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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION :
Ono copy, one year,
«M'cetjr, stx months, r 4
$1.60
.75
DRUGS! DRUGS!
MEDICINES,
PERFUMERY,
U . 1 TOILET ARTICLES.
■* Prescriptions Compounded with the
PUREST MEDICINES.
Paints, Glass, Oils, Putty, Brushes.
C. HENRY,
NEWARK, DEL.
T. EL ARMSTRONG-,
Builder ol
Fine Carriages, Wagon^
And all work in general. ■
Fainting and rimming a Specialty.
HORSktSHOEINC
Beoeives prompt sud reliable attention.
Agents for the Celebrated
Champion Mower and Reaper.
Allünds of Agricultural Impl«nents
repaired by competent workmen.
Depot Street. NEWARK. DEL.
FIRST CLASS GOODS!
A SPECIALTY,
AT THE GLASS FRONT.
Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Starch, Canned Good«
FOREIGN and DOMESTIC FRUITS,
Largest stock and finest assortment of
CHINA, GLASS and QUEENS WAHR
IN TOWN.
Agent for tho celebrated
MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER.
In bottles, 90 opnts per doz.
Puke Winks, Bra fronts, Whiskies,
RIO, MARACAIBO, AND JAVA COFFEES,
Choice Quality, Fresh Roasted Every Week,
THE LOWEST CASH PRICES.
W. F. GRIFFITH,
MAIN STREET, NEWARK, DEL.
CITY HOTEL,
110 West Front Street,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
JAMES L. DICKINSON, Prop.
Ia'
Every accommodation provided for per
manent and local custom. The best facil
ities for the proper oare of teams and all
travelling equipages.
L. & A. G- Webber,
CHRISTIANA, DEL.
Agt's fob LUMBER,
. . deaxbxs in
GRAIN, COAL, WOOD,
NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER
FERTILIZERS,
SMYRNA DRAIN TILE.
LEHIGH, SCHUYLKILL AND
CUMBERLAND COAL,
Of the very best quality, under cover,
2240 pounds to tbe ton guaranteed.
Highest Market Prices at All Timet paid
ftr Grain.
GIVE US A CALL.
EDW. McPIKE
DEALER IN
SEGARS AND TOBACCO,
Pipes, Segar Cases, Etc.,
GBNTS' FURNISHIHG GOODS
MAIN »THE13I1T,
OPP. ODD FELLOWS' HALL,
NEWARK, DEL.
COMMODIOUS
BARBER SHOP
ATTACHED.
THE P„ W. & B, RAILROAD
TrME TABLE.
On and after Monday, May 34, 1880.
Trains ' '
FROM NEWARK.
a 9 - la A - M - »na
p*m * P ' ^ 8an,la y". 9,19
For Baltimore, 1.18, 9 01 A. M and
1.24, 6.4« P. M. Sundays, L18
TO NEWARK.
Leave Philadelphia, 7.80,11.46 A.M.
4.00^11.80 P. M. On Sundays, 11.80
Leave Baltimore, 7.06 A. H. and 8.60.
7.06 P. M. On Sundays, 7.06 P. M.
SALE BILLS,
AND
JOB PRINTING GENERALLY,
At THE NSW ARK LKDMJDt Osrim».
NEWARK, NEW CASTLE COCfÖEL., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1880,
yo:
NO. 48.
Perfect Th
.... —iJT ~
rhu oak, the flower, and all things brave w?
sweet
With 8tortna havo striven;
Strength through the Ktiiving, freshness lroj®
the rain
Are ever given.
Frail hands that tremble with the threads of
life
They fain would weave,
Because of weokuees, Beek lor greater strength
And skill receive.
Brighteet the stars that gleam through mid
night skies
Or storm-rent cloud;
Sweetest tho laith that breathes in aching
hearts
By bier and shroud.:
heart is ho end ' y ol selfléi) gain
Ono sloops^d fuealca Lhoohuin, but fastens it
i no
To things abovo.
The Comlorter draws Dearest when the soul
For comfort pleads,
And so we find the path of pain and loss
To Jesus lends.
— Mr*. 8. L. Hmvell.
S—The' Red Flag at Ho. 54.
(Mrs. Gray to Mrs. Thompson.)
Cousin Ned from California, Nevada,
New Mexico, and all other places be
yond the Rocky mountains, bos been
paying us a visit. You know just whal
a jolly good soul Ned always was. and
he iB just as jolly now—as why should
he not be, with an income of six or seven
thousand
George's
diminished head. He is handsomer than
ever, too—the same merry brown eyei
and chestnut hair; but, in addition,
an appearance, an nir so altogethei
distingue that our neighbors all
S o to their windows to gaze aftei
1m. Well, do you know, the mo
he appeared I set my heart on him
for our dear old friend Adelaide, who
shall not waste her sweetness on the
desert air if I qpn help it. You know
I always had a fancy for matohmaking,
though, to confess the truth, I have
never yet scored a success in that line;
my two predestined affinities always fly
off at a tangent just as I flatter myself
It is un fait accompli. (You will per
ceive I havo not forgotten quite all the
French we learned together at the River
side seminary, notwithstanding my
years of devotion to pies and puddings.
I will keep a little of it out of respect
for the memory of poor Mademoiselle
Laurent who worked so hard to drill if
into me).
But Adelaide and Ned have been cor
responding a year or two; bespeaks ol
her with groat respect—as how could he
otherwise, of nyurseP—iind, T f ha-
fon ily hoped tMt his missi V> the
East may have more relatioi.-^So the
affairs of the heart than to mining
stocks, as he pretends.
Well, soon after his arrival three
weeks ago, Ned and I were sitting in
dining-room alone; the children
had started lor schdol, and George had
kissed me and gone downtown, after
an hour's talk with Ned about ranches,
and burros, and gulches, and canons.
Now that I was alone with our visitor
the conversation
turn, bordering on
in pursuance of the idea uppermost in
my mind, I told him I thought it
mysterious, providential, that he had
not fallen a victim to Borne bonanza
princess, or somo bewitbing senorita
with no dower but her beauty.
" Aud by the w av," I went on, " what
was ever the trouble between you and
the captain's daughter?"
You remember of oourse, Julia, how
muoh we hoard at the time about that
affair—how during the war I used to
read to you, even' during study hours,
the letters I had received from brother
Jim, stationed at Fortress Monroe,
giving the details, in Jim's rather
satirical style, of tbe Berious flirtation
rogress between Lieutenant Ned,
ompany C, and Captain Darring
ton'B pretty daughter, of the regulars?
And afterward, how some way a
shadow came between them—nobody
could tell bow, only thnt Ned was
hasty, and had exaggerated ideas of a
man's prerogatives, perhaps, and Miss
Darrington proud and shy? So it was
forgotten.
And now this Bame lieutenant, after
üair-breadUi escapes from shot and
shell, and scalping Apaches, sat there
in an easy chair by my Baltimore
heater and actually turned pale because
I mentioned the "captain's daughter!"
Love is indeed la grande passion.
He had nothing to communioate,
however; bade me consider that we
were always great fools a' 'enty-one,
and likely at that time tc eight in
a trap, or, on the other b throw
our chancos of happiness a, just as
it chanced to be ; he became silent, and
I had not the heart to rally him as he
sat there watching the floating smoke
of his cigar with a far-off look in his
eyes—knowing as I did that he had
gone back fifteen years, and that be was
walking the moonlight beach with
« Lottie Darrington, while the
if the regiment played In the dis
tance.
From the sublime to the ridiculous—
it is always my fate, dear Julia. Bar
ney, the factotum of the neighborhood,
tapned at the window, and as I raised
the sash, "A folne morning, mum," said
he; " there's a red flag <
54, and I thought I'd be
tell ye. Tis a foine house, and a foine
leddy, more's the pity." You see
Barney knows my weakness, and he
had seen me a tew days before an ani
mated bidder at an auction in tbe
neighborhood. "Thank you, Barney;
I think I'll be on hand," I replied, dos
ing the window.
"A foine leddtt^|
often met ber-^^H
plainly and tastef^H
with two charmEBI
house seemed the atx
comfort, so far as the
a year? Beside that my
eighteen hundred hide
1)0111
es its
meut
Mu
took a confidential
the sentimental, and
in
out at Number
after cornin' to
tbe sure ; I had
Lfaoed woman,
Ressed, walking
children. Her
de of peace and
passer-by could
judge, and what could nave compelled
the breaking up ol so cosy an establish
ment? At all events I would not stop
to speculate—it was possible here was
mv opportunity to secure a handsome
sideboard at a bargain. As I wished
to be on band in time to look through
the house before the sale began, I asked
Ned to have the goodness to excuse me
for an hour or so.
"Oh, I will go with you, Mrs. Too
ales," said he
stairs for his
. quite gayly. and ran up
hat and cane.
So off we went to No. 64, where th*
flaming flag announced the desecration
of household gods. We were admitted
by tbe man in charge olM.ll » gale ; and
such a charming abodef^fot a down
right curiosity shop, the effect ot deco
rative art run mad, but such taste and
uiStnuity everywhere visible. People
Jrlth shrewd, hard faces, boarding
house keepers, "second-hand men,' 1
typing the engravings and pretty water
colors on the parlor wall, running their
greasy Ungers over the keys of the piano,
turning chairs topsy-turvy, and shaking
tables to see how firm on their Jegs they
mieht bo. In tho ixiy window was a
large stand ol beautiful thriity plahtsoi
which I resolved to carry oil' at least
half. The two floors above were neat
and pleasant; but it was the second
story back that wrung my heart. It
was tho nursery. Toys and personal ar
ticles had of course been removed, but
there was a pretty little bed beside th«
large one, and two cunning little rock
ing-chair».'«The windows looked ont
on a pleasant garden, and liera was sit
ting old Mrs. Wiggan, with whom I
had a little acquaintance.
"Such a charming house," said I,
" is it not a pity to break up this pretty
nestP Do you know tho family?"
" Poor Mrs. Graham ! She lived here
with her children so comfortably and
happily, two or three lodgers on her
upper floor, until a few months ago
she lost everything by the failure of a
banking-house. She
in the city ; has struggled on, tried to
get boarders, but the location is too re
mote ; she sees do way but to givo it
up, place her children with friends in
the country, and try to earn a liveli
hood by painting. She iBsaid to be an
excellent artist, though I'm no judge
myself. These are all her own pictures,
I believe. She is shut up lu the back
parlor; everything taken out of it but
a chair. 1 saw her a few minutes ago.
Tho tear were running down her
cheeks, but there sho sat, bravely
stitching on her children's winter
clothes, sewing on the last button, and
mending the last stocking—poor thing.
Thero are the little innocents at play
now in the yard."
Mrs. Wiggan herself (although she
had an eye on tho best chamber set)
wiped away a good generous tear ; my
eyes were dim, and I would gladly at
that moment have relinquished the best
bargain in sideboards. Ned, too, the
dear old fellow, looked awfully sorry,
us he gazed meditatively out of the
window where the bright-eyed little
girl and tho boy with fair long curls
were loading dirt into a tiny cart with
a miniature shovel. From the flooi
above came the sharp ring of the auc
tioneer's voice :
"How much, how muchP Six dol
lars, did you say seven P Six dollars,
seven dollars—gone at seven !"
The auctioneer descended with his
followers into the front chamber. Be
fore I knew it Ned was there, and in his
impetuous way was bidding imWashion
to astonish the second-hand men. He
swept everything before hire; Mrs
"Vv lgganj to be sure, stood him a little
contest on the " set," and I laughed te
see her glare at him, while he was so
absorbed that several punches with my
parasol had no effect whatever. " Was
there insanity in his family?" I asked
myself. By the time we reached the
parlor the second-hand men tad slunk
away, the boarding-house keepers looked
aghast. I made a brave stand for the
Bideboard, but it Was of no avail; and
indeed most of us sat down leaving Ned
and the auctioneer to themselves. Ë
no relatives
- very
article from the second floor down was
purchased that morning by the distin
guished stranger.
This amusing turn of affairB rather
confirmed my Dopes in regard to Ade
laide; of course, thought I, he cannot
rid himself entirely of those old recol
lections ; but he knows very well the
sterling worth of Adelaide, and wbat
a charming, intelligent, devoted wife
she will make.
All bad gone but Ned, myself and the
auctioneer. The latter knocked at the
door of the back parlor. " Come in,"
said a voice, and tbe burly man swung
the doors aside. The mother was mak
ing on effort to rise, but the little fellow
with the fair curls was clingling so
olosely about iter neck that she could
not readily free herself. Ab she arose
and came forward we saw the traces oi
tears, the paleness of her face, the trem
ulousness of her whole form.
From Ned, who was standing just be
hind me, I suddenly heard the words:
"My God! is it possible?" and turning
saw him with a face most indescribable
in expression. Of course there was no
doubt about his being out of his mind—
too much auction had made him mad.
Tbe auctioneer, after opening tbe doors,
bad been called suddenly away, and we
threo now stood there—those two gaz
ing at each other, and I at both.
" Edwin!" at last said Mrs. Graham;
"Edwin!" with a voice and smile so
sweet and sad that I did not wonder at
what followed.
Ned's ashen face suddenly flushed all
over. " Lottie !" he cried, stretching
his arms toward her, "Lottie, my be
loved, have I found you again ?" and he
clasped her to his heart. ■»
The queerest termination to an auc
tion! 1 have seer, many in my capacity
of housewife, but never one like this.
Mrs. Graham was the "captain's daugh
ter." and the generous imnnlse of t*'°
honest Californian had restored his olti
sweetheart her home—yes, and the
heart of her faithful lover.
" Mamma." said the little fellow,
shyly, " is this gentleman the auctioneer,
and will he take away all our pretty
things?"
" No, my darling," said Ned, lifting
the child far above his head, and then
witifiiisown lips, "all your pretty things
will lemain, you and mamma too."
"And you, too ?" said Bertie, oordially.
"I like you."
And so these two, idler years of sep
aration, were brought together again.
And in suoh an odd manner, too! I
couldn't help thinking how differently
1 should have managed It, had I been
writing a story instead of acting a part
in reallife. I should have found Mrs.
Graham first, and sympathiziDgly won
her to tell me the Btory of her troubles.
Of course she would have mentioned
Ned, and of course I should have seen
at a glance that Bhe loved him still.
And then I should have been the good
gel to bring them together, and merit
and receive their life-long thanks, and
instead of that, here was Barney acting
the part ofthe angel without knowing
it, and my one a cnancefor a romantic
adventure spoiled forever. It was
shameful—abominable, and then my
plans for Adelaide and Ned. ot course it
was olear they never could succeed
now. And yet I felt delighted.
1 went home leaving Ned at No. 64.
In in
the round cheek to the level
What a heaver y change for Mrs.
Graham) How ifforent from that of
the morning.lookWThc sunlight ol this
afternoon. Her I tine intact.—her little
ones safely near- -ilie prospect of the
lonely garret fade l away like a fright
ful dream. And Red, lmppy as a clam,
for having remembered the widow and
the fatherless. I had them all to dinner
that night. Mrs -i "afjam is charming,
I will say it eves it Adelaide dies an
old maid.
There will tie a Vedding soon at No.
54. I have ahead .received as a prosent
a sideboard much pandsomer than
Graham's. Bar- y will be provided
for, and we shalli bless the day that
Cousin Ned wen'-to the auction and
bought up the ej?Jre establishment—
including a widely and two children
not on the list.
It is time for
Mrs.
.. leak after the din
_ ,_ J.auat write to you
tins'-,'tttlF roman of my humdrum
life. As ever you ' old chum,
—Ehrich's Quarta rig.
Emma.
Badgering a Witness.
The oourt and jury, as well os thi
spectators, generally enjoy the seen«
when a lawyer, hpm attempt to badgei
or browbeat a witness,conics off second,
best in the encounter. A correspondent
recalls an amusinxdiu-ident of this sort
which happened t few years ago in at
Albany court-room.
The plaintiff, y ho was a lady, was
called to tastily. iShe got on very well,
and made a favoijtble impression on th«
jury under the guidance of her counsel.
Hon. LynXin Ticiiain, until the oppos
ing counsel, Hon. Henry Smith, sub
jected herto a shirp cross-examination
This so oonfused jer that she becam*
faint, and fcUto ti e floor In a swoon.
Of course this xeited general sym
pathy in the am icnce, and Mr. Smith
saw that his oaso looked badly.
An expedient 'suggested itself by
which to make the swooning appeal
like a piece of stufe trickery, and thui
destroy sympathylor her. The lady's
faoe in swooning lad turned purple red,
and this faot suggtrtcd the new line of
attack. The next witness was a middle
aged lady. The o unse i asked :
" Did you see the plaintiff faint a short
time ago?"
" Yes, sir,"
" People turn pile when they faint,
don't they ?"
A great sensation in the court, and an
evident confusion Of witness. But in a
moment, she aniwered: "No, not
always." '
"Did
you ever hear of a case of faint
ing where the partj did not turn pale?"
"Yes, sir."
" Did you ever
"Yes, sir."
"When?"
" About a year ago.
"Where was it s ."
" In this city." ,
By this time the excitement was se
intense that everybody listened anx
iously for the reply. It came promptly,
with a twinkle in the witness' eye, and
a quiver on her lip, os if from suppresed
humor :
" 'Twos a negro, sir."
Peal after peal of laughter shook the
court-room, in whicli the venerable
judge joined. Mr. Smith lost his case,
not to say temper.
tr such a case?"
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Dynastie Trees in China.
The Chinese are accustomed to as
sociate the fortunes of their reigning
families with tho fives of trees, and
eaeli dynasty has a special tree dedi
cated to it. The duration of the
dynasty is held to be Indissolubly
bound up with the existence of the tree,
and Inspection is frequently made of the
latter in order to ascertain from its con
dition the prospect before the sovereign.
The appearance of the tree Is expected
to furnish incontestable proof of tbe
true stale of the empire. It is impossi
ble to assign an origin to this super
stition, which is of great antiquity;
but, to go no further back than the
fifteenth century, Yungloh, the third of
the Ming rulers, planted a fir tree,
which endured until the overthrow 250
years afterward of his descendants by
the Manchus. Tho story is told that
Hwan-Tsung, the iast Ming emperor,
hung himself on this very tree, after
having killed his wives and children,
rather than submit to the victorious
Manchu general, Taitsong. This tree,
known as the wry-neeked fir, was then
chained up by the order ot Chuntch,
the first emperor of the existing im
perial line, and although fallen to
ground, its remains with the clian
around them are still shown. As if in
revenge for the unfortunate Mings, the
popular fancy has evolved another
superstition out of Chuntohe's act, and
it now passes as a carrent belief that if
the chnin were to bp removed from the
fallen trunk some terrible catastrophe
would haDpen to tbs Manchus.
The Tsing dynasty is also not without
its own peculiar- tree, which was
planted by Chuntrao in the courtyard
of a temple at Tan-chcssu, near Pekin.
So long as tbis tree exists, so long, it is
asserted, will tbe Uanohus remain su
preme; and there are those who con
tend that the future belote the ruler
nmy be divined from its condition.
The latest accounts are that this tree—
which is of the wt|ite-nut species, and
which lias already attained the respeot
able age of two centuries and a quarter
—shiws most striking signs of renewed
vitality, and as tbis happens to coincide
with the state of the Chinese empire,
Π' ,r credulity is being
ill..
so far con
Words of Wisdom.
Better face a danger once than be al
ways in fear.
A house is no home unless it contain
food and fire for the mind as well as the
body.
If the olock oi the tongue be not set
by the dial of the heart, it will not
right.
The hardest trial to your heart is to
attempt to bear a rival's failure with
out weak triumph.
They that do nothing are in the
readiest way to do that which is worse
than nothing.
Those who givo not till they die,
show that they would not then if they
could keep it any longer.
Innocence is a flower which withers
when touched, but blooms not again,
though watered with tears.
go
The rentals of grass land In England
this year show a considerable increase,
while those of corn land show a corre
sponding decrease.
V
No Pension Wanted.
He didn't look a bit like a patriot as
he stood rubbing his back oh a cornel
wall,but it isn't everybody who can tells
patriot at first sight. They were talk
ing about pensions, and all at once he
woke up and said :
" Was I in tbe army? Toubetlwas 1
Didn't I have charge of one of the big
gur.s in the trenches at Yorktown?
Didn't t stand in the mud all day and
sleep in a pond all night, and wasn't it
that whicli twisted my legs out of shape
with the rheumatics? And yet havel
applied for a pension? Has any on«
seen me insidiously stretching forth s
hand to grab at the vitals ot this dis
tressed country. Not a stretch—not a
grab !"
No one had anything to say, and
presently he went on :
" In the army—humph!
the day at Malvern Hill? Who killed
seventeen of the enemy with his own
hand? Who was decorated with six
teen medals and a cross by General
McClellan? And yet does any assassin
chargeme with making midnight visits
to pension agents to swear that the hard
ships of the tented flold bave left me
with only one lung and no liver at all ?
Hang a soldier who wouldn't sacrifice
his liver for his glorious country
He burned up five or six match
vain effort to light the stump ot a cigai
and then growled out :
"I may look seedy now, but who led
the Second corps at Fair Oaks? Who
captured three flags from the enemy
with his own hand? Who was shot in
four places and lcupfor dead? And yet
do I go whining around after the finan
cial vitals of this glorious republio?
Not a whine! When I reach out my
hand and ask Uncle Sam to come down,
it will bo when I have forgotten the
teachings of a patriotic mother and the
bravery of a veteran father!"
"Were you wounded?" inquired one
of the group.
" Was I? oh, no! I didn't get hit sev
enteen different times in three years 1 I
am not carrying half an acre of scars
down to my grave to attest my devotion
my country! And yet what man
dares charge me with a desire to skulk
into the bam and rob the treasury cow
of her feed—the feed she needs for her
daily existence?"
"Won't you show us some of your
soars?" inquired two or three at once.
"No, sir! I never show 'em except
at reunions! There is no reunion here.
This is simply a gathering of two bum
mers, a politician, a lame man and a
soldier who has been In forty-six dif
ferent battles, received seventeen
wounds and doesn't want a pension.
Y ou wouldn't know the scar of a cannon
ball from that of an old wood-Baw. and
yon'd go off and say I got run through a
threshing machine ! I am now going
inside to drink alone to the prosperity
of this great and glorious Union, and it
won't do any of you an
around the door !"—Free
Who saved
!"
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to
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Going to a Fire.
One of tho most exciting sights a
stranger can witness in the lower part
of New York is tho fire department re
sponding to an alarm of lire in the day
time. A representative ef the Fireman't
Journal describes a scene familiar to all
our citizens, but one that many of oui
readers have probably never witnessed.
We chanced to be in Broadway a day
or two since, says the writer, when the
street was crowded witli vehicles of all
kinds, and the sidewalks with a regu
lar procession of pedestt 'ans. Suddenly
gong of an approaching steamer
:ded with its, sharp, sudden and
hi
soun
continuous jingle; there was a rush ol
teams to clear the center of the street,
and a rush of policemeh to aid the
drivers in getting theft vehicles against
the curb : theu came a fireman running
for dear life, shouting "c'oar the road,"
and right behind him cams the steamer,
the horses on the gallop, and a cloud of
■moke issuing from the smoke- stack a
moment, and Bhe was gone. Then came
a hook and ladder truck, with sounding
gong, horses on the jump, and the mem
bers of the company clinging to their
precarious perches on top. Next came
the salvage corps, gong sounding, horses
running, and the men urging them as if
their lives depended on their speed. It
was an exciting event, lasting but a
moment, bdt quickening to the pulse of
the laziest on-looker. Thousands of
persons had stopped to catch a glimpse
of the passing firemen, and for over a
mile Broadway was jammed with vehi
cles and pedestrians, all ot whom had
turned out to make room for the fire
men, on whose speed might depend the
property and lives of some of our citi
zens. To a stranger the sight must have
been a thrilling one, and impressed him
witli the efficiency of our fire depart
ment. We know that to our soldiers
the heavy rumble of the apparatus
seemed like the movement of artillery to
the front and to presage an impending
battle. And so it was a battle—a fight
betwoen the trained firemen and au
enemy as old as the earth or the
heavens, and one that has scourged
mankind since time was.
Bread ssd Heat.
M . Scheurer-Kestner has discovered
the remarkable fact that the fermenta
tion of bread oauses the complete diges
tion of meat. He found that a beef
steak cut into small pieces, and mixed
with flour and veast disappeared en
tirely during the process of panification,
its nutritive principles becoming in
corporated with the bread. The meat
would also appear capable of preserva
tion for an indefinite period in its new
state, for loaves of meat-bread made in
1873 were submitted to the French
Academy of Soience, when not a trace of
worms or moldiness was observable,
At the beginning of his experiments,
M. Scheurer-Kestner us;d raw meat,
but the meat-bread bad a disagreeable
sour taste, which was avoided by cook
ing the meat for an hour with sufficient
water to afterward moisten the flour.
The meat must be carefully deprived of
fat. and only liavo sufficient salt to
bring out the flavor, as salt, by aborb
ing the moisture from tbe air, would
tend to spoil tbe broad. Tbe propor
tion of meat to flour should not exceed
one-half, so as to insure complete diges
tion. Bread made with a suitable pro
portion of veal is said to furnish excel
lent soup for the sick and wounded.
We are sowing seeds of truth or error,
of dishonesty or integrity, every day we
live and everywhere we go, that will
take root in somebody's life.
If Georgo Eliot is married she . ill
please manifest it by rising.— Ex. And
kindling the Are.— Atlantic Monthly.
The New York Reporter.
A reporter's life is not a happy one,
He is the slave of duty at all hours ol
the day and night. To-day he is here,
to-morrow there. On Monday he may
he among thieves and murderers, on
Tuesday among politicians and states
men, and on Wednesday among ladies
and gentlemen. He may be even among
all three on the same day. I remember
acold, raw morning in February when
I had to get up long before daylight and
make a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch
cock's coffee aud cakes and run for a
train. Thataltemoon I found myself on
board of a large European steamer,
which had stranded high and dry on the
New Jersey sands. I shared th
tain's dinner while the waves came
dashing against the vessel's side with a
force that threatened to make us fovid for
sea worms at any moment. I came back
wet and weary tliat niglit. but there was
no rest for me yet,! To Dclmonico's I
must go, os soor I could change my
clothing, and parU- 0 ,)of agreat banquet.
Such is the life of a newspaper reporter.
He knows not at any time where he will
take his next meal. He often is sent
from a wedding to a funeral, or from a
ball in the Academy to a murder at the
Five Points. Like an army on the march,
he must always have his baggage pre
pared, for at live minutes' notice ho may
be sent several hundred miles where
shirt-collars and handkerchiefs arc un
known. Ho may be sent to scour the
bay for missing Jersey Bhantios, or Long
Island woods for mysteriously disap
pearing personages.
Not only must the reporter be able to
tell an interesting story, but he must
also, i f he wants to earn his salt, have a
knowledge of the world and possess that
tact and discretion which comes of sucli
knowledge. Youngmcnfresh fromsome
inland college, who come to New York
nowspaper oflioes under the impression
that reporting til something that they
can do if they cannot do anything else,
are quiokly undeceived. One half of
the news which is printed in the local
columns every morning is obtained
from people who do not care to furnish
it, and who havo to be "run down" very
often with its much skill as the most
cunning of foxes. And for all thisjthe
reporter is paid but little more titan the
average mechanic. It may surprise
some of you to learn that tie gets even
that much, but he does if he is good for
anything. That good ones get no more
is mainly due to the fact that there are
so many bad ones competing with them.
Yet with all the drawbacks of long
and irregular hours, inadequate remun
eration and "assignments" that arcoftcu
uncongenial, there is a charm about n
reporter's life which all who have ever
been members of the profession must
acknowledge. There is a romance con
nected with it which does not entirely
die out of even the older members who
now keep to it because they have been
spoilt for anything else. The new genera
tion of metropolitan reporters, whicli
Uiilbr conkiScntbly from th J old, is kept
to its work probably more By this flavor
of the adventurous than any thing else.
The Bohemian spirit of poetry ana beer
lias almost died out and the ranks are
recruited from a class which has loss of
the literary and more of the "be up and
doing" spirit about it. They want an
active life and they find it here. Asthey
grow older, however, they become more
straight in their desires end there are
consequently constant droppings out.
Either they work their way into
editorial chairs or they go into some
other profession or business and their
places are filled by new-comers, who,
nowadays, are generally graduates of
the leading colleges. So thon, here is
To the trulhlul reporter
Who never prints but whet he onghter;
An example sublime
Of the men ot his time.
—George 0. Clement
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Warm Weather Diet.
The first warm days are fruitful of
complaints about the failure of appetite.
Breakfasts are no longer relished ; din
ners afford but*n languid interest, and
suppers*seem superfluous. Only vigor
ous workers out of doors, or young peo
ple who are so blessed as not yet to have
made the acquaintance of their stomachs,
come to the table with a real zest for
food. And it is no wonder, considering
how few people have yet learned the art
of altering their diet to suit their own
conditions and the state ot the season.
The spring appetite fails and ought to
fail, before ham and eggs or a great
piece of steak, on these enervating first
warm mornings of the year. Rich soups,
heavy meats and all stimulating and
blood making articles of diet, that met a
real want in the nipping and eager air of
winter, are as much out of place now as
the furs and ulsters. And yet many a
Ï ierson who would think it a sign of
unacy to dress in the December style in
May, does not appear to sec r.ny incon
O in eating in the December fashion
and coal create heat, and thick
clothing and tight {bouses preserve it for
the conn.-it ' ihe body in winter. Yet
men who know enough to dump their
furnaces, open the windows and lay oft
their overcoats on the advent of spring,
are stupid enough to keep on stocking
their stomach at full blast and oonsider
themselves " ou t-of-sorts" and ill if
nature resents the abuse.
It is time to let up on the cold weather
diet—especially for persons doomed to
live indoors. A mold of well-oooked
oatmeal, served cold with cream and
sugar, with two or three oranges and a
cup of coffee, makes an adequate and
appetizing breakfast. All fruits and
vegetables attainable fit in well at this
season. The many preparations of tho
small grains afford a variety which it
Is well to study. Milk and eggs and fish
contain all the needed food-eiemcnts for
a diet of a month or two, with such
sugar and starch as tho housewife com
bines in toothsome light puddings or
other desserts. Whether we eat to live
or live to eat, we ought to be rational
enough to dispense witli food when not
hungry and to lempl r nther than force
the appetite .— G idea Rule.
Frederic Chilcott, of St. Thomas, an
engineer on the Great Western railroad,
was a hero. He died a fearlul death on
that road on a recent Sunday morning.
A switch was left open at Simcoe and
freight No. 31 was coming toward De
troit. Chilcott could have saved him
self by jumpiBg off but he stood at hie
place. Although he reversed the engine
he could not prevent the catastrophe
and tho next moment there was a pile
of ears heaped in wild confusion around
the overturned engine. The mass of
splinters took fire and although the fire
companies of the town tried to save the
doomed man their efforts were in vain.
He was cremated at his post and when
his charred body was lifted
wrecked locomotive his blackened hand
Btill grasped the reversing lever.
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" If I have ever used any unkind
words, Hannah," said Mr. Smiley, re
ly, "I take them all baeje."
I suppose you want to use them
over again," was the not very sooth
ing reply.—New Haven Register.
Mettrai
" Yes ;
Tom Larry, repairer of telegraph
lines for the Sioux City and Dakota
railroad, exhibits an odd job of the
lightning'a work. It is a piece of tele
graph wire, first melted completely in
two, and then twisted and soldered to
gether again.
At Omaha a curious freak was re
cently performed by the wind. Flor
ence and Willow lakes, north of the
city, were blown nearly dry, the wind
scooping out the water. The ground
near the lakes was covered with dead
fishes which were blown out of the
water.
The Southern cow pea has a very
rapid growth. In ninety days it reaches
a dense mass of loliage, which destroys
other vegetations, and protects the soil
from the rays of the sun. Turned un
m der in August a crop ol these peas is
'believed to equal a two-year-old clover
"s a food fertilizer.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, and lived with her but
a short time. He was an austere liter
ary recluse, while she was a rosy, romp
ing country lass, who could not endure
the restraint placed upon her, so they
separated. Subsequently, however, she
returned, and they lived tolerably happy
together.
Lyman Beecher, on returning home
from church one Sabbath, said'that he
had done very poorly. Said one of .his
boys: "Wliy, father, I thought sou
were never in better trim; you fust
shouted it out to 'em." "Aye, aye, re
plied Mr Beecher, "that's it exactly;
when I'm not prepared I always holler
at the top of my voice."
A French statist has come to the con
clusion, after a very laborious examina
tion of the number of deaths from rail
way accidents In all parts of the world,
that if a person were to live continually
in a railway carriage and spend all his
time in traveling, the chances in favor
oi his dying from railway accident
would not occur until he was 960 years
old.
A young woman ran wildly into a
St. Louis police station, and said that
rats were killing three babies in a cer
tain house. Officers were dispatched to
save the infants; buta physician, who
was called in to sec the woman, dis
covered at once that she was Buffering
from delirium tremens, as a conse
quence of celebrating her eighteenth
birthday unwisely.
John Howard, the great philanthro
pist, married his nurse. She wasalto
gether beneath him in social life and
intellectual capacity, and besides she
was fifty-two years old while he was
but twenty-five. He wouldn't take
'No" for an answer, and they were
married and lived happily until she
died, which occurred two years after
ward. »
The iron workers of England inolud«
140.000 laborers in furnaces and forges,
169.000 in the manufacture of machin
ery, 6,600 in steel works, 48,000 in ship
building, and about 200,000 in varioui
branches of iron and steel manufac
ture, milking about 670,000 in all. Th<
mining population is about 630,000, and
the laborers in cotton mills abou'
• 00 , 000 .
A fond mother wants to learn some
way to tell how her son will turn out.
That's easily done. If he's wanted to
go out and weed the garden, he wilt
turn out slowly and reluctantly and bo
two hours dressing. If he's called to
see a circus procession go by he'll
probably turn out quick and hurt him
Belf trying to come downstairs and put
a boot on at the same time.— Lowell.
Bun.
Postmaster General Maynard's last
duty as minister to Turkey was not of
an agreeable nature. He was obliged to
sit ns sole judge in tho case of a natural
ized AUiCriean citizen accused of mur
dering a Turkish pasha bv poison. The
man was found guilty and sentenced to
death. This is the nrst instance where
an American minister has been called
upon by virtue of his official position to
try a murder case.
.. Bulgaria is a nioe kind of a place to
A resident says that when
three or lour aimed Bulgarians meet an
unarmed Turk alone, they generally cut
off his head; and when three or four
Turka meet a Bulgarian under similar
circumstances, they generally out off
his head. When the Turk loses his head
the case is ended, but when the dead
garian is found there is an inquiry,
•ks are arrested and examined, and
encouraged to speak the truth by the
application of red-hot irons to the soles
of their feet.
live in.
Bui
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A Brilliant Vagrant.
A letter was received at the Allegheny
poor board office several days ago ask
ing information in regard to an aged and
insane tramp who had been arrested at
Butler, and whose case was before the
poor authorities of that county. He
stated that he came from Pittsburg.
Nothing was known about him at the
egheny office, but later it has been
found out that he was at one time, about
thirty-five or forty years ago, a lawyer of
no little ability, a polished and eloquent
speaker, and a member of tbe State con
stitutional convention of 1837. He was
also a politician of some note and took
an active part in the campaign which
resulted U the election of President
Pierce, and received as his reward the
position of United States minister to the
kingdom of Sardinia. Here he served
with no little ability until suddenly he
became insane, and while out of his
mind oommitted some acts which neces
sitated 1rs immediate recall. He was
brought back to this country, and re
turned again to this eity, where he at
tempted to re-establish his legal prac
tice, taking up an office in tnc Burke
building on Fifth avenue. But the story
ot his insanity had preoeded him, and
he was regarded with universal distrust.
Among other things he tried to recover
a large amount ior tuition from a former
student in his office, and made great
efforts to reopen old cases in which he
had acted as counsel. He finally drifted
out of view and latterly has been com
pletely lost sight of bv those of his old
colleagues who are still practicing.—
PiUeburg Telegraph.
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