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OKi:;ON L.OIH2H, No. 3,1. I.
). meets every Thursday even
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lows' Hall, Main street. Members
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By order of N. G.
ichiikcca iih;ui:i: lodgk,
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nt Z IIMULU 1 Hltt 11(1.
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iti:(iOX,
Physician anil Druggist.
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MAIS NT., OKF.JO, CITY OltKftOX.
An assortment of watches. Jewelry.
and Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks, all
of which are warranted to be as repre
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'h pnlU for County OriUn.
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"iite. nov1-'75-tf
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Keep constantly on hand for $ale Flour,
Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties
purchasing feed must furnish the sack.
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l5yBoots and Shoe made and repaired as
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At all times, at the
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1'OltTUM), OltEUOX.
BLANK BOOKS RULED AND BOUND
to any desired pattern. Music books,
Magazines, Newspapers, etc., bound in every
variety of style kuown to the trade. Orders
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OREGON CITY BREWERY.
HENRY HUMBEL,
HAVING purchacd the above
Brewerv. wishps In inform thn
iYTi
public that he is now prepared to man
tur a No 1 oualitr of
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A pood as can bs obtained anywhere in the
State. Orders solicited and promptly filled.
Iun at Henley.
'Tis here with bouudless power I reign;
And every health which I begin
Converts dull port to bright champagne;
Such freedom crowns it at an Inn.
I fly from pomp, 1 fly from plate;
I fly from Falsehood's specious grin!
Freedom I love and form I hate,
And choose my lodgings at an Inn.
Here, waiter, take my sordid ore,
Which lackeys else might hope to win;
It buys what courts have not in store,
It buys me freedom at an Inn.
Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an Inn.
S II EX STONE.
The Lnckv Call.
A country curate, vULing his flock,
At old Rebecca's cottage gave a kuock.
"Good morrow, dame I mean no libel,
But iuyour dwelling have you got a Bible?"
"A Bible, sir!" exclaimed she in a rage;
"D'ye think I've turned a Pagan in my age?
Here, Judith, haste, and run up stairs, my
dear;
'Tis in the drawer, be quick and bring It
here."
The girl returned with Bible in a minute,
Not dreaming for a moment what was in it;
Whenlo! ou opening it at the parlor door,
Down fell her spectacles upon the floor.
Amazed she started.'Nvas a moment dumb,
But quick exclaimed, "Oh, sir, I'm glad you've
come,
'Tis six years since these glasses first were
lost,
And I have missed 'em to my poor eyes cost!"
Then, as the glasses to her nose she raised,
She closed the Bible, saying, "God be
praised."
llatldad-Ben-Aliab the Traveler.
BY JOHN O ALT.
II'idtlad-Ben-Ahab was a very wise
man, and lie had several frieuds, men of
uwcernmeut and partakers of the wisdom
of a'es; but they were not all so wise as
lladdad-Bea-Ahab. Hid sentences were
short, but his knowledge was loug, and
what he predicted generally came to pass,
tor he did not pretend to the gift of
prophecy. The utmost lie ever said in
that way was, that lie expected tlie sou
to rise to-morrow, and that old age was
the shadow of youth.
Besides being of a grave temperament,
Eladdad-Ben-Ahab was inclined to obe
sity; he was kiudly and good-natured to
the whole human race; he even carried
his benevolence to the iuferior creation,
and often patted his dogs ou the head
and gave them bones; but cats he could
not abide. Had he been a rat he could
not have regarded them with more an
tipathy; aud yet lladdad-Ben-Ahab was
an excellent man, who smoked his chi
bouque with occasional cups of coffee
and sherbet, interspersed with profound
aphorisms on the condition of man, and
conjectures on the delights of paradise.
With his friends he passed many sun
bright hours; and if much talk was not
heard among them on these occasions, be
it remembered that silence is oftca wis
dom. The scene of their social resort
was a little kiosk in front of one of the
coffee-houses on the bank of the Tigris.
No place in all Bagdad is so pleasantly
situated. There the mighty river rolls in
all the affluence of its waters, pure as the
unclouded sky, and speckled with innu
merable .boats, while the rippling waves,
tickled, as it were,by the summer breezes,
gambol and sparkle around.
The kiosk was raised two steps from
the ground; the interior was painted
with all the most splendid colors. The
roof was covered with tiles that glittered
like the skin of the Arabian serpent, and
was surmounted with a green dragon
which was p anted of that imperial hue,
because Haddad-Ben- Ahab was descended
from the sacred progeny of Fatimn, of
whom green is the everlasting badge, as
it is of nature. Time cannot change it,
nor can it be impaired by the degrees of
tyranny or of justice.
One beautitul tlay lIa-lclad-uen-Ah.au
and his friends had met in this kiosk of
dreams and were sociably enjoying the
fragrant smoke of their pipes, and listen
ing to the refreshing undulations of the
river as the boats softly glided along
for the waters lay in glassy ttillaess the
winds were asleep even the suubsams
seemed to rest in a 6lumberou all things.
The smoke stood on the chimney-tops as
if a tall visionary tree grew out of each;
and the many colored cloths in the yard
of Orooblis, the Armenian dyer, hung un
molested by a breath. Orooblis Inmselt
was the only thing,in that soft and bright
noon, which appeared on the land to be
animated with any purpose.
Orooblis was preparing a boat to de
scend the Tigris, and his servants were
loading it with bales of apparel and
baskets of provisions, while he Inmselt
was in a great bustle, going often be
tween his dwelling-house and the boat,
talking loud and giving orders, and ever
and anon wiping his fore-head, for he was
a man that delighted in having an ado.
lladdad B n-Ahab, seeing Orooblis so
active, looked at him for s ine time; and
it so happened that all the friends at the
same moment t ok their amber-headed
pipes from their lips, and said
"Where can Orooblis, the Armenian
dyer, be going?"
Such a simultaneous interjection natur
ally surprised them all, and Haddad-Ben-Ahab
added
l I should like to eo with him, and see
strange things, for 1 have never been out
of the city of Bagdad, save once to pluck
pom-grauates in the garden of Beys-Ad Jy
Boo k." And he then rose and went to
the boat winch Orooblis was loading, aud
epoke to him ; and when it was ready they
seated themselves on board and sailed
down the Tigris, having much pleasant
discourse concerning distant lands and
hills whose tops pierced the clouds, and
were supposed to be the pillars that up
held the crystal dome of the heavens.
Haddad-Ben-Ahab rejoiced greatly as
they sailed along, and at last they came
to a little twa, where Orooblis, having
business in dyestuffs to transact, went on
shore, leaviug his friend. But in what
corner of the earth this little town stood
Iladdad-Ben-Ahab kuew not; for, like
other travelers, he was not provided with
much geographical knowledge.
But soon after the departure of Oroo
blis he thought he would also land and
inquire. Accordingly, taking his pipe
in his hand, he stepped out of the boat
and went about the town, looking at
many things, till he came to a wharf
where a large ship was taking merchan
dise on board; and her sailors were men
of a different complexion from that of the
watermen who plied on the Tigris at
B igd ad.
Iladdad-Ben-Ahab looked at them, and
as he was standing near to where they
were at work, he thought that this ship
afforded a better opportunity than he had
enjoyed with Orooblis to see foreign
countries. He accordingly went up t
the captain and held out a handful of
money, and indicated that lie was desir
ous to sail away with the ship.
When the captain saw the gold he was
mightily civil, and spoke to Iladdad-Buu-Ahab
with a loud voice, perhaps think
ing to make him hear was the way to make
him understand. But Hddad-Bcu-Ahab
only held up the forefinger of the right
hand and shook it to aixl fro. In the
end, however, he was taken on board the
ship, and no sooner was he there than he
sat clown on a sofa, and drawing his legs
up under him, kiudled his pipe and be
gan to smoke, much at his ease, making
observations with his eyes as lie did so.
The first observation Haddad-B-n-Ah
ib made was, that the sofa on which
he had taken his place was not at all like
the sofas at B.igdad, and therefore when
he returned he would show that he had
not traveled without prolit by having one
made exactly similar for his best cham
ber, with hens and ducks under it, pleas
autly feeding aud joyously cackling and
quacking. And he also observed a re
markable sagacity in the ducks, for when
they saw he was a stranger they turned
up the sides of their heads and eyed him
in a most curious and inquisitive manner
very different, indeed, from the ducks of
Bagdad.
When the ship had taken on board her
cargo she spread her sails, and. Iladdad-Ben-Ahab
felt himself in anew situation;
for presently she began to lie over, and to
plunge and revel among the waves like a
glad creature. But lladdad-Bjn-Ahab
became sick, and the captain showed him
the way clown into the inside of the vessel,
where he went into a dark bed and was
charitably tended by one of the sailors
for ninny days.
After a seasou thrc was much shout
ing on the deck of the ship, aud H iddad-Ben-Ahab
crawled out of his bud and
went to the sofa, and saw that the ship
was near the end of her voyage.
When she had come to a bank where
those on board could step out, Iladdad-Ben-Ahab
did so; aud after he had seen
all the strauge things which were in the
town where he had thus landed, he weut
iuto a baker's shop for they eat bread
in that town as they do in Bagdad and
bought a loaf, which having eaten, he
quenched his thirst at a fountain hard by,
in his ordinary manner of drinking, at
which he wouclired exceedingly.
When he had solaced himself with all
the wonders of that foreign city, he went
to a fakir, who was holding two horses
ready saddled; beautiful they were, and,
as the fakir signified by signs, their
hoofs were so licet that they left the
wind behind them. Haddad-Ben-Ahab
then showed the fakir his gold, aud
mounted one of the horses, pointing with
the shaft of his pipe to the fakir to
mounttheother; and then they both rode
away into tho country, and they found
that the wiud blew in their faces.
At last they came to a caravansary,
where the fakir bought a cooked hen
and two onions, of which they both par
took, and stretching themselves before
the fire which they had lighted iu their
chamber, they fell asleep aud slept until
the dawn of day, wheu they resumed
their journey into remote parts and
nearer to the wall of the world, which
lladdad-Bju-Ahab conjectures they must
soon reach. They had not. however,
journeyed many days in the usual man
ner wheu they came to the banks of a
large river, and the fakir would go no
farther with his swift horses. Haddad-Beu-Ahab
was iu consequence coustrained
to pay and part from him, and to embark
in a ferry boat to convey him over the
stream, where he found a strange vehicle
with four horses standing ready to carry
him ou towards the wall of the world,
"which surely," said he to himself,
"ought not to be now far off."
Ha Idad-Ben -Ahab showed his gold
again, and was permitted to take a seat
in the vehicle, which soon after drove
away; an 1 he remarked, in a most sa
gacious manner, that nothing iu that
country was like the things in his own;
for the houses and trees and ail things
rau away as the vehicle came up to them;
and when it gave a jostle, they gave a
jump; which he noted as one of the
most extraordinary things he li id seen
since he left Bagdad.
At last Haddad-Ben-Ahad came to the
foot of a lofty green mountain, with
oroves and jocund vill iges,wliieh studdied
it, as it were, with yems and idiioiug or
naments, and he siid, '"Tnis must be the
wall of the world, for surely nothing can
exist on the other side of these hilts! but
I will ascend them and look over, for I
should like to tell my friends in Biglad
what is to be seen on the outside of the
earth." Aeco dingly he ascended the
"reen mountain and he came to a thick
forest of stibbv trees: "Tiiis is surpris
ing," said HadJad-Beu-Ahab,"but higher
I wilt yet go." And he passed through
that forest of trees and came to a steep
moorland part of -the hill, where no liv
hi" thino- could be seen, but a solitude
without limit, and the living world all
cri;tfiiiir t the foot of the mountain.
"This Is a high place," said Haddad-
T ... ... . T ll A. . l.iwlw..
lien-nao, "out I win yei go mjjuci,
and he began to climb with his hands.
After an unward iournev of "Teat toil he
came to a frozen region, and the top of
the wall of the world was still far above
him. He was, however, Done daunted
by the distance, but boldly held on in
the ascent, and at last he reached the
top of the wall. But when he got there,
instead of a region of fog and chaos, he
only beheld another world much like our
own, and lie was greatly amazed, aud ex
claimed with a loud voice, "Will my
friends in Bagdad believe this? but it is
true, and I will so tell them." So he
hastened down the mountain, and went
with all the speed he could back to Bag
dad; saying, "Bagdad," and giving gold
every man lie met, until he reaohed the
kiosk of dreams, where his friends were
looking at the gambols of the Tigris.
When the friends of Haddad Ben
Ahab saw him approach they respect
fully took their pipes from their mouths
and held them iu their left hands, while
they pressed their bosoms with their
right, and received him with a solemn sa
laam, for he had been long ab-ent, and
all they iu the meantime had heard con
cerning him was only what Orooblis, the
Armenian dyer, on his return tld them:
namely, that he was gone to the wall of
the world, which limits the travels of
man. No wonder then that they rejoiced
with an exceeding gladuess to see him
return and take his place in the kiosk
among them as if he had never been a
day's journey away from Bagdad.
They then questioned him about his
adventures, and he faithfully related to
them all the wonders which have beeu
set forth in our account of the journey;
upon which they declared he hail made
himself one of the sages of the earth.
Afterward they each made a feast, to
which they invited all the philosophers
in Bagdad, and Haddad Beu Ahab was
placed in the seat of honor, and being
courteously solicited, told them of his
travels, and every one cried aloud,
"God is great, aud Mahomet is his
prophet I"
AVhen they had in this manner ban
queted, Iladdad-Beu-Ahab fell sick, aud
there was a great talk concerning the
same. Some said he was very ill; others
shook their heads and spoke not; but the
world is full of envy and hard hearted
ness, and those who were spiteful be
cause of the renown which II iddad-Bn
Ahab, as a traveler who had visited the
top of the wall of the world with so
much courage, had acquired, jeered at
his malady, saying he had been only
feasted overmuch. Nevertheless, Had-dad-IJeu-Ahab
died ; aud never was such
a funeral seen in all Bagdad, save that of
the caliph Mahoud, commonly called the
Magnificent. Such was the admiration
iu which the memory of the traveler was
held, the poets made dirges on the occa
sion, and mournful songs were heard in
the twilight from the windows of every
harem. Nor did the generation of the
time content itself with the ceremonies
of lamentation ; they caused a fountain
to be erected, which they named the
Fouutain of Haddad-Ben-Ahab, the trav
eler; aud when the slaves go to fetch wa
ter, they speak of tha wonderful things
he did, and how he was ou the top of the
wall of the world, and saw outside of the
earth; so that his memory lives forever
among them as one of the greatest, the
wisest, and the bravest" of men. From
"Little ClxtHics:'
What Depends on Knowing the Sun's
Distance.
The problem of finding this distance of
the sun is one of the m st important and
difficult presented by astronomy. Its
importance lies in this, that this distance
the radius of the earth's orbit is the
base-line by means of which we measure
every other celestial distance, excepting
only that of the moon; so that error iu
this base propagates itself in all direc
tions through all space, affecting with a
corresponding proportion of falsehood
every measured line the distance of
every star, the radius of every orbit, the
diameter of every planet.
Our estimates ot tne masses ot the
heavenly bodies also depend upon a
knowledge of the sun's distance from the
earth. Tlie qaautity of matter in a star
or planet is determined by calculations
whose tundameut il data include the dis
tance between the investigate 1 body and
some other b dy whose emotion is con
trolled or modified by it; and this dis
tance generally enters into the computa
tion by its cube, so that any error iu it
involves a more than threefold error in
the resulting mass. An uncertainty of
one par cent, in the sun's distance im
plies an uncertaiuty of more than three
per cent, in every celestial m iss and
every cosmical force.
Error in this fundamental element
propagates itself in time, also, as well as
in space aud mass. That is to say, our
calculations of the mutual effects of the
planets upon each other's motions de
pend upon an accurate knowledge of
their masses and distances. By these
calculations, were our data perfect, we
could predict all futurity, or reproduce
for auy giveu epoch of the past the con
figurations f the planets aud the condi
tions of their orbits,and many interesting
problems in geology and natural history
seem to require for their solution just
such determinations of the form and po
sition of the earth's orbit in by-gone ages.
Ar.oxE. Silitude, though silent as
light, is, like the light, the mightiest of
agencies; for solitude is essential to man.
AIL men come into this world alone; all
leave it alone. Even a little child has a
dread, whispering consciousness that if
he sh mid be summoned into God s pres
ence no gentle nurse will be allowed to
lead him by the hand, nor mother to
carry him in her arun, nor little sister to
share his trepidations. King and priest,
warri-.r and maiden, philosopher and
child, all must walk those mighty
galleries aloue. Tae solitude, therefore,
which in this world appeals or fascinates
a chiid's heart, is but the echo of a far
deeper solitude through which he has
already passed, and of another solitude
deeper still, through which he has to
pass; reflex of one solitude prefigura
tion of another.
A man who shows no defects is a fool
or a hypocrite whom we should mistrust.
There are defects so bound to the fine
qualities that they announce, them de
fects which it is well not to correct.
,L,
r.f.TTRT?SY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY
The Artist-Soldier.
The story of Audre, as we commonly
read it, tells little of Andre himself. It
tells nothing of the manner of man he
was, how he looked, how he dressed, and
what he said and did.
We read of him as the spy. He was
one at the time of his death, but that he
believed to hi his military duty; he tried
to serve his king as well as ho could, and
perhaps we cauuot blame him so very
much, even if we did punish him so sadly,
lie was something else than a mere spy,
aud it is more agreeable to think of him
as an artist than a soldier. He did not
love war as some soldiers do, ami while
in this country he many times tried to
soften tha hardships and troubles of the
times. Once he found a poor little boy
vyho had boe:i captured by the British sol
diers iu Westchester County, and brought
to New York to be put iuto the dread
ful prisons tha British then kept iu our
city. Such a little fellow could di no
harm, and Andre took him away from the
soldiers and sent him back to his mother
in safety.
Besides painting and drawing, Audie
could sing, aud make charming verses,
and cut out portraits in silhouette. Many
of his pictures and letters are still pre
served, and cou 11 you read the letters,
you would see that he was a genial, lively
and entertaining man. While he was in
this couutry, he kept a journal, and, it is
said, it was full of pictures of plants and
insects and animals, people and places,
bits of scenery and plaus of cities and
towns. He used often to give pictures
away as presents to his friends; and once,
when he was a prisoner in our hands, and
was sent to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for
safety, he taught the children in the vil
lage to draw. Oae of the Lancaster boys
pleased him so much, and displayed so
much talent, that Andre offered to make
an artist of him, and take him to England
when the war was at an end. The bjy's
father would not consent to this, though
he was pleased to think the English offi
cer should take so much interest in his
sou. The prisoners were afterward re
moved to Carlisle, and Andre hal
to leave his pupil. lie dil not forget
him, for he afterward wrote a letter to the
boy's father, in which he said the bjy
must take particular care in forming the
feature in faces, aud in copying the
hands exactly. He should now aud then
copy things from the life, and theu com
pare their proportions with what prints
he may haw, or what rules he may re
member." All this was during the war, and Andre
himself was an enemy; but we can hardly
think of him in that way. He regretted
all the troubles of tha times, aud, unlike
his brother ofli ;ers, he never called us
"the rebels," but "the colonists." Even
to this day, his letters and little pictures,
his silhouette portraits, and sketches and
verses, are preserved in somj families in
remembrance of the kind, merry, anil
cultivated English gentleman whom we
now call Major Andre, the spy.
W hen he was exchanged he went back
to the British army stationed at Philadel
phia, aud there he again displayed his
many talents. He painted a drop-scene
for tlie theatre that was thought to be
very fiue, and they said of it that "the fo
liage was uncommonly spirited an 1 grace
ful." He also wrote verses to be recited
in the theatre, and even took part in the
plays. Once there was a grand oageant
in Philadelphia a water procession on
the Delaware, with gaily trimmed boats,
aud bands of music, and ladies in fancy
costumes all ending in a grand ball.
Audre took an active part in all these
pleasurings, designed the costumes for
ladies, wrote verses, and bellied to put up
the decorations.
All this happened when our poor and
discouraged troops were haviug a sud
tune of it, waiting and watching for a
chance to strike a blow for the couutry.
At last, the British were obliged to leave
Philadelphia. Audre weut with them to
New York, and it was there that he re
ceived the com mission to treat with Ar
nold for the surrender of West Point, and
that only ended in his capture and sad
Icath.
O.i the last day of his life he drew his
own portrait from memory with a pen
that is, without the aid ot a mirror and
the picture is still in existence. While in
New York, just before he went up to see
General Arnold, he made several silhou
ette portraits of ladies rho then lived
there, aud all were said to be remarkably
correct likenesses, and were, of course,
greatly prize 1 afterward as the work of
the young, genial, and light-hearted U-it-i:h
olficer.
Those Revolutionary diys are now very
old, and ths handsome English gentle
man has been dead long, long years. We
can forgive his efforts against us now,
and perhaps it will be more agreeable to
think of him as the artist-soldier rather
than the spy at West Poiut. St. Nicholas.
Earth Medicine. Some very extra
ordinary properties have been discovered
in the earths of New Jersey. It seems
to be an iu fallible cure for chronic dis
eases, for rheumatism, wounds, bruises
and corrupting sores. The application is
very simple. The earth is bound on to the
limb and changed once a day. Some
very extraordinary cures have been per
formed, and people carry offquantities of
the earth and apply it at home. It can
be foun 1, not only by tlie acre, but bv
the mile. It is as good for animals as it
is for man. A farmer had a hog that was
fearfully lacerated. Inflammation set iu
and the hog was turned out to die. He
crawled to a hollow . filled with swash
He laid himself down and continued to
wallow. In three days the inflammation
was gone. The animal began to eat. and
in less than a week was perfectly cured.
Whether the medical properties are chem
ical or mineral no one can tell as vet
Tue farm on which this remarkable earth
is found n owned by a New York mer-
chaBt. His friends already distinguish
him as the Mud .Doctor.
There are aouh who do not need to
live out, coarsely, in detail. Their in
ward conception transcends the visibl
form. Count it an assurance of more
vital good when God denies you.
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Imprisonment for Debt.
Sitting by our desk yesterday, an old
merchant, chatting of the past, drew for
us a picture of nearly forty years ago,
just after tlie busiuess world had been
swept by the panic of 1837. Up to near
ly that time the barbarous law of im
prisonment for debt had disgraced the
statute books of New York, but a milder
rule had been sought to be adopted,
when it was suddeuly discovered that
during tha attempt to repeal the law
some canning representative of tha cred
itor iutereat at Albany had so interfered
that the new statute was only applicable
to citizens of this State. A large class of
debtors from other States, pouriag into
New York City under a supposed ex
emption, were pounced upon mercilessly
and iu large numbers. Nearly fifteen
hundred untbrtnu ites from outside this
State were lodged in the Tombs. Every
jail and every house of detention of all
classes was full t overflowing. Great
was the suffering, alarm aud misery.
Many of the prisoners were sensitive
merchants, strangers never before in such
stress. They were preyed upon by jail
ors and under keepers of all grades, aud
when they had nothing wherewith to meet
rapacity they endured absolute want.
The spectacle was a horrifying one and 1
caused much public commotion. The
press of New York forty years ago was :
not what it is to-day in breadth of views '
and pages, but we doubt if it had not
more direct and pointed influence, de
rived from th-i sharp individuality of its
representative men on the then lesser
tides of what is now the great ungovern
able metropolis. James Watson Webb,
Major Noah, Col. Stone, the elder Ben
nett, and Hale of the Journal of Com
merce each had his following, with lines
sharply defined. The press took up aud
fought among themselves over the poor
debtors, with a majority on the side of
humanity. Bennett represented the harsh
creditor class. Meanwhile large peti
tions were prepared for signatures to give
weight at Albany and amend the law.
xVs an instance of the sharpness of feeling
that prevailed, it is told that one of these
petitions was presented to a well-known
merchant of the period, who refused his
signature, saying: "No, sir; I have a
fellow in there I will keep if I have to
feed him through a grating on dead cats."
"You have passed the amendment," said
his interrogator, "for your words shall
reach every ear in Albany." And they
did. The am.-u lment passed unanimous
ly, and there has been since in New York
State no imprisonment for debt. The
news in those days, antecedeut to the
telegraph, came t New lork by the
slow channels of the time, aud reached
the city after midnight. Bit the friends
of the prisoners were waiting, aud took
the news to them without delay. Tiie
scene in the Tombs was indescribable.
Men wept and laughed and hugged each
other. Prisoners who had been weeks
and months shut up, some of them
ashamed even to make known their suf
ferings, made such a jubilee in the jail
wards as the Tombs never before or since
has seen, for joy rarely arrives within its
grim preciucts. It was the last closing
scene of incarceration of poor debtors in
the metropolis. Numbers of the men who
led in the humane movement are alive
to-day, and possibly also the credi
tor who believed in dead cats and iron
gratings as the muaimants of trade. We
do these things better now, and with all
we hud to grumble at in the present time,
can find coaaolation in turning the pic
tures of the not remote past in the proofs
that humanity his made advancement
even within the memory of living man.
Brooklyn Union.
The Distance of the Sun.
If some celestial railway could be im
agined, the journey to the sun, even if
our trains ran GO miles an hour, day and
night and without a stop, would require
over 175 years. Sensation, even, would
not travel so tar in a human lifetime. To
borrow the curious illustration of Prof.
Meudenhall, if we could imagine an in
fant with an arm long enough to enable
him to touch the sun and burn himself,
he would die of old age before the pain
could reach him, since, according to the
experiments of Helmboltz and others, a
nervous shock is communicated only at
the rate about 100 feet per second, or 1,
G37 miles per day, and would need mre
than loO years to make the journey.
Sound would do it in about 14 years if
it could be transmitted through celestial
space, and a cannon ball in about 9, if it
were to move uniformly with the same
speed as when it left the muzzle of the
gun. If the earth could be suddenly
in her orbit, and allowed to fall unob
structed toward the sun under the accel
erating influence of his attraction, she
would reach the central fire in about
four months. I have said that if she
could be stopped, but such is the com
pass ot her orbit thit, to make its circuit
in a year, she has to move nearly 19
miles a second, or more than fiftv times
faster than the swiftest rifle-ball; and in
moving 20 miles her path deviates from
perfect straightuess by less than one-
eighth of an inch. And yet, over all the
circumference of this tremendous orbit,
the sun exercises his dominion, and
every pulsation of his surface receives its
response from the subject earth. Prof.
U. A. 1 oung, in Popular Science Monthly,
There are one or two proverbs that
contain more truth than falsehood; ana
one of them, unhappily, is, that familiar
ity breeds contempt. Though mystery
is a good key, it is a very bad lock; it
does very well to open the door oi tne
heart, but it is by no means well adapted
to keep it safe and secure. This must be
done by sheer strength; and of sheer
strength, overmuch talk ab ut love and
art. and th-i youthful affectations of long
locks and mild wickedness, are iu no wise
symptoms at least not of the sort of
stren-nh that is required to doiu iorever
a woman who his opened her eyes to the
fact that the good things of the real world
are by no means to be despised.
- To think kindlv of each other is good
but to act kindly toward one another
is best of all.
Florence, the Actor.
A relative of the well-known come
dian, William J. Florence, tells the fol
lowing :
Many years ago, while Florence was
under an engagement at the Winter
Garden Theater, New York, he formed
the acquaintance of a young girl who
played in minor parts in the dramas theu
represented. One day after rehearsal he
invited her to dinner at a Broadway
restaurant. B th were hungry and they
ordered a pleutiful supply of food.
When their appetites were satisfied, Flor
ence called for the bill, and to his utter
dismay discovered that he had no inouey.
In changing his clothing in the morning,
he neglected to take the money from his
discarded paataloous. He told the girl
of the fix he was in and asked her for a
loan. Mortified and chagrined, she au
swered that all she had was just sufficient
to pay her fare home. Then the actor
called the restaurant keeper and told
him the truth about the money. The
quickly excited man raved and stormed
at Florence, saying that he had resolved
not to be swindled by any one, aud that
he should send for the police.
At this time a short, stout old gentle
man stepped up to the proprietor, and
firmly said:
"How dare you speak to a gentleman
in the way you have done? His mis
take is a perfectly natural one, and such
as might occur to any man. I am
asliamed of you I I'll dine no more in
your house, nor permit my friends to do
so iu the future. Here, take this!" aud
the old geutlemau took a fifty dollar
note from a fat wallet and handed it to
the discomfited landlord, saying, "Deduct
tlie amount of the youug man's bill aud
return me I lie change."
The proprietor's apologies were un
heeded. He handed the old gentleman
$17.50, and again essayed apologies.
Wheu in the street Florence handed
his benefactor his professional card and
address, addiug that he should certainly
reimburse him. The old gentleman's in
dignation quickly passed away, and be
ginning to smile, he said :
"That's all right, young man; I've
beeu trying to pass that counterfeit bank
note all day."
Hnipopotamie Dentistry.
The baby hippopotamus "Baba" h is be
come the chief pet of the aquarium, much
to the disgu-t of the trained seal and the
learned otter. B ib i is d ciie, and when
not following his keeper lies quietly in a
sunny spot near one of the windows ou
the Thirty-fifth street side, where, in lazy
content, he submits to having his cars
scratched by the children. Biba has his
troubles, however, and for the past day
or two has evidently been suffering from,
some deraugemeut. "D.c," his keeper,
finally decided that it was the toothache.
Au examination showed, in fact, that
one of his milk-teeth was badly de
cayed. "Djc said it must come out,
and speedily improvised forc?ps out of a
pair ot gas nippers. Baba obediently
opened his mouth and "D c" laid hold
of" the tooth. Then tha forceps slipped
ind the keeper s?t down with a bu np,
amid the suppressed laughter aud iron
ical applause of the spectators, while
Baba looked lazily out of his half-closed
eyes, as if to say, "What is all this fuss
about?" When, with grim determination,
"Doc" approached again, Biba uttered
a rather dissatisfied grunt, but opened
his mouth. This time the tongs held, and
i strong pull proved too much for Baba s
equanimity. He git to his legs with a
600-pound jump. "Doc" held on with
all his might; there was a moment of
breathless suspense, and then the keeper
suddenly took a sitting posture, waving,
however, with a triumphant air, the huge
forceps, in the jaws of which glistened
the large white molar. Baba trotted off
a few steps, and stood for a moment gaz
ing at his keeper. He shook his head to
see if everything was all right, and then
came and rubbed his head against his
friend to express his thanks. A rinse of
his mouth with a sponge, and Baoa was
himself again, and trotted contentedly
after his keeper, the pair being followed.
by a crowd ot admirers. hixchinye.
Meascrixg the Continent. Mr.
George A. Fairchild, of the Uuited States
Coast Survey, is engaged in a transconti
nental triangulation. The object of this
survey is to determine the length of the
thirty-ninth parallel Irom the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ciast, and which will connect
the surveys of the two coast lines. It will
also furnish additional data for determin
ing the shape of the earth's surface, and
then all these triangulation points will
give accurate data for the surveys of the
different States. Tnis will be the longest
triangulation ever midein any country,
the distance being some three thousand
miles. Eleven measurements of degrees
for determination of the curvature of the
earth's surface have been made by other
countries, of whieh nine only belong to
the present century. The present trian
gulation across the continent was com
menced several years ago. On the Atlan
tic coast the starting point was on the
Chesapeake, and the triangulation is com
pleted to Harper's Ferry, and from the
latter point a special reconnoisance has
beeu made to the Ohio Itiver, striking it
on the thirty-ninth parallel. Coming
east from th Pacific coast, Professor Da
vidson, of the Coast Survey, is in charge
of the triangulatioa from a point above
San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada. Some
three or four years ago the survey was
started at St. Louis, working both ways to
join the work from East to West.
Frivolous Talk. When a musician
calls upon you to listen to his execution,
or a painter voluntarily offers to exhibit
the powers of his brush, you naturally
expecttomeet with a degree of excellence,
at least; but tlie demands of frivolous
talkers are of all others the most exor
bitant; they claim your time and atten
tion, tax your patience, and leave noth
ing behind that is worth retaining.
A committee of physicians reports to
the New York Board of Health that
200,000 gallons of water were sold M
milk in 1874.
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