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WANTED TO GET R1AR1UED.
fTlif following Impromptu Hnpa were addressed
o a lerfrjnian of this city xome days Rince. Their
meaning will probably be plain to most readers :
Though we never have met with each other
And your church I did never attend,
Still I claim yon Wi God at a brother,
And shall call yon " My dear Chriat'an friend."
Thus to yonr revc rence I send thiB effusion.
By one who ia friendly to me ;
1W it will cause no confusion.
When lis oeued and money yon Bee.
I know it ia but a small offer
For the service I now ask of you ;
Cut it equaled one-fifth in my coffer,
So please not the tender eschew.
"When yon enter it down in your docket.
Please not at it minuteness scoff.
For if you never have Irs in yonr pocket
You will always be M well enough off.,
1 have lived many years in eonrnston.
Enjoying (?) sinffle-wretchednean life;
lint now I have come to the conclusion
To take to my bosom a wife.
1 have found one at last that will suit me,
And I look now upon her with pride;
I ho some tixi marksman will shoot me
If I don't want to make her my bride.
I asked her nm night if " she'd have me 7"
She Ix ked np and sweetly did smile,
And -this is the answer she made me,
Y. s. dariuiK, if you'll Watt jnst a whiie."
The time lias lieen patiently Wait-rti
As on time s wings it Kwi'ftly did glide,
And ' now then" I want to be mated.
And take this young maid as my bride.
hope uott'B not Waitr, neither tarrv,
Nr think of this scrap as a pun.
But come with intfntUms to many,"
And make Alice. Waite and me one.
I want the knot tied as it should be
.Vet tied With a blemish or flaw J
But so lawyers who tronblcrs would be
fan not loose it by flaws in the law.
i Then we'll langb. at the wind and the weather,
And will scoff at the storm and the blast
We will bless God. and love him together,
And a " havou of rest" reach at last,
Where the weary can rest without tronkle.
And none need be fearful of death ;
Where a lifetime is merelv a bubble,
That would perish and be gone at a breath.
And now if I never more meet you,
While we sojourn in this blessed land :
I am in hopes 1 iu Heaven may greet yon.
Midst the throng seated near God's'right hand.
Detroit Tributu.
THE MIXER'S REVENGE.
A SUetcli of Early Times In California.
The sketch which I give you, dear
readers, is fl tine one, the main features
of which will be recognized as more than
a " mere coinage of the brain " by thou
sands of persons now residing in Cali
fornia. Of the death of Frederick Boe
at the hands of the populace of Sacra
mento in the spring of 1851, the reasons
of it, the reader is still remindful, for it
was one of the most determined out
bursts of popular indignation and ven
geance which any single individual had,
"by his crimes, brought down upon him
self, since California had become an
American possession ; nor has it scarce
ly been equaled since.
The first time I eversawBoewasinthe
fall of 1850. I was traveling through
Bidwell's Bar, a village of considerable
note on the Feather river, when I no
ticed a large crowd of persons collected
at the upper end of the town, assembled
for the purpose of administering fifty
lashes to an individual in whose posses
sion had been found a couple of gold
coins winch had been identified as be
longing to another person. In addition
to that punishment, the popular verdict
was that his head should be shaved,
and two hours given him to take his
final leave of that section of the coun
try. The man was a perfect stranger to
the village, having taken up his resi
dence at that place but two days pre
vious, and the fact that his accuser was
a gambler, and that it was at the insti
gation of that peculiar class that he was
being punished, aroused a suspicion in
my mind of the justice of his sentence,
which was much strengthened by the
at, honest and open bearing of the man,
Bp' and the earnest candor with which he
avowed his innocence.
Walsworth, and from
ments I soon became
the matter stood thus :
uis name was
different state
convinced that
That morning
Walsworth was standing in a gambling-
house watching a game of monte, when
Roe, who was engaged in betting against
it with no success, managed to take
from the table, while in the act of
"cutting" the cards, two Bolivian
ounce-pieces, upon which had been
scratched, for some reason, a peculiar
mark. These he handed to Walsworth,
telling him to bet them for him, merely
to change his luck. Knowing but little
about the game, he at first refused,
but, upon being pressed, he took the
coins and threw one upon the table.
The piece was recognized by the dealer,
who asked Walsworth how he came by
it. The victim informed him that it
had been given him to try his luck
with, and pointed to Roe, who was
standing at the other side of the room,
as the man from whom he had obtained
them. Boe was called for, but, seeing
how matters were, denied that he had
given it to the man, or that he had ever
seen him before. Walsworth was in
stantly searched, and the other piece
was found in his pocket, which he, of
course, accounted for in the same man
ner as the first, but which Boe again
denied. Circumstances were against
Walsworth, for it was certainly consid
ered a singular transaction for a man to
trust his money in the hands of a
stranger, and Boe was well known on
the Bar. and the other was not : the
word of the former was taken in pref
erence, and the latter, after a hasty
trial, was sentenced to the punishment
he was receiving on my arrival. Owing
to the number of persons surrounding
him, I was unable to get a signt of him
until he had received his sentence in
full, and was on his way down the river,
after making an unsuccessful cearch
through the town for Boe. He left an
open note for him, however, which was
read by myself and several others pre
vious to its reaching its destination,
which read, as near as I can recollect,
thus :
mb. Roe Bbr - Through your villainy I
have Buffered a humiliating disgrace a dis
honor which will render my life one of misery
to its latest hour. I am innocent, as you well
know aBd had not my time been limited to
two abort hours, your dying breath should
have acknowledged it ere another hour. I
shall now live but for one thing revenge.
Go where von may. my eyes shall be upon
you and, so sure as there is a God above,
my satisfaction shall, in less than one year,
be compete and dreadful.
' Jacob Walsworth.
The next time I saw Boe was upon the
occasion and at the time mentioned in
the beginning of this sketch. He was
then a French monte-dealer, and carried
on bis operation as such in a disrepu
table den on the corner of Front and J
streets in Sacramento City.
On the morning of the day of bis
death he drank pretty freely, and being
very irritable when under the influence
of liquor, he ordered from the table a
miner who had made remarks to a by
stander in relation to the honesty of the
game The miner refused and a rough
and tumble fight in front of the house
was the consequence. A teamster at
tempted to separate them, when Boe
pulled a revolver from his belt and shot
him, causing a wound which proved
fatal two days after. Boe was arrested
and lodged in the station-house, then
located in the basement of a brick
building on the corner of Second and J
streets. Thimble-riggers and French
monte sharps were getting into bad odor
and as soon as the circumstances of the
murderous attempt became known or
rather as soon as it was noised about
the streets that such a deed had been
perpetrated by a gambler npon an
"honest, hard-working man," a crowd
commenced gathering in front of the
station-house, which in half au hour
swelled to the number of some two hun
dred person's. Up to this time but lit
tle excitement had been manifested by
the assemblage, and I have no reason
to believe that the thought of lynching
him had been entertained or even sug
gested by a single individual present ;
they had collected from motives of cu
riosity a desire " to learn the particu
lars," and nothing more. At tin's mo
ment the startling cry of " Hang him !
hang the murderer !" burst from a single
throat in the crowd, but the tofJfc in
which it was uttered was so loud, firm
and decisive, that all eyes were instant
ly turned upon the speaker, who was a
man of perhaps forty years of age, with
a stout, well-formed 'person, and a long,
heavy beard which covered his face to
his eyen. He was a stranger to those
present, but his intelligent-looking face
and the garb of a miner, in which he
was clothed, entitled him to some re
spect, and as he slowly mounted an
empty merchandise box not a word
escaped from the crowd. He removed
his hat, and, turning, pointed toward
the prison, and addressed the gather
ing:
" In that prison," he said, " is a mur
derer, a thief, and gambler. He has
murdered a peaceable citizen before
your eyes, and is now waiting for his
money to buy his release, and to stalk
forth again in your midst with the
blood of his victim upon his hards !
There is no such thing as law in Cali
fornia for the punishment of such vil
lains except it be administered directlv
by the people. I say, bring him out
and hang him as high as Haman. Who
says yes to it ?"
The miner descended from his ros
trum, but not until he had fired the
train. His words had the desired effect,
and a hundred voices took up the savage
shout, and "Hang him ! hang him !" re
sounded through the assemblage, which
was rapidly increasing in numbers as
well as violence, until the streets ad
joining the prison were densely crowd
ed. Shouts of vengeance and defiance
of law now went up from every quarter,
striking terror to the heart of the ironed
culprit as he heard his sentence pro
nounced bv the excited mob without.
The whole police force of the city was
stationed around the door of the prison
and the Mayor vainly resorted to alter
nate threats and promises to desperse
the crowd. The only answers were
groans and hisses, mingled with
cries of " Break the door down !
"Brine a rojje !" "Hang the mur
derer 1"
The miner who had ignited the flame,
satisfied with his work, trithdrew from
the crowd, and with his arms folded,
silently awaited the result.
ihe streets near the prison now be
came a soliil mass of human beings ;
saloons, hotels and restaurants were de
serted, and clerks, waiters and proprie
tors joined the excited mob and lent
their voices to the general cry. At
length a demonstration was made to
ward the prison door. upon a balcony
overlooking it appeared the Mayor of
the city, who arrested the movement by
again asking to be heard. He appealed
to them as good citizens to disperse
pledging himself that the murderer
should not escape, but be tried, and if
found guilty, hung. Citizens did the
same, but nothing could shake the de
termination of their auditors ; the cry
of "Down with him," and groans and
hisses and insults, now greeted all who
spoke in favor of the prisoner.
Five o'clock came; the crowd was
still congregated in threatening num
bers around the prison ; hour after kour
had been consumed in listening to
speeches and suggestions, which had
been received by groans, or shouts of
approval, according to their character.
The mob were getting impatient, and
in a few minutes more would have
forced the door of the prison, when a
proposal was made which received the
almost unanimous approval of the as
semblage. It was, that a jury of twelve men be
selected, that witnesses should be ex
amined, and that the prisoner should be
tried and a verdict pronounced within
two hours. The jury was selected, who
repaired to the Orleans Hotel, and the
trial was commenced. The evidence
was conclusive of the guilt of the pris
oner there could be but one opinion.
Yet for hour after hour the announce
ment of the verdict was withheld by the
jury, in hope of the dispersion of the
crowd as the evening advanced. Eleven
o'clock drew near, and still no diminu
tion of the number could be observed.
A great portion of them were collected
around the Orleans, and the cry of
" Verdict ! V erdict ! Give us the ver
diet !" now greeted the ears of the
jurors, who, seeing the ustlessness of
longer deferring the announcement of
their decision, came forward, and from
the balcony of that hotel pronounced
the verdict of guilty upon the prisoner,
which was received with a shout of tri
umph by the crowd.
A rush for the prison was made ; long
lines of armed police were stationed on
each side of the door, as well as inside
the prison, who had orders to shoot
down the first man who attempted to
lorce an entrance. This, for a moment,
seemed to check the infuriated mob as
they gathered round the door, appar
ently waiting for some one to take the
lead. But it was only for a moment
that they quailed before the determined
front of the police, for the next, the
bearded miner who had first applied
the match to the train whose flames
were now about to devour the prisoner,
stepped boldly to the door, and was
followed by a score of strong arms bear
ing a huge beam to be used as a batter
ing-ram in breaking through the wall
which divided them from their victim.
The hands of the officers were on their
weapons, but the miner stood unterri
fied in their midst, and calmly informed
them that to draw one drop of blood at
that moment would be to bring upon
themselves a punishment as dire as that
which no earthly power could prevent
the prisoner from receiving. The crowd
indorsed the speaker with a most ter
nfic yell the ponderous beam was
brought against the door with a crash
that shook the building to its very cen
ter the police gave way and the next
moment the frenzied mob stood in the
presence of their victim, who, paralyzed
with fear, lay prostrate in ms cnains.
The irons were filed and broken from
hiB limbs, and an escort, followed by
the whole immense assemblage, bore
him in triumph to a large oak near the
corner of K and Seventh streets, be
neath a sturdy branch of which he was
guarded while the preparations for bis
execution were prugrcooiuts.
The night was intensely dark, not a
solitary star looking down upon the
prisoner to cheer him with a smile for
the future, and the frown of Him who
hut said. "Vengeance is mine, and
will repay," seemed to hang in the
black and lowering clouds which hov
ered over that solemn scene. Torches
were lighted, which cast their dim glare
into the pale features oi me prisoner,
disclosing to him the determined faces
of his executioners, and the vast con
course oi spectators which surrounded
him on every side. A rope was at
length procured, the knot adjusted over
the neck of the culprit, the rope passed
around the limb above, when ho was
asked if he had any requests to make
or anything to say. He replied in the
negative, and when questioned concern
ing his nativity and relatives, he had
strength only to answer that he was a
native of England, where his mother
was then residing.
"Now comes my turn!" cried the
bearded miner.
The order to "haul away" was given;
a dozen men gave a pull upon the rope,
and the corpse of Frederick Boe hung
dangling between the heavens and the
earth !
I will not describe that scene, al
though it was the most solemn and im
pressive I have ever beheld ; my inten
tion is to show whether Jacob Wals
worth fulfilled his oath, which I think
he did, to the very letter, for the miner
and Jacob Walsworth were one.
Golden Era.
And Still Another.
It is only requsite for a young man
with curly hair, black and shiny, mus
tache of the same hue, and pleasing ad
dress to exert a fair amount of cheek to
pass for a distinguished personage at
our fashionable watering-places. Wit
ness the career of Joseph Bates, waiter,
and former inmate of the penitentiary.
Mr. Joseph Bates met at Newport a re
tired ship-chandler named Bryne, with
half a million. Mr. Bryne had three
daughters, the youngest, of course, a
lovely being, the idol of an admiring
circle of friends. Mr. Joe Bates was
Augustus Beekman, who owned half the
town of Flushing and several thousand
lots in various parts of New York and
Brooklyn, not to mention a bank ac
count of hundreds of thousands. Mr.
Bryne allowed an intimacy to spring up
between his youngest and Augustus
Beekman, alias Joe Bates, waiter, and
ex-penitentiary birds, lent him money,
and encouraged him before the truth
dawned upon him. When it did he
warned his daughter. But the maiden
was incredulous. She consented to a
private marriage with Augustus, which
took place at Williamsburg, the Bev.
William Reaper officiating. The girl
returned to her parent, but the marriage
could not long remain concealed. A
suit for divorce has been brought on
the ground of fraud. It appears that
Mr. Bates had hired a friend from the
restaurant to play parson for him, and
that the girl was doubly deceived by
the scoundrel. It is probable that she
will fail in her suit, as the laws of the
State do not require the solemnization
of a marriage by a clergyman. It is
little less than wonderful that this oft
repeated swindle should avail after so
many exposures, i5ut there is no re
sisting the charms of a glossy head and
dyed mustache at Newport. Sympathy
with the lovely victim must give place
to the less agreeable feeling of pity.
An Impostor Detected.
Freeport, 111., has had a claimant,
and the claim he made was quite new
and peculiar. Years ago probably fif
teen Alvah Gaylord married a good
young woman in Stephenson county.
After the birth of his second child Al
vah wandered away and was heard of
no more. Mrs. Gaylord brought up her
little family in respectability, and be
came known as the Widow Gaylord.
Ten years after, a bronzed and deeply
whiskered man called upon the widow
one evening, and told her teat he was
sorry lie had ran away, Out had now
come back to live with her and his chil
dren the remainder of his days. At first
she was incredulous, but he showed her
certain mark? on his body which con
vinced4 the woman that he was none
other than her long lost husband. She
had now found him, and his children
clung to his knees, and the whole fam
ily took him to their hearts and home.
So they lived in peace and happiness
for a time. Now, a brother of Gaylord
was never convinced that this big whis
kered man was his long lost brother.
The strawberry mark did notfsatisfy
him, and he kept his eyes npon Mrs.
Gaylord s new found husband. At
length the claimant sold the family cow
and pig and acted otherwise suspicious
ly. The brother had him arrested ; his
claim was audited and found fraudulent.
He also had a good deal of counterfeit
money about him and forged bonds in
profusion. His claim was examined
before a court, and his name was ascer
tained to be John Travers, who had
sailed into the affections of the Widow
Gaylord under false colors. The widow
is in a very unsettled condition again,
and is almost sorry that the court in
terfered just when she was beginning to
feel at home with her husband. John
Travers, the claimant of Alvah Gay
lord's wife and children, and cow and
pig, and all that was his, has been sen
tenced to a three years residence m the
Illinois penitentiary.
Early Cultivation of the Oyster.
For a creature of such lowly rank in
the scale of animate being, it is wonder
ful what a literature attaches to the
oyster. Through the roll of ages it has
been a factor of prime importance in
the convivial instincts, the moralities,
and the industries of men. It has hon
orable mention in classic song and story.
When imperial Borne had her many
million populace, and her almost fabu
lous wealth, the oyster figured promi
nently in the more than lavish luxury
of that extravagant city. Do our oyster
growers know how ancient their calling
is ? About 2,400 years ago one Sergius
Orata, a man of a practical mind, turn
ed Lake Avernns into an oyster bed ;
and through the culture of this bivalve
the Lucrin oysters, as they were called,
became in reputation the "saddle
rocks " of Borne. And what a splendid
market he had I His practical genius
carried the new industry of oyster
planting to great perfection ; and such
was his reputation in that line that the
Romans had a saying that, should the
oysters stop growing in Lucrin Lake,
Sergius would make them grow on the
tops of the houses. Avernus has at last
succumbed to the mutations of time,
and is to-day a miserable hole of vol
canic mud. It now offers a good op
portunity to test the great man's abili
ties ; but Sergius Orata himself " dried
up " some time ago. Popular Science
Monthly,
On an average there are 769 mar
riages per week in Paris, and about
eighty-five separations. Among the
former occur some curious coincidences,
which, to be appreciated, may be thus
translated : Mile. Death is united to M.
Departed ; M. Drum to Mile. Trumpet ;
Mile. Gaiter to M. Pantaloon, and M.
Boaster to Mile. Boiler.
The statistical editor of the Times,
Grand Island, Neb., says : 90,000,000,
000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000
grasshoppers, at least, passed over here
yesterday. There might have been a
few more or less, as we did not count
them very closely.
All Sorts.
Canon law Touch and go.
The receipts of all England's railways
are 5 millions per week.
There are about half a million Scan
dinavians in the United States.
Low language is a good enough argu
ment for the man who uses it.
There is no accounting for it, but
four women out of five stick the postage
stamp on the left-hand corner of the en.
velope.
The Church of England now has im
that country 12,200 benefices, 11,000
parsonages, 20,691 clergymen, and 58,000
curates.
Tite British railroad companies are
required, under a penalty of jE20 for
each omission, to report every case of
accident.
California now holds the Yosemite
valley in trust for the nation, and has
paid 855,000 to settle the pre-emption
claims of the persons who colonized
there.
Pennsylvania has 195 blast furnaces,
130 rolling mills, 16 rail mills, 18 steel
works' and 21 bloomaries. All the
other States put together do not contain
so many.
Eastern papers ridicule Western
names, but they have not yet heard of
Sardine Muzzy, a farmer in Dane coun
ty, Wis., and a prominent member of
Marshal Grange, No. 21.
Notice has been given of a new Rus
sian loan. This has been an annual
event since 1869, inclusive. The total
of the Russian loan now amounts
to 150,000,000.
The total cost of the 1,500 miles of
railroad in Vermont has been nearly
850,000,000 and the Bailroad Commis
sioner of the State thinks it should no
longer be exempt, as it now is, from
taxation.
The Meteorological Committee of the
Royal Society report that in 1873 a
fraction over seventy-nine out of every
hundred of the English weather warn
ings were correct forecasts of the weather
which actually ensued.
A cook on a Detroit tugboat, having
fallen heir to $20,000, instead of imme
diately leaving, gave her employer a
full week's notice of her contemplated
departure. Rebecca Stohn is a woman
of principle if she did work on a tug
boat. While the clergy of the United
States annually cost 812,000,000, intoxi
cating drinks.it is said, cost 1, 437,000,
000 ; and there are 100,000 more per
sons engaged in the liquor business than
in preaching the gospel and teaching
school.
In photographing the sun, the intens
ity of the light renders it necessary
that the exposure of the plate should
be extremely brief ; and we learn from a
lecture by Prof. S. P. Langley that the
time usually occupied is only l-150th of
a second.
The cage-birds of the United States
consume about 175,000 bushels of seed
in a year, of which more than two-thirds
is canary seed, the rest being hemp
seed, rapeseed, millet, cracked wheat,
etc., to the value of more than 2,000.000
annually.
The Shah of Persia, during his recent
European trip, it appears, kept a diary,
which has been published. It is re
ported to be a very dull, stupid book,
full of trivialities, endless in its expres
sions of wonder at everything, and thor
oughly uninteresting, as have been all
books of royal birth. There is only one
piece of information in the book which
is new, and this is verv startling, rne
Shah says: "The people of London
think very much of their police ; any
one who shows disrespect to the police
must be killed."
The Food of Primitive Man.
In the present state of research, the
earliest authentic traces of man on earth
go no further back than the age of ice,
so-called, and the accompany ing or sub
sequent formation of the diluvium or
drift. The relics of man, dating from
an earlier epoch, the upper Miocene
formation, that is, the middle of the
Tertiary group, which are said to have
been found in r ranee, are at least very
questionable. But there have been
preserved for us in cavern remains, dat
ing from the Ice Age. which tell us of
the food used by man in those times
Man then inhabited Central Europe in
company with the reindeer, cave-bear
and the mammoth. He was exclusively
a hunter and fisher, as is shown by the
bones of animaln found in his cave
dwellings. The Miocene epoch, which
abounded in arboreal vegetation, had
disappeared during the long period of
the subsequent Pliocene formations, the
climate of Central Europe, meanwhile,
having gradually become colder. Na
ture supplied no fruit for the food of
man. What food he got by hunting
and fishing was precarious, and there
were intervals of famine ; for fortune
does not always smile on the hunter,
and the beasts of the forest are not al
ways equally numerous. The food, too,
was uniform, and not altogether adapt
ed for man, for the flesh of wild animals
lacks fat. The man of those times had
not enough of the heat producers in his
food, and that he felt this want we
learn from his taste for the marrow of
bones. All the long bones of animals
that are found in cave-dwellings are
cracked open lengthwise, in order to
get out the marrow. Now, this insuffi
cient, uniform food has its counterpart,
in the low grade of culture which then
Srevailed, as evidenced by the mode of
fe, the weapons, and the tools. Man
then lived isolated, without social or
ganization ; he dwelt in caverns, and
his only protection against cold was the
skins of animals and the fire on the
hearth. His tools were of stone, un
polished, unadorned; so rudely fash
ioned that only the eye of the connois
seur can recognize in them man's handi
work. Pop. Science Monthly.
Bird Ghosts.
Birds have a great fear of death. In
illustration of this, Madame Buist, in
her new book on birds, relates the fol
lowing : A hen canary belonging to
the author died while nesting, and was
buried. The surviving mate was re
moved to another cage ; the breeding
cage itself was thoroughly punned,
cleansed, and put aside till the follow
ing spring. Never afterward, however,
could anv bird endure to be in that
cage. The little creatures fought and
struggled to get out, and, if obliged to
remain, they huddled close together
and moned and were thoroughly un
happy, refusing to be comforted by any
amount of sunshine or dainty food. The
experiment was tried of introducing for
eign birds, who were not even in the
house when the canary died, nor could.
by any possibility, have heard of her
through other canaries. The result
was the same; no bird would live in
that cage. The cage was haunted, and
the author was obliged to desist from
all further attempts to coax or force a
bird to stay in it. Home Journal.
A Stone with a History.
Moncure D. Conway, writing enter
tainingly of the Congress of Orientolo
gists lately convened in the British
Museum, says: "Prof. Newton, the
greatest living master of Greek antiqui
ties, once related to me personally the
recent story of one of the inscribed
stones which to-day the Congress ex
amined only with reference to its arch
aeological value. This stone was once
in a Latin church, afterwards in a
Greek church, and ultimately found its
way into a mosque at Bhodes. But
there was also a gunpowder-magazine
under the said mosque, and immedi
ately under this stone. One day the
powder-magazine exploded, the mosque
was blown to fragments, and 250 persons
killed. No one has ever been able to
explain the cause of this catastrophe,
which occurred in the year 1856. The
Rhodeans related that an earthquake
had just occurred and left a cleft in the
stone-work of the powder-magazine, and
that this earthquake was immediately
followed by a thunder-storm which sent
a bolt of lightning through the said
cleft into the powder. Whatever may
have been the origin of the catastrophe,
a dreadful one it was. The authorities
of the place, possib' y for fear of some
further calamity, refused even to dig
out the bodies of those who had been
buried amid the ruins, but the English
Consul begged permission to do so. Of
the 250 or thereabout who had been in
or near the magazine at the time, only
one was found to be alive. This was a
very fair young Turkish girl who had
been married on the preceding day.
Her husband was almost dead with
grief, and when the news came that his
bride had been saved alive froin the
ruins, he hastened to kiss the feet of the
English Consul who had rescued her.
but no sooner had the British diplo
matist done his work thus gallantly
than the British savant was close after
him. Out of the debris he collected a
large nunber of inscribed fragments of
stone. These found their way into the
hands of Prof. Newton, who put to
gether the stone bit by bit, until, ce
mented, it stood a good square block,
five or six feet high, and completely
covered with inscriptions in Greek. The
writing indicates that it was a memorial
raised in the time of Demetrius Polyc-
rates, the first King of Macedonia,
whose head appears on coins, and that
it was raised in honor of certain persons
who had come forward with aid and
contributions in a sudden emergency or
time of public need. It is rather odd
that the memorial of honor to certain
eminent benefactors should have fallen
as a treasure into English hands be
cause of an English Consul's stepping
forward at a moment of catastrophe to
do a generous thing which others neg
lected." Through Japan.
A correspondent of the Boston Tran
script, writing of a tour through Japan,
says : " We passed through little vil
lages with thatch-roofed cottages, cot
tages guiltless of such an innovation as
chimneys. Looking in through the
open-paneled doors I could see them
cooking their rice on little round stone
boxes called ' hibachi. ' The smoke
growing thinner and thinner as it hid in
the corners of the airy kitchen, came
out imperceptibly through the broad,
open doors. Now and then I saw a wom
an at an old-fashioned spinning-wheel,
and one or two weaving J apanese cloth.
Darkness shut in over the pretty land
scape, and our stopping place for the
night was yet in the distance. Our
jinrikisha men lighted their Japanese
lanterns and merrily started off at a
rapid rate. A half-hour's travel, by
faith rather than sight, and we stopped
at a Japanese hotel in Fujisawa. The
hostess met us with many salaams of
welcome, and we climbed a steep pair
of stairs to our room. It was matted
nothing else in it. The sliding doors
opened into a little court-yard, where,
in the morning, we discovered one or
two dwarf trees and a pond with fish in
it ; but at night it seemed only an
avenue through which came up to us all
inconceivable odors of Jananese cooking.
The next morning the rain was pouring
in torrents, a genuine supplement to
the rainy season. After breakfast we
again started on our journey. The rain
stopped for a while, but fell in showers
through the day. As we rode the
county became more picturesque. We
saw huge trees and trunks of trees with
ivy and wild grapevines clambering
over them. The country, if possible,
reached off into greener hills and green
er valleys than before, a beautiful
country, a goodly heritage, no barren
spots, everything green and fresh , but
on the acres and acres of pasture land
no cattle were feeding, no flocks or
herds of any kind. Bice was growing
in the valleys, but the hill turf land
seemed unused. Everywhere there
were fresh mountain springs, and all
around us tokens of a rich country but
a poor people. Eggs, rice, and fish are
the only food for the people. There
were half -clothed children making mud
pies in the streets of the villages, every
where men standing idle. Asking them
why, the answer would, doubtless, have
been that of the good book of old, be
cause no man hath hired us.' "
" Everybody's Aunt."
And there is a mother in Israel, cush
ioned as to her chin, and a face as
pleasant and hospitable as an open fire
on Thanksgiving day. At $100 a pound
and nothing could be cheaper she
would De worth 820,000, for she weighs
two hundred. Her hat isa"bunnet."
It shoots out a little in front, like a
young scoop-shovel. It curls up a lit
tle behind, like a young wren. She
wears about as many hoops as a stone
jar. isut she indulges iu a petticoat or
two, " gethered, as she will tell you,
at the top, and puckered with the pull
of a string, as they used to wind a clock.
A cape without fringe or adornment has
fallen upon her like the mantle of the
prophet, and envelopes her shoulders
and her arms even to the elbows. If it
were a little peaked and scolloped, it
would be a Vandyke ; but it is as un
mistakably a cape as the cape of Good
Hope. Her hands are in mitts, a flimsy
suggestion of gloves without any fin
gers. She never dyed her hair. She
would about as soon die herself.
That face of hers beams with good
ness and good-will. You want her to
be your aunt, as she cannot be your
mother. You would be glad to sit by
her kitchen fire and hear her talk, and
she would be precisely as glad to have
you. Her easy cushiony way of walk
ing suggests a gentle old chaise with the
top up. She is enjoying every minute
of the time. She is a Methodist of the
old school, and she needs no assurance
from yon that she will go to heaven
She has it from better authority. Let-
. j. . r .
ter jrom a xjamp-meexxng.
Kkjcaxns of the mastodon of the
Andes have recently been unearthed in
Venezuela, near the village of San Juan
oe ios morros. xne inhabitants look
npon them as the bones of giants who
uvea pei ore we nooa.
How Cod Liver Oil is Made.
Very few of the hard drinkers of cod
liver oil know how it is manufactured.
But a correspondent of the New York
Tribune has examined a distillery for
the same at St. John's, Newfoundland,
and makes the following statement as
to the manufacture of the oleaginous
nectar :
During one of our rambles on shore
we inspected a cod liver oil distillery,
and the mode of manufacture is so sim
ple and interesting that I venture to in
sert a description of it for the benefit
of consumers of the beverage. The
livers are first washed with fresh water,
and great care is taken to cleanse them
of all traces of gall, the gall not only
discoloring the oil but giving it a dis
agreeable, bitter taste.
They are then placed in a vat and
heated by steam from a boiler under
neath to a temperature of 112 deg. Fah.,
which raises the exuded oil to the sur
face, whence it is skimmed off carefully.
It is then filtered three times ; first
through three bags, placed one within
the other, the inner one made of flannel,
and the two outer ones of muslin ; then
through three others similarly placed,
one inside the other, but made of stuff
resembling Canton flannel ; from these
last bags it drips into a large tin trough,
and is drawn off into puncheons through
a faucet, over ' the mouth of which is
placed a screen of the finest muslin,
which excludes every trace of sediment
and dirt.
It is then ready for the market, and
in calor and general appearance closely
resembles Sauteme wine. Our polite
but fishy host pressed me to drink a
glass of it, but I declined with all the
politeness I could command. He evi
dently looked npon my refusal to drink
as a slight upon his oil, and brought
every argument in his power to bear to
induce me to alter my decision. At
last he was successful, for, after inform
ing me that out of the same glass offered
to us, and standing on the same spot,
the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Newcastle had drank of it, I could
haidly refuse.
I found its flavor not unpalatable,
but it was almost tasteless, with barely
a vestige of the nauseating, rancid odor
of the "Pure Cod Liver Oil" sold in
New York drug stores. From being
extracted at a low temperature it is said
not to retain its purity longer than fif
teen months, after which period it is
mixed with ingredients to preserve its
taste, or rather to prevent its rancid
flavor from becoming too apparent.
Dangers of the Deep.
There is considerable attention at
tracted in marine interests and among
ship-ewners in New York by the recent
remarkable discovery by Capt. .Picasso.
of the bark Terresa, of a dangerous rock
in the Atlantic ocean. The mystery of
the President, City of Boston, Pacific,
United Kingdom, and many other noble
vessels which have been lost without
leaving behind them the slightest trace
of their fate, has at length received solu
tion in the report of Capt. Picasso. The
rock is located in latitude 40 north, and
longitude 62 west. Though Capt.
Picasso disclaimed being the first dis
coverer of the rock, as he mentions its
being marked on an old chart, long ig
norance of its existence among nautical
men, and the constant danger to which
they have unwittingly been subject, will
cause him to receive all the credit of a
aiBcovery. ne Knowledge oi such a
dangerous reef, situated in such a posi
tion, is of the greatest importance
to the commerce of the whole
world. It might be argued
that the seeming rock was an over
turned vessel ; but the length of the
obstruction- some 309 feet precludes
the possibility of its being the wreck of
a ship. None but iron vessels are this
length, and one of these would cer
tainly not float. Sea-weed proves the
rock, as this excrescence wenld not at
tach itself rapidly to anything else, and
is of very slow growth. The evident
truthfulness of the Captain is apparent,
through his naming the chart which
marks the rock upon it, thereby taking
any credit of discovery away from him
self. His reliability is further illustrated
by the fact that the rock can be found
on none of the more recent charts. The
serious difference of two degrees of
longitude between the location of the
spot on Noury's chart and the actual
location by Capt. Picasso is one which
every sea captain should become ac
quainted with. The rock hies, accord
ing to Capt. Picasso, within a few sec
onds of the same degree as New York
is situated in, and on a straight fine
from west to east. The rock must lie
about 550 miles from New York harbor,
and is directly in the course of ocean
steamers, in what is known as the
southern passage. It is fully 500 miles
north of the Bermuda islands.
Run Over in Paris.
Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to the
Philadelphia Press i "I have spoken
before of the odd law which they have
here, by which a person, on being run
over while crossing the street, is ob
liged, if not killed, to pay a fine for ob
structing the pubhc highway; and a
very peculiar and oppressive instance of
its enforcement came to my Knowledge
the other day. A little child, the off
spring of a poor couple residing in one
of the minor streets running out of the
avenue Josephine, while playing in the
middle of the street, was Knocked down
and run over by a passing carriage, and
instantly killed. The bereaved parents,
in addition to their sorrow for the loss
of their child, were condemned to pay a
fine of 100 francs for not having kept
the child out of the street. It is a mar
vel to me that somebody is not run over
ana Kiuea every hour in the day m
Paris, so numerous are the vehicles, so
recKiess are the drivers, and so furious
the pace at which the horses are driven.
There iB no law against fast driving
here, and pedestrians have no rights
which charioteers are bound to respect.
Down they will charge point-blank at
the promenader who may be crossing
the street, shrieking ' Gare !' or ' Hay !'
bnt never turning a bandsbreadth either
to the right or to the left to avoid going
straignt over mm. ihe omnibus
drivers are as bad as the rest, and not
long ago a lauy was run over by a
crowded omnibus on the Rue de Fau
bourg Ste. Honore, and so badly
crashed that she died in a iew hours. I
presume her heirs had to pay a fine to
the city for the crime of causing the de
tention of a public vehicle, as well as
the obstruction of the highway."
Small Waists. The trouble is,
too
di
many women value the wasp-UKe
mensions of their waists because they
are, wasp-like forgetting the important
fact; to all lovers of beauty that every
part of the human body should be in
proportion to the other parts. It has
never influenced a fashionable woman
yet to hear that the Venus de Medici
nas a large waist she has been told so
ever since that faultless image of female
beauty was disinterred. She merely
shrugs her shoulders and draws her
lace tighter. It kills her finally, but
what of that ?
Remarkable Masonic Funeral.
The first Masonic funeral that ever
occurred in California, took piace in
1849, and was performed over a brothel
found drowned in the bay at Sau Fran
cisco. An account of the ceremonies
states that on the body ol the deceased
was found a silver mark of a Mason,
upon which were engraved initials of
his name. A little further ii 'stiga
tion revealed to the beholder th. most
singular exhibition of Masonic emblems
that was ever drawn by the ingenuity of
man upon the human skin. There is
nothing in the history or traditions of
Freemasonry equal to it. Beautifully
dotted on his left arm, in red and blue
ink, which time could net efface, ap
peared all the emblems of tke eutin
apprenticeship. There wap the Holy
Bible, square and compass, the twenty-four-inch
gauge and common gavel.
There were also the Masonic pavement,
representing the ground floor of King
Solomon's temple, the indented tesscl
which surrounds it, and the blazing
star in the center. On his right aim,
and artistically executed in the samo
indelible liquid, were the emblems per
taining to the Fellowcraft's degree, viz ;
The square, the level and the plumb.
There were also the five columns repre
senting the five orders of architecture
the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic. Corinthian
and Composite. In removing his gar
ments from his body, the trowel pre
sented itself with all the other tool 9 oi
operative masonry. Over hi."? heart was
the pot of incense. On other parts oi'
his body were the beehive, the book i
constitutions, guarded by the tyler's
sword, pointing to a naked heart ; the
All-seeing Eye, the anchor and ark, the -hour-glass,
the scythe, the forty-seventh
problem of Euclid, the sun, moou, stars;
and comets; the three steps which arc
emblematical of youth, manhood and
age. Admirably executed was the
weeping virgin, reclining upon a bro
ken column, upon which lay the book of
constitutions. In her right hnnd sho
held the pot of incense, the Masonic
emblem of a pure heart, and in Ler left
hand a sprig of acacia, the emblem oi
the immortality of the soul. Immedi
ately beneath her stood winged Time,
with his scythe by his side, which cute
the brittle thread of life, and the hour
glass at his feet, which is ever remind
ing us that life is withering away. Tbo
withered and attenuated fingers of the
destroyer were placed amid the long
and flowing riaglets of the disconsolate
mourner. Thus were striking eniblems
of mortality and immortality blended?
in one pictorial representation. It was
a spectacle such as Masons never saw
before, in all probability such as the
fraternity will never witness v.qz i u. The
brother's name was never known.
Philadelphia Aqe.
The Footprint of Time.
Wrinkles are the first tell-tales of a
lost youth, and the wrinkles make their
way in a very stealthy manner. At first
there comes a faint marking of one little
line about the corner of the eye, and one
at each side of the month. " Assuredly
it is the sign of approaching age, we
say complacently, looking at ourselves
in the glass, conscious of our attrac
tions in the perfection of their maturity.
That little line, indicative of the fui
rowed future, is no more age than the
one scarlet leaf of the maple in the -midst
of the green wood in autumn.
it is the shadow ot the herald it vor
will ; but it is not the real thing. And
so on with all the rest. But it is not so
with our friends. The gap made be
tween the past and present by 7 ears o:
absence is abrupt, unexpected. Yon
left a blooming, sleek-haired, slim
waisted girl ; you find a faded, hollow
eyed, gray-haired woman, the mother -of
children, afflicted with bad health and
tired of life. Or you encounter a stout
and florid matron whose bulk is a bur
den to herself and a matter net for ad- -miration
to her friends ; whose earlj r
shyness has worn off and gives place U
a free-and-easy good nature that may '
be genial but is vulgar ; whose girlisr 1
sentimentality has gone with her b 1 ashes
and who now openly proclaims her de
votion to champagne and lobster salad I
as among the few things in life worth
taking trouble for, and talks of the
pleasure of the palate as superior to -overy
other enjoyment. To bo sure, .
paring away in your mind's eye those
superfluous layers of flesii, you can.
make out the nose of the past, and the
lips have the same curve as hers had in
the days when you would have given a
month's salary for a kiss ; the eyes are
the same color, but what has become of
their sparkle ? Where is that roguish 1
twinkle that made your heart leap whoxu
it flashed upon yon, giving point to a
girlish sauciness that was so innocent
and she thought so naughty ? Where
is that dewy, downcast look that was so
conscious where there was nothing to
blush for ? Is it that ugly leer which
tells of less tenderness of sentiment
than you would like to see m a man ?
You must accept this as the " survival;"
it is all yon will have of the sweetness,,
the bashfulness that once seemed to
you the most exquisite grace ou earth..
A Memorial to Prentice.
The local press of Kentuckv havinp.
suggested a movement for the erection
of a monument to George D. Prentice,
whose grave is now marked only by a
nower, the Courier-Jouma I announces
that it has long been the purp - se of the
company to fitly memorialize Mr. Pren
tice, whose professional work: was main
ly performed on the Journal. It now
means to place his statue, wrought by
Hart, in a niche over the doorway to its
new edifice, now in process ot erection.
it is favorable, nevertheless, to tho
movement of. the editors, and urges that
the city of Louisville in its corporate
capacity should take part. Of the de
ceased journalist the paper over which
he once presided says : " He was an
odd, eccentric man ; fonder ot women
than of men ; generous to a fault ; in
sensible to fear ; hard-working an
pains-taking in his profession ; careless
of his vices ; isolated, self-contained,
indifferent ; a great character, a strong:
character, a weak character, brilliant
and marked from first to last, interest
ing throughout."
More Certain than Philosophical;
One of the students at Davidson Col lege,
who was too lazy to do anything;
right, was in the habit of cleaning out
his lamp chimney by running his finger
down it as far as he could and twisting
it around. After he had cleaned it out.
in this partial manner, one day not long
ago, a fellow student took it up and
carried it to the residence of one of the
professors, with the inquiry, " Why im .
it that this chimney is smked up to
this point and no further T" The learned
gentleman entered into an elaborate
scientific explanation of why it was,
arguing with great lucidness, and citing
various authorities to show the correct
ness of his reasoning. When he had
finished, the student said to him, " No
sir, you are wrong." " Why is it, then?'
inquired the professor. Because the
fellow's finger wasn't long enough to
reach any farther," replied the student.