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sj-. iJS " t4'? -&zr -wn$ :.xr " s .- 5fe ' I ft '13 - IT..' 4 J . r , 1," I ! is L 1 J n ii r M '. ; t - THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 18S3. Sztirci at Its ?a:'.:2:i, eUsx rr.it:. C:rts:. Kit.. 2: :esJ GROWING OLD TOGETHER. We are growing old together. Spring and summer-time nave fled. Fled wiU) bud and bloom forever. And ta aUtumn tints are sned. "ITe hare wreathed the May-day blossom; We hart plucked the flowers of June; We have Seen the last sheares gathered, Underneath the harvest-moon. We are growing old together; We are fadjng side by aide; There are seams we can not cover. There are. soars we can not hide; And they boar the silent record Of many a care and loss. Of many a toilsome day's march. And many a weighty cross. We area-rowing old together: We hate counted many a uflle: We have cheated and helped each ottaw rer many a broken stile, And whcngrier6 quivering arrow In out stricken hearts sank deep, We have stifled each our Borrow, That tke other might not weep. We are growing old together. As (re Journey down the hill; Sofia our feet must near the river With the water doep and chill. Where the "Phantom ship" will anchor To embark her spirit freight: Ana one of us will sail with her. And the other havo to wait. 31. A.3faMand. in Christian at Work. FAMOUS DAKK DAYS. Th End of the World Supposed to Be at Hand. Strang Phenomena Terror of Mas and Beast Tho Blood Kains Red, Blue and Vellow Snow The Green Rains, Etc. "I went through a curious experi ence lately," said a steamboat man to the writer. "Business took me to a Email town in Louisiana, and I remained there all night, and on turning in at the small hotel I told the porter to call me at eight sharp, and left the blind open, so that I should be sure and not oversleep. A few hours, as I thought, later, I was aroused by some one pounding on my door, and I soon recognized the boy's voice, saying it was time to get up. It can't be more than four,' I sung out, for it's as dark as pitch.' 'It's eight, all de same.' yelled the boy; 'and I reckon de sun's dun gone out, an' de wort's a comiu' .to ah end;' and then." continued the speaker, "I heard yells and groans all about, and I can tell you I wasn't long in getting into my duds, and when 1 I;ot down stairs there was a curious Dene. All the lamps were lighted and tbp rooms were full of negroes, all a gelling and groaning that the end had ceme. The white folks didn't look much more cheerful, for it did look Snd of queer, as out of doors, where e sun, by good rights, ought to have been three hours high, it was as black as the ace of spades not an ordinary night black, but something worse so that it seemed like a regular fog, and people got lost and ran into fences and the like. It lasted for about four hours, and then, having scared the people half to death, it began to let up, and finally the sun came out. It was what they called a dark day, and, although there were plenty of theories proposed, I doubt if any exactly hit the mark." TAMOUS HAKK DAYS. The Louisiana dark day is by no means the iirst that has visited the country. In an old journal dated August 9, 1732, there is a note concern ing a dark dav in New England: "At twelve o'clock, when people began to go to dinner, it suddenly grew dark. Chickens went to roost, and few per sons returned to their stores, and uni versal alarm was felt. The gloom lastod well into the afternoon, clearing away before sundown, however, as if to how that that luminary was still in ex istence." In very early times dark davs have been recorded, and the one in "England in tho year 1678 was justly famous. In 1807 and 1816 England had a similar visitation. In early days these occurrences were supposed to precede disaster of some kind, as war. Elague, or something of that nature. a October, 1783, the sunlight was shut off over a greater part of Canada so quickly that the inhabitants in many tawnswefe panic-stricken, and a num ber Of persons were injured by losing Aeir way and falling over cliffs, etc. In this case the darkness was followed !by a hurricane that caused great dam ago throughout the country. During Jthe war of "1812 a remarkable dark day (was experienced in London, and in the succeeding year tho darkness came for that iveral days in succession, so .mns were useiui. and business was -. im- m.oti,- o.,i .:n finis display was followed by a terrible sfcow-storni and a winter remarkable 'for its severity. Probablv the most re - markable dark era, especially so for the widencss of its range, was that which appeared over New England. Maine and New Hampshire felt it the mot, fcut it was universal over all the States. Tn flin ffinntimit T.ocriclutuvA nw. ..tf Xhe speakers was quoting from the Bible ' w"? as i hT,s rau"-v Vnyte v,rt" the lino referring to seefng "through a . General Lee. after the surrendei glass darkly, when, like a shot, ihev were left in darkness, black, ominous clouds seemingly settling down over the locality. The speaker, it is said, pointed to the great window and remarked: "It is rarely that we have an example better than can be found "in the Bible, and I move wc adjourn and go out and sec it." and. as the . House was in almost total darkness, it adjourned. Candles were lighted js were lighted at this time all over New England, and the superstitious were positive that the end had come. A peculiar feature of these dark spells was that they were all remarkable for a peculiar hue or tint that pervaded them. Thus the fog, if it can so be called, that spread over New England had a remarkably brassy hue, that gavo all objects a spectral appearance, while some ob servers stated that everything had a yellow tint, and claimed that there was an odor of sulphur. This same hue was noticed by the writer some years since on the "Maine coast, and was supposed to be due to forest fires, that filled the air with smoke. The wonderful dark fog that fell like a pall over England aud other parts of Europe in 1783 is described as having a decided blue tint. On other occa sions the tint has been red, gray or purple. One of the most remarkable "blue days on record was noticed a fow years ago in South America, and in some towns, where the houses were pure white, they gave an extremely rich blue reflection of many different shades. The great extent of these periods of darkness is difficult to ex plain. Thus the one of 1783 not only spread over Europe, but the greater Eart of Northern Africa. According amanon, it spread over the country with considerable fauiditv. It was noticed first at Copenhagen) on May j 24th; at La Rochelle June 6th. going rapidly south, reaching Borne ten days later, "and causing a- reign of terror among the ignorant poor. It reached Geneva on the 17th, Paris the follow ing day, and by the last of the month had been noticed at Moscow, Syria and even in Amecica. That it was not a low-lying fog was evident from the "fact that travelers a the highest mountains, where" the phenomenon was noticed, could above it. Curiously enoogfe. winder rain did not seem to affect it,for during its existence there were twenty three days ef heavy rain, besides violent wind-storms that had, however, no effect upon it. This dry mist, as it wai called for want of a better name, was of a bright red hue, and in many local ities signified in the minds of the people m coming war. A very similar phe nomenon has been observed in later times. Thus, in 1831, Africa, Europe and parts of America were visited by a mist that gave to all objects an emerald hue, or again an azure blue. A re markable feature of this was that the fog, if it could be called by that name, became luminous at times, so that in many localities, although lights had to be used during the day time, at night the mist gave out light quite sufficient to read by, and so bright was the light that fine print was read with ease at midnight. The cause of these mists is still a mystery. The scientist Catte consid ered that they were due to metal em anations united with electricity, and to the indirect result of earthquakes. Valtman, a German writer, considered the enormous peat tires of Westphalia as the prime cause of the mist in that part of Europe, and the dark days of Europe have often been laid to prairie and forest tires. Benjamin Franklin proposed a novel theory that had many adherents. It was that an enormous meteoric globe had struck the atmos phere of the earth and exploded, tho smoke and small atoms gradually set tling down and so obscuring the sun and moon. It has been found that vast amounts of organic and inorganic matter are always floating about in space, and it has been assumed that at times great bodies of dust are swept into the air quite enough, in fact. to occasion a series of dark days under the locality where the dust was held suspended in the air. What are known as "red snow," "blood irains" and othpr phenomena in Europe are merely the result of the precipitation of this matter to the ground. They were even more dread ed in early times than the dark days, and the people of the time fully be lieved that blood had fallen from the sky. A blood rain, according to Pliny, fell in Constantinople in the year 850. At Brixan there was a similar fall in 869, at Bagdad in 929, at Viterbo in 1219, in Bohemia in 1419, in West- Shalia in 1513, at Emden in I066. at trasburg in 1G23, at Brussels in 1640, and at Venice in 1087. Other famous blood rains occurred at Genoa in 1744; at Cleves. 1763; Pieardy, 176.1; Italy, 1803, and at Glessen 1111821. In the records of all these rains there are ac counts of the terror of the people, who lirmly believed that some teirible visi tation was about to occur, and. indeed, they were not agreeable to the eye. The snow that was pure white in the evening would, in the following morn ing, have changed to a rich blood-red. so that the entire country looked as though it had a coating of blood. In the slang of to-day the world was "painted red." The cause of the pe culiar color was explained by the fact that tons of dust had fallen, and tho red hno was the natural tint of perox ide of iron. Nor was the color of these rains confined to red. In 1846 a yellow rain fell in France, and so alarmed all the inhabitants that it is said that wild animals took to the towns, and utterly lost their fear of man. This rain is said to have origin ated in South America, and Ehrenbcrg estimated that hundreds of tons of or ganic matter was deposited about the surrounding country. This must have crossed the Atlantic in some extremely high current. The yellow pollen of plants at times causes what is known as yellow fog, and that this coloring agent is carried along through the air great distances the writer can testify, as in 1883 the rocks on certain parts of the Maine coast appeared covered one morning with a yellow powder that re sembled sulphur, and not a few of tho fishermen thought it was, but the mi croscope showed it to be pollen, and investigation proved that it must havo blown several hundreds of miles. Cin cinnati Enquirer. GENERAL LEE. Th Death of the nUtliiguKhed Confeder ate Gfueral. The death of General Robert E. Lee, at Lexington, Va., on the 12th of Octo ber, 1870, removed an important actor in the recent Civil War. In the South, where he was be-;t known and most be- j loved; in the North, where his military genius and worth a. a private citizen found due recognition, aud in Europe, where his skillful geueralship and per sonal courage had won him hi;h re nown, the tributes to the memory of the departed Southern ehieftaiu have been generous, enthusiastic and worthy of his fame. It may be truly said that personallv General Lee had not an I enemv- "is heart overflowed with love ! r-iii'ifiivu r -111 ! ti i iiiii -a u . . . ... "...:." "" 1 drew lus sword in the t. ivil war Iroiu a I se of d.ut-v. " nut,ve Slat,e b,ut "The1n 'ie s,J"w" 't again, under the 1 ?Wle tree at Appomattox C oiirt House, mere was uui a Mam ujjuii 11s uiaue. Even those who were opposed to Gen eral Lee :ipon the battlefield were as ready as his most intimate friends and ardent admirers to testify to his well deserved fame as a military leader, as der at Apjiomattox. became President of Washington College, at Lexington, and devoted himself to the duties of that position. He was taken sicfc on Wednesday evening. September 28. As he was about to take his scat at the tea table he sank in his chair and became insensible. A reaction soon set in, however, and in the course of the ten days following he steadily improved, until it was hoped ho was out of i , I uan?er But on the following Monday evening he became suddenly and rapidly worse, and continued to sink until death claimed its victim. "During the early part of his illness he slept much and spoke seldom, but was rational when awake, and always re cognized those at his bedside. At times his mind seemed to wander, and on several occasions reverted to the arm-. He once ordered his tent to be struck, and at another time desired that "Hill should be sent to the front." He suffered but comparatively little pain during his illness, and expired very quietly and peacefully at 9:30 on Wednesday morning. Ben. rerlcy Poorc's Reminiscences. India Rubber. The export of India rubber from Brazil has increased very rapidly. trom Para and Mauaos, the chief ports in the Amazon allcv, the ex port during the live vears from 1839 to 1844 was 2,520,000 pounds, of the value of 79,000. In the live years, 1854 1859, it had increased to 21,500,000 pounds and 800,000 respectively; and in the five years, 1874-1879, to 66,000. 000 pounds, worth 4,400,000. In 1882 the quantity exported was about 22,400,000 pounds, valued at 3,000. 000. A heavy export duty is collected on this article, the imperial duty bcin nine per cent, on the value, and in at dition a tax of twelve per cent is im posed by the province of Amazon and thirteen per cent, by that of Para al together twenty-two per cent, on all that is exported from the latter and twenty-one per cent, on exports from the former. A". 31 Post. It is said that in the works of Shakespeare there are more than five hundred and fifty quotations, allusions, references and sentiments derived froa the Scripture. LITTLE WONDERS. What the InpennllT olKta Has Accom plished in the Waj- of EconomUlng Sjiac'e. Myrmecides, one of the ancients, after many years of toil, made out of ivory a little chariot with four wheels and four horses, the whole equippage so small that a bumblebee could com pletely hide it with one of her wings. At another time he made, also out of ivory, a miniature ship with all its ropes and rigging, likewise so small that a bee could hide the little vessel beneath its wing. In the twentieth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth of Englaud, a sturdy blacksmith, by the name of Mark Seal's!, who lived in London, manu factured a padlock of iron, steel and brass, of eleven pieces, and a pipe key, all of which only weighed one grain. He also made a chain of gold of forty five links which fastened to the lock I and key and put it around the neck of j a flt-a, which drew the whole with per ; feet ease. The chain, key, lock and j ilea all together weighed one grain and j a half. j Junius relates that at Mechlin, in Brabant, lie saw a cherry stone cut in to the form of a basket, in which were 1 fourteen pair of dice, the spots and , numbers on each being easily discerned I with the naked eye. ! Turriana. of whose wonderful skill 1 so manv tales have been told, is said to have manufactured an iron mill o minute in size that a monk could carry it in his sleeve, yet the mill was power ful enough to grind sufficient grain in a day to furnish food for eight men. Still more wonderful was a set of six hundred dishes which were all perfect in every part, and which could easily be enclosed in a peppercorn, a fruit of the pepper-tree. These were manu factured by an artist named Oswaldus Northingenus, in the time of Pope Paul the Fifth; the Pope is said to have himself counted the diminutive frag ments with the aid of a pair of spec tacles. In 1764, upon the birthday of King George the Third of England, Mr. Ar nold, a watchmaker of London, waited upon the King and presented him with a curious repeating watch which he had constructed. His Majesty, as well as the rest of the royal family to whom Mr. Arnold was introduced, expressed their utmost admiration of the work. Extraordinary' as it may be thought it is known that this repeating watch was somewhat less than a .-ilver dime in diameter, and contained one hundred and twenty distinct parts. Altogether it weighed live pennyweights, seven grains and three fourths. This was considered at the time as the sublimity of littleness. In penmanship the productions of this class have been very numerous. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth "there was a man who wrote the Ten Com mandments, the Creed, the Paternoster, and name of the Queen, and the year of our Lord, within the compass, or on as small a surface as a penny: and gave her Majesty a pair of spectacles of such an artificial making that by the help thereof she did plainly and distinctly discern every letter." This feat was equaled some years since by an en graver of Loudon named Daircs, who n.te the Lord's Prayer, the Creed of the English Church", the Ten Com mandments, and his own name in the space occupied by half a dime. A gen tleman now living in Liverpool has written the poem "Mount Pleasant"' in a space three by two inches. He also wrote Goldsmith's poem of the "Trav eler," of four hundred and thirty-eight lines, in a square of three and one-half inches, and his greatest feat was the writing of the Lord's Prayer in a circle three six teenths of an inch in diameter, which may be distinctly read with a magnify ing glass. It is very common to see the Lord's Prayer written or engraved on the space of a two-cent piece or a silver dime, but the specimen just men tioned is the smallest writing of tho Lord's Praj-er ever known to exist. In the year 1816 a knife was made at Manchester, England, which contained seventeen articles: three blades, a but ton hook, saw, punch and screw driver, box, corkscrew, hook and gim let, two phlemes, picker, tweezer and two laucets. with a ring at the head of the knife. The entire knife was only eleven sixteenths of. an inch long, and weighed one pennyweight and fourteen grains. Mill M Clemens, in M'iile Awake. , FLATTERING THE QUEEN. Courtier of St. .Imuics and Their Opinion of the Gttuil yueouVlctori. The Count deMontgelas, an Austrian secretary of legation, who was for a long time in high fashion in England, and a good deal behind the scenes, gives a rather unflattering picture of Queen Victoria, who is now at Darm stadt among her German relatives. There is. however, much truth in it. With the exception of the Duke of Richmond, who is a blunt, plain-mannered man, there is not one among the statesmen of the day wh would ven. ture to express his real opinions to her- Lord Beaconlield. by his adroitness, his patient courtiership, unbounded and "extravagant adulation, had over come the prejudices with which Prince Albert, who detested him. inoculated her, and had won her entire heart and confidence. For the Gladstones, both husband and wife, especially the latter, who is a very able woman, she has an undisguised aversion, and though, as a matter of form, they sometimes dine and sleep at Windsor, their relations are strained aud chilly. She is extremely selfish and the lot of her maids of honor is a very hard one. The demands on their endurance and patience are continuous. The Marchioness of Ely, a delightful woman, full of the tenderest sensibility and sympathy, is often put to the pain of telling some huh of the Court that her presence is disagreeable and she must go. Within the last two years two ladies-in-waiting, whom Victoria received with open arms, were sud denly dismissed without other cause than that she wearied of them. When the unfortunate Beatrice, whose life has been a dreary monotony of attendance, announced to her her betrothal, which took place secretly four years ago, to the Prince of Batten berg, a storm of passion broke out which it took some lime to appease. She is very fond of the military, and if the war comes oft' she will be quickly back to present colors and see the parting regiments off. She detests, as did Prince Albert, the Russians, al thoHgh her son married a Russian princess, the sister of the 'present Czar. ft X World. - Captain J. M. Colvocorcses, a retired officer of the navy was found shot to death in a street In Bridgeport Conn., one night in the fall of 1873, and there were varied opinions as to whether he had committed suicide or been murdered. The confession of Baldwin Janssen, a sailor, who recently died in the Sandwich Islands, clears up tho mystery. It appears that Captain Colvocorescs was shot while defending himself from cJanssen, who attempted to. rob him of aTiag containing secu rities which he was taking to New York. N. Y. Times. Sir Justin Aylmer, the heir to an ancient English baronetcy, having a renroll of tnirty-nve thousand dollars a year, young, handsome., and en gaged, fell from a bicycle the other day and broke Ids smb. MARRYING. A. Collection of Spicy Anecdotes Relatlns to Wcddtngrf. There was a clergyman who married a couple, and it the wedding breakfast one of the bridesmaids expressed a wish to see that mystic document, a wedding license, which she had never beheld in her lifetime. The request occasioned a fearful discovery. The clergyman had quite forgotten to ask for the liceusc: the bridegroom had left it to his "best man" to procure it. and this the "best man" had forgotten tu do. Of course the raamage was no legal marriage at all. Tne wedding party broke up in dismay, and -.hc cere mony was performed again nxt day. The poor clergyman, howeve. never got over the eflect of this blunde-. On another occasion a clergyman got himself into considerable trouble: he was of the type known as Ritualistic, and persuaded a worth- couph who had been married at a nonconft rrnist chapel that they had not been ecclesias tically married at all, and that it was necessary that they should be married over again at the parish church. This was very much resented b' th non conformist interest and the clergx man was put upon his trial at the Of ford Assizes. The Judge took a very letnent view, and said that, as the parties had already been legally married, any further service was illusory and mere child's play, and that "he might jast as well have read 'Chevey Chace' over them." In one of his novels Charles Knde makes his hero, a clergyman, woLder whether he might not legally rorry himself to the heroine, especially as they were both cast upon "" a dcso.ate island. It may be as well that no el ists and novel-readers should be awire that for a clergyman to officiate at nis own marriage is utterly illegal. One day an elderly gentleman met a young one. "I have had a hard day s work," Miid the young Levitc. "I began at seven o'clock this morning by mar rying a young couple." "Allow me U inform you," said his senior, "that marriage at that time of day, accord ing to English law, is no marriage a! all. Moreover, to the best of my be lief. 3011 have made yourself liable to seven years' penal servitude. Betweep eight and twelve is t lie prescribed timo. You had better go back as soon as yon can and U'arry them over again." I have known brides, when the grooms have failed to make the proper responses, prompt them immediately and with the greatest facility. As fof the men, the commit all kinds of blun ders and bunglings. I have known a man, at that very nervous and trying moment, follow the clergyman within the communion rail aud prepare to take a place opposite him. I have known a man, when the minister stretched out his hand to unite those of the couple, take it vigorously in his own and give it a hearty shake. Some times more serious difficulties occur. Some ladies have had an almost un conquerable reluctance to use the word "obey;" one or two, if their own state ments are to be accepted, have ingen iously constructed the word "nobey." The word, however, has still to be for mally admitted into the language. There was one girl, who was being married by a very kind old clergyman, who absolutely refused to utter the word "obey." The minister suggested that, if she was unwilling to utter the word aloud, she should whisper it to him: but the young lady refused even this kind of compromise. Further, however, than this the clergymau re fused to accommodate her; but when he was forced to dismiss them all with out proceeding any further the recal citrant young person consented to "obey." The difficult, however, is not always made on the side of the lady. On one occasion the bridegroom wished to de liver a little oration qualifying his vow, and aescribing in what sense and to what extent he was using the words of the formula. He was, of course, "given to understand that nothing of this kind could be permitted. There was one man who accompanied the formu la with sotto-voce remarks which must have been exceedingly disagreeable to the officiating minister. He inter polated remarks after tho fashion of Burchell's "Fudge!" "With this ring I thee wed; that's superstition." "With my body I thee worship; that's idola try." "With all my worldly goods I thee endow; that's a "lie." It is a won der that such a being was not con ducted out of church by the beadle. This puts one in miud of an anecdote that is told of a man who in his time was a Cabinet Minister. There was a greit discussion on the question whether a man can marry on three hundred pounds a year. "All I can sav," said the great man, "is that when I said: 'With all my worldly goods I thee endow,' so far from having three hundred pounds, I question whether, when all my debts were paid. I had three hundred penctt." "Yes, my love." said his wife, "but then you had your splendid intellect." "1 didn't endow you with that, ma'am," sharply retorted the riglit honorable husband. When the bridegroom has returned thanks, after the parson's speech, in these das of feminine oratory, there is sometimes a tendency on the part of the b'ide to make a Tittle speech of her own. "I call you all to witness." said a bride within our hearing, "that I have no intention of obeying." "Ah, madam," said Frederick Denison Maurice, who was present, "you havo yet to learn tiie blessedness of obedi ence." Chicago Tribune. A CONUNDRUM. The Merited I'tiiiNliment That Followed the Giving of One. "George Spiel, 3011 are charged with disorderly conduct." "Vhell, if somebody calls me names I can't stand it" "Who called you names?" "He vhas some strangers to me. He meets me on der street und says why was I liko an elephant up a tree. Dot makes me raadt, und I light mithim." "What was there to getmadaboui?" "Vhell, he means to call me names." "Is the victim in court?" asked his Honor. "I should remark!" answered a thin voiced, slim-waisted man, with a bald head, as he stood up. He had a black eye, a skinned nose and a bloody rag was tied around his head. "You wanted him to guess a conun drum, did you?" "He had 110 right to pitch into me, had he?" "Well, he certainly had great provo cation. Any man who goes tntting around with a stock of conundrums on his back to peddle out must take his chances of personal injury. I hope this will be something of a lesson to you, and I shall fine the prisoner three dol lars." "How vhas dot?" asked the prisoner. "You say ff he makes me madt dot vhas his own peesness, und he must look oudt" . "Certainly,, but fighting is against the law. Next time any one gives you a conundrum to guess you mult reply: Hardly ever,.' and.pass on." "Hardly cafer," said the prison er, as he bolted for the door, but Bijah overhauled him and he had to fork over the cash and go out the regular way. Detroit Free Press. m The giraffe has never been known to utter a sound. Chicago Tirtm. THE MASTIFF. A Uritidi Pus Wliaso Orite I tes. K.ick U IVrir.-l l?er-re thr ;:..ui Invasion. Tho origin of the English mastiff ifl so lot m tho i!i;st- of antiquity that no positive as-ert yus concerning it should be made. It 5- ev dent thai dogs with its el s-.iet .. is ex'sted in Britain when the ;u:an- first" landed there. They sj.eak t thcin as "the broad mouthed dog of BriUiu." Whether these we:v of the ni:i-t:li" or bull-dog type, or w!n;l:or the two breeds have the sam.'or'g'n. cannot be del rmincd. Much written o-i th-- subject w neces sarily pure i- .iijeeture;" consequently we need only concern uurselvcs with the. immedi'sie progenitors of the uias tilV. and ih..t !o'.- .; I:e ei-ts to-day. Of all the 1. uv?i canine races the mastiff's tltl.i.e-.t : I eminently the most mass.ve. K.ceptioual specimens of the St 1'erri.i.d, the boar-hound, and the SiK"r an bloodhound may ex ceed in height and weight the average of large ufat li'-, but these examples are so rare as .iot to materially modify the assert .on ; the superiority of the proportions 01 the mastiff. The distinguishing marks of this breed are size, mass-veness, dignity and majesty of appearance. Twenty eight to thirtv-ouo inches may be ac cepted as a good average height at the shoulders. T;:e girth of the chest should never be less than one-third more than the height. The body should be long and v.e'l filled out, without any approach to the tuckl-up loin of the hound. Th's a very objectionable. The legs should be straight, with im mense bone " and muscle; th feet round and close; the tail thick at the root, tapering evenly to a point, and not extend ing much belo.v the hocks. The head is now the great point with fanciers. It should be broad across the skull. Hat to the eyebrow, well indented up the center, with small, close-lying ears, partly erected when attention is aroused; the muzzle broad, short, aiid square-looking, as though it had been sawed off. Fashion enaiiges much in this direction. The great show dogs of ten 3 ears ince would stand no chance in a modern competition. A veiy much shorter, blunter muzzle is thestandard. Whether the dog of to da3 has really gained in appearance by his shorter muzzle is certainly open to doubt. The srrand pre-eminent qualities of the mastiff are shown in his affec tionate, true, noble, faithful disposition and even tmper. He is above all others the wateh-dog. Bred for genera tions for this purpose, his impulses lead him exclusive! in this direction-to watch and guard, and to repulse tres passers within h"s precinct. He ac complishes this end by a resolute and imposing bearing, never reporting to force until repeated gentle warnings havo been ignored. Menace to the yeVson of h's master the mastiff fiercely resents. I!s mode of attack is to pring upon an evil-doer, knock him dawn, and subdue ii'm with significant growls. He seldom bites, even under tne severed provocation. To guard those living in isolated localit'cs, as a protector of women and children, he :. without a ji er the slurd and faith ful w..l : : f tif the home. M'. M'a'la, in the i'viilnrj. MEN WHO EAT OYSTERS. KeaH:u Tliutc Inordinately I'otnl iT the 111 valve Car. Give fur thu Indulgence. In all countries there are records of the excessive fondness of great men for oysters. Cervantes was an oyster lover, and ho satirized the oyster-dealers of Spain. Louis IX., careful lest scholarship should become deficient in France, feasted the learned doctors of the Sorbonnc once a year on oysters; and another Loui.; invested his cook with an order of nobility a a reward for his oyster-cookery. Napoleon, also, was an'oyster-lovcr; so was Rous seau, and Marshal Turgot used to eat a hundred or two just to whet his appe tite for breakfast. Invitations to a dish of oysters were common in the literary and "artistic circles of Paris at the latter end of the last century. The eiieyelo p:edists were particularly fond of oys ters. Helvetius, Diderot and the Abbe Ranal, Voltaire and others were con firmed oyster-men. Before the Revo lution violent politicians were in the habit of constantly frequenting tho Parisian oyster-shops, and Dan ton, Robespierre" and others were fond of thoo ster in their days of innocence. The great Napoleon, on the eve of his battles, used to partake of the bivalve, and Cambarceres v.'as famous for his hell-hat banquets. Even at this day the consumption of oysters iu Paris is enormous; according to recent statis tics the quantity eaten there is one mill ion per day. Among the British celebrities Alex ander Pope was an oyster eater of taste, and so was Dean Swift, who was fond of lobsl-r as well. Thomson, of the Seasons. ho knew all good things, knew how good a thing an oyster was. The learned Dr. Richard iicntley could never pass an oyster shop without hav ing a few. ami there have been hun dreds of subsequent English imn who. without coming up to Bent ley in other respects, have resembled him in this. The Scottish philosophers, too, of tho last century- Hume, Dugald, Stewart, Cullen. etc.--used frequently to indulge in the "whiskenil pandours" of their day and generation. "Oyster plows." as" they were called, were frequently held in the quaint and dirty taverns of the old town of Edinburgh. These Edinburgh oyster-taverns of the oldsn time were " usually situated under ground, in the cellar-floor, and in course of the long winter evenings the carriages of the quality folks would be found rattling up and setting down fash ionable ladies to partake of oysters and po4er, plenteous" but rudely served. What oysters have been to the intellect of Edinburgh in later times, who needs to be told who has heard of Chris topher North and read the Noctes Ambroiiame? A Gosling's Mysterious Flight. I was allowed to viit my uncle on Sunday in Scotland. Sunday then be gan Saturday noon and was a long day. For whistling a lively air my uncle said: "Jinimie, go to the garret." Now, if there was any place next to Heaven where I wanted to go it was to the. garret. There was a sword there which had been used in the battle of Waterloo, and an 31d gun and fishing tackle. I took a fishing rod and put it out of the window. Below were two little goslings walking around, just out ef the shell. In a moment I had 'hooked' one. It had the fly. As T raised it carefully I heard a heavy slcp on the stairs, and expected a licking. My uncle came in, looked around the room and went out. I was not saying or doing anything. He wjll let me sutler all da Sunday and lick me on Monday, I thought. A gentleman came down from Edinburgh, and I hoard my uncle say: "I had an exper ience to-day that was mysterious. We know a full-fledged goose can fly," he added, --but to-day I saw a gosling." And turning to my aunt fie said: "How old are the "goslings?" "Eight days," she replied. "Well," he continued, "I saw one of those goslings ascend in a straight line from that point of gravity and go straight up." By the time he had fin ished I said: "Kee-hee." And the old gentlemen asked me how 1 got that gosling into the window. Major Haq gerty in -Albany Journal. SCHOOL AND CHU-UJH . It is fiw t!:-l thio.;-f.:urths of the Kibles ki;ii-i! from Xmv York to fiir- . l ..-, . ! e'g-j :ir-io:i st-it ! go to Mexico and 1 South A merle.;. '.::: a !.--.is st:t 1- at the hcr.d , of t'sti Congre .ratio i.- - m tne United ' States a to numbers, ha. lag oo2 churches, with 1)0.:!. ( members aud 941 m.i sters. Hosttin Y'.W. . T:ie American ?dissonarv Associ I :;' :-j iias at the Tew Orleans J,Txpoition 1 .1 r.ue dip!av of work done by Indian ' eii 1 !rn and others in the various fields of .1 .".r. Ml-s P.Iact, who recently started for China :.'ider the auspices of the V'o:iia!i'fl M ssionary Association of the English Presbyterian Church, is the : fifth daughter that has gone out from one manse to tho foreign field. X. 11 Sn:i. The attendance on the publie schools of England is shown by a recent 1 renort to have rNea within a few years from 2.0QP.000 to A.000.000. As a result juvenile crime has considerably dimin- ished. ! Baptists of the South have, since last May. sent into the foreign mission fieltl twentv-one missionaries. It is es- timated that it will take $10,000 each ' month to meet the demand of the for eign field, j The will of Guy Li: tie. of Bismarck, I D. T.. recently probated, leaves 350,000 in trust for the benefit of Pembroke . Academy, at Pembroke. N. H., subject 1 to the life interest of the widow. Children of school age must be re markably scarce in some sections of New Hampshire, judzinsr from the fol lowing taken from a Boston paper: In Warner there is one school district which contains but one pupil, four dis tricts have but two pupils each, and two have only six between them. The California millionaires appear to be doinsr their best to build uu tho j educational and artistic interests of the I coast. The latest benefactor is Mrs. E. y B. Crocker, who proposes to deed her 1 sart gallery to San Francisco, provided the people raise one hundred thousand dollars to maintain the collection. Current. A New England preacher says that tho Chinese students who have returned to this country after a two ears' ab sence in China have great difficulty in remembering the English language, which they were supposed to have learned so well. Over-reading as well as over-study Ls one of the evils of modern education. The evil hsa been commented on by. ed ucators for many years past, but the multiplicity of book's and their growing che-pne-s stand in the way of an per manent remedy. Of course it goes with out sluing that reading in itself is not only harmless, but most beneficial. But children too often read so much that they tVl to assimilate what they read, a-id thus the exercise is a dead los-. Mu.-h fun has been made of "the man of one book;" but he possessed at least the virtue of knowing one book thor oughlya virtue which many modern readers do not possess. If .school chil dren wer.s taught to read less and think I mure. it. would be a gain all around. ! X. y. TrihiiHC. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A Lewiston seamstress carelessly le.'t a nc'dlc in the back of a young lady customer's dress, and now a particular fr cud of the family has his arm done up in arnica. Lexi-tton (Me.) Journal. There are twenty ways of cooking a potato, aud three hundied and sixty live ways of cooking an egg. Here culture end, for there is but one way of swallowing either of them. Lowell Citizen. It is claimed that you can tell when it is noon-time by looking at a cat's eyt. We an' t see what a cat's s'ze has to do w.th noon-time unless you are thinking of havingrabbit for dinner. liurlimilon lairlvye. There are said to be over two thou sand postmasters in the United States wit'i a s.ilary of less thau ten dollars a year. At Redelia. N. C, last year, the salarv was nine cents. X. V. Mail. V h -n th- fire reporter gets as far as "the lurid glare o: forked flames shoot. rig athwart the dark-domed sky," it is time for the city edi;or to put on a co'id-ns 'i aud get at the facts of prop erty de.-,!r yed. -A". O. Picayune. Not sugar-coated: She "There is often a vast difference between a boor and a bore." He (ashing) "And are most men either one or the oth-r?" She (wearily) "Well, a man is a lioor when he does not call on us. and gen erally a bore when he do-s." Life. Maxlieid Bum was in a manufac turing town hist week, when a very fashionably d:vsed young man passed along. He was told that it was a clerk in one of tiie cotton m lis and quite a lady's man. In fact the girls had spoil -d him. "That was my idea of him." said Maxtield Bau; "if not spo;lt. 1 thought he was a little mill dude." Melrose Journal. "Are you fond of etchings?" asked the young man who hail taken the ht es' preity nieeo from the e.nmtry down to supper. "As a general thing, yes," she answered, looking up into Iris eyes with a:s engaging frankness that threat ened havoc to his heart: "hut, she a Ided hast'dy. as he starred to siy something pretty, "not any to-night, thank you it is rather late. A ver . little of sherbet i all I care for." Boston llcaeon. First Bohemian What's the mat ter? You look ill. Second Bohemian I am suffering from writers' cramp. "Indeed! But you seem to have the use of 3 our wrist, and I did not suppose 3ou had liad lnucn chance to he over worked." "Ah! it is not in mv wrist, and is not caused by overwork." "Then where is it, and what is the cause?" "It is in my stomach, and is caused by a vacuum." Phil-ulelphin Call. A nice old gentleman, seeing a lad eating a:i oranga, told the boy not to swallow the skin, because it would make him S'e'c. The lad was thus saved from probable sickties - by the nice old gentleman's houghtfulness. The lad threw the skin out at the window, and the nice old gentleman went out and sat down very hard upon the sidewalk. The nice old gentleman will not tell lads hereafter that orange peels should not be eaten ujton JojI. Dear to the heart: now dear to tho heart uro tho chestnut of chililhoud The imldheailcd jokes that our infancy knew. The puns prehistoric we vented in wild mood. And ar.cicnt conundrums so feob'.e atil feir: What sweet rccoMoetloni rise quickly aud work us II Kh up to that pitch where the briny tears well. V.'hon we hear from the lips of the clown ut the circa 4 The crutch-ridden chestnuts we all love to tell! The inoss-covered che.J.nut.s, the mildewed conundrums. And Jokes that were aged before Adam fell. mm A Handsome Reward. While walking on a Calve-stou wharf Mrs. Snivel fell into the bay aud was rescued with diliicuity by a stranger. Mr. Snivel shook tiie hand of the rea dier of his wife, and said: "You have saved my wife from a watery grave, and I mu'st reward you for it"" "1 only did ray duty. I do not desire any remuneration.' Well, if you will not accept m" monej I'll give yc a a piece of adricn that will be worth something to you. It will save you a doctor's bill. Don't eat sausage in summer. I know what ther are made of: I'm a butcher by trade. Tcxat Sifiingt. "-'""' 'BBBBts--"""' "H""Hj"mSKjH H"""""v"rH""r"aF""H"B"""H aauHfli is"P"SB"P""H"'M""H"B"bk""'''""B THE SUMMER TERM -OP I'HK FREMONT NORMAL -AN'D- BUSINESS COLLEGE, JLt Fremont, IVebmslcn Will begin JULY 7th, 1885, and End Aug. 29th. UN USU A L A DV A NT A (JKSW1 L I. U K AKPOltDED PERSONS WUWIXtS TO PREPAKE FOR THE EXAMINATION FOR STATE AND FIRST GRADE CER TIFICATES. TO BE HELD BY TIIE STATE SUPERINTENDENT AT FREMONT, AUGUST 26 tk aid 27th. The Business Department will afford every opportunity for improvement in Penmanship, Business Arithmetic, Book keeping, Commercial Correspondence, and imitation of actual business Music. We can tpeak with tbe utmost confi dence of the instruction xiveu in our 31uMc Department. Miss Rose Connul. instructor of the Piano Forte, a gratia He of the Cornell Conservatory of .Music, is not only a brilliant performer, but a pains-taking and superior teacher. The instrnctors in Vocal Culture. Note-reading and Singing are thorough aad suc cessful. Expenses. Tuition for el'ht weeks. $S to $l03if paid strictly in advance. ThN in cludes admission to Normal uad l'u-i:n.s-classes. Music, $12 for twentj li-n. Short-hand, $12 for twenty lcson-. Type writing, with use of instrument, $10 tor twelve weeks. Good day hoard can be obtained in the College Home at $-.-!' per week. Rooms 50 cts. to T.'n-ts. per stud ent. The Fall Term will begin Sept. Ut, and continue ten weeks; tuition, $10. For further particulars address, W. 1. JOKIX A. M. President of Normal College, Fremont. Neb. UNION PACIFIC UND OFFICE, S AML. C. SMITH, Ag't. AND General Real Mate Dealer. t"fI have a Hrge number of improved Farms for sale cheap. Also unimproved farming and grazing lands, from $1 to $!.' per acre. E'TSpecial attention paid to making final proof on Homestead and Timber Claims. I""tJAll having lands to sell will tind it to their advantage to leave them in my hands for sale. Money to loan on farm. F. U. Marty, Clerk, speaks German. '10-tf Columbus, Nebraska. 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