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Mother.
No otlier name- munid so sweet to nio
As this hi-loved ulil Aiiulo-Sani-n wont.
Whoaj simple niciiti-l still buiiiu nikiit
eliuol
Within my heiut, iin 1 dri"" me dack to thee;
Mi-thiuk. thy dear and tadiuitt hu e 1 sen
When 1, n bahe, my Ill-doling limey toured
Within a link' world wheni light wt poured
From nut tliiuo eyes o lull of sanctity.
When pratt! n;; IhiI IiimmI had pnssi'd mvay.
Thy tinder eiuo led my untutored si ps
Through narrow ways till tiiuiiliiKjil
loom uplift.
Ami then my duoytiiit dark in unknown
depth
Sets out alone, while thou thy steps re.
tnn'i!
flHi'k upon Him who lives in radii day.
Hd Irani .1. Oldham in tl.t Cm rent.
m A STAGE COACH.
It was midsummer in the mountain?
and Lilian Ferguson ha.l never seen a
fairer scene than the billows of blue
hills that lay stretched out before her,
with here and there the flash of a half
hidden lake, or the ribbon-dike glitter
of a tiny river.
Shu stood leaning ag dust the rustic
cedar post th.it formed the support of
the hotel pia'a. while her mo lent lil
tlo trunk and traveling-bags were
piled up at the rear.
. "IWt fret, miss" sai I the landlady,
who was bustling in and out. "The
stage will be along soon."
"Oh, I am in no hurry for the stag''
.lid Lilian, pleasantly. "I could stand
ami look at this beautiful landscape all
day."
"Ain't that strange, n'w!' reflective
ly uttered Mrs. IVek, the landlady.
"Me and Perk, we never think about it
at all."
"Is the ptajr.i often as late as this?"
said Lilian, glancing at her neat little
silver watch.
".Not generally," said Mrs. Peck.
"Hut t day they're waiting, at Well
Station, for t ho do:tf-and-duinb gentle
man." for whom y" said Lilian, in amaze
ment. "For the deaf-and-dumb gentleman,
miss," explained Mrs. Peck. "A
cousin of our minister's, up at Crest
Hill, He's been down to New York
for treatment; but deary me, tlure
ain't no treatment can ever do him any
good. As deaf tis a a' one, miss, and
never spoke an intelligent word since
he was born. Hut they do say he's a
very learned in in, in spite of all his
drawback."
"I'm afraid he won't be a very lively
traveling companion," sail Lilian,
smiling.
"No, calculate not," said Mrs
Peck, in a mat ter-of-fact sort or way. .
Just at that inoine.it a b.ix-vvagon
drove up; tlr charioteer handed out a
valise, and assisted a young lady to
alight.
'lias the stage gone?" she cried.
Hinging aside her veil, and revealing a
very pretty hi tinetto face shaded by
jetty f tinges of hair and Hushed with
excitement.
"You're just in time, miss," said idrs.
Peck, peering down the winding road,
which her experienced eye could (race,
when no one's else was of any avail.
'It's a-comin' now!"
Hut Lilian Ferguson, who had been
gazing at the newcomer earnestly, now
came forward with an eager smile and
an outstretched hand.
Surely i am not mistaken," said
she, "and this is Kulali - Morton?"
"Lilian Ferguson! Oh. you darling,
I am so glad to see you!" cried the
stranger. "Hut where on earth did
you come from?"
And thus met the two lovely girls
who had graduated just a year ago
from Madame l)e 'J'ournaire's fashion
aide boarding-school in New York, and
who had not seen each other since.
Just at this moment, however, there
was no time for explanations. The
ponderous stage, relic of a forgotten
generation, rolled up., with a creak of
leathern curtains, tramp of horses, and
a general confusion of arrival, to the
broad wooden steps of the hotel.
The sun was already down. In the
twilight, Kulalie and Lilian could only
dis.eover'that the stage contained but
one other occupant, a man, who leaned
back in tne far corner, with the top of
his face partially hidden by a largi-
wide-brimmed hat, and its lowpr part
wrapped in the folds of a Persian silk
Docket-handkerchief.
He inclined his head courteously as
they entered, and moved a handsoina
traveling-case which lay on the middle
s -at, as if to make room for them.
-Is there another passenger?" said
Miss Morton, with a little, nervous
start.
"It's only a deaf-and-dumb gentle"
man," Lilian explained, her eyes full of
soft pity. "The landlady told in; about
him."
"What a nuisance!" cried Kulalie,
"I had hoped we should have the stage
to ourselves. But now, dear," as she
settled herself in the moss comfortable
corner, "tell me what this unexpected
eut 'miiter weans."
Ct Citam
VOL. VI.
"It means," said Lilian, with a shy
smile, "that I am going to be nursery
governess at Chessington Hall, up
among the Adirondacks that is, if 1
give satisfaction. I was engaged by
letter from the K.lueational Bureau, a
week ago."
"What a singular coincidence!" said
Miss Morton, shaking her cherry-colored
bonnet-.itrings. "And I am going
to be companion to old Mrs. Orove, of
(irove llookery, the very next place to
Chessington Hall. How I do envy
yon, Lilian!''
"Knvy me, EulalieV"
' Yes. Haven't yoi heard about It V"
said the brunette. "The Chessington
children, your future charges, arc
motherless, don't you know? They
ire under the care of an auut, so Mrs.
(irove told me; and there is a hand
some widower and interesting young
bachelor at Chessington Hall."
Lilian colored, hotly.
"Neither of whom I ever expect to
meet," said she.
"It will bo your own fault if you
don't," observed Miss Morton. "Why.
my dear, here is your career all chalked
it'll for you. Sentimental widower,
with lots of money pretty governess
mutual fascination growing devotion--'"'''',
a wedding! Hey! presto,
your V tit ne is made!"
"Kulalie, how can you talk so?" cried
Lilian Mushed and indignant. "I am
not on , t tiusbiind-biinting expedition;
I st in simply trying to earn my own
liv ng."
"The more goose you, to neglect such
an opportunity as this," said Kulalie,
laughing. "If you don't try for the
widower, shad! (Jrovo U iokery is
only half a icilefrom Chessington Hall,
after alt; and a rich husband would
solve the J r iblem of my life at mice.''
"Thu is too ridiculous, Kula'ie!" said
Lilian. "1 could not respect myself if
I were to plot and plan like this. 1
know it is unjust; but you have made
me dislike Mr. Chessington already."
"The more the better." said Miss
Morton. "There will be all the bi-tter
chance for me. They say he is very
handsome: anil one could easily send
the two children away to boarding
school. I can assure you, I'll have no
old-maid aunts and interfering uncles
about the premises."
"Kulalie, let us talk of something
else." said Lilian, resolutely. "Tell me
all that has happened to you since
graduation day."
Kulalie laughed out a merry, ringing
laugh.
"Well, if you must know," said she,
'I've been trying my best to get a nice
husband, but without any success."
"Is matrimony, then, the en ! and
aim of all the world ?" said Lilian, with
(pieetily disdain
"As far as I tun concerned --yes," ac
knowledged Miss Morton, with charm
ing frankness.
"Pardon me, Kulalie," said Lilian,
"but it seems to me that you h tve de
generated frightfully since those dear
old days at Madame de TournaireV
Miss Morton yawned.
"How tedious all this is!'- said she.
! "Miss Ferguson turned lecturer, eh?
How I wish that poor fellow in the
corner wasn't deaf and dumb! I'd tlirt
with him, just to aggravate you, Lily!"
Lilian inado no answer, she leaned
her head out of the stage window, and
watched the purple dusk creep up the
mountain side, counting the stars t.s
one by one they shone out. Anything
was better than Eulalie's shallow
chatter!
(irove Hookery was soon reached, and
Miss Morton bade her old schoolmate an
effusive farewell.
"I see that the old lady has sent the
carriage to meet me," said she. '-(lood-by,
Lily. You must be sure to intro
duce me to the charming widower
when I come over. An- rvrofr, darling
an fruir'."
The deaf-and-dumb gentleman left
the stage very soon. Miss Ferguson
watched with some interest, but no
carriage of any description seemed to
be watting for him.
He disappeared into the woods like a
shadow, and vanished from her sight.
"I suppose, poor fellow, that he lives
near here," thought she. "How dread
ful it must be, thus to be cut off from
all companionship with one's fellow
beings!"
Hut even while these reflections pass
ed through her mind, tha stage stopped
again, before a glittering facade of
lights, half-veiled in swaying summer
foliage Chesshigton hall.
"Here you are, miss," said the driver.
Through the summer evening dusk,
Lilian could see the marble-railed ter
race and the broad carriage-drive, while
two child-figures danced up and down,
and uttered joyful exclamations of wel
comelittle Blanche and Alice Ches
ington. "Are you the new governess?"' said
they. "A re you Miss Ferguson? Wel
come welcome to the Adirondack!
We are so glad that you have come!"
PITTSBOltO',
And in an instant their arms were
twined around Lilian's neck.
At the end of it month Lilian Fergii
son felt completely and thoroughly at
home with her new pupils.
They had ranged the woods, and vi:.
ited all the grottos and cascades; they
had gtirrouniied her with an atmos
phere of the sweetest affection.
Mrs. ll.irtleigh, their mint, was
ciiially kind; and Alfred llartleigh,
theintcrestingyoiing uncle, had already
taken her into his confidence i s to the
beautiful bride he was going to bring
home soon.
Hut it certainly was vc-y strange
that she had never seen Adrian I 'hess
ington himself, the father of her lovely
little pupils. I'nlil one pleasant morn- -ing,
when, just as she had come mil to
receive Miss Fiilald- Morton, who had i
driven over in the (irove llookery car-
riage to call, a tall, handsome gentle-
man entered the room, with Mrs.
llartleigh on his arm.
"The deaf-and-dunib gentleman!" :
Lilian involuntarily exclaimed.
"Poor fellow, so it is!" said Miss i
Morton, who advanced airily, shaking I
out the light muslin flounces of her j
dress. "How he does haunt us, to-be- '
sure!"
"Ladies," said the deaf-and-dumb
centleman, "you are mistaken. I can :
hear and speak, to-day, as well as any
body. 1 should have spoken to you a
month ago in the stage-coach, if it had
not been for the unfortunate circum
stance of my having just been to the
dentist and had my lower jaw broken :
in the extraction of a double tooth. 1
perceive that you wero mistaking mo
for my unfortunate friend Mr. Denton,
a deaf-mute, who lives near hero; but I
he had been detained until the next
day, and with my bamlanged javv.it;
win impossible for me to speak and cx
phin matters." j
Kulalie Morton's face glowed scarlet. I
she literally knew not what to say. ;
Hut Lilian Ferguson stood calm and
unmovtd.
"Then," she said, smiling, "all oar :
sympathy was thrown away upon you.''
He inclined his head.
"Kx.iclly," he said. "I found, the
I ne.xl day, that it was necessary to put
i myself under the care of an Albany
i
.surgeon, so that I have been a suit of
exile for a few weeks. Pardon my be
ing so late to welcome you to Chessing-
ton Hall. Hut the welcome is none the
less warm because it is tardy." j
Kulalie Morton nev er came to Chess
ington Hall again, nor could she so ;
j much as think of her conversation in
the stage, that night, without hot in. j
dignation at herself.
"What a fool I was!" she cried.
Mr. Chessington, however, mil -li as ;
he liked and admired Lilian Ferguson, ;
iicvvr asked her to marry him.
"When I w its w idowed once it was
forevi r," In- said.
And Lilian never coveted the jirizr
til his heart; perhaps hecatis" she was
engaged to a rising young clergyman,
near Philadelphia.
"If only I had Lily's opportunities!"
siiid Miss Morton. "Hut I wret ked mv
chauees when 1 spoke out my mind
j freely before the deaf-and-dumb gentle
man." ll'hn t-'nrr-st (Irons.
'Hie Norwegian Horse.
The small, plump, creain-i olored ani
mal in front of you has a number ol
distinctly Norwegian trait s which are
certain to excite a measure of inte e.st.
Ho displays an almost human degree of
! intelligence in accurately adjusting his
! actions to the circumstances in which
i lie happens to find himself. Whips be
I ing a luxury in the country, and more
I often than not dispensed with, the
I shrewd quadruped proceeds at the out
set to discover in a thoroughly method
ical and almost scientific manner
whether his new driver possesses one
of these objectionable instruments.
He begins by turning his head, which
is unencumbered with blinders, and by
this means is able to frame an initial
hypothesis. He then goes on to erify
Ids conjecture by a number of tentative
experiments, such as stopping short
soinu yards this side of a hill or a gate.
He seems thoroughly to understand
the conditions on which he is let out to
the tourist, and kuows his duty far too
well to allow himself to tie overworked
and so rendered unlit for to-morrow 's
task in his owner's meadow.". He will
trot down a steep hill at a rate which
is calculated to frighten the novice,
but strenuously insists on taking evi ry
rise, however gradua', at a creiping
pace. This is apt to exasperate (In
ordinary Kritish touri t who has im
ported the habits of city life into these
sequestered regions, and who calculates
on getting over so much ground in it
given time, lint the experienced Nor
wegian traveler knows better than to
make rigid calculations t'nnlu. I;,-rim:
DeWitt Smith of Lee Mass.. has in ' f"i in such event, the water would in
his green houses, .10,1X1,1 worth 0r j stair ly expel all air from his suit, and
orchids. by ts pleasure from his lungs also.
CHATHAM CO., N. C,
A WRI-TK FISIII'RM.W.
;Thc M ft hod ofOpprnting in n
! Peculiar Iivhtstvy.
i ITnw a Veteran Diver Searches for and
Tillils Lost Vessel
('apt. Thomas A. Scot t, of New Lon
don, the veteran diver, who worked on
the schooner Teazer in New Haven
harbor, last spring, -ays the New
Haven llfjintn; is a wonderful man in
; his business, and carries on the largest
individual wrecking concern in the
'country. He is a large, genial, daring
person, and one to w'.oto the incessant
dangers of a diver's life are fascinating,
i Wherever a wreck occurs on the coast
, from Martha's Vineyard to Harnegat,
the gallant captain is generally called
in counsel, and he never gives up a
I wreck when there is any chance of
! raising it. And when the veteran
I wants a bit of recreation, as it were, lie
. takes a jaunt ov er a few hundreds iA
oyster hind under the Sound, looking
, after stars down, not up. His inves
i ligations in these great oyster gardens
1 are very satisfactory to oyster raisers,
i They are able to ascertain just what
condition their crops are In.
I Captain Scott's latest task has been
: the locating of the barge President,
containing 11 tons of block tin and -JO
tons of steel wire. This cargo was en
route to New Haven from New York,
where it had been reshipped by the im
porters, and wtn in charge of the New
York Lighterage Company. The Presi
dent vviis being towed in company with
other barges, and it is believed that she
struck a rock oil pcntield reef, near
i Bridgeport. Captain seott was offered
'' $l'"00 to locate the vessel, the value
of its freight amounting to a very huge
i figure. His lishing for her has
j been conducted on a very extensive
J scale. Search for the vessel was begun
' off Southport, nearly three miles from
slmre, and at lirst a clean sweep of the
! bottom was made toward Stratford
light, one-half mil-- in width and six
miles in length. Two tugboats, the T.
A. Scott and Alert, a schooner, live
small row boats iin I li men, together
with several miles of stout lines, colt,
i stittited Captain Scott's fishing kit..
The sweep was made !y the tugs sta
tioned half a mile apart and connected
by a hawser with pendants and buoys
alternating so that the line was kept
close to the bottom, while the tugs
' moved very slowly forward. It re
: ipiired !' days of this kind of subma
I rino surveying before the sunken barge
! was discovered, and then it was found
I I.1, miles off shore and " miles from
: Petilield reef, far away from the ap-
proximate position pointed out to Cap
: tain Scott. Utiring the progress of
i this gigantic fishery Captain Scott
i found ii sunken schooner with it load of
; scrap iron oil Southport, the timbers bis
j ing almost eaten away by worms; then
, he found a barge loaded with coal. bear
ing south southeast, three miles from
. Southport. and close by another schoon.
t-r loaded with stove coal. Several
' days afterwards, he came upon wrecks
of tlu-eii vessels Inch n with conl. close
.:..., ;iml .. .,, .. Sl..lnoner
I tden with witter pipe 11 fathoms
; down. ('apt. Scott personally inspect-
I ed all these wrecks and took down
' their bearings for future reference, and
may po-silily (111 t ti it slack spell in
bringing some of them to the surface,
A dinner kettle w as found on the galley
stove of one of the schooners, just its it
was left, and full of young growing
oysters.
Captain Scott says his business is
1 dangerous but it pays. He has lost
but one loan, and that was his son,
who was drowned while work'ng on
the wreck of the Nt'.rragansett off
the Connecticut river in IS!. lie
takes all risks himself, and never asks
his men to go where he dare not. A
difficult job suits him? because there's
more headwork an I more money in it
. The greatest depth Captain S;-ott has
successfully worked in is KM feet. 11"
has worked at a depth of W feet for
, several hours on a sunken sloop at
! PrisnO ferry. At the time the Knglish
steamship Scotland went down off
' Sandy Hook, Captain Scott was em
ployed by the government to clear the
channel of this dangerous wreck so well
' known to mariners. This was in lSii'.t
and two years' time was necessary in
i which to tear the vessel in pieces and
: remove the cargo. He was under
water i't hours altogether at work on
i this task. While at work on the City
i of Columbus, which was lod recently
; off liay Head, he experienced rough j
weth r. and his air supply pipe became
1 entangled in the chains of the wreck, j
i 'I he air was cut oT for a moment, but
! the kink in the hose was found in time
i to prevent serious results. He savs I
1
I that when under water he would as i
i soon have a hole punched through the i
i top of his skull as through his helmet.
AUGUST 28, 1881.
The business cannot he followed by
people with weak lungs. Ordinary
livers get $10 per day.
Science in Hie lliiftlioldi Statue.
In erecting the gr rat statue of Lib
erty two things had to be considered
that seem very trilling, and yet, if ne
glected, might destroy the statue in
one day, or cause it to crumble slowly
to pieces. One is the sun, the other
is the sea-breeze. Hither of these
could destroy the great copper figure,
and something must be done to pre
vent such a disaster. The heat of the
sun would expand the metal and pull
it out of .shape precisely as it does pull
the P.iooklyu liridgo out of shape every
day. The bridge is made in four parts,
and when they expand with the heat
of the sun they slide one past the otlier,
and no harm is done. The river span
rises and lalls day and night, as heat
and cold alternate. The great copper
statue is likewise in two parts, the
framework of iron and the copper
covering; ami while they are secun ly
fastened together, they can move one
over the other. Kach bolt will slip a
tritte as the copper expands in the hot
August sunshine, and slide back again
when the freezing winds blow and the
vast figure shrinks together in the
cold. Hesides this the copper surface
is so thin and elastic that it will bend
slisrhtly when heated, yet keeping its
general shape. The sa t air blowing
in from the sea hits thin lingers and it
bitter, biting tongue. If it linds a
crack where it can creep in between
the copper surface and iron skeleton,
there will be trouble at mice. These
metals do not agree together, and
where there is salt moisture in the air
they seem t quarrel more bitterly
than ever. It seems that every joining
of points of copper and iron makes a
tiny battery, and so faint shivers of
electricity would run through all the
statue, slowly corroding and eating it
into dust. This curious, silent, and
yet sure destruction must be prevented,
and so every joint throughout the
statue, wherever copper touches iron,
must be protected with little rags
stuffed between the metals to keep
j them from quarreling. It is the same
wherever two different metals touch
jut bother. Imagine what a treinen
dus battery Hie Liberty would make,
with its tons of copper surface and
I monstrous skeleton of iron. However,
a little care prevents all danger, a
provisions will bo made, of course, for
keeping the met ids from touching each
other.
A l.eadville ('nmhlintr Hon.
The gambling business in Leadv ille
is as openly conducted as the dry good-'
stores in fact, more so, since the
stores do close up "nee in a while,
which is more than can be said of the
"tiger dens." Kverybody plays, from
I the boy, who makes bets of a quarter
I each, to tho man who has "struck it
! rich," and lays down a pile of twenty.
dollar gold pieces on the ace. There
j are men who have made fortunes at
(gambling, but they are the dealers,
i One of the institutions of the town is
! Pap Wynian's place. Pap is a burly.
! bullet-healed saloonkeeper who would
! evidently enjoy the reputation of being
i the worst man in l.eadville. lie owns
i one of the largest saloons and gam-
bling dens in the place, and he has
j windows stained and painted with l!ib
! lieal scenes to look like achurch. In
side he has a huge open Hihlu in it
prominent place on a stand, and the
' glass case of the clock bears the injunc
tion in large letters, "I lease do not
: s wear." ''" do Tlnjmm.
Animals' Lone Sleep.
There is on record the case of a
snail that went to sleep on the 124th of
March. IS 1 7. and slumbered until
March 7. ls"0. It was picked up in
the Kgyptian desert, and having retir
ed to the topmost recesses of its shell,
I it was stuck to a piece of card-board
: as if dea I. It was labeled and sent to
the Uritish Museum. For four years
it showed no signs of life, when some
I one thought they saw it move, and a
'warm bath was ordered. This aroused
phis snailship and he cautiously put
his head out of his shell and w alked
on top of the basin. In Africa then!
is found it mud fish that has the facul
ty of remaining a long time in a state
of torpidity. It is found on the shores
of the (iambi. i liiver which, during
the hot months of summer, is dry, but
as if anticipating the drought, the
Laphlosiien, as it is called, crawls
down into the soft mud and there re
mains. The mud all around it mean
while hakes into a solid rake, liy the
natives it is esteemed a genuine epi
curean delicacy, though it would hard
ly suit civilized palates. 'Ihe animal
leaves a small hole from the cell to
the outer air, which the naturalists say
is proof that in its state of torpidity
the tish S'dll breathes.
The Pullman car works, near Chi
cago, employ .700 men.
. vni i, vk i:m,im:.
A l;.-nt 1 1 ( . 1 1 i, Hnilt .. Run
Tv. . H i v - mi , .it, r
Gni el by -i Fa r ii'Tin , niul the Motive
Power Electricity.
In the b .iler room of ll e Deh'inater
ironworks, at the foot of We -t Thir
j ttenth street, a doen men are building
I an iron steamboat of peculiar design
1 and have about all lh plates riveted
' in place. It is thirty feet long by
seven ami it half broad and six deep.
, The model is verv sharp where the
Witter is divide.!, w till-tin- run after
' will give soldi water to tin- wheel. It
looks niii-h like a siib.tantial steam
laiineh, except the side frames are car
ried up and itlcliid over the top to
form the rounded deck, which wholly
! covers the hold except iti a round
j batch in the center. At this hatch a
well is to bo eontrucled, with a door
in one side leading into the hold, i in
each side of the keel eiiuiitrh b ad will
, be piaced to load the vessel to the
water's edge, after all the inaehiiiei-y-stores,
etc., are on board. There are
a number of small compartment
which citti be filled with water and
; emptied at .the pleasure of the crew,
. and by this means the vt-sstl can be
1 sunk to ;inv depth below the surface.
Over the Witter ballast coiupartini nts,
on each side and beneath the Moor, are
a number of six-inch iron t ubes w hich
will be tilled with compressed air. to
I be liberated as the air grows foul
I within the boat.
Th" motive power is electricity,
' furnished by s'oiii o- bid t erics which
will turn th- propeller by a common
I dynamo, lu'-undesccnt electric lights
, furnish light. The b nit is steered to
port or starboard by it co unt in ru .hb-r,
while ii horizontal rudder or I'm on
' each side of Hi- stern post will elevate
I or depress the st in. ami thus shove
the vcs-cl further from or nearer to
j the sitrlaee, independent of the action
of the water-biillast pump. The in
! veitt-r. Mr. .1. II. L. Tuck, .says that
! sh- will attain a speed of eight l-n-ts
' an hour, and can tr.r. 1 1 I11 1 miles
with her ordinary storage batteries,
j A hand crank is aNo titled for turning
the propeller s'lalf. by vvhirna slow
speed could be obtained.
The well hole in the -enter of th
boat is filled with an air tight hatch,
which can bo removed from within.
Any one of the crew v, ishia-g lo go on
deck when the boat is below the sur
face has only to dress in an ordinary
diver's suit, with air tubes connecting
with the interior of the boat, enter
the well, close the door, gradually fill
the well with water, and then remove
the hutch. 1 i the well are suitable
devices for directing the man at the
wheel its well as tho)-in charge of
tlioappiiriitust.it- elevating, lowering
and propelling t he boat. When leav
ing the w ell I he hatch is closed, the
water i mis itito the water ballast com
part incuts, and then the man opens
the door an I temovi s his armor.
In was fare a large torpedo can be
attached to each end of the boat, with
a strong insu'ated wite c-mitei ting the
two together, and with a:, electric bat-t-rry
in the boat. To app y th t-r
pedoestotho b-t om of a ship the boat
has oiily to run benea'h it. hen di
rectly athwart s dps, under lor keel,
the pilot in the well-hole can loosen
thet rpedoes and allow them to ris
under the bilg-s of the ship. Then he
can run his hunt ahead a short dist nef
and explode the torpe ,oes. If de-ira-ble
ii small ctipola.wit'i gla s window;
and an electric lamp, can replace thf
well, and th- h-at ca i be operated
from w it bin.
The boat is designed to r tn.ii n iin
d-r witter without incoiiveiiicn- t(
the crew for lottv-ciht bouts, hut
rubber tube device will be attach d by
means of which air can be draw n from
thesurf ice of the water under ordinary
circumstances. A small mercury indi
cator willshowthe boat's ist. nice be
low th-surface. -.V. (' V" N't.
15 nil ml Ml oil I iler.
More than thirty years ago. says a
correspondent. I got a habit of being
round-shouldered. In trying to fuel a
remedy the following plan, which grew
out of my knowledge of anatomy, came
pi sight. Hook the lingers of the
hands; raise the elbows as high as the
shoulders and pull like a shoemaker.
The muscles about the shoulder blades,
to keep them in place, are thus
strengthened, and in a short time
enabled to fulfill their proper office.
; When lying n the back press the head
, on the pillow so as to raise the chest
tip from the bed on which you are re
clining. Thia strengthens the muscles
that should hold the bead erect. When
standing or sitting where the head can
press against something solid, ropeai
the operation. Hy a little thought at
other times to use these muscles, the
difficulty may ke overcome
j The lirst execution that has tak-n
place in Italy for many years was that
of a soldier in Home recently.
s)c ljatl)am Uccori.
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JNO. '. Inn l will lie inndo.
l ite Tree by Ihe Well.
' I I he lull, , ma poem v;is written by .lonqiisn
I mmU al the rceent annual "iree-
I., ; ! the ,-la-s of 1SS1 at the Oregon
I. ill- I HIV. -I -ill , lupine I ill 1
An Aish shiek ill di-erts wide
t !, -on, .tied -'i lor lliii--aiiH nmn
I h- ! il In line I In; uiuavaii
And iF:4 in; wi-lh he. tliirlin, died.
II, ili.-l ol Ihllsl' the wells lelllllin'
I iii, il;;i air. piitii-nl pioneer.
i d :- aiiels what n triumph horo!
'lokiiiiii in, licit iMli'ed in vain'
Wi le I 14.1111 t the i-iiiis.i nodi;
We I I e I h 01 I in desei l hind,
HL'.eil u. !l and grilles n broken dnnd
I In V1.1!.'- 1 ii -mis tale of old.
VV 1 I on 11 ll - i- l.eside this well
11, li,..n. in il.- . ! -1 Wont
1 mi i iv.ks lai-e Up lo " .ill il I'les-sl'd.
I hi 1 -! .lid i-i-i nil .-entitle '
'.i ilia- tar mi i!ai when iieaiedii-l
An I all ins i i t vale leeim with life,
-.tm- drive I laiiilin- in Ihe strife
Mai 11 -I them hen; and speak us ju-t :
M il . He few liil'OU-dl llil'IsOl' lilll
Iii. .1 . hi neii wii.i-for uoi Ids to come
Ami i.iiinieueil not: I. ill dravely iliiiuh
So l,i-1 lull 1 i,i-i in,; ( Mid niul time.
I.il... . in Im ii-did- il- worth
V ail nil in tin tae d uunl in toil.
Tnl-I iioi: mid trust the enelous so I
(Miami in la tut-, hi. trusliiu: e.irlli.
I - -nit ii l,iiilicr tar to wait,
'lo wor'i in f illi. lo wait in lenrs
n- iitii and wait a tho i- nut years
"I II ,11 i.e. e lo i ill.!, I T i-hallell!e lire.
-11 hell n I Illi- lilld -eed
Aii I iim! 11- ii'ti.d i lioii-li- 10 Time;
iijnm 1.1 1..111 Ii the -no . -iihliine;
A- -inns and trow- soiite -mall, -nod deed.
! 1I11 . wu--i. I. lies 11 er lloil,
VV.ui. i loaii.l di , v rla-lin-snow.
., :1j ... .nun- ui. iC -ti.i'i -mill grow
Win n :;t,im. ,i, up'lard to il- Imd.
Ill 1IOINH S.
A iii'turi'iiis civcsdioppi-r. - Haiti,
stage struck. - Hit by iin omnibus.
The healed teim V.ui are a li:r."
An inii-dcpeii l' nt T he hotel war
er.
A bankrupt man never w rites to the
bank to ' stop my paper."
The goo I Winter is on-of the lew
individuals who knows how to serve a
man right.
In ii real estate transaction it man is
tn-v -I sal isiM'd to lake the wold fur
the d ed.
It iloes seem that tlieoidy rights the
whit- tii-ii are williig to concede the
r-d 11, an arc lulu rnl rites.
" 'I in-hand thiil rock-the cradle is
the hand that titles the world.' It is
th.- hand of the hired girl.
T"e man who t r.tv . N f ruin 1 he At
lantic to tlm Pacific is apt to think it
is a -great while bet w ecu drinks."
The clu ap' r the cigar the more per
sistent ly does the cheap sliiokcf puff it
in the lac -sol his fellow travelers.
j Tim - Oi-ciipie I hi a Ib caiii.
A paragraph published in the Phila
delphia 1 -some time ago, giving
a cubai. atiou of the spec 1 of thought
jn dreams bus d upon a ci that hap-
' pi ned to pi- cut the l-quircd data, has
been widely copied illld has railed out
other stories and estimates of the
same kind. A correspondent of the
scientific American rcla'os that during
the Ttirco-llns-iaii wat a telegraph
operator t sedalia. Mo., vva receiving
a pre-s dispatch in vvhi-h tin- mime of
liortschiil oll fr qiiently itppo red.
1 Th-o;n lat-r becatne so familiar with
this !ici essioit of sounds that its soon
its t Ii- iii-- -y -liable of the name had
bu n it-ie;i-l he went to slee . had a
long .ci I 1 iiibot-iitc dream itboiit a hunt
ng trip in the Indian territory, nccupy
iig si vera! days, ami finally during
the div i-ioii of the game Woke up ir
lime to take the final syllable o
liort-ehakolT's name and the rest ol
tin- nu-s.ige. ll is calculated that th
titin- or-in .1 d ny t is dream w as forty
tun r oIie-h'.IHlreilths of it second. Tilt
story is- o. d y gom'.it will be observed
whet In r it .s taken as a contribution tf
science or in newspaper humor. Trui
Thifs.
'lite lrinkers of llluoil.
They haunt tin- abattoir every week
and di ink ;'ie warm b-ef blood by th
ciiplu!. It is caught as it flows from
the animal' - throat. It benefits thin
blooded per -otis. Some time since a
woman came to the stock yards who
s;ial h-r piysiciiin had told her she
must drink beef blood,
"lint I ti-ver can do it, neverl" said
; she, shuddering.
"Hut it tastes just like milk," said
the gentleman appealed to. "Come
I'll blitnlfol I you and give you a glas
of milk. Then I'll giveyou some more
milk, or a glass of blood, then a taste
of milk, till you get them mixed up,
j and you won't know which is which."
She cou-eitted, and drank the glass
first given her with a relish. "Ah!
that was the milk. Now I think 1 car
try the blood," she told them.
"Hut, madam, you have drank it al
, ready,"said the gentleman. -Coici'iiuifi
! Vuinmt it i! Hattti;
California produces ligs eight inchet
In circumference.