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.
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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
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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
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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 ?