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THE SWALLOWS.
Dear birds that greet na with the spring,
That fly along theeuuny bine.
That hover round your last year's nests,
Or cut the shining heavens thro',
That skim along the meadow grass,
," Among the flowers sweet and fair.
That croon upon the pointed roof.
Or, quiv'riug, balance in-tne air ;
Ye heralds of the summer days.
As quick ye dart across the lea,
' Tho' other birds bs fairer, yet
The dearest of all birds are ye.
Dear as the messengers of spring
Before the bads have opened wide.
Dear when our other birds are hers.
Dear in the burning summertide ;
But when the lojiely autumn wind
About the flying forest grieves,
In vain we look for you, and find
-Youtgngjtv'S beoMl-U the eaves.
A Heart Broken Forever.
In a house that dotted a slope in the
beau tt fill Valley of San Joaquin, a pale
faced woman knelt and moaned in pray
er. There were no tears in her eyes;
but, strained to the vacancy of the sky,
they expressed that anguish that' in
tense supplication which nature does
not alleviate with tears.
From the feverish lips issued one in
cessant wail of prayer, "Oh, God, save
him I My God, preserve him ! And the
w rithing body and beseeching eyes told
of the intense agony in which the heart
'struggled.
Fifteen miles away, in the town of
Stockton, the husband of this woman
was bMng tried for his life on the charge
of murder. Jler mind was busy with
the distant scene. Shehad been persu
aded to stay away from the court-room
anu the excitement and morbid curiosity
she would suffer there, on the faithful
promise of one of the Sheriff's deputies,
John Maitland, to bring her news each
day of the progress of1 the trial and an
, nounce its conclusion within the'shortest
possible time.
The night before the day she had
"wrestled so terribly in prayer, he bad
rfdden from the town to inform her
that the evidence was all in, and that
in the morning the case would probably
be given to the jury. Her husband w as
manful and in good hopes, and had ent
her some cheerful words about riding
back to his home in the morning a free
man.
. The question of the guilt or innocence
of Harry Jordan had hung in the balance
for two days. He was .accused of the
uiurder of a notorious French gambler
at ainonte tawe. some angry conver
sation had ensued between them con
cerning a disputed bet, when the
Frenchman had beckoned Jordan to a
corner of the saloon, as if to explain to
him arid avoid annoyance to the players.
In this changed position the back of
Jordan was turned to the crowd, as he
eon fronted the Frenchman; and it was
supposed the difficulty was being settled
as the tone of their conversation was
lowered, when suddenly the observers
were horrified by the quick glitteiing
sweep of a bowie-knife in Jordan's
band, a spurt of hot blood in the air, and
the gambler fell, cleft through skull and
! brain, dead, perhaps, before he touched
the floor..
There was no attempt at escape on the
- part of trie apparent murderer. To the
.' crowd who surrounded him he said in
an excited manner: "I have saved him
saved him from killing me ;"and when
some one lifted the dead body fallen n
its face and seething with gore it was ob
served that in the right hand of the
.gambler was grasped a Derringer pistol
at full cock. The explanation of Jor
dan was, that when the gambler had
w ithdrawn him from the crowd he ap
peared to speak in a quiet, pacifying
way, getting sq close as almost to take
him by the lappel of the coat, when the
former happened to discover that during
this apparent friendly conversation the
gambler had stealthily drawn from his
pocket a small Derringer, almost con
cealed in, his hand, and was slowly and
steadily edging It to his( Jordan's)breast
Detecting the movement and instantly
conceiving its design, Jordan disclosed
that he had suddenly drawn an open
. knife which ' he carried in his bosom,
and with quick, desperate force had
sent its edge into the brain of the woulxl-be-assassin.
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. The deceased was one of the worst bf
his class'and profession. But it was at
a time when all the gamblers of Califor
nia made common cause against society,
and exacted fearful reprisals where any
one of them had been' made to suffer
- even in the cause of public justice. On
Jordan's trial it had been noticed that
nietnliers of this fraternity had attended
in the court-room; but they were quiet,
well-liehavetl, well dressed a curious
element of the motley audience. Mait
land, the Sheriff's deputy, had observed
their numerous and regular attendance,
but he had never thought to mention it
to Mrs. Jordan when telling her, as
pleasantly as he could, of the public in
terest in her husband's case, and of the
crowds which sought admission to the
scene of the trial
Poor woman J While, as she wrestled
- in the morning prayer, the strained
vision of her loving fancy was turned
to. her husband, there were other eyes
more nearly watching him, feverish,
furtive, cat-like eye3, that were never
withdiaw n from him as he sat waiting
the verdict of the jury waiting his fate
while the paling sunshine through the
windows caiue to him as messengers
from home. : ,
Again she kneels and prays. Again
she looks out on the long brown road
that conies qown the green slope or
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vaiiey. rnis time not in vain. Aiignt
springs to her eyes, an3 the blood; beats
in her throat; for she sees a horseman
spurring furiously down the 'valley,
whilecloudsofdust,sprinkled with sun
shine, float behind him. He waives a
white handkerchief.
t Is not her husband. It is not Mait
land. It is a Mexican vaquero. What
can it mean? But there is good news
in his face. .
"Buenol luenoV cries the man as he
leaps to the ground before he has stopped
his horse, checks him with his lariat,
and presents a folded paper he has car
ried In his sash. How great a joy in so
few words:
"Jordan Ja acquitted, thanks to God !
I send messenger at once. Myself and J.
will be with you in an hour or two
hence. Faithfully. J. Maitland."
And kneeling again; this .time in
thankfurnesa. and tai:ieptte relieved
wife is too happy for words except
those due to God.
. "It's no use, .men; for God's sake,
stop your nonsense. It willbeabloodv
job for the man who touches my prison
er." There was a courage i n his fann
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that appeared for a moment to outshine
the flickering resolution of the coward
ly mob. The stairs were gained, Jor
dan foremost, and before the crowd
could understand the movement the re
treat was suddenly accomplished . Pass
ing rapidly up stairs along the balcony,
the two officers and'the prisoners gained
the- jail, and for a moment the victim
was withdrawn from the murderous,
baleful eyes under which his heart had
sank in strange, unutterable fear.
A hoarse shout burst from the mob
the tally-ho of the hunt of murder. In
a moment they had collected in the
street, from" which there was access to
the street by a covered stairway. Loud
threats, oaths and terrible maledictions
told of the sudden fury of the crowd.
The former quiet tones were replaced by
yells and execrations; it was a new
mood of that changeful, cowardly mon
ster a mob now clamoring for its prey
swaying to and fro in its devilish, un
sightly greed.
"Hang him! hanghirn!" Those brief
terrible words, mechanically repeated
like a refrain of fiends, and with the
quickuess of an electric shock, they
slammed the jail door violently in the
face of Maitland, and a devilish laugh"
rang in his ears.
He answered it with a shriek of agony.
He beat with his fists upon the closed
door ; he tried, with the assistance of his
superior officer, to break the door; but
it was secure, and he could hear nothing
beyond but a hoarse and lessening mur
mur., , .. , ... v . . ,"' - ir.
suddenly a tnougni sirucK nim. ne
rushed past the Sheriff; he mounted the
stairs with long, quick leaps, and ran
out on the balcony barging over the
street. He bad onlv time to see the
mob running in a confused, scattered
way, and an express wagon driven at
the top of its speed in the direction of a
field, going outside the town. There
were several men in it, and they appear
ed to be struggling.
"Why don't he come?" And the
woman who had so prayed in the morn
ing for the treedom of her husband, and
an hour ago received such a message of
happiness, looked wistfully out on the
long road
She reasoned with herself
that he had delayed to receive the con
gratulations ojf his friends; but she
thought her love and anxiety should
have been first considered, and she
framed in her mind a reproof for the
truant, and dallied with the thought of
the pretense of anger with which she
should, receive him.
Four hours, five hours passed since the
happy news of the messenger, and the
sun was sinking to the verge of the nor-
izon. ller soiicuime oeepeneu, anu yei
she thought she could have no good rea
son to disquiet and distress herself, since
the crisis she had dreaded had passed,
and ftod had been so good to her. But
love is more vigilant than patient; and
as again and again she turned from the
window that looked out on the long
road, it was to pace the floor with dis-
ordered steps, and mutter fancies ot
resentment against the man who kept
her passionate affection solong in wait-
ng. .
The sun was nearly down, but on tne
Ions road at last appears the figure ofa
horseman a single horseman. Could it
be he? Her heart beat quickly as she
auvanceu iu uk gnu.-, a
anxiously the approaching figure. W hy
should he approach so slowly ? Present
ly a look of pleasant recognition lighted
un her face, succeeded instantly by a
shadow of alarm. and anxiety. It was
John Maitland, and alone, riding slowly
thoushfully toward her
shA rushed to him almost bieatniess
with Questions. V Where is Harry, my
husband ? Why is he not with you ? My
riwi what means this? What is this
aolemnitv. this hesitation ? I read some-
thine dreadful in your face
ne turned to her the full expression 01
that face. He gazed into her eyes . as
if unwilling to speak, he pointed to the
fading skies above their heads
"What?': she gaspea. ;
'VTo is ilpad "
She'fell heavily upon bis arm, with
out shriek, or wail, or moin, The un
hanpy woman fainted, Happy. for her
had it been the unconsciousness of death
lor all the wealth of life had beeu robbed
from her in those few words; for the
broken-hearted in this world live only
In the torture of memory.
And so the brief course of one sun
had measured off one human lire irom
extremest happiness toextremestmi8ery
and in one short summer
day a heart
had broken forever.
I During tne year 1877, 1,175 persona
tne were killed and a.vw mjureu uj !
i J j ... ij.-i. in flraat Rritain.
row kwucuw
MORGANTON,
1ot and Flowers.
'Twas morning.
The orb of day was shining as bright
as a bootblack.
Every flower had rose from its bed
in dew time.
In the bed beneath the arbor there
was jasmine of flowers.
Sweet bees sipped honey and hum
med musical luUabys, while crickets
croned 'with hilarious mirth, amid
sparkling dew drops and condensed in
cense. "Sweet one let me tagte thy tulips,"
a voice said.
" Begonia don't suit me sir," was the
reply.
"Oh fair one, wouldst thou have me
peony way for the love of thee?"
"Sir, thou cans't, not win me, thou
hastjot anemone." .
"'Woulds't thou drive me where the
woodbine twineth, cruel-hearted one?!'-
" How dares't thou callalilly sucb
names. Leave me."
" Peas be still. Lettuce have sweet
peas."
"Oh, charming one, thou alone cans't
give heartease to me."
"Never to such a dandylion as thou
art. There is no sweet fern in this,
sir."
"Oh, sweet one, do not violet my feel
ings with such paragraphic levity."
"Away with the, I say or I will call
my poppy."
"Ivy a mind to prostrate myself be
fore thee, and bathe thy feet with my
kisses."
' Ah me, I fain would have such
larks purring around here."
"Oh, mprningglory of my life, must
I thus be doomed to wither and fade
away unloved?"
' Yes, coxcomb, it is so willed "
"Then, by heavens, the fates lilac
blazes, cruel one. As the trellis clings
to the rosebush would my heart en
twine itself about thee! Thou dost cast
me off. You say I haven't anemone.
'Tis false, I have millions of scents."
" What sayest thou?"
" Ah ! metliinks thou relentest. Yes,
sweet one, lean purchase for the corn
silk for dresses, such as princes will
envy."
"Thou'rt not as bad as I thought
thee. There's many a cow slip 'twixt
buttercup and lip." ,
" Then thy stubbornness doth wilt?"
" Aye, dearest, call in Dominy Cu
cumber and let him double us up at
once."
And as the beautiful orb of day sank
beneath the crimson horizon of a wes
tern sky, two souls with but a single
A Queen's Engagement.
Coronation day came, and the next
came, and
day the ball at Windsor. Among the
dancers was a tall, handsome, slender
student from the JJniversity of Bonn
her cousin a Cobourg, like herself.
The Queen noticed him, and JFrince
Albert did not return to Bonn. Even
had he not loved, he would have stayed ;
and he loved. But his cousin was the
Queen ! Here the woman had to make
the advance. Victoria deeply touched
as she was by this love (which was
nevermore to leave her)could not easily
conquer the maidenly timidity due to
her severe education. Nevertheless the
morning came. And I assure you I in
vent nothing. Although the Queen nas
not consented to relate these delightlui
incidents, Fnnee AiDert nas roiu mem
to his friends. ' Nevertheless, then, a
morningcame. They were ridingtogeth
er, he and she, down the great avenue
of oaks at Windsor. They were younger
then' hut old enough already. After a
gallop they found themselves alone. We
know how dangerous it is ior man anu
woman to ride together. Suddenly the
Queen took a spring of honey-suckle
from her bosom, and, stooping, onereu
it to Prince Albert. Bending to reach
it. his lips touched the tips ot his eous
in's ffloves. Perhaps 'twas the fault of
the horses. The woods of England and
of France know well how many loves
these noble brutes have been the cause
silence followed, more sweet
than anything ever sung to the heart of
Mozart, Next morning Prince AiDert
... the honevsuckle in his button
, , ; kent :t eveI1 when it had
f , A fortnight after that ride the
faded..
plenipotentiary minister handed King
T.eonold of Belgium a tiny leuer, cioseu
by an enormous seal, as though it had
a'miffhtv secret at stake. It began "My
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Dear Uncle," and was signeu
"Victoria." A month later the Queen
mentioned her intention to marry
Prince Albertof Saxe-Couburg Gotha
to her ministers. Sheasked their coun
aoi hut. with a nrettv air of decision
which caused them to reply with
unanimous "yes." The wedding took
nlace on the tenth of February, 1840
The Queen of England married for love
like a bourgeoise, 1 was was going
say, but the bourgeoises marry Dut nttie
for love now. Lord Melbourne was
rieht when he told England that the
. . .v.
Uueen s marriaire was
romance.
AftweUadGoat.
There is a man in Oshkosh Mr.
L. Babcock, formerly the efficient and
nomilar third assistant clerk in the
Lumberman's and Catchers' National
Bank;who lately heard of the dried
remedy and resolved to to try it,
He nt to a Chicago provision store
, oDtaining a bushel of dried apples
f the m05t virulent character an
piaced them together with the supple-
,,, bucket of water, in his front
parlor so that he could enjoy the explo
sion without going out of doors. Mr.
TJoh.vlr had been exceedingly troubled
by goats and was particularly proud
X. C. SATURDAY,
his front yard, which he had laid out
with great care and had surrounded
with a fence of novel pattern and great
taste, Early in the morning the ex
pected goat butted the front gate open,
entered the yard, was lured into the
parlor by the display of a hoopskirt,
and ate the apples. Hewas an exception
ally long and narrow goat, and was so
persistently thin that it was generally
thought that nothing, not even silver
plated forks, could fatten him. In due
time he drank half the bucket of water
and began to swell. Mr. Babcock was
in ecstacies. He lit his eigar and sat on
the front piazza, looking through the
wmunw, ana, witn ms watch In his
hand, noting how long it would be be
fore the explosion. There probably
never was a goat who swelled so tre
mendously as did that particular goat.
At the end of an hour Be was as Mr.
Babcock is prepared to assert at least
fifteen feet in circumference. Never
theless, the looked-for explosion did
not occur, neither did the goat seem
to feel uneasy. He roamed around the
room, knocking down the furniture,
and occasionally butting the piano. The
disgusted Mr. Babcock would have
tried to drive him out, but had the
door or the windows beei twice as
large as they were, the expanded goat
could not have passed through either of
them. In his desperation, the disap
pointed man tried to shoot th animal,
but the shot rebounded from lis elastic
sides and shattered the mirror. There
was nothing to be done but to vait un
til the goat should regain his usual pro
portions, and then try to drive lim out
of the room. That swelled goat never
collapsed. He is still fifteen feet in
circumference, and he can not te got
out of the parlor without previously
tearing down the wall. People come
from all parts of the country to lcok at
that goat, and Mr. Babcock has been
sued by an Irishman for feloniously
taking possession of his goat and refus
ing to return it.
Bow to Make a Son-in-Law.
In West Kansas City there was a
mother happy in the possession of two
daughters, one of whom was homely
and the other beautiful. The mother was
a widow, and, having passed the age
when ambition prompted speculative
matrimony for herself, she naturally,
with a mother's disinterested affec
tion, bent her mind in getting a paying
husband for the pretty daughter. She
went and prospected for sons-in-law,
and stalked every wealthy bachelor she
could find, but let alone the widowers.
sort Talmair'h"atf.a8pJtt tb-at that
things corresponding to tEaToTJaw ia
ow. 'She knew that a woman who
hadn't been married was not a match
in either sense for a man who had
been. Finally the widow came across
Fort Worth man named Captain
Brownell, a rich cattle dealer, amiable
nd just the sort of man to play banker
to both wife and mcther-iri-law. The
widow put a notice in the paper about
rooms lor rent: tne ricn anu unsus
pecting Brownwell bit and took the
rooms. He began to take , the pretty
daughter out for ice cream, and what
looked much more biiainess-like he
took her to Wednesday night meetings.
The mother smiled, but she suddenly,
frowned when the proposed victim said
he was going back to Fortworth. She
at once proposed to celebrate his depar
ture with a wine supper, and she mixed
the drinks herself. The party was gay
and towards the " wee sma' hours
nant the twall," 'Brownwell waked up
on a sofa and called for his valise. The
mother of the pretty girl answered the
call and asked, as only a fond mother-
in-law can. " Was he going without his
wife ?
"Wife?" says the astonished cattle-
dealer.
" Of course, "says the other. And "of
course said the young ice cream girl,
trippinginto the room arrayed in a most
wife-like undress, suited to the time ot
night. The explanation was startling
Brownwell had been made drunk and
married without his knowing it ; so he
came to himself only to find he had
done just what he didn't intend to do.
But he was an amiable man, ana tne
mother-in-law masked her firm temper
under the angelic bearing common to a
new mother-m-law. The curtain ien
on a tableaux of happiness; but the
moral is against tailing rooms from
widows who have pretty daughters
fond of ice cream.
Sugar From Sorghum.
It is an established fact that the sugar
from sorghum is always grape not cane
ugar? The former is only three-
fifths the strength, or 40 per cent,
weaker, than the latter. But it js well
!...-., thot norto enorar m97 ho iniiTOrt.
a intr, rrne sntrar bv Ion? boilinr and
It O a o i
perhaps the slow processes of boiling
down norffhum mice may have tended
to change the condition of the product.
The writer has frequently used a choice
article of sorghum syrup to make
vinpo-ar Tt is a fact DerhaDS not gen
erallv known that while it will make
averv sour, acceptable product when
. .
fresh, if not closely watched the acidity
will entirelr dlsaDDear. I do not know
whether this is peculiar to acetic acid
made trom glucose, or grade sugar,
not. Even if sorghum sugar is qnly
riiimu nnt nparlv so sweet or conven
ient to handle as sugar from the cane
or beet there are numerous purposes
H 1 1 1 1 V, II LilAl. I.U1IV LJIIS.-.- " J J x.v'..v..wiw.. " " -
yv"""fit accurately, but without nuggmg.
h K 'ATnnrurXil
largely used to mix or adulterate the
cheaper sorts oi sugar, anu u womu
certainly be better lor the public to use
liaiinereauceaprire.iMMoi pajiuK
more wnne supposing uiey are ouymg
a better and higher priced article, when
of they are not doing so at all.
OCTOBER 5, 1S78.
The Manly Art.
When Yankee Sullivan came to this
Country rom England In 1839 hefound
an English fighter named Trace Ham
mond in Philadelphia, and, though be
was a much bigger man than himself,
he boldly made a match to fight him.
The fight came off on League Island, at
the confluence of the Delaware and
Schuylkill rivers. Vince had a great
reputation as a sparrer, and the Phila
delphia ! sports bet large sums on his
drawing first blood from Sullivan. In
the beginning of the first round Ham
mond caught Sullivan rather severely
on the mouth, and the cute Yankee was
observed to shut his gob and button
his Hps together very flrmlv immediate.
Iy after receiving It. He then SDarred
cautiously for aa opening animgeuineL6!6 a"d lhe 8urIac becomes rough
it he pasted Hammond on the nose with
such force that the claret flew in
streams. "First blood," cried his par
tisans in glee, and the referee admitted
the justness of the claim. No sooner
had he done so than Sullivan spat out a
mouthful of the ruby, exclaiming, "If
that's first blood, be jaber's here's the
second." He then went to work gay and
the way he polished off poor Hammond
made the Philadelphia feel sick for
the ducats they had bet on him.
Sullivan at once became the pet of
the Hibernians of the country, who pro
claimed that there was no boxer in the
land who could cope with him Fuccess
fully. This claim was resented by the
"nativistic" element, wbo looked about
for a man to lower his pretensions. At
this time there was a stout-built.
athletic young Englishman in Brooklyn
named Billy Bell, who was teaching
sparring there under the name of Pro
fessor Bell. He was induced to under
take the task of larruping the bold
Yankee, and they met in the magic
circle within twenty miles of the
Empire city. Sullivan was a great
wrestler, and in the early part of the
contest he caught Bell around the waist
intending to throw him, but his grasp
slipped, and before he could get a fresh
hold Bell by a sudden twist caught his
head in chancery, and had him at his
mercy. Though he took it in good
style when he couldn't help it, Sullivan
had a holy horror of the "gafl" when it
could be avoided, and he determined to
evade it then. With that object in view
he gave tongue quite lustily and said,
"Let go of me, Billy, and I'll give in."
Bell, delighted, beyond measure at this,
as he supposed, "speedy termination of
the fight in his favor, relaxed his hold,
permitted Sullivan to free himself from
his emtr , rewarded for kit
6eT tfre Taw TfTat seril "hTm-RrgTa5B"Tn-
stanter. During the rest of the battle
Sullivan was very wary and cautions,
until he had so weakened Bell that his'
embrace was no longer to be dreaded,
anrt then he went in and finished him
-,n short meter.
The next one to tackle Sullivan was a
Dj2 dravman of American birth, named
Tom Secor. Secor was fully six feet
high, and stout in proportion. In those
days it was the thing for all sporting
men to "run wid de maschine," and
Sullivan and Secor both belonged to the
same engine company. One night
when Secor had a good-sized load of
"brine" aboard, and was "pretty well,
thank you," he spoke'rather slighting
ly of Yankee's fistic abilities, and at
last announced thathe (Sullivan) would
not fight any one that he thought cou Id
do" him." Sullivan, who was present,
walked , out of the house, and meeting
Jim Jeroloman on the sidewalk, handed
him a roll of money, and said to him
Go in there and bet that loafer Secor
$500 that I can lick him." Jeroloman
w-;nt in and made the banter, and
Secor's I Dutch courage would not let
him back dwn, so a match was made
between them at once. Secor proved
himself a tip-top fighter, and no mean
antagouist for Sullivan, who was over
two hours licking him. As an evidence
of the quickness with which Sullivan
planned while fighting, and the celerity
with which he put his plans m exe
cution, we mention the following
example: Toward the latter part of
his fight with Secor he had hit him re
peatedly chopping blows with his left
hand. Frank Speight, Second, observed
this, and, noticing in one of the rounds
that he was about to repeat the dose, he
exclaimed, "Look out for his left, he's
coming again." Sullivan at once made
a pass at Secor with his left hand, but
in so slow a manner that becor caugnt
him by the wrist. This was just what
Sullivan wanted him to do, as he Droke
Secor's guard, and the next instant; ne
planted such a terrinc ngui-uanuer on
Secor's j iw, that he knocked him down
nn hia hack he Still retaining hIB
hold on Sullivan's wrist.
Artificial Eyes.
When the patient nrt goes to me
maker of artificial eyes the latter care-
fully studies the cavity, the size and
- sharje of the stumn. nd the size of the
evelids measured on the inner surface.
I'
These measurements diner greauy m
different persons, and are very irregular
I in the same Derson. so that in no case
can the porcelain be made symmeiri'
or cally perfect. A sphere of porcelain is
never used. The newi eye is always
- hnllnnr nn the inner side. The extent
of thui concavity depends upon the size
to of the gtump, which the porcelain must
There are no rules of measurement for
making a good flt, anu ior mho rcmm
i maker or arunciai eyes uuuiu m
.-Hat. After the eyemaker has given
. to the gggentials spoken of
frlHi th p., eve 0f
bove he next studies the gooa eyeoi
nU ptlienu Me esumanco -ivv.
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of the pupil In ordinary light and
closely examines the colore of the iris.
These colors are never "laid on" by
nature in precisely the same way. Even
In the case of two persons whose eyes
have precisely the same shade of color,
the effect is produced by different ar
rangements of nature's greens, grays
and bhies. The eyemaker closely ex
amines these peculiarities and then he
is ready to go Into his workshop. His
material is a kind of porcelain. Some
eyemakers claim peculiar excellences
for the material they use. If clear an
nealed glass could be used, an artificial
eye might last for many years; but in
order to prod uce w h at they desi re cer tai 11
oxides must be used. These oxides are
allcei1 Y "ie "me humors of the
in alien "it Hi
artificial eye after it has been worn
about eighteen months. The best eyes,
under the most favorable circumstance,
cannot be worn more than three years.
The material of the eyemaker is drawn
for him at a glass manufacturer's into
tubes about one inch and a half in cir
cumferenceb He redraws a tube until
it is a little smaller than a lead pencil.
Next he blows a bulb at one end of the
size of the sound eyeball iu his patron.
contriving to make it slightly oval to
imitate the natural curvature of the eye.
At the place where the iris and pup'l
are to be he flattens the little sphere
and in the centre of the flat surface
applies a circular pa'ch of black pig
ment. This is the pupil. Next follows
a work of great nicety. With indelible
colors taken from a palette he imitates
on the flattened part of 'the sphere
around the pupil the iris, which he has
previous studied in the sound eye. This
having been done, a circular piece, of
clear crystal glass, flat on one side and
convex on the other, is laid upon the
pigments with its flat side down. It is
firmly fastened in place by fusing its
edge with the porcelain with the aid of
a blowpipe. After this delicate opera
tion the front of the sphere should ex
actly resemble the sound eye which it
is to match, w it'll the exception of the
small red veins in the eyeball. These
are imitated by drawing out red glass
to the necessary fineness and applying
bits of this glass thread, while yet hot,
in vein-like shapes to the corner. They
are fused into it under the flame of the
blowpipe. The work of imitating the
natural eye Is complete. Next the
operator draws with a lead pencil an
irregular line on the porcelain sphere
enclosing the iris. This marks off that
part Of the front of the sphere which is
point of a piece of glass or iron, and
thus cracks off the part he wants. The
edges are then filed or chipped off until
the eye will accurately fit in the spaces
beneath the eyelids, according to the
measurements he has taken. After this
is done the artificial eye is annealed by
heating it and allowing it to cool very
slowly in a little box. . If an alteration
is to be made on fitting the artificial eye
into its place beneath the 'lids it is
necessary, after using the file and blow
pipe, to anneal the porcelain again. It
is not necessary that the artificial eye
be attached to the stump further than to
fit over it like a cap with a very slight
pressure. This has been found to be
sufficient to give it free movement to
and fro. If the porcelain is allowed to
become rough it causes what the eye
maker calls a fungus growth. This Is
the same as the, "proud flesh" that. often
impedes the healing of sores. It is
usually recommenced to insert an artifi
cial eye very soon after the surgeon his
done his work, and it is said that the
insertion Should not be delayed beyond
two weeks. After the eye socket is
healed the new eye is taken out and
put in easily without pain. It Is taken
widthwise between the forefinger and
thumb of one hand, while the other is
placed on the forehead and the ex
tremities of the fingers are used to raise
the upper lid. The eye is then intro
duced under the upper lid and the dis
engaged fingers pull down the lower
eyelid, which thus allows the eye to slip
into place. It is only when the eyeball
Is smtirely removed that the artificial
eye is motionless.
An Even Cllroat.
A citizen who has worn a thin coat
one dav and an overcoat the next for
the last month, and w hose grapes have
been killed by the frost, and bis vines
blistered by the sun, was a passenger
on a street car alongside a leading cler
gyman. Both were Hhive'ring with
cold, when the civilian suddenly re
marked :
" You preach, I believe?"
" I do," was the reply.
"You preach of Heaven and of of
that other place, don't you ?"
"1 do."
" Mv friend," said the layman, as he
squared around a little more, "it is
. . 't A.
true, isn t it, that puijgaiory is a noi
plat-eV" '
" I have no doubt it is no doubt at
all."
' It never cools off, does it?"
" Never."
" And it is always about so hot?"
" Always."
The citizen jumped up, rang the bell
as bard as he'could. and as he swayed
on the strap the clergyman called out :
" What is it what's the matter?"
"The matter is that I am going to
make a break for that equable climate
without delay," answered tne man, and
he upset a market basket as he leaped
from the car to .be hidden in a cloud of
dust.
The Delaware peach crop is esti
mated at 6,000,000 baskets.
WHOLE NUMBER 137.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Colonel Ly tleton, late Military Sec
retary to Lord Dufferin. has been ap
pointed to the same office under the
Marquis of Lome. - i
The assefsors have fixed the valua
tion of the city-of Bangor, Maine, the
present year at 16,600,062 real estate and
$3,034,835 pereonaj. j.
An English hotel is about to be
built at Cyprus, at a cost of 3 JO. 000, for
an English tenant, who is to pay an an
nual rent of $20,CO0.
It is .reliably estimated that Iowa
will produce this j er forty-five million
bushels of wheat a buihel for every
man, woman and child In the United -
States. ' i
The grain and grass cron of Eastern
Connecticut has been almost entirely
gathered, and old farmers in the State
years or more.
Fifteen hundred pounds of hair,
trimmed from hones at branding, was
shipped from Beaumont, Texas, re
cently. It Is worth 12' cents a pound
I ri New York. -
Within a fortnight after the occu
pation of Cyprus six companies, with
an aggregate capital ot $20,725,000, had
been regiHtered In England to carry on
operations in . connection with that
island.
The Electrician, & British journal
devoted to telegraphic interests, states
that at the present time there exist In
working order over 62,000 miles of sub-
marine cable in the hands of eighteen
companies.
; The chief hero of the fever-stricken
town of Grenada, Miss , is the telegraph
operator there, William Redding, who
Is at his post day and night wprk'ng
with a tippet covered with carbolic acid
around his neck.
One mineral water company sup
plies London with 4,000,000 bottles of
the liquid annually. It bought out the
spring In Germany from three or four
brothers, who got 1 500,000 "Teach and
salaried sinecures as managing direc
tors. Recent a,dvlces make the population
of China between 200,000.000 and 220,
0f0,000. It Is certainly not more than
250,000,000, according to old residents,
though Behm and Wagner still give it
at 405,001,000, with' 29,50,000 in the
border lands. -
Despite all the reports of the fa'l
Ing off in the Iron business, the most re
liable returns of production show that
in 1877, 2,124,731 tons of iron and steel
were rolled in ihe United States against
1,930,130 in the year when thepanicfell
upon the country a gain of 188,601
tons.
A new species of tea shrub resem
bling that which grows in China, has
been discovered In Armenia, near Tre
bizdnd. The peasants pick the leaves
and dry them In the sun, and large
quantities tin Prla,
The Church of St. Perran. Corn
wall, said to be the second oldest in
England, has been reopened. The font
which, a. thousand years ago this
month, Gothrum the Dane, whom Al
fred the Great had just defeated at
Edingworth, conquering'the peace of
Wedmore, was baptized, still stands In
Alter Church.
A lady in London has authorizad
Moncnre L. Conway to o.ler Ave thou
sand dollars towards the formation of a
fund to provide some means of collegiate
education of women at Oxford, subject ,
to the condition that an equal sum Is
subscribed within thent xt fw months.
A committee of infl lentlal persons has
been formed at Oxford to procure the
money.
In repairing "an old house at Ply
mouth, Mas,, built 108 years ago, Mr.
Araa-a Churchill found how the old
fashioned carpenters used to keep out
the weather. Under the clapboards,
where they join the corner boards.strlps
of birch bark were placed where tarred
paper is now Employed, and the pieces
removed, though ovr a century old,
were bright and perfect.
Lake Saltonsull Is one of thejakes
wiiich has had the reputation of being
bot'otnless. A United States coast sur
vey party recently found the greatest .
depth to be one hundred and seven feet. ;
This is interesting, from the fact that ,
the lake has an elevation of only four- "
teen feet above the sea level, and oppo
site New Haven as great a depression in
the surface of the earth s not found
until three-fourths across Long Island
Sound.
Capt.' James Slocum, while trawl
ing for bluellsh In w srren river, nnoae
Island, had his bait pounced upon by a .
a large fish-hawk, who bore the tempt
ing bait, with line attached, some hun-
dred feet In the air, much to the sur
prise of the captain, who, immediately
upon recovering from the surprise of
seeing his line leaving the usual ele
ment, began hauling down hts game.
After ten minutes' hara lanor tne nira
was secured.
The total strength of the brganiied
New Jersey State National Guard is
3,068 rank and file. There are, accord
ing to the last report, 1,798 officers and
men in the First Brigade and 1,200 to
the Secondj There are in all 195 officers
and 2,863 enlisted men. These are di
vided Into seven reglroeut and one
battalion ot infantry, one company of ,
artillery nd two Gatling gun compa- 1
nies.
For six years a commission has been
laboring at the restoration of the records
of births, marriages and deaths de
stroyed by the Paris Commnnlsu during
the rising of 1871. It has ratified 1,266.
015 applications and rejected 47,-132;
58,828 entries could be deciphered in
the charred books and the duplicate
registers of marriages kept at the lisir
ies since 1859 supplied 64,430 more.
There are still 3,094 cases under con
sideration. Bishop Keane, the new Bishop of
Richmond, Va., has had a magnificent
chalice sent to him by Madame De
Freyere, the widow of the late Perurlaa
Minister. It Is of solid gold, about six
teen inches In height, has three groups
of figures in bu relief, representing tbe
c rrvlng of the cross, the resurrection
and laying in the sepulchre. There Is
also a cross made of rubles, In the cen
tre of which there is a large solitaire.
On the base It bears the following In
wrriptlon : "Presented by Madame De
Freyere to the Right Rev. John J.
Keane, Bishop of Richmond, Va."
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