May, 187$.
THE WEST SHORE.
'37
A 1 1 inn. 1 ithhU.
A correspondent of the San Diego Nnm give
the following account of a thrilling deed by a
young woman of that city: There wai a drove
of ten head of cattle passing up Kluvcnth street,
driven by an Indian. At the same time there
were two children walking near the cattle, one
about five or aix yean old, and the other about
three or four. Some of the cattle were wild and
wicked, and one of tha oowi, a large black and
white, seeing the children, ran for them. The
oldest child seeing the danger, ran away telling
the other to run, but the little one could not run
very fast, so was left behind. The half drunken
vaquero turned to head the infuriated cow off,
but not being a very good rider, fell of)
when the horse wheeled around. Mils Mary
Lawrence was coming down the street, and see
ing the hone running, at once comprehended
the case, for she bounded and caught the rope
that was dragging after the hone that the stu
pid Indian let go, and with a strength appris
ing for one so alender. stormed tlie friuhteiied
hone, sprang into the saddle, and at once waa
alter the oow, which now was within about ten
yards of the little child whose fate seemed to lie
sealed. As luok would havo it, tho horaon
which the heroic girl had hiked her life waa
half bronco, and ran very faat She, in leaa
time than it takea for me to tell it, waa almost
up to the child, and it seemed aa if in spite of
her endeavor, the ohild waa doomed, (or the
cow waa apparently juit in the act of putting
her horna through the child, when Miss Iw
renoe threw her oloak over the cow's liorm, aud
creamed to the child to throw henelf on the
ground. The frightened child, aeeing the black
cloak flying over her head, thought it waa the
oow, for fortunately it fell juat in time to have the
blinded beast jump over her. Ilefore the cow
could gat the cloak off of her horna, or make a
second charge, the brave girl came up to tho
child, and atooping down on one aide of the
horse raised the child up in the saddle, and rode
away. Mow 1 will aay a word lor Mies Law
ranoe. I hare heard a great deal about her rid
ing, but never before saw her try her akill.
She deserves a great deal of credit for her brav
ery, and also for her riding, aa 1 do not think
that there ia another lady or girl in San Diego
that would hare done what ah did to atnop
down and lift a ohild up into tha aaddls without
getting thrown. To catch a half-tamed aud
frightened hone that had thrown a man, and
ride it ia what 1 call courage.
Books. On all aide are we not driven to the
conclusion that, of the things which man can do
or make lu re below, by far tha most moiiieu
tona, wonderful and worthy an th thinga
that w ceil books? Those poor bits of rag
paper, with black ink on them, from the daily
nawapapar to tha sarred Hebrew book, what
have they not done ? what are they not doing '
Fur, indeed, whatever be the outward form
of the thing (bit of issuer, aa we aay, and black
ink), ia it not verily, at bottom, the highest act
ol mans faculty that prluoe a book 7 11 la
the thought of man tha true thaumaturgtc
virtue by which man works all thing whatso
ever. All that he doe and brings to pass ia the
vesture of a thought. Thie lmdon city, with
ail it house, palaces, steam engirt, cathedrals,
and huge, immeasurable traffic and tumult,
what is it bat thought but millioa of
thoughts made into one -a hug, immeasurable
sum t of a thought embodied in bnck, in iron,
moke, dust, palace, parliament, hackueyomca
, atbering docks, and tb rest f it 1 Not a
l-rick was made but me man had to think of
fie making of that brick. The thing w called
"bite of paper with trace of black ink'' 1 the
K treat imbodinunt of thought a mao oaa have,
a woodr; it is in all ways th most active
end uoblert. -Curry..
itHKiK Hrkaii. the ancient Ureeke ued
covered terra-cotta utensils, called sHaa ani,
which were pierced with hole in their circum
ference, and were tha protot) wa of the modern
"Dutch ovena" After tho dough waa put in
they were urrniinded by burning coals, and the
heat, penetrating by the holes, gave a more
uniform temperature thau an ordinary oven.
TIIKCAIIOUNA I'AKUOT.
The Carolina parrot, or parakeet, shown in the
accompanying cut, ia the only one of the WO
specie, of it genus, which haa bean found iu the
I'nited State. It ia restricted to the warmer
part, rarely venturing north and eart of Vir
ginia, though it visits much higher latitudes ia
Uflj ssmaHsVBiL raaaBar
MtOt utul RaTsw euTJ
CAROM A PARROT
After tl nun of I'.n. I, Athens
aowned fur th skill of it hekr and it oooka
They mails 'Jo or mors kiwis of Weed, some (
which were very whit and of osrlleat flavor.
Plato report that, a century before hi time, a
Sicilian baker, aaawd Tbaarlua, had made
greet impruvviovuU in ol art . Th I appswo
a mad a very ilsiioai bread. Ilk isone
rolla, by adding to th wheat flour a bill milk,
oil end salt U A'ererv.
th Weeti bi U ,. abundant ia la rssuw
It residence, namely, Houtk Carolina, (laurgta,
Florida, Al.ls.ma. lsiuisiaaa, and along the
Mississippi up to Ksntncky. They are seetty
Umsxl, being subdued by repeated 1 rem. return
la water. Hat a they snoot be educated to
utter word, a Ihesr uraaasi are very dfcaeur.
deal, and eewctally a they are sicoedlugly
qswMurt, way oagai aa, 10 a
dswsrafale pete.