WEEKLY CORY ALMS GAZETTE
CORVALLIS,
AUGUST 15, 1879
AT SEA.
Worn voyagers, who watch for land
Across the endless waste of sea,
W ho gaze before and on each hand,
Why look ye not tc what ye flee?
The stars, by which '-he sailors steer,
Not always rise before the prow ;
Though forward nought but clouds appear,
Behind they may be breaking now.
What though we may not turn again
To shores ot childhood that we leave,
Are those old signs we followed vain ?
Can guides so oft found true deceive?
Oh, sail we to the south or north,
Oh, sail we to the east or west,
The port from which we first put forth
Is our heart's home, is our life's best!
Old London Churches.
London Telegraph, July 5th.
It might be permissible briefly to
glance at tlie history of some of the old
churches which so archaeologists think,
at least have been so ruthlessly pulled
down. St. Mary Somerset, which was
anciently spelled "Summer's Hith,"
probably from its contiguity to a "hith"
or wharf, the owner of which bore the
name of Summer, was dedicated to the
Virgin. Of the ancient structure, which
was destroyed in the great fire, little is
known, save that it was in existence at
the beginning of the reign of Edward
III. The church lately demolished by
the orders of the Ecclesiastical Commis
sioners was built under the directions of
Sir Christopher Wren. Tho church
tower was entirely independent of the
body of the church. A bishop of Here
ford bearing the somewhat militant
name of "Ironsides" was buried in the
chancel. St. Dionis Blackchurch, which
has been hopelessly demolished, but the
site of which is still to be disposed of,
was dedicated to Dionysius the Areo
pagite, who was baptized by St. Paul,
and was afterward beheaded in France,
where he is known and reverenced as St.
Denis. His church in London was
called "Blackchurch," from the circum
stance that a church dedicated to St.
Gabriel anciently stood right in front of
St. Dionis, in the roadway of Fenchurch
street. St. Dionis Blackchurch dated
from the thirteenth century, and it was
burned in 1666. In 1674 it was rebuilt,
with the exception of the tower, by Sir
Christopher Wren. Ten years afterward
the tower was added, the designs being
again furnished by the illustrious
architect of St. Paul's. St. Benet's,
Gracechurch street, was also one
of Sir Christopher's churches.
According to Stow, its title
had nothing to do with Grace, and its
proper name was Grass Church, because
the herb market was held opposite its
western door. The parish books of St.
Benet's, or Benedict's, have not, it is to
be presumed, been sold with the mate
rials of the church as old rubish. Those
old tomes contain some curious entries;
one, for example, at the accession of Mary
in 1553, "Payde to a plasterer for wash
ing Dwte and defacing such Scriptures as
in the tyme of King Edward VI. were
written about the church and walls ; and
payde the paynters for making the Koode,
with Mary and John;" and five years
later, at the accession of Elizabeth,
"Payde to the carpenter for pulling down
the Roode, with Mary and John, four
shillings and two pence." The tower of
the varnished St. Benet's, with its cupola
and spire, was 140 feet high. St;- Mil
dred's had also been destroyed in the
fire, and rebuilt by Wren, when it was
united with the parish of St. Mary's
Colechurch, an ancient incumbent of
which had been Peter of Colechurch, one
of the builders of old London Bridge.
St. Martin's, 'or Othowich, was a four
teenth century building, in the pointed
style. It escaped the conflagration in
1666, but was seriously injured by a fire
which took place in 1765, and it was
wholly rebuilt in 1795 by Mr. Cockerell.
Here was a very fine picture of the " Res
urrection," by a famous French painter,
Hyppolyte Rigaud. This picture, it is
to be hoped has been preserved. St.
Antholin, formerly in Budge-row, at the
corner of Sise-lane, where now is Queen
Victoria street, was of ancient founda
tion, being mentioned in the twelfth cen
tury. It was burnt in the fire, and re
built in 1684 by Wren. The interior had
an oval dome, supported by eight columns
and the carpentery of the roof was re
garded as a superb specimen of Sir Chris
topher's constructive skill. The tower was
one hundred and fifty -four feet high.
Another of Wren's churches was the now
demolished St. Michael's, Queenhithe,
built in 1677. It was chiefly remarkable
for its spire, loo teet nign, surmounted
by a gilt vane in the shape of a ship in
full sail. The hull, it is said, was large
enough to contain a bushel of grain.
Queenhithe had been known for centu
ries as a place where corn was landed.
All Hallows, Bread street, was also one
of Wren's churches, and was built in
1680. In its predecessor, destroyed in
the fire, John Milton was baptized, but
alas! even so long as 20 years ago the
Sunday congregations at All Hallows,
Bread street, had sunk to the deplorable
average of nine and the site was so
very valuable! All Hallows Staining,
in Mark lane, escaped the great fire, but
was frequently altered and repaired, and
of the building which has now disap
peared only the tower and portion of the
west wall were ancient. It was, never
theless, historically, a most interesting
church. Here, in 1554, after her libera
tion from the Tower, the Princess Eliza
beth performed her devotions, and tradi
tion says that the future "good Queen
Bess," having said her prayers, after
wards dined on pork and peas pudding
at the King's Head in Fenchurch street.
To this melancholy list of demolished
churches would assuredly have been
added, but for the strenuous efforts of
the Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings, the interesting St. Mary-at-Hill,
Eastcheap. This evidence, hap
pily still standing, was built by Wren
after the great fire. The Society was
unable to save St. Dionis Backchurch;
but, in spite of vigorous opposition, they
succeeded for a time in rescuing the
church of St. Mary-at-Hill from its im
pending fate. We say for a time, as the
clemency extended by the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners to the edifice in Eastcheap
may prove to have been more in the
nature of a respite than a reprieve. In
the case of St. Mary, the Committee of
the Ancient Buildings Protection Society
were materially helped by the city
churches and church-yard societies. Ow
ing, however, to the wide-sweeping pow
ers of the Union of Benefices Act, the
existence of the remaining churches is
being continually threatened, and the
greatest vigilance is necessary to enable
the society to obtain early information
of any proposed demolition, and to pre
vent a surprise. The Ancient Buildings
Protection Society, whose second annual
meeting was held on Saturday last, have
not failed, in their report, to direct at
tention to the architectural loss which
the metropolis and the country at large
would sustain by the continuous disap
pearance of these interesting, venerable,
and in many cases handsome, structures,
which give at once rest and gratification
to the eye amid the hurry and turmoil of
London life. The Ecclesiastical Com
missioners, on the other hand, are cer
tainly not expected to concern them
selves, in their corporate capacity at
least, with archaeology or ecclesiology.
Reasoning from the patent fact that most
of the city churches have small congre
gations, they have pulled, and are pull
ing, and will continue to pull down as
many churches as they can, selling the
sites for as much money as they can get
for them, equitably apportioning the
charitable endowments of the disestab
lished churches"" to neighboring and
deserving charities, and making large
grants for church building purposes in
outlying districts where the potential
congregations are large and where the
existing church accommodations is in
sufficient. It is a pity that this system
of uprooting old churches and plantimg
new ones in the suburbs cannot be car
ried on without depriving the City of
London of a number of historical land
marks, and offering a cruel outrage to
the illustrious memory of Christopher
Wren.
Pern Seen from the Inside.
"There is no other Peru," said Mr. Ja
cob Wray Mould, "and there is no other
Henry Meiggs." According to the ac
count of the New York architect, much
of whose work is to be seen in Central
Park, who introduced there and in Dr.
Bellow's church ("the Beefsteak") the
parti-colored style of external ornamen
tation, amd who has been for several
years in Pern, the assassination of Gen.
Pardo, President of Pern, was as just a
deed, as far as Pardo was the victim, as
if the inexorable fates has marked out a
violent death for him as punishment.
"Pardo," said he, "played fast and loose,
using all the ability he had as a master
of the art of double dealing to annoy Mr.
Meiggs, until he dropped into his grave.
He was killed by Pardo as certainly a3
Pardo was stopped afterwards by the
bullet of his assassin."
It is pleasing to learn the actual status
of Peru in the commercial world from
one who has had full opportunity for ob
serving the people and the progress of
the country, and who possesses the
knowledge and intelligence necessary to
form a just opinion of such matters. The
accounts received from time to time from
that rich but ill managed region are so
conflicting and palpably unreliable, that
the viva voce statements of a gentleman
like Mr. Mould are a relief and are ex
ceedingly interesting. He declares that
Mr. Meiggs was the life and soul
of Peru, and that with his death
died the immense progress which the na
tion was making towards a position
among the acknowledged powers of the
earth. We know all about that great
capitalist's railroad projects, to the ac
complishment of which he took all the
immense experience which his previous
life in California had given him, and
which he pursued with an indefatigable
industry and a tact which, together, Mr.
Mould calls genius. If we permit with
in the pale of that abused and indefin
word the peculiar tact required to amass
wealth and to use it and the talent which
earned it for the world's good, Henry
Meiggs certainly possessed genius.
With regard to the architecture of
Peru, in which Mr. Mould was particu
larly interested, he explains that Mr.
Meiggs projected a magnificent drive
from Lima to Callao (the port of Lima) ,
seven miles in length, with superb build
ings on it, and a park midway. These,
Mr. Mould says, would have been worth
crossing the Pacific Ocean to see. But
this project, like many others which had
germinated in the great worker's busy
brain, was nipped in the bud by his
death, the legal dispute concerning his
will preventing nis nominal executors
from pursuing the line of action marked
out by him. He would have imported
oriole, liau ne lived, to replace tlie lior
rible yellow adobe of the Peruvians, and
he would have worked the neighboring
OlaeK marble quarries if he had had
time.
The British Tab Extinct. The old
class of skippers have no difficulty in
discovering the source of the evil it is
all the fault of steamers. Without los
inc; sight of the prejudices of these
worthy men, which make them some
what unsafe guides, we may acknowl
edge that there is a certain amount of
truth in their accusation. In the first
place a steamer can afford to carry very
inferior men, and only the smallar part
of her crew are seamen even in name.
She has on board a large number of fire
men who pass as sailors, without possess
ing any pretentions to the title. Then
the conditions under which the master
of a steamer collects his crew are such
as render it almost impossible for him to
discover whether it is good or bad; and
sailors need as much choosing as domes
tic servants. He rushes in and out of
port, discharging his men the moment
he enters, and shipping others just before
he leaves, when he cannot wait to look
about him, and must put up with what
he can get. Naturally he gets desperate
and indebted loafers, who, having drank
the wages gained by their last voyage,
re-embark as a last resource. Hence
steamers are filled with bad characters of
all sorts. The firemen are often the re
fuse of manufacturing towns. Their life
at sea is so hard that only good pay
would bring good men to it; and their
work requires so little skill that it can
not command good pay. They are, it is
true, generally a little better paid than
sailors, but only a little some five shil
lings a month or so. Hence they are a
dangerous element in the ship's com
pany mutinous on board and drunken
on shore. The deck hands, as regular
seamen are styled on board, are, for the
reason given above, not much superior
to the firemen. They are not required
to possess much skill; it is enough if
they can steer and clean paint and metal.
Steamers, therefore, are the paradise of
the loose fish who hang about ships. An
ugly parody of the stirring and adven
turous Bpirits who have ever taken to the
sea'among us, nowadays they form a well
defined class, for which names unknown
to our grandfathers have been invented
beech-comers, packet rats, and so forth;
and they are a worse danger to ships
than the perils of the sea, as well as a
burden on the lives of her Britannic
Majesty's consuls in foreign ports. Pall
Mall Gazette.
The French Academy of Sciences has
elected Professor Huxley a corresponding
member in the section of anatomy and
zoology in the place of the Russian nat
uralist, Baer.
How Brutes Sleep.
New York Pun.
Half an hour after the last visitor
passed out of Barnnm's Circus and Men
agerie in its recent exhibition, only
seven or eight gas jets were burning in
the large building. Dr. George O. B.
Starr, press agent of the circus and ex
Deputy Coroner of Westchester, took
the writer by the hand and led him in
tip-toe to one of the monkey cages.
Back in the dark corners of the floor
were two black clusters. He scratched
the cage with his cane, and instantly a
dozen whitish spots appeared on the
surfaces of each of the clusters. These
were the faces of the monkeys. They
were held perfectly still for a short time,
but when another gas jet was lighted,
nearer the stage several monkeys broke
away from their companions to leap
from perch to perch and squeal like
bats. Dr. Starr said that the monkeys
sometimes roosted like chickens on their
perches, but such a peculiarity was not
observed in any of the cages. Mr. Mc
Clean, a very trustworthy keeper, says
they often indulged their propensity for
fun by pulling each other's tails and
pinching each other at dead of night.
Then the whole cage will set up a chat
ter. Monkeys never snore, but there is
always heard a sniffling sound, the pre
monitory symptoms of consumption, of
which they generally die on account of
the coldness and changes oi a nortnern
climate. In separating into different
clusters to sleep each species seeks to
keep bv itself as much as possible.
Dr. Starr said the pelican usually
squatted on the floor of his cage tike a
duck in his coop, but it was found roost
ing on the edge of a water tank in its
cage. Its big webbed toes are furnished
with long, sharp, curving claws, and
clutched the metal-covered edge with a
firm hold. Its beak, nearly a foot in
lenerth. rested alone its back. When a
keeper's hand was thrust wearily be
tween the bars, the long beak, as it
seemed, with a single motion moved
viciously from its back and struck
a bar of the cage against which
the hand had rested. After that
it stood up on Kuard, show
ing its long brown legs, and awkwardly
brandishing its beak. The snakes lay
motionless, most of them being in a clus
ter. The ostrich lifted itself from a
squatting position on the floor of its cage
when the visitors approached, looked out
of one eye inquiringly and tetered its
long neck up and down, as u it were
balancing its body with it on its two un
gainly legs. The kangaroo lay a long
time without moving. At last, aroused
by the conversation of its midnight
guests, it suddenly lifted its Head, and
with its tail gave a thump or two on the
side of its capre. Its tail is very long,
thick and powerful, and when it is at
tacked in close quarters it is said to
whirl about and use it like a club. After
a short time it sat upon its haunches and
began to yawn and to scratch its sides
with its short forelegs, lifce a monkey
The front of the mandrill baboon's cage
was closed with a kind of horizontal
shutter. When this was being removed
thte creature's paw missed a keeper's
hand only bv half an inch. It stood on
all fours, about three feet high, and
glared through the bars with its gray,
sunken eves, throwing a queer expres
sion of cool .contempt into its blue
cheeks and bright carmine nose. It
would occasionally thrust out its chin,
decked with a short, sandy beard. It
has acquired the pet name of Drill, but
it is said to be very treacnerous, ana
when it is angry it has been knowi. to
put forth strength equal to tnat ot two
men. It took a chew of what the keeper
said was tobacco, rolled it about in its
mouth, and appeared to enjoy it. Dr
Starr said that it could smoke, but that
it was not allowed to have matches. The
capybara. a kind of hairless South
American hog, scrambled up when it
heard a noise, and ran to its trough, over
which it stood looking expectantly at
those who had disturbed it. The little
sun-bear was rolled up in a black ball in
a corner of its cage, while the first sight
of the grizzly in another corner showed
it swavine noiselessly to and fro. The
striped hyena was roaming about in its
cage. A ridge of coarse hair arose along its
back when it was disturbed, and it re
tired to the rear of its cage to glare at its
visitors. It kept up a low but unceas
ing growl. It retains the wild instincts
of it ancestors, and the keepers say that
this low growl can be heard nearly ail
night. It howls a prediction of a storm
several hours before the storm comes.
Savage hisses were heard from two
black leopards before the visitors arrived
at their cage. When a neighboring gas
jet was lighted their glistening teeth and
red tongues came into view. Their up
per lips were drawn back a they
crouched on the floor, and their short
ears were laid back until it seemed as if
there was no room for any brains in their
serpent-like skulls. They are the fiercest
of all the beasts in the menageries, ana
so wild that when they are changed to a
new cage they will not eat tor several
days. A large spotted hyena was found
growling in the dark and twisting uneas
ily on his back with his feet, in the air.
He weighs 250 pounds. He immediately
crot ut and. retirine to the back of the
caee. clared menacingly. A wildcat
sprang to the rear of its cage, when we
approached, and crouched as if for a
spring. A moment afterward it sat up,
looking as innocent and as unconcerned
as a house cat after it had eaten a cana
ry. It killed three of its brothers last
summer. A jauger glanced carelessly at
the midnight party as they passed its
cage, but otherwise affected no disregard
for them. Two lions, born in Central
Park two years and a half ago, lifted
their nozzles from their front paws,
stretched out in front of them, and
showed their fine, large fronts while they
blinked lazily at a newly-lighted gas jet.
Showmen like lions, on the whole, much
better than tigers, because they are not
so treacherous; but they say a bad lion is
worse than a tiger. The other day, when
these two lions were fighting over a bone,
Joseph Barret, one of the keepers, en
tered the cage and took the bone away
from both of them. Nevertheless, all
lions are dangerous at all times.
Before approaching within reaoh
of a lion, a keeper always tries
its disposition by coaxing words and
by offers to pet it. If it holds its head
down to be scratched it is considered to
be in a safe mood to handle. The
rhinoceros sleeps with a hoarse snore,
and resembles a huge, over-fat hog as its
body spreads out over the bottom of the
cage. The one in Barnnm's museum is
said to weigh 7900 pounds. All of the
frame work of the wagon on which the
cage rests is of steel. It is said that it
would be the most dangerous animal in
the menagerie if it should escape in an
angry mood. Though usually very slug
glish, it is terribly quick in action when
angry, and there is practically no limit
to its strength.
The four or five baby elephants stood
in a row, fastidiously selecting choice
spears of hay with their restless trunks,
while Emperor and his huge mates lay
sprawled out on their sides, their upper
sides being rounded up into formidable
mounds of flesh. The effect of the light
was to make several of them lurch back
ward and forward and sideways, and
finally sit up on their haunches in their
clumsy, broken-jointed fashion. The
seal sleeps on its platform and not in the
water. The giraffe usually holds its
long neck nearly erect, with his legs
doubled up under him, like a horse.
Keepers in the menagerie divide their
charges into six chases hay animals,
cat animals, monkeys, elephants, birds
and fishes. If a keeper of the cat ani
mals is killed, or if he leaves his situa
tion, the management look about for an
experienced man to take his place. If
they cannot find any, they promote one
of the oldest and trustiest hay animal
keepers to the vacant position. The cat an
imal comprises everything of a naturally
savage nature, including the lions. The
hay animal include deer, giraffes, and
the like. In the elephant class are in
cluded rhinoceroses and the hippo
potami. It requires a particularly steady
and trustworthy man to care for the
"cats," which can never be handled or
changed from cage to cage without pre
cautions, no matter how tame they may
seem to be.
Jeff Davis' Benefactress.
A New Orleans telegram of the 8th inst.
announced that Mrs. Sarah A. Doreey, of
Mississippi, who died in the first week of
July, bad bequeathed her entire estate to
Jefferson Davis. In her bequest Mrs.
Dorsey refers to the great services and
sacrifices of Mr. Davis on behalf of the
South, and reproaches his" countrymen
for their failure in gratitude and appre
ciation for such services, and regrets the
small contribution which she is able to
make for his relief.
Mrs Dorsey was a Miss Ellis, of a well
known and wealthy family of Natchez,
Miss., where she was born, in February,
1829. She was a niece of Mrs. Catherine
Annie Warfield (nee Ware) the novelist
the author of "The Household of Bou-
vene," "JBeanseincourt, and other ro
mances of a strange, wild, weird origi
nality and power. Mrs. Warfield's first
publications were two volumes of poems
(1S4$ and 1844), by herselt and her sister,
Mrs. Eleanor Percy Lee, who appeared
before the public as "Two Sisters of the
West." Mrs. Lee died soon afterward
and Mrs. Warfield's subsequent literary
career was confined exclusively to prose
fiction. She died in 1877, leaving her
niece. Mrs. Dorsey, to act as her literary
executor, with, as is supposed," a large
mass of unpublished manuscript in her
hands.
Miss Ellis in her youth enjoyed in
Natchez the advantages of what was re
puted to be the most cultivated and pol-
I 1 I . I . . I -i '
isueu society men existing in me ooum
west She married when about twenty
five years of age Samuel Dorsey, a lawyer
and planter of Tensas parish, La., which
was her home until the death of her
husband in 1875, when she removed to
Beauvoir, a seaside residence in the ex
treme southern part of Mississippi.
Having no children, and her husband
possessing an independent fortune, Mrs.
Dorsey had exceptional facilities for the
enjoyment of literature,society and travel,
in all ot which she delighted. 6he be
came known to the public as the author
of "Agnes Graham," "Athalie," "Lucia
Dare," and more recently (1877) of
Panola. Ot these novels the best known
and probably the best,is "Agnes Graham,"
believed to be founded upon remarkable
and romantic incidents in the personal
and famiiy'history of tho author. She
published also, in 1807, '"Recollections of
Henry y. Allen," late Governor of
ljOUisiantK, and is ine autnor oi several
essavs an nhilosonhical and scientific
subjects. "especially on the Oriental
i c i l i i. : i.
Mvsieiijs ui religion ana morals, in wuicu
she took a lively interest, having,
among other accomplishments, acquired
some knowledge of Sanscrit literature
She was a Greek and Latin scholar, and
read and conversed in several modern
languages.
Mrs. Dorsey was well known in literary
society, both in Europe and America
She was on terms of personal friendship
with Carlyle, Herbert Spencer, Dean
Stanley, the Rosettis and others, and had
correspondents in Rome, Dresden and
Calcutta, as well as New York and Lon-
rlr-tn fiha l-onf nri in 1 1 c ntnaa rtF hot- ltfa
the exercise of an elegant and refined
hospitality, and hers was one ol the lew
southern homes in which, since the war,
anything approximating the style ot en
tertainment of the olden time could be
maintained. N. Y. World.
Moltke and Bismaeck. During the
eight years which have elapsed since the
German Empire was founded at Ver
sailles, the writers of the fatherland have
been busy discussing the merits of the
leading personages in the drama of the
Franco-Prussian war. iiy general con
sent, Prince Bismarck and Count Moltke
were admitted to be the two foremost
leaders;- but opinion differed much as to
which is really the greater. or some
time the imposing figure of Bismarck
entirely filled the fore-ground; but more
recently there are many signs showing
that he is not unlikely to be supplanted
finally bv the less obtrusive personality
of Moltke. The more the actual events
of the years 1870 and 1871 become
known, from both official documents and
private memoirs some of the latter as
yet little known in this country, while of
no mean historical importance the
more it appears certain that Count
Moltke was in reality the leading spirit of
the time. He commanded not only in the
field but in the cabinet. He drew before
hand the plans of battles; and as he de
signed the meshes on which the German
hosts grasped the capital of France, so he
delineated likewise the hard outlines of
the treaty following the conquest. All
this was not known before, but is now
gradually becoming known. Moltke,
throughout the Franco-Prussian war, re
mained very much in the same attitude
he still assumes in the German Reichs
tag, where he sits with arms folded, im
movably in the same place, speaking
rarely, seeming often to dream, but still
showing whenever he opens his lips, that
he has not missed a word of the debate.
It has in years been the fashion in Ger
many, adopted from comic papers, to
give nicknames to eminent men. Prince
Bismarck is "ehrliche Makler" the hon
est broker, while Count Moltke is called
"der Wagenlenker" the driver, or the
man at the helm. The title indicates
more than nearly anything else the posi
tion assigned to the great Captain by his
country. London Athenanim.
Two Lives op a Kitten. Recently
a lady in Lowville, N. Y., used chloroform
to kill a kitten. The animal, seemingly
dead, placed in a pasteboard box, was
buried in the garden under a light cover
ing of earth. Two days later the family
heard it mewing, and, upon opening the
box, the kitten crept out. It is now alive
and well.
The Magnetic Poles.
f from the Scientific American.
From a study of the movement of the
compass needle producing declination at
London, Mr. B. G. Jenkins, of the Royal
Astronomical Society, has become con
vinced that the various vicissitudes of
the needle during the last three hundred
years can best be explained by the sup
position of a strong magnetic pole above
the earth's surface, and revolving around
the geographic North Pole in about five
hundred years. He finds four magnetic
poles, as maintained by Hal ley and Hand
steen, to be necessary to explain satis
factorily all the phenomena or terrestrial
magnetism, but he places these not in the
earth, but in the atmosphere. These
poles he regards as the free ends of as
many magnetic belts, two extending from
the vicinity of the North Pole to the
equator, theother two coming up from the
South Pole to meet them, the boreal mag
netism of the northern belts uniting with
the austral magnetism of the southern
belts along the magnetic equator. These
bands he believes to revolve at slow and
unequal rates round the poles of the earth,
producing secular variations.
It will be observed that Mr. Jenkins
describes the magnetism of the Northern
Hemisphere as "boreal." Contrary to the
current theory, he holds that the north
end of the compass needle is a true north
pole, and that the facts observed are, when
properly understood, in full record with
the great magnetic truth that like poles
repel and unlike poles attract.
After submitting the evidence in favor
of this view, Mr. Jenkins argues in this
wise : If the north pole of the dipping
needle is a south pole, its pointing to the
ground in Boothia (where Sir James Ross
located the earth's north magnetic pole)
mnst be attributed to attraction. If it is
attracted, it is attracted by something
either in the crust of the earth or at the
center Of the globe. If there is some
thing in the earth's crust which attracts
the needle in Boothia, it ought to attract
the needle in London. But the needle in
London is attracted neither to the crust at
Boothia, nor to the earth's center The
truth is, Mr. Jenkins believes, that the
North Pole at the needle pointed to the
ground almost perpendicularly in Boothia
because it was repelled by the true north
magnetic pole in the atmosphere above
that region when Mr. James Ross was
there fifty years ago.
Further evidence as to the existence of
the alleged magnetic belts above the
earth's surface is promised. Meantime.
it is of the first importance, Mr. Jenkins
thinks, that it should be clearly settled
whether the magnetic pole remains in
or above .Boothia. According to his cal
culation, it should now be in latitude 72
degrees, longitude 115 degrees, in Prince
Albert Land.
SAFE & LOCK COMPANY,
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Seeing Ourselves. A man is ordina
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up to 35 or 40, to be middle-aged from
40 to 50, and not to be positively old, if
he be of sound health and well pre
served, until he shall have reached 60 or
thereabout. This estimate of years
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be 100 (as JtSuffon declares it should be)
though his average age is scarcely 50,
and 60 is much beyond it. What reason
is there, then, fo$ speaking of 35 to 40 as
young and 40 to 50 as middle-age
None, unless we consider that we begin
practical and useful existence, as we
really do, with the attainment of our
legal majority; and, as a rule, people
have very little life 00 to do years
after that. It is common to speak of
men, especially in public positions, of
sixty, as in their prime. A. few appear
to be so, notably m .Europe; but they
are not actually, since, at seventy-five,
the public distrusts them merely from
their age. The great majority of men
are buried and forgotten before they
have gained three-score, and he who is
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ulties, we insist that we are not very old;
out our mends, smith and JBrown, with
not a year more than we, if the truth
were known, make themselves ridiculous
by trying to appear young.
The Khedive has just succeeded in
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temporarily abandoned his free-lunch
routes.
Anna Dickinson is still recuperating at
Pittston, f&.
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Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of
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Work done to order on short notice, and
. at reasonable rates.
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Pacific Branch,
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His natent bolt is superior to any in use.
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Bv one of the greatest improvements known,
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Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur
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DRAYINC AND HAULING,
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lli:lvl
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Boarding: and Lodging.
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RUPTURE
CURED!
From a Merchant.
Dayton, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Borne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, San Francisco Dear
Sir: The Truss I purchased of you one year ago
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remain, yours, respectfully.
D.'D. Bunnell.
Latest Medical Endorsements.
Martinez, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879.
W. J. Borne, Proprietor California Elastia
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Yours truly. J. H. Cakothbrs, M. D.
Eadorked by a Prominent Medical lastl
tmc.
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W. J. Borne, Proprietor California Elastia
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