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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21, 1883.
Wand at Us roftsflu, CslsBtai. Xrt., m Ht
etoM mUtr.
CONTRARY MEN.
Boau men do write when they do wrong,
Aad some do live woo dye;
And nm arc "short" when thor ate long,
And Mud when they do lie.
A man U aurly when be'a late;
Is 'round when he Is square;
He die early anddilato.
And may be foul when "fair."
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He may be "fust" when he is slow,
Andlooje" when he Is "Uat,"
And "ahjti" when he Is very low.
And heavy when he's "light."
He mar be wet when he is "dry:"
He may be "great" when small;
May purchase when be won't go by;
Have naught when he has awl.
Ha may be alok when he is "swell,"
And hot when ho is scold;
He's skilled so he on earth may dwell.
And when he's young he's sold.
Sorrlttiiwii Herald.'
GIIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S EU
LOGY UPON HIS WIFE.
Recently, while in attendance at s
Sunday-school convention at Washing
ton, Mason County, in this State, was
Invited, with several others, to dine with
the family of the Hon. Martin P. Mar
shall, a resident of the village.
Mr. Marshall is one of the most gifted
and cultivated men of the State. He
was at one time somewhat prominent in
public affairs. He is now advanced in
years, however, and is living the life of
m retired private citizen.
He is a nephew of the Hon. John
Marshal!, deceased, formerly Chief Jus
tice of the United States, and was in the
earlier years of his life a member of the
Chief Justice's family.
In conversation in regard to his uncle
he spoke in terms of the warmest ad
miration of his character. Daily inter
course with him Jiftd taught him to re
vere and love him. He dwelt particu
larly upon the simplicity and beauty of
his private life. He was his model of
what :i husband should be to the wife of
his bosom in respect to tho love which
he should cherish for nor, the tenderness
with which he should watch over her
and nurse her in failing health, and the
fondness with which he should think of
her when death had taken her from his
arms.
Rising in the midst of his remarks, our
host invited another gentleman and my
self, who were listening to him. into his
private apartment, and there opening a
drawer he took out and read to us a pa
per written by the Chief Justice on the
first anniversary of his wife's death, in
memory of bis love for her, and of the
excellences of her iife and character.
I asked him if the paper had ever been
published. He said that it had not; that
lie had kept it sacred as a private legacy,
and had never obtained his own consent
to let it be given to the public. I said
to him that! thought that it ought to be
published, as I believed that it would be
read with interest and profit by all into
whose hands it would come. Just then
We were called to dinner.
Afterward the conversation in regard
Id tho p.iper was renewed, and before I
left the house Mr. Marshall yielded his
consent to have it published, and handed
it to me for that purpose.
A copy of it is herewith inclosed, with
the belief that its publication will In
crease the respect which the people of
this country already feel for the memory
of its author, and at the same time en
hance their appreciation of the domestic
virtues which were so beautifully and
admirably illustrated in the life of the
great Chief Justice. D. s.
KsNTccitr, August Si. 1SS1.
"DeCBKBKR M, 1KB.
This day of joy and festivity to the
whole Christian world is to my sad heart
the anniversary of the keenest affliction
which humanity can sustain. While all
around is gladness, my mind dwells on
the silent tomb, and cherishes the re
Kembrance of the beloved object it con
tains. On the 25th of December it was the
will of Heaven to take to itself the com
panion who had sweetened the choicest
part of my life, had rendered toil a
pleasure, had partaken of all my feel
ings, and was enthroned in the inmost
recess of my heart.
Never can I cease to feel the loss, and
to deplore it. Grief for her is too sacred
ever to be profaned on this day, which
shall be during my existence devoted to
her memory.
"On the 3d of January, 1783, I was
United by the holiest bonds to the woman
I adored. From the hour of our union
to thai of our separation I never ceased
to thank Heaven for this its best gift.
Not a moment passed in which I did not
consider her as a blessing from which
the chief happiness of my life was de
rived. "This never-dying sentiment, origin
ating in love, was cherished bT a long
and close observation of as amiable and
estimable qualities as ever adorned the
female bosom.
"To a person which in youth was very
attractive, to manners uncommonly
pleasing, she added a line understanding,
and the sweetest temper which can ac
company a just and modest sense of
what was due to herself.
"I saw her first the week she attained
the age of fourteen, and was great! v
pleased with her.
Girls then came into company much
earlier than atpresjnL As my attentions,
though without any avowed purpose,
aor no open and direct as to alarm, soon
became anient and assiduous, her heart
received an impression which could never
be effaced. Having felt no prior attach
ment, she became at sixteen a most de
voted wife. All mv faults and they
were too niauy couid never weaken this
sentiment. It formed a part of her ex
istence. Her judgment was so sound
and so safe that I have often relied upon
it in situations of some perplexity. I
do not remember ever to have regretted
the adoption of her opinion. I have
sometimes regretted its rejection.
"From native timidity she was opposed
to even thing adventurous, yet few fe
males possessed more real tifmness.
"That timidity so iuilueneed her man
sera that I could rarely- prevail on her
to display in company the talents I knew
her U possess. They were reserved for
her husband and her select friends.
Though serious as well as gentle in her
deportment, she possessed a good deal
of chaste, delicate and playful wit, and
if she enuitted herself to indulge this
talent, told her little story with grace,
and could mimic very successfully the
peculiarities of the person who was the
subject.
"She had a fine taste for belle-lettre
reading, which was judiciously applied in
the selection of pieces she admired.
"This quality, by improving her talents
for conversation, contributeu not incon
siderably to make her a most desirable
and agreeable companion. It beguiled
many of those winter evenings during
which her protracted ill health and her
feeble nervous system confined us en
tirely to each other. I can never cease
to look back on them with deep interest
and regret. Time has not diminished,
and will not diminish, this interest and
this regret.
In all the relations of life she was a
Model which those to whom it was gives
cannot imitate too closely. As the wife,
the mother, the mistress of a family, aad
the friend, her life furnished an example
to those who could observe intimately
which will not be forgotten. She felt
4eeply the distress of others, and in
lged the feeling liberally on objects
kebelieved to be meritorious.
"Ss was educated with a profound
TCTereaoa for religion, which she prt
erved to her last moment Tbia senti
ment Afuoar her earliest aad deepest
impressions gave" character to her whole
life. Hers was the religion taughc by
the Savior of man. She was cheerful,
mild, benevolent, serious, humane, in
tent on self-improvement and the im
provement of those who looked to hor for
precept and example She was a firm
believer in the faith inculcated by the
Church in which she was bred, but her
soft and gentle temper was incapable of
adopting the gloomy and austere dogmas
which some of its professors nave sought
to ingraft On it.
"Ihave lo3t her, and with her I haf
lost the solace of my life. Yet she 4 they.argue tne necessity oi reuueuuu
mains still the oomonnlon of my retijj they fail when it is to bo put into ex
houra. still oeeu Die's mv inmost bo3ofWcution. Thev have SO framed this
When alone and unemployed, my minfcY5MJLoJiocrea2he.duUescJtheJi
unceasinely recurs to her.
"More than a thousand times since the
25th of December, 1831, have I repeated
to myself the beautiful lines written by
Burgoyne under a similar affliction, sub
stituting Mary for Anna:
"Encompassed In an angel's frame
Aa angel' virtues lay:
How soon did Heaven assert its claJst,
And take its own away!
"My Mary's worth, my Mary's charms.
Can never more return.
What now shall flU these widowed arm?
Ah met my Mary's urn
Ah me! ah me! my Mary's urn."
Harpy's Magazini.
TheSseb Family.
Mr. and Mrs. Snob and little Snob must
have fresh air and recreation out of town.
It is sometimes their pleasure to show
their fine clothes anil diamonds at a
costly hotel. But there are times when
Mr. Snob wants to economize. He re
flects that if he goes with his family to a
lesser boarding house there is no law
preventing them from sitting on the
portico of the big hotel, airing their stylft
and picking their teeth as if they regu
larly paid their bill -to tha dirfnioud
mounted hotel clerk. To pick their teeth
in public is an uncouth and ungentle
manly trick, but Snob does it in sight of
all men, and is deeply conscious of his
importance while he docs so. As he
walks the halls of the popular hotel or
lounges in its office or bar room, he con
gratulates himself that he is putting on
considerable style at small expense;
When Mr. Snob mingles with his fellow-boarders
at the less pretentious hos
telry he carries with him the air of one
who belongs at a much more stylish
place. He. looks down on the rest of the
company as of very little account. It is
for him and his party that the house is
managed and for their comfort and en
joyment that the boats, the croquet sets,
the best chairs and the choicest corners
of the porticoes arc created. His family
assert theirsuperiority over the others by
gathering themselves into a little group
and refusing to associate with anybody
else. From behind the barricade of their
own self-importance they shoot out the
envenomed tongue criticism against tho
raiment, the habits and the genealogy of
those whom they dislike. At table they
whisper severe remarks about others
and show by the upturned nose, tho
winking eye or the pouting lip that they
are taking note of the sayings and doings
of those who, instead of being made like
themselves, or porcelain are made of or
dinary clay.
When Snob and his family go home
there is a sense of relief at the boarding
house. The rest of the boarders grate
fully realize that they are no longer tho
subjects of inspection or the victims of
unfavorable criticism. They can wear
what they please, without being annoyed
by having it intimated that the goods
with which Mr. Snob has provided his
family are more costly or in better style.
They can eat their meals in peace, with
out worrying over the probability that
the Snobs will take away their appetites
by saying or doing something unpleas
ant. Tne servants are glad, for the
Snobs are difficult people to wait on,
and are always complaining about some
thing or other. Yet the family will al
ways be more or less present at summer
resorts. Their presence must be en
dured, like that of the mosquitoes.
tkiladeljtkia Times.
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First Ceasing to Their Graataether.
Relationships, of course, figure largely
in novels. In the old romances it may
almost be said that everybody turned out
in the end to be everybody else's grand
mother! One would suppose that every
kind of discovered relationship had been
already utilized to form a striking inci
dent in novels. And yet we venture to
say that the following "notion1' has
hitherto been overlooked by inventors of
plots, to whom we freely offer it.
Imagine the bride and bridegroom,
after innumerable trials and obstacles of
every kind, to be at last at the altar and
the marriage service begun. The offi
ciating bishop (we will suppose the con
tracting parties to be of such noble birth
that it takes a Bishop to unite them)
asks whether any one can allege any im
pediment now, "or elsfe forever hold his
peace." To the dismay of the wedding
party, an old woman (the evil genius or
fairy not invited to the christening)
comes forward and explains what she
alone has known the mystery in which
the birth of the bride's mother, long
since dead, was involved. Documents
are produced which prove, to the
satisfaction (or rather dissatisfac
tion) of all present, that tho
bride's maternal grandmother was
the bridegroom's half-sister, nearly fifty
years older than himself; "and, there
fore," concludes the malicious old bel
dame, "as a man cannot marry his niece,
the marriage is unlawful!" Great sen
sation, of course, ensues; but the Bish.
op, who is well up in the Table of Kin
dred, etc., quietly remarks: "A man
may not marry his niece, but he may
marry his great-niece," and accordingly
proceeds with the service, to the discom
fiture of tne ancient hag and the joy of
everybody else.
Such a marriage, indeed, would be
quite lawful, for the relationship, it will
be observed, is one of four degrees, and,
accordingly, it is not one of the "forbid
den degrees," Should such a marriage
be followed by progeny, we should have
the curious result that children would
have their own mother for a "Welsh
niece," and would be first cousins to
their grandmother, and first cousins
twice removed to themselves.
A marriage in high life actually took
Elace, a few years ago, in which the
ridegroom was first cousin twice re
moved to the bride. Her ladyship, there
fore, became daughter-in-law to her own
Welsh nephew; and when a son and
heir appeared upon the scene, he figured
as second cousin to one grandfather and
as great-great-great nephew to the other,
who was less than sixty years of age.
London Society.
Sedety Note.
A coolness has arisen between Kosius
co Murphy and Mrs. Hufnagel, one of
the most fashionable ladies of Austin.
There was a lawn party at the Hufnagel
mansion. Mrs. Hufnagel showed Mr.
Murphy over the grounds, and asked
him what he thought of their arranre
menL .
"I am delighted madam." was there
ply. "Wherever i look I see the foot
prints of your genius."
As Mrs. Hufnagel has a foot almost as
big as a wheelbarrow, she supposed
there. w.80mthimI Personal in thV re
mark, bhe did not hint exactly that she
was not glad to have him stay to supper,
but she opened the gate, and pointed into
the street, and Murphy, who is xery sen.
sitiTe, strolled awaj Texas Sif tings.
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Robert Tawnev, a colored boy, al
leged to have been oorn deaf and dumb,
recently attended a camp-meetisur at
Goldsboro, N. C. He stepped forward
among the mourners and in a distfea
voice announced his conversion, seyiag
ba . waIji m44 BAaMniv kind . j
Mate MIB TUMI MIU sWWIII UCUI 1TMb V
J with spiritual free. N. T. 4u
Ckrtataas la Cemtral Africa.
Christmas is a delightful season la
Christian lands, especially when the
balance of presents and dinners is in
one's favor, and the tin-horn crop amo g
the children has been a failure. Very
different is Christmas in heathen lands,
where the uses of the stocking are un
known, and Christmas-trees are hung
with unfortunate travelers and unap
predated missionaries instead of glitter
ing and showy presents. Think of
l3.-ttwc..ln thft rotrlnn nf ihfk TjlQrth
inconsistency and incongruity. WhilU i
Birthday or Decoration dav! Even more
depressing7' is Christmas in Central
Africa, as a distinguished English trav
eler once discovered to his mingled sor
row' and danger.
The traveler was a good and noble
man. He was engaged in discovering
fresh lakes, new kinds of cannibals, and
original sources of the Nils in the heart
of Africa, and his only desire was to do
good to the hunitn race, and to prove
that the maps made by other travelers
were all wrong. He had been three
years in the Dark Continent, and. hav
ing suffered incessantly from fever,
starvation, the rude embraces of lions
and elephants, the bites of deadly ser
pents, and the cruelties of native Kings,
was nearly worn our. He arrived late
one afternoon on the shore of a mighty
lake which no other white man had ever
seen, and which was at least five hun
dred miles distant from any of the
various localities in which European
map-makers had previously placod It
He lay down under the shadow of the
trees.f a:nt with all the various things that
predispose a man to be faint in Central
Africa, but exulting; in the thought that
he would compel the map-makers to
dace Lake Mjambwe where h& wanted
t, and not where they selfishly im
agined that it would present the most
picturesque appearance. Suddenly he
remembered that it was the 24th of De
cember, and that Christmas eve would
naturally arrive in the course of the
next two hours. The thought saddened
him. He glanced at his bare feetfor
his supply of stockings had long since
Eiven out and he thought of the happy
omes in England, where the children
were preparing to hang up their moth
ers' largest stockings, while he must
spend the blessed Christmas season
among savage heathen and untrained
animals. He felt at that moment that
he would give his new lake for an hour
in his English home, and he covered
his face with his hands and sobbed him
self asleep.
When no awoke it was broad day
light The woods were vocal with par
rots who incessantly remarked: "Polly
wants a cracker," and ostriches, and
other tropical birds, each singing at the
top of its voice. On the bosom of the
lake floated immense native canoes
bearing parties of excursionists, the
music of whose accordions and banjoes
came over the water to the wearied
traveler. He was hungry, and fell in
his pockets for his quinine pills, but
they were all gone. He tried to rise to
his feet, but he was too weak and iheu-
matic to rise without help, so he sank
oacJt. murmuring: ""lis 'ara. 'ard in
deed, to die on Christmas among the
eathen."
The sound of women's voices roused
him. Three native women, clad only
with the tsetse &nd pombo worn by their
sex in that part of Africa, emerged
from the forest on their way to draw
water from the lake. They saw
the traveler, and one of them, moved
with compassion, sang, in a low, mourn
ful tone: "The poor white trash done
come to Africa. He hasn't no mother
for to fry hominy for him, nor no wife
for to send to the store with a jug."
Enfeebled as he was the traveler knew
that this was wrong, for he had read
Mungo Park's Travels, and he could
not help remarking: "You women don't
sing that song as it ought to be sung."
ing it yourself, then," retorted the
singer, in a cold, heartless way, and
thereupon the women passed on. and
left the wretched white man to perish.
The cruelty of the women made the
traveler so indignant that he resolved
to make one tremendous effort for life.
He managed to rise, after painful exer
tions and the use of many scientific
terms, and hobbled slowly toward a
native village about a quarter of a mile
away. He had scarcely reached it when
he was seized by two gigantic canni
bals and dragged to the king's palace,
where he hoped that either death or
breakfast, he did not much care which,
awaited him.
The palace consisted of one large
room with an enormous throne extend
ing entirely across one end of it. On
this throne sat twelve native Kings in a
row, each one with a musical instru
ment in his hand. The one who sat in
the middle looked fieroely at the trav
eler, and demanded of his captors what
was the charge against him.
"Poor white trash, Mr. Johnsing,"
briefly replied the largest of tho two
cannibals.
"Mr. Bones I should say, prisoner,"
began the King, "what do you say for
yourself?"
"I am a white man," replied the
traveler; "but 1 'aven't 'ad any soap
for years, so I plead hextenuating cir
cumstances. Besides, I am "ungry. Will
you not give me some breakfast "
"The King's face grew bright with
rage for it could not grow any darker
than it was and he turned to his
brother Kings, and conversed with them
rapidly in the Mjambwe tongue. They
were evidently discussing the fate of the
traveler, for presently the middle King
ciearea nis throat, ana said:
"Prisoner, you have forfeited your
life, but we are disposed to be merciful.
You ought properly to be baked alive,
and afterward eaten, but we shall pro
nounce a lighter sentence. You will
listen attentively while we sing the
opening chorus and the favorite planta
tion melodies, and you will guess every
conundrum and laugh at every joke.
Say I not wisely. Brother Bones?"
A unanimous "Yah! yah!" from the
other Kings expressed their warm ap
proval. "No! no!" cried the traveler, in an
agony of fear. Give me some little
show. Burn me, if you will, but do not
torture me on this 'oly Christmas morn
ing with your hawful songs and co
nundrums. -I've 'eard them all at
'ome." And in his desperation the
wretched man fell on his knees before
the native King who had pronounced
the dreadful sentence. That monarch,
indignant beyond measure, raised his
fuitar and struck the traveler a terrible
low over the head. The whole earth
seemed to reel, and the doomed white
man became unconscious.
When he regained his senses he
found himself sitting on the shore of the
lake where he had sat the night before.
A young man neatly dressea in Euro
pean clothes stood before him, and re
marked, in a graceful way: "Mr. Jones,
I believe."
"And you are Mr. Smith, I dessay,"
replied the traveler. "'Ave you got
anything to heat with you?"
The young man had been sent to find
the traveler. He had with him all sorts
of stores, including canned plum-pudding
and boned turkey. As he drew the
traveler's arm in his. and assisted him to
the place where breakfast was awaiting
them, he said: "I wish you a merry
Christmas!"
It was the merriest Christmas the
traveler had ever known, and when he
returned to England with more new
rakes and two private sources of the
Nile, he said that all his honors could
aot give him the delight which he had
known during his last Christmas in
Central Africa after awakening from his
terrible dream of the twelve native
Ktags, TT. L. Alden, in Harper' Mug-sine
Dress aad dealt Trimming.
Quite a revolution has occurred of late
years in the ordinary methods of dress
trimming. The cheap styles, the com
mon varieties of braids and gimps aud
fringes, have almost wholly disap
peared, and in their place we find trim
ming of the same, or a contrasting, ma
terial, rows of stitching, a facing which
suggests color wi thout really exhibiting
it, and buttons which often have artistic
value.
These methods must be considered a
great improvement on styles of 'orna
mentation which added nothing to the
real beauty of the edstume or garment, forecasts is enhanced by tho recent sig
were easily defaced, and then made a ' nal failure of the London Meteorological
really good material look shabby before Office to obtain a timely intimation by
it was worn. Whatever is used as means of its barometric and other in
mounting of course suffers more from strumental observations of the disastrous
contact than the body part of the stuff, j Atlantic cyclone which lately visited En
and ought to be more, rather than less, gland. This storm extended over a wide
serviceable in its character. But this
was rarely thought of in the selection of
ordinary trimmings; and llimsy passe
menteries, gimps, and fringes, fre
quently cheapened and vulgarized an
otherwise respectable fabric, and lower
ed its standard of excellence in the
minds of those who judged it from its
inadequate attempts at ornamentation.
Of late so many nice trimming laces
have been produced, that efficient aid
has been rendered in the finishing of
ordinary silks and thin costumes, "while
in the making up of wools, neatness has
been found the most effective form that
decoration could take, and one after
another every addition in the way of
trimming has been gotten rid o ex
cepting the braids and bindings. This
year there is a revival of the Hungarian
cords and passementerie buttons, the
"military" style as it is called, which
trade must make in the direction of at
tractive novelty, and costumes. -.-The
real novelties and elegancies in trim
ming are in the direction of the different
kinds of open and solid embroidery,
and the magnificent cloak trimmings in
feathers and' chenille. In the produc
tion of the embroideries upon cloth and
other fabrics, Venetian models have
been largely followed, and designs,
some of which have been obtained from
museums and collections of rare works.
The beauty of design, and the exquis
ite workmansh'p put into them, would
elevate them into the region of art, if
they wore executed by hand instead of
by machine.
Workmanship upon the material has
given the key-note to the present styles
of decoration. It is only the carrying
out of the Enstlake idea in furniture,
which j'ears and years . ago wo an
nounced as a new departure, which was
sure to have its following in dress and
its adornments. The braided embroid
ery upon cloth, which puts cloth upon
cloth, and outlines the design with a
narrow, thick, l!at, cord-liko braid,
which is placed partly fiat, partly on
edge, and often wrought in solid circu
lar coins, or button-like forms, is an ex
traordinarily substantial and effective
method of treating handsome cloth
suits, and really enriches them, as it
should, for it is very expensive. But it
is nothing besides the exquisite jeweled
effects produced by the mixture of
pearl, white jet. and silk embroidery on
the tinted evening satins, covering en
tire fronts, and forming vest, plastrons,
panniers, sleeves, and other parts or
additions to a rich toilet Much of this
work is done by hand, all of that which
is really tine and artistic and the simple
front of an ivory pale pink or amber
satin gown wiil perhaps cost a hundred
and seventy-five or two hundred dol
lars, before a yard of the rich fabric is
added to it, which will form the body
part of the dress, or a stitch put in to
ward the making. DemoresCs Monthly.
Matrimony and Match-making.
It is recorded of an ancient sage that
on being asked at what period of his
life a man ought to marry, he replied:
"When he is young, it is too soon;
when old, it is too late." Discouraging
as such an answer may be considered,
it still leaves the question open as far as
middle-aged persons are concerned;
whereas the matrimonial aspirations of
these, as well as of juvenile and hors
d'age" would-be Benedicks are sum
marily and uncompromisingly checked
by the oft-quoted prohibitory monosyl
lable, "Don't!" That marriage is a
lottery more suggestive of blanks than
prizes, is, we believe, generally allowed:
and the possibility of this drawback bo
)n: admitted, it would be unreasonable
to blame the candidate for the happy
state if he looks before he leaps and
weighs well the pros and cons'of the
undertaking ere he irrevocably com
mits himself. Every one is not so
fortunate in his choice as the painter
Charlet, who tells us. that on his first
interview with the woman destined to
become his wife, he found her in the
homely hut practical employment of
darning stockings. "Mine are always
in holes," ho rellected, and this reminis
cence of bachelor discomfiture decided
the matter. He proposed, was accept
ed, and, as he couscientiously adds,
"never had cause to regret it
It Is moreover, a melancholy fact that
young men of the present day are less
(impulsive and more calculating than
df traditional reports are to be credited
' they formerly wore, and are rarely in
clined to barter their liberty for a pro
portionate "quid pro quo.' Love in a
cottage has long been an exploded
myth, and the pleasant fallacy, that
where one can dine two can, only re
quires a few months' trial to be at once
and forever disproved. We are grad
ually although not perhaps without
protest adopting the usage in vogue
among our neighbors across the chan
nel, and accustoming ourselves to re-
fard matrimony as an " affair" not to
e entered upon lightly but demanding
the fullest and mature deliberation; like
Talleyrand, we are inclined to distrust
first impressions, although not precisely
for the reasons ascribed by that astute
diplomatist. Many young men who
willingly succumb to the attractions ol
a pretty face, and plunge unhesitatingly
into a flirtation on every available op
portunity, yel, however, closely they
nfky flutter around the candle", take
especial care not to burn their wings,
while on their side, the fair ladies, we
may be sure, are equally cautious as to
the amount of encouragement thoy may
safely venture to bestow.
When we read in the Morning Post
or Court Journal that a marriage has
been arranged between Lord Fitz Ara
rat and Miss Pamela Geldwechsel, only
daughter and heiress of Ezra Geld
wechsel, Esquire, of Lothbury and
Mayfair, we may be morally certain
that some match-making duenna has
had a linger in the pie; and by her per
suasive reasoning has induced the noto
riously impecunious patrician to regard
with a favorable eye. the somewhat
shadily-acquired dowry of his affianced
bride. Without her aid he would, in
all probability, have continued to vege
tate on an income barely sufficient for
his "button-holes" .and cigarettes;
while Miss Pamela, notwithstanding
her half-million, would in equal likeli
hood have forever remained outside the
social pale, beyond which for an un
accredited parvenue there is no passing.
All the Year Sound.
The law in Massachusetts makes
professional gambling, a hazardous bus
iness, and its provisions are such that
police officials cannot protect the gam
blers. If a loser ol money does cot
sue for its recovery within three months
any other person may do so, bringing
the suit against the gambler or the
owner of the premises, either of whom
is liable in an amount three times the
money lost In the case of Henry G.
Cole, who lost $15,000 in gaming, his,
brother has begun litigation, and the.
only verdict thus far reached is for
7.500 on account of 12,500 lost ift
fro bank.
Cleads as Weather Stgaalh
Mr. Clement Ley, the English meteor
ologist, reports a recent incident of
British weather which most strikingly il
lustrates the value of clouds as storm
signals. He states in Nature that recent
ly a storm center passed over Scotland
with a progressive velocity of forty-five
miles per hour, and "indications of its
progress were afforded by cloud obser- I
vations at a distance of more than 800 '
miles in advance of the center, the ve- J
locity of propagation being supposed
uniform." The significance of this fact
in its bearing upon the British weather
area, sweeping away a -bridge os tne
Great Western Railway and damaging
many buildings. So that the London
Times, two days afterward said: "The
deluge which has overwhelmed the Brit
ish Isles and sent the Thames surging over
its banks causes the curious to consult
more critically than usual the descrip
tions or vaticinations of the weather
which we publish daily." If the British
meteorologists can get the barometers to
give timely warnings of the hurricanes
which sometimes rush upon their coasts,
from the Central Atlantic with a pro
gressive velocity of more than sixty
miles au hour they can do more with
that inveteratoly sluggish monitor than
has ever been done before. Though its
monitions are invaluable they can never
be relied on for promptness and timeli
ness. But the clouds which invariably
precede a cyclonic depression, and often
precede the vortex by several hundred
miles, are both timely and trustworthy
monitors, as in the cas'e reported this
month by Mr. Ley. During the slow
passage of last September's hurricane
over the West Indies its approach was
indicated at Cardenas, according to a
report published iu the Signal Servia
Review, by "small clouds moving
rapidly along the horizon" over thirty
hours before its center crossed the meri
dian of this place, and the Havana re
cords evidently show that that the clouc
and rain indications announced the hur
ricane's advance at least sixteen hours
before its arrival on the meridian of
Havanna. Had these places been in the
storm's central track, and hence ex
posed to its greatest force, they would
probably have had still earlier and more
emphatic cloud indications of its ap
proach. Tho timidity with which me
teorologists make storm predictions
based solely on cloud and rain indica
tions is excusable in the present very de
fective system of observing and report
ing these aqueous meteors. But if they
were properly observed and telegraphi
cally reported they would generally
afford the data necessary for reliable
forecasts, even when the barometric and
other instrumental data taken alone
were inconclusive. N. Y. Herald.
Thrashing-Floors.
It was in the north of China, that wi
first saw the thrashing-floor of the Eas
and of the Bible. When we were travel
ing to some out-stations in Mantchuria.
the road bounded on both sides by end'
less fields of gigantic millet, there would
come a farmer's house and farm-yard, ot
a small hamlet, and on the skirt of it,
the trodden spot of ground hard and
smooth as stone. But it was not till
some weeks later, as we were journey
ing slowly up to Pekin, and the harvest
was now gathered, that we saw it in use.
The grain was laid on the floor, and a
pair of oxen were driven leisurely ovei
the ears, treading out the corn. Anothei
form of thrashing was the stone roller,
which was drawn over the ears by oxen or
mules; and there was another still, where
a fiat board furnished with some pro
jections, was drawn in the same way,
the driver or children, perhaps, sitting os
the board to lend it additional weight.
Sometimes the grain was piled up in t
large heap in the center of the floor.
unsifted and then men with tne winnow
ing shovel (the Bible fan) would toss the
grain into the air, or else into a flat
basket from which the man who held it
flung up the corn, and the wind carrying
the chaff away filled the air with dust.
One Bible phrase after another was re
called to us. It was easy to see howths
Philistines could rob the thrashing floors
at Kcilah, those open spaces in the field
on which the absence of any dread of
rain induced the farmers to pile up theil
wealth of grain; or how the open floor,
open to the sky and smooth, became the
natural place to test the dew upon
Gideon's fleece while all the rest of the
ground was dry; or how, when the twe
kings. Ahab, of Israel, and Jchoshaphat,
of Judah, summoned the prophet, the
place to set the royal thrones was on the
smooth and empty thrashing floor just
before the gate of Samaria; or how no
better place than this could be found on
which to build the altar that David raised
wlien he had purchased the site of the
temple from Araunah, the Jebusite, and
found in the thrashing instruments the
wooden fans and boards and oxen poles
the wood for the sacrifice. It would
be easy for the oxen to stop in the midst
of the abundance they were treading out
and eat; and the merciful Jewish law
provided that they should eat if they
would; there should be no muzzling of
them; "thou shalt not muzzle the ox
when he treadeth on the corn." God
Words.
Science In the Workshop.
The Commercial Bulletin truthfully
says that when mechanics as a general
body become more thoroughly impressed
with the conviction that the way to ad
vancement both as to personal position
and monetary returns lies through the
master' of science in the application of
principles to their daily work, we may
anticipate some joint movement on their
own part to establish means for acquir
ing technical knowledge. For instance,
the laws of expansion and contraction, as
applied to many castings, and even to
the wrought iron and steel industries,
would prevent much waste in the foun
dry and at the forge from the effect of
unequal expansion and contraction, and
also occasion fewer inequalities in the
quality of that supposed treacherous
material, steel. It would also prevent
many mishaps to boilers, engines and
their accessories in cold weather.
A knowledge among workmen of the
principles of inertia, as affecting bodies
in motion, would frequently prevent a
breakdown in starting or stopping ma
chinery suddenly. Forall connected with
blast furnaces, the value of chemical
knowledge is apparent, as enabling them
to trace the cause of faulty results. There
is scarcely a workshop of any import
ance in which an acquaintance with geo
metry will not be of value. In short,
the value of science asserts itself every
hour in the workshop. The soientifio
mechanic never falls iate ruts either of
thought or habit Working more intelli
gently than others, he finds more pleas
ure in his labor; his suggestive faculties
are ever at work and he is ever alive to
the possibility of mechanical improve
ments, from which he may reap a hand
some reward. The manufacturers whe
have risen from the bench withost ac
quaintance with technical science con
stantly feel themselves at a disad vantage.
As all branches of science hold soma re
lation to each other, the acauiiitlon of
any one portion of these will prove of
value to the workman whatever sis vo
cation. Scientific American,
m
They've found est a sew way te
make humorists out west When an ed
itor wants a funny article he calls in a
college student, and asks him to write a
serious article, and it's sure to be toe
funny for anything. SomervUle Jour
nai
RELIGIOUS AHD EDUCATIONAL.
The row census shows 92,65a Pra
testnnt Churches in the I'nited States,
w.ih 7 ..- miui ters and 9,01)3.080
mem ers.
- One uuday-s'-ho d iu Kansas, or
ganized by a missiuuary of the .meri
can Sunday sc: ol l uiou. se- ort- that
twen y-four me bers of the -oi.oo! have
been lece.wd in o the church during
the vear.
The Living Church (Episcopal an
alludes to the "liishop of Rome" hav ng
issued an e cyclical le tor to the
'Latin Church." ho di g up Francis of
Assisi as a model. 'the -Bishop of
Rome" is Pope Leo XI:1.
This is the testimony of an English
journal "M-. Moody's evangelistic
campaign wll not be orgotten while
Scotlan 1 stands " It regards his work
in that countr.- ns one o the greatest
events in the history of Christianity.
- The C r s'.nn 'n't'-ne-ice says that
makiijf a frantic rush for the door the
instant the minis'er has pronounced
the Mial amen U a bit of indicre ion
seldom eon in Episcopal churches, but
too ire.uentlv witues-ed in those of
other l'roiestaut denominations."
- The following is a ve batira copy
o a letter n-ce: ed by a Boston school
teicher irom the pa-ent of a pupil:
tcech r hat lie has gut the crop, and
her throte is m bad she can not
come to s ool and as s on as She gits
! utter i run ro ng to take her to new
York forth whit r."
- The Amurioan Baptist Home Mis
sion ."o:iety has just completed fifty
year ol its history. During that time
"it has pa .1 $1.70000a-for a tual mis
sionary services. $1,000,000 for eduea
ional work among colored people and
liutiatis. iud over 3 W. 000 have been
loaned to ;5:il ihurches for the erection
of :d lices.
- Tlu wholi amount contributed by
the churches of this country annually
lor benevolent and congregat'onal p r-po-es
is U , tii.UOO. Of this large
sum the amount coKee ed for purely
benevolent purposes is $31,839,140.
The amount contributed for church
purposes, meauitig thereby the main
tenance of the church, sustaining the
ministry, etc.. is $7i,52,866.
Iu New Zealand the Presbyterians
have a dash of worldly wisdom the er
erc'se o which has made threo societies
strong financially by the exercise of a
wise bus'noss policy. In all new settle
ments they send agents in advance to
buv a plot oi ground before prices have
advanced with settlement. Bv the time
they are ready to build their church
thev are able to sell a part of the pur
chase for enough to pay for building.
- The Presbyterian savs: " One of
the bc-it missionary speeches wo have
lead .or a lonr time wts made at the
late moetii'rr of the American Board.
When men of wealth were pledging
thousands to meetthe increasing needs
ot the Board, a ven -rable m n rose in
the audience and said 'he had no money
t g ve. and so he couldn't double on
tiiat; and he had no more children to
give, for lie ha i already given them all;
but he would promise to double his
prayers.' '
Christuius Eve.
The origin of the celebration of Christ
mas eve is hidden behind the misty veil
wh ch obscures the dark ages and its
history from tho ga'.e of the peoplo of
the present day. In Germany Christ
mas eve is for children the most joyous
night in the year on that evening. Then
they feast their eyes on the splen
dors of the Christmas tree and enjoy the
presents it bears for them. The tree is
arranged by the senior members of the
family in the princ'pal room of tha
house, and with the coming of evening
the children are assembled in an adjoin
ing apartment, when at agi ven. signal the
door of the great room is thrown open
and the children rush iu eairerand han-
py. There on a long table In the center
of the room stanA the Christmas tree,
every branch glittering with the little
lighted tapers, while all sorts of gifts
and ornaments are suspended from the
branches, and sometimes other presents,
too cumbersome and heavy for the
slender boughs, are lying on the table,
properly labeled with the names
of the .respective recipients. The
Christmas tree is a very ancient
custom in Germany, and is prob
ably a heritage of the luminous and
ianciful pageants of the dark or middle
ages. It is only within the last twenty
years, and apparently since the mar
riage of Prince Albert and Queen Vic
toria that it has beeu introduced into
E ngland, previous to which time it was
unknown.
S. T. Coleridge, in a letter from Ratze
burg, iu North Germany, published in
the Friend, and quoted "by Hone, gives
the following description of Christ
mas eve customs as practiced there:
"There is a Christmas custom here
which pleased and interested me. The
children make little presents to their par
rents and each other aud the parents to
the children. For three or four months
before Christmas the girls are busy
and the boys save up their pocket
money. What the presents are to be is
cautiously kept secret. Then, on the
evening before Christmas-day, one of
the parlors is lighted up by the children
into which the parents must not enter;
a great yew-bough is fastened on the
table at a little distance from the wall,
a multitude of little tapers are fixed on
the bough but not so as to burn it until
they are nearly consumed, and colored
paper, etc.. hangs and flutters from the
twigs. Under this bough the children
lay out the presents they intend for
their parents, still keeping those intend
ed for each other iu their pockets. Then
the parents are brought in and oach
E resents his little jrift. They then
ring out the remainder one by one
from their pocke's and present them
with kisses and embraces. On
the next day in the great parlor, the
parents lay out on the table the presents
for the children and a scene of more
sober joy succeeds; as on this day, after
an old custom, the mother says private
ly to her daughters, and the father to
his sons, that which he has observed
most praiseworthy, and that which was
most faulty, in their conduct."
In our own land tho Christmas eve is
the most enjoyable event of the season
and the custom of the Christmas tree
still retains its prestige in the greatest
splendor. The little ones are taught
to remember the festivities are in com
memoration of tho birth of the Savior.
So far as can be learned the custom
of celebrating the day commemorating
the birth of tho Savior had Its origin
during the dark ages, of which time his
tory fails to inform us of the complete
record of events. Suffice it to say that
the origin of Christmas eve, Kris Krin
gle or Santa Claus, is to bo ascribed to
Gennauy. From that one nation the
custom has become wide-spread until
now every nation in Christendom ob
serves the day, and Christmas eve is
considered the day for general rejoicing.
Exchange.
Samuel G lessen, fifty-nine yean
old, boarded at 5 Extra Place, New
York. He looked upon the wine when
it was red too often. His landlady re
monstrated with him. This he resent
ed and threw a pair of socks she had
bought for him in her face. Fortunate
ly for her he bad not worn them or the
blow might have been fatal Then
taking a big cotton handkerchief he
lighted a cigar, bade her good-by and
disappeared. Two hours afterward he
was found hangiag by the handkerchief
from nail in the cellar, with his fee
touching the fftoT and the cigar still is
tie mouth. Ho had conquered tgoer
aad wob the reputation of the cooteM
ptifidd reoorl
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