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WILMINGTON, DEL., WED&SDAY, JANUARY 14, 1880.
YOL. I.
NO. 1.
THElllVEUOPUFE.
The
wo live,
brief appear
Our life'* euooocding stages;
A day to childhood aeoins a year,
Aud years like passing ages.
The gladsome cuirent of
Ere passion yet diuorders,
_ Bteals lingering like a river Bmooth
Along its grauay borders.
tho o&reworn cheek grows
And sorrow's shafts fly thiokor,
life to
your courses quicker?
But :
Yos
Why
When joys bavo lost their bloom and breath,
Aud life itself is vapid.
Why, i
Feel we its tide
It may bo strange, yet who would chauge
Time's course to ( lower spooling,
friouds are gone
And left out bottom bleeding.
Heaven gives our yoara of fading streu gth
Indemnifying flcetuesM;
And those of youth, asi eming length
Proportioned to their sweetness.
the Falls of Death,
W1
! '■'
CATHERINE.
If you think the lovers I am going to tell
about were a pink und white girl, with
sweet eyes aud line hair, and a tall, hand
some fellow saying soft things to her, you
are greatly mistaken.
We had been at summer hotels, at the
seaside, and among the mountains, where
pert Irish girls, and sometimes perter Yankee
ones, flaunted around the table in parti-col
ored costumes, and with hair frizzled und
pulled over their eyes, a iu poodle.
tired of people, and wanted to
Induced a farmer's wife to count
share their
These and
We
rest; so
us among lier family, and let
fresh butter and sweet cream,
the strawberries, and the chickene, were ail
very nice, but the most refreshing sight
there was a real genuine servant.
She was a middle-aged woman, with
horny hands, hair touched with gray, and
a patient, sad exp:ession in her eyes. Her
low aud pleasant, and'her smile
very winning, although she
ly plain, and bore marks of
with that destroyer of beauty —the small
pox.
role ■
s uncommon
encounter
c.™c U Ä h ' r-Kiir 1 ..' 0 r 8UCh pet
. denn, W l,-.torched print' with"" «T™
the same at the neck; a checked apron, tiejd
-J hcr* hair
was aiw ays combed smoothly over her fore
head. She was one of those rare women
who can get up a dinner, and then, as If by
magic, put hersei f in perfect order to serve
at tabic.
Catherine
doing double duty at this
time. The boy, whoso duty it was to milk
seven cows and feed two hundred bens,
had gone borne, ill, ami as the men were
busy in the harvest-fields, his work came
had g
N
her. The farmer
York to get another
down to New
, and was expected
at evening, we went out to see
we stood beside her aud
erine milk, and,
the delicate buff-colored Jersey cow she was
milking, we fell into conversation .with
lier.
a j
• She told us she wus well acquainted with
her work, having been a farm-servant in
"Hengland." She thought work lighter
and wages better hero thau there, anil re
marked :
"If servunts were willing to be like
vants here, and not be always struggling to
look like ladies, they might lay by a good
bit for a sick day, or for old age,"
I said that it was cheering to meet
who was contented witli her lot; upon
which she heaved a deep sigh, and I
that it was the same old story—"an aching
void," if no deeper sorrow.
She did not look up, nor court smypathy,
but I could not help saying:
"I suppose you left your parents behind,
and your brothers and sisters?"
"No; my parents died when I were a bit
of a child. My brother died ten years
ago."
"Well, one sighs for the very green earth
of his native land," 1 said.
"Oil, well, I don't know about that, |
ma'am; I never think of that. It's just as
green and sweet here. God's earth is about j
the same all over;" and again there was a
deep, deep High. f
We followed Catherine as she bore the j
shining pails into the dairy, and there
met the lady of tbe farm.
Yes, we mean just that, for she wi
lady as well as a farmer's wife. She met I
Catherine with a smile, and said : •
"Be patient one more milking. Catherine.
The master's coming to-morrow with a
who will be twice the help to you Joe was?"
Catherine smiled and replied: "I'm not
a-weary. and neither am I impatient,
ma'am."
We left the brick-fl x>red dairy, and as
passed into tho sitting-room, I snid to
tho lady, "That woman bus. some great sor
row."
"Oh, no; only perhaps a little ''omeslck
for hold Hengland ;' " was tbe reply. "She
has has been with me two years, and bus
never spoken of any trouble.
"I have bad my suspicions, however,"
she added, "that she might have a husband
somewhere, although she passes for an old
maid. Tbe worthy man in our cottage,
who has a nice home and some money,
wanted to marry her, lust winter, to secure
a good mother for his boys. But she said,
'No. that she 'ad no' eart for marrying.' "
When the open wagon came up from the
depot, ubout sunset next day, we all went
to the kitchen door to welcome "tbe mas
ter," and to take a peep at the
Catherine stood in the doorway, tbe pic
ture of neatness. She was dressed in one
of her "Henglish gowns," in which good
sized cowslips reposed on a ground of re
freshing lilac color.
I complimented her dress, and her high
topped comb, and her broad muslin collar,
when she smiled and replied :
"These all were r*—
j
given me at a lair at
'orae, years agone, and I have worn them
out twice. Some way, I just ftlt like dress
ing up this afternoon. Perhaps it was to
please you, who have spoke
"Thank you, Catherine,
the wagon. See what a great muscular
fellow the master has brought!"
The master gave the reins to one of the
hay-makers who was just coming
bade another to take Timothy's '
tho burn-chamber, aud then ho walked into
the kitchen with his new giant, saying:
"Come in and get your supper, so
kind to me."
Here comes
in to tea,
'box" into
to
feel at home before you go to your
Catherine!"
Catherine had fled ; and the man, who
had caught a glimpse of lier, stood looking
«ri the door through which sho had vanish
ed, his eyes and mouth wido open.
"Catherine, come now and give your
countryman a good supper!" called the
farmer.
In a moment she appeared in the door
way, as pale as marble ; and the great, good
looking, middle-aged man made a hound
for lier, and caught her in his arms, and
showered kisses—wliich souuded like the
report of patent pop-guns—on her pale
face.
room.
Ho then held her off at arm's length and
cried :
"l8itye, indeed, Catherine, that I thought
deud, found by a mcricle?"
••O Timothy!" gasped Catherine, "I'd
long thought ye dead in Haustraiia!"
"J never set foot
téll ye I was goiu'."
Here we all withdrew from what should
be a strictly private conference.
That night Catherine tapped at my door;
and, when admitted, she said, with a
tesy :
it, sinner as I
'
i nu
"I couldn't let yc sleep, ma
plained» lest ye might think
modest girl that a stranger would dare be
kissing.
"Timothy and me
other at 'ome, and for four years
strangling to lay up a bit to come to Hain
erica with. I was by natur' a bit *ad, and
'c was tho merriest lad iu the town. 'E
at times, telling me 'e'd
found u fairer nor me, and would
lier, and so used to fret me.
"But we'd always make up, and 'o'dsay'o
wouldn't change me for any girl iu the land.
But 'e'd soon be hat it again.
" 'E tried it once to holten,
sayin' '
'am, till I'd
3 'trothed to each
were
would tease
In.u : \
'E came iu,
goin' hoff to Haustraiia, and
wouldn't be back for ten years, umfrhid me
farewell. I couldn't bear tho mortification,
and 1 made up my mind to leave Ueng
land.
made them thejiappiest
as
"When night came, 1 put my box in the
wagoner's 'ands, and went to Liverpool,
and took ship tor 'ere. I lialways thought
'im in Haustraiia, and 'e thought me crazed
or dead when I
'e's suffered cuough, poor dear lud.
"Aye, though such long years ha' gone
by, Vs never loved anollser, and 'is 'cart is
just breakin' wi' gratitude to God for bring
ing 'im safe to me. " 'E's promised, sol
not to be found. But
3
WtTi've Sd ThemCrens
t 0 go to the minister with 'im to m™
Â^r"!^,7offert to"u^
'Hover in 'is best wagon. "
'»But you have no weddimr dmw " T
8all j y wectoing dress, I
"O dear lady, if I 'ud a t housand o' 'em,
I'd throw them all aside and wear the cow
slip gown that Timothy gave mo at the
fair I"
The next evening, we had a wedding
supper in tho diniug-roow; and we all
Catherine and Timothy. We
gave them wedding-j .resents, and wished
them joy,
waited
The Sensitive Plane.
The idea of subjecting this remarkable
plant to the action of uuæsH'.etics
tural, and several experiments of the kind
are recorded, the plant bnving been placed
ID vapors of ether or chloroform. Recent ly,
Mr. Arloiug has made some interesting
observations of the effects of chlora, chlo
roform, and ether presented for absorption
at tho roots. The pots
aqueous solutions of these substances, then
covered to prevent escape of the vupors.
After absorption of chloroform or ctber,
one notes primary aud secondary effects;
tho former
milar to those arising from mechanical irri
tation, and compurable to those in animals
when amestbetized. They occur sucessivcly
from tho bottom to tbe top of the stein. In
thirty to sixty minutes tbe common petioles
(or lgaf-stcms) straighten and^tlie leaflets
separate, beginning from the top of the
; but tbe plant is now found to have
lost its sensibility. The secondary effects
consists of elimination of the anœsthetic.
The sensibility often does not return for
of
or
at
tions whereas past experiments on the sub
ject have been made with withered or mu
tilated plants.. If tho leuves are in good
state, the common petioles bend down sud
denly and successively from below upwards
in the plant as the absorbed chloroform ■
readies them. Hence, knowing the di- to
mensions of the plant the volocity
of tho chloroformized water in
the stem and primary petioles can be easily
calculated. Within ibe Btcm, the velocity
is modified by the state of the tissues and
foliage, the temperature, &c.; it was found
in different cases, at the rate of 0.90 met- !
res, 2.22 metres, 2.40 metres, aud 5.76
metres per hour. The velocity increases
from tho base to the top of the stem in the
ratio of 1 to 1.25 I
n half times or tw
ns in the
the roots
six and a half minutes.
one and a-half or two hours. Chloral does
not uct auæstheticaliy on the sensitive
plant.— These observations afforded M.
Arloiug
plants under strictly physiological condi
sprinkled with
phenomena of excitation si
Arloiug an opportunity of ascertaining ve
locity of liquids in tho stem and branebesof
in
1.50, and it is one and
as great in the petioles
. Tho time of absorption by
found to vary from two to
Fluluit a Judge.
A Daniel lias
to judgment m the
person of Judge Eldridge, of Memphis,
Teun., who requires the officers of the Cir
cuit to be prompt in their attendance under
penalty of fine. One day recently he was
late himself, and business was, of course,
suspended until he appeared. He mounted
the bench with the stern aspect of Brutus.
"Mr. Clark," he observed, "you will please
sab, enter up a fine against Judge Eldridge
for absence without an excuse." This
done amid breathless silence, but soon after
ward Attorney General Duval made a most
eloquent appeal in favor of remitting the
fine. He referred in touchuur terms to the
uniform promptness of Judge Eldridge, and
to Ins devotion to the duties of his official
position. Then followed W. J. Rives, iu
a speecli in wliich logic and pathos were
most delicately and ingeniously interwoven.
But tbe eloquence of both attorneys fell
. The Court observed that while
stony
edified and moved by the eloquence of the
learned counsel, its determination to punish
the offender was inflexible. Bartlett might
pass away ; the time might arrive when
Memphis would cease to discuss the sani
tary question ; but that fine must stand.
Th« Toau Market of Paris.
By the Jardin des Plantes, in the old and
quaint quarter of St. Marcel, Pans, you
will find, every Wednesday morning, from
spring to autumn, a very curious market
place. From seven to nine A. M., your
attention is called to an open space of
ground, separated by a boarding from the
street by a noise like unto that which greets
of tired Senators when the sun of
day is j meeting tho twilight hour, and all
the banks of the Washington
canal is chorously joyous and loud ! We
approach this market place so full of simp
licity and sound. Young men iu blue
blouses, black silk caps, pert faces, jaunty
, big finger rings, dandy boots, greasy
hair—parted down the middle—and prim
moustaches, ure the venders. In one hand
they hold a little stick, and when the
sounds alluded to grow heathenish, whack!
goes the stick on the top of a barrel whcnco
these diabolical noises emanate, and silence
reigns. The touds are momentarily dumb.
Wo know there is a great deal of unlovable
sentiment arrayed against toads, yet toads
are full of love sentiment. A toad carries
all its young in a most loving and senti
mental manner, and why should no» like
beget like, if there be any truth in the doc
trino of Aristotle? Much bad blood and
malignity is got up against toads. This
one of the young men in njouse tells me, in
a foppish, half-philosophical way. Barrels
of toads! Think of it ! Barrels packed like
barrels of potatoes ! "Selling at 2 francs,
40 to (1 francs a dozen, prime toads! nice
toads!" Who buys them? Vegetable gar
deners. W r liy ? For the reason that toads
devour the insects that otherwise would de
vour the vegetables. Who devours the
toads? Contrary to some ideas—not the
French people. But toads
, not devoured,
of
to
as
to
ing
of
but
ing
To
will
any
the
Hi"
frogdom
being sold
d it is with the scl
are interested. How do they vend
in blouse bares liis arm
ling
them? Young
and thrusts his open hand into the slimy
swim and brings up two, three or four gym
nastic toads, wriggliug and writhing. He
points out their merits and delivers them in
a box by the dozen to the eager market
gardener who takes his choice and pays his
price. The buying and selling is done
peditiously aud quietly. The license
nue to the Government is great, while the
profit to the venders is greater, arising from
thisI other peculiar Parisian baseness, the
selling of toads. I addressed myself to one
of the merchants: "Permit me to ask if you
have been long in this business ?" Merch
ant looks at me and laconically replies:
"Born in it l" Then I resume and say, en
couragingly : "You know a good deal about
it?" He looks at me agnin and replies:
"All!" I am uneasy as fo his feelings,
therefore change the attack by asking:
"Does it pay well ?" He deigns not to look
, but replies: "It does!" "Do
you suffer much loss by death by paekiug
the toads all of a mass in a barrel?" "1 do
not I "
"It is I
propagate them ?" "We don't care much,
aud they propagate themselves!" "Where?"
"Marshes and rockeries 1" "Do you ever
feed them?" "Never 1" "How do you
avo y0l) ft
as the "concentrated" assemblage'of int^y
reva
way
I
the
a
"Is it expensive to cultivate them ?"
" "How do you care for them aud
mud,
to
man,
and
room
why
eat
long
face
she
you
must
it
toads, and I leave him.
Trapping Rats.
Having lured to destruction, many old
Solomons among rats I will detail my plan:
Take a pan nearly full of bran, set a small
steel trap without any bait, put a light wad
of tow or cotton under the pin of the trap,
wliich press down so it is just ready to
spring; put the trap in the bran, making a
place with tho hand so that it may bo below
tbe surface when level; lustily scatter a few
kcrnal8 of corn on the bran (pumpkin seeds
better), and you are ready for your vic
tim. I hardly ever fail to fool some of
the ring-leaders iu this way, while younger
one's are easily caught. If you cunnot
thus circumvent that shy and cunniug old
specimen, I will give you my plan with
strychnine, which is as swift with rats as
with dogs. So much for the W isconsln
rats. We cannot but think that the "old
Solomons" out there aro not half so wise
or canning as some we have encountered
at the East. Some years ago the rats made
bad havoc in our cellar, and wo resolved to
try the efficacy of the steel trap. It
set in a large flat vessel and well covered
aud bidden with bran. We were
cautious than the writer above, for
used a large spoon to move the bran, fear
ing tbe rats might smell tbe touch of lin
gers and keep away. Small bits of cheese
were then dropped
covered trap. 'Hie next morning there
were trucks of rats all over tbe surface, ex
cept where the trap was buried ; and the
cheese wus all taken, except directly over I
the trap! We were compelled to resort
to a more effectual trap, which proved suc
coisful—in the shape of a tine old cat.
his
at
sible
must
heard
born
from
sacks
when
and
Tsar.
we're
long
used;
ed
in
aud
tbe
my
just
Dod'i
as
was
her
to
We
about
all parts of the
A Child's Hattie With au Eagle.
C. Wieland, Auditor of Lake county,
Minn., writes: "Recently, while little Au
gust Burr, aged seven yours, was playing
with his sisters—one five years old aud* the
other three and one-half—near his father's
enormous eagle pounced down
house,
uprm them» throwing the two girl9 to the
ground,
younger
arms with the claws of
claws of the other foot were deeply buried
in the child's face; and it attempted to
carry the cliild off, but was prevented by
her struggles. Little August, seeing that
be could do nothing with his
help his sister ran quickly to tbe bouse,
out and
It immediately attacked the
, grasping one of the child's
foot, while the
hands to
got thè butcher-knite, aud
hacked away at the eagle's legs, anting
of them severely near the foot, whereupon
the savage bird let go the little girl and at
tacked the boy, knocking him over, tearing
his pantaloons, and giving him some
severe scratches. In the meantime the
screams of the children brought out their
mother, whereupon the eagle flew off to
the barn,
though he would like to renew the contest,
should a favorable opportunity offer. A
neighbor was called who shot the bird. It
measured seven feet from wing-tip to
wing-tip. The little girl is badly sci ached,
but not seriously hurt. "
den
love
ble.
no.
oui
which lie sat and looked as
Did you
with vour hammer and
you may think that they
musical instruments. But there is no
sweeter echo in the arches of heaven
than comes of work wrought by loving
hands,
think of praising God
? Perhaps
not very
matter how rough the work
or how noisy the earthly accompani
ment.
osta.
Cable.
Tn* n«w pTl
■bore sad of
_ jwisuear Prov
incetcwn, Cape Cod. . jdrKftorth East
ham the land lines of ft: American Union
Telegraph Company afford transmis
to all pointB iu tti» rited States aud
Canada. The Pouÿêriîforter Company is
composed mostly of Fp -h and American
stockholders, the formflj lolding the bal
of power, andhiti paid-up capital
of about $8,000,000, Si to be increased
by an additional amqj of $2,000,000.
Its oiHcers aro practice hen, experienced
in telegraphy and in 1J management of
telegraphic business wj(, he outside world.
The cable was O0hv "by Siemeu
Brothers, ot England, ' > also built the
cable used by the Dite*. Company. It is
considered heavier, stiver and more
nearly perfect than any'n/' used by other
companies. The prooe#** its building is
especially adapted I
A central wire of coppoft surrounded by
ten esppar wires,
lute conductivity iu
lating .purposes thref oiS'elopes of gutta
percha surround the
the gutta percha Is p
manilla hemp treated .^lith Cliatterton's
compound. An arniijr steel wire for
protection is placed hemp, the
wires composing tho i*q l yf'D«ing laid in a
peculiar manner, side bjid®, so that frac
tures seem ahuost fry ssible to occur.
Surrounding the armor mother covering
of manilla hemp, sat-raw. with an anti
corrosive compound, u hi makes the as
surance doubly sure that* u cable will be
always be ready for uso.-UD.'e cable ex
tends from Brest, Frantf 1 ° St- Pierre,
Miquelon, and from to North
Eastham. At its cc/ii]?Tfthe Faraday
will return to Brest, wfiefanother cable of
similar concstruction willye laid from Brest
to Land's, England, estabfsbiug connection
with that country. The Sjjtttmea across is
only about two hundred Tp' *» find, os the
water is shallow, the elerlwUns regard this
as an easy task. Next}*-!!' the company
will lay still another cableftÿüi .Land's End
to St. Fierro, thus establishes double line
between this country ap /.urope. The
Faraday, which is well :it_isd to. the lay
ing of ocean cables, was ij the vt ry centre
of the cyclone in ifce Norn Atlantic Ocean,
but paid no attention to tfunnily element,
keeping on about its busipws of cable lay
ing just as if nothing els© was going on.
To secure a landing-p!,*c*Lin tho United
States the company gav ft m United States
government a guarantee jfat the company
will not consolidate or rf.nalgauiate with
any other line, or combijf therewith for
the purpose of regulating rates.
North Eastham, wfc
Hie
cable has L.
i hose rosults.
I insuring abso
H'i'uJr. For insu
and outside of
' a" wrapping of
I
A Married Wtlow.
It was just before the ^teningof the rail
way from Taganrog to KWrkof in 1869, and
was driving these dreary, distances in aut
umn. For the first frwo puja and nights
the weather
morning,
covered with heapfctfviM®!' 1 c * 0UlIs î
northerly ' _Ihuudeiy
lovely, Ait on the third
after sum ot the sky became
1ml
rich, black,
in ocean of inky
post station of
1er, "Impossible
Russia. In liaif
rolling plains had beconf
mud, und we reached t!
Donski only to find the j
proceed."
I called for tea, and the samovar was
brought in by a fine, upriuht, gray bearded
man, whom, from his bit.ck velvet tunic
and slashed sleeves, I took to be tbe post
master himself. He was followed into the
room by a noble looking Cbssack woman of
age, who said, "Little husband,
why don't you ask the little lord if be will
eat a partridge and a bit,of bread? The
kurupatka is plump, anil the day will be
long before bis troika caypje
face the storm." She Smiled sweetly as she
spoke—be smiled lovingly upon her ; then
she left us, looking lingeyingly back.
"Your wife's in love with you still, and
you with her, postmaster," I said. "You
must have beaten her will when she
young for her to love y îu so. How long is
since you were
ho
his
to
in
It
harnessed ta
ed?"
sixty,"-he replie^; "Iwasmarried
twenty-five, thirty-live ye&n—flve years
before I died."
"What?" said I.
"Five years before my death. Is it pos
sible that you don't know my story ? Y
must have come a long vay off, for I have
heard that it is told
"I
lpon the Azof."
And, throwing bis lers across & chair,
without more ado, be spoke thus, I was
born in 1809 and
from Palis of my fathA und uncle—Cos
sacks of the Don. Thoal were grand days,
when every Cossack was an officer by birth,
and when the Hetman PjStot
Europe, conqueror of the Turks and of the
French, and friend and equal of the White
Tsar. Now tbis Petersbarg Tsar says that
we're no hotter than liis Great Russian
slaves, and for many years my sabre and
long pistols have hung upon the wall
used; aud when I have vorn my red band
cup and my red stripped breeches I've
always hid as much as 1 could of tlio stripe
my boots, for I'm ashamed of it now;
aud they're even goirg to take away our
privilege of the supply of salt.
a young postmaster—for my
father was dead—with r good place aud a
handsome beard, I
tbe two church villages*i oand. I could pick
my wife, and I chose Oiga, that you saw
just now."
"There!" said I.
"All! wait and see. Wait, little lord!
Dod'i be impatiufit ! - 'Gca^was as lovelv
she was good. Yçu lave seen her in her
sixtieth year. Her gfbduess is what it
was ; and, though I maybe an unsafe judge,
her beau'y, I think, is mt yet gone."
He looked at me. I îodded. .
"We wire baiipy q, first; but I was
youug. I felt the chin. I was faithful
her as far as women vent, but not kind.
We had no children.
"One day, iu 1839 sie
about me, and flung he
remember the return
King of
"In 1834,
-he best match i
a
an
in low spirits
upon a sud
den about my neck, with, 'Do you really
love me, little Joluv-21-..l
" 'You know 1 do.'i
" 'But not as I lov/jfou.'
"To tell you what thoughts flashed in
instant through my mird woula be impossi
ble. That what she sad was true, That
while I did love her ii, a kind way, I was
hound to her for life, whether I would or
no. Iiivgi fit of wild rjge, I struck her oue
riiort, sharp blow, öle looked at me, with
despair in her eyes, walked slowly into
oui 1 other room. I
* ' 'Harness a tro
u
into the stable yard.
' said I to the star
for Kharkof, with I
er dropped, and that
osta.
despatches for the
I
#
I've found upon the floor. Quick ! quick !
the best courier horses."
"In aM instant they were ready. Merrily
Jingled the bells in the crisp air. Paul took
the reins, and off I whirled. In twenty
hours I was at Kharkof. To my friend the
starosta at the great Kharkof station, who
was equal in rank and pay to most post
masters themselves, I said, 'Do me a ser
vice, little friend, as I would do one for
you. I am going to leave my wife to whom
I have been unkind, and am going to enlist
in the Gaord. Rut I wish her to forget me,'
and she must think me dead. Write to her
in a week, and tell her I was taken with
the cholera and died. Beg her to forgive
me for my unkindness. Say that I was
grateful for her love ; and that it was my
lust wish that she should marry again, some
lad more worthy of her thau myself. Make
interest to have the station continued to her
as postmistress. She was u priest's daughter,
and can write.
"We crossed ourselves; he swore;
bowed to the imago in the corner of the sta
ble ; and in five minutes \ was gone."
"A* the recruiti . g officô Ionlisted for the
Empress's regime; ' of Cuirassiers of the
Guards as a fourteen years' voluuteer, and
in a false name. I'd of course no papers,
but they ask no questions, for I was a fine
recruit. My beard was* shaved, my hair
was cut, and when I got to St. Petersburg,
and was fitted with my uniform and eagle
crowned hemlet, no one would have known
me. I rose to be sergeant and second rid
ing-master. From your padarojna I see
that you are English.
"Now, in 1853, when I had served my
time, there were rumors of war in Turkey
against you, and tempting offers were made
to me to stop and drill the recruits. But I
was wretched, and home-sickness drove me
South ; though, if 1 found my wife dead or
married, again, I intended to kill mvself."
"Petersburg is nota placo for Cossacks
either. By brooding over the past, 1 had
become madly in love with my wife. It
was no use for me to tell myself that I had
left her well off; that she was married
again and happy ; that she was fourtv-four
aud fat ; or else, perhaps, a scarecrow. I
was madly in love. I got my discharge
and pension papers, and started South. At
Kharkof my friend was dead. What if she
too were dead?"
" 'Who keeps the Donski post station
now?' I murmured, crossing myself the
while under my long cloak.
" 'The widow.'
"*'A widow that has kept it fourteen I
"
years?
" 'The some.'
"In eighteen hours I
there. I recog
nised two of the old mon, but they not me.
I rushed into the house. She was at her
day book, writing, not changed; only gra
ver, aud with silver in her black hair. My
own little Olga, in the best style of old days.
Sho did nqt turn to looic at me, but threw
up her arms and WH-forward on the^table.
I rushed to her and felt hër ~ïïèart, wfth
mine, too, all but ceosiug to beat. Iu a
moment she came to herself*—our lips press
ed together. That was in 1853. This is
1869, Sixteen years gono like a day. We
bssß made up for the past, little lord.
)*u£ would^ou believe KjL TJ
*..wd, and that thsn^bnsftl station is kclA
uy a widow. Or else, they say, the cuiras
sier riding-master must be dead, aud with
him bis pension. My widow accepts the
situation with a smile, for our neighbors all
know better thau to believe the Government,
but she keeps the books, signs the receipts,
and pays the taxes. I draw my pension in
my cuirassier name.
Some Little Things of Valae.
of
To
If
of
7
If yeur coal fire is low, throw in a table
spoonful of salt, and it will help it very
much. A little ginger put mto sausage
meat improves '.be flavor. In icing cakes,
dip the knife into cold water, lii boiling
meat for soup, use cold water to extract
the juices. If the meat is wanted for itself
alone, plunge it into the boiling water at
once. You can get a bottle or barrel of oil
off any carpet or woolen stuff by applying
buckwheat plentifully. Never put water
to such a grease-spot, or liquid of uny kind.
Broil steak without salting. Salt draws
the juices in cooking; it is desirable to
keep these, if possible. Cook over a hot
fire, turning frequently, searing both sides ;
place on a platter, salt and pepper to taste.
Beef having a tendency to be though, can
be made very palatable by stewing gently
for two hours with suit and pepper, taking
about a pint of tbe liquor when half done,
uud letting the rest boil into tbe meat.
Blown tbe meat iu the pot. After taking
up, make a gravy of the pint of liquor
saved. A small piece of charcoal in the
pot with boiling cabbage removes the smell.
Clean oil cloths with milk aud water ; a
brush and soap will ruin them. Tumblers
that have milk in them should never be put
in hot water. A spoonful of stewed toma
toes in the gravy of either roasted or fried
meats is an improvement. The skin of a
boiled egg is tho most efficacious remedy
that can be applied to a boil. Peel it care
fully, wet and apply to tbe part affected.
It will draw out tbe matter and relieve the
scoreness in a few hours
a
Do£ ami; Donuay.
A singular encounter between a dog and
a donkey has just occurred at Blackpool,
England. A retired gentleman, named
Weddihgton, owned a fine young donkey
and a splendid mastiff. The other day the
donkey was grazing in a field, when the
'dog rushed at it in a ferocious manner and
fastened on its uose. The doukey did not
decline the challenge, for it at once shook
the dog off, bit it about the head and shoul
ders, trampled on it, and tossed it about.
The dog ugain seized tbe donkey and a
crowd soon gathered, but all efforts to sep
arate the combatants were of no avail. The
dog repeatedly fastened on the donkey's
uoae. Blood llcwr.d profusely from both
animals, and at tbe end of half an hour tbe
owner appeared upon the scene, and fresh
attempts were made to part them, but with
out success. After the fight had lasted half
an hour, the owner decided to have the dog
sliot, as it had by that time fastened with a
firm hold on the donkey's nose. A gun
was procured and the services of a good
shot obtained. But so savage was the fight
that it was difficult to shoot one animal
without kdling the other also. At last aim
taken, and a bullet put into the dog's
head, and it chopped to the grornd. When
the'smoke cleared away the dog was dead,
but the infuriated donkey had returned to
the charge, kicking, biting, and tramping
the dead dog. It was with great diffi
culty the donkey was driven off.
of
to
the
As
not
the
er
is
ma .v
that Donohue was his brother's murderer,
an d then determined to slay him. Dono
hue was shot at once in First avenue, and
an endeavor was made to show that Scan
nell had made the attempt to assassinate
him, but the evidence was not sufficient to
fasten the crime on him. All that could
bo proved wa9 that a man in disguise had
shot at Donohue. Four years passed and
Donohue still lived, but Scanned had not
relinquished his purpose. Instead, his de
termination grew stronger with time, and
eventually consumed every other desire : it
became a mania, which controlled his wa
king thoughts and dreaming hours. On the
eve of the Presidential election, in Novem
ber > 1872, the pool rooms in this city were
crowded by eager investors on the result,
0ue of tIie m09t notcli places at that time
was T - B * Johnson's .at Broadway and
Twenty-eight street, On the Saturday
preceding the day of election that place
was literally packed. Standing near the
door was Thomas Donohue, with no thought
or care appareutly for anything else than
investing bis money in the election pools,
A® he
J°l ai Scanned went down the stairs and
^aw him. Without waminf. b° drew his
pistol, aud pointiug it at Lonohue., began
firing, remarking, "I have you uow." Dou
°bue fed at the tirst fire, and Scanned then
emptied the remaining shots iu his pistol
into the body of the fallen man. Death j
ensued almost immediately, aud Scanned I
was arrested aud indicted for murder. On j
his tirst trial he was sentenced to be huug :
trial granted,
aud by a jury of physicians Scanned
declared insane. He was sent to the State
Asylum at Utica, and after a short confine
ment there,
Corpus, the courts wliich declared him in
sane'llien declaring him sane. At the time
Donohue was shot Edward Scanned
Fordham Collego. It w22r*i*4*de.s
family that he should be educated
A Doomed Family.
A few nights ago Edward Bcannell,
shot and dangerously wounded Henry
Wilson, in a lowgrogery in New York. Tho
male members of the family seem bom to
misfortune, which is a mild word to ex
press what has, at times, been tinged with
crime. In the fall election of 1868 Flor
ence Scanned
Alderman. A few nights before the elect
tion be
a candidate for Assistant
in Thomas Donohue's saloon,
at Twenty-third street aud Second avenue.
The place was crowded, and much heated
dicussion on politics took place. Hot words
led to blows : during the fracas some one
fired a pistol, The bullet lodged in Flor
ence Bcannell's spine. After lingering for
a few days ho died in Bellevue Hospital.
John Bcannell accused Donohue of shooting
his brother, although the charge was not
made until several days afterwards, Noth
ing could be proved against Donohue, and
the charge fell to the gronud. Indeed, it
was said at the time, and it is current
among politicians aud sporting men, that
John bcannell lnmself fired the shot, in
tending to hit another man. Bo this as it
, John Scannell professed to believe
as
tle
the
of
ery
by
use
tummg to speak to a friend,
the case was appealed,
r. -I■!i
a writ of habeas
ire of the
Hqv the
priesthood. His brother's crime bah-ed
CfcBi sc* ambitious a cal! y$, and} •
xdav li3 chaiued v moral • i
. Wb<
youth to a reçaiess
Scannell was released from the asylum ho
upou the life of a profess
ional sporting man. He became, and is
part owner of a gambling saloon in
Barclay street aud another
und Broadway. In both of these places
his younger brother, Ed. Scannell,
dealer for a faro game,
L jg
is
jonn I
entered at
! I
A Hot Water River.
The projector of the Sutro Tunnel is of
the opinion that the hot water which is so
troublesome in tbe Comstock mines conics
from a depth of ten or fifteen thousand
feet, where the rocks are at a high temper
ature ; also that there must be sonic con
nection between the water of the Comstock
lode and that of tbe boiling springs at
Steamboat, six or seveu miles distant. One
of tbe great advantages of tho tunnel is the
means it affords for draining the mines.
The tunnel discharges about twelve thou
sand ton of water every twenty-four hours.
To lift this water to tbe surface would cost
not less than $3,000 a day. Some of tho
water has a temperature of 165 degress
where all tho water mingles ; four miles
from tbe mouth of the tunnell the tempera
ture ranges'from 180 degrees to 135 degress.
If left to flow through the open tunnel this
water would so fill the air with steam
make the tunnel impassable. In flowing
the four miles through a tight flume made
of 3 inch yellow pine, tbe water loses but
7 degress of heat. At the mouth of the
tunnel the watci
you
if
side
yet
ness
of
sou
only
pure
the
that
at
is
own
the
loot
the
conducted sixty feet
down a shaft to a wheel in the umciiine shop,
whence it is curried off by' a tunnel eleven
hundred feet in lcugili, which serves as a
this tunnel the water flows
. This
the
this
tail race. F
a mile and a liait to the Carson
large flow of warm water is now used for
many purpose, the first to utilize it having
been boys who made small ponds to swim
in—pioneers, it may.be, iu establishing a
system of warm baths, which may ultimat
ely become a great sanitary
water can also be turned to account iu heat
ing hot houses and for irrigation. The
tunnel company have a farm of
thousand acres which, when properly
watered, is very fertile. Iu coarse of time
there will probable be many acres of fruit
and vegetables under glass at this point all
warmed aud watered by the tunnel water.
t. The
life
the
iu
Alpine Hoi
The Alpine horn is
instrument made
of the hark of a cherry tree, and like a
speaking trumpet, is used to convey sounds
to a great distance, When the last rays of
the sun gild the summit of the Alps, the
shepherd who inhabits tho highest peak of
these mountains takes his horn, and cries
with a loud voice, "Praised be the Lord."
As soon
some
with
lor
disse
the neighboring shepherds hear
him, they leave their huts, aud repeat these
words. The sounds
prolonged many
minutes, while the echoes of the rocks re
peat the name of God. Imaginatian can
not pictureauy thing more 'solemn or sub
lime than sucha scene. During the silence
that succeeds, tne shepherds bend their
knees, aud pray in tiie open air, then re.
pair to their huts to rest. Tho suulight
gilding the tops of these stupendous moun
tains, upon which the vault of Heaven
seems to rest, the maguificent scenery
uround, and tho voices of tiie shepherds
sounding from rock to rockTthe praise of
the Almighty, fill the mind of every
er with enthusiasm and awe.
we
ol
them
who
ey
to
blu
, 1 -
Faith is simple, it is to believe; faith
is sublime, it is to he boru again.
F°°D FOR THOUGHT.
A great head has great cares.
Forgetfulness Is no apology.
Love Is the crowning grace of the
Christiau life.
The doctrine of the Atonement is full
of tho love ol God. -
People's Intentions can only be deci
ded from their conduct.
He keeps 1 his road well enough who
gets rid of bad
îpany.
To openly offend virtue Is to clandes
tinely defend immorality.
By looking into physical causes
minds are opened and onlarged.
Happiness and unliappiuess aroqual
ities of mind) not of pluce or position.
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these
three, but the greatest of these is love I
You should consider your adversity
as absent when your senses are depar
ted.
our
Those gifts are ever tho most accep
table which the giver has made precious.
Theae would not be
, , many open
mouths it there were not so many open
ears.
Give, if thou canst, an alms; If not
afford, instead of that a'sweet aud gen
tle word.
The mind hath reason to remem
ber that passions ought to be her vassals
nor her masters.
All virtue lies in a power of douying
our own desires when reason docs
authorize them.
A oiuperor iu his night cap will not
meet with half the respect of
poror with a crown.
Expression is of more consequence
than shape—it will light up .leatures
otherwise heavy.
Generalize lions and great self-con
ceit are always preparing the most la
mentable mishaps.
People do not reflect that, they -may
boon die. It they did their quarrels
would quickly terminate.
Humor, warm and all-ombraoing as
the sunshine, bathes its objects in a
genial and abiding light.
Ai piescnt let us remove what is bad ;
which must always he done before good
of any kind can spring up.
Ordinary appreheusion, or a correct
view of human allairs, is the general
heirloom of common sense.
Never neglect to periorm the
mission which the tv
you. You must not forget.
Men are often more guilty of .treach
ery from woukmss of character thau
from any settled design to betray,
The universe is but one great city,
lull of beloved ones,divine aud human
by nature endeared to each other.
Perseyeriug mediocrity is much more
respectable, and of unspeakably more
use than talented inconstancy, *
There are many manifestations of
God's love in nature and providence,
but the greatest of ail is iu Christ his
Son.
an
corj
iu eiitrusted to

i
Jan at. ——
otfg up,
gave
:i I
jg || tl>en W iifat bv.h ^ridc to the^tanlng-^
Let every man sweep the snow from *
before his own door und not busy
himself about the frost on- his neigh
bor's tiles.
To bo vain of what yon have learned
is the same as to plume yourself
piece of gsino yoa have received from a
hunter.
There can be no surer way to success
than by disclaiming all conlldeiice in
ourselves, and referring tbe events of
ifnplicic coufi
things to God with
dence.
Sumo persons are chronically sour ;
you leel every time you meet them as
if you'd been eutiug lemons without
sugar ; tiiey slump
side and out.
a scowl on you iu
While it is impossible, even after
conversion, to live without sinning,
yet provision is made for the forgive
daily slus, aud tbe washing
ness of
of the stains.
Character alone Is Immortal. Not
are, Is en
what we have, but what
during.
Ideas, as ranked under names, are
those that, for the most part, men run
sou of within themselves, and always
those which they commune about with
others.
enjoy fellowship with God
only by walking where bed wells. Il
on id have the companionship ot
pure lriends, we must go iu the same
society iu which they move.
are out of f-ympatby wUV
we think our
;r. That is a sign that
the heart has begun to wither—uud
that is u dreadful kiud of olti age.
He who spends his younger days In
dlsstpaÜoii Is mortgaging nlinseit to
disease and poverty, two inexorable
creditors, who are certain to foreclose
at lasü und take possession ot the pre
mises.
It is easy in the world's opinion; It
is easy in solitude to live after your
own ; but the great
the midst of the c
loot
itude.
When y
the plai
idiomatic,
would
would native roses
We
When
the young, the
this world is
. ,v il.
is ho, who in
nl, keeps with per
eetuess the independence of sol
doubt between words use
st, the eonmiouest, tho most
E3chew flue words
you
go; We simple ones as you
your cheek.
The be*t rec pe for going through
life in an exquisite way, witli beautiful
manners, is to leel Unit every body, no
mutter how rich or how poor, needs all
the kluduBM they can get from others
tills world.
If a man want? to bo right and to do
some good in the world he must not be
discouraged when he finds himself
with the minority. At oue time or
anotmr he who accomplishes much
lor tire cause of truth is sure to iiuU the
majority against him.
When misfortunes happ
disse
to such a«
us in matters of religion,
we call them judgmeuts; when to those
our our sect, wir call tnem trials;
when to persons neither way distin
guished, we
them to the sutilud c
H
content to attribute
*80 of tilings.
y one ever bear of a person
who because ilic**e be counter fell mon
ey in circulation wouiri have nothing
to do with mom-y? Why, then, reject
Christianity because there
Christians in circulation? It is
8traugc that so trivial and unreasona*
blu an excuse should be so often offered*
Did
bogus
very
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