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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1875)
THE OU) HOMESTEAD. Ona da in tha eany ntoma OY a Might and happy year, I wandered away to tba homestead, To tha homestead old and dear; A rain it stood before me A rain, with aou oergrown. With the door oa broken hinges, And falling chimney atone. Aa I wander'd aroond and around tt, And in, through each dusty room, With only the lonely echoes Of my feet a-through the gloom, I thought how they aometimes told me That away from the shining shore. The dead oome back in the silence To the homes they have loved before. And I said, doe hethe master, ' - The father, who loved so well The homestead amid the meadows, The brook in the winding dell Does he erer oome in the silence Of the night's clear, starry hours, With hia voice of silvery laughter Through the tangled weeds and Sowers T Does be come, I asked, in the twilight Does be oome to the open door, And sit in the peach-tree's shadow As he sat in the days of yore? And over the foot-worn pathway Does be go to the wicket gate. And atand and wait for the children As be nsed to atand and wait ? Does be look adown the roadside, And under the shadowy oaks. And hear the lake-waves murmur. And the oarsman's gentle strokes, " Till he sees the children's faces - 80 bright, and -young, and fair. With the moonlight's golden brightness . On the black and the auburn hair I . And when, with their gleeful singing. They follow him through the gate. To the hearthstone, where the mother Doth patiently watch and wait Deea he as he used to say it With a face so cheery and bright, Bless God, cb mother, our darl ings, , Our caUama ar safe to-night !" ' b it ttas that be sees he homestead, la the beauty of early years T Or it's mildew, and blight, and ruin, And the children's struggles and tears ? . Does he come in the purple gloaming. And wander through chamber and hall, And yearn for the dear old faces, And the love that brightened all Fidelia W. Gillette. WHAT A KEY U LOCKED. They were as handsome a couple as one would have wished ; indeed, maay persona who knew them both intimately, said that Me. and Mrs. Vivian were samples of what true marriage ought to be. On this bitingly cold January morning they were standing in the elegant library 01 their residence in rew lor it, numer ous evidences of aasthetic tastes sur rounding them on all sides ; yet, to have looked into their faces, it needed only a glance to tell you 01 deep abiding trouble. She was a beautiful woman, this peer less Ethel Vivian, with a grave dignity about her that was perfection : with a rare, refined face, lighted by winsome, violet blue eyes, framing the clear, pure complexion, pale cheeks and glowing scarlet mouth, with masses of pale, dead gold hair that had made her husband so .madly in love only two years before. Now, two years, after one year of perfect happiness, when Ethel would tell her husband such bliss so unalloyed could not last much longer ; after six months more of vague suspicion, founded on the most shadowy foundation ; then, after the last six months of gradual, then rapid distrust, jealousy, anger it had all oome to this horrible open rupture. And on that beautiful winter morning Ethel Vivian and her husband had met in the library of their home for the last time as man and wife. And the ponderous document lying on the table where the two had so often read together, was a bill of divorce. Yes, it had oome to that open separa tion rnd all because why! Ethel Vivian could have told you of Iiura" St. John's wondrous face ; she could have drawn you a picture of her with such perfection of accuracy, that you would hardly need to see her. And this is how Ethel would have described the woman who lay at the bottom of her life-long misery. A face, witching as a Venus, with such a dainty, scarlet mouth, with the tiny, seed-pearl teeth peeping between her hps, just as the little dimple was called to her scarlet-tinted cheeks by the laugh that so often came. . Her eves laughed, too tliose sun shiny eyes, that sparkled as though they were varnished ; wondrous eyes of amber red, with such magnificent red gold lashes, that lav like a heavy shadow on - her cheek; perfect arched brows, and hair that seemed a fairy gift, so perfect it was in texture, color and grace. Sometimes when she wore it hanging. nnhound and unbiaided, just as nature bad waved it, from the crown of her little, royally set head, to far below her waist, you would nave ta&en jaura ou ' John far a sprite uncanny gnome, Ethe said; a nymph of rarest beauty, goodness - and innocence. Even after Edward Vivian learned how deceitful, how utterly unprincipled she was. be forgave it . her. because it himself she loved. So now that this VwTitnfnl demoness had so worked her plans that Edward Vivian was of tener by her side of an evening than at his . wife s now that Ethel had freely come to learn that she was no longer necessary to her husband's happiness, she had re nrmafArl him to let her so away : let him be freed legally from the bonds that had calling. Now, there the two atarul faiW to face, to COldlV BSV good-bye. vtYiM was deadlv white as she took the pen her husband courteously handed Tier, to si cm her name to that which, once signed, unwifed her forever. But was it not better thus? Had she a right to stay where she felt her presence was a burden where she knew she was merely .. tolerated! ;;;0..--';-f-i.-.'.:--rti Then rushing memories pf "the days when ahe came -? there in the flood-tide of happiness came surging over her sore heart; she trembled violently; her cold fingers refused to clasp the pen; and, - with one swift, piteous look up in her .husband's face, Ethel bowed her head over the divorce bill and wept as only such a woman could weep at such a time. Mr. "Vivian looked amazed, then sur prised; then a sudden grave expression came into' nis eyesv -5 He turned away from her, and began to promenade to - and fro, walking with quick, resSess ari1afi- tha while fiineiriar ottick glances " at the glorious head bowed in such mute umnv an the table before him. Then - half reluctantly, half angrily, he paused Dorado hery -v y kS" ' - "I am so astonished. Mrs. Vivian; I bad not expected anything of this kind. .J presumed you had arrived at your de , . . lilwrate decision, and that thenceforth ' the rjast was only the past; the future . She raised her white face, with its r , AYirtri.n01 eves. Oh. the future! The awful midnight, ' " -irlfwR. endless future that looms i,f,r me! Edward t Edward 1 . this - She was trying to speak-calmly ; she eat folding and unfolding ner nervous, ,.,rtWKwi3 Vint in. her very -attitude,; . i v iPfbrts at courage, was a dumb I I'm t&. hia heart . " ! EtheT-be .had sot called her Ethel for m Ion? before, that it thrilled her to t orv fec.Tjl 4 to hear it once more ' - " i:-e- wss no actual need for this, . he LrLCy touched fcUs documant. "wis at roar own request I had it . "1 litila waLina; cry interrupted him. " I know, I know," she moaned; I wanted you to do this; I want it sou, because you love me no longer; because yom love Laura St. " "Jurs. Vivian." He was stem and icv asrain: she knew by the curt, sharp way he interrupted ner. " This is not the first time you have openly accused me of infidelity to you and loyalty to Miss St. John. Cannot a man express admiration for a beautiful woman without a jealous wife using it as a weapon to destroy her own happiness? Miss St. John would be insulted beyond measure did sne ior a moment sup pose ' "What" It was a siren voice that startled them both; and then Laura St. John, herself, radiant in daintiest blue velvet and min iver costume, came laughing in, so sweet, so arch. " Mv dear Mrs. Vivian. I am so de lighted to why" For Ethel had arisen, cold and still, with no welcome on her white face, and only reproachful sorrow in her eyes. " Miss St. John has no reason to be delighted to sew the woman whose life she has blasted whose husband she has temoted." Ethel spoke very deliberately, looked Laura full in the face; then she turned to her husband, in whose eyes there shone a red gleam that portended wrath. " Perhaps you will assure your friend she is in the way just now," sne said, " I have only a quarter of an hour to attend to our business." . " i. And then Ethel consulted her watch with an air of quiet; .but oh, how, under that cold exterior, were her pulses leaping, bounding I Laura stood motionless, with an un gloved hand resting on the library table. her scarlet lips trembling as if her heart was broken her big, resplendent eyes slowly filling with tears as she looked first at Ethel, then Mr. Vivian, as if to humbly beseech him to tell her what it all meant. She was very beautiful at that moment, and she thought Edward Vivian appreciated it to the full; she knew it when he turned toward her. " I am sure you will pardon us, dear fit TnU " 1. ooil At tliia and bent her radiant face over the lid. She saw a tiny, vaporous smoke wreath roll upward for an instant, and then xne rem Die noise oz the explosion brought the horrified guests to her door, and they found her lying in her burial robes, fresh in her goodness-like beauty. oeao. On the pink velvet carpet, her eves fixed in a stare that was frozen horror, Edward Vivian bent over her, and knew lor a surety wnat bad wrought it. though no lip then, or afterward, ever uttered a name in connection with the diabolical engine whose silver key had unlocked the portals of death's domains to Laura St. John. moment Mrs. Vivian is particularly engaged." Kaura shot him a glance from her liauid eves. " But I must come again and find out what she means. I must know why I am thus accused. But her mission was accomplished; and, with a thrill of gratification at her keart, she bowed to Ethel and gracefully departed. . And Ethel V man, with icy gleaming eyes, compressed hp and un faltering hand, now signed her name in full under her husband s. And so it was done or undone. and "It pro- Two years twice a twelvemonth and Laura St. John was standing before her dressing-table. earnestly peering at the splendid reflection she made, with her personal beauty heightened by the chastely-rare bridal attire sne wore, that was faultless from the floating tulle veil, fastened by an orange-blossom spray and a glittering diamond aigrette, to the tiny, white silken slipper, with its . 1 I -Tl 1 "iV- 11 - 1 roseice """""""g witu mumi jowcm. She was beautiful, she was triumphant, for she was successful ; and this, her wedding day. would crown her success. She managed wen; according to me chart ahe had drawn for herself, from the hour she first saw and loved Ethel 1 husband, she had marched straight on, regardless of cost, regardless 01 any thing but the ultimate result. ' 'v - Mere it was, dose at nana not nan an hour from accomplishment. Down in the saloon Laura heard low, musical laughter at intervals: in the sev eral dressing-rooms opposite she heard tha weddino- euAsta preparing to descend to tne leBuvrctm, miu sue auuni ur own eyes in the glass, that at last she would marry Ethel's husband. AndEthelf She had dropped suddenly from the social firmament. Like a meteor that comes hashing in dazzling light across the sky, and then plunges into black deeps of obscurity, so had Ethel daz zled, delighted and disappointed the people. 'Sow, after two years, she was to them as 11 sne naa never peen. To Edward Vivian, if memories of her haunting eves and quivering lips ever came, he never gave a sign, but deliber ately wooed and won Laura u Jonn. Laura St. John herseu 1 xn tne oesert silence of her chamber, as she stood drawing on her gloves for, with a pretty wilfulness mat was irresistible, she had driven her maids from her- graceful, ebon-robed woman suddenly. .silently, swiftly glided across the glaring carpet and conrronted ner, witn upraised veiL and cold, clear eyes." " It is even I, Miss St. John. Surely you will not despise my congratula tions?" Ethel's sweet, low voice it was, and Laura, after one slight start of great surprise, bowed constrainedly, and wait ed. .. "I will not detain you more than a moment, as Mr. Vivian, doubtless, is impatient for the, moment when he may call you his wife. '- Under the peculiar circumstances, Miss St. John, and to assure you that I bear you no malice, mav I present you with this ?" : she quietly, reached out a email rose wood box that was mounted with silver. f The key is in the lock, you see, Miss St. John. Have I the pleasure of know ing you accept it J . . Ethel sat the box on the marble bureau-top, and then awaited an answer.' . Laura's cheeks were flushing slightly; her hands trembled as she essayed to button her glove, and busy thoughts were speeding through her brain. . ... . -. i ii. 1 1 What aid mean, uus nuuuen appear ance Ol Jiitnei f J-iu is augur ju or peace ha Ethel declared? JJared this stately. calm woman in black attack her there alone, and Wreak a discarded wife's just vengeance f .The thought was natural, and Laura S near , utwii w usuijiesiuuus throbs. "I will Accept it, Miss Elmore, and thank yon. - And may X beg that you will allow me to finish my toiletttei wnnM not care to be too late." This. Wlta a woauer, ui hoc ueoxt -u T.fKol nrmorvad her cowardice. But Mrs. Xitaei anas xuuiure me law called her smiled. " Assuredly j. woma not nave you too jate. I flyt'" tnose worms, : ukj iste. T i miTjerBtaraons tuey sounu omiu- . Adiea. Miss St. John; you will be detained no longer bj me, or you might possibly be too l&te. .. :. . ; " f She bowed regally, and left Laura Wwrinc with vague unrest at the ' re peated words. ' A moment later and from her window she saw Ethel going rapidly down the street, her black veil fluttering Kfc a death penant in the brisk breeze.' . She drew a long breath of relief, and then turned to the beautiful little rose- wanA box with a Joyous latum. ; "Natewl curbfaty tempts , B to see what her present can be. Possibly some horrid sxuike bracelet, r a dagger for my shawl, or something equally delight ful" She lightly turned the little silver key, Paul Boynton In England, One of our prophets who went abroad for honors is achieving them to the full. This is Cap t. Boynton, who barely creat ed a mere ripple of sensation in this country by bis remarkable invention of a life-preserving dress, and its exhibition in the Long Branch surf, last season; and another by proposing to drop off the steamship in mid-ooean, clad in a suit of his, and make his way easily to the other side, xn Xiondon for some months xtoyn ton has been decidedly a lion. From the day that he made Queenstown, hav-. ing been dropped thirty miles oS the coast, his fame has been growing ; and. his matinees on the Thames are now as well attended and exciting as the col lege races or the Lord Mayor's show. He has now not - one suit only, but sev eral, and takes pupils in navigation. The other day, he and two novices put off from Westminster bridge in their rub ber suits and floated down to Greenwich. There were, say the London papers,- tens of thousands of spectators on the Thames embankment and the bridge ; fleets of boats followed and surrounded the float ers, and the river steamer which accom panied them was crammed with people; 'who, by the way, were enlightened as to the modus operandi of the gaxment by a brother of the inventive captain, who answered all the questions and objections with the greatest ease. Capt. Boynton illustrated one of the uses of the costume by taking a line in his teeth and convey ing it with remarkable swiftness from the steamer to a .barge : and gave other exhibitions of its faculty; the three of them lunching for instance, midway in the current, in an upright position, off a rubber table that is one of his inventive conveniences. One of the novices was a doctor, who tested the effect of the dress upon the temperature of the body, and found it warmer at the end than at the beginning. . This is important for only the numbness caused by cold prevents swimmers from making mdehmtely long distances. Of course, this trial on the Thames is no test of the value of his in vention in the waste of ocean, but Boyn ton is to try it across the stormy chan nel, pretty soon, which will be more to the purpose. i A Terrific Problem. A recent number of a scientific journal. speaking of the relative proportion of the sexes in the human race, declares that for every one hundred and fifty men that come into the world, one hundred and seventy-two one-hundredths (100 72-100) women are born. I do not dispute these figures. I only ask for light. - It ap pears, according to this,-that there are some women who are only seventy-two one-hundredths of a woman What the remaining twenty-eight one-hundredths are 1 cannot imagine. Now, What I want to know is this: If a woman of this kind marries a one-hundred man and has a daughter, will the daughter bean eighty-four one-hnndred tha woman, or a ninety-six one-hundredths woman I And what will be the exact reiaoonanip between such a daughter and a seventy- six one-hundredths aunt and her eighty seven one-hundredths daughters, espe cially if the eighty-seven one-hundredth girls marry the brothers of the ninety-six one-hundred girl, and so become not on ly her ninety -eight ene-nundredtn nrst cousins, but also her ninety-five one hundredth sisters-in-law. the aforesaid seventy-six one-hundredth aunt becom ing also the eighty-nine one hundredths At - r 1 -L j l. A motner-m-iaw 01 ner eiguty-eigiii uue- hundredth nephews, will the the Let me see : where am I ? it is an awful subject to grapple with. Oh yes ! I say if the seventy-six one-hundredths aunt . But no. The question can't be solved in any such way as this. I give it up. The only way to get at it will be to do the sum in algebra somehow, ma the daughter' u. the aunt ., the first cousin a. and the - mother-in-law 6. ThATi- it seams to ma. if vou multiply the aunt by the daughter and divide the first cousin by the mother-in-law, in some way or other, or else extract the square root of the cousins and subtract the - result from the aunt, keeping the daughter as a common denominator, and at the same time make a decimal fraction of the mother-in-law, perhaps the result might be satisfactory. Uut x am not certain. I am poor at mathematics. I wish the Hghtnmg-calculatorL would get at this, or that Professor Tyndall would subject it to chemical analysis. Max Aaeier. TtemstoryerZero. ; "Zero," on the common thermom eter, like the fanciful names of the con stellations, is a curious instance of the way wise men's errors are made immor tal by becoming popular. It may be worth while to say that the word itself (zero) comes to us through the Spanish from the Arabic, and means empty,hence nothing. In expressions like "90 deg. Fahr.," the abbreviation, Fahr., stands for Fahrenheit, a Prussian merchant of Dantzio, on the shores of the Baltic Sea. His full name was Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit. r - From a boy he was a close observer of nature, and when only nineteen years old, in the remarkably cold winter of 1709, he experimented by putting snow and salt together, and noticed that it pro duced a degree of cold equal to the cold est day of that year. As that day was the coldest that the oldest inhabitant could remember, Gabriel was the more struck with the coincidence of his little scientific discovery, and hastily con cluded that he had found the lowest de cree of "temperature known in the world. either natural or artificial. He called that degree zero, and constructed a thermometer, or a rude weather glass, with a scale graduated up from the zero to a boiling-point, which he numbered 212, and the freezing-point thirty-two. Because, as he thought, mercury con tracted the thirty-second of its volume, on being cooled down from the tempera ture of freezing water to zero; and expand ed 180th on being heated from the freez ing to the boiling point. Xims showed that una arrangement, instead of being' triily scientific, was as arbitrary as the division of the Bible in to verses and chapters, and tnat tnese two points no more represented the real extremes of temperature, than rrom Dan to Beersheba " expressed the exact extremes of Palestine. But Farenheit's thermometer had been largely adopted, with its inconvenient scale ; and none thought of any better until his name became-an authority, for Fahrenheit finally abandoned trade and gave himself to science. Then habit made people cling to the established scale, as habit makes the English cling to their old system of cumbrous frac tional money. Our nation began to use Fahrenheit's thermometer about the middle of the last century, or not far from the time when Old Style was exchanged for New Style in the writing of dates. The three countries which use Fahren heit are Holland, England and America. Russia and Germany use Beaumer's ther mometer, in which the boiling point is counted 80 degrees above freezing point. France uses the centngrade thermome ter, so called because it marks the boil ing point 100 degrees from freezing point Un many accounts the centigrade sys tem is the best, and the triumph of con venience will be attained, when' zero is made the freezing point, and when the boiling point is put 100 or 1,000 degrees from it, and all the subdivisions are fixed decimally. i If Fahrenheit, had done this at first. or even if he had made it one of his many improvements, after the public adopted his error, the luck of opportunity, which was really his, would have secured to his invention the patronage 01 the world. North ChrxstuuiA.a'BOCcue. : , Reporting a Quaker Meeting. . Henrv Bloodgoodwas young and inno cent, and fresh from rural scenes when he first came to Philadelphia and began his career as a reporter on a morning newspaper. ' And so one Wednesday some of the reporters told Henry that there .was going to be an important meet ing at a certain Friends' meeting house. and perhaps he had belter go up and mase a full report 01 tne proceedings. HenrrBloodgood was not at all -familiar with the method of worship indulged in fcy Friends; so he got three' ox four quires 01 paper, ana bus, icsm pencils sharpened at both ends, and he went up to that : meeting house,' innocent as a lamb, and spread his paper out over his hat. and seized a lead pencil,) and sat there in guileless simplicity waiting- ior the proceedings to proceed. ilt was a suent meeting uim uj, nuu uuj TJloodirood remained upon that bench for two long -hours, getting more - and more- nervous every minute, and at last madder and madder.' At tne end 01 tne second hour Mr. Bloodgood considered that he fVTjild stand it ho longer : so he arose ex citedly and went over to- an aged Friend who sat on a bench with an exaggerated hat. ' The exasperated reporter seized him Vrv the arm and exclaimed: , ,3 . i . "see nere, oiu umu, wueu m wis rilamed thing going to commence ? " Twvenergetao Friends arose and gently led Henry" to the portaL and he went home in sadness. ma huui 1 una witn gloom now whenever . the Society of Friends is mentioned. mux jueter n Danbury Newt. - ! A Perplexed Duellist. The most notorious of living duellists is just now under a cloud, and the worst of it for him is that he cannot, as usual, get into the sunshine again by killing or ynni)flmg nnmcniviy n wmm mwume Olga in Paris recently sent around to the office ef the Pay newspaper a notice of concert, which notooe failed to appear in the journal named. A friend of Mad ame Olga called on the editor of the jPaju, M. Paul Casaagnac, and asked the reason of this neglect. M. Gassagnac, the editor, responded curtly, and supple mented his response by a reflection upon the character of the lady interested. Madame Olga, hearing of this scandalous aspersion, failed to throw herseu into the Seine, or adopt any of the modes of self-destruction popular with despairing women in the French capital, She took quite a different course, xn short, mad- ame Olga dressed herself in man's attire, purchased a small, eane, and went upon the war-path. She found that famous duellist and editor, ju. ram uassagnao, sipping his absinthe grandly in the fash ionable Cafe de la Pais,' and addressed him briefly but pointedly in the way a furious woman talks. Then the little cane in Madame Oust s hand cut the air and curled about M. Cassagnao's back, then across the face, and then the gentle creature left the room. The duellist is enraged, but. apparently, without resort. lie cannot call a woman out ana snoot her: he cannot pink her with his sword, which is for men alone. It is a dis tressing situation for the editor of the Pan, and his Frenchman's wit will be tested in devising a revenge. A Sew " Rape of the Lock." The Pall Malt Gazette, reports that a " Bape of the Lock " is reported from Gorlitz, in ; Silesia. , A young Baroness residing in that town had struck up a close friendship with the daughter of a tradesman there, who Doastea 01 magnifiaent head of hair, terminating in two black locks behind, while the Baron ess had but little hair that was not sup pled bv the hairdresser. Her friend the other day made an offensive allusion to this circumstance, and the xsaroness de termined to be avenged., Taking, ad vantage of, an unguarded moment, she cut off the two vbjectionable - locks ; but her punishment has been much more se vere than that inflicted by Pope's Be linda. The tradesman's daughter ap plied to the Grown Prosecutor for re dress, upon which a prosecution was in stituted against the .tsaroness m uue lorm before a jury, though the law officers were in great doubt as. to whether the of fense should be regarded as an ' inflic tion -f hndilv harm." an insult, or a theft. Ultimately the jury decided that it was a - case of bodily harm, and the Baroness was sentenced : to nve oays imprisonment. " Hare and TlWe Eedpe8. How to Mxxs Fancy Bbkad Take equal quantities of potatoes and pow dered bones ; add to tms a smau portion of flour and a strong dose of the cheap est baking-powder. Stir well, and bake in a slack oven. If this won't turn out fancy bread, your stomach must be sin gularly devoid of imagination. How to Cook otjb Ndqhbob's Goose. First catch your neighbor (un awares from behind, if possible, and in a dark place), and then give him a good one for himself with any instrument you may consider suitable and sufficient. (For our own part, we have generally found any ordinary utensil of the kitchen say, for instance, a poker quite suit able, and more than sufficient.) Should, however, the bird be a tough one, and one good one not good enough for him, repeat the dose until further notice, t. e., until the old bird is cooked to your fancy. How to Cubby Favor. Having pro cured your game, first soak him well in the very finest port-wine (or old Madeira, according to taste) . you can obtain. From your sauce bottle labeled " Toady ism " then take one large table-spoonful, and mix the same judiciously with a tea spoonful or so of " Backbiting." (N. B. aThia should be especially highly fla vored and pungent in quality. Uarerully skim off any residuum of the unprofitable fat of Self -respect," and serve up hot and strong.) . This has been found an in fallible recipe, and can be recommended as easily digested by the weakest stomach. "3 Hew" Rum Ptrircft.; First select and then accost any stout and gouty old gen tleman (an alderman, if possible), as he is walking home. Politely ask him to lend you his stick (or umbrella) for a second ; grasp that suck (or umbrella) firmly in your right hand, take off your hat with the left and bow politely ; then, as he is returning your salutation, give him a regular good one in his waistcoat (about the third button) with the ferrule ef the stick (or umbrella) and then take yourself off. (N. B. The latter part of this recipe should be done with celerity, or the cook, instead of taking himself off, may be taken off himself.) This recipe will be found to make a very rum punch. Disgusted with Law. Many a man who has lost a just suit in court will talk in strong terms about the : uncertainty of law. . But few have such a good reason for their distrust as Dr. Lyman Beecher. - He used to tell the fol lowing incident with a flashing eye and strong emphasis, even in his old-age: He woke one night when a young man in college, and saw his clothes slowly disappearing through a broken pane in his window. His room was on the ground floor. Without hesitation he leaped from the bed, and opening the window, sprang out of it in hia night dress and gave chase. The frightened thief dropped the clothes, and thought only of escaping. But Beecher's blood was up, and he held on in the chase till he grabbed the thief by the collar. When the latter attempted to strike, he knocked him down and choked him till he begged for mercy. The thief then tried to get a knife out of his pocket, but XSeecher took it away, and marched bun back to college in triumph, and made him quiet on the floor till morning. Then he took him before a Justice, told the story with an honest pride at his own prowess, and waited to see the. law do its duty. To his unspeakable disgust the Justice-released the culprit because, in the chase, Beecher had loot sight of him onee round a corner. Beecher was disgusted, and inclined to speak sar castically of the technicalities of law after that experience. German Gymnastic Drill. In a private letter to a gentleman in New York, the contents of which are fur nished to the Cincinnati Gazette by a correspondent, the secret Of the success attending the German arms in recent struggles 18 partially unfolded by a de scription of the drill under which the soldiers have to pass. , The writer wit nessed some portions of it while strolling hear the barracks outside of Madgeburg. For raw recruits a lot of gun boxes were piled up to a height of four or five feet, and over these the men were required to make handsprings, each one on failing being required to try it again., and again until successful. Another squad was practicing a leap over a four foot high pile, touching only with the right hand. Others were springing with the help of the left hand only, and others still with out touching either hand. At one side of the drill ground were horizontal bars, and other appliances of the gymnasium, at all of which squads were ' at exercise, every squad being under the supervision of ah officer. In another place was a wall breast high, over which soldiers in full marching order with muskets and knapsacks were leaping, with only the assistance of their left hands, with bayonets fixed they marched to the front of the wall, and halted at the word of command. Then, at another order, each man rested his left hand on the wall, and at another he leaped over, without touch ing feet or hitting the butt of bis musket against the stone. .Several times they did thus, and then, from a distance of twelve or fifteen yards, went over it at a run in the same way. by; the use of only the left hand.1 Such exercise as all this gives a man must necessarily make him, in a measure, insensible to the ordinary fatigue of an active campaign, and has also the double effect of keeping the men under strict discipline while improving their physique. ' How Pat Stopped a Train. The Quincy Herald tells how a con ductor on the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad, on his way with heavy freight train,' behind time, and with a full head of steam, saw a man frantically waving a monstrous umbrella to hail the train.. The brakes went down, and with a mighty effort the heavy train was brought to a stop. The individual with the umbrella , turned out to be Irish, and the following dialogue ensued : Sou of Erin-' Can I see the conductor ?" 0Neu "You can; that's me. Son of Erin "Is your name Charles 0Neil?" CNeil "It is.' Son of Erin "Are you from Ireland?1 O'Neil " I am." Son . of Erin" And from, the "country Kilkenny? All Sort. Thu Baltimore oyster trade employ 1000 men. . Aicdy Johhson, Jr., edits a paper a&& Greenville, Tenn. Tint Prince of Wales and John. DiEkms have both "quit off short. ' A Dallas (Texas) man recently killed.? 215 rice birds at one shot. 9 you fro O'Neil "I am not" Son of Erin "Well, be gorra, Misther O'XeiL, it's sorry indade I am to hear that last, for I had an own cousin named Charles O'Keil lave the Onld Dart and the -county of luiitenny, tnirty-two years ago this coming December, and it's only a fort night back that I heard there was one Charles O'Neil bossing this train, and how did I know but what he might be the same cousin? God bless yer soul!" O'Neil "And is that all you want?" Son of Erin " Begorra, isn't that enough? What more could an honest man want than to see a cousin that he hasn't laid eyes on for these thirty-two years 1" ; v ' Rubles ef Wisdom. Next to faith in God is faith in labor. It is the manner which is better than, alL -! r J;.." ' - l There is a proud modesty in merit. Laws are the silent assessors of God. Votes should be weighed, not counted. The flowers ' swim at the top of the bowL - The .morning.. hour has gold in its month. ; - - .:.i v t Mystery and innocence are not akin. Oppression is more easilv bona than insult. - ; . Soft if the music that would charm for ever. . r--;' .-' - - . Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. Good-breeding is surface Christianity. No man's religion . ever survives his morals. A golden mask hides all deformities. : No sword bites so, fiercely as an evil tongue. . . i- . Every man is his own great dupe. ' - Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.- - : -. - - Nothing succeeds so well as success. No man was ever scolded out of his sins.' ' . - - -. Good taste is the flower of good sense. Our thoughts are heard in heaven. : '. Time is an herb that cures all diseases. There is none deceived but he that trusts. A Pigeon Hunter.! A man about th years old, hag a d N C;' sTo, shot-gun on his shoulder and two pigeons ffOt ei3depoa Our Coal Territory; The eoal area of the United States is sectioned off in square miles about as follows: Illinois (largest of all) 36,WK, or about two-thirds of the whole area ; Mis souri basin, 26,687 ; Iowa,180tt ; Jian- 17.SOO west Virginia section, 10,- 000; Ohio section, 10,000 East Jlen tticky section, 8,983 ; Pennsylvania sec- iinnj 1'iHH 1 Jfennsvivania amunKiw. 472 ; New England basin, 500 ; Maryland section, 550; Tennessee, o.xuu, aiaoaiua, 5,330 ; Indiana, 6,440 - West Kentucky B.RKS Texas. 4.6001 Michigan basin, T I . JL . al Aid 6,700; Nebraska; B.UUU; ATKansas, w,uo ; The German Troops. The Almanach de Got ha states that the military forces, including those of Bavaria, comprise at this moment 81,880 officers 1,329,600 men, 814970 horses, 2,700 field and 820 siege pieces of can non. They are subdivided as follows : Staffs and their suites, 17,000 men ; in fantry and chasseurs, 107,000; field artil lery, 109,500; foot artillery, 61,700; en gineers and railway corps, 40,900; train men, . 46,800 ; administration service, 8,800. Moreover, an order of mobiliza tion can bring under arms the following: 578,340 infantry soldiers, 67,580 cavalry, 51,090 field artillery, 13,120 engineers total, 710,130, without . counting the staffs, tiieir suites, baggage trains, etc. In these fliures the four battalions which Germany proposes to form are not in cluded. These last will be composed of 3,400 officers and 152,000 soldiers, to which must be added 234 battalions of the new landstrum, 17 regiments of cav alry of the same, besides 31 companies of chasseurs, comdsting of at least 3,718 officers and 202,500 men; - total, 38,948 officers, 1,684,200 men, and about 332, 000 horses. The above estimate takeano account of the numerous staff of the ambulances, nor of individuals suscepti ble of being called out by virtue of the law of 1813, who would . increase the German armies by at least 335.000 men. A Pet Lobster..-.' . A French journalist met with a strange pet the other day when paying a visit. While he was talking he noticed some thing moving on the carpet which was neither a cat nor a dog. un looking again he saw that It. was a fine lobster, dark gray, spotted with red, and thought that it must have escaped - from the kitchen. - The lady of the house smiled, and said : " I must tell you the' history of my pet. . ' Some months., ago I bought a lobster, and as it was not wanted for dinner, my cook left it in the water in the kitchen. . I was : going to a ball that night, and being ready, I satin an easy chair and fell fast asleep. . Suddenly I sprang up from the pain .of a sharp bite in my foot, and I saw the lobster biting it I started up and ran to the kitchen. No one was there, .and a cloth in front of the fire had caught fire. It was soon ex tinguished, but X have kept the lobster ever, since out of gratitude. It has its basin of cold water, and seems to recog nize its mistress, and is so fend of music that it is always drawn toward the pi ana whenever she plays. . , . v bntv beena alifornia. New Orxkans estimates her sugar crop at 200, 000 hogsheads. A wrrj-CAT weighing 40 pounds Lam . been captured in the vicinity of Troyy-, Kan. A PBO8BB8SXVK hen in Robertson ecus- -', Kentucky, -has succeeded in laying? aa licken. Thsv Kin? el Ashantee has gone into - . retirement, leaving his son to reign in his stead; Tbb State of Nevada, with a DODutlat tion of 55,000, has 900 places licensed. t sell strong drink. Sioux Cm has a man named Muel- - wrath ; but he is said to be a very good natured sort of person. 4 C0VTK8TON. Ga.. has a negro man over- 100 years old. but he is gradnaCv tilli.- himself by chewing tobacco. . HanBY Wabp Bkbghbr- , has investatM " in a tract of land in Florida adioinisg hia-i Thb aggregate' force of ell bmu-r)nn3 nrwiintfcus in -Japan ia but one ordained 1 missionary for each 1,000,000 of peoples. BabOW PB Waldeck. the Parunj aurt 1st, works ten hours a day recmlarlv... Ale celebrated his 109th birthday lasta month, t . - . - Thx Emperor of .Tanan t&Yka nt wuritin in- France next summer, coming by the. way; of tha Suez eanal, with three ships-anda numerous suite. Thb new Baltimore Oifcr Wall, a tiful marble structure, b-m'lt at a nnt nf $3,000,000, was occupied for the fin tune March 31. . - , 1 - - - . It is' stated that a Western editcs drives , off beggars by offering them B cents an- hour to read original poetical contributions. - . Iv consequence of the increase of post age on thud-class matter, the Postofficw Department is issuing two-cent newspa per wrappers. PBBSfDKKT MaoMahon has confcrne-il the cross of a chevalier of the Legion C Honor upon the celebrated vrohnist,, Henri Vieuxtemps. . Thb ' Pope has forwarded 8200 aaa contribution toward rebuilding St. I Sh riek's Church, Hartford, which yam, burned a few months ago. Tax Boston spelling match waapeith-r ered with such easy words aa ceriaas;. ptysi iagogtachygraph, giaour, tee), eyot, fichus, euchamy ami demoniacal. . A CHA9N3B for rhymers ! The Rev. Hri-i' Hatfield, of New York, has offered one in his hand, was yesterday standing on a Hfxeet corner tefling a crowd that he had been out and killed five hundred ricwm sinoe sunrise. " You're a liar 1" shouted man at the The stranger looked at him long asd iwmAHtiy.' and then inouiredt ---- " Where did you get acquainted with me?" The great bulk of the general eoal depos it -in. ia cfimmon soft or bituminous coal the exception being the senu-bitu-Eunous, .the anthracite and -the cannel coal found largely in the Kanawha coal fields of West Tkginia. lUinola Jour nal Rhodjs lanAiro .bristles with spelling. matches. Some of the dictionary worda reach clear across the (State. Tunneling the Hudson. . The Hudson Tunnel Raia-oad Com pany, that propose to construct a tunnel twenty-six feet in width and twenty-four feet in height under the Hudson river, have organized under the general rail road laws of New ' Jersey, have raised their own capital, and have gone to work with a vigor that seems to mean busi ness: No subsidy has been asked for. though it is estimated that $10,000,000 will be required for the completion of the work. , When it is open for travel, it is expected that, in addition to its or dinary traffic as a public road, 400 trains of cars will be enabled to cress the river daily. Of course various obstacles have been placed in the way of the company. but they urga that their work is necessa ry to the ct-mmerce of New York, and they avow their determination to push ahead. Certainly they have discovered the secret of success so far as all plans for rapid transit are concerned. They rely upon private capital to build the road, and this tnnst be the future of all such schemes. ' State and city aid for this purpose are things of the past. New York uommerctal jldvertwer. Eggs a Heaktht Food. An English paper earnestly recommends an increased consumption of eggs as aa , important article of daily food. It asserts that this, ingredient of diet is an unmistakable promoter of longevity, and that practical advocates 01 uib evsiein wiu live to oe eighty or ninety years old. I gives a still higher incentive to aliberal consump- . - r ' . a ? n . man u eggs, ior u auvisee tneir use ior all those persons who are deficient in brains, . as the phosphorous forming a I large constituent m the egg will strengthen and develop the brain force. The same authority gives excellent advice as to the . different ways in which tins desirable article of food mav- be made palatable, - Hard boiled eggs and brown bread and butter make - excellent sand wiches ; eggs spread on toast make an appetizing dish ; and. poached eggs,: or those dropped from the shell into hot water, form a delicate morsel for an invalid. 'Was Obliging. The other evening a kind-looking old man was escorted to a room on the third floor of a hotel to pass the night, and it wasn't Ave minutes before the bell indi cated that he wanted to see a waiter. A colored, boy ran up, : stuck his head into the room, -and asked what was wanted. The old. man said he didn t want any thing, but the .waiter was hardly down stairs before the beu rang again. Did you want sufnn ?" he inquired. as he reached the room again " Nothing, . replied the old man. as he opened the door. . - Xn about two minutes the bell rang again, and this time the waiter ex claimed : . r "If you don't want nnffin, what or ye puiiur da bell fur r . " I want to oblige the waiter,'! replied the old man. ' "Dewaitah! - Oblige de waitah ? "Yea; it says here, Please ring the bell for the waiter, and if he 'wants it rung I'm willing to oblige him, though I'm tired and sleepy, and - shan't pull it more n four timeaw more,, unless X know that some of his family are sick. A 0OHBS8POiaKjrr of . the Chicago nuwie aaecriB uiat. Barnes uoruon iien- .1.1. - . . ' A, net ,ia ntumg .uu an , arena expe dition, xi is partners m , tiia , enter. fnae are uaaj franklin oung. hundred dollars for the best home : sion hymn sent to 149 Wrat Thirty-fourth-?. : street, before next July. NlaasKAXtever made a greater brail i than the- Kngsh: lawyer, who drew up killed a man- with a certain wooden in stfument fftitad an iron pestle. Thb prat native Chinaman ever natural- - ued in the United States was Yung Wing. -the Idnentienal QomminniewoT to Amer- - k from the. Celestial Empire, who was - maoe a voter at XXarttord last week. A "bkabt . Eastern paper says that "nt statien-nmster oa the Harlem road has a. . dog that smokes with as much eane and 1 ooflaf ort . his master." It forgets ta add, however, that it makes his master;-? siak-to look at a pipe. Thx Remington Gun Works, etniian. . N. Y. are employing 2,000. mewnJghfec-and-day upon -a Contract for '300,000-3 breech-loading rifles for the Bpaniiii. v government Between 4,000 and 5,000 finished rifles are shipped per week. MBS. JBMTMA SbxjTZEB. of North Cawv lina, has smoked a pipe and drunk strong ;; coffee ever sinoe she can remember, and h she is as. hearty at 95 as she was eighty- - years ago. The only time she was ever - sick was when she smoked laa first ; Pipe-1 The Seven Wise lien of tireece. . These men fare supposed to have livedo in the fifth century before Christ. - Their names were Pittacns, Bias, Solon, Thaiee,-. Chilon, Cteobulus, and Periander. The reason of their being called " wise is. given differently by different author, but the most approved account state that as some OoanM were fishing, certain strangers from Miletus bought wuntevec should be in the nets without seems it- When the nets were drawn in, they wer found to contain a golden tripod, which) Helen, as she sailed from Troy, is. sup posed to-have thrown in there. ". A dispute arose between the fishermen, and the strangers as to whom it belonged., and as they could not agree they took ia- . a a 1 m -a . a a 1 - . . to tne xempie 01 Apoiio, and coastutorfs. the priestess as to what should be don.-, with it. - She said it must be given to the wiaeafar-. man in Greece, : and it was acoortlhigfxr sent to X hales, who declared that Bias was wiser, and sent it to Tvtwv Bias sent it to another one. and so m . until it had passed through the hands ol all the men, afterwards distinguished by the title of the Seven Wise Men,' audi! as each one claimed that some one wasr wiser than he, it finally was sent to the Temple of Apollo, where; according, to some writers, it atiH remains to teach the- lesson that the wisest are the ruofit dia trustful of their, own wisdom. Meth odUU ' ' r world is to lay m Hb " Was thb Omb. Seven o boys were rushing around th nnntr.f?iJ- Saturday, t headed by a yeltowhairecti youtn wno was saying: . , " All I want iu this woi hands on him l'? - He presently came nnona W mK ing about ten poundsmore than himself and rushing at him he exclaimed: " " xmr you bck my brother Ben ?" " Yesj I did. replied the bow .1 Pbradl and spitting on " Weli," eontinuedrthe other lad, back ing slowly away; " he needs a lickinsr once a week to teach him to be civil ''C Detroit Free JVesa, . Thb Statuss or The indications are that flm roan of Europe and hia ante were of short stature. The popular notion that the present generation! physically weaker and smaller than; 1W primitive or ancient is not only utterly unfounded but there ia fehunSmt denoe that the reverse ia true. . ITost r ua wouhi be amaaed if not Bhocked a. tone and hfezed portrait of the reai Eve, f' mother of all livii., Wl and Captain mvanabiy provoa thftu to have to the mammoth or nth. a,-i - ? aattt:.'