COLT,,
ALBANY.
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OREGON.
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Two Tair ships are Failing,
Sailing over the sea,
Williels ship and mv ship,
Full ax full can b ;
Ride by ide, my Willie says
Like as piu to pin.
b, :he happy, happy days
When our ships come in !
mg.
'.lie our eiupB are sai.
aiiii! over the n a.-
W'il.ie'e ship ai,d my ship,
Full a I nil can be,
Sa; -.ug on the sunny tide,
Qrieving would be sm :
Soon or kite, and side by side,
S'uall our shi s ccniein.
BL, Xicholaa for ihtober.
mean. There we found Mr. Owl surrounded
by a great company of sparrows, bluebirds,
wrens, robins, all excited and noisy, flying
about, sitting on the trees close by. hovering,
over the cage, and all showing signs of rage.
It seemed as if they felt their enemy was in
their power and they would like to tear him
to pieces. They could not very well attack
him, as he was in the cage, and the small door,
which was open, was scarcely large enough
to allow them to make a combined assault.
Soon, when it began to get dnsky, he came
out of the cage in the midst of the commotion
and started for the woods near the houoo, the
small birds in full pursuit, screaming and
scolding. As we saw no more of them, we
suppose mat ne reached ins sliolter in
safety.
I would like to know if small birds ever are
able to destroy this devourer of themselves
and their little ones. Celia Thaxter speaks
of a largo white owl that she saw sitting high
on a rock, surrounded by snow-birds.
"The snow-birds swept in a whirling crowd
About him gleefully.
And piped and whistled long and loud,
But never a plume stirred he."
I remain, dear Mr. Jack, yours truly,
J." E. D.
Jack never heard of a case where
Jackson Dctancjri Boll A Funny Stoi-y
ffor the Hoys.
He had felt an irritation around there
for two or three days. Some of the
boys said that it might be a wood-tick,
and others asked him to lift the cur
"tain of the past and see if he couldn't
remember of sitting down on a nail.
He was a little worried for fear that he
was to be attacked with cerebro spinal
meningitis or a paralytic stroke, but
Emory Pathfinder, the boy at the cor
ner grocery, scouted the idea.
" No sir," he remarked, as ho dusted
-out from, behind the herring box, "it's
my opii:vun that yer sroin' to have a
bile" "
And he added that, if he only had
time, he could sit down and tell Jack
son a hundred stories about biles
which had aiSicted Kings, Queens,
Emperors, Congressman, Aldermen,
actors and policemen big biles and
small.
The next morning Jackson got out of
bed feeling tfiat he had a boil. There
was no longer any doubt about it. He
undertook to sit on the edge of the bed
and draw his pants on, but he didn't sit
there more than a second. He got up
and kicked over a chair, and said that a
woman as old as his mother ought to
know more than to stick pins in his
bed. In bending over to pull on his
boot he struck against the washstand,
and he made a clear jump of six feet
seven inches, and turned around to see
who struck him. He finally walked
very carefully down stairs, fat down on
the edge of the sofa until breakfast was
ready, and then got a pillow to put on
his chair. His stern old father elevated
his eye-brows a yard or so, laid down
his knife, and says he :
" Jackson Delancy, what in thunder
do you mean ?"
Jackson slid the pillow bacfc and sat
down on his hip and tried to smile. His j
father had told him months before that
walnuts were productive of boils, and j
he had been stealing walnuts from the j
garret all summer. Prudence and dis- j
cretion, therefore, warned him to say
nothing about that boiL
" Jackson Delancy, why in the name
of General Zachariah Taylor don't you !
sit up straight in your chair and eat i
jour breakfast?" roared the Puritan I
father, as he saw his son's position, and
Jackson sat over on the other hip and
began telling about a cave in a sewer in
order to occupy the old man's mind
with other and nobler thoughts.
When breakfast was over he wander
ed out. He didn't feel like sporting
around, and he lay down under an apple
tree and tried to calculate whether it
was seven days, seven weeks or tseven
months before boils came to a head. He
was reposing there when the wind shook
down an apple. It ought to have hit
him on the head, if at all, but it didn't ;
it struck that boil. Jackson uttered a
yell and leaped up, and as he tenderly
rubbed the boil he said he'd be shot to
death with peach stones if he didn't
put a pound of powder under that tree
before he slept.
Then he heard the fire-bell ring, and
he dusted down to box sixteen, forget
ting all about his boil until a fireman
shoved him against a tree-box. He
didn't care whether the house burned
3ip or not. He went over and leaned
against a store, but they threw water on
him, and he wended his melancholy way
to his lather's house, crept up stairs,
sat down on his leg and went to reading
.a dime novel. He wondered if Big Foot
Wallace, or Buffalo Bill, or Capt. Jack
ever had boils, and it made him shud
der to think of crawling into a cave to
escape the Indians and hitting his boil
on a jugged rock as he went in.
When supper was ready he stood be
fore his father and told him that all
'Other boys of his age stood up to eat,
and he'd like to try it for a week and
see how it seemed.
" Stand up to eat !" thundered the
old man, as he looked wildly around for
a weapon "sit down, sir, or I'll make
you think Vesuvius is having another
eruption !"
Little did they know that boy's feel
incrs as he sat down, and no surveyor
could have measured his relief as he got
up from the table.
The next day was Sunday, and he was
sent to Sunday-school. He knew he
-couldn't sit down, and he ran away and
-went to Windsor, but didn't take much
.comfort, as a hack ran against his boil
and the Chief of Police threatened to
lock him up for Bhouting "murder !"
when there was no murder.
The boil hasn't headed yet. It won't
for three days to come, and it will be
tender for two weeks. There is no joy
in this world for Jackson Delancy.
His mother thinks he has chills and
fever, and she has found him lying on
his face so often that she is afraid they
are going to lose him. The old man
has got a thrashing laid up for him fer
running away from Sunday-school, and
11, Trorn newer so many fires and
and bass-ball matches as since that boil
ii that nasi bov in the house. He was
-down at the gate as our reporter passed
loaf nio-ht,. and when he was asked if
o Wnt would be any inducement
him to turn a handspring he shiy
ered all over and bis hair stood up at
the bare thought of turing a hand
spring with that boil on him. Detroit
Jrree rress.
Payingfllm Back.
fToro Mmes a letter Riving a true
incident that happened the other day
in New Jersey :
rxiTiT tr. Ane. 8. 1874.
Tw .T . rK-t-THE-PcxFiT-1 would like to teU
you of something that occurred under my own
eyes to one of those creatures who, as you
11 u ,n loon silent." To us, who
IV' SZTuZ.a i thfl country, the in
-... inf0rflat Ti(7 A dav or two
ago, after a severe thimder-Btonn, James, tne
coachman, found that several birds had shel
tered themselves in a small tool-house near
. ... imnntrthAm was an owl. ne
put it into an ola canary-bird cage, and
fc .,t,t it Vr. not in lnnk t. It 18 not Often
th.i n 7ta an near a view of one of these
nr,v.n. nrMtiiriw. The cage was then placed
just back of the bouse on a frame made to
;ii-!r. Tlifira he sat all day, not
moving from the perch, occasionally relling
hi eyes, but not seeing much, as those or
Tans "are more useful to him at night than in
th2,.dayih' we had almost for
.h.t nnr owl was there, when we heard
Inch a clatttering while we were at ; supper
Mr rn to the door to see what it could
small birds succeeded in killing an owl.
It is quite common in Great Britain, I'm
told, to use owls as a kind of bird
snare. The sleepy bird is secured and
exposed in open sight during the day
time. Very soon numbers of small
birds collect, and, thinking at last that
they have their enemy in their power,
they hover about and taunt him in
every possible way. But the owl only
blinks at them in the most tantalizing
manner. He knows, wise bird ! what
it all means, and that the birds are
caught in their trap ; for thus congre
gated, they fall easy victims to the
hunters, while he is left unharmed.
From ' ' Jack- in the-Pulpit, " S't. JS'ich
Jas jar October.
Trade Prospects.
The New York Tribune, in an edito
rial article on the future prospects of
trade, closes as follows :
So far as the progress of events and
available statistical information enable
us to make a comparison with the state
of trade which prevailed in this country I
for two or three years after the panics of
1837 and 1857, and in England after 1837, '
1S47, 1857 and 1866, the result is re- I
niarkably favorable to the present period.
To begin with, very little commercial
rottenness has been developed in Great
Britain, our great customer and creditor.
The same remark may also be made of
the state of affairs here. On the whole
our banking system has been more pru
dently handled than it was in the years
previous to 1837 and 1857. There 'have
been some great abuses, as some recent
failures show, and as indeed is appar
ent from the official statistics, but
after all the banks bid fair to come out
of their difficulties in better shape than
they did twenty and fortv years aco.
The above observations apply with still ' Plne and
greater force to banking in Great ' erowtb. 8UC,h
Britain. While, therefore, we do not
shut our eyes to the features which are
common to the present depression and
those which have preceded it on each side
of the Atlantic, and would earnestly
recommend the history and philosophy
of such depressions to the careful study
of our merchants, manufacturers and
bankers, we think the country will
escape from the consequences of 1873,
having suffered less distress than our
ancestors did in atoning for their ex
cesses. So far as panics are concerned,
there is nothing new under the sun.
The English Wheat Market.
Two months ago, in the first of a
series of articles on the probable effects
on prices of an abundant crop of wheat
throughout the world, we gave it as our
opinion that if the English yield was
large the average English prices might
be expected to fall about 20 per cent. ,
thus bringing the original quotation
down to 50 shillings the quarter, and
perhaps still lower. As a fall of the
English price implies an equivalent re
duction in the American, the impor
tance of so great a change in the value
of breadstuff's justifies the prominence
we give the subject. The course of
prices in both countries has been in ac
cordance with our conjectures, which,
indeed, had no better and no worse
foundation than the anticipation that
what had happened in former years,
under similar circumstances would prob
ably happen again. Tue decline has
been somewhat more rapid than we ex
pected, but judging from the quantities
sold there is little reason to expect a re
action. The following shows the
average prices, as officially ascertained
from the returns of the officers of the
excise, of the sales at 150 designated
market towns for the ten weeks from
July 4 to Sept. 5, inclusive :
Wtk tndeil Average. Week endetl Average.
July 4 oils. 8d. August X oSs. 6a.
Julv 11 HJs. '.Id. August 15... 5Ks.
Julv IS eils.lOd. August 22. .. 578. 2d.
July 25 60s. 54. August 29. .:. 54. fid.
Aug. 1 598. 8d. Sopt. 5 ... i'Jh. 9d.
The quantities sold at these 150 towns
increased from 43,901 quarters for the
week ended August 29 to 64,693 quar
ters for the week ended September 5,
against 41,050 quarters for the corres
ponding week of last year. In the same
week over 290,000 quarters of foreign
wheat and wheat Hour were imported
into the United Kingdom an unusually
large amount. From these facts it may
be seen that the fall in the price of
wheat is not due to the unwarranted
operations of speculators. New York
Tribune, Sept. 23.
The Black Hills Gold Hoax.
The facts in regard to the Black Hills
region, gleaned here and there, from
j officer, soldier and civilian of the late
I expedition are coming to light, about as
i follow : First, there appears to have
i been found, extracted and brought
'' away from the Black Hills by the en
tire expedition, about $3 worth of gold.
; Second, it is pretty conclusively under
j stood by some that the ore from which
the said gold was obtained was irn-
ported that is, the hills were "salted !"
1 Third, the area of land valuable for cul
i tivation is so very small that it is lost
: in the great lengths of only moderately
; good soil. Fourth, the timber-
land is composed of spruce, vellow-
and Cottonwood of stunted
as is usually found in the
stretch of land between the Missouri
river and the Rocky mountains. Fifth,
that the Black Hills region is not par
ticularly rich, either in soil, timber or
mineral wealth, and is in every respect
just such a neighbor as one might ex
pect to find of that mysterious country
lying to the north of it, known by the
natives as "The Bad Lands." Why
not, then, let Red Cloud nnd Spotted
Tail and their followers enjoy their
possession of that region undisturbed ?
Chicago Journal.
A Peculiar Conveyance.
A Florida correspondent says : "I
1 wonder if a description would serve an
! artist as a model for a sketch of equip
age much in favor in Florida. Imagine
; a small, short cart, perched high on
! two wheels drawn by a cow than
I which the ' lean kine'' in Pharaoh's
I dream were never leaner so miserable
that all hair stands uj the wrong way
i (the representative cow has generally
lost one horn aud the most of her tail),
I and then curled up on the floor of the
cart an old colored woman, extremely
I dilapidated as to cosume, smoking the
j stump of a pipe, and one or two younger
; women in front, with a man, whose at
j tire is more picturesque than servicable,
j sitting on the shafts driving. This
! conveyance, animal and all. aonears to
j be peculiar to Florida ; certainly I have
never seen anvtnmg lKe it elsewhere,
ana it would be quite as strikincr m a
Horsewhipping a Prince.
We have had several instances of late
of the democratic tendencies of what
we have been pleased to regard as the
aristocratic and "effete monarchies"
of the old world. The summary pun
ishment of the nephew of the Czar of
Russia for squandering his mother's
jewels upon a wandering actress is a
case in point. A recent incident whih
occurred at Dresden, and which hith
erto has appeared only in the German
papers, furnishes a still more striking
illustration of the general fact. A son
of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg re
cently arrived at a railway station in
Dresden, to which a restaurant is at
tached. His HighnesB entered the room
to get his lunch with the crowd, and
the idea of placing himself upon a level
with the common herd not comporting
with his princely dignity, he vaulted
upon the lunch-counter and sat down
upon it, much to the disgust of the
common herd, who were standing up.
A waiter requested him to sit down,
but his Serene Highness refused, and
ordered his lunch served. The waiter
thereupon informed the proprietor of the
antics of this extraordinary customer,
who was sitting upon the place intended
for the provisions. The proprietor
came round in front and remonstrated
with his Highness, but in vain. He
then ordered him to get down or ne
would take him down. His Highness
notified the proprietor if he gave him
any more of his jaw he would slap his
face. The latter, not having the fear of
princes before his eyes, used his jaw all
the more vigorously, and his Highness,
true to his word, did rebuke the vulgar
Boniface by slapping him. This was
all that Boniface had been waiting for.
He quietly removed his coat, and pro
ceeded to disturb his Highness in his
enjoyment of gcmuetlichkcit (a free-and-easy
time), and did it in a manner
which was at once frisch, frei, und froli
(fresh, free, and happy). He seized
him by the coat-collar, and down came
the House of Oldenburg pell-mell to the
floor. Then he went for the scion of
the ducal house, and gave him a first
class, old-fashioned, democratic pum
melinfi', without regard to pedigree, or
previous condition, or possible conse
quences. After the drubbing had pro
ceeded far enough for immediate pur
poses of improvement, the police were
called in, who wit h some difficulty res
cued what was left of his Highness in a
condition, which, to say the least, was
not favorable to his sitting down upon
lunch-counters. The punishment was
sufficiently stern to prevent the repeti
tion of the indecorum. Time was when
the action of Boniface would have been
sacrilegious, and to have laid a hand
upon the Lord's anointed, even if he
persisted in dancing a horn-pipe in the
krout-barrel, would have been high
treaso. That time has passed. The
Berlin papers took the matter up and
discussed it, and all arrived at the ver
dict, " served him right." The pater
nal Grand Duke took the matter up and
discussed it. He had the good sense
not to make any complaints about the
chastisement which Lad been inflicted
upon his hopeful, or to write any dip
lomatic letters about it. On the other
hand, he dispatched the Prince to a dis
tant castle, a. sort of family summer re
sort, where he is to remain until he
learns good manners. Chicago Tribune.
A Thirty-seven Days' Fast.
A man named Van derVeken was dis
covered, on the 11th instant, stretched
insensible on a bed in a garret in this
city. He was taken to the hospital and
then gave signs of life ; but it was not
till the next day that he had strength
to speak. Then he asked what day it
was and on being informed that it was
the 12th of August, said: "I have
been there these thirty-seven days." A
little latter he became better able to
speak, and in reply to questions, he in
formed the doctor that early in July he
had been suffering from a spitting of
blood. He was alone in his garret, but
expecting that he would be better, and
not wishing to trouble any one, he lay
down on the bed. Here, however, he
found himself becoming so weak that he
could not rise, and though he tapped on
iiie wmj, no one appeared to nave nearu ; riatnr(, R rl ,,,:11f Q;oa
ear his bed was a pitcher of ' r r
him
water, and he was able, by means oi a
small can, to get some out of it from :
time to time. Little by little he lost I
his remaining strength, until he found I
himself unable to move. He could not
speak and his sight became dim from i
time to time, until all power of vision I
faded. Still his sense of hearing con
tinued most acute, and he says he could
detect the smallest sound, though ut
terly powerless to articulate a syllable.
He is now recovering, and it is expected
will, with care, be thoroughly restored.
Antwerp ( Holland) JPreeurseur.
Evils of High Heels.
Heels upon boots, shoes and other
foot gear htve been in use about three
hundred years. In these three centu
ries the height of them has varied from
a single ply to nearly three inches, pen
dulating as it were from one extreme to
the other, at irregular periods of time.
High heels are open to general objec
tions, and perhaps all heels are open to
some, in addition to the ordinary ill
effects of medium to high heels, espe
cially when too short a tiptoe gait,
jammed toes, soft and hard corns, bun
ions, ingrowing nails and flat footedness
there is one mischief not usually
taken into account. That is, a loss of
calf. A comparison of ancient and me
diaeval art will show this. The loss is
both in volume and elasticity of gait.
The cause is in fact that a high heel re
lieves the calf of its full tension, and
thereby deprives it of its due exercise,
upon which muscular as well as other
development depends. In women the
effect is more marked than in men, but
not so general, the use of high heels be
ing less steady and less extensive among
the gentler sex than among the sterner ;
bnt, wherever high heels .have long pre
vailed, whatever be the circles of so
ciety, the slender calf registers the ef
fect, and the pad follows the high heel
as an effect does a cause.
The Small Boy. One of the saddest
things about the small boy of the pres
ent day, says the New York Tribune,
is the uncertainty which seems to attend
him as he bounds along through life.
You can't always tell what he is going
to say. At a Sunday school service held
not long ago, an amiable clergyman,
endeavoring to illustrate the necessity
of the Christian profession in order
rightly to enjoy the benefactions of
Providence, spoke as follows : " For in
stance, I want to introduce water into
my house; I have it pumped. The
fipes and faucets are in good order, but
get no water. Now, why do I get no
water?" The reason, he wished the young
people to see, was that he had made no
communication with the main in the
street. But the boys were too intent
on plumbing and water rates. " Now,
why do I get no water?" "I know,"
shrieked a little one ; "yon don't pay."
AccoBDraa to Dr. Maginn, no cigar
smoker ever committed suicide.
Jeff.'s Album.
When Jeff". Davis was confined in
Fortress Monroe a photographic album,
containing family photographs and
those of his staff and distinguished
Confederates with him, was stolen from
him. Some time in August last one D.
E. Moore, who was an Iowa soldier,
and one of the guard at the time of the
theft, mailed a letter from Waterloo,
Iowa, to some person at Erie, Pa., of
fering the album for sale, fixing the
price at $45. The Erie man, instead
of responding to Moore, sent the letter
to Jefferson Davis. Davis wrote to ex
Senator George W. Jones, of Iowa, at
Dubuque, sending him the letter, and
asking him to get the album, if possi
ble. Moore was found in Iowa county,
and the album seized from him under a
writ of replevin by an officer. The
trial as to the right of the property was
postponed to the 15th inst., in order to
give Mr. Davis time to furnish the evi
dence of his right and title to it.
The Danger of Wet Coal.
People who prefer wetting the win
ter's store of coal to lay the dust on
putting it in the cellars, do not, we be
lieve, generally know that they, are lay
ing up for themselves a store of sore
throats and other evils consequent upon
the practice. But so it is said to be.
Even the fire damp which escapes from
coal mines arises from the slow decom
position of coal at temperatures but
lit le above that of the atmosphere, but
under augumented pressure, iiy wet
ting a mass of freshly-broken coal and
putting it in a warm cellar, the mass
heated to such a degree that carbureted
and sulphureted hydrogen are given off
lor long periods of time and pervade
the whole house. The liability-of wet
coal to mischievous results under such
circumstances may be appreciated from
the circumstance that there are several
instances on record of spontaneous com
bustion of wet coal when stowed into
the bunkers or holds of vessels. And
from this cause, doubtless, many miss
ing coal vessels have perished. Lon
aon Meatcal Mecord.
There is a young woman in Marshall
county, i.an., said, to De neiress to an
estate of $15,000,000 in England. The
yarn runs that she was brought to this
country by a gypsy, having been stolen
from her parents that she is a member
of one of the noblest families in Great
Britain that the old hag who brought
her here confessed to these facts upon
the bed of death. The young woman
has received a letter from an English
lawyer who asks her to come over and
take possession. And she is going over,
to the great grief of all the marriage
able young men of Kansas.
If a man passes off a counterfeit $10
bill on you, don't keep it all to your
self, but circulate it around among your
friends.
Richard Himself Again.
The irrepressible Detroit Free Press
man writes : "It has never been defi
nitely settled to the satisfaction of the
public who the Man in the Iron Mask
was, but generations to come will know
all about Dick Palmer, who got inside
of something worse than a mask. His
mother sent him after a brass kettle,
which one of the neighbors had bor
rowed, and on the way home the boy
turned the kettle upside down and put
it on his head. Another boy struck it
a blow, and it shut down over Dick's
face as close as a clam in his shell, one
of the ears digging into his head be
hind, and the other pressing on his
nose. The victim jumped and shouted
and clawed at the kettle, but he couldn't
budge it. A man came along and lifted
at it. but Dick's nose began to come
out by the roots, and the man had to
stop. A crowd ran out of the corner
grocery. Dick's mother was sent for,
and the boys jumped up ana down and
cried ' Oh goilv ! without ceasing
One boy said they would have to take a
cold chisel and drill Dick out of the
kettle, and another said they'd have to
melt the kettle off, while everybody
tapped on it to see how solidly it was
on. Then they tried to lift it off, but
Dick roared ' murder ' until they
stonoed. Some said grease his head,
some said grease the kettle, while the
boy's mother sat down on the curb
stone and cried out, ' O Richard, why
did you do this ?' The crowd took it
coolly : it wasn't their funeral, and a
. . ... ... -i? , i
boy with a brass kettle on nis neati isn t
to be seen every day. Tears fell from
the kettle, and a hollow voice kept re
rjeatinc 'I'll never do it again.' Fi
nally thev had Richard on the walk,
and while one man sat on his legs and
another on his stomach, a third com
nressed the kettle between his hands,
... n
and the boy crawled out, nis nose an
scratched and twisted out of shape, a
hole in his head, and a bump on his
forehead. His mother wildly embraced
him, all the boys cried 'Hip la! and
little Richard was led home to loaf
around on the lounge and have toast
and fried eggs for a week."
Interesting Statistics.
A contributor to the columns of the
Cincinnati Trade Lint shows, by a se
ries of interest inar statistics. " the
proportions between labor, material,
capital and oroducts." in the several
great industries of the country. Food
and its preparations represent a capital
of $198,874,861 ; wages, S'25, 780,682 ;
material. $482. 402.947 ; products, $600,
365,501. Iron and manufactures of
iron have a capital of $198,365,115 ;
wages, $73,027,976 : material, $103,208,
218; products, $322,138,698. Textile
fabrics call for the employment of more
capital and a greater number of hands
than any other nine industries enumer
ated, while iron and its manufactures
yield a larger amount of money in earn
ings to their employes than any other
employment, the relative pay being
higher. Food, having a productive
value of $600,000,000, employs relatively
but few hands, and pays them relatively
the least. The manufacture of com
mon clothing employs the largest num
ber of ha ds, and pays the largest
wages. The highest paid labor is the
iron mduntry. because it calls lor the
most- skilled laborers in its several
trades, producing many varieties of cu
rious and peculiar work. In the manu
facture of textile fabrics, an immense
number of hands are employed ; but
comparatively a small number of them
are able bodied laborers, great num
bers beinc women and children, and a
vast amount of work, in proportion
done by machinery-
The Wrong House.
In Philadelphia there are numbers
of houses exactly alike, and some
times there is such a quantity of
them in a square that a man who lives
near the middle has to begin counting
at the corner in order to ascertain which
s his house. Mr. Bradbury, a few
nights ago, came home late, and, as he
was thinking of something else, he for
got to count.
When about two doors from home he
ran up the front steps of Mr. Petty'
residence, with a conviction that it was
his own. His dead latch-key opened
the door readily, and Bradbury, after
groping around in the dark for the hat
rack, knocked against it and upset it.
Mr. Petty was up-stairs, just about
to go to bed. When he heard the noise
he went to the head of the staircase and
listened. He discovered that there wa
a man in the hall below, and he knew
at once it was a burglar. So he went
back to his room and got his revolver.
Then he shut his eyes and fired at ran
dom. The noise waked Mrs. Petty, and she
began to scream violently. Then Brad
bury felt certain that there was a baud
of robbers up-stairs engaged in butch
ering Mrs. Bradbury and the children.
As he started to creep softly up the
staircase to reconnoiter, Petty began to
steal quietly down the staircase to look
after the burglar he had killed. They
met on the first landing, and, although
both were terribly frightened, they
grappled, for both knew it would be a
struggle to the death. After fighting
desperately, the combatants rolled down
the stairs to the floor beneath, while
Mrs. Petty sprung the rattle for a po
liceman.
Just as Petty got the upper hand of
Bradbury and was mutilating his noso
with his fist, the police burst the front
door open and strucn a lignt. i nen an
explanation ensued, and Bradbury went
home.
You have, perhaps, seen a prize egg
plant at an agricultural fair. Well,
Bradbury's nose resembled that in size
of color and shape : and now he not
only counts from the corner -when he
comes home, but he has the front of his
house painted white, with a locomotive
headlight over the front door.
" Bridging " Type.
A feature of London is its bridges,
and, while eminently practical in their
special service of promoting travel and
tramc, each has its library ot tragedies
and romances. Of all this, history and
legend are full, while each day's police
record adds its quota. Quite out of
the range of ordinary use, or misuse,
of bridges is a practice connected with
the Blackfriars, and one which I never
saw mentioned m print.
As 1 was one time talking with the
night editor of the leading London
daily, the foreman of the typographical
department reported to him that they
were half a dozen hands short.
" How's that ? " asked the editor.
"Discharged for 'bridging,'" was
response.
After the foreman had gone, my
Yankee curiosity caused me to inquire
what this strange offense might be.
" Bridging type is one of our princi
pal sources of annoyance and loss,"
said he. " When a compositor is throw
ing in his case, if he happens to ' pi ' a
handful, instead of carefully sorting
and distributing the type, he shoves it
into his pocket ; or, if a printer is trans
ferring a stickful of matter to a galley
and accidentally ' pi's' it, he also se
cretly thrusts the mass into his pocket
and resets the whole ; and the type
these printers have secreted they quiet
ly dump into the Thames on their way
home at night, while crossing the iilacK
friars Bridge, over which a majority of
them pass. o extensively is this dis
honest and lazy habit practiced, that
there are tons upon tons of tpye in the
bed of the Thames, and hardly ever is
a body dragged for without the hauling
up of quantities of type metal.
This same habit prevails in the large
cities of the United States, although
not so extensively as in England, per
perhaps ; and New York printers, who
sink their "pi in the Jast or JNortn
rivers, while crossing on the ferry boats
to their homes in Brooklyn or Jersey
City, are also described by the London
phrase as having "bridged" their
type. Fireside Friend.
Illinois contains nearly four times as
many residents as the city of .Fhila
delphia.
A Lady Seventy-one Years Old Blows
Out Her Brains.
One of the most lamentable suicides
that we have ever been called upon to
chronicle, took place in Jones county,
at a late hour on Monday night. Mrs.
Jonathan Holmes, an old lady 71 years
of age, deliberately blew out ner own
brains with a shot-gun, producing in
stantaneous death. About midnight
the family were alarmed by the report
of a gun in her room, and upon going
thither found the old lady lying dead
upon the floor, with nearly the whole of
the upper portion of her head blown off.
She seems to have placed the muzzle of
the gun against her forehead and pulled
the trigger with her foot.
Mrs. Holmes, lor the greater portion
of her lif e, lived in comfortable circum
stances. She raised a family of chil
dren and a number of grandchildren.
She had a great deal of trouble during
the latter part of her life, and there is
hardly any doubt that her troubles
preyed upon ner mind, until ner reason
became impaired, and that it was in
this mental condition that she commit
ted the awful act. In addition to her
troubles she has. for some time, been
in bad health. Macon (Ga) Tele
graph.
Botanical Photography.
Leaves of any kind may be beauti
fully photographed by the following
simple process : Place five cents worth
of bichromate of potash in a two-ounce
bottle of olain soda water, aud when
most of it has been dissolved pour off
some of the clear liquid into a plate and
thoroughly saturate a piece of ordinary
writing paper in it. Then lif t out the
paper and allow it to become almost
entirely dry in a dark room. Thus
vour " plate is prepared, ine iei
should then be placed upon the now
bright yellow paper, a piece of soft
black cloth and several thicknesses of
newspaper under the latter, and the
whole inclosed between pieces of glass
nf the same size and held together by
clothes-pins. Expose tothe sun so that
the light will strme iuu upon tuts ieai
until the paper has turned a deep
brown : then take the paper from the
frame and put it in clear water, which
must be changed every few minutes
until the yellow part becomes per
fectly white and the photograph re
mains.
Death of the Elephant. Natural
ists say that the elephant, like the
whale, is being driven into extinction
by the persecution of mankind. In In
-i . i t i i . .
uia me mmiera nave pursued mm so
far inland that he is scarcely more com
mon now in the habitable part of that
coun try than is the red deer in England ;
and in Burmah and Ceylon only ha the
huge and docile animal a refuge from
extermination.
The Revival of Trade.
The Toronto Olobe, speaking in a re
cent issue of the revival of trade in the
United States, remarks that the fact
that a few days since $3,000,000 worth
of New York Central railway bonds
were sold in London at 105 is sufficient
proof of itself of a return of confidence
in American securities, and of the pleth
ora oi money in the hiUropean ex
changes waiting for investment. This
is but one straw which points to better
times. Business men in New York ore-
diet a sound and healthy fall and winter
traffic. Orders from the interior mul
tiply, and collections are made with ease.
The export trade in grain has
been stimulated by the recent ad
vance of wheat in the Liverpool
market. It is known that the
last year's grain crop has been pretty
exhaustively depleted by the uninter-
mitted orders for export, and the do
mestic as well as the foreign demand
for the grain of the current year must
keep accumulation down and transport
ation active. Xhe consequence is, that
the f eeUng in the great business centers
is excellent, nor are any apprehensions
felt of a change for the worse. The re
ports from the Internal Revenue Office
are as we have already pointed out
of a highly favorable nature, as com
pared with those for the same time in
1873. In short, the general tone of the
talk is hopeful and assured, and the
confidence in a revival of trade gains
rapidly in strength as the season ad
vances. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Failures in Business.
Peter Cooper failed in making hats,
failed as a cabinet-maker, locomotive
builder and grocer, but as often as he
failed he " tried again," until he could
stand upon his feet alone; then crowned
his victory by giving $1,000,000 to help
poor ooys in time to come.
Horace U-reeley tried three or four
lines of business before he founded the
Tribune, and made it worth 1,000,000.
Patrick Henry failed at everything he
undertook until he made himself the
ornament of his age and nation.
The founder of the New York Her
ald kept on failing and sinking his mon
ey for ten years, and then made one of
the most profitable newspapers on earth.
Stephen A. Douglas made dinner
tables and bedsteads and bureaus many
a long year before he made himself a
giant on the floor of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln failed to make both
ends meet by chopping wood ; failed to
earn his salt in the galley-slave life of a
Mississippi flat-boatman ; he had not
even wit enough to run a grocery, and
yet he made himself a grand character
of the nineteenth century.
Gen. Grant failed at everything except
smoking a cigar; he learned to tan hides,
but couldn't sell leather enough to pur
chase a pair of breeches. A dozen years
ago he " brought up" on top of a wood
pile "teaming it" to town for $40 a
month, and'yet he is at the head of a
great nation.
Russian Horses.
An English writer says : A specialty
of renown in Russia are the little horses
of the Mushik. They are hardy in the
first instance, as everything is in Russia,
and they are quick and strong. Two of
these little horses, hardly large enough
to be called ponies: will draw a plow all
day with a pause at noon. They are
now largely exported (under the name
of Litthauers) to Prussia, and in some
places have altogether dispossessed the
oxen of their old privileges. I worked
f with them on one of the estates of Bar
on Jfiuce, where they were fed upon
chaff of any description, even of lupines,
very successfully, condimented with
some potato refuse from the distillery.
In harvest time, when the little miee
had to work like brewers' horses, I ad
ministered to them some bran, and they
grew fat even under so unfavorable cir
cumstances. We soon had some twenty
more sent down, and so we would spare
them a little, and send them into the
inclosure with the foals now and then
Two of them were able to draw the
Champion reaper all day long, and got
two pecks of oats each as an encourage
ment. They, too, laid on flesh during
the time. V X mean to say that they are
the most useful animals for easy agri
culture existing, as we used to work
them.
Miss Dickinson.
Anna E. Dickinson has been confined
to her bed or room for the greater part
of the last six months. It is only with
in three weeks that she has been able
to walk more than a few minutes at a
time. During the last two years she
has been given over by her physicians
repeatedly ; and, as they said, nothing
but her indomitable will earned ner
through. It is the old story overwork
by a highly nervous organization, re
sulting in vital exhaustion, and threat
ening to end in paralysis. She was ob
liged last winter to cancel over hfty en
gagements, owing to her failing
health. She is now rapidly recov
ering, but is afraid to make en
gagements for next winter. She will
probably go to England, but is not yet
strong enough to venture on the voy
age. Her innumerable mends will be
surprised at these statements, for she
has carefully kept the true condition of
her health concealed, but they will be
glad to know that there is now no fur
ther cause for fear.
MAJUNk
The following spirited poem we dip from SiA
Atlantic for October. It is by Bret Harte, in fata
very best vein ; the scene being laid at SI Bafrngto
Mine, Northern Mexico. j
Drunk and senseless in his place.
Prone and sprawling on his face,
More lite brute than any man
Alive or dead
By his great pump out of gear.
Lay the peon engineer.
Waking only just to hear,
Overhead,
Angry tones that called his name.
Oaths and cries of bitter blame
Woke to hear all this, and waking, turned and fled
" To the man whoU bring to me,"
Cried Inteudant Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine
" Bring the sot alive or dead,
I will give to him," he said,
" Fifteen hundred penox down.
Just to set the rascal's crown
Undernerth this heel of mine ;
Since but death '
Deserves the man whose deed,
Beit vice or want of heed,
Stops (he pumps that give us breath
Stops the pumps that suck the death
From the poisoned lower levels of the mine !
No one answered, for a cry
From the shaft rose up on high ;
And hutting, scrambling, tumbling from below.
Came the miners each, the bolder
Mounting on the weaker's shoulder.
Grappling, clinging to their hold or
Letting go,
As the weaker gasped and fell
From the ladder to the well
To the poisoned pit of hell
Down below !
" To the man who sets them free,"
Cried the foreman, Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the Eug.ish foreman of the mine
Brings them out and sets them free,
I will give that man," said he,
" Twice that sum, who with a rope
Face to face with Death shall cope.
Let him come who dares to hope ! "
" Hold your peace ! " some one replied,
Stauding by the foreman's side ;
" There has one already gone, whoe'er he be I
Then they held their breath with awe,
Pulling on the rope, and saw
Fainting ilgures reappear,
On the black rope swinging clear.
Fastened by some skillful hand from below
Till a score the level gained.
Ana out one alone remained
He the hero and the last,
tie Whose sklllflll hnnrl made fa.at
The long line that brought them back to hope and
Haggard, gasping, down dropped he
At the feet of Harrv T.ee
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine ;
" I have come." be vanned, "tn clnim
Beth rewards. Senor, my name
Is Ramon !
I'm the drunken engineer
I'm the coward, Senor " Here
He fell over, by that sign
Dead as Btone !
Pith and Point.
Men of color Painters.
Eye servants Spectacles.
Letters of credit; I O U.
A common cant A mendicant.
The Emerald Ishs Greenland.
Cast iron Spent cannon balls.
The end of the world Money-mak-
stamp act Treading on people's
on a bar Rapping for
ing.
A
toes
Soundings
drinks.
The Houston (Tex.) Chronicle gayly
exclaims : " Glory to God ! Two dollars
received at this office yesterday ! Bring
in your wash bill."
A good way to restore a man appar
ently drowned is to first dry him thor
oughly inside and out, and then clap a
speaking-trumpet to his ear and inform
him that his mother-in-law is dead.
New version :
Mother, may I go out to swim ?
No, my darling daughter.
Wear your clothes, my cherubim,
For there isn't any water.
A spread eagle barber announces
that he is " Prof essor of Crinicultura,1
Abscision andCraniologicalTripsis." It
is not often that four such high-priced
words get into a single sentence.
A POLrriciAN, wishing to compliment
a well-to-do farmer, said : " You must
have begun life early to accumulate
such an estate as this ?" " Yes," replied
the farmer, "I begin life when I was a
mere baby."
A gentleman of mechanical turn of
mind took off the gas meter to repair it
himself, and put it up again upside
down. At the end of the quarter it was
proved with mathematical correctness
that the gas company owed him $8.50.
"Don't cry, my little fellow, don't
cry, said a kino -hearted stranger to a
ten-year old, who was busy churning his
tears with both fists as hard as he could.
I ain't a-cryin'," snappishly retorted
the urchin, "I'm only washin' the dirt
out of my eyes."
That was shrewd advice of a learned
lawyer to a pupil : " When the facts are
in your favor, but the law opposed to
you, come out strong on the facts ; ana
when the law is in your favor, and the
facts opposed to you, come out strong
on the law." "But," inquired the
student, "when the law and the facts
are both against me, what shall I do ?"
"Why, then," said the lawyer, "talk
around it."
FotJR doctors tickled Johnny Smith,
They blistered and they bled him ;
With squills and anti-bilious pills
And ipecac they fed nim.
They stirred him up with calomel,
And tried to move his liver,
But all in vain ! his little soul
Was wafted o'er the river.
The
Luxury of New York
Their Tables.
Hotels and
Destitution in Nebraska.
There are at least 5,000 people living
in eleven counties on the Western bor
der of Nebraska who will require to be
fed the coming winter. This is the es
timate of Gen. James S. Brisbin, who
was commissioned by Gen. Ord to visit
the people of these counties and ascer
tain their numbers and needs. It is in
the presence of such a fact, and the near
approach of what may be a severe win
ter, that, notwitnstandmg the enorts
making for relief by State and local or
ganizations, we earnestly urge an im
mediate appeal to the Secretary of War
to authorize Gen. Ord to issue 400,000
rations, more or less, according to their
actual necessities,
people, just as was
to these distressed
done in the case of
the people of the South in the season of
the recent hoods. Omaha Herald.
Corn Burning Not in 1874. It
appears probable that the West will
never get rid of the reputation of beintr
compelled to burn corn for fuel. Be
cause, two years ago. freights were so
high and corn was so plentiful that it
would not bear transportation, and was
the cheapest fuel obtainable, Eastern
papers, which know no better, fancy
that corn burning is going on now. A
Washington city paper laments over the
fact that " Western farmers are actu
ally burning their grain for fuel, while
Eastern laborers are starving for the
necessaries of life that are thus wasted,
the high prices of tf ansportation ren
dering it impossible fo put the grain in
market." Western Rural.
It is only thirty vears since the first
electric telegvaph line was established,
and at this time there are many more
than a million miles of telegraph wires
j in us.
It is a matter of much interest to
those who visit New York to keep
posted about the hotels. Recently there
has been quite a rivalry among the
first-class hotels about their bills of
fare, each striving to set the best table
for its guests. We speak more particu
larly of the hotels on Broadway and
Fifth avenue the Grand Central' being
the largest and most centrally located,
and elegantly furnished. Of these four
or five leading hotels, the bills of fare
are covered with the names of the most
luxuriant viands ot the season. The
bill of the Grand Central, especially, de
serves setting apart as a notabte speci
men of modern culinary skill in the
number, variety, and richness of its
dishes. It contains no less than eleven
courses for dinner, and gives the hours
for no less than six meals every day, for
the moderate sum of from S3 to $4 per
day, including, of course, an elegantly
furnished room for each guest. It would
seem from this that the tours of our
travelers and the visits of our business
men become rounds of pleasure as well
as of business.
" Waifs from Ararat."
Under this name, and the shadow oi
the storied mount, a newspaper flour
ishes, edited by Americans (of course).
The paper contains some curiou'i and
interesting local topics, quotes the
price of girls as wives in the Armenian
villages, varying from two to sixteen
pounds, and discusses the pa as ant no
tion that the world rests on a large ox,
which, being irritated by . fly tosses
its head and causes earth quakes, and
the belief of the natives in the neigh
borhood of the mount t'aat impassably
barriers surround Arara t to prevent its
being desecrated by raortal feet, while
angels keep guard or, the summit lest
one piece of the indestructible wood o
tha ark should be borne away.