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PITTSB01lO CHATHAM CO., N. Cm MAY 31, 188:?.
NO. 38.
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On (lie Shore.
The punctual tiilo draws up the buy;
With ripple ol wave and Ins- ol' sprav,
Ami the great red fl iwi-r
Ol the U.hihiiNO tower
Blonmaoti the licticlliiiiil lat uw.ty.
1'i ta' Ly i-iu! its fiery 10-0
Out of the 'I iikn lia l nil I K'tl
A "I 'Z.iui shapu
On ill ittn, I H c.ipo,
A It cttiiniii h aa it cntiio and ics.
A nm in tit til hump, a-ul then it dies
On i ho iuil.t i it i i nit t tlip a and akiee.
Tilt" I' I .nli. low
To -Of it B".
An.l the whiio wavts nk 'i it with cruel eyes.
Then suddfidv out a' the mist oloud duo,
An tuikliitil mii I u uoi il hy unseen mn,
Agniti into Slight
Unlets the l 'ice of litfht.
And opens it, pciuU tmu hy ona.
Ah, the norm inny be wild and the tea be
milium,
And iiuin is weak niwl duikneaa Jong;
Kut while l lossonii the flower
On i lie liiiihoiibe tower,
'I lii'ic i.- 8 ill pl.icp I". r n smile and long.
My Feast la Tokio.
now ax Ami:i:: ax pautook or A
.1 Al'ANKSK PKI.Ii At Y.
'Would vim like to join me in a
fat nf boiled (t lsy" asked my Japan
ese fik-ntl. "It is said that this month
th tinagi is a lit morsel for the gods."
"I'nigi?" I replied, with a some
what dubious liako of the head; "I
never was very fund f those marine
snakes."
'Probably ymi have never tasted
tluiii prepared ly my countrymen," he
slyly returned, "I reinenilier onee eat
ing some at I 'oimonieo's ( shuddering),
'l iny re soft, flavorless morsels, in.
I'l'sid in a quivering jelly. Come
along with me and partake of a dish
tii.-taste nf which w ill l-e pleasantly
r-aiembi red long altir yon return to
America. Vmi, who are half a Japan
ese, night nut any longt r to remain
i.norant of rne of our rhief tleli
c.n is."
.'summoning a jin -riki -shu. we
sqic-ccl into it in the ectiiiiiiiiii-al
fashion, and after a luii f ride turned
into the Okiy o knyc maelii isttei t ) and
alighted at t!ie entrance to Mamki's
establishment a two-storied building,
tin- lower apartment of which was
furnished with grated, prison like w in-fl-1
w.-.. In tho f.iilram c were the pro.
phi t'T and his wile, win , as we paid
our jiu-nki-.sha man, prostrated them
selves, I'owed their heads on tin? hoards
and murmured: "Thousand welcomes
to our humble, plaee;" then, rising,
awaited our pleasure.
We slipped off our flogs and fol
lowed our hostess up a liroad ladder to
the floor ahove, which was divided by
sliding screens of paper into a number
of apartments. Here we were greeted
hy a score of chubbv-faced, cherry
lipped. nYatly-dressed attendants, who
knelt and welcomed us with profound
hows. We entered a neat little matted
room, about ten feet liy twelve, the
sole adornment of which were two
hanging pictures representing Ebisu
and Dni-kokn gods of luck. Placing
cushions on the lloor, she invited ns to
seat ourselves upon them, prostrated
herself, bowed gravely and retired. In
a few moments a black-eyed vaitress(
with her hair polished like ebony, and
decorated with a singlo gold pin, en
tered with a box containing live char
coal for the pipe, and alter depositing
the apparatus on the lloor between us,
knelt, bowed, sat upon her heels,
glanced modestly downward and await,
ed our order. My friend, who was
what we term rather "airy," being a
small official in the foreign office,
glanced patronizingly at the girl and
said: "Bring us some trifles with which
to amuse ourselves; then serve the
broiled eels as fast as we require them.
Mind, we don't want fish that have
been cooked an hour. My guest is a
gentleman who appreciates hot food.
What wine have you on tap?"
The waitress, in spite of her droop
ing lashes and humble pose, was slyly
watching me out of the corners of her
eyes and laughing to herself at his af
fectation of importance. She knelt
near us, and, tilling two tiny cups with
the wine, proffered them to us, mur
muring, "The wine is served." As I
sipped the liquor I glanced at the pret
ty waitress, who was sitting on her
heels, holding the bottle in her hand
ready to replenish our cups. When
we had emptied them the waitress re
moved them, and quickly returned
with some trys containing square,
black lacquered boxes, bearing the
signs of the house and a number
Placing one before each of us, she re
moved the tightly-fitting lids and re
vealed the contents, which were sec
tions of nicely browned, broiled, split
eels, skewered together, that gave out
a most appetizing odor.
The girl smiled as she watched my
looks, and replenishing my saucer with
shoyu pl.i ((! it near mi', innr. miring,
"I think yon will find the iirr:icri very
plea-ting to ynr taste." 1 ..k my
chopsticks in my right hand, in-ited
the points in the fish, broke off a mor
sel and ate. Ye gods! ,lt was deli
cious! rich, tender, delicately flavored
and boneless! 1 drew my box toward
me, nodded approvingly at the attend
ant, and enjoyed the delectable food.
The smiling girl brought in box af
ter bux, this contents of each being
nicer than the last. "How do you
contrive to render the skins of the fish
so tenderl1" I asked the girl. "1 do
not know," she answered, glancing
timidly at the mats. "The cooks never
permit us to learn their secrets. If
you would like to visit the kitchen,
they will no doubt explain everything
to you."
"Now for the bill," said my compan
ion, refilling his pipe. "Altogether,
you have given us a very tolerable
menl." In a few moments she came
back, carrying a small, scoop-like tray,
in which was placed a slip of paper
containing the reckoning. This she
pushed along the mat toward him;
then she bowed and remained w ith her
face close to the lloor, while he minute
ly scrutinized the document. Taking
his purse from his sleeve, he dropped
some paper money into the tray, and
remarked in a low tone: "You may
keep the change" (ten cents).
His munificence almost overpowered
the waitress, who bowed repeatedly
and gratefully murmured, "Your gen
erosity resembles that of a foreigner.
Any one can see that you have trav
eled." After we had smoked awhile
we rose, quitted the room, and, de
scending the ladder-like stairway, the
steps of which were polished as smooth
as glass, slipped on our foot-coverings
and entered the kitchen. On the hard
earthen Hour were' rows of little char
coal furnaces, provided with iron rods
that served as rests for the skewered
eels.
Maroki, whose only failing was a
weakness fur b iwing and politely
sucking in his briath between bis
peeehes, led the way, and was exceeil.
ingly attentive. Pointing to a range
of tubs containing line specimens of
anguilla tenuirostrii, he remarked:
These were caught this morning;
thev were the must expensive lish in
the Nippon lla-hi market. Are
thev nut worth looking at '"
"Mow tlo you contrive to so coin-
pletely extra' t their boiics I de.
inaudeil. "Hur cooks cannot accom
plish the feat." Mot inning a lightly
clad servant to approach him he said
Some customers have just come in
Prepare an eel in th" presence of these
gentlemen."
The man, who evidently took great
pride in his work, selected a vigorously
squirming lish, struck its head smartly
on a wooden block placed upon the
floor, and, kneeling hv it grasped the
creature's neck, inserted a knife in the
left side of tho vertebra1 ami dexter
ously ran it dow n to the tail; then rap
idly applied his instrument to the oth
er side of the backbone, and repeated
the process, leaving the eel split open
Holding up the head, to which was at
tached the vertebra.1 and latcial bones
inclosing the intestines, be bowed and
said, "There is not a splinter left in the
tish."
"That is so," proudly remarked the
proprietor; "I only employ the most
skillful men and cooks." The opera
tor washed down the block, chopped
the flattened eel into three-inch
lengths, and shouted to a cook who ad
vanced and removed it on a dish.
The next process was a mysterious
one, and was performed behind a
screen, from whence the platter of eels
was presently handed out to one of the
broilers. My opinion is that the lish
had simply been plunged into boiling
water to make the skin tender. We
advanced to a range and saw a cook
skewering the pieces of eel on long
bamboo splints. Then he placed them
on the rods over the glowing coals, and
when one side was browned, dexter
ously picked them up with a pair of
iron chopsticks and turned them. Af
ter they were thoroughly cooked he
seized the fish with the same instru
ment and plunged it into a vessel con
taining old shoyu, which was as thick
as dark molasses. The'steaming unagi
were then drained, placedjin a lacquer
box, and sent upstairs to the custom
er. "We never prepaae our eels until
they are ordered," remarked the pro
prietor. Xo matter how busy we may
be, I will not 'have the lish killed be
forehand."
"What do you do with the bones?"
I asked.
"We boil them down into a delicious
jelly, such as that with which you are
served. Nothing is wasted in this es
tablishment. We think of the seven
virtues."
Another Japanese fashion of conk"
ing the eel is to take it alive and put
it, writhing, on a red-hot gridirtin.
When the eel is dead, or in other
words, roasted alive, the skin, which.
after the roastinir, contains all the oil.
is stripped off, leaving the white llcsh
tender and dry. Rut it is b trbaroi s
cookerv. Edirnnl (Irf'i.
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A Cannoneer's KMc
Captain II. T. Owen, an ex-Confed-
crate, writes: Tho most conspicuous
a-tof reckless courage I ever saw dis-
played on any battle-lield during our
great civil war occurred at the second
bat!I- of Manassas, August ;!, 18'"2.
It was performed by a Federal artiller-
ist in the presence of both armies, and
was witnessed by at least a thousand
men, many of whom are still living
and can readily recall the incident when
reminded of tho circumstances. Just
as Hood's men charged down the hill
near the Henry house upon the first
Federal line, and it became evident
that ho would capture the battery sta
tioned there, a Federal artilleryman
determined to save one of the cannon,
if possible, and to do so he had to take
it up the ditch in front of the Confed
erates for half a mile. The ditch was
four feet wide and as many deep, and
could not be crossed with the cannon.
How ho got his horses hitched, or
whether they hal really ever been j
taken from the piece, I never have
known, but tho first I saw of him he
was coming up our front in a sweep
ing gallop from the cloud of smoke,
and Hood's men were tiring at him.
As soon as he escaped from that vol
ley he came in front of our brigade
and under range of our muskets on
tho left, and as he swept by a lile
lire was opened upon him. Our line
was approaching the ditch rapidly at a
double quick, and the lin" between us
and the ditch was getting narrower
each second, but the artilleryman
seemed determined to save his gun
from rapture, and he flew along his
course at a tremendous rate of speed.
He had four large gray or w hite horses
to the cannon, and they came up the
valley in splendid style. The man sat
erect and kept his team well in hand
while his whip seemed to play upon
the Hanks of the leaders, and all four
horses appeared to leap together in
regular time. The ground watvery
dry, and a cloud of dust mllc l nut
from under the horses' feet and from
the wheels of the camion a-they came
thundering along.
Three regiments of our briga le bad
already tired at hiin as he rushed
along their front, and as he apjuuai h
c'l the left of another I ran down the
rear rank .shouting to the men:
"Shoot at the horses ! I,t t the man
alone and shoot at the horses! Vim
are liring too high !"
At this I saw a noted marksman In
Company F drop on one knee and
sight along the barrel of his musket
and tire; but on came the man, and
the gallop of his team was unbroken.
Hamming in another cartridge the
marksman was ready again in a min
ute, and just as the cannoneer swept
across ho front, within a hundred
yards, he kneeled down, and taking de
liberate aim at the foremnt horse
lired again ; but on went the. team un
harmed as before. Thus he passed
along the whole front of our regi
ment and then along on our right, and
escaped around the head of the ditch
and across the lielit and up the hill be
yond. As far off as we could see him
his team was still going at a gallop ;
but when out of range on the hill be
yond the ditch he turned in his saddle
and, taking off his hat, waved it
over his head several times, and some
of the Confederates cheered him.
At least five hundred men fired at
that Yankee gunner, and I have often
wondered if he escaped death in the
subsequent battles of the war, and
lives to tell of the fearful gauntlet he
run along the front of a whole brigade
of Confederates firing at him.
An Unalterable Fare.
There is said to be a man in Belle
vue hospital. New York, with a face
that never alters its expression in the
slightest degree. Something is the
matter with the nerves and mus
cles so that they do not work at all.
Not the faintest smile nor the sugges
tion of a frown ever varies the stolid
monotony of his countenance. The
features are regular and rather hand
some, there being no distortion, or any
outward evidence of the affect ion other
than the strange immobility. His
name is Henry Stube, but he is called
"Masky," because his face is like a
mask, behind which he laughs and
weeps iinseen. He has worn this mask
of his for two years. He acquired il
after a neuralgic cold, lie is being
treated with electricity chielly, and the
physicians think he will recover. In
the meantime he partshis lips w ith his
hand for the introduction nf food and
water, and when he sleeps his eyelids
are held slmt lv a sliuht lianilaue.
His i in pel feet talking is done w ithniit
lnoinghis lips, ttnd when he spea'is
or listcns.the iiupassivenetsof bis fa -e
looks singular, indeed. I here is soaie
thing uncanny ab iut it, and, after the
idea lias once got into your mind, y i i
mi harillv regard this fa ai a iv
thing else than a mask.
' SPOOPENDYKE.
I . . . . .
Mr lliivn rrliitlna lie nd Ti-a to
I linn It. With IM..lioin Itculti.
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1 Spocpendvke came home one night
!,,rin h ., ;,,, blin,11(. in llis ilnn,.
,.It.s ,,rintins pnW( n wlli..h i PX.
; 1 1(, (,o a in'y own jntjnR hprp.
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vo, ma i.si I t i ii in- i'"i it . iimiuiii
Mrs. .Spo.ipcndyke, dropping the stork
and rushincr to her hush mil's side, "and
: . . . ,ove,iest thinM .,.ith it:
It is the kind that the Herald and .S'kn
and all those papers are printed with.
"Oh, yes, Mrs. spoopendyke,"
growled her husband, -you've hit it ex
actly. This is the very kind. I got Mr.
Bennett to kindly try it on, so as to get
it the same size as the 11 raid Is print
ed on."
"And will you print papers with
your3 like Mr. Bennett and the. other
editors V" continued Mrs. Spoopendyke
timidly.
"Oh, but won't I, though?" yelled
her husband. "It needed a dod gasted
female Idiot to think of that, you've
! struck tho proper plan. Think you
j can print 50x00 show bills with a dx4
press.' Well, 1 tell ye that ye cant.
Can ye get it, into your measly head
that this is a card press, and ca:i only
print a card three inches by four
inches ?"
"Well," said' Mrs. Spoopendyke, "1
suppose you can print visiting cards on
it?"
"Yes, Mrs. Spoopendyke, I can," said
her husband, in a suiter tone, and he
grew in a much better humor as he
proceeded to show his wife the pr-ss
and exhibit his dexterit; in the use of
the type and the press.
At last he got his worthy helpmeet's
name set up in type, and proceeded to
put the chase on the press with a grand
llonrish. But in an evil hour he had
forgotten to key it up, and at a touch
the whole business went to pi, and at
the next fell in ;t confused mass all
over the carpet.
"Why, what makes it do that," said
Mrs. Spoopendyke, laughing.
"What makes it do what, Mrs. S.?"
sneered her husband as he hit his head
on a corner of a table in a ma I dive
after the type. "What d'ye s'pose
makes it do it! What m ike; anvthing
do anything V If 1 had ymir talent for
asking idiot ie question I'd get a glass
of beer and a three-inch pap t collar,
and live mil as a prosecuting attorney."
I?y this time the worthy gentleman
had got the name set up and securely
fastened, and was printing with great
gusto; but he had, unfortunately, set
the types in w rong order, and the first
eight perfumed visiting cards came
out like the following:
When Mrs. Spoopendyke saw it she
set up a little .scream. "Oh. isn't that
funny, though? What makes it wrong
side up?"
'Funny!" howled her husband, with
horrid derision as he grasped the situ
ation. "It's a perfect thunderbolt of
fun. It's the most delicious humorous
thing of the century. All you need is
an advertisement of liver pills on the
cover, and a joke about a goat on the
first page, to be a comic almanac.
With ymir appreciation of humor, all
you need is a broad grin and !, JiM.mj
worth ot stolen diamonds, to be tho
leading comedienne of the American
boards. Can't you see the measly
type's turned w rong? Thev have only
got to be turned round the other way.''
After half an hour of diligent labor
the types were again in position, se
curely keyed up, and put on the press.
When the final arrangements were
completed, Mr. Spoopendyke turned
round to wink at the baby and incau
tiously left bis thumb over the edge of
the press. As luck Would have it,
Mrs. Spoopendyke, in her anxiety to
show her husband how well she under
stood and appreciated the press,broiight
the lever down and the press closed on
that gentleman's thumb, making him
jump four feet high, and utter an ex
clamation that would have made the
second lieutenant of a company of
pirates blush. -oil gast the measly
printing press," he shrieked, as he
smashed the base burner with it, and
then he threw it in the alley. "Haven't
ye got any sense scarcely? Why didn't
you go on with the entertainment?
The measly thing only got as far as
the bone. Why don't ye finish the
chapter?" and Mr. Spoopeudyke
danced up stairs, live at a time, with a
parting injunction to his wife to hire!
out for a slaughter-house. I
"Well," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, as
she picked up the baby, and put a '
pitcher of water where her husband
w ould be sure to fall over it when he
went down-stairs in themoi ning,"if we
have so lunch trouble, in printing one
word, I wonder how Mr. Bennett gets
along with a whole new spaper to print."
StJUlii mitl'if.
There are tifty-three cigaretto facto
ries in Havana, which collectively pn
"tfuce lfc.fiOn.fHMi cigarettes a dav.
THE milLY DOCTOR.
To prevent hair from falling or.t. try
lir.st wetting the hea l at night with
salt and water. Mild sage tea is also
excellent. If these remedies do not
effect a speedy cure, try this: (Jet A
little buttle of brandy, and put in all
th" salt that it will absorb; wet the
head with this two or three times a
day.
If the arnica with which bruised
limbs are bathed is heated, its good ef
fects are perceptible much earlier than
if it is applied while cold. If arnica is verted by high winds in the reign of
to be taken as a remedy, as so many I'M ward I, and therefore it is thought
physicians recommend, in cases of se- this vessel was buried at the time of
vere sprains, it should be prepared that disaster. Others have supposed
with water in this proportion: a tea- her to have one of the fleet abandoned
spoonful of arnica in a goblet two- by the Danes after their defeat by Al
thirds full of water, and of this a lea- fred tho Oroat.
spoonful is to be taken once an hour or , The vessel was sixty-three feet eight
once in two hours, as the severity ot . inches long and fifteen feet 'broad, and
the ease determines.
A new remedy for headache has been
found by Or. Haley, an Australian phy.
sician, who says that for some years
past ho has found minimum doses of
iodide of potassium of great service in
frontal heada'-he; that, is, a heavy, dull
headache, situated over the brow, and
accompanied by languor, chilliness and
a feeling of general discomfort, with
distaste for food, which sometimes ap
proaches to nausea, can be completely
removed by a two-grain dose dissolved
in half a wineglass of water, and this
quietly sipped, the whole quantity
being taken ir, about ten minutes. In
many cases, he adds, the effect of these
small doses has been simply wonderful
as, for instance, a person who a
quarter of an hour before was feeling
most miserable, and refused all food,
wishing only for quietness, would now
take a good meal and resume his wont
ed cheerfulness. Jf this cure of Pr.
Haley's is in reality a practical one, he
will merit for the discovery the grati
tude of suffering millions.
The Jevr's-llarp, .
The origin of the Jew's-harp Is T7st I
in the long lapse of time, and hat
hardly ever attracted sullieient notice
as a musical instrument to be worth I
j the inquiries of iinisiejd antiquaries ,
; In (ierinany it is called 'Maul liar- t
j nionica;" in Denmark, "Muud harpe;"
I in Sweden "Mungif'a;" in France
"(iuinbanle;" in Italy, "Troinba," and ;
in the Highlands, "Tronip." The '
llrecks of Smyrna call it, in imitation
of its sound, "Biaiiibo." In the Neth
erlands and Tyrol it has for a long
time been the delight of the peasants,
the laborers, and their families, and at
present it seems to !e in exception- 1
a! great favor in America, where an
Fnglishman Ivis in Troy established a ,
factory of these vibrating instruments; i
and so brisk hat the business been that !
another factory has been started re-
eertlv' where the criiiinion-iilnce .lutv'u.
, . , , . f . , , 1
harps are turned out in hundreds of '
thousands.
The lirst noted performance on this
simple instrument is mentioned in the
memoirs of Mine, de d'enlis, in w hich
is described the astonishing power on
the Jew's-harp of a poor Oerman
soldier named Kock, in the service of
Frederick the Great.
However, it was reserved for a Ocr
man herdsman and laborer of the name
of Kuleiistein to acquire an almost
Furopean reputation as a plavcr on
the Jews-harp. After ten years' close :
application aud study, he surmounted
a host of dillieiilties, and attained a j
perfect mastery over this intractable ;
instrument.
Mr. Fulenstein appeared w ith great- !
est success at concerts, lir.st in Paris, in
January, lSJti, ami later on in London, ',
in June, lK-Jri, where he executed with
"grace and expression the most charm
ing Italian, French, anif (irrinan airs
to the great admiration nf amateurs
and 'professionals' alike." lie used at ;
(he concerts to play duets with Mr-
stockhausen on the pedal harp, the ,
latter accompanying him pianissimo,
and touching the chords lightly, so that
Mr. Kulenstein's nart in the ducts
could be perfectly hear,l.-,Vo
and Drama.
Not So tire en as He Looked.
A green-looking granger, travelling
w ith a wagon, took in a number of boys
in an eastern town very neatly recent
ly. He would allow a rope to he tied
around each w rist, and holding an ap
ple in each hand, bit that while two
bystanders pulled the rope in opposite
directions he could bite lirst one, apple
and then the other. He won every
bet with apparent ease, much to the
surprise of those who did not under
stand a very simple principle in dyna
mics. He was naturally stout, but the
trick lay in the fact that the man pull
ing on his right of course assisted him
materially in pulling against the man
on the left, and vice versa. It was
two against one every time; but the
mountaineer was always one of the
two.
FEKV AXCIEST.
Ic r!plloil of a Burled Ship.
Iii HJd there was exhibited in Lon
don an ancient vessel which had been
dug up at Malham, a short distance
from the present navigable river of
the lint her, at the west end of tne Isle
ofOxney, and about two miles from
liolverden and New Knden, the site of
the ancient city of Andcrida. The
spot w here this old vessel was found
was an old branch of the Bother, Kent
county, the channel of which was di-
when discovered her upper part was
buried ten feet, to which add nine feet
her bight from hnttnm to top, and
you have an accumulation of nineteen
feet of sand and mud upon the river
since she was stranded. She was single
masted, roiiiul-stei'iieil. Hat-floored ami
' without a keel. There were two cabins
in her stern, the after one decked over.
with a hatchway for entrance; tho ;
other, adjoining it, was covered with
a caboose, which fell in on being ex- j
posed and the sand taken from under
it. There was also a short deck for- j
ward with an indusine beneath it, but
the midship part was entirely open, i
, Her bulwarks and washboards mani- j
i tested she bad been a sea ves-el. Her
i beams, w hich were much .stronger than 1
: would bp required for a vessel for in
j land navigation, prove that our forc
, fathers knew huw to apportion a due
, strength to the stress upon timber, her 1
! timbers being three times as deep as '
broad. Her timbers and plank were 1
remarkably sound and hard, and in
many parts quite bbe-k. she was i
calked with moss. The method of
i steering her was quite singular. She
bad rubber bands which yoked the
J rudder, and by an alternate motion of '
I the ropes, which were fastened to the
i back of the rudder, it. was made to re-
volve on the pinions as a center of mo- '
' tion. the breadth of the rudder being j
the b-verage.
I he milder was hroa i, ami In me
the ves-el ea-i'-r to .d'tr. Bv thi-. it
would seem that in lo-r time the idler I
had not been invent i-d. There was a '
cur'niis windlass on the aMcr-do k. j
wbiih showed they bad not much idea
of getting rid of friction, and at her
forepart there had evidently be, n aii- j
other fixed 1 roln side to ;,!ie. Her
planks were very broad and of a close,
hard texture, and thought by some to
be oak, by others chestnut. The wreck '
of a small boat was dis- o i re.l near the
stern of the vessel, but her iron fasten- .
ings being in a very corroded state, she 1
could only be removed piecemeal; bc-
tween the edges of plank were l.ier:
. . h 1
of hair.
I In the vessel were found
large
flint and steel, which, though
verv
much worn, still elicited sparks ; part
of the bla Ie of a sword. wth a hollow
; ball or hilt of yellow lu-ta! a'taehed to
it ; four vases ; several bricks of a red
j and yellow color ; the corroded remains
I of two lucks, et -. In the cabin, or
: cook-room, was found a leathern ink
! bottle, ctiriou-ry marked, but similar
in shape, to those still used by scbool
; boys; part of a br.iss cock ; a sounding
; lead: several shoes and au lals of en
; rious shape ; several bricks and frag-
incuts nf tiles b iund together with
I iron : a small glass bottle , a small
I whetstone ; several books ; an oak board.
; eighteen inches long ami twelve broad.
. with curious lines cut in it ; and a cir
' cular wooden hoard, of oak, pi i foraleil
with about twenty-eight hole-., which
w as mnst jir ibably a calendar by
which the progress of the lunar month
was marked. Of mortal remain . t'e re
'were a man's skull, the hip bono.
I ribs, and other part of the
! skeleton of an adult, part of
the skeleton of a child, par's id the
skeleton of a dog, supposed to be a
Tcyhiind. p.rts of t w
sulU with
the horns of sheep or goals, the breast
bone of a goose, and several bones of
larger animals. Urnr-Admlrnl dViu 71
. TrrbU.
Cute Work.
A detective employed by the I'liited
States express company t- trace the
rubbery nf a package at fouicrstou n,
(I., saw the maik of teeth upon the
pasteboard box. "The man is a one
armed man," said he. "lie held the
box ill his teeth w hile he untied the
string." He made the acquaintance
of Charles Basset t, the niie-armed man
of the town, employ ed him as a de
tective, traveled with him, talked
about the difference in people's teeth,
gut him to make an indentation of his
own in wax, had a plaster cast made
which fitted the marks of the teeth in
the package and a-rested Bassett. H
was a "cute" piece of work.
I Jealousy.
I In.y st nl u;vm I lit- wido wr.ui'l i, nn-l
li. Ion- I c li li her i-idu I n-iw him tiini
n I la!,e t ir Ie I lio-n nil-, ilm viiichuns urn,
A i liui-uHi pi v, in d Willi a ih-!i rent liui d
lie p ii e I it in 'lit: 'II ti l l .-'H mi.ind
I iii-ii til my soul did il I'lL-ii B Ioii'iii Imtii,
. Ai.d it new iii:i liii-ss, enili, an t ke:ii, and
blclll.
Arn iin 1 held me in its .stinie,' coiniiitiiid.
A hi ihi'ii illi, hli sifd then' I raw Iter tuko
A white IU8U I'ioiii the wliilii hre.wt wheic it
sl'l't,
And, ith a pi ti I h it liiuid courage, lif
I m her lip-.! Km i '.v I i-ould have went
f.ir j iy Imlli tiao.. ilm w'uie l'e was mv
ill! Carl Mi Terry.
IT.NCKNT PAIttattl'HS.
i should oarsmen w ear scull caps?
To preserve cherries- Iv-cp the small
boys off.
stare-way The entrance mound a
church door after services.
! Tin- Muss Pointers i.Mis-. 1 place
eggs instead of dimes in the contribu
tion box. They are entered in the
church I Us as lay offerings. '
This bit of conversation, which wo
i lind in an exchange, is both timely and
' expressive: "I think this jee-creani
j tdsts a little cowy." said he. "Mine,
j tastes bully." said she.
! ' How is it." asked the 1 tndlady.
"that you never complain of anything
but the butter. Mr. Jones?" Mr.
Jones: "Well, that is a big enough
1 contract for one man!"
i
i A ni e litilc tniii leu named I'luinnipi ,
I i II in love with 1: Krix tty ilunniiii'i ,
And ilm liifh lie jbivb
.She concluded t'l save,
S ) sdie cniini-d it. ( Il husted nil gammer.)
A religious exchange tells a story of
; a cornet player employed by a Haptlnt.
chun h, who lo.-t his n..-ition by play
ing the well-know n indu ly. "Pull for
1 the shore," at the baptism of a number
of run verts.
1 It i.- said that when one i-drowning
a'l thai In' iM r said, thought, felt, or
did, pas-es before him in a sn ill pano
rama; and that the i ad tin inories
crowd the g I into the background.
, One need not drown in r-1 r to have
the experience. Only become a ean li
j date for oibi e.
j lining a heavy business The stone
yard. I'ninga light business. The gas
j works, lining a safe business Th
j bank vaults. Doing a grave business
-The cemetery company. Doing a
, medium business The spiritualists,
j Doing a rattling business The tin
shop. Doing a line business The
judges. Doing a funny business The
humorists.
YVIiisllhu:.
(.'apt. Burton tells us how the Arabs
dislike to hear a person whistle, called
by them "el sifr." Some maintain
that the w histler's mouth is not to be
purified lor forty days, while, accord
ing to the explanation ot others,
s it an touching a man's body causes
him to product, what they consider an
ollensive sound. The nalives nf the
Tonga islands, Polynesia, hold it to be
w rong to whistle, as this act is thought
to be disrespectful to (iod. In Iceland
the villagers have the same objection
In whistling, and so far do they carry
their superstitious dread of it that "if
one swings abniit him a stick, whip,,
w and, or aught that makes a whistling
sound, he scares fmiu him the I Inly
(ihnst," while other Icelanders who
consider themselves lice from supersti
tions, i ant ioii-ly give the advice; Do
it not; for vv Im kn-iweth what is in tho
air?" In .-me district s of North (ier
inany the villagers say that if olio
whistles in the evening it makes tho
angils weep, speaking, however, of
belies in connection with whistling,
il is a w idespread supers! il ion that if.
is at all times unlucky for them to
hi -1 e, u m i li, according to olie legend,
iiiginatel in the circiinisl ance that,
while the nails lor our Lord's cross
were being forged, a woman : t-iod by
and w histled. Curiously i iioiigh,
however, one very seldom bears any ol
th- fair sex indulging in this recrea
tion, although (here is no reason, as it,
has often I u pointed nut, why they
should not whistle with as much facili
ty as the opposite sex. One cause, pi r
baps, of the absence of this custom
among women may be, in a measiiie,
due to the distortion to the features
which it occasions. Thus we know
how Minerva cast away, with an im
precation, the pipe, which afterward
proved so fatal to Marsyas, when she.
beheld in the water the disfigurement
of her face caused by her musical per
lormance. There are numerous in
stances on record, nevertheless, .f
ladies whistling at public cntertain
mejits, and charming their audieuco
with the graceful ease w ith w hieh llu-y
performed such airs as " The Blue llells
if Scotland" or "The Mocking Bird."
Indeed, not many years ago, at a grand
provincial concert, two sisters excited
much admiration by the clever and ar-
j tistic way in which they whistled a
! 1 1 ft . tirnil'ihiin's Mnynziw.