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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1880)
5cw Importer Tackles Sew YesNel. kQo down to pier 48," said the editor to the new repoator, and writ up the new English steamer Just arrived. Give , thorough account of - her from itoui to ''"From what?" said the young man re- ntlr arrived from a far interior State, nd to whom a vessel of any aort was a mystery, and a wonder. From etein to stern." said the editor, filing a suspioious and threatening eye nnon lain, "nd toll how many foot of 'tor the draws, her broadth of beam, tor tonnage and all that sort of thing." This wub tho young man's first mission. jja vM eugor to distinguish himself. He had already done so on hia village paper In aserios of essays on "The Cestuogyny of the University." But that little town va( thousand miles away. He wanted t widor field for his aspirations, and had come to New York. Yet he went ont of the oflioo anxions and doubting. "I will go to the cap tain " said he, "he will explain to me the ship' and its uses. He will tell me all." 'Captain," said he, "I am sent to vrite up your ship-. Oblige me with stating how many masts she has?" "Eighteen," promptly answered the oaptain. "Where are .they?" "We have sent them on shoro to be painted." "How much water does your vessel draw?". , 'Three inohes. "How do you draw it?" "JJv steam power from the well." "Whero you ever in a storm at soa?" "Never, said the captain. "Are you ever sea-sick?" "Awfully; can't leave my berth from the time we loave New York till we ar rive in Liverpool." "Are the rest of your officers and crew sea-sick?" - "Always; wo're only on dock and about in port." "Why, who steors the vessel at sea?" "The cook; he's the only well man on board." "Do you sail nights when out of sight of land?" "Never; we anchor." "What, in mid-ocean?" ''Of courso, you land lubber. There's docks to tie up to at regular distances all the way across." "What is that holo for?" pointing to an opon hatchway on deck. "That's whero an iceberg ran into us last trip." "Good gracious! How do you see sail dark nights?" "We send our boats ahead with lan terns, who light up tho road." "Are they there now?" "Yes; anchored in a line all the way across tho Atlantio ocean." After getting much other information which the Captain said he was only too happy to impart to suoh an interesting young gentleman, the reporter returned and wroto as follows: The steamer Crusader is a splendid specimen of naval architecture. Her kneel revolves on hinges, so as to be readily unshipped in a storm When it is not wanted The rudder, also, by a patent contrivance, oan be drawn from its socket and deported on deck during the night and in hurricanes, The Cru sader has folding decks, which can be doubled up when she has but little car go, and her tonnage in this way can be decreasod from 4000 to 2000 tons. The mainsail can, if necessary, be used as a skysail or windsail, and the saving of canvass effected in this manner reduces the woar and tear of her running rig ging onohalf. Tho main brace passes from the end of the bowsprit over the fore, main and royal masts, thence down and over tho spanker boom to the taffrail and into the cabin windows, where it is secured by a double banked sheepshank to the head of the Captain's berth. She has compound engines, which boil water at an extremely low temperature. Her screw revolves at the rate of 10,000 times a minuto, and can, if necessary, be brought forward and used as paddle wheels. The Crusader is also con structed on the crab principle, and, by bracing up every thing sharp on the wind, and wearing ship frequently, sho can go as fust sideways as any other way. Tho engines are furnished with con densers, which condense milk as well as water. Her cabins are constructed on the French flat principle, there being -six stories with kitchens, etc., for each fam ily of passengers. The Crusader also carries her own docks, and thus saves all the expense of wharfage whon in port. She olso carries her own quarantine, and so can nevor be detained if there is any malaria or measles on board. The pilot pilots her all the way across the Atlantic, and comes back, with the ship each time. Hor compasses in the barnacle give each day the direction of the wind. The Captain's cow is milked by the boatswain iu the foretop. Own a Home. Every man who lias or expects to have a family, should strive to become tho owner of a home, for without one he can never feel or be in dependent. With a home of his own he becomes better contented, feels a deeper interest in public affairs, and is a better member of society. No man should rest satisfied until he possesses at least a small portion of the grandest of all the estates land the fruitful mother of all tho productions which sustain existence, secure comfort and give stability and in dependence to life. Every man makes his life what it is out of the material cir cumstances which surround him. How different the feelings of a family with a Tiome they can call their own from those who are dependent tenants. M. E. M. The word "chic" had its origin in the Paris studios. If is essen tially a Parisian word ; a Bohemian ad mitted into good society. Ita meaning can bo understood, but hardly defined. As a French writer says, "Chio is neither nobility, nor distinction, nor opulence, nor esprit. It is itself. Itiachio. It is taste and tact and the knack of doing and saying the right thing in the right way; it is to be witty and wise aad well dressed and clever and self-possessed; it ia all these and a thousand things be aide, and yet it is none of these things. It ia chic. Be Merry, but with modesty; be ao ber, but not sullen; be valiant, but not venturous; let your clothes be comely, bnt not costly; your diet wholesome, but not excessive; distrust no man with ont cause, neither be thou credulous without proof. Domestic Experiment. Col. Bob Ingersoll says he koeps a pockot-liook in au open drawer and his children go and help thonisclves to money whenever they want it. "They eat whon they want to; they may Bleep all day if they chooso, and sit up all night if they desire.. I don't try to cor erce them. I nover pnnish, never soold. They buy thoir own clothes and are mas ters of themselves." A gontleman living on Marshall streot, who has a boy that is full as kitteny as his father, read the article and pondered dooply. He knew that Col. Ingersoll was a success at raising children in the way they should go, and he thought he would try it. Tho boy had caused him considerable annoyance, and he mado up his mind that ho had not treated the boy right, so he called the boy in from the street; where he was putting soft soap on a lamp-post in order to see the lamp lighter climb it, and said to him: "My son, I have decided to adopt a different course with you. Horetoforo I have boen careful about giving you money, and have wanted to know whore every cent went to, and my supervision has, no doubt, been annoying to you. Now I'm going to leave my pocket book in the bureau drawer, with plenty of money in it, and you are at liberty to use all you want withont asking me. I want you to buy anything you desire to: buy your own clothes, and feel as though the money was yours, and that you had not got to account for.it. Just make your self at home now and try and have a good time." , Tho boy looked at the old gontleman, put his hand on bis head, as though he had ''got 'em sure," and went out to see the lamplighter climb that soft soap. The next day the stern parent went out into the country shooting, and returned on the midnight train throe days later. He opened the door with a latch -key, and a strange yellow dog grabbed him by tho elbow of his pants and Bhook him, lie said, "like the agur." The dog barked and chewed until -the son came down in his night shirt and called him off. He told his father he had bought that dog of a fireman for $11 and it was probably the best dog bar gain that had been made this season. He said the fireman told him he could find a man that wanted that kind of a dog. The parent took off his pants, what the dog had cot removed, and in the ball he stumblod over a birch bark canoe the boy bought of an Indian for $9, and an army musket with an iron ramrod fell down from the corner. The boy had paid $G for that. He had also bought himself an overcoat with a sealskin col lar and cuffs and a complete outfit of calico shirts and silk stockings. ' , In his room the parent found the mar ble top of a soda fountain, wheelbarrow and a shelf filled with all kinds of canned meat, presorves and crackers and a barrel of apples. A wall tent and six pairs of blankets were rollod up, ready for camping out, and a buckskin shirt and a pair of corduroy pants lay on the bed ready for pulling on. Six fish-poles and a basketful of fish-lines were ready for business, and an oyster can full of grub-worms, for bait, were squirming on the wash stand. Tho old gentleman looked the lay-out over, looked at his pocket-book in the bureau drawer, as empty as a contribution-box, ond re marked : "Young man, the times have been too flush. We will now return to a specie basis. When you want money, come to mo, ond I will give you a nickel, and you will tell me what you intend to buy with it, or I'll warm you You hoar me ?" f Springfield Republican. Huffy rcople. One of tho oddest things to witness, if not one of tlie most (lisagreeauiu iu ou counter, is tho faculty which some people have for taking offense where no offenso is meaut taking "huff," as the phrase goes with reason or without making themselves and everybody else uncom fortable, for nothing deepor than a mood or more than a fancy. Huffy 'people are to be met with, of all ages and every station, neither years nor condition bringing necessary wisdom and un suspioiousness; but we are bound to say that the larger proportion will be generally found among women, and chieHy among those who are of au un certain 'social position, or who are unhappy in their circumstances, not to speak of their tempers. Huffincss, which seems to be a self-assertion in what may bo called the negative form, and which the possessors thereof classify as a high spirit of sensativeness, accord ing as they aro passionate or sullen, is in reality the product of self-distrust. The person who has self-respect, and nothing to fear, who is of an assured social status and happy private condition, is nover apt to take offenso. Many and great are the dangers of ac tion with huffy people; and as sure as you are to flounder into the bog with them, while you are innocently thinking you are walking on the solidest esplan ade, the dangers of speech are just as manifold. The dangers of jesting are, above all. great. It may be laid down as an absolute rule which has no exception anywhere, that no huffy person can bear a joke good-humoredly, or take it as it is meant. If you attempt the very sim plest form of chaffing, you will soon find out vour mistake; and not infre quently the whole harmony of tho even ing has been set wrong because a thin skinned, huffy person has taken a pleas ant jest as a personal affront, and either blazed out or gloomed sullenly, accord ing to bis or her individual disposition and direction of the wind at tho time. Household. I cm -too fa nrrn there lived in Ogle- thorpe county a Baptist preacher who was noted not only for his piety, but also for his precisenese in manners and conversation. One day be had occasion to denounce another parson who had maltreated him, and he did it in round terms. Not long after a friend met him and expostulated with him for his harsh nma towards the one who had wronged him. Said.be: "Why, brother, I even heard that you eaid you wished be was in hell. Un, no, repnea iu prcucuer, t tnjTT. but I did not sar I X mm .wij o w kirn in hell. I merelv said htx WIDUOU .... . - . ,. pec td to aee him abding in that direc tion. Petroleum haa been proved to be very deadly to oysters sua euiei uiu A Mexican TTar Kemlnbcenee. Few 'ever measured the lengthening miles with aa anxious hearts as did these travelers. Ouadalajara had forgot its flowers and birds and bunting vines. The whole eity was alive with the news war! war! The hot rumors wore blow ing thick from the Kio Orando. As may be imagingd, Dr. Wood did not now court observation. He hatsened to a hacienda, or inn, and went at once to his room. The adjoining room was sep arated from bim only by a thin parti tion, and waa occupied by some Mexican officers of rank. He overheard their vi olent talk and hot discussions, and the facts he learned wore startling. Hostili ties had begun on the Rio Orando. He heard them reading an account of the capture of Captain Thornton and his dragoons. Dr. Wood immediately pro cured a Mexican nowspuper with a full narrative of the affair. This sufficiently corroborated in outlino tho facts he had se fortunately overboard from better authority. There was no doubt now, Ho was in an cnomy's country, and was tho bearer of hostile dispatches. It was a moment of extreme peril to an American officer. But it was a moment of destinies. It was one of thoso preg nant pivotal moments alluded to. And fortunately tho great republic had in this far-away spot ono citizen who was not ovon thinking of personal safoty, but was coolly revolving plan after plan to aid her. Sloat must know this news bo fore Seymour, or California was lost. But how? bow? Dispatches wore to go forward, and dispatches wero to go back. Information was to be collected for the Government, and information was to be sent for tho Government. Dr. Wood, notably a cool man, of largo in tolligonco, lookod at his problem as a statesman and as a military man. Ho knew as well as any the importance of this nows. He was learned, far-sighted; and even then was looking to the future of our country. Fortunately his per sonal courage was such that no was not hampered by a single thought of dan ger. He wroto a full account of all he had overheard. He re corded the facts told and the views expressed by the Mexican offi cers. He translated the newspaper ac counts. Whon he had finished he in closed the whole to Commodore Sloat. This packet he took to Mr. Parrott, who, from his large commercial relations in Guadalajara and Mazatlan, was enabled to procure a courier without exciting snspicion. This courier, ignorant of course of the news he was bearing, but stimulated by tho offer of a reward at the end of his jouinoy, rodo night and day till the packet was delivered at Ma- zatlin, and thenco immediately trans mitted to Sloat. A thrill of excitement, ran through the whole squadron, among those, who were permitted to know the news. The Cyane and Levant slipped out of the harbor, under secret ordors, for Montory, and the rest of the squad ron was held in readiness to act in stantly on any further information which might be received from the com rade who was in the vory centor of the enemy's country. fC. E. S. Wood in Californian for December; BRAXD XETT JOKES. No niattor how ill-tempored or resent ful the ship may be on her voyage, said n, f!nYitfiin fYnsstrpn. "she alwavsdroPS her rancor whon she comes into port." Some Indians use scalping knives of tortoise shell, probably on account of the old fable in which the tortoise was allegod to havo got away with the hare. Cato, the censor, loarned the Greek language when he was 84 years of ago. We shall follow the example of Mr. Cato, and not learn the Greek language until we arrive at the age of 84. By that time we shall probably discover what good it would do us to acquire a knowlodgo of that language. A man in New York who' has boon ar rested 150 times in ten years is the now est hopeful candidate for the lecture bureaus. That's rightl Keop on with this thing a little longer, and tho out raged people will rise in their might and sweep tho whole lecture businoss from the face of the earth. A little girl in Belfast, Mo., rocontly dropped her doll and broko its arm. The doll was a favorite one, and tho accidont was to tho child a great calamity of the severest nature. Tho tears Btartod, the lips were trembling with grief, when a bright thought Btruck hor. With a beamiug face sho exolaimod: "Papa, I don't know as I care, after all. Perhaps it will be put in tho paper !" "I don't believe much iu history,' said a modern miss, "and particularly tho history of Cindrella. In my opinion there never was any such a person. Thereupon she went to the looking glass and powdered herself furiously, in a ottnmnf in conceal the too brilliant color which had boen produced by her efforts to get on a no, o snoe. ahmbw A negro family on Galveston avenue are everlastingly quarreling and dis turbing the neighbors. A gentlemen living close by met the wife and said to her: "You are always kicking up a row. Why is there no harmony in your house?" "Dat's jess what I was telling .in im wndloaa nurcah. Dar ain't no uoiu;f " o - hominy in de house, nor no meat, and do bacon s all eat up, anu mem uum empty. He's de only thing in de house wat's full all de time." Experience teaches us that stock entering into winter quatcrs in good condition can be kept without difli culity, while on animal beginning the winter in a poor condition' not withstanding an abundance of food, careful housing and the best atten tion, will invariable be in poor order the following spring. Particularly is this case with common stock." Fat stock consumes a less amount of food than lean stock. A sweet syrup-like liquid exudes from the bodies of plant lice (aphides) which feed upon the yonnger por This "hoDev dew." aa it is called, is frequently so abundant t K f round beneath, and in many places is usually spoken of M "the on irora me uxc. i gather the aweet exudation for the purpose of making it into honey, and gnu are aiao iim Kiraj d Kalleok. Kearney has passed off tho itago, at least for the prcsont. Ho mado more Ijroublo than a thousand like him could cure, ho caused moro in jury to tho welfare of California than the labor of ten thousand skulking villains like him could restore wore they to work for a thousand years. And yet he reigned gloriously for a long timo. Up to about tho timo of the assault upon Kalloch by Do Young bo hold under his spell ten thousand swarthy scoundrels. So long as ho could hold tho fort and threaten to bring about & riot, to make tho streets rnn with blood, to denounce any rn.au who owned a lit tlo property and now and then ap peared in a clean shirt; ho was u tcrriblo fellow. Capital fled before bim (for capital is tho big coward of tbo earth) respectability wus ready to niako excuses for its appearance; tho press and politician's panderod to him, and ho was tho craven bandit that ho is a terror and a power. But on ono lucky day boiiio ono thought of tho work-house iu con nection with him; a complaint was made out, a trial had and Kearney was sent there. His hair wus crop pod and ho was clothed iu tho varie gated costumo which distinguishes that institution. That killed Kcur noy. By tho way wo said ut tho timo that it would. Had ho only boen convicted of something pecu liarly wicked, souiothing which would havo banged him, bo would havo boon attondod daily by an anx. ious crowd until tho day of execu tion; his journey to tbo scallold would havo boon a triumphal procession, and for years to come tbo cry of "Kearnoy" would havo boen a Shibboloth which would have rallied ovory lonfor ond every frco lunch fiond of Sun Francisco, as tho blaro of a trumpet thrills tbo soul of a veteran soldior. But tho croppod hair, tho striped clothing and the prison or dor, which mado Kearney look 'and smoll precisely liko a common vagrant; even Kearney's lollowors could not stand that. It brought to thoir minds too vivid a realization of tho condition they themselves might bo in within twontr-four hours, to mako tho contemplation pleasant to thorn, thon too, thero was tho man who was iroinir to wado in blood, tiro out a whole ruc'o, and mako wealth and respectability criminal posses sions, suddonly brought down to stripod clothing and croppod hair liko a common thief. That experi ence finished tho bruto and bo vale to bim. But San Francisco has ft worse man than ever Kearney was. It has a roan who has an education, who has a brain to plan und courage enough to act, but whoso heart is as foul as was Kearney's mouth. Why docs not San Francisco try a doso of work-houso on him? It would do just lovolv. Kalloch in stripod earmonts and cropped hair would mako a bet tor picturo than Kearney nindo, anu Justice, setting up on nign, wouiu smile approval. The odor of tho prison would swocton tno atmos- liboro around Kalloch and no eccen tricity of prison dress would fitly symbol tho distortion of Kalloch's soul. But tho Bpoctnclo would bo splondid aud tho disciplino most sal utary and u snouiu do incu. To Prevent Fires. Mnuf nf tlm fires that occur might be avoidod by propor caro.auu tue ioiiow ing bints, if carefully observed, will aid materially in avoiding such accidents: 1. Nvor leave niatcnos wiiere wiey un lin raacned. dv uuiiureu. sou 11 - , . . I M 1 1 l nnn al.ntiM fall un tho floor, be sure ami anarch for it Until VOU find It. A (mi'ilon uuon. readily is. nites, and if unobsorvod, may cause a serious fire, or, wnat is more imeiy, .of o lmlv'a ilrntta in flauios. IUts and imvAa oTnt fondness for matches. and often carry tnem ou to tuoir noies, ,i.nwi hv nihlilinc. thev set them on O " , , fire. Always keep watclios in tin doxos, nuu.v, " of i and never in puju-r jjuumts""' Mhould be strictlv pre- (mm nluvinc with fire, and severely punished, u caugui so vucnu- .mm I r tm law wur i.iiki. liibv biiiiuiii undorgo tho inconvenience of a little wholesome chastisement than either set tl.A linnHA nil firo. disfigure themselves W W4. W J V for life, or be burnt to dcafc from the want of being severely punisuou ior uiso bedience. a KavarWvA a lamn or candlo burn inrr of vnnr lipilfliiln on a table when you nn tn l.a.i nnil ovfiid roadins in bed: this 6" w .- : ; . is a most fruiuul cause oi loss oi mo uu k Tf o ninoA nf a. nniw IS used 10 liCUt a lamp, see that it is propenyexuuBuwu ed before loaving it, as it wUl sometimes burst out on fire after it is supposed to Viaaii (nmi)lnti)lv extintruishod. r T iL L r rro. an tint the Bmell of it is very apparent, open the 1 t.' 1.1. 1,. .Haw doors ami winuows lmiueuittwjjr w wiu" 1 facilitate the entrance of fresh air; and above all things avoid """"S "J " -J " . . V descriution. As soon as you can, shut off ntin an v waiv nnar wiui a Usui oi any the gas at the meter. Rara Bernhardt Is now able to converse in French with eevera Yaw York citizens, who sar to her, in tho Ollendorf method. "How is the good health of our sisterr ne replies, "How are-the bright trade dnltin of the Secretarv and the ver dant greenback! of the grandraoth ers?" A citizen, after glancing at hia Dtlendnrf behind the curtain. says: "You have not seen the island of Coney, not the beach of our chow dered Manhattan, nor the foam on the beach called our Brighton?" Then she says (looking at Ollen dorfa code of aignali), "but Tre hArH nf the. foam on the laeer and the flavor of molluiki and biscuits." r-ELECTED MISCELLANY. Unmerited honors never wear well. Endeavor to be what you appear to be. Unto thysolf be true, aud it shall fol low as the night the day, thou caust not then bo fulso to any man. The habit of being always employed is a great safeguard through life, as well aa an essential to the culture of every virtuo. Edmund Yates savs tliat eenuino Wo- red is almost as rare in English politics as gratitude. But it isn't so rare in our politics. As by constant friction sttel is kont highly polished, so by constant exercise is talent ever at ita brightest. All our powers grow by use. Tho worst education that teaches self- deniid is better than the best that teaches everything else and not that. The essence of true aobilitv is neglect of self. Lot the thought of self paw in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like tho bloom from a soiled flower. Falsehood, like poison, will Rcnerally bo rejected when administered alone: but when blended with wholesomo in grodieuts, may bo swallowed unper- oeived. A colored man applying for a marriage icense in Cincinnati was aked it he and the lady were related. "Yes, suit," be replied. When asked how, he answered: "I thought you deluded to do tender re lashuns ob luv what prevails between us at de present moment." If you want to study the immense variety of the human face in expression you should bond your gaze upon the mobile oouutonance of a deaf and dumb man wheu he rcaohes under tho plank walk for a lost nickel and picks up a raw bumble boo by the stem. . There was a large boiler of scalding water over a fire in the yard and several black imps playing near it. Suddenly a shrill voice was heard from inside the shanty: "You, Clawge Washington, keep away from dat ar bilerl Drectly you Is gwme tor upset de bilor all over yersolf, and yez will be fust ono to say: Twau t me, mammy. ' The unities not preserved: Last Sun day a Galvoston boy camo home radiant from Sumluy school and exclaimed: I was the only boy in my class. All the rest of the boys wont down to the rail road to seo the cirous oome in." "That's right, my son," said tho proud parent; "nover neglect your Sunday rchool du ties. Lut did the circus really arrive? Of oourae it did. Didn't I see it my self?" A Duel on Horseback. , The Earl of Gloncairn challenged Licutenant Oonoral Sir George Munro for grossly opprobrious languago used by hi in toward the Highland troops, as boing "no other than a pack of thiovos nd robbers. They met in a nold near Dornock, "by gray daylight." They were both well mounted on horseback; each of thorn were to havo ono pistol, after discharging of which they wero to fight with broad-swords. The pistols were 11 rod without doing hurt. Xhey thon engaged with thoir swords, and aftor a fow passos, my Lord bad tho good lortuno to give Hir George a soro stroke upon his bridle-hand, whereupon Hir George oriod eut that he was not able to command his horse: "and I Uopo'says ho, "you will fight me on foot.' "Ye carl, says my Lord, "1 will let you know that i am a maicii ior you eithor on loot or norsenaoK. Whereupon they both alighted, and at the first bout my Lord gave him a sore stroke on the brow, about an inch above bis eyes, which bled so much that he could not see. Ilia Lordship was going to thrust him through the body, but John White, bis man, pushed up bis a wonl. and said. "lou have enough oi him, my ajom. His Lordship, in a passion, gave John strobe over the shoulders, and tbon took his horse and came to his quarters. Munro and his brother' wont to hoad- quarters, but with much ado, for the bleeding at head and hand. Their only attendants as seconds were Lord Gloneairn's trumpoter and valet his man John abovo montionod and Lientonatit-Colonol Alexander Munro, a younger brothor of Bir George Notes anu iuoncs. Mncty Miles an Hour. There was tn mod out from the Grant Locomotive Works in 1'aterson, K.J. yesterday, a now locomotive of poeuhar construction, wienuou mr iubx uumg, T'rt Wavne & Chicago lianroau. Eugene Fontaine, the inventor, claims that this locomotive can be mado to go ninety miles an hour, while the machinory is run no faster than that of an ordinary locomotive traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The nia- Miinnrv is all on ton of the boiler, instead of under it. The driving wheel runts on another wheel, which m turn rfiat on the track. This lower wheel has tsn rims. one a foot smaller than tho othor. The outer rim touchos tho track and the inner or smaller rim nmiorts the drivimr wheel. The motion of the drivino- wheel thus communicated is magnified by this arrangement so that tho lower wheel turns one-third faster than the driving wheel, and so the spoed i incrnaMid. "Pbe smaller rim of the lower wheel bears to the larger rim a relation similar to that of a very large hub to any wheol. Of course any rate of motion communicated to such a bub is greatly magnified at the periphery of the wheol. in the same way ma muwuu wheal in this case is mag nified by the peculiar arrangement of tliA whtwl it resU upon. Mr. Fontaine YiaI i atai iliafhis locomotive, if it were not for the increased resistance of the air, could be run at the rate of 107 miles .n imni- Ha Aiiieots to make ninety miles an hour easily. The machinery of the new locomotive, which stood propped np on blocks, waa put in motion on Sat urday with satisfactory results. Many ;irnAi man liiva visited it. IN. I. Sun. vt in trannrtanoe to freedom and Jus tice is popular education, without which neither Justice nor ireeoom can marfontly maintained. Ceremonies diffor in every eonntry, but true politeness is ever the same. Heroism of Lighthouse Keepers. It was a grand and heroio conception to bnild a lighthouse on the Eddystono, but what shall be said of the men who first of all tried the experiment of dwell ing in the horrible isolation of that storm beaten edifice, cut off from the rest of the world, nncortain whether the building would stand tho test of the storm, deafened by the roar of the wa ters which sometimes would shoot right ovor the lantern, or dash headlong against the lighthouse with fearful vio lence, causing every part to vibrate as though the whole fabric were instan taneously going to pioeos? It is recorded that only two men attended the light houso built by Kudyard, and that one of them was seized with suddou illness and diod. It was iu tho roughest timo of year, and although tho survivor hoisted a signal of distress, no boat could reach tho rock. What to do with tho dead body ho did not know. At first" ho thought ho would throw it into the sea, but ho was hiudorod by the fear lest the frionds of tho deceased might chargo him with the crimo of murder. For a whole month theweathor continued boisterous, and for that wholo month tho solitary survi vor kept tho light all night now that his comrado could no longer share the duty, watch by watch with him, and for that whole month he kept tho body oi the body of tho dead man, although it had Ulleu inta horrible corruption. Can any more temtuo strait be conceived than that in which tho brave leilow was placod? Yet wo do not even know his namo. All wo know is that in almost every groat work of publio utility in voiving Hazardous inuor, ii uuu or iwu men have coma to the front and loft their names for the admiration of pos terity, there havo always boon a hundred obscure heroes who have lived and died and loft no sign, hut without whoso strong norvos and groat hoarts thoso works would .nevor havo been accom plished. SENSE'AS DTE JT1S1 E JIT. One of tho Gorman princes is soon to marry a pnnoess ot bchloswig llolstein, and as it is iiocossary at suoh times to givo tho full names of tho parties interested tho invitations to tbo auuir rosomblo vuroo-suoet postors. , Mub. Auck Grew, daughter of ho Fronch Frosidont, is engngod to marry, it is said, au exceedingly Fronch land owner. She won't bo Grevyn any nioro nftor sho marries that oxcoodlngly wealthy French man. Professor Swino, tho groat inde pendent preacher of Chicugo, thinks tho ancient llobrows and Persians surpassed Americans in thoir ability (Mix n rt . to no. And - yot it rroiossor owing ad road llarnum's campaign dis. patches ho but no niattor. Am UNfUBi'ECTEO Answer. The Orangethorpe Sunday School celobrated its sixth anniversary last Sabbath after noon. In tho review of past lessons' tho question was askod: "What did God do on the seventh day ?" (referring to the creation of tho world.) Answer: no rested." What else did Ho do?" Prompt ly came the answer from a little eigut- .aar.nl.1 1n "ITa rnllil His nOWSDSDOr." j v 1. 1 n . . . J j . - i Land in Toxas is vory cheap. 1 ho last Loirislnturo sot apart 3,000,000 acres of land in tho Tanhandlo, ord crod a Burvoy and put it upon tho murkot at minimum prico oi ou cents nor aero. Tboeurvoy of this 3,000- 000 acres hasjust been complotod,nnd tho land is now in markot. Tin trulhtulncss of a sign ovor a Santa Fe 8ftlo.on is to bo admirod. An old fashionod" perforatod tin lantern hangs nnon a rudo bracket, and in tho night throws a dim and fitful light upon a strip of white muslin on which is inscribed in largo louors, "Noso Faint." Two frionds from tho interior put up at a Galvoston hotel and were given one room. Tho man in the noxt room overheard tho following conversation about daybreak noxt morning. "I sav, Kill, are yon awakol "I've beon wide awake for the last two hours." "Lend me 85." "I've dozed off again." "I know vou wore lying whon you said you wore wide awake." Infidelity m I'aris is increasing rapidly among tho upper classes, while Mr. McCall and his coadjutors aro laboring to spread tho gospel among the poor, iho society oi Athoists lately organized already hnnsts of a membership of 15,000 in that city, besides haviug branches in all tho largo towns of France. Thoy no longor maintain a merely ncgativo position, but have assumed . 1 - l.Mn.il ll nn urrrrrAMH Vfl flLLlLUUU lunuiu " " -Tin' ' churches. What to Say. Sav "I doubt not that I Bhall," and not "but I shall." , Say "for you and me," . anu not iur you and i. . Hay "whether i uo riwu. and not "present or no. ' Say "not that I know," and not "that I know of." Say "return it to mo," and not re turn it back to me." Bay "I seldom see bim, and not 1 seldom or ever see him." Say "fewer friends," and not less friends." .. Say "if I mistake not," and not if I am not misUken." Say "game is plentiful," and not is PlSly"I am weak in comparison with you and not "to you." Say "it rains very fait," and not "very hard." , . Bay "it is primitive sense, and not "primary sense. ... . , , u. 4.1,. wo nntAd for his violence. and not "he was a man notorious for violonce." , . . Say "thus muoh is true," and not "this Tay-lWUdit," and not "I lifted it And Ust. bnt not least, aay "I Uke my paper aad pay for it in advance.