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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-10-03, Page 3Caa October 3 :1884. The His* Church at Leadvide. The churoh.was small, ecd rudely built ' Or the odorous! spruce and mountaio pines. no silken trappings, nor altat gat !- Idea yet appegrod at the LeadVille Though wary toiled in the stream below, Paying no heed to the day e.f rest; Others there were who climbed slow, To the °hutch they had built in the Godlese West. Hardy adventurers, bronzed by the sum Bearded and gritty, in mountain attire, •,• Bilently sat, and listened to one Who filled the joint &face of preacher and choir. A miner himself, uncouth as the rest, Of broadcloth or matinee alike he had none; But his language was cultured, he spoke his best To the miners, who listened until hewed done. Then the man at the organ essayed a tune, To have killed him then would have been no crone; It sounded like shrieking of men whose doom Was to perish by tire some future time. At the first strains eyes flashed in their sockets, Intense excitement appeared on each face ; A half checked movement to reach the hip pocket . Was QuieklyelipPrilksed AR thOnghout of place. Such self-abnegation displayed by the miners Surprised me, until I learned, the cause; • Eight over the organ some rustic designer Had badly written a startling clause. In itself a simple, pathetic reguest,4 It had doubtless saved hie life.; it ran: ' Please don't shoot at tfie organist, For he's dein' the very best he can." 4 A Journey to the :sun. AB to the distant% of 93,000,000 miles, a cannon ball would travel it in about fifteen years. It may help as to remember that at the speed attained by the limited express on railroads a train which had left the sun for the earth when the Mayflower sailed from Delfhaven with the Pilgrim fathers, and whioh ran at that rate day aud night, would in 1384 Latin be a journey of some years away from its ;terrestrial etation. The fare, at the customary rates, it may be remarked, would be rather over *2,500,000, so that it is clear that we should need both . money and leisure for the journey. Perhaps the most striking illuetrationsof the sun's distance is given by expressing it in terms of what the physiologists would call velocity of nerve transmission. It has been found that sensation is not absolutely instantaneous, but that it occupies a, very minute time in travelling along the nerves; so that if a ohild puts its fingers into the candle, there is a certain almost inconceiv- ably email space of time, say the one- hundreth of a second, before he feels the beat.- In case, then, a child's arm were long ,enough to touoh the sun, it can be caloulated from dile known rate of trans= mission that the infant would have to live to be a man of over 100 before it knew that its fingers were burned. -Century. ". A Pavement That Will Last. London and Paris say that they have at last solved this problem. After experi- menting with wooden pavements for years, the English capital gave them up as a failure. About ten years ago, however, it tried a new system of wooden pavements - or, rather, a combination of wood and stone -which did very well. The stone founda- tion was made of concrete, cementgravel and sand, and stretched in an arch from curb to curb, readily supporting the traffic that rolled over it. Wooden blocks were Jaid upon this as a oushion for the horses' feet and the ears of the public,. and -held together by asphalt. The new pavement gradually won its way to popular favor in London, and is no essentially-th-d- went of that city. In the last ten years 53 miles of it have been laid, all of which inin good condition, and gives complete satis- faction. Indeed, London is so enthusiastic, over it that all of its streets are to be thus paved. -New Orleans Times -Democrat, Nothing In a Name. Bangor Jou-nal: "Edith 1" Fin was a woman's voice that called, soft, low, musical. " Edith!" she called again, and I could not but stop and listen. Sweet Saxon "Edith." It should be the Dune' of the voice, so full of tender music were they both. "Edith." Blue eyes and fair.hair, a faultless complexion of pearl and pink, an oval face, a figure tall and mellow - "Edith." Yeth'm, yeth'm, I gwanten quick's I kin git my handsouten de re:impends! 'Fore goodness, I jes' wisht I could done drop so deep I oould nevah heah my name again in. dish yer livin' worl'. Wha' you want, Miss Tabitha ?' And a sweet young girl, fair as a dream of June, petite and graceful, came tie the door and gave an order to a coal-hlaok woman five feet eight inches in height, with arms like John Sullivan's and a red -and - yellow turban on her head. A Candidate's name. Philadelphia Call: Mrs. do Blank - Well, I will try you if you have a good erommendation from your !alit place. Domestic -A what, mum? .. A recommendation ; a •oharaoter." "A charaok-ter is it you want An' slob as you ask me, me for a oharack.ter ?" "Well, well, and why not?" . • ' "You, mum -you, the wife of a snake- thafe, a blackleg, a villain, the man what murdered his grandtaother, sure, and citole the pennies from a dead pauper's eyes - you—" "Mercy on uel What are you talking about?" Ye'r villain of a husband, of cooree. Sure didn't I rade the papers when he was runniu' fur office 2" The Oyster Simply. The oyster fishery in everywhere carried on in the moat reoklese manner; and in all -.directions oyster grounds are becoming deteriorated, and in some oases have been entirely deetroyed. It remains to be seen whether the Governments of the States Will regulate the oyster fishery before it is too late or will permit the destruction of these vast feservoire of food, --Science Monthly. The Liberals of Belgium are eharply criticized by all the Liberal papere in Ettrope for their refueal to accept the results of onnstitutional.Government when the remits are against them. Having out- bidden in bigotry and dogmatism the Mist liberal and fanatical party In Eueope, they now have recourse to violenoe. The sierra - Jets kook for nothing short of civil war. The King is hoeted daily. The radical papers speak of him as Mr. Leopold Cobourg and street Orowde shout for a republic); but 'the greatest danger in it all is that the disorder may provoke foreign interveet, tion. A London cablegram says : Earl Dufferin is expeoted to.day. Behind his bright man. ner, whioh was no admired in Canada, will be hidden the businese sagacity and strong will shown in his management of Turkish affairs. As Viodroy of India, and as the possible future Premier, he excites groat attention. He returns to Belfast, to his home on a brief visit, where a banquet awaits him. intim linciaa'reatie, Ala Intereetinte and •schaletter Atiewer tie a NewmPollPer bultalrY. In answer to the question as to who first ;slept on an iron bedstead, J. H. Douglass, Northville, Spike County, D.T., sends to the Chicago Inter,Oeean the followiug "The inquirer is referred to the third chapter ot the book et Deuteronomy, llth verse, as follows ' For only Og, King of Baehan' remained of the remnant of an gits ; behold hie bedstead was a bedstead of iron; 18 it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon ? Nine cubits was the length at tr, and four cubite the breadth of it, after the cubit of a wan.'" Tina 0g, we'find from the Scripture, was, with his children and his people defeated and exterminated .by the Israelites under Mien at Edrei, immediately after the eon- queet of !anion who is represented by Josephus ?demi and ally. /lie many, walled cities of 13ashan-he is said, to have reigned over sixty -were taken and his kingdom assigned, with his capital, A.tili- taroth, to the 4rantjardanic tribes, especially the half -tribe of Manaseeh. In forra Og - was a giant, BO that his bed- steads was preserved as a niensorial ot his huge stature. How it got to " Rabbath of the children Of Ammon," we are not informed, but some suppose that the Ammonites may have taken it in some victory over Og. Several of the most learned biblical soholare give it BB their epinion that the verse itself has the air of a lathe edition,although it is of course possible that the Hebrew's may have heard of so curious a relic as the bed- -stead long before they conquered the 'shy -where it was treasured. Rabbath was first subdued in the'reign of David, but it due not necessarily follow that the verse in the third chapter of Deuteronomy wee not written, till that time. It may be interesting in this connection to state that some have supposed that this was one of the common 'flet beds used on the honk - tops of eastern oities, bui Made of iron instead of palin branches, which would not have ouppoeted the giant's weight. We also observe, in ooniparing the authorities, that they call attention to the fact that the Arabs even to thia day consider black byealt as iron, because it is a stone of the color of iron and durable, and contains a large per- centage of iron. It 113 abundant in the Hauran, and this is thought to be the cause Of tne name Argon (the etony), given to a part of the kingdom of this giant. Og was one of the last representatives of the giant race of Rephaim, and of him many eastern ' traditiope have been related, legends which perhaps may be traced to an apooryphal took bearing his name. According to BOMB of these traditions, he escaped the deluge by walking beside the ark. 0g, was Fop - posed to be the largest of the sons of Anak, and a descendant of Ad, and is said to have lived no lees than 3,000 years. Other legends are given by Mohammedan writers; as, that one of his bones long served for a bridge over a river; that he roasted Mahe -enrr-a-afislr-free-hly-caught;aaud--others- equally oredible. What Might be Expected. "Now, as I understand the tariff Clarence," said a fair Young Albany bride about Wbom dill clung the odor of the orange blossom, "nearly everything imported from the Old World has to pay, a tax. .Am I right, dearest ?" Yes, fond one," replied Clarence, as he softly stroked her brown tresses. " In order to protect our home industries, under the present system,. most importations pay a tax. There is a party who would remove the tar"-43iff.'h'.eClerences--you-swill-never-votelor- • that.party, promise me." " And why not?' asked the devoted husband. • ; " Because then our hired girl oould get a French artificial flower bouquet on her spring bonnet just like mine, and that would be perfectly horrid." . As Clarence fondly erabraced the fair economist he though of the 'noble and unselfish motives that 'would actuate the ballot in the hand's of women.-.4.1bany journal. ° - A Wonderful Ntrueture. The new cathedral of Sb. Savior at Mos- cow is a remarkable, structure. It wee built to commemorate the departure of the Frehoh army from Moiseow. The style is ancient Russian. The five copper,oupolas, foe the gilding of which was required 900 pounds of gold, cost £170,000. The domes are surmounted by crows, the centre one being thirty feet high and 340 feet from the ground. The largest bell weighs 26 tone. The whole edifice is faced- with marble, the doors are of bronze, ornamented with Biblical subjects and lined with oak. The principal entrance is Minty feet high and eighteen feet broad. Two of the doors weigh thirteen tons, and the total cost of all the doors was £62,000.. It is in the form of a Greek cross. The walls are adorned with freeboes illustrating Ufa chief events in the history of the 11420Bikt Church. Throughout the building are many of the most remarkable paintinge pxoduced by Russian artists. The whole °est of the etruoture is plaqed at £2,260,000 sterling, and it is said to be capable of con- taining 10,000 worshippers.. ' Charlotte Orange's 'Wedded Lite. Since I lad arrived in Yorkehire I have heard it generally asserted that the brief wedded life of Charlotte Bronte was by no means the roseate dream of happipeth that her biographers hale deformed. Mr. Nicholl appears to have been a harsh, if not a positively unkind husband, and cer- tainly his actions after the death of his first wife prove him to have been an unlov- ing one. -Perhaps it was better so -that early death with the dim eyes turned to the bleak moors that the dying woman loved better than the grandeurs of London or the loveliness of --Paris, --That etrangea morbid nature wen Mit created for happi- nese. The last supremest chaboe that a woman ever has afforded her-ntunely,that of con jugal blise-seeene to have failed her. Fame and glory and the applause of the world found her indifferent and unrespon- sive.-Loadon Letter to Philadelphia Tele- graph. church chimes. • A secular paper says a good thingabout the Jews.i They are never found n the liquor business. It is believed that out of 60,000 Hebrews in New York city not one is the keeper of a grog Flop. It is worthy of tide that the largest con- tributions made last year to the Missionary work of the Protestant Epithopal Church was made by a Chinamen, Mr, Charles Ping Lee, of Shanghai, who gave $5,000 td St. Luke's Hoapital in that city. Dr, Samuel Hall, of New York, has donated a100 in aid of the Crumlin Presby- terian Churth. Dr. Hall was formerly a auburban resident of London, and as it ie many years eine° he lefts the present memento of his connection with that aity is all the more esteemed. While the synagogue at -116Ealt Was oroWded a bomb with a quiets Match attaohed Was found at the Matranoe to the _ NESVOU$ 0 BA'COUS. Old,MM• taten who Always Tremble Betere ),Ethinit " a tipmeb• Great orators are hirdefit invariably neer vows with apprehehsion wiien about .to make an important speech, says the New York Star. Luther, to his lad Years, trembled when he entered the pulpit ; the same is true of Robert Hall, Mr. Gough confesses that he is alwaya in a, tremor when ooming before an audience- Many of the leaders of the House Of Commons have given similar teetimony, Clanning said he could always tell ;n advance when he wars' about to make good speeches by a chill running through him, °aimed by a fear of failure. Lord Derby, -father of the pxeeent Earl, when a young man, was one of the beet speakers in Par- liament. He was known as the "Prince Rupert of debate," and seemed so self- pospeesed as to be incapable of mealtimes& Inman. But he said : "When 1 am going to speak my throat and lips are as dry as those of a roan who is going to be hanged." He aleo told the late Sir A, Allison that "be never rose to speak, even in an afternoon dinner assembly, without experienoing a certain degree of aervoue tremor, width did not go off till he warmed to the eubjecta" It ia reoorded of Cicero that "ho ehuddered visibly over his whole body when be first began to speak." In the "Life of Lord Lyndhurst," by Sir Theo- dore Martin, we are told that he did not prepare his speeches. "Though, like all great orators, he never rose to weak with- out nervous emotion, this in no wayinter- fered with his 'sewer of thinking as he spoke, and calling into •piny the fittest-hue- guage to exprees what he thought. The intensity with which his intellect worked became contagious. He got his hearers' ininds within his grasp, be made them think with him, see with the IMMO clear - nem as he himself save them, and so led them ineeneibly up to his own oonolusione." Tierney, whom Lord Macaulay tolls one of the mookfluent debaters ever known, said he never rose in Parliament without feeling hi knees knook together. 14 18 one Of the compensations of 'nature that 'the nervous temperament which occasions the trem- bliug is, also one of the causes of oratorical success. In ,fact, it asiay almost be said that no one oan be a great orator, or a really effective speaker, who does not experience thes feeling. - • The 'secret ot Living Long. 'A correspondent of the Voltaire recently had an interview with M. Chevreul, the famous French chemist, whose 09th birth- daybas juet been celebrated by the Acad- emy of Science. After thanking the journalist for all his, goad wishes, the old man proceeded to fill him the secret of living long. "1 have never been a pessi- mist," said he, 'and I have oautiouely kept myself from being, toe much of an optimist. If I had -not worked hard I Would have died long ago. One thing above Bal I have siernarkeds-the-older-Igrow-the-better-ixians- kind seemsto have become. I have seen the Reign' of Terror. I was then 7 years oId. Such a thing will never -again be repro- duced in .this world, To -day we have more need of -universal peace than of foolish reprisals. Times are more gentle and life is hatter." . "-To-morrow, my dear master," said the jonrnalist, " you will appear even better than you do to -day." ' • •• • • • " Pshaw," replied the venerable savant; "let. us not _trouble ourselves about to -morrow. Let us enjoy the • present. • I had a model of a wife, the mother of a most . exemplary family., , She has left me a _posterik that I love, and by whom I. am loved. Why, one of my little great- granddaughters-a:she is 3 years oldaasalute6 the bust of her old great-grandfather every morning. Another of.them, quite a learned lady' of 9 Team, wrotathie 46 me the other day: My dear papa, I'm tired of the country. My • sister 'Marie likes hoilse- keeping ; I don't. I like to read. 1- want to be ealibrarian when I grow . up. They call pie Mia Blue Stocking, and that vexes me.'". The old man laughed... "Why, my ‘dear sir;" -he continued, "I am made young iieein by juet such letters as that. More- over, I lieve always put'in prim:nice the old adage, • Seek and 'you shall find.' I have sought, and I have always found something, at the domestic fireside as well as in the laboratory." • Bow They Aide. The young Japanese swells take their seats' earelthely and try to aBBUMO an air -of ponchalance, as if they tad been used to railroads all their life. The Hindoe gives the Englieli official who serves as • a ticket agent a new experience in trying to beat down the price of a ticket from one rupee . six annas tp one rupee two alma& In Africa a guard in red fez and. •Essish • closes the car door; the blue gowns and bare feet, the water' jugs and palm -mats, the prayer-oarpets and tins, and the braes waiters, are all stowed away, and without any whistling or puffing, the locomotive slides quietly out from the Shadowy station into the intense white punshine and trundles sluggishly along. In Germany, the Government sees that not a single accident ever occurs from the breaking of,a rail, but ie singularly-inclif-- ferent to anything that merely ministers to the comfort or convenience of traveller& Even in Syria is heard the :cry, "Change cars for Nazareth!" It le hard to realize that within one generation have occurred the tremendous changes and improve- ments in, railway travel, reaching the final point of Maury when Eugenie had in her suite of care in travelling to Vienna one fitted up as a conservatory. -Kennedy's ".Wonders of the Railway." • Mr. BackeiVs Racket. Wathington Star: " You must think I have no mina at all?" wrathfully exolaimed Mrs. Racket% as,the pause4 in.her sweep- ing lottg enotign•to give a double -concerted glare at the Qld man. "Good reason to think so," retorted Beckett; "you're giving a piece of your mind to the neigh/stirs so often no sure you ean'thave any left by this titne." - - • * The journal des Deliats, of Paris, is imi- tating the taotios 'of the Pall Mall Gazette, by decrying the navy of He own country with the same bitterness manifested by the Gazette towards the navyaof England, The Joutezia declares that the French fleet oan- nthhold a candle to that of England, and that the French snipe are rotten to the core., The article oonoludes with the asser- tion that the French navy would require an expenditure Of millione of francs to make it even equal to that of width the Pall Mall Gazette speake ko contemptuthely. These expressions of the great Republican organ of Patio have been extensively copied in the London papers and have had a ten. clones, towards allaying the exoitenient caused by the Gazette's peatibnitun- During the petit 25 years, the population of the United States hag ihoreaeed Moro than 25,000,000; manufacturing preclude have grown from $1,885,000,000 to 45,396,- 000,000. Farm acreage has Increased from 107,000,000 to 686,000,000 aores and their value from $6,000,000,000 to over, 010,000,- 000,000, and our railroads fren130,686 miles to 120,000 mile. GOOD BANNERS, They Form on Important "l'acterfu nun. way Alanasiteasepit. To the people who live along its line a railway comes to be regarded almost as a peeson, says the Railway Age. Ibis popular or unpopular, just as an inditidual is among those who deal with him. In many oases tile people who ,have buinness rela- tions With it seem to be protla of tbe road --they brag of it and epeak of it with affection. They give it a nickname expreetive ef their kindly feelings, as soldiers do to the general they love, or the publio to the politician for whom it has an admiring affection. That the favorable regard of the publio is of decided cash value to a railway it needs no argument to prove. In these days when the whistles of rival locomotivesaof competing roads may be beard at aimed every, railway dation, the importance of having the good -will of the people is very great indeed. This fact is generally recognized, and it is only those who control roads which have no competition who are in danger of forgetting or ignoring its importance. But in the case of every payi,vg line of railway in the United States, the existence of competition is only a question of time. The arbitrary, surly, illhfed repreeentative of the road may have mat - tem in his own hands for years. People must patronize his reed because there is no other.- e01- couree he can carry out his theories, establishing bie relations with the patrons of the road upon- the basis of businees," encouraging no gociability and incapable of goad fellowehip. But he is creating a belt of hatred as long as the railway and as broad as the territory dependent upon it for fitoilitiee for trans- portation. He may not reap the civil harveet which he has sowed. His salary may be regularly paid, or he may resign his position before the publio has an oppor- tunity of avenging itself. But when that opportunity,. comes - when it_pompeting road enters the territory-thie penalty of arrogance and arbitrariness will surely be suffered. People do not forget such things. Prejudices in latch oases are more power- ful than pocket -books. If the patrons of a railroad feel that they have been treated with want courtesy, if their self-love has been mounded by those who rtpreeent the road, they will "get oven" if they can even though it may cost them something. • Mammoth' Gas ittesevroirs. " The Surrey Gas Company can boast of having the largest gasholder in the world, says the London Standard. The top of it cap be seen for miles around the Old Kent road, where it stande, and it may be said to be one of. the Hoes of London. Of orna- mentation it is utterly void, but there is a hand -railing on the top running around the crown which enables any venturous person to enjoy a promenade on a fine day -enjoy- able enough it hie thoughts did not revert to the preamith of no fewer than 5,400 cubic feet ot gas in store beneath him. Thia 18 Vigeecopic ader shape. The framingwhich surrounds the holder and keeps it in position is 160 feet high and consists of wrought iron uprights, with five tiers of strut; and ten sets of diagonal braces. The tank is 218 feet in diameter and 55 feet 6 inches in depth ; the inner holder 53 feet 6 inches deep and 208 feet in diameter ; the middle lift 53 -feet 3 inches deep and 211 feet in diameter, and the outer Mtn; 53 feet and 214 feet across, and altogether its oapacity is equal to the storage of nearly five and a half million feet of gas. • The Charlene a Subject Race. The -Chinese ate a composite nation. The Chinese proper form the basis of population in the eighteen Provinces. The Tartare are the ruling race. They have held the imper- ial power for more than 200 years. Tartar garrisons distributed throughout the empire keep the great cities in order and dominate the Provincial armies, which are chiefly composed of Chinese. Besides these lead- ing elenients there are the Mohammedan, who are found principally in the southern and western Provinces. They are descend- ants of the first Arab invaders, who found their way to China about the tenth century. They have not preserved the faith of MotainSmed in a high degree of perfection, and in externals of dress and manners they resemble the Chinese about them.. The Mohammedans are always oppressed and 'usually discontented. The Chinese, though they,have so 'mg obeyed a Tartar Emperor, ace cliseatisfied, and, as shown by their recent revolts, would willingly transfer their allegiance to rulers of their own or even of another race if they could do so with safety. -San Francisco Chronicle. Receipt to Blake Aloney. Let the business of everybody else 'alone, and attend to your own ; don't buy what yen don't want; use every hour to advantage,, and study to make your leieure hours 'use- ful; think tteice before you throw away a shilling, remember you will have another to make for it; find recreation in looking over your business; buy low, sell fair, and take care of the profits; look over your books regularly, and it you find1 an error traoe it out; if a stroke of misfortune comes -upon. you -in -your- trade -retrench, work harder, but never fly the track; control difficulties with unflinching perseverance and they will disappear at "last ;though yea; should fall in the struggle you will be honored ; but shrink from the task you Will be despised. The Great Eastern. It is now regarded as certain that the Great Eastern will be chartered by the Exposition management to bring from London to New Orleans the collective and individual exhibits that have been aromised bythe ,Governments and by private indi- viduals and 'firms of Europe. Unless the negotiations fail, the greatvessel, the largest in the world, will leave London between the 15th of October and the 1st of November. The Great Eastern herself will be no inconsiderable feature of the great' show and will be worth going htin- duels of miles to pet. The management has nob yet deoided what usethe.great ship will be put to after her arrival. -New Orleans Bulletin. At the Bandanna Font, New York Star: It was at the baptismal font and the minister had the baby in his arms. "What is the name?" he asked a the Mother. " joeephine Newton." "Joseph E. Newton, 1 baptize thee in the name---" "No, no," hurriedly whispered, the mother in great alarm. "Not Joseph E.-As/own:in, Josephine Newton. It's not that kiwi of a baby." ' • ' ' Skeleton coral is produced by steeping ordinary Coral in dilute muriatio acid for a long tinie. The lime is dissolved and a delicate framework of silica left. Some of these elteletons are to delicate that they break in drying. Ali should be kept tinde0 glue, Ciatholio Inissientary authorities in Paris have received advioes from Hong Kong stating that the Chime° have destroyed* Catholid chapels in the province of Canton; banoin0 d0400.0000411414W in. thee province are IPA7r414 VEAlieta, f1•10=••••• Allornalil Statistics of Married Lite at Diderent Ages, In an address to mug men, Dr. W. Pratt, of London, gives the following facts (Detroit Lancet) : In the male sex, from 25 to 30 years or age, one thousand married men furnish six deaths; one thousand bachelors furnieh ten deaths; one thousand widowers furnish twenty-two death. If, however, the marriage he contracted before 20 it is found that the mortality is seven times greater than among the unmarried. In the female sex the same facts hold true. Marriage under 20 increases the death rate seven -fold, while marriages after 20 greatly diminiehee the mortality. Young married people from 18 to 20 die as rapidly as old people from 60 to 70. Thus it appeare that marriage after 21 makes life healthier as well as purer, Marriage aftey 30 years greatly increases the mortality of females in &liaised. But in spite of all this, peo- ple will marry without any reference to rearon or sound phypiological laws. The "majority will measurably follow the phy- siological law from eimple instinct, and the rest will make a ehipwrecdr of life. Showing filer "Madness. Ma," remarked Pinder Fitzgoober, very gravely last Sunday at dinn er table, "our Sunday -school teaoher gave us a good leeson on kindness to -day." "she did?" smilingly asked Fitzgeoher. "yes, sir; and she wound" up by asking tlfl bop; to give an instance -where kindness would be shown.„ " Did you give an instance ? " No, sir; that land of business stuck me, and when be naw I was in the mud, elle said: Pinder, suppose Mr. Fitzgoober ehould come heat, very weak, and sick, what would your mother show him ?" What did you tell -her ?" questioned Fitz, pleased at being remembered by the teacher. "1 told her " axiewered Pinder, with the air of a boy Who felt thati,the thermometer was about .to -take midden jdmp, " that nia would show her ugly temper, and ask what kind of lioker you'd been drinking this time." It is safe to conjecture that the room did become suddenly warm. -Atlanta Constitu- tion. ,p '• . , - The ITILooesf-Cse ot Water. The Moore displayed an astonishing ingenuity and fertility of invention in their manipulations of fountains and baths and running streams. It is plain to toe that water from the same sources is made to subserve different purposes in different parts of its course though there is never lack of water about the Alhambra, for the hotter and drier 'the weather the more rapidly is the snow melted on the moun- tains and the more copiously flow its streams. All the' courts about the Allam. bra are arranged that water may flow eon- tinually,men to the air, and thus give -coolness to-the-atroosphere even -in -the -heat of day. At the Aloazar which is Arabian for palace) of Seville the water is made to gush in (nothing jets along the pave- ments of the gardens, and the apparatus of arrangeraent still remains in use.-Ccerres- ponelence Cincinnati Enquirer. • • In -growing Toe Nails. Much suffering is due to the corners of toe India growing in the flesh, says the Philanelpfue, CaW' The remedy IB very simple. It isa mistake t� out the nails short at the sore copiers; if the nail is long, out the upper edge straight across or in a crescent shape, the oreacent in -the center, leaving the corners • untouched; Then serape the middle of the nail for its whole length quite thin. The Beraping may be done with a knife, but muoh more readily by the use'of a bit of freshly broken Window glass. The centre of the nail should be made so thin that a slight preesure upon the corners will bend it. In some oases it may be well to put a little lint or cotton under the °others of the.nail to aid in the bending. Of course the avoidance cf tight badn. will euggest itself to all. • A Gratelni Husband. • ' • Rochester Post -:Express:. • Merchant -- Hasn't Fogg ,mede his appearance yet this morning ? . • Head BbelseEeeper-No;ssii. "Strange!nave you examined • his books?" . " Yes, sir; they are correct to a cent." " What about his cash -drawer ?" "Not a cent gone." . " This it; very strange 1 Can you explain it ?" " I have just heard that he has eloped." "With my -daughter 2" No, sir; with your wife." , "Poor wretch! How I pity him. Stay. You say he has no money ?" ' "None that I know of." "Make out a, cheque for $100,000 and mail it to him, oare of John C.Eno. That'll reach him. It shan't be said that I failed to appreciate the honest endeavors of a poor young man." • • He Was Vp on Sinners. ' " Mysdear boy," said an earned Sunday Scheel teacher at the North End Missioa, to a frowsy urchin, "do you know that we are all sinners ?" " Yes, maem." "Do you know that you are a ninner ?" " Yes, rearm." A long and earnest talk followed, in which the claims of the gospel were fully set forth, but the teacher wan only rewarded by an unintelligible stare. Finally, it 000urred to the teacher that perhaps she had taken the boy beyond his depth, and she inquired: "John, you know what a sinner he don't you ?" " Sinners ? Ob, yes; sinners is strings in turkeys' legs." -Boston Globe. _ .American Lending Commercial Cities. In the Comparative amount of businees transacted, the fifteen leading commercial cities of the United States, as indicated by the weekly bank °leering& range as follows: Now York $422,000,000 Boston Chicago• 89;00400 Philadelphia 88,000.000 St. Louis 14,000,000 Baltimore 11,000,000 San Francisco... 9,000,000 8,000,000 Pittsburg 7,000,000 Milwaukee 3,000,000 Benne City 3,500,000 Louisville 3,400,000 Pro "donee, 3,300,000 D oit 2,500,000 Clbveiand 2,100,000 A movement has been inaugurated. at Montreal, Quebec, to establish a frets city library for all claases of citizens. The sum desired is $100,000. Hattlesnakes are said to be numerous and active on Table Mountain, Nevada; where they were not known to exist before. The Shah of Persia, in returning for the courtesiee shown to him while in Paris, has presented the munieipality. with two carnete of a variety no larger than Shetland pole& • Admiral Clourbet is perplexed as to the 00Urde io :hall pursue towards neutral& NOTED TEAT° Sketch ot England's Celebrated Ballad Singer. Sims ,Reeves is reposed, efter hummer. able *. last appearences," to be singing age4n in England, 14 thio fast living age he is soniethiug tharely of the past, and the rate of epeed with whteh he " lived during the height of his carcee leads one 10 wonder to hear of him as te4Cif alit e now. Perhaps no singer in Euglaba ever o thor- oughly captivated the conitraeu people as did Sims Reeves, and it it quite certain no one ever imposed upon them more. The uncertainty of his filling hie engagements , `Demme SO general dining the latter years of his career that until her actually appeared, before the foot -lights no one "ivaB ever sure ,a,f heating biro. He would serve all iiudieuxee alike, and nO. matter how large a house there was to hear him, if he did not feel Inc:heed to sing, or was not in condition -which was fre- quently the case -he vvoulcl remain at his hotel and take a fiendish dolight in sitting at the Window and wittolung the (beep - pointed audience retura borne. With all the uncertainty of hie appeariug there was one city and one theatre wherein he never failed. This was the city of Bath. Where is a tradition that wiem Sims Remit ' commenced to star as a tenor, and was nob - remarkably successful, he was received with open arms by theP aristocratic' and appreoiative Bath* audienuE. From that reception he dated his eucosseful °career. ee The writer remembers sectiug Reeve& at this theatre, in the early p brt of the seven. - ties. He had been drinaieg wine after- dinner and it was 8.30 kefare he made his appearance. He excused himself by saying he was mistaken in the time. Ordinarily Sims Reeves sang apparently with great effort, straining his neck and flinging MS arms about at random. ,This time he . simply sat (Iowa on a plain wooden chair, held a partly Snicked cigar in his hand, ' and commenced to mg "Sally in Our Alley," • whiole,i although the words are of, the oornmoneet and the air simple, he has Made famous. He seemed to be in a par- ticularly • happy frame of mind and the ' ,effect was electrical. People, waved their - handkerchiefs, rose to their feet; mounted chairs and forms and &mined frantio. Reeves sat calmly through it all and sang Bong after song to- hie-dalighted -pet audience, which afterwards adjourned to his hotel to give him an ovation. The great tenor had disappeared and oould not be • found. Upon inquiry it was learned' that he had gone straight to.bed upon bis return from the theatre, and, added the landlord. - " he is now dead drunk." • 5the First Newspapers, With the discovery. of priuting the initial newspapers of different countries appeared in the following order: , . Name. - Town. , • Year. (i Printing introducedalo,yence • 1438 1 Gazette . ' Nuremberg 1457 2 filironichi......... ,,,mg 3 Gazette • Venice • 1670 • 4 Die Frankfurte Ober- , , • Frankfort 1618 5 Weekly News London... ... . . ,.........1623 6 Gazette de France Paris. 1631 • 7 Postoseli Inrikes;Tid- ning • Sweden • 1644 8 Mercurim Politicus...Leith, Scotland 1553 • 9 Courant Harlem, Hollcind.,....1655 ' 10 Publick OccurrencesBoston 1690 -11 Pue's Occurrences Dublin Ireland 1700 12 Gazette St. Petersburg, Itus..1703 . 13 News Letter Boston • • • 1704. . 14 Gaceta de Madrid Madrid, Spain • ..17041. 15 Mercury Philadelphia,' Pa 1725 16 Gazette New. • York„ ... .. ......1725 17 Gazette ' Annapolis, Md • 1707 18 Gazette Charleston, 3.0 • 1731 19 Gazette . Willib,msburg, Va„..1736 2,0„ Gazette... Quebec 1764 t 21 Gazette..Montreal 1778 - 33 Gazette.- . -Calcutta 1781 . . --Geyer's Stationer. • • • • • London 44 World " Gossip. I understand Lord Tennyson Will have ready for buyers of Christmae and New Year's gifts a new dramatic study. „ Mr. Parnell is just now shooting down 'hie grouth among the scenes of the Irish , Rebellion of 1798 (" Who fears to speak of '98?'), and hie shooting box is . the Aughavanna' Bareacks, where the yeoraaary • and militia were quartered in that fearful rising. , The arrival of the Court at Balmoral, and the visit of the • Prime •Minister to Invereauld, have combined to fill Braemar e to overflowing. Every hole and corner was ocoupied last week, and at the hotels people were glad to get" shakedowns`" on and under the billiard tables. Viecionnt Reidhaven, the eldest son of the • new Earl of Seafield,,, is a candidate in the Independent Liberal " interest for the repreeentation of the burgh of Oarharu, in the Parliament of New Zealand. He has been settled in the colony for nearly twenty years. • . ' . ' Nature and Art. There is no safety in culture if 16 loathe to artifioiality. There must be a safety , valve to any high pressure system, social, • moral or,intelleotual. The commotion with the sources of nature must be kept perfect. It matters little by what slender streams nature feeds us, so that we get the food at first hand. History seems to teach us that .utter artifioiality is thti forerunner of decadence. On the other had, in the flowering time of a people's youth come their geniuses. England can have no Shakepeare now, Germany' no Goethe, Hely no Dante. Culture has gone too far. The wires are down between nature and the leaders of fashion n fine art. -Maurice Theinpson in Outing. A large whale became entangled in & submarine cable near Panama, and iiihin efforts to extricate himself was so severely injured by the wire that he died the -same day. The power developed by the explosion of , a ton of dynamite is equal to. 45,375 tons e raised one foot, or 45,675 foot -toes. One ton of hitrolglycerine siniilarly exploded will exert a power of 04,452 foot.tonsa and one ton of -blasting gelatine similarly exploded, 71,050 foot -tons. e ' A chair is in use on a Newport lawn which registers the weight of any one sit- ting in it, without the sitter's knowledge. It is fetid that eaveral ladies have been sincerely vexed at this stratagem Frank Laniard., whose case hats ptizzled the eurgeonfe died on Friday in Boston. He was a baseball pitcher, and his right, . arm beoame useless.. The shoulder ande". - portion of the oollar-hone were' removed, but the man lingered in great agony for Months. . Count Peeil, with several gentlemen ' e belonging to the German Colonization Union, will Bail ehortly for Zatizibarrtie-- acquire land for colonization purposee, instead of the west coast of AMC's, as se Ant projected. - When it farmer was swindled out of $1,000 by bunko gamblers outside a oirouri at Springfield, Mass., it Was the 'proprietor of the 'how who went bail foe the soonne drele, and, Wier pressure, „restored the neoney. On Friday night R. E. tunkle, Interhal Revenue inepector, was found dead in an opium joint m Philadelphia) where he had been two aaye without food.