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ANCE
VOL.. XV.
GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1889..
NO. 39. ,
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The water rushed, the water sighed,
A fisher sot thereby.
And watched his angle on the tld
. With thoughtful, patient eye. .
And aa be site and aa he wait
The flood' broad bosom parts.
And thence her garb in damp bung plait
The river spirit Mart.
She aang to him, she spoke to him! "
"Wbatl wouldst thou so Uiude
With human skill and cunning grim
My harmless finny brood f
Ahl oouMst thouseehowwellltls
Wlth them so cool below,
Down wouldat thou oorae to share their bliss
And Joy's real meaning know. , ,
"The sun and moon both end their race
Within the sea'a calm deeps;
And how In time with fairer face,
. Each from Its cavern leaps. . '
Draws not thy heart the glassy stream .
It clear blue mirrored sky
And wouldat thou not here like to dream
While worlds and ages die!"
The water rushed, the water sigted,
The waves his feet caressed .
De feels as though a new won bride
Lay on his longing breast.
She sang to himrsae spoke to him, , ,
His form passed from the shore, ; JK .
Be sank beneath the river grim,
And eame to lite 00 more. , r.
Be never had a chance to ten ,
Of that eventful day; ' - '
Of all the mighty flab he caugh . .
Of those that got away.-
Out, if such were each fisher's fate, -How
much of fancy's range
Hankind would lose in wondrous tales
1 Both picturesque and strange.
From tha German of Goethe.
:iIER LAST 'CARPET.
TUa Ii no BfrfyA trCm til A
X UU V1VHUVW M"V, wmvww-
June apple tree to the mulberry tree,
ana on to. me great, oxiieuri vuvrry
tree in Mrs. Gideon Huff's back yard,
had for several days flaunted stfips of
bright green, orange yellow and dark
crimson cotton, newly dyed, y, -
UJt 1UVIIUHJ wwv. V 1 I
yards of pale Hue, and on Tuesday a
strip of bright red. When Mrs. Huff
bung the last strip on tne line, sne
stepped back with her bare, round,
red arms akimbo nodded her pink,,
sunbonncted head to and fro in an ap
proving; manner, and said : .- : t :
"Well. I've had rood luck with
ev'ry single piece. If I'd make the
aniline aye a leeuu unw wu-snr, u
mebbe looked better along with the
green an' yeller in the twisted stripe I
callate on having, but it'll look mighty
purty as' 'tis. I must git .my logwood
an' copperas ready for the rest of my
rags, an' git 'em all ready for the rag
sewin' Friday, for they've got to go to
the' Weavera-Sattaday. i 1; a h
Mrs.'Huff;? nag. carpets had taken
the first premium' at the c'ou"nty fair
every autumn for three years, and she
was laying her plans again this year
to capture the blue ribbon and the five
dollar prize. She had a way of getr
ting up "twisted stripes" and coloring
and warping the chain that no one
could imitate. Her neighbors often
said that they would rather have one
of Harriet Huff's striped rag carpets
than a two ply iugrain. She made a
great point of having her rags cut
very fine, and sometimes lay awake at
night planning something new in the
way of "hit and-miss filliu'."
"She cute up our duds fer carpet
rags 'fore we've half wore 'em out,"
said Mr. Gideon Hulf, a little irritably.
"When a woman gits to- makin' rag
carpets a man's red flannins ain't safe
a minute unless iie pute 'em in the
bank in his own name, an' my blue
overalls gin'rally go into a ball of
carpet rags 'fore I've wore 'em a dozen
times."
The carpet Mrs. Huff was now mak
ing was to eclipse all of her former
efforts. She had actually dreamed of
something new in twisted stripes, and
had risen in the middle of the night
to make fast and safe the dream-sent
idea by winding the colors in the right
order around a strip of pasteboard.
Then she went back to bed, saying to
herself:
"Now, if I could only dream of
something new in fillin'l' --
But such a dreain did not come,
although she was a great dreamer, and
stoutly maintained that she often
"dreamed out things," and that her
dreams came true. 13eing thus a firm
believer in dream, she occasionally
evin invited dreams by overloading
her stomach at night.
"If I et an ordinary light supper,"
she said, "I don't dream much : but if
I eat pickles and cheese and cake, and
a' lot of stuff of that kind, I dream a
sight," whicn was no doubt true. -
She "made a rag sewin' " that week
to finish up her bit-and-uiiss rags, but
the rags forthat wonderful stripe were
all to be sewed with ber own bands.
Eight or ten of her neighbors came to
the "rag sewin'." Each of them
bronghther needle and thimble, and
sewed carpet rags and laughed and
gossiped in the most agreeable way all
the afternoon, and in the evening
their husbands came to supper.
Not even to these ladies did Mrs.
Huff disclose the pattern of her
"dreamed out" stripe, although she in
formed them that they could confi
dently expect to see such a rag carpet
as they'd never before seen, when the
fair opened two weeks later.
Her household duties occupied ber
time more than usual at that season
of the year, so that she could sew only
at night, and each night she sat up
until very late sewing on the green
and crimson and yellow and bine and
black and white rags for the stripe in
ber carpet
It was after midnight on Friday
when the last ball was sewed and
wound and weighed and ready to go
to the weaver's ou the morrow.
"The stripe can't be improved on I
Jest know, ''said Mrs. Huff, as she put
the rags away in stoutgrain bags, and
tied them ap. "But I can't decide
just how to hive the colors in the
chain warpfd. or whether to havo the
L'gbt and dark rags all mixed up or
ep rato in the hit an' miss part I do
-wonder if I can't dream it out to
night! I'm all tired ouWand I dreatu
btt when I'm that way. Mebbe if I
eat a big piece of gooseberry pie and
Siece of cheese 'fore I go to bed, 1 11
ream something uncommon.
"1 read the other day of a great poet
who wrote half a poem, and couldn't
fiiiiih it to suit him, and he went to
tci and dj tamed &e other half aU
out as plain as day, and got up in his
nightgown and finished up, fin sure
if a person could dream out a fine
poem, I'd ought to be able to dream
out a common rag carpet pattern."
Thus-reasoning to herself, Mrs. Huff
ate her pie and cheese and went to bed.
and, being very tired, soon dropped
asleep. .. -
- She was sleeping heavily when her
husband called her in the morning.
Her first words when she arose were:
"Well, it didn't do any good. I
didn't dream anything about that car
pet, although I did dream of forty
other things. I jnust hurry up my
work, and , nave Gideon take me and
the rags over to the Widow Watts',
and see myself that she understands
just how that carpet's got to be wove."
But when, two hours later, she went
. into her little sewing room to get her
rags and chain, they were not vo do
found.'
"Gideon," she called to her husband,
who was putting the horses to the
light, wagon in tne barnyard, "have
you carried them rags out to the
wagon?"
"No," called back Mr. Huff; "I ain't
seen your old rags. I'll he glad when
1 have seen the last of 'em. and you've
done a-settin' up o' nights a-puddlin'
over 'em. and underminin' your con-J
stitution and your health."
"Well, they ain't here," said Mrs.
Huff, "and I left them here last night,
all ready to be carried out Hanner,
've you seen them ragsf" !
"No," replied. Hannah, the hired
girl, "I ain't Been a solitary thing of
W"
"That's queer," said Mrs. Huff, irri
tably. "They never tuk legs and
walked off of their own accord. Sam,
I don't s'pose you've seen anything of
my ragsi" '
Sam, the farm hand, happened to
pass the open window at that moment.
" "Your rags. Mis' Huff f What rags?"
"Why, my carpet rags."
"Didn't know you had any," r&
plied Sam, briofly, as he went uncon
cernedly on his way. ' - i: '
'Then began an active search for the
rags. Mr. Huff was called in, and so
singular was the disappearance of
such bulkv articles that he . joined in
, the search with considerable interest
"It's the queerest thing!" said Mrs.
Huff, for the fifteenth time, as she
looked into places in which the bags of
rags could not possibly be. "It's my
opinion," she said at last, "that some
body has stolen those rags. They must
have done it! They never got away
alone; any one with common sense
knows that."
No trace of a thief could be found.
Jut one could easily have come and
gone without the family knowing it,
as the doors and windows were seldom
fastened. In fact some of them had
been left wide open the night before
to admit the cool air at the close of a
hot day. , .
After an hour of unavailing search
Mrs. Huff dropped, wearily into a
chair and said, in a choking voice,
"Well, they're gone, and gone for
good, and so's my chance of getting
the prize at the fair next week. Some
body must have stole 'em. I reckon
now that Cafisty Horn will get the
premium with her carpot."
"Well, well, what if she does?" said
Mr. Huff, consolingly. "You've had
it thrco years hand runnin', and you'd
ought to give somebody else a chance
anyhow. ,
"Tliey'all have jtrstasgood a chance
as I've had," replied Mrs. Huff. "And
the premium aiu't nothing at all com
pared to the loss of that carpet that I
had callatcd sure on putting down in
the settiu' room this fall."
Tlio rags were not found in the days
that intervened before the fair, and
Mrs. Calisty Horn's carpet did get the
first premium.
"And such a looking carpet as it
was," said Mrs. Huff, somewhat spite
fully. "Tho rags was half an inch
wide, and she'd got too much copperas
in her coloring,' and the stripe was
nothing to compare to What mine
would have been."
Her loss and defeat weighed heavily
on Mrs. Huff, and she lay awake a
longtime thinking The whole matter
over after she had gone to bed, when
she came home from the fair.
Sometime after midnight Mr. Huff
awoke to find himWf alone in bed.
and as he opened his eyes be fancied
he saw some one pass the door lead
ing into the hail.
"Harriet," he cried, "is that youf"
There was no reply.
'I wonder, he saiti, "ir tnat woman
bag Tuli of carpet rag baHa leaning
against a post or the loom. Drawing
forth a ball of tho "hit an' miss" rags
she slowly began winding it on the
shuttle, which she then paesed to and
fro through an imaginary warp. The
reed and batten bars were gone, but
Mrs. Huff went slowly through the
motions of using them. :
The amazed Mr. Huff at once no
ticed that her eyes were closed, and
his belief that she had become a
"stark, staring, ; crazy loonytio "
changed into the more agreeable
thought that she was simply sound
asleep. His eyes rested on the miss
ing carpet rags, and he mentally ejac
ulated: .' " ; '
"Brought 'em up here herself in
her sleep two weeks ago,' by Jinks 1
What's goin' to become of her if she
goes to makin' carpets both when she's
asleep and awake f Her intelleckshel
reason will give way. That's what'll
happen to hert No born woman could
stand it, and it'll be mighty hard on
all of us. She shan't make nary nother
carpet I I'll buy body bristles for ev'ry
room in the house first I Harriet Diany
Huff, wake1 up and git to bed where
you b'longl"
Mi's. Huff did not waken, and Mr.
Huff hesitated before speaking again:
"They say." he said to himself,
"that it aiu't safe to wake us sleep
walkers or somnambulances suddenly.'
Mebbe she'd have a fit if I woke her,
though she don't come of a fitty fam'ly.
I'll just seo what she does." .
A moment later Mrs. Huff slowly
left the loom, and with eyes closed,
shut the attio door behind her, walked
down stairs and returned quietly to
her bed.
"It beats all," said Mr. Huff, as he
quietly laid down beside her, '-but she
shan't meddle with carpet rags nc
more, she shan't I"
In the morning she said while dress
ing, "I dreamed 'bout weaving me a
carpet at my old loom last night I've
had sev'ral such dreams lately." .
"Hev?'" queried Mr. Huff, dryly.
"That reminds me that I want to show
you something in the old loom room.
Come right up I"
"Wait till after breakfast."
"No, I've got more time now." 1
"There you air, Harriet Huff," said
Mr. Huff, dramatically, as he threw
open the attio door and waved his
hands toward the bag of rags. .
"Gideon Huff I" she said, as she sank
down on an old hair covered trunk,
with her hands upraised.
"I'd say 'Gideon Huff' if I was you,"
he replied; thcu he went on solemnly,
occasionally shaking his finger toward
her. "Harriot Diany Huff, I ain't got
much to say to you, but what I do say
is solemn and pertickler, and I mean it
"You've made your lost rag carpet I
-Your intelleckshel reason is givin
way under the straiu of it, to say
nolhin' of our duds bein' cut up 'fore
they're half woro out, and you in a
stiddy pickle and stew over your col
orin' and twisted stripes. You drug
them rags up here in your sleep, and
las' night I ketched you up here goin'
through weavin' motions in' your
sleep. Your modal brain powers is
becoming exhausted over carpet rags,
and you've got to give 'em up for good
and all, premiums or no premiums."
So Mrs. Huff, greatly shocked when
fold of her performances, did give up
all rag carpet making, although the
beautiful twisted stripe of her visions
and dreams became a reality as soon
as the rags could bo carried to the
Widow Watts. .
Dream provoking food at midnight
was also wisely given up in obedience
to Mr. Huff's demand that his wife
should do nothing to impair her "in
telleckshel reason."
This is a true story, and the reader
can draw tho moral from it -J. L.
Harbour in Youth's Companion.
has got up 111 the derul oi.ntgnt to De
gin ou another carpet She shan't do
ill Harriet what are you doing!
Y011 stek?"
Still Harriet did not answer. Mr.
Huff arose, wrapped a quilt around
him, Ugh ted a candle and started out
to investigate. As he stepped into the
hall he heard a noise as of som one
moving around in am unused attic
room above him, a room that had not'
been entered for weeks, and which was
now filled with all the odds and ends
of things that will collect in a bouse
as the years go on, and- which a great
many people aave, under the impres
sion, usually a delusion, that they will
sometime "come handy."
Among the useless rubbish stowed
way in Farmer Huff's attio was the
frame of an old tarpet loom on which
Mrs. Huff had woven many a carpet
in her youngor days: but years had
passed since the loom had been in nse.
The moonlight streaming in through
a window showed Mr. liuff that the
attic door was open, bat there was no
othr light in the room.
'Harriet Huff 1" be called, "what in
creation air you doing up there at this
time o' night? Hunting some more
tormented old ragst Come right bock
to bed I YouH get your death tf cold
roemin round at night f
Sho took no notice of bis querulous
remarks, but he beard no more sounds
in the attic. But he was too much
troubled to let the matter rmt as it
WUi md accordingly mounted the
stairs and entered the attio room.
There he saw something that caused
him to open both eyes aild mouth with
amazement .
At the old loom sat Mrs, Huff in her
night elothes. In one hand she held
an old wooden huttle, while with the
oUjCT she fwaibltd around in a grain
A Bollever In the Divining; Rod.
We have this week received a seri
ous application from a man of mature
years,' and apparently sane on other
points,' for tlys address of a maker of
divining rods, or of the possessor of
ono, or, failing these, for a description
of the method of manufacture. He
gravely informs us that his brother
possesses one, out win not let mm
have tho use of it, wishing or him
self tho job in prospect namely, bunt
ing for gold in Canada. We are also
informed that if tho body of miueral
be larce it will affect the rod from a
trreat distance: that the operation is
fatiETiinc. br .reason of the sensation
i communicated to thoarm when thera
is much mineral about; and finally,
that the rod will not work in every
one's bunds. The last proposition, be
in a the one solitary statement in which
,' the innumerable authorities on the
: subiect acrce. may bo safely believed
to contain at least a partial truth.
Jungineenng ana Alining journal.
aasoa In Pronnnclailoa.
The correct sound of tho vowel u is
amone the niceties of Encrlwh pronun
ciatiou, but after all it is not half so
important as politeness, a fact wnicn a
certain small boy seems to have for
gotten. "Mr. Feather!y,,, said Bobby, at the
dinner table, "how do you pronounce
d-of"
"Do, Bobby," replied Mr. Fjthcrly,
indulgently.
"now do you pronounce d-e-wl
"Du-u-ewB and Mr. Fcatherlv put
1 on a genteel air for the benefit of Bob
: by's older sister.
"Well, then, how would you pro
nounce the second day of the week J"
Tewsday, I thinkv
"You're wrong."
- "Wrongl How would you pro
nounce it, Bobby!"
"Monday." New York Time.
far KMekiag Ixrwa Tnmmtimmm.
During the occupation of Taris by
the allien, Wellington cave an order
that no Engliah ouicer should give a
challenge to, br accept ono from, a
French officer. A French marshal,
shortly after this order, shoved an
EnglUh colonel from the pavement
into the street The EuglUhman
knocked him down. 'When the mare
chal made a firmal complaint the
duke sent a written reprimand to the
colonel, and in it tnclosed an iuviia-
tiuii to dinner. S&turduy Ilcview.
A GYPSY WEDDING.
Tha Simple .Ceremony by Which nZlgenner
COuple Are Made Han and wire.
One day a troupe of gypsies halted
in front of the Bohemian Mill, a snug
looking mill, situated in the Viennese
suburb of Nuszdorf, An old man with .
a Bowing white beard got down from
one of the carts belonging to the com
pany and inquired of thenost whether
a gypsy wrdding could take place
there, adding that they would pay
well. At tho same time he exhibited
a paper establishing , his identity as
Butura Bimi. captain of a gypsy tribe
mustering forty souls. The party
were invited to take up their quarters
in the garden attached to the prem
ises. Presently the hostess ventured
to inquire in which church the cere
mony would take place. "Thy gar
den will be our church," replied one
of the band, "and our captain is our
priest" In a short time the gypsies
got comfortably settled, and the men
with little trouble erected seven tents,
two of them being pitched a short
distance from the five others.
Tn iheKA twn tnnta the bride and
bridegroom resided prior to their wed
ding, xne nve omcrs accommouaieu
the remainder of the party, which
consisted, in all, of twelve men. fif
teen women and thirteen children.
The first eveningwas spent in carous
ing at the inn. The next morning the
men surrounded the bridegroom's tent
and drank his health with brandy.
The women assembled at the bride's
quarters and nto sweetmeats with her.
On a signal given by the captain the
whole party withdrew to their tents. "
At midday they turned out again in
holiday attire for the marriage cere
mony. Capt. Siml wore a dark green
dolman thrown over his shoulders and
a red waistcoat with large silver but
ton He advanced slowly toward the
tents. Two young men fetched the
bridegroom, while, the' bride was as
sisted by two old women. Two fiddles
and two bassoons struck upaZigcuher
melody, sung in chorus by all present
Thehrideand bridegroom were then
led before the captain. Yemra, the
bride, is a handsome girl of 17, with
eyes and hair as black as jet -She
wore a red gown with white trim
ming and patent leather laced boots.
KatSu Gycfan, the bridegroom, is a
well built youth of one-and-twenty,
with a pleasant face, a black mustache
and bushy hair. A yellow scarf was
handed by an old man to the captain,
who bound it lightly round tho wrists
of the happy pair, saying, as he did so,
"Man ana wife must do bound to
gether." He then took an earthenware jar
and poured tho contents a small
quantity of wine over their heads,
reciting words to this effect: "Some
times wino is sour; so is life. Some
times wino is sweet; so is life. The
existence of -Zigeuners is a mixture of
sour and sweet" He then toolaoff tho
yellow scarf and said: "Ye ore now a
true Zigeuner couple."
This brought tho ceremony to a close.
The young people were congratulated
by their companions, and afterward,
they all adjourned to the publio room
of tho Bohemian Mill, where feasting
and merrymaking occupied the rest of
the day. The company left three days
later, the newly married couple travel
ing in a commodious new cart, a wed
ding present from Capt Simi. Vienna
Cor. London Telegraph,
afeduvTal Belief in Miracles.
It is not easy for a modern Protest
ant, still less for any one who has the
least tincture of scientific culture,
whether physical or historical, to pic
ture to himself tho state of mind of a
man of tho Ninth century, however
cultivated, enlightened and sincere he
may have becu. His deepest convic
tions, his most cherished hopes, were
bound up in the belief of the miracu
lous. Life was a constant battle be
tween saints and demons for the pos
session of the souls of men. The most
superstitious among our modern coun
trymen turn to supernatural agencies
only when natural causes seem in
sufficient; to Eginhard and bis friends
the supernatural was the rule, and the
sufficiency of natural causes was al
lowed only when there was nothing
to suggest others. ,
Moreover, it must be recollected
that the possession of miracle work
ing relics was greatly coveted, not
only on Idgh but on very low grounds.
To a man like Eginhard, the mere
satisfaction of a religious sentiment
was obviously a powerful attraction.
But more than this, the possession of
such a treasure was an immense prac
tical advantage. If the saints -were
duly flattered and worshiped, there
was no telling what benefits might re
sult from their interposition in your
behalf. For physical evils, access to
the shrine was' like the grant of the
use of a universal pill and - ointment
manufactory: and pilgrimages there
to might suffice to cleanse the per
formers from any amouut of sin.
Professor T. IL Huxley in Popular
.Science Monthly.
1 tralaveky I Kill ak Bobla.
There is a widely spread belief
among schoolboys in many parts of
the country that it is unlucky to kill
a robin, and it is generally supposed
that a broken limb would be the prob
able punishment for so doing. Even
the nest of this bird is comparatively
safe, though why it should be thus fa
vored is not quite clear, unless, as has
been suggested by some writers, it
owes it popularity to the story of the
"Babes in the Wood," which ballad
perhaps may also have given rise to
the popular notion that the robin will
cover w'iih leaves or moss any dead
person whom it may chance to find.
There certainly, however, seems to be
o sulMtantLtl mtsou why he should
be more favored rtian the other mem
bers of tho feathered tribe, for, after
all, he is a wry pugnacious and hn
' pudent little fellow ; but perhaps thee
are the qualities which hare brought
bim into notice and made LLu r-'i'U
lar. Chambers Journal. ...
Fond Mamma What are you draw
tug on your slute, pel!
litllo Nell I Wb tryin' to draw my
dolly; but I lies I'll' kill itaUolhe)
pin. New York Weekly. -
. , ITJUutbert'a Method. '
As for tile, the more I feel the diffi
culties of good writing, the more my
boldness grows. It is this preserves
mo from the pedantry into which I
should otherwise fall. -1 have plans
for books the composition of which
would occupy the rest of my lif and
if there happen to me, sometimes,
cruel moments, which well nigh make
me weep with anger (so great do I
feel my weakness to be), there are
others also when I can scarce contain
myself for oy; something from the
depths within me, for which voluptu
ous is no work, overflows for me in
sudden leaps. I feel transported,' al
most inebriate, with my own thoughts,
as if there came to me, at some- win
dow witliin, a puff of warm perfumes.
I shall never go very fur and know
how much I lack; but the task I un
dertake will surely be executed by an
other, I shall have put on the road
some one better endowed, better born
for the purpose, than myself.. The
determination to give to prose the
rhy mth of verse, lea vi ng it Still veritable
prose; to write the story of common
fife as history or the epio gets written
(that is to say, without detriment to
the natural truth of the subject), is
perhaps impossible. , I ask myself the
question sometimes. Yet it is perhaps
a considerable, an original thing to
have tried. I shall have had my per
manent value for my obstinacy. And
who knows? Ono day I may find a
good motif, an air entirely within tho
compass of my voice; and at any rate
I shall havo passed my .life not ig
nobly, often with delight Yet still it
is saddening to think how many great
men arrive easily at the desired effect
by means beyond the limit of con
scious art What could be worse built
than many things in Rabelais, Cervan
tes, Moliere, Hugo? But then, what
sudden thrusts of power I What
power in a single worul Cor; Gus
tavo Flaubert . , ! .. , '
; Wholesome Food.- '")
Those who aro spending ihier 'pow
ers in providing entertainment for the
young imagination, whether through
any irresistible inclination to write, or
through ueed of . the money thus
brousriit in, have a tremendous respon
sibility, which many of them do not
seem in' any way to recognize. If it
is in tho first case that they are
prompted to write, they should be very
sure that they have something to say
worth saying, and hi no wise detri
mental to the young spirit in its for
mative process ; and in the latter they
should uo doubly watchful of their
pens, the temptation of profit and
their own need coming in as powerful
allies of, possible evil, or blinding them
to the presence of such evil,
i Not only . should that which they
provide for the young be free from
wrong, or tno suggestions 01 it, or
from anything thaf might, poradven-
' ture, develop into wrong, but it should
be aggressively in the other direction.
i not only innocent but useful, sound
1 and strong and true and healthy. By
demanding the true we do not mean
toexclude fancy and imagination, but
that even with their employment the
tone should ring true, and that all
false sentiment should be frowned at
, as much as false fact, by which is in
tended statement of fact not true to
t nnti.nn - AVliilA fliA mnrlrnf.mnn And
the provision dealer are feeding the
body, the writer is doing much toward
feeding the soul; and a good deal of
the worthlessness of an impoverished
spiritual nature, an imbecile, poorly
stimulated, poorly equipped intellect,
may ue laiuat tne uoor 01 wuumw
1 ever it is who furnishes intellectual
pabulum of poor quality. Harper's
uozar. ' ' -' ' .- ,
" Air in Water. ' ; : "
Tho phenomenon of air in water,
and the fact that in compressing water
the air is not forced out has long been
an interesting subject of scientific
study, the simple explanation being
that water, as well as many other
liquids, has the property of absorbing
various gaseous substances without
thereby increasing in volume, and far
from reducing the capacity of the
liquid to absorb a certain gas; the ap
plication of pressure increases it the
law being substantially that the
amount of gas absorbed increases di
rectly as the pressure increases, and
eontrawise. Thus, if water at ordi
nary atmospherio pressure will absorb
one-fourth nl its volume of air, at two
atmospheres it will absorb another
one-fourth, at three atmospheres still
another fourth, and so on.
The capacity of water thus to hold
large volumes of gaseous substances
under pressure is well shown in the fa
miliar example of carbonated waters.
These are bottled under considerable
pressure, the gas itself furnishing the
pressure, in order that they shall be
come charged with a groat quantity of
the gas, which, being liberated as the
pressure is removed by drawing the
cork, gives rise to the well known
effervescence. In absorbing or dis
charging the gas. however, there is no
change in the volume of the liquid.
New York Telegram.
EffMt of Tofeaeoa en Hoy.
An experimental observation 01
thirty-eight boys of all classes of so
ciety and of average health, who have
been using tobacco for periods rang
ing from two months to two years,
has recently been recorded by Science,
Twenty-seven showed injury to. the
constitution and insufficient growth ;
thirty-two showed the existence or ir
regularities in the heart's action, dis
ordered stomach, cough and a craving
for alcohol ; thirteen had intermitteu
cv of the Dulse, and one had consump
tion. After they had abandoned the
nse of tobacco, within 'six months'
time one-half were free from ail their
former symptoms, and the remainder
had recovered by tho cim! u( lue year.
Boston UorajX
At the installation of the Marquess
Camden as chancellor of Cambridk-e,
the duke received the honorary de
gree of D.UL Immediately after
ward, at a garden rart7 at Sidney
Gretton, who approached the gale just
n f 1, a -Itilsr. lisxa il l.f. crmf-A mve
his name to the porter as "Dr. Wei
linglon.'-F. E Greuon.
LAUGHING AND - CRYING.
1 l
and:
-1
Bow These Outward Sign of Joy
Sorrow Affect Human Mature. j)
"I , suppose the most prominent
cause of ; laughter," says Dr. William
A. Hammond, "is a sudden . revoJ
lution -of . the emotions that '.is, , .
change from one emotion to another
especially wnen, ine changes are 01 -pleasant
character. Thus, for instance,! t .
when- we have-beerr- reading some
thing rather calculated to excite grief 1
and we come to something of a rioicu-
lous character our tendency -is to'' - -laugh,
while if we had the, ridiculOu
all .through we probably would not
laugh at all. Then- we laugh at at-,
tempted wit rather, than at true wity (
True wit excites pleasure, but does not '
produce laughter, as does buffoonery! -.
We laugh at the anticsof aclown, but , .
not at the sayings of .Moliere." . f . ,
, ''What is the immediate cause of. -laughter?"
'-v.t' J"'V.: .-.' ":
"It is tie reflex , action .excited by?,. . .
the causes I have ' mentioned acting
through the brain ' and nervous sys- ' '
tem upon f. the .'' respiratory muscle
throwing them into spasmodic action.'
Laughter is a spasm of the respiratory '
muscles, accompanied "by a relaxtion
of the muscles of tho face jand some-'
times by the shedding of tears." :
': "Atwhafcago do people laugh tha
most?--; '',, 4-'-'V f-r f "
"I thiuk'it irnoC'orten tbecase that'f
adult men laugh.'-' Theyfmile buf -laughing
is in greater part confined ta( i
women and children. k mere child .?
lauc-hs readilv. and an 'elderly 'person .'
who has long "passed -the middle of
life ia verv ant to latiffh1 at slicbt'
causes. This, however, ia dangerous) '
for them to do, as they may bring on," "
apoplexy ' or drop ' dead from some '
heart disease if they indulge too inw ?
moderately: have' known several
instances of death being broughton ir" &
this way by old people.' Then persons-1 v
of enfeebled faculties will laugh at " i
certain things which 'would not- ex- )
cite risibility with an adalt of well or- i
dered mindV; A very curious cireurn-
stance connected with laughter is that - i.
especially with' children, and some-"--it
times with women and frequently'
with old people, the visible expression--,
of the emotion does not correspond'
with their real-- feeling.' v They laugh
w hen surprised. . ' 1 had a patient once. -
who- laughed whenever he saw-' s
funeral, lie meant to cry rather than' f
to laugh. Ther was ' another - who t
laughed immoderately whenever he
road the obituary columns of a news-'
paperV ' He saW he'did to because he-
felt so sorry; ! He woufd 'laugh from. .
five to ten mintites at a'timo before he ; i
could control himself." ; ii.rW
; "Do not ignorant people laugh more '
than the educated!"' K.te' ! '"
, "Yes; that is becauso they have not' 1
been so aocuntomed -fe control their o
emotions as are people of refined life.
But tho reasons for laughter are most- -
intricate. I have a patient who laughs -over
a solemn French book he is readi
ing. -' He laugbtf.ovef it in a most ex vi
citable manner, and what he laughs -1
at I cannot imagine. .y: i ,.,
."What are the facta in ! regard to h
'weeping!"'' -i' ; ''". .'' -
. "Weeping, the shedding of tears, is" -r
rarely indulged iu by adult men of
good minds for causes of real sorrow.
ild persons, women and children,'! j
weep; men of well ordered minds do
not Man does' not -weep as a rule .
under pain; ;hs may groans but he"
does not shed tears.-thcHig'ehildreni j
and women will do so often on slight .,
occasions. V ' ". '; -4 , ;i i-
" "What produces weepingr , ' . 't f
. ."Generally physical pain. Adults.?
do not usually express sympathy for?
real suffering with tears, r It is a very
curious tiling' that men will witness- ,
the real suffering, of.a poor woman,
having ber leg amputated ina per-rp
fectly stoical manner, r - They go to the ' ,
theatre, and seeing a girl taking the
part of ono in distress, shed tears dur-l
Ing half of the play. I have looked,'
upon ' many distressing scenes un-j
moved so far as. weeping is concerned,1'
but upon watching acted suffering !
Lave had tear come into my eyes. - A
remarkable example of this principle
is that of. Nanatiuhibthe Indian mu-v,
tineer. He could never reed a pitiful,-.
story without crying "over it,' yet h '
inflicted the most horrible tortures esv
the men and women who fell into hia-,
hands, and seemed to enjoy their mis-'
ery." '" " " '! '
"At what age do people weep most ,
readily?" ...... .. .... J
The proclivity to sbed tears is very,"
well marked ia old -peoptej especially -when
they are suffering . from., some j
brain 'disease, such as apoplexy, oc"
bsvesuflejed from it They weep over
trifles. ' I had - under my care at oner
time one of. the most eminent genlle-s
men of his time, who occupied a pos
next to the highest under tha govern-
meat who would cry because bis col-'
fee was cold, and yet that man's mind,!
in its beat condition was one of the0,
bett this country ever produced. L
have seen him cry for ten minutes on
such occasions. lie - was suffering
from braiM.-discase, . Some personaj,
can't weep even when . they want to,;;
though the grief of thcio persons is.
very distressing, and 1s very apt to
produce serious tLtUThance of thev
nervous system, a:il when tears da
come it is a great relief for them."- ii
'"What! effect do these .emotions,
have on people?". ,
"1 think that laughter is belter for
mankind than weeping. I think,
those amusements which tend to fro-f .
duce laughter tend, other thincs being
equal, to prolong life, while those cir-f
cumstanccs that tend to produce weep-f
ing and emotional, distress tend U
shorteu life," . ' . f-
"What harm might escessi ve lauga-
ter raasef " - : - - - ;
"It might cause deaOu" . j-
" What .would be the effect of ex
cessive weepinjji" - j
"People are more apt to die from -that
than from JaugLtcr. laughter .
kills only as it iutti Uns v. "iii the aoy
tion 0 Uie heart, or it would re
strict tho ninscle of rerpiauoo so
greatly that they press una i"" 'alT9
Diu8cles of tbe liet-li m.J cauo aj-'O-.
rlexy, whereas iiiig produce
Leart disease quite often, ii us Uf.
to lau-li t'ifiU to weep, tVu ia c;; t ."
SVaii.ii.-.Oll Pcmt