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THE RIVER. Charles II. Adam. The light of the city glimmer In the swift black wave tmlow; Like ghost that flit in th gloaming The white shipi come an J go. White and dim and staWy, The good shi seaward go; Luck to you, cuptain and seniors, However the winds may blow I White and dim and stately. The good ships homeward throng; Welcome, captains and sailors, Your voyage has been long! And sweethearts' eyes shall glisten, And wives shall joyful be, As the little children liften To your tales of the stormy sea. But what are the wrecks you tell of To the wreck of a love like mine) The river murmurs and glitters; Above the cold stars shine. PARROTS' PERVERSITIES. Hint and Help for Those Who Teach Polly's Idea How lo Mhoot. iLowlon Teloeranh.l When juvenile the bird in very Im pressionable. Adult, it is liublo to ho obstinate and, like the proud Briton who refused to trucklo to the German system of genders, it oftentimes lourns a now language very imporfectly. Two old birds, indeed, show extraordinary Antipathies to syntax, and get whims into their heads about the construction of sentences which the utmost patience or violence, as the case may be, is powerloss to dissipate. You can' not disabuso an old parrot's mind of an error that it has once cordially enter tamed. It has its own ideas of gram matical proprieties, and clings to them liko a limpet, lou cannot shake it on a matter of English. You mav teach it another phrase altogether, but it will not forego tho first. It will tag the two together and mix them up like the ' Protostnnt kettle of the immortal Hamaby's ruven but this compromise is the best terms you will make with the bird. When possible, therefore, secure a young parrot, catch it at a good school board ago, and then touch it yoursolf. Whilo doing to knop it away from tho contaminating lntluoncos of street boys, for a baker's boy will teach it to ask "Who kissed the cook?" in a half doon easy lessons, winlo you are wearing your days out in impressing "God rave the queen" upon its memory, and, ufter all, the o Ids aro tho bird will say, "Clod save tho cook." Street crios, again, aro to bo avoided if possible It is not woll to have a bird calling "cals'-meal'Mur ing family prayors. lint above all the educator of tho youthful fowl should herself bo circtim spect in her language, and caroful of tho pitch of voico, for it will catch her scolding tonos at once, and pick up "Bother that cat!" in her exact voice too long before it will loam to say, -.Dear mtio puss. niose who have a harsh laugh, or suffer from catarrh, or an impediment, or any defect of spoech, should choose other pets than parrots guinea pigs or squirrels, or some other harmless "dumb" animals for theso birds have a perfectly malicious aptituuo for Hitting oil such weak points. If old Mr. Wollcr had kept a good parrot at the Marquis of Oranby the position of Stiggins would have been impossible; the niimio would havo utterly routed the snultling rascal. 80 that the dilllculties in tho way of bring' ing up 0110 s own bird aro considerable, But if it ran bo accomplished the ro suit will abundantly repay the labor, woro it only in keeping the possessor's mind fi03 from any disquieting appre honsions as to "what that purrot will say noxt. it is a great relief to vis itors to know that, when out of polite ness they take notieo of their hostess' bird, tlioro is no danger of awkward rejoinders. It disconcerts the average caller if, when he says "Pretty roll, the parrot retorts with Jorrocks npos trophe to Artaxerxos, "Hot hup, yon liugly beast; ami tho Besquipcduliun oath of the mariner articulated liko a centipede in an unbefitting response to a friendly invitntion to have a poll scratchod. By all means, therefore, if you wish to bo able to depend upon your bird in mixed company touch it to talk yourself. The Wonderland Pant Vanishing. Loii'lon Tclivranh.l Thibot is ono of the few roc-ions loft on tho earth which will afford legitimate scope for romantiu conjeeturo. AH other lands of mystery havo been explored. Tho Abyssinian campaign dissipated tho last shred of wonder about Piostor John. Irftvelers havo abolished the mountains of tho moon ; a Russian rail way runs within s'ght of tho Vul ture's Nost, the eyrie of tho As sassins and tho Old Man of I the Mountains; commerce has familiar ized us with tho lands of tho white ele phant nnd golden umbrellas; science has dispersod Atlantis, Utopia, and the other "Frowhons" of past lieliofs. No ltuloigh nowadays would make sail for fabled cities of Mansa; no voyager sot ins noun lor llosperides. Ihe Jehthy oithngi, Tartarines and Malrotrans.with all . tho other strange races of whom Mandoville gossiped, are now sobered down into iiwttor-of-faet tribes, and the whole world, under tho ruthless scru tiny of scientific explorations, is fast becoming commonplace The "Mhad-llrliy i-aiter. ICIilesiro Journal. Philadelphia dudes havo been greatly startled by tho appearance in several tailors' show windows of a colored fashion-plate, which depicts a very mild and blondo young man arraved in a garnet-colored coot of the "shad-belly' 1 t 1 vs.. pattern, wuu nesn coiorea lining, a figured white vest, a flowing cravat of a delicate tint, and trousers to corre spond. This is declared to be the dress-suit of tho near future, the inven tion oi a isew lorn man, and the re sult of years of profound reflection. It does not appear whothor or not tho inventor has communed with Oscar Wilde, and received his apostolio bene diction. llamas Fere, The last mot of tho cider Dumas. Ho was on his deathbed. His old ser vant, wno auorea him, was weeping in a corner. iJumas turned Ins half closed eyes toward him and said kindly: "Don't cry, mv poor friend; if I want jou np there 1 will ring for you. GEN. SHERIDAN'S HORSE. The Later IliMtorr of the Old rhmter War Home Complied by mil Xye. New York Mercury. ' I have always taken a grat Interest in war incident", mxl more bo, perhaps, because I wasn't old , enough to put down tho rebellion mvself. I Lava been very eager to get hoi J of and hoard up in my memory all its gallant deeds of both sides, and to know the history of those who figured prominently in that great conilict has been one of my am bit.ons. I have always watched with interest the steady advancement of l'hu Shori- dan, the bluck-eved warrior with the florid face and the Winchester record I have also taken somo pains to invest! gate the lutor history of the old Win Chester war horse. "Old liienzi died in our stable a few years after the war," said a Chicago livery roan to me a short time ago, "Gen. Sheridan left him with us and in structed us to take good care of him, which we did, but he got old at last, and his teeth failed upon him, and that busted his digestion, and he kind of died of old age, I reckon." "How did Gen. Sheridan take it 7" "Oh. well. Phil Sheridan is no school crirl. Ho didn't turn away when old ltieni died and weep the monger full of scalding regret. If you know hliori- dun vou know ho don't rip tho blue dome of heaven wide open with unavuil ing wails. He just told us to take care of its romains. ratted tho old cuss on the head a littlo and walked off. Phil Sheridan don't go around weeping softly into a pink bordored wipe when a horse dies. Ho likes a good horse, but Hioni was no Jay-hye-See for swiftness, and he wasn't the purtiest horse vou over see, by no means. "Did vou read lately how Gen. Mien dan didn't rido on horseback since his old war horse died, and seems to have lost all interest in horses?" "No, I never did. He no doubt would ruther ride i a cable-car or a curriage than to jar mmscii up on a horse. 1 hats all likely enough, but, as I say, ho's a matter-of-fact littlo flu-liter from Fighttown. Ho never stopped to snoot and paw up the ground and sob himself into bronchitis over old liienzi. Ho went right on about his business, nnd like old King Whiifs-his-iiumo, ho hollered for an other hoss, and tho war department never slipped a cog. Later on 1 road that the out war horse whs eallod Winchoster, and that ho was still alive in a bluo-gruss pas ture in Kentucky. The report said thut old Winchester wasut very coltish, and that ho was ovi.lontly failing. 1 gathered tho idea that he was wearmgstoretoeth - ... I . 1 41 nnd that his memory was a li tie deft- rieut, but that he might live yot for vears. After that I met a New . York livery stable prince. at whose palace Gen. Sheridan s well-known Winchester diod of botts in '71. He told mo all about it and how Oon. Shoridan came on from Chicago at tiie time anu i.e a t ie ' head 111 Ins lap while the fleet . . . 1 it. . ..11 . . mat new irom y iiicuesver uuwu biiu saved the day stiffened in tho groat mysterious ropoto of douth. He said that Sheridan wept like a child, and as lie told the touching tale to me I wept also. I say I wept. I wept about a quart, I should say. Ho said also that tho horse's name wasn't Winchester nor liieu.i ; it was Jim. I was sorry to know it. Jim is no name for a war horse who won a victory nnd a marble bust and a poem. You can't respect a horse inuoh if his name was Jim. Alter tuuii x louuu uui biiui viuu. i ... 11. i t 11.1 nAH Sheridan s celebrated A inches or horse ...l..; .,.! Mi..l.:.. . 41, l, nl nj.,..u. ..... ....... """' out iu A vnlnntcMr lirivnte? Mint hn was : 4i .i - . .1.- . , ., , .. , ., . . ' III1U wiut no us uru.iuu, nilU HUH Utl 1 1 .1 1 I 1 1 :n - I i . f,i . . . , i naulni-n m '7:1 m mai.t f.nin nliil fin I 7!), in gi eat pain nnd ilovernor's Island; that he was buried with Masonio honors by the Good Templars and the (Irand Army of tho ltepublic; thut he was resurrected by a medical college and dissected ; that ho was cremated in New Orleans and taxi- donned for the military museum at New York. Kvory littlo while I run up against a new fact rolativo to this noted beast. Ho has diod in nineteen differ ent states, and been buried iu thirteen different styles, while his soul goes marching on. Evidently we live iu an ago of lnlormation. 1 oucun get more information nowadays, such as it is, than you kuow w hat to do with. Important Fmluren In a Carlraturr. IThe Manhattan. The faco and head are very important features in a caricature, but the tnio oaricnturist considers his work fur from complete when only tho facial part is done. For however well he may havo treated that part of his subject, he knows that ho lias yet nt call many an unsuspected but powerful ngont. The hands, ai ms, trunk, legs and feet have tales to tell. There is the long and bony haud, the short and chubby hand, tho loose-jointed arm and the arm with the rusty hinne; the fat body and the slim; the long Ions, tho short legs; the luward berd and the outward bow; the small foot and the lai j-e foot-indeed a whole regiment of foot! What may not the sloping of shoulders Ull? Or tho elevated shoulders? What brutality or sycophancy iu tho t-urvo of the back? 1 hen. w hat man but has certniu wrink les in the legs of his trousers, which belong, if not to him alone, at least to the class ho represents ? Is there no reason w hy one man's coat collar al ways encroaches upon his head and why another's always goes to meet tho small of his back? Why one man's coat always shuns the curve of the back aud auother's always rliugs to it t Why one man's shirt collar throatens to engulf him and another's insists upon modestly retiring behind the shelter of the neck? Why one man can never bring his cuffs to light and another can never hide them. 'Johnny," said the editor to Lis hopeful, "are you in the first class at school? "No," replied tho youngster. who had studied the paternal sheet, "I am registered as sccond-claos male mat-tor." How and Where Malaria Thrive. (Popular Rciooce.) The health o Tiers of New Britain, Conn., have made an instructive report concerning the prevalence of malarial diseases in that town, and their con' noction with certain supposed causes. The causes of malarial anil other miasmatio disoasos aro not identical, though thny are similar, and the two cj a-scs not infrequently occur in given locality at tho same time; and the hvgienic measures re juirod to pre vent them all are the same. The essentiul conditions for the de velopment of maluria appear to be: the presonce of the malarial perm; a high temperature and dry atmosphere; and favorable conditions of the soil; and mo aui-ence or eitner 01 tiiera will sus pend or prevent the action of the poison. 'We have power only over the third condition. "A generous rain in the vicinity has, wo think, invariably suspended its action. And yet a previous condition of moisture is csson tiul to its manifestation. All deposits of vegetable 1111 tter, such as muck, sink-drainage, heaps of decaying vegetable matter, or even wet, spocgy land, furnish tho essentials for its sup port; but it is re iiiisite that the soil shall have been very wet, or covered with water some portions of the year. A generous crop of grass, and per haps of other vegetable substance, has been known to prevent maluria. In 1870 nearly all the families in the neighborhood of some lots which were lurgely a deposit of muck, had malaria. The lots were plowed, dragged, and sowod with grass-seed, and the appear ance of the crop of grass and weeds was attondod by a disappearance of duns una ievor. iwoor tiirco oiner instances aro mentioned in tho same town in which fever-nnd-ogue was ban- ishod by giving a similar treatment to tracts of swampy and mucky soil. Another case is spooned whore malaria was prevented by tho drying up of the soworago and s'nk-water which usually found its outlet through a system of ditches cut in muck. Prepa rations were making to lay tiles 111 the ditches and till them up, but bofore this was done a heavy ruin washed them out, and "caused the prevailing sickness to abate us suddenly as it had commenced." From the first, maluria has not prevailed in those parts of the city where vegotnble deposits and filth have been absent, nnd the health of the streets in which sewers lnvo bojn laid has been remarkably good. How Mnrh Kngllnh People Write. English Illustrate 1 Magazine. There is a well-known story of a woman in tho lake district whom Cole vi.1t... l.uriuiit. I.il 1 fltn nmrmnnt nt n L'iiif i.. .i ,i. """""B " Willi uv, TfUUU tLo ,)0Htman WM out 0 explained that her sou had arranged to write to her in blank lotters, which oho should refuse, by way of letting her know that ho was well, and at the same time saving the postage. Marks and names on newspapers, which might bo franked without the ownor's consent, were also employed to convey messages, therefore not surprising to find tl It is surprising to nnd that, in the year before the introduction of the now postage, each porson on tho aver age wrote only three lettors in the course of the year. In the following vear the average was seven ; it is now thirty-six. In 181)1) thore were 82,000, 0OJ letters posted, of which about one in every thirteen was franked. In 1840, tho circulation rose to 1!),000,000, al though franking was abolished. At the present time it has reached the astonishing total of 1, '280,000,000. It will perhaps be gratifying to the pride of Englishmen to learn that not- ,:,i,Dirt,. i ,1. 1. , 1 i,. Ltttioa of ScotlallJi eauU luomber o( tUe uu.iiuiuunj mmo n I .ro uu mo youo th rty-ono letters nthe yoar, while in .. .-' . J ' . r.ngiand and Wales tho number is forty - one; in Ireland only Boventoon. ,. I I. ... " ;., uiiv tuuiv.iouu tu..u. tuiivsiruuuuuua is uui t ui.u imui in buo uruHiu vl ilia " . Post-curds did not exist in 1830 ; they are a wholly now invention within tho uiomory of ull of us. Their circulation now exceeds 144,000,000. n addition, 288,000,000 of books, packets and circulars, and 140,000,000 of newspapers, passed through the post in tho year, making a total of moro than l,8'j'000,000 of packets of ono kind and another. The increase in the circulation during a single year is now nearly equal to tho total number of lettors curried bv the dop ..tiujnt iu 1830. So Chance to Itertlfy Mistake. Horatio Seymour. Whon I was a young man there livod in our neighborhood a farmer who was usually reported to be a very liberal man, and uncommonly upright in his dealings. When ho had any of the pro- duco of his farm to dispose of he made it an invariable rule to give good measure rather more than would bo roiiuirod of him. One of his friends, observing lam irequontly doing so, questioned him as to why he did it; he told him he gave too much, and said it was to his disadvantage. Now, mark the answer of this excellent man : "Clod has permitted mo but one journey through the world, and when I am gone I cannot return to rectify mis takes." 1 he old farmers mistakes were of tho sort he did not want to rectify. Prentice's Lal Vear. (Heury Vatterm.l George D. Trentice did not drink a drop during tho last year of his life. 1 he first day of January of that year ho said he intended to make this tho best year of his life. Ho carriod out hts good resolution, and it is wonderful what amount of excellent editorial mattor ho wrote. The paper could not keep np with him, and it always had copy on hand. At tho close of tho year ho died, having succeeded in mak ing, as he had resolved, his last yoar his best. Kather leraonal. While an Indiana editor was home nick with typhoid fever, and his wife and littlo daughter wore suffering at the same time with diphthoria and scar latina, the office bov clipped and pub lished as a leader the following medi cal note: "Typhoid fever, diphtheria and scarlatina are the results of human iguorauoe, stupidity, laziness and filth, rather than visitations of God." AT THE HOT SPRINGS I)r Htorea and Doctors The County Jail Arkansas? Poverty. W. D." in New York Times. J Y'ou will not be surprised, of course, at the number of drug stores along the street. I started out once to oonnt on bit fingers, but the fingers ran out before 1 was half way np the street. If a man could by any possibility throw a stone in Hot Springs without hitting a doctor he would be sure to bit the win dow of a drug store. Here in the Ar lington hotol the street makes a little curve, running up past the opera house, a neat little theatre, and so straight on nn till it ends at the foot of o mountain. then branching out to the right and the left, and extending a mile or more in each direction. Then, in every way you can imagine, north, south,' east and west, and in all the possible angles between these points, smaller streets run, in which are the dwelling-houses, ell built of w ood, some of thom expensive, some very cheap and none w.th any very distinctive features, except that it is custoniory to build a line uouse, snend a few hundred dollars in ginger bread work about tho cornices ana piazzas, ana leave tue iront yaru in a state of nature, which hero means a state of rocks and dead grass and tall bushes. Nine houses of every ten in the town take either boarders, or lodgers, w hen they can get them. Wherever you go you see tho sign staring you in the fuce : A VACANT BOOM. This invariably means that the build ing is a lodging-house, and that lodgers are urtrentlv needed : but the announce nient of "a" vacant room gives it rather an air of there being a constant brisk demand l r places and of one of the rooms just happening, by great good fortune, to bo vacant. This "vucunt room business is curriea to sucn an excess thut it is a standing joke, Peoplo try to find lodgers for rooms in sheds, out-houses and garrets, mere . it . l was a big stove stumun ; ior several (lavs on the ed"e of the sidewalk in front of ono of tho saloons, labeled "fcr sale." One night tho "for sale" sign disappeared und iu the morning the rusty old stove rejoiced in tho an nouncemeut, ''a vacant room 1 Somo iker had stolen a lodging-house sign and hung it over the stove-pipe. Tho oke was so very pat everybody saw it ut once, and there was a crowd around tho stove all morning. I doubt whether there is any place of its size in tho world where more curious things are to be seen. Tho hot springs, of courso, are most curious of all ; but there are many others. For instance : You go down to the railway station and find a neat brick depot, perhaps as fine and modern building of the kind as there is in the whole south. You walk fifty yards away from it and you come upon a log shanty, perhaps twelve or fifteen feet square, with no doors in the walls, and with a rickety veranda somehow growing out of the roof. You notice that a little bit of a window, not more than a foot square, in the front wall is protected with iron bars. This leads you to make inquiries about the building, and you learn that it is the Garland county jail. Curiosity induces you to walk around tho corner of tho hut to the foot of a shady wooden stair way, by which you climb to tho ver andu, where sits the jailor. He in vitcs you to entor a gurrot room in which you cun just stand upright, raises a trap in the floor, and shows you the four or five prisoners con fined beneath. When a new prisoner is brought a ladder is lowered, the pris oner climbs down, the ladder is with drawn, and the trap is fastened down again. In this hole the county prisoners are kept until tho county "judge" rides over on his mule and opens the county court. The prisoners, when tho trap is opened, look up and gibe tho jailer and visitors,' ask for tobacco, crack jokes about the weather, and make as much capital as they can out of this break in tho monotsny. You go C00 yards in the other direc tion from tho depot and you come to the old station, immediately behind this is a high aud very stoop hill. Visit it almost any pleasant alteinoon and you will see a dozen youngsters climb ing the lull, drugging small floats alter them, just us our northern bovs do after a snow-storm, Theso boys seat themselves on their sleds and come down the hill liko lightniug, although the grouud is perfectly bare. Tho soil is full of sonpstone, or some other slippery rock, nnd the boys have u sport thut many a iew lork lad has wished for tho fun of riding down hill in summer time. You go a littlo further out aud you come to cabins whore poor people live, both white and black. You know whnt poverty is when you entor ono of them, and see that the only fur niture is a bundlo of rags for a bed, and the only food such scraps as can be tagged from the hotels. I saw a pretty littlo colored shaver in one of these shanties, one day, munching a piece of dry breud as if he enjoyed it. He let a bit of it fall in the ashes, and his "mammy," who sat on an inverted pail before the opeu fire, hunted it up lor him, sayiug, "Good Lawd, honey, don't waste yer flour bread. Taint often yer gets it!" You will not often sit down and talk for ten min utes with any male person in Garluud county without the conversation run ning into knives and pistols and fights nnd tho gontleman telling you whom he has "licked," or whom he is going to "lick," or why he husu't "licked" him, or why he would like to "lick" him. But "you need not mind this, because it is all talk. When two men really do have a fight, even in the way I have described, it makes a great ex citement and people talk about it for weeks. Tho waters I believe to be equal to the lest that is claimed for them. For paralysis, rheumatism, and all disorders of the skin and blood they seemed to be almost a sovereign cure. If more peo ple kuew about them peoplo would come here. And they should come cither in the spring or "fall, and stay not less than two or three months, if they expect to reap any benefit Summer is to hot, winter too cold. They should, of course, keep clear of all "runners and go first to one of the U'ohr loige hotels the Arlington, Avenue or Wavorly-and take two or lav. to look around before con sulting a doctor. In that time they will have been recommended to fift phsicians as "tho best in tho place, and will have received tempting offers from quite that many boarding houses. TWO DAYS WITH KING WILLIAM. a rnlr Dntrhdilrl Pay a Visit to the Jovial Old Monarch. Dutch Cor. Springfield Republican. Speaking of Maynbeer Vanderkamer brings pleasant rememorances, enjjB ciolly of his daughter Hesther, a bright girl of lo, ana ono oi seven bism?. ouo was mv cruide and companion in many flineditious hero and there, one of which is worth telling. You hive read Mucaulay and Motley, and have taken some interest in William of Orange, I am sure. At least I have. Well, 1 said one day to Hesther anderkamer: see how your common people are just like the Dutch settlers of Aew lork and I suppose your king u just what the prince of Orange was "Vou should go nnd see King William, " said the audacious girl, and the next moment we made a plan, lue professor w as the preceptor of the royal princess, and his daughters are quite familiar in tho roval family. So I was not much surprised when Hesther sent a note to his majesty telling him of the Amorican lady, "whose hero was our great William, and who is sure that he is to be seen in your majesty, and who would be so clad to bo presented that she might see just how our hero ap peared, etc King William, who is quite bonr geoipe nnd independent, answered the note as follows : Dear Child Hesther: Your friend may try to nnd tue umg oi tne great vv Uliam in me. She and vou 'imv come Tuesday and mmain as long as j line with us, and I can promise that we livo mucn as our ancestors, tnougn we nmy not be like tuem. VV 1LLIAM. 1 have this note among my treasures, ai.il I shall keep it as a valued memento So wo two girls went to the royul palace on that Tuesday, and remained till Thursday morning. I might give a description of the buildings of the court and pon-pictures of the royal family; but I spare you. King William is a jovial old gentleman, and I had very nice time. Just now the quostion is in regard to eating and etiquette; and if we are to see iu the modern Hollander the customs of our Niou Nederlauder, in the king of Holland we can see how that old-time William of Orango and of our school history used to live. The royal Dutchman rises a littlo after J and takes brandy nnd water with his breakfast. Then he takes a short walk, aud until the time for kofl'y is busy with stale affairs. The second meal is much like that of the common people. Ho drinks four or hve cups of strong black collee, and has buttored toast of brown bread with it. Soft-boiled eggs are always on the table, for he is a light eater. Dinner is always a grand affair, and there are never less than a dcKen guests at the table. This meal, like the others. is much the same as that of the country Ioik, except that the royal Host and his gentlemen guests have their Tokay and Johannisberger to discuss, and the ladies have plates of confections. Tea is invariably served at midnight. I have sometimes wondered if Uueen Vic toria ever eats potatoes, and, in the sumo line of thought, it does me good to know that King William of Holland eats buttered toast. Verilv, Diedrich Knickerbocker, the Dutch were just what you represented. Hut I am sorry to soy that "olykoecks" and baggy breeches I did not see. I wonder if they are lost. I am almost inclined to believe that the "koecks" aro no longer made and that the breeches are out grown. PilU In France. Pall Mall Gazette French Hollowavs, if they do not be come millionaires, at least do a very flourishing trade. One of tho most curious Bights of the kind is the famous pill manufactory of Dijon, founded many years ago by a Dijonnnis chemist, who invented or introduced in that city pill-making by machinery. A note worthy feature in this commerce is that depression of trado, bad seasons, and even national calamities, do not affect the sale of pills. People at any rate, French people will not give up theso delicacies, however hard the times may be and however much economy they aro obliged to exercise in other mutters. Ihe quantity of pills taken in France must bo enormous, judging from the nctivity displayed at the Dijon manufac tory. Wo have known one Fronch lady alone to spend 40 a year upon pills, w hich, it must be admitted, can bo had in great variety. Tor. camphor, castor oil, these aro among tho fnmily pills, and they are got up in tho neatest and most at tractive manner. The capsules have an envelope of slightly sweetened gela tine, and when bottled ready for sale look moro like sweetmeats "than any thing else. Perhaps the agreeableness of their medicines is the reason whv French peoplo from childhood upward are so good tempered. Onr Nchool. Judge Toiinree's Lecture. And I am afraid the dude has cot into some of our schools. We are edu cating our children either for the White House or the poor-house. Seven eighths of them are to make their own way in this hard, practical world, yet they are made to swallow volumoi of sciences and classics very impractical. Xervouanrrn. One day a little girl said : "Mother. I feel nervous." "Nervous !" said the mother; "what is 'nervous'?" "Why, it's being in a hurry all over !" was the reply. The mite hod given a definition worth placing in the dictionaries. St Taul Tioneer Tress: Perhaps tho instances where a battle is won by strength of the enthusiasm of numbers aro rarer than those where utter route is precipitated by the flight of a few ciavens, whose spirit conquers bravery and demoralizes organization. "Yes, (tire us fun and laughter,. And band the smile around; We cannot laugh much after Tbrj put us in the ground." Mechanical Mistral Instrnnenta. Chicago Herald. The first mechanical musical instru ments in which perforated shoot musio was used were classed under the gen eral head of orguinettes, the manufac ture of which was begun nearly a decade since. The success with which they met was so sp ntanoous that the name under which substan tially the same instrument is now known became legion, and the concerns en gaged in their manufacture have in creased in the same ratio. Like most new inventions they were at first crude, cumbersome and complicated, easily getting out of ordor, and generally but poorly constructed. However, the main principles being correct, the domand which even- snch poorly constructed goods created stimulated competition, and improvements rapidly followed each other, until the mechanical instru ments of to-day would be hardly recog nizable compared with those originally offered. The common orguinette represents the cheapest style of any automatia in strument in the markot. It is very much admired, and has become quite a favorite, it being neat, compact and simple in its construction. It has a full, clear tone, is well made, and, in range of music, is practically unlimited. The top is easily raised, or entirely re moved ; the music then laid in, ready to run, the top being then replaced and hold in position by springs, the instru ment is reudy for use. A piece of musio can be repeated as often . as may bo required by simply joining the ends together, which, are already mucilaged for this purpose, and then passing the band underneath the orguinette, a space at the bottom being left for the purpose. This is often very convenient whon two or more ver- verses of a song are to be sung, or in musio for round dancing, where a waltz, polka or schottische needs to be re peated indefinitely. Some of the orguinettes have one large bellows instead of three small ones, filling the entire space under the instrument, and constructed upon a new principle, ono of the main features be ing its increased wind capacity, en abling the performer to render slow or fust musio with equal accuracy; or, in other words, to play the music as orig inally intended. Thore is an "express ion box" on the top, forming a tone chamber, which, by moans of a hinged ooVtT, can . bo oponed or closed by the performer's left hand while playing, thus producing crescendo or diminuendo effects at pleasnro. II r. Mlffln's Terrible Iynamlte Una. Xorwalk (Coun.) Hour.J On the floor in one of tho rooms of the Norwalk Iron Works company is a long, heavy cylinder. Its length is about twenty-eight feet and the diam eter of the bore is about four inches. In another department men are at work constructing an air-compressor. When the latter is completed it will be con nected with the tube mentioned above, and what the inventor confidently be lieves will be the most tremendous en gine of war will be completed and ready for trial. Several years ago, while in Washing ton, a gentleman from Ohio heard a naval officer say that if a gun could be constructed that would throw dvnamite it would thoroughly revolutionize mod ern warfare. Mr. Miflin that was the gentleman's name proceeded at once to invent such a gun, and he has reason to believe that it will be a perfect suc cess, it would not do to use powder as propelling power, for its sudden ac tion wonld explode the dynamite cart ridge at the start and blow the gun to atoms. Compressed air at a pressure of about 300 pounds to the square inch will take the place of powder, and the gun now in South Norwalk is expected to throw three-pound cartridge a distance of two miles. Imagine the effect of a cartridge of even so small a weight ' striking the side or deck of a vessel or the ramparts of a fort. The explosion would be terrible in its results. If the gun is a success, others of a size suffi cient to throw 100 pounds of dynamite ten miles will be constructed. The gun, loaded with sand instead of dynamite, will be teste ! in South Norwalk at an early day in the presence of naval offi cers, scientific men and others. A I'niqne Volume, Boston Herald. A valuable addition has just been mado to the Concord public library by the purchase of a manuscript volume, prepared by Mr. George Tohnan, of that town, containing an exact oopy of all the inscriptions on the gravestones and tablets in the two older burial grounds of Concord. Tho inscriptions are copied, line for line and letter for letter, with all the peculiarities of spell ing and punctuation which appear on tho stones, and with even the form of the letters preserved. Several of the stones are over 200 years old, and are sunk in the ground, and so covered with moss, as to render the inscriptions nearly undecipherable. The labor of transcribing these epitaphs has been great, and has occupied Mr. Tolman's leisure for a number of vears. The vol ume is a large record book of about five undred pages.beautuully executed, and contains, beside the inscriptions, a large amount of genealogical notes carefully arranged and indexed. The value of this unique work wiil increase with years, and it will doubtless be con sidered, in a century or two from this time, the most precious treasure in the possession of the library. The book will be preserved in the safe of the library building, and its use guarded with the ntmost care. Dlrkena and the Pill Man. Inter Ocean. Charles Dickens once received a check for 1,000 from Holloway, the pill man, which was place! at the au thor's disposal on condition that one line of complimentary reference to Holloway 's cures should appear in the book which Dickens was then publish ing in monthly numbers. Dickens sent the check back by the messenger who brought it without any answer at all. Ti. K. Bowker: Nature does not in trude her law. It is felt only when man runs against it Nature never "nags." , OKH.( . rectus ns