WEEKLY CORY ALL IS GAZETTE.
CORVALLIS,
MAY 7, 1S80
LOyGINOS.
A feeling of longing
Now draws me away
From home and Its :oved ones
To wander astray,
Far over tbe bill-tops
Tbe clouds bang in air,
Aglow In tbe sunbeams.
She waits for me there !
Tbe Bbadow-wlnged ravens
Move slowly along.
And joining their party,
I go wltb tbe tbrong.
They soar o'er tbe mountains
I pass rock and tree;
0 j ! I heboid ber!
tsbe tarries for me!
Rbe roves tbrongb tbe forest;
The signal I sing;
The note of tbe song-bird
O'erjoyed wltb tbe spring.
She ling-re and listens,
And wnlspers with glee;
"He sings it so sweetlv;
He sings it for me! "
The last beams of f unset
Are gilding the bight;
My loved one still tarries,
Sbe fears not the night
By brook-side sbe wanders
Tbe green meadows through.
And darker and darker
Night's shadows pursue.
1 glide through tbe bushes,
A wandering star.
She starts and he trembles;
"What gleams from afar?"
" 'T!s only my lantern.
My dearest and best,
And I at your feet, love,
For here I am blest ! "
-Translated Jrom Goethe by Geo. W. Itirdseye.
The Dream Story of Gojiro.
Only a few years ago there was a
gentloman in Fukui, Japan, who had
a son, a bright lad of twelve, who
was very diligent at school, and bad
made astonishing progress in his
studies. He was especially quick at
learning Chinese characters, of
which "every Japanese gentleman
who wishes to be called educated
must know at least 2000. For, al
though the Chinese and Japanese
are two very different languages, yet
tho Japanese, Coreans and Chinese
.use the same letters to write with,
just as English, Germans, French
and Spaniards all employ one and
tbe same alphabet.
Now Gojiro's father had promised
him that when he read through nve
volumes of the Nihongi, or ancient
history of Japan, he would give him
for a present a book of wonderful
Chinese stories. Gojiro performed
bis task and bis father kept his prom
ise. One day, on his return from a
journey to Kioto, he presented his
son with sixteen volumes, all neatly
silk-bound, well illustrated with
wood cuts and printed clearly on
thin, silky muloerry paper from the
best wooden blocks. It will be re
membered that several volumes of
Japanese literature make but one of
ours, 8 they are much lighter and
thinner than ours.
Gojiro was so delighted with the
wonderful stories of heroes and war
riors, travels and sailors, that tie ai
most felt himself in China. He read
far into tbe night, with his lamp in
side of his mosquito curtain, and
finally fell asleep, still undressed,
but with his head full ot all sorts of
Chinese wonders.
lie dreamed he was lar away in
China, walking along the banks of
the great Yellow River. Everything
was very strange. 1 he people talked
an entirely different language from
his own: had on different clothes;
and instead of nice shaven head and
top-knot of the Japanese, every one
wore a loot; pigtail of hair that
dangled at bis bcels. Even the
boats were of a strange form; and
on the fishing smacks, perched on
proiectincr rails, sat rows ot cormo
rants, each with a ring around his
neck. Every few minutes one of
them would dive under the water,
and, after awhile, come struggling
up with a fish in its mouth so big
that tbe fishermen bad to help the
bird into the boat. The fish was
then flung into a basket, and tbe
cormorant was treated to a slice of
raw fish by way of encouragement
and to keep the bird from the bad
habit of eating the live fish whole
This the ravenous bird would some
times try to do, even though the
ring was put around his neck for the
express purpose ot preventing him
from gulping down a whole fish at
once.
It was spring time, and tbe buds
were just bursting into flower. The
river was full of fish, especially carp,
ascending to the great rapids or cas
cades. Here the current ran at a
prodigious rate of swiftness, and the
waters rippled and boiled and roared
with frightful noise. Yet, strange to
say, many of the fish were swim
ming up the stream as if their lives
depended on it. They leaped and
floundered about; but every one
seemed to be tossed back and left ex
hausted in the river, where they
panted and. gasped lor breath in the
eddies at the side. Some were so
bruised against the rocks that, after
a few spasms, they floated white and
stiff, belly up, on the water, dead,
and were swept down the stream.
Still the shoal leaped and strained
every fin, until their scales flashed in
the sun like a host of armored war
riors in battle. Gojiro, enjoying it as
if it were a real conflict ot waves and
fishes, clapped bis bands with delight.
Then Gojiro enquired by means of
writing, of an old white-bearded sage
standing by and looking on, "What
is the name of this part of the river?"
" Ve call it Lung Men," replied the
sage.-
-. "Will you please write the charac
ter j of it," said Gojiro, producing his
ink-case and and a brush pen, with a
roll of soft mulberry paper.
The sage wrote the two Chinese
S characters meaning "The Gate of the
Dragons," or "Dragon's Gate,"
and turned away to watch a carp
that seemed almost up into the clear
water.
"Oh, I see,' said Gojiro to himself.
"""That's pronounced Kiu Mon in Jap
anese. I'll go further on and see. I
There must be snme meaning in this
fish-climbing." He went forward a
few rods, to where the banks trended
upward into high bluffs, crowned by
towering firs, through the top
branches of which white fleecy clouds
sailed along, so near the sky did
tho tree-tops seem. Down under the
cliffs the river ran perfectly smooth,
almost like a mirror, and broadened
out to the opposite shore. Far back,
along tbe current, he could still see
the rapids shelving down. It was
crowded at the bottom with leaping
hsb, whose numbers gradually thin
ned out toward tbe center, while near
the top, close to the edge of level
water, one solitary fish, of powerful
fin and tail, breasted tbe steep
stream. Now forward a leap, then a
slide backward, sometimes farther to
the rear than tbe next leap made up
for, then steady progress, then a slip,
but every moment nearer, until-clear-ing
foam and ripple and spray at one
bound, it passed tbe edge and swam
happily in smooth water.
It was inside the dragon gate.1
Now came the wonderful change.
One of the fleecy white clouds sud
denly left the host in the deep blue
above, dipped down from the sky,
and, swirling rouud and round as if it
were a waterspout, scratched and
frayed the edge of the water like a
fisher's troll. The carp saw and
darted toward it. In a moment the
fish was transformed into a white
dragon, and rising into the cloud,
floated off toward heaveu. A streak
or two of red fire, a gleam of terrible
A Mystery.
We are used to scenes of pain and suf
fering at the G hospital, and could
look on ghastly wounds and faces on
eyes, and the flash of white scales
was all that Gojiro saw. Then he
awoke.
"How strange that a poor little
carp, a common fish that lives in the
river, should become a great white
dragon, and soar up into the sky, to
live there," thought Gojiro, the next
day, as he told bis mother his dream.
'Yes," said she; "and what ales
son for you. See how the carp per
severed, rising over all difficulties,
never giving up till he became a
dragon. I hope my son will mount
over all obstacles, and rise to honor
and to high office under tho govern
ment." "Oh! oh! now I see," said Gojiro.
"That is what my teacher means
when he says the students in Tokio
have'a saying, "I'm a fish to-day,
but I hope to be a dragon to-morrow,"
when they go to attend ex
amination; and that's what papa
meant when he said, 'That fish's son
Kotuku has become a white dragon,
while I am yet only a carp.' "
So on tho third day of tho third
month, at the feast of flags, Gojiro
hoisted the nobori. It was a great
fish, made of paper, fifteen feet long,
aud hollow like a bag. It was yel
low with black scales and streaks of
gold, and red gills and mouth, in
which two strontr strings were fas
tened. It was hoisted up by a rope
to the top of a high bamboo pole on
the roof of the bouse. There the
breeze caught it, swelled it out
round and full of air. The wind
made the fins work, and the tail flap,
and the head tug, until it looked just
hiie a carp trying to swim the rapids
of the Yellow river the symbol of
ambition and perseverance. Ex.
Some Things it's Hard to Understand.
Why an endless procession of drinkers
irora a public dipper, will, without any
exception, drink close to the handle.
Why half the human race was not
born without hearing, and the other
half without speech. . Then the talkers
might talk ou in uninterrupted flow,
and the hearers exercise their especial
gift without their present puriency to
speak.
Why people will ge into society to get
bored when they can get bored just as
well at home.
Why the young lady who will eagerly
cnew boarding-house mince pie, will
cheerfully eschew boarding-house
meat.
wny a man s stomach, will so ever
lastingly squeamish at home, and at the
eating-house display a faith like a grain
of mustard seed.
Why a woman will makes excuses for
her bread when she knows it is the best
she ever made, and she knows her com
pany knows it.
wny a --young gentleman swears so
much louder and more copiously -when
strange young ladies are within earshot;
or, m other words.
Why the desire to make a fool of one's
self springs eternally in the human
breast.
Why we are so much angrier aeainst
him who shows us our error than him
who leads us therein,.
Why everybody is so prompt to
answer "How do you do? when you
a.sic mem mat inevitable question. And
Why you seem to be perfectly satis-
ned witn the information contained in
this echo.
Why one's piety strengthens when his
health weakens.
Why people will get married when
courtship is so sweet.
Why a man who claims to have found
marriage a delusion will again embrace
that delusion upon the first convenient
opportunity.
Why cold weather comes during the
season when it is least agreeable.
Why it is much easier to he polite to
people whom we shall probably never
see again than to those whose good
opinion we have every reason to culti
vate.
Why boys should run after the
girls when there is a whole houseful at
home.
Why Jane finds Sarah's hateful
brother so attractive, and why the
hateful brother of Jane finds favor with
Sarah.
Why a man shoull court the good
opinion of another, when he can never
hope to secure his own self-respect.
wny it is so much easier to close a
door in summer than in winter, con
sidering that exercise is generally con
sidered distasteful in warm weather and
pleasant in cold. ,
Why one feels bad when apnearinc in
company in shabby garb, knowing well
that one's shabbiness gives more pleas
ure to others than one's rich clothing.
Nothing makes a Dakota man so mad
as to call him a zebra. He doesn't know
what in thunder a zebra is, and has to
answer back at a disadvantage.
which the mortal agony inflicted by the
surgeon's probe and knife was painted
without blanching or apparent emotion.
But when gallant Harry Delmont was
brought in from the "front," with a hid
eous hole in his manly breast, such as
only a minie ball could make, a great
hush of sorrow and dismay fell upon us
all. And when the surgeon s solemn
words. "He cannot live three days," fell
upon our ears, the hush was broken by
the sobs of strong men, as well as by the
more q met weepmg of the female nurses.
for all of us loved the brave young Cap-
rain as a brother.
We hovered over his cot throughout
the day. and when night came it was
agreed that one of us should have the
special duty of -watching beside it
through the night, for fear that he should
waken from the letnargy wmcn seemed
to prelude approaching death, to ask for
something that the steward could not oo
tain. And then I pleaded for the priv
ilege, and after some demur it was ac
corded me.
"Watch him very closely," said the
surgeon to me, as I took my seat for the
vigil beside the cot of our favorite, "for
at any moment he is liable to come out
of the coma, and he may be wander
ing." But I was very tired, and about mid
night, do what I could, I could not keep
my eyes from closing in a half-unconscious
reverie, which, after a time,
merged into a fitful slumber. And very
soon occurred the mystery of which it is
my present task to tell.
A bright dream of the "northern home
so far away" was flitting through my
brain, when suddenly I seemed to be
impressed with some presence that held
my body in a thrall, while my senses
became almost preternaturally acute.
Opening my eyes at last, I gazed toward
the couch of the wounded captain, and
by his side with one hand clasped in hers,
I saw the figure of a young and beautiful
lady, whose eyes were glaring down to
his with such a look of pitying tender
ness that I felt sure at once she was his
sweetheart.
I wondered much, however, how she
came to be there in the hospital at that
hour of the night, when visitors had
never been admitted after sundown. And
I knew that Dr. Yance, the surgeon in
charge, had his own brother been dying
in that place, and his father and mother
come to see him, would never have ad
mitted them only at regular hours.
I was so exercised in mind that I was
just opening my lips to question the
strange visitor, when I saw the steward
with the light, moving along the lower
end of the ward in such a way as to bring
our visitor between the light and me,
and then my heart stood still. The light
the stewart carried I could see shining,
and I was looking through the form of the
lady who stood by my patient's side.
I gazed in awe upon the apparition for
a few brief seconds, and then a torpor
overcame me, and I knew no more until
the steward roughly shook my arm and
made me awake, for Captain Delmont was
no longer lethargic, but delirious. But
when I looked upon his clear, calm eyes,
I told the steward he was not delirious.
"Is Nettie here?" he faintly asked, as I
bent over him.
I did not question who "Nettie" was,
for I was certain I had seen her sem
blance, and I answered, calmly:
.settle has been here, Captain Del
mont, but she is not here now."
"I wish you would call her again,
Mrs. Ennis, for I wish to speak with
her."
"Did you speak with her when she
was here?" I asked, heeding the steward's
great amazement." ,
"No," he answered simply. "I tried
to speak, but somehow I could not utter
a word; I suppose I was then too
weak."
"Was she your affianced wife?" I
asked.
"Not when I joined the army. We
had been affianced once, but she broke
the engagement because" here his voice
faltered "because I was too poor. But
I know she loves me."
"She does," I said, "I could see it in
her eyes. '
"If she is to nurse me," he exclaimed,
"I surely shall recover! O, call her now,
dear Mrs. Ennis I must have the as
surance from her own lips."
But I persuaded him to wait till morn
ing. Morning came, and the surgeon,
after a hasty examination, said the Cap
tain was much better, and that a chance
for life was won. As soon as he was
gone I turned to my patient, who only
murmured, "Nettie.
"Captain Delmont," I said, calmly,
"Nettie is net here."
"Not here!" he cried clutching my
hand. "Not here! why I saw her last
night. She has not gone away again,
and left me to die alone?"
"No, Harry, but she has not yet been
here not in the flesh."
"Mrs. Ennis, am I mad or are you? for
I plainly saw her, and you say she has
not been here."
"Yes, I saw her," I replied, "and she
was standing by your cot, and in her
hand she held your own. But Captain
Delmont, through her form I saw the
candle carried by the steward, half a
dozen cots away. . .
He turned his face to the wall, and
then I trembled for the effect I feared
my words would have. But when he
turned his face again I saw my fear was
groundless.
"I called her," he said earnestly, "and
though five hundred miles away, she
heard me and came to me. God bless
her!"
And for all the surgeon's prophecy he
rapidly began to mend. Days glided by,
and he grew convalescent.
Two weeks later, going out one day, I
met a lady going in, and it needed but
one glance to tell me who it was. She
stared at me, apparently bewildered. I
went up to her and took her hand.
This is Captain Delmont s Nettie!" I
exclaimed.
She looked frightened. I saw that she
grew pale. I guided her to Captain Del
mont s cot, and when she reached it and
she beheld the surroundings she grew
paler still.
"Why, this is the very place 1 dreamed
of seeing about two weeks ago! and you
are the nurse I saw sitting by his cot!"
she gasped, rather than spoke.
1 did not reply. Harry Delmont had
clasped her to his breast, and I very qui
etly withdrew.
Of course the story ends with happi
ness and marriage, as is usual; but the
appearance - by my patient's cot I fear
will never be explained. It is a question
for psychologists to settle or discuss.
The two important events in the his
tory of man are when he examines his up
per lip and sees the hair coming, and
when he examines the top of his head and
finds the hair going. ,
The Perilous Puzzle.
While we whirl away on the Atlantic
and Great Western, the only road in free
America that is as broad, as it is long,
the fat passenger asked me if I "ever
worked out the fifteen puzzle.'
I tell him with a nameless gratitude in
my voice that I have done almost every
thing else that hvfoolish and wicked, but
I have never become addicted to the fif
teen puzzle.
He then pulled one out of his pocket
and settled, down to it. Long and pa
tiently he wrought, while the other pas
sengers helped him with suggestions and
criticisms. Presently the brakeman
came iu and he leaned over the shoul
ders of the crowd nnd looked on and as
sisted. Bye the bye the conductor came
along shouting "tikits," and he stopped
to see what was the excitement. He
pushed his punch in his pocket, and
leaned up with the rest of the crowd and
told the fat passenger what to do. The
excitement ran high aud a half dozen
bitter disputes arose, which were only
quelled by bitterer ones arising over
new points. The train sped on its thun
dering way, and in due time it slowed
up a little and finally stopped. The
conductor looked up impatiently.
"What in thunder," he said, "is that
fool stopping here for ?"
"Walter, I reckon or coal maybe," re
plied the brakeman, without looking up
from the puzzle.
"Go out and see what he wants, and
tell him to go on," said the conductor,
returning to the puzzle.
The brakeman, after feeble protest,
and one last, lingering look at the puzzle,
which was now farther than ever from
completion, went out. In the space of a
minute he came back into the car and
shouted in a husky, whispered, ghost of
a shout:
"Meadville! Change cars for Oil City
and Franklin! This train stops twenty
minutes for dinner!"
A wail of rage and disappointment
filled the car.
"Why didn't this train stop at Atlan
tic ?" roared the passenger with the sandy
goatee.
"I wanted to get off at Evansburg! "
howled the man with the sample cases.
"My sister wanted to get on at Atlan
tic, and I saw her on the platform when
we came through!" shouted the woman
who talks bass.
"And I," sobbed a timid-looking young
man in black clothes, "was to have been
married to a girl in Geneva to-day, and
now I'll bet you a cow her old dad is
walking down the railroad track in this
direction, with a shot-gun." And he
wailed so pitifully that the whole car
howled in sympathetic unison.
Just then the express messenger came
storming into the coach.
"By chowder !" he yelled, "I'd just
like to know what this means ? I'd like
to know if the express company has any
rights on this road at all, and how a man
is going to deliver or receive packages
when "
And the mail agent pushed him cut of
the way and stood before the conductor
in all the gorgeous paroply of half dress
and half working uniform.
"By George !" he shouted, "the gov
ernment shall be informed of this out
rageous proceeding. If there's a special
agent in the State of Pennsylvania, he
will be "
But before he could say any more a
telegraph messenger came in and told
the conductor the assistant superintend
ent would like to sec him and the engin
eer in his private office immediately.
And it was so that they went, and per
adventure they danced upon the carpel;
yea, they stood in the perspiring solitude
of the sweat-box.
The next morning the fat passenger
beckoned me solemnly into the smoking
car. "Light that," he said, and I lit it.
'Do you know," he said, "when Iwent
to bed last night the wails of more
people who wanted to get off, and the
agonized faces of the people who wanted
to get on, in that run from Greenville to
Meadville, just haunted me? And I
dreamed I died and went to heaven. I
thought I had just fifteen brains, and all
the way up to the gate I was trying to
straighten them out, and I thought I
would go mad. When I got up there
the gate was wide open, and all sorts of
people were streaming in, just as they
pleased. I hadn't the cheek to think I
had a right to go in without any
credentials or explanation, so I hung
back looking for St. Peter. And while I
was waiting I hope to die if Bob Inger
soll didn't come along and walk
right in, and he looked as if he were
mighty glad to get there. Presently I saw
St. Peter, right by the gate . his head bent
down and his eyes fixed on lus knees. I
told him my name and where I was from,
and asked if I might go in. He didn't
say anything, and I began to feel pretty
streaked. So I said it again, a little
loader. Still he made no reply. Then I
shook him by the shoulder, for 1 was
getting pretty anxious, and I begun to
tell it all over again. It frightened me
when he shook me off.
"9, 11, 4, 13, 7 oh, get out of this,
you and your name; if you hadn't both
ered me I'd have got it the next move."
"Now," the fat passenger said sol
emnly, "I am never going to fool with
that Gem puzzle again. Not once more."
And he fell into a profound fit of ab
straction, and we couldn't raise a laugh
from him all day.
A Diplomatic Answer. The old man
Smith, of Richfield, is a self-sufficient
sort of fellow, and prides himself upon
his riding abilities. One day he espied
his young hopeful leading a colt to water
gingerly, and remarked: "Why on
earth don't you ride that beast?" "I'm
'fraid to; 'fraid he'll throw me." "Bring
that hoss here," snapped the old man.
The colt was urged up to the fence, and
braced one side by the boy while the old
man climbed on to the rails aud stocked
himself on the colt's back. Then he was
let go, and the old gentleman rode
proudly off. Paralyzed by fear the colt
went slowly for about twenty rods with
out a demonstration. Then like light
ning his four legs bunched together, his
back bowed like a viaduct arch aud the
old man shot up in the air, turning
seven separate and distinct somersaults
and lit on the small of his back iu the
middle of the road with both legs twisted
around his neck. Hastening to him the
young hopeful anxiously inquired: "Did
it hurt yon, pa?" Tho old man rose
slowly, shook out the knots in his legs,
brushed the dust from his ears and hair,
and rubbing his bruised elbows,
growled: "Well, it didn't do me a dum
bit of good . You go home."
These days no one is safe from the
charge of plagiarism. Brown went to
church last Sunday a thing unusual
and upon being asked his opinion of the
clergyman, said: "Oh, his sermon was
very good, but that prayer, beginning
with 'Our Father,' I think he stole en
entire. I know I have heard something
that it was strangely like." Boston
Transcript.
Pathos Of Dickens. .
"Even when golden hair lay in a halo
on a pillow, around the worn face of a
little boy he said with a radiant smile:
'Dear papa and mamma, I am sorry to
leave you both and to leave my pretty
sister, but I am called and I must go.'
Thus tbe rustling of an angel's wings got
blended with the other echoes and had
in them the breath of heaven." Tale of
Two Cities, book 2, chapter 21.
"There is no time there, and no trouble
there. The spare hand does not tremble;
nothing worse than a sweet, bright con
stancy is in her face. She goes next be
fore him is gone." I bid, book 5, chap
ter la.
The dvine bov made answer. 1 soon
shall be there.' He Spoke of beautiful
gardens stretched out before him, that
were filled with hgures of men and many
children, all with light upou their hices
then whispered it was Eden and so died.'
Nicholas JNickleby, chapter oa.
"It's turned very dark, sir. Is there any
light a-coming? The cart is shaken all to
pieces, and the ruzsred road is very near
its end. I'm a-gropin' a-gropin' let me
catch hold of your hand. Hallowed be
thv name."
"Dead ! mv lords and gentleman. Dead
men and women born with heavenly
compassion in vour hearts. And dvin
thus around us every day!" Bleak House
chapter 47.
"He slowly laid his face down upon her
bosom, drew his arm close around her
neck, and with one parting sob began the
world. IMot this world. Oh, not tins
The world that sets this right." I bid
chapter 05.
'"If tint is sleep, sit by me when
sleep; turn me to you, for your face is go
ing lar on and 1 want it to be near." And
she died like a child that had gone to
sleep." David Copperfield, chapter 9.
"'Time and the. world were slipping
from beneath him. he s going out with
the tide. And it being low water.
he went out with the tide." I bid, chap
ter 30.
"One new mound was there, which
had not been there last night. Time, bur
rowing like a mole below the ground
had marked his track by throwing up an
other heap of earth." Martin Cliuzzle-
wit. chapter 16.
"She was dead. No sleep so beautiful
and cairn, so free from trace of pain, so
fair to look upon. She seemed a creature
fresh from the hands of God and waiting
for the breath of life, not one who had
lived and suffered death. She was past
all help or need of it. We will not wake
her." Old curiosity Shop, chapter 71.
"The hand stopped in the midst of
them ; the light that had always been
feeble and dim behind the weak trans
parency went out.' Hard Times: chapter
y.
"For a moment the closed eyelids trem
bled and the faintest shadow of a smile
was seen. Thus, clinging to the slight
spar within her arms, the mother dntted
out upon the dark and unknown sea that
rolls around all the world." Dombey and
bon, vol. 1, chapter 1.
"It's very near the sea; I hear the
waves! The light about the head is shin
ing upon me as I go! The old, old fashion
that came in with our first garments, and
will last unchanged until our race has run
its course aud the wide farmanent is roll
ed up like a scroll. Oh! thank God for
that old fashion yet of immortality! And
look upon us, angels of your children
when the swift river bears us to the ocean.'
I bid, chapter 17.
"In this round world of many circles
within circles do we make a weary jour
ney from the high grade to the low, to
find at last that they li close together,
that the two extremes touch, and that our
journeys end is but our startuig-place."
l bid, chapter 34.
"A cricket sings upon the hearth ; a
broken child s toy lies upon the ground
and nothing else remains.'' Cricket on
the Ileartb, chapter 2.
Influence of Electric Light.
Dr. Siemens recently gave, before the
Royal Society in London, an account of
some very interesting and important ex
penments which he had beeu making,
with a view of determining the influence
oi electric lignt on vegetation. The ex
periments had been made with mustard,
carrot, bean, cucumber, melon and
other quick-growing plants. These,
which had been planted in pots, he had
arranged in four classes or groups. One
class was kept always kept in tbe dark,
anotner in tne lignt of day as long as
possible, a third always in the electric
light, and the fourth was exposed to day
light and electric light in succession. It
was found that the plants would not live
long when kept in the dark, but they
would thrive about as well in the electric
light as in the daylight. But those did
best of all which were constantly ex
posed to both daylight and electric light
in succession. Dr. Siemens' experiments
extended through only about two
mouths, and he does not claim that the
results are conclusive r final. But he
has reached the conclusions that plants
do not require any rest during the
twenty-four hours; that their growth
may be materially quickened by giving
tnem tne benent of electric light at
night; that electric light will produce
chiorophyl in the leaves of plants, and
promothe their growth, and that injurious
effects upon plants are not caused, to any
material extent, by the small amount of
carbonic acid and nitrogenous com
pounds generated in the electric light
arc. Dr. Siemens further expresses the
opinion that the effects of night frost
may be counteracted and the ripening of
fruit prompted by means of the radiation
of heat from powerful electric arcs. If
these results shall be confirmed by
further experiments which Dr. Siemens
is making, the practical value which these
facts will have in horticulture is mani
fest. They will also afford new facilities
for the investigation of some important
scientific questions as to the influence of
natural light on vegetatton. Dr. Siemens
gave his audience a beautiful illustration
of one of his experiments by putting
some budding tulips in a strong electric
light, which in about forty minutes,
caused the buds to open out in full
bloom.
In view of these facts, may not this
light be made serviceable in tobacco
plant beds, hastening the growth and
improving the quality of the plants? '
Mabbiage Agreement. Last Friday
there was filed with the Napa county Re
corder an instrument rarely seen. It
was an agreemeirt made at Knoxville,
April 5th, betweettames W. Thompson
(aged 30) and VarneyE. Brookins (aged
15), worded as follows: "This indenture
witnesseth that the parties joamed do
hereby intermarry or marry 'each other
under and by virtue of, and in accord
ance with the provisions of section 75,
Civil Code, and do now assume the re
spective duties of husband and wife.
That the parties do hereby join in this
declaration of marriage, each promising
and convenanting with the other to as
sume and carry out during their natural
lives the duties and obligations of mar
riage in the sight of man and God."
Register.
Evils of Neglecting Cold In the Head.
In a paper read by Dr. D. B. St. John
Roosa, at tho recent meeting of the
Medical Society of the State of New
York, he stated that the most frequent
origin of chronic diseases of the lach
rymal passages, of the conjunctiva, and
of the middle ear, is in a neglected "cold
in the head. ' It is generally conceded
that no person in perfect health, except
under extraordinary circumstances, takes
cold, and yet the majority of mankind
have, at some time, suffered from cold in
the head. The popular idea that a cold
in the head is an insignificant affair is
founded on the fact that most of the
people recover to such an extent that
they are able to go about afterward, and
engage in their ordinary avocations with
out special notice, at the time, of the
consequences of the disease, which may
even then be settled upon them. He
believed that very many qf the maladies
which prevented men and women from
reaching the alotted period of three
score and ten have their origin in these
colds; and that many serious affections
which act as an impediment to the
success of their victim are dated from a
cold in the head.
He described the suffering in
cident to an acute attack of cold
in the head and of the possibility
of having repeated attacks with
out producing serious local changes
not only local change, but. a permanent
impairment f nutrition. To correct all
this, special attention must be paid to
individual hygiene, and if the evil conse
quences of neglected cold in the head
were to be abolished, the abolition must
come through a public sentiment prop
erly educated upon this as upon all other
sanitary questions. The family physi
cian must warn the people everywhere,
as opportunity offers, of the danger in
this direction, and of the means by which
it is to be avoided. The first great pre
caution to be taken by each individual is
to keep himself in a good general condi
tion, and to do that he must studiously
avoid all that tends to disorder the skin
and the functions of all the organs of the
body. Children must be clothed in flan
nel all the year round, and must be made
to know that the staples of diet are milk,
bre d, meat, vegetables and fruit, and
that tea, coffee and pastry of all kinds
are to be used only as the greatest of lux
uries, and therefore in small quantities
and at long intervals. The community
can only become healthy as individuals
become healthy, and all the reforms
necessary to make Memphis and Granada
places in which yellow .fever never comes
may be adopted ; but if the control can
not be obtained of the bodies of, and the
modes of living of the individuals in
those and all other places, evils not so
suddenly fatal, but none the less in the
end dangerous, and all the time injurious
to their well being, will certainly exist.
The Big Grave Near Wick ford, Rhode
Isiaud.
After much earnest inquiry, and the
co-operative efforts of the solid historical
men of Wick ford, we are able to lay be
fore the readers of the Journal the follow
ing valuable notes:
The dead bodies of 42 white meD, slain
by the Narragansettsin the "Great Swamp
Fight" of December 19, 1675, were rans-
ported from the scene of slaughter, in
South Kingston, in carts to the Block
house fa garrison house) of Major Rich
ard Smith, in North Kingstown, one mile
north of Wickford, and buried in the
garden of Major Smith, near the house,
in one grave, near a large rocK, on which
a tew letters have been chiseled to pre
serve the identity of the "Big Grave."
The block-house erected by Richard
Smith about the year 1610, has been well
preserved by timely repairs, and still re
mains the "first English house" erected
in the thickets of the Narragansett Coun
try. A. B. Chadsey.
Wickford, December 31, 1879.
It is a great satisfaction to be able now
to point to the exact locality of this "Great
tirave, and to know that the large sentinel-boulder
remains, and now bears such
marks as may evermore preserve the
identity of the" sacred spot. Once an ap
ple tree grew upon the grave called "The
Grave Apple Tree," but it was blown down
in the September gale of 1815, and tbe
exact locality was becoming obscure.
Here might well be a monument. But
perhaps the now lettered boulder may
serve the memorial purpose. The ashes
of those soldiers, here sleeping together
in the solumn camp-ground of the grave,
after the battle that decided the fate of
Phillip's war and the life of New England,
ought to be sacredlv guarded, In the
"Swamp Fight" the Colonists lost 6 Cap
tains, 1 Lieutenant, and over 200 soldiers.
We have the names of thelcoininissioued
officers. Can any one give us the names
of the non-commissioned officers and
privates ? Providence Journal.
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