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A GOD ama ALL. laid to a 1l, Mr. Ia6f. all night brg . Jlniiiii and me. at tin' aud wWhiU' lot toe mora Cu.e w couldn't alt-ep. Ul!r Judge, In that rami uaiui. And Jim mi wae scared to death at the- wild, mad Tliat Ue'rmu kept runoia' all through tbt dark night; Tfcal'a why w wtn glad, Mr. Judge, to at tne oajngui. rioaa?, Mr Judge, w are not very bad little boj-i Andlhitrlirr.n what too ui ald were tome taolhn'i Jna. Hewaawroug. atr. JuJgr. and ahould on.r nave Tbat we are two Utile oolra'U end our mrxnttf li And ihtr'uooue to care formal kaat here be And do r 'of Jul ahelteri u Irom the rain aad tni mow. . I - A1 ... thai w . til lM thf hllH Toirv wa a God that wai watctun' all that lltUe bT (Jo; And tb.i He lorrd little children, and Bla lore But I m u. Mr. Judge. He don't lore JlmrxJe or For I p-rd end I prayed till I wu mt ont of for aomtrihing to cat and keep Jimmie from death. And hat's wby we're new, Mr. Judge, for you There ra uj help from eoove. I muit Had it t- Twee no u- noggin' and be lo'.d In Gvd I miul '"at. For I'd rxgirel all the dr and git neer a c rut: And ihrre wh poor Jimmie bwdlu' bts cold Utile '' . . And crj m' aad moaoln' f"f tomeibln to eat. 80 1 went t a bou-e that wu not Tory fr. Aad raw. Mr JuJf.thl the bark dor wu ajar: Aa 1 a t.b'.e waa aettin' rigat clow to tba door. Jat loa'if 1 with mi, abuut twenty or more. 80 1 quick. i ailpped in and grabbed one to my Lir-iM The pui(VB.au then caught ua and yon know the rt-M. DiKha-tfJ.d;d jooaty. Mr. Jads-t" both Jimmie eod 1? And and e ain't got to be Jailed 'caoae I took a p:r And we can eat ail we want? bow funny 'twill n iUy. J mil if. p'.ath me rorl-I think lit a dream. Aud yuu'J tiee u work tummer. winter and fall fej. Jimmie 1 ib.ck Uiere a a ir.nl e!itr al ! THE WIDOW LOlkLRI. I made Lor Acquaintance it an Old Settlers' reunion. Tho clnb, which hold its yearly meetings at Gersbotu, was composed of the surviving pioneers of lSOti. All peraens who. cither as adults or children, Lad settled in the district covered by the organisation previous to or within that year were entitled to en rollment. I was spending the summer with a friend who called herself an old Bottler by marriage. Iler husband, Colonel Hugh Hastings, had come into the wilds with his parent at the age of two years, and so had grown up with the country in a literal sense. They lived at Larban Station, on the line of the one railroad which traversed the county. Oershom, the county seat, was six miles distant. It was arranged on the morning of the reunion that tuy friend Marian and 1 should drive over early with tho children and spend the entire day. Tlio colonel kept a saddle horso, and would follow in the afternoon. We started in tho dew, yet whon we reached Oershom tho villago was all astir. At teu o'clock the beautiful pio Die grounds on tho banks of the Shoko beo hko wero swarming with population of many townships. The Uld Settlers proper were not a numerous band, but their assemblies had come to be gala days with the entire community. i.Miig among the groups gathered hero and there, one caught bits 0' char acteristic talk. A group of men were discussing wheat prospects. They acemod to belong to that class in whom tho tine, rtainty of the farmer's hopo had tired a condition cf chronic foreboding. One said tlte wheat was too strong, and would all bo "lodged" before harvot. Another thought the recent heavy rains would produco "rust in tho stalk." A third predicted a dry, hot time, that would cause it to "fire at the root." "How does your wheat look, Dave?" Tim question was asked of a tall, stoop ahouldered fellow, who had been listen ing to the rest and saying nothing. "Pern Oil 'f I know," was the reply. I sowed it in good time ani good stylo last fall, and I baiu't looked at it siuce. Lookin' does no good, nor croakin', nuther." Old Se'h ITouseholder had been a ro markably good shot in his tinio. We paused in our saunter to hoar him tell about it. lie was a grotesque old man, with yellowish curling hair hanging over the collar of ais cleau calico shirt. "I presume there's a good many old fellers here," said he, "that minds about doggery Hank Sloan kep' over on the old State road, lie kep' a little stock of gro cery, too, and about once a forni't he'd hev a shootiu' match. He'd tie up bun dles of tea and tcrbacker and sugar, and wo'd shoot for 'em. Well, one afternoon in the Wginuin' of winter it was the 31st of November, if I mind right llank had a shoot. There was just seventy threo of them packages, aud when the match was out, and llank told 'em over, all but four was marked 'S. House holder.' Yas, that was rather fair shoot in'. I was tol'ablo handy witti a rifle them days. I tell'you, gentlemen, it's all in the t-ptio nerve of the eye. There's where it lays." The band began playing on the ros trum, and the multitude moved tow ard the music. "iaou'J auld arq.ua ntanee be forgot a-d rwTrreallid to mind! f Jiiu d au:J acquaintance be forrnt. And the day of aatd lacg ejnr' The sweet horns seemed to speak iLe rery word. There was roll call, answered to iu voices varying froai the robnM, mellow tones of middle age to the feebler quaver of the octogenarian. A brief biograph i -1 obituary of a late member was reed. Thea the orator of the day was intro duced. After the speech came the basket dicner under the trees. The afternoon wu devoted to mnsic and story telling. A venerable Methodist prvacher gave an accoant of his own cir cuit riding in the early daya. A Rarhan banker recalled the fact that he had come into the county, at the age of six teen, as chain bearer in a surveying coapA&y. Aa ogod farmer named Man cing aroe. "I was the first white settler in Deer Lick towaahip. Things was tniddlin' onhandy long at first. What 'ad folks think now of drtria' tkirty miles for a bag of aeed wheat and two plow-p'inta? I did that in o7 drnv it with oxen, too. It woe powerful hard York clean n' up coy land timber so heavy and help so scarce. I had one hired hand that done me a heap of good. Ha was only a boy, but be was a good one, atroog fisted and keen vitsod. He'd chop ail day and study his books I ill to o'clock at night. He's hero to-day, friends, and maybe some of you know who I mean. It's Judge Tazewell, thereon the platform. He -plit and laid up the rails that fenced my first clearin'. lie's been to Congress since, and I'm proud to say he's been as honest a law maker as ho was a fence maker. I projose three cheers for the rail splitter of the old tenth district." They were given with energy, and Judge Tazewell canio down and shook hands with Uncle Eli Manning. The president of the clob then asked how many in the assembly had auy per sonal recollection of a two days hunt for a lost child in the autumn of '41. "Answer Sunday-school fashion," said he, and about half a dozen hands went np. "In tho widow Lockery here," he next inquired. "I reckon she is." came the answer in a woman's voice from somewhere in the crowd. "Mrs. Lockerv." continued the presi dent, "found the lost child, and if she will tell us all about it, l lor one, wiu be much pleased. I have a vague im pression of the terror which the hunt produced, and the excitement it arc used in my childish mind; but I do not re member that I ever hoard the c-urrence fully described by any one who took port in the search." He glanced again in the direction whence camo that prompt response, and sat down. A tall, straight woman rose from her seat, walked slowly down the aialo be tween the rude benches, and took a posi tion facing the people. She seemed in no hurry to begin her story, but deliber ately took off her starched bonnet and laid it on tho grata beside tier, hue was the most remarkable personage I had seen that dsy. Though fully seventy years old, she was as erect as an Indian, and gave one the impression of great physical power. Her iron-gray hair grew low over her forehead, and was gathered in a gi-eat, rough looking knot at the back of tier head, and secured in its place by a brass comb. Her com plexion was swarthy, and her dark eyes were shaded by darker brows which almost met above her prominent aquiline nose. He lips closed firmly, and her whole faco had an expression of unspeak able sadness. "Friends and neighbors," she begsn: and all at once I found myself smiling, as I observed others doing. Never be fore did human countenance so quickly transform its expression. The dark eyes twinkled, the corners of the mouth gave a humorous curl, the lips parting in speech revealed a double row of perfect, natural teeth gleaming with drollery, and tho whole changed physiognomy was laughter-provoking. "Friends and neighbors: Seein' as how Mr. Evans has sorto' give out that I'm the herowiao o' this tale o' terror, maybe it would sound better for some one else to tell it. So much by way of preface. "It was uonjamin -yter s emu tuat was lost. Ben started one mornin' in Ootober to get some grindin' dono. There was no mill nearer than the one on Taylor's Fork, twelve miles oft", and the way roads was then, it would take him away 'long into the night to get home. That little boy o' his'n, just tivo yeor old, took a notion to go 'long, but pa wouidu l let Dim. lie wuippeu tue poor little fellow in the mornin' for cryin' to go; but when ho started the child just follered tho wagon and bawled to bo took in. The other young ones told mo that; and that precious mother o' his'n, instead of coaxin' him into the house and fryin' him a dough horse, and twistin' him fivo or six yards of tow string for drivin' lines, just went on abi tit her work, and paid no 'tentiou to hin till out o' sight. 'Long towards noon Mary Ann Nvfer, the oldest gal, came over to my house, lookin' real scairt, and said Sammy was lost. He'd tailored his pa a ways in the mornin' aud hadn't como back. I says right away: " 'He's all right. Your father's give in to his yollin' and took him 'long.' "But the gal shook her head, aud remarked: "Either never gives in to nuthin'. He's druv him bock, and Sammy's lost.' "I went homo with her, and found Lake Wilson there. We three families lived purtv cloast all within a mile. Luko 'thought just as I did, that Xyfer had took tho boy along, but the mother and Mary Ann seemed to doubt it. Wil son sjid he'd go down the road, and stop at Fell's and Harder's maybe little Sam had stopped to play. Well, he didn't find him, and the good feller hoofed it on till ho met Xyfer, three or four miles this side of the Fork. There was no Sammy with him. Ha said the child bad tamed back at the big shingle tree stump, about a mile from home. "When Ben druv up to his house, there was quito a company of tho neigh bors waitiu' to see if he had the I my. A search was started that uight with lan terns and kep' up till morning. Word was sent fur and near; Ibefore coon tho next dar three townships were on the hunt, llorns were blowed, bells rung aud the poor baby's name called in hun dreds of voices. The woods and swamps aero scoured and every brmh heap and holler log peeked into. "The sarcti lasted another night and another day, till in tho afternoon some began to give out, myself among the number. I went homo and throwed my self onto my bed with my clothes on, and slept as I'd never slept before. About ten o'clock I awoke as wide awake aa I am at this miouto. My mind was seemed uncommon clear and quick. 'That child can't be fur awar," I thought, 'He's been with the rest to the black berry swamp this summer. The trail leading to the blackberry swamp leaves the main road not fur from the shingle- tree atap. I'd often beard that children lout wonld never answer, when every thing was qaiet, they'd cry ani make a noisa. It scorned as though the hull ken try bad ben well sarched, but I still believed he was stkkin' aomeahere in thai blackberry marsh. "Now, I don't want anybody to think I was a herowiae, for I wasn't. 1 think I felt more'D sorry for Rachel Xyfer, be cause I'd had ar dislike to her for quite a spell. It growed ont of an egg trade. I wanted a set tin' of goose eggs; she bad some and said she'd let me have a doxen for two dosen hens eggs. Well, we traded, ani I a'poted it was all right, till one day ana come over aad aaid she thought aha orter have another half dozea eggs, for she'd opened a gooee egg shall, and then broke two hens' eggs into it, and it wasn't quite fall. Twould have held easy half another egg! I counted out six eggs, and she Inched 'em home; then 1 told Miss Luke Wilson and one or two other women that I was purty thick with, and wo made no end of fuu about it when wo got together. "I didn't like tho geucral mako up of the woman. She had five purty children, but she didn't seem to take no kind 0' comfort with 'em; just pushed 'em one side and druv ahead with her work. She aod Xyfer both seemed to think all the duty they owed their young ones was to make 'em mind from the word go, and dig away like all possessed.to make prop erty for 'em. But I was there that even in' when Ben came homo withonttuebov and I saw 'ttn stand and look into each other's faces, like the end of the world had come, and neither one could help tho other. Then she went about puttiu' a bit of supper onto the table; but when she set out Sam's little tin plate and mug. all the mother in her broke loose, and she flung herself down, shudderin' and Bobbin in a way I U never forgit. Well, seein' as how I'd kinder misjudged tho creetur for bavin' no heart, I felt pushed to make one more try for that poor lost kid o' hern; so I jumped Tight up and said out loud: ' "With tho Lord's help, I'll find him yetr "I lit my lantern and shaded it so it let just a little light down onto tne ground. Then I went over the readjust as I guessed the boy had done.tvrnin' off on the trail at the big red-oak ttump.una took tight down to the swamp. There I stopped and listened, still as death. Snre as there's mercy for us all above, I heard him almost right away. " 'Oh, ma!' such a pitiful call ! Then he cried and whimpered, very weak, like his breath was 'most gooo, and bis heart 'most broke. I followed that sound and found him easy. lie was mired to his arm-pits in mud and water. I couldn't at first see how I was to get to him. There was the body of a big walnut tree lyin' back on the hard ground, aud the bark was loose. I palled it off in slabs and throwed 'urn onto the hummocks, and so bridged my way out to that little yaller head. He struggled wild when I first pulled him out; then gave up in a kind of faint. I carried him home in a hurry. There was still a good many peo ple at Xyfer's. They made some milk warm and put a taste of liquor in it, and forced a few drops down his throat, as you've done to a chilled lamb on a win ter's morning.' lie was bathed and rubbed and wrapped in soft ilannin and laid in the baby's warm nest afore the fire. Xyfer and his wife stood lookin' down at him. " 'Kaich' said he and she looked up, her black eyes a-Bwimmin' and her face all a-trcmblo. Then be took her into his arms and held her cloast 'Raich, we hain't loved one another enough, and we hain't loved our children enough. Thero's that that's botter'n money and land, and for the rest of our lives we'll try and keep bolt of it.' "And I believe they did. The little boy had a fever, but he came out all right at last. Mrs. Xyfer died about fivo years after that, and he took the family and went back east. Of course, I wouldn't have told this story just a? I have if any of 'em had been around." The people had listened closely, and whon Mrs. Lockery put on her bonnet and resumed her seat the hn;h was so profound that we could hear, high above our heads, tho twittering clamor of a nest of young tanagers, to whom the mother-bird hud brought a worm. Tho next to address the assembly was a noble looking old man with silvery white hair. It was Luke Wilson, or 'Squire Wihon, as ho was generally called. Ho had a firm, intellectual head, aud when he spoke his language was cor rect and chosen. "The Widow Lockery," he began, "has disclaimed all right to the titlo of heroine. Do not let the verdict be ren dered till I have finished what I am about to relate. My friend and neighbor for forty years will, I know, pardon me if I for ouce lift the veil from a passage of her experience to which she seldom alludes, and of which many in this audi ence have never heard. Xothing has been told hero to day, nothing could be told, more strongly illustrative of the courage and endurance of tho pioneer spirit, at least of the spirit of one brave pioneer. "One winter evening many years ago, a stranger presented himself at the cabin of Thomas aud Ruth Lockery and begged a night's lodging. He was a Canadian, completely tired out, and far from well Neither Lockery nor his wife had it in them to turn a sick stranger from their doer, so they gave him supper and a bed. llio next day be was unable to rise, und before night he broke out with small pox "The following rooming when I went out to feed my cattle I happened to look toward Lockery 's, and saw on a sharp rise of ground, about half way between the two houses, a woman standing and beckoning to mo. It was my neighbor hero. I went toward her, but while I was some distance away she halted mo and told me in a few words about the man with tho small-pox and charged me to watch the rood and ;o the commu nity. She told me she had been inocu lated and would not take the disease, bat she feared (or her husband and children. That day I role eleven miles to the near est doctor. His wife cried and would not let him go. He read his books for an hour while my horse rested, then he made up a package of medicine for me and I started back. I left the medicines and stimuloats on the scrub-oak hill and Tom cams and got them. "As Ruth had feared, her husband and their two children were taken down. Several out of the nearer families then offered to take all risks and help her nurse her sick, but she firmly refused their assistance. " I can get alone,' she wonld sav from her poet on the hill. "The Lord give me strength for all I have to do, and this horror mast not spread. Everything b needed was furnished promptly and abundantly, and this is all she would suf fer ns to do. The stranger had the die ease m its mildest form, but Lockery and the little boys, Amos and Willie, were hopelessly bad from the first. One mornirg the poor woman called to me that both the children were dead, and told me to have both coffins brought to the hill that evening at dusk. George Odes and I dug a abort, wide grave at a spot on the place which she designated; knd that night she took tboae coffins to her cabin, pat her children into them. and buried them with her own bands! One morning, some three weeks later, as I went ont of my house just at daybreak, I saw Mrs. Lockery waiting ou the hill. Sue looked changed and bent, and her hair wss loose and flying in tho wind. I can see it all now. The sky was such a clear, pale gray, and she looked so dark and wild against it! I ran to my old post, from which I had hailed her daily for weeks. "Thomas died at midnight, she called. 'Mako his coffin as light as possible to have it strong enough.' " "Then I shouted back:" " 'Ruth Lockery, you have done enough! Giles and I will come to-day aud burv your dead. At this she tare up her hands and ottered an awful crv." ' 'Don't do it. forthelovo of God! I've gone through this alone, that no other tilace need be desolated as niiue has been. Don't let it be for nothing.' It shall not be for nothing. If a man or woman dares to come near that awful house, 111 draw mv rillo on them! "The Canadian was by this time well enough to render her some assistance, and together they coffined and buried poor Tom. They drew the body on a stone sled over the snow, and laid it in the new grave beside the other. The next day we saw a red flame shoot up through tho timber, and we hew Ruth had fired her cabin with all the little effects it contained. There wasn't much te be sure nothing that she valued after what had gone before. We left a pound of sulphur and two suits of clothing on the hill by her or ders. The stranger got into his fresh garments after Ruth had smoked them well. Then she cut his hair short, and robbed his head with sulphur till, she said afterwards, she know he'd carry the scent into the next world with him. He took a gun and a pouch of provisions and went away, promising solemnly to enter no human habitation for at least a month. "The weather had turned very mild it was the last of March and Mrs. Lock ery begged us not to ask her in for a little while longer. She built herself a wigwam of poles and bark; we took her some bedding, aud for three weeks she lived out of doors. Then she changed her clothing again and came among us, pnre enough, we thought, to mingle with the angels of heaven. The people got together and built her another house, and furnished it with everything for her comfort. She lived alone for years, a brave, cheerful, actively helpful life. Then she adopted a friendless babe, whom she reared to womanhood, and who is now well married, and gives to Mrs. Lockery in her old age a child's love and duty." Old Settlers' day, with its June glory of greenness and brightness, was draw ing to a close. At 5 o'clock the bustle of breaking up was at its height, and a murmur of genial talk and friendly leave-taking was heard everywhere We were examining the society's museum which was under a tree near the speak er's stand. Glancing op, Marian saw Mrs. LiOcSery standing quite near. Sho shook hands quite warmly with the old lady, as I did also upon being intro duced. "We were looking at theso Indian hatchets aud ornaments," I remarked. I supoose they were picked up in this vicinity?" "Ye9, mostly," said the widow. "The Pottawattomies used to have a camp on Plater's Creek, about half way between here and Barhan. I'd like to show you something I found over on the old trad ers' route, once when I was huutin' a stray yearlin'. It's a queer old knife, and it's in this chist somewheres, for i gave it to Mr. Evans for the museum." Just then she spieu it and brought it forth. It was a long French dirk of the finest steel. Th3 handle, a mere shell of silver filagree, had doubtless once been filled with ebony or other precious wood, long since rotted awav. On one side was a tiny plate, bearing in minute lettering the inscription: "Jean Deleore, Bordeaux, liGfl." Colonel Hastings came up and in formed us that our phaeton was await ing ns. W e bade goodby to the old lady, not however before she had given Mrs. Hastings and myself an earnest invita tion to make her a visit "Como soon." she urged. "We have lots of strawberries now, and vou never see the like of Lavynio's green peas and reddisbes. As we were driving home Marian said: "We must surely accept Mrs. Lock- ery's invitation. She affects one like Shakefpeare und Dickens. After spend ing a day in her company yon cau hardly tell whether you have laughed or cried the most." Angeliue Teal iu the Con tinent, August 22d. Deaths from Fright. The distinction between fright and fear ought always to bo borne in mind. Fear cau be mastered by an effort; fright has come and gone before tho brain has had time to come to the conclusion that an effort is possible. There is no fear so strong iu human beings as the fear of death, and yet "there is no passion in the mind 01 man, says ISicon truly enough, "so weak that it mates and mas ters the fear of death. Revenge tri umphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief fiieth to it; fear pre oocupietu it." Fity, which is the "ten derest of passions," led many to kill themselves from companion for Otho's suicide. Even "tJium vitas-,"mere ntter weariness ot doing the same thing over and over again, will lead a man to defy his inborn fear of death. But. what pas aion can guard against fright? A Jew. according ta Lodovieus Yives, once crossed a narrow plank over a tor rent in the dark, and, visiting the place next day. saw the extremity cf his last night's risk and died of what? Xot of fear, obviously, because there was nothing to be afraid of, bat possibly of fright. So. again, persons hivo bVea known who always fainted at the scent of certain flowers, notably that ot May blossom, but it would be ridiculous to accuse them of being afraid of haw thorne. Surgeon-General Francis, of the In dian medical service, tells of a drummer who was suddenly aroused from his sleep by something crawling over his naked legs. He imagined it was a co bra, and his friends collected by the out cry thought ao too, and be was treated accordingly. Incantations, such aa are customary with the natives on these oc casions, were reported to, and the poor fellow was fljgellated witu twisted cloths on the arms and legs, in view pirtly to arouse him, but principally to drive out tho evil influence (spirit) that for the time being bad taken possession ol him With tho first dawn of light the cause of tho fright was discovered in the shupe of a harmless lizard, which was lying crushed and half killed by the side of the poor drummer; bat it was too late From the moment when he believed a poisonous snake had' bitten him he passed into an increasing collapsa until be died. Tho drummer was not a strong lad, aud the shock was too much for mm. The most remarkable death from tho accident of fright was that of the Dutch painter, Pcnteuiau, iu the seventeenth century. He was at work on a picture in which were represented Beveral death beads, grinning skeletons and other ob jecta calculated to inspire tjie beholder with contempt for tho vanities and lol lios of the day. In order to do his work better be went to an anatomical room, and used it for a studio. Ouo sultry day, as be was drawing these melan choly relics of mortality by which ho was surrounled he fell off into a quiet sleep, from which be was suddenly srousea. Imagine his horror at behold ing the skulls and bones dancing around like mad, and the skeletons which hang from the ceiling dashing themselves to gether. Panic-stricken, he rushed from tho room and threw himself headlong from the window to the pavement below. Ho sufficiently recovered to learn that tho causa of his fear was a slight earth quake, but his nervous system received so severe a shock that he died in a few days. Frederick L of Prussia was killed by an accident of fear. He was one day sleeping in an arm chair, when his wife, Louisa of Mecklenburg, who had for sometime been hopelessly insane, escap ed from her keepers and made her way to the king's private apartments. Break ing through a glass door she dabbled herself with blood, and, in a raging tit of delirium, cast herself upon tho king. The latter, who was not aware of H10 hopelessness of her lunacy, was so horri fied at tho appearance of a woman clad only in linen and covered with blood, that he imagined, with a superstition characteristic with the age, that it was the White Lady, whose ghost, according to time-honored tradition, invariably ap peared when death was arouud the house Bradenbarg. He was seized with a fever and died in six weeks. More ridioulous was the death of the French Marshal, De Montrevo, "whose whole soul," says St. Simon, "was but ambition and lucre, without ever having been able to distinguish his right hand from the left, but concealing his univer sal ignorance with an audacity which favor, fashion and birth protected." He was a very superstitious man, and one day a salt cellar was upset at a public dinner in his lap, and so frightened was ho that he arose and announced he was a dead man. Ho reached home and died in a few days, in 1710, literally scared to death by the absurd casuality of a salt cellar's turning over. London Giobe. Summer Coasting. Thomas Alexander, a typo at the Uni versity Press office, has a novel inven tion, which he styles an artificial sliding or coasting hill, for use all tho year round. It is claimed that by this inven tion accidents, which are too frequent from the use of sleds on ice, may be avoided. This artificial hill, for which a patent has recently been granted, is do signed for u?e all the vear round, but is especially adabted during the heated or milder seasons for use at seaside resorts, public gardens, parks and private grounds. It may also be erected in large buildings devoted to varied public amusements. The hill may be erected of any desired length, the ' elevation of the platform being made sufficiently high to give the required incline and impetus to tbo sleds. It may bo placed on level ground or on a natural hill or incline, the expense in the latter case being much less. The invention in port consists in constructing the hill with grooved ways or tracks, to be used with sleds of pe culiar construction and adapted to the grooved ways, bo as to insnra perfect safety to the occupants of the sleds while gliding swiftly down. Each sled will bo supplied with comfortable seat, also a brake to control its speed. The sleds rest on a starting table on a platform, and, when loaded, are started by means of this table with force dowu the hill. At the lower end of eaeh track is a curve by which sleds are conducted to a side return course, on which is ar ranged an endless chain or .belt, with hooks, which engage with loops on the sleds.whereby the latter are drawn to the top of tho hill again, with or without their occupants. The sliders descending and those ascendiDg the hill will be in full view of each other, thus enhancing the pleasure and excitement of the occu pants of the sleds. Tho platform, which will be a pleasant resort for speetators.is reached by means of stair? with land ings. An elevator may also bo used if necessary. It is thought by tnose who are competent to judge that this novel coasting hill caunoi fail to be popular with old and young, all the ordinary objection to -this fascinat ing and healthful amusement being overcome in this invention. It is pre dieted it cannot fail to prove a very great attraction. Boston Transcript. Bow tne Wind Stirs op the Sea. One of the first things to be observed in a storm is the wav the wind acts. It does not blow regularly, but in gusts, At one moment it bends over the branches of the trees; in the next, it has looeened its bold and let them ny back Wa see it swelling out a ship's sail into a full puff; a minute later the sails hang flapping as if they they had been Btrnek down. e can accoant for tnese phe nomena and explain the internittence of the aiod puns by assumicg that the molecules of air, displacing each other, excite a vibratory movement, which gives rise to little undulations following one after another at intervals of a few seconds. The resultant of a series of the undulations is a puff of wind which comes on suddenly, and is foil red ty a short lull. A series of puffs consti tutes a aqualL and an agtrrecation of squalls forms the atmospheric wave which is called a gale of wind. We should naturally expect to observe the tame phase in the formation of aea wave; and, in fact, if wt carefully ex 1 1 BlillUU U WBVH. WM gtt.f.ll a . covered with very fiViVtr'' 11 respond to the atmospher e t'ii The ripple, give rise to 1!'' S correspond io the undulation, of ,1l"cl and aro eeon on the nppor t1P . waves. The wave propeVapLr.' ? sist of a series of wavolets a "' of waves constitute a billow-; ,nmnlit billows gives rise to a heaw im do mer) ; a series of heavy , lpH the great awoll or tidal Btorm. T8 ' Ui, From tho nautical point of ; ripples are of no importance are seldom more than a few milii 9 in diameter; but from a c!entirln!!t, of view they may be considered aS? origin of tho swing of tlio linci t 1 ment, for they engondor the ... 1 " The last are still of no intorost fo sailor, but are important in Uini, Jr tion to works of art, which ar J grated by their blows, apparent 7 nificont, but infinitely multiple t' wavolots are from ten to thirty cs'ni.J ters in diameter and not very I0nB , very heavy wind breaks the no A contributes to the formation of ,1 dust of salt water or salt spray whiJ7 very destructive to vegetation on posed costs. Tho wave proper m 7 the English Channel, be aboSt tea high thirty feet or more broad eighty feet long; i s proportions do u disturb he large ships, but it is destrn? tive, in the long ran, to port worki Z is dangerous to small crafts whea I breaks. We may estimate that ten make a billow. The first of the tea Bl, bo relatively small, but the others ton increasing to tho last. Emil Serel ii Popular Scienoa Monthly for Auguk INDUSTRIAL MTU Chicago has twenty miles of cable road Key West turned out 75,000,000 ciari last year. 6 Delaware county, Iowa, has seventi creameries. ' Richmond, Vs., has had thi yen business and building revival. French Canadian women work in tkt dav, Tho shoe and leather interests of Bos ton are represented as paralyzed by the recent failures. The New Yorkers, who are ownen of 6,000,000 pounds of butter are not feel ing very strong but the butter is. Gold mines in the famous WiUeroen Spottsylvonia county, Ya., are being worked, it is stated, with profit. Tho export of ostrich feathers from the Cape last year, was unprecedently Urge. The prices obtained were enormous. The public lands remaining in tie Southern States, which have been w long neglected.are rapidly coining under settlement. One result of the great strike while it was in progress was to enormously ex tend the telephone servioe and enlarge its usefulness. According to a canvaBs lately maJe there have been built or begun this year in Minneapolis, 1,522 buildings valued at over $5,000,000. The electric light has recently been put to use in the reception rooms of the house of the Marquis of Salisbury in Ar lington street, London. Tho average volume of business trans acted daily on the New York stock ex change has shrank to about oue fourth, and perhaps less, of what it was in 1S) and tho first half of 1881. Tho consumption of ice in Berlin ii reported to have reached "almost Amer ioun proportions" and the new trade ii giving employment to hundreds of peo ple. On Manhattan Island 100,000 children are earning a living. The youngest child employed as a bread winner is four yean old, and her services are valued at $1 week. Six years ago the sugar product of San Domingo was two millions of pounds; this year it will be forty millions. The increase is due t3 American capital and enterprise. From nearly every city in tho United States comes the cheerful report that the number of new buildings this year will exceed that of any corresponding period in its history. It has been shown by telegraph ex perts that a system as complete and ex tensive as that of the Western Union can be built at an outlay of $20,000,000 by the government itself. The special ad vices say the Ohisbsarl of agriculture reports that wheat in tha! state is but 50 per cent, of last year yield. In Kansas one report is that wheat will bo thirty bushels to the acre. "ffh Am I, Anywayr A short time ago, says the Silt Lak' Tribune, a bright-looting Danish boy stepped into a lawyer's office and siid: "I want you to tell me who I am, laying a $5 bill on the desk at the same time. . The lawyer, pecpiDg alternately at tM boy und at the $5 bill, shaking his beaJ, replied: t, "It aeema yon are a funny boy?' "'ot funny at all. You will find very serioos matter." "Well, go ahead and explain it- "About twenty year ago awealt-J Danish lady, being a widow, came oia to this country with her two daughters There was a Norwegian and his bey. 1M father married both the widow's dan' ters. One year after the Norwegian' boy married the wealthy widow, im result of that marriage was another boy, and, if I am sure, I am that boy. 1" Norwegian's boy died. The Dwf widow was a widew again, butt be oia Norwegian married her too. After tn the lady died, and one year ago the gentleman, too, after he bad made bWi self the owner of his third wife's prop erty. Now, when I claimed that prop erty my sister aaid: 'Stop, Jn,Mn:T'7 the heir at all! Yon are our late coir band's grandchild. By her uj?. with him von became jaur fOf grandchild, too. and after she died. became your toothers, and you BeTt!r fr inherit the property before we are dew That's what my sister mothers say, " think that can't be right, and there mo be same mistake in polygamy- .,1 please to tell me what I am-who so i- The lawyer, thrusting hi cbn us" neck, answered pathetically. "Ion are polygamistakeP