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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1877)
-- -A ,: ' J -T ffiD CLOUD CHIEF. M. K..TII03I iS K.lltur. It EI) CLOUD. nebbask. A Si rip oriilue. BV LDCT LA ItCOM. I do not own an Inch of laud. But alt I see Is mine The orchard n.l the mowing fields, The lawns and gaiMen fine. The wlns in tax -oli tots are, They bring nio tithes divine VI'l scent and ub:ie etences, A tribute rare and free; And, mo e magnificent than all. My window kef pa for me A glimpse of blue Immensity, A littles rip of tea. Richer am f tl-an he who owns Ore tt fleets airl argosies; I hiveahar- In evtry ship Won by the Island 1re-z To loiter on yon airy road Above the apple trees. I freight them with my untold dream", Ka 'h hears my own plckel crpw; And no tier ca eoes wait for them Than ever Iru'la knew My Milps that sail In o the East Across U at outlet blue. Sometimes they seem like Ilvln? shapes The people of tbeky Ouets In whl'e raiment romlng down From h aven which Is lose by, I all them by familiar nam s, As one bj one draws nigh. Eo white so 1', lit, 8') sp rlt-llke. From violet mists they bloom! Theschl g wastes of the unknown Are half reclaimed from gloom. Since on life'.-, hospitable sea AH souls And sailing room. The sails, like Hates or roseate pearl, Float in upon the mist; The waves are broken preclous6toi.es Sapphl'e -ml anietlijat. Washed fr mc lesiUl basement walls, Ky s ins uns t Ing kl-sed. Outtbroi.gh the utmost sates of space Fast where the Kay tarsorlfc. To the widening Infinite, my soul Glides on. a ve'Sf 1 swift; Yet 1 s not er anchorage, lu yonder azuie rift. Here sit I. as a little child; The threho!d of God's door Is that clear bnd or cliryFoprase; Ntw the vastt mp e floor, Tbe b.indlng glory f the dome I bow my head Before; The universe. O. God, Is home. In helftln or depth, to me; let here upo. fy footstool green Cue it am I to be; Glad, when s opened to my need, home sea llkegllmp eof TIioj. Til E DKATH TRAP. BT O. T. HARBAL'On. The ringing sound that came from a blackened smithy told that the steel was sruithening steel, and the smith who swung the ponderous hammer was a man of no common muscle. He was young and remarkably handsome; but there was an evil lurking in his cold, black eyes which would have repulsed the close observer. The light of his forge lire rendered ghostly the objects in the remote corners of the shop ; but it fell brightly upon the strange looking piece of steel he was hammering. It resembled the jaw of some immense trap, strong enough to hold a bear, and the wonder was that the strength of man could prepare it for its prey. If any man in Middletown could control such a trap, it was the man whose hands were fashioning it. For a long time David Thrall had been working of nights, with his shop barred to visitors, md the clang clang clang of his hammer had sounded in the furthest corner of the growing vil lage. Ho was a man of strong passions, the first to resent an insult to a friend, and the last to give up an argument when he found logic against him. Ko person had bothered him while he swung the hammer over the terrible steel trap which he was making. It is true that a few boys looked in at the window at the inauguration of his work, but bis maddening threats against them had kept the prying urchins away. "1 told her that she should never laugh at my love and live to boast of it to another maul" David Thrall said aloud, one night as he paused to wipe great drops of perspiration from his brow. "She laughed then and told me not to let anger get the best of me, and thought I would forget it. Forget? Xever!" and th hammer came down vengef ully upon the glowing steel. "I am making this trap because you tejected my love, Agnes Temple. But shall not tear your pretty skin. No -no! I would not injure one of your golden hairs; but I am going to teach fou that there is one in Middletown whose heart cannot be trifled with." Thus he talked to himself, while he stood over his anvil and swung his hammer, whose every blow told on his horrible mechanism, and hurried it to ward completion. That night he fin ished it He held it in the light of his coal fire and pronounced it perfect; smiled upon it with pride, and showed that he had strength enough to master its jaws. Now, my boy, we'll try it." David Thrall put his trap into a sack, smothered the fire, and left the smithy. ne walked rapidly toward the outskirts of the village, seen by no one, for the night was dark and the wind high. It was in the fall of the year and the yellow leaves of the time fell around him in a golden shower. But he did not notice them any more than to brush an occasional one from his long beard, begrimed like his face with the soot of his shop. He did not come to a halt until he reached tho iron track that ran over the road which he was traversing. Middletown had not been honored by the steam cars, which, as if to taunt the place, left it half a mile to the west . David Thrall threw his burden down and a sigh of relief escaped him. Then be struck a match and looked at his watch. He passes about nine," he muttered. "The passenger gees by at ten, then the lightning express." He spoke with a fiendishness almost foreign to the human heart, and set to work fastening the strong chain at tached to his infernal trap to the iron rails. He had evidently studied this part of his work, for he performed it in darkness and then rested. But the end was not yet Throwing himself upon the spring.he pt the trap, and the terrible jaws were ready to close upon their victim. The wind threw leaves over ine trap, as L"TW t ?A I nt on aiding the jealous DiacKsmun, j m clouds scurried iwestward, he saw the star gleams fall upon th leaves that covered it It was a picturesque place which David Thrall had selected for the deed upon which he had set his heart The road was narrow, indeed not more than a path that led to Middletown, and the home of Agns Temple. He knew the man he hated would traverse it before dawn, and he knew too that h:3 trap would hold him to the iron track. It was a revenge almost too terrible to be re corded. "Then !" exclaimed the smith, as he removed away a pace and triumphant ly surveyed the result of his night's toil in the sooty shop. "'Xiwlet the prey com?! The trap is ready. I wish you a pleasant time of it, Julian Wing fold. To be plain. I should like to know how a man would feel between two such jaws." Then he picked up the sack and start ed back to Middletown. But he had not gone ten yards before he halted. "The trap might have been set a little easier," he said to himself. "It has not been worked much, and the easier it is set, tt-e surer I shall be of my prey." Intent upon readjusting the devilish invention, the blacksmith retraced his steps, and for the second time in that lonely and beautiful spot he bent over the cross-ties. He placed his knee upon the spring to prevent the jaws from closing and catching their maker, while he tampered with the trigger. He was in the midst of his work, when from some unaccountable cause, his knees slipped from the spring, and oh! hor ror! the mighty jaws closed on his wrists! With a cry, indescribably full of agony, the entrapppd man tried to spring to his feet, but the trap, fasten ed as it was to the rails, held him se curely down. The sharp teeth seemed to cut into the very marrow of his bones, and he was experiencing the hor ror of a human being caught in a trap. He tried to crush the spring, but it would not yield to the power which it had lately owned, and then he tried to tear himself loose. But the pain occa sioned by his IT rts was so great that he was forced to desist lest he should faint, and in that condition be caught by the train. "If it had caught my leg!" he cried, "I could tear it loose; but oh! these precious arms of mine!" It was a terrible moment for the en trapped man. All at once, in that hour of terror, he thought of the man for whom he had prepared the jaws of un yielding 3teel. He would doubtless reach the crossing and release him be fore the train was due, for Julian Wingfold was not a vengeful rival. All thoughts of revenge against the beautiful Agnes Temple had left his mind; he looked up at the stars, and they seemed to mock his misery; he cried for help from the terror stricken depths of his heart. But no footsteps sounded upon his ears. God and man seemed to have left the hater to his fate. Suddenly David Thrall started, and a cry of despair welled from his throat. The shrill shriek of the locomotive told him that the one dread hour of his cap tivity had passed away and the end of all was near at hand. "God in heaven have mercy!" he cried. "Da unto me as I would have done unto another!" But no deliverance came, and the sound of the whistle died away with a mocking echo. Within five minutes the iron monster would be upon him, and the most terrible drama ever enacted in that lovely country would have reached its tragic finale. He heard the rumble of the train, which seemed to approach on the wings of the wind. He raved, he cursed, and tried to wrench his wrists from the jaws of steel, tried to break them off, and bear life and bleed ing stumps away, but in vain. With the tenacity of death itself the Samso nian trap held him down. The loco motive shrieked again and David Thrall paused and looked over his shoulder. He saw the headlight now; it dazzled in his eyes, and he could not shade the precious oil3 with his hands. Then he shrieked at the top of his voice ; but the cars came on. "No deliverance! oh, heaven!" he ex claimed, sinking back in the few sec onds he had yet to live. "I have merited this. What a terrible thing retribution is! He will be happy, and she will smile upon him with all her dazzling beauty. But I I oh, God, pity me! Chained to the track caught in the trap made by my own hands for a fel low being. It is just. Heaven forgive me, and comfort my poor " The roarof the coming train drowned the sweetest word that ever parted his lips mother. The rumbling of the train had scarcely died away in the distance, when Julian Wingfold, returning from the home of Agnes Temple, crossed the track. He stepped where the instrument of death had been placed, and passed on without noticing its handiwork. If he had but glanced down he might have seen the two battered steel jaws, closed now, upon the lifeless hands only, of his rival, the blacksmith. The remains were discovered on the following day, and the presence of the trap told the awful story. David Thrall's widowed mother soon followed him to the grave. The little smithy still stands in Mid dletown, and the superstitious say that at night David Thrall can be heard beating steel with steel before his forge. Julian Wingfold is a happy husband and father now, but he never thinks of that one night's walk without a feeling of thankfulness as well as horror. An old citizen in a country village, on having a subscription list handed him toward purchasing a new hearse for the place, thus excused himself. I paid S5 for a new hearse forty years ago, and me and my folks hain't had the benefit of it yet" The Kings ot Holland,Belgium, Swe den, Spain and Portugal have engaged residences in Paris for the period of tl Exposition in 1878. The Bones of Monsters. "Nature has born strange children in in her day," says Shakspeare, and he is not far wrong if we may judge from some recent discoveries in the rocks of Colorado. While exploring some rocks in the white sandstone hog-back of the cretaceous period, near Morrison, Bear creek the same stratum as at Colorado Springs, a few yards west of old Colo rado City we came suddenly upon a huge vertebra;, lying as it was carved out in bas relief on a slab ol sandstone. It was so heavy that it required two men to lift it. Its circumference was thirty-three inches. We stood for some moments looking in astonishment at this prodigy, and then hunted round for some relics. Presently one of the parly, a little in advance, cried out, "Why, this beats all!" At his feet lay a huge bone, resem bling a Hercules war club, ten inches in diameter by two feet long. On digging beneath it a number of smaller verte bra; were discovered, and at the base of a cliff two enormous fragments, remind ing one of the broken columns of some ancient temple or a couple of saw logs, lay on the ground, possibly thigh bones, fifteen inches in diameter at the butt end; in the cliff above them was another fragment sticking out of the rock like the stump of a tree. "With the help of a sledge hammer and crowbar the rock was removed around it, and underneath lay some rib3 three inches in diameter, with other bones. The rocks in the vicinity were full of fragments. Se lecting one of these, we lifted off a large cap of sandstone above it, and disclosed a perfect shoulder, ulna and radius, of another somewhat similar animal, the thickness of the bones aver aging about five or six inches. This, lying as it were like a beautiful sculp ture on the sandstone, we succeeded in removing extctly as we found it. Sev eral smaller bones of animals of vari ous sizes were discovered, but as the sun was fast setting behind the moun tains we deferred moving our trophies till the following day. During the night it snowed heavily, but next nnrn ing we succeeded in drag ging our prizes on a temporary sled down the cliff to the road, and bringing home to the neighboring village a wagon load of bones and depositing them in a shanty, preparatory to packing them off East to Professor Marsh of Yale College for identification. The monster to whom the bones belonged could not have been less than sixty or even eighty feet long. In the cliff above the bones impressions of leaves were found (Da kota group) of dicotyliedonous trees of very singular shape, some resembling a lyre, and others tho leaves of a tulip tree, willow, conifers, etc These trees grew probably on the shores of small islands in the cretaceous ocean in which the marine monsters roamed, and not far off oysters, (ostrea congesta) clams (inoceramus) baculites and ammonites and other marine shells were found in abundance. Along the shores of this ancient sea pquatted and leapt the dinosaurs or ter rible lizards, one of whom, Icelaps, was twenty-four feet long. From the length of his hinder legs it is supposed that iie was able to walk upright, like a biped, carrying his head twelve feet in the air. There was another still larger, thirty five feet long, and of the sahie habits. In the air overhead, huge bat-like crea tures, comprising a lizard, a crocko dile, and a bat flapped their leathery wings twenty-five feet from tip to tip over the sea, plunging every now and then into the water for a -fish. There were birds, too; a diver, five and one half feet high, and some, strange to say, with spinal vertebia like a fish, and armed with pointed teeth in both jaws. Enormous tortoises and turtles were the boatmen of the age. One discov ered by Cope, in Kansas, was fifteen feet across the end of one flapper to the end of the other. Huge clams, also, lay scattered over those ancient shores, 20 inches in diameter. Our saurion did not fall short of the bigge3t of these m msters ; he could not have been less than sixty to seventy feet long, and was probably either a m isasaurus or lizard allied to the elasmosaurus. The ocean in which these creatures lived was gradually enclosed by the up heaval of the sea bottom on the west, and soon became almost an inland sea. As the elevation continued, and its area was contracted, ridges would rise, iso lating portions of the sea into salt lakes, and imprisoning the life in them. The stronger soon destroyed the weaker till the water by evaporation becoming shallower, all life finally died, became skeletons, and, in course of ages, fossils in sandstone. Old Time School Customs. At the recent meeting of the Georgia School Teachers' Association, President Mallon read some very amusing ex tracts from the diary of Judge Junius nillyer. Mr. Mallon had been a guest of the Judge, and during the evening he became aware of the existence of the record, the use of which he asked for the delectation of his co-laborers in the Association. Judge Hillver cives a very graphic description of a school which he attended near Lexington quite 60 years ago. The teacher was a Frenchman, who had two assistants. No books were used, but each boy. ranging from sevn to ten years of age the Judge was seven was required to go out into the yard and fill his pock ets with little rocks. Returning, the the boys were seated at a large table, and the teacher began at once to teach them how to count Having been in ducted into this mystery, they were re quired to exercise in mental calcula tions, each boy as he obtained the answer whispering it in the teacher's ear. If the answer proved incorrect the pupil was struck on the head. As the pupils progressed the work became more and more difficult the simpler forms of arithmetic being succeeded by examples in mental geometry. These Litter were so trying that several of the I pupils fainted at the black-board irbile making strenuous endeavor to write their conclusions in geometrical forms. The school closed at the expiration of the year, so that the course the teacher wculd have pursued as his pupils be came older and stronger is conjectural. Judge Hillyer remarked that the in struction he received proved to be highly beneficial. The mode of pun ishment was cruel, in some instances approximately brutal. The teacher would draw on the ground two rings at such distances from each other as to require a boy to stretch his legs pain fully in order to place a foot in each ring. Occasionally a third ring is drawn, and the boy, holding his position as to his feet,vas required to rest a hand therein. Appearances. When a man begins to go down hill, he is apt to betray the fact by his ex terior appearance; he wears a long face, allows his clothes to leok shabby, and acts like one bereft of hope or pros pects. Now thi3 is very poor policy; the sy mpathy and assistance of friend, is not gained by wearing a dirty shirt; and unless a man acts as though he had confidence in h'maelf, he must not ex pect to inspire it in others. And so with the external appearance of every thing. Neatness of appearance does not end with a man's credit, but often enhances the va'ue of articles which he may have for sale. This is especially true upon the farm, and we will ven ture to say that a farmer who attends tJ the exterior of things in ger.eral, such as clean stables and animals, clean yards and buildings, and fences in good repair, will obtain five to ten per cent, more for the products of his farm than one who neglects such simple matteis. If any one doubts the effect of exter nal appearance upon values in market or elsewhere, let him try sending butter to market in an old weather-beaten firkin, no matter h w good the butter or clean the vessel may be inside. If this does not satisfy, try some stained or dirty epgs, or half plucked poultry. Producing a good article is one thing, selling it to advautage is quite another, and the good salesman generally makes the most money of the two. The im portance of a fair t xterior can hardly be over-estimat d. This principle is potent in any branch of trade, and in every grade of society; therefore it is too important to be overlooked or passed unheeded. Kx. What Professor Iiayden and His As sistants are Dolnjr. Mr. Stevenson of Prof. Hayden's sur vey, passed through the city yesterday. He infoimed a Herald reporter that news had been received from nearly all the divisions of the survey now at work, intheli-jld.and al! have met with the utm st success. The party under the control of Mr. George B. Cnitteu derr, working northwest of Stambaugh, reports that they have made, up to this time, sevent six main topographical stations, and numerous auxiliary points have ben loeatd. Air. Cnittenden re ports that within three weeks his party will return to camp Stambaugh. By that time he will have all the mountain work of his district completed. He will then move down the Sweetwater country to work up that jortion of his district This division had 10.000 quare miles assigned for examination, which will be finished by the 1st of October. Mr. Gannett's division, which has been exploring the tributaries of Green river and the western branches of Wind river, reports similar success. Mr. Gan nett writes in glowing terms of the grazing and fanning resources of his district, stating that it is one of the richest regions in timber, water and grass, that he has ever e imined. This party had the same amount of territory assigned to it for examination that Mr. Chittenden's had, and the chief of the party states that he will finish it by the lst.of October. Mr. G. It Bechler's party has been on duty about the sources of Snake river, west of Fort Hall, in Idaho. Reports from Mr. Bechler indicate the fullest success. The two latter parties will re turn to Ogden about the 1st of O.-tober where they will disband. Mr. A. D. Wilson, in charge of the primary triangulation party is now at work along the line of the V. P. K. It, between Kawlin's Springs and Green river, locating the principal peaks in sight of the road, and connecting his work with that of the 40th parallel by Clarence King. Mr. W. has already located all the prominent mountains north and west including Fremont's peak and the grand Tetons. Prof. C. A. White, late State geologist of Iowa, has a special party at work identifying and locating all the forma tions between Cheyenne and Salt Lake. These formations are as yet quite un defined, geologically, and considerable discussion among geologists has arisen in reference to these points. Prof. Hayden, in company with several emi nent scientific men, is making special inquiry of the distribution and growth, as well as the climatical influences of our western forests ; he is also collect ing information and data, and making personal investigation in regard to our western coal measures, for the purpose of indicating them in colors on the sheets of his atlas. Prof. IIaden is also making a care ful study of the extent and economic value of agricultural lands such as irrigable cr'zing. eta, which he will also place in appropriate colors on the ecDnomic sheets of h'3 atlas. It is thought that the extent and value of the latter lands have, west of the Mis sissippi, been greatly underestimated. The various divisions of the army will be ready to leave the field by the 15th of October. Omaha Herald. Aug. 24. No Bones in the Ocean. Mr. Jeffrey has established the fact that bones disappear in the ocean. By dredging, it is common to bring up teeth, but rarely ever a bone of anv kind ; these, however compact dissolve if exposed to the action of the water but a little time. On the contrary, teeth which are not bones any more than whales are fish-resist the destroy ing action of sea-water indefinitely, it is, therefore, a powerful solvent Still, the popular opinion is that it is a brine. If such were the case, the bottom of all seas would, long ago, have been shal bwed by immense accumulation of car casses and products of the vegetable kingdom, constantly floating into them. Dentine, the peculiar material of which teeth are formed, and the enamel cov ering them, offer extraordinary resis tance to the chemical agencies, which resolve other animal remains into nothingness. Muinds in the West, tumuli in Europe and Asia, which are believed to antedate sacred history for thousands of years, yield up pefectly sound teeth, on which time appears to have made no impression whatever. Pronunciation. Speaking of spelling reforms reminds us that a reformation in pronunciation is imperatively needed. The number of public speakers who know how to pronounce their own lauguage is very small. The pulpit every week slaugh ters its mother-tongue by its pronun ciation. It is true in a literary as well as a religious sense, that he who t fiends not in word, the same is a perfect man. We convert dipthongs into vowels by substituting bile for boil, and rile for roil; we clip our words in such pronun ciations as lat'n for latin ; the vowel u is abolished altogether, and for it we invoke the double o in such won Is as institootion, latitood, Toosday, and the same double o is also compelled to do service for ew in such words as noo, doo, etc.; we convert i into an indis tinguishable and indefinable vowel in such words as quanterty for quantity, abilerty for ability; and the r.of which the Frenchmen make so much use, is rarely or never heard with us, xcept at the beginning of a word; we stop our bottles with cawks and eat our dinner with fawks; while certain consonants drop out of line, as in govei'ment and in Feb'uary. Permanent Silver Minus. In his treatise on silver mines. Ful ler says: "Wherever in any part of the world silver mines have been worked, they are worked now, unless liom war, invasion of I ahans, etc. We know of no silver mining regions in the world that have given out. Mexican mines worked by the Aztecs before the-conquest by Cirtez are still worked as profitably as ever; the old Spanish mines opended long before Uann bal's time, are still worked with enormous pnfis; the South Amirican mines have constantly yielded their wealth for more than three hundred years, and are as productive as ever; mines in Hungary that were worked by the I Jo mans before the Savior's time, still yie'd abundance of ore; the silver mines of Freiburg, opened in the eleventh century and worked continu ally ever since, yield their steady in crease. So in Norway, Sweden and Russia, and indeed wl erever silver mines have been opened, we believe without exception, they continue to be worked at the present day, and gener ally are more productive than at any time in their past history." Moderate Drinking. There is a difficulty in defining mod erate drink ing, as Sir Thomas said. And it is almost equally difficult to be moderate in speaking about this sub ject though we are convinced that medical men will do good in proportion .is their speech is judicial and scientific. We doubt whether it is right t say that moderate drinking is the parent of excessive drinking. But what is mod erate drinking? We can best get a notion of it by saying what is not Drinking early in the day is not consis tent with moderate drinking. The man who begins the day with a "soda and brandy" has very little respect for his constitution: and if he does not alter his habits they will alter his health. Nor do glasses of beer and glasses of spirits in the forenoon come within moderate drinking. They will show themselves in some rotundity of fea tures or figure, or alteration of color, some dysjepsia, lithiasis or rheuma tism. That is not moderate drinking which adds fifteen or twenty beats to the pulse, or which flushes the face. Finally, all casual drinking is bad, pre sumably, and no moderate drinking. The system will not receive food as a matter of conviviality, at all sorts of hours, still less will it receive, with im punity, drink in this way. Drinking which disturbs sleep, either making it heavy or driving it away, is not moder ate. For want of thought on these points many people w'io would beshock ed to be considered immoderate, charge their blood .and tissues with dnnk so continuously that the system, though never saturated with it is never free from alchohol. Moderate drinking is that which cn.si3ts with a clear tongue, a good appetite, a slow pulse, a cool skin, a clear head, a steady hand, good walking power, and a light re freshing sleep. It is associated with meals, and is entirely subordinated to more convenient and less objectionable forms of food. Influence in the World. "Who can estimate the power of per sonal influence? The careful, indus trious mistress of a house has an influ ence on her circle the extent of which she harslf cannot calculate. Sj has that fast and frivolous wife, to whom pleasure is as the breath of ber nostnls, her fine clothes dearer than her chil dren, and of all sorrows work and duty the most sorrowful. How mai y young minds has she not warped bv her per nicious example, so brilliant in its set ting and so seductive in its lines ? It is so hard to work, so pleasant to play. Has a bold, slangy girl no inflaence over her comrades? If a good, pure and modest girl, who neither, " nor idles, neither talks slang nor af - subjects ; who finds no pleasure in silly little intrigues, ami abhors all degrad ing little falsehoods: who believes in duty, and acts as if she lielieves if such a girl as this is the friend which every wise mother desires her child to make, so, on the other hand, is the bold and idle, thriftless and undutiful girl the one whom she would wish to be avoided, because of the power of influ ence. Kvery mm and woman living has influence for good or evil. Our per sonality has influence; our habits, our modes of thought, our toshi-m of dress, our method of speech, each circum stance of individutlit. makes its mark, and either rope's bv the distaste oral tracts by the admiration which it in spires; there is no one so small and in significant as to be destitute of the power of stirring, to .-ome t tent, the world in which he lives. Neglected Mlldfes. A person cannot have tnuht a half dozen terms without being surprised by the sina'l amount of knowledge in the land; the simplest facts in nitural sci ence are unknown. As fr as the parents are concerned, this cannot be helped, the only hope is in educating aright the children; and here there is danger of giving them too little, of con fining their time to certain studies to the utter neglect of others of t qiuil im portance. A few studies should be obli gatory on every pupil ; others should be left to the discernment of the teac:.er. If a scholar shows adecidtd t;iste for a particular branch mathematics for instance and there is a pn liability for his continued attendance at school, then by all means urge him onward, but it". :u in a majority of ta.Ms. he w ill leave school in a year or two and dn p study altogether, don't gne it too much time. List year there w;ts a young girl of sixteen m my school; sdte had beet through with -IJobinson's Practie.i Arithmetic." and for two ears hat been ktudying the higher; this, with ;. little knowledge of geography, and stil less of grammar, comprised all she hau acquired. She was to leave school at the close of that tern., thenceforth to assist her mother in household matters, or do the .same in a house of her own I would not seem to underrate the mental discipline of the stud v. but as far as this pupil was concerned.'?, would have been ;ls great in some other biaiuh and of what practical benefit was it? If she had spent her timeon someother study, botany, hi.stoiy. drawing, or she might have been led to at q lire a tate for literature becoming interested in any one of these, she could easily, with her chosen work, still hav. k-pt up the study; and what a source ot pleasure and profit it would have proved. It is not expected thai these should form a branch of study m c mmon schools, but there are occasionally cases where this would becomineiidable.and in general, summer schools are not crowtled, so want of tine, would not be an excuse. There aie. so many of Ine pupils whose school days are over when the; lavo district school, it s is a pity that their whole time should be tU voted to elementary branches. It is a question whether the time most scholar spend on grammar in common s hoots is prof itably tpfut On whose ear is sensi tive would be constantly irritated by the conversation of the pupils, or ol their parents- who studied grammar in the old school house. ( n root of the ditliculty may be in the fact that those scholars who do take u the stu ly gen erally commence too young, before they are able to a in;ireh"ud auvthittg of tho science, and const quently 'm tire of it; and another, that it is to- often mf... taught, not only the wrong methods being used, but many of the instructors incompetent. Continued lencti ion in daily life or school leads to one of two things; we become restless and Io.'e interest or, as following the sam cure continu ally n qiire? little t xrtion, we jog along in a listless way with no ral life, no vitality. To k-.p clear of this, to keep up an interest, r q-iires a variety. liven when a teacher endeavors to make rec itations as interesting as possible, they must necessarily be very much alike. One Iittlething.it is astonishing what a magnetic iower a teacher may have by simply being interested herself; if she is anxious to get through le-r work. or only goes on with it because she must, the effect will be manifest in the I pupils. A teacher could employ ten or fifteen minutes a day iinl dmit g-t into the habit of having it c m at te same t.ima day by d iv -in giving instruction no different subjects. The principles of natural science, the leading f.icla in chemistry and astronomy could b taught, and in ea;h lesson make fre use of the blackboard. J.t the pupils know there is a world l-yoml this little world in whic'i D.cy luv- hvI so con tentededly.and probably 'jomrratuJated themselves that they hHj . :,;h ao quired all that was worth knowing. The sul j-ct of philosophy, of the rnot vital importance to evt-r o'i is en tirely negbr'H. Such a sirup!-q i- tion a3 why we eat, not on- in fi 'ty tnoro M,i' ir Ui u aa'l "en put in nWrv could answer. They eat because they I tmiU"-s- A few cloves, cinnamon root are hungry, and think no mure about it I or ,n si 'r be usd as flvor That tb re is n-ed to supply waste in I tn io tllM V i( hJ- When the & rnoaclet-r n rve. would be to Uh man j '"' PrJy dried, pock In tumblers or Mtijin-hipc i''a. JiT'fmrifK : J Silver l'iirur Mfe ihroush the I'ittfebarr ftit- Among th1 can which wrre destroy ed Saturday msht and Miaday during the prevalence of the not wer io or 12 which contained freight -h.nr.ed bv th Penasylvinia Lead Company of Mans field. It wa.1 rrpnmllv mim-! rhnt - - - ---. t.t all of the r.. conr.ainwl ni "of leJ. I da and in the surfeit of oth-r more valu- J ! ide and more sutly traJitponwi g,od, no one thought of loaltuz himself with this heavy metal. On Tuesday, after the fire, it was discovered that three of the cars contained pure silver, which had been smelted at the Mansfield es tablishment and whicb was on Its way to the Philadelphia Mint mbe silver was in the form Olmmmmgmmmmmm than pigs of led. and. like the lei., had melted and run down between the ties and in the gutters. Of course there was no effort on the p irt of the Com pany to dissipate the impression that the cars contained nothing but led. and as the metals lo)k much alike there was no attempt to steal any of tho - more precious substance. On Tuesday the proprietors visited the rums and re in ved the metal. The value of the ilver tha was in the cars is not th fin itely known, but the amount was sev eral thousand dollars. ITK.MSOF l.VIKKKST. The whole number of Pilgrims tov Home during the Pope's episcopal jubi lee was 1T.2IO. The largest number from any one country was from France (J.IXM. The 1'nited States sent Thh). In the past 7 J years, of '2,i persons condemned to death m Austria, only ."ids were executed, the reigning sovtl eign having been averse to capital pun ishment, and having pardoned or com muted the sentences of the others. A tomb at Spaiti. where explorations are being conducted under the auspices of wheat in Minnesota this i mensurr SI.OOO.OUO bushels, x- IKW.IHX) bushels will be spathe Iortatiou to consumers out not State. The total yield last exceed ls.00o.00O. . t'ussian shores of L,4,oua a"i an infested ny a p!aguc f a0 U spniers. wuo.se nileetusiM 4 ,.veU eral days, and, in soun A. v '4iiinttufRi fatal. It is supposed tl of the birds and insects Mi ovui" llv feed on ?liHf !in- httf c.vtt' their appearing m .nur'am "" I t 1 l k A r',v"- ,urlr Da is said to be F)vrmU 0 MexuM. ami is re "'.-t and order. M. OaiiutH, in f com n 1'ui'a' ion to the Parisian Medirtl S n-iety. d-clarm that f.ishionable 'vomeu are seriousrjC' inj'iring th ir hoitUi by wviriujj high heels. Cstpt Klt-x.ot v.itia G rtiudeM.TVxas. is making an aditioti of tU mites to his ' pasture ti-nre. hn-1. will cut lose, altc ' get her, when cfimpleled, li;,(o acres of spleuded land. I-'fteen vein .ik'" M. Frati'ois Bravav was esteemed t'ie richest man in Parl ami his profusion and display equaled the stories told bv I him is of Monte Christo. He died m poverty and blind ness a few days ago. Charles Francis Adams is rejiorted to have real tstat worth 51 U0.47t. mt sonal property to the extent of $1 ;im, 1 '.",. and nstdent bank shares wofii, I4i.lK 1 -a total v.il.mtioii of SlS4 .M., a decrease of Stoji:., from last year. ' The N'er,- York Tritiunr says it bi re potted that 0'iceii Victoria, the Prince of Wales, and the I). ike of Argyl- aru ill invest ga?rs ot Spiritualistic phe-no-neiia, and it is furthermore said Hat the Prnice-vs iea'r.ce is a very fre medi'im. . I'.SKH'I, KK( ll'KS. Tom m s let e -Take the juice of '' ii,e tomatoes, and put a pound of HiWr,M gar to each quart of juice, put It 1,!," botis and set it nsHe. m a iw -it will have tl.e apfeariuc of pure wine of the besf,LD 3TA1JD. with uiiti-r. is a ' It I. Tl! for the sick. JASKA. , wiuinw , -i rfrii " " it is white with a bluiah cast or with specks in it. refuse it. Jvcwid.ex wnine its adhesivenesswet and knead a lit tle of it between your iingerfl; if it worK.s soft and sticky, it Is poor. TMfS, throw a little lump of driM flour against a smo-l. Hitrf;u:e, if it falls Iiki powder, it is bad. Fourth, squezi some of Uie tl mr tightly in your hand . if it retains th shape, given by tb presume, that Vt is a good sign. An Oknamknt.w. Dish. pare -nd core, without splitting, iwm; small sized, tart apples, and boil them very gently, with one lemon to six apph, till a straw will p.uw through them. Make a syrup of half a jound of white !"Wir r'r ,w"h ,,ml of '"'P'". Pt Ur; apples unbroken and the !emr.n sliced into h? lynip, and boll gently till the apj . look clear. T.V.L them up carefully so as not to .;tff them, and add an ounce or more of clarified tain -Ins U the ny nip. and Jet it lofI up. Then lay a nhce of lenwn on each appv and strain th sj nip over them. Tomato Fi. -The a mull vanKie of tomato are the Ix-st for ufc.r.; figs. Make syrup as for urf,ZrlmM. Drop in lit" torn t?o-s. a few at a tl dm. awl boil a few moments, sklrn out and lay on m plates to partially dry in yoarF fen. or in a cool baking oven. .Lai "? l tin ovi the trrtin liil Attum n titu . -W '. " r kW "' m, . tpnuJicg auytr plentifully t .ween the layers. Cover with papM -rnejtr-d with white of egg. and kp JH a dry pla:-. -Ma, didn't 'oah liave b-es in the ! i -. -r- .i . . IK ' , tuai' m? "';?- Uf cour lli - tui WJ do you want to kn-wr j.wu 'ui tun iracuer IH1JJD about the .uci-nt ark luves.' the vtbei Iftw?tf f VU'4 . V . i t V ... . - v l"l no' l understand what she rkB "Mamma."" a-iio! a precious youngster at a tabt the other erenfng. aflcr a long ami yeorn.ng g2 toward a plate oi aoczunuis. uo vo?T this r -v. - stand another of thse? fned hoN m The City of Melbourne now 250.DCO inhabitants. f 1 mh life 4! v t4 y 4l i t t L )