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S; r ike ruxKSss totiCToa the beue RiiiaafcaBiii:: VOL. IV.-NO. 4. WORK. Anywhere, everywhere, something to do! Something for me, and something for 7011 ! Work for the hand and work for the head. Work for the winning oij-daily bread. Never a day dawns but bring its own task ;T i What only for yon and for me is to aak ; - ' Bome are chosen to sweep and others to spin, Horn to sow, some to reap, while some gather tn. -9 , .Some most build ships, and some guide the helm; - Some- fashion our garments, and some rule the realm ; Seme must fell forests, some the broad field -' ; most till, . Bome paint and some carre, some grind at the mill Home must br n(i90ip sell, tome traverse the serf - " Some God's preachers and judges and singers must be ; ' Let each to his taskwork list for the call Christ worked, and the 'Father works high over all. Some work in the shadow and some in the sun, 1 - Some in joy, some in pain , but the Master is one - Calling all to their 'tasks, portioning each his reward, As he ceases his toil at the word of his Lord. Work while the day lasts, work with a will ; Soon will the night oome, when all wJl be still; Sweet will it be, at the set of the sun. To hear from the If aster the welcome, ' 'wel done!" Mary Moore. All my life I had known Mary Moore ; all my life I had loved her. Our mothers were old playmates and first cousins. My- first recollections are of a boy, in red frocs and morocco ; shoes, rocking a cradle, in which re posed a sunny-haired, blue-eyed baby, not quite a year old. The boy was my selfHarry Church; that baby was Mary Moore. Later still I see myself at the old school-house, drawing my little chaise up to the door that Mary might ride home. Many a beating I have gained mi such occasions, for other boys beside me liked her, and she, I fear, was some tlilng.of a dirt, even in her pinafore. How she came tripping down the steps . when 1 called her name; how sweetly the blue eyes looked at me, how gayly rang out her merry laugh. No one but Mary could ever bring her heart so near her lips. 1 followed that laugh . from my days of childhood till I grew to an wk ward, blushing youth ; 1 fol- ' lowed li '"th follgTf ""Tile "heated noon of manhood ; and now, when the frosts of age are silvering my hair, and ' many children climb upon my knee and call me "father," 1 find that the memories of youth are very strong, and even in gray hairs I'm following the music still. AVheu I was fifteen, the first great sorrow of my life came upon my breast, 1 wa9 sent to school, and was obliged to part with Mary. We were not to see each other for thre long years. This . to me was like a sentence of death, for Mary was life Itself to me. But hearts are tough things, after all. I left college In the flush of my nine teenth year. I was no longer awkward or embarrassed. 1 had grown into a - tall, slender stripling, with a very good opinion of myself, both in general and particular. I thought of Mary Moore. f It was .to think how I could dazzle her ; with my good looks and wonderful mental attainments, and never think ing she might dazzle and bewilder mc still more. 1 was a coxcomb, I know, , 1 but as youth and good looks have fled, I trust that I may be believed when I say that self-conceit has left me also. An advantageous oner was made me at that time, aud accenting it, I save up all idea of a profession, and pre I pared to go to India. In my harried j visit home of two days I saw nothing 1 of Mary Moore. She had gone to a boarding school at some distance, and was not expected home until the fol lowing May. I uttered a sigh to the , memory of my little blue-eyed play mate, and then called myself "a man ; again. in a year, 1 thought, as the vehicle j whirled away from the door, I will re- l turn, and if Mary is as pretty as she ji used to be, why, then, perhaps I'may i. marry her. ' And thus I settled the future of I young lady whom I had not seen for ! four years. I never thought of the pos slbility of her refusing me never once dreamed thai she would condescend not to accept my offers. But now J know that had Mary met me she would have despised me. Per haps4n the scented and affected student she might have found plenty of sport; but asitfo loving me, I should have per haps found myself mistaken. India was my salvation, not merely because of my snccess, but because my labor ious industry had counteracted the evil of my nature, and had made me a bet ter man. Wlien, at the end or three years, I prepared to return, 1 said noth ing of the reformation of myself, which knew had taken place. They loved me as I was, I murmured to myself, and they shall find o it for themselves whether I am better worth' loving than formerly. I picked up many a token from that land of romance and gold for the friend? I hoped to meet. The gift I selected for Mary Moore, with a beating heart, wa a nng-of rough virgin gold, with my name and hers engraved inside that was all, yet the sight of the little . toy strangely thrilled me as I balanced It on tne tip or my nnger. . To the eyes of others it was but small circle, suggesting thoughts, per Jf'b7 it8 elegance of the beautiful white hand that was to wear it. But to me much was embodied there all these delights were hidden within that little ring of gold. 4 -Tall, bearded and sun-bronzed. I knocked at my father's house. The light in the parlor window, and the hum of conversation and cheerful laughter, showed me that company was assembled there. I hoped that my sit ter Lizzie wotrid come to the door, aud that I might greet my family when no strange eye was looking carelessly on. But no; a servant answered my sum mons. They were too merry in the par lors to heed the summons lor admit tance from the long-absent one. A bit ter thought like this ran through mjr nftrnTas I heawriesduncTf from the parlor, and saw; the self-suppressed smile dn the servant's face. 1 I hesitated a moment before making myself known or inquiring for any of the family And while I stood silent a strange apparition grew up before me; from behind the servant peered out a golden head, a tiny delicate form and 8 weet childish face and blue eyes, go like those of one that brightened - toy boyhood, that I started with a sudden feeling of pain. ' " What is your name, my pretty'?" asked I, as, the wondering servant held the door. "Mary Moore." "And what else?" I asked quickly. She lifted up her hands to shade her face I had seen that very attitude in another, in my boyhood, many and many a time and whispered in a sweet bird-like voice. "Mary Moore Chester." (A My heart sank down like leiwl.Here was an end to all my bright dreams and hopes of my youth and boyhood. Frank Chester, my boyish rival, who had of ten tried In vain to usurp my place be side the girl, had succeeded at last and had won her away from me. This was the child his child and Mary's. I sank, body and soul, beneath this blow, and, hiding my face in my hands, eaned against the doox, jv-hile my heart wept tears of blood. The little one gazed at me, grieved and "amazed, and put up her pretty hands as if about to cry, while the perplexed servant step ped to the parlor and called my sister out to see who it was who conducted himself so strangely. I heard a light step, and a pleasant voice saying : "Do you wish to see my father, sir?" I looked up; there stood a pretty, sweet-faced maiden of twentyj not m'ucTrt narigM Trbln lue dear ITttle sT8 ter I had loved so well- I looked at her for a - moment, and then stilling the tempest of my heart by a mighty effort, I opened my arms and said : "Lizzie, don't you know me?" "Harry, oh, my dear brother Harry !" she cried, and threw herself upon my breast and wept as if her heart would break. I could cot weep. I drew her gent ly into the light parlor, and-stood with before them all. There was a rush and cry of joy, and then my father and mother sprang toward me, and wel comed me home with heartfelt tears. Oh, strange and passing sweet is such a greeting to the wayward traveler! And as I held my dear old mother to my heart and grasped my father's hand, while Lizzie clung beside me, I felt that all was not yet lost; and although another,had secured life's choicest bles sing, many a joy remained for me in the dear old sanctuary at home. There were four inmates in the room, who had risen on my sudden entrance. One was the bUie-eyed child whom I had already seen, and who stood beside Frank Chester, clinging to his hand. Near by. stood Lizzie Moore, Mary's eldest sister, and in a distant corner, to which she had hurriedly retreated when my name was spoken, stood a tall, slen der figure, half hidden by the heavy window curtains that fell to the floor When the first rapturous greeting was-over, Lizzie led me forward with a timid grace, and Frank Chester grasped my hand. "Welcome home, my boy !" he said, with the loud cheerful tones I remem ber so well. "You have changed so that I never would have known you; but no matter about that, your heart is in tne ngnt pra.cn x Know.- - : "How can you say he is changed?" said my mother, gently. "To be sure, he looks more like a man than when he went away, but his eyes and smile are the same as ever. It is a heavy neart that changes him. He is my boy still." "Aye, mother," I answered, sadly, "1 am your boy still." Heaven help me ! at that moment I felt like a boy, and it would have been a blessed relief to have wept upon her bosom as I had done in my infancy. But I kept down the tremor of my lips and answered quickly, as I looked into his fu'l, handsome face. "You have changed, too, r ranK, dui I think for the better." Oh, ves thank you for the compli- ment," he answered witn a neariy laugh. My wife says I grow handsomer every day," nis wife ! Could I hear that name and keep silent still?" (I A ,1 I .. mr- littlo oril-l " he asked, lifting the infant in his arms, and kissing her rosy cheek. - "I tell you, Harry, there is no such other thinsr In this .world. Don't you think she looks very much as her mother used to?" "Very much," I faltered. "Hallo?" cried Frank with a sudden ness that made me start violently,; i have forgotten to introduce you to my wife; I believe you and she used to be MORGANTON, playmates in your younger days vea. Harry," and he slapped me on the back forthe sake of old times and because you were not at the wedding, I will give yoil leaves, to: kiss her once v "but mind, old fellow, you are never to re peat the ceremony. Come,- here ' she is ; and I for one want to see how you will manage those ferocious muetactar of yours in the operation." He pushed Lizzie, laughing and blushing, toward me. A gleam of light and hope, almost too dazzling to bear, came over me, and I cried out before I thought, 'Xot Mary." I must have betrayed my secret to every one In the room, but nothing was said : even Frank, in. general so obtuse, was for thfs time lle)t7 f kissed the Mr cheek of bis joAg wife, and hur ried to the silent figure looking out of the window. "Mary Mary Moore!" I said in a low, eager tone, "have you no welcome to give the wanderer?" She turned and laid her hand in jUne and said hurriedly : am Very glad to see you here, Harry." Simple words and yet how blessed they made me. I would not have yiel ded her up for the moment for even an emperor's crown. For there was the happy group and dear home flresider with dear Mary Moore. The eyes I had dreamed of day and night were falling beneath the ardent gaze of mine, and the sweet face I had so long prayed to see was there beside me. I never knew the meaning of happiness until that moment. Many years have passed since that night, and the hair that was black and glossy ia fast turning gray. I am now an old man and can look back to a hap py and, I hopt?, a well spent lite. And yet, sweet as it has been, I would not recall a single day ; for the very love that made my manhood so bright shines also on my few white hairs. And an old man can this be so? At heart I am as young as ever. And Mary, with her bright hair parted smoothly from her brow that has a slight furrow upon itris still the Mary of other days. To me she can never grow changed. The heart that held her in infancy and . sheltered her in the flush and beauty of womanhood- can never cast her out until life has ceased to warm it. An Entomological Clown. frrrtnfc TOTasr OTTiravypTre1raroTiBr work Grimaldi found time and energy to pursue a most fatiguing hobby the collecting of insects, He had formed a cabinet which contained four thousand specimens. There was a kind which came out in the month of June, called the Dartford Blue, for which he was particularly eager. His enthusiasm in this pursuit may be measured by the sacrifices he made for it. After the performance was over at Sadler's Wells he would return home to supper, then about midnight start to walk to Dart- ford, a distance of fifteen miles. He would arrive there about five o'clock in the morning, "rest and breakfast at a friend's house, then go out into the fields; sometimes a search for hours would be rewarded with only a single specimen. At one o'clock he would begin his return walk to London, reach there In time for tea and hurry off to the theatre. On the same night, after the performance, he would again walk to Dartford, recommence his fly hunt, return in the same manner as on the previous day, and play again without rest or sleep. On the third night the pantomime was played first, which en abled him to Quit the theatre at nine o'clock. Seemingly impervious to fa tigue, he once more started on his fif teen-mile walk, and this time, arriving at his journey's end by one in the morning, was able to obtain a night's rest before commencing his quest. The next day being Sunday he had an op portunity of recruiting his strength, and he must have sorely needed it. A circumstance whith had made him par ticular! eager on "this 6ccasion was w a that he was making a small collection for charming Mrs. Jordan. Some time after his entomological pursuits were t-trongtit w " ! t liwnon ; band ot thieves breaking into his house in Peuton fdace whither he had by that time removed, wantonly destroyed the cabinet, flies and all, which, with his models and drawings, were worth about JE200. So disheartened was he by the lss, that he gave his nets aud and all the debris to a friend, and thenceforth the flies had one enemy the fewer. The Coliseum at Bome. The Coliseum is one of the grandest ruins in the world. It is one of those rare buildings whose reality surpasses any engraving. Everybody knows the form of it, but tew can rightly estimate its magnificent proportions without seeing It. The seats rose in terraces four stories high ; each story was about forty feet high. In fact the height of thf outer wall was 157 feet. The arena ws 287 feet long by 180 feet wide. In cluding the walls the building measured 620 feet by 513, being, as usual, eliliip fical. The material was the travertine stone, in large blocks, with which brick masonry is Intermingled. The blocks of stone were not cemented together, but were kept in their places by iron pins between each two blocks. The walls have all been defaced by holes made to get out these iron pins or bolts. Ta'work3Df flttctlan to this Is on ill othVrtdnsla rteskrf JM 1 1 N. C, SATUJ&A'rf.irAECH 15, 1879. Besieged by svKMny bbtu . "Baas, baas ! skellam?" spoor etd ene- ne-hora Such was the, to me, rather ;alntet liglble announcement wWi. - which": tir friend M 's bush-boy ca2 rushing In just about sunrise, one mi ufaj a w were, sitting over our 'breVast it the door of the house, one of fjose regular old Dutch-built farm-nVgoX that jone hardly ever sees nowad sfeccept in South Africa. But whatheoroi&t Nfi, "Boss, boss ! the trail of a ' ig rhtnocer. os rascal!" - . "Where?" he cried M- jumphiS up ; for he was a keen spc rtsmaa, and never lost an opportunity 4f .potting something. ' Out .by Holloar Spring. good I ". "There's a chance for ypu,"my boy," said M , turning to me. '2Sow you'll be able to see how these elephant-guns of mine dp their work. I think you'll find them the right sort." "Let me try the job mjv. if," cried I, eagerly; for, like all "grhorns," I was frantic to do some unheard-of eati and win my laurels at onI "I never shot a'rhinow.ros yet, you ifte-w." - "Can't really, mydeaiioyy" said M in the most exaspfcalngly In dulgejjl tone ; "when you're a little bet ter used to. the African bush, you can do what you like; but if I 'were to 'let you go alone now, the leMt I could ex pect would be a life-long remorse for having connived at a suicide. No, we'll make a party of three to vhlt our friend, and he'll hardly give thelslip to us all, I fancy." i Accordingly, we started out that rery night, Swart, the bush-boy1 making the third of our party ; but I suppose the rhinoceros was too modest to face so many visitors at once, for, although we kept watch till sunrise, rjjere was no sign of him. The next night it was just the same; and at last I got, so mad at the idea of losing my chance the first I had ever had with the big game that, in spite of what M had said, I made up my mind to try my luck single handed. I should have told you that the Hollow Spring frequented by my, four-footed friend lay about eight miles from the house, in a deep gully, one side of which went up into a steep, hog-backed rid i rWge ekrthat topped by a big knuckle of roc overlooked the spring at a range of fifty yards, as pretty a "stand" as any sportsman could wish. Se when nigbt came, I stole out of the house with one carrying a five ounce "explosive ball," steel-tipped, and holding enough fulmi nating powder to blow out tne spine of a megatherium. To guard against the recoil of such a charge, the stock was fitted with a thick pad.; so with gun and ammunition together I had quite enough to carry for an eight-mile tramp through the bush. I dare say there are ugly thickets in South America and Central Asia; but Africa beats them both. Imagine a for est of fih-hooks, relieved by an occasi onal patch of pen-knives, and you have it exactly. There is one horrid spiky thing called by the Dutch "Watch-em-bctje," which in English have corrup ted into "wait-a-bit," aud it does make you wait a bit if it once gets hold of you. I've known a fellow be laid up for a fortnight with a gash from one. So you may think that with masses of this nice stuff all around me I had to pick my way gingerly enough. When I got to the place, lo ! and be hold, the pad of my gun had fallen off! To go back and look for it would have been like hunting for a needle in a hay stack: Lso I filled my handkerchief with wild grass, and tucked It under the shoulder of my jacket as a substitute and then I took my postbohind ihe rock, and waited. The full moon was just rising over the trees (a glorious sight, I can teU. you), when I heard a distant trampling like the tread of. an elephant, only quicker; for a full-grown rhinoceros, clumsy as he looks, can be active enough at times, as you'd soon find if you stood a charge from him when his temper's up. So I had not long to wait before there came a thick snort, and the great brown barrel of a body loom ed out in the streak. Qf -moonlight. jL6t over the spring. 1 hawly stopped -to take aim, before I pulled the trigger The next few seconds were a blank; and then I awoke to the conciousness that my shoulder was aching as if it were broken, aed that something was grunting savagely a few yards off; and then I saw the huge snout and grea white tusks coming right at me, I don't think any acrobat could have been quick er than I was In clutching a projecting bough, and swinging up into the tree overhead ; and I hardly got there when the brute came bang against the trunk, almost shaking me on again, r or minute or two, my heart was in my mouth, for he thumped against the tree till I reallv thought he t ould "have It down ; and when be fouid he couldn't. he stamped the earth In fury, and tore it up with his hori in a horribly suggestive way that lade my flesh creep. ' Here I was, then, in lue crisis of a regular "adventure," stch as I had al ways longed for; but mehow, now tnat I was in it, it didn I seem so very delightful. It's one tlfng to read of adventures in an easy e -chalr after dinner and another th ag to act them for yourself all night or a hard bough. with thousands of mosdiltoes pitching into yon, and a mad rhinceros gallop ing about underneath The likeness betweei my situation and some of those ref rded by Capf, Hay no Beld set ma overhauling my. re collections of that veracious author in the hope of an idea, but the. more I thought the more the Captain failed me, Bun,;irheB foUowispf tee by a bear, got his brothers to throw him a rope, and slid down ; hut I had no bro ther!, aha no rope. Ben Brace, when treed' by the lion, lassoed his drop ped musket and slew the kimg of beasts therewith iot 1 had no las, and couldnV bafe used It if I had.. Some body else, blockaded by a . "grizs ly," waited till Brain fell asleep, and then slipped-away; hut my ',' rhluocerons seemed distressingly wide awake, and even if he had dozed, the experiment wot ld not have commended lUelfto my lancyv in snort tn most ,lerlv where X was, and I did so. -T " That night was the longest I everfgperit, and no mistake. ' Toward mdwilng Master Bhlno frequently took a brief leave of absence into the bush, as if to tempt me down, but I heard him tramp ing in the distance, and wasn't to be caught. Day was just dawning, and I was beginning to wonder how much longer I could stand the thirst that was parching me up, when suddenly I heard a shot among the bushes, so close that 't made me 6tart. Tnen the boughs parted, and I saw M 's jolly face looking up at me, with a grin from ear to ear. "Fairly treed, eh, my boy ? Well I've raised the siege for you, and yonder lies the enemy. Your bullet's run down his side, under the skin, without exploding; so I suppose you must have hit him slantwise. Better luck next time. Anyhow, I'm glad to find you alive ; but I fancy you won't go out a lone again in a hurry !" And", to tell the truth, I didn't for a pretty long while after that day. The India Robber Intercut in Brazil. It is the privilege of the woodland particularly of the Ingapos, where the India rubber collector is most frequent ly found, te be the native land of the intermittent fever. Here man, literal ly buried in lakes of verdure, breathing only the pestilential exhalations of de composing vegitatlon and stagnant wa ter, must be said to perish slowly rather than live, his mode of living hastening nature's destructive work. The fish upon which he feeds, the cachaca (Bra zilian whiskey) he must drink to check artificially the action of the deleterious elements absorbed by his constitution and to srive his svstem a flee tin ic iest regime. Nor is his dwelling at all calculated to add to his physical im provement. Too indolent to prepare comfortable lodgings for himself when he knows that he is to live In the place only a part of the year, he hardly builds up a shed sufficient to shelter h'm from the rain. I have seen hun dreds of "siringueiros" who had no other dwelling than their mosquito-net under a small thatched roof of palm leaves, and even some whose sole pro tection against the rain and the dread ful dampness of the night was a few banana leaves spread over the top of the net. The mosquito-net of the Indian is not oi the filmy consist ency known to most of pur readers, Brazilian insects are not so easily miti gated as their comparatively civilized brethren of the North ; those of Marajo particularly are very bold, and for them a net of thick, impervious cloth is re quisite, offering no opening to their in trusiveness. For this purpose the net usually falls upon a mat of hide stretch ed on the ground beneath, and is pro vided with sleeves for the ropes of the hammock, about which the former are always tightly fastened. Although at present' the India rubber forms the wealth of Northern Brazil, it will soon be found that no real improvement is possible without a clearing of the land an operation seriously inconsistent with the culture of the tree. The in termittent fever destroys more than halt the number of the workers. Only a few can endure the climate for Ave or six seasons. The natives are fully aware of this, but as the labor is the lightest and most remunerative, the ma jority confront all dangers, and con tinue to collect it, Unmindful ofir. tnmg save tne prospect oi cg?ss dur ing one-half of the year. Agriculture and the really civilizing industries are neglected; Ignorance, indolence and misery prevail even in those villages which possessed the most promising outlook before the India rubber trade had entirely supplanted the culture of the sugar-cane, coffee, .cocoa, cotton. mandioca, and Indian corn. Standing by Hi Friend. Kecently some hoys round a man lying in a snow drift, so near frozen to death that he could not speak. There was a terrible odor of whisky about him, and beside him in the snow was an empty bottle. He was removed to a bouse and a doctor sent for. After half an hour's hard work the man was so far restored that he could speak, and his first words were : "Doc doctor have I been froze?" "Yes and pretty badly," was the reply. "Will I die, doctor?" continued the man. "Well, there's a chance of It The patient made an effort to sit up, but fell back after a struggle and gasp ed out. "Doctor, If I die I want it understood that the durned thermometer's killed me! tor. Don't let 'em abuse whisky, doc- ' i . WHOLE NUMBER 160. -. ' . ' t m The riaae rerte mt the Fatwre. . : At the recent Covent . Garden. Prom ex ade Concert in London a new lnstrq ment was played for the first time; for which its promoters claim the proud title of "The Plan Forte of the Fu ture." Its most striking feature Is suf ficiently Indicated by the name "doa ble" piano forte, there belnj two key boards instead of one, and, in. connec tion with these, two separate actions. The double key-board Is, of course, not absolutely new every ordinary organ possesses it. But a little careful watch ing of the payer's hands will discover to the veriest tyro id music that the pe-1 cnliarities of this new mstrumeut M not end here ; for these hands, as'flAr tli.il. tguju m j board, d rice terta, will be found to produce notes of a very diii'erent nature the corresponding keys of the two boards being, in fact, placed in reversed order to each other, To speak imre plainly, on the lower key-board the notes follow in the ordinary sequence oh proceeding from low jo ; high ; but on the upper key-board y-,mler is re versed the low octaves King on the right, and the high cctaves on the left, of the player. The Teason for such an arrangement is obvious enough. Sup pose a player wishes to execute a suc cession of scales with the: left hand alone. He would lu that case begin at the, extreme left ot the lower key board, proceed to about the middle, and then transfer his hand to the high, er key-board, and play back again from right to left. The right hand would per form the same operation in converse order, beginning in the right-hand cor ner of the upper board and ending In that of the lower. In consequence, each hand has the whole range of an ordinary piano forte at its, command without the player shifting bis position an inch. It also becomes possible for the player to double high or low chords, as the case may be, and thus add to the volume and intensity of the sound. In like manner, it will be possible to play passages in which melody and accom paniment approach each other closely with perfect clearness the two key boards keeping the hands apart. The awkward crossing of hands will also be avoided. All these are advantages which a virtuoso will appreciate, and which will enable him to produce some effects all but unattainable on the or dinary piano. Ethics of Conversation. A friendly passenger wants to talk. I am not feeling particularly sociable this morning, and consequently I do not propose to talk to anybody. He asks how I like this kind of weather, and I say, "splendidly." , He laughs feebly, but encouragingly, and says there has been a little too much snow. I say, "Not for health ; it was just what we needed." He asks if I heard of the accident on the Central railroad, and I say "Yes." Then he ask 3 me how it was, and I tell him, "I don'r know; didn't read It." He wants to know what 1 think of Hayes, and I say, "I think he has made a very good constable." "Constable?" he say., "I mean Pre sident Hayes." I say. I thought fie meant Dennis Hays, of. Peoria. Then he asks if I "am going far?" "I say. 'No.'" "How far?" he asks. "Fourteen hundred inilef," I say, unblushing. He think9 that is what he would call far," and I make no response. Two babies iu the car are rehearsing a little and in rather faulty time, but with fine expression. And the man with one or two "dashes," asks if it does'nt bother me to write with a lot of "brats squalling around." I looked at him very severely, for it always makes me mad to hear a man call a baby a "brat," I say to him, in a slow, impressive manner, that "I a ould rather listen to a babv crv than hear a man swear." This eminently proper and highly moral rebuke has It effect. The man forsakes me. and be is now wreaking a cheap, miserable revenge on the srail Ing passengers by whistling "My Grandfather's Clock," accompanying himself by drumming on the1 w indow with his fingers. A Curious Church. The Church at Bex in Switzerland iu which the Helvetic Society held iu meetings last year, presents, it is said, a curious acoustical phenomenon. The interior of the building is rectangular in shape, except that one of the short sides is replaced by a rounded part. The pulpit Is nearly at the middle of, the longer sides of the rectangle. Now, persons seated opposite the pulpit heard a speaker near the bottom of it (a little to the right) very badly. But any one situated two or three yards from the middle of the rounded part, on the side of the door, heard with remarkable distinctness the least words pronounced from below the pulpit. Reciprocally, words spoken in a very low voice from the rounded part were perfectly heard at the point occupied by persons addres sing the audience, so that the latter were thus sometimes quite incommoded It was a case of con iugate acoustic force. The effects in this church at Bex are said to be more remarkable than these in SL Paul's, London, or the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Paris often cited In works on physics. XXWS VST BRIEF. rPrtn th6 Tear 1878 there were ..If!10 In th6 St ol Georgia, with liahiUUea at 13,738 134. . A couple, aged respectively eighty one and seventy one years, were mar ried at East Xewark, . J. several dayaago. ? w rf -ir - A school of technical education Is to he established at Bradford, Eng'aod, at an estimated cost of $100,000 for the building. - rTlie Lowell (Mass.) Cow-far says that four new starch factories are to be erec ted in Maine, which is a proof that bus iness prospects are stiffening. - There are no 188 American vessels employed in the whalVflabery. with an aggregate "tonnage of 4S.603. r New Bedford, Haas., owns 133 of them, powertui ana net -very plewi.t subject the burning of Shelley's body on the coast near Vlareggio, Italy. A fire company in Warren, Pa., has adopted a resolution to the effect that any member who takes an intoxi cating drink wnile In onifoim shall he expelled. i New Haven, Conn., has 13 Congre gational churches, 13 Methodist, 11 Episcopalian1, 6 Catholio, J Hebrew, and 1 Advent, Lutheran and Universa le General Albert Pike is now aald to be engaged in organizing the'Knlgbtt of the Cactus," to be composed of the veterans of the Mexican war, and Jtbe order to descend to the male children.' Diphtheria has for two years raged In some districts of Hungary. In one town 2135 persons out of 20,000 have lately been attacked, and 927 have died. The malady also prevails in Vienna. William Ohmann Stafford, a clerk of the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England, recently absconded with $70,000 of the funds or the bank. A re ward of $2500 has been offered for his apprehension. Mrs. Lucy Anderson, who gave, piano lessons to Queen Victoria and all her daughters, has just died. The Queen was always very kind to the old lady, who often made long and pleasant visits to the abode or royalty. The watch worn by Major Andre when he was arrested as a spy is said to be in the possession or an Obkosh (Wis.) woman. It is a curious oval shaped watch. Inscribed inside, "John Andre, 1774." A building Is In process of erection at Altoona, Pa., which will be used as a testing department and laboratory for testing and analyzing all materials re ceived for the use of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. About twenty men are now em ployed at the Torpedo Station at New port, K. I., in the manufacture of torpe does for the outfit of United States war Boxing bouts with gloves have been decided to be "prize fights" In England, and two persons who were engaged iu a friendly contest of tbe kind were late- ' ly sentenced to fines and imprisonment, and even the lookers-on were fined. . William Gray Brooks, father of the Rev. Philips Brooks, died recently iu North Andover, Mass, He was a rath er small and slight man, presenting, it is said, "the greatest possible contrast to his gigantic son, the rector ef Trin ity." The demand for Welsh books and periodicals is quite large in the United States, aud one weekly paper printed in that languago has a circulation of 8000coples and a good lineof advertising. I'hls is T. J. Griffiths TDnich. publish ed in Utlca, N. Y. The erupti.in of mud at the foot of Mount Etna continues, and a smoking lake of steadily Increasing dimensions has been formed. Professor SUvestrk says there are two kinds of craters one in constant activity, emitting muddy and oily water, with exhalations tf carbonic acid; the other intermittent, emitting with subterranean noises vol umes of thicker mud. A Russian lady, Mme. Helene Ga- jewska. who was charged with obtain ing advances on paste diamonds and other bogus jewelry, and disposing or similar articles to unsuspecting dealers. was recently acquitted at Berne, Switz erland, but In the meantime she had been imprisoned four months in Austria awaiting proceedings for extradition, and nine months in Switzerland, pend ing preparation ror her trial. There was no case against her, but she had no redress for the wrong done by her ar rest and Imprisonment. . State Senator Bailey, of Wisconsin, has been talking about wolf-hunters, showing that the industry of wolf-raising understate protection has develop ed to a remarkable extent, In some of the oldest counties in the State, he said, there are banters who have Bade an excellent living by rearing cubs and selling scalps to tbe authorities kt $10 each. He ended by offering a resolution to provide for removing this' practical protection of the wolf business, the In dustry having been sufficiently fostered. As about thirty hundred weight of slag are made for every ton of pig-Iron, the importance of utilizing this waste product is very obvious. In England slag has been turned to accoant In tbe formation of breakwater, such as that at the mouth of tbe Tees. Bricks, paving-sets, concrete and other articles are also made of It. Three millions of slag bricks, most of which go to London, are manufactured annually. Glass works are now in operation at the blast furnaces in Northamptonshire, where the slag Is run direct from the iron fur naces Into tbe glass furnaces, mixed with other materials, and converted into glass for bottles, Ac. 7-At tbe last session-of Congress an appropriation of $5000 was made to place a monument over Thomas Jeffer son's grave, at Monticello, Va. The appropriation was made upon the con tingency that the owners of the estate where Jefferson is buried should give a quit claim to the United States of all right of property for a space of two reds square of land, Including the grave and to give the public free right ot access thereto. The Department of Justice U now in communication with tbe owners of the property, and the preliminaries to tbe construction of the monument will be settled without diffi culty. The construction of the monu ment will be begun next spring. -V m 4 I J?--sr ,.jf '- t V
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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March 15, 1879, edition 1
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