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.... . ' - " T: . 1 '. - ; I -r '; THE INDEPENDENT. Brery Thursday Evening, ST H. B. LUCE, Office, - - - Old Court House, . n ILLS BOKO, OREOOX. THE INDEPENDENT Advertising Bates. hVUAI. AUVKHTIMRSICWTS (COln.) One iiar nr !. h Insertion ,. ..1 JJ one .iirr each ut)MMuu lunerliun M IH'MIWItftM AIVKRTIBVKWT (coin.) Independent tun V eolV ouli col 1 ir. I q. JJ. !'). 4iq. r I month.... 00 ( Oil S 0" 4 $ 7 01J SHagl opy par jr S3 SO Ktnglacopjr tlx inontba 1 5 Mugl nuinbr 10 VOL. 4. HILLSBOKO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1876. NO. 32. lyr Was gtOB Juiuulh... 0U 8BU 7 0U H 1000 1TH HN JiuoutU.. 100 7 UU 00 11 OJ 11 0U !fl OU OS (mouth... ? S! 10 ai lBU IS UU 17 i 13 fti 60 00 10 M 1 04 JO 4 2J 0U( ft 0U 60 t K0 00 4- i Two Pictures. An old farm-house with meadows wide, And sweet with clover on each side; A bright-eyed boy who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed about, And wishes his one thought all day: "Oh! if I could but fly away From this dull spot the world to see, How happy, happy, happy. How happy I would be!" Amid the city's constant din, A man who round the world has been Is thinkiag.th'mking all day Ion;;: Ob! if I could only trace once more The lleld-puth to the farm-house door, The old green meadows could I see, How happy, happy, happy, How happy I would be!" Down by a Rill. Down by a rill a murmuring rill, I walk with a lady fair; In the evening, when the clouds are still, I gaze on her glossy hair. Ami I watch the fading sunlight dwell On her peerless face I love so well. Down by the rill we walk in the morn Half hidden by whispering limes: Then linger beside a tield of com, When I think of sunniest climes, f a home 'mong Tuscan vines and flowers 'eath azure skies, through uuclouded hours. CMften I see the lady at eve, Alone by the musical rill; Tha spot I own I am loth to leave, ,JFor that I've never a will; I oiily wish to be where she goes Love in my heart like dew in a rose! I wonder whether the laily loves With a fervor true as mine; Often I think of two parted doves, That long for each other and pine; But cannot learn if she cares for me. The truth is hid like a pearl in the sea! Down by the rill some day I may know That the lady cares for me; For unto the church we both may go That moment I longlo see; For chimes of the church-bells daily bring Thoughts of a bride and a golden ring! Oddities of Oratory. Canning was sure of speaking his be9t if he rose hi an awful fuuk. To feel his heart beating rapidly, to be frightened at the sound of his own voice, to wish the floor would open and swallow him, were signs to Lord Lytton of an oratorical triumph. Men of ordinary calibre, how ever, tind fright .rather a forerunner of failure. The Hon. member sticking fast at "Mr. Speaker, I am astonished " the Congressman pulled dowu by a ju didiou friend with "You're coming out of the hole you went in at?" as soon as he had delivered himself of, "The gener ality of mankind in general are generally disposed to exercise oppression upou the generality of mankind in general," found that fear, like passion, hangs weight upon the tongue, eveu it' it does not master it quite. Not less painful was the experience of the young aspirant to Parliamentary honors, whose maiden effort began and ended with a few inco herent sentences, as a mist rose before his eyes, and the Speaker's w ig swelled and swelled until it covered the whole House, and he sank back into his seat, resolved to apply, without delay, for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; as convinced that oratory was not . his forte as the modest missionary who told au Exeter Hall audience that he could not make a speech, nor sing a song, but should be happy to show them his arnit, tattocd by the natives. This good man's otfer shocked some of his hearers, no doubt; but much greater was the dismay created among aim august assemblage by a right revcreud father imprudently announcing his inten tion of dividing his observations upon a certain bill into twelve parts. Ere the threat could be executetl, the Duke of Wharton charitably interixsed with a story of a drunken fellow passing St. Paul's as the cathedral clock struck twelve, and, after counting the strokes, looking up reproachfully at the clock, exclaimed : "Confound you t why couldn't you give us all that at oncer' After that the peers heard nothing of the bishop's views. Henry Clay dumbfounded a wordv opponent, who boasted that he spoke for posterity, by retorting, "Yes, and you seem resolved to speak until your audience arrives!" No adverse comment, pertinent or impertinent, would have stayed the flow of Daniel Webster's eloquence; but he did once "cave in" most iguominiously. Happening to make one of the crowd at a Boston poultry show, Daniel stood up in response to a general call, but no sooner hud "Ladies and gentlemen" passed his lips, than a giant Cochin protested with such a fright ful crow that the rebuked orator sat down again without uttering another word. "Webster .was a great .example of the American weakness for speechifying in ana out ot season, so comically illus trated by Artemus Ward's story of an Ohio execution, when, upon the sheriff asking a murderer if he wished to sav anything before he gave the signal to cast off, a local "orator" pushed himself to the front, saying: "If he hasn't, if our ill-starred, fellow-citizen don't feel in clined to make a speech, and is in no hurry, I sheu Id like to avail myself of the opportunity to make some remarks on the necessity l of a new protection tariff." Abraham faincoln proved that it is not always necei sary to use tall talk, and plenty of it, to win the suffrages of his dountrymen. He made his debut on the -VjQUtical stag witn me ioi lowing speecn jlitical sta 'GenUenen land lellow-citizens I pre- mime voU all know who I am. 1 am bumble Abraham Lincoln. I have been r.i;rirpd bv manv friends to become a ..arwlidate for the Legislature. My poli tic? are short and sweet, like the old -oman's dance. I am in favor of a na tional bank of the internal improvement system, and a high protection tariff. These are mv sentiments and political principles. If elected, I shall be thauk- lul; it not, it will be all the same." Butler's knight held no arguments so potent as golden ones: "What makes all doctrine plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before Prove false again? two hundred more." Mr. Cobden, apparently, was of the same opinion, since he pronounced a Leaguer's, "I cannot make a speech, but I give you a thousand pounds," the Injst speech he had ever heard. He would have admired Brigham Young's way of putting things to a party of new-comers to Utah: "Don't lather yourselves about religious duties. You have been chosen for this work, and God will take care of your souls. Be of good cheer. Your first duty is to learn how to grow a cabbage, and, along with the cabbage, an onion, a tomato, a sweet potato; then how to feed a pig, to build a house, to plant a garden, to rear cattle, and to bake bread. In a word, your first duty is to live. The next duty for those who can't speak it now is to learn English, the language of Ood, the lan guage of the Book of Mormon, the lan guage of these latter days. These things you must do first, the rest will be deliv ered to you in proper season." Jemmy Thomson's tongue wagged to a lively tone when publishing the merits and demerits of his haltered wife in Carlisle Market Place. "Gentlemen," said this matrimonial auctioneer, "I have to offer to your notice my wife, Mary Ann Thomson, otherwise Williams, whom I mean to sell to the highest and fairest bidder. Gentlemen, it is her wish, as well as mine, to part forever. She has been to me only a born serpent. I took her for my comfort and the good of my home; but she became my torment, a domestic curse, a night invasion, and a daily devil. Gentlemen, I speak from my heart when I say, God deliver us from troublesome wives and frolicsome women! avoid them as you would a mad dog, a roaring lion, a loaded pistol, cholera morbus, Mount Etna, or any other pestilential thing In nature. Now, having shown you the dark side of my wife, and told you her faults and her fail ings, I will introduce the bright and sunny side of her, and explain her qual ifications and goodness. She can read novels and milk cows; she can laugh and weep with the same ease that you could take a glass of ale when thirsty. Indeed, she reminds me of what the poet says of women in general: 'Heaven gave to women the peculiar grace To laugh, to weep, to cheat the human .race. She can make butter and scold the maid; she can sing Moore's melodies and pleat her frills and caps; she cannot make rum, gin, or whisky, but she is a good judge of their quality, from long experi ence in tasting them. I, therefore, offer her, with all perfections and imperfec tions, for the sum of thirty shillings." No one offered so much, and Mrs. Thomson was eventually knocked down for twenty shillings and a Newfoundland dog, and departed in high glee with her buyer. "Ladies and gentlemen," said an Iri-.li manager to his audience of three, "as there is nobody here, I'll dismiss you all; the performance of this night will not be performed, but will be repeated to morrow evening." Possibly this is an invention, but it is not two years since Mr. Speaker heard himself addressed thus: "Sir, seeing the effects of sorrow, u)on my life I thought it was to-morrow, lieally, sir, I don't know whether it is to morrow or yesterday, but I want to know at what time the House will meet." Apropos of a position to close Irish pub lie houses altogether on Sunday, the same gentleman exclaimed : "Let the heavens fall, but let not an atom of injustice be done to Ireland." Something Aliout Venus. It is strange that of all the stars we see Venus is the only one which is in reality like the earth in size. All the others are either very much smaller or very much larger. Most of them in fact all the stars prop erly so called are great globes of fire like our sun, and are thousands of times arger than the globe we live on. A few others are like Venus and the earth in not being true stars, but bodies traveling round the sun and owing all their light to him. But it so happens that not one even of these is nearly of the same size as the earth; they are all either very much larger or very much smaller. Ve nus is the only sister-world the earth has among all the orbs which travel round the sun. There may be others in the far off depths of space, traveling round some one or other of those suns which we call "stars," but if so, we can never know that such sisier-worlds exist, for no tele scope could ever bo made which would show them to us. In the first part of this article, I have given an account of the various changes of appearance presented by the beautiful star which sometimes shines as Hesperus, the star of evening, and sometimes as Lucifer, the morning star. Let us now consider what this star really is, so far, at least, as we can learn by using telescopes and other instruments. Venus has, in the first place, been measured, and we find that she is a globe nearly as large as the earth. Like the earth, she travels round and round the sun continually, but not in the same time as the earth. I he earth goes round the sun once in twelve months, while Venus goes round once in seven and a half months, so that her year, the time in which the seasons run through their changes, is four and a half months less than ours. If V itnna 1i.il? ...... . 1:1, . i . . bi:u.iuu3 ii he uui a ai iug' summer, autumn and winter each ot these seasons last eight weeks. Venus, also, like our earth, turns on her axis, and so has night and day as we have. Her day is not quite so long as ours, but the difference about twenty-five minutes is uoi very important. A Lse for VoiiCANOKs. Defunct volcanoes are to be utilized. A hospital for incurables is to be built in the crater Solatera, lying between Naples and Pozznoli, in Southern Italy. The vapor arising from this crater is charged with sulphur and arsenic, and is said to be useiui in mng diseases. i his crater is owned by the government, but for some time has accommodated an es tablishment for the manufacture of chemicals. A Hard Bombardment. The greatest ammunition that we have heard of lately was used by the celebrated Commodore Coe, of the Montevidian navy, who in an engagement with Admi ral Brown, of the Buenos service, fired every shot from his locker. "What shall we do, sir?" asked the first lieutenant; "we've not a single shot aboard round,grapc,canister and double headed all gone." "Powder gone, eh?" asked Coe. "No, sir got lots of that." "We bad confounded hard cheese a round Dutch one for dessert at dinner to day, don't you rememlwr it?" said Coe. "I ought to; I broke the carving-knife in trying to cut it, sir." "Are there any on board?" "About two dozen took 'em from a drover." "Will they go into the 18 pou riders?" "By thunder, Commodore, that's the idea; I'll try 'em," cried the first luff. And in a few minutes the tire of the old Santa Maria (Cue's ship), which had ceased entirely, now opened, and Admi ral Brown found more shot dying over his head. Directly one of them struck bis mainmast, and as it did so it scattered in every direction. "What the devil h that the enemy are firing?" asked Brown ; but nobody could tell. Directly another one came in through port and killed two men who stood near mm; then, striking the bulwarks, bursted into Hinders. "By Jove, this is too much; this is some new Paixham or other I don't like era at all!" cried Brown. And then, as four or five more of them came slap through his sails, he gave the orders to till away, and actually backed out of the fight, receiving a parting broadside of )utch cheese. This is an actual fact. Our informant was the first lieutenant of Coy's ship. John Raskin' Remarks to Girl's Altout Dress. Dress as plain as your parents will allow you, out in bright colors (it they become ou and in the best materials that is to ay, iii those which will wear the longest. When you are really in want of a new dress, buy it (or make it) in the fashion, ut never quit an old one merely because it has become unfashionable. And if the fashion be costly, you must not follow it. iou may wear broad stripes, or narrow, bright colors, or dark, short petticoats, or ong (in moderation), as the public wish you; but you must not buy yams ot use less stun to make a knot or flounce ot, nor drag them behind you over the round, ami your walking dress must never touch the ground at all. 1 have t much of the faith I once had in the common sense, ami even in tne personal lelicacy, of the present race of average English women, by seeing how they will illow their dresses to sweep the streets, it is the fashion to be scavengers, earn dressmaking yourself, with pains mil time, and use a part of every day in needlework, making as pretty dresses as you can for jxwr people who have not the time or taste to make them nicely for themselves. You are to show them in your ow n wearing w hat is most right ami graceful, and help them to choose what will le prettiest and most becoming in their own station. Maxims from Billings. True kriti- cisin koiisists in saying a kind thing ov in author whenever you kan, and when ever you kant it konsists in holding your ongue. Tricks upon travelers are al ways dangerous, l hav known a ueu hornet to wake up and sting just once more. Truth kan take kare of itself, but a lie hnz got to Ik; watched az karetul az sore thuni. Misery luvs company, but it is always jealous. There never waz a man yet but what thought hiz lame back wuz a good deal lamer than eunybody lses. Nature haz turned out sum indif- fierent jds, but never turned out one so nditferent that art could duplikate it. fhe sovereign mistake is that things are valued for what they have cost, and not tor what they are worth. Ingratitude iz wuss than hypokrasy. Mankind have ecn falling tor over 5,000 years, and I lon't think they have struck bottom yet. Tricing to interest a small audience with komik lektur iz a great deal like trieing to hit the two corner pins on a ten pin alley w ith a single ball. Rkst in Activity. Use counts for has much with men, and tne man wno grown gray in the activities of a business lite is more likely to find his leisure, without duties, burdensome rather than restful. He regrets the sense of impor tance due to activity; he misses the ex citements of his profession, the varied circumstances which m ule it always new and fresh, the very element of doubt and the unknown which rave it the charm of an unread poem, an unexplored mine. Now all is fixed, settled, absolute; he knows his income to a farthing, and the lory of greater gain has passed. He has nothing to do that interests him, for he has been too long in one groove to le able to run easily in new ones, and he is too old to learn. He is rich, if you will, and he is at rest; but though he antici pated both these conditions with a yearn ing ardor that lasted for years he finds the realization dull, and he, too, chokes on the dust where he looked to eat the fruit. The Philadelphia thieves think it hard that they are not allowed to go to the Centennial grounds. They have written the following note to the mayor: "To the Honorable Mayor Stokeley, of Phila delphia Dear Sir: We, the so-called thieves of Philadelphia, are very an xious to see the Centennial and are afraid to go there for fear of getting nine tv davs. We will not do anything wrong on that day, and if you will be so kind to name a day for us to go there you will oblige us very much, l our friends Js Need." It is hard to tell whether the states man at the top of the world, or the ploughman at the bottom of it, labors , hardest and suffers most. Croup, Bronchitis or Catarrh. A mother should learn rather to avoid the muse that give rise to sickness in the nursery, than to attempt to treat the various maladies of her children when they do occur. Pretention Is her province, and very much under her control, if thoughtful; while to eyre comes under the cognizance of the educated and ex perienced physician. Therefore, mothers, and esecially Jtirses, should not be too self-reliant, and persuade themselves that they can assume the responsibility of cases, which, terminating fatally, produce a lasting and unhappy impress upon their minds, of neglect of duty toward the little ones, in not calling earlier for profession al assistance. In urgent cases, however, and where the doctor Cannot readily be had, a nau seating emetic of lobelia, tartar emetics or hive syrup, with a warm bath, fid lowed by an active purgative, if needs be, can be resorted to by the mother, and will Imj generally approved of by the family physician, unless of homeopathic faith, and then aconite every quarter or half hour alone, or alternated with spongia or iodine,may le administered until relief is obtained, or the dictor arrives. There is no question but that many cases of true croup may be thus promptly arrested in the very incipiency of its attack. The emetic, and mercurial and even bleeding treatment, with leeches and blisters to the throat, is still largely in vogue in true or inflammatory croup; but death so fre quently ensues thereafter, that it remains a mooted question whether the disease or the treatment is the most destructive to life. Bronchitis, or acute inflammation of the bronchial tubes. Children of adages are liable to bronchial catarrh, or 'Vatar rhal fever," an affection commencing w ith fever, slight sleepiness, often discharges id mucous from the eyes, ami freq lent cough. If the disease is not ar rested, soon a mucous rattling in the chest is discernable and may be heard at quite a distance from the couch. The skin, too, becomes very hot and the pulse very rapid. When the little sufferer cries after each fit of coughing, the pleura is probably involved in the mischief. The lungs too frequently become involved, as indicated by rapid respiration, a dark color of the lips, and by frequent moaning. In fatal cases the rattling respiration is uninterrupted and more crepatious, the pulse becomes more anil more feeble, and more frequent; skin and extremities grow cold, face pale, and lips blue. In favorable cases, the rattling is not audible, except just before the return of the cough; the little patient becomes more lively, and sleeps with les inter ruption of the cough; but as the disease declines, there is danger of intestinal in flammation, as dysentery, which is rather to be attributed to the harsh treatment often instituted than to the ordinary ten- leney ot the disease. It must be con ceded, however, that there is a natural sympathy Itetweeuthe respiratory and al imentary passages, arising from identity of their structure, and to the susceptibility of inflammatory action from exposure to cold. When this disease attacks children of a scrofulous temtR-rament, their upper lips are apt to swell durin the progress suspicion of ot the disease (hence the worms), the skin becomes intensely hot, and if the disease is not speedily checked, hectic fever succeeds, denoting the exist ence of fatal pulmonary tuln;rculosis consumption. Although infants never expectorate, as do adults, yet as soon as the inflammation producing the excess of mucous secretion in the bronchial tubes subsides, the re dundant effusion is speedily absoricd, as convaleseuce is fully established. Hence mothers need not be unnecessarily alarmed about this mucous rattling, neither is it necessary to vomit the child as often as is resorted to by some, through fear id" it suffocating or choking up. In reference to treatment, the mother can only be advised to give her child an emetic in the very incipiency of the at tack, to unload the stomach as well as the bronchial tubes during the act of vomit ing; a purgative, also, especially if the child has been eating quite hearty, and is rather constipated withal. By these agents the clogged system is unloaded, the skin relaxed, the head relieved, fever abated, and a crisis is often reached, so that good nursing and a light regimen are all that is further required for a few days. Peter son Magazine. Hot Rooms. Scarcely any one thing is so injurious to the health as living in a temperature much above temperate heat. The degeneracy of the human constitu tion from what it was fifty or a hundred years ago in this country is attributed very much to this source. The introduction of stoves and furnaces has worked much evil as well as benefit. Then the improvements in the construc tion of dwellings, making roonis almost air tight, and closed in with double win dows, renders such residences, with the modern heating apparatus applied, really unhealthtul, especially to ersons send ing most of their time indoors. And those who are passing in and out of such rooms must be greatly exposed to taking sudden colds. Again, in the cold season. it is unwise to commence keeping rooms or a residence very warm, inasmucn as n - m you do, you must continue ami increase the temperature through the winter. Furniture Polish. If you wish one of the simplest and best, get a pint bottle and till it with equal parts of boiled linseed oil and kerosene oil; any drug gist has the former; mix and apply with a flannel, and rub dry with a second nan nel. It will remove all scratches and white marks made by bruising. Destroy the rags or keep in open sight, as oiled cloths have been known to ignite spon taneously. ClIARIXITTE RUSSE FOR DTSPEHICg. Line a dish with sponge cake, heat to nearly the boiling point one pint of milk and stir in briskly half a cup of corn starch dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of cold water; cook for a minute; then add half a cup of white sugar, and pour the mixture into the dish ; serve not. Choked by a Fish. One of the most remarkable deaths that has ever occurred in this country was that of Mr. W. D. Lord on the 18th inst. I give the particulars as near as I can: Mr. W. D. Lord, Frank Lord, George Elland and Thomas Ballard went to Weaver's Mills, seining. Messrs. Ballard and Elland were dragging the seine, and had carght two small fish. Mr. W. D. Lord, who was some twenty feet from them, swam through water about waist deep to them, took the two fish and placed them between his teeth, and undertook to swim back to shore. One of the fish being larger than the other the least one was not secure, and with an effort to get away went down Mr. Lord's throat, lodg ing securely in his swallow. Becoming aware of his condition Mr. Lord apjtealed to bis comrades for help. "Help me, lMys!" were his last words. They sprang immediately to his assistance and got him ashore. He made several strong efforts to get his hand down his mouth to pull out the li-.li, but in live minutes or less time life was extinct. The news came to me about three hours after that he had been choked to death by a live fish. Hav ing beard oth-r tish stories I whs inclined to discredit this one, and to be perfectly satisfied Upon the subject I requested Dr. Thomas Mullins to go out with me to Mrs. Lord's, mother of the deceased, ami, if she consented, we would extract the fi-h, if, indeed, there be any fish. When we readied the corpse we found it on the wagon, and everybody nearly ready to repair to the place of interment; but there was such anxiety on the parts of relatives and friends to know for certain the real cause of his death, they freely consented for the doctor to dissect him, which he did in a very short time, and to our utter astonishment produced a small perch fish, about four and a half inches in length and two inches wide, which he found well in the swallow. I have given you the facts in the case. fatter to the Moutyumery All.) Alcertier, A Country Parson's Odd Thoughts. For preaching, which will come home to men's business and bosoms; which will not appear to ignore those things which of necessity occupy the greater part of an ordinary mortal's thoughts, commend me to the preacher who has learned by experience what are human ties and what is human worry. There is no more sunshiny i run ate of any home than the happy tempered one, who has the art of putting all things in a pleasant light, from the great misfortunes in life down to a broken carriage spring, a servant's failings, or a child's salts and senna. When a little child on Wing offered n third plate of plum-pudding, says with a wistful look, "No, thank you," think of your own childish days, (Link what plum pudding was then, and instantly send the little man another slice. Many men, when thev go into the ountry, put olf frock coats and stilfs x ks uid pitch away the vile, haul hat of city irospenty, and replace them by loose uits, a soft handkerchief and the Yield ing wide-awake, and thus do mentally ass through a process of relief. All iKople have tangles in their lite md affairs that cannot le unraveled; sor rowful things, which thev think cannot Ik? helped. Do not lock the closet door uM)ti the skeleton; bring it out ami air it; perhaps it may prove to be only the skeleton of a cat, or even no skeleton it all. The Carlottaburgenhof Gardens, ad (ining the Castle, at Pottsdain, Germany, ire open to the public, and contain a re markably fine collection of roses. Of course no profane hand is permitted to ick the beautiful flowers, and the sen tries have the strictest orders to arrest my transgressors of this rule. On Sunday, two young ladies were walking in the fragrant i'U, when a sentry remarked that one of them was unrestrainedly gathering the roses. He called out "Halt!" but with no effect. A more energetic and repeated call obliged the fair llower-stealers to stay their hands, md one of the criminals said quietly. "I am the daughter of the Crow n Prince." For a moment the wearer of the pickel h aube seemed staggered, but seeing that the young lady looked very merry, and could scarcely refrain from laughing, he shook himself together and declared them his prisoners until they could prove their identity. No cxst ulation would avail. md the young ladies were forced to ac company the man to the castle lodge, where the porteress, fearlully alarmed, rocognized the Princess Charlotte. Ujmmi icr reproaching the sentry for not know- i i i t ing the princess, nans sioiiwy declared that according to his instructions the nieinlers of the Crown Prince's family were always to be known by their being lccomnanied lv a servant, and as this was not the case he naturally concluded he was being imposed upon. He then saluted, turned right about face, and disappeared. Vitality of tii e .1 ews. Statistics show that the vitality of the Jews have a higher vitality than the Christian peoples among whom thev live, iney are the liealtniest and longest-lived people on the face of the earth. The average duration of their lives, according to the statistics of Frank fort, is forty-eight years and nine months. while ol the unnsuau n is uuriy-i jtan and eleven months. One-fourth ot the Jewish population live beyond seventy- nni vears: but the same proiortion of the Christian population nveoniy ocyono j . - , fiftr-nine vears and ten months. Another remarkable fact is their Im- mnnitv from all forms of diseases. It is said that the great epidemics alllict them but lightly, and that even cholera does not choose them ior us victims. This healthv condition and high vitali ty is ascribed by Dr. Richardson, in his ' Diseases of Modern Life," to their sober wav of livinjr. The Jew drinks less than the Christian; he takes, as a rule, better f.l? Im marries earlier: he rears his children with more personal care; he tends the aged more thoughtfully; he tnkea better care of his poor; and be takes good care of himself. Genius mid Debt. What Bacon calls "the wisdom of busi ness," is not always sought after by men of genius. Many of them seem to have a sort of practical contempt for the com mon rules of arithmetic, mid run into debt as easily as they run into literature or oratory. The brilliant and eloquent Sheridan seemed to regard money itself, and not the love of money, as the root of all evil. Debt to him, judging from his life, was the natural condition of man. The recip ient, at different times, of large sums of money, his object appeared to be to get rid of them as soon as (Kissible. He spent his first wife's fortune of 1,001) in a six week's jaunt to Bath. By his second w ife he obtained a fortune of 3,000, with which sum, and 15,000 realized by the sale of land shares, he bought an estate in Surrey. In a short time he was driven from it, by debt and duns, to live a life of shifts to raise money and evade hi creditors. His friends were afraid to speak to him on the street, the conversation was so cotly. One of them n.-iM if lie took olf his hat to Sheridan it would cost him tifty pounds; but if he stopped to upeak to him it would cost a hundred. He was so much in debt to his milkman, his gro cer, baker, and butcher that the servant was often obliged to hunt for several hours to find some one who would trust Sheridan for colfee, butter, eggs and rolls. Mr. Samuel Smiles, in bis recent work on "Thrift," tells the following anecdote of this man who would so disgracefully run in debt: "While Sheridan was paymaster of the navy, a butcher one day brought a leg of mutton to the kitchen. The cook took it and clapped it in the xt to boil, and went up stairs lor the money; but not re turning, the butcher coolly removed the ot lid, took out tne mutton, and walked away with it iu bis tray. "let, while living in these straits, Sheridan, when invited with his sou into the country, usually went in two chaises and four he in one, and his son Tom fol lowing in the other. "The cud of all was very sad. For some weeks before his death he was near ly destitute of the means of subsistence. His noble and royal friends had entirely leseited him. Execution for debt were in his house, and he passed his last days in the custody of sheriff's officers, who ibstaiued from conveying him to prison merely because they were assured that to remove him would cause his immedi ate death." The Centennial. Very few of the visitors at tho Centen nial have aiif idea of the vast extent of 'ainnount Park. Tiic tract of laud em bodied numbers about 3,:l )0 acres. The hives extending for many miles are magnificent. A few days ago a friend took us out and alter driving about 20 miles told us that if we had time we ouldgo about 10 miles further, and then we would see beauties! In going up the Schuylkill we pissed a portion of Laurel 1 1 1 1 country, and our attention was called to the grave of Elisha Ivent Kmc, the Arctic explorer. This is within a few rods of the road, ami for some reason that is not understood, presents to a passer-by an apjKarance that is absolutely shock ing. The grave is on the crest of a hill ind is enclosed with chains of iron fas tened to several stones at the corners of the little lot that holds the precious dust. But there is not one word to indicate the act that this is the resting place of a young man whose name was so laminar to all readers a few years ago. The railroads are reaping a rich re ward. The three millions expended by Col. Tom Scott in making the approaches to the grounds will all come back. We rossed a number of times tho Market street bridge that lie engaged to erect in SO days, but completed in 27 days; and then paid hack f .',000 to tin; city d the $f3,000 that he was to receive. He said that Philadelphia had done so much for bun and he lelt so much identified with her prosperity that he could not find it in his heart to keep the $3,00J that were not required In tho construction of the bridge, the Colonel is President ot lo railroads, and in these pay him at lead $100,000, he cm alford to be honest. Philadelphia loves her lorn iseott and Is fond of comparing him with Garrett, of Baltimore; but Ixdli are great ami good men, and many thousands will rejoice in their rivalry, because it has brought down the fare so low that all people can now af ford to go and see the sights iu Fair mount Park. September and OctoU'r are beautiful months for paying a visit, but much of the pleasure will be marred by the presence of "the multitude which no man can uu uber." Pototnie, in To ledo Made. In the Centennial exhibition agricul tural hall there are two immense hogs, stuffed, each Iwaring a placard, bearing their age and weight, and bearing the placard of the man who prepared them tor exhibition, followed by the word "tax idermist. A man ami Ins wiio were looking at these w ith great intciest. After reading tho placards the woman said: "Why, these are taxidermist! I thought they were hogs." Her husband looked at the creatures with a puzzled cxpres sion. and then went carefully over the placard as if to satisfy himself fully on the point. Finally ho replied: "They are hogs. Taxidermist is the name of the place they came from." The value of the Centennial buildings at Philadelphia is estimated at $.!), 000, and that of their contents at $1)7,343, 330, making a total of $104,420,330. It i believed that there has never been an aggregation of products of all the art and trades of such immense value as that in Philadelphia. Thk ladies are beginning to wear the famous coaching hat which during the season cast all other head -gear in the shade at the fashionable resorts. The brims are verr wide and the hat Is worn far back on the head and tiped over side ways, imparting to the occupant a de ; cidcdlj coquetun and jaunty appearance The Cat He King. A correspondent of the Qtitncy (111.) Whig writes a follows of Mr. John T. Alexander, widely known as tho "Great Cattle King of tho Mississippi Valley," who died recently in Jacksonville, Il linois: "Mr. Alexander was In his fifty-fifth year, and few men have done more to advance the Interests of the West. Ho was a Virginian by birth, but spent his early years In Ohio, and assisted his father in driving cattle from that State over the Allegheny Mouutains to tho Philadelphia, New York and Boston markets. He was thus brought up iu tho cattle trade, and when, at the tige of twenty, his father sutlered a severe finan cial reverse, young Alexander came West to try his own luck. He came to St. Louis, and afterwards traveled through Central Illinois, from which region ho collected und drove, on foot, his first venture in Western cattle to the L' at. After trailing for threo or four year ho began, iu IS IS, to open hi farm in this country, now on tho Toledo, Wabash & Western Uiilroad, near the station known by his name. Thee lands were brought to a state of excellent pasturage, and then Mr. Alexander started out on his venture, w hich was tho very first of tho kind, dealing in Texas cattle. Although it was then necessary to drive them to Logansport, Indiana, tho nearest railroad termiiius, thence ship by rail to Toledo, and thence again by steamer and rail to New York, he fast accumulated a fortune. He continued to ship from 11,000 to 15, 000 head yearly, but with littlo further gain till tho breaking out of tho war, when ho launched out at full length in the mule trade, making hi purchases mostly in Missouri, where prices were for a time remarkably cany. Not to dwell on the exigencies of this enterprise, It is enough to say that by the titno tho war was over he had settled olf a large amount of debts in which ho hail been involved by previous transaction in Texas cattle, was out of debt entirely, had 7,200 acres, of land, valued at seventy-five dollars an acre, and had a deposit of over $100,000 in bank. It would appear that such an accumulation of mean could hardly meet with a reverse; but such was not tho case. He purchased a firm known us the "Broad Lands," near tho Toledo, Wabash A; Western Railroad, in Cham paign County, a tract of 20,000 acres, and began Its improvement. About tho same time he suflercd heavy losses by tho repudiation of contract with certain railroad companies, so that hi entire loss in tho space of a year and a half amounted to near $230,000, and ho stood apparently face to face w ith the crisis in hi nlf air. He found what seemed to bo way out of the trouble by a sale which ho n gotiated, In effect, with a Canadian com pany for tho purchase of tho Broad Land farm for $(123,000, but the company filled to ratify tho purchase, and he turned hi entire estate into the hands of three as signees for tho benefit of his creditors. It was estimated that at this time hi liabilities were about $1,200,000, but hi estate was ample to pay it dollar for dol lar, and ho was determined it should bo done, and it is believed that it was ilono and that by his own exertion several thousand acre of land were left. Iu 187 J he began to recover from these re verse and has grown in wealth and in fluence year by year. Hi energy ha had its influence on tho cattlo-raistng of tho region for miles and mile around, and among the great cattle dealer of tho West ho has scarcely an equal and never a superior as a man of energy, in tegrity and perseverance," low nn English Farmer Can Work. Tho London Telegraph say: "In tho neighborhood of Newbury, not a hundred miles front the very place where John Hampden was born and bred, a sturdy yocmau has given u a specimen of what tan be done even into in I no autumn ot ife by those who 'scorn delight and live a hoi ions d ay.' Mr. Charl wood, a farmer and miller near Newbury, and somo years tast tho prime of hi strength, mado a small bet that he would, singly and un assisted, cart twenty acre of w heat be tween the earliest moment at which ho ;ouhl see in tho morning and the last mo ment at w hich ho could see at night. Ho began his work on Friday morning last at d:43 on the farm of Mr, N. G. Hutch inson, at C.sikham, near Newbury, and by 0:20 at night ho had carted tho wholo contents of the twenty acre. Tho ricks built from his carting were five In num ber, threo of which were ten yard by five, one ten yard by six, and one which was as the clown says iu the pantomime a littlo one in. It is calculate.! that whllo Mr. Chill wood was at work ho lifted from two hundred to two hundred and tifty sacks of w heat and fifty or sixty tons of straw; and it i said that it would take three ordinary agricultural laboier an en tire day to get through such a Job. Tho physical power oi me imiiuii lanner lias always U-en exceptionally abovo tho av erage. But at tho same time it is seldom that wc come across a man who 1 ublo in the course of a day's day light to pitchfork into tho wagon twenty acres of wheat. It ' is too much the fashion at present to utter mournful prophecies of national deca dence, and to declare sadly and solemnly that tho nation is going to the dog. As far, however, a can bo mado out, tho or dinary physique of Englishmen was never higher than it I now, and w here one man swim the Channel, and another, single handed, cart twenty acre of wheat in seventeen hours and three-quarters of con tinuous work, there I not much reason to coraplaiu of national degeneracy." A Rio Story. A Kentuckian becom ing incensed at tho boastfulncss of an Englishman as to the superiority of Brit ish inventions, cxclaimod, "Pshaw! They arc of no account. Why, a houc-paiuter in my neighborhood grained a door so exactly in imitation of oak, that last year it put forth leaves, and grow an excellent crop of acorns; and another fellow up in Iowa has just taught ducks to swim in hot water, and with such success that they lay boiled eggtV The Englishman from that timo forth exhibited a modest and subdued air, J 1 'it' 4 .. 'f V.