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. ! i ! i '. From the New York CtaeiTer.
. ' THE COTOTSHIP 0?
BEV. HE1TBY BLAKESPORD
BT IfRS. ?. S. ROBBIX3. -
IS FOUR CIIAITEUS. SO. III.
"It appears aa if the Lord had hedged
me in, and conldift tell what my dooty
was r were thte first words nhe siMke, as,
ith a ruby nose and thick voice, she at
last took away her handkerchief and look
ed at her minister He had been walking
up and down his study, in a very per
turbed way. He was not used to seeing
a woman crying, and the sight moved him
deeply; besides, Sophronia Kipp was old
and thin and poor, and,, on the w hole,
pitiable any way. What could this menu;
Vhat had hne Troubled though to
of the result of Mrs. Deacon Hatch's con
- versation with Faith had seldonf been
absent from his mind since it took place,
and nowthejdread wiis itiss Kipp had
wrae totell him of it. If s, what should
he do, what could he say ? It must le re
jaemttered that, deeply in love as he was,
he yet didnot fully agree with Faith in
tbeVtand she had taken; he wished she.
rould happily have felt and acted differ
Hitly He had not blamed her, by word
or look, but he had not approved; and
this Faith felt keenly.
Miss Kipp's erraud, however, had noth
ing to; j do with t any parish matter, but j
ViU far more important and embarrassing.-
"I wish I could help yon,r the minister
said at length, stopping, in his wajk, op
posite to her, .
it's none of my business," she
stumbled -out, "amfif it isn't my dooty,
I'd Tather cut jny tongue; out than tell
you?
'I.wish Iould help you, -he-repeated,
AKng verj' helpless himself.
"Vou see, Mr. llhikesford, my house is
right opposite liers, and I can't help see
ing What goes on, besides, I am wakeful
at night, if a piece of work troubles me,
and those wsers of Jim Allen's were
cut two short. The boy grows, I verily
Wlieve, 1 et ween the time I cut and make
hw clothes, if I delay a day."
"Surely," said the minister, much re
lieved, -but rather aroused that Sophronia
nlionld come to him with a sewing dis
pute, "Mrs. Allen would take that into
consideration."
J, "Oh yes," quickly, "it wasn't Mrs.
Allen but it's the Imy; he' juT turned of
-fifteen and 1mvs of that. stfe iire masttr
bauds to find fault with wliatever you do:
but that ain't much here nor there it's
about Miss Halstead."
"Miss Ilalstead !" r'peatetl tlte minister
nlowly, fixing hw f.v"? very sternly on tire
trenbling frmstresH. "I hope, M iss Kipp,
von ha too much good sense to propose
any interference in that direction."
"It ain't interferance; I wash my hands
of all that; but it's dooty dooty, Mr.
Ulakesford. I want to do what is' right,
lut what you see, you see."
1 "See!" repeated Mr. Ulakesford in a
tone that brought .Sophronia to her feet,
but she quickly sat down again, and,
iWding her, hands very 'tight together
rent on. .- .'.
"Yes, wlfatt yon see, you see, and I have
been" up of nights not far from twelve,
maybe a little before, 'inaylK? a little after,
hut the first time I saw him, I saw him
a plain asT see you standing there." Mr.
vBJakesford had come before her, and was
Manding verv-still now. - .".She siis up
"late mostly always; her light wasn t out,
and he must have tapped on her window,
for she came' and oiened it. After a little
while he went away; but every night, at
about the same hour, may lie a little earli
er, maybe a little later, I don't exactly
know, he has" come again for two whole
'weeks! I tell you the born truth, as I am
i Christian and hope to go to heaveji, it
luu been every night for two whole weeks,
,and"hesitating 'it's ouhecoming and
improper, if there ain't nrsin nor shame
in it. You oughter have been told it's
; borne in on mf,t if jt was. nil right you
would have beenand I- couldn't rest.
The onl' guidance I seemed tv get from
iuy prayers was a prompting to come
righlt to yon. rGoi-irgivev me if I liave
tloue I wrong. 4 She hasnV any relatives
living now that would come like a thief in
the night, has she, Mr. Blakesford !"
"She has not a relative living;" and,
asMr. Ulakesford made this answer, his
voice- secnied to him to come back from
fcome immeasurable distance, the waves
f air beating and pressing against his
wordl asjJispoke. He took hold of a
chairj. to steady himself if he could, and
then jyrid more quietly :
"Miss Halstead can, of course, explain
lU.ttiii. -I will gee. her at once. Would
J"a mlod mx asking you toleavi me now
lone, Kipp ! Thank you I am sure
J'oa meant well.
"God comfort yon, my ioor yomig pas
f," said Sophronia Kipp. startled and
"hocked by his pale faiee; "I ani so so
iny tot you.n Then she oieued the door
wftly aid went out. -
' Left , alone Mr, Blakesford began to
walk up and 'doinr his room with his
nands grossed ijehimj his back and his
cn ftunk low upon hia ehest; Slowly
painfully ;tU events of the last two
v--0 were returning and arranging
peinselves in ids memorj'. There was
denying the fact, that for this time
there had been something about JFaith
whicli had surprised and worried, him, a
cloud over the horizon of there happi
ness, in the gray light of which he had
Wen groping after the lost sunshine in
vain.
To noble natures, nothing is harder
than to allow the possibility of -change
towards us in the affection of one we love,
if even when the young minister found
his betrothed pale silent and distraught,
the possibility that she loved htm Jess
truly than she had at first supposed she
did crossed his mind, he banished the fear
with a keen sense of disgrace in having
allowed it to rise. Unworthy of her he
knew he was; but then but then, after
all, how little that tells. He had ques-
tioned her with regard to the school.
"Did that annoy her 1" "No; j it . ws
pleasanter than ever, and the improver
f Went more marked." "Had Mrs Deacon
Hatch made her another troublesome
call?" "iTo; Mrs. Deacon Hatch had given
her up.jfnd was keeping her phials of
wrath well corked for the ministers wife."
His every attempt to cheer her and divine
just what and where the trouble lay had
failed, and he had settled down to the un
comfortable conclusion that Faith knew
and felt more deeply his own half-con-sciously
wcognized disapprobation of her
course in connection with parish matters
than he had supposed. This he could not
Help, aiid he strove, by greater kindness
and more heartily-expressed" trust, to
bridge overstue dissatisfaction, if that is
not too hard a name for his state of mind,
until, having made her his wife, he
should have less fear of being misunder
stood. ; .
But, 'now, Sopln'onia Kipp's story ex
plained'the whole, and what an explana
tion to accept f That she had no relative
livinjr. Faith had often assured him. no
relative, but how, in that Western life,
about some lover ! Could it lie that there j
had beensome previous engagement, .ill
knowledge of which she had kept from him, !
and that she had lieen sought and found, I
and did not know how to free herself from j
the entanglements that surrounded her ?
II III II ILUlll HCil T II VI l - PlIUll UU11UU if 1
edly find ourselves among lieings so jv-r
feet that it will. be one of our greatest
jiys never to fear or find a blemish, but, i
alas tor our angels here, so often, so very
ot'teu thev Hatter from us with broken
wings.
Henry Blakesford, ashamed to doubt
Faith's love. 'for him, sure that some
thing had gone wrong with her, liewil
derd and uncertain, came suddenly to a
suspicion which, once indulged, grew
every moment into more and iore of a
eertainty, until he found himself summing
nji every look and word and deed-of;
Faith's and arraiguing them in dreadful j
array against,- lier. Mrange as it may 1
seem, through nllhis process he .did not j i,e forgot even Mis Kipp, who was not
doubt her tove for him; he knew that his . )ess likely to le vigilant; but he went
own love was only the brighter for being through one street after another, yearn
tried by this fire; but the dreadful aeeusa- ; ing,'as a great, wounded heart only can
tion was, that at some time in her lu'e ; yearn, for some proof to le vouclisafed to
there had been an experience which she j,i,n that it all had been only a hideous
dared not reveal to him a dark spet on
the raiment of his peerless one, wheh she
would hide from his sight.
The more Mr. Blakesford Jntftilged this (
thought, the more bewildered t-nd unhappy :
he Wame, until he seemed to himself to
have lost his hold upon everything, and
to be dropping away into a dark and
perilous sea, without even a helm to guide
him.
"I will go to her." ,
These were the first words he apoke.
lie looked at his watch.
She was itill in
school, she, trusted with the education
of the young people, his affianced wife,
Faith Halstead. He repeated her name
over slowly time after time, almost as if
he expected it would answer for her and
explain awny the change. Bnt stay in
his study he could not. Even through
the open windows the air secured to con
fine, to choke him. So he went out for a
long, swinging walk over the near, high
hills. Perhaps lie thought indistinctly to
himself, "fiod may le waiting up there to
soothe and comfoct me.1'
Mr. Jones saw him going by the comer
grocery, aud, dropping in Tin-smith's shop
he remarked-: tt
"I je8t see our minister streaking away
out of town to the 'mountains. I griess it
ain't much of a sermon we shall get next
Sabbath. Suppose, now, I should leave
'my shop, who would tend to my business
if I don't, I shonld like to know ?"
But perhaps God was waiting for him
there, and Mr.1 Jones, purblind, as so
many of us are, never dreamed that the
mountain -should liecome to his pastor
what Sinai did fo Moses : that amid the
thunderings aud lightnings and the noise
of the trumpet, and the very thick dark
ness, there should -be written for him a
new law, and that, when God had thus
talked with him-from heaven, he should
build an alter unpolluted by any tool,
and the sacrifice, that he should bring to
la w upon it would be the choicest burnt
offerings.
When Mr. Blaksford came back f ram his
walk, he went at once home. School was
out. He knew very well Faith Halstead
was iu her own room. He had sometimes
dropped in there for a moment when he
was returning from his noon stroll; but
he had found now, before he could see her,
he must take time and prayerful prepara
tion. As he entered his stilly r be saw
(t note from' her waiting for him;: Inside j
he read : , J " !
"Do not come to-night. I am not well."
"f. H."
"A subterfuge," he said to himself; "her
visitor conies again." And now he began,
for the first time, to think of the parish in
connection with this, and the terrible par
ish scandal ; it would cause. Others, be
sides Sophronia Kipp, must know of these
visits soon, if they did not now. Let me
do him the. justice, to. say that his first
thought was of her how could he shield
her ! how warn her that sho had been
watched, and all was known ! ;
Go to her, he could not; write to her,
was a beggarly way of meeting aiL ex
tremity; send through Sophronia Kipp,
for one moment he thought of but only
one. And yet he felt keenly that not an
hour was ta be lost : to-night .would bring
another visit, and a -new chance for cx
posure and disgrace. . -If
Mr. Blakesford had not been himself,
but; some one else, lie miglit have thought
of and done a great many things which
did not occur to him imV; but, by uatore,
reticent and proud; by grace, anxious that
his ephod should be made only of gold, of
blue and of purple, of scarlet and fine
twined linen, with cunning work, deeply
and nobly in love with ' Faith Hal stead,
he was hedged in; others might, probably
would, have forced their way out without
a tithe of the difficulties which beset him.
He saw hour after hour slip away; saw
the gray 'shades of evening begin to creep
up over the town, the lights to twinkle
out in one house after another; and he
knew, as these slow hours drew them
selves so painfully along, what they were
bringing. Over and over in his mind
rang" Sophronia Kipp's parting words:
"God comfort you, my poor young pastor;
I am so sorry for you." There was some
thing painful iu them to him now. Why
not sorry for Faith Halstead how much
more she needed the sympathy and help
than he did? Why had not Sophronia
Kipp gone to her instead of coming to
him ? Wht was the reason women were
ro selhni willing to help each other,
,'tation? indeed, in his grief, he was bit
i ter enoiurh to wonder if she had not en-
1 f f
j,, tllis pioce 0f gossip; but this was a
passing, worried thought : Miss Kipp had
; 1()m. herst;lf iu.stice aml hc fi.lt it
Sleep, of course, he could not, when
the time for rest came. To go to led
would be to augment the excitement and
worry of his condition. With only a vague
idea that, in some way, he must be near
her must see and know for himself the
truth of the story he went out as the
clock struck twelve, and walked slow'y
towards her house. He never thought
that he might meet some oftK- parish,
wjlo woid wonder at seeing him hover-
inr around lw-r .it thi time of the. niirlit:
dream. He should find her room dark;
she would be sleeping that-pure, dream
less -sleep whicli the good (tod sends to
his beloved. But in her window burned
n lamp, and he could see that the shade
w as partly lifted
FALLING IN LOVE.
There is nothing no moral or intellect
ual phenomena more strange than fall
ing in love. What is it ; whence it ori-
' ginates ; how it is brought alnnit ; those
things are among the hidden mysteries of
nature.
A girl has reached the age of eighteen ;
a young, man that of twenty-one. They
have lived at home ; traveled a litHe ;
pursued their studies; attended parties,
and been a good deal in society of other
young people ; yet they never took a very
deep interest iu anything in particular;
neither-of them ever cared very much for
auy other person.
1 hev meet, aud lo ! 01 a sudden all is
changed ! Each sees the other in a dif
ferent light from what any other was seen
in : the world seems changed. Life itself
seems changed; their whole beiug ischang-
be like what it was, again, nevermore !
Love is often as sudden as this, but not
always."
Sometimes it is of very slow growth.
Persons have know each other for years,
and been much in each other's society,
and been intimate all this time, but never
thinking of a tie stronger than friendship ;
when some incident or event a teuipoi
ary parting, or the intervention between
them of a third person, friend or stranger
reveals to them, for the first time, the
great truth that they are mutually iu love.
Yet this love, springing up gradually
and imperceptibly, is no less mysterious
and unfathomable than that which is sud
den and at first sight.
It is not mere friendship grown strong ;
it is a more absorbing more violent, more
uncontrollable sentiment.
Whether a person can fall m love more
than once is a mooted question.
Some people appear to fall in love many
times.
It is not unusual to see widowers, who
marry again and seem to love the second
wife as well as the first.
Make no expensejbut do good to others
or yourself ; tll&t is, waste nothing.
4"C ' - : ' ' ' i ' -'9-' - . "P .. ;
; ukcektaixtt op WsEir.--"I respect
the'raan, says Goefheji who knows dis
tinctly what he wishes." The greater part
of all the mischief in- the world arises
from the fact that! men ad not' snfilcicn tly
understand their bwn aims. They ' have
undertaken to build atower,rTind 5 spend
no more labor 6a the ' foundation than
build his tower aiid no one'1 counts 'the
cost.'
: i ur
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WAYS i TO SUCCESS.
Over fifty yeftrs ago, a youth working
on a farm, asked his father to give him
money enough to 1ny a gun. The, old
fnah could hot "spare it, bnttlie boy, noth
ing daunted, found ah ld piece of iron
about the place, aud inconrse of , time
contrived to make a gun-barrel out of it,
With the. very meagre facilities afforded
by a country blacksmith's shop. He had
not the materials to make a lock and
stock, so he walked t the nearest town
i&d "traded" for I the necessary attach
ments, and was encouraged by the smith
for having made so ood a shooter; this
give him ambition Jo make another, so he
went to cutting oui grindstones from the
native rck to raise money for gun ma
terials; iii a short time there was a con
siderable demand for guns of this make".
During the French war with Prussia he
was called upon to furnish guns for the
army, and in l: s than eight months he
made and delivered to the governmenfr'of
France rifles of ti particular pattern, cost
ing five millions of dollars, which amount
was duly paid. The same man furnishes
rihVs for the United States, and South
America, Spain, Egypt and Japan. The
farmer's boy who1 wanted a jjun is now
Elipholet Bemingtqn, of Ilion, New York.
His manufactory covers foir acres of
ground, and lie employs twelve hundred
men. Not satisfied with this uihieveioeiir.
11 . a .
. ,
lie nas recently completed a stwing ma
chine, which is reported to represent the j
latest and most perfect advaneUn the im- ' 1
would be necessary foa good feroetrilt.
It is an exact description qf most meti'g
strivings? Every 'raatt'''iindertakeV to
provements ot tins important adjunct of and constitutionally. It will perform its
domestic economy. This is a t?pe of a ! part thoroughly well, aud when the time
boy who, when there is not a rajr, makes ' comes will give its 135 electoral votes
a way for himself. Many a youth ' solidly for the Democratic candidate in
would have sat down and "pouted," 10.
thinking over what a hard thing it was We again avail ourselves of the editor
that he could not get a gun, with hard ial columns of the Richmond Whig. That
thoughts against tl father for being "so paper presents the case precisely as we
stingy. Not se with Remington ; he want- understand it, when it says :
el a gun ail was determined to have it ; I "We advocate no surrender of our priu
the ver necessities of his st it-nation ci pies ; no advance towards Ihe camp of
timnfitol him to tko .n-v;.... a-otr&- - wi white flnor JulH .nut., Rv
, , , no means. No; we would light Kaaical-
(1,Kiit development of the powers of plan- Um torever. We would distrust the sweet
ningand devising; iu other 'words, of. words of blandishment that come to us
thinking for himself. And such are thev,
the world over, who achieve noted suc
cess. Those who think for themselves,
and upon themselves lean. So it was
with Fitch, and Goodyear, ' and Howe.
Their earlv history was the history of a
t niggle with privation and want, and
imprisonment, and almost despair; and
the immortal Morse must be added to the
list owing all to their patience and cour
age and indomitable persistence.
If young Remington had In-eii supplied
with a gun, he would have "gone a gun
ning," and fallen graudually into a kind
of idle, loafing, aimless life, a burden to
himself and a benefit to nobody. - The very
necessity of efibrt has been the makinir of.
many; while many more, who have their
wants gratified with the asking, have sunk
into insignificance, and their name and
memory have long since perished from
the earth.
Some have been heard to express a
wonder that the human family should le
permitted by Infinite Benevolence to strug
gle against poverty and want. But as the
human mind is constituted, it is better to
work than to wait ; better to lean on one's
self than on another. It is the men who,
as boys, struggled for a - foot-hold in the
world's destinies. It is not the men who
have inherited crowns but those who have
made crowns for themselves and have plac
ed them on theirown heads that have done
the most in molding the world's history.
Many a school child has marred its des
tiny, has been spoiled for all useful pur
poses in life iu being helped too much in
life in irettiner his lessons. Much inav be
done in teaching children to cherish self-
reliance, determination aud independence,
More should he donci than now is to in
spire children with an ambition to find
out ways of doing things for themselves.
Itislietter to study out a rule in arithme
tic or grainuier, it would be a saving of
time in the end, eveil if it took a mouth
The fumhimeutal mischief of public school
.1 1 nr ' 1 ....
systems is the children have not tune to
study out their lessons ; they have not
an hour to give to any problem, and tio
often they must lie shown how, or be dis
graced with a discredit mark ; small won-
der is it that so many, especially girls,
know nothing when they leave school ; all
they know is from .mechanical force of
memory. The true object of going to
school is not so much to become acquainted
With things,' to know things, but to learn
how to think, how to devise, how to plan;
how, if a thing cannot be done in one way,
it may be accomplished in another ; to
spare no pains or labor or efforts to bring
about what is desired, and to never jgive
up until it is done, or is clearly impossi-
ble. This is the true; way to make men
and women worthy of their kind, Hair$
Journal.
Morse treated Julian Clemmons sixabny about
the tele-rrapli, u reports b true.
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" From tbt Wilainfrtoa tear.
" AT A TIME FOR CAUTION.
It is a first rate time to "make Iiaste
slowly. Possibly Mr. Hayes will not do
as well was hoped. Lelf u wait and
see ! Possibly he has made a trace "rrith
Blabje, Cameron, Morton and the" rest
that romiseW'iid good " to the 'country,
n especially, to the South. Buf let
U8,see uevefopmWorctre imagine
evil j or condemn "without knowleilge.
Possibly the President has backed down
from his first intentions in regard to a pa
cific Southern policy But let us hear
more before we render judgment. Per
haps he will not recognize Hampton and
Kicholls. But even that will be much
better than Grant's policy, provided he
does not sustain Chamberlain and Pack
ard." If he will withdraw his troops, , as
we begin to fear , he willxnot after that
published talk with the colored visitors of
South Carolina, and keep his hands off,
the rotten governments in two States with
dual governments will soon fall to pieces,
and the wishes Tf the people will be am
ply vindicated and maintained. The
point is, let us see what the new Presi
dent will do. With such a Cabinet as he
has, he cannot act as Grant did, if he were
so disposed personally, which we believe
he is not.
The South must be cautious and wise.
We have already given our views candid
ly and clearly. Our organization as a
party must be preserved. The very pur
ity and safety of the country depend upon
it. Two parties are a necessity. The
Republican party under Hayes will do
tolerably well only because the Senate is
so close, the House Democratic, and the
nation is opposed to it numerically. We
must keep np our drill, our discipline,
aud be ready to win a victory over the
enemy whenever occasion presents itself.
The South will stand by its colors. It
asks for no political garbage. It demands
fair-dealing and good government. It
will accord due praise to the President
when
he administers the Government
economically, fairly, justly, honorably,
from a party that has for years despoil us
of our rights, trampled upon our liberties,
denied us the dearest privilege of freemen
the 1 iglit of self-government. To
President Hayes we would say, we will
judge your measures in detail. We will
not sell out for all the paltry offices in
your gift, but we will sustain your every
act that is just and right. As we judged
Grant and condemned him, not factiously
but impartially, because he was wrong,
no would we apply the test to Hayes, and
applaud and sustain him 111 his every
effort to promote the best interests of our
section and of the common country. We
advocate no 'new departure,' but we would
stand fast by the Conservative organiza
tion, and by our moderation and prudeuce
prove that we are conservatives in fact as
well as in name."
ALONG TIIE MEDITERRANEAN.
- The French shore of the. Mediterranean
divides into distinct parts, which offer a
st ran ire contrast to each other. From
Genoa to Marseilles all is life and beauty
"all the world"""coes. thither. From Mar
seilles to the coast of Spain one finds
everywhere solitude and desolation. The
latter region was at one time highly pros
perous, but it has been entirely changed
by the immense quantities of sand and
mud brought down the rivers.,, Narbonne,
in the time of the Romans, communicated
directly with the sea. It had its lagoon
like Venice and a deep canal afforded pas
sage to heavy merchant ships and trire
mes of the Imperial fleet. The lagoon is
now blocked up, and the commerce, wealth
and activity are all gone. Aries was an
other very important city ; it had two
Prts likc Alexandria, and was so rich
and powerful that a poet of the fourth
century spoKe 01 it. as uie -uome 01 me
Gauls." The Rhone, with its annual
seventeen millions cubic metres of sedi
ment, had been its ruin. So with other
cities ; but while they have liecome sep
arated from the sea, agriculture is gradu-
j hK !hW1"" m
from the water, and the vine and olive
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wv yet restore a part ot the prosperity.
Heavixu the Lead. The steamer
Fanny was coming down the upper Mis-
gisgipi,i loaded with pig lead. As she
WJW going over a shoal place the pilot
gave tjie sgnal to heave the lead. The
ouiy inan forward was a greenhorn. "Why
don't you heave the lead?" "Is it the
e4Ui, yer honor? Where to?" Overboard,
von blockhead." The nian snatched up
one of tjie cf 1 and threw it over-
hoani. The mate, in endeavoring to pre-
Yent uim hjg balance and fell into
the river nie captain, running to the
deck, asked: "Why don't you heave the
iead, and sing out how much water there
The leaJ lieavedf yer honorf
n4i th,. mate's cone down to see how
, . tlu.re U n " '
much watir imre is.
TERRIBLE DISASTERS.
The statistical fiend has been aroused
by the Brooklyn ;Theater disaster, and
here are aonof iho suggestive data of
loss of life duringrthe nineteenth century
Only by fire, flood, famine, eartlMinkes
and war, tlie great destroying elements
by which the. over-population of the world
i prevented v- , J.
lsit EartliqiulplnCNulftjrnl M
r , miFuti at mchmoiid Tbetter,. as
isnllrtatCnlcavi....;.....;.... ioo
issa wrec oc suaunshtp Pxaao,....;... . . is
18JT Breof steamer Ben snerrod,..,........ ssa
. MTaWredt of steamer Viae da Fume,. ..... n
lS-riood J Sheffield, Ingland,... ' tso
'in-KrBtBrooi5rncater,..........., tTf
4 lsst-ciure steamsalp Amazon, Ui
1830Wreck ot steamship Royal Adelaide,... 9
185 Fire of BteamShlp Austria,. .i...... i. 471
1 T nf ift nrtfi ip A Jb nthy i ; . . . i . t . us
lssj Flood la CantoOjClilaa,... i,ooo
187? Earthquake la Syria,. 1,500
184 Earthquake la Saato Domingo, e,ooo
'- 1 Earthquakeat iiulto,. .T . . iJ. ,000
1311 Flood to Silesia...... (,000
1850 Earthquake at Naples, e,ouo
1670 Battle of Grayelotte, a,oo
1S31 Earthquake at Meudoza, 7,000
1563 Battle of Gettysburg, 7,834
1815 -Battle ol Waterloo, oo
1863 Earthquake at Philippine Isles, 10,000
1S51 Earthquake In Italy, 14,000
1457 Earthquake in Italy, 82,000
186S Earthqurke in Peru, 85,000
1564- Cyclone In East InuleH, .". . . . 60,000
1S7 C'ycloue lu KanA Iudles, li,ooo
Total for a fracUon of actual Iosm of life, 40483
It may be consoling to know that Burke
estimates those "slain in battle and by
other means of civilization" since the
world began, to be, in round numbers,
36,000,000, while another computes the
number, with greater liberality, at 6,860,
000,000. Evidently disease and old age
are the least responsible for deaths. Sel.
Effect of Tea ox tiie Skix. If you
place a few drops of strong tea upon a
piece of iron, a knife blade, for instance,
the tannate of iron is formed, which is
black. If you mix tea with iron filings,
or pulverized iron, yon can make a fair
article of ink. If you mix it with fresh
human blood, it forms with the iron of the
blood the tannate of iron. Take human
skin and let it soak for a time iu strong tea,
and it will become leather. Now. when
we remember that the liquids which enter
the stomach are rapidly absorbed by the
hveuou8 absorbents of the stomach, and
enter into the circulation aud are thrown
out of the system by the skin, lungs, and
kidneys, it is probable that a drink so
common as tea, and so abundantly used,
will have some effect. Can it be possible
that tannin, introdooa witn """'
quid-producing respiration, will have no I
m me mu- i
drinkers of Russia, the Chinese, aud old
women of America, who have so long con
tinued the habit of drinking strong tea.
Are thev not dark colored and leather
skinned f
EXPENSIVE SMOKE.
The N. Y.-fiun has the following respect
ing the amount of smoking done in this
country in a single year :
used
"In former years,cigarcttes were
almost exclusively by Cubnns and Span
iards. Now nearly every small boy in
the city, and many, too, of large growth,
smoke them by the package. Cigars, too,
which in 18U3, according to the revenue
returns, were reported oly to the extent
of 199,288,285, have now become a staple
necessity, almost touching the two-billion
figure, the exact number beiug 1,908,141,'
057 !
"Let us take ten cents as an average,
and we have 2,000,000,000 cigars at ten
cents, which equals $200,000,000. Two
hundred millions of dollars spent every
year for cigars aud cheroots !"
Such an enormous waste as this is of no
small conseqiience when almost every one
is complaining of "hard times ;" but the
pecuniary waste is but a small part of the
actual loss. The waste of health, of vital
energy, which might be expended in some
useful manner for the benefit of the iudi
vidual or the race, is an in-etrievable loss
which cannot lie estimated in dollars and
cents.
e are clad to see that even the news-
papers are becoming sufficiently impress
ed with the magnitude of this evil to lead
them to call attention to ita results now
and then, 'f obacco-usiug is a vice scarce
ly second to drunkenness iu its character,
and equally injurious. It is undeniably a
form of intemperance, a fact winch most
people seem to have overlooked, it nas
been known to occasion delirium tremens.
HOKXEP MEN' IX AFRICA. Lapt. J.
Ha v. an African traveler, presented a pa-
per before the British Association in which
he described a tribe of human beings
whom he had found in Western Africa,
many of whom were possessed of horns,
This peculiarity was confined entirely to
males ; and the horny growth seemed to
lie of the character of excrescences crow
ing from the cheek bones and projecting
forward upon either side of the nose. The
natives themselves consider the horns as
r Jl . . . 1 J . .-kk 4- 7 v . J i trt av-m j-v lA.ika 1
UUaesiniUlC .uuwmiun, m. iu buiuv t-ascs
adopt every means with which they are
acquainted to stop their growth, though
their efforts in this directum are unavail
ing; A supply of horned skulls has been
sent for, with a view to investigate more
carefully the nature and causes of this cu
rious abnormality.
Ex-Gov. ilolden's bite President of the
University is gazetted in Richmond ai
"SohHiiou iool of North Carolina."
, .t - ; Fair-Pky fcr Alaska.-
In tiieOhstrxer of Feb. 1st is an articla
on "The Wild Turkey, credited to fthe
Sod 'ami Ohm. ' The writer remark that
"it i said" that several turkeys wfll
sometimes have a nest in common, &v !
and add that he doubts the s&temenV
because tney would find difficulty in diri-
ding the young. Now, every experienced, ,
breeder of turkeys knows Jhat they aro
not, like .liens, disaffected towards step-"!
children, or jealous of step-mothers for
their own progeny, and that it is no uncom-
mon thing for two mother turkeys to make
an equal partnership of their family cam,
even .when there is several days or sever- J
al weeks, difference in the ages of tho?
respective broods. In such cases they ;
seem to make no discrimination among,
the young, nor do the latter discriminate .
between the mothers. Moreover, it would
have been well for the writer in question
to give the authority on which that "is
said" which he does not believe. The '
authority is Audubon, who, curiously
enough, wrote a very considerable part of -the
article in the i&ki and Gum. " He says
that tye has seen three wild turkeys sit--ting
together in a nest containing forty
two eggs.
Now that Mr. Audubon is dead and
unable to speak iu his own behalf, it is '
hardly fair that he should be classed
among the "they says,n and that one
should spougfe upon iiiu for facts and
even for language to make up an essay t
and then not only fail to give him credit
therefor, but colly deny the truth of
what he has asserted, because it is con
trary to what that one would have sup
posed J. P. Darts, in New York Ob$er
trr. THE LOST HAMMER.
A relief light boat was built at New
London thirteen years ago. While the
workmen were busy over it one man lost
his hammer. Whether he knew it or not,
it was nailed up in the bottom of the boat.
Perhaps if he found it out, he thought the
only harm done was the loss of one ham
mer. But the boat was "put to service,
and every time it rocked on the waves
that hammer was tossed to and fro. Lit-
tie by little it wore for itself a track, un
til it had worn through planking and keel,
down to the very copper plating, before it
was found out. Only that plate of copper
kept the vessel from sinking.
It seemed a very little thin? in the gtart4r
Dreat through all the restraints around
OTWl K,,t fnr f Ivil a irrpof rrfT-rir amir
our souls in endless ruin. A few evil -
words in a child's ear have rung in
his soul for twenty years and brought
untold harm. It is the sin hidden in our
hearts that we should most fear. There
are none who do not need to offer up the
prayer: "Cleanse thou me from tecrtt
fauits;" ChMs Worlds
Prof. Denslow, of Union College of Law,
'bicago, describes iu tlfc Independent his
plau tor improving national politics. -Me
would have the President and the Cabinet
elected by Congress, and removed whem-
ever a majority in Congress voted against
them. Thus the President would hold
about the position of the Premier in Eng
land. Denslow . claims that such a system
would educate "genuine parliamentary
leaders and statesmen r" that political
power would lie made to depend on pub
lic approbation ; that there would be no
prolonged contest between the Executive
and the legislative branches of the Gov
ernment ; the President's power would be
greatly reduced, and a check would be
placed on office holders. "
Hayes is beudiug his efforts to entangle
in his net of fraud, the old whiga of the
Southern States ; and his organs profess
to have discovered a large whig element
in the South favorable to union with the
republican party. This is all talk j the.
wish is father to the thought. We have
yet to hear of the old whig who has trot-
ted into the republican ranks, under the
inspiration of Hay esism. ltol, Neictr
Ketaiuiug the olcUdeaa and feelings of
their ancient faith, it is impossible for any
old whig to adopt Hayesism,
Ex-Senator West, of Louisiana, says
the Packard government could only be
upneld b' the bayonet, and that an at-
pt to 8U8taiu jt would be followed by
,tii ti. pxrU sind horror of the nat four
years.
Prof. A. Graham Bell, the in venter of
the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, in,
Scotland. His father, Prof. 'A. M. BelL
who became noted as the inventor of a-
method for teaching deaf mutes to speak.'
j and of a universal system of phonography.
U now living in Brantford, Ontario.
! To loosen a glass stopper, pour rund
it a little sweet oil, close, to the stopper,
and let it stand in a warm piiWJO,
j:c, l.o ,nil wfrii turrw -
tine instead of water, and applied in tho
usuarmanner, is blacker and more giy
and enduring than when mixed wjh any
other liquid, 1
To remove paint from cotton, silk, 01
woolen goods, saturate the spot with spiiv
its of turpentine, and let it remain sever
al hours, theu rub it lietwmj w hands,
It will crumble away, without injury to
eitber the color or texture of he article.
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