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PIITSBOIK)', CHATHAM CO., X. ('., DKCKMBICR 21), 1881.
NO. 10.
CWtam
The Farmer's Forii.
At early dawn, when on tlie leaven
The hoar-frost creeps ami steals llieir
bloom,
When trees stand Miff in kIhoih
Jlenenth tlie smilcus morn,
OM Fanner John salntea hie sheaves
Of ripeneil cirn.
Bright Jewels 'in.. us the. atuliMc Rlcam,
And sparkle frcnn his can-less tread,
And (,'iwnnier, ontsjireatl,
I:i)mIkm Hit- naked tlmrn ;
But farmer Jcilm, to all a-dmini.
Sloven through liiii corn.
The Blmiled hare 1 fureliiui spring,
And down the furrow i-peeils like wind,
Wliile eiip K aves Hpirt In himl ;
Tin-yellow mista ni-lmrtic,
Skim o'er the vale on noi lens wings
Above the enru.
I!nt Farmer John, with ntixinus eye.,
The struggling "Hi aktmf dawn surveys
And. tliiiMi(jh Ihe Hpn ailing liazo
That veil the fare nf morn,
A blood-reil rim he m-eu arise
To greet his corn.
And fear rreet s through ! i trembling veins
Am the lining; sun ilil.-itcH in red,
An ), us eaeli mountain' In ad
Ills eriiiiKon hue adorn,
John ijtiaken to think the ruining rains
May m anij his , in.
Still high o rhca l the waning moon
lieveal.i a patch of clearing blue,
An I hop,, . ouii h peering through
With Luna's welcome horn,
That yet i, favoring sky at noon
Will l.le.in the corn.
'J'ln chang.liil mm, erst sl . ped in lire,
J'.i-hol 1, pours forth rich amber streams
TliHt )!!( u.'li with bright j,ry. gleams
The frunii Iiih (aee had worn.
For hiaivii and he may now eonipiiv
To save Hi" corn.
See, o'er the ( it n goMen mantle's thing :
Fai-t inovi x the mit from out the north.
And, rh the w inds eoiiie forth,
To little shred str-- torn
The great r!oii'l-iii.n-i s that o erhnie;
The gulden corn.
And lo ! ihe wakened crows Hoar high ;
How arrow -BliaiKht they upward fly
o'er bits of dappled ky ;
And leave the earth forlorn j
While chimin of lazy rooks, Moat by
The tempting eorn.
What smiles sleep in the fiirnier's e.n '.
To-day he'll "in" that precious, grain,
For lie who knows the rain,
Such, l'n ling dares not scorn.
Ho, whistling thanks to aim tnd rkii s,
Me leaves the corn.
The Bachelor's Confession.
I Itvo in a French flat. Of course
there aro objections to French flats. H:
there are to most things. I can't afford
a hotel, and I detest u boarding-house.
A bachelor of thirty odd, who has
been at tho mercy of boarding-hou.so
keepers all his day, cs.ii easily under
stand that.
So, when I engaged a suite of rooms
third floor in a French flat edifice and
arranged my household goods therein,
with a line lookout over a green dot of
a park iu front, and the glimmer of u
palisade, far in tho rear above a forest
of shipping, I considered myself well
oil'.
What is my profession ? I haven't
any in particular. I'm an urtist and
draw a little ; daily, iu front of my
easel, I contribute to tho press, and
write when the divine ufllutus seizes me.
I read the law when I feel like it, and
draw a little income from a snug littlo
property left we by an uncle, in India.
Couseiiuentlv 1 was able to decorate
my new quarters very prettily with
Bagdad rugs, old China dragons, black
and gold Japanese screens, and pictures
I had picked up at a bargain.
And when the fire was burning cheer
fully in the grate, the first rainy May
evening, the student lamp shining softly
on the red, carved table, and the waiter
from a neighboring restanrant had
brought in my frugal dinner of a broiled
bird, a mold of current jelly, a slice of
roaht beef, and a raspberry dumpling,
I considered myself pretty c mfortale.
"Upon tho whole," fays I to mjEtf,
"I rather approve of Freuch flats."
I rang the bell. The janitor a
respectful, decent sort of fellow, in a
round jacket and carpet slippers
answered the summons.
"Janitor," said I, "who occupies the
floor above ?"
"Nobody, sir," the man answered.
"Last party moved out yesterday. New
party moves in to morrow."
"A large family V said 'I, rather du
biously. "Eless yonr heart, sir," said the man,
"no family at all single lady, sir 1"
At this I congratulated myself moro
and more.
"I shall have prospect of a little
peace now, I think," said I ; and I ate
my dinner in a fool's paradise of hap
piness. The single lady moved in ou the
morrow. She must have moved in when
I was downtown, selecting some new
mill -boards and color tubes for the
sammer sketches that I intended to
make ; for when I returned, fondly
expecting once more to enter into my
kingdom of peace and perenity, every
thing was changed.
There waa a bangirjg and pounding
overhead, a thumping and hammering
s aound as if soinoistddle-agrd giant
ess, in hob-MileJ ihoe, was enjoying
I HO tit for the
janitor in a rage.
"Is thehons' coining down?'' said I.
"It's the new tenanta-movin' in, i-ir,"
said he, apologetically.
"Does her furniture consist intirely
of Herring's safes and square pianos ?''
said I.
"There is two pianos, sir," said he.
"She's musical."
"Tho deuce sho if"," roared I. "Two
pian si And does she play on 'em both ?"
"Don't know, sir, I'm sure," said the
man, with a distressed expression of
countenance.
I endured tho noiso until midnight,
and then I sent np the janitor's wife.
"Tho third flour's compliments to the
fourth floor, nnd would like to know if
this sort of thing is to go on all night.'
Down came the woman again.
"Fourth floor's compliment to the
third floor, and wishes to know if he
expects peoplo lo get settled without a
noiso."
The next day the piano only one,
however, commenced. I wasela'oorating
a skeleton for a scientific essay, and it
disturbed mo seriously. I endured it as
long as I poi-sibly could, and then I had
recourse ouce more to tho janitor's wife.
"Third floor's compliments to the
fourth floor, and will feel obliged if
she will favor mo with a little peace and
quietness long enough to do some
necessary writing."
There was no reply, and the music
ceased abruptly. But that vening,
when I was beginning to solace myself
with a little violin practice in the twi
light, tap, tap, tap, came the janitor's
wife at my door.
"Fourth floor's compliments to tho
third floor, nud will fee! obliged if he
will favor her with a little peace and
quietness, long enough to wiite a let
ter." '
How I hatod that woman ! So wo
lived for a month, exchanging constant
missiles of warfare. I could cheerfully
Iihvo given up that miserablo French
flat and gono back to boarding, only un
luckily I had engaged it for tho year.
Tho fourth floor elocutionized, and had
friends to select private readings, whose
voices were deeper thau Hamlet's and
more sonorous than that of Charlotte
Cushman. Hlio was charitable and had
classes of heavy booted girls twico a
week, to sing hymns and lewu to
sew. A single lady, indeed 1 If
sho had bee i a quadruple lady she
could not have made more noise, nor
enjoyed tho making of it. more.
At tho close of the month, however,
an incident happened which turned tlie
current of my whole life. I went on a
picnic. I don't often go to anythiugof
that kind ; but this was an especially
select nffair gotten up by tuy frieud I
Harold Webster. I went, and theie I
met Barbara Willis, and fell straight
way in love with her. She wasn't
exactly young, but neither am 1 and to
i my taste a full-blown mhl in sweeter
than a bud, wherever you find it grow
ing. She was dark-eyed, with full
cherry lips, satin-brown hair, and a
complexion as fresh as roses and iory.
We talked our ideas coincided exactly.
It seemed as if our souls were two looking-glasses,
to mirror each other's.
" Miss Willis," cried I, " why is it
that we have never mot before ? I feel
jMilw were olll 0,J friends "
As I spoke I gently pressed her hand,
and she smilod back unutterable things.
I went to my friend Webster, who was
making up quadrilles on tho upper
deck. We wero accompanied by an
excellent brass-band.
"O Harold!" exclaimed I, "lean
never thank you enough for introduc
ing mo to that angel !"
" Do you mean Barbara Willis ?"
said he. " Well, I do think she is
rather a fine girl." iT-'-
We grew confidential as we sat
together on the promenade dec and
watched the moonlight ripple over the
surface of the tides.
" A bachelor's life is but half a life,
Miss Willis," said I.
"I can readily imagine, that," she
said, softly.
"I live in a flat," confessed I.
" Do yon," eaid Barbara, (the sweet
old English name was just like her.)
" Why, how strange ! So do 1 1"
!sn't it dreadful 1" said I.
"Horrid 1" said she, closing her lips
as though she meant it.
"And there's a female dragon occu
pies the floor above me and torments
me out of my life 1"
"Well, if this isn't a remarkable coin
cidence," replied Barbara. "There's a
detestable old crab of a bachelor under
me, who takes all the pleasure, out of
my existence I"
"Should two lives be thus blighted ?"
said I.
"I I don't thiuk so," replied Bar
bara, looking intently at the bouquet of
pansies she held in her hand.
It was past midnight when the boat
landed. Harold Webster came up.
"I promised to see you home, Miss
Willis." aid he, rabbiug his hands
briskly.
"You need not trouble yourself,
herself in a promenade,
Webs cr,' siid I. "I shall bo most
happy."
"I culled a hack, helped tho divine
Barbara in, feeling more and moro as if
I were walking in cloud-land.
"Where shall I drive to?" said the
man.
"No. (!!) Itaveniil street," said i-he,
"fourth floor."
"What!" cried I "not the Fernan
dine flats?"
"Exactly," said she.
"Why, that's where I live."
"Arj you the third floor?" sho cried
out, breathless.
"Are yon the fourth?'' I counter
questioned. "lint you're not a crab at all I"
"Nor are yon a dragon. On the con
trary -"
lint what matters it what was said.
Things were altered from tho very be
ginning. I took my violin up stair the
next day, and helped ruy divine Bar
barn out with a sonata of Beethoven's.
I suggested a new education theory for
the hob-nailed classes. I listened en
chunted to her recitation of Tennyson's
Brook ; and at the end of the quarter
we are to bo married Barbara and I.
The American Kasle.
There are several varieties of eagles in
the United States, but not all that aro
commonly called by different names aro
entitled to tho eeparate distinction. TLe
largest is Audubon's "Bird of Washing
ton" or Washington Eagle, a hugo bird
that has apparently been seen by few
persons but. the great nntnralist him
self, and which inhabits the region of
the (ireat Likes and tho Upper Missis
sippi. Its spread of wings is over ten
fett. It rarely conies to Now England ;
but Dr. Wood, tho Connecticut orni
thologist, in Lin "Birds of Connecticut,"
describes one that was caught in a steel-
trap, in tho East Windsor meadows, just
after a Connecticut river freshet had
left thousands cf dead fish on lund. On
these he was feasting, in company with
two "Bald Jvigles," whom he greatly
surpassed in size. Ho was killed, as
was supposed, after being caught, by a
blow on the head with a club; but he
recovered on being thrown npon the
grass, aud flew away. He was nearly
four feet long, and hi spread of wings
was ten feet. Tho "national bird" of
our country is tho fo-called (but i ni
pt opcrly sc-called) Bald Eagle a bird
whose head is as well supplied, propor
tionately, with feathers ns any part of
his body ; but on tho hea l tlu e are
white, while th- rest of the bird, except
the neck and tail, is quite dark. The
female (who is always the largest, in
birds of prey), often measures tlireo feet
four inches iu length, with a stretch of
wings between feven and eight, feet.
It is incorrectly described in our cyclo
pn lias lis the "largest ot the fishing or
sea eaylcs." T say nothing of Audu
bon's great bird, there is in Greenland
Uud iu some parts of Europe) a sea
eagle a little larger th in the bald spe
cie. The bald eagle ( not uncommon
here i builds on clilt'.H and great trees a
nest of coarse sticks, which is used by
tho same pair, if undisturbed, for very
many years (they will live to tho ago of
120 or ltd years); and in this latitude
they lay their eggs ufter tho middle of
January, nnd hatch out about tho mid
dlccf February. The diversity of color
between the young aud tho adults occa
sions mistakes in naming them, and
leads to the idea that they aro "sea
eagles," "black eagles," "gray eagles,"
etc. Doctor Franklin obj eted to the
adoptiou of tho eagle as our national
bird, because of its predatory habits,
and suggested the turkey instead. The
golden eagle (which may be tho kind
that was shot noar Kiverton, and if so,
it is a rare and valuable bird for orni
thologists! is seldom seen in Connecti
cut ; but the Timfs has published ac
counts of the shooting of three of them
during tho last thirty years in this state.
It is a magnificent bird, belonging in
Europe as well as :ho United States ;
is about as large as the bald eagle, and
derives its namo from the golden-red
feathers on its head and neck the rest
of its plumage is a rich, dark brown.
It lives about the Great Lakes, the
Upper Mississipi, and to a less extent
among the White and Green Mountains
of New Hampshire and Vermont. There
are about seventy species of eagles ;and
even of those in America we cannot
give all the names and varieties. A dark
eagle, not quite so large as the bald, is
common in Connecticut. One ferocious
kind, found in Mexico and on the Isth
mus, is tho harpy eagle. The osprey is
improperly classed among tho true
eagles.
Between tho Clipper Mills and
Stuart's I'oint, iu Sonoma county, ( ali
fornia, is an actual road bed in the tree
tops. At this point the road crosses a
deep ravine, and trees are sawod ofT on
a level and the timber and ties laid on
the stumps. In the center of the ravine
mentioned two huge redwood trees,
standing side by side, form a substan
tial support.and they are cut off seventy
five feet above ground, and cars loaded
with heavy saw-logs pass over them with
as much Security as if it were framed in
tna most icientiQo maimer,
AN ANATOMIC ll VOl! It.
X "1 III W Iiii ( nil I nliinur Kterv .1 ilnl in
Ills ltnil.
The announcement that Mr. diaries
H. Warren, the celebrated con'ort innit,
would give an exhibition before the
students at tho Erie street Medical
college, fouud a Ht n!t reporter iu their
amphitheater at the appointed hour.
The affair was certainly a marvelous
exhibition of mnsculur uetivity and
change. Mr. Warren is a surgical,
physiological and anatomical phenome
non. The display which he made of
dislocations and displacements of in
ternal organs suggested continually tho
question, is hi) human?
Mr. Warren is, in his line, undoubt
edly lLo greatest wonder ever brought
boforo tho medical profession. The
fact that Dr. Hamilton has devoted
several pages to his case in his ' New
Surgery" is ample guarantee that his
contortions aro really phenomenal and
worthy the consideration of medical
science. 'Joneertiing him, Dr. Hamil
ton says :
"I thiuk it may be safely said that, if
Mr. Warren docs not dislocate his hips,
then uono of those seven or eight cases
hitherto reported, and referred to by
me in my Treatise on Fractures mid
Dislocati.ns, were veritable disloca
tions. No case has yet, so far as I know,
been verified by ai autopsy. And it is
to bo hoped that, iu the interest ef
science, Mr. Waireu will leave a re
quest tha tion Lis death a cmeftil dis
section of Lis hip-joints (hall bo made
by competent persons."
Dr. Agnew, a surgeon of scarcely h ss
reputation, says : "I have never seen an
individual who presented such a re
markable symmetrical development of
tho mnsculur syst in."
Nearly all of the other eminent
physicians i.ud surgeons of the ape !
seen hini, and unite in pronouncii
tho most wonderful muscular spec.,
on record.
His exhibition was a most remarkable
one, notwithstanding that he p-ofessed
himself hampered by atempnrniyattiick
of rheumatism. He begun by displaying
a dislocation of the thumb, which was
perfect. Tho students were permitted
to examine with the sense or touch this
peculiar phenomenon. The subject then
exhibited a dislocation of the wrist,
equally remarkable. Next, he produced
by muscular contraction u partial sub
glenoid didoeatiou of both shoulders,
which Dr. Kitchen pronounced a
most remarkable feat. Thin whs fal
lowed by a dislocation of the scapula i
upward, und a partial di.-nipli..n of the I
tarsal bones. j
But th" most remarkable feat, that ,
which brings the greatest coiistei nation j
to the medical profession, was a com- j
plete luxation of both hips upward und i
backward. This accouiplishm-nt, which I
has been ncide tho stlbji et of Must care-
fill i-tudy by Dr. Hamilton was com
mented upon by Dr. Kttcheu at some j
length.
Mr. Warren ulso twisted his ankles as
if his feet hung upon a swivel, and pro
duced a biibluxaiion of the lower jaw.
Another performance of his was the
withdrawal of tho viscera from the ab
domen and forcing of them into the
chest. This feat he performed with
alternate efforts, producing an effect so
unnatural as to call forlh (he most en
thuiastic applause from the students.
Mr. Warren concluded his perform
ance by wiggling hi.s ears and then per
forming a series of gyrations und coi.
tortions.whieh are simply indescribable.
During all tho exhibition the display of
muscles and surface-markings of the
body was most instructive; to those in
terested in tho study of anatomy. The
anomoly of Mr. Warren's case is the :
fact that ho is able to produce by mus- j
cnlar action a voluntary dislocation of j
nearly every joint in the body.
Mr. Warren is now traveling and ex- j
hibiting his physical versatility to the j
medical profession at the leading nied- i
ical colleges in the land. He has been
in former years connected with different
organisations as an athlete, but now de
votes all his time to the cause of medi
cal science. ( In-'Unul limit,
A Scene of fait) -Like Splendor,
Tho Oaier-Animergau is known to
many, but few may have felt tempted
to follow the river Ammer three miles
up and to enter the broad and greeu
Graswaagthal, which, rising gradually,
stretches off iu a southwesterly direction
toward the mountain peaks of the Tyrol.
And yet this portion of the Bavarian
highlands conceals strange things, and
an account of the Liudeuhof sounds as
an echo from the "Arabian Nights."
There stands a palace, an imitation of
the one at Versailles. Gigantic caryatides
support the projecting parts of the
edifice. Gilt balcouies and niches rich
with marble statues enliven its front,
and allegorical figures of -11 kinds the
seasons, the four parts of tho world,
yes, Louis Oiiator.-s himself are dis
tributed iu the arbors and shrubberies
all around. The entrance is copied
from the beautiful porch of tho cathe
dral at Kheiois. The interior of the
chateau is furniscd from Paris, in the
gorgeous style of tho lieuaissance,
Cjstly goblins deck the walls, tm ruber
les agates ornament tho stoves, em
broideries of rare and expensive kind
mt el the eye everywhere, and the bed
on which the king of Bavaria sleeps is
of so magnificent a construction, the
gold embroidery on the red velvet
curtains so elaborate, that 8-'IT",0(M) ate
said to have been spent on this article
of furniture alone.
But all the splendor sinks into insig
nificance before the marvels in the jmrk.
Memories of ancient Greece rise np
before ns as we behold on tho hillside
a temple of Venus and in it a beautiful
statue of the goddess, in the purest
marble of Carrara. hi i d it a tunnel
of great extent leads us into tho bowels
of the mountain. Here all tho waters
descending from the Klamnspitz and
the Heanenkopf have been caught np
mid gathered into un artificial subter
ranean lake, already the subject of
legendary lore. The cavern is coated
on the inside with tufacoous limestone
and is known by the namo of the Blue
Grotto, owing to the blue resplendence
of th water in it in former days. But
now the resemblance to Capri and its
cave have vanished. The royalty in
habiting this fairy place causes the cave
to bo lit up by day and by night with
artificial (lames, protected by globes or
plates of gilt glass, and thus it is on
waves of liquid gold that glides along the
swan shaped gondola and its solitiuy
oeenpant, girt may be with Lohengtiu's
armor. An ingenious contrivance,
driven by steam, agitates tho wa
ters of this still cave and produces
tl'i; semblance of a breeze. No
human eye being allowed to giiz
on this stiango boating exorcise,
the life of the loyal hermit was iu no
small danger, some timeiigo, when the
tram engine created a veritable storm,
and the bark was capsize 1. It has been
hinted that the artificial moon which
easts its light on the royal slumberer in
his palace at Munich has a cliunee of
being transported hithor to grace these
snbterraneuu tceues. The cavo is heated
the whole year n und, iu order that the
royal owner may, even on a sudden and
unexpected visit, find tho temperature
to his taste. Tho lake serves to feed
numerous fountains irrigating and
decorating the park, and surrounded
by brilliant flowerbeds. The chilly
iitmoyphero not being propitious for
training flower:', they are reared in
nursery gardens far away in tho plains
und mysteriously planted before day
break by the hands of gardeners who
w ithdraw dm iirg daytime in order not to
break the spell of (he all-pervading
silence. A flight of two hundred marble
steps, fringed with beautiful flowers,
takes us down tho hill to the famous
linden tree which has given its name to
Ihe place. Wo observe afouutaiu, Bind
ing up jets of water to unusual heights,
and finally we eomo onev more upon the
:i t broii z-.' lions holding watch near
t lie gate. K e!ty peaks and mountain
wilds surround the park and prohibit
profane eyes from partaking iu
pleasures, unique in the fullest sense of
the word. Two spots to the Nouth of
the palace still require mention. Bulow
the Dreithor-pitz mountain, on a solitary
Alpine meadow inaccessible to tourists,
untrodden by any common mortal, a
hut has In en built, as described by
li'chard Wagner in his opera "Walkure"
a true Hundingshutto of trunks,
branches aud bark. Above it lies a
hermitage of similar construction, and
in front of it a tiny lake, sides and bottom
laid out with tin to prevent the waters
from escaping through the porous soil.
So lonely is the spot that the chamois
comes there to drink. Less simple in
style is the Moorish pavilion, surnaniod
Morocco, stauding in the midst of dark
tit-s, but resplendent with gold and
jewelry. The most precious ornament
it contains is a large peacock, rich in
emeralds and turquoises, suspended
from the midst of the ceiling-, aud lit up
by magnificent chandeliers, the light of i
w hich is thrown luck from innumerable
mirrors lining the octagon on all sides.
Kiti( Louis, though not so handsome
ns he has been, is still an uncommon
tine-looking man ; he has shown eminent
good-sense in all cases of emergency,
both with regard to the government of
Bavaria and to German politics, and so
long as he continues to do so his coun
trymen will not grumble at his eccentric
fancies, althongli they may justly think
that it is rather expensive in these days
to realize scenes from fairyland without
the aid of a magician's war d.
Weather Prnverlcs.
"A green winter mikes a fat church
yard." " If the grass grows green in
Janiveer, it will grow the worse for it
all the year ; if Janiveer calends he sum
merly gay, it will be winterly weather
till calends of May." "A bushel of
March dust is worth a king's ransom."
"A cold April the barn will fiil."
" April and May are tho keys of the
year." " Look at yonr corn in May, and
you'll com sorrowing away ; look again
in June, and you'll comei singing in
another tune." "The hind bad as lief see
his wife on her bier as that Candlemas
day should be pleasant and clear." "Just
ha'f of yonr wood and half of yonr hay
should be remaining on Caudlemas-daj."
F0U TIIK FAIlt SKX.
News mill P cilf-s fur omen.
Glady, a maiden of n;ne Hummers,
the little daughter of Mr. Francklyu,
who loaned his r jsidence to the sick
Fresident, goes bear-hunting in the
Rocky mountains in boy's clothes, with
her father.
Adelina Patti says that from the
moment her name is announced to ap
pear, she i, from early in tho morning
of the day, so nervous aud agitated
that, when the hour arrives, tstatge fright
has taken possession of her.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who wrote
the "Battle Hymn of the Bepublic" '.1
half an hour of the early dawn, is
known among her friends as having the
"red temperament," en aecotiut of lu r
auburn hair and enthusiastic nature.
Miss Mary Southcrland Clarke, grand
niece of Washington Irving, whom she
is said to resemble, was lately married
in New York to Mr. Johu Wihon, of
Montreal, whoso father was president
of the Hudson Bay Cjmpauy.
Just before her marriage to Moham
med Bey, the Sultan's sister Staela
exhibited her trousseau, which filled
two large halls. Tho dresses were made
on the model of n pattern dress from
Fans, and were of satins and brocades
in gorgeous tints, enriched with gold
and silver embroidery. There was no
lace at all, and no bonnet 4 or hats, but
plenty of fc it hers and flowers nud !
gloves. The lingerie whs all of linn
silk. !
Two women have been arrested wi h !
their husbands in a woods at Vincennes,
France, on a chargo of lighting a duel.
Tho husbands acted ns seconds, and
both women were wounded.
A Paris surgeon received .fj.OOO fur
removing a wart froTi the nose of a
womau who wasn't very good-looking
at best.
The London Wtrl-I finrs that the
"higher education for women" will
result in over-worked gill graduates
who will turn for solace to tho cigar
and cigarette.
A ( on frili rate's Story,
Mr. George Alfred Townsrnd, in a
recent letter to the Ciu - inmli .'iin'i-cr,
relates an interview ho had with an
ex-Confederato soldier, from which we
clip :
This young man finally remarked :
"When 1 wi nt into the war I had almost
one hundred slaves, probably worth
1.10,01X1. I fought just ns hard as I
could to keep that property. I saw
from the time wu fired tho first gun at,
Charleston that if we failed in battle we
were going to get nothing foronr slaves,
and were coinif to lose every one of !
them. 1 fotR'lit i.i tho infantry as a
captain until I was shut iu the hip, and
that lamed mo for life, shortening one
of my legs, us you see, about two
inches But i'. was root, Leg, cr die,
so I wnt into the cavalry with my short
Kg aud fought to the last. When 1
w-ut home at the close of the w ar I had
about 1,0(10 in miles nud dne-bills, nnd
supposed I was going to get a good
start with my lund. Before I hud b.-on
home one day I found that all I owned
in the world, which I could begin life
with, was the old horse on which I sat.
I never collected one cent from my
neighbors. Since the war I nave been
philosophic, aud buy a new book i:w
and then, und try to fi:nl nut what the
world is thinking of. 1 think I w.iuld
like to go up North soiu" time i.ud see
what they look like up there."
This gentleman said that the niot
tcrriblo fighting he ever kuew in his
life was at Spottsylvania Court nonse
during the Wilderness campaign, when
he was at the advanced rebel salient, a
part of which Hancock captured.
"There, for the first time in my life,
I stood ou dead men's bodies and fired.
The Union soldiers had their guns right
over the ramparts, so that we would
push them up by the barrels, and let ;
them shoot over our heads, and "(hen
shoot among t hem. Ir the lull id tlie
battle, with tiie dead stretched all
around them, thetwo sides would banter
each ot'ier, saying, Tfow do you laicals
like that?' etc. We would all have
been captured in thai salient if any body
had dared to stand up to say so, but it
was sure death. One man, who wanted
us to surrender, rose up to shout it, and
ho got more than two hundred balls in
him. Finally, word eume for un to
crawl off in the dark on our hands and
knees, so as to straighten the lines. I
had not crawled but a few yards when I
ran my cheek against a dead man's, so
cold and surprising to me that I paid :
'I'll be blamed if I crawl any more.' So
I started up with every prospect of
being killed in a minute, and managed
to creep off the field."
Mrs. H. Ti. Sibley has received a
letter through the mail, which has been
a remarkably long time in reaching its
destination. It was written by her hus
band when he was in the army, and
bears data Washington, D. C, May 14,
1H'.5, and has the office postmark on it
of the day following. It is plainly
addressed to Charlestown, Mass., and
bas the street and number of the house,
and bears no dead-letter cfliotmark.,
ITEMS OF IXIKHF.sr.
Woman's lights husbands.
Tho Mormon question Will you be
a fraction of my wife, darling?
A single order of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is for 3, 100 new cars,
The deepest insult that c m be given
in Dead wood is to say : "You ain't worth
lynching."
The Baldwin Locomotive Works have
orders sufficient to keep their presi nt
force at work during the w hole of 12.
Magnificent pine fori sts have lately
been discovered ou the upper waters of
the Saskatchewan, and explorers have)
traced them fifty miles up the shoulder
of the liocky mountains.
One of tho allegations made in a
Louiiville wife's bill fordivorco is that
her Lusbtnd, to euro her of jealousy
compelled her to kiss the woman of
whom she was jealous, having brought
the latter to the hoife for the purpose.
The new steel bridge over the I ulo
rado river at Austin, Texar, on tho
International und great Northern Il iil
road, is completed, and tho Missouri
Pacific couch ch and Pullman cars now
cross it.
A black man and white woman ul
Logansjioi i, Ind , aro advertising for it
clergyman or Justice who will many
tin in. The man has money aud deter
mination euough to test the constitu
tionality of the sta'e law against mis
cegenation, but he cannot find any body
qualified to perform the c ret.ioiiv who
will risk the petadty provided by that
law.
An iron rail properly made, it is siid,
will last as lotig as tlio-e . f steel. The
Cincinnati, Hamilton und '.ytoii road
near Dayton Las in use iron rails placed
there thirty-mi" years ago and yet in
good e, unlit i u. They Were made ul
Johnston, Pa., und the order required
that they bh'jul 1 be the best p is.-iblo
to be made. It is safe to say that no
iron rails are made nowadays which
would end uro an equal amount of trailie
for thirty years.
Station indicator; in the cars of fie
Pennsylvania Kiilroal give m ticj to
passengers of the approaching stopping
place. At either end of the car is a neat
cae containing a piece of m'l-liu or
cunvus on rollers, upon which ate
printed iu legible letters nil tho
stations. By a lever on the locomotive
(he engineer on leaving a station,
changes thj indicator so us to show the
next stopping place.
Tlie l iileh of Itacon.
The custom of the llitc'.i of buou at
Duumow is not the least curious among
those which rural parishes presen'. Far
back iu the (ild days when there was a
p.iory ut Duumow, in F.smx, (he mmiks
made a proudse of a flitch of bacon to
any married couple who could t ike o th
that they In I i,c-ei urp 1 d n r re
gretted lh ir nii :i. hel lo i the bn h
clor n:ui:k only intended ( encourage
conjugal l.utuiu'iv, or wh"tl t r they
strictly believed that mat tied f dk.-. te'M T
do live together twelve months wilhotit
discord, we can guess .is be I wctiay.
At anv rate, the succe.-sf ul upplieaut- for
the Hitch were few aLd fat 'neW"eli.
lie p-iui-y wa inppres.Mil at tlie lief-
-iin-it i. -p , bnl the old custom survived,
the title!; In -ii:tr i'iv by the lord of tho
m-iiior. In the !j; l century the ci le
mony v..; ceu.iucted with much pa'a.lo.
The couple appealed a! a court baron, t
jury of unmarried perse:i., heard tho
avertnieiits, und if the results wore Metis
factorv, a verdict was given, to the effect
that the couple had been married ut
least one year, that (hey had lived
mildly aud lovingly together, aud that
they were deserving of the promised
prize.
The verdict being delivered, the lmppy
couple, standing near the ch ireh door,
made a deelaratiou, received the flitch,
and were chaired in procession through
the town. The lords of the manor by
degrees declined to offer the tempting
bonus, and the clergy vtwwed unfavor
ably some of the incidents accompany
ing the proceedings. Twenty or thirty
years ago a few literary men revived
the ceremony at their own expense,
more us a whimsical joke for that one
occasion than as a permanent custom.
From time to time tho local journals
record an observance of the ceremony.
There is reason to believe, however,
that speculative trade is mainly con
cerned here, the flitch being provided
by some tavern interested iu bringiug
together a large assemblage of thirsty
souls.- ( 'Ifiiiilf'm' Ji,uni'il.
A Squirrel hills n Itatllesnake.
A squirrel that had been put into a
glass easo containing a rattlesnake at
the Cincinnati Zoological Garden a few
days since engaged in a battle with the
slimy reptile. Tho snake approached
the squirrel intended for its repast, but
bunnie made a quick rpring, and light
ing on the back of its foe, bit off one of
his rattles. Tho snake retaliated with
a blow that broko tho squirrel's hind
leg. Another spiing, and thn squirrel
caught the snako behind the head, and
with one firm thrust of his shaip white
teeth he decapitated his deadly foe.
Bunnie fell exhausted, but the battle
wai won aud the snake was dead.