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SgB .A . . weiaasa1sSB9sssswaiawssiw'6 ' s Bnriir v ( 1 rea TBE BED CLOUD CHIEF. M. L. THOMAH. KSIftor. BED CLOUD. NEBRASKA. Sweet Ijorr. la Ieal. BT ALFRED AC8TIX. Sweet Love li dead; Where dull we bury bfm? In the green bed, With no stone at bla bead, Nor tears nor prayers to worry him. Do yon think be will sleep, Dreamless and quiet? Tea, if we keep Silence, nor weep O'er the grave where the ground-worms riot. By bis tomb let us part, Bat hush 1 be is waking ! He bath winged his dart, And bis mock cold heart With the woe of want is aching. Feign we no more Sweet Love lies breathless All we foreswore Be as before ! Death may die, but Love is deathless. Cornbill Magazine. AN IMPERIAL PRETENDER. Oaoof too KtnstMt Zpiaodos of Go: History Poraoaatlaa; Oao of too Saeeos sors of Charlemagne A Love 8cao Dmr lag the CEcaamealcal Coaaell of Coa staaee. ". "Did you ever see anything more hor ' riblethan the execution we witnessed to day ?" said a beautiful woman, dress ed in the costume of the chatelaines of the .fifteenth century, on the 10th of June, 1415, in the front room of a small building on the principal street of the ancient city of Constance, in Baden, where, at that time, the (Ecumenical Council, which exerted so great an in fluence upon the destinies of the Church of Rome, was in session. "The Emperor Sigismund," replied a fine looking young man, who was hold ing one of her hands in his own, "has violated the solemn pledge he gave to John Husb to protect him from prose cution for heresy." "So he has," rejoined the beautiful creature. "What a miserable coward he is, after promising John Hubs a safe guard back to Prague, to yield to the importunities of the Italian fanatics who insisted that the bold Bohemian preacher should be burnt at the stake! And what a scene it was ! To strip the clothes off the body of that venerable scholar and have him slowly roasted to death! I witnessed the horrible spectacle because, to the very last mo ment, I hoped that the Emperor would pardon Huss. But when I saw trie ex ecutioners setting fire to the faggots round the stake, when the flames burst forth, and the helpless victim cried out in a heartrending tone, 'Lord God, have mercy upon meP and when he then, under the atrocious pain, began to scream, and the dreadful odor of his burning flesh reached my nostrils, I fainted away; and when I reawoketo consciousness, I cursed the day when I became acquainted with Slgismund of Hapsburg." tered these words, and she paced the small room, evidently a prey to intense excitement MAnd yet, Anna Van Staaden," said the young man bitterly, "you are his Imperial Majesty's mistress r "Whose fault is it?" she cried. "Mine?" he asked, ironically. "Yes, yours, Antonio Von Bleichen. Two years ago, at the masquerade at Kuremburg, a cavalier came to me and asked me to dance with him. I thought it was you." "And it was the Emperor Sigismund !" he laughed. "Yes, she said, excitedly, "it was he, and believing it was you with whom I had been in love for the three years when I knew you, I gave up everything to. him. If you put on the Imperial ermine and the Order of the Golden Fleece, you would bear the most strik ing resemblance to him." The young man burst into a peal of laughter. No wonder! no wonder !" he said. "No wonder?" asked the young wo man. "Are you a relative of his Imperial Majesty?" His face became very grave. Putting his finger on his mouth, he said to her: "Anna, not another word on this sub ject" "But I want to find it out, Antonio," she cried, wringing her hands almost in despair. "Keep still!" he said imperiously. "Your father once asked me who I was, and he had good cause to regret it!" "Oh, yes, Antonio," she rejoined bit .... telly, "you enticed me from his house you promised to marry me you took me to Ratisbon, and from thence to Nuremberg, and there you suddenly left me left me to" She hesitated. "Left you to become the Emperor's mistress 1" he said sarcastically. "I thought it was you, and when he had me fully in his power, he threatened . to send me to the spianing-house, un- less I did ate bidding r "Are you aow done with him?" "Donewith-him after that horrible execution?" she exclaimed scornfully. "I could not bear his presence. The stench of poor Hub' flesh would re enter my nostrite as sooo as I saw him." r;) "And you will become mine, Anna?" She rushed into his arms. "Yours forever P she cried. "I have been bad. But to yon I will be good. . God bless yon for laying to me that . -which I have longed for so long. Your "My wife The said clasping her to his heart - The execution of John Huss, through the violation of the Emperor Sigte- maA parole, bad caused a thrill of .h InrtlfTrf throughout Southern Ger- &r many. InFrtjImrfrHeidtllWttA Fnnk- ' fort, the Xperor wan toon In effigy. Suddenly he appeared in Heidelberg, accompanied by a large retinae of ser vants. With him was a beautiful woman. When the elector of the Palatinate, whose capital Heidelberg then was, re ceived him, he said to the elector: "Behold your Empress, the fairest daughter of Hungary !" The chivalrous elector of the Palati nate knelt down, and kissed the fair lady's hands. Then followed great rejoicings. . The huge wine tub in the Heidelberg cellar was opened a tournament was held and all possible attentions to please his Imperial Majesty were paid. When the Emperor Sigismund left the beautiful university city on the banks of that most enchanting of rivers, the Nectar, the Elector of the Palatinate made him a costly present of a four diamond ring, and to the Empress he gave two bracelets set with rubies and sapphires. Moreover, he sent with the Emperor, who said he was going to Frankfort-on-the-Main, an escort of fifty Palatine cavaliers. Two days later the cavalcade arrived in Frankfort The Emperor did not meet with a very favorable reception. The sturdy and liberty-loving burghers of that ancient free city refused to turn out to do honor to his Majesty. On the ZeiL the main street of Frank fort, the Emperor and his Empress were not only verbally insulted, but pelted with rotten eggs. Vainly did his Majesty rise again and again in his gilded carriage to address the unruly crowd. Their jeers and scornful objurgations silenced him until he gave it up in despair. When he sat down the last time in the carriage, by the side of his beauti ful wife, a drunken fellow threw at him a stone which hit him on the fore head. He sank back with a groan, and was believed to be dead. His wife flung herseif upon him. The escort charged the crowd, killing a number of them. The wounded Em peror was taken to the house of the Burgomaster of Frankfort, where he was tenderly nursed, and five days later, arose from his sick-bed. Then a deputation of the burghers of Frankfort waited upon him. In the address which they presented to him they stated that his treatment of John Huss had deeply offended them, but that they hoped his Majesty would be able to explain to them why he had vi olated the parole given to the Professor of Prague. He arose slowly from his chair and said: "My good friends, in due time the motives that actuated me in ordering Huss' execution will become patent to you. Until then I hope you will not fail to bear true allegiance to the head of the empire; and in order to show you how solicitous I am to protect the interests of your noble free city, I will on this very occasion grant to you five years' immunity from paying Imperial taxes, provided you pay into my hands nnw tfco sum of KOOOO Auoote." The burghers consulted for a mo ment and then respectfully informed the Emperor that they accepted his offer with many thanks. They also told him that the money should be in his hands the following hour. Then the ladies of the Frankfort aristocracy were ushered unto the par lor where these deliberations had taken place. The Empress took her place by the the side of her husband. She held her hands out and many fair lips kissed them. Suddenly the wife of the syndic stepped up, looking sharply at her. The Empress extended her hand to her. The syndic's wife refused to kiss it "How dare you refuse to do homage to my consort?" cried the Emperor. "Because she is no Empress at all," replied the syndic's wife, scornfully. "I know her very well Her name is Anna VonStaaden. Her own father has dis owned her on account of her bad con duct" The Empress had turned very pale. The Emperor said to his escort: "Take that foul-mouthed woman into custody." "iBdeed," exclaimed the syndic's wife, "I know the privileges of the wife of a Frankfort Senator. Even the Emperor of Germany cannot order my arrest?" So saying, she sallied out of the room. Her bold declaration had produced a profound impression upon the burghers in the room. Shaking their heads, they slowly went out Next day, 500 Austrian cuirassiers galloped into Frankfort At their head was the younger brother of the Em peror Sigismund. He proclaimed the as tounding news that Emperor Sigismund had not left the city of Constance at all, and that he who had personated him at Heidelberg and Frankfort was a base impostor. An hour later the self-styled Emperor and Empress were in jaiL But no crim inal proceedings were instituted against them. The two pretenders disappeared from Frankfort and nothing was heard of them until the year 1434, when the Em peror Sigismund died, and, in his will, left the cruel order that a woman, con fined in the spinning-house of Donau woerth, should be strangled. That woman was his former mistress. The execution took place in the prison-yard. She died courageously, and only expressed the wish to find out prior to death, what had become of her paramour, Antonio, whom she had never seen since they were arrested in Frankfort. None of the officials attending her last moments were able to give her any information upon the subject Sebastian Seylor, the Gerawan histo rian, says in his work o the Emperor Sigismund: "Since the false WoMemar of Bran-denbtrgcomattedWsiiifaMyarl6ar impostor attempted to seise the crown of the Annointed of the Lord than Antonio. Who he was, and what became of him, I bare been unable to find out notwithstanding my diligent inquiries." Fall Usmeat of Prestecy. Too Uaaalakod rertloaa of Caaioad'o HI. flaatsTTo In view of the present complicated situation of affairs in Europe, when everybody is looking up as much and as interesting information as possible con cerning the nations involved, or likely to be involved in the eastern difficulty, there is hardly anything more accept able to the general public than proph ecy, and especially the prophecies of such as bare made their predictions fit into the facts of history. Robert Nixon, an old English prophet known also as the Cheshire Idiot, was a cotemporary of the famous Mother Ship ton, also of prophetic proclivities. Nix on was born of poor parents, in the vicinity of Vale Royal, on the edge of the forest of Delamere. He was brought up to the plow, but exhibited such re markable ignorance and stupidity that nothing could be made of hi m. He was given to uttering strange and uncom mon sayings, most of which have been lost as the people believed him irre trievably insane, and so paid no atten tion to them. The time came, however, when they did listen to him attentively and treasured up all of his utterances, and it came about in this way: Nixon was one day engaged in plowing in the field, when he stopped suddenly in his work, and with wild look and strange gestures, cried out : "Now, Dick ! No w, Harry! O, ill done Dick! O, well done narry! Harry has gained the day!" His fellow-laborers did not know what to make of this curious rhapsody, but on the following day the meaning of it was cleared up. Then the news was brought in by a messenger that at the very moment when Nixon was heard to cry out Richard III had been slain in the battle of Bosworth field, and Henry the Eighth had been proclaimed King of England. The fame of the new prophet soon spread and at last reached the ears of the King, who expressed a desire to see Nixon. A royal messenger was accord ingly dispatched for him, but long before he reached Cheshire Nixon knew and dreaded the honors that were about to be thrust on him. It is even said that the fact was known to him as soon as the desire to see him had passed the King's lips, for on the same day he ran about the town of Over in great dis tress of mind, telling everybody he met that he had to go to court, and would be starved to death there (which was angher remarkable prediction of his that afterwards came to pass). On the third day after this the King's messen ger arrived and carried him off to court On his arrival at court, the King, in order to test his powers, pretended to have lost a valuable diamond, and ask ed Nixon to discover it for him. Nix on's reply astonished the King, and msufe him from that time forth place implicit confidence in the prophet The King at one time going out hunt ing, Nixon followed him to the gate, saying that he would surely starve dur ing his absence. Henry asswred him that such would not be the case, and told one of his officers to take special care of him and to feed him well during the King's absence. This injunction was carefully carried out and the prophet fared well ; but as the servants were wont to abuse him, the officer, to quiet him, had to lock him in the King's own closet whither he brought him four meals a day. The officer, how ever, was called by royal summons to Winchester, on a matter of life and death, and in the hurry of his depart ure forgot all about poor Nixon, who was locked in the closet He returned, after three days, and found Nixon ly ing on the floor, according to his own prediction, starved to death. Nixon faithfully prophesied a num ber of events, and many of his biogra phers have been led to believe that all of his predictions will be sooner or later fulfilled. This belief is, of course, founded upon the fact that there have been several coincidents in his sayings and some of the leading events of Eng lish history. Among the prophecies believed to have been fulfilled are the following, which relate to the times of the Pre tender: " treat man shall come late England. Bat the sob of a King Shall take frost him the TJctory." "Grows shall drink the blood of many nobles. And the North snail rise against the Soath." "The Oeck or the north shall be nude to flee. Aad his feathers be plucked for his pride. That hi shall almost curse the day that he was born." The first was taken as a prophecy of the battle of Culloden, and the defeat of Prince Charles Edward by the Duke of Cumberland ; the second, of the exe cution of Lords Derwentwater, Balme rino and Lovat; and the third, of the retreat of the Pretender from the shores of Britain. Among the prophecies still remain ing to be accomplished are the follow ing: "Between teres, eight aad mine. In Xaglaad wonders shall be seen ; Between mine and thirteen Ail sorrow ahaU be done." "Thoagh enr own aeaey aad our sea ShaU a dreadfal war begin. Between the sickle aad the snek AU Baglaad ahaU hare a alack." 'Terelga nations shall larade JSaglaad with snow en their helmets, aad shall bring plagae. famine aad marder la the skirts of their gar- SMBtS." The towa of Xantwlca ahaU. be sweat away by a Seed.' McKay, in his Memoirs el Extraordi nary Popular Delusions, published in 1850, says concerning these unfulfilled prophecies: "Of the first two no expla nation has yet been attempted; but some event or other will doubtless be twisted into shape to fit them. The third, relative to the invasion of Eng land by a nation with snow on their helmets, is supposed by the old wossen to fortallmost dearly tocosug war witmRessis. As to tk last, there are not a few in tint town Smttosnad who devoutly believe that such will be Its fate." The numbers in tke first verse might at first be taken to refer to the particu lar years of any decade of years, and the thirteen might indicate the Uj-over into the fourth year of the succeeding decade. All that remains is for some ingeni ous chap to put this, that and the other together, and show that these prophe sies apply to Englad's peculiar position in the present crisis of the Eastern im Carlotta was transferred, a long time ago, from the royal chateaa at La Ellken, where she was a source of con siderable annoyance to the royal fam ily, to the palace of Tervueren. which was specially fitted up for her. and where she was treated with the utmost tenderness. But she soon perceived that she was a prisoner, and, in her folly, she was so unusually sharp that she succeeded in escaping one morning early at dawn, and dying away, began to plan for recommencing her cor respondence with the Pope, with nu merous emperors, and even with her husband, the announcement of whose death she had never been allowed to hear until recently. When her escape was discovered the captain of the guard at the palace went nearly mad with des pair. But in a couple of hours she was found again. She had mounted a horse in the chateau yard and wandered 'off into the woods. This happened before Dr. Bulkens, the noted director of the colony of the insane at Gheel, took charge of her case. She has recently been in an alarming condition of health, bnt after Dr. Bulkens, began to direct her movements she was calm, and is now in many respects perfectly sane. She writes a great deal, paints, studies music earnestly, and it is now said that the doctor had the eourage to tell her the truth concerning Maximil ian's sad fate. She received the news calmly, but it is Impossible to say whether or not she appreciates its sig nificance fully. She has occasional fits of delirium, and one phase of her in sanity has never quitted her. She is still afraid that her food is poisoned, and refuses to partake of it until some one else has tasted it Her rase still has many discouraging features, but it was confidently hoped that the noted doctor might be able to restore her com pletely to reason. Death has taken him away, however, and the success of les ser physicians is more problematical. The Queen of the Belgians frequently visits Carlotta and spends hours with her. Paris Letter in Boston Journal A Shocking Sacrifice. We hear a great deal about the River Prifth in these days. My attention has been called to a romance connected with it just published in a Bucharest journal, in the month of January last a peasant living upon thePruth started for the market town with his sledge, having with him his wife and four children. In the afternoon the party was pursued by a pack of wolves. The horse was put into a gallop at once, but was too heavily weighted to do much running, and the beasts were soon lap ping their jaws within a few paces of the party. Seeing that escape by flight was out of the question, the father seized one of his children and threw it out to the pack. The poor victim was soon devoured, and before the sledge had gone above half a mile the wolves were again upon it Another child was sacriGced, and then another, and the fourth and last had just been thrown out when relief came in sight In her despair the mother went to the authori ties and denounced her husband as an assassin. He was arrested, kept two months in prison, and brought up for trial last week. There was great ex citement in the court when he related the story of this shocking sacrifice. The Judges said at the end if he had not resigned himself to it he would have lost his children all the same, and with them his wife and his own life. He was acquitted. Paris Cor. New York Times. Precaatioas of a Book Leader. A correspondent of the Boston Tran script writes: "I have a considerable library, quite miscellaneous in make-up, and I have for years lent books under certain re strictions. In the first place I seldom lend a volume out of a set or if for good cause I make an exception, I stip ulate the time for its return, as I am a firm believer in what is worth borrow ing is worth returning. In the second place, I keep an account of the books I loan, to whom and when. In the third place, when I need to use a book loaned, or when I think it has been out long enough to be read, I send for it, whether the borrower be friend, neighbor or acquaintance. In the fourth place, I always intend to cover with paper a book I lend, though I believe a careful borrower should do this if the book is taken uncovered. As to fine bindings, I am more chary about loaning, my decision depending upon the borrower and my opinion of him or her. "I seldom have lost a bosk by lend ing. If the borrower dislikes being re minded of his delinquency in keeping the book an unnecessarily long time, or of my (the owner) needing the same, perhaps he will not soon again borrow, which decision on his part suits me exactly, if my experianoe with him shows bis principles." Lessons of wisdom have never such power as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions; is it that we are like iron and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon ? or is the heart so in love with deceit that where a true report will not reach it we nmt chest it with a fable, fat order to coweatftsteuthf Stars. Jsrsmisi Woodcawok Is acaadidase for Mayor of Sslama, Ala. They'll oftifefurtv CSEFTJL ftJCCIFBL CORX STAJaOl Caxk One cup of sugar; one-third cup of butter; oca and one-fourth cups of flour; one-half cup of sweet milk; one-half cup of corn starch; two teaspoons of baking pow der. Nur Cakm Two cups sugar, half cup butter, four eggs, three cup of dour, two teaspoonf uls of baking pow der, mixed with the flour, one cup of ;weet milk, two cups hiccorynutoaeats. cut fine. Flavor with vanilla. Beat butter and sugar together, then add eggs well-beaten; then the milk and flour. Real welL Then add the meats last A Healthy Way to Cook Eno, Butter a tin or plate and break in your eggs, set in a steamer, place over a kettle of boiling water and steam until the whites are thoroughly cooked. They are very ornamental broken into (ratty tins, as they keep their form bet ter. The whites when cooked this way are tender and light and not tough, as by any other process, and can be eaten by invalids with impunity, and are cer tainly very much richer. Maryland Biscuit. One quart of flour, one tablespoonful of lard, one tea spoonful of salt water enough to make rather a stiff dough about a toacup ful. The dough may te beaten with a pounding machine which comes for the purpose, or with a rolling pin, potato masher, or anything of the kind. If strength and patience are available knead with the hands till the dough is perfectly smooth and while; it can not be kneaded too much not leas than half an hour. They can be cut with a cutter, but are better if a piece of the dough the size of a black walnut is made into a ball and flattened with the hand. Guaiiam Bread. This is an easy and a good way to provide loaves of graham bread. When making common white bread, set enough sponge at night to spare a little for a graham loaf next morning. Eor one common tin-loaf take a little more than a pint of tho sponge, add a tablespoonful of sugar, and stir it thick with graham flour. Stir well with a spoon, but do not knead it r it may be too hard and dry. Turn it into the butter pan, let it rise m a warm place, and bake it slowly for an hour or longer. Of course several loaves may be made in this way, setting a fine flour sponge at night and stirring gra ham flour into the whole. Most jeople will prefer this to loaves of undiluted graham bread. Unless you put in sugar or molasses, your graham bread made with yeast is not half so sweet as gra ham gems, especially if these are mixed with sweet milk, either new or skimmed. Many prefer to steam gra ham loaves for an hour, and finish by baking about 20 minutes to prevent a hard crust Charlotte Rubsk. This is usually made in a scolloped oval tin mold three inches in depth, but a quarter tin pan can do the duty for it Dissolve one large tablespoonful of gelatine in two thirds of a tumbler of new milk, boiling it slowly, having first wetted the gela tine with two tablespoonfuls of cold water, and soax it ten minutes, as this makes it dissolve more readily in the boiling milk, which can be heated as the gelatine soaks. Add to it two large tablespoonfuls of white sugar. Beat three eggs well, and when the gelatine is melted and the milk cooled enough not to curdle it stir it carefully. Add one teaspoonful of extract of vanilla, or lemon ; then strain through a sieve. Cut sponge cake into slices half an inch thick, and fit them neatly and closely into a dish, covering the bottom of it first Beat up a pint of thick cream with the milk and eggs, already pre pared, until it is well frothed. Do it either with a whip churn or egg beater; turn in the beaten mixture ; cover it with very thin slices of cake. Place another pan over it; set in a cool place for three or four hours, or as much longer as you desire, and you will have a delicious dish at a cheap rate. Vinegar. Boil slowly for one hour three pounds of very coarse brown su gar In three gallons of water, work it with a little yeast the same as you would beer; then put it into a cask, and expose it to the sun, with a pisce of brown paper pasted over the bung hole; and it will soon become fine vine gar, fit for pickling or any other pur pose. Graham Crackers. Mix the best Graham flour with cold milk, adding a little butter; mix as soft as can be handled, knead very thoroughly (say fifteen or twenty minutes), roll thin, cut in three-inch square cakes; lay so they will not touch each other on a hot sheet-iroa pan, and bake quickly for fifteen or twenty minutes, according to thickness; handle carefully while hot, and when cold put away in a cool, dry place. Noodles. Best one egg with a small pinch of salt mix stiff with flour, knead and roll very thin, sift a little flour over the sheet Then with a sharp knife cut it as you would a roll of jeDy-cake, but the slices must not be more than an eighth of an inch thick. Shake it out and leave it on the floured board while the soup is bested and seasoned. When boiling hot drop in the noodles, boil five minutes, and serve. Lemon Pie. Yolks of eight eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, grated rind of two lem ons, juice of one and a half lemons, one and a half tahlespoonf als of butter. Best the yolks of the eggs light Melt the butter. To the yolks add sugar, milk, butter, aad lesson. Pour the mixture into two pie plates having crust in each. For the frosting, whites of eight eggs, juice of half a lemon, seven tabtespootifula of sugar. Beat the whites of tho eggs to a stiff froth. Addavgaravdbswtit well in. Pstia tawjeiessarfattToytia. When the sis is baked aad cold add tk frosting, and ataepBeslntomOTenkaBgeaVMsghto auto the frostia a good brown. 4 T XaJtaea in We ask advkw, trot we taean appro bation. Coltoo. Men give away rxhlag so literally as their advice. llocaf foocaakt Amneaty, that nobie wwd. te enu ine dicUUof wjaoom. .F-rhi. How is it that even cauway can give such good adrk?-Xion dc rKndoa. He that would b anjrry and in rout not be angry with anything but sin. Seeker. lrio, in bot lug of family Antiquity. makes duration aUati tor merit Zimmermann. To abandon yourself to ra4rboftn to bring upon yourself the fault of an other -Agaprt if anger a not mrtnUne!. It i fre quently more hurtful to t than the Injury that provoke it Seneca. Millions of spiritual creaturo walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when weaWp. Mlltoa. Anger Sa blood, aourrd and perplexed into a froth: but malice Is the wbdom of our wrath. Sir W. Davenanu Anger U like a full-hot bora, who being allowed his way.aclf-mcltUr tirea him. fShakspeare. Think when you are enraged at any one wliat would probably beooeae your sentimenta should he die during the disputes. Shenatone. Some men are born to feast a4 not to fight; whose sluggish minds, evrn in fair honor a field, still on their dinner turn. Joanna llaillle. Applause waits on succnis; the fickle multitude, like the light atrxw that floats along the stream, glide with Urn currents still, and follow fortune Franklin. We must never undervalue- any per son. The workman loves not that his work should le despised in his prw ence. Now (Jod in present everywhere, and erery person is his work. De Salt. All arts which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common bond of union, and are connected. If I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one an other. Cicero. When we meet with letter faro than wast expected, the disapiointment is overlooked even by the scrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better. Ztmiuermann. It is sometimes of God's mercy Uiat men in tho eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are bullied; for they are very 'like a train K"itig down an inclined plant putting on the brake is not ple.tHaiit but It keep tho car on tli track. Deedier. It la true there Is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; sis two demands encountering contribute each other's luster. But ierhaps the odds is much against the man of taste In this partic ular. (Shenstone, All our distinctions are accidental ; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure . yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached respon sibility. Zimmermann. The horses which make the most show are, in general, those which ad vance the least It is the same with men; and we ought not confound that perpetual agitation which exhausts itself in vain efforts, with the activity which goes right to the end. Baron de Stassart. Domestic happine is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the com mon reward of our pains. When men llnd themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow caraless of their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men. Fielding. Art is the microscope of the mind which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every ob ject into a little universe of itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unitnbued with the principles of art, most objects present on ly a confused maw. HazI I tt There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the pas sions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration there are souls to whom not even a vestal is holy. SchlegeL Knowledge does not com prise all that is contained in the large term of educa tion. The feelings are to be disdpllned; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired. a profound religious feeling to be in stalled, and pure morality inculcated under all ciraimstances. AH this i comprised in education. Daniel Web ster. Those critics who in modern times have most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aasthetic beauty, concur in maintaining that the real thoughtful ness of all works of imagination sculpture, painting, written fiction is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to present the posi tive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. Bui wer Lytton. Dr. Scbliemann is the son of a clergy man of New Bocknow, Mecklenburg; At fourteen he was apprenticed to a grocer; after his term was finished be came to America, where be became a porter, at SIOO a year. Here be learned Italian of a clerk, and taught himself Rrjseian. In 1946 be went to Russia, where he became an importer, and missed a fortune of half a million. Returning to this country, he west to California, where be doubled ais money, and from thence set about acceeipUasV bag the dream of his later years the iesi ret tion of Troy. He is bow 5f years old, aad has the air of what he J sally THE WORLD Of 9CIKJCC. mSJwo"- ooo av wr Co sio i ta rr The eyre of ssany animal th ,( eau. for insUncaThlWt a im jtr" brilliancy, wnkh U tcn!WT r. v - '.. aWe in lis dwk. It " firms' thought that the pyra of sqeh 4r.iy.it emitted llffhi indHJnt!T. a ' i only thought light couM I trxrjm J by the human eye nwW th is rJ? of paaalo. The bjillUtsry. bonf the eyea of theae animal. caa"d r t a carpet of glittering 8t-r ta.1 lapcum. whldi U behind l rt -a. and Is a powerful rN!ir In frf darknes. no light UoWrril ,n fyV. ryes, a fact which hat tn tar 'S! by vry carrful experiment. ., ryTss,.! thelrsss. a rrry small amount f kiT suSVcirnt to produce thi luta.- :j a J prarance in them. KaCrlC T KUrWlt The appUcalkuw of elertrtc'ijr r to be endlea. and now. after n ft peHmenting, perfection l vu4 to. reached in a machine for rirvtric cr graving. The article to trnrtM placed under one pole of the iHUiCrf The plat to be engraved fc r-ce.! under the other le of the lottery, t a bed movable by a crank Thu Is provided with an enjrrav.njr fi The battery having been put into ctir,c. an ivory button rnovra houonuijy 0 rrr the articlea to be erTgraved. When it' touches the metal type or the Una ! the engraving which irnul. of course be a conducting aulianeo- the currer . in rimed, ami the enirravlnc twl all" other pole clicks upon the p!ate uwfeF n rati i It, and reproduce thi jiM IT tracer goes over the jNsUrrn n . w.ui t again and again, and in a mrteiw way a glorified copy of the common i gtnal grvivta beneath the vnd t e This Is cutting out the engra if g .' the engraving la to t raiu-d tl e r ccas la reversed ; that la, the hor ;.Ui llnea are cut by keeping the rurxem clotted during the tntrtng of tl.rn , ar 1 the point ate lift by breaking tie, c rents at those potnU. Hy the i j hr tlon of tho same principle, wl cr graving may te obtained of mriui. finish. Chrcoo! ! lHaMiutt.W, That the diamond is merely a crYlih. line form of charcoal mt j r.)j. have heard stated; but few jnbat.y have met with the fact uj-m !,& the statement 1 bajntL A verT IrAct eating accouut of experimental r ' l,evoblrr eatabllahed the idet.L'Y hi been given by 1'rof. Koacoe, !Ufi nti r fanioua Frenchman Wgnu h.a nvtr gation It w:ui known thai 1 nu tuh might be evojxjntted by et.,!r to great heat; but had liern otwnrved that this evaporation could not be petf nnd If the crystal were'surrounded I r chaV coal. The questions which Ia- Ur proposed to himself were, lint, what j the actual process of evnporalUm, ar-J. secondly, in what way doea the pi Imlty of charcoal Interfere with lt Step by sU'p he arrived at what h commonly been accepted an a rotnpt ami conclusive answer to l-th i, ir tions. He first subjected a dlaizmn 1 to the heat of u powerful burning it'. under which It gradually dlaa-jed j without emitting anything In th n ture of visible smoke or vir. or Iwtv Ing a trore of any solid matter what ever. I'uder great beat the diamond had simply vanished. He next sub jected a similar crystal to a lower de gree of heat, and found that the d mond. lusteud of dbwjjrari:K a.ti gether, lost about a quarter only cf !& weight. It was, moreover, olwnd that the reduced stone leca n covrte with coating of what appeared to iV soot or lampblack, showing, the exj-rl- menter thought, that the diamond wwl capable of being reduced by heat alor to simple carbon, an.l that It was Uu Itself only carbon In anothei form TM presumption lie went on to enUblUb.l He burned still by means of Jeaw diamond In a known quantity of ail and found that precisely the same re-1 suit hail been arrived at as would harrl Ieen attained by burning carbon In confined volume of air. The rewwnl why it was impossible to cvatirate al diamond surrounded by charcoal wi bow evident The diamond, lmg purel carlon, could not resolve itself Im carbonic acid without the. oxyjren of u air, and It was just this essential elr ment that the surrounding charcoal m tercepted. A fur Cloak. The wardrobe of an English I)uch was recently sold for the benefit of creditors. She is beautiful and Hkol nating. aad though she had & settled upon herself, she had contrived! to contract debts to four time thai amount. Rumor says that the turf the card-table claim an equal share lnl the wreck of the lady's fortune. Th was a certain fur cloak diapered of this sale which attracted general tlon, and had no rival In the worl The skins, which are the moat perfect Russian sable, took three years In match, and the cloak cost originally 2,000. It Is a cloak with a history. V. n nraortf frnmn m .11 Ai.mn-mmht Royal personage to a famous queen the dessi-moade, frem whoa the Doeb-I ess purchased it, and it fetched SAtA st the present sale. Perhaps its hii did nor enhance its value in the eyes of those who bid for it. It was bought oe commission, and wonderment guesses who is the purchaser? Whoever the lady be, when she wears that well knowa clonk she will run the risk being mistaken for either a Duchess I or something dm. London IaIUt. Or. William A. Ilamaaond recentl delivered a lecture on "Sleep" at Chick-I ering Hall. Xew York City. Seep. said, was accompanied by an absence of blood in the brain, and wakef alness by the return of the same fluid to large quantities. Many persons who feel sleepy in a chair become wide awake on lyiawdowm sUbsIt because of the flow of blood U the head s high ailiew res ests wsU aader nmliati will fcwfe , a8WSffiERs gsasfrwawMSwaasaetoBataras mmi MMSHSe9HS!KZSB)ttK -1 1 TilBff