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NIOET.
Slowly tbe sunset fades ;
Sight's shadows fall;
The pale moon glimmers thro the shades
About the poplars tall ;
The river waves amid tbe reeds
Liko wan gray serpents crawl.
A hushing wind doth go
In secret, where
The rushes bend with the wares' flow,
And the rceda twit like hair
Slow stealing till it takes the ashen boughs
With sudden gusts of air.
Somewhere, a too-late bird
Makes shrilly sound ;
Close by, the marsh frogs are heard-
Upon the weedy ground;
A white owl flits on ghostly wing,
And tbe bats Bwann around.
The quivering planets shine
Through the black night;
They seem to hung like fireflies oa
The tree-teps, ail alight;
TheruHtllng topmost leaves all gleam
With silvery white.
The pale moon grows apace
A warmer hue;
It draws a veil across the face
Of night, which looketh through ;
It Hoods the hills and hidden dells
With mint', yellowy dew.
Like pole gold dew it lies
On half -seen trees;
With broad and yellow sheets it clads
The sloping flowery leas ;
Its misty smile in the far skies
Lights up the restless seas.
A huBhlng wind doth go
In secret where
The reeds within the river's flow
Wave like twisted hair,
And dies in silence on the lips
01 lilies lying there.
Good Words.
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PRINCE SB ALICE'S FATAL KISS.
The following beautiful "dedicatory poem
to the Princess Alice," by Mr. Tennyson,
opens the now number of the Nineteenth Cen
tury: " Dead Trincess, living Tower, if that which
lived
True life, live on and if the fatal kiss,
Horn of true life and love, divorce thee not
From early love nnd life if what we call
The spirit flash not all at once from out
This shadow Into Substance then perhaps
The niellow'd murmur of the people's praise
From thine own State, and all our breadth of
realm, . ,
Where Love nnd Longing dress thy deeds in
Kht,
Ascend to thee; and this March morn that
sees
Thy soldier-brother's bridal orange bloom
Break thro the yews and cypress of thy
grave.
And thine Imperial mother smile again,
May send one raj to theol nnd who can tell
Thou England's England-loving daughter
thou
Dying so English thou would'st have her
Hug
Uorne on thy coflln where Is he can swear
Hut that some broken gleam from our poor
earth
May touch thee, while, remembering thee, I
lay
At thy pale feet this ballad of the deeds
Of England, and her banner in the East?"
THE RORKES DRIFT FIGHT.
One Company of British Soldier Against
3.00O Zulus Repeated Attack Upon
the Fort Repulsed with Terrible Slaught
erFourteen Warriors Killed from. One
Soldier's Window.
From the Pall Mall Gazctte.1
On the same day as the fatal battle
and disaster at Isandlana, a Zulu army
numbering at least 3,000 men attacked
with great bravery and persistency the
post at Rorke's Drift. It was held by
B Company of the Second Battalion of
the Twenty -fourth Regiment, under
Lieut. Gonville Bromhead. The com
pany numbered 90 men ; besides these
. there were 40 casuals " present, 35 of
them patients in hospital, left behind
ill when the column advanced into Zu
luland under Lord Chelmsford. The
whole of these were under command of
Lieut. Chard, Royal Engineers, the
senior officer, under whose able super
intendence and orders Lieut. Bromhead
and his men worked and acted. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon, of the 22d
Lieut. Bromhead received a hastily
written dispatch from Capt. Gardner,
Fourteenth Hussars, informing him
that the camp of the Third Column
had been taken by the enemy, and that
he would be attacked that night. Capt.
Gardner had been engaged in the fight
at the camp, had stayed till the last
moment, and then galloped for his life.
He escaped across the Buffalo River
hotly pursued, managed to write the
warning to Lieut.. Bromhead, and then
rode on to Helpmakaar, another post
injtheline of communications.
The advanced guard of the Zulus ap
peared at first at 4 p. m. It came round
the south corner of the hill in a body of
from 500 to 600 strong, led by a chief
on horseback. They halted a moment,
and then advanced quietly but quickly,
at a run, taking advantage of every bit
of cover. It seemed as if they had ex
pected to surprise the camp. Our men
opened fire at 500 yards. The first man
to fall was the Chief, ne was shot by
Private Dunbar, and fell off his horse
headlong. Numbers of the enemy fell
at once. They hesitated, broke, and
the greater number scattered to their
left, and occupied the garden and
orchard, where there was plenty of
cover. A few got up close to the houses
and lay behind the field oven and
kitchens that there were built. Scarcely
any of these men had guns or rifles.
Others came on in a continuous stream,
occupied the hill above, and gradually
encircled the two houses. All the
men who had guns were stationed on
the hill, and kept up a continuous and
rapid,, fire on the yard. It caught our
men li their backs as they were guard
ing the garden side, and five men were
thus shot dead.
It now became dusk. The Zulus crept
up nearer and nearer. Under cover of
the bushes and long grass they were able
to get within five yards of the hospital
without being seen. From this point,
in parties of fifteen to twenty, they re
peatedly attacked the end room of the
hospital. They made these attacks in
the most deliberate manner, advancing
after the manner of their danc
ing, with a prancing step and high
action.' They cared nothing for slaugh
ter, but endeavored, in the most persist
ent manner, to get over the barricade
and into the hospital. Many times,
seven or eight at least, Lieut. Brom
head, collecting a few men together.had
to drive them off with a bayonet charge, j
j-cen iney wouia reare, ana nu oi mem
in chorus shout and strike their shields.
Our men cheered in answer, and let
them have it. There was plenty of am
munition. After the first half hour
there was no waste.
How deliberate and telling the fire
was "may be gathered from the following
incidents : rMvate Joseph Williams, a
young Welshman, under two years'
service, had a small window in the hos-
Sital to shoot from. Next morning 14
ead warriors were counted outside his
window, and several more down his line
of fire. As soon as his ammunition was
a'l expended, he and the other men with
him defended the door-of the room till
the enemy, by sheer weight of numbers,
forced it open. Poor fellow, he was
seized by the hands and arms, dragged
out, and assegaied and mutilated before
the eyes of his comrades. Another in
stance : Private Dunbar, tne same man
who shot the Chief on horseback, was j
posted to watch the hill. As the Kaffirs
streamed down from their right, this
man (also a Welshman, and of less
service than the above mentioned) shot
eight of the enemy in as many consecu
tive shots. Lieut. Chard was standing
by him as be did it, and the bodies were
found heaped one on the other next
morning.
The enemy at last effected a lodgment
in the hospital. Thirty of the patients
were got out in time. Meet of them
were pushed and pulled through a win
dow which opened on the yard. Ser
geant Maxfield, a fine young soldier,
was very ill with fever and delirious.
He could not be moved, and be was kill
ed in his bed. They now set fire to the
hospital. The roof was thatch, and it
quickly blazed. By its light our men
were enabled to see their foes better,
and many fell before they retreated to
better cover. After a pause, encour
aged by a Chief who from time to time
shouted bis orders from the hillside,
they came, on again. The fighting in
places became hand to band over the
mealie sacks. The assailants used only
their assegais. These they did not
throw, but used only as stabbing weap
ons. Directly a soldier showed his head
over the parapet to get a shot, he was
thrust at. Once or twice the Kaffirs ac
tually seized the bayonets and tried to
wrench them off tbe rifles. One of our
men loaded while a Zulu was tugging at
his bayonet. He pulled the trigger and
blew the plucky fellow to atoms. They
next tried to set fire to the thatched roof
of the store. In face of a hot fire they
got up to the house, and one fine savage
had his brains blown out as he was hold
ing a brand against the eaves.
And so the fight continued till after
midnight, from which time till 4 a. m.
they gradually withdrew, only every
now and then making a charge. They
carried with them all their dead and
wounded that they could. The last of
them left just before dawn. They left
370 dead on the field. These were
counted and buried in heaps. Many of
them were recognized by their shields
as belonging to one of the crack royal
regiments. The majority were of a cer
tain age, in poor condition, and of small
stature. Our loss, counting five of the
patients, was 13 killed and 10 wounded.
Three of the latter have since died of
their wounds.
A Good Word for the Pis;.
Dr. Ballard, in a report which he
some time ago presented to an English
Government Board on the " Effluvium
Nuisances Arising in Connection with
the Keeping of Animals," bear the fol
lowing testimony in favor of the pig:
" When the pig wallows in the mire
he merely follows an instinct implanted
in him in common with some other
pachydermatous creatures, the object of
which is cutaneous cleansing. The mud
stands to him in the relation of soap to
a human being, but instead of washing
it off with water he -allows it to cake and
dry upon the skin, and then rubs it all
off, mud and cutaneous debris together,
upon some sufficiently rough surface.
Loose hair and cutaneous scurf irritate
him, and he takes his ewn way of cleans
ing his skin from them. Cleanse his
skin for him and he will rest in content
ment, without offending the eyes of his
supercilious betters, often less scrupu
lous in this matter than he is, by his wal
lowings, scratchings, and scrubbings.
It has long been known that a pig thus
cleaned with soap and water not only
becomes less objectionable, but grows
fat more speedily than if left to clean
himself in his own way. Similarly as
respects his food. Garbage is not the
food the pig selects by preference. In
fact, a pig which has been fed for any
time upon sweet food will turn away
from sonr and disgusting food. If left
to pick up his living where he can find
it,he will eat any thing he can find that
is eatable, but even will eat acorns, fall
en fruit, or roots, in preference to gar
bage; and human beings in similar
straits will act precisely in the same way.
It may be economical, and perhaps even
desirable, to convert into pork matters
which can in no other way, or in no way
more convenient, be made subservient
to the subsistence of mankind, and the
pig is perhaps properly utilized in this
manner. Our only desire is to vindicate
his character as a cleanly feeder, if only
he has the chance of cleanly feeding
vouchsafed him."
About Teeth.
Teeth have been both a source of
trouble and vanity to their possessors
from all time, as they still continue to
be. Dentists were common among the
Egyptians, on the authority of Herodo
tus, and the extraction of teeth was
known to the ancient Greeks. Spren
gel, in his " History of Medicine," says :
"Even surgical instruments were be
queathed by the inventors to these sa
cred shrines of medicine. Thus, Era
sistratus presented to the Delphic. Tem
ple of Apollo an instrument for ex
tracting teeth." The Romans were
acquainted with the use of false teeth,
and they are mentioned both by Horace
and Martial. Among the ancient Jews
it was a violation of the Sabbath to
wear a false tooth on that day. Teeth
which have been found at Pompeii
were very souna, a oiscovery which led
to the supposition that the people of
that ancient city did not indulge in the
luxuries which nave attended the pro
gressive march of civilization. Artifi
cial teeth became known in England, it
is supposed, aDout tne nrceenth or six
teenth century. They are mentioned
in the Mathematical .Jewel,1" 1585;
and Ben Jonson, in the " Silent Wo
man," refers to them: "Otter (speak
ing of his wife) A most vile face! and
yet she spends me 40 a year in mercu
ry and hog's bones All her teeth were
made in the Black Friars." All the
Tear Bound.
Limk fob Hens. Poultry keepers
should remember, especially at this sea
son, that hens require lime in some
form to make the shells for their eggs.
When they are seen picking at lime
wash on the weather-boarding of build
ings or on fences, it is an indication
that they should be furnished with cal
careous matter. Oyster shells, where
they are to be had, are the cheapest and
best source of supply. They should be
broken in pieces small enough for the
hens to swallow easily, and maybe given
in liberal quantity. Where shells can
not be obtained, broken bones will do,
but they are more difficult to break, and
scarcely so good. Old mortar furnishes
lime, and hens are fond of picking at it
when they can do no better. Ground
bone and ground oyster shells are sold
by dealers in poultry supplies, and can
be bought at prices which will repay
their cost. The shells of eggs used in
cooking should be fed to thehens, but
not without being crushed or broken.
Cor. N. T. Tribune,
A Jahzsyhxb (Wis.) hunter lookinr
for ducks last week near Richmond,
Walworth County, stumbled upon aneet
of young wolves and bagged six of them
with one grab. He humed on to Elk-
horn and pocketed $90 in bomaty.
Hints e H.ise-bsiUler.
For a country house no other ma
terial is so good as wood. Health isthe
first point to be considered, and no oth
er maters! will give a building that is
so cool in summer and warm in winter,
and so free from undue moisture at all
times. But to secure these several ends,
knowledge of the best methods is very
Important. Without going into every
detail, it is sufficient to give general
rules for construction.
First, the modern so-called balloon
from is much better than tbe old style
of heavy timbers held together by
tenons and mortises. Even the sills are
best when made of two-inch plank bolt
ed or nailed together, or otherwise se
cured in place. Four planks, each two
inches thick and 10 inches wide, set on
their edges, make a timber 8 by 10 inch
es; and any desired length can be had
by splicing, cutting the sills only one
quarter off at any one place. A sill so
made is much better than can be made
by having a single stick of the same
width and thickness. The plank can be
seasoned thoroughly in two years in the
open air, while many years would not
so thoroughly season the solid stick.
The outside studding of a first-clas
house should Le two inches thick and
six wide, and the corner and window
studs should reach from the sill to the
plates. The frame having been put to
gether and diagonal braces put in the
partitions, and bridging between the
floor joists, the outside covering should
be made of pine siding one inch thick
and six wide, matched, and having the
outer corner of the upper edge cut off,
with a slant downward commonly
called "coved." This gives the out
side a good appearance. Next put
furring, two inches square, between the
studs and against the siding, and then
lath up and down on this furring, and
then plaster from sill to plate, making
an air-tight wall, having an air cham
ber between the mortar and siding of
two inches thick.
The above being well done, line the
outside walls with boards one inch thick,
placing them edge to edge, well nailed,
and reaching from sill to plate. Lath
once in every foot, nailed up and down
on this lining makes every thing
ready for the ordinary lathing and
plastering of the walls. The mortar
will go between the lath and reach
the boarding, and if the first
coat of mortar be of proper consistency
the space between the lath and lining
will be about filled with mortar, and the
clinches will be perfect, and the wall
very strong, and, being backed every
where by the boarding, hooks for pic
tures can bo put in at any place desired.
Let us consider what we have accom
plished toward constructing a wall that
will keep out cold or heat. We have
divided the six inches in depth of air
that is between the studding into two
air-chambers ; one two inches and tbe
other four, less the thickness of the lath
and plastered wall that is between the
studding. This air can not change if
the chambers are closed at the top and
bottom, therefore it can never be damp
er at one time than at another, and heat
and cold will pass through at an incon
ceivably slow late. Such walls are so
firm and stiff that winds will not crack
the mortar, and if only well seasoned
timber be used, proper skill in making
and putting on the mortar, and time
given to allow the first coat to dry and
the timber to part with the moisture de
rived from the mortar beforo the second
coat is put on, cracking of the walls will
be reduced to the minimum, unless poor
materials are used.
Tin is the best material for the rooj
of a house, and at present prices costs
no more than one covered with first
quality shingles. Very little slant is re
quired for a tin-roof, and the saving in
this particular will make the tin-roof the
cheapest in many places. Five dollars
a square (that is 100 superficial feet)
pays for a tin-roof, the rafters having
been covered with the boarding neces
sary for either shingles or tin. Safety
from fire is so much in favor of tin that
in cases where it does cost more than
shingling it is preferred. Painting of a
tin-roof should be deferred until it has
been laid some weeks, and until the sur
face has been so far acted upon by its
exposure that a rough feel has taken the
place of the soft grease-like surface
that it had at first. The paint will hold
better on the roughened surface. Put
no paint on house-roofs that has lead or
other poisonous substance in it if pure
rain-water is desired.
As to the question of durability.
Whoever will ride over the road from
Cambridge to Lexington, Mass., and
notice the houses that were in use When
the British Army made its disastrous
march, more tban 100 years ago, and
observe these historic wooden structures
and see that they have suffered but lit
tle by the action of time's corroding
tooth, will not take much trouble on
this point. A wooden house, having
good wide cornices, standing well ut
from the ground, and so constructed
that the water can not find its way
through badly made valleys in the roof,
or badly joined wings and excrescences
such as dormer windows and tbe like
if kept properly painted, will last un
til it is burned up. About once in four
years a coat of paint is the cost of main
taining a wood dwelling and preserving
its good appearance. N. Y Tribune.
Domestic Life In Mexico.
The Chicago Times correspondent
writes from Mexico : I bade farewell re
luctantly to my kind host, Senor Muller,
and Ms charming family, a little after
midnight on last Friday. In my many
wanderings I have never met with more
kindness and I have rarely spent a more
delightful week than that which I pass
ed in Chihuahua. In mingling there,
as elsewhere, with the better classes of
the people, I found much to admire in
their domestic habits. Americans
might think the life monotonous, but it
is at least serene until revolution dis
turbs it. Plain as to the exterior, with
iron-barred windows to repel burglars
and sentinel the ladies, the Mexican
home of the higher order does not, at
first sight, attract. All the beauty is re
served for the interior. There the court
yard, beautified by fountains and foli
age, in most instances, with a far-projecting
roof, supported by Ionic or Cor
inthian pillars, extending all around tbe
square, affords the family plenty of room
for exercise, while the roof protects
them from the rain or the too ardent
rays of the sun. The seaoritas can al
ways take their airing without being
stared at. The gentlemen can dnnx
their wine cr smoke their cigarettes in
the pure atmosphere.' The doors of
all the sleeping apartments the houses
being chiefly one story high
open on the court, affording light and
ventilation by natural means. As tbe
strong gates are always double-locked
and barred at night, there is no necessi
ty to close the doors during the warm
season, which, by the way, lasts nearly
all the year round. The thick, solid
n a a avx J9 iL-
masonry ueDaia tne winter emu ana un
summer heat. With the thermometer J
100 In the shade outside, the Mexican
family, shaded by the projection I have
already spoken of, can keep comforta
bly cool, and, at tbe same time, enjoy
all outdoor comfort. Tab same char
acteristic of their buildings saves the
Aeguet night from being a thing of heat
and horror, as it often is with us in the
large cities, and you can always sleep
with reasonable comfort. The Mexican
upper tec" are great visitors. In
point of hospitality they bear a strong
resemblance to the people of a certain
Atlantic island, who hare been renown
ed for that virtue, whatever they may be
now. Their table is always "full, es
pecially at supper time, when their inti
mates happen in and share that most
sociable of meals. You will often see at
the long dining-table the grandparents
eating with their descends nts of the sec
ond and third generation, "the stranger
within their gates," and the friends of
the family who may happen to drop
in." The padre, when of the cheerful
type, b always a welcome visitor, and
is treated with great consideration.
After tea the head of the house and the
priest, with other male members of the
party, talk mines or politics wbilo they
smoko. The ladies, and perhaps the
boys, of the household have a private
dance in the parlor, while the xnbtrcs
of the mansion plajs the part of duen
na in a very good-natured way. This,
with an occasional visit to their hacien
das, a drive to some picnic ground or
trout stream, and an odd visit to the
theater they have a very fair one in
Chihuahua constitutes the bulk of
Mexican domestic life among those who
live. As for the working classes, they
simply exist. And yet they appear to
be happy enough. Having never
known luxury of any kind, they do not
know how wretched they are. Unfor
tunately,such people constitute the over
whelming majority of the luckless Mex
ican nation. It is the country of con
trasts. m
The White Lady Agala.
A strange story is making the rounds
of the German press, baiwj; an account
of tbe appearance of the white lady,
who is supposed to make her appear
ance as a ghost at certain times to an
nounce the death of some member of
the Hohenzollern family. Very recent
lv the cable brought us the announce
ment of the death of the
young
Prince
Waldemar of Prussia, the third son of
the Crown Prince of Germany, and now
we learn from an account telegraphed
by an English correspondent from Ber
lin that tne mysterious lady in white
mado her appearance on the eve of the
young Prince's death. It may inter
est those who happen to be learned in
Berlin legends to know," says the cor
respondent, that according to report
the white lady, whose visits always pre
cedo the death of some member of the
Royal family of Prussia, was seen on
the eve of Prince Waldo mar's death. A
soldier on guard at the Old Palacs was
the witness of the apparition, and he in
his fright fled to the guard house, when
he was at once arrested for deserting his
post." No further particulars are ye',
to hand, and it will probably be found
that the sentinel had been listening to
stories of the occasional appearance of
the mysterious lady just beforo be
mounted guard, and that the "appari
tion" was something very human after
all. Legendary history does, however,
tell us of many visits of the white lady
to tbe Hohenzollern castles, at Bayreutb,
Ansbach, and at Berlin. She made a
great stir about the commencement
of the present century on the
occasion of the French occupa
tion of Bayreuth, when she took
great delight in annoying the foes of
the Hohenzollerns. She is also reputed
to have paid visits to Napoleon I. while
he resided in the old castle at Bayreuth ;
and a Bayreuth Margrave was once so
ungallant as to pitch a white lady over
the banisters of the stairs, to find next
morning that he had maimed one of
his female domestics for life. The leg
end of the appearance of the wo
man in white as apremonitressof death
has long been connected with the Hoh
enzollern family history. Old Mcrian
declares that she was frequently seen in
the Old Palace at Berlin in tho years
1652 and 1653, and Stilling, the mystic,
and friend of Goethe, was a firm be
liever in the phantom. The last ap
pearance of a white lady in Europe was
in 1873, in the Imperial castle at Vien
na. But, the white lady being a Hoh
enzollern specter, th: Hapsburg visitor
was in all probability an impostor. We
are inclined all tbe more to this belief
from the fact that the sentinel to whom
she appeared tried the effect of his bay
onet upon the phenomenon, and there
was a gentle rumor whispered about
Vienna at the time that somebody bad
b en wounded some lovely lady whose
white dress shone in the moonlit corri
dors. The Berlin apparition " will
probably be found to have a different
explanation namely, that the sentinel
had already been greatly excited in his
mind by the ghost storied he had heard,
and that his imagination was just in the
condition necessary to transform any
fluttering white into the phantom form
of the White Lady of the Hohenzol
lerns. New Fork Herald.
A Female tiarglar Shet.
Small articles having for some lime
been disappearing from the grocery
store of Geo R. Thompson, on Market
Street, Jefferionville, Ind., Eugene
Moir, a clerk in the store, had his sus
picions aroused that a mechanic at the
car works, t,a. tfeu, wno lives next
door, was the thief. Accordingly he
laid a trap to make sure of his game.
He determined to sleep in the store
one night and watch. About 1:30
o'clock he heard some one picking at
the lock on the door. He silently watch
ed until the thief had opened the door,
and even until after the entrance of the
party, whom he could not see for the
darkness, but whom he supposed, to be
Ed. Bell. He then calmly raised his
gun and blazed away. A scream and a
fall followed, and the burglar proved to
be Ellen Bell, the wife of Ed. Bell.
Leaving the woman on the floor with
shattered hips and bleeding fearfully,
Moir hurried up town, and getting Of
ficers Tracy, Story and Cronin, started
back with them to the scene. In the
meantime the unfortunate woman had
been moved into her house, and her
husband had gone to the front of the
store, pistol in hand, to wait for the
clerk who had shot her. As Moir came
near with the officers he lifted the
weapon, but tbe officers managed to in
terfere and he did not fire. The woman
had a terrible wound in the right thigh,
severing the muscles and at least 100
small shot are imbedded in the flesh.
She also has an mrlv wound on the left
thigh and is badly injured in the abdo
men. The chances for her recovery are
not good.
Aw Iowa potato-grower says he had
.good success against the Colorado potato
oeeue uy prcauig uu
soon as they appeared.
Deeue uy picxujg ou ue uiu uu"
Mew a St. Lea la SteassWataa Laegh
e4 at Sew Orleans Ked Tap.
Friday's records at the City-Hall, eejs
the New Orleans Tfeivss, show rather
an amosleg laddeat. Illustrative of the
total absence of red tape aad formality
in the workiags of the numldpal gov-
errtmantal rratvai
- ..
comes suddealv uooa the bodv of a cat.
latelv defunct. Tfc itflnn lfnrad
with the importance of the event, afur i
MMiiti .svii... l tv ,v- M..
hurries to the stalkm. The corasaaad
knrriaa tjy tk!! Tk MmaJT.
ing officers are called together, a hur
ried consultation held aad thecorpge
tinder examined.
A reference to the book of rules aad
regulations for the government of the
force, some more coasultaUotu, and it
U decided that the Chief of Police must
be notified.
The trusty clerk and the operator are
case confided to them, and a rneue b
at once summoned, and tbe facia of toe
soon whirling over the wires to the cen
tral station.
There the operator's eyes txgtn to
open as ho reads :
IIarrok Pkkcixct, Nkw Oklkans, April
18, 1ST9. Tbo. A. BojUb, Chief: Offlcr
Clew rtjorU idrad cat si tbe bead of Gr
vier Street, where tbe t4rabot City of Al
ton U. IlespcctxuUr,
B. Ga l vkx. Captain Commanding.
Ter D. Ckowlky, Clerk.
The message is at once borne to tho
Chief. Some more clerks and secreta
ries are summoned, and a fowmoro law
books consulted.
After turning over an innumerable
number of pages, it is at last decided
that tho matter should properly be re
ferred to the City-Hall. A nappy solu
tion of the difficulty has been arrived at,
and the report, indorsed as follows, b
transmitted to the City Hall.
April 18, 1379. Respectfully referred to
Hon. J. D. Houston, Administrator of Im
provement. Taos. A. Boylax,
Chief of Police.
It U to be hoped that the Department
of Improvements is duly impressed with
the importance of the matter, yet the
same routine is gono through. A care
ful perusal of the statute books shows
that the jurbdiction of the department
ends at tho water's edge, while tho fool
ish feline had given up the ghost some
eight or ten yards away from that point.
The corpse must then be within the ju
rbdiction of tho Department of Com
merce. A terrible responsibility b lifted
from the Department of Improvements,
and the original report, relndorsud as
follows, is transmitted to tho Adminis
trator of Commerce:
April 18, 1879. Respectfully referred to
Hon. 'J. Henry Bebsn, Administrator of
Commerce.
Jas. Pollock, Secretary.
And now another trouble is begun.
The report b submitted to tho Adminis
trator for his inspection. Tho employ
ees of tho department who patrol the
riverfront are about to bo notified of
the tenor of tho report, and directed to
proceed to the spot indicated and abate
the evil complained of.
The proper officer, armed with the
necessary papers, is dbpatched to the
sceno near the cloee of the day. Nerved
to the zealous performance of hb duty,
he reaches the landing puffing and per
spiring only to learn that some hours
before the ubiquitious and indefatigable
Captain Bixby, of the City of Alton,
had come across the objectionable car
cass, and, unaware of tho intentions of
the city authorities, had called a rousta
bout to get a shovel and with it precipi
tate the rapidly dissolving wreck of fe
line animation across the guards of tho
steamboat into tho muddy deep.
m m
Emerson on Good Manners.
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exag
geration. A lady loses as soon as she
admires too easily and too much. In
man or woman, the face and the person
lose power when they are on the strain
to express admiration. A man makes
hb inferiors hb superiors by heat. Why
need you, who are not a gossip, talk as
a gossip, and tell eagerly what the
neighbors or tbe journals say? State
your opinion without apology. Tbe at
titude is the main point. Assure your
companion that como good news or
come bad, you remain in good heart and
good mind, which b the best news you
can possibly communicate. Self-control
b tbe rule. You have in you there a
noisy, sensual savage, which you are to
keep down, and turn all hb strength to
beauty. For example: What a sen
eschal and detective b laughter! It
seems to require several generations of
education to train a squeaking or a
shouting habit out of a man. Some
times, when in almost all expressions
the Choctaw and the slave have been
worked out of him a coarse nature still
betrays itself in hb contemptible squeab
of joy. The great gain b not to shine,
not to conquer your companion then
you learn nothiag but conceit but to
find a companion who knows what you
do not; to till with him and be over
thrown, horse and foot, with utter de
struction of all your lofric and learning.
There b a defeat that is usefol. Then
you can see tne real and the counter
feit, and you will never accept the
counterfeit again. You will adopt the
art of war that has defeated you. You
will ride to battle horsed on the very
logic you found irresbtible. You will
accept the fertile truth, instead of the
solemn, customary lie. When people
nm t im n. w fnniiQtilv nraitl. !At
WillW WW -W MU w w w wa w W W --- w
we be innosDitable. Bat tnines said fori
... ... .T.a- ...
conversation are chalk eezs. Don't
a a " w. .
say things. What you are stands over
you the while, and thunders so that I
can't hear what you say to the contrary.
A lady of my acquaintance said : " I
don't care so much for what they say
as I lo for what makes them say it."
The law of the table b beauty a re
spect to the common sort of all the
guests. Every thing is unseasonable
which b private to two or three or any
other nortion of the company. Tact
never violates for a moaent thb law;
never intrudes tbe orders of the house,
the vices of the absent, or a tariff of
expenses, or professional privacies; as
we say, we never " talk shoo " before
company. Lovers abstain front
caresses, and haters froa insults, whilst
they sit in one parlor with common
friends. Would we codify the laws that
should reign in households, aad whose
daily transgression annoys and SBoru
fies us, aad degrades our household life,
we must learn to adorn every day with
sacrifices. Good manners are made up
of petty sacrifices.
m
A siMTUE and convenient seethed of
obtaining a supply of radishes at any
season of the year consists in steeping
the seeds in water for 24 hours, and
then exposing them to heat in small
bags. In another 24 hoars they will
have eonuneaced to germinate, and, if
then sown in boxes of well-manured soil,
and occasionally sprinkled with tepid
water, radishes as large as pickling
onions will be ready tor gauenng m
five or six days.
An officer of the harbor t ccisct, iwwa, .v . nu
tating his morning stroll aad tour of aecwrai awrweat for "" I,"
njmrtlA ! .-k A.nJ.trvp. Uirht In hb sweetheart, ia SU alas.
The sftrs Wlrf.
Bat aow at last let to th real
" cajMceroos girl " the jrifi who
wm Am aUMw to walk tato th
Uto th
empty room la a amaa's Wart which h I
arrr w opaa w aar owrr wb.
aad take f W ab4 lht Sh I '
Jtt4 a high a mj hart," Oriaado y
u.t ti 1 t bV-m. . . lrfk &r mJt
i aim. S y sot U rur.
he aoed aot b clewr; ae SRy
$he srav he
of th iM la a r
5drrr. aad a ball-room bl! twk.
afid chf drttTT Ol SfilUteef art !a
to the bargaia. Hat h h a jrtft ow
aad beyoad all Uwe which rs4r all
other subordiaate. Sk ha a way of
Utala2 which saaket tho ot rvrrl
man eloqeeot, aad her UtUe speech,
never audackni aad rraJir wuitaxx,
have yet omethiag tesaclowA
them, and cling to hb snKry wbm ho
1U over hi Are by nl2t or jroi aboei
tt. .i-tt i. -iw . . K,..-
tincl aad vivid penoaalUr. mrmm him ;
nis uauj wuii. t two on iw, v -
it b the girl aerxjlf. not ar bangl or
her flounce, that b renumbers. It
seems natural u him that
he b thu taken yoe4oa
oi ou new Canute -u
how cold he may har brcn heretofore,
he now become ardent, warm-acartw , klok ior ft tJoK Rnt gmj d .-
and rash. He may have admired il!fV n- tfruJWrxf nre
pretty girl witn ncr furbelows aaj
uounces an'i ner nice percepuoa oi "
most becoming, he may hav been a Ut
ile heawhrattcd over tbe unipteoa
beauty oi the belle, and have enjoyed
tho societv of the clever cirl who ate4
him the trouble of doing all th talking,
being able to do it herself o much nwirc
brilliantly. But thU hankering after
privato felicity, thb fervid belief la at- mA ulkrlh joaair, amt nwh .
tainable bnnuinc, this large faith nf r 0fr hft ! without jrW ' 'r
tho future which mirriago may awureto fwirttlh not lh wtmi, of i h v I '
him, only followed hb acquaintance ljal UJ BanjjBT lT ,,; ,
with tho "dangerous girl " who uet door sofUy, and ateaMh uj . hr
his boasted idea of independent enjoy, i Btoenj. jt, and ;titnJth . -
roent, overturned all hb preconceive! ,,..1 and the laH i t
notions of bachelorhood and wt him , thRt j u worw hxn t,a nf, j,
longing to be engaged. fnUl he saw tft 8mtvtry Mftune.
her he said with Benedick, One woman ' - .
b fair, yet I am well ; another l wbc,
yet I am well , another virtuous, yet I
am well; but till all gracH come lato
one woman, one woman shall not come
into my grace." ii'K'ncoW's Miujxi
xinc. . HrrHlatinsr the Taste.
It was in tho far, far West. The bar
keeper had been crowed in some way
during tho afternoon, and was in Ill
humor. Up stepped a thirsty clUarn
and rapped patiently at the bar. What
shall it bo .ledge'?" said the niUer of
drinks. Well," said tho Jnlge,"
make it a gin-cxktall with a bit of
mint in it" "That ain't what you
want," answered tho bar-keeper; "you
want whbky straight, you do." No,
I don't," persisted the Jedgo" : I
tell you I want a gin cocktail with a
bit " No, you don't, 4 Jedgo'; no,
you don't. You're goln' to have whbky
straight; anil, more'n that," ho added,
trying tho keen edge of his bowie on hb
thumb-nail, you're goln' to drink It
out of a tin dipper. The Jedgo" ad
mitted tho force of tho argument, and
changed hb mind. This recalls another
story that Causeur nas heard, of an
Eastern man, accustomed to tho luxu
ries to bo had at DelmonlcoV, who
drooped into a restaurant in a Nevada
mining town for dinner. The head
waiter, who was also Junior pro-
nr!.lM- rl itin nctalilliliniiinf rsktrat
him with, " Woli, Colonel, w'hat'll you
k.ri9H it lii.M.lr ami ttttiahmnma "
answered tho "Colonel," as "peart
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as possible. "Guess not," said the
waiter, who felt that he was being
"guyed." "Ouess not? Why not?
Bring mo a beefsteak with muhrootus
right away." " Look here, stranger,"
said the waiter, " 1 don't want to make
no trouble, yer know, but I don't allow
nn man
to duarrcl with his viltlcs in
this ranch." With that he took a six-
shooter from hb hip-pocket, cocked
1 it,
and, holding it in a u,rgu!vo way,
added, " Hash is what you're goin' to
eat." The "Colonel" had hash.
lioxton Transcript.
A Kcmarkeble Walking-Stick.
A walking-stick for tonrbts and bot
anists, recently patented in Ciormany by
Hcrr Herb of Pubnite, is furnbhed
with the following articles: One side of
the handle is a signal-pipe, and on tho
other sido can be fixed a knife (which
is above the ferrule). In the middle of
the handle is a compas. The handle
itsalf can be screwed off, and within b a
small microscope with six objcct-glats
es. On tho stick under tho handle b a
venscl containing ether or chloroform.
Outside the sties there is inserted on
one side a thermometer, and on tbe oth
er a sand or minute glats. Above the
ferrule b tbe knife already referred to,
and to the ferrule can be screwed a bot
anist's spatula, or an ice point (for gla
zier parties). Lastly, a meter mcasore
is adapted to tha stick.
Wasiiiko Woolkw Goods. Heat a
boiler of soft water, putting into it an
ounce of borax, and a little soap shaved
fine (say about the eighth of a bar or
leas). If you have occasion to use more
in rubbintr the clothes, take tbe soap in
to your hands, then, rubbing them on
the flannel, soap tbe spots in that way.
After your water has boiled, pour it in
to the tub, letting it stand until it b so
I vnn ran nicelv bear YOTJf
vou can nicely bear your hands in it.
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it is tben readv lor me wasn. iiare a
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fecond hid oi warm wkw (wiiaoui
soap) ; after rubbing each piece put It
at once into thb. After all tbe white
flanneb have gone through band in thb
way, wring, snake, and hang them out.
Then will come tbe colored pieces. Thb
method b excellent for blankets, and
very nice for children's wool dresses.
The borax will not in jare the most deli
cate colors. For dresses and flannels,
press before quite dry; be very careful
about thb.
A Gesxax physician has deesoajtra
ted that early rising b a yerr bad hab
it. He has taken the trouble to collect
information as to the habits in thb re
spect of several persons wno hare lived
to an advanced age, and he ftads that
in the majority of the cases the losz
livers have indulged in late hours. At
least 8 out of 10 persons wno attained
the age of 80 years and upwaad were
in the habit of not retiring aatQ the
early hours of tbe morning, aad of re
maining in bed until the day was far a ?
vanced. On the ether hand he has
failed to discover, after careful obser
vation of the health of several early
risers, that it was in any cegree oeuer
than that of a similar somber of late
risers. He thinks that so far from any
decided benefit being gained by getting
up early in tbe morning, it rather tends
to exhaust physical power and shorten
life.
Borrow has appropriated 10,000 for
the celebration of the cominsr Fourth of
I July.
rawcrr rAiuwiuriw.
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Ttstt want to s a ht V
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frequently for hi rnt that in a t
of rtasparatloa He turl vn tf
lord wta th ent aad a- lif
tiirt: " ", vo f4at p? i J
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old IIOW,
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UriakiBff JUtal In Para.
la Scrxbnr far U?. Mr HerWr U
9railh thus decrib a ehar.B
seen Is the Ira (llraall) iarKt
Obkcrro thr bakeU of blvfc t
rios, like grape lu colur and '
are the fruit of fh Uuti ptm, ta.-
der. jrraceful Ruitrv that
the ilver-hanka. One rmti
an alllteratite proverb
(jurtn vH rra ! tm
jum lbj Aal
whloh we may translate, as 51 r
f--sn
V
six has done:
Who cii u lr ! '
Who rtrafiH ni vt
It b well, then, for us to Inara ! rl
famous vtnhA tt'ttimi l uuufo
In a dark Utile hd attheKvki
the court, two mulatto womn r x
bing off tho black pulp i.f h tarr r
great bow Li of water, cnuhmg r'
vigorously with their bare hiib a
purpling their arm with tho cht: a
t
t
like Juice, After the flnt bub I
been rubbed out, the l.quld ! K' '
from the hard nuta to another l l tf
1
f
rlcs i these Utter belusr trailed in
manner, the resulting ihuk oip
stralicd through a winker wc.rk -r
n
and dealt out to ihe ?agnr eittu-uwr
Yei tho Jtnet imn will hate jmjwi
com (Utumr; so the little htr?-
scampers off after sugar ordmav t 4
turners at the stand are of lio i r
classes, who drink tkclr t- 's
worth of aal with only a l.uU it a
4 OCA lUCa! llV WaV of SaltH'Jf Ut
V n
, ,
for tt, where sugar wm scanv an I
r
fruit plenty, 1 Irarned to likn it ,ti
as well o myself; it trtk, n Mi fH
b rather spoiled by tb ",trn1r;
However, our new-earners may yttu?
tbw civilized side ; so the ogar t 1 1
and wo take a tate of tho rirh a p 1
Kvcn the squeamish ones tntr the r
bowls, and begin to ug"t to lhm
i lve the possibility ol enbrrui'-tng
j other half pint. I alk no more of rt
bet and etneer-bcer and soda-wrr.
hereafter we abjure them all. If we u v
but have our purple a! And
serve as 5!r. Weller ha il -that " t'
wcry flUin." One can make a rej e
able lunch of It and not bin,: rUe
TheTlctrelT iTier Tunnel.
The tunnel proper will extend from
Anderson under the Detroit It rer t
Stony Island, a distance of t.t-Vfrt,
though the approaches upf n either ti'Jn
make the entire dbtanco from entran o
to exit a much greater distance fbo
first section, or appronh frosi tiw
Canadian side, is G,VJ& feet, with a
grade of 92 feet to the mile The forma
tions are red clay, blue clay and tr k
The next section b 1 ,) feet, blti: un
dor the river proper, the depth f water
being 25 feet and a grade of but lw
feet to tbe mile. The third rtt m
1,80 feet In length, under water P fret
in depth and on an a-en I g
grade toward Stony 11 ?nd ' f
62 80-100 feet to the mile. Tbe fourth
or last section of the tunnel proper.
3,000 feet with an ascending grade rA
105 feet to the mile, the point of egre
being upon Stony Island, and thi waj-r
at its greatest depth being 15 feet The
tbicknes of the rock between the bot
tom of the river and the crorn of the
tunnel b 13, 15 aad 22 feet acosrlisjj
to the depth of the water In the rtTcr
The excavation of the tunnel U to be p
feet clear, aad whea completed ,; e
15 feet in the clear, with two arene tr
double tracks separated by a dmd'ng
wall. Under the tracks will be four f et
of solid aaaoary aad the top of tha ar h
es will be coastrscted la a solid and m
during asaaaer with ahalt oravent rA
rubber atone, aad over-topping aH w
be placed smooth flag-toei to prevent
J anchors drawls oa the top of the lac
sel and doisg possible Injury r m
Stonv Island to Groe Island irs
trestle bridge b already built, and i
now In AaHy as, as U abo the three
miles acrow Gro&se Islaad, which be
longs to the Uaked Statos, aad another
bridge over the resaalai&g portion of
the river to the Michigan shore The
cost of the teasel k to be ilJMJ- .
and the contract ftipalaies that it shall
oe completed by December l, iv
Bufole Courier.
Eteetrfe Stems en FIk Peak.
Reatarkable electric Moras are !
to occur oa the inssstk of Kke Teak.
Little thunder aceoeapaates tiesi, bat
the whole asocntata ernst to be on Sr
aad the top one sheet of ixms. EX r
tridty eonses oat of every rock, "d
darts here aad there whh fadcsriba !e
radians. An 4rtrrer says that it
played airoaad hint contiammslv. h' ;
! down Jus hack, giaaed oat of his itr t,
asd so cemptesely filed hint that he b
csate charged like Ley-den jar He
ccnid not retain hi foothold; he br a-.I-ed
asd re&oaaded frosi the rock af:r
the manure of aa India-rnbber b. 1 fc
felt a taoegha powerful btev r r
throbbing through hb frame; ad, (-
lag coateiMiencesi, he harried into tne
signal station.
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