JL Sneoetsfal Career,
For several weeks past the public
has known of tho serious Illness of
one of Louisville's most prosperous
merchants, as well as one of the most
popular gentlemen oi mat, city, oinco
the 5th of July B. F. Fitch has beon
prostrated by a iorm 01 lypnoia ie
nor that has slowlv snapped that en
ergy and abundance of animal spirits
ihkt made him always active and
pushing in his business, and alway
rnadv to serve everyone.
Thinner tho past few days Mr,
Fitch had beon perceptibly sinking
lower and lower, ana the lever was
fust fionsuminc what littlo vitality
his body contained. Yesterday
morning ho grew much worse, and
towards the middle of the day be
nnnifl unable to speak so that he
Ann Id bo understood. His physl
rnnns. Drs. Force, Hewitt and Scott,
stated that the crisis of his disease
bad arrivod; and unless some marked
improvement took place, which was
impossible in nis ueuuuuivu biuio,
that he would not live many hours,
The opinion was only too true, and
. j . 1 1 An
the patient sanic grauuauy unui
about fitteeu minutes bofore 6, when
his spirit quietly took its flight.
Benjamin Franklin Fitch was born
in 1842, at Olmstcad Falls, Ohio,
where he received his rudimentary
education in tho public schools
When ho was fifteen years of age ho
entered Oberlin (Jollcgo, ana re
mninod in that institution for two
van. lie then started out in
life for himself, and obtained a posi
tion in a largo retail dry goods store
in Detroit. Michigan. Here it was
that a business education was com
menccd, which led its possessor to a
marvelous and rapid success, in
18GG, being then twenty-four years
old, ho removed his residence to liou
isville, and accepted a position in i
retail store on Fourth strcot.
In 18C8 Mr. Fitch began business
in a small way with scarcely any
capital, occupying one side of a store
in the oingor sowing mncnine umce
in Masonic Temple. He mot with
unexpected success in this enterprise,
and in a very short timo was enabled
tn tnkfl 11 whole store-room to him
self, and after awhile ho found ho
had business enough for two store
rooms in the Temple, and in a year
or two was driven to take possession
of tho third storeroom, which, to
ward the close of last year, he found
100 conirucieu ior uib rupiuijr giv
inr business. He applied again
to the Temple Company for
anothor room, but tho Board
of Directors could not accom
modate him. He then determined
to go where ho could find room
enough, aud learning that the
Thomas block, which was then occu
pied by Louis Tripp, would soon bo
vacant, he applied lor it ana securea
a lease for a term of years, aad on
the 1st of February, 1877, left the
Temple, for which ho had paid an
aggregate rent of about $20,000.
"When Mr. Fitch leased tho Thomas
block there were 11 vacant stores on
that and the opposite square, and it
required pluck and foresight which
fow men possess to tako the step ho
took, but in less than sixty days
after it was known that Mr. Fitch
had leased the Thomas block every
store was rentod and occupied, show
ing that others were influenced by
his movement or that ho had the
agncity to foresee what was going
to take place. Few men would have
had the nervo to leave a stand which
he had occupied so long, in the hard
est times the city of Louisvillo ever
experienced, and go to a location
which had been well nigh deserted.
But the wisdom of that step is
acknowledged by all who have
visited his elegant store.
Mr. Fitch employed about 150 per-
sons in his establishment, many of
whom are engaged in the manutac
ture of ladies suits. In this branch
as well as the retail store his busi
ness steadily increased, each month
showing an increaso on the corre
sponding month of the year previous.
The merit of Mr. Fitch's success was
that he worked hard and always
tried to please his customers. He
was polite and accommodating him
self, and always had polite and
courteous help. He boro the reputa
tion of being the ladies' friend, and
was the first merchant who intro
duced the system of lady clerks in
Louisvillo. Ho rarely made any
change in his employes, and
a salesman once employed could
hold a position as long as good be
havior was preset ved.
In eleven years, Mr. Fitch had
risen, by dint of industry, business
tact and enterprise, from a clerk in
an obscure Fourth-street store to the
proprietorship of one of the largest
and most successful establishments
in the West
Mr. Fitch was only thirty seven
years of age, and was called away
in the prime of bis life, and just as
he had reached tho climax of a re.
markably successful business career.
He leaves a wife, a Louisville lady,
and three little children. Louisville
Journal, July 30th.
An Irishman, a widower, with two
children, sued for breach of promise at
Limerick, gave as an excuse for not keep
ing his promise that be coal J not marry
without the consent of his father-in-law,
the father of his fjrmr wife, and the ob
durate old person would not yield. The
jury mulcted him $250.
Frederick Richard Lee, a landscape
painter of tome note, and one of the old
est members of the Royal Academy, died
recently at the Cape Colony, at the age of
21.
Europe's Seit War.
Tho continued concentration of
largo bodies of troops in tho north of
Italy, and especially toward tho
Austrian frontier, is beginning to bo
viewed with some suspicion in Aus
tria, and to be much commented
upon by tho Austrian newspapers
From a table lately published in
Vienna it appoars that while Austria
has only 9500 infantry, 940 cavalry,
1400 field artillery, 700 garrison
artillery, and 200 engineers, or alto
gethor a force of 12,740 men, quar
tered in the neighborhood of her
Italian frontier, Italy, on the other
band, has now assembled 43,00 in
iantry, 10.3C0 cavalry, 7200 ficl
artillery, 2700 garrison artillery, and
3750 engineers, or a total force
of 73,710 men of all arms of tho
scrvico near tho Austrian frontier
the four fortresses forming tho
famous quadrilateral being especially
strongly garrisoned. It is also wcl
known that much attention has been
lately given by the Italian military
authorities to perfecting the organi
zation ot tho so-called Alpine
troops tho force which, porma
nently quartered in the mountains
on tho northern frontier of Italy,
would, in the event of the latter
country becoming involved in hos
tilities with either of her noighbors
on the north, be called upon to cover
the mobilization an 3 concentration
of the Italian forces or act as an
advanced guard to any forward
movement made by them in the
prosecution of an offensive campaign
All the units of this Alpino force aro
always kept on a war footing, and
arrangements havo been lately made
which are designed to insure that
the several battalions and batteries
shall bo ready to tako tho field at the
shortest possible notice. As tho
Italia Irrodonta party in Italy is
daily becoming more clamorous, it is
not surprising that the strength of
the armed forces in tho north of
Italy should excite some uneasiness
in Austria, although it is goncrally
believed in tho latter country that,
unless aided by allies, tho Italian
army would bo altogether unablo to
cope with that of Austria. Pall Mall
Uazette.
In the Wrong Car.
(Cleveland Herald.
A genteel appearing farmer was
Monday morning sitting comfortably
in tho second last car ot a west
bound train from Cleveland, when
ono ot tho prettiest young men
imaginable took a seat bosido him in
the greatest apparent distress.
" What s tho matter:" queried tho
kind hearted lamer.
"Oh dear, I'm in such a fix, but
don't montion it, really I'm almost
distracted."
"But let mo know what it is that
troubles you, unless it seems ini-
pertinont in me to question you? "
"Hot at all, my dear sir; the lact
is 1 havo nothing but iuu in my
pockctbook, and I can't get change.
May it bo possible that you could
chango ono for me? "
"My poeketbook only contains Sa
in change, and that won't do."
"JJutsay, wo can hx it in this way;
ct us exchange pocketbooks until I
scttlo with the conductor, and I'll
come right buck and we'll square up
at the next station." This was done
and tho nice young man got up and
was proceeding in almost too nvoiy
a direction toward the door, in the
mind of his late companion, when a
faint suspicion of everything not Do
ing altogether right nasiica across
tho brain of the latter. Ho imme
diately jumped to his feet and gavo
chase. Tho nice young man leaped
to tho ground, followed by his pur
suer, ana hastily enmucu into mo
ast car. The former was considera
bly riled and disgusted with tho oth
er's obstinacy, and pursuing him into
tho otber car, snatched tho flyer and
held him until ho delivered up the
pockctbook, after which ho let him
g-
A lew minutes alter the nice young
man got on tne train at a Btreet
crossing, only to be gobbled up by an
officer there, who took him to the
Central. His name was discovered
to be Edward Nesbitt. He remarked
when placed in duranco vile that ho
had got into tho wrong car, and was
just leaving when he was nabbed.
The new appointments to the French
Council of State make it Republican, and
are consequently criticised by the reac
tionary forces. One of the new members
is accused of having a German name, and
of having sung comic songs in the time of
the Empire. Three others are guilty of
being Protestants, and one is charged
with the heinous otlense ol being a re
publican from birth.
As usual after a great battle the victo
rious side are loud in shouting that the
war is at an end. bo it was after
Chelmsford's rout of Cetawayo as Ulnndi ;
but. now that the Zulu chief has in
trenched himself in his northern strong
hold, there is a perceptible lowering of
the triumphant tone of the English press. ;
The members of the Jewish Order of
B'cai B'rith are grumbling and growl
ing orrf.' C teveBi-tiA.eb dne Ha
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A Mixed Family.
J. L. Holcomb, a gentleman of Ken
tueky, but who has been in Crittendon
county, this State, for several months
tells us of a rather remarkable, though
hardly unprecedented, matrimonial affair
w hich occurred in that county recently
Out from the line of railroad, and aside
from almost any other vory well-defined
mark of civilization marks so ill
delineated, in fact, that they are as a
half-worn date on an aneiont coin there
lived old man Rosebury and two sons.
twins. The age of the old man is rather
doubtful, but it is believed by his near
neighbors, the nearest of whom are
within a stone's throw that is, if the
stone be thrown a mile and a half that
he is about 50. The sons being twins,
are about the same age 27. Tho near
est human habitation was a house occu
tiied bv a Mrs. Glenn and two daughters
though pity to say, the daughters wero
not twins at the time of their birth, and
have not yet succeeded in attaining that
point. Mr. Rosebury fell deeply in love
with Mrs. Glenn, and the two sons, Hob
ert and John, fell equally as much so
with the two daughters, Mary and
Rachel. The most imaginable wholosalo
love-making ensued. The old man and
widow seemed devoted to each other, and
the younger people were sufficiently so
to marry, which they all did on tho same
day. After the ceremonies the six happy
souls and tho six happy bodies repaired
to the resideneo of the husbands. Every
thing worked smoothly. The old man
was very kind to his newly nindo dangh
ters, particularly so to Rachel, the wife
of his son John. The kindness increased
and the other matrimonialists marveled
one to another. The old man even dis
regarded the wishes of his wifo, and Ra
chel snuffed her Grecian nose at her
Roman-nosed husband. One morning
about two weeks after the marriage, the
family of several divisions discovered
that the old man and Rachel had gone,
Searching, and not being able to find
them, but learning from a ferryman that
they had crossed the river Tonnessee, the
family returned. Pretty soou an intima
cy sprang up between Robert, Mary's
husband, and the old lady. Hie old
lady was so wise, and had such broad
experieuce. that Robert never grew tired
of profiting by her counsel. Another
disaster, Robert and the old lady ran
away, leaving John and Mary, who, see
ing, as they wero not blind, that they
were loft alone, clasped themselves in a
loving embrace, for it seems they had
loved each other from the first. Did
they stay on the farm? No, sir. There
is a mortgage on it. They packed np,
and according to tho ferryman, went
over to Tennessee. Little llock (Ark.)
uazette.
The Charm of True Marriage.
(Sunday Afternoon.
Our advancod theories of divorco
and free love, making tho matrimo
nial relation merely a partnership to
bo dissolved at pleasuro, whatever
clso may bo said in their favor, strike
a deadly blow at an element in it
which was meant perhaps to bo su
premo above nil others. What is tho
sweotest charm of all truo marriage,
what tho greatest advantage, what
the most priceless happiness, tako
fe through, which it brings to tho
human heart? Not tho flush and
sploudor of its early love; not tho
lcnor development wniuu it unngs
to tho character; not even the chil
dren who aro gathered around its
shrine. No, but tho intimacy and
reliability of its companionship, tho
fact that it gives tho jo who outer in
it, each in the other and through all
scenes and changes, a near ana
blessed stand-by. Marriage in soino
of its aspects is doubtless tho sourco
of an iiumen80 amount of unhappi-
ncsB, crime, injustice, blight and
down-dragging, ono of tho most per-
plexing institutions society has to
deal with only the blindest senti
mentalist will deny that. On the
other hand, however, and this is
not mere scntimont but sober fact,
of all tho evidences of God's good
ness to be found in this lower world,
all tho proofs that He cares for us
not only with tbo wisdom ot a Cre
ator but with the interest and love of
a Father, thcro is none quite equal
to his sending human beings into tho
arena of life, not to fight its battles,
win its victories and enduro its sor
rows alone, but giving them, as they
go forth out of their childhood's
borne, a relation in which each two
of them are bound together with the
closest of all ties, live together under
the same roof, have their labors, thoir
parental affections all in common,
and nrcHnoved to stand by each oth
er, hand to hand and heart to heart,
in every sorrow, misfortune, trial and
tormy day that earth can bring, it
is an ideal, if not always realized in
full, which is tasted even now, amid
all that is said about marriage mis
eries, more widely perhaps than any
other happiness.
The London correspondent of a Liver
pool paper says : "The papers announced
yesterday mat, owing to an acciuenv in
the machine room, the extra double num
ber of the Illtutratrd London AViri. adver
tised to appear this morning, would be
unavoidably postponed until to morrow.
As a matter of fact, the 'accident' was a
literary, not a mechanical one, the pro
prietor canceling several thousanas oi
printed copies rather than allow the pub
lication or an article Dy one or ms editors
reflecting, aa he conceived, with ill-timed
severity and offensivenefs on the family
of the Prince Imperial. Instantly, on
perusing the article, Mr. Ingram ordered
'stop the press,' sacrificing over 2000 to
iiU delicacy of feeling."
J The Paris Globe publishes the following
Jclegram from Odessa: "The transport
thip which left this port recently for
taghalien with a convoy of 700 Nihilist,
obt 200 of them on the way from disease,
x-casioned by overloading and the ab
ence of all sanitary precautions. One
nndred and fifty otters were landed in
n almost dying state. A second transport
being prepared nnder the tame borri-
conditions. Theee prisoners are packed
e cattle in the bold of the ship."
Sara Bernhardt in London.
"Hello, Sara!" remaked the Duke of
Ediuburg to Mile, Bernhardt, in tho free
and easy manner for which be Is distin
guished, "what have you done with the h
belonging to the first half your name ?"
"bare," replied tho actress, a ahade of
annoyance crossing her classic counte
nance, "I have dropped heem. I have
observe, tsare, tat your countrymen have
great iieed of heem. Zo upply sof zat
lcetle lettare is varee leemited in zis coon
try. I geev heem oop to you, zare !'
"Oh I very well," said the Duke, blush
ing with surprise ; "hut you needn't make
such a deuced fuss about it. 1 don't care
much about it anvhow."
The Prince of Yaies was equally unfor
tunate in a recent passage of words with
the great actress. "Well, my dear, ho
said familiarly, "and how aro you now?"
"Your b-b-r-revet Majestee," replied
the lady, at a loss tor the proper title by
which to address tho Prince, "is too keind.
I zink you eenvite me to have vot you call
contempt far minesolf."
"Not at all, not at all," said the Trinco,
warmly. "You're just as good as I am,
you know. Don't lower yourself, I beg of
you. It's all right."
"But.sare," replied the radiant creature,
snapping her eyes, "you meestake. 1 ziuk
you eenvite contempt for yourself, too. I
allude to zat familiartue which breed
sooch zings."
"Oh," said the Prince, whistling softly
to himself. "By Jove ! I must go and see
somebody."
The lady is really as aggressive as a
snapping-turtle. Lord Beaconstield ad
vanced to her. hat in hand, and with a
sweet smile on his countenance.
"I rejoice to see you here." he said,
patronizingly. "Tho English people aro
always glad to recognize genius, no mat
ter in what shape or from what quarter it
may come. Accept their homage, my dear
Madame accept their homage. '
"Vat you know of ze English peoples?"
inquired Mile. Bernhardt, sharply."
linn' replied bis lordship, with a
deep blush. 'I may say, perhaps, that I
represent them to somo extent. They
are mine, as one might say, by adoption.
But come, come, Madame I Let us not
have words. Be amiable, my dear be
amiable."
"I see," replied the lady, her counte
nance suddenly becoming rosy with joy
ful surprise ; "I see. Zosu raven locks are
false. Zose teeth are not ze ones you have
when first I see you. Zose w ruckles are
new. But ze patronage is natural ze
looviug looks belong to mo. Zis zis is
my long lost vat you call heom? my
long lost father 1 Do you happen, zare,
to 'ave a strawberry mark on ze left
arm?"
"Drat it !" exclaimed his Lordship, with
uncontrolablu chagrin. "This comes of
wearing that new wig and putting on airs,
I bid you good-day, Madame. 1 have to
prepare a document fur the signature of
Her Majesty, the lijueen."
Russia' Deliverance.
In June of tho next year Russia will
celebrate the four hundredth-anniversary
of her deliverance from the Tartar yoke.
Previous to the thirteenth century the
civilization of Russia was not inferior to
that of any European country. The Gov
ernment of Russia was representative ; all
the provinces had selfgovernmont; Nov-
orod, I'skoll and viatKa were tree repuo-
ics. and members oi tne lamous iianse-
atic League; there were many schools and
an advanced national literature and art ;
neither slaves nor serfs were yet known ;
the land was communal property, and the
labor was performed mostly ou the co
operative plan. Russia had every pros-
pect or further prosperity and progross.
But the wild hordes of Mongols appeared
on the eastern horizon. Millions of slaves,
concentrated around ono master, and con
trolled by ono strong will, rushed impetu
ously on the prosperous Slavonic State,
swept away its cities and massacred mul
titudes of its free citizens, while those
who survived were made subjects of the
great Prince of Moscow, who became a
esootic ruler. Thence Rusaia was re
duced to vasxalage to the great Khan, who
despotically ruled over it for two and a
half centuries.
It was the Tartar yoke that made Rus
sia what she is now. (She had been a civ
ilized, self-governed, Europoan country;
alio came out of the Tartar's hands bar
baric, despotic and Asiatic. The curse of
thfl'Tartar yoke is still felt ; among the
peasantry there am misery and despair,
and the wailing songs of the Mongol
times are heard ; among the aristocracy
there are Eastern luxury and Tartar des
potism and cruelty. Four hundred years
nave pased since' Russia resumed her old
place as an independent State; but even
that long period of timo has not sullieed
for her to regain her ancient free political
system.
The 23d of June, 1880, might well be
celebrated by the whole of Europe, for
fourteen centuries ago European politics
and civilization were saved ; in the thir
teenth century Europe was threatened
with a barbaric invasion perhaps even
more dangerous than that of the fifth cen
tury. Russia saved Europe, though at the
cost of her own liberties ; aud this is the
most significant fact to be acknowledged
at next year's great Russian festival.
The Boston eirl who visited her aunt
in San Francisco, and soon after elojed
with a waiter, left a note behind in
which she said: "Don't worry; we shall
be married before you get this, and as
is from as nice a family as I, if he
has been a waiter, it will come out all
right. He graduated at Yale College,
but his father lost his wealth and be
came very poor. He could find nothing
else to do just then, so accepted the first
thing that offered; but he has a promise
of something better now. So forgive us
and write mamma, and let there be as
few comments made as possible.
Mme. Machetta. an "American artist,"
was engaged by M. Brasseur, of the Paris
Nouveautes, for the part of Lydia, in
"Fatinitza," at a salary of 1200 francs a
month, with a forfeit of 25,000 franca for
breach of engagement by either party.
The authors did not like her foreign ac
cent and the part was given to another.
She sued for the forfeit and refused to
attend rehearsals, whereby M. Braaseur
claimed that she broke the engagement
The tribunal gave judgment for Mme.
Machetta. and awarded her 4000 franca
damages and costs.
They sent a eoose over Niagara Falls
the other day to see how she would take
it, and when she rose to the surface of
the river below she looked np aa if say
ing: "Yon think you're awful smart,
on t you?
Circumstantial Evidence.
NOTABLE INSTANCES Of ITS rNCKRTAINTY.
The MethoiVm, discussing the uncertain
character of circumstantial evidence, says:
"In tho Hull cae, the detectives had
forged a chain in this way: 1. Matches
burned in the room of the murdered wo
man were like those burned In Dr. Hull's
room. 2. The doctor was out of bed at an
hour near that of the murder. 2. TIih
knots in the fastenings by which the vie
tim was bound had some resemblance or
analogies to a practice the doctor had ol
knotting his bedclothes. There were
other circumstances, but they wero all
liko these. Each was capable of an inno
cent explanation ; but the detectives are
said to havo believed that though neither
was a link, yet they altogether made I
chain. The cumulative idea has no busi
nss in such a case, and the employment
of it is ono the absurdities or detective
logic.
"Even when the link seems perfect.
and, more, when there aro several of
them, great danger arises from setting
aside the rule that any other possible ex
planation or the circumstances must be
accepted. A British officer, dining in the
company of strangers, had a narrow es
cape in the following wav: A gentleman
took out a coin and declared that no one
present had seen one like it. The coin
passed around the table, and catno last to
the British olllcer. An llie rest declared
that they ha' never seen suih a coin.
Whon it reached this officer, he was busy
with a conversation, and taking the coin
in his hand and looking at it carelessly,
remarked: 'I have never seen one liko
it,' and, lajing it down, resumed his con
versation. At the end of the dinner, tho
coin could not be found. To discover the
thief all were searched until they eauie
last to this o Ulcer, lie refused to be
searched, and said ho would die first.
J list as they were about to proceed to ex
tremities with him, a servant rushed for
ward with tho lost coin, which ho had
just found In a napkin. All apologized to
the officer for the suspicion, very strong a
moment before, that no had secreted loo
coin. He replied : 'Gentlemen, permit
me to explain why I refused to besenrched,'
and he drevr from his pocket an exact fac
simile of tho rare coin. 'With this in his
pocket, a stranger, as I am, would have
been judged guilty by you all; therefore
I resolved to defeud my honor w 1th my
life.'
"Herowere several circumstances. 1. Tho
coin was last seen iu the officer's hands.
2. All agreed that they bad never seen
such a coin ; it was, therofore, very rare.
3. He had refused to bo searched. But
all the facts wero explained bv his having
a like coin in his possession. If, however,
probability or cumulation had boen ad
mitted in the case (tho lost coiu not hav
ing been found), the officer would have
been judged guilty. Tho raso shows how
unsafe it is to allow either probability or
cumulation to exclude tho possible inno
cent explanation. If every circumstance
may be innocently explained, there is no
rational force in any one of them, or in
tho whole of them.
"We cheerfully admit the circumstances
may expose persons to just suspicion, and
that the suspected persons must furnish
the explanations that show them inno
cent. It is often impossible for innocent
persons to do this : and the safetv of so
ciety justifies the detention and imprison
ment of persons who may be innocont.
But hanging people who may be Innocent
is so horrible a thing that any other pos
sible explanation of the accusing circum
stances should be preferred before tho
theory of guilt."
Bridges.
The immense height of the towers for
the support of the North bridge bus cre
ated some surprise, and no woudor,
whon it is takon into account that whon
completed they will bo the highest
buildimrs of any kiud in this world.
Science will, thorcforo, wait with somo
anxiety their completion. Tho height of
the towers on the Inch Garvie, midway
between Honth and North Quoonsforry,
will bo 500 feet to support a bridge 150
feet above high water mark, but the rea
son for this great altitude is that in tho
goncralty of suspension bridges the tow
ers are built on the land on eithor sido
of the span, and were this the case in the
Forth bridgo towers of 1D0 feet less
height, or feet, would be sufficient;
but this is impossible, from tho great
length of the bridge.
It seems that by natural laws thore is
a limit to everything on this earth that
is. that man can go a certain lengtn and
no further, as, for instance, in teloscopos
nothing larger than Lord Ross's having
been perfocted in many years. In refer
ence to buildings a correspondent the
other day quoted Ht. Rollox stalk i'JO
feet high. Bt. Paul's Cathedral is about
400 foot to top of the dome, St. Peters at
Rome 480 foot, the Pyramids of Egypt,
at least the great Pyramid, is 180 feet at
present in its imperfoct stato, but by
calculation wonlcl reach 500 foot in
height when finished. When it is re
memhorcd that this structure only
reaches this height with a base of about
twenty-six acres, it will bo a very diffi
cult matter to raise the Forth Bridge
towers to 500 feet with a small base.
These towers are to be formed of solid
masonry to a certain height, and then by
rroups of iron pillars girdod together in
ayers upward.
The Niagara suspension bridgo has
one large span of 821 feet; the railway
track above the water is 215 foct, or 05
feet highor than the Forth bridge; the
towers are only 00 foet high, being built
on either aide of the shore. The Alle
ghany bridge has two large spans of 344
feet each, and the towers are 45 feet
high. The Covington and Cincinnati
bridge has a span of 1057 foet; its height
above low water is 103 feet, and the
towers 230 feet high. The bridge seems
to give the bent proportion to the Fourth
bridge, which is 1080 feet for two spans,
150 feet high, and towers of OW feet.
Those we have mentioned are finished
and in working order; and we may men
tion also the East river bridge, connect
ing New York to Brooklyn. The towers
of this bridge are also built npon the
land, and are 378 feet high. The single
span is 1595 feet long, or only 85 feet
loss than the Forth bridgo, while the
total length is 508! feet. There is, there
fore, no doubt that the Forth bridge,
when completed, will be an engineering
triumph. Brooklyn Eagle.
The purchase of the famous Castle of
Johannisberg, on the Khini. has been
effected by Baron Rothschild, the Vien
nese banker. The celebrated estate, pre
sented to Prince Metternicb by bis gen
erous sovereign during the Congress of
1815, has not remained long in the hands
of bit son. It was told for 2,000,000
marks.
Men Who Are Dowa.
No man's lot is fully known till he is
dead; change of fortuno is the lot of life.
He who rides in the carriago may yet
havo to clean it. Sawyers change places,
and he who is np aloft may have to take
his turn in the pit. In less than a thou
sand years we shall all be bold and poor
too, and who knows what he may come
to before that ? The (Vvu'M t'srst wo
may ono day be under t;" window
should make it i caivfal wluu wo are
throwing out our dirty water. With
what measure we mete it shall be meas
ured to us again, and thorcforo let us
look to our dealings with tho unfor
tunate.
Nothin
makes me more sick of human
nature t
treat c
ladder .
thev er
nothing.
"Pown
ill
Down .
Ho."
.a to see the way in which men
i h when they fall down the
iittuno. "Down with him,"
"ho always was good for
ii the dead men, down, down,
ng tbe dead men, there let him
Dog wo i't cat dog, but men will eat
each otlic up like cannibals, and boaHt
of it too. Thero are thousands iu this
world who ily liko vultures to feed on a
tradesman or a merchant ns soon as ever
ho gots into trouble. Where tho carcass
is, thither will the eagles be gathered to
gether. Instead of a little help, they
give the sinking man a great deal of
cruelty, and cry, "Serves him right."
All the world will beat the man whom
fortune buffets. If providence smites
him, all men's whips begin to crack.
The dog is drowning, and thoreforo all
bis friends empty their uucke a over
him. Tho tree lias fallen, and every
body runs for his hatchot. Tho house is
on fire, and all the neighbors warm
thomselves. Tho man has ill luck,
thorcforo his friends give him ill usage;
ho has tumbled into the road, and they
drive thoir carts over hiiu; he is down,
and selfishness cries, " Let him be kept
down, then there will be tho moro room
for thoso who aro up."
How aggravating it is whon thoso who
knocked yon down, kick you for stand
ing up! it is not vory pleasant to near
that you have been a great fool, and
thero wore fifty ways at least of koeping
ont of your difficulty, only you had not
the sense to see them. You ought not to
havo lost the game, even Tom Fool can
see where you made a bad move. no
ought to have lockod the stablo door; "
everybody can see that, but nobody
otters to buy the loser a new nag.
" What a pity he went so far on the ieol "
That's very true, but that won't save tho
poor fellow from drowning. When a
man's coat is threadbare, it is an easy
thing to nick a hole in it. Good advico
is poor food for a hungry family.
11 A man of words and not of deed,
la line a garden full at weeds."
Lond me a bit of string to tie up tho
traces and find fault with my old harness
whon I got home. Help my old horse
to a few oats, and tell bun to mend his
paeo. Feel for mo, and I shall bo much
obligod to you, but mind you feel in
your pocket, or elao a fig for your
fwdings.
Most men who go down hill moot witu
Judus bofore they got to the bottom.
Thoso whom thoy helped in thoir hotter
doys generally forgot the debt, or ropay
with nnkindness. The young sucker runs
away with tho scrap from the old tree.
The foal drains its mothor, and then
kicks her. The old saying is, "I taught
you to swim, and now you would drown
ine," and many a time it oomos true.
The dog wags liis tail till he gots tho
bone, and then he snaps and bites at tne
man who fed him. Eaton bread is for
gotten, and the hand that gave it is des
pised. The candlo lights others and is
burnt away itself. For the most part,
nothing is more blotted out than a good
turn. Everyone for himself is tho
world's golden rnlo, and we all know
who takes the hindmost. Tho fox looks
after his own skin and has no idea of
gratitudo to a friend.
When the wind servos, all aid. While
tho pot boils, friendship blooms. Rut
flatterers haunt not cottages, and tho
fadod rose no suitor knows. All tho
neighbors are cousins to tho rich man,
but the poor man's brother does not
know him. "Welcome, Pcterl" The
squire can be heard for half a mile, if ho
only whispers, but Widow Noody is not
hoard across the park railings, let her
call as she may. Men willingly pour
water into full tubs, aud give feasts to
those who are not hungry, because they
look to have as good or better in return.
Havo a goose and got a goose. It is safe
to lond barley where the barn is full of
wheat, but who lends or gives whero
thoro's none? Who, indeed, unions it be
some ontiqnatod old soul who believes
in his Bible, and loves his Lord, and
therefore gives, "hoping for nothing
again?"
Down men, however, must not de
spair, for Ood is yet alive, and he is the
friend of tho friendless. Ii there be no
ono else fonnd to bold ont a hand to him
who has fallen, the Lord's hand shall not
fail to bring deliverance to those who
trust him. A good man may be put in
the fire, but be cannot be burned. His
hope may be drenched but not drowned.
He plucks up courage and acta a stout
heart to a stiff hill and gets over a rough
ground whore others lie down and die.
While thore's life thore's hope. There
fore, my friend, if you've tumbled off
the back of prosperity, John Plougaman
bids you not to lie in the ditch, but np
with yon and try again. Jonas went to
the bottom of the sea, but he got to shore
again all the better for his watery jour
ney. " Though the bird's In the net.
It mir gt sway yel;
Though I'm down In the dost,
Jo my God 1 will truit.
I will hope In blmatlll,
And Unit all to hit will;
Kor he'll anrely appear,
Aod will banian my fer.
-V. r. Bconomirt.
Locomotive Lonozvity. The Iron horse
does not last much longer than the horse
of flesh and bones. Tbe ordinary life of
a locomotive is thirty years. Borne of tbe
smaller parts require renewal every six
months; the boiler tubes last five years
and tbe crank axles six years ; tires, boil
ers and fire-boxes from six to seven years;
tbe side frames, axles and other parts
thirty years. An important advantage is
that a broken part can be repaired and
does not condemn the whole locomotive
to the junk shop, while, when a horse
breaks leg, the whole animal is worth
only the flesh, fat and bones, which
amount to a very small sum in this conn
try, where horse-flesh does not find its
way to the butcher's shambles. Scientific
Atnericon,