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The 'Dead-Heat" Dancer.
What are we to do with these people?
How is this disease to Ihj treated?
These questions demand an early an
swer, for the evils to which they relate
are inereas'iig with alarming rapidity.
There is the general feeling that they
will take care of themselves, so soon as
prosperous times shall return; but, as
we have already paid, this i.s a mistake.
The dead-heat will never reform. The
tramp will he a tramp for life, shifting
from country to eity as his comforts
may demand, and ready to he led in'o
any mischief which will give him grub
and grog. There ought to be this very
winter, in every State in the Union,
such laws passed as will restrain the
wandeiers, and force them to seU-suj
jort in some public institutfon. A
standing commission of vagrancy should
be instituted m every large city, and
every county in the laud; and institu
tions of industry established for the
purpose of nuiking these men self
supporting, and of cuiiiig them of their
wi etched disease. We have lunatic
asylums, not only for the benefit of the
lunatics but for the relief of the com
munity, and among the dead-beats and
tramps we have an enormous number
of men who are just as truly diseased
as the maddest man in I'tica, or at the
Woomingdalo Asylum. Something must
be done with them, and done at once,
if we are to have any comfort by day
or safety by night; for men who aieso
demoralized ;is to beg from clioice. and
lie by profession, have but to take a
single step to land in ruftianism. Al
ready they intimidate, and rob and
murder, to get the means to support
their useless lives. "The Disease of
Mendicancy," Dr. Holland's "Topics ol
the Time." Scribner for January.
New York a Hundred Years Ago.
The following description of Xew
York, from the pen of a gentleman who
resided theie, appeared in the New
castle Chronv-leoi Sept. 7th, 1770:
"This city is situated upon the point
of a small island. ling open to the bay
on one side, and on the others included
between theNoith and East rivcrs.and
commands a tine prospect of water, the
Jerseys, Long Island, Platen Island,
and several others which he scattered
iu the bay. It contains between 2,000
and3,000. houses, and 10,000 or 17.000.iiii
habitants, and is tolerably well bui
The streets are paved and very clean;
but in general they are narrow; there
are two or three, indeed, which are
spacious and airy, p.uticul rly the
Jlroadway. The houses in this street
have mostof them a row of trees before
them, which ioim an agreeable shade,
and produce a pictty effect. The whole
tength of the town is something more
than a mile, the breadth of it about hall
a one. The situation is healthy, but it
is subject to a great inconvenience from
the want of fiesh water, which the in
habitants are obliged to bni.g fioui
springs at some distance from the town.
The public buildings are, the college,
which is linely situated, fronting the
-North Kiver; Trinity chinch; Saint
George's chapel, and several German
and Hutch places of leligious worship;
a handsome chaiity school, barracks
capacious enough to hold 200 men, with
a large, healthy prison."
Superstition at ea.
It is curious how superstition springs
into life at sea. Of all the monsters
that swim the deep or haunt the land,
there is none so powerful :ts this, and
none like this omnipresent. It can be
fought or ignored upon the shore, but
at sea it looks up trom the green hollows
of the waves, and lifts its ghostly hands
from every white curl of their swiftly
formed and swiftly falling summits.
It is in the still atmosphere, in the howl
ing wind, in the awful fires and silences
of the stais, in the low clouds and the
lightnings that shiver and try to hide
themselves behind them. Reason re
tires before its baleful breath, and even
faith grows fearful beneath its influence.
It nils the imagination with a thousand
indefinite forms of evil, and none are so
strong as to be unconscious of fts power.
Dr. Holland's new story in Scribrier.
A Brief Love Story.
This is a Christmas love story as told
by the I'tica Herald:
"Nellie Gregg, aged ten years, came
into the Herald office and wanted to
know the price for printing a love
story. Who asked to show the story
she said it was not written, but she
could tell it The little one was given
a seat, and told her love story very pret
tily, as follows: "Now my name is
Nellie Gregg, and I want this put in
the Morning Herald, and sign my
name to it. Now, I went to El Dorado
county, Cal., with my father, a year ago
and showed Edward Slater the picture
of a real nice girl. Now he fell in love
with, the girl, and commenced writing
to her,and Thursday of last week lie
came on to Uticaand married her, and
he never saw her before, and now he
premises me a present and he hasn't
given it to me yet, and don't you think
he ought to? That is all the story aud
I told him I would putit in the Morning
Herald. Please do for me 1" As that
was the shortest and best love story we
have heard for many a day, we told
Nellie we would publish it, and have
kept our word. Nellie is a bright little
girl, and has evidently leen a j o xl angel
the Calii'ornian. He has got his wife,
and Nellie should have the promised
present without delay."
Hint to Housekeepera
Mr. Clarence Cook, in Scribner for
January, after giving his reasons for
not liking white china, says:
I don't know why we should insist on
having all the pieces of porcelain or
earthenware on our table at break
f;isL dinner, or supper alike. Why
have everything in sets? We already
allow ourselves some freedom at desert
and at tea; why not, ladies, make a
heroinic strike for freedom the table
round? There never were "sets" known
till modern manufacturers began to
take a trade view of life in all its
phases. Of course there must be har
mony, but harmony does not mean
uniformity. And if the general color
of our service is blue, or red, or yellow,
a bit ot either ot tne oilier colors may
come in with the one, and no harm
done. Now and then at sales, on the
breaking up of old households, pieces
of old Worcester, or Wedgwood, or
Spode, or Devonshire, may be met with,
and if they are in good condition
neither nicked.jnor chipped, nor cracked
they should be bought, always pro
vided they are pretty, and they will
make a good foundation to work upon.
It does Hot do, however, in china, any
more than in pictures, to go by names.
Go by what is pretty, or rich, or effect
ive, and if on turning up your tea-cup
or its saucer you should find a famous
potter's name written on it, thank the
gods that they made you poetical, and
gave you a pair of eyes of your own for
what is pretty.
The law oflice of Thaddeus Stevens,
in Lancaster, is now used as a barber
shop. Men are lathered and shaved
within the walls consecrated by the
genius of the great Commoner.
GENKKAI. NMVS SUMMARY.
Geo. Richardson's large boot and shoe
manufactory, at Galena, was burned
Dec. 20th. Loss, $24.000 Mr. M. J.
Braiden's fine residence, atRochellelll.,
w:is burned Dec. 20th. Loss, Si 1.000.
On the night of Dec. 2ist, another
fire broke out in Little Rock, and re
sulted in the loss of S12.000 worth of
property James S. Hayes, formerly
and Indiana SUite Senator, and also a
soldier during the late war, and lately
confined in the asylum for the insane
Fn that State, because of an inoffensive
insanity, was a few days ago in
humanly misused by an ofiicer for a
trivial offence. His ankle was put out
of joint, and before it could be set, the
doctors in attendance resorted to chlor
al. whisky, laudanum and other medi
cuwsjgiven in large quantities, from the
effects of which he died On the 7:h
of Dec, a force of lf0 men followed and
drove Sitting Bull's camp of 15)0 lodges
across the Missouri river, near the
mouth of Ii.irk creek. They stood for
a short time and then retreated. Sit
ting Hull is in camp on Bark creek
with over r.C00 warriors.
On the morning of Dec. 21st. an east
ern bound train from Denver, went
through a bridge, four miles east of
Hayes City, killing Webster, an express
messenger, and badly scalding Cran
dall, a mail clerk A matinee perform
ance in New York, in aid of the Brook
lyn sufferers, Dec 21st, realized about
S14.000.
The home of A. S. B. Young, near
Cherryfield, Maine, burned on the night
of Dec. 21st, and Gussie Young, aged
U, and a child were burned to death.
Seveial fires occurred in Indianapo
lis, on the 21st and 22nd of December.
The stables of Senator Morton and Gen.
Morris were burned; Floral Hall, Agri
cultural Hall, Music Hall and the green
house were destroyed, inflicting a loss
of about $3r,000. Beside these there
were losses by fire in John Darbv's
candy factory to the amount of S4.0C0,
and also other losses A disastrous
fire occurred in Homer, Louisiana, Dec.
22nd, and 20 business houses and several
dwellings were destroyed total loss
about $150,000; insurance, $r4.500.
Between eight and nine o'clock on
the evening of Dec 21st a splendid
meteor passed from west to east across
the continent A Are in Portland,
Maine, destroyed two blocks. Total
loss, $50,000 A tannery at Auburn,
N.Y., burned Dec 22d. Loss, $80,000.
A man named Hines, watchman,
perished in the flames. . . .The Anchor I
Flouring Mill at Lima, Ohio, burned,
Dec 23d. Loss, f 15,000; insurance,
$10.000.... Hugh McClellan, clerk for
Wm. H. Webb, builder in New York,
has been arrested on a charge of em
bezzling between $30,000 and $50,000.
Win. Messenger was hanged Dec
22d, at Statesville, N. C for the murder
on the 14th of May last of Mrs. Sarah
Selling, his mother-in-law. He was 24
years of age on the day of his execu
tion Thomas Ramsdale.a negro, was
killed by his wife, a Cherokee Indian,
at Ft. Smith, Indian Territory, on the
night of Dec 22d. She chopped in the
back of his head with an axe Three
convicts escaped from the Ohio peni
tentiary on the night of Dec 22d, by
crawling through an unused sewer
about one hundred yards long. The
passage was so small that the men were
obliged to remove their clothing
Two men were killed on the Erie Rail
way track at Cheektowoga, NT. Y, by
an engine, Dec 23d An engine on
the Illinois Midland exploded at Paris,
Ind., Dec 23d, killing Louis Wilsey, en
gineer; Charles Johnson, fireman, and
a brakeman named Align,,
John Jackson, in jjiI at Decatur, Ga.
charged with murder and robbery, com
mitted su". ide by hanging himself with
a iocket handkerchief on the night of
December i th, to save himself from
the hand3 of a mob which surrounded
the jail for the purpose of lynching him.
The Sheriff was defending the jail with
a posse of CO men at the time An
unknown vessel, laden with lath, went
ashore in a late storm on Marshall
Island, coast of Maine, and was broken
to pieces. Three dead bodies were found
among the timbers frozen aim naked,
except shreds of clothing The Presi
dent has nominated Nelson Trutsler to
be United States Attorney tor Indiana
Gen. John P. Bankson. Secretary
of the Ilannisville Distilling Company,
committed suicide in his oflice, Dec. 27th.
Cau3e Slight personal financial em
barrassment A fire at Collinsville
Tenn., Dec. 27th., destroyed a couple of,
stores. Loss, $30,000 The Arsenal
stores at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis,
are to be removed to Rock Island and
to tho New York arsenal. The St.
Louis arsenal is to be converted into a
cavalry recruiting sttion.
FORKIGN NKWS.
Many wrecks on the co.ist of Aber
deenshire and Kinkaredineshire aie re
ported. Upwards of sixty lives have
been lost In addition to these disas
ters, the Italian bark Maiia Gaidillin,
in the American trade, has been lost off
Stabbshead, and twelve persons were
drowned. This, with other casualties
reported during the last few days, make
the total number of lives lost on the
east coast of Shetland and England
during the recent gale fully 150 A
dispatch to the London Daily Ttlegrapli
from Pera, states that the refoims
adopted by the preliminary confeiewe
are very sweeping. They include the
admission of Christians in the Ottoman
army, and tho transformation of the
villages of Sophia into a Christian gov
ernment Empeior William closed
the session of the German Parliament
with a speech from the throne. He said
in reference to foreign affairs that the
negotiations of the Powers upon the
Eastern question, as far as had been
proceeded with, justify the hope that
the efforts and mutually conciliatory
aud peaewfnl infantiiinaf the Powers!
immediately concerned will be success
ful in solving the pending questions
without prejudice to the good relations
existing. Germany will continue in
friendly, disinterested mediation, to
lend her co-operation for the attainment
of this end A telegram from Brus
sels says that Belgium has been ofli
cially requested to send troops into
Bulgaria. The Brussels press disap
prove of such action A dispatch
from Vienna reports that a socialist
conspiracy has been discovered in Rus
sia A Vienna special reports that
Austria has accepted reparation offered
by Servia, and the Hungarian authori
ties have been directed to use all their
influence towards tranquilizing the pop
ular feeling in Hungary.
Correspondents of London papers ex
press tho opinion that Turkey will ac
cept the proposals of the Powers
The new Turkish constitution has been
proclaimed. The following are some
of the provisions: The Empire is indi
visible; the Sultan is Caliph of the
Musselmans, and Sovereign of all the
Ottomans, his prerogatives are those of
the constitutional sovereigns of the
West and tho subjects of the Empire
are called Ottomans; iheir liberty is
inviolable; Islamism is the religion of
the state, but it shall not have any
other distinction of a theoretic char
acter; the religious privileges of com
munities and the free exercise of public
worship by all creeds are guaranteed;
liberty of the press and freedom of edu
cation are guaranteed; primary educa
tion is compulsory ; the right of associ
ation and the right of petition to the
Chambers are accorded ; all individuals
are equal in the eyes of the law; all are
eligible to public offices, irrespective of
religion; taxes are to be equally dis
tributed. A Lost Woman at the Centennial.
Quite a pretty young woman was
found one day in the Centennial
Grounds, who in the most cheerful way
announced that "she was lost." She had
separated from her part. In which
building?" asked the policeman
"Hadn't the least idea." "Where was
she stopping in Philadelphia?" "now
should she know ? She had .arrived at
night." "Did she know the name of the
hotel ?" "It was stupid, but indeed she
didn't." "What was her name, and
where did she come from?" "O yes,
she knew that She was Mrs. , from
Sacramento, and her husband was
there. She had no relatives East. Here
was her nurse, and wouldn't somebody
telegraph to her husband, who knew at
what hotel she was going to stay in
Philadelphia, and her husband would
get her all right No, she was'nt a bit
bothered, and if the captain would only
let the very gentlemaidy pDiieeman who
had found her, take her round the Cen
tennial, while an answer was coming
from Sacramento, she wouldu't waste
her time." The thelegraph message
was sent to California the husband re
plied, and the little lady, at the cost of
some $25, found out where she was
staying, and wus returned to her hotel
and her friends that evening. Phila-
delphia Times.
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XLIVtfr COXGREK HdSKSSlON
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TurnsDA Y.Dec
a resolution for a
-Mr. Piatt offered
ect commute. to
investigate Mr. Hi
ritt's charge that
the New York po4
ice had tampered
with his letter,
the Clerk's desk
P.att had read at
laster James' un-
qualified denial of
r. Hewitts state-
rnent. After disci
ng the resolution.
the House refused
ay the whole sub-
jert on the table, a
lr. Buckner pro-
pose.d. and finally
ted Mr. Spnng-
er's motion instructin.
the investigating
committee in New
Cox is chairman.
k, of which Mr.
investigate the
matter. Mr. WTiilii
troduccd a bill
nrovidinir that our
navv neer, until
public safetv demands an increase, shall
consist of thirty sea-going vessels, dis
tributed among the respective squad
rons, i&c. Air. Watkuis introduced a
bill which was referred to the Judiciary
committee providing against any naval
or military officer collecting or having
any troops at or mar election polls on
the day of election t r ten days prior or
subsequent thereto, except when neces
sary to repel armed enemies of the
Tinted States. The bill authorizing the
use of certain Treasury funds belonging
to the Osage Indians "for their benefit
was passfd. Mr. Hatcher presented
memorials for action concerning the
gr.'usshopper plague. The Speaker
presented a telegram from Mr. Mor
rison transmitting the record of the
proceedings before the investigating
committee in the case of B.imo,
telcgiaph manager of the New
Orleans oflice. Mr. Knott submitted a
resolution directing Barnes to be ar
rested and brought before the House
for contempt After discussion the
resolution was adopted. The Speaker
laid before the House the action of the
. .
: nate on the death of Senator Caper
ton, when Messrs. Ilerford, Faulkner,
Wilson (W. Va.;, Goode, Tucker, K;is
son and otheis made remarks. Ad
journed.
Senator Freliughuysen presented a
petition of many Union soldiers asking
the passage of the House bounty bill
refernd. Senator Anthony called up
the resolution for printing 5.000 copies
of the compilation by the Chief Clerk
of the Senate, concerning the electoral
vote from 17SP to 1873, inclusive
adopted. A resolution was passed to
adjourn from the 22d to the 20th. Sen
ator Mitchell's resolution concerning
the Oregon electors was considered.
The chair appointed as special com
mittee to devise means for a proper
count of the Presidential electoral vote,
senators Edmunds, Morton. Freliug
huysen. Logan, Sherman, Bayard and
Parsons. Tho report of the conference
committee giving to each house $35,000
for expenses of investigations was
agreed to. The chair appointed Sena-U-Bamum
ow,coaamitlm ton
patent", and Senators ohnson on the
committee on manufactures, thus
changing places. The Senate paid its
tribute of respect to the memory of
Senator Caperton. Remarks were made
by -''tors Davis, Wright Withers,
E una s and others. Adjourned.
Home.
Ti ID v v, Dec 22. Bills were passed
to liino e the political disabilities of
Geo. . iiawkins of Florida, and A. C.
Myers of Maryland. Mr. Garfield of
fered a resolution directing the appro
priation committee to report in the
deficiency bill a provision to pay to the
widow of Speaker Kerr a sum eqi.al
to the mileage of the Speaker from the
time of his death to the end of the
present session of Congress adopted.
The House went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Wilson of Iowa in the chair,
on tho private calendar. After some
time the committee arose and reported
favorably Bundry private bills, but the
House took no action. Adjourned.
Senate.
Senator Mitchell's Oregon resolution
was. after discussion, agreed to. Sena
tor Wright said he would move imme
diately after recess to consider the Sen
ate bill declaring the true meaning of
the Union Pacific Railway acts. Sena
tor Ingalls thought the measure was
proposed by the Judiciary committee,
and was doubtful of expediency. He
said ho had prepared a substitute re
ferring the whole matter to the com
mittee on claims. The Senate insisted
on its amendments to the House bill
providing for the sale of certain Chero
kee scnplands in Kansas, and the chair
appointed as the Senate conference com
mittee, Senators Allison, Paddock and
Bogy. Adjourned until Tuesday.
Bonw.
Saturday. Dec 23. The House held
a session of about twenty minutes. Mr.
Monroe resigned from the committee
on the rights, privileges and duties of
the Houseconcemingtheeiectoral count
Mr. Springer offered a resolution for
the compilation and printing of the de
bates, etc, about the electoral count
since the establishment of the Govern
ment adopted. A resolution was
adopted calling for copies of orders as
to the expenditure of the appropriation
last session for internal improvements.
Senate
Tuesday, Dec ?6. The Senate met
at noon, only fifteen Senators being pres
ent Before the reading of the journal,
the chairman of the committee on priv
ileges and elections said it was impor
tant to have another member added to
that committee; the great body of the
committee had gone South to make in
vestigations ordered, and there was not
a quorum of the sub-committee assign
ed to duty in Washington now in the
city. He therefore moved that another
member be added to that committee
Agreed to, and the chair appointed Sen
ator Mitchell, of Oregon, as the new
member. The Senate went into execu
tive session, and soon after adjourned.
BOBM.
Wednesday, Dec 27. The Speaker
laid before the House a message from
the President in regard t obtaining
certain concessions from the Sioux In
dian referred. Also a message from
the President in regard to the extradi
tion treaty with Great Britain re
ferred to the commiuee on foreign af
fairs. Mr. Hunter from the District of
Columbia ixunmittee, reported a bill
which was made the special
order for January 4th. It provides
that three Commissioners shall
govern the District one appointed
by the President, one elected by
the House, and one by the Senate. The
committee appointed on the subject re
ported a resolution declaring the Presi
dent of the Senate has not this power
alone to count the electoral rote. Th
Speaker laid before the House a peti
tion from certain citizens of Cincinnati
in regard to the counting of the electo
ral Tots. Af tar ioim diacoition on to
Jubsiion of readlujj the petition the
louse adjourned.
Thursday, Irc. tii The following
bilb wf re inlroduc-d .tnd rrfcrml B
Mr. Hooper, for the improvement of
Pearl ami Precazoula rivers, M.v. It)
Mr. Dou?;v.s, authonz.ng the Commis
sioners of the Freemen's livings xnd
Trust Company to buy certain mil
estate. By Mr Finn, authorizing thr
purchasHof gold dust und bullion at tl
assay ouW. at Bois City. Adjourned.
practicability of Voyage to the North
Told
The expedition of Captain Hail in the
Polaris in 1371 and of Captain Nares In
the Alert and Discoverv in 1 ST." have
shown that by the use of steam it is a
comparatively easy matter to reach the
entrance to Holn-wn's Channel in lati
tude SI deg. X., and that the .tenons
difficulties to be overcome In reaching
the Pole lie beyond that jKiiit Partus
from the two expeditions have made
fair survexs 110 miles north of thi.t.
leaving only about 400 miles of unex
plored regions letweeii that and the
goal ol modern geographers -the Pule
When Captain Hall reached the upper
extremity of Ilobvson's Channel the
lookout of the Polaris reported open
xvater in sight and just beyond the pack
which surrounded the vessel and pre
vented further progress. This open
water was afterwards seen from the
cape at tho northern eni of NewmanV
Bay, and it was the opinion of the crew
of that ill-fated vessel that If she had
been but a fraction of an hour uarlier iu
reaching the channel they could have
steamed unobstructed over a veritable
"open sea" to the Pole itself. We know
that they did not Bttcceed. but were
forced to winter almost within sight of
this sea, and subsequently, disheartened
by the loss of their gallant commander,
abandoned the enterprise.
Where this open water v. as found
Captain Xares in 1ST5 and 1ST0 found
solid, impenetrable ice, through xvhlch
no vessel could force its way, and over
which it was equally impossible for
sledge parties to work.
These facts show that within the Arc
tic circle the seasons vary as markedly
as in more temperate southern latitudes,
and that the icy barriers to the Pole
are sometimes broken up by favoring
winds and temperature To reach the
Pole prompt advantage must be taken
of such favoring circumstances, and to
do this with greatest certainty and with
the least expenditure of time, money,
anb human life, it is essential that the
exploring party be on the ground at the
very time the ice gives xvay and opens
the gatewa to the long-sought prize.
This can only be done by colomzinga
few hardy, resolute, and experienced
men at some point near the borders of
the Polar Sea, and the most favorable
one, for the pujwjse appears to bo that
where the Discovery wintered hist year.
Such a party should consist of at least
twenty men. and should be provided
with provisions and other necessary
supplies, for three years, at the end of
which period they should be visited,
and if still unsuccessful in accomplish
ing the object, revictualled and again
left to their work. Captain Hall spent
eight years among the Esquimaux, and
each year found himself better fitted to
withstand the severity of the Arctic
circle, and the party of which I speak
would in like manner become accus
tomed, and eventually succeed in ac
complishing the long-sought end. With
a strong, substantial building such as
could easily be carried on shipboard the
party could be made as comfortable and
as safe from atmospheric dangers as are
the men of the Signal Service station
on the summits of Pike's Peak and Mt
Washington, or the employes of tho
Hudson's Bay Company stationed at
Fort York, where a temperature of
minus 60 degrees is npt uncommon.
A good supply of medicine, a skillful
surgeon, and such fresh provision as
could ba found by hunting parties would
enable them to keep off survy, and to
maintain as good a sanitary condition
as the inhabitants of Godhaven, in
Greenland. Game was found in fair
quantities by the Polaris party on the
Greenland coast, and those from the
Alert and Discovery on the mainlana
to the west, especially in the vicinity of
the last-named vessel, where M musk
oxen were killed during tho season, with
quantities of other and smaller game. A
seam of good coal was also found by the
Disco veiy's party, which would render
the question of fuel a light one, and
thus remove one of the greatest diffi
culties hitherto found by Arctic voyag
ers. Let an expedition be organized to
start in the spring of lS"I7,and I firmly
believe that by 18S0 the geography of
the Polar circle would be definitely set
tled, aad that without loss of life.
Cor. Graphic
Boiled Goose. Dress and singe it,
put it into a deep dish, cover it with
boiling milk and leave it over night In
the morning wash off the milk, and put
the goose into cold water on the fire;
when boiling hot take it off, wash it in
warm water, and dry with a cloth. This
process takes out the oiL Fill the body
with a dressing of bread crumbs sea
soned with pepper, salt, butter, and two
chopped onions if relished, and a little
sage. Put the goose into cold water
and boil gently until tender. Serve
with giblet sauce, and with pickles, or
add jftUfet,
Oricln of -He lla an Ax to (inml
We owe more of oxir cownwQ y ,
tflsjojm-iwi ,...... w .-. ...........
lima aav of us Uuk or lw. V? i
may say of one win) flatters or Mrv
tu for the ake of Muue ftrot xttft
gnmor favor:
-He Uw an - v to rrtmi-"
In U,,. d.Hor' -inno4r- 1 tfin fol-
lowing storv (much after the ma-ar of
the "wlmtV Moru which nxpaiUie
onxin of Hie phr.-
Krunklut avs : WUu I rx a Male
boy. 1 rt-inrnibrr. one o4d wia5r
morning. I uu aivwicd by a snuUns
man with an ax on hi Uouklex.
-My little lwiy." said he. "hi ywtr
father a gniMbtMcT
-Yes. sir." 5iI 1.
-You in e a tine tittle fellow." cakl he,
patting me on my head, "got mo a UUlc
hot water?"
How could I refine? I ran. and mmm
brought the kettle full.
-1 low old are you. and wktN your
narueV" continued he. witlioat uniting
for a reply. -I'm sure you're no of
the driest huU that I ever have jom.
Will you turn a few minute for km ':"
Tickled with the flattery, jtko a ftl I
went to work, and bitterly dtl I rue tle
day. It wjln a new ax. aud I totbHl nm
tuirired till I was. almot tired todenih.
The school b-U rang. uid I could ih
get away. My hands were bltstured,
and it was not half ground. At length,
however, tho ax w.w sharpened, and
the man turned to mr with.
"Now, you little r.LteJil. you've played
the truant ; now scud to school, or you'll
get it."
Alas! though I. It was haul enough to
turn a grindstone this cold day. but now
to be called little rascal wan too
much.
It sunk deep Into mv mind, and often
have I thought of it since.
When I see a merchant over-polite to
his customers, begging them to Uike a
little brandy, and throwing his goods
on the counter, thinks 1 : "That, man
has an ax to grind."
When I see a man flattering the ph
ole. mnkinir irreat nrofesstons of hU-rtv
and prating loudly about economy, w ho
is in private a tyrant, me thinks: I.hK
out, good people, that fellow would see
you turning a grindstone.
When I see a man hoisted Into oflko
by party spirit, without a single qualifi
cation to render him either respectable
or useful, alas! methinks: Deluded
people, you are doomed for a season to
turn the gniuNton for a booby.
A Wonderful Surgical Kipenn:eut.
Kngli.-h surgical ami physiological
students will find in the UuzctU dc
Hosjntraux interesting details of an op
eration of gastronomy, attended, so far
with successful results, which has been
perform'! at the Hospital de la Pi tie,
by Dr, Yemeni!. The patient, a lad of
seventeen,.had inadveitantly swallowed
a quantity of the solution of caustic
potasa. 'J his occurred iu February, and,
in spite of the most skillful treatment,
the constriction of the upper orifice
of the (esophagus became so complete
that death from inanition must in
evitably have ensued without an opera
tion, which was accordingly jerformed
on the idli of July.
The results will le sen from the
medical bulletin of the loth of Septem
ber, which states that thf patient is in
good health, remains up all day, and
even heljs the hospital assistants in
their work; he has almost ha much
strength and energy as lie had before
the accident. His diet is composed of
soups, fine chopped meat, mashed veg
etables and &rink, which are injected
through a large elastic tube inserted in
the incision made in the stomach. Un- j mountain-brooks. B'-cm ttf be quiver
der this treatment he gained upwards j jng through tho very won!. It Li all
of ten pounds in weight between the
18th of August and 14th of .September.
At the moment ' 'he injection of
food a flow of Balvia in the mouth ls
produced, in the ejection of which a
motion curioi'sly resembling the action
of chewing is remarked; he can distin
guisletween warm and cold substanc
es, but otherwise all are indifferent
to him. It is stated this Is the first
time the operation has been succeesful-
ly performed ; the last time it waa at,
tempted, but unsuccessfully, was in
1849, by M. Sedillot, Professor of the
Faculty of Medicine in trasburg.
Paris Cor. Ixmdon Standard.
A Year Without a SummrT.
Sizty years ago occurred the "year
without a summer." Frcst occurred in
every month of the year of 1318. Ice
formed half an inch thick in the month
of May; snow fell to the depth of ten
nches in Vermont, seven in Maine
three in the interior of New York, and
also in Massachusetts, in June; ice was
formed of the thickness of common
window-glass, throughout New Eng -
land. New York, and some parts of
Pennsylvania. on thesth of Julv : Indian
corn was so frozen that the greater part
was cut aown ana dried for fodder in
August, and farmers supplied them
selves from the corn produced in 1S15
for the spring of 1817.
Norristown Herald: Two young
brothers may be as devotedly attached
to each other as were Dsboa and Pyth
ias, but yoa will sever bear of one
snatching the scuttle from the hands
of the other and insisting upon going
down cellar to bring uptbaooaL
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j jKUtotf ; h a I mfcr. tkfit U
. H Inhabit. fe tln ?
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a (mt quest to mK t l 6
' tbrtv wb4fcr tb Uliaot
! " mt U th hihm ha hm h
tl '? a & mimmny
t'Urt'tiattity ovh btlhmf . Al
bow ttsprenftiv k lb ChrrMiMi m
ititptutol to a hmthn M Um .
tHtktnl w. ,' ft MK4!ttN Want
utmki a bm&tw aatitruUy tfcmk mi a
fferisUAUiiy iht rrut aim wiJ a
tuvl nu bth iMXttnt. nad fuUwfa Ulwi
wtiti rti.-vertmltanUni; ltw al toff
ttoua, am) puUte cuMtofapt. a1 Jwt
vnte, unkmdeml ftbtn iforta aU UtB
ttuv n( hb rtwicteor? Tb rhac f
NMithvatan I juai a tiid sbaunl As!.
Kn i' tht i .n4ma oJtw f.
nbudrtnfc whikf f if an prwrti
IWliV. UM I' nrt .4 ttUMBflt (fern
hif follow ? if he mmd 9m"? hoif
i It weekly rt th lrih ha Ikw
doing, in Um bun Bltal. brotherly &at
jmtoo worthy way Uvr U Ua laUnry.
If he ouows to rJtfurln Hlthowt M
wife. It ! kimply wb4 Iran ef
tltouMimi of Cnltftrutn hnvo faac
rtince ItninlsniUott mU ihm &! Litfn.
If he to a gninidct'. How lung In it ataftu
gambling weal out if fthWm n aH
fornia? If hi qjjwtr are otUty, why
doi ttot tho bvttllb buurd. ur why U
not U city Atilhof Mm, aUm) to Ututr
dutim?
We nak the qint1ott.n tot Uncause
wo MipjKJ.ne thoy dtekl ;wt) Ujj, but
becsiMde. in our i5wmK,'J. we would
like to know. In tile lat, tho preju
dicu ngauMl our hulhu lroUif John
in California "HMmut a HUln mtrixvma
ble, utid wt want utort light. Wo hav
been In Uk habit of wtrict-mluK all
. u'r n.itl..HiUUii. W Aim stmagnly
intensUU( to the imporlMion of lbo-
siuhIh of criminals km! acawpa nad
scalawags f rum Kurof'". al w miio
yotr-feH Kiiro that tha !mtfrtatkm of
the Chinaman is not a lxtlor thing, on
the whole. Ho certain' is twiu(.rkM.
hemtiub hHown bimlti-Kw. am!, ro fur
na we have neon him br h dona an
boietda's yt k, which wore than
can be said of a good many Christian
Inloterfl w!ki wo have around na. Of
ouo thing, at !ent. w nn Mtr. No
jx-ople can 1k1u a large body of men In
contempt, and rognrd tltrin with lutlred.
and treait them like InnwU. without de
moralizing themtwlven. That thing haa
been tried, ami ttil In thia country,
too. The CihfornUtna cm not afford In
have the Chinaman with Uiuui, unlcn-n
they can rtsnt him Uko a man. Thny
must either do lhu, or the Chinaman
must go. To hold a fellow-man in flxM
contempt, to Kpit ujkwi him nnrnlmket,
simply because he Is of another ray.
or is supjKMed, Ui the oofttpftttUnrui of
life, to interfere with one's prosperity,
is simply to lapie from Christianity
into bar bnriim. And that, in Jta own
time, will produce rsultn In which tho
Chinese will not bo Inter ailed, except
as observers.
A Norwegian Fjord.
The fjord there. Is to me a Strang
music in the very sound! All tho
subtle tinU of the aurora, the glaciers
and the deep northern kisi. the clear
echoes of the loor and the cattle-call.
and the melodious tinkling of the
the vast, gl
gloriom. wonderful Norway
reflected as within the m row compaM
of a Claude Lorraine mirror. Ho"
often have I drifted through the spa
cious summer days in air sharp-kwled
wherry upon thos; hzV, glittering wa
ters, while the sa-nirds anrged in airy
waves above m. and the white clouds
with a bewildering dbtinrtnesi pur
suel their tranquil paths far down In
the dep below! It gavo one a filing
1 0f being suspended in the midst of th
j vast blue spac. hovering ltwe-n two
inflnitles. and it teemi at the momnt
1 0fn hanl to f'etprmme whether th
real heavens wre aoove or telow.
Then to wa? ' tr 3iibt!e pTay of color,
how the lu-ul sen-green vi with th&
feebler a?r-tint?. to listen with lcxnri
oa HstlssncsH to the musical plashing
of the watr against the bow, to follow
j the placid soarings of the large, whit-
breasted sea-gulb, as tby float on
broad, motionless wing through the
viewless ether, and to feel all the waile
the vast prisnce of the heaven-pierc
ing peaks and glaciers, like a huge, dim
1 background upon which your sensa-
" lions trace themvlves in a deiitfoiMrj
Tazue and rich relief ah ! it is the per-
fection of pare and simple being, one
of thoe momenta when the mre fact
of living seems a great and glorious
thing.Prof. H. H. Boyesen. in Scribner
for January.
Governor Jewell's yonnger daughter
is said to be very charitable. She has
f 200 a year for pin-money, and during
her last winter in Washington spent
nearly all in supporting several poor
amilles, whom she dailyjrisited in p?
sod, and for whose wants she cared.
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