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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1880)
T -'lia: - --' T "T "" . iic -? -- jr"1 ' .Si, jtwmt ,.-.i Ij&ajurv in-frjam H4iC-tKJx v- V M 0MHBMAMrtilnMnMMMMBMVk49pMaEaiCj -fir y THE ADYERTISEK. FAIRBROTllER & HACKER, Pcmlishers. JUmWNVTLLE. NEBRASKA A MOTIIKIt TO BOJS INGBRSOLL. BT ONLY A 5IOTHEIL I anvsittingby the tire, Bob, With baby on my knee, While my.liusband and its sire, Bob, Has read jour views to me. .My baby is a girl, Bob A dainty little thing; No blossom in the garden, Bob, . Is half so sweet in spring. I ilo not know the laws, Bob, By which her being came; And of the laws of death, Bob, My knowledge is the same. Nor do I know the laws,Bob, By which.the flow'rs blow; And bow the winter comes, Bob, I nothing, nothing know. And how are you so wise, Bob, . That you should come to fay, doubtful thing is baby's ul, O tell me now, I pray. I cannot take it in, Bob, " With baby in my arms, Her clinging, thrilling touch, Bob, Your every doubt disarms. SUe cannot speak a word, Bob, Yet I can surelysec The soul within her eyes, Bob, Is speaking unto me. But O, I feel the ower, Bob," Of mother love within; I never in my life, Bob, Felt half so strong a thing. O, could you be a mother, Bob, A doubt would never rise ' Tliat baby's vast inheritance Is notlioth earth and skies. I think ou love your children, Bob, And Mrs. Ingersoll; But can't you love them well enough To know they have a soul! I thank you very much, Bob, For strong words for the weak; And of your noble chivalry My woman's foul would speak. But. O, give up your trying, Bob, It is a dreadful sin, To have us doubt the soul, Bob, We feel so strong within. And having got a soul, Bob, We need the heavenly law, With all its grace and power, Bob, That soul heaveuward to draw. FACTS AM) FIGURES. Of the 237 new members returned since the recent dissolution, no less than 150 may be classed generally as mer chants, manufacturers, or connected with commercial pursuits; 52 are law yers, 44 belonging to the bar and 8 prac ticing, or having practiced as solicitors; 30 belong to the army, 2 to the navy, 3 have belonged to to the diplomatic pro fession, 6 follow or have followed, the profession of journalists, 7 are civil and agricultural engineers, 5 are bankers, 2 are connected with the brewing trade, 2 belong to the medical profession, 6 are tenant farmers, or in other wa3Ts con nected with labor; 4 are or have been printers, publishers, engravers, etc, 1 is a member of the Royal Academy of Scotland, one is a civil and military tu tor, one is a Presbyterian minister and two arc ex-clergymen of the Established church, who have relieved themselves of their orders under the provisions of Mr. Bonvcrie's relief bill. The above enu meration includes!72 members; the rest are country squires, magistrates, deputy-lieutenants, chairmen of quarter ses sions, ex-high sheriffs, baronets, or sons of peers. The oldest of the "new mem bers" is Sir Harry Verney, aged 78; the youngest appears to be Mr. Richard Fort,M. P. for Clitheroe, who was born in 185G. The relative degree of practical de velopment attained by the principle of popular representation in the various countries of Europe may b seen from the following figures: in France there are 9,9!)1,2G1 electors, viz.. 28.3 percent, of the inhabitants; in Switzerland, 641, 552 electors, viz., 24.2 per cent, of the inhabitants; in Germany, 8,523,446 elec tors, viz., 20.2 per sent, of the inhabi tants; in England, 2,710,590 electors, viz., 11.5 per cent, of the inhabitants; in Austria, 1,242,940 electors, viz., 5.9 per cent, of the inhabitants; in Portugal, 216.6SS electors, viz., 5.4 percent, of the inhabitants; in Italy, 605,007 electors, viz., 2.2 per cent, of the inhabitants, and in Belgium, 63.27S electors, viz., 1.8 per cent, of the inhabitants. The French republic thus counts a larger proportion of electors than Switzerland, the coun trv which was the first to adopt univer sal suffrage. This is partly explained by the consideration that the proportion of children to adults is smaller in France than in Switzerland. The relative num ber of foreigners having no vote may also possibly be larger in the latter coun try. The franohiseshows an equal de velopment in Germany, The difference between Germany and England is almost two to one in favor of the former coun try. The electoral body is also larger in Portugal, a country of pure monarchy, Lima in Italy or Belgium. Another fact worthy of attention is the extent to which the franchise is actually exercised by the electond population in each of the coun tries mentioned, respecting which we have the following figures: 'France, 1876, 7,S66,6S2 -or 76 per cent.; Germany, 1874, 5,291,593, or 62 per cent.? Austria, 1873,. 153,155, or 66 per cent.; Italy, 1876, 36S,750 or 59 per cent.; Belgium, 1874, senate 86,082,30k 67 per cent.; deputies, 45,184 or 7r"per cent. t Plymouth Rocks. -"-.-'. .. Fannie Field In Ohio Fanner. . . Z i-" i As a market fowl, the PlvmouthRock. stands at the head of the -lfst. T5?J Rocks hold the same place. inAmcr$Kfn3 markets, that the Dorking holds liFthe English. 1 do not say this because some body else lias said it and the Rocks are in fashion, or because 1 happen to be a breeder of this variety, but because I know it As I remarked before, I do not raise ch'ckens to look at, nor for the fun of the thing, but for cash. And do you think that I would keep on raising Plyniouth.Roeks year after year unless I couUl niaku it pay? Not I! The poul try raiser who makes a business of rais ing chickens for the market, and who expects to get his daily bread and but ter from the products of hi chickens, wauss a breed that as chick-- will be sprightly, up and scratching from the shell, hardy, aud feather up quickly. As fowls they must be good, but not ever lasting setters; goon mothers; must lay on flesh rapidly when fattening for mar ket; must weigh when d-essed from five to eight pounds; flesh must be tine grained, juicy and tender; must 1-e of rood shape, with a good proportion of breast meat, and mint have yellow skin and smooth yellow legs. The Plymouth Rocks'possess all these qualities, which make tiiem about all that is desired in a market fowl. "But," says somebody who is bound to find fault, "didn't A. B. in the Farmer of May 1 declare that his Rocks were inveterate setters, and minus the yellow?" Somebody else who is not posted on the subject exclaims: "Well, at any rate, in maiket a pound of chicken meat is a pound, black legs, yellow or white. I don't see how you can get Rround that." & you have f ludJed ttt&fkot imports, and used y'our eyes, ears and tongue around markets and commission houses as much as I have, you would not asscn so positively that '-a pound is aponnd." Did you ever happen to see in market reports the words "prime stock," and "poor, unsalable lots?" Do you know what they mean? I do. The first means quick sale at the top market price, and the last means slow sale at any price the purchaser offers. Commission men think themselves lucky to get these "poor, unsalable lots" off their hands at any price. No longer ago than last winter I was in a big commission house talking to a member of the firm and keeping an eye on the dealers who came in to buy. "There," said Mr. F., as a keen eyed man came in, "is one of the best itidcres of dressed poultry that I ever saw. come ami see wuai, iik uuj a. went, and 1 saw two boxes, one con taining 178 pounds.the other 200 pounds of dressed poultry all Plymouth Rocks, dressed in good shape and neatly pack ed. "I buv to sell again," ssid the keen-eyed man, "and I have some of the bestcustomers in the city. I aim to please them, and find that these plump, yellow-skinned birds suit them to a T. I couldn't give away such a lot as that," touching a box close by. 1 examined "that lot," and found it made up of all sorts, sizes and colors; some hail white skins, some yellow, but the greater part were dark-legged and the skin was of that bluish tint that reminds one of boarding-house chicken. There was some good poultrv in the package, but it was mixed in with so much that was poor that taken altogether, it made a "poor, unsalable lot." And I have noticed in market that people who were buying chickens for broilers, would willingly pay more for a small chicken well feathered up than for a third larger one that was covered with pin feathers, and had that scraggly, awkward look peculiar to chickens who are still in their "short clothes." This early feathering and quick growth are two of the chief things which make the Plymouth Rocks so desirable for early market chicks. , .l.:ii ,. r Thunder Storms in South Africa. Natal is an awful country for thunder and lightning, writes a correspondent of "Land and Water," and never a summer passes without some damage being done to both man and beast. No house is considered quite safe without a conductor. Marilzburg is rather noted for its thunder storms, and although I have seen one or perhaps two instances of the tall blue gums of the city that had been seared from head to foot by the lightning, yet, when it is consid ered how numerous they are, how fre quently these thunder storms occur, and how awfully near the lightning ap proaches, it was astonishing how few of them had been struck. From this fact I should say that the blue gum tree of fers peculiar attraction to the electric fluid; though from the cases mentioned, where the trees had been scorched but not shivered, they would seem to have acted as conductors. While on the sub ject of thunder and lightning, I may mention two instances of the freaks some times indulged in by the latter. One happened on board a ship on a voy age to Australia, when one of the boys standing near the foot of the main mast or main rigging, I forget which, was knocked down by the fluid. He remain ed in a stupefied state for somelime,but recovered. The lightning hail made a bald patch on the crown of his head, and torn the iron heels off his boots. It was several years after the accident that I made the acquaintance of the boy,and the bald patch still remained on the crown of his head. He was considered rather a stupid boy, but whether this was natural or the" effect of the light ning seemed doubtful. The other freak happened in Natal. Mr. W , a set tler on Mooi river, was ridinir across a1 high range (Mount West), when he was overtaken by a thunder storm; he lec ollected nothing more. He was found wandering about in rather a stupid state, anil could not well account for his being on foot or what had become of his horse. On search being made in the direction he was likely to have fol lowed from his farm, his horse was found on a spur of the range, dead, and his saddle shattered to pieces. The Kaffirs believe that where lightning has struck once it will strike again, and if a hut or kraal has been hit. they vacate the spot immediately and build else where. A Thiek-Skumed Rogiic- Lonilon Telecranh. If we mav estimate the thickness of Mr. Joseph Schmaulzbauer's skin by his capacity for enduring castigation, as demonstrated iu the oflichU record of the punishments administered to him during his term of service in the Aus trian army, this inordinately-beaten warrior may fairly claim kinship to the hardest-hided rhinoceros that ever flat tened a bullet on its flank. None, sure ly, but a pachyderm could have surviv ed the inflction of 10,200 stripes with the military cat, supplemented by 335 slashing blows applied to the nether part of liim by the live-foot rattan of an imperial royal provost. At Schmaulz bauer's trial for burglary, last week, before the Viennese Landesgericht, how ever, it was proyed beyond a doubt that he had been verberated to this extent while with his regiment; which fact points to the inference that he must have been a special favorite with his com manding officer, for is it not written that "Who loves well chastises well?" Sinco quitting the army, moreover, this thick-skinned pet of his military superiors had at different times suffered 18 years' incarceration for eccentricities of conduct, regarded by the laws of his country as incompatible with his being at large, rinally, the tribunal which elicited, in evidence, these curious de tails of his past career, sentenced him to solitary confinement for a further tenn of five years. Whether as a sol jdier or as a civilian, it would certainly J-appear that Joseph Schmaulzbauer has haa.a .remarkably "roujjh time of it for5th last quarter of a century or so -!! "Sr The Miracles of To-Day. Iowa State Register. In a recent semion the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, jr., of the Episcopal church of the holy trinitv, New York city, pre sented a theme and views that will not fail to evoke: v'ety generawuseussion in all circles. Dr..Tyng has recently been abroad, and while in France he visited and investigated the proclaimed nlira cle of the water, of Lourdfls, and in-'-hlS: sermon he so expressedri'imself as to& counicu among me una oeiievers -j this story of a miracle. Dr. Tvri chose for his text the nineteenth" aha twentieth verses of the seventeenth chapter of Matthew: "Then came the disciples to Jesus apart and said, Why could not we cast him out? An I Jesus said unto theni, Because of your unbe lief; for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ve shall say unto the mountain, remove Iience to yonder place, and it shall re move, and nothing shall be impossible unto you." The able divine handled the subject in a very eloquent manner, and spoke of the great power of faith. An epitome. of his sermon reports liim as saying: Tri oris?- own community we have examples'-.of cures wrought as a result of prayer winch must take place with what are modern miracles, and must be studied philosophically. It was this faith, hesaid.whichatLourdes, in France, and perhaps at Knock, in Ireland, bad been honored by God. Dr. Tyng then told the familiar story of the vision which the invalid peasant shep herded flaw In the grotto at Lourdes, twentytwo vents age- a'id ol tb? mes sage she thought she received from the Virgin in the vision. There can be no charge of deception with this child, he said. She was a sincere, simple hearted peasant girl, and she believed she saw the mother of Christ The apparition was accepted as a verity of the church of Rome upon what was deemed suffi cient grounds by learned, wise, and sin cere men. Many cures as a result of faith have, the speaker said, undoubt edty been wrought in the presence of the shrine. In the inclosure of the shrine lie saw crutches without number left there by those who had been cured. Dr. Tyng then continued that he had been called an ecclesiastical bigot by a very respectable newspaper. If he had one bigoted hair in his head he wanted to pull it out. "I am no bigot," he said. "I have no prejudice. I he Ro man Catholic church is wise in its gene ration above all societies of believers. I do not find it in my heart to impugn their sincerity. The man who can by any sort of doxy relieve the suffering in this world. I will hail as a worker. Who shall say how much of hetero doxv there is in prayer that shall be a blessing? It is not possible for mo to say that the congregation I cannot pray with is not praying to God." The story of Our Lady of Lourdes is well known. In the year 1858 a young girl of fourteen, the "daughter of poor parents, and in delicate health from in fancy, wandered one day from her home, with two other children, to gath er tagots. iney came to a picturesque cavern or grotto in a remote spot on the side of a mountain. The young girl advanced alone into this grotto, while her companions busied themselves in gathering sticks of wood. Presently there burst upon her a vision of sur passing beauty. It was the figure of a lovely woman, draped in white, and holding in her hand a chain of gold, whence there hung a crucifix. On eighteen occasions the child saw this apparition, and each time it smiled sweetlv upon her. and made the -rn of ,, the cross. The neighboring oripsi were made aware of this amasiiuc ex perience, and were at first increjitfloiiA They imposed on the girl certain ttata j by waj of alnrming or correcting me miracle. One of these was that of hav ing a rose bush bloom at the feet of the ghostly figure, the time being the month of February. But they were in formed that a blooming rose bush at mid-winter would be but an ephemeral wonder, and that a more permanent proof would be given; and on the next day a living stream gushed from the rock, and for twenty-two years has con tinued thus to flow, without cessation, as an evidence of the power and the reality of Notre Dame de Lourdes. Last summer, it appear, Dr. Tyng visited this shrine. There-is now built over the grotto and the surrounding grounds a church cf splendid dimen sions and architecture. This edifice was erected by the contributions of be lievers, and is said to be one of the most imposing ecclesiastical structures of modern times. During last summer there was an average of fifty thousand pilgrims a week there. On the walls hang more than three hundred silken banners, showing most delicate needle work and many of them ornamented with precious stones. At that shrine, sas Dr. Tyng, there is unceasing pray er; and as the prayers are answered, it is impossible, he adds, to say that those who offer them up are deluded. Let us quote here the preacher's words, as re ported: "There was no doubt of the cures effected there. In the inclosure of the shrine were crutches, trusses and badges thrown away because their wearers had been cured and had no further use for them. There were thousands of letters of thanksgiving. Among the most touching things were the thousands of letters by the side of the alcove letters of written prayers sent by those who could not come in person. God could read as well as heat prayer, and here was evidence of indi vidual faith in that fact. He had spoken of the cures there. It would never do to dismiss such well authenticated-facts as these." Dr. Tyng is the first prominent Pro testant who has looked upon the mira cle at Lourdes with any charitable judg ment, and his position is one that m'iny Protestants will be found supporting: that the power of faith is as great in his day to bring about miracles as it was of old. The regret f Dr. Tyng is not shared alone by liim that this pow er has not been used and cultivated by the church people of the Protestant chisses. Whether there is, or there is not. anything marvelous in the waters of Lourdes, it is none the less truth that many seeming miraculous cures are authenticated by men and women too honest to be parties to a cheat. The scoffer will find one way to account for it, some Protestants "another, while there will be some of all churches who have faith in the power of prayer and good works to secure the favor of pow ers that rule the infinite. Some will claim the whole demonstration as a physicologieal phenomenon, and study it from that standpoint. Children and Work. Henry Ward Bccchcr. Parents that bring into life children and have nothing for them to do are not so happy, nor are they so fortunate, as parents who bring into life children that have to labor more or less from when they are live or six years old in or der to help eke out the subsistance of the family; for occupation is God's shield against temptation in childhood "life. Where wealth brings leisure, and refinement breeds enjoyment, there are many considerations of very vital im portance to parents. It is hard to bring up children that have no pressure on them and that have nothing to do but to seek enjoyment. Enjoyment is a law of God; but wholesome enjoyment is to be coupled with the fulfillment of right du ties. When, therefore, children are reared so that they must rise early, and so that they are wrought upon through the whole day, and are fatigued, they must go to bed early. The ploughman's boy that has been afield from six in the morning until seven in the evening, and is thoroughly tired, will dispense with a great many evening amusements that betide the boy of the man of leisure; and there are a great many anxieties which need not trouble the farmer in re gard to his boy, but which harass the mate, of leisure in regard to his boy. Gis-civour bovs as much wholesome ihrori?:asthev need and see that they do tajtSTreat them as you do colts. If colts -suau in the stable eating oats most of nme tney oeconie ununvaoie; out falve away their oats, or diminish them, and they will need no regimen but that. The labor of children should be adaitAl to their nature and to their capacity. Children that are taught fronrTt-Beir childhood up to take care of every day" thriftily, and to turn every hour to seme good account, do not have one-temptation, where five hundred wait upon tlkj children of leisure. As late as the year 17S6 the bodies of criminals hung in London were burned at the foot of the scaffold. The usual mode of hanging was to drive the cart containing Jie condemned from under his feet, leaving him to hang until death ensued. ivorkixgjiex. Before you begin your beavy spriug work af ter a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an at tack of Ague, Billious or Spring Fever, or come other"Spring Sickness that will unfit you for a season's work. You will save time, much sickness and great expense If vou will use one bottle of Hop Bitters in your family this monUi- Dwt waiti Ess etlur wlaauM T P0ST OFFICE. SEW YORK'S A Peep Ileliind the Jcciie- jSonie Queer Addree-TIic "Blind Clerk's" Extraordinary Vision. Correspondence Boston Herald. Of all the vast quantity of mail mat ter deposited in the New York postof fice," only 1 per cent, fails of delivery. In one year there have been as many as 38,000 inquiries received' for missmg letters, and 143,350 other pack ages have come in during the same time without inquiry. Of these, 110,000 were sent back to the addresses of the writer. In the same length of time as manv as 250,000 letters have been-sent from New York to the dead letter office. The de partment having charge of this branch of the service is called the searchers' bureau. The business of the clerks Here employed is to hunt up lost letters, and make out queer addresses which the or dinary clerks fail to decipher. Thj lat ter duty is confined to a sub-division of the searchers' bureau, called the blind department. And it is a most remark able paradox that the gentleman who is known as the "blind clerk," all over the building, is, in reality, the sharpest eyed man in the service. He has a knowledge of the geography of the country which is simply marvelous, and can tell you the name of almost every street inthe United States. Addresses that would defy the keenest scrutiny of common eyes are as easiby read by him as though they were copper-plate. On his desk yesterday I found some lette which will serve as fair samples of tl sort of thing he has to interpret we in and week out. Here is a copy of o of these puzzlers: A mademoiselle Sidonie Goud Corof monsienr de sibour franc consulla a riheho mon virg nie etat unis amerique. The "blind clerk" had no hesitation whatever in forwarding it at once to i Mile Sidonie Goud, care of M. De Si- hour, French consul, Richmond, Va would drive a map maker wild, was ad ti essed thus: Andras Matis Brajoud beunoisoil Kontri Nort Amerika. My friend of the alleged blind eyes PKOMITLV KEADDKESSEI) IT to Andras Matis, Braidwood, Will coun ty, 111. With the third one, I am done. It read: Tzandyonin Swernikantzy Joseph Dan Nort.Ameryka. Now, I respectfully aver that any per son who would bring order out of that chaos would make a great presidential candidate, because all the power in the world couldn't get him into a place which he couldn't squeeze out of. The "blind clerk" unraveled this skein with out half-trying. This is what he made of it. "Joseph Dan, Sandy Run, Lu zerne county, Pa." Many letters mail ed in New York are addressed to the wrong towns. These are returned to the "blind clerk," and nine times in ten he sends them to the proper addresses without bothering the writer at all. Sup posing a letter sent to John Pillbaker, 3091 Polk street, Boston, is returned to the New York office with the announce ment that there is no such person, the blind clerk," who knows there is no Polk street in Boston.while there is such a thoroughfare in Chicago. He imme- diatelv sends the letter alonir, anu ins rrnnscnQ nlmnst. nlwavs nrnvfl to hfi cor rect. Ke is, taken all in all, the most interesting man iu the postal service. A postmaster's lot is not alw:i3's a happy one. Very few people compre hend the nature and extent of his duties and there are many who look upon him as a kind of hack errand runner who has nothing to do but attend to their most trivial desires. The following is a verbatim copy of a letter reeeiveyjiy jlr. James vesterday afternoon: Oct. 19 A. D. 1880 P. O. Kerrville, Shelby Co. Teun Mr. Post master. Dear Sir I Drop you those few Lines hoping they may be of benafite to me. I want to No of you whather there is any young Lady in the city of New Yark wants to marry I have traveled Hun dreds of Miles and cant find No wife if vou can find a Lady thatwants to mar ry tell her of me if you please tell her of me tell her to write soon Address all letters to W. H. Cross I am 19J years of age Please find enclose & send me her Address & send her Picture by mail & I will do the same. Yours Truly Very kindly address W. H. Cross Kerrville Shelby Co Tenn Wanting a Lady for wife Kerrville Shelby Co Tenn. A postal card received a day or two prior to the above bears this mysterious request: Town House Smytiie County Va Oct 4th 180 Poaste Master New Yorke City Pleas send mo a Bisnes Drickertof the City as I wish to know of sum Parties senile the Drector as sune as this comes to.hand & obline Yours Respectfull " Jas. E. Davis. But for genuine, OLl-FASniONED "GALL," commend men to the inhabitants of Ba den. Ont, From one of these comes the following startling series of literary py rotechnics: Baden March ;28 1890 Post master New York Dear Sir I must trouble you a little about somethink please let me know if there is a man in N. Y. by the name of Max Stadlberger he lives in the number of the house, 35, M. Dougal Street N. Y. if he is there try and find out where he was Born and how many Brothers and Sisters he has got and what their Names are and what Relig ion he has got and where ah his broth ers and sisters lives and what the num ber of his fathers House is and in which street he lives and where about he lives and ask him what his trade was please ask Max Stradlbenrer how many chil dren he has fcrot and What the oldest ones name is and how old he is and ask him where his wife was fronCfr 21 3'ears ago and ask him if he has got a brother in Canada and What his name is and Please let me knnw all this what I ask you in this Letter please let me know as soon as possible as you can I will gladly pay you for your coming back Tetter and" I will soon give you a letter back and pay you what you will charge for your trouble I am in a hurey about it please don't let him know why 3ou want to know it but I want it dont forget it Often I remain yours truly Henry Stadlberger Baden. P. Q. Water loo Countv Canada Ontario. This.as Mr. William Winter would ob serve in his classic moments, takes the cake. Yet in spite of the fact that these are but three out of the thousands like them thaconie ever month, Postmas ter James is as happy and light-hearted as a larkJn the -glad springtime. His secretary; who has. to -read all these let ters, is"gray-hairedand downcast f. .niKana Row Much a Dog- 31 ay Know. ' . au .1 liiuiu iru auiiuai iutuui"cuur delivered not long since before theBrit- ish? association, Professor G. T. Ro manes laid down the extraordinary pro-'j position that "the only uitterence" be tween animal intelligence and htrrari intelligence consists in this: that ani mal intelligence is unable to elaborate that class of abstract ideas the forma tion of which depends on the faculty of speech." This is startling doctrine; "and yet some of the authentic anecdotes em bodied in an article on this subject in the current Westminster Review seem to go far to support it. What, too, are we to say of the act of the Mount St. Bernard dog at Salem recently, when this sagacious creature, seeing a child en thg railway track oTRr "ffbioh th8 train was swiftly approaching, dashed forward in the nick of time ana dragged the little one from the point of danger? The amazing intelligence of the Scotch collie which will bring home in safety from long distances whole flocks of sheep without leaving one behind, and which will even separate its master's sheep from other when they become in termingled, if not indicative of reason gives token ol a faculty which for the purpose in hand is not inferior to it. Dr. Lindsay, in fact, directly claims for certain of what we call the lower ani mals, an intelligence greater than that of the human savage; and there are feats recorded of various animals in the Westminster paper referred to, of which probably millions of human beings would be quite incapable. An incident for which we can vouch has never to our knowledge been given in print, and is a contribution worth preserving to the discussion in hand. A gentleman was induced by the skepticism of some friends to make a wager to the follow ing effect: He undertook to send a fa vorite dog, a Newfoundland, from a place more than a mile from his house for a flute which was to be put in his owner's room. The doors of the house were to be closed and no one was to ac company or direct the dog in any way whatever after he received the instruc tions of his master. The dog actually accomplished the feat. He got into the house by a window opening on the piaz za, made his way to the room, found the flute and took it safely to its destination. The sagacious creature had been used to carry the flute for his master, who was a brilliant amateur, and had of course been previously shown where to look for it in the room. The same ani mal often took pennies to the butcher's and bought his own meat. It must be admitted that there are some domestic servants, to say nothing of the savages referred to by Dr. Lindsay, whose intel ligence might easily fall short of that of the shaggy hero of this little story. Miss Flynn's Lover. Troy TlmpXj, Miss Man Flynn was studying medi cine and beingcourted at the same time. Mr. W illiam Build was attending to the latter part of the business. One evening while they were sitting together in the parlor, Mr. Build was thinking how he should manage to pro pose. Miss Flynn was explaining cer tain physiological facts to him. "Do you know," she said, "that thou sands of persons are actually ignorant that they smell with their olfactory pen duele?" "Millions of 'em," replied Mr. Build. "And Aunt Mary wouldn'tbelieve me when I told her she couldn't wink with out a sphincter muscle?" "How unreasonable!" "Why, a person cannot kisS without a sphincter!" "Indeed?" "I know it is so." "May 1 try if 1 can?" "Oh, Mr. Budd, it is too bad for you to make light of such a subject." Then he tried it, and while he held her hand she explained to him about the muscles of that portion of the human body. "It is remarkable how much you know about those things," said Mr. Build "realty wonderful Now, for example, what is the bone at the back of the head called?" "Why, the occipital bone, of course." "And what are the names of the mus cles of the arms?'' "The spiralis and the infra-spiralis among others." "Well, now, let me show 3011 what I fnean. When I put "iny iu-fra-spiralis, around your waist, so, is it 30111 occipi tal bone that rests upon 1113 shoulder blade in this wa3?" "M3 back hair, priniarib, but the oc cipital bone, of course, afterward. But, oh, Mr. Build, suppose pa should come in and see us!" "Let him come. Who cares?" said Mr. Build, boldby. "I think I'll exercise a sphincter and take a kiss." "Mr. Build, how can 3011?" said Miss Flynn, after he had performed the feat. "Don't call me Mr. Budd call me Willie," he said, drawing her closer. "You accept me, don't 3011? I know 3011 do, darling." "Willie," whispered Miss Flynn, very faintlv. "What, darling?" "I can hear your heart beat." "It beats only for 3011, IU3 angel." And it sounds out of ordei. The ven tricular construction is not uniform," "Small wonder for that when it's bursting for joy." "You must put 3'ourself under treat ment for it. I will give 3011 some med icine." "It's 3our own property, darling; do what you like with it. But somehow the sphincter operation is one that strikes me most favorably. Let us again sec how it works. But WI13- proceed? The old, old ry- sto- A Rriii-,' Child's Last Wish. Detroit Free l'ress. At one of the public schools in the northwestern part of the city the pupils are spurred to good behavior and study b3 cards of merit, a day oeing recog nized b3 a fanciful small card. Twenty four of these cards entitle the pupil to one larger and more ornamental card. Among the pupils was a little girl seven 3ears, of age, whose pretty wa3s and devotion to ner lessons had won for her the love and admiration of all her school associates, and at the close of each da3 her name was sure to be read from the roll of honor. A few daj'S since her seat at school was noticed to be vacant, and regrets were expressed on all sides, as it was the first "absent" marked against her. The next da3 one of her little school mates brought word that she was detained at home b3 ill ness. On the third da3 the teacher re ceived the following note: "My darling little girl is ver3 sick, and, as I fear, is itying. She has received 22 of the small cards of merit, and has asked me to send to 3011 to see if you will not send her one" of the larger cards, as she is sure she would have been awarded the two cards necessan to receive the lar ger one, had she been able to attend school." The note was read to the pu pils, and for a long time the scene pre sented in that schoolroom was most af fecting. Not onty was one large card sent to the iHing pupil, but eight of them were taken to her by her teacher, and those cards the full compliment possible for .the term were with the child, and seemed a source of infinite comfort to her up to the time of her death. The child was buried on Thurs day, and prominent among the many decorations-upon the little casket were the cards of merit, pathetically typical of the buried hopes, jo3s and ambitions of the little one whose last dreams were of success. The jrrain crop of California has at tained its present production of forty rtgUion bushels from the first attempt to Aise wheat for home consumption less Hian thirty 3ears ago. The first bag of flour was made in 1853, at Morncr s Mills, Union City. In 1S63 Mr. Homer raised 22,000,000 pounds of potatoes which he sold at three cents per pound. He is still living on his ranch whither he went in 18-16 ""Just take a bottle of my medicine," said a quack doctor to a consumptive, "and you'll never cough again." "Is it so fatal as that?" gasped the patient. Torxnentinjr Piles. Kidney-Wort is an unfaihntr remedy for that tormenting, disease piles. It movee the bowels gently Mfcfreely, and thus removes the cause. BaUQtfcll to tryltfaitbrally either in slry cr liquM forsiSu-i and Prat, SCENES Df THE SOUTH. X Kallroad Ride Through Te nnennee and a Visit AmouET the People Some Graphic Descriptions or the Country and People Jackson and Folk. Correspondence 1 1 the Chicago Times. A ride across western Tennessee, from the Mississippi river to Nashville, on a cold da3 will shake the poetry out of any man unless he be a long-haired verse-maker who has no poetry in him. It is the most dilapidated, heel-worn, breechin-chafed spot it was ever my mis fortune to see in this country. And still the hold-backs are taught, for, accord ing to the best authorities those who live there the place is still going down hill. I had always1 entertained the delusion that John Underwood, who crawls un der a wood-pile and writes "Jno." to save the trouble of signing his full narao, was lazy, but compared with the aver age western Tennesseean he is a perfect bee-hive of industry. There is no dan ger that these people will ever spell na tion with a big N. If their ignorance is not a sufficient embargo, the trouble of writing a bigger letter than is utterly necessary will prohibit. THE riUXCII'AL INDCSTKY of western Tennessee (I judge all by the local travelers on our train) is wishing. Sometimes a man gets from one station to another without wishing for anything, but oftener he wishes twice for every thing. Wishing is reduced to a science here. "Wish I had some tobaccy;" "Wish the train'd run faster;" "Wish I was heme;" "Wishl was home;" "Wish I hadn't started;" "Wish somebody'd stir up the fire;" and like sentences were as common as beggars in the H0I3 Land or greenbackers in bankruptcy; yet no effort was made toward the realization of these wishes. Everybody seemed to be content with expressing his wants. TliC3' reminded me of a bevy of hungr3 children peering through a baker's win dow and wishing for things the3 have no hope of getting. One grizztyman in rags almost a grizzty bear sat doubled up like a Z, with his knees against the back of the seat before him, when he learned, too late, that the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad company has such implicit con fidence in its conductors' honesty that it throws off a cent a mile to those who purchase tickets; he paid trfe conductor anu sain ne wisneu me ramuaus eiu in h 1. The conductor quietly suggested that it would then be but a matter of short time - when they would be gin to eternally torment him. "Waal," said the Tennesseean without undue modesty, "I wish I wuz God A' mighty about fifteen minutes, anyhow." He didn't say what he would do, but I pre sume he had in his mind some separate place set apart for railroads. Once in a while we passed a little tumble-down, neglected village, nearby all of them backed by good enough country rich, red soil, amply watered and well wooded but not a farm could be seen from the car. The towns aver aged three saloons to one church and no school house. The gates were off their hinges, and even the doors, if there had ever been an3 to the houses, were gone. The fences seemed cyclona stricken, the windows were away from home and their holes not even boarded over or filled with rags. No, the rags were wound around the people; and it was not difficult to imagine they were sitting in these holes huddled about the brick or stone fireplaces, that carry 90 per cent of the heat up the chimney, and wishing something -perhaps wishing they were dead and in some nice, warm place. Altogether it was a cold ride through a desolate, creaking, moaning, wishing county. It was almost as pleasant as a stroll through a moon-lit graveyard with a brimstone-breathing goblin. "WESTEKN TENNESSEE is a reminiscence; an aggravated wish; the home of Appetite; the land of Laze. I speak of the rural districts. An occa sional field is given the snuff" of seed, but Its sneeze is a sickly thing. The ghuberpea (peanut) is sometimes sown, as also is corn, but the latter is so poor I3 cultivated that the crows have stopped fooling away their time on it and have gone to Illinois. The corn "crop," as they call it, looks as hungry as everything around it. I am informed they plant and cultivate corn in thiswise: A "bull tongue," a kind of half-bladed surface plow, is dragged over the field between the rows of standing stalks of the year before. The seed is then scattered 113 hand or placed in a perforated barrel, which is rolled across the field. The business of planting and cultivation is then finished In hitching a mule to each end of a log and dragging it over the standing stalks, laying them low. The farmer, thenceforth, has nothing to do but sit in the shade, talk politics, and wish he had nice corn like the Illinois fanners. Sometimes before planting ghuber peas thc3 harrow the soil, and the soul of the modern, b3 dragging the trunk of a tree, whose name I do not re member, but which is thickly covered with long, stout thorns, much like rake teeth. If the inhabitants of the entire south were like those of western Tennessee (the3T are decidedly not so) the people of Illinois might come down and take every state awa3 from them. The seem more like overgrown children than like men, aud are easily imposed on. The3 are polite but unpolished, kind but coarse, an ignorant, unphilosophic, imbecile people against whom I am not ready to believe many stories of bull dozing and bold crimes. I suppose they can be aroused perhaps the3 will be if somebody chances to read to them what I write but I am sure it must be a very sharp prod that will hasten them to the workshop, the field, the schools and the professions. At Nashville I visited the home and tomb of ex-President James Knox Polk. It is nothing to brag over, for it is only a little stone roof supported b3 four Corinthian columns and covering, but not protecting from the snows and rains and wearing winds, the native stone biock on which is the inscription. It is a chilry looking bed for the BONES OF A PRESIDENT. I drove to the Hermitage, the home and tomb of "Old Hickory," eleven miles out on the Lebanon pike, and if I had back what I paid in tolls I would not go again. It made me sad for two days, for the old place in which the il lustrious old general, the liberal, good hearted, Huff old president, took so much prid and welcomed so many great personagei would look, were the house not so largi more at home in the deso lation of the the western Tennessee I have spoken of than almost within can non shot of the wealthy city of Nashville. If I knew a line of poetry here would be place to quote something like And are we then so soon forgot 1 The fences are down; the barns which, Gen. Jackson himself superintended in erection, are the homes of rats and rooting swine; the Corinthian columns which'support the gallery on which the old patriot has entertained his friends, Earf and Healy and Lafayette and Tal mage, and scores of presidents and statesmen and soldiers, is unkempt and repulsive. -- Terrible Struggle with a Burglar. Manchester Times. One dav recently Police Constable Connoll v, "on duty near the New Rectory, at Stone, Staffordshire, noticed a man dressed as a laborer with a joiner's bas ket. His suspicions beinj; aroused, ow ing to a recent robbery of joiners tools : tli. nl?rhhorhnod. ho accosted the iocs stsiing his suspicions, and asked him to go with him, to the police office. This the man refused to do, and Con nolly proceeded to try to search him, but he violently resisted, and then be gan a most severe struggle. The officer at once grappled his assailant, and both men being powerfully built the struggle was long. First on one side, then on the other, next, on the ground, rolling over and over each other, they at last rolled through the hegde into a field somewhat lower than the ground. Tho fall caused the officer for an instant to loose his hold of the man, who instantly seized tho opportunity, took from his pocket a six-chamber revolver and fired point blank at the officer's breast. Nothing daunted, though shot, the offi cer again closed with nim and a second struggle began, and it is possibie that the officer would have been murdered had not assistance been at hand. A strong brewery man returning to his work heard the shot fired, anif looking in the direction the sound came from, saw the state of affairs, and at once gal lantly went to the officer's assistance. Instantly on hisarrival the prisoner got his hand at liberty and fired a second shot, this time at him, but happily it did not hurt, only passing through the apron The officer, though getting very weak, still stuck to his man, and with the val uable assistance of the second man, was able to overpower the prisoner. The firing of these shots an unusual thing in that quiet locality soon attracted at tention, and numbers flocked to the scene of action, and gave every assist ance to the officer, who at length hand cuffed the fellow. The news of so dead ly a struggle had spread in the quiet lit tle town like wild-fire, and caused the greatest consternation among the inhab itants. The officer was now in a diffi culty as to the means of conveying the prisoner to the lock-up, he being very weak and the prisoner in an apparent state of utter unconsciousness; but the townspeople were equal to the occasion, and quickly fetched a costermonger's cart, and placed the man on it, and the constable at his side, while several 03 standers got on too, in order to prevent any escape should it be attempted, the remainder taking hold of the shafts, and in this manner the cortege passed through the town, hundreds being on the look-out to get a glimpse of the would-be murderer. 'Ihe procession eventually reached the lock-up, where all had been got in readiness to receive the prisoner. When searched, he had upon him a number of skeleton ke3s, 36 cartridges, about 28s. in silver, three thermometers and a large quantity of marked joiner's tools. Unfortunately every medcial gentleman was at some distance from the town, but the3 were at once sent for, and in about an hour one Dr. Fernie arrived and made an ex amination of the officer and found that the bullet had entered the left breast and struck one of the ribs, from which it glanced into the flesh, just escaping the ng. A Base Impostor. Wall Street Dally News. Shortly before 3 o'clock the other aft ernoon a farmer from the vicinity of Hempstead appeared in front of the stock exchange and entered into con eisation with a citizen who was waiting at the door, b3 asking: "The convention in there breaks up at 3 o'clock, don't it?" "Yes, that's the hour," was the reply. "Do 3011 know Jay Gould when you see him?" "Oh, yes." "Is he in there?" "I presume so." "Well, I wish you'd point him out to me when he comes out." The citizen promised to do this, and within a few minutes he kept his word. The farmer took a square look at the railroad and telegraph prince and thon turned and said: "Are vou dead sure?" "Oh, yes." "Can't be no mistake?" "No." "Well it's about as I suspected. A few days ago a great big slough of a fel low halted at my gate and began meas uring my ground with a tapeliue, and squinting around in a most mysterious manner. I went out to see what was up, and. after beating around for awhile, he said he was Jay Gould. I'd heard and read of .lay Gould, but I did't know what he looked like." "It must have been a fraud." "I am sure of that now; I pumped around to find out what he was up to and he finally said he wanted 1113 place, for an orphan asylum. He was going to build one as big as a palace and take care of all the orphans iu the country." "And, of course, 3011 treated him well?" "Didn't I? Why, for three days he lived on the fat of the land and slept in the parlor bedroom! He was going to give me 2,-),000 for m3 land, and the wa3 we killed chickens nnd turned out sweet cake for him made the old woman sick. He finally ji raped the house and took mv Sunday suit and a fiddle worth $8." "1 don't believe that Gould would steal a fiddle." "That's what I thought, and so I came over to have a look at liim. It wasn't Gould at all, it was a base impostor." "And are you so much out3" "Wall, it looks that way, but the ex perience is worth something. It ma not be a week before some one' else will come along with a ten-foot pole in his hand and a theological seminary in his eye.and claim to be Russel Sage.anM the way I will knock him down and step or. him, and walk over him, and drive him into the sile will pay me a profit of fifty per cent, on the investment. (Jruyerc Cheesp. CowkeeDer anil Palrj man's Journal. Perhaps the most justly celebrated cheese made on the continent of Europe is the Swiss Gruyere. This is made mostly in Tiuts, called chalets, high up among the Alps, at the time during which the pastures on the mountain sides are accessible, and the huts habit able, say from the melting of snow in May to the end of September, when men and animals descend for the winter into the sheltered valleys thousands of feet below. The chalets are located in the midst of the mountain pastures on a spot safe from avalanches, and gene rally near to a small pond or spring of water, when such are available. Pro visions from the valleys are carried up weekly to the chalets, and it is under such difficult and romantic circumstan ces that a cheese is made which for hundreds of years has been considered almost if not quite the best cheese on the continent. The milk, partly sKim med, or not, according to the quality of cheese desired to be made, is put into .m great kettle and swung on a crane ovui a gentle fire, where it is allowed to at tain a temperature of 77 degrees Fahr., when the Kettle is swung off the fire and rennet is added to the milk. When co agulation has advanced far enough, the curd is cut into as fine pieces as is prac ticable with the large wooden knife which is used for the purpose. The kettle is then swung over the fire again, and the curd is taken up in small quan tities on a porringer, and poured back through the fingers, whereby it is still more finely divided. Great import:ince is attached to this division of the curd, in or ler that each particle may be fully exposed to the action of the heat in the "cooking" process, which ensues up to a point when a temperature of 90 de grees has been attained. The kettle is then immediately swumr off the fire, and the waste of curd and whey stirred for some fifteen minutes longer; and if the cooking haa been performed, the particle 01 curd have the appearance. ol burstwl grains 0! rioswunming in the whey. The salting of the cheese i3 also considered a delicate and import ant process. The salt is rubbed, from time to time, on the outside of tho cheese, care being taken to discern when enough shall nave been absorbed. The Gruyere cheeses are commqnly three feet in diameter, and weigh over one hundred pounds. A successful cheese of this kind is like a soft yellow paste, which melts in the mouth, and it is filled with cavities about tho size of a pea, one or two, say, iu each square inch of cheese. A BOSTON BABY SHOW. A Flno IMspIny of Rood Hooking Ba bleaThe Object of the Show. l"otou UrralU. Yesterda3 beheld the inauguration of the great bab3 show in Horticultural hall, under tho management of Mr. Frederick Kyle, and, to judge of tho crowd iu attendance, the class of ladies who exhibit their precious little ones and tho little- ones themselves, the af fair promises to be a most successful one. On the printed list thero :j.re 225 entries, but during yesterday forenoon 55 more entries were made, making 280 in all. The childreu, as they wero brought in, were examined by Dr. John Dixwell and his assistants, and for a time there was a great rush of mothers with their arms loaded with the little cherubs of humanity, some laughing at she strange sights "and soumU, while others made the air vocal with their squalling, though, on the whole, con sidering the great number of children present, the noise was not great, and this altogether confined to the upper hall, in one of the ante-rooms in which the examinations b3 the doctors wero made. In the lower hall, where the ex-' hibition is held, the babies who wero nois3 were soon quieted down, and everything went on swimmingly. One thing was noticeable, and that was tho generally evident respectability of tho ladies who brought their children for exhibition. The children, too, nearly all bore evidence ot good care and in telligent treatment, and all were clean ly, neatly, and some vety richly dressed. After the preliminary examinations b3' the physicians, and all had been pro vided with seats in the lower hall, the stream of visitors began to increase in volume. Ladies, of course, predomi nated, but thero was quite a large atj tendance of gentlemen also. There were three chisses of infants, known as A, B, and special. Class A is for children between two and nine months; ehiss B, for children between 10 months and 2 years. In the special class were several notable characters. Among them was Lillian P. Snow, call ed "the professional baby," having taken part in the pla3' of "Hearts of Oak" as "the stunner," for four weeks, at the Boston theatre, and, though pret ty roughly handled during the play, never cried. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Snow. The double set of twins two girls, 8 months, and two boys, 26 mouths of Mrs. C. Han chett attracted a good share of atten tion, as did also the other twins exhib ited. They were all exceptionally fine children. One of the proudest men in the hall was Mr. E. N. Walton, editor of the Salem Register, :is he marched around with his twin babies a boy and girl in his arms. Among the twins were a pair of "wee ones," their com bined weight being but five pounds. There were also colored triplets, and three or four very pretty colored chil dren. ?Ir. Kyle, the manager, was en countered, when the following conver sation occurred, substantially as given below: "Your bab3 show, Mr. Kyle, is the most promising one we have ever had iu Bostons" "Thank you. My aim has been to make it FI1WT-CLAS3 IN EVEICY IJESrEGT. The ladies who have brought their in fants are all, as you see, a nice looking class of people. My object in this baby show extends beyond the mere purpose of making it a paying affair, though of course, that is" one purpose, and, to me, an important one. I have noted that in this country the temlciicy, especially among the native population, is too much in the direction of what appears to be imperfect physical development of children, though I will admit tiiat such a lack is incident to city life everywhere, more or less. Now. the time to build up the frames of children is when they are nursing infants. We have under sized persons because the necessary mineral matter to build up the frame was not given them when the bonus were in process of rapid growth. It may be saiil that we take our size from our pa rents, but this is not always true. The children of low sized pan-nts, reared in limestone districts, grow into men of large frames. Then, again, we are oft en told that our climate has a tendency to make people lean and scraggy. This is evidently not so, for we have .now plen:3 of men and women born hero who are stout, llesh3 and rugged, like the English and German people from whom they are descended. We are aware that through want of knowing better, infants are Kept in close and bad ly ventilated rooms, when they should have an abundance of the purest air all the time. When mothers learn that pure air is one-half, ami a most necessary half, of children's food, they will not grudge them all of it their little lungs can consume. Then children are not properly fed and cared for, though these and other lacks are the result of affec tion rather than neglect. A child should have food abounding in phosphates and albuminous matter instead of starchy matter. The former builds up the frame, the muscles and the nerves. The starch food is heat-giving, but has very little nutrition in it, ana is generally a cause of great distress to the children who are fed" upon it, by turning sour on thoir stomach and superinducing flatulency anil indigestion. M3 object, then.is not only to AID MOHTEKS IN CARING FOR, THEIR CHILDREN properly, but to impress upon them the absolute necessity of understanding how to treat them so that they shall lie healthy and strong; so that there will be no bandy legs, weak spines, or deli cate and sickly constitutions. To aid me in this, I have retained the sorvices of Dr. Dixwell, and of fifty-four of our leading B ston physicians, who will visit our show daily, and give the mothers good, practical advice in regard to the food and clothing and general treatment of their infants. They will tell them that tight bandaging is wrong, and that it is better to run the risk of a child catching cold by a 'draught' of pure air than to have it starved and its blooiLdis ased 13 foul, devitalized air, etc! I trust you ec my purpose, for it is of more general importance to the rising generation to have these thing properly understood than who shall be our next president' ' Julius f'u-iar at twenty-one distin guished hini'-elf on thea, and soon af ter held the ofHco of tribune and edile. Before forty he had completed the war in Spain and was consul. Before forty five he had twice eroded the Rhine, had conquered Gaul, and had twice crossed to Britain; at fifty-two he had won Pharsalia and had supreme power. Ho died at fifty-six, "the victc of 500 bat tles and the conqueror of 1,000 cities." No woman with proper appreciation of her rights will many a man so tall that she cannot pull his hair. The si ison's entertainments have jeen notablv free from annoyance by coughing. Dr. BulTa Cough Syrup dol this Fries 25 wvti a bottle- SL m W f -& 4 t, '4 i