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E BLUE Li VOL. IY NO. 38. MORG ANTON, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1879. WHOLE NtfMBER 194. nn BIDGE ' "'' q- ........ BLADE. SEPTEMBER. The (oldon-rod ia yellow ; The corn ia turning brown ; The trees in apple orchard With fruit are bending down. The gentian's bluest fringes Are curling in the eun ; In da ty pods lha milk'reed Its hidden silk has spun. The aedgea flaunt their harvest, In every meadow nook ; Ani asters by the brook-side ; Make asters in the brook. From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' aweet odors rue ; A.t noon the roads all flutter With yellow butter flies. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer. Bat none ofall (his beauty . Which floods the earth and air. Is onto me the secret Which makes September fair. .- Tie a thing which I remember , To name it thrills me yet ; One day of one September I never can forget. A Pleasant Love. and she was right, for Maria was skinnv. and thought herself sarcastic, and always said nasty things to people who did not dare to say them back again. One evening, when Maggie had been about a year at Woolwich, and she was Bit ting alone in her school room as. usual, for her pupils had just said good night, and been delivered to the tender mercies of their nurse, Miss Patterson walked in very much dressed, and rather flushed and ex cited, "Miss Dunlop," she said, "we shall have a tew friends this evening, and I know one or two of them like an iinoromntu dance : will you be ready to come into the drawing room ana piay n we should want you V "I fear I cannot play dance music very well, I never keep time," said Maggie. "Yes, I feared so, and I thought 1 would come and tell you. .so that you might prac- uaiiorannoworiwo till after dinner ana sue sailed out ot the room, evidently conquering me matter settled; and .Maggie meekly proceeded to practice the "Mabel waltz" and the "Flick and Flock Galop." i ueu sue put on ner shabby black evenin gown, and stuck a spray of white flowers in her golden hair, and waited patiently for the summons, hoping she wjould wait in vain, it very soon came, and with a roll ot music under her arm, a flush On her in nocent, frightened face, and a scared, al most nunted, expression m her eves, ahn descended and timidly opened the drawing room door, and there stood still for a mo ment, staring in astonishment at the scene before her. There sat the heiress, with an "I have got some news for you, Maggie," he said one day, about eighteen months aftr he 'had gained his commission. "Guess what it is." TIipw wr.ro -uTttlL-infr ttliTirr tlif frrppn lanpQ of Perlock, listening to the ceaseless mur mur of the sea, as, at intervals, they had walked and listened, ever since they could remember, at any rate, for she was six years younger than her former playfellow. "You are going to be promoted," she said. "Promoted, you little goose! No one ever gets promoted in the British army. Guess again." "You are going to marry an heiress." There was a lump in her throat as she said it. .. ' "Wrong again. No inestimable young person with green eyes, a turn-up nose, susceptible heart and fifty thousand a year, has turned up yet. But its something nearly as good. I'm ordered to China !" "Oh, Alic !" she gasped, an-1 burst into tears, ft was verya foolish of her, but then she was only sixteen, and had not yet ac quired the praiseworthy art of concealing her feelings. "Why. whatever are you ciying tor ?" he asked, and kissed -away her tears. . He'd kissed her ever since she was five, and thought no more of it than if she had been his sister, or the cat, excepting perhaps - that it was nicer which it was. no doubt. "I shall only be away five years, at most ana wnen i come ihick 1 u onng yon a pig tail, and aiiivory tooth pick and a whole lot of things and " . "les f she said, listeniLg attentively. "But then you'll be a young woman I fforgot and 'out' and all that sort of thing, , and won't condescend to speak to a poor Lieutenant ; you will have all the squires and fox hunters about the place al your feet." "Oh no, indeed,! shan't Alic," she said eagerly. "lint T t11 vtxti mn will T Krt1ii- irmi are a born little flir, and I shall come back and find" But she burst into tears again, and put up her pretty little hand as if to stop his teasing, which she could not bear just then. It seemed so cruel of him to laugh and joke, when he was going away for five years. He did not seem to care a bit, and she could have broken her heart on the spot, and would have gladly done so, and thrown the pieces away so as never to be bothered with it again. I hen, seeing her mournful blue eyes, he was merciful. "I believe I shall come back and find you just as great a little darling as you are now, and if we've got any money we'll get mar ried and live happy ever after, and if we haven't we'll get married and starve ever aftet unless, of course, the heiress turns up. , "Oh, I hope she won't !" said Maggie, like a truthful little idiot. "Shall you ever write to me, Alic, dear ?" "Yes, of course I shall, and I shall ex pect you to write back six pages ciossed, and all that sort of thing, you know." So Alic Granger went to China, and Maggie waited hopefully enough for a let ter, but six months passed and none came. "Perhaps it takes longer for a letter to get here from China," she thought, knowing as little about the means of transit'and the time it took as if the celes ial city had been in the moon. But a. year passed and no letter came. '."'" . "Perhaps he's ill, or its miscarried, " she said, tearfully, half wondering if it could be possible that a Chinese heiress had turned up-and that was the real reason of Alic's silence. "Two years past and never a word. "It's too bad," she said bitter! v, and wondered ruefully if he had married a wife with a pig-tail. And the days and the mouths went by, and Maggie journeyed into womanhood, but no word or sign came from Alic Granger, and at last she gave him up altogether. Maggie was twenty years old when her father died, and the creditors did pounce down, and she and her mother were sold out. Mrs.' Dunlop was offered a home in London by a sister who was well off and bad tempered, and it was thankfully ac cepted. Maggie was informed that ehe might get her own living, which, being pav cisely Maggie's own opinion as well as in tention, ahev advertised for a situation as governess Now Maggie had a very modet idea of her own merits, and therefore Only asked for 25 a year aud a comfortable home, so no less than five answers came to her announcement that she could teach English, French, music and the rudiments of drawing. ; . One of these answers came from Wool wich, and stated that Mrs. Marshall re quired a governess for her three little girls. Mrs. Marshall was a stiff-necked sort of woman, and stared at poor little Maggie (who looked almost as child like and twice as pretty as ever) through double gold glasses.' Colonel Marshall, her , husband, 1 was a nice old man with a grey head and eager, pleased expression on her face, and leaning over her, talking and laughing, and 1 more handsome than ever, and sunburnt and soldierly looking, was Alic Granger. There was no mistaking him. The color rushed to Maggie's face, as if to say a hur ried good bye, and then left it altogether. She recovered self-possession, however, and walked with what slie fluttered herself was great dignity towards the piano. She felt rather than saw him raise his head and look at her, and the next moment he saw by her side. "Maggie my dear Maggie ! Why, fancy you being here ; where did you come from ? I'havebeen trying to find you out for months.". - , ' "I thought you" and then she did not know how to go on, so added, almost pit eously ; "I am the governess here." "Are you ! Oh, I see, then, that is the reason I have not seen you before, I sup pose." . "Do you really know Miss Dunlop ?" the heiress asked, coming upv and speaking in her coolest manner. Maggie wished sincerely she could sink into her shoes and bury herself. "Why of course I do; we have been play-fellows ever since we were born haven't we, Maggie ? " .uu luaggie, ieenng sne was uacKed up answered bravely : "Yes. ' ' "Oh, indeed!, how mteresting!" then turning to Maggie : "Will vou be so wood as to begin a waltz, Miss Dunlop? This was to be our dance, I think," to Alic, and she sailed of with him triumphantly, He came to her directly after the dance was over. i "I went down to Perlock to try and find out where you had gone to," he said, "but nobody knew. " "It didn't matter, " she said, huskily, let ting her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to make believe she wasn't very much interested in what he said. "Yes, it did it mattered a great deal. Why, I've got a box full of curiosities for youclubs to fight with, and a little heath en God or two, and a statue of Buddha and all sorts of things. I told you I should bring you them home. Do you live here I mean in this house V , He said these last words under his breath, for the heiress came up, and the next min ute he was carried off to dance with Mrs. Somebody at the other end of the room, ,but not before Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Sdpn after this Miss Patterson came up to fhe piano, and saying she wish ed to play lerself, and that Maggie looked tire I, dismissed her without being able to get even another look at Alic. The next morning, to Maggie's very great surprise. Miss Patterson came into the school room before the children had as sembled- "Mis3 Dunlop," she said, sliffly, "I should like to know where you say you met Mr. Granger." j. His uncle lived next door He is a very old friend, "I couldn't help it, and you never wrote," she Answered helplessly. "Ao, 1 never wnte letters : don't knew how to spell well enough. But I have been minting for you all over the place, and never dreamed of finding you here. Now we 11 unpack the box ; I had it opened be fore I came, so it's only fastened by a lock. '' "But, Alic, they'll never forgive me." "Never mind, it doesn't matter, because if you are good I'll take you away next week. Besides, they'll forgive me any thing. I saved the Colonel's life when he was in Hong Kong at least, so he says. There now, what do you think of these for fighting with? Get them at Java oh pur pose for you;" and he held up a pair of heathenish-looking clubs and brandished them over her head, and then proceeded to pull out the rest of the contents of the box and to decorate the school-room with them. "There's Mr. Buddha,, and there's why, what's the matter, Maggiet' . "Nothing, only you will get me into dreadful trouble you will, indeed ; Miss Patterson came in this morning and scolded me for talking to you last night" "Never mind, she was only jealous," he laughed. "Now tell ine how soon you can leave here." "What for?.'i she asked innocently. "Why, you haven't forgotten that we agreed to get married when I came back, have you, you little coquette ?"-and he put his arm around her waist just as of old, and was not reproved. It was so very comfort able, she thought-. - ".No ; but you areengaged, areyou hot?" "les, of courser ! am to you." '.Oh 1 but, Alic" "Oil, but, Maggie " and then he stop ped and kissed her, and nothing more could be said, for the door opened, and there stood the Colonel and there stood Maria Patterson. "Miss Dunlop !'' screamed Maria, horror struck. "Mr. Granger!" said Mrs. Marshall, astonishment. "Hoity-toity !" exclaimed the Colonel, "what does all this mean ?" "She must leave the house at once,"said tne heiress. "Of course, she must," Mrs. Marshall said. "I never heard of such a thing in my life. " "My dear Mrs. Marshall," said Alic, looking as if he were beginning a speech, "ii is an my iauit. , loutoid me, and so did the Colonel, to consider your house my house, and I have done so. Miss Dunlop here was a playfellow of mine once, and when I went away we were engaged, but somehow we lost sight of each other when there were a few thousand miles between us, and it was the happiest moment of my ute to meet her again last night ; and so took the liberty of calling on her this morn ing, and we were just arranging toget mar ried next week when you interrupted us. ' "Quite right, quite right, my dear Gran ger, saia ine oia uoionei, neartily, "you snau be married from here ' "Oh, please let me .go; to mamma do let me go at once," pleaded Maggie, finding her little tongue at last. "1 think it would be much more satis factory if Miss Dunlop went back to her relations," said the heiress sourly. bo they all agreed, and that very after noon Maggie packed up her modest belong ings and all the curiosities, and went to the well off and bad tempered aunt. fne bad tempered aunt received her niece very graciously when she found she was going to marry well the following week. It is amazing how fond people are of rich relations, even though the riches concern them little personally. As for poor Mrs. Dunlop, she could have jumped for joy, only she was too old for such vio lent exercise. "Pray, miss, what are you laughing to yourself about?" asked Alic the evening before their wedding day. "Nothing, Alic, only when you were away I used to think sometimes that per haps you'd marry a Chinese heiress with a pigtail." "The sort of thing you would tlunk," he said, grandly," "as it is, you see, I am go ing to marry a little girl without a pigtail, and . I am very happy, my darling are ybu?" "Very, very," she said ; and she was. "At Perlock. to my mother, indeed " "Thank you. quire, because, I merely, wished to in of course you must be 'aware that it is not usual for any one in vour position to make herself remarkable by having long confidence talks with any srentleman who may visit the house." "I don't know what youtnean, Miss Pat terson!" Maggie said, indignantly But Miss Patterson had swept out of the room without deigning to reply. Then Maggie went into ker own little room, the pue place she had in the world entirely to herself, and cried till her eyes were red and her head ached. The lessons did not progress that morn ins. Masrsie was thinking of Alic, who was no doubt strolling about, the common listening to the band and making love to the heiress. The children were more than usually stupid, too, and all the world seem ed upside down, and all its ways turned crooked. ! Suddenly, at about twelve o'clock just wheh Maggie was in the middle of ex pounding as best she could the eccentric! ties of the French grammcr, there was a knocks at; the school-room door. "Cpm in," she said. The door opened, and there stood before her astonished eyes the form of Alic Gran ger, and ;behind him was a maa evidently, his sefvaht with a box on his shoulders. ','All right. Tom, put it .down; that's right ; now 1k off. There, I've brought the curiosities round, Maggie ; I thought you'd like -to see them." "Oh ! What will Mrs. Marshall and Miss Patterson say ?" said Maggie in consterna tion. ' ' "Notlung to you for the next half hour or so, for I have just seen them safely on their way to Woolwich, and thought I shoukl just get a quiet chat with you. My dears," he said, turning to Maggie's wide eyed, open-mouthed pupils, 'I'm quite sure you'd like to be let off your "lessors, so I'll let you on tor an hour ; run along, my little An Ol Soldier. Diving for Gold. The Hussar Wrecking Company is again at work trying to recover the gold said to have been lost with the British man-of-war Hussar ninety-nine years -ago. This work was begun about thirty years ago, and for twenty-eight years it was prosecuted regu larly every season. Last year nothing was done, however, and the work this year was begun very late m the season. It is under the direction of Mr. Thomas Barnes, whose brother is a diver and a practical wrecker. The old Hussar lies in very deep water, off Port Morris, N. J., a short distance below the Morrisania gas works, and a schooner has been anchored on the spot for the pur pose of carrying on the work. A reporter went out to the schooner recently and found Mr. Barnes, the diver, preparing to go be low. "You will have to wait till I come up " he said ; "I can't talk with four hun dred pounds weight around me." The brass helmet was then screwed'to his breast plate, and his equipment complete, he went down among the fishes to look for the gold. The Hussar was backed on a ledge between the place where she now lies and the shore, and slid down this to a depth of seventy five feet at low tide, her stern sinking deep into the mud and sand.' It is here the gold is suppossed to be. Her bow and much of her ballast were removed in past" years, and the skeletons and " equipments of fourteen American prisoners who were drowned when she went down have been recovered. Work was resumed on the wrecK re cently and Mr. Barnes has brought to the surface soma interesting specimens showing the ship's condition. The wood work is pretty near all gone, and even the spikes and bolts are almost eaten away. Mr. Barnes recently recovered a bit of broken queensware, showing that he has visited the Hussars' mess-room, and he has brought up with him a clam which made its home in the ship's hold. The treasure is generally estimated at about million dollars, and it is now believed that it may be reached at any time. "We are looking for something and we hope we may find it," said Mr. Barnes as he came out of the water., CoL John Frederick Von Werder, aged ninety nine years, is an inmate of The Old Man's Home, at Baltimore. He gives the following account of his life. "I was born on the 1st of January, 1780. in East Prussia, about ten miles from the City of Berlin. A strong inclination for a military life led me to enter the Prussian army in the year 1796 as an ensign.- In the year 1800 1 was promoted to a Lieutenancy, ana in laUb, when the war between France and Prussia broke out, I was advanced to the rank of Captain. In the great battles of Jena and Auerstadt, so disastrous to Prussia, I was made a prisoner-of-war by the French. .Bewitched by the brilliant generalship of Napoleon I, I entered the French service as a captain in the Cavalry. It was in the yeari 2807-8 that I fought in Spain, and wMlQrauada, in 1808, married Senerita MarlanJracia Velasquez, daughter of Alfonso Marillo Velasquez, a grandee of the Kingdom. Early in 1809 I was promoted to a Colonelcy and ordered back to Germany to command a regiment in the campaign against Austria. I was in the great battles of Aspern, Eschingen, Wagram, and many other engagements of less importance. After the battle of Wa gram, I was made first Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Murat, Napoleons brother-in-law. who was afterward King of Naples and Commander-in-chief of the French cavalry. 1 attended the wedding of Napoleon to Maria Louisa, daughter of the Emperor Francis of Austria, in 1810. It was late in 1811 when I was ordered to join the Grand Army of Invasion into Russia, which started in the spring of 1812. On account of Murat being ordered to Italy, I was ap pointed First Aide-de-Camp to Marshal Ney, who was Napoleon's " right-hand man " during that campaign. I took part in the fight on the banks of the Moskwa, which opened the gates of Moscow, the an cient capital of the Empire. I entered the city with Napoleon in all his glory, and was quartered with his staff in the ancient Castle of the Kremlin until the city was set on fire and almost annihilated by the Rus sians themselves. Then conmienced that terrible retreat through snow and ice, almost too awful to remember, with an infuriated enemy at our backs. This retreat, as you know ended in the destruction of Napoleon's army. After the fearful battle on the banks of the River Beresina, of my own regiment, 1,800 strong when we crossed the Russian frontier in the spring of 1812, only thirteen re-crossed it in the winter, and these were all wounded or sick from cold or utter destitution. I was myself twice wounded at Beresina, from which I still suffer occasionally. After my return I was laid up in a hospital for several months, and afterwards rejoined the Prussi an army with the rank of Oolonel, and fought in all the principal battles in 1813, entering France, and afterward Paris, in 1815 fought at Ligny and Waterloo, and again -entered the Capital of France. "It was in 1816 acid mrthat I obtained leave oi aDsence ama. traveuea wun col Cominsky through Tu)key, Egypt and Ab yssinia, where 1 first! met Lord Byron. I was with this celebiateii personage for some time. In 1810 I joined the secret league for the liberation of Greece and assisted Alexander Ypsylanti in organizing the Greek insurrection. I can talk Greek flu ently. I fought from 1820 to 1827 for this cause, until tireece was iree. uuring mat time I renewed my acquaintance with Lord Byron, and had frequent interviews with him until his. death in the ruins of Missolonghi. In W28 I entered the French army again, and was attached to the . forces destined for the subjugation of Algiers, where I remained for nine years engaged in active service against Ab-del-Kader and I brahim Pashas, Bedouin Arabs. In the year 1837 I returned once more to Germany and spent part of the time until 1 848 trav eling through France, Italy and lurkey, In the latter vear I was forced to leave Germany for political reasons, and. embark ed for the United States. It was in Octo ber of the year 1848 I landed in Baltimore with my wife and two sons and one daugh ter. We settled in West Virginia, where I established a nursery for flowers and choice plants, and we did well until 1852, when a great flood, came and swept .away every thing, leaving us almost in utter destitution. I then went to St. Louis, and in 1854 to South Carolina, where it seemed once more as if I should spend the rest of my days in peace and ease, Dut tne war nroKe out, wrecking our happiness and fortune. In 1862, my two sons fell in the ranks of the Confederate army, and in 1864 death de prived me of my wife and daughter. After the VV ar I went once more to the vv est. staying some time in Missouri and Iowa, but finding no rest. Afterward, on the in vitation of a friend, 1 visited t londa, where I remained several years, until compelled to Beek relief for my rapidly failing eye sight. ' age of traps branching into it, and no pro tection when traps are on a horizontal pipe a distance from the vertical soil pipe. Rain water leaders should not be used as soil pipes, and when connected with house drains they should be made of cast iron in preference t4 galvanized sheet iron or tin, there being less liability of corrosion. Joints should be gas and water tight, to preclude possibility of drain air entering open windows. j No safe waste should connect with any drain, but it should ; be carried down inde pendently to a point where its discharge would indicate the existence of a leak or any overflow above. . No waste from a refrigerator should be connected with a drain. Unless the water Supply is ample, so that it-win rise to every part of a building, en suring at all - time the proper flushing of fixtures and traps, cistern -shouldibe pro vided into which the water will rise at night, or into which it may be pumped. Said cistern should be large enough to hold an ample daily sdpply,'be kept clean, cov ered, and properly ventilated. The over flow pipe from it should never be run into any drain under any circumstances. The "supply for drinking-water should not be drawn from it, but from a direct supply, . c, direct from the street main. Water closets should not be supplied di rectly rrom street pressure, or by a pipe from which branches are taken for drinking water. Where the valve closets are pre ferred to those that are supplied from a small cisteru immediately over them, then the supply should be taken to a storage tank, from which it can be conveyed to the valves on the closets, thereby ensuring an equable pressure, and securing more relia bility in their working. All dram pipes within a house should be of metal in preference to stoneware, owing to the liability of the latter to crack and the difficulty of keeping the joints tight. It is best to run them along the cellar wall or ceiling with a good incline. They should never be hidden underground then leaks will not be perceptible. In some places The Freaks ot m Psychologist. it is common to paint pipes white so that any leakage will show itself to the most careless observer. All drains should be kept at all times free from deposit ; and if this cannot be effected without flushing, special flushing arrangements should be provided so as to effectually remove all foul matter from the house drains to the.public sewers. All drains should be laid in a straight line, with proper falls, and should be care fully jointed and made water tight. No right-angled' junction should be allowed, except in the case of a drain discharging into a vertical shaft, j No drain should lie so constructed as to pass under a dwellihg-house, except where absolutely necessary ; and then it should be constructed of cast-iron pipes, with lead Mr. Simpson imagines he is quite an authority on psychology and other things of a scientific nature. He frequently goes around to various places to display hii skill which is rather marvelous, to sav the least. The other day he stepped into a large grocery store, in which- quite a crowd was congregated. "Psychology is a term employed by the most recondite savants in their investiga tions of metaphysical phenomena," roared Mr. Simpson, bringing Ids hand down pat riotically on the head of a flour barrel. The crowd laughed, at which demonstra tion the old man put on his spectacles and said: ''Is there any one present who believes in psychology?" "now is it genen-jjy cooked, .with egg. sauce?" -.. i "It isn't an edible," roared Mr. Simpson wildly. "No, no, ' said another man, "it air. t a vegetable, it's a chemical ; a kind of yellow drug." "No, it isn t a yellow drug, or a purple drug, either." "Is it a new kind of overcoat? inquired a puny man with weak eyes, who was drawing hard on a clay pipe. Mr. Simpson danced around like a wild man. He finally informed the crowd of the definition of the term, and begged some one to furnish him with a lock of hair, so that he could satisfy them of the soundness of the theory of psychology by giving them the characteristics of the person upon whose head it originally grew. One man drew out a lock of hair and handed it over to the psychologist, who was dancing around in an ecstasy of glee, ana acting like a harlequin, tie laid it in the palm of his left hand, and, after look ing at it carefully for some time and mak k-g peculiar faces, said : , "The owner of this hair was amiable and gentle." "Correct!" yelled the donor of the hair, his face radiant with smiles; "correct. that's my late wife, and you've struck it." "She was fond of music ? "You're right she was; she could ham mer more music out of a piano in ten min utes than you could listen to in an hour." "She was a most determined woman, mused the psychologist as he turned the hair over several times and looked wiser thanever. "Indeed she was," responded the widow er, scratching his head, 'Vhen Mirandy made up her mind to a thing she would carry it through if it cost her life. Why whatever she made up her mind to have anything, she always managed to have it." 4 'She was violent at times ?" "She was," replied the widower." "I am just one archipelago of scars. She used to wait behind the door for me at nignt, BRIEFS. caulked joints laid so as to be readily ac- and scale me with a broom." an iron gray moustache, and there was dears," and he opened the door for them, a grown-tiauguier, a jjiiss rauerson, airs. and shut it after them. Marshall's daughter by her first husband, who was really the mistress of the estab lishment, for Maria Patterson had a strong will, and -she was an heiress. ". nasty heiress, too," poor Maggie "Oh, Alic !" she said in fear and tremb ling. "Oh, Maggie!" he answered, mimickine. very "What did vou mean bv vcAnsr awav from thought, Perlock, and not leaving any address?" O.pr 1375.000 O uuds ot lobster have. b en put tip this season in Kent, Canada. Fruit to the value of 2,937,025 was PToorted from the United States last year. Requirements for House Drainage. Every house drain should have an inlet for fresh air entering at a point inside the main trap, and carnea 10 a convenient lo cation out of doors, not too near win dows. This pipe will relieve the smaller house traps from pressure occasioned by a descending column of water that would otherwise be likely to force the seals of these traps. The air drawn through this inlet to the lower part of the drainage sys tem, assists the circulation within the drains and is essential to insure the diffusion of the gases generated within them. 1 A trap should be placed on every main drain to disconnect the house from the sewer or cesspool. In places liable to un usual pressure from the sewer it should be a double trap, with vent from between the two traps, running up full size above the roof ; or, where the pressure from the sewer is only occasional and the rigor of climate will permit, this vent may be carried to the sidewalk or area, at a safe distance from windows. If the first trap is forced the gas can gain easier exit though this pipe than through the second trap. Every vertical sou or waste pipe suouia be extended at least full size through the roof. No traps should be placed at the foot of vertical soil mpes to impede circulation. Traps should be placed under all sinks, basins, baths, wash trays, water closets, etc, and as near to these fixtures as practi cable. All traps under fixtures, whenever prac ticable, should be separately ventilated in order to guard azainst syphon age. Such vent nines' should not branch into a soil pipe below where any drainage enters it. In some cases it is preferable to carry it to outward air independently. 'The exten sion of soil pipe, full size, through the roof, is not a certain protection againgst syphon- cessible for inspection, and ventilated at each end. j Whenever ilnmimim of eswU i- should be remedied by laying subsoil drains, which should pass not directly to the sewer, but should have a suitable break or disconnection. Water supply and drain pipes should be concentrated as much as possible, and not scattered about a building. Horizontal pipes are objectionable. Plumbing fixtures should not be hidden behind walls and partitions, where their condition is never apparent. They ought properly to be open to view and so situated that any leak would be readily detected. It is also well to have a plan of "the plumb ing of each house for the tenants or owner's convenience and , guidance in any emer gency. In planning house drains they should be got outside the walla of the house as quick ly as possible, so that there may be few joints of pipe, and the smallest chance of leakage from defects or accidents, taking proper precautions in locating to guard agamst freezing. The Purple of the Ancients. The purple oi tne ancients nas lately been studied by Mr. Edward Schunck. Sum ruing up the results of the investigations of Reaumur, Dutramel, Bancroft and Cole re garding this dye, which was obtained from various kinds of shell-fish, he says : "It is a secretion like pus found in a small whitish cyst under the shell,' close to the head of the animal. This matter, when applied to white linen and exposed to the light of the sun, changes from yellow, through light green, dark green and blue, to purplish red crimson, evolving meanwhile an odor of garlic or asafetid Daylight is so essential to this reaction that the secretion, if kept in the dark will preserve its original hue for years, Lut will then change when ex posed to light. 1 he alteration of color is not promoted by heat, and the transition will go. on in a vacuum or in the presence of hydrogen or nitrogen gas. Soap alkalies and most of the acids have no effect upon the color finally produced, but nitric acid and chlorine will .destroy it.'' Mesdames A. and G. Negri have lately obtained a red and blue coloring substance from a species of murex. Mr. Schunck himself made many experiments with the matter taken from the shell-fish called Purpura lapillus, found at low water on the rocks near Hast ings, England. It Changes from pale yel low to purple, without being applied to linen, if it is subjected to light, and does so even when boiling. ; The chromogel can be completely extracted by alcohol and either from the pounded cysts. 1 he golden solu tion thus obtained becomes purple when ex posed to light, and ultimately precipitates a granular and crystalline powder, insoluble in boiling benzol and boiling glacial acetic acid, easily soluble in toiling aniline, and yielding a sublimate of crystals of a metal lic luster, and having edges of a deep indi- go-blue color. As the,author believes that the coloring -matter belongs to an unknown member of the indigo-blue group, he pro poses to call it "punicin." Floating" for Deer,. Two methods are adopted by hunters to get deer "floating? by night and driving with dogs oy day. ine iormer requires some BKiu ana gooa margmansmp; ine latter, neithtr. In ' floating a dark night is selected, and the; guide paddles noise lessly to the feeding-ground of the deer. where the lily pads are numerous, a oKam no. i bpnt far th movpTiipnt of the. game in the water, land when sufficiently ol decomposition. near the hunter opens his aarK i an tern ana directs the strong rays of light in the di rection of the sound. Half stuepified, the deer stares at the "bright light in amaze ment, while the hunter pulls the trigger, which releases the ! leaden messenger of destruction. At this juncture the hair was retimed to the owner, and Mr. Simpson, highly elated at the favorable Tihjprnneion made by ills remarks, said : "Has any one in the crowd got some more hair ? I want some one to try to stick me if possible, 1 was never stuck yet. Give me the whiskers of a musquito'e. and I'll give its pronounced traits." At this moment the puny man returned from the sidewalk, and remarked that he possessed some hair which he would like the psychologist to work upon. "Let s have it ( Let s have it ! scream ed Mr. Simpson in a burst of rapturous laughter ; lust hand over that there hair, and 1 11 tell you all about so fast that you'll have to pry your ears open to catch all the information. Then he took the hair, looked at intently a moment, and said : "Ihe owner of this hair was a man of great scholarship and research ; he was par ticularly bright and was much liked by his cotemporaries. He was a man of great forethought, and his morality was one of the features of the nineteenth century. He had a great nack of acquiring wealth, and his generosity was a thing which was sub lime. He also had a wonderfully retentive memory, and was very lovable and sincere in his manner of dealing with people." "No he wasn t," yelled the puny man. "Wasn t he a good man? inquired Mr. bimpson. "No, he was not, caroled the attenuated individual. that hair came out of my horse s tail. Then there was a lively scene, from which the psychologist flitted in a manner that was as beautiful as' it was ambiguous. To keep Oranges. Dr. E. B. Miles, of Leesburg, Fla. writes that last spring he took eighteen sweet oranges cut fresh from the tree, with the stems left on, - and packed them away m dry sand as follows: six wrapped in oiled paper, six in plain tissue paper, and six in direct contact with the sand, though so located as not to touch each other. Nail ed on lid of the box and put away in a cool place. On the 5th of August, just three months after, he unpacked them and found all perfectly sound and good. At the col lecting to pack, all Vie oranges were old odes, having been hanging ripe on the tree for six or seven months, and more liable to decay sooner than if just ripened. Some were rusty and a little shrivelled, and others mottled. Taking cognizance of this last named item, as also of the season in which they were put up, not only adds value to the experiment, but indeed renders it a more thorough test. It seems one portion kept as well as another, but be considers it best to put them bare into the sand, that is without any wrapping. Several times, and also dining our hottest weather, when above ninety degrees Fahrenheit, he tested the sand with a thermometer and found the temperature always eighty -one degrees sev eral inches below the surface. ow it ap pears somewhat singular that fruit, eapcci ally of such a perishable nature as the orange, will keep so long and so well in such a substance, and at a season of such high temperatare. i et the truth of Dr. Miles' Statement cannot be questioned. The doc tor was himself astonished at the result, but he attempts to explain the mystery aa fol lows : "The dry sand absorbs the redun dant moisture and juice of the rind, pre vents the evaporation of its essential oil and completely precludes the action of the air ; conditions necessary and conducive to the preservation of fruit,' and the prevention The barley crop of Pennsylvania la the largest ever harvested. The bones of a supposed mastodon have been unearthed in Wellsboro, Tioga county, Pa. The cotton factories in and around Augusta, Ga., use $1,500,000 worth or raw cotton per annum. About 120,000 pounds of Ash were caught on one tide in the Great Pond Inlet, Long Branch, recently. Chutahsohtih. a North Carolina In dian chief, died the other day, aged somewhere from 120 years up. A Murfreesboro, Tenn negro is 103 years old. He baa just married his seventh wire, who is The m-ioe at which Gounod has sold tbe'sfdre of hi jjw optfra, "Trlbut de zomora," is said to te ii'u.uw . Mr. James Gordon Bennett paid $60,000 for the Sydney Brooks villa at Newport. The harbor of Melbourne is to be improved at a cost of $6,000,000, so as to admltof ships of any burden coming . right up to the city. , The Railroad Gazette ssys that 1,476 miles of railroad have been made in the United States so far this year, agains: 614 in 1875. Nebraska is filling up and growing. A late census shows a population of 346,400, being an increase of 263,417 since 1870. ; The taxable valuation of property in Providence, R. I., Is $115,681,700, a falling 'off of $1,500,000 from last year. The tax rate Is $14 on $1,000. It is estimated that there were at Saratoga during the summer just end ed 20,000 more visitors than during any summer before. P The valuation of 158 cities and towns in Massachusetts for 1879 is $2W), 835,608, as compared with $306,432,367 last year. Quail Imported from Europe last fall, according to the Watson town (Pa.) Herald, are multiplying rapidly In Northumberland county. During the twenty years from 1857 to 1877, Russia gained in population by the excess of arrivals over departures a total of 036,549 persons. . . In ninety years the number of post offices in the United States has Increas ed from 75 to 40,876. The number has doubled since 1852. Philadelphia registers 193,477 voters. There are in India 1,200,000 Chris tians, of which 1,000,000 are 200,000 are Protestant of all denominations. One of the most wonderful results in speculation is the appreciation of railroad stocks within the year, the ag gregate Increase being over $121, 000,000. Great Britain holds at present bonds not exceeding $130,000 of United States bonds, and anauy, FruMM, and the rest of Europe about $70,000,000. Since 1859 the average duration of life in Paris has increased by la years. The mean annual mortality is but 20 in 1,000, against 27 in 1.000 in New York. The American Iron Works, at Pitts burg, Pa., ae about to erect additional puddling furnaces. They now have seveiity-nve, seventy-two or them are being operated double turn. The Ret". Newman Hall's new church In London cost $320,600, all of which except $22,500 has been paid. The church has 1,225 members, and car ries on much benevolent work. John M, Laird, editor ot the Greensburg Argue, is a veteran among the editors of Pennsylvania. He has been connected with newspapers, In one way or another fer sixty-six years. There are at present only 186 ves sels engaged in whale fishery, as against 688 in 1854. New Bedford. Mass., still leads in the business, only twenty-live of the vessels employed not being from that port. An Illinois farmer astonished Deca tur by going into that place with a train of six wagons, laden with 375 bushels of parley, and drawn by a steam road locomotive of his own in vention John Brieht's son, Mr. William Leatham Bright, who is In thk country, has had his recognizances forfeited at Salford Sessions for neglecting t ap pear against a prisoner arrested for swindling. Wadsworth Rollins is on his way from New York to Chicago on a bicy cle. He left the former place on July 3d, and spent seme tlme at Saratoga. He is not hurrying, as ine trip is ior pleasure and not a task. Down to the close of 1878, the Uni ted States had produced a total of 2,- 145.585, net ton or Bessemer steel runs. In 1863, when the States first imported Bessemer Steel Ralls from this country, they paid ua at the rale or ISO per ton, The excess of receipts of the Pat ent Office for the fiscal year ending June 30th, over expenditures, was $189,405, This amount is the largest In the history of the office, with the excep tion of 1869, when the excess amounted to $200,000. From April to August last over 17,000 cabin passengers left tills coun try for Furope. It would be a low average to estimate that these passen gers spend $1,000 apiece in Furope, and thit meant the expenditure of $17,000, 000 abroad in gold. The St. Louis School Board In re solving to employ none bo colored teachers in the colored schools here after, have provided for llfty-ilx of these teachers. The attendance is said to have Increased, and colored parents are taking greater interest In the schools, Prussia has eighteen prisons for tramps and vagrants. In 1874 there were 4.600 commitments to these insti tutions, but the number has Increased every year, and for 178 was 9,000. Of these 8,000 were men and 1,008 women. They cost the country $650,000, but earned while in durance $275,000. British India, has forty-four cities, counting 50,000 inhabitants and up wards, tne most populous being : Cal cutta, 892,429 ; Bombay, 644.405; Mad ras, 397,552; Lucknow, 284,779; Be nsxes. 175.188: Patna. 158.909; Delhi, The oil wells in Pennsylvania pour 154.417: Agra. 149,008; Allahabad, out altogether ahont 50,000 barren of 143,693; Bangalore, 142,153; UmriUur, oil daily. 1135,813; Cawnpore, 122,770; roona. The increase in the assessed valua- 1 118,880; Ahmedabad, 11,7A; urai, tionof property in Montana in 1877 107,149 ; Bareiliy, iic.wsa; tnore,o, over that of 1876, was $1,254,733,45. , 924 ; and Rangoon, 98,745.
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