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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-10-15, Page 2They Tell Me Totere Old, 'Weide Sam. A. SUXRWOOD They tell me You're old, 'Uncle Semi -.- I teed not aword.thet they sey ; Too seem lett the &erne to me now, As I've known you, umuy a day. Tee nie the &Me St0404 10114 Ot the settlees troubles lout rarest heugh I teenot a elosclow ot tear At year tale* et Indiana and beam The tear tails not on my (Meek, when To tell how use ArOlt round your home Would howl all the dreary long night 4Pd doe whoa the dat light would MAO, °nettle& tae old eke leg. Where move in summer we sat - In dreams you IMAM by ray side, Your cane and your tawny brownest. -foresee old is the huts, uncle ace„ Take way lama, ru teu pee A truth ; By the pore simple We you've need, You've kept much the v10 ut yeur yeetts. Tee old church Mean pee to wreck; where lowly I've knelt by your Aide; wee the 100A4 bte outlitoAll VOA WA* and tee 04 mos that worshipped aeve tite4 TOE OF i ROSE .1••••••••• Seminole Tragedy that Led to a Midnight Massacre. In the weatern part of Jetforaon cottety, Florida, there grows end blew= into curious' and magaificten beeuty a roes that awns to be indigeuous to a emelt area of country,, but which will not tiourielt hi other latItuder. The beale is a etrong and rigeroue one encl, the leavels aee a very light bat glossy green. The petals a the nowero curve ellehtly inward toel are the color of bright, arterial blood. The odor L a pungent, but 'slightly sickeriing. Tne peouliaritv of thin Reeser is that the dew that drops therefrom is of a feint pluk- ieh A marvel seen le uo other Rower, the battling wonder of those who have witoseoed it. It its called the Grants roee and hell A mei and ine'aucholy history. lee origin Is oue of thous -wirer's* with which Nature at times delighta to eaten- iish her devotees. In 1834 John Grant and Nellie Lewry were rearriel. Bath were natives of an adjainingcoonty,where the reooreof their baptiem eani their marriage le sal o ilie among then:4e archives that heves been handed down from yeu. to year. John wail a youug farmer, stout and strong, a pleudid tepe of Southern raanheod,ceue paratively well educated, Inured to bard work, telf rellaut aud quick of resource ; Nellie wsa well auited to les the mate ot such a man. She was bright aud pretty, the belle of the little eettlement, fuU if buyoratt heelth *ed spiraa, stoseg ef arm and heart, fully 'killed in Jzc use:should and farm duties, and embalms awl pure of Data and soul. At one of the pleas:ant social getheringe of the neighborhood they lied met. It was a cue of mutual love at first eight, and coy as miss Nellie was, it did not take young Grant long to woo and wilt her. They were merried on the morning of the 33. of june. 1834. For sullen around the neighbor's flocked to the wedding of the popular young oouple. The wedding feast that followed would have been fit to eat before a king. The forests conteibuted their choicest game said the river its moot toothsome fish. Chlekene were plentiful and there were toed& of bread and cake. An open barrel of persimmon beer sparkled neat the door way. In the afternoon, with all his earthly goods pecked in s, huge wag- gon drawn by four oxen, his youeg wife ;tested beside him, glancing tearfully bask at the dear old home ehe wee leaving perhaps' for ever, bat smilingthrough her tears, Jahn Grant took up the line of march to the place he had melee ed aa their futu:e home. It was in J. %mon •csounty, near the beautiful Arc Ileativer. Here he took up one hundred and aixty scree of fine virgin soil, beilt, a rough but oomfortahle log house aud se tied down to the prosaic duiles of life. His sturdy oxen soon broke up the ground, the sees' was sown, and, with a patient round of labor he waiesd for the rich results which were sure to f Wow. MBEttnintle the dainty taste ef his young wife had made a coey nest of the rude house, and in the little dooryardmany homelyold faehic tied flaw - era bloomed and blosacined. The nearest neighbor was five miles and the neareat store ten miles away, but the couple did not lack for either the necessaries or the luxuries of life. Their larder was at their very doors, and near by the Ancilla, roaming downward to the gulf, brought cooling breEzee to them and de- lighted their eyes withehe glossy verdure that fringed its banks. Its beautiftelwaters were like a mirror and over sixty feet in depth the glistening sand was plainly visi- ble. In the Spring of 1835 a child was beim unto them and a new blessing added to the happy honeehold, making life's duties a pleaaare and its varied rerponaibilities easier to be b erne. But a cloud not larger than a man's hand soon made its appears ance, heavy with sorrow and disaster, and fraught with a darkness that enveloped and crushed thehappy family inthe gloom. The Seminole Indiana who had for some time been qu.et and friendly and enesged in the peaceful pursuita of the chase, the quiet camp -fires and social in- tercourse, were secretly preparing for an outbreak under the ineidious appeals of Oaceola and some of the other young and fiery chiefs of the tribe. The inflammstory appeals might, however, have failed of elect had they nob resorted to a deeperate ex pedienb. a In the month of September,1835, Char- ley Omathla, aSeminole chieftain of great Influence, who had been a steadfast and much respected friend ot the white people, giving ids voice and prestige to them on every occasion, while strolling through the woods with a young daughter was waylaid and killed by some members of the Micasultee tribe, who had hid in am- bush for that purpose, under the inetagat- ion of the cruel and treacherous Osceola. The latter chief had this done for the purpose of inciting the I adians to revenge. claiming that the murder was the work of white men anxious to secure their lands. A son of die murdered Omathia, exited by these incendiary appeals, and eager to avenge the death of his father, gathered a band of young backs, all, like himself, eager for the warpath, and started out upon a career of murder and rapine. Their course was marked by terrible and repul- sive outrages, lighted by the glare of burning homes and enlivened by the torture of helpless children. 01 all theses things John Grant and his pretty littl wits were in blissful ignorance. September 20th,1835,was an unuoually warra day, and young Grant, having busi nese at the country atOre, louse ten mile off, delayed his propoosel vela until the coal of the evening. At 6 o'clock he mounted bia home and ro le c ff. He expeeted to return ,,bout 2 on fie kissed hie hand gayly to hts wife and the growing baby as he rode away.. In a few moments he was awe lowed up in the gathering clazknees, and never again was he aeen of men. Six miles front home hia horse etopped with a quick snort and turned so violently as to ahnost unseat him. Supposing it to be exalted by some shadow of bueh or briar, he urged it Ola. A clump of undergrowth near the river suddenly became alive. A sharp ringing ;sound, a faint puff of pungent smoke scarcely vieible against the night, and his horse, ;shot through the hea,rte trem- bled and fell under lama. Before he had time to extricate himaelf the red devils, with a v ar-whoop of fieudiah triumph, were upon labn. Poor John: One prayer for Nellie and the baby, and then hie bleeding ;scalp hung at the girdle of a painted savage, while his gashed and dill waves body was flung into the river, whose white arms opened to receive it One o'clock came and the little:woman In the log cabin Fit her work of sewing aside, kleaeol the sleeping infant near her aiid ileteneel inteutlyter the footsteps she would never hear again. The night had become very dark. The moon was hiddeu bAblnd A hank etc/elude item) and gloomy and there was a whioper of rain in the arnaaphere. The long yellow hound sleep• ng near the door became realm and whined num/1y as he sullied the air. Another hour paned, and theyoung wife, filled, with an undefinable dread, was about to go to the door, when there come a yell that alineet 1 rzs the bounding pulses and left her cheeks AS White as the imprese of death. For a moment elm etood laelplete and. trembling ; then clasping her chsld to her boeora, ahe raloed a louse plank in the floor dropped through Ube the ground, and, with an agonizing prayer to the Ai - mighty, Stole out in the ;strange and cam - passionate gloom. Behind her she could, awl the quick glare of burning entbutlel- Mae and the httle home that had been paradise to her. Teo flOen waa her fight diatovered and the red fiends were oath° trail. About two tulles from the aches of her ruined home oho was over taken. Two days afterwards a party of hunters elute upon the dead bodies ti mother and child. It )ugh and tell -worn bench% gently bore them to a (inlet grave, the babe upon the mother's breast. Near by a little pool ef their life -blood had col- lected, which, the eel' had not yet abate. bed, dark and noisome in the bright sun- shine, a blot upon the swift evraying of trees and the jeyous song of birds. In the opening Spring the hotly of the hue - band and father was found entangled In the mote at the bottom of the river, and was burled with the ones he loved's° well. A fevr years beer a passing banter, ono of the party that had found the bodies, happened on the mono locsalley and in the little hero 4', where the blood had gathered, sew a vigoroue bush, bearing such roue as I have deecribed. He cat some alips from it and took them to the settlement, where he related his dismv- ery. Sada a romantic and angular story excited the cariosity of raany in the ad j iceab c ' ounties and repeated efforta were made to securethe growth of the slips in other plums,. but they have failed of Imo- cesa. Withinan area ef five miles, where the doleful tragedy occurred, it is said the vele can still be found, with ite stroisg and 'sturdy mock, its pale green leaves, its incurvee criras set petals aud i's bloody dew. el THE FARM. The oia Dinner Hone rye hear4 many a strain that hat thrilled me wItli nut none. I will 4437. Bingo the day t was born, Ras pleaeed me se much as. when a mall boy, I heard on Mateo= he olddinner here. The trumpet was tin a yard or so long. And was Wowed for "the boys' at noon moist morn; The monotone strain was piercing and etrong, ant aweet, tor 11 thet, was the old diaper horn, When building the fence or toesbse the hay, Or reapiog the eraie or plowing the oorn, With 'pipette keen, at the noon of the day. Qbt wool] to my esul wee the old dinner horn. A mother's toad nes pressed the trumpet of tin And blew her,tull t oul through the barley andoorn. 011! I hear even vet the "Weloornecome in. Opine in, my dear bole, to the sound ot the horn." 71mee lips are nOW AM, and the bosom in 001d, wheat sent to ue boys the blast ot the horn; the la waiting la sleep beneath the datIc mold, The erase:isle; tramp and etas nity'e mum, The Dreaded Tarantula. The following story is frorn a Sacra- raeoto journal : "A party of Saoramen- tens returned home lest evening, from a trip to the mcnratains, bringing with them two deerskin, one wildcat skin and a few other trophies, including two tarantu- las -dead ones. They had a little moi - dent attending the transportation of these specimens which occasioned conaide erable alarm. It occurredin Cache Creek Canyon, as they were returning homt. The tarautulas, for lack of a better recep- tacle, were inclosed in a cigar box when caught, about ten do's previous, and this box, carefully tied up, was depoaited be- neath the seat of the vehicle. While they were jolting through the canyon the seat slipped, and the two men occupying it found thesaeolves dropped suddenly into the bottom of the wagon. One of them struck the cigar box, crush- ing it, and immediately felt that some- thing had hurt him. A. glanee showed him that he was resting on the tarantulas; and, with a yell of "I'm stung 1 I'm stung 1" he jamped from the wagon and dashing his hands behind him, as though desirous of lifting himself out of his boots, he bounced wildly along the road, then turning made for the wagon shouting to his amazed and alarmed companions: "Whiskey 1 quick I'm dying! Why don't you hurry?" The other three men --there were four in the party -reached simultaneously for the demijohn, broke off the cork ba their haste to pull it out, media their haste to knock ell' the neck of the demijohn to save time, broke the entire concern, and nearly all the con- tents 'were lost. About a pint of the liquid was saved; however, and without saying .so muchts. "Here's luck," the party that was bitten swallowed it. Soon he began to feel beiter, and eventually felt ao reraarltablY 'well that it was evi- dent that the poiscin. had been forced to succtutab. Then the Work cf straighten- ing up the contentsof the wagon cone nienced, and the tarantula' tetx was care. fit* lif ted out and txambeed, when be- hold. 1 the 't bugs"- were fonna perfectly Melees, and so dry and stiff that it was evident that they had been .dead more than twenty-four. lioare, while 'Ee couple of tacks in the broken cover of the box con- veyed a very, good hint as to the nature of the litjary which the bold hunter had auffered.'t Divine confidence can mini upon those a iaa which feeble reason cannot fathom. Stocton teacher to boy in Grammar class "John, correct the following San - bene : 'I are very cold.'" John as he wipes the perapiretion from his forehead with his shirt sleeve; 'It are darned hot." 0 Gleaninge. The aim of pork raisers should be to get rid of the poor hogs and keep none but the beet aowa for breeding. Some pork raisers contend that good common -what we may call "native"-ankaals are aealthier than pare bred animals, We want the health, vigor, hardiness and powerful digeetion of the native united with the quietness of die position, fine bones, smell ofial, early matur- ity and fattenbag qualities of the pure-bred. To a large degree this can be accomplished by selecting the beet native or grade sown, and breeding them to the &met and best pure-bred beets, The /owe litoeetedmon ban these ;maw tive thoughts regsraing besement barns: We notice, however, that those who have them do not always use thena, They are liable to some objectiona, let. They are apt to be poorly ventilated. 2ad. They are apt to be damp and poorly lighted. 3rd, They are apt to keep cattle too wenn 0.04 when turned out for exercise they telre oold, If a leeeement were well ventilated and lighted and not damp, Axel cattle were kept in it all the time we could couoeive of nothbag bee ter. For feeding young calves oihmeal is best boiled in eix times its ANSA bulk of water, until it become a thin gruel. Then mix it at the rate of one gallon with two gene= of oltim milk, and feed while it is "milk warm.' For calves% ale mouths' old or over, the mak may be gradually loft off, and a small por- tion of corn -meal ouleatituted, to be cooked with the calomel. One part of earn -meal to three parte of the oil -meal would be a good feed. A ration one part of oileneal cooked into a gruel and mixed with two parts oat - meet and one part coruesseel is an excellent food for calvee during winter. Feu. Fameierixo.-On every term es ler as possible, the spring work Should lie done in the fell. Every spring, there le same de- lay on aleount of tbe season,aud work fa se hurried, that it cannot be wll done. There is always an abunelenoe of time in tbe and the opportunity should not he missed ot pushing everything ahead in good seaaost for spring work, One armed work ahouid not be neglected, and that is plowing and working weedy stubbiest or fallowing the aoil, in a lemon vthen lathing else eau be done with it Thie is a moat ueeful work, which should 000upy the farmer's ettentioo, while no other work is pressing. To pre- vent the tatedissg of the weeds, is the prince pal thing; and title is a work, which oils for the strictest care at every sewn. It is ateted that a new method of evaah- ing butter has teen patented in Germary. As soon as gathered in the =am in particle a of about e tenth of an inch in sire, it is trans- ferred to e centrifugal machine, whose drum is pierced with holes and lined with a linen sack, that ia fussily taken out with the but- ter. As aeon as the machine is set in rapid motion the buttermilk begins to escape; a spray of water thrown into the revolving drum washes out all foreign matter adhering to the butter. This washing is kept up till the waah-water comes away dean and tbe revolution is then continued till' the last drop of water is removed, as clothes are dried in the centrifugal wringer. The dry butter is then taken out, molded and pack- ed. It is claimed that the product thus so fully and quiekly freed from all impurities, without any working or kneading, has a fin- er flavor, aroma and grain, and far better keepine qualities than when prepared for market in the ordinary way. COARSE Foot) eon Pias. -In pig -feeding in the diary. dietricts, young piga generally grew up m a healthy condition, owing to the refuse milk of the daily, which fur- nished the principal food of young pigs. Skim -milk contains all the elements for growing the muscles and bones of young pigs. This gave them a good, rangy frame, and when desired, oould be fed into 400 to 500 pounds weight. But tJae fault attending tide feeding was, that it was too scanty to produce such rapid growthas Is desirable. It took too long to develop them for the best profit. It had not then been discovered by the farmer that it costsless to put the firet hundred pounds on a pig than the second, and less for the second than the third, ete, ; that it was much cheaper to produce 200 pounds of pork in six months than in nine and twelve months, When it became evi- dent that profit required more rapid feeding, then they began to ply them continuously with the most concentraeed food -corn meal or clear corn, If this was fed in summer on pasture no harm was observed, for the gran gave bulk in the stomach, and the pigs were healthy, and made good 'regress. But if the young pigs were fed ut pen in winter upon cern meal or clear corn, the result was quite different; this concentrated food pro- duced feverlah symptoms, and the pigs lose their appetite for a few days, drinking only water, which atter a while, would relieve the stomach, and the pigs Would eat vigor- ously again. Now had they been fed a few quarts of turnips, carrots, beets or pumpkins, to give bulk in the stomach, and separate the oonoentrated food no harm would have come. This gives the gestrio juice a free circulation through the contents of the stomach, the food is properly digeet. ed and:applied to the needs of the body, in- stead of mush% fever by remaining in the stomach. WEED SEED ne MANuna.--Our farm -yard manure is fall of seeds' and they grow surer and quioker than the geode we sow. Manure in which there are weed seeds, should be ap- plied only to some hoed crop, or green Ma- nure crop 1 for in these'if we keep the drops olean the weeds will do no harm. Buck- wheat is an admirable weed killer and ground cleaner, and may follow potatoes or even winter grain, but when sowed in the spring, and plowed under, its beat effects are ob- tained, for there will be no trouble in their own seed. "Will you hand me them grapes ?" said a lady with diamonds in her ears to a waiter at one of the White Mountain hotels. "Cer- tainly," attid the waiter, "and if those grapes are not good I will bring a fresh aupply." The schoolmarm is abroad, TEE OLBV111 BURGLAR - now the alaseozintemeeatd:bbere 3V48. The eke/d'oeuvre of an astute and well- trained burglar is ;springing a mine on the pablie. As 4000 as the police get hold of es new mode of "crooking a orib," it is utterly useless% for the knights Of the crowbar, as a rule, to attempt an over aud over repetition of taetioa ; becauee, the detective havhig made his little arrangements, it is ten to one but what he walke into a trap on the coed attempt. In this way burglara are eon. stantly on the qai rice stud looking about them for new and novel suedes of seeming entrances to premises and getting posseatdou of booty. Like the geutlernan in the story book, however, who went shout changing old lamps for new, they occasionally fall back cm an old aentl-dead and forgotten ds dge when ingenuity fella to come to the rescue. In the jewel robbery CA40 IA St Enoclea Lane there le reason to believe that the robbery was effected by the old and barefaced mode of walking right up to the outside door, opening it with to false key - no doubt previously tooted -and walking in as if the 'settles were perfectly entitled BO to do, taking duo care, of course, to see thee the policeman had turned the corner a few nainutos previously, and taking the rill's of any passer-by taking notice of them -a meat unlikely thing Once in unobiserved, their course) is clear. The premises are un- tenated, being entirely used as were - houses. Every tenant'a departure would be watched, and the moment for commenc- ing operationa decided upon. l'ise "cracks. matt" te, as a rule, a Crack Illeehanie, Well up to the value of the contriveeete hdtl ready to his bend said intelligence by the beet bowie of the Age. We Rad in this case, as in many others before it, that the tools left behind them by the burglars ere not only ef the beat and 4itest tempered matetial petal- ble to obtain for the purpose intended, but that the worlsmanehip put upon them bears evidenoe of the desire to make ore that the instremeate they use will not break off or fail them at the mousent el ectioe, and the work tl:ey have aceomplished in this case shows how great a etrain the tools el the burglar titan& It ie evident to the most ordinary observer that every detail of a burglary is mapped out by experts before the ebeterept is made; the amount of time required for carrying out each item la with- ouc doubt carefully calculated, and modes of retreat if poseible arraueed for in the event el a surprise before In:slang the at- tempt. Once inelde of Mr, elemipehr ware- house they knew apparently °meetly what to do. There were two safes to teekle, end thin wee gone about witia all the method of a crackarnan. A "bed" was made upon whieh the safe was shifted, . tel the keen edge of a widener, driven home wttle a steel ism - mar, soon fousel. ite way to the bolt*; hirget were attecked in it like manner, and the door drawn away from its place. Ihe mune pro cese repeated la leas No. 2 left them man ter of the situation, end the "guid gear that gangs In woe bulk" was very apeedily aecreted about the person' of the tbiews who no doubt quietly left the place, losking the doors with as oomplete aseuraece as Mr. Semple himself would heve done. The gees - tion for the public iv -Will the burglars be caught± whioh simply metaus e bother are our detectivee or the *fovea the cleverest men. Our looal °facie' deteetives seem to heve jumped to tbe conoluelozt that the thieves are not GIsseow men; thet they are from some of the big towns, in England, We do not believe there are auy thieves better Able to "creak a crih "itt London than %hat are to be found in our own city; and it wilt be well for the Gleagow detectives to contsi. der whether, in looktng so fer away as Lon - den, we are not looking over the heeds of the real culprits. We thiele it entirely tue, likely that the jewellery left Glargow. - Glasgow Rubber Cannon Balls. Some queer expediente are resorted to in warfare when ammunition mune low, Front- iersmen have been known to use battons and broken mane for bullets when the last ounce of lead had been expended in a vain attempt to repulse hostile Indiana. In more than ono siege, artillerymen have been compelled to 'terve their genie with pieces of railroad iron in lieu of orthodox cannon belle' and it Is related that during an engagementat sea the sturdy Detail comnaodore, Von Tromp, thoroughly demoralized the seamen of a Britiah man-of-war by pouring into them a broadside of hard Dutch cheese, which broke and scattered all over the decks and turned defeat into victory. Daring the year of the rebe ion the Con federate forces were often "put to their wita end" to supply themselves with ammu- nition, and they were not at all particular in selecting material to discharge at the Union soldiers. On one occasioft a rebel battery reeolved on attacking a Federal brigade that had taken quarters at Brook's station, Georgia. En route, they came to a point where there had been a monster passenger train wreck, the debris of which was scat- tered inedl directions. The detail, consist ing of artillery, cavalry and infantry, halt- ed at the wreak to see if something. that could be made useful might not be found. Among other things picked up, the artillery detail, consiating of six pieces, procured one or two bushels of rub aer springs, used on the axles of all coaches, and put them in their caisons. Wearily they trudged along until in the early after noon of the next day they hove in sight of the enemy. They soon put their pieces in place and opened on the Federals. The duelling was kept up for several hours, with no perceivable rout of the encamped Union men. At la.st it was made known that all shells and shot of the Confederate artillery were exhauated. They were puzzled as to what should be done. Finally one of the artillerymen sug- gested that they should give them one round of rubber springs. Quickly the com- mand was put into execution. Into each piece two springs were placed. At the command 12 springs went whizzing through the air. It is said that nothing on earth was ever before comparable to it. These springs did'nt just strike and drop down, out they leaped, bounced, bounded, killing a man here, another there, tearing down tents, batter-whanging around for at least fifteen minutes, leaving but few men and horsos able to get away. Autumn will soon go off on its sere. In his instruotions relating to sewer con- structions, Sir R. Rawlins= observes that Portland cement and Has limes make good hydraulic mortar. The proportion of cement or of lime to sand should not exceed two and a half parts of clean, sharp awed to one part, by measure, ,of ground Portland cement or liaa lime. If clean furnace aihes .or slag should be available there may be two parts of sand one hall part of althea or deg employ- ed, the whole to be mixed in a revolving pan, each panful to have 20 minutes' grinding. In making mortar or concrete it ie of the utmost importance to nee clean materials. The water for wetting bricks and for mix- ing mortar or concrete ought to be free from salt, French and English Polities. The old Parliaments of both France and England have Meaty adjourned, end will be eplaccel by freahly chosen Parliaments title autumn. The general eleetiona for a new Chamber of Deputies in France will take place he OC tober ; and those f ar a new House wofiiToontoqinurinNov one intieykter., rzeatBritWn*and Ireland It is rarely the case that these two great countriea are plunged into exciting electious at the earn° time. Usually, the Bummer end autumn are a period of root in politics. fait this year, the noise of political rivalry .and activity began hi England and Franota amid the beat of August. There are several poluta of resemblance in the political situation in, the two ooun- tries. In each, the Cabinet now in power STRANGE. Bur TRUB. A woman in Allentovrn, Pa., goes to sleep every evening at 9 o'clock, and bleep; eound- ly until 5 o'clock the rext afternoon,and has been keeping up this practice minter- rupt,eclly for eighteen months peat afer ,bealth is of tile best. The terrore of the eyolone heve3 ly letieencea to a certain Dakota fanner lance, he arranged. a trap deer and a system of pul- leys so that when lie hears a storm ocanung in the night he can pull a cord and his beds will sink int / the oiler. ,Accordieg to the observation of an Have- na decter, reported in the annals of the Royal Academy of Science in that city, mos- quitoes may be agents for the traveler el bbs gemms 01 ye low feve: and of the parasites ally be seed to exiat on aufferance, as it did whsiecnah epreohdeureee0:11topthetszneteirceoi:t the feet 01 a pnaoErtta°a:thulleema:usbtl,dnebatecmat majority r iteti a74 emoeff otri eit4gPPapa joiwil4ieenlYenienft I tiNthelevthmacilaisnsma:eateatrilaifilndedgh84induIawo 3:tiailidnihwreerteened4trYce.tf:Aomaa- during which it took cfheee the former Government was UnP°Ptdar. pitere of the valley it melted ahnest instan- Mr. Gladatoee owes his fall eartly to the taneously and changed from an avalanche course sehloh he took in regard to EUPt into a roaring torrent, through which the and India ; and M. Ferry lost office on 40. ceunt of Ins proceeding s in regard to the IChinese War, The term of the President of the; French Republic will expire in January next. It will, therefore, be the duty of the nevrly ap- pointed repressentetivea of Faience, he con- junction with the Senate, to elect a enocea- sor to M. Gravy for the long period, of seven years, aliie fact naturally edam to the ex- citenaent of the coming French elections. Aside frons thes, the conteet in Franee its not, as it formerly Waal htlreell the Iielesh licene and verioue factious of Monarcidate, but beteeen the moderate wad radleel 110. publican sectione. raocierete Itepub,1- cares will auetain el. Brisson, the present Prime Minieter. The radicals; are led. by the energetio and able Id. Clerrienceeu, who wielles to males many obanges it the present constitution, eapeelaily iu further Ilmitieg the privileges of the church and the prieet- 11°1%d' England, the dieklen of inutile lu view of the electione waich are to take plaoe be November are atill more interesting, Tile Tories are now in etave, under the lead of the -Marquis of Sallebury. They came into power wtth a hoatile 1101140 Of Common's, and bare had a diiiicult tnek, which thua far they eeem to have performed wisely. They will etruggle vigorously to :secure a majority of the um House, The House of torch hes, see mei, a Tory mejority. While the Terlea are tol. rably well ratite(/' there are seerioue divicacesa amovg their era ponente, the Literate. lir the letter Dirty, there are twe divergent sections% The mod- erat.a section is cemposea the Whigs, under the lead of herd Granville as d the B.14 'pm of Herrington. Tbe lammed to se jtioo4n,pheeapautizbeLlatts:. radicele, who follow Mr. Chensberlain hos boldly set out upon a very radical campaign, in which he is not joined by the moderate Liberele. Ile de - mantle a aweepi, g refs rm of the system of taxation and the fend laws, and would, no doubt, :support Horne Rule for 'retina and the diaestablahment of the Church of glend. The third party --end tbe only one of which It can ae amid thet it Is certain to make a large gain in the earning electione- is the Irinh patty, led by Mr. Pamela Thia p in the last House, comprised about thirty-five members. There is every indi- melee that, in the new House, it will corn - re idea at least, between +seventy and eighty inembere, In both Great Biitain Franck, the eleetions will be held under entirely new tionditions. in Greet Ilritain (and Irelend, two millions et new voters have been admit- ted to the suffrage; and the Parliamentary Beets have been redistricted throughout the three kingdoms, In France, the system of voting in block for deputies by departments -so that each elector votes for all the dep- uties to which his departme.nt is en.itled, instead of for only. one-haa been adopted instead of single districts,. Each of tease ohanges inparts uncertainty to the result of the elm:tient'. Mow ,to Keep Cool. /caw that the season has passed wben any could be injuredby taking too seriously ceitein newepaper tines for keeping cools it will do no harm to reproduce some t f the bits of advice given by ingenious writers. The humor du few of therules is quite deli- cate, while in others it is so strong and ob- vious that no surgical operation will 1,e need ed to get into the thickest skull the idea that the writer is chaffiing : Persons of sanguine temperament and complexion should never gee exctted in warm weether. The effect of excatme is immediate sometimes fatal. A very cooling drink is said to be made 'in the following manner Upon a cup of tea -leaves and roasted coffee, half and half, pour boiling water. Let it stand a few seconds, and then drink as hot as possible. [There is a little ambiguity about this last clause. Is it the mixture or the person which must be as hot as possible? In either case most people would rather remain hot than drink such a dreadful decoction.] It is never gentlemanly to sit in your shirt -sleeves. If youare warm, the quick- est way to get cool to sit down in a tub of ice -water. You need not take off your cuffs and collar to d this -if they are made of celluloid. Never drink ice -water except through a straw. If a straw cannot be obtained use a quill If the weather is exceedingly sultry, a rubber over -coat worn next the skin will be found very soothing. Weather-strips nailed to the ears, to keep the hot air out, will increase one's comfort perceptibly. It is not best for people to read or study if they wish to keep cool, This is true par- ticularly of college -students and school- children. Thinking is especially dangerous in hot weather. This is the reason some people never think. They are afraid of sun- stroke. Standing up to one's neck in a snow -drift will keep the hottest person cool, even on a very severe day. This is vouched for by ail Arctic explorer, who says he has tried it. If ye* are heated while walking on the street, bow to a very rich and pompous person whom you met causually the evening before. He will at once freeze you with to don't -know -you stare. Some people think it is beat not to exer- cise much in hot weather. This is a mis- take. The more exercise the better Run up hill, with a heavy overcoat on. Then take it off, and see how cool you will be eireesseme-o. Why' is a balloon voyager greatly to be envied? Because he rises rapidly in the world, and has most excellent prospeous. Commit is like the natural unguent of the sea -fowl's plumage, whieh enables him to shed the rain that falls on him aud the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his Minions, his feathers will fly no EMIL men escaped by wadieg and swimming. The healing power of earthgeakee ie 0. subject of discussion in the Spaniels medical press. The statement is made that in the recent abalte up at Malaga most of the pa- tienta forgot their dieessees and teok to the open air. The change agreed with them ao well teat a few only xeturned to the hoe - pita. The sweat teat for watered milk le eeid to oonaiat in dipping A well polished knitting needle into ik deep veesel of rallitAeand then immedietely withdrawing it telles upright petition. If the milk le pure a drop of the milk will bang to the needle, butthe addition of AV00 a 40141) portion of water pre- vent the adherence of the drep. Amedg the new Applications' of cotton ist its use teapart, iu the oonstruction hOtutee the nit:tertal erupleeed for the purpose be- ing the refuse, wide!), wheu ground up with ari equal Amount of straw and aebeatoss, is aattaattaal into a paste, and thia hi formed into large glebe or bricke, which acquire, it la 'mid, the hardneee of atone, etal tionieh a really velualele buildit g matetial. 1.7nder certain cenditiona Some cornmen aatielee of household decoretion may be eourcea of danger, An ineurance company !imported to breve refused riska itt Ilona* in which perfectly apherleal doh globes or water bottlee are kept, Thecornpany Oak= that through the voldeat portioned the Wire tar tbree fires were aterted isa parlors where artieks were lie smelt a position as to rehire the dcrect rays a the sou through pieta Om windows. It is said there le no danger if the vessel 10 oval or elightiy fietteeed, A writer in the Price Uurr,r4t ova A fire was abated on Isis library teble by the taut stare Ing 'arm his paper weight media of four giase eobee fattened together 40 that three reit upon the mblo and One vats above the others. A Thrilling Panther Fight. One of the met thrilling panther.figlete recently reported was that of which Dlr. W.W. Taylor, of Eebort County, Georgie, telle, "I was sitting on a large osk log fiohing," Mr. Taylor says, "when I hesrd a rustling in the branches above me. 1 glaneed up, thinking the noble was made by some biro, when I saw a sight that oeused my heart to owe boating Almost. Lying npou a largo limb. 'scratching up the butt, Re eyes rollingfory, was a i large p Anther. m . I olted f my hunting knife, and was drawing it f m its sheath, alien the pate her came at me like a can- non ball. I moved aside to dodge, when the panther's claws caught my coat, and I was dragged along, I gave a !savage s'aill at the 015 48, cutting some of them, so duet they were useless to the beast in the fight that followed. Halieg failed in its first leap, the pantheresdeme at me from the ground and knocked me to the ear h ; but I rolled over, and for a mo- ment the panther was uader me, Then I got a telling thrust with the knife, but before 1 ccu'd deliver another blow the boast was up and I was underneath. Over and over we rolled using both knife and claws, and I was badly torn about the arm?, neck and face. The panther seized my 13it arm, and seeiamdto be cra- shing it, when I stabbed my foe straight to the Inert. My arm was badly bruised, and I was very weak. I lost nay menus, and did not come to for many minutest." Mr. Taylor has hunted since then in Arizena and other p3rts of tile West, and his bed consists of the Ekin of the panther which nearly alew him. •••••.•••••••=••••••11104110.-1110. re:efee. The Art:ofThinking. —011—e of the beat ra-odee of improvirg the, sot of thinking is to think over some sub - j act before reading upon, and then obaerve after what manner it has occuried to the mind of some great master; you will then observe weather you have been too rash or to timid ; what you have omitted and what you bave exceeded; and by this process you will insensibly catch the manner in whioh a great mind views a study ; not only to think greiabtquigiriegehtitotn. o when any extraordinary incident pro- vokes you to think, but from time totime to review what has paned, to dwell upon it, and to see what trains of thought vo- luntarily present themselves to your mind. It is a superior 'habit in some minds to refer all the particular truths which strike them to other moreseneraltrobhs, so that their knowledge is beautifullim'todized = , and a particular truth at onca up the general truth. This kind of uaderstand- ing has immense and decided aupe- riority over those eonfused heads in which one fact is piled upon another without any attempt at classification or arrenge- ment. Some men read with a pen in their hand, and commit to paper any new thought *Mob strikes them, otbere truat to chance for its appearance. Which of these is the best reef hod in the unaerstand- ing in question. Some men can do no- thing without preparation- others, little with it ; Fiume are fountalas, °thins reser- voira. "Sink or "You should have a thermometer to as- certaiu the proper temperature of the water," said a mother to the colored nurse who was giving the baby a bath. " Whaffor ? ' "To tell when the water is too hot or too, cold." . "Don't need no skit dockerment. Ef de chile turns blue, de water am too cold, and ef hit turns red, den it am too hot." And now the oolored lady is looking for a place.-