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AUBURN, "1 i NEBRASKA.
A SONG FOB WOMEN.
Within a dreary, narroivrooin,
'J'lmt looks upon a noisome street,
Half-ralutliijr with the stilling hunt,
A starving Kill works out her ilooin.
Yet not tho Iiinh in (Jod's sweet air
Tho llltln birds sing free of cure,
And hawthorns blossom everywhere.
Swift, consoless toll scarrc wlnnoth broad;
jiDtn eariy dawn mi iwiiigiu iiiiih,
f hut In by four dull, dirty wiiIIh,
Tho hours cruwl round with miiidorous troud.
And all tho whllo, In Homo still plnoe,
Whom Intertwining houghs embrace,
Tho blaokbirda build; time II Ion upauo.
With envy of tho folk who die,
Who limy lit hiHt their leisure take,
Whoso longed-for sleep nonu roughly wako,
Tired hands tho restless needle ply.
Hut far and widu lu meadows groon
Tho golden buttercup nro seen,
And reddening sorrel nods bolwoon.
Too pure mid roud to soil hor soul,
Or stoop to bandy gotten (rain, ,
lly days of changeless want and pnlu
Tho seamstress earns a prisoner's dulo.
Whllo In tho peaceful Molds theshoop
l'ood, qulot; iiml through heaven's bluo
doop
Tho Hllout cloud-wings stainless swoop.
And If bIio bo alive or dead
That woary woman scarcely known,
Hut hack and forth hur nocdlo goes,
In tiiuo with throbbing heart and head.
I,oI whero tho leaning alders part
White-bosomed swallows, blitho of heart,
Abovo Htlll wators Hklin mid dart.
O God in Iloavonl flhall I, who tibaro
That dying woiniin'fl womanhood,
Taisto all the summer's bounteous good,
Unburdened by hor weight or care?
Tho whltn mooiwhilslcs star tho grass,
Tho lengthening shadows o'or them pros,
Tho meadow pool In smooth ha Bins').
A.Matheton, in Macmlllan't Alauatlne.
ORIGIN OF POPULAR I'll RASES.
llosh. Tlio (lorivaUan of this word,
which is applied to anything nonsensical
or trashy, is variously accounted for.
It is traced by some to tho Dutch bosch,
corrupted from Rois-lo-Duo, tho name
of a town in Holland. It is probably a
Turkish work, however, moaning empty,
vain, worthless, bogus, in short, and
was imported into England Homo twenty-five
years ago byjmtish soldiers who
Itad served in tho liusslan war, and had
picked it up from tho Turkhdi soldiory
with whom they Had boon thrown in
contact. fo
Trodden the WmcPrcss. This very
beautiful and commonly used quotation
Jfl from Isaiah, ixlli?,!): "1 hnvo trodden
tho wine-press alono." An interesting
fact in oonnootioniwitU tho lino is, tiiat
iu Italy tho sam'o, prlmltlvo process of
troadiiig tho wino-prcss that provallod
in Egypt in patriarchal days is in opor
ntion at tho present day. Tho grapes
nro thrown into an enormous vat, whero
tho juice is tramped out of them by tho
bare feet of tho poasants.
Hanker. Probably a corruption of
''hunger.1' It Is always used in con
nection" with tho word aftor, us "wo
linnker after something." Tho toxt in
jMutUinw-.v6i. AJl)ortd aro thoy whioh
do hunger and thirst after righteous
ness,"' shows tho afllnity, oven if it docs
not ostabllsli tho identity of tho two
words, "hunger" and "hankor.11
Hun a Muck. Thlsisnnoldphrasofor
attacking madly and indiscriminately.
"Muok" is a Malay word. In tho island of
Coylon, cook-fighting is carried on to a
Sroat oxtout. Tho buniatrans aro ad
iotod to tho use jf dlco, and gaming
1b strongly characteristic of tho Chinoso
and Siamese Tliis is notably truo also
of tho Malayan. VAftor having resigned
everything to tho r good fortuuo ot tho
winner, tho Malay gamostor is reduced
to a horrid stato of desperation. Ho
thon loosens a cortaln lock of hair,
which indicates war and destruction to
nil with whom lie meets, Ho intoxi
cates himself with opium, and working
himsolf up into a tit of frenzy, ho bites
and kills overy ono who comes in his
way. But as soon as this lock is soon
ilowing, it is lawful to iiro at tho per
son, and to destroy him as soon as pos
sible This is called I4 to run a muck,"
tho phrase boing first introduced in En
gland by sailors. Drydon writes:
" VrontlotM, und Batlro-proof, ho scours tho
streets.
Am' ruim tin Indian muck at all ho moots."
Ami, too, Pope says:
" Satire's my woapon, but I'm too discreet.
To run a muck and till at all I moot."
The Half is llclter than the Whole.
Tho author of this proverb was Hesiod,
an ancient poet whoso learning was not
drawn from books. It was glvon in tho
nature of an admonition to his brother,
to prefor a friendly accommodation to a
litlgous law-suit, and lias fixod a para
doxical saying often applied.
Evil Communications Corrupt Good
Manners. This lino forms part of tho
33d verso of tho 15th chapter of 1st Cor
inthians. It was borrowed by St. Paul,
from Menandor, tho Grecian poet, and
is found in a fragment of ono of his
comio productions for which ho was
noted.
Nemesis. "Grecian mythology'1 tolls
is that Nomosls was " a fomalo divin
ity who was regarded as tho personifi
cation of tho righteous anger of tho
gods." Sho is represented as Intloxlbly
nevero to tho proud and insolent. Ac
cording to Hoslod, sho was tho daugh
ter of Night, though sho is some'imos
called a daughter of Erobus or of
Ocoanus. Tho Greoks boliovod that
tho gods woro enemies of oxcossivo
human happinoss. and that there was
n power that presorved a propor com
ponsntion in human afi'airs from which
it was impossible for tho sinner to es
cape, 'lids power was embodied in
Nemesis, and sho was in an especial
inannor tho avenger of family crimes
und the humblor of tho overbearing.
Thoro was a eclobratod templo snored
to Iter at Hhamnus, one of tho bor
oughs of Attica, about sixty stadia from
Marathon. Tho inhabitants of that
place considered hor tho daughter of
Ocunnus. Accordlug to a myth pro
orvod by Fausanlas, Nemesis was tho
mother of nolen by Jupiter, and Loda,
tho reputed mother of Helen, was only,
in fiftt, her nurse. Hut tills myth
scorns to have been invented in lator
tinio to represent tho divino vengcanco
which was Indicted on tho Greeks and
Trojans through tho instrumentality of
Helen,
Hark as Egypt's Ni(jht. Tho origin
of this phrase Is found in tho 10th chap
ter of Exodus, tho 21st, 22d and 23d
verses: " And ytho Lord satdunto Moses:
Stretch out tliino hand toward heaven,
that there may bo darkness over tho
land of Egypt, oven darkness that may
bo felt. And Moses stretched forth his
hand toward licavcn; ana tnero whs a
thick darkness In all tho land of Egypt
for tlireo days; thoy saw not. ono anoth
er, noilhcr rose any ono from his placo
for threo (lays; but nil tno cniiurcn oi
Israel had light in tlioir dwellings."
Lynch Law. This term, as common
ly in uso in tho United States, is a per
sonification of violent and illegal justice.
According to somo authorities, tho
term was derived from a Virginia farm
er named Lynch. But it can bo traced
to a much earlier dato in Ireland.
When, in M9tf. James Eitr.stcnhons
Lvneh was Mavor and Warden or Gal-
way, ho traded largely with Spain, and
sent his son thither to purchase a cargo
of wine. Tho young man squandered
tho money intrusted to him, but suc
ceeded in running in debt for a cargo
to a Spaniard, by whoso nephew ho was
accompanied in tho return voyago to
Ireland, whero tho money was to bo
paid. Young Lynch, to conceal his de
falcation, caused the Spaniard to bo
thrown overboard, and was received
at homo with groat honor. But n
sailor rovealed to tho Mayor of
Galway tho crlmo which his son had
committed. Tho young nmn was tried
boforo his own father, convicted, and
sentenced to bo hanged. His family
and others determined to prevent tho
execution. Tho father, finding that tho
sentence could not bo carried mto otloct
tho usual way, conducted ids son to a
window overlooking tho public street,
Willi his own hands fastened tho halter
attached to ids neck to a staple In tho
wall and acted as his executioner. In
tho council books of Galway there is
said to bo a minute that Jame3 Lynch,.
Mayor of Galway, hanged his son, out
of tiio window, for defrauding and kill
ing strangers, without martial or com
mon law, to show a good example to
postority.
Archimedes' Lever. Tho famous
Greok phllosophor Archimedes was tho
author of tho apothegm: "Glvo mo a
lover long enough and a prop strotHj
enough and I will move tho world'
Tho saying arose from his knowledgo
of tho possible oll'eets of machinery; and
however much it might astonish a
Greok of his day, would now bo readily
admitted to bo as theoretically possible
as it is nraotloallv impossible: for. iu
tho words of Dr. Arnott: "Archimodos
would have required to move with tho
velocity of a cannon ball for millions of
vnnrs to nltor tho nosltlon of tho Ctu'tll
V '-.""-- - - 4 . .... ...
.voars.to altor tiio poai
by a small part of an inch. This foat
of Archimodos is, in mathematical
truth, performed by every man who
leaps from tho ground, for ho kicks tho
world away from him whonovor ho
risos; mid attracts it again when ho
falls."
Steal My Thunder. This saying or
iginated witli John Dennis, an English
dramatist born in 1G57, and who dieil
in 1731. Tho incident connected with
its origin is found in Biographical
Britanniciu, vol. v., p. 103: "Our
author, for tho advantage of this play
(Applus and Virginia), had invented a
now species of thunder, which was ap
proved of by tho actors, and is the very
sort that at present is used in the
theater. Tho tragedy, however, was
coldly received notwithstanding such
assistance, anil was acted but a short
timo. Somo nights aftor, Mr. Dennis
boiti": in tho pit, at tho ropresontation
of Macbeth, heard his own thunder
made uso of, upon which ho rose in a
violent passion, and o.volalmcd, with an
oath, that it was Ids thundor. "See,"
said ho, "how tho rascals uso mo! Thoy
will not lot my play run, and yet thoy
steal my thundor."
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in
(Ire Hush. This saying originated from
tlio following oirounisUmco: Will Somors,
tho celebrated jester to Henry VIII.,
happened to call at Lord Surrey's,
whom ho had often, by a well-timed,
jest, savod from tho disploasuro of his
royal master, and who consequently
was always glad to see him, wtis on
this occasion ushered into tho aviary,
whero ho found his lord amusing him
solf with his birds. Somors happened
to admiro the plunmgo of a kinghshor.
44 By my lady," said Surroy, "my
princo of wits, I will givo It you."
Will skipped about with delight, and
sworo by tlio groat Harry ho was a most
noble gentleman. Away wont Will
with his kinirfishor, toll'ms: all his ac
quaintances whom ho mot that his
friend Surroy had just prosontod him
Willi iu
Now, It bo happened that Lord North
ampton, who had seen this bird tho
day provlous. arrived at Lord Surrey's
just as Will Somers had loft, with
tho intention of asking it of Surroy for
a present to a lady friend. Great was
his chagrin on finding tho bUd gono.
Surroy, however, consoled him with say
ing that ho know Somors would rostoro
it him if ho (Surroy) promlsod him two
another day.
Away wont a mossongor to tho princo
of wits, whom ho foimilln raptures with
his bird, and to whom ho dolivorod his
Lord's message Great was Will's sur
prise, but ho was not to bo bamboozlod
by oven tho Monarch himself.
"Sirrah,11 said ho, 'toll vour master
that 1 am obliged for his llueral oiler of
two for ono, but that I prefer one bird
in tlio hand to two in the bush."
Hence originated this oft-repeated say
ing. St. JLouis Ulobc-Hcmocrat.
FACTS NI) FIGURES. '
A Now Yorior has been fined S300
for giving tobacco to a glrallo.
Wo caught cured and consumed
$90,000,000 woth of fish In 1881.
It is estimated that 000,000 acres of
Northorn soil afo given up to tobacco,
and that tho crcp will reach $40,000,
000 or $50,000,000. N. Y. Graphic.
It is estimktcd that thoro aro, In
round numbers,! 1,000,000 employes of
tho United States railroads, about ono-thlrty-sccond
of tho population of fifty
millions.
A Great Northorn Railroad train,
witlt an olght-fdet singlo driver outsido
cyllndor engtno, lately ran from Leeds
to London, 18fc miles, in exactly threo
hours sixty-two mi an hour.
Upward of 13,000,000 letters and
postnl-cardjMfTo posted daily in tho
world; )flHHBO0cttors nro annual
ly distribmHlBA, 1,210,000,000
in Amorica,fD(wn Asia, 30,000,
000 in Austria andPRfoOpo in Africa.
Tho valuo of tho hay crip in Now
.. 1 1 it a. 1 - i!J.f, .!... -
England, ncco
tig to tho statistician of
tno Agrlcmui
Uopartmont at wasn-
ington, is an
740; Mas sad
vs: Alamo, tflu,4Uu,-
tts, $16,831,450; Vor-
mont, $12;
2; Connecticut, $12,-
100,800; Now
lKmnshlro, $7,925,255;
Rliodo Island,
1728, 2 10. Total, $00,-
383,001.
Thu total numbor of journals pub
lished in Franco is 3,272, being 1,313 in
Paris and 1,929 in tho provinces. Of
tho former it is surprising, to find that
thu most numerous clnss is financial,
209; thon medical, 97; illustrated, 88;
fashions, 81; political, 71; law, (54;
Catholic, 04; science, 41; literaturo, 30;
and art, 19. Tho provincial papers aro
thus classified according to their politics":
Republican, G15; Legitimist, 177; Or
lcanist, 14(5; religious, 108; Bonapartist,
100. A:. Y. Sun.
Tho world's production of load is
about 440,000 tons. Tho estlmato for
Europe is as follows: Spain, 120,000;
Germany, 90,000; England, 07,000;
France, 10,000; Italy, 10,000; Greece,
9,000; Belgium, 8.000; Austria, 0,000;
Russia, 15,000; making a total of 320,
500 meter tons. Tno product of tho
United States is .estimated at 110,000
tons. This places thu United States tho
second ore-producing country in tho
world. Spain leads us only in tho
amount of 10,000 tons, and has )eon
rapidly declining for tho past few years.
We aro now consumers ot about one
fourth of the4' world's load product, and
bid fair by another year to tako rank as
tho first, and capablo of furnishing a
surplus to tho foreign markets.
WIT AND WISDOM.
A man gathers wisdom by financial
loss. Like a razor, ho is sharper for be
ing strapped. '
Hero is a suggestion which may do
lyou good:--ovcry man will mend ono
WO shalTall iincnhHl. -
. ,
If you hood tho insults of an enemy
you aro but his equal, and yet tho way
to stop his insults is to pound him until
ho whoops for moroy. Detroit Free
Press.
You do not deal a death-blow to the
Darwinian theory by saying: "Man
descended from tho monkey, out what
did tlio monkey descend from?" Tho
monkey descended from tho tree.
Tho thing now for city girls rusti
cating in tho country is to whittle minia
turo nay-racks out of white wood and
send them to their admirers in town.
This probably signifies: "Come and
muko hay while tho sun shines." C7i
cayo Tunes.
Neighbor's pretty daughter:' "How
much is this a yard?" Draper's son
desperato "spoons" on hor: "Only ono
kiss." " If it's so cheap I will tako
threo yards, and grandma will pay you."
Ho now sings
Thou ait ho near, and yot so far,
Hut It's wonderful how euto you aro.
"Soniobody lias loft on our desk a
poem addrossed to Lillian. Wo shall
not publish it. Not that it isn't pretty
5;oou poetry. But wo don't know
Jllian. This poet makes hor oht as
delicious. If she isn't, wo don't want
to spread broadcast a wrong impression
of her; and if sho is, wo1 11 do tho poetry
writing about hor ottrself." Boston
Post.
"Do wo lovo old music," Borta?
Oh, indeed wo do. That is tlio kind wo
lovo. There Is a piano noxt door that
is now in tho ninety-seventh year of its
ago, and it has tho asthma so bad you
canH hear it ten feet away from "tlio
koy-board. And compared with tho
loud-sounding throe-year-old across tho
way, tho antique is an angel's whlspor.
liurliwjton Hawk-eye.
A now fashion in onr-rings copios
tho stylos worn by Cleopatra, who bit
herself with an asp, and diod boforo tho
war. When Cleo. dressed to "mash"
Antony sho woro a pair of ear-rings
which cost over half a million Hollars.
If this is tlio stylo now Introduced, more
than ono editor's wifo will have to
worry along anotlior year without a pall
et Cleopatra oar-riugs. Norristown
Herald.
Tho prevailing stylos of dog for
this season will not bo changed In any
marked degree. Tho window-brush
dog continuos to contlnuo in favor
among young women who have been
erossod In lovo and havo tho. dyspepsia.
A favorite stylo of dog has a princess
noso, anil Is trimmed with an ostrich-
plume tall tightly curled ovor tho polo
naise. Tlio Prince-Albert cutaway
sausago dog is not used In Warm
wcathor. City dogs that uudortako to
depopulate tho country fields of tho or
nate and festive bull will bo gored.
Shaggy dogswlll bo worn with tho hair
boiitmnt around tho nock, plain about
the waist tuuj polonaise, and a pompa
dour Uil-Broqkln EayU
Youths' Department.
THE LITTLE MAID FOR ME.
I know n llttto muldon,
Whom I always soo nrrayod In
Bilks and 'ribbons, but sho Is n spollod
and
nnttprt Ittllnnl
For slip novor nolo? hor mother, or her slstor,
u;
Hut, fowttlnK all around hor, Uvea cntlroly
lorhorsolf;
Bo sho slmpors, and nho sighs,
And sho mopes, and sho cries,
And knows not whoro tho hiinpy hours llco.
Now lot mo toll you prtratoly, my darling lit
tlo frlonds, , ,
Bho's as mlsorablo as mlsorablo can bo,
And I foar sho's not tho lltUo maid for mo.
Tint I know another muldon?
Whom I've often soon arrayed In
Bilks and ribbons, but not always; buo'b a pru
dent Ilttlo olf;
And sho always htdps hor mother, and her Bis
ter, and hor brother,
And lives for all around hor, rjulto regardless
of herself:
So sho laughs and sho sings,
And tho hours on happy wings
Showor gladness round tier pathway as thoy
Hoc.
Now need I toll you privately, my darling Ilt
tlo Irloudg,
She's as happy as n Ilttlo maid can bo?
Tula Is surely just the Ilttlo maid for mo.
yir)eiJ 1'ouiiff People
"the
MINUTE-HAND
CLOCK."
OF THE
A flormnn Hoy' Adventure.
"Kaspar, thou little roguo, how often
shall I toll thoo not to mcadlo with that
clock?"
"I was only watching tho wheels go
round, father," said a sturdy little fol
low in a soiled leathern jacket, starting
up with a mischievous look in his bluo
oyes
"And what hast thou to do with tho
wheels, oh? Suppose this clock is
stopped or put wrong somo day by ono
of thy tricks, what shall I, Hans Solicit
or, custodian of St. Martin's Church,
say to tho Town Council? Dost thou
know what birch porridge is, thou
roguo? Beware, or I'll givo thee such a
tasto of it as shall make thee go round
fastor than tho wheels."
, Poor Hans was, indeed, kept in con
stant terror by his inquiring son's un
controllablo habit of going wnorovcr ho
ought not. Tho old Cliurcli of St. Mart
in was a famous play-ground for any
boy, with its shadowy aisles, and count
less pillars, and tall towers, and deep
niches, and half-ruined battlomontsj anil
tho worthy custodian, when ho awoko
from his after-dinner nap in his little
1113 UllUl-UIIIllUl Hill 111 J1IO lltliu
at tlio foot of tlio great clock tow -
vcr knew whether he should iid'
room
er, never
his
honoful bov hidinf? hfihd'trioMar-
scroon
ion, tryitajkbloi the
ran bel-
'lows, playii
scek among tho
pinnacles ot
r sitting astride
ot a carved
indrod and sixty
feet abovo tho
t.
ight have boon
(WOodiah was
All this,
fonriven, for t
really as lontt ot
little roguo" us
tho boy, with all
wlldness, was of
him. But tho ono
thing that Hans
could not pardon was tho danger caused
by his son's restless inquisitiveness to
his beloved church olook. It was his
pride nnd -glory .to. bo ablo to toll every
one that during the whole forty years
that ho had been In charge of tho " St.
Martin's Kirche," tho clock had never
stopped or gono wrong; and nothing
would convince mm that it was not oy
far tlio finest clock in tho wholo world.
44 Don't toll twe of tho big clock of
Strasburg Cathedral," ho would say,
with an oostinato shako of his gray head.
44 Could it go forty years on end, think
you, without tlio slightest doviation?
No, that It couldn't, nor any othor
clock on the faco of tho earth except
this ono."
Mindful of Kaspar's inquiring turn
of mind, his father, having to do somo
marketing in tho town tlio day aftor
our hero's stolen visit to tho clocK,
locked the door of tho tower, and took
,tho koy along with him.
44 Mo harm can Happen now," no
muttered; " and, iu any case, I shall bo
back boforo ho gets out of school."
But, as ill-luck would havo it, the
teacher was called away by somo busi
ness that afternoon, and tho boys got
out of school more than an hour earlier
than usual. Kaspar, finding his father
gono, wout straight to tlio door of tho
clock towor, and looked rather blank
on discovering that it was locked. But
ho was not ono to bo easily stopped
when ho had onco mado up his mind.
Getting out upon tho roof, and crawling
along a cornice whoro only a cat or a
school-boy could havo found footing,
ho ropt through an nlr-holo right into
tho clock-room.
. For somo timo ho was as happy as a
child in a toy shop, running from ono
marvel to another, until at length ho
discovered anotlior hole, and thrusting
his head through it, found himsolf look
ing down upon tho market-placo through
tho faco of tho clock itself. But when
ho tried to withdraw his lioad again, it
would not come.
It was such a queer sorapo to bo In
that Kaspar was nioro inclined to laugh
than to bo frightoned; 'but suddenly a
thought struck him which scared him
in earnest: his neck was in tho track of
tho minute-hand, which, when it
readied him, must inovitably tear his
head oil!
Poor Kaspar! It was too lato now to
wish that ho had loft tho clock alone.
Ho trlod to scream for help, but with
his nook in that cramped position, tho
cry that ho gayowas scarcely loudor
than tlio cliirp"of a sparrow. Ho strug-
Sled desperately to writhe himself back
irough tlio holo; but a piece of tho
wood-work had slipped down upon tho
back of his neck, ami ucm mm liko a
vise.
On camo tho destroyer, neoror and
nearer still, marking oil" with its meas
ured tick ids fow remaining moments
of lifo. And all tho whilo tlio sun was
shining gaj'ly, tho tiny fiags woro llut
toring on tho booths of tho market, and
tho merry voices of Ids school-follows
who were playing iu tho markot-placo
fl'iHi-
houB
hiiW
came faintly to his car
thoro helpless, with Dt w
him men nv men. inj
r.v. and the measurei
Ing sounded liko thel
drum, whilo too con I
clock looked like a mi
stretched to soizo himj
faces on tho spouts sceil
cibbcr at him in mockl
tho terrlblo hand crept oil
nearer, nearer.
' Whn.t fVli flint, tinner
face be?" said a tourist bell
his spy-glass upward. " WlT
it looks liko a boy's head!"
" A noy's liofuli" cried a gl
watchmaker besido him (oncl
achellers special friends),
TiT
hastily at tlio crlas as hi
spoke.
14 Why, good gracious! It's
Fttlo Kas-
par. IIoMlbo killod! he'll b
killedl"
church,
And ho rushed toward tye
shouting like a madman.
The alarm spread HkpAvild-firo, and
boforo Klugmann,- tKB watchmaker,
had got half way up toe stairs leading
to tho tower, more tAan a scoro of
oxcitcd men were scampering at his
heels. But at tho top r(f tho stair they
woro suddenly brought to a stand-still
by tho locked door.
"It's locked!" cried IClugmanu in
tones of liorror, " and Hans must have
taken tho key with him, for it isn't
hero."
44 Never mind tho key," roared a
brawny smith behind him. " Pick up
that beam, comrades, and run it against
that lock. All together now!"
Crash went the door, in rushed tho
crowd, and Kaspar, now senseless from
sheer fright, was dragged out of his
strango prison just as tlio lmgo bar of
tho minuto-hand actually touched his
neck. And so it fell out that poor old
Schollcr, coming homo from a quiet
afternoon nap, lound the door of tho
tower smashed in, his son lying in a
swoon, and ins little room crowded
with strango men all talking ntouce.
But from that day forth Kaspar
Schellcr nover meddled with tho church
clock again. David Kcr.
Tho groat English Cathedral of St
Paul's Is
said to uavo
adventure.
witnessed a somewhat similar
A Magnificent Telescope for Russia.
Tho Russian Observatory at Poulkovo
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dl'hortly be in possession of a gigan
tfo toloscoptf. lor a long time this ob
oervawiry, coiisirucieu in tooy oy oruoi
rdcr
of the Czar Nicholas, possessed tho
most powerful instruments in tho world,
but ot lato years tlio scientific progress
which has been made in England,
Franco and tho United States lias put
tho Poulkovo Observatory in the shade.
The University of Virginia, for instance,
has now the enormous McCormick tolo
sffopo, th"o objective of which is 20
inches in diameter and thirty-three
feet long, whilo tho Naval Observatory
at Washington lias ono of tho same caln
ber.andMr. Leek, a wealthy Calif ornianv
is,jiboiit to placo a still greater telescope
on Mount Hamilton, near St. Jose.
Four years ago the Russian Govern
ment accordingly determined to con
struct a now instrument which both in
respect to its mechanism and optic
power would surpass any existing tele
scope. Tho astronomer Otto bturvo
was commissioned to superintend tho
work, tho execution of which was in
trusted to Messrs. Alvin Clark & Co., of
Cambridge, Mass. The glasses.consisting
of an amalgam of Hint and crown glass,
havo been in hand for nearly a year,
and by the month of October they will
bo ready for use. The total length of
tho Poulkovo telescope will bo forty-live
feot, and tho diameter of tho glass thirty
inches, exclusive of the mounting. The
telescope will be placed in a meadow to
the southwest of tho principal building
of tlio Poulkovo Observatory, and it will
stand upon a movable iron turret which
will itself rest on rails. Tho telescope
will bo so powerful that tho moon will
bo brought to an apparent distance of
only a hundred miles from tho earth.
London Telegraph.
Tho Snake's Ability to Charm.
A veritable instance of tlio peculiar
fascination which tho snake exorts was
witnessed a fow days ago, within a short
distance of our city. Tho gentleman
who saw this says ho was walking leis
urely along the road when his attention
was directed to the movements of a
brown thrush which was Hitting about
near a small plum bush, and at inter
vals giving a cry, as of distress. Ho
walked up to the bush supposing ho
would find a brood of young birds. He
lookod carefully, but saw nothing, and
was walking oil', when he noticed that
tlio thrush had returned to tho bush
from which ho had frightened it Ho
waited a moment to watch its move
ments, when ho saw it lly down on tho
ground boncath the plum. There it
stood still a short while, then began to
oirole around tho bush, still crying in
its peculiar tones. This circling was
kept up for a whilo, and then tho thrush
seemed gradually to weaken and at
longtli stood perfectly still immovable,
with its wings partly open, anil with its
head bent forward, lie drew nearer to
tho bush, when ho heard an ominous
hiss, and, looking down under tho plum,
ho saw a largo black snake coiled up
and about to spring upon tho bird. Ho
frightened tlio snake away and picked
up "tlio bird, which made no oil'ort to es
cape, and seemed powerless. In a few
minutos, howevor, tho bird revived, and
shortly afterward fiew away. Peters
burg (To.) Index-Appeal.
Griffin, Ga., has tlio largest peach
orchard in tho South, containing 50,000
trees and eovoring most of GOO acres.
On tho snmo farm aro 4,000 grafted ap
plo trees and 5,000 pear trees. Chicago
Times.
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