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A HAUNTED BRIG.
A Singular rhcnomenon on Hoard Ve
scl In rhiladclpM Harbor.
The brig Frances, a West India trader
of Machias, Me., lay at the foot of Prime
street wharf a few days ago, waitingfor
the arrival of a crew to enable her to
put to sea. Captain Hial H. Thomas,
the commander, a blufi, hearty old
Bailor, who has, in his time, navigated
nearly every ocean om the globe, sat
under tbobit of awning stretched across
the quarter-deck of the brig and told of
the predicament which has kept his ves
gel here for several days. The Frances
finished taking her cargo on board on
Thursday last She is 580 tons register
and laden with hoops, staves and head
ing, consiged to a sugar exporting
house at Matanzas, Cuba.
Captain Thomas said: "To begin,
none of my old crew staid by the vessel
when we arrived here, so I shipped a
new lot, live seamen, and sent them on
board last Thursday afternoon.
"It never has been my plan to puc a
crew on board until I was ready to tow
out to sea, bat there was a new spanker
to bend, a lot of forerigging to set up
and so I listened to the advice of the
mate and told the shipping master to
bring the crew down. That's where I
made my mistake to put a crew on
board alongside of a dock.
"Well, they turned to and cleared
things up pretty fair that afternoon. I
got my new spanker bent and some of
the rigging tautened up, and as the
men worked pretty well I knocked 'em
off oarly, so as to give 'em a chance to
clean the forecastlo a bit and stow away
their chests.
"I liked the appearanco of the men.
Thero was a big Kussian-Finn, two
Danes, and two Liverpool cockneys. I
told the steward to feed 'em up pretty
well until we dropped down the river.
"About eight o'clock Thursday night
I looked in tiie fo'castle to call one of
'cm to take in the slack of a dock line.
They were smoking and spinning yarns,
and I turned in soon after, thinking
that I had got a good, quiet set of men.
-It must have been about two o'clock
in the morning when I was roused by
a noise and the scuffling of feet on deck.
I ran out and found the men throwing
water on the big Russian-Finn. He
Jeancd against the forecastle house, pale
as a ghost. I went up and looked at
him. The man was trembling like a
leaf.
" 'What's all this?" says L
" 'That ere fo'castle is 'r.untod;' says
one cf the Englishman.
"By this time the Kussian-Finn wai
able to talk. He rested on the hatch
combing and says:
" 4I sat up "talking with my mates
here until after nino o'clock. Thenr, as
they all turned in I filled my pipe and
took a turn on deck to get my smoke
out I expect I was on deck nearly an
hour, for when I went in the forecastle
everything was quiet I had taken oft
my duds and was just going to turn in
my bunk when I felt a cold breeze
blowing over me. I turned to look at
the hatch, thinking I had left it open,
but it was closed. Then I looked up to
the further end of the forecastle and
saw that the sliding door leading into
the ckain lockers was wide open. I shut
it, supposing one of my mates had been
in there and forgot to close it I turned
in and fell asleep very soon.
" I must have been sleeping about an
nour and a half, when I woke up with
my hair on end. 1 felt drops of sweat
on my face. A chilly draught still came
fronTthe direction of the chain lockers.
I looked. The door was wide open. As
I put my legs out of the bunk to go and
close it I saw an arm, a woman's I will
swear, stretched out of the gloom of the
chain-locker. It seemed to touch the
door, which closed without a squeak.
My hair stood up on my head lik
bristles. I rubbed my eyes and jumped
out of the bunk. 1 took down the swing
ing lamp and trimmed it, then I exam
ined the locker ioor It was fastened,
the bolt was :hot into the socket.
" I lit my pipe and sat on a chest
thinking about the m.ilter. I decided
that I had been having a dream, so I
turned in ag.dn and soon dozed oft".
" 4I couldn't sit ep sound. It seemed
to mo that I could hear a woman s
screams: then 1 heard brighter and sobs
alternately: fhen an awful shriek aroused
mo Everything was quiet in the fore
castle and'the ship's bell struck mid
night I dozed oil' again. Then the
first thing I knew I felt im-elf gasping
in my sleep. I woke up- and put out
my hands. I couldn't speak. Some
body had both their hands on my throat
and I knuw I was clicking. 1 felt tho
fingers, but I could n't'louch am body. I
was paralyzed. I felt I w:is suffocating,
when I managed to sing out for help
and the fellows jumped out of their
bunks and dragged m on deck.'
"I couldn't help laughing at the fright
of the mau," saiil the Captain, "and I
was just going to open out on 'cm for
raising. ik1i a iiiii Inmmumj a man had
the nightmare, when th -w'fcnpy sang
out: 'Iook at the Finn's throat !'
'The mail's shirt-bosom was opened
and there were live purplish spots on
each side of the neck.
'It made me feel queer, I confess.
"Not :ie of 'em would go into the
forecastle that nigl.S. They sat up in
the galley until daylight, and when I
turned out at seven o'clock every
mother's son of 'em had their chests on
the dock.
"I tried to ship another crew on Fri
day, but these fellows gave it out in the
boardingiou-uw that the brig was
haunted, and I couldn't get a man. 1
sent to Sew York fur a crew yesterday,
and as soon as they put tlu'ir feet on
deck out to sea I go. ghost or no ghost"
But what is your opftiion. Captain?"
"I give it up," said the old mariner,
as he lit a fresh cirar. "Strange things
happen :ilo.ird ship
Philadelphia Times.
sometimes.
HE WOULDN'T SPEAK.
A Youth on Whom t!i Young Ladles at a
Dime Supper Wasted Their Labor.
They had a dime supper in the neigh
borhood of Pawtucket, conceived and
carried out by tho ladies. The condi
tions of this novel supper were these:
For ever' word spoken by the gentle
men at the supper-table a forfeit of ten
cents was imposed; but on the other
hand (as duties are always compensated
with rights and
restrictions with priv
agraed that whoever
ileges,) it was
could weather the whole supper, sub
mitting to all queries, surprises and
should be entitled to it gratuitously.
Many and frequent were the artifices
and subterfuges resorted to by the ladies
in attendance to entrap the unguarded,
and one after another stout anddiscreet
men went down before the constant
volley of artful interrogations. At last
all fell out and paid the dime penalty
save one individual, a queer chap whom
nobody seemed to know. He attended
strictly to business, and passed unheeded
the jokes, gibes and challenges. They
quizzed him, but all in vain. He
wrestled with turkey and grappled with
the jroose. He bailed out the cranberry
sauce with an unswerving hand, and ho
ate celery as the scriptural vegetarian
ate grasses; and, finally, when he had
finished his fifth piece of pie, he whipped
out a pocket-slate and wrote on it in a
laro-e and legible hand: "I am deaf
an! dumb." Providence Journal
The time-look is not, as is gentt ally
eupposSd, an American invention Tha
Irsttime-lock was made in England in
1831.
T American iui..ui" u,w
mi' i. !. .Wine to its present naw
-Caicago Herald.
WILLFULLY DUMB.
Over Twenty Years In an AlmsnooM aad
Speaking Bat Twice.
In that very unromatic spot, tho Port
land poor-house, there is a man who
may be of the blood of the pair described
by Scott:
There la a man In Drybur? bower
Ne'er looks upon the sun;
Thero is a monk in Melrose tower.
Ho speaketh word to none.
Of this strange man the Portland
directory for the years 185&-9 gave the
ollowing name and description: "John
L. Attchison, No. 184 Middle Street,
boards at the Elm House." At that
time he was in tho dry goods line, in 1
company with his brother. He was a
young man of great promise, "quick
and successful in business," as one de
scribed him; and was also a fine scholar,
passionately fond of reading, and a
great book-collector. Ho never mar
ried or setup an establishment of his
own, but had somo rooms at the Elm
TTrmeA wlifiro ho was a f avorito boarder.
Life seemed to be bright and full of
promise, when, suddenly, there came a
great change. The keen man of busi
ness abandoned his store, the student
neglected his books, and the favorite of
the social circle declined all invitations
and refused himself to all friends.
He retained his rooms at the Elm
house, but made a complete change in
.... . , - ::: Iilc, wnm oil
ail nis namis, reuiamiug u ia wm
the time, shunning the sun and fresh air,
and after a little time refusing to speak.
For a time he made his appearance at
the table twice a day, taking his accus
tomed seat Then ho seemed to find
even that limited contact with, the
world unpleasant He would then go
down to the table, make a selection of
the article of food that struck his fancy,
and return with it to his room. His
friends tried to reason with him, but in
rain. He refused to talk, and at last he
was abandoned to his fate. Ho re
mained at tho Elm house until his prop
erty was all gone, and then his friends
sent for tho overseers of tho poor, and
fave him into their charge. It was
oped oven at that late hour his pride
might be aroused and ho bo led to re
turn to active life, but he did not make
the slightest objection to being removed
to the poor-house. Ho was told that
his valuable collection of books would
be sold, but ho declined even to talk
about the matter. Ho was taken to the
oor-farm. and was told to go up to
work. He had made no objection to
fain taken to the Door-house. He had
exchanged his elegant suite of rooms for j
the one room oi a pauper, dus uu id
compelled to draw tho lino somewhere,
and so made the longest speech he had
been known to make for years:
"I swear I wont work. '
He has kept his word. Since that
nft mnrn than twentv vears have
passed and he has remained an inmate
of the poor-house, but he has never
labored in the least, nor, so far as is
known, has the sun ever touched him.
He is now an old man of sixty-four,
very neat in his appearance, clean
shaved, erect with a fine, intelligent
face, an eye that is still bright, and a
step quick and vigorous. In twenty
years his only exercise has been his visit
three times a day to the dining-room,
where he takes his food and then re
turns to his room, and a visit once a
week to the wash-room to obtain xlean
garments. He looks after his room,
allows no one to enter it has never been
sick, and, so far as known, has held no
communication with the rest of the
world, except on two occasions. Once
he confessed a trifling fault and once,
in reply to the request of an officer of
the institution to bo allowed to enter his
room, no saia, -x am ugi;u, on.
Ho never reads and seems to have for
gotten a world that has forgotten him.
The cause that led to this great and
sudden change in his habits will prob
ably never be known, and he will carry
the secret with him to his grave. Tho
world has moved on, while he seems to
have staid behind. His mind is appar
ently clear, and he is to all appearances
simply a retired business man. He has
been so long a resident of the poor
house that he is almost forgotten, and
it would probably be impossible at this
late day to discover the reason, disap-
E ointment in love, or whatever it might
ave been, that led him to his present
course of life.
What strange bits of lifo histories wo
sometimes find in the strangest places.
Long years ago there was found at the
gate of the same Portland poor-house a
stricken and helpless man. "He was a
little bit of an Irishman, a good little
soul," said one of his friends: "for, poor
fellow! he made many friends. He was
contented and apparently happy, but
could never bo brought to tell where he
came from. He didn't belong here and
had seen better days, but Portland gave
him a home, and, recently, a grave. Ho
belonged somewhere, and probably left
his home when he found himself be
coming helpless, and wandered here to
die after some years of a restful life.
Portland (Me.) Cor. Dos(o7i Globe
True Politeness.
An old gentleman was walking some
what gingerly along the icy sidewalk
that extends west from tho postoflicc.
There is an excellent slide at this point,
and the old gentleman was proceeding
with caution when a wild boy came
along the slide with a whoop and
knocked the underpinning from below
the pedestrian. They both fell, "Fitz
James above, the Gael below." The old
man, who was somewhat heavy, might
have hurt himself were it not for the
boy beneath. As the upper person
slowly rose he lookod at the flattened
boy and calmly said: "One of us should
apologize, and as you arc rather out of
breath I guess I'll do it I'm very sorry,
my son, that this unsecmingly incident
occurred."
Tho boy gasped out:
"Betcher life old chap ye ain't
half's sorry's I am."
And thus by mutual regrets, magnan
imously expressed, all chance of future
trouble over tho affair was happily
averted. Detroit Free Press.
How She Was Met.
A gentlemanly merchant, traveler on
s train met a lady and politely rendered
her such assistance that she reciprocated
by permitting him to talk to her. He
becamo quite friendly, and desired to
know where she lived, and who she was.
"O," she replied, "I'm only an ordi
nary little woman, but my friends per
sist in trying to make me somebody."
"Ah," was the gallant answer, "I am
sure they act quite wisely and in good
taste."
"You flatter me, sir, and yet I have
no doubt a band will meet me at the
station when I arrive in Cincinnati."
"Indeed?" he replied, in open-eyed
astonishment
"Yes, and the same band is always
ready to meet me. Isn't that flatter
ing? "JTcry, my dear miss; but may I ask
what band ft is that is always so hon
ored?" "O, yes, certainly; it is a bus-band."
He caught on the arm of the seat for
a minute, aud then.wcnt into the next
car and bumped his head on the wood
bov. Merchant Traveler.
There are on the check-lists of Roch
ester, N. H., as tho registry is called in
that State, the names of sixty-two aged
voters, which have been recorded there
ever since tho Presidential election of
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JOSH BILLINGS.
Hie Alleged Humorist on tectorial; Sad
Proverb-Making.
Josh Billings, the famous humorist,
is making a lecturing tour throughout
the country, and recently departed
for California, Pa., where he will de
liver his humorous lecture. A reporter
caught a glimpse. of him this morning
seated on one of the benches at the
Union Station, musingly watching the
people going to and fro,- evidently on the
alert for a suggestion for a new humor
ous story. When approached by the
writer he entered into a pheasant con
versation, prefacing his remarks by sta
tin" that he was out of sorts, and had
nofbeen well for somo time. "I believe,.
I am breaking down." he said. "I have
been suffering for a long time with gas
tric troublo and catarrh. I thought I
would give my annual series of lectures
as usual this year, that my health would
improve if I moved around, but it's no
use. I am afraid I will have to give it
up."
"What is the nature of the lecturer
"O, it's the same Pve been on the
road with lor thirty-two years, the
Probabilities of Life.' .bach year x
change tho name of it that's all. It is
so full of points that the people who
hear it laugh, and before I come around
aain they have forgotten most of what
ilold them, and don't know any better
when they hear the same funny things
amin. I make it a point to give the
lecture so fast that it would bo rather
difficult for my auditors to remember
all I say. I expect to keep on delivering
it as long as I live, and expect this to
bo the last thing I will do."
"You have been writing nearly all
your life, have you not?"
"No, I didn't do much until I was
forty years of age. I am now sixty-eight
years old. so have been writing con
stantly for over twenty-five years. I
have been writing for the New York
Weekly for eighteen years, and have
never missed a week since I sent them
my first half column. Humorous
writing is now almost played out
People have haaVo much of it that they
are tired of it. I don't think I will do
much more special work. he tunny
book business has been overdone.
TherIs more money in an almanac
And, by the way, when I wrote my
"Josh Billings Farmers' Almonic," in
1870, the first publisher I offered it to
thought it was no good, and would not
give me even $250 for it He made a
mistake though, Jor during the ten years
it was published, up until 1880, 1 cleared
$30,000 on it Conclusive evidence of
its worth, is it not? Yes, tho almanacs
take better than a humorous book would
nowadays."
"You were located in Pittsburgh for
a short time, a number of years ago,
were you not?"
"Yes, I was well acquainted in Pitts
burgh thirty years ago. About that
Hmi n. pnmnanv was organized in the
East to build a boat at Pittsburgh that
was to transport coal. I was sent irom
tho East to superintend the building of
it Afterward I acted as Captain, and
ran it one trip down tho Conemaugh
River. The New York company, which
originated on Wall Street, got up the
scheme merely to sell the stock and get
out of the company aftef pocketing a
nice sum. The idea was to run things
on a high pressure. They were disap
pointed, though, for the scheme was
unsuccessful and they were badly left
I knew nothing of their scheme when
thev employed me, and soon after left
the'boat"
"To come back to our original matter
to your stvle of humor?"
"Well, it was based on opportunity ;
it required no little gumption to see
where to lit in. About every line had
been filled by some body or another.
Tho misspelling, was a success with
Artemns Ward tha probabilities were
it would not be with anybody aspiring
to succeed him. Quaint maxim ias
been the lead of several proverbial
philosoplrs. The people had been
'paragraphed most thoroughly, and
Phoenix, Twain ahd no end of other
people had dipped into other branches.
In the absence of something entirely
'original, you observe I hit on a combi
nation a new application of old devices,
as it were. The quaint wit and wisdom
'of the "sayings" would take with tho
small proportion of mankind who have
the true appreciation of those qualities,
while the peculiar orthography would
take with the remainder. It was a sort
of grand, combination aggregation, as
the circus advance agent would call it.
It was resorted "to because it paid, and
has been adhered to for the same rea
son." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Lappa in Summer.
The Lapps seemed to consider tho in
terior of their houses somewhat stuffy
on a summer night for they were all
lying in the open air, wrapped in their
rugs of reindeer skin men, women and
children, and thoold grandmother of all
tho Lapps. Thcncn wear tight trous
ers and jackets of untannedjeather, as
do also the children, and the women
have a sort of loose blouse of the same
material, stopping above the knees, their
lc"-s being swathed in cloth, bound with
long strips of leather.
They arc a very unprepossessing race
of quaint, elfish-looking little creatures,
with straight, sandy-colored hair, small
gray eys. The men have stubby mous
faches, suggestive of a rgtired tooth
brush. They aro all undersized, the
average height of the men being five
feet and the women four and a half.
When the others had departed to seek
the reindeer, wo made friends with a
woman who was by herself in a small
oTiei hut. nnd who verv Droudlv ex
hibited her new-born baby a queer lit
tle creature, with a yellow, leathery
looking face. The babies aro strapped
on to boards, aud so carried on the ma
ternal back, after the manner of the In
dian papoose. CasscWs Magazine.
Felons.
Not tho convicted violators of our
laws, but the atrocious and excru-
dating malady which may attack even
the fairest hand. A correspondent of
the MicJiigan Farmer writes that they
can be cured, and a trial of the alleged
remedy will at least do no harm:
I wish to tell those who may suffer
from that terrible scourge, felons, of a
painless remedy that will effect a per
fect cure in twenty-four hours, as I have
had occasion to prove within the last
three days.
A lady came here who had been suf
fering over two weeks with a felon on
the end of her middle finger. I satura
ted a bit of grated wild turnip, the size
of a bean, with spirits of turpentine and
applied it to the affected part It re
lieved the pain at once.
In twelve hours there was a hole to
the bone, and the felon was destroyed.
I removed the turnip and applied healing-salve,
and the finger is well.
--
One of the largest diamonds that
this country has produced was found in
Manchester, Chesterfield County, Va.,
by a laborer engaged in grading one of
the streets. The man took the stone to
Mr. Tyler, Sr., of Richmond, Va., to
ascertain its character and value. He
pronounced the stone a very valuable
diamond. The specimen was put on
exhibition and was sold by the finder to
a dealer for $1,800. It was next sent
to Boston to be cut and is now
known as the "Morrissey diamond."
After it was cut it weighed over ten
carats, and its mtrket value is $8,000.
Boston Herald.
The loss of registered letters last
year amounted to one out of ftvery
91,795. Wiuldngton Post
TWO STORIES AND A MORAL.
Something for Fathers and Mother to
Think Over Sad Ilappentns Which
are of Too Common Occurrence.
A girl lies bedridden in Brooklyn and
a boy has recently broken down in New
York whose cases are sadly suggestive.
The girl was the pride of her parents,
and their glory in her class success in
the great school for girls which she at
tended prompted her to overwork. Her
application to study did not seem exces
sive. She worked only a little harder
than is common, so far as such work
can be measured by the time devoted
to it and she took time enough for
sleep. Yet she was eager and anxious
and somewhat fearful of being excelled
in her class; and to, without knowing
that she did so, she made heavier de
mands upon her strength than she was
able to meet with safety.
Examination day came, and she con
quered. Then she threw herself down
upon a sofa to sleep, and fell into a state
of coma from which it was impossible
to rouse her for nearly a week. From
that day now about "three years gone
to this, she has been unable to rise
from her couch. The girl is a wreck;
her intellect is shattered, and every
hour of her life is a torture to her.
Tho boy was a bright fellow, not over
ambitious on his own account, but lov
ingly ambitious to gratify his father's
pride in him. In all his studies but one
he had plain sailing enough, but in that
one Latin ho encountered unusual
difficulty because of some peculiar want
of adaptation to the study of languages.
He failed in an examination, and his
father foolishly manifested a good deal
of mortification over tho occurrence.
The poor boy was resolute in his deter
mination to spare his father a second
humiliation of tho kind, and so he drove
himself unmercifully ia his study. Nisjht
after night be arose from his bed as
soon as the house was still, and secretly
worked at his Latin until near the gray
of the morning. Nobody knew of this
nxeess. and the father would have for
bidden it had ho known. But presently
the collapse came. The boy's nervous
system gave way under the strain, and
it is now a serious question whether hi
restoration even to tolerable health will
ever be effected by the rest and outdoor
life ordered for him as the last small
hope of saving him.
These are but sample cases. There
are hundreds of others like them, and
there are thousands of instances in
which no such collapse conies, but in
which grave injury Ls nevertheless done
to mind or body or both. Bright boys
and girls are 'educated into dull men
and women; healthy boys and girls are
converted by educational processes iuto
nervous, qucurlous hypochondriacs, or
are trained into incipient consumption
or heart disease, or other insidious mal
ady that spoils as well as shortens their
Irves.
Is it not worth while to ask ourselves
seriouslv whether, in our "high pres
sure" system of education, the pressure
is not dangerously high? Do not the
emulations of the school-room, tho in
fluence of teachers, and the senseless
rivalries created by the marking and ex
amination systems, afford quite all the
stimulus that can be safely put upon
childhood? And. above all. do we not
mislead children to their hurt by
placing, or seeming to place, a higher
value "upon school success thau such
success actually has? Suppose a
boy stands rather low in his
class, what then? Does it follow
that he is lacking in capacity, or even
that he has anv constitutional and per
manent lack of industry? Surely no
body who has been at pains to observe
the facts ol lite can noni sucn an
opinion. At the end of our late war, a
young man was graduated at the top o!
his class, at West Point, and a friend
said to him: "Well, X., your career is
secure, of course." "I am not so sure
of that," was the reply; "I have gradu
ated at the top of my class, it is true,
but there is Grant, you know, who grad
uated at the bottom of his, and he isn't
quite a failure in life."
Moreover, and apart from all this, the
fact remains that some minds mature
more slowly than others, and some ac
quire much more slowly, while acquir
ing with admirable certainty, and assim
ilating knowledge most profitably.
These miss examinations frequently,
and are not the worse, but tho better for
missing them, because there is profit
for such miuds in gotng twice ovet
given ground. In any case a failure in
examination is not disgraceful, and it is
false and hurtful for parents and teach
ers to treat it as if it were in some way
shameful. That way disaster lies. N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser.
FOREIGN MAID-SERVANTS.
wliy
Wcll-To-Io Families are Cilad to
Import Help I'rom Europe.
Almost every American well-to-do
family that travels abroad returns with
one or more foreign servants. Maid
servants arc most in favor, for Ameri
can ladies find it difficult in this coun
try to secure young women who are
willing to wait on them, dress their hair,
and perform other personal services.
American girls who "live out' have not
the suhmissiveness of the foreign
trained body servants. They resent any
appearance of authority, nor arc they
as well trained as foreign servants in
those personal attentions that add to
the comfort of a woman's life. Then
it is often an advantage to have a girl
in the family who can speak French or
German, as they help in educating the
children into the mysteries of foreign
languages. Many men servants aro
also brought over," but they do not stay
with their employer for so long a time as
do the maids and governesses hired
abroad. The latter find it more difli
cult to change their employments, and
girls at service do not marry so readily
as young women who receive their com
pany at home or who work in shops.
Domestic service in these modern times
is disorganized, because ministering to
the wants of another human being is re
garded as menial and degrading. It
should not be so considered. Adding
to the comfort and ministering to the
necessities of others should be looked
upon as the most laudable of occupations.
It has been so decmel in all the best
ages of the world. The squire and the
page of the Middle Ages did every
thing for the personal comfort of the
knight they served. To wait on a
kindly or noble person was a mark of
honor. Fidelity to any other person
than oneself is among the chiefest and
most useful virtues ; but reverence and
respect for others is dying out in
America, and so our servants are drawn
in great part from classes trained in
European ways of thinking, DcmoresVs
Monthly.
Utilizing Solar Heat.
Certain ingenious Parisians are ex
perimenting with an apparatus for util
izing solar heat and using it in lieu of
coal. To effect this the sun's rays are
concentrated by a reflector, which so
moves as to keep the rays focused on a
vertical boiler, which is thus heated,
producing steam enough to drive a
press. In a recent experiment tke sun
made steam drove a large press, which
struck off several thousand copies of a
specimen newspaper. Parties interested
in thus obtaining the cheapest attain
able heat profess themselves as well sat
isfied with the first te3t, and are in high
hopes of soon being aide to generate
steam without coal or any other mun
dane fuel. Albany Journal.
QUICKSILVER.
recuiTar 1'ropcrtics of an ImpoHaat Kle
trrntof tho Artd and Srlrnce.
This strange and curious mineral is
becoming quite an important element
iu th arts and sciences, but its real
value U realized fully in the process
of extracting the noble metals from the
baser sorts, and Iowr grade ores can
be prof.lnbly worked with the quick- !
silver process that wonld- hardly pay
to work the cld-idshfoaed- way.- A
sheet of gold foj dropped into, quick
silver disappears nearly as quick as a
suow-ilake uropping on a warm stove
or boiler. It has the power of separat
ing, or, of readily dissolving, those re
fractor' metals which are" not acted
upon by tiie most powerful acids.
Awav out among the forest fastnesses of
the WiMern moni:tai:is immense quan
tities are used by the miners. They
pour it into their machines in which is
placed the finely-pulverized low-grade
ores, and though the particles of noble
niolal are so small as to be impercepti
ble to the naked eye, yet this liquid
will search it out "aud carry it away
with itself in the form of amalgam.
Another very peculiar property pos
sessed by the substance is its power of
reproducing itself, or, in other words,
no matter how many times used if by
any nieaus it can "be reclaimed and
subsequently purified, it can bo used
over and over again. To do this the
miners distill the mass, volatilizing the
quicksilver, leaving the gold or silver
as a residue, both di-f Mate and residue
being in a stale of virgin purity.
In the mining, preparation, and han
dling of quicksilver many lives have to
be lost. First, the men who work at
the mines soon become salivated and
paralyzed, followed by the loss of teeth
and movements of the head and .aw.
A man in the last stages of saliva
tion, as it is called there, is the most
pitiable sight we ever beheld, and he
often lingers in this condition weeks aad
oven months before death relieves him,
cure being out of question. Horses can
not stand to work in it scarcely at all,
mules being generally used; these after
a few months begin to lose their teeth,
and after a time the hoofs, followed by
diseased bones throughout. Wo saw
at one time a mule working about the
mine, lose its entire lower jaw; dropped
out while at work.
With those who work with quicksil
ver in a small way, many amusing
things occur. A few days ago an in
quisitive old lady was in the labora
tory, and seeing a small bit of chamois
leather lying oil the floor she picked it
up and "afterward wrapped her gold
specs in it The next morning meet
ing us on the feny she very woefully
informed us that her specs had melted,
and so they had: all the gold had been
absorbed by the mercury contained in
the leather," which was a discarded filter.
In using quicksilver, great care should
be exercised to keep it from coming in
contact with any jewelry, watches, etc.,
foy as sure as it does the gold will all
disappear. Care should be taken not to
inhale it and none should use it save
those who know something of its na
ture. Midland Industrial Gazette.
CHANCE LITERATURE.
Hour Some of tin- Greatest Discoveries
Have lJei-n Made.
Many of the greatest discoveries in
the em of the revival of learning were
characterized by the merest chance.
Cicero's important treatise, "Le Re
publica," was diucovered concealed
beneath some monastic writing. Part
of Livy was found between the leaves
of a Bible, and a missing page in a bat
tledore. Quintillian was picked out of
an old cotter full of rubbish. The ono
copy of Tacitus which survived the gen
eral destruction of Roman libraries
was found in a Westphartan monastery.
An original Magna Charta, with all its
seals and signatures, was found by
Cotton about to be cut up by a tailor
into measures. Thurloe's state papers
fell out of a exiling in Lincoln's Inn.
Many of Lady Montague's letters were
discovered by Disraeli in the office of
an attorney, "where they might have re
mained till this day but for the chance
visit of the great bibliophile. And un
doubtedly many hundreds of rare
books and manuscripts aud papers lie
hidden away in the presses and cup
boards of odd manor houses, whence
gradually they may be dragged into
the light of the day, to be destroyed or
to awaken universal interest No one
could have read without emotion how
the poor fellows who made up the ..t
struggling remnant of the Grecly ex
pedition read with avidity the newspa
per wrappings oi uic iciuous inej ;u.
'Yet, when we recall occasions in our
own lives when wo have been absolute
ly dependent upon our own resources
for means wherewith to kill time, wo
can appreciate it. Toward the close of
a long voyage, even under modern lux
urious conditions, the humblest of
chance literature is greedily seized
upon; the odd volume of a novel, tho
mangled remains of a book of poems,
a file of very old newspapers any
thing, in fact, which is printed means
tlie disposal of otherwise dreary, mo
notonous hours. Subjects in which
hitherto we have not taken the smallest
(interest become fascinating; we learn
to love a detested author, we skip not
a word, and it may be said that many
a man has developed a new taste or ac
quired a new hobby-horse from tho
perusal of chance literature under
such circumstances. Hence we find
that sea-skippers are so often well in
formed on many subjects outside, their
profession; that lighthouse keepers aro
sometimes scientific men and linguists;
that turnpike keepers are often men of
no mean attainments. London Globe.
-
Colonial Fishing Grounds.
The number, variety and extent of
the fishing grounds with which the en
tire seaboard of the colony has been
endowed, all lying within a very mod
erate distanco of Port Jackson, New
South Wales, afford tho strongest en
couragement to the inhabitants of the
whole colony, who may hope to see
the markets supplied with fish in a
manner and upon a system consonant
witli the requirements of the commu
nity. In New South Wales the fish
most adapted for food purposes do not
yet require to be searched for in large
smacks or fishing vessels, victualled
and equipped for a cruise of several
months; neither is it necessary for the
fishermen to make voyages to fishing
grounds distant hundreds of miles
from home. The best fish are very
rarely met with more than ten miles off
the coast, or in deeper water than thirty-five
fathoms. The schnapper,
which for economic purposes may be
ranked with the cod of the northern
hemisphere, appears to be distributed
with remarkable regularity along the
whole extent of the seaboard that is
to say, over about 600 miles; and what
ever "the formation or character of the
coast may be, this fish, the most val
uable of all kinds, and perhaps the
most abundant, is never absent and
being essentially a rock fish in its hab
its, is not migratory; and the same
may be said of its congener the
bream, and, in a lesser degree, of the
flathead, whiting, blackfish, tailors,
tarwine, garfish and other varieties
which frequent the bays and estuaries of
harbors and lakes, " rather than the
ocean depths. Some of these fish are,
no doubt, not to be found throughont
the year in their usual haunts, but they
may be treated for all practical pur
poses as regular inhabitants of the col
onial fishing ground. London Hom
ing Pott.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Thirtv Chiucse attend a mission
ichool in Walla Walla, W. T. .
Hereafter the University of London'
will confer a new dogree to be known
as the "Teacher's Diploma."
Laura Sanborn has taught a school
for forty-three years iu Alexandria, N.
H.. and adjoining tov;ns. Boston Jour.'
Hal.
Sewing is to be taught in Phila
delphia's public schools, with eleven
teachers for 7,000 girls. Philadelphia
Press.
Mr. Spurgeon employs six secre
tariestwo at the parsonage study, two
at the Tabernacle and two at the Col
lege. One is asho'rthanU reporter.
There are iu tho "Now Testament
more than six hundred instances, in
which expressions have been incorpo
rated into it from the Old-Testament
Indiana is the only State reported
ia the minutesof the General Assembly,
In which Presbyteriaaisin has lost
ground during the past year. Indian
apolis Journal.
The Danish Lutherans of America,
who have hitherto belouged to the Nor
wegian Conference, have receutlv de
cided at a meeting held in Omaha, Neb.,
to constitute a synodical body for them
gelves. The free text-boo experiment is
Massachusetts is said to be a success.
It has resulted in a larger attendance
in tho schools, and it is moro econom
ical thau the old system. Boston
Post.
The Christadelphians havo existed
as a sect in Buffalo for about eighteen
years, during which time weekly ser
vices havo been held among mombcrs
until recently at their various houses.
The members at present uurabcr less
than a dozen. Buffalo Express.
The Emperor William, rough old
soldier as ho is, believes in education
not less than in the powerof the sword.
He has just opened a vast school, tho
new Poly tech nicum. close to the city of
Berlin. Tho school is capable of ac
commodating 2,000 students and is com
plete in all its appliances, as well as
gorgeous in its decorations and archi
tecture. Tho aged sovereign wishes to
see all his subjects well educated, that
they may bo the more useful to Ger
many. m
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
In the fourteenth century it was the
fashion to carry- toothpicks of silver sus
pended round the neck.
With polar beare at $1,000 each
and ostrich eggs at 120 a dozen, it is
no wo.ider the tramp can't save money.
Burlington Ilawkeije.
Cream cures sunburn on some com
plexions, lemon juice is best on others,
and cold water suits still others best It
is also well to use soap occasionally.
Arkansaw Traveler.
Several people will be mad to learn
that 25,000 human beings oan stand on
an acre of ground. Some folks tickle
themselves with the idea that they take
up at least ten square feet
A Chiuamau has run away with a
Chicago man's wife. "That's the de
graded meanness of a Chinaman," ob
serves Robert J. Burdette; "he'll steal
anvthing rather than walk up and ask
for" it"
Before offering to ring the street
car bell for a lady about to get off look
closely at'her right hand. If she wears
a diamond ring aud you pull the strap
she will be your enemy for life. De
troit Free Press.
"Is a woman capable of filling aa
office?" asks an exchange. She is. A
woman has just oeen inquiring auer
some rejected manuscript in this office,
and she filled it completely for the time
being. Burlington Free Press.
"You Americans," said an English
man to a young lady, "have no ancestry
to which "you can point with pride."
"That is very true," she assented.
"Most of our ancestors came from Eng
land, you know." Ar. Y. Independent.
A banana skin lay on the grocer's
floor. "What aro you doing there?"
asked the scales, peeking over the edgo
of the counter. "O, I'm lying in wait
for the grocer." "Pshaw!" said the
scales, "I've been doing that for years."
Wasliinglon Ilatcliet.
It was in a restaurant A big man
and a little mau stood side by side.
"Gimme the salt, please," said the littlo
man. "I'm not tho waiter," said the
big man in a surly tone. "Excuse
me," was the retort "It was a mis
take any one would havo made."
Piilsbuyh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The following advertisement re
cently appeared: "Being aware that it
is indelicate to a Ivertise for a husband,
I refrain from doing o; but if any gen
tleman should be inclined to advertise
for a wife 1 wilL answer the advertise
ment without delav. I am young, have
a ood figure, am domesticated and con
sidered ladylike. Apply, etc." Chi
cago Tribune.
Definitions by children: Ice, water
that stayed out iu the cold and went to
sleep; dust, mud with the juiee squeezed
out; fan, a thing to brush warm otF with;
sob, when a fellow wants to cry and it
bursts out itself; wakefulness, eyes all
the time comtug unbuttoned; chaos, .
great pile of nothing, and no plaea to
put it in. These are" all actual sayings
of children.
"Jeplha," asked Mrs. Jones, who
was writing a letter home, "how (Joyon
spell sign?" "S-i-n-e," answered Jones,
who alwaS spells by sound. "I thought
there was a 'g1 in it somewhere," re
marked Mrs. Jones doubtfully. "That
would make sing of it. S-i-n-e spells
sign." "That's so," said Mrs. Jones
proudly, and wrote home that her hus
band "had a new sine painted for his
store." Detroit Free Press.
ATLANTIS.
Tho
Mythical Loit Continent of Which
Ancient Legend Toll.
The ancients had a legend that be
yond the Pillars of Hercules, what we
now call the Straits of Gibraltar, there
existed a vast continent inhabited by
civilized people. Mr. H. Meyer tells of
certain archaeological discoveries he
made recently on the island of Zapatera,
Yucatan, which show that the pre
historic nations which occupied Central
America believed or professed to know
that such a continent really existed in
the Atlantic Oceap. He found, he says,
two stone tables, oae of which contains
a representation of tiie world, part of
Africa and Asia united, Europe and this
continent; a large continent is situated
in the Atlantic Ocean, which I consider
to be the mythical lost Atlantis, men
tioned in some of the ancient authors.
The other tablet contains inscriptions,
of which part is undoubtedly Phoeni
cian." This is really interesting; and it
is not impossible that even since theraco
was advanced enough to have a history,
that a continent may have been sub
mcrgeu under the sea. The eastern
coast of enr country is steadily wearing
away, while Sweden, Norway and por
tions of the western continent of Europe
are gaining ground from the waters
near them. Land, in what Ls now the
Atlantic Ocean, would account for many
of the remains of ancient people now
found ia Mexico, Central and South
America. The discovery of Phcenicau
characters in the inscriptibos tells the
story of that wonderful maritime peopla
who flourished and controlled the sear
Soing commerce of mankind before aad
own to the period of authentic history;
DcmorcsC Monthly.
YOUR BEST TIME
FOR ACQUIRING A PRACTICAL EDDCATIOX
IS NOW.
A DECIDED SUCCESS.
THE
FREMONT NORMAL
AND
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
AT KKKMONT, XKI5.,
Opened Mieccasfiilly October 21, willi ten
leathers slid a yooil alteiiilnncc, w ich
doubled during the first live week.-, aud
is till steadily iuereasiir.
Fifty Students in the Uusiness College
and Short-hand Classes: nearly titty in
the Normal or Teachers' Department and
common dram-lie, and a good attendance
in the Music and Art Departments.
The Faculty.
ritKSIDENT JONES h.ii had over
twentv vears experience in hducitinnal
work.
l'KOKESSOU IIAMI.IX. Principil or
the Business lollejc. h.is had over fifteen
years' experience and is a Superior IVn
man and Expert Accountant.
l'KOFESSOJt MOIILKU is an ordinal
and inspiring teacher in the Natural
Science and Businos Dep.irtnii nU.
PROFESSOR LAWTtiN. .t" Boston.
Mass.. is a superior instructor iu Mu-ie.
Miss Sarah Sherman, of Chic.ig.t, is an
artist of rare talent and skill, and a umi
successful Teacher. MUi Lydta L.
Jones and Miss Jesir C.nvli re snd
uates of the Noithwcslcrn Unheisily,
and able teachers. Mr. A. A. Co-.vUs i.
a practical short-han-t reporter ami an
adept at type-writing. The other teach
ers are thoroughly uiiaiilicd.
EXPKASES VKItY LOW.
Tuition for fifteen weeks $l."i. Board
costs from $2.50 to $0u a week. In
clubs and by e It-hoarding it cn-.t-, less
Places can" be found lor everal more
students who wih to pay part or whole
ot board by housework or chores.
I'o VacatloaN.
The WINTER TERM of 15 weeks will
begin Dee. 30, but students tux kxtkk
at any time, and are doing, o contin
ually, paying charges only from time of
entering to time ot leaving.
For particulars address the under
signed W. P. JONES, A. M.,
Prest. of Normal College, Fremont. Nib
32 Jmo.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payment fco suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also busines and
residenco lots in the eity. "We keep a
complete abstractor title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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UNION PACIFIC
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Improved and TJnimproved Farms,
Hay and Grazing Lands and City
Property for Sale Cheap
AT THE
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On Long Time and low rale
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JSTFinal proof made on Timber Claim-,
Homesteads and Pre-emptions.
U3TA11 wish.jg to buy lands of any de
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my list of lands bc'ore looking elsewhere
E3TA11 having lands to sell will please
call and give me a description, term-,
prices, etc.
ISTI Jo n prepared to insure prop
erty, as I have the agency of several
first-class Fire insurance companies.
F. "W. OTT, Solicitor, speaki German.
MAItlUEI' C. SMITH.
30-tf Columbus, Nebraska.
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
All kinds of Repairing done on
Short Notice. Buggies, Wag
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and all work Guar
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TShop opposite the "Tattcrsall," on
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Plans and estimates supplied for either
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St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
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-VTOXICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. 57-y
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Send us 5 cents postage,
iuuu anu oy man j on i ci.
free a pacuage nt goods or lan:e value,
that will start you in work that will at
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thing else "in America. All about the
J300,000 in presents with each box.
Agents wanted everywhere, of either
gex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare
time only, to work for us at their own
homes. Fortunes for all workers ab
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boy's "Wagons, Sleds and Wheelbar
rows, Butcher Book);, Brass-edged Ru
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sets.
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Doll, Dominoes, Drawing books.
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FlCriO." Bonk-,
uiture polish.
Floral Mbuuw, Kur-
4iiICA.ll.il A ICS, Geographic-, Ueome
trics,Glove boxes, toy (.5uns,(.i roseopes
(to illustrate the laws of motion).
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I2VKS. (all good kinds and colors). Ink
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Music books, Mu-ie holder-, Machine
oil. Mats, Moderator's records, Muci
lage, Microscopes.
rVEKWljEM for sewing machines. Note
paper.
OKGAM, Oil for sewing muihiues,
Organ stools. Organ seats.
PERIODICALS. Pictures. Puzzle
blocks. Presents, Picture books. Piano-,
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for furniture. Pamphlet cases. Paper
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