. Continued from 1st jaoe.
oongratulated Mm upon bis goed fortune
and was about to branch forth with a des
enption of some of the great benefits that
must ensue to the community, when lie
suddenly and somewhat uncivilly request
ed me to "be silent," and listen to what
be had to say. ' ...i t-.-.s-.,
- He began with some general remarks
about the inequality of fortune amongst
mankind, and instanced himself as a
striking example of the fate of those men,
who, according to all the rules of right,
ought to be near the top, instead of at the
foot of the ladder of fortune. "But,"
aid he, springing to his feet with impul
sive energy, "1 have now the means at
my command of risingsuperior to fate, or
of inflicting unoalculable ills vpou the
whole human race."
Looking at him more closely, I thought
I could detect in his eye' the gleam - of
madness : but I remained silent and
awaited further developments. But my I
acrutiay, stolen as it was, had beeu de
tected, and he replied at once to the ex
pression of my face : "No, sir ; I am
neither drunk nor a maniac; I am in
deep earnest in all that I say; and I am
fully prepared by actual experiment,
o demonstrate beyond all "doubt ! the
truth of all I claim." !
For the first time I noticed that he
carried a small portmanteau in his hand;
this he placed upon the table, unlocked
it, and took out two or three small vol
umes, a pamphlet or .two, and a
small, square, wide-mouth phial, hermet
ically sealed. .
I watched hiia with profound carios
ity, and took a note of the slightest move
ments. Having arranged his books to
suit him and placed the phial in a con
spicuous position, he drew up his chair
very closely to my owd, and uttered in a
hissing tone : "I demand one ; million
dollars for the contents of ; that bottle ;
and you must raise it for me in the" city
of San Francisco within one rronth, or
scenes too terrible even for the imagina
tion to conceive will surely be witnessed
by every living human being on the face
of the globe." . , , v
The tone, the manner, and thftbsurd
extravagance of the demand, excite! a
faint smile upon my lips, which he ob
served, but disdained to notice.
My mind was fully made up that I had
a maniac to deal . with, and prepared
to act accordingly. But I ascertained at
once that my inmost thoughts were read
' by the remarkable man before me, and
seemed to bo anticipated by him in -ad-
"vance of their expression. -''",.-.?
"Perhaps, ' said I, "Mr Summerfield,
.you would oblige me by 'informing me
fully of the grounds of your claim, and
.the nature of your discovery ?" -
"That is the object of my visit," he
treplied. "I chum to have discovered the
key which unlocks the constituent gases
of water, and frees each from the em
brace of the othpr, at a single touch."
"lou mean to assert," I rejoined,
-"that you can make water burn itself
up ?" ;
"Nothiug more nor less," 1 e responded,
-"except this to insist upon the conse
quences of the secret, if my demand be
not at once complied with."
Then, without pausing for a moment
to allow me to mace a suggestion, as 1
-once or twice attempted to do, he pro
ceeded iu a dear and deliberate manner,
in these words : . '1 need not inform you,
sir, that when this earth . was. created it
consisted almost wholly of vapor,- which
by condensation, finally became water.'
"The oceans now occupy more than two
thirds of the entire surface of the globe.
The continents are mere islands in the
midst of the seaa. They are everywhere
ocean-bound, and the hyperborean north,
is hemmed in by open polar seas. Such
as my first proposition. -.-;' My 'Second em
braces the constituent elements of water.
What is this thing which we call water ?
Chemistry, that royal queen of all ., the
.sciences, answers readily; 'Water is : but
- a... t
combination i iwo gases, oxygen ana
hydrogen, and in the proportion of eight
to one.' In other wordsin order to form
neater, fake eight parts of oxygen and one
of hydrogen, mix them together, and the
result or product is water. You smile,
ir, because you very properly think, these
iare the elementary principles of science,
nd are familiar to the minds of every
.-school-boy twelve ; years oi age. Tfes I
- but what next? Suppose you take these
same gases, and mix them in any other
proportion. I care not what, and the in
- ttantaneoua result is heat, flame, combus
tion of the intensest description. The
famous Drummond Light, that few years
-ago astonished Europe what is that but
the ignited flame of a mixture of oxygen
- and hydrogen projected against a small
piece of lime ? : What : was harmless as
water becomes the most destructive of all
objects when decomposed and mixed in
any other proportion, f - e
Nbw suppose I fling "the contents of
this phial into tjbe ? Pacific ocean, what
would be the result t Pare you contem
plate it for an instant ? I do not say that
the entire surface of the sea , would ' in
stantaneously bubble up into insitfferaUe
flame ;'no, butform the nucleus of a circle,
wteicn this phial would be the centre
lurid radii of flames would gradually
shoot outward, until the blazing circum
ference would roll in vast billows of"fire,
upon theutmost shores.: Not all the drip
ping clouds could extinguish it. Not all
the tears of saints and angles could for an
instant check its progress. On, and on
ward it woold sweep, with the- steady
gait of destiny, until the continent would
melt with fervent heat, the atmosphere
. glare with the continuous conflagration ;
and all living creatures, in land, and sea,
and air, perish in one universal catas
trophe." ' - - - " t '
.Then 'suddenly starring to his feet, Be
drew himself up to his full bight, and
murmured solemnly, "I foel like a God 1
and I recognize ' my fellow-men but as
pigmies .that I spurn beneath my feet L"
"Summerfield,'' said I, calmly, "there
mast Be some strange error in all J Una.
You a.re a self-deluded. ; The. weapon
which you claim to wield is on that
good God and a beneficent Preator would
never intrust to the- keeping got -;. "i. mere
ereature. v nat sir I ereate a world as
grand and beautiful as this, and hide
within its bosom a principle' that at any
moment may enwrap it in flames, and sink
"Ai
yourY -
i . f-iarts of our
jwunded by1-Water, and
.uw is fire in possibility' i
"is pure,
crence,sf . 'eter.
third cSk ; .,,rtffi3. : Are
not the k . j. teit with fervent
heat ?' s Are notie heavens to be fold
ed together like a scroll ?' Are not the
rocks to melt, the stars to fall and the
moon to be turned into blood ? Is not
fire the next grand cyclic consummation
of all things here below ? But 1 come
fully prepared to answer such objections.
Your argument betrays a narrow mind,
circumscribed in its orbit,. and shallow in
its depth. , 'Tis the common thought of
mediocrity. ..... You have read books too
much, and studied nature too little. Let
me give you a lesson to-day in tho work
shop of Omnipotence. Take a stroll with
me into the limitless confines of space.
and let us observe together some of the
scenes transpiring at this very instant
arourd us. A moment ago you spoke of
the the moon ; what is she but an extin
guished world ? You spoke of the sun ;
what is he but a "lobe of . flame ? .' But
here is the Cosmos of Humboldt. ..Jiead
this paragraph."
" As he said this he ' placed before, me
the Cosmos of Humboldt, and i read as
follows : i
"Nor do the heavens themselves teach
unchangeable permanency in the works
of creation. Change is observable- there
quite as rapid and complete as in the con
fines of our solar system. In the year
1772. one of the small stars in the con
stellation Casiopea blazed up ' suddenly
into an orb of the first magnitude, grad
ually decreased in brilliancy, and finally
disappeared from the skiC3. Nor has it
ever been visible 6ince that-period ' for
single moment, eithtr to the eye or to the
telescope. It burned up and was lost in
space. - 1
"Humboldt," he added, "has not told
ui who set that world on fire !" r
"But," resumed he, "I have stil clearer
proofs"."- Saying this, he thrust ito my
hands tho last London , Quarter?!, and on
opening the book at an ; article headed
'The Language of Light," I read, with a
feeling akin to awe, the following pass
age :
''Further, some stars exhibit changes
of complexion in themselves. Sitius, as
before stated, was once a ruddy, or rather
a fiery-faced orb, but has now forgotten
to blush, looks down upon us with a pure,
brilliast smile, in which there is no trace
either of anger or of shame. On the
countenances of others, still more varied
traits have tippled, within a much briefer
period of time. May not these be due to
some physiological revolutions, : general
or convulsive, which are iu progress in
the particular orb. and which by effect
ing -the constitution of its atmosphere,
compel the absorption or promote '.the
transmission of particular rays ? The sup
position appears by no means improbable,
especially it we call to tin ad the hvdrogen
volcanoes which have been discovered on
tho photosphere of the 6nn. fndeed
there are a few small stars which afford a
spectrum of bright lines instead of dark
ones, and this we know denotes a gaseous
or vaporized state of things, from which
may be interred that sucn.orus are in a
different condition from most of their
relations. - y: ';'"". '" '
:On the 12th of May, 1SG6, a great
conflagration, infinitely larger than that
of London or Moscow, Was announced.
To use the expression of a distinguished
astronomer, a world was found to be on
fire I A tar -which till then had shone
weakly and 'unobtrusively in the corona
ooreoas, Suddenly blazed up into a
Inminary of the second magnitude. In
the course of three days from its discovery
in this new character,- by Birmingham
at luan, it bad declined to toe tbird or
one-fourth order of brilliancy. In twelve
days, dating from; its first appearance in
the Irish heavens,- it had sunk, to the
eighth rank, and it went on waning u-til
the 26th of June, when it ceased to be
discernible except through the medium
of the telescope. This was a remarkable
though certainly not an - unprecedented
proceeding on the part of a star ; hut one
singular circumstance in its behavior was
that, after the lapse of nearly two months
it began to blaze up again,.! though not
with equal ardor, and after -maintaining
its, glow lor a - tew. wccks, ana passing
through sundry phases of color, it grad
ually paled its fires, and returned to its
former insignificance.. " IIow .many years
had elapsed since this j, awful conflagra
tion actually took place it would be pre
sumptuous to guess ; but it must be re
membered that news from the heavens,
though carried by the fleetest of messen
gers, light, reaches U3 long after the
event has transpired, and that the same
celestial- carrier is still dropping the
tidings at each station it reaches in f pace,
until it sinks exhausted by the length of
its flight.
"As the star had suddenly flamed up,
was it cot a natural supposition that it
had become enwrapped in burping hydro
gen, which in consequence of some great
convulsion had been liberated in .: prodi
gious quantities, and then combining
with other elements had set this hapless
world on fire ? Iu such a fierce confla
gration the combustible gas would soon
be -consumed, and the glow would there
fore begin to decline, subject, as in this
case, to a- second eruption, which, occa
sioned the renewedbutburst of light on
the 20th of August. . . .
"Uy such a castrophe it i not whIy
impossible that our own globe may some
time be ravaged, lor if a word trorn the
Almighty were, to . unloose tor a , tew
moments the bonds of affinity which
ttotte the elements ' of wa'er. n sint-l,
spark would, bring them together with a
fury that would kindle the funeral pyre
of the human race, and be fatal to the
planet and all the works that are there
on." ;
"Your argument," he. then instantly
aaaea, ia oy no means ' a - good one
What do weknow of the Supremo Archi
teet of the Universe, or of his designs!
lie builds op worlds; and then tears
them down ?.. lie kindles suns and he
extinguishes them. . He. inflames the
comet, in one portion' of its orbit, with a
heat that no human imagination can con
eeive of, and in another subjects the
same blazing orb to a cold intenser than
that which invests forever the Antartic
Pole. AH that -we know-of 1 1 i in we
gather through his works. I have shewn
you that He barns other worlds, why
.,VMB."iaVt this," I rejoined,
baseless, profitless speculation.
JNot so fast. he answered. And
then , rising, he seized the email phial
and handing it to mo requested me to
open it. ' -
confess V did so with some trepida
tion. - '
"Now smell it." ' '
1 did so. i i
"What odor do you,perceive ?"
"Potassium.''-1 replied, i . - " -"Of
courso.H he added, you are famil
iar with the chief characteristic of that
substance it ignites instantly when
brought in contact with water. Within
that little elobule of DOtassium I have
imbedded a pill of my own composition
and discovery, i 'The moment it is liberat
ed from the potassium, it commences tne
work ot decomposing tne nuid on , wnicn
it floats. - The potassium at once ignites
the liberated Oxygen, and the connagra
tion of this mighty globe is begun." "
Yes, said l,'v"begunj it you please,
but, your little pill soon ; evaporates ,or
sinks,. or melts in the surrounding seas,
and your conflagration ends just where it
began.
"My reply to that suggestion could be
made at once ; by simply testing the ex
periment on a small scalo or a Jarge one,
either. But I, prefer, at present to refute
your proposition by an argument drawn
from nature herself. It you correctly
remember the bret time. 1 had the- pleas
ure of seeing you was on the island of
Galveston, many; years ago. Do you
remember relating to me at that time an
incident concerning the. enacts . ot
prairie on fire, that - you had yourself
witnessed but a lew days previously near
the town of Matagorda ? If I recollect
correctly you stated that on your return
journey from that place you, -passed on
the way the charred remains ot two
wagon-loads of , cotton and three human
beings that the night before had perished
the flames ; j that three slaves, the
property ot a Mr. liorton, had started a
ew day3 before to tarry to market a
shipment of eottun; that a norther over
took them on the trackless prairie, aud a
few . minutes afterwards they were sur
prised by beholding a line of rushing
But without avail. 1 He began to grow
urgent in his demand, and his brow
would cloud like -a tempest-ridden sky
whenever we approached him on the sub
ject. ' finally, ascertaining that no per
suasion could sot ten his : heart or toucb
his feelings, a sub-committee Was appoint
ed to endeavor if possible to raise , the
money by subscription. Before taking
that step, however, we ascertained oeyona
all question that Summerfield was the sole
custodian oi ma ureau cctci, u- m
he kept no wiitten memorial of tho form
ula of his prescription. ne even weni
bo far as to offer us a penal bond that his
secret should perish with him in case his
rUmnmls were complied, witu,
The sun-committee suou ..tiuuiuicutcu
nmrfc nmnnir the wealthiest citiaens or
San Francisco, and by appealing to the
torrnrs of a few and tne sympatnies oi
all, succeeded in rfs.ing one-half the
nmnnnt within the prescriDea periou
shalt never forget the wo-begoue faces of
naiifiiimia Ktrppt durinsr the month ot
rwn.oi- Th outside world and the
nowgnancrs snoke most learnedly oi
money panic a pressure in business, and
the disturbances .,: in guiu iwu.
But to the initiated there was an easier
solution of the enigma. Tho pale specter
of death looked down upon them all, and
pointed with its bony anger to the nery
tomb of the whole race,; already looming
up in the distance before them. Day af
ter day I could see the dreadful ravages
safety.
I asked tho privilege of meditation for
one hour, at the hands of the committee,
m W 1 t i " -
oerore t wouia render a decision either
way. 'During that recess, the above ar
gumentation occupied my thoughts. The
iime expireu ana x again presented my
self before them. I did not Am it.
requisite to state the grounds of my de.
cisionj I briefly signified my assent and
made instant preparation to carry the
plan into execution. " 1 . ,
Having passed on the line of tho Pa.
cifio Railroad more than once, I was per
fectly familiar with all of its windings,
gorges and precipices. I selected Cape
uorn as tne best adapted to the purpose,
and ' the nnWin tnaw h
rest. ' ' -
Having been fully aeauittcd hv two
tribunals of the law. I wake this final
appeal to my fellow men throuo-houi the
otate, and ask them coofidentlv not to
reverse the judgments already pronounc-
I am conscious of co guilt ; J feel no
remorse: x need no tencntan T?f,r
me justice has no terrors and conscience
no sting. Let me be judged so'.elv bv
the motives which actuated me. and th
importance of the end accomplished, and
I Bhall pass unscathed both temporal and
eternal triouoais. -
Leonidas Pahker.
''Now, then,
simple question!
fire, surging, roariug and advancing like
the resistless billows of an ocean swept
by -a gale ; '-that theie was no time for
escape, and they perisned terribly, iu
lighting the devouring element t
'Yes, I recollect the event."
I wish a reply to the
did the single 'spark.
that kindled the conflagration consume
the negroes and their charge ? No ? But
what did ? Yod reply, of course, that tho
spark set the entire prairie on fire ; -that
each spear, ot grass added fuel to the
flame, and kindled by degrees a confla
gration that continued to burn so Iongs
it could feed ion fresh material. The
pillule in .that! phial is the little spark,
the oceans ate the prairies, and the
oxygen the fuel upon which the fire is to
teed , until the globe ; perishes in inex
tinguishable flames. The elementary
substances in Ithat small phial recreate
themselves ; they are self-generating.
and when encjo fairly under way, must
necessarily,' sweep : onward,'" Until -: the
waters 'in s alii the ' seas are exhausted.
There is, however, one great difference
between the burning of a prairie and the
combustion of an ocean ; the fire in the
first spreads - slowly, for the - fuel is
difficult to ignite ; iu the last, it flies
with tho rapidity of - the wind," fortbe
substance consumed is oxygen, the most
inflammable agent in nature."
Rising from my seat, I went to tho
washstand , in the, corner of the apart
ment, and drawing a 4 bowl half, full of
Spring Valley water, I turned to Sum
merfield .aud remarked, "Words are
empty,. theories are ideal but facts- are
things."
" I take you at your word." So saying
he approached the bowl, emptied it of
nine tenths of its contents, and silently
dropped the potassium-coated (ill into
the liquid. f "The -'potassium danced
around tho edges of the' vessel, fumiag,
hissing and blazing," as . it always does,
and seemed on ' the poiot of -expiring,
when, to my astonishment and alarm a
sharp explosiijn took place, and in a
second of, time the water was blazing in
a red, lurid column half way up. to tho
ceiling. I - i . ! ,it i,(ii4 -.
"For God's sake," I cried," "extinguish
the flames oc we shall set the building on
fire!" c:j'.R' 'v-.,,. -
' "Had I dropped the potassium into the
bowl as youl prepared it," he quietly rer
marked,' ' tlio " building " would" indeed
have been consumed." Lower and lower
fell the fl(ckering"" flames, paler and
paler grew khe. blaze, until finally the
fire went out, and I rushed up to see the
effests of thf combustion. ; f
Not a drop of water 'Temamed in the
vessel 1' Astonished . beyond measure at
what 1 had Witnessed and terrified aliuast
to me verge or insanity, x approaeneu
Summerfield and tremblingly inquired,
"To? whom, !sir,'is "this tremendous secret
known f "fl o myself alone, he respond
ed : i, 'and luow answer me a question, is i
it worth the money?" .: . ,.
: i ... . :: :.: . '..: .
It is entire) v unnecessary to relate in
detail the subsequent" events "connected
with this transaction. I will only add
a general statement, showing the results
of my negotiations. : Having fully satis
fied myself that feummerfield actually
held i4 hisj tiands the fate of the whole
world with; its millions of human beings,
and by . experiment " haviog tested the
combustion of sea WateT, with equal facil
ity as iresb, 1 next deemed it my duty
t call. the. attention of a few of the prin
ciple men in San Francisco, to the ex
treme importance of Summerfififd'a dis
covery, r ' " . '- ' -
A loading banker, a bishop, a'chemist,
two State University professors, a physi
cian, a judge and two Protestant "divines
were selected by me" to witness ! the- ex
periment on a large scale. " This was
done at a ismall saud hill lake, near the
seashore, put separated from iby a ridge
of lofty mountains, distant not more than
ten miles' from San Francisco. Every
single drop of water in the pool was burnt
up m iesa inau btteee minutes. VVeoext
did all that- we onlri tn tinnifv Sum
merfield, and endeavo'red to iodiidce him
to lower hs priee and brine it within
the bounds of a-reasituablj ; Masibils'
of this secret horror ; doubly terrible
since they dared not divulge it. Still
do all that we could, the money could not
be obtained. The day preceding the las
one given. Summerfield was summoned
before the committee, and full informa
tion given him of the state of affairs. Ob
durate. hard and cruel he still continued
Finally a proposition was started that an
attempt should be made to raise the other
half of the money - in the city lof New
York. To this proposal Summerfield ul
timately yielded, but with extien.e reluc
tance. "lt was agreed in committee that
I should accompany him thither, and
take with the, in my own possession, evi
dences of the sums subscribed here; that
a proper appeal should be made to. the
leading capitalists, scholars and clergy
men of that' metropolis, and that, when
the whole amount- was raised, it should
be paid over to Summerfield and a bond
t-.ikcn from him never to divulge tho se
cret to any human being.
With this he seemed to. be satished,
I left us to prepare for his going the
next morning.
As soon as he left the apartment, the
Bishop arose, and '"deprecated the action
that had been. taken aud characterized it
as childish, and absurd. He declared
that no man was sate one moment, whilst
"that diabolical wretch" still lived ; and
the only security for uS all, ; was in his
imm vdiate extirpation from the face of
tho earth, and that no amount of money
could seal his lips, or close his hands. It
would be no crime, he said, to deprive
him of the means of assassinating the
whole human family, and that as for him
self he was for dooming him to immedi
ate death.
With a unanimity that was extraordi
nary, the entire committee coincided.
A great many plans were proposed,
discuseed and rejected, having in view
the extermination of Summerfield. In
them alljhere was the want of proper j
caution which would lull the appreheti' '
sions of an enemy; for should he for an
instant suspect treachery we knew his
nature well enough to be satisfied, that he
would waivo all ceremonies and carry his
threats into immediate execution.
It was finally resolved that the trip::to
New York should not be abandoned, ap
parently. 'But that we were to 'start out
in, . accordance : with the original pro
gramme; that during the journey, some
proper means should be resorted to - by
me to carry out the noal intentions ot tne
committee, and that whatever I did would
be Sanctioned by them all," and full pro
tection both in law and conscience afford
ed me in any stage Of the proceeding. -
Nothing was wanting but my own con
sent, but this was difficult to secure.
At the first view, it seemed to be a
most horrible and unwarrantable crime
to deprive a fellow being of life, under
any circumstances ; but,', especially so
where, in meeting his fate, no opport unity
was to be afforded him for preparation or
repentance. -It was a Jong time before 1
could disassociate, in my mind, 'the two
ideas of act and intent. My studies had
long ago made me perfectly familiar with
the doctrine of the civil law, that in ot
dcr to constitute guilt, there must be a
union of action and intention. Taking
the property of another man is not theft.
unless, as. the lawyers term it, there in
the animus furandi. So in homicide,
life iniy be lawfully taken in some in -
stance, whilst the deed may be excused
in others." The sheriff liangs the felon
and dcorivcs mm ot existence vet , no
body thiuks of aocusing-the yffeer of mur
der. 3 Tho soldier slava his 'enemy, still
tho act Li considered heroioal. it does
tot thereto! e tallow that human ' lite is
fm aacred to be taken 1 awav umhir all
A Good Take off. The absurd
cock and bull stories which appear from I
time to time in the columns of our agri
cultural exchanges, of the wonderful do
ings and .qualities of remarkable dogs,
horses, cattle, etc., are all eclipsed by the
following, which we clip from an ex
change :
"A gentleman of our acquaintance had
a Durham cow that gave birth, all at one
time, to a two-year old heifer that had
no legs at all. Mr. Uke took a five-quarter
auger and boied holes where the legs
ought to bo, and then drove in the legs
of an old United Brethren mourner's
bench. He then applied Dr. Stratford's
Celebrated Indian Hair Tonic to the legs,
which haired them over in one night.
and brought out the hoofs most 1 beauti
fully. The animal has sineli trotted her
mile in 1 :18; aud took the first premium
at the Illinois Stato Fair. During the
month ot July, sno. suckled six calves
allons ot milk every day
Josh Bnxisras ok the Goos. The
goos. is a grass animal, but oon i cuaw
her cud
They are good livers, about one acre
to the goos is enuff, altho there is some
folks who think one goos to 175 acres is
nearer right.
These two calculations js so tar apart
it is difficult to' tell now which will finally
win. But i don't think if i had a farm of
175 acres awl paid for, that i would ; sell
if for half what it was worth just because
it didn't have but one goos on it
Gooses stay well, some ot our best
biographers says 70 years, and grow
tough to the very last. -:
I ha la one egg at once, about the size
of a 'goos egg in which the ' goslins lie
bidd. .. ' --:,-r- -
The goslin is the goose's baby.; - "
The goos don't suckel his young, but
turns "him out to grass on somebody's va
cant lot. -
Tha seems to lack wisdom, but are
generally considered sound on the goos.
Tha are good eatio but not good chawin;
the reasons v. this remains a profound ee
kret to the preseut day. i
' When the.:. femail goos is at work
hatchin, she is bard to pleas, she riles
clear up from the bottom in a rainnit,
and she will fitea yoke of oxen if tha
show her the least bit of sas. '
. The goos is excellant ior feathers,
which are shed every year by the hand-
fui. : ;,: 7: . ; ..; :: -.: '
Tha are '. mostly curious about one
thing. -Tha kan hawl j np one -leg into
their body, and stand on tuther awl da,
and not touch anything with their bands.
l take notia thar ain t but - tow men
kan do this.
NEW ADVEHTISEMENTS.
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C H I N A . This is a country where
the roses have no fragrance and the
women no petticoats; where a laborer
has no sabbath aud the magistrate ' no
sense of honor : where the roads bear no
vehicles and the ships no keels; where
old men fly kites ; the needle poiuts to
the south, and the sign of being puzzled
is to scratch the antipodes ot the head
where the place of honor is op the left
hand, and the seat of intellect is in the
stomach ; where, to take off your hat, is
an insolent gesture, and to wear white
garments is to put yourself in mourning;
which has a literature without an alpha
bet, a language without a grammar.
A FEW REASONS WHY . .
' the
Anion piano
i
SUFERfCn TO ALL OTKIT.S. J
.7-
THE ARION PIAJSrO-fOBTB baa GreaW
Power tbk mmj oQtet othr Fio-Jfon nans'
IT WIM.. 8f AH 1 - ttHB W)HB
and in its mechaoicsl ooastrartio K I wan per
fect, ud therefore, mere duraWo tha" 7 tMtf"
. in th Bnael modera style. . ..
The arengement of tbe AgnB; toe manner o
tringing,the peouliar form end arr0gBnt ot -- J
the Iron frame, "" . '
Supersedes all Others. 7
1HE1 WISD. llie wind is a musician
at birth. We extend "a silken thread
in the crevice of a window, and the wind
finds it and sighs over it, and goes up and
down the ssale upon earth to see it there
is music in it. : It persuades a tone out
of the great bell in the tower, when the
sexton is at home and asleep: it makes
mourntal harp ot the giant pines, and
it does not disdain to try what: sort of
whis'le can be made out of the humblest
chimney in the world. How it will play
upon a great tree till every ; leaf thrills
with the note in it ; and , wind up the
river that runs at its base for a murmur
ing accompanimeiit, And what a melody
it sings when it gives a concert with a
full choir of the waves of the , sea, and
performs an anthem between the two
worlds that goes up perhaps to the stars
that love music the most and sang it first.
.Then how fondly it haunts old ' houses
moauing under the eaves, sighing in the
halls, opening old doors without fingers
and singing a measure of seme sad old
song around the fire less and deserted
hearth. " ' ' ' ' ' ' "
The use of a bart,(wnieb U a part of tke Iron
Frame) om line witn tbe heavy steel trincing
givee ......
Great Strength
Where most needed, and in thie repeet all other .
Pihiiui fail. . . '
Thecotitfttctioa of: the WREST PLANK, Into'
which the Tuning Pini are tnterted, is ineh tbat it
ia impossible for the pini to become loosened, or
the Wrwt Plaftlc tteclf to pltt, as ia too often ther
ease in etber PianOrFortcs, . -
TIIK EXT11AORUINARY EVEN
. , NESS, ,:
Throughout the entire scale, the excellent Singing:
Quality, tbe : . . : I .
Length and Purity on Vilratumt
All go to prove what we claim, Vnr. ; tbat tb
Ar ion ' Piano-Forte
It the- Best Instrument Uaeafaotared.
1.
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"Wk Beat the World." Bella
French concludes her lecture with this
beautiful peroration : "Mark our pro
gress, for we beat the world. Our Yan
kee race is replenished, not by Yankee
mothers; they know a thmjr or two that
Eve did not. John CJiioaman, the Dutch,
the Scandinavian, or Irishman,, they do
all this, the lower work,; for emigration
s the true panacea for peopling our be
loved America. On, on we go I What
next? . The kettle sings our Jullabys, the
cradle rocks bv steam, the- baby sucks
the Alexandria! ' And women all go lec
turing. The dawn of the millenium has
come. - - ;
riumstances. Ihe pmnt to bo'-consul
ered Was thus narrowed down into one
urand inquiry, whether fsmuuKiifitdd wa
properly to be regarded, as horti i hamam
nrufreU the, eneiuv of the human-f fcu. or
ttot.-lf be BhoulU justly oe soconswiereu
then it would not onlv be -not a crime to
kilLJhim. but an act worthy ot the highest
eoinmeudatioS. .Who blamed McKenzie
tar hansiins Spencer to he yardarm
Vt in his case, tbe lives' of only a amall
shin's crew were in jeopardy. Who con
damned f ompey ior - exierminaiiug
pirates from the Adriatic ?. ; Yet in his
case, buly a small portion! of -the Roman
llepublio was liable to devastation. Who
accuses Charlotte Corday of assassination
tor stabbing Marut in bis bath ? Still
her arm only saved the lives of , a few
thousaud revolutionary JPfepfehmetiijAnd
to eome down to , nurv -own times, .who
heaps accusation upon the. heads of Lin
coln, Thomas or Sheridan, or even upon
Grant, though marchiag to victory over a
crushed rebellion, they deemed it neces
sary to wade through , seas ! of human
gore f : If society jiaa a right "to defend
itself fruus the assaUlta of crimioals, whw
at best can oufy destroy a few of its mem
bers, why should 1 heaitate when it , w;
apparent that the destiny 'of the slobe
itself hang in tbe balance ? . If Summei-
hold should live and carry out his threat
tne wtwie world weuld.feel the shockr.
,ni" aeatn wa ibk only path ' to
Poppino Corn. Philadelphia turns
out a batch of young doctors every full
moon. One of them settled at llavanna.
ill., and hutiK out his shingle. Ihe
first case he had was ' a boy, who, while
shcllin'T ' noncorn, cot a kernel in' his
windpipe. The doctor examined the
ease carefully, looked at the patient a
tomrue, and then told . the father of the
bov to build una hot fire. When that
ml - . . "
was done the doctor told them - to take
the bov and bold him over the fire until
the kernel got hot enough to "pop out."
The old man went up stairs to get his
shot gun ; but while he was loading it
the doctor escaped.
Some years ago a prominent business
man of Northampton, Mass., who begnu
to sow his wild oats when a boy, and who
hasn't got all through yet, attended a
colored ball in Market street, in that
town. Afier each breakdown he noticed
that a well near the the houe by the
way a shallow one was resorted to by
the men to qui-uch their '"thirst. Uuob
served while the dauee was ?'nK on b
moved the curb a few feet from the well,
ane waited tho result. Presently out
came one of the dancers, and plump into
the well ho went. Bhwingrnd puffing
he came up to the. top anal exclaimed:
"13y golly ' who moved dat well since I'se
out here last ?" ' ( ;
A Ring of aturn Gotse. Popular
as well as scientific interest will be ex
cited by the announcement that one of
tho ; rings of Saturn, with , which the
yoimgest students of astronomy are' fa
miliar, has disappeared. ' ; The, micsing
rina; is the inner oue of the three; hith
erto observed, and the astronomer Sturve
has beeu watching for years its approach
to the body of the planet, upon which
it has closed like a belt of semi-trunspai-ent
vapor, its' centrifugal ; lore being
entirely overcome. "
How tiik Swiss Cared for, Boua-
liAKt 8 Akmy. 1 hese bwis8 are curious
people. ' No ' sooner were the 80,000
t'reuc-h soldiers thrown on their hands
than. they seemed instinctively to know
how best to provide tor them. In some
places the most unclean were first treated
with a b;flh of lye or soda, clothing of all
kinds, provisions and hospital stores sosad-
ly needed at once, all made their appear
ance as it by maic instantly. laaies lm
mediately opened classes in all barracks tor
Kuch as could not read and write, while
teachers and professors took- turns in de
livering daily lectures on subjects calcu
lated to interest the trench or prove use
ful to them. . I am quite surprised at the
ri-adiness of these people and wonder it it
is really their republican institutions that
make them alike prepared to a maufO de
fend their fatherland and to do good to
their neighbors. ' I " muse and ' raise the
question, what eountry in Europe has
most earned in the war of 187071 the
title of '"leader of civilisation" the great
monarchies of the continent or our brave
and noble little sister republic ensconced
among the Alps? - -
An exchange says there is a tannery
in Uoxbury,; Massachusetts, for the tan
uing of alligator's, bides, which, when
properly tanned, make an exceedingly
tough and elastic quality ot leather, said
to be almost impervious to water. The
first attempt made to utilize the hides of
the rentile. bv makinsi them into leatner
for boots, dates' back about fifteen years
and was undertaken by two French
brothers in. New Orleans who, however
did nut make a irood article.' and failed
during the war, when the etablishmen
was transferred to.Roxbury. Green hides
of the alligator were purchased at - New
Orleans and all along the coast of Florida
all of which find their way to tho , Rox
bury taoncry, where they undergo a lon
and e'xnensve tannninn process, during;
. - e -
which they are handled every , week
The skins of ' the young animals, onlv,
nrc available.' as, after maturity, the hides
becomes horny and valueless.. ; :
i This is the way a couple of Muscatine
sharpers served a giceny from the coun
try. , lie stepped mto.a saloon for'Buth
warm.' A couple.of dead beats'
got up a sham quarrel, and requested
him to hold their coats while they fought
it out, lntcnainsr, on reclaiming , thei
coats, to accuse him of "going "through
their pockets, and- then "go through
turn, they walked into each other lik
wildcats, when they happen d to observ
that the coat-holder was nowhere visible.
-There was some tall "tunning and i swear
ing done, but greeny has , not returned
to that vicinity since. ' '-'
"Grisl the humorous correpondnt
of the Cincinnati Times and VhroHuhtis.
now doing up Missouri for that paper.
In a letter from Palmyra, Mo,3 he sets off
the following t- - - . . - . ,
"They tell some amusing anecdotes of
one oi tbe earliest settlers here. -. He was
the first Poiitmaster, If a -man wanted
a letter he would be compelled to hunt
up the Postmaster, and .would very like
ly find him" in a . field nlowinsv On
inquiry it there was anything in thePoet
Ofiice for him, he Postmaster would stop
bis team, sit down on the ground,- and,
removing his hat,; take ; bnt the ; letter;
deposited there, running thei 'over tosee
if there wa one for t"u ' uppticant. -l
J declare bwottl4 aometlmes remark.
tl:.- P-t-f ifflce U increasing so i snail
be compelled to buy bigger hat.
RION PIANOS
Are used Exclusively in ft-ft. ,
AMERICAN CONSERVATORIES
OF MUSIC
of New York city. :
The most severe test a p'ano eas reeelve is eoo-
stant nse in a Conservatory. ,
Read The Following:
It affords me much plcaure to give you, im these
few lines, a very sincere testimonial for tbs Piano
c uries of your manufacture. We nave now used
tbe "Pateut Ariou Piano" In onr Conserrstories -fora
year, and have had a fair opportunity of test- (
ing their durability daring tbat time. The Pianos
have been played upon almost constantly, from
morning till night, sum! a Piano meet indeed be a
good one wben it will bear such constant ue with
out showing signa-ef defection. As for remaining
in (Mae, It out rivals any Piano known to me.
Tbeir peculiar sweetness of ton in tbs treble .
(as compared to other Pianos with the ordinary
metal agraffe arrange moot V is so striking that I
have bad pupils renmrk, while takln g their leWP
that although they hae at name ut insy sap-i
posed to be one el tho best makes of Pianos, stilt
thetrebie was very wirey toned compared with tba. ,'
"AR1PN." y. .; . ': - '
Wliat makes them still more desirable ts their
uniform volume of tone, which enable an Artist ta
perform a composition in its true character..
In total. I caneonarientloasly endorse U thai U
claimed by the Avion Piano - Forte Company for
their superb iiutrumeot, as I consider them s '
pertor to any other make.,
Coninratulating yon upon the gsrat sncoesa yo
1 are obtained in tbe msnnfactur of so perfect an .
instrument, I remain years,
i :. i ... - ''..Very truly,
Vireoter.
New York, Sopttmbci; 3, 18TQ. '
The Humboldt County (Iowa) Inde
pendent says :." We reported that D. AT
Dodd's wife had seven pair of twins and
two udd children during ten years of
married, life r. We wero wrongv Mr
Ltdd, just in our office, informs us there
were eijjht pairs of twins and three odd
ones, nineteen in all reo girls and nine
boys ia fourteen years, and tbey are all
living.. ' -- 'Ir; iJ:.:-' ''
Seven girls in Cincinnati have associ
ated themselves into a society, having for
its object the investigation of the ante
cedents of the wife hunters. Any gir'.
having an "offer" may apply to-the soci
ety, and in less thsn a eek she will re
oeive a historj of her lover, ' from his
y 'ut upwards. .Weddings are likely to
oe scarce in Cineinnatti.
' 'Yotrsa 'Briie. Lanville, Illinois
at 1 1 sb s a married girl wLoe sgo ii
w . .ve years and six months. : Ihehusb
and is forty.
AOEWyS ' WAMTED
. W want first class and responsible Agent la
every city and town where we bare not already ap
pointed tbem. I ; .
We Iiaye just Pnltlislted
Our annual Illustrated PampMot, which contains
k lull deevriitiuu of tbe iDterior construction ot the
Patent Ariun Putuo-li'orte, and all the other lead
ing Pianos of the priucipal makes; illustrated wit hi .
cuts, thus tratiug the Anon with all other Crst
clars Pianos, and proving ; ; r
....' t..' ;.'';"!'. : v-'j i' ...'ii.-.:.-. .j) w
. -, ' ... . j - ,-, ... ; t .i-'- j- - - '
Our Pianos are superior to any in tbe market.
Onr pamphlet eontain engravings of aU tbe dif
fereut styles of instrument that w manufacture
. giving a full description of each, so tbat a person
ran soleet tbe styletbey may desire to order, with -the
assurance tbat they will receive just as good s.
Piano as if they were in onr wareroom to aeleetit..
We have sold ever Five Tboaaeod Piaoos.many of
tbem being shipped great distanc, and we bav.
never yet reeekre tbe first complaint. As w gir
a written ruarantee with every Piano w masufac-.
ture. for five years, the purchaser ran no risk.
Dam't nil to mrittfor nur pnwtpkUt wkick mt mmil
free, aid mtee yom writs aeaot fpr jre saw
(tuiiXtnt.': ' '' . ,":. .5.- -j-... v,---ri
N. B. We caution the public from pwrrbsaing a
i-benp Piano, wbksb bas recently been pot ia tha
market, bearing tbe name "Ariou." All genuine
Anon Pianos bear tbe name "Patent Ariou," and.
can only be purchased from onr New York Ware
rooms, or our authorised Agent throughout tha
United States.
All kind of
Vesical
addrbs van.
k w.. , C 1 Aa
So SS4 Broadway, Kw Tork City.