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Ctyibobciux ScnUuci.
THE CHEMISTRY OF CHARACTER.
John anil Peter a„J RuL-rt and Paul,
God in bis wisdom created t!i< ru all.
John was a statesman and Peter a slare,
Robert n preacher, and Paul was a knave.
Evil or good, as the e»s«* might b<*.
White or colored, or or free,
John and Peter ai..l Th.'-et. and Paul,
God in his wisdom created them all
Out of earth' - «lenient.? rtinjrU ti with flame.
Out of life's compounds < f glory and shame,
Fashioned and shaped 1 y no will < f rh.-ir own
And helplessly into Id.- histor/ thrown.
Porn by the law that eompi L men to 1 ",
torn to tho conditions that they could not
foresee,
John and, Peter and Robert- and Paul,
God in bis wisdom created tii* m ail.
.rt of l.i« stats:
lead and the In
ulhonored, was
o 'ner.lh tile's i urdens t > gr
o dreamed that his sual wn:
John was th< !
Was trnsto ! ,
Peter was mac
And never or.. o dreamed that his sual was his
own.
Robert great glory and honor received
For zealously pronciiing v. iiat- r.<» one 1 tlieved.
V.'hil i Paul of '.he pleawores if sin t .ok las lid
And gave up his life to the service of ill.
It chanced that
away
From earth and it? conf.:
he.se- men, in
tin :r passing
tiled the same
Joint \.:
•s juourncl tlirougl,
tho 1-.n- r 'tti am
br,
Mtiirh cf tbe, land.
Pel:-r ft
11 'nt ,it i the loslt of a
liu-rrik ss !:.,nd
lio t-rf. t
'.le-t with the i.-r.iis-' of
tht! Lord on Lt
t - :
:;'ne.
Wit:' r.
•.::t w.:-« e-.itviftidif : .
unit.rain', hiiitp
Job.t a.:
.-. Pet -r ::-»d RoU-rt .- it
<1 Paul,
Goo! in bis wi.suom created lb< in all.
Men said or the statesman, "Kuw noble and
1 ..tv!"
lint < r ter, ales, ' 3e v.as only a slave."
Of li i 'l, *■ Yia we'.! with bis son!, icis well."
will
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y CLnsignoti tv
loo torment
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nature tile s:t
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of Sunnite
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Win
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Out
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ro the s-pirit, through borrows n.
sue
wi
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Xo l.a::
:r resorts to deetriti<
n anu lies;
Out
vrht
ro thi
flerh t an i:o k
t.fn r roiurol
a'IIG
free
<2om :
ml faith of tin
Uool i j ven ao
increase.
Who slioll <L't w jn■ what chanp: sha
John and Peter and Robert ar.ti Pad?
John may in wisdom and goodnei
Peter rejoice in inhirite peace,
Robert may learn that the truths of the Lord
Are snore in tho spirit and In— in t oo word.
And Paul may be blessed with a holier birth
Than til.! passions of men bad allowed him on
earth.
John and Peter and Robert and Paul,
God in his wisdom created them all.
—Lmzio Dotes.
PUZZLERS IN COURT.
POINTS THAT HAVE KEPT THE LAW
YERS GUESSING.
furious Questions Raised In Courts of I .aw.
All Countries Contribute a Share of
What Wonld Make an Interesting Vol
ume—Several Examples.
An interesting volume might be writ
ten ca the curious points of law that
are constantly arising in the courts.
The most- expert lawyers and judges are
frequently puzzled by the novel situa
tions in which they are placed.
One of the most curious points of law
nu record arose recently iu a court at
Jersey, in America. The question was
whether eggs, after reaching a certain
stage of incubation, were to be regarded
as eggs or chickens. After quarreling
about the matter for some time, counsel
offered to break oue of the eggs to sat
isfy the law that it contained a chicken,
in which case, of course, the eggs would
have been considerably enhanced iu
value, but there was a general demur
to this suggestion, and the justice re
served his decision till he had consulted
his colleagues. The result had nor. come
to hand at the time of writing.
A remarkable case in Franco excited
a great deal of attention some time age.
A gentleman dining on the terrace of a
Narbonne restaurant let a bank note
fali into his soup. He laid it down on
the table to dry aud a gust of wind
blew it away. A passing dog swallowed
the note, aud tho gentleman detained
the animal, whose collar happened to
bear its master's name. Indignant at
his loss, the owner of the note sued the
dog's master for 100 francs, the value
of the note. There was much legal hair
splitting, but at length the court ordered
the owner of the dog to pay the money.
Another French case was that against
a Paris hairdresser, who was sued by a
lady for £00, being the price of her
damaged looks. The fair claimant hau
used the hairdresser's wash, which was
said to restore fallen locks, but the result
in thiscase was to burn the hair off com
pletely. The point was the liability of
the hairdresser, aud the court awarded
the lady £8. *
Applications for injunctions often
raise curious points. Not long ago an
injunction was grauted to restrain au
officer in the life guards from keeping
horses in a London drawing room, 1 he
ground of objection being the noise
which the animals made, which annoyed
the neighbors. The offending officer is
now in a lunatic asylum.
There was a fight not long ago in one
of the. London courts between a barrel
organ and a piano, an injunction being
claimed to restrain a gentleman from
keeping an organ. It seemed that the
offender was annoyed by his next door
neighbor's piano, and to avenge himseif
he obtained a barrel organ, which he
played.at all times of the day. The
question of the "liberty of the subject,"
of course, came up, but the court de
cided that, if au Englishman's house is
his castle, it is not a fit place for a bar
rel organ that never stops, and the organ
received strict instructions to remaiu
filent, on the ground that the owner evi
Tbe market value of a cough was tbe
question submitted to the Birmingham
county court. A barrister sued a rail
way company for £50 for discomfort
suffered by smoking being allowed in a
waiting room at u station and in non
Tsmoking carriages. Tho smoking aggra
vated the barrister's cough, and be was
awarded £10.
A queer point arose in the revision
court at Nottingham. While tbe court
was- sitting a young collier named All-.
ccek killed his wife in the uio't dciib-&,
erate manner and afterward confessed!?"
Ins crime. An application was made
that Alicock's name should he struck
off the register. "Why?" queried the
barrister, receiving the answer, "Be
cause he is a murderer. " "That re
6mains to bo proved,''said the barrister,
and the name remained on the roli.
1 he finding of In-; property has often
given rise to carious points of law. A
workman who fouud a valuable ring in
a London theater claimed the return of
tbe ring from tho proprietors, who had
taken possession of it. The court, how
ever, rejected his claim, as tho ring had
been picked up while the man was ful
filling his duties as a servant. At first
sight this decision appears to be incon
sistent with that arrived at some years!
ago in a case in which a chimneysweep
sued a jeweler for a precious stoue. The
sweep had found a brooch on his rounds,
which betook to the jeweler, who ex
tracted a precious stone and substituted
a worthless Imitation. On this beiu;
discovered, the jeweler replied to the
sweep's demand for the return of hi
sione that (he stone did not belong to;
the sweep, as he had fonnd it, the infer-jf
cnee being that he could, therefore,
steal it with impunity. The court, how
ever. held otherwise, and the sweep re
covered iiis jewel.
Bastern supersritition gave rise to a
singular argument in a Chinese court!
not long ago. A Chinaman had been'
sent to prison, aud, according to cus-1
tom, tbe authorities proceeded to cut offf
his pigtail, whereupon the prisoner ap-|'
plied for an injunction on tho ground!
1 hat without his pigtail he could not eu-|
ter the kingdom of heaven. After
legal quarreling the court decided that®
there is no religion iu prison, and thati
the prisoner must share tho fate of his»
comrades, whatever the resuit iu thcjP^
world to come.—London Tit-Bits. I
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fC-E CAVlS. g
t:i California With Their I'roduet as cuar^.
** t rvHtaU
In Modoc county, Cal., is au immense'*
field of lava covered with a beautiful
forest of conifers, which is inhabited by
deer, bear, pniith- r, lynx, coyote, porcu
pine and numerous far bearing animals
whose pelts are of value to the trapper.
It was in these lava beds that the Modoc
Indians made their stand against the
government troops some years ago aud
were with very great difficulty destroy
ed. It- is here that the ice caves arc
found, and from them the Modocs drew
their w ater supply while besieged by
the troops.
One never having been over a lava
field can form but little idea of the
chaotic manner in which the ingenious
workmen have left the products of their
labor. The only order observed is disor
der of the most exaggerated kind,
wln rein every mass of rock has been
twisted or raised or depressed or arched
over Mime cavern ru a different way from
that *>f its neighbors. The caves scatter
ed iLioughout these lava beds are of
very varying shapes and dimensions.
Seme arc mere covert ways, with au
arch of stone thrown over them. Others
are immense chambers some yards from
the surface, another kind is sunk quite
deeply and may be in a serioR of cham
bers united by a corridor that opens at
the surface, while another kind seems
to go directly to the center of the earth
without stopping.
Jt is here that the stores of ice are
found, which, in formed from water that
filters in annually from the melting
snows above. Every winter the lava
beds are covered with a fall of snow
which varies from two to ten feet in
depth. The temperature over this region
iu tho coldest weather is often 20 or
more degrees below zero, ro that any
water that might be in the caves is
frozen solid, unless the caves' mouths
should be entirely covered w ith snow,
w hich i« not often the case. Now, when
spring comts and the snow melts, tbe
water percolates through into the cold
storage chambers beneath and is there
congealed by the prevailing cold. It is
in this way that the ice has been made
and stored for years. And were these
caves accessible to market they would
furnish tho purest of ice to many cities
for years to come.—Popular Science
News.
Hti-nlitiH-j' Suioide.
Au extraordinary instance of heredi
tary tendency to micide was told by
Professor Erenardel in Paris lately. A
farmer u^ar Etaznpes hanged himself
without apparent cause, leaving a fam
ily of seven son and four daughters.
Ten of the II subsequently followed the
father's example, but not until they had
married and begotten children, ail of
whom likewise hanged themselves. The
only survivor is a son, who is now 69
years of age and has passed safely be
yond the family hanging age.
Iu many parte of Central and South)
America sensitive plants are so numer
ous that the course of a man or animal)
through the undergrowth may for nal
hour be traced by the wilted appearance]
of the foliage.
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BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
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a ui-srripuoa or me r.njsEmient by Geo
eml Jaek*on—A Letter From "Old Hick
ory"—How FaekenUnm's Veterans Were
Defeated by Frontiersmen.
! In The Centnry William Hugh Hob
arts has an ".r'iclo entitled "Napoleon's
In (he Ba:t!c of New Orleans. "
sqnoted a hitherto unpublished
letter written by Co-oral Jackson to Mr.
me:- Monroe. A portion of tho letter
follows:
There was a very heavy fog on tbo
river that morning, and the British had
formed and were moving before I knew
it,
very
1 and 2. No. 1 was to fire first, then
step back and let No. 8 shoot while ho
w — : . -•*
THEIR DEADLY FIRE.
-
AMERICAN RIFLEMEN AT THE
;
?.
The disposition of the riflemen was *
■y simple. They were told off iu Ncs.
,
reloaded. Atcut (100yards from tbe rifle
men there was a great drainage caual A
running back from the Mississippi river
to tbo swamp in the rear cf tbe lilled
land on which wo were operating. Along
this canal tho British formed, under the >
lire of the few artillery pieces I had
'near enough to them to get their range. [
But the instant I saw them I said to
Coffee, whom I directed to hurry to his
line, which was to be first attacked:
"By--, wo have got them! They are
ours!" Coffee dashed forward, and, rid-1
iug along his line, called our, "Don't!
sheet till you can see their belt buckles!" 5
The British were formed iu mass, well®
closed up, and about two companies
front.
Tbe. British, thus formed, moved on
at a quick step, without firing a shot, to
withiu 100 yards of the kneeling rifle
men, who were holding their tiro till
they could see the belt buckles of their
enemies. The British advance was exe
cuted as though they had been on pa
ll rade.
r:KU - Ti!P . v marched shoulder to shoul
der * %vit1 ' f "° ste P of ▼fterans, as they
v<>re ' At 100 y ards distance from our
^ ne ***© order was given: "Extendcol
nlnu f f ont1 .. -Double quick, march!
much?Charge!" With bayonets at the charge,
tbey came ou us »* a run - 1 own it was
an a,i ^ ous moment. I well knew the
cbnr *'' lif ' C0 * Dlnl! was made up of the
c ^ ft ^ tr00 P® f ^ e British army. They
had been trained by the duke himself,
were commanded by his brother-in-law
and had successfully held off the ableRt
g and had successfully held off the ableRt
gfcof Napoleon's marshals iu the Spanish
campaign. My riflemen had never seen
f such an attack, nor had they ever before
fought white men. The morning, too,
eivras damp,
Their powder might not ;
burn well. "God help ns!" I muttered, I
watching the rapidly advancing line,
Seventy, 60, 50, finally 40 yards, were^
they from the silent kneeling riflemen, f
All of my men that Iroufd see was their
long rifles rested on the logs
| them. " "
(Not a shot
They obeyed their orders well, b
lot was fired until the redcoats?.'
[were within 40 yards. I heard Coffee's''
[voice as he roared out: "Now, men, aimf:
Ifor the center of the cross belts! Fire!"
A second after the order a crackling,
Iblazing flash ran all along our line. Tho
'smoke hung so heavily in the mistv
[morning air that I could not see what
jhad happened. I called Tom Overton
fond Abner Duncan of my staff, and we
[galloped toward Coffee's line. In a few
seconds after the first fire there came
j*
iv
v
y
[came within 150 yards of Coffee the
smoke lifted enough for met*) make out
[what was happening.
The British were falling back in a
{confused, disorderly mass, and the en
[huother sharp, ringing volley. As I ig
tire first ranks of their column werepb
blown away. For 200 yards in our front
the ground was covered with a mass of[|
writhing, wounded, dead and dying red-8
coats. By the time tho rifles were wiped g
the British line was reformed, and on S
it came again. This time they were led g
by General Pakenbam in person, gai-S
lantly mounted and riding as though be
was on parade. Just before ho got within
range of Coffee's line I heard a single
rifle shot from a group of country carts
wo had been nsing, about 175 yards dis
tant, and a moment thereafter I saw
Pakenham reel and pitch out of his sad
dle. I have always believed he foil from
the bullet of a freeman of color who
was a famous rifle shot and came, from
the Atakappas region of Louisiana. The
second advance was precisely like tbe
first in its ending. Iu five volleys the
1,500 or more riflemen killed and
wounded 2,117 British soldiers, two
thirds of them killed dead or mortally
wounded. I did not know where Gen
eral Pakenham was lying, or I should
have sent to him or gone in person to
offer any service in mv power to render. B
I was told lie lived" two hours afterg
he was hit. His wound was directly
throngh the liver and bowels. General
Keene, I hear, was killed. They sent
a flag to me. asking leave to gather
up their wounded and bury their dead,
which, of course, I granted. I was told
by a wounded officer that the rank and
file ahsolntely refused to make a third
charge. "\Ye have no chance with such
shooting as these Americans do," they
said.
<me Kind of BatineM.
Bystander—Wasn't that a pretty stiff
price you asked that man for those
shoes?
Storekeeper — Yes; that's business.
They're not good for anything, so of
course he won't come again. Therefore
tve might as well get as much as we
tau out of him.—Boston Transcript.
There are 8,027 knots of ocean dis
tance between Cherbourg and Fire is
[land.
the ground. The night was quite chilly,
au d a couple of fires were lighted to add
| CRANT n0UGHS IT '
f>JIo Slept In » r:r-. n After the Battle •*
Jj »»*« Wilderness.
Tb«* generul and staff bivouacked upon
to our comfort. General Grant lay down
with his officers beside one of the fires
without any covering. When asleep, an
; aid quietly spread an overcoat over
?. him. For about four hours we all kept
turning over every few minutes so as to
get warmed on both sides, imitating
with car bodies the diurnal notion of
the earth as it exposes its sides alter
nately to ifcn heat of tho sun. When
daylight broke it was seen that a low
board structure close to which the gen
eral in chief had lain down was a pig
lien, but its former occupants had dis
* app ,. am i a »ri were probably at that time
D0Hr j.<q,jng the stomachs of the cavalry
troopers cf the invading army. Unfor
, tuDately the odors of the place had not
taken their departure with the pigs, but
A rcmailje ,] to a ,; ( j to the discomfort of tho
tivouackers. Sheridan's cavalry had
ft fight nt this place the afternoon
before, iu which he bad defeated the
> opposing force, and the ground in the
vicinity, sir* wn with the dead, offered
ample evidence of the severity of the
struggle.
At daylight on the morning of tbe
8th active operations were iu progress
throughout the columns. General Sheri
dan had ordered his cavalry to move by
different roads to seize the bridges cross
ing the Bo river. General Meade modi
fied these orders and directed a portion
of the cavalry lo move in front of War
ren's infantry on the Spottsylvania
Court House rortd. Tho enemy were fell
ing iri es and placing other obstacles in
tbe way in order to impede the move
ment, and the cavalry was afterward
^withdrawn and the infantry directed to
open the way.
About sunrise General Grant, after
taking off I: s cent and shaking it to rid
''it cf some of the dust in which he had
lain down, shared with tho staff officers
some soldiers' • >tis and then seated
himself i n the iu oimd by the roadside
?to take l.is morning smoke.—General
Hor ace Port*' r iu Century.
ST. PAUL'S ROCKS.
A Submarine Mountain In llie Middle ofl
the Atlantic Occnn.
Almost at the very center of the At-]
glantio ocean-only a trifle north of the]
equator and about half way between!
South America and Africa—is a sub
marine mountain so high that, in spite)
immense depth of the sea, it
thrusts its peak 70 feet r.bovi-the waves.
This peak, s rolling from its position,
forms a labyrinth cf islets, the whole
nc * 0Vf r half a mile in circumference,
as St. Paul's rocks. So steep is
' .....
the mountain, of w hich this lonely reat-f
ffhice of s? a birds is the summit, that
ue mile from there rocks a 500 fathom;
Due with which soundings were at-?.
tempted by Hops on his voyage to the!
Antarctic failed to touch bottom.
Were the bed of the sea to be suddenly f
elevated to a level with the dry land, f
Sk Paul's rocks would be the cloud!
capped peak of a mountain rising in*
sheer ascent iu the midst of a broad]
plain. They are .supposed to have been
formed by tlie same disturbance of ua-|
tnre which separated the Cape Verde is
lands from Africa.
Treacherous currents make navigation
in the vicinity of these rocks dangerous.
A Brazilian naval officer, who passed
them uu an English steamer, tells me
that the evening before they expected to
si 8 Jlt {hr ni h« was told by the captain
** iat at <r * o'clock in the morning they
would appear about five miles west. At
that t]0ar the officer went on deck and
looked to the westward—nothing but an
expanse cf heaving sea. lie chanced to
turn, and there, five miles to tho east
[ward'were—tbo rocks. The currents
'had, in less than 13 hours, carried a
full powered steamer ten miles out of
her course. —Gustav Kobbe iuSt. Nich
olas.
Manning and the Jrnlta.
Edmund S. Purcell, who wrote the!
biography of Cardinal Manning that!
was so widely discussed and in some}
quarters condemned, wrote a paper forj
Tbe Nineteenth Century entitled "On!
the Ethics of Suppression In Biogra-I
phy, " in which he makes an interesting!
statement concerning Manning's rcla-j
tions to the Jesuits :
Cardinal Manning could not endnrej
—it was not iu his nature—to be looked)
U P 011 by* tb© Jesuits as an "enemy of]
v ' ,a * »-' n d!iness. " They foil under his]
ba,) ' Metaphorically he "earned them!
with bell, book and caudle."
laughing fashion their retort
quick:
In
camel
C»rdinals may come, cardinals may no,
But we go on forever.
Cardinal Manning, as is known of allT
men, regarded tbe suppression of
bociety of Jt*sus in 177a astheworkefi
God's hand. He likewise looked upon®
its restoration in 1827 as God's work f
But his abiding hostility to the j e8U iD, f
based, as he declared, on their corporate
action in England and Rome, was testi
fied by the prediction which he ottered '*
on various ocaasions, "I foresee another
iwj." a
HI* Cbaae*. ^
Timmins—I have a notion to write'
°ue of these .Scotch dialect stories. g
Simmons—But you don't know any
thing about Scotch dialect
Timmins—I know aa much about it
m the people who buy the stories. —la
dianaDolia Journal
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