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COIiL. - VAN CLEVE. ALBANY, OREGON. FRESH TOPICS. A lively game of base-bell was played in Savannah Ga., the other day. v One of the players had a leg broken by a base-runner knocking him down and falling upon him ; another had his nose broken by a foul-tipped , ball, tile "scarcely any of the players escaped with ont a hurt or brnise of some sort. : The New York Times contains an ar . "tide ; on authenticated -cases of extra ordinary'1 longevity in ' that city, and gives a list of ninety-one persons 100 years old and upward who have died in New York during the last ten years. Over fifty of these old folks were born in Ireland, and twenty-five were colored. Two of them attained the extraordinary -age of 113 years. : The majority of these people died of old age. , The most of them were widowed at the time of death, but several left partners surviving, and a few had never married. One of the strongest points made by the opponents of 'capital punishment in j the Pomeroy ease is based . on the testi- : mony of Dr. "Walker, Superintendent of the Insane Asylum at South Ivoston, who testifies emphatically that Pomeroy is insane and irresponsible. ' His reason for thinking so is that Jessie is not truthful, - -and he lays down the general rule that insane people are not truthful. Com menting upon this, a contemporary sug gests that it would be a good plan to have the doctor examine - some of the witnesses in the Brooklyn case. Per haps he would find some of them insane. A promisik. young man has just met au untimely death at Somerville, Tenn. His name was Oscar Barton. Although but eighteen years old, this bright youth had in his brief career Jslain no less than three men. He met his match at last in the shape of a one-armed shootist named Tom Doyle, and died like his victims with his boots on. Tom emptied the leaden contents of a double-barreled shot-gun and two barrels of a navy Colt into the body of the gentle Oscar, and he had barely time to utter the "stereo typed " I'm shot" ere his Bpirit winged its flight . to the land where shot-guns, revolvers, and bowie-knives are un known. ' . Thb inevitable squabble oyer 41 rich man's will has begun in Detroit. ' Mr. E. B. Ward, dying a few months ago, eft a fortune of $5,000,000, and the fu neral was hardly over before the heirs began to quarrel about the bequests. One relative, who had received $10,000, said he deserved ten times that amount, and gave notice that he would contest he wilL The -Michigan Legisla ture has passed an amendment to the present law relating to the . settle ment of estates, so as to do away -with 4 he special administrator who may now be appointed to take charge of the estate until it is settled, and, instead, to give -the executors control- ' Although the people of the United States have achieved a world-wide' noto riety for their immense consumption of spirituous liquors, yet figures recently -compiled show that the people of the United Kingdom are much more bibu lous than we. The average annual con sumption for each individual in this country is about a gallon and four-fifths to Ireland's two gallons and a pint, and England's and Scotland's two gallons less a pint, of spirituous and fermented liquor. Of imported and domestic dis tilled liquors we annually consume 72, '000,000 gallons, from which our revenue is over $60,600,000 while that of Great Britain is $125,fl06,e00 from all the liquor drunk within her borders. The. death of the two aeronauts in .Prance, which aeexas to have.jresulted from the extreme rarefaction of the air cat the height (26,000 feet) to which they -ascended, gives a warning to aeronauts that any distance beyond 20,000 feet is dangerous. At the previous ascension ! pf the Zenith, although it did not attain so great a height, some of the party suf fered from dizziness,' and two of the pigeons were- iaaoA dead in "the cage, while the thud was almost lifeless. Mr, Glaisher 'ascended to the heighVof 35, 000 feet, whereupon he became insensi ble and his assLctant nearly so, and it was only by promptly opening the valve that the latter saved their two lives. The .brothers Schlanginweit climbed to a height of 22,359 feet on one of the peaks of the Himalayas, and they describe their sufferings as very intense. ' Capt. JIall, of the Coast Survey, who has been stationed three years in Alaska, has addressed to the Commis sioner of Education at Washington an elaborate acoount'of the country and its inhabitants. He reports that little prog-, ress has been made in arty direction since that northern province 'came into our - rtmrU, mnA that Him jwtrtitirtn of educa tion is especially discouraging.- The present condition of thai natives is less favorable than it was under the Russian regime. - Ga$t Hall 'goes so far as to in timate that there ' is in Alaska no 4vil law, no government, " no redress for in jury, no protection for whites or nativee, and no punishment for crime. An of fender against the Revenue law can be -seized and sent 2,000 miles for trial, but ' the murderer of a reveaae' officer could not be puui&hed. Capt. Hall pronounces the Alaska Cenunercial Company more powerful monopoly than the Id Russian -rtomeanr. and Bays that the natives are practically the slaves of that company, without protection or redress. TjESEJ-QSOa and Concord, Haas., cele- taxisd C3 0ti of ApnL, ia tSsx manner, the centennial of the event which made them historic. The two quiet old New England towns never in, all their history, not, even on the day whose 100th anniversary they celebrated, had seen so much , enthusiasm and ex citement, sack "great crowds 'of people and so many demonstrations of joy. George. William Curtis at Concord and Bighard H. Dana at Lexington rehearsed in glowing terms the memories of the past, and impressed upon their hearers the lessons they conveyed. In these and in all the speeches upon the occasion there breathed a spirit of love for the old Union, reverence for the heroes in whose blood it was cemented, and pa triotic devotion to the cause of liberty and human rights. The century of formation and organization began with Lexington and Concord. As we pass over now into a round of centennial commemorations, may it prove that the second century of peace and good will and fraternal accord has begun where the first shot was fired in the struggle for independence. A new Juggernaut, it is said, has been set moving in society, and thousands an nually fall beneath its wheels. It is a new stimulant known as hydrate of chlo ral a salt of a burning, pungent taste, having as its basis chloroform, into which it is supposed to be changed in the blood. In small doses it is stimulant and anti spasmodic; in larger, narcotic; and in excess it produces death as instantane ously as a flash of lightning. Physicians have been variously divided in the opin ion of! its ultimate results, some recog nizing the fearful consequences of its use, others enthusiastically recommend ing it for ocean travelers as an antidote for sea-sickness. In England it has taken the place of opium, and chloral eating is now as decided a vice as opium eating, hasheesh-eating and absinthe drinking. The difference between epium and chloral is that, under the same cir cumstances, opium is more imaginative, and paints things as they do not really exist; chloral merely increases the power of enjoying the real. A strange, dreamy sense of perfect ease, comfort and hap piness takes the place of sorrows and cares; all affection and love are likewise banished, and. the eater becomes practi cally a living, breathing vegetable; An opium-eater has been known to live to a goodly old age. No chloralist can sur vive three years. The stimulant is im ported mostly from Germany, ' and a high authority asserts in the London Lancet that there is positively no anti dote for the poison. Longevity and Lawyers. The average longevity of lawyers, it is generally conceded by the statisticians, is greater than that of any other profes sion or class. The New York ' World gives some forcible instances which are extant of intellectual strength and , clear ness prolonged to an advanced age con nected with eminent lawyers: "Isocrates lived more than a hundred years. Cicero dwells delightfully upon the old barris ters of his time, telling how Cethegus was studying - oratory at eighty, and L. Crassus searching Cat the civil law at the same age. The French Chancellor Tellier studied logic in order to carry on burlesque controversies in barbara with his grandchildren. ' Brougham, one of the chancellors of ' Juigiand, was ninety-four when he died; Lord Eldon and Mansfield both touched ninety; and, if we mistake not, Berry er did so too. In this country, John - Adams survived to be ninety-one, Charles Carroll lived to the age of ninety-five, Kent was eighty-f our, John Pickering eighty four, Jefferson eighty-three, Madison eighty five, John Jay eighty-four, John Quincy Abasia (mho should, not be classed among lawyers, however), eighty-one, and Chief Justice Marshall eighty, which i age tJhiel Justice xaney exceeded Dy seven years. Historical. The first Declaration of American In dependence of Great Britain was made, not by the Continental Congress, but by the citizens of Mecklenburg county, N. C, the date being the 20th of May, mo. me citizens 01 Mecklenburg county are preparing to celebrate the centennial of this action in an appro priate mariner at Charlotte, the county seat. " ice Mecklenburg -Declaration, the author of : which - was Ephraim fire vara, is described by .Bancroft as t document of singular force and gravity. It declared that all laws and commissions confirmed by or derived from the au thority of King or Parliament were an nulled and vacated, and that all legisla tive and executive powers belonged to the provincial congresses. It was drafted and adopted almost immediately after the news from Concord and Lex ington had reached North Carolina. It is a curious fact that Charlotte, in which place this fixst Declaration of Independ ence was adopted, was also the place in which the Southern Confederacy ceased to exit. .- There Jefferson: Davis was last addressed as President, and there Gen; Joseph E. Johnston decided, to surrender. Pcnss Bbats. The pulse of a person in health beats about seventy strokes in a minute, and the ordinary time of life is about seventy years. In these seven ty years the pulse of a temperate person beats two billion, five hundred and sev enty million, four hundred and forty thousand tunes, at. no acsuu oisorgaru zation should happen,, a drunken person might live until his pulse beat this num ber of times ; but by the constant stim ulus of ardent spirits or by pulse-quickening food, the pulse becomes greatly accelerated, and the 1 two billion five hundred and seventy : million four hun dred and forty' thousand pulsations are performed in little more than the ordina ry term of human life, and life goes out in forty or forty-five years, instead of seventy. Education. To read the English lan guage well, to write with despatch a neat, legible hand, and be master of the first four rules in arithmetic, bo as to dis pose of at once, with accuracy, every question of figures winch comes up in practice x caii tins a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. ' . They are the foundation; and unless you begin with these, ail your fiaahy attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and oso phies, us ostentatious rubbish. Jtld- ward Everett. THE LITTLE FOLKS. Ofd "Wisdom. - A learned owfut ots tins, r- -j.. . AU wrapped in meditation ! A wiser owl there could not be ; He closed one eye Just partially. ' And moved in hesitation. Vet still he aat upon the tree. " Bring the birdiea from their nest, Quick, my dear, for I think best," Said robin to hia mate. Do not from their young eyes hide Wisdom there personified, Augustly wise and great." ... Ten blackbirds hushed their noisy din, And crowded all on one straight limb Then upward they all cast their eyes. And each cried out, " How wise 1 how wise !" . A tomtit and an oriole . Were going out to tea ; The tomtit cried, " O, bless my soul ! . Why look, why look, dear oriole. Old Wisdom on that tree." " Well, then, tomtit, let's sit a bit And feast our souls,' quote oriole. , Two doves were biting a seed in two ; " A labor of love, cooed the fair-eyed dove, " Too hoo, too hoo, we woo and coo," And never a glance did they shoot above. All sorts of birds soon gathered there, Some fifteen hundred kinds. At Wisdom on his perch u stare, And thus improve their minds. At last the owl he stretched a leg, The birds all strained their ey es ; " Be quiet all, dont move a peg, iook out for something wise." " Ter whit, ter whoo. What fools are you ! - I'm off in a trice. To hunt for mice , 80, little silly birds, adieu." " That dunder-pated, blind old owl !" Cried all the birds ; " what a stupid fowl !" The Boy Sculptor. , Four hundred years ago, in the gar dens of the Medici Palace, might be seen a party of the young friends of Piero de Medici, - who . had been dis missed from the learned talk of the savants and artists who surrounded the the hospitable table of ." Lorenzo Mag nificent," as he is often called. - There had been an unusual fall of snow for the warm climate of Italy, and it lay before them on the ground in that soft, tempting whiteness that school boys like so well. It covered the statues and fountains, . and made grotesque figures of the shrubs, which were out in curious forms. "Let us make statues, and decorate this gallery," proposed one, a youth of fourteen. "Of what!" said another. 'Of the anqw," replied the first speaker, named Michael Angelo; and with merry shouts they plunged into the snow, without a thought 01 tiieir cos tumes of velvet and lace, carrying it and piling it m masses at dinerent places along the gallery, and shaping it into some rude resemblance of the human form, which did not much differ, I dare say, from the " old snow-man of the boys of the nineteenth century. Hut Michael Angelo saw in tne dis tance the statue of a faun, headless and much injured, which had been brought from some old rum. Ah ! I will make a head to this faun," and he began shaping and mold ing the damp snow. As he worked, ins companions gath ered around him and looked on, forget- ting then: own sport m watching him, as gradually the head began to appear and grew under his touch into a real face with good features. Then standing, watching the effect of each motion, "He must be sardonic fauns laugh !" said the boy as he gave an upward turn with his finger to the corner of tne mouth. " There ! that is not bad and one can always do what one loves. have drawn in the love of sculpture with the milk of my nurse. Her husband is a sculptor, and, from a baby, 1 have nlaved making statues." Stepping back to get a good look at his work, he ran against some one, and. to his amazement, discovered it was the great noble himself, who, followed by all nis guests, nad entered tne gallery tne youthful artists were decorating for them, while they were so engaged as not to perceive them. ' They all stopped to comment on the statues, and approaching the faun Lo renzo said: - " This is rather the work of one enter ing upon the career of a master than the attempt of a 'novice. But, Michael, do you know that this is a statue of an old faun, and the old do not have all their teeth? You have given him more than we have. Is it not so, my friends 1" ; " You are right, my lord;" and, with one stroke, Michael knocked out a' tooth' and made the hollow, in the gum which showed its loss. Every one was delighted with this in telligent and discriminating act, and ap plauded him with enthusiasm, showering praises and prophesies of future fame on the young sculptor. Among the - noble guests were his father and his uncle, who had sternly discouraged all Michael's , attempts at art, and deemed it an unworthy thing that the heir of the princely house of Canossa should handly the sculptor's chisel even in sport. But now, flattered, by the praise of Lorenzo, the great patron of art, they looked smilingly on. and Michael knew, as ne rode nome that night with his austere relations, that his long-forbidden love of art could now be indulged ; the glory 01 nis Doynooas dreams was to become the glory of his life. .r : Who can tell what forms of beauty and visions of fame flitted ' throrurh Jus ex cited brain, wild with the delight of Lo renzo s notioe. Could he foresee the wonderful crea tions which would make a world stand in silent admiration and awe? ' Could he know that under the dome of St. Peter's, at Borne, the. most mag nificent Christian temple on the earth, Deonle of all nations' weald come to do himhomflee? Let us follow his career. At nineteen he made a beautiful group in marble of the dead Christ in his mother's lap. , He carved the colossal statue of the young David for the Ducal palace of .Florence. He designed, and in part conipleted, the grand mausoleum for juiius xj.., we cen tral fkrare of which is Moses, at which he worked over forty years; and the re- iriTTTg figures of Day and Aignt, -morn ing and Evening, are so much admired that they are to DC reproaueea on monument soon to be erected to Michael Angelo at the scene of his labors. There are but few pamtmgs of his on canvas, for he is said to have had a con tempt for easel pictures. The Pope sent for him to come and decorate the walls of bis ohapel at the Vatican. The architects did not know how to construct a scaffolding - which would enable him to reach the ceiling. and he invented one; and also a curious paper cap, which would hold a candle in the front, and thus leave his bands free to work at niirht. He covered the ceil ings with beautiful paintings of scenes taken from the Old Testament. Thirty years afterwsrd, he painted on the end wail of the ehapei u wQnuenuipBre of "The Last Judgment." Thousands of people visit it every year, and gaze on it with -rnverexKse and wonder and, de light, for it is one of the greatest pictures in the world. . - Bi. Peter's was the closing work of his life. Begun Jong before, many artiste had worked upon it many architects had made plans for it; but it was left to Michael Angelo to raise the dome, and to leave such a perfect -model for its com pletion, that it now stands as the crown ing glory of his fame. And it was the' work' of an old man. At seventy other men generally lay down their life's labor, but he commenced the painting of " The Last Judgment;" and 7 . , -1 . r OA T J J tne DUiiuing 01 du a otox m pro gress at the time of his death when h was ninety. With all his great powers, he was not unmindful of little things. ' Nothing was too trivial for care. The designing of a crucifix for a lady s wear ; the can delabra for the chapel ; the costume of the Papal Guard, still worn, show his minute attention to detail. In all his works we see the same intelligent thought that was manifested in tne molding of the faun's month, his boyhood's tri umph. Nobly was the prediction of Lorenzo de Medici fulfilled, " that it was the work of one entering upon the career of master." In Michael Angelo, the Great Master of Art, who at 90 stood among the honored o'f the world, ripened all the promise of the boy who, more than seventy years before, modeled the snow-face, for an' hour's pastime, in the gardens of the Medici Palace. St. Nich olas for May. - Eddie d His Twirl Poetry. , I know of a wonderful little boy, hardly six years old, who is going to be a poet one of these days, that is if he has a fair chance to be a child first. It would be dreadful if the gifts Of his coming years should be brought to him- so soon as to weight his childhood down and make him weary and worn before nis soul has a chance to grow. 1 am glad to near that he is a merry, free-hearted little fellow now, fond of play and not so very very good but that he can sometimes get into mischief. Still, those who are nearest to him know that strange thoughts flit through his baby brain, , and that his dreamy eyes often look far, far . away, whither no one may follow him. He goes to the sea-side with his mother sometimes, and digs wells in the sand like other youngsters, and runs about her in great glee. Then he will grow sober, and after a while he says : " Write, mother1 write just what I tell you. I'm going to make some Twirl poetry!" Here is something that he made m this way after a few moonlight visits to the beach : THE TWTRL, POETRY. O moon ! O moon ! O moon ! Throwing the light on the ground so holy-like, And the stars twinkling so brightly and merrily, As if it were Christmas, Or a soft, witchy day when the witches charm their caiorons; And the trees waving and shuddering in the court yard. And the lilies flowing on the brooks merrily and loveij, And the pebbles glistening In the moonlight so merrily, And the mountains with the flakes pouring on like pelts of rain Olistening, dropping, breaking Ana we bears nioing wiui leaves ana brash in their dens, So dark andcnrious ! I' never shall forget the moon! the moon! the moon! Shining so merrily on the sea, On the boisterous sea, And the waTes dashing and breaking on the beach, And moving about so gracef ully, And the rainbows in the night so striped and lovely. I never shall forget the wrecks I the wrecks ! the wrecBs 1 And the rocks spreading danger in the sea, - The waves trickling -in and out the rocks, And the breakers whirling, twirling. As 11 a giant were stepping on tha earth and making And Jupiter, throwing down all its riders onto heaven. Thrashing up the earth, and' breaking the heavens "Sign it By the Great Artist, Ed die, Esq., Nov. 27, 187 just those very words, mother," he said when the verses were written, and then he ran oft to. play. Here is the second part of this Twir poetry, written two days afterward. You see ne mows nothing of rhyme yet, and his thoughts are made ur nartlv from what he observes himself, and partly from what he hears read and spoken by tnose arjont mm: - ' THB I WlRL PfllTST PUT Tf. And the water spurtine. , , And the whales divina in and out. and snouting And the moon shining so brightly on the water, . And the watesf mermaids combine their lonff hair. mMsr icusn tneir notmuL f - Dragging and floating in the water, , v . ajju wtuf suet comos KUsxeninB. auu wo Bwuiy-uRii cutting tne water wren cnexr great swords. . ; And the trees blowing and falling with the great uurxicsmes. And the lobsters sniffing the ground and spouting And the little shells washing on the beach and off jxi wnn me Dreacers, And the pieces of board washing to shore oil many wrecjts. And the sea-weed washinv on the Ivtarli. And the frigates riding the waves and tossing about,' ycniB aiung tne coast sailing, sailing, sailing, Should you like ; to hear some of Eddie's prose 1 Well, you shall have 'a story comnosed for his o-rattdrnamma on Sept, 10, 1874, when he was exactly five years and four months old. " His mother wrote down every word rust J he dic tateait: - r- -; : .. BAOLSO ANACONDA or THC DISMALXJCHT WOODS .AS SOUTH AMERICA IN THB jaoHTi maooH. As the nurine anaconda -was .imning himself. one day, on the high branches, of a weeping willow, he no sooner opened his eyes than he espied some lambs of a farmer's in a near field ; and no sooner he saw them than be BvnnK down the tree.. No sooner the farmer beholded the"snek"tbanhe teared after the "snek three times round tha awamn. and then climbed up the tree to catch him bv the tail. wnen tne anaconda turned and opened nis mighty laws - and crabbed the farmer's hat. Then the fanner climbed down as fastasany- uung ana ran away, and another anaconda ana two old boars came and chased him till he eot out of breath, and then he made a feast on the 01a tanner. rrom " Jackin-ihe-lUpiL" at. A ichoias for Uay. . : A Persevering An thor. ' Ghambers' Journal says i. " Some forty years ago, it is said, a lady called upon Mr. Longman, head of the publish ing firm in Paternoster Bow, and pleaded: Give me the subject of a book for which- the world has a need, and I will write w for you. - . ; "Mr. Longman asked are you an author)' . , " I am a poet.' was the reply ; but the world does not want poems.' " - "The publisher remarked, a little dubiously : Well, we want a good cook ery book! i 1 Then, said the lady, 'you advise me to write a cookery book. tt ti t - , : : i . vauuousiy rae puunauer rejuuieu ' I should advise you to do so, if I were confident of your ability to write a good One.'- !:s r-,-'y - :---:- .,0"'i'- -.5' ; "WelL years went" by, and, during those years,- cooks and epicures and housewif es in all parts of England were besieged for recipes to be forwarded" to the address of a certain lady. The lady's own flattering letters or persuasive speech elicted from the cooks themselves the information required or enlisted the cooks' masters and mistresses on her side; and the, result of her exertions, carried on for many years withequal resolute ness arid good temper, was the Modern Cookery in all its Branches, published in 1845, which continues to hold its place in the esteem of housewives.' Its author , tm Miss, Acton, who derived from her one great work an adequate provision for the remainder of her hie.' " Bitten by a Decapitated Rattlesnake. It happened to Mr. Charles Drury, and how it happened he himself thus relates in the eoluntnS"bf the Cincinnati Cotnmev- cial .- " Mr. Clay Culbertson and I were out deer-hunting, five miles back of Port Or ange, Florida. While the men whom kef had employed with hounds to hunt the thicket for deer were thus engaged I came across an enormous rattlesnake, of the species of Crotalya Horridua. It was in the blind, just : previous to ' the moult, consequently more vicious and venomous than otherwise. It was about six feet in length and fifteen inches in circumference the largest one of - its species that I had ever seen. The snake, on perceiving me, started to crawl into a gopher-hole. I then shot at and blew it out of the hole, cutting it almost in two ; two more shots were almost im mediately fired into it, one of which cut off the head, leaving a stump of neck at tached about three inches in length. Desiring to secure the head for a medical friend in Cincinnati, who wished it for dissection, I cut off this stump of neck, and felting to put the head in my pock et lest in climbing over logsj fences, etc.-, might be punctured with the tangs pro truding through my clothes, I took, from my pocket a wad of cotton to cover them. In forcing down th9 lower jaw with a stick six or eight inches long, " I was astonished when the head 'made a 'spas modic jump or spring, striking the thumb of my dexter hand with one of the fangs, making a slight and seemingly insignifi cant little wound like a pin scratch. I applied immediately a tourniquet to the thumb, and caused a deep incision to be made at the wounded spot, and then thoroughly sucked the "wound, starting at the same time for the nearest whisky, which was two and a half miles away, on reaching which 1 partook there of copiously, and relaxed the tension around the thumb. Up to this time no swelling, no pain or unfavorable symp toms were apparent, but on releasing the ligature the swelling commenced. - We then proceeded to Port Orange, two and half miles further on, taking an occa sional pull at the whisky on the way, the whisky being the vilest of the vile, and which was difficult for me to worry down, never having before in my life tasted that article. On the following morning my arm and back were enormously swollen and presented a black and congested appear ance. The treatment followed from this on was liberal doses of a much improved quality of whisky, in conjunction with Bibron's antidote and cold water applica tions to the wounded part. I wa'i con fined closely for about a week, receiving every attention from CoL Len. A. Harris and Ur. U. JV1. Wallace, a very skilful surgeon of Daytona, Florida. At the ex piration of a week convalesence mani fested itself in my making small sorties on unsuspecting bugs and butterflies. I have steadily improved ever since, and the only probable results of this novel but rather unoleaaant experience with rattlesnakes will be the loss of the end of my thumb, though I am consoled by my I surgeon with the assurance of the pos session of 'a beautiful stump. Insect Destroyer. The Journal of Chemistry publishes a recipe for the destruction of insects, which, if it be one-half as efficacious as it is claimed to be, will prove invaluable. Hot alum-water, it says,' will destroy red and black ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz-bugs,'' and all the crawling pests which infest our houses. Take two pounds of alum, and dissolve it in three or four quarts of boiling water. Lie it stand on the fire till the alum disappears ; then apply it with a brush, while nearly boiling not, to every joint and crevice' in your closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves and the like. .Brush the crevices 1a the floor of the skirting or mop boards if you suspect that they harbor vermin. If, in whitewashing a ceiling, plenty of alum is added to the lime, it will also serve to keep insects at a distance. Cockroaches will flee the paint which has been washed in cool alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed from ants by drawing a chalk-mark just around the edge of the top rf them. The mark must be unbroken, or they will creep over it ; . but a continuous chalk-mark half an inch wide .will set their depreda tions at naught. Powdered alum or bo rax will keep chintz-bugs at a respectful distance ; and travelers should always carry a package in their hand-bags, to scatter over and under : their pillows in places where they have reason to suspect the presence of such bedfellows. The Essence of the Latest Fashions. The men's trousers are swelling ami the women's skirts are shrinking. - It's just like having both legs in one panta loon to wear the present fashions for la dies. If this thing continues the women will be wearing the breeches in good earnest, and the despised petticoat will adorn the nether limbs of recreant, hith erto arrogant man. In the year 1836, and a flowered white silk hat, my mother was married, and with the discretion be longing to those days she ripped up that hat and laid it away for future reference. Nearly forty years hava flown, but that brocaded silk is the rage to-day, and some huge bows that adorned that won drous hat are of the damask ribbon for which New York is going wild tust now. The wedding dress that accompanied this bonnet, had more silk in the sleeves than the skirt, was quite short, and sported small knob on the breast like a dwarf pincushion, stuffed with a gob of cotton. with folds of silk radiating . from it, like the rising sun sort ox business you, see on hand . organs and old-fashioned cot tage pianos. This, was the then popu j far " butterfly waist." We haven t got to that yet, but damask ribbon and flowered silk and skimpy skirts and strange and uncouth shapes in bonnets are here on the spot. As far as I can see we are reviving the days of 1836, and go ing back to first principles. New York Letter. Aptitudes In Men. It is very certain that no man is fit for everything ; but it is almost as certain, too, that there is scarcely, any -one man who is not fit for something, which something nature plainly points out to him by giving him a tendency and pro pensity to it. .Every man nndsxn turn self, either from nature or education (for they are hard to distmgnish), a peculiar bent and disposition to some particular character : and Jus vtroggling against is the fruitless and endless labor of Sisy phus. Let him follow and cultivate that vocation, he will succeed in it, and be considerable in one way at least ; where as if he departs from it he will at best. be inconsiderate, probably ridiculous. Lora Vnesterfleia. In consequence of the increase of postage on third-class matter, the post office department is issuing two-eent newspaper wrappers, the stamp being the same as tne present two-eent stamp. The one-cent wrappers are continued for papers weighing less than one ounoa The department will also issue, upon requi&TUon, the Ko. 4 and Mo. 6 an gummed envelopes in the denomination of two cents. Rational Debts of the World. We endeavored nearly two years ago to give in these column an approximate estimate bf the national 'debts 'of "the world.. We concluded on that occasion that the indebtedness of the world might be placed at about 4,200,000,000. ,DruV ing the two years that have since passed, there is good reason to believe that a large addition has been made to the sum. New countries and old countries' vie with each other in the money markets of Eu-1 rope; and even China has within the last few weeks commenced a national debt. There is considerable difficulty is ascer taining the liabilities of the various' na tions which are thus heavily indebted. The annual almanacs give us some assist ance in the subject ; and the careful in formation which the Economist publishes in the "Investor's Manual" affords also considerable help in solving the question. The following are the best estimates we can form of the principal national debts at the present time : , ' Country. Debt. 1 Tntertat. Rot. France J$ 4,500,000,000 $165,000,000 : 8 England 8,900,000,000 133,500,000 . 2X United States. 2,200,000,000 103,000,000 4 Italy 1,950,000,00(1 76,730,000 4 Spain 1,875,000,000 65,000,000 3 Austria 1,750,000,000 75,000,000 " 4 V Ruraia 1,700,000,000 ' 67,950,000 4 Germany....". 1,000,000,00 45,000,000' 4ii Turkey 675,000,000 47,600,000 1 India.. 650,000,000 29,500,000 4 Brazil........ , 410,000,000 15,500,000 4 Holland...... 400,000,0 ' 11,250,000 2 Egypt 375,000,000 37,500,000 10 Portugal...... 845,000,009 10,750,000. 8 Mexico........ 817,500,000 20,000,000 6' Australasia.. 230,000,000 , 13,500,000 6 Peru 185,-OO0,OO0 13,000,000 7 Belgium...... 180,000,000 8,750,000 5 Hungary...... 160,000,000 7,500,000 . 5 Canada....... 150,000,000 .-..,- 7,600,000 ; ; 8, ' Total.... .$22,950,000,000, $912,750,000 ,J '' The twenty largest -national .debts in the world amount, therefore, in 'the ag gregate, to $22, 950,000,000. If we add $800,000,000 for the small debt, the na tional indebtedness of the world figures up to $23,750,000,000. : The debts of twenty countries em braced in the above table impose an an nual interest charge of 6912,750,000 up on their inhabitants, to which about $57, 250,000 must be added for the unennmer- ated debts, making a total annual charge of $1,000,000,000 on the tax-payers : of the world, or of twice the sum which France, the country with the largest rev enue in the world, is annually raising. . The rate of interest which these conn- i tries are severally paying on the nomina i amount of their debt should not be con founded with the rate at which they can : borrow money at present. Some of these j are stated as follows, . the rates being based upon the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange : England, 3 per cent ; India, 4 per cent ; Holland, 4 per cent ; Canada, 4 per cent ; Austria, 4 per cent ; United States, averaging 4$ per cent ; France, 5 per cent Russia, 5 per cent-; Brazil, 5 per cent ; Italy, 6 per cent ; Portugal, 6 per cent ; Hungary, 7 per cent ; Egypt, 8 per cent ; Turkey, 10 per cent ; Pern, 10 per cent ; Spain, 15 per cent ; Mexico, 18 per cent. The light rate for the United States is caused by adding greenbacks, which bear no in terest, and thus reduce the average. Within two years, (jreat .Britain re duced her debt $50,000,000 ; Bussia re duced hers $75,000,000 ; Germany hers $40,000,000. The United States re mained about stationary ; Italy increased hersby$loU,UUU,UUU; Spain by$570,U00, 000 ; Austria by $220,000,000 ; Turkey by $55,000,000 ; and India by $110,000, 000. roll Mall London) Budget, . Rejected Suitors. A writer in the Ifoma Journal says A woman never quite forgets the man who has once loved her. She may not have loved him ; she may, indeed, have given him the tio instead of Xes he hoped for ; but the remembrance that lie desired a Yes always softens her thoughts of him, and would make him, were he reminded of it, a friend forever. There may be girls who make a jest of discarded suitors ; but they are general very young, and the wooing has been something that did not betoken much depth of tenderness. There are mer cenary oners, poo, that only awaken scorn and hate in the woman wooed for money and not for herself ; but really to have touched a man's heart is. something not to be forgotten while she lives. Always she remembers how his eyes looked into hers: how, perhaps, he touched her hand with his, and how her, heart ached when he turned away without that which she could not give him. She loves some one else. Some other man has all the truth of her soul but she cannot forget the one who turned .from her and went his way and came no more. She is glad when she hears of his success, grieved when she knows that he has suffered and when some day she hears that he is married she who has herself been mar ried long years, perhaps : she who, at all events, would never have married him is she glad then ? I do not , know. A woman's heart is a verv strance thing. I do not believe she knows herself. Glad? Oh, yes ; and is his wife pretty and nice? And then she says to herself that 'he has quite forgotten, and ' that, of course, is best,' and cries a little. ( Arctic Scenery. The most beautiful northern lights are a never-ending source oi miamgnt amusement. Sweeping across the heav ens in ever changing fantasticisms this showy light at one time resembles the long trailing veil of. a bride, and a few moments after assumes the form of a Jo- tun crown. In 'the earlier months the sunsets here are grander than those in Italy. There is in the Jiay of Reykjavik a grim, black faced mountain called Biga, exceedingly bold in outline and severe, but when the last rays of the set ting sun play upon its stem face,' its en tire aspect changes, and far the space of half an hour it appears to revel in hues of richest purple ; and in the distance the eternal snows, of Sneefels borrow from the departing sun a crown of glit tering gold. The purity of the atmos phere is such that at night the canopy of heaven appears to rest upon the church spire. : . A winter night's walk amid the lava every where strewn about the island is inseparably connected with stories of elves and trolls, and no vivid imagination is needed to people these lava dells with supernatural folk, ... Carious Vegetable life. ' f- : There are many curious 'facts about vegetable life. We can, for example, graft the apricot on the plum, and the peach on the apricot, and the almond on the peach, and thus we may produce a tree with plum-roots, and almondrleaves. The t wood, however, of the t stem will consist of four distinct varieties,, though formed from one continuous layer. 'Be low the almond-wood and bark we shall have perfect peach-wood and bark, then perfect appricot-wood and bark, and at the bottom plum-wood and bark. In this curious instance we can see the inti mate correspondence between the bark and the leaf, for if we should remove the almond-branches, m we might cause the several sorts of wood to develop buds and leafy twigs each of its own kind. Each section of the compound stem has its seat of life in the cambium layer, and the cambium of each reproduces cells of its own species out of a common nutrient Kind. People and Things. Thb State of Texas embraces a larger' extent of territory than the whole French. 4MBpire..:-,msrEia's Aocokdino to present plans, some of the Philadelphia Centennial biiilnlngst will be a mile apart. 1 ! ' V - FoRTT-rrvK dollars in greenbacks were) paid in Helena, Montana, t a few, weeks. since, lor forty dozen eggs. , ; h t , Florida people are-beginning to cul tivate pineapples with considerable sue- cess. Oyer 50,000 were raised last year. Hoxn ps Saint Gilbert, the last pagc of Marie Antoinette, was turned over at the age of 104" years at Vienna the other day.'.- t:fe, ;j,.:. The orchards of this country are esti mated to occupy 509,000 acres, and con tain 20,000,000 trees in various stages of growth. -' ' " : ... Twbmtt-two lives have been lost in the Canada Pacific Railway survey,, and steps have been taken at Ottawa to raise a memorial.- . : - Dtjbing the recent flood in the Ten nessee river, a. cornfield, with a man working it, drifted down for a consider able distance. Senatob Boot-well has been experi menting, and finds that, it costs sixty eight cents per bushel to raise corn in Massachusetts.. ;.i..-:.it,'!ir4,;:;; Albrrt Ptjgslitp, an engineer on the New York Central Railroad, has run hia locomotive twenty years without meeting with an accident of any kind. 't . I) an Bbtant 'loved' children dearly, and when one of his little friends heard he was dead she wondered if Dan would sing " Shoo, Fly " for the little angels. A curious automaton spider has been invented in Paris. The spider is life size, and is made of copper. By pressing . a spring it will move round the table in' a marvellous way. . ; In Minnesota there are 9.154 neraons entirely destitute, owing to grasshoppers and the hard winter. In the adjoining Territory of Dakota there are over 6,000 enrolled for government aid. Ex -Gov. Cobubn, of Maine, during a lumber business extending over a period of twenty-five years, and involving sales of logs to the amount of t6.000.000. is said to have made no written contract. Bussia deserves her title of Northern Colossus if soldiers by the wholesale go for anything. , She numbers 2,901,000 armed men, including 200,000 Coesacka in apple-pie order. They are as ready to burn as tallow candles. . CrjniouBLT enough the Empress of ' Japan and the third wife of the Khedive of .Egypt have about simultaneously un dertaken the establishment of training schools for girls in their respective countries. Here are signs of dawn in the East. . - ... , Ik Switzerland there was a maniage by proxy. A woman there was married to a man in America, the proxy being., a neighbor and a man already married. The authorities are discussing whether this1 much-married man has not commit ted bigamy. Coroner Spellmak. of Memphis. Tennessee, believes that luck is against him. There have within a month been four street shootings there without fatal results, and in three instances the bodies of drowned men have floated out. of his jurisdiction. ,. "... t r ,. Somebody suggests that, if anybody wants to send a transient newspaper from one city to another say from New York to Brooklyn the cheapest, way would be to send it " via , LiVerpooL The present postal laws almost) .warrant such a statement. - - " ; ; An ambitious Texan having read some where about the "Pope's bull," an nounces in one of the papers - published in the interior of the State that he has a three-year-old brindle steer, blind of one eye, that he will match to whip any bull the Pope can produce. ; v ' - Thb harmony of public worship was considerably interrupted in a Boston, church, a few Sundays ago, by the or gan's refusing to discourse sweet sound, but giving forth doleful shrieks when the wind was let in. So the, congrega tion sang without organ accompaniment while the sexton investigated the matter and finally hauled a cat out of the in strument, though how she got there is a mysteiy. -' . A PotirncAXj arithmetic-man in "Cin cinnati has been comparing the votes cast in St. Louis, Chicago and Cincin nati at recent municipal elections, and his results are tabulated thus : Highest vote In St. Louis for last two vears.. ..,0Tt Highest vote In Chicago tor last two years-. . 47,aw Highest vote la Cincinnati for last two years .S6.TJS As against Chicago,' the CincinnaUan admits, his case is hopeless ; but he is willing to back the population of his na tive city against that of St. Louis at long odds. ." ' ..-". A Domestic "Knell. Smith says this spellmg-eohool fever is getting to be an intolerable bore. On going home to supper in a hurry, one evening lately, he found his wife sitting in front of the parlor fire with a spelling- dook m ner nana, ana neara an inaistanca mumbling in which he could occasional ly distinguish: . " C-o-m-p-l-a-o-e-n-t, s-a-t-i-s-f-i-e-d, h-a-p-p-y," etc. " Is sup per ready, my dear t asked he.' S-u p-p-e-r, was all the answer he could near. " Come, oome, I must go up town shortly," he said. " S-h-o-r-t-l-y, ' ech oed the lady, moving toward the kitch- A en door, pausing in the door to take one last look at McGufTey. "Mrs. Smith, I must be back up street in a few minntes, and must have my supper immediately t yelled the now irate husband. ' " I-m-m-e-d-i ," but this was too much, and hers the coal-scuttle crashed against the kitchen-door just as the unfortunate lex icographer dodged behind and closed it, while Smith avers that he heard some thing as she" whirled through the door that sounded like . " e-o-a-l coal, s-c-u-i " and hers the sound' was lost amid the clatter of tin pans, skillets, etc. He is now prepared to fight any man who may be rash enough to say" McGafley ' to mm.- a Jackson iO.yStandard, - Paper Buckets -;-' if,. ' The real possibility and advantage of the varied and extending' use .of paper pulp is illustrated in the manufacture of eueh things as water pails, which are now made in large numbers of paper palp, as well as of wooden staves. . . In the old way of making p&Oa the separate parts or staves are cut, one at a time, from the log of wood, and, in mak ing them, all the chips and smaller pieces are wholly wasted, so far as the real ob ject of manufacture is concerned. In making a paper pail, however, the fibrous material is wholly utilised, and if the ongmal stock is wood, as in part it may be, then that which would be wasted in ..Hi9 and m ,aS ends is entire! e&ved. hoea who make paper tell us tlai thus far they have barely entered on some ofthetrnewiuies oi product. ikribner for May, . ,