THE DAILY iiEUALiii -i'LATTSaiOUTu, rifltA8K A, TUESDAV, AUGUST 21. 1S8&.
GLASS IS MADE.
- - WtOCESS VARIES WITH THE
DIFFERENT KINDS.
Iaterlul of "Which the BtcUliiff Tot la
Made Coloring; lno bjr Sletalllo Oxldea.
IloltW anil 'Window Glana Tlio Illow
I'IM flat Cilas.
The process of making glans is exceedingly
Interesting, but it is also elaborate and not
free from complication. It can. therefore,
only be net forth in a brief ami cursory man
ner. Bo intricuto is the work in some of its
departments that one is puzzled ut the pro
ficiency in tho art in ancient times. The
conclusion is forced upon us that in this, as
Jn many other branches of industry, the
workmen and artificers of remote times were
in full command of many means and appli
ances of which we aro ignorant. Tho compo
sition of which glass is made, not to mention
tho fusing and finishing, implies a large
amount of chemical knowledge.
U'hut is this composition Generally, it
may bo described as consisting of a certain
numlxr of silicates, such as soda, xjta.su,
lime, baryta, magnesia, alumina and lead,
tho ccj ring matter beiug obtained from iron,
magnesia, cobalt, uranium, copir or gold.
The eom)oeition, of course, is conditioned or
qualified by tho kind of glass which is
wanted. Tho best glass is that which con
tains tho minimum of uncomblued silica.
Bohemian glass of tho harder kind contains
the silicates of totah and limo in predomi
nant projioit ions; of the softer kinds it con
tains, in addition, a notable quantity of the
silicate of alumina. Soda and lime predomi
nate in French plato. Poua--.li and lead are
tho principal silicates in tho ordinary flint or
white glass. The lead gives density, soft
ness,, fusibility and brilliancy. Tho exact
proportions, in different cases, of tho differ
ent ingredients belong to tho secrets of tho
gla.snmaker's art.
Tho process of manufacturing varies with
tb different kinds of glass. Tho first step in
tho process, however, is tho same with all
glass. Tho first requisite is tho melting pot,
tho making of which is an art by itself. It
U made of tho purest kind of cl iy and con
list pretty nearly of equal propi tious of
silicon and alumina. Tho mass, consisting
also often of piucos of old i-ots, is worked up
with water and then laid aside for threo or
four mouths. It is after that time made into
jots the work leing of the most particular
and laliorious kind covered at top find ljt
tom, with an opening' at tho side. When
thoroughly t'ried und hardened in tho fur
nace, tho pots aro filled with the prepared
material, colled frit, mixed with a small
quantity of rullet or broken glass. After
sumo or ten or twelve hours, the heat of the
furnace ' avlng leii brought to the highest
imint, the jjts are skimmed and the melted
.'j'itcrial is ready for what is called tho jour1
ney. Dialing the melting process tho color
ing is done by mean of various metallic ox
idest What is called flashed glass is pro
duced by another and Jiiferent process. It
Is only superficially colored. 1'ot metal,
hen colon d, is colored throughout.
"When tho material is thoroughly melted
and skimmed and mado ready for the journey
tho work of tho blower, or molder, begins.
Bottles and window glass crown or sheet
are made by the blow jape. What is known
as plato glass and optical glass is cast; and
the glass used for heavy domestic utensils is
(he result of 'a'coaibined process of blowing
mid casting. The blow pipe to glassinaking
plays precisely the same part whjch is jx.-r-
forined by tuo potter's wheel in the manutao
turn of earthenware. It is on iron pipe
gi Jailer at the mouth end than at the other.
In tho manufacture of flint glass tho pije is
heated almost to redness, then inserted into
tho pot of fused glass which adheres to it.
I5y turning it round the workman gets as
mut ii metal as he requires, lie then distends
tho glass by blowing through the pipe, an;
flio glass being put into a mold he continue
fo blow until the desired shape is produced.
Jn this way liottles are made, and also almost
oil articles for domestio use. Window glass
is blown into the form of a cylinder. "The
ends of the cylinder arc, after a cooling pro
cess, cut oir. The cylincr is then slit by a
diamond from end to end, and, being again
heated, it is with much care aud labor grad
ually flattened out.
Plato glass is mado in a different manner.
It is cast or pressed. AVheu the material is
Siielted and ready for use the pot is lifted but
pf ' tho f urnaco by means of forceps and
wheeled up to what is called the casting
table, where it is seized by prane and
t&cklo, lifted and delicately poised so that it
can be easily tinted. Such is the necessity for
pare and steadiness during the performance
of this task that tlie men preserve also!uto
silence. fter havjng been poured put uiou
the plate it is spread by means of a steel
roller. By means of successive outpourings
and successive rollings tbo glass can te mada
to any thickness. Where tho machinery L
less complete tho liquid matter is lifted witb.
a sort of dipper, which, like the blowpipe, is
brought first to a red heat. As will bo gath
ered from this description, the blowpipe ii
iot- needed -in the manufacturing of- plate
glass. After the glass has been flattened out
und brought to tho rcquisito staudard p
thickness it is moved to tho annealing room,
fin Jater it is subjected to an elaborate pi
cess of polishing.'
Reference nas been mado to colored glass
and tho pot class coloring has already been
explained. Flashed glass, which has not yet
been explained, is thus produced: The work
man has two pots in equal conditions of read
iness the one containing colorless materials,
the otbT containing colored raat.-iiaL He
tfiakes Lis Urst gatherings from' tho colorless
jrkiss and tbo last only from the colored pot.
The consequence is that the glass when Car
ished has a thin skin of colored material pn.
th outrf Jo. For some ornamental purpose
tJf flashed glass is found specially useful.
Much that is interesting might be added
bere concerning the cutting, grinding and
engraving of glass, each of which is prac
ticed in Brookirn, and practiced with skill
and success; but theso belong to the adorning
cr decorating of glass rather than to the
making of it. Much also might be written
concerning glass paintirg. "J. L. W." in
Brooklyn Eagle.
J !
v An jmprovea i otii ism.
postal card with a flap to cover tho writ
'puld be a good thing and would meet a
iiopular demand. The postal crd is one of
the articles that become indispensable the
jaioment they are onco ued, but many ieeple
ire prevented from using them by the fact
that privacy is impossible. The device which
Senator Cullom has brought to the attention
of the senate postoffice committee provides
for this in a simple but effective way. The
card is double and the ltack is split diagon
ally from the center, where the four joints
be attached in the same way that an en
velope is sealed. Of course the writing could
not be inspected without loosening the fiapi,
" - -J ample protection to the correspondent!
' Id he secured. There would be a small
'on to the-weight of the card, but wi
"1 enough to carry a few pounds mor
-'Iho without serious embarrass-
;intry's fjaances. 2iew York
ATTAR OF ROSES.
Au Account of It Manufacture A rreclA
Enaentlul OH.
Until tho sixteenth century we have no
autlumtio mention of attar. The htory of its
origin is told in the history of tho Ml.iil
empire. Tho sultana Nourniulial, tho light
of the harem, during a feast which she gave
to the grand mogul Jehaiiguir, iausel a canal
to 1 filled with rose water, where they
bathed in its erfumcd water und floated
about over its surface. After, some days a
curious suliftance wan oliserved on the wir
fuco. IT ion examination it proved to lie tho
essence of the roses, which the heat of the
sun had caiiMHl to gat her on the top of the
roso water, ami the delicious fragrance in
duced them to turn this accidental discovery
to account. Since that day roses have In-en
cultivated i'l Pei-sia, in India ami in Turkey
for the manufacture of the essence.
While in different parts of the cost great
quantities of roses are grown for their essen
tial oil, the province of Roumelia is jierhaps
thtt most important -enter for tho industry.
On tho lofty plain, hounded on the north by
tho Balkan mountains, aro planted the great
roso gardens, whero tho finest attar in tho
world is made. Kasanlik, the center of the
district, means in tho Turkish tongue place
of lioilers. Tho roses are planted by the
farmers of this district on sloping ground
faving the sun, nnd where the soil is sandy.
Laying down a ro o garden may be done in
tho spring or fall, the ground being cleared
of weeds. Young ros shoots are torn from
tho old plants, so as to carry with them a
fwirt of the roots. These are laid almost hor
izontally in trenches five feet apart. In six
months or so tho t.hoots appear, and are
earthed up, and in almost a year tho plants
stand like young hedges, aloiit a foot high.
It is not till the end of tho third year that
tho blossoming is of any inqiortance. At the
end of the fifth the plants aro in full bearing,
und they continue blooming for fifteen years
longer. It docs not do to enrich tho soil too
heavily, as it injures the quality of tho es
sential oil quite as much ns it improves the
quantity, Iloar frori, fog and dampness are
very injurious; in ItslO all tho roses in th
district were killed.
In May, when tho gardens aro a sheet of
bloom, tho harvest begins. Tho roses aro of
several kinds, but uU singlo or nearly so
pale pink or white, and very much like our
wild roses. Karly in the morning tho pickers
legin, while the dew is on the flowers. Tho
jx-tals are taken from tho stalks, ami at once
put into great copper alembics, capable of
holding about 210 jmuihIs of water. Into
each of these alembics, with their downward
lolutiiis nozzles, nro put ISO pounds of water
and twenty-five pounds of rose leaves. This
is then distilled till the turbid rose water
amounts to twenty-five pounds. The boilers
are emptied, cleansed, and the process is re-
peated. The turbid fluid is again distilW,
and then allowed to remain at ret. On the
surface of this double distilled rose' water
tlio precious essential oil rises like a greenish
or yellowish scum. This is skimmed off by
means of a conical spoon, with a Einall hole
in the lottom to ullow .hd water to Vuu
away. The. appliances a re all very rude, and
thero must necessarily bo much, wnsta XA A
material so preoinia, ' Acoot duig to estimates
mado at Iwonanlik it takes about 4.000
pounds of roses to make one xund of oil.
Aud from 4.0J0 to 6,000 pounds of roses are
tho largest crops raised upon an (English)
acre of land. The price for the pure attar is
about ?4 per oopce. Sophie. Ii. tterrick in
Tho Cosmopolitan. " '; - v'
A Visit to Simon Cameron.
It is true that he daily revives a, v-ery
large number gf isiuirs, but ho has a knack
of treating every caller well, yet disjiosing of
him quickly, uuless he happens to be some
congenial spirit with whom ho feels in the
humor of chatting. - But no man ever did or
ever will go away from Gen. Cameron's curt
yet courtly presence disgruntled without
good and sufficient cause. He has alwajs
leen pre -eminently a manage-' of men. 'lie
has taken caw to watch when tho tides in
public affairs were liable to rise, and when
tho ebb camo ho was pretty sure to see. its ap
proach lefqre most other eopie. This has
been the secret of his political success. In
shaking of his career in politics he likes to
day to talk to his intimates in a strain some
thing like this:
"People always said of me when I was in
active iolities that Cameron waa boss; that
no man could le a candidate for 'office unless
Cameron tU st vdected him and gave huh per
mission to run. This impression became so
strong that aspirants for political prefer
ment would pome to me months 'before the
primaries or nominating conventions and
ask if they might have the office they sought,
believing that my ward or support Was equiv
alent to an electlpn. It wasn't anything of
the kind, you know. I invariably answered
such questions Vy asking tho candidate,
'What is your strength j or 'How many deli
gates can you count on? Show me your fig
ures and then I can tell you whether I can
afford to support you.' This I would say to
all who came. Then when I found tho man
who was pretty sure to win- with U, httlj
support I cpuld glyo him h"4 was" nWW the
Cameron candidate'. I got 'all the credit for
tbo -victory, and the' candidate himself be
lieved that his success was entirely attributa
ble to ino. The truth of the matter always
was that the candidate had Pp.uVw
strength with him, iind vit trout that i
wouldut aii'l' couldn't hfive been of much
servico." Jew York Sm
Cot of Getting the News.
Mr. Eugene M. Camp, who has collected
the statistics for America on this point, says,
through The American, that tlio entire cost;
of ail uiws used in tho papers in this country
is $20,C3,000 per year. This is curiously di
vided. The special bureaus, which aro print
cipally located in New York, with, the t ighs
to look pver tho proof every night of sotno
of the morning journals, cost fU45,000. This
is divided among 100 of the leading provin
cial iapers. The business of the Associated
Press now amounts to 1,3."0,000 year ly, aud
that of the Unite 1 Press foots up to 450,005.
These two sums, with tho special outlay for
telegraph, tolls outside of tho ' organizations,
place tho total to all the papers of f 1,520,000
for this department. In addition to this
there are to be reckoned the special services,
of professional correj.ondents in adjacent
ton us aud important centers, whose salaries
aggregate $1,000,000 beside. This makes the
total cost of all the service about 2,SS0 00Q
per annum.
In tho larger titles of the Union it costs
nil the way from $40Q tp $2,200. a week for
the working up of local districts. Mr. Camp
reckons this yearly expense at about $la,
UX,000. Tbis. is a porrect analysis of tho ex
lenso in collecting uews and the proportion
in. which one branch of tho service is related
t:- the other. There are three lines on which
this work proceeds the gathering of news
ty the local reporter, the use of the telegraph
and the special correspondent. Each method
U .closely related tQ tho other. Th3 state
ment shows that therg has been a gres t devel
opment of journalism in the matter cf news.
Every "effort is made to get the news ind ono
combination only paves tho way for another
in order to keep the ead in this department
of a newspaper, The greater the combina
tion, the greater tho result, and the paper
that has the news is the ono that tho public is
most willing to pay for. Boston Herald.
MOHAMMEDAN SCHOOLS.
A SCENE WHICH !S VERY LUDI
CROUS TO A EUROPEAN.
How Head I uf; la Taught tua Young Mot
lent Tuue of the Voice In the Knit.
Tl iousuesa of Ilrudiiig; Manuarrlpt Vol
umra A Trick.
If the stranger in a Moslem country in pass
ing through the streets is attracted by a noise
for which he cannot satisfactorily account
towards the building in which the school is
held, he will, on looking in, probably seo a
long and narrow room, at ono end of which is
seated a man with a long beard (school
masters retain their beards even when whisk
ers only are sanctioned by general usage),
while the sides are lined with little boys of
various nges squatted upon their heels on the
floor which is generally covered with a thick
mat, in addition to which those jiarents who
can afford it provide their sons with a bit of
carpet or felt in l'ersia, or with u cushion in
Turl.vy to placo between them and tho mat.
Some of tao elder boys go so far as to obtain
u cushion to introduce Ijctween their backs
and the wall, but this luxury is rather dis
countenanced by tuo piasters as an encroach
ment on their own j. culiar dignities. All
tho boys ha vo their heads vo.ervd, but they
aro without their shoes, whici aro left near
tho door, so mingled und so similar in shae
and color that it would seem difficult for
each to find his own; but on the breaking up,
every one seems to slip his feet into his own.
shoes without any of that individual hesita
tion or general confusion which might bo c-x-JectiHL
When the boys aro learning their .lessons,
or reieating taem to their muster, they do so
all ut onco with a loud voice, and with a con
tinual seesaw of the body, without which,
movement theyseem. to.coutvi vo. it impossible
that unythiug cau bo learned. The scene
which this affords is extremely ludicrous to
a KuroiK-un, particularly as the zeal of the
learner is estimated by tho loudness of his
voice and the violence of seesaw; and
hence, when conscious of the approach of a
person whom the master or pupils wish to
impress with a favorable opinion of their
application and progress the noise in tho
school room, which may previously have
sunk into a low hum, rises abruptly to tho
clamorous uproar pf many voices. It seems
that in reading all at once to the. ina-tcr tho
elder boys, in the school at large, areexpected
to give some attention to tho other's near
them. Tho master cannot, in such a noise,
distinguish the individual accuracy of each
reader, and his attention is, therefore, directed
to observe that timo is as nearly as i'ty
kept by tho voices, aud, i". ;;jio measure, in
tho motions aUo of the pupils. This object
seems bub' poorly attained.' This style of
reading' Is most unnatural. It is n drawling
chant, uttered in a very loud vc,
In tho east geneva'dy the touo ti voice is
v"ery o.g't 'SU n. Common conversation,
but in ' l eading it s raised to screaming.
Some Arabs dosire ; friend of mine to let
them hear him read, lie complied, on which
they exclaimed, "You are not rending, you
are talking 1" The fact, however, is that "ex
cept among those of the learned professions,
few of those who have professedly learned to
read in the schools ran or. do exercise the
acquirer.; In rtcr life; and the few who
do r.main actually qualified to 'read with
facility, rarely do so without some stimulus
incomparably' stroprjgr th:ut woidd bo re
quired in tins, or perhaps, 'any European
country. After a residence of several years
among Mohammedan people, I da not vecol
lect more than three instances in which I
have seen persons quietly engaged in reading
a book to themselves, although till the ac
tions of their ordinary life are much more
ex;oacd to public notice than can well lx
imagined in this country,
'i'hese fatj uro easily explained. Books
nre expensive "articled of luxury in Moham
medan countries, and this is ialono sufficient
to account for much that w-e havu&iuUd.'
Before the inty.p.du.iuu ot tho art of printing
tho state of knowledge among the people was
not more favorable in this country than it is
iu Persia now. Thero is also another less
obvious circumstance, which vflyj have
great influence evcu wore mamiscilpt books'
much mere common and cheap than thev
aro. Thjss the difficulty of reading manu
script This difficulty should SOt bo under
rated. Even in this country most educated
lerson5 "would require considerable stimuly.a
to induce them to go through a luauuscript
volume. Those only whoi duty it is to ex
iraiiue manispj.iiii3 and tp prepare them for
tho press can describe the tediousnew t tho
operation. It is not one of ihe least advant
ages of printing- that it has tended to simphfy
tho chnmcWr employed in the preparation of
books and to render it uniform. This com
parison very imperfectly illustrates our
meaning, for our manuscripts are far more
legible to us than those of the east are to en
Oriental.
Among civ,y4,-es map persons who can
n'ijio ; skvthand' with' facility are unable to
read it With ease; an Oriental manuscript is
a sor of shorthand which many more per
sons aro able to write than to re.iL The
words are abbreviated, us i shorthand, by
tho or.iisMon pf ymVJs, and when tho words
are deciphered tho want of punctuation ren
ders it often difficult to discover at once the
meaning of the phrases. When to this it is
added that thero are several different styles
of writing, besides the difference oc ja$iuiie
in tho several manuscripts by tlie variety of
individiitl l.uiui-i and flourishes, it " will be
perceived tbaf a person cannot read with
facDity'without more practice tbau, the state
of literature and kuowledga encourages any
eousiderabjo number- of students to seek or
pnabjTS tbem to obtain. A stranger is very
liable to be deceived in estimating the com
petency of a Mohammedan to read. A very
largo part of a common education consists ir
learning by heart a very considerable pprvtou
of the current literatnrp. p& Hoularly of tho
Koran. IC( is, therefore, able to repeat by
rote ihe most striking passages of almost ary
of tho very limited number of books which
are likely to be placed before him, IIo. will
turn over its leaves unti he can find some
passage wilh which he is acquainted, and
will repeat it'oorrecfly as if from the book; '
but, if suddenly interrupted, he is afterward '
quite unable to indicate the part pf the page
at which t'Q interruption took place. Lon
don Standard.
Tenants of Rasalai Tenements.
Iu the cities, the Russians live almost en
tirely iu apartment houses. There are 10,000
tenants, it is said, in one house in St. Peters
burg. The houses are nearly always of brick,
and tho government buildings are all stuc- .
coed and ainted red. Each house has a
dvorcik, who is the agent of ha owner, and
of tho police, an4 a porter, who wears the
uniform pf a colonel in the army and is tho
janitor or agent of the tenants. The dvornik
inspects the passport of every new tenant and
even, temporary tenant or visitor, and re-
ports it to the police station, where it is re
corded. A like notification is made of every
change of residence. The dvornik sits at the
back gate of the house, clad generally in
sheepskin. He knows everything that goes
on and is responsible to the police. In this
way the perfection of the Russian police sys
tern is maiEfiai. tT w Yc-fc TTcrlV
SLEEPING AFTER MEALS.
A Widespread but Mistaken Ilelief Rest
for the I (rain.
There ii a widespread suierstitiou, cher
ished by tho great majority of the iK"pl,
that to sleep immediately after they have
taken food is to endanger health, to favor
tho onset of apoplexy, etc. a superst itioir
based on tho assumption that during sleep
the brain is normally congestL There i-i,
no doubt, such a thing as congestive sleep,
but during normal sleep tho brain isana-mic.
When a jn-rsai. has taken a fairly uhundaut
lunch or dinner the stomaoJi demands a
sjecial influx of lil.w! wherewith to accom
plish its work of digestion; no organ can
more easily comply with that demand than
the brain, which, when in full activity, is
suffused with u maximum amount of th
vital fluid.
But u derivation of blood from tho brain
to the stomach can only take lay, except in
exceptionally full blooded and vigorous per
sons, on tho condition that tho trelral func
tions bo meanwhile partially or wholly sus
pended. Hence many ieople after taking
dinner feel i;idisjosed for mental action, and
not a few long for sleep. The already par
tially ana?mic brain would fain yield up
to the stomach a still further supply
of blood and yield Itself up to re
freshing sleep. Doing so it gains new
strength; meanwhile digestion proceeds en
ergetically, and soon Ixnly and mind are
again cquiped to continuo in full forco tho
battle of life. But superstition, tlio child of
ignorance, intervenes, declares that sleep
during digestion is dangerous, admonishes
tho would le sleejers to struggle against
their perilous inclinat ion, and, though tel'ing
them that after dinner they may sit awhile.
assures ineni r-i , "a.r -sup,.'!
walk u mile."
Tho millions of its victims continue, there
fore,, tho strn'o to which it condemns them,
and ignore tho suggestions offered to them
by tho lower animals, who have always prac
ticed tho lessons of sound physiology by
sleeping after feeding whenever they ure al
lowed to do so, IIjnce the human brain and
human tjtomach of such victims contend
with each other during the digestive process:
the brain, impelled by superstition., strives
to work and demands blood to work with,
while tho. stomach, stimulated by its con
tents, strives to carry on its marvelous chem
istry, and demands an ample supply of blood
for the purpose, The result of the struggle
is that neither is nblo to do its work well;
the bruin is enfeebled by lei;ig denied its
natural rest during the digestive process, and
the healthy function of tho stomach degener
ates into dysjcpsia. Westminster Jtoviow,
A ri r Self Abnegation.
Uiarjos LamVs doi-cUon to his in.Uio sis
ter was ono cf those instances of self abnega
tion which aro as a silver lining to tho darker
aud more sinister traits of human nature,
but it is, perhaps, moro than equaled m some
respects by an instance of unselfish devotion
on tho part of a man in one of the institu
tions near New York such us is rare outside
of the pages of fiction. It is the case of a
man and wife. They lived happily together,
but by ono of thoso strange visitations of
fate the happy wife liecnme insula Cases
aro not rare whero a husband has shown de
votion to an iv.sano wife. There aro others
ii, vvhk.ii tho husband has sought to play tho
role of Mr. Rochester in ,;Jano Eyre.," and
ignore a tio which he speciously argued had
been sundered by a stioko. of fate, though in
most, u not all, of our states, nt ljst, insan
ity subsequent to marriage js regarded as a
disease, and no moa-a a ground for divorce
than cciiinumption or any other ailment.
But in this c:ise the husband forsook his
hom2 in New York, where he h;ul lived on a
small income received from wealthy parents
in Europe, and sought nnd secured a position
as bookkeeper-in fcho workhouse, close by the
insane aj lim where his wife was confined,
receiving no salary for his servtcjs, and rel
mains there now, amid forbidden surro-- ,
ings, simply thai It may 1 near )., striei;'en
vri.tc.whG Kiiiies vacaul'-at him or talks
Witn pathetic volubility and earnestness of
her fixed delusions across that dark mental
gulf which sepat'Rti the Gehenna of mad
ness fro.y, 'yt,9 relative paradise of sanity.
Ilii enly thought is to soften the blow to his
wifs .'.s much as possible., to ameliorate as far
as may bo her sufferings, a pathetic attempt
to make the hand of fato seem like velvet
instead of iron. For seven years he has re
mained faithful in his devotion to his men
tally dead wife, sepulchred, so to speak, ra
a hopeless lunatic in the cemetery of the
mind, an insano asylum, a man not, itcrhaps,
endowed with the intellectual qualities which
command the admiration of men, but illum
ined by unselfish dovotion as with a sacred
nimbus. Oscar Willoughby Riggs.
When tlie 3XountaIns Were Made,
Tho chief beauty of Mount Desert Island is
in its mountains. From a little distance they
seem to riso gv-andly out of the very blue of
tl,aea. The. highest, Mount Green, reaches
an elevation of nearly 2.000. feet. As you
approach t he sunshine flooding their roujided
peaks gives them a bronzed, metallic appear
ance. But ftoiu a league away their real
beauty and grandeur break lovingly upon
tho vision. Verdure clad in places, again
showing massive bulwarks cf rock, and f rom
each height sloping in graceful undulations
to the sea, a rare and winsome charm, as
well as a broad and stalwart majesty, pos
sesses $heiv Wherever one may bo within
bight of the splendid masses it is impossible
to, cease their contemplation. Thus musing
on them in tho .'irit of geologic conjecture
and revelry, I hMf unconsciously asked my
kipper if he had any idea of their age.
"A lee-tle up'ard 'n a hundred year, he
answered promptly. I looked at him with
amazement, and it nettled hink
"A lee-tle up'ard :i a hundred year!'' ho
repeated stolidJy4 setting his teeth hard upon
his tobacco, and eyeing me askance, as iC
y iib. initiatory feelings of resentment At my
unaccountable ignorance. "Tb,om ar, thir
teen mountings ain't thar fur nnthinV'Them
ar thirteen self sarr,e mountings viz plum' up
outen the b,ay the very day they d'clar'd
'pfudeuce to theso Yooniterd States! Them
as seed it lived right hereabout,"'
"But, captain," J pleaded, aghast at this
startling revelation, "you know te Mouts
and Champlain discovered tho island just
2S4 years ago; named it 'L'Islo des Monts
Deser ts,' from the dreary appearance of the
toj of those very mountains; and Briard
and Masse, the Trench Jesuits, established a
mission over thero on the western shore of
Some's Sound i"'
In tones of awful scorn my skipier merely
answered: "Did, did they Wall, I spoe
Bech scallops comes from schoolin'. I say no
man liviu' was in theso parts afore" my fore
fathers; an' them that's dead and doubted"
this with con teinr.t uous grief "seed with
their own eyes them thirteen mountings hist
up their beads. Howsunidever, there's no
argerin with saoerers .'"Edgar Li. Wake,
man's Letter.
HI Preference.
"Of all seasons of the year, Dr. Diagnosis,"
she said to a young physician who was help
ing her look at the moon, "which do you
most prefer P'
"I think I prefer the watermelon season,"
be replied in a low business tone of voioa.
The Epoch.
The Plattsmouth Herald
Is n joying1 a
DA2X.1T AStfD WEEKLY
EDITIONS.
The
Tear
Will be oik! luiinr, which the subjects of
nution.'tl intercut iiixl importance will be
strongly agitated and the election of a
lYesiilent will take place. Ihe people of
Cass Count v who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social
of this year and would keep apace with
the times should
-J'oli
Daily or Weekly Herald
Now while we have the subject before the
people we will venture to speak ol our
"Which is tirst-class iu all respects and
from which our job printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
PLATTSMOUTH,
So in both, its
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