it quite in the same light, I went and interviewed the chief who had thought so much more of me than I did of myself. "Sir," Baid I, "some men are born to honors, others have honors trust upon them ; the latter is my case. I don't understand one bit about the treat ment, moral or medical, of the insane. I never saw but one madman in my life, and he, I verily believe, was more knave than fool ; and I can't help think ing that if you send you are sending the round man to fit into the square hole." to the asylum, "That is not of the sloightest conse answered he whom I was queuce,' addressing, in the richest of brogues ; "not the layste in loife. Round or square, the bole will suit ye to a f ; and if so be that ye don't know any thing consaming lunatics, whoy, the sooner ye lam the bether. Ye'll be plazed to jine widout delay. Good morning. and I, having a wholesome dread of the powers that were, "jined" forth with. So he bowel out ; It is one of Shakespeare's wise say ings that "use doth breed a habit in a i." Before there had passed away many weeks of my sojourn with the dement« d officers and men of Queen Victoria's land forces I found myself highly interested with their pretty and well-cared-for home, running pleasantly in the groove I had so much objected to, and getting rid for ever and a day of that repugnance which every out sider naturally enough entertains when brought into contact with the denizens of a madhouse. With a pass-key, which has an open sesame to every lock in the establishment, I was accustomed to wander over it unattended either by the "keeper" or the orderlies, and never was I molested or spoken to threateningly save the occasion I have elected to call , and that upon "Within Inch of my Life," In the afternoons, when the patients were not indoors, it was my practice to go through every part of the building inspecting it sanitarily. I was doing so as usual upon a certain winter's day, when, at a curve of a corridor, I came suddenly upon a patient leaning gloom ily against one of the pillars. He private soldier of the Forty-fifth or Sherwood Foresters, a recent admission, and whose phase of ins \nity was some what puzzling the head surgeon and myself. Without entering upon details I shall merely say that we had doubts upon his case, and had recommended his removal from the asylum to the care of his friends. Meantime, how ever, he was to be closely watched, and no garden tools or implements put into bis hands. How be had managed to elude the vigilance of the orderly under whose surveillance he had been placed, and to be where I met him, was the things I never understood. But so it was. a of When he saw me his melancholic de meanor ceased ; he advanced with rapid strides toward me, and I saw at a glance that he meant mischief of some sort or other; for every muscle of his body was trembling with passion, and on every feature of his face was pictured that of a demon. I confess that fear came over me. What was this maniac I I here? I am not kept much me. My life seemed to be hanging by ' going to do ? But to show apprehen sion would be fatal, so I faced him boldly and exclaimed : "Hollo, Mat hews! what you doing here ? Why you not in the airing grounds with the others ?" He turned a wild and flashing eye upon me, and glared like a wild beast. Then he howled out rather than said : "Let me out of this I" "What do you mean?" I replied, resolving, if possible, to gain time, and trusting that presently an orderly might pass and relieve me from the terrible dilemma in which I stood. "Let me out! have been too long in this vile place. I want to rejoin my regiment ; to see my poor old mother, and Mary, my sweet heart. Why mad like the others. God knows that ; so do you. But if I longer l shall be stark, staring mad. Let me out, I say I" He was now boiling Still I kept my ground. "Mathews," 1 said, "I know that you are not mad ; so listen a moment. How can I let you out ? I am not the head doctor. 1 can't act without his orders. Your removal has been recommended by him. I'll go and consult him now." "No, you won't, indeed." "Well, I can't release you. It would much as my commission is worth totconnive at your escape. I should be tried by court-martial and cashiered, if not worse. That you must be aware of." he repeated. with frenzy. 1 t "That's no matter to me. I'll make you 1 See tbiq !" He opened the loose gray pear-jacket he wore, and, to my horror, took from within it a round paving-stone of some pounds in weight, such as the court-yard of the building was paved with. How he had managed to obtain and to secrete it was another | mystery, A cold perspiration broke out upon the slenderest of threads I had no means of defense ; the rules prevented my taking into the .interior of the assylum even a walking-stick ; and man to man, the maniac was taller and stronger than I. The soldier raised the stone in his up lifted hands, and held it over my head, which was protected only by my regu lation forage-cap. I expected every instant that I should be crushed beneath it ; but still the man seemed irresolute to strike. Then, while Damocles like the missile hung above me, a sudden idea flashed across my mind : "What if I try to dodge him ?" "Put down that stone !" I cried out. "I^et me out, then !" he auswered. "Put down that stone, and I will. But first declare that you will tell no one who did it or how it was done." "Doctor, I swear!" And then, to my inexplicable relief, he lowered his raised hand. I looked around once again, really to spy if any official was in sight ; but in such a sly, covert way as to make Mathews believe that I feared an eaves dropper. "You know the locality outside the barracks I'l "Yes. I was stationed here some years ago with my regiment." "Well, this door" (pointing to one which was close to us) "leads down to a very short passage to another exit open ing on to the Denes." lie was now all ears—every nerve strained to hear what I had to tell him. "Here, take this key." 1 put into his stretched-out hand one that I hap pened to have in my pocket ; I forget to what it belonged, but I knew that it would fit no lock inside the asylum. He grasiæd it eagerly, and at the same time dashed the paving stone on the floor. "What then, sir ?" he asked in less excited tones. "This. With my pass-key I shall let you into the passage. Grope your way for a yartS or two down ; feel for the lock of the outer door ; open it with this key, and—escape." "You will tell no one that I am gone —take no steps to have me caught ? Re member this : If I am brought back I'll murder you." "Mathews, if you escape by the method I pointed out no one shall know it." "Y( are the soldier's friend 1" he replied. "Let me shake hands with you, sir." I did not feel happy when I found my palm wrung within his ; but I quickly opened the door alluded to, and with out the least shadow of suspicon he entered immediately. Once he fairly iul pulled it to with a bang which shook the very walls. He was inclosed in a bath-room. The strain of excitement tion came on. I felt sick and faint, and knew no more until I saw one of the officials and my servant stooping over me. The former, going his rounds, had found me lying on the floor, and as soon as I came to my senses I told them what had happened, and steps were taken to have Mathews so watched that in future paving stones would never again be in his possession. I took care a so never again to perambu late the asylum without my orderly consent.— Chamber's Journal. , rrac Successful Trial of a New Elec trical. A launch propelled by electricity was shown on the Thames on several occasions last year, and attracted a good deal of attention. It was pro pelled by a screw driven by a Siemens motor and Sellon-Volckmar accumula tors. To a certain extent the experi ment was successful. Recently Messrs. Y arrow & Co., of the Isle of Dogs, took the matter up, and, working with the Electrical Power and Storage Com pany, a very handsome launch has been fltted up, intended for the Vienna Ex hibition, with which many experiments have been made. This little boat made a run from the Temple Pier to Green wich in thirty-seven minutes, with a moderate tide. Some delay was, more over, caused by the propeller fouling a basket—an event well-known to every one who has had any experience with steam launches on the Tiiames. The distance is six miles, so that, making allowance for the tide, it may be said that a speed of over seven miles an hour was attained, and full power was not employed, save for a portion of the time. On the measured mile au average speed of over eight miles an hour has been at tained. The boat is forty feet long and of good beam. She had twenty-one per sons on board, including the steersman and a man to look after the machinery, if-such it may be called. The boat is completely unincumbered from end to end, no trace of the propelling mechah ism being visible. This consists of eighty cells of Sellon-Volckmar accum ulators, of which fourteen are disposed under the seat, seven at each side and the remainder in the bottom of the boat, under the floor. The screw is turned A. Siemens' dynamo commuta ted as a motor. No geariug is used, the spiudle of the armature being coupled direct on to the end of the screw shaft. The thrust block is just aft of tho dynamo, which is placed under the floor in the stern sheets. It lies flat, and occupies very little space. There are four brushes, two for going ahead, two for going astern and two small lines going to a becket beside the steers man enable him at a moment's notice, or the other, to go ahead by ' or astern ; a cylindrical switch beside ; ; if bs by pulling one him enables him to stop or go on a* pleasure. This switch is graduated so that the current, from forty, sixty, or eighty cells, can be used at pleasure. The weight of the whole—batteries and dynamo—is about two tons, or as ly as possible that of engine, boiler with water, and coal for a steam engine com petent to propel her at the same speed. This pretty launch is the very prefec tion of a pleasure boat ; smoke, no dust, oil, no splashing ©f pumps. There is no noise of any kind to be heard save the bubbling of the water from the pro peller, and the faint hiss caused by the commutator rubbing against the brushes. There is heat, no steam, no smell of smell, and no "blacks and the boat will run for six hours continuously, or about forty-five miles. It has long been known that the screw is an extremely wasteful propeller. It may yet be that further investigations will show that the screw is not so much to blame as the combination of screw and engines. At any rate the system of electrical propulsion opens up a field of inquiry, because it renders pos sible the of screws of extremely fine pitch revolving at a great speed. The dynamo in Mr. Yarrow's boat makes about 680 revolutions per minute. The propeller is of steel, two bladed, ID-inch diameter and 13-inch pitch. There is / absolutely no vibration, and very little disturbance of the water in the wake of the boat .—London Field. The So-called Weaker Vessels. — A prize of seventy-five dollars is given annually to the best male Greek scholar in the high school at Newport. ThiB year the best examination was jiassed by the daughter of George Rice, tli© colored steward on the steamer Pil (jrim ; but as she could not be given the prize, a wealthy New York gentlen.au sent her seventy-five dollars in gold. —It would be odd if women suffrage should become the custom in Great Britian sooner than in the United States. That this is possible is indicated by the vote in the house of coumious of 114 ayes to 130 noes on Mr. Mason's mo tion to give the suffrage to those women whose property qualification allows them the municipal franchise So small a hostile majority must be a box ful sign for the friends of woman suf frage. —The Graphic says it was a woman who stumbled and fell that caused the first fatal block at the Brooklyn thea tre fire in 1877 ; it w stumbled and fell that caused the block at the fatal panic in the Sixteenth Street Catholic Church a few year» ago ; and it was a stumbling woman, so far as it can be known, that started the panic on the Brooklyn bridge. The Graphic might have added that it was a stumbling woman who induced Adam to "bring death into the world, aud all our woe." —Miss Ada Ward, an English actress of intelligence and experience, now in New York, has very little hopes of the stage in England. She says that the facility offered to handsome aud incom petent amateurs to obtain lucrative pô sitious aud to command press recogni tion had worked an immense amount of mischief among painstaking and con scientious players. The largest for tunes had been made of late years by women who had nothing to recommend them but tbeir beauty, and they put this into the market against experience, skill and good taste, and walked away with the laurels. Wuat a Woman Likes.— A hus band who is not always "a little short." Who gets home at a reasonable time of night and in reasonable physical condi tion. Who always let her know before hand wtien he brings a friend to dinner. Who dosn't want to sleep till noon every Sunday morning. Who takes pleasure in buying his wife a spring bonnet. Who compliments her occasionally and calls her pretty wht t'ier she is or not. Who, when he comes home late at night, will come in like a man, and not like a thief. Who can lie in bed while his wife walks with the l»aby without sweariug like a trooper. Who isn't always telling her the times hard and business is poor. Who will give her credit for working as hard as he does and sometimes harder. Who is willing to put up with a poor dinner on Monday. Who won't keep the din ner waiting, and then growl because the roast is overdone. Who won't labor under the impression that cigar ashes on the carpet tend to keep the moths out. Who knows when it is time to get up, aud does not rely on his wife to arouse him. W T ho takes his wife along occasionally when he "runs down" to New York on "business." Who, when he takes his wife to the theatre, will not go out between the acts "to see sharpen his lead pencil ou the carpet Who, when he builds an "addition" to the house will allow his w ife to arrange for closet room. Who admires his w ife and has the common sense to tell of it. Who will not insist upon having the pillow with the most feathers in it. Who will be as polite to his wife any other women, and will lift his hat to her on the street. Who is willing to share the evening paper. a woman who Who won't man. 1 to —"What a wonderful age of 'inven tion this is, "I see they're making wire cloth, and I'll get some to put in Johnnie's pants." —Boston girls who got lost in the woods in the White Mountains the other day did not cry "Help 1" but "Three ladies in this direction are iu urgent, need of assistance." said Mrs Catchpenny. Lewis' magazine for August, Indian Tea. The recent paasage of the Tea Adul teration Act by Congress has com menced to show its effect to some pur pose upon the importation of poisonous teas from Japan and China, and for the health of the people of this country its introduction has come none too soon. quotes an article from the Sanitary En gineer , which contains facts almost in credible, were it not for the authority. It states that 7000 packages of tea from China were burned as poisonous by or der of the British Government. These showing upon analysis 65 per cent, of poisonous adulterants, deadly. That is in every 100 pounds of tea (?) 65 pounds of adulterants were found. Eleven different poisons were detected—some deadly—says reliable authority which concludes thus : "A large percentage of the stomach pain and indigestion among American women may be traced to tea (?). the years 1881-2 upwards of 80,COO packages of tea from China and Japan were refused permission to be landed in Great Britain as adulterated ; every pound of this 80,000 packages was sent on to America and has been, and is be ing consumed. This explains the mean ing of "Gift" Tea Companies, who offer premiums of Chiua-sets, Waltham watches, Pianos, Sewing machines, &c.,as inducements. Leslie's Popular Monthly , for September, contains state ments from a Mr. Oscar Iligg, who is evidently well posted on the subject, and these are worthy of note. The cargo of the "Fruitshire" is mentioned as being inspected at New York. The results being that 3100 chests of China tea wore condemned as impure, while •542 chests from Japan were also jected for the same cause. The value of this tea was stated to l»e $30,000 and the writer concludes as follows : "It is exacted that at least 10,000, 000 pounds will be refused a market in this country. The condemned tea be ing mainly green, and inferior Japan." v Recent quotations for Japan teas show as follows : being ■ tins In / "Finest" 25 centR ; "Fine" 22 cents ; "Good medium," 20cents; "Medium" 18 cents, and yet no one appeals to ask why do our grocers charge us the fabu lous prices they do lor such doubtful trash ? Little is known in this country about Indian Teas, or upon what scale they are grown, and an idea exists that they are something cropiwd up recently quite new. Tea was commenced to be grown in Indian in 1835, or 48 years ago. 1806 and 1876 the exports had increased from 2.500,000 lbs. to 28,126,000lbs., eleven times as much. The total de liveries for year ending May last 56,600,000 lbs. ; or 10 millions of pounds increase upon last year. India there are over 2000 plantations with During the ten years between 1'i In British acreage under tea of more than 188,000 acres, while nearly 500.000 acres are taken up for tea planting. About 1200 Europeans and men of education are retained as managers and assistants, aud over 300,000 natives are employed m the factories and maximum estimated yield is 70 millions of pounds. Of the purity and excellence of Indian Teas, little need be said, for their increased consumption in Europe and Great Britain speaks volumes, while opposed to all the seizur ud con demnations one reads of Jap China Teas, one solitary statement need be alone made. Not and single package of Indian teas, shipped direct from the factory to the consumer, has ever known to l>e either faced, painted, analysis ever made has proved Indian Teas to be innocent of adulterations of any kind. The reason is simple; no Indian planter can afford to use adulter ants, and even if lie so wished, and to attempt any such tricks would doubly damn a valuable reputation planter would risk while lie bas large crops of puie tea to sell upon its own established merits in an open prejudiced market, flooded without agonists only too ready to seize on the first chance to deny its merits .—New field [N. J.) Item. colored, or adulterated, and every ■ Pious Sentiment. —An eveiy day religion—one that loves the duties of your common walk ; and that mak's an honest man ; that accomplishes an intellectual and moral growth in the subject ; one that works in all weather, and improves all opportunities, will best and most health ly promote the growth of a church, and the power of the gospel. Church Moorings.—A n old sea captain was riding in a railway carriage aud a young man sat down by his side. He said : I !!' "Young man, where "1 am going to the city to you going?" live." "Have you letters of introduc tion ?" "Yes," said the young man, and lie pulled some of them out. "Well," said the sea captain, "have you a church certificate ?" "Oh, yes," replied the young man ; "I did not sup pose you desired to look at that." "Yes," said the sea captain, "I want to see that. As soon as you reach the city, present that to some Christian church. I am an old sailor, and I have been up and down in the world ; and it is my rule, as soon as I get into port, to fasten my ship fore ami aft to the wharf although it may cost a little wharfage, rather than have my ship out in the stream, floating hither and thither with the tide.'* —"I say, Paddy, that is the worre looking horse that I have ever seen ii him Falx, the poor baste can scarcely carry the lit tie mate that's on him uow," replied Paddy. harness. Why don't you fatten up?" "Fat him him up, is it ?