North Carolina Newspapers

Ht4 djjhathnm uorL H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AND rROCUIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: M III M II II II II . ADVERTISING. Oi eqoere , om tieertlon. OM square, two tntertlomi, QMWtWTt.cme iiiMith, LM ne eory. oiw yc.tr, oeeopy .slsnioiitlie ne copy, three month". . UN 1.00 VOL. VI. PITTSHOKCr, CHATHAM CO., N. C DECEMBER 27, 1883. NO. 16. snrlrfr4Ti,rtioiiioutll.T ii", tuiiin mil The Long, Long Days. Tho wind has fonud its dream In Kinases deep nnd cool, I ho lilies their still pool, The willow its fair stream; The roan it crown of flower, 1 he leaves their silver ehowers, In thu lung, long day,. Tho hint linn found it. mute, Tlii' hi'O Hs floviir I1 " in, Tin; wil.lwoo I its pitluiini, Tim hrook thu river'! pit1; A ii.l iiwn mi I ilriwy tduop 'I'lu-ir I'liiiniu d wiilehi's Uh p, O'er tin- Iii ik, loin iluyi. Tin' srii Iiiih found its lest, The river its while Biuls, 'I hi! hills tlu'ir purpUi voils, Thu hi iirl its hk'T q-ii'st. And luiw lilci Mainline still, His in iil.fr wish nor Kill, In thu lorjj, long; ilnys. .c'liirl;(iit an. I eiim-.pt inn-t, Ah iv I lit' clitvimt u; A wers, Time dure not I'ol his hours, 'lliisiiUni-s it .so sweet, lillt M.la tlll'lll hush unU wiiit, For to ir 1 1 itlcig Pule, In tin- lonj;, luiii! dny ! Sutjn llif.liy, ii Tht t'onli'itnt. A Thrilling Adventure. In tlio your 1ST5 I accepted an invi tation to visit the Xsilghorry Hill mul tln western fthants. We hail very line sport of a ileicription quite new to me, hut my companions showed incip ient signs of fever anil hurried hack to !oty. shooting alone is stupid .work afliT youth's enthusiasm has worn, off, anil 1 was thinking of wending my way hark, ton, when on arriving at I'nlliknl tho Kunlers tohl mo they ha I lost several turn lately from man-eating tiger. I instantly rrinpmbprod my youthful adventures. It is trite, many a royal tiger, panther, bthe nii'tli. iaurus, hear an 1 buffalo, to say nothing ui ili'. r. cic., h i 1 fallen hy my hainl in the ii.ti rval : for I ha I been a prr.siVeii! aii.l fortunate shikaris; hut 1 ha'l never for 'utti'ii l!n- panther of Neennul, tin; the abominable hath giv en me hy ono of them, whie'.i dis charged a im-.tl of human Mesh into my fare as I plunged my knife into ! his heart. I had killed many lit ers, hut had run no grea' risk from tlieiii, for I had generally lieen mount ril on an elephant ; now 1 dcloruihiod to follow them up (in foot to the death. The villagers said they thought there , were a maple of them, a male and fe- i male; and that they never went very : far. killing ono or two people every three or four day-'. 1 pitelu d toy tent near the village and organized a gang ; ' these men are fatuous trackers, hut no rain had fallen for many weeks, and j the whereabouts of the felines could ; not be discovered hy their trail : they I were not hoard of until some one win ! missing. Their deprcdat ions extended , for miles around, and the wailing of a family bereft of its support was only too frequent. I went from place to place, sometimes only accompanied by . one shik.trie, f'hiniah, who had hern 1 with me some years, or with beaters, 1 trying to drive out these pests; but for i three weeks 1 ha I n luck ; they wore ' never at home. At last tho brutes took to killing my men, and I lost two j out of my gang. I begged of the rel- i atives to allow mp to sit over tho re- ' mains, hut they would not , removing ' the bodies and burning them. True, I j had never been partial to such propped- i ings as night shooting, and 1 was not J so keen as 1 had been many years be- j fore; still, 1 had the dogged disposi tion of a bull-dog, and did not like to be beaten, yet what whs I to do? Too- j pie were constantly killed, and I could get no sight of their slayers. I had one week left ; I wrote to have hear- i ers laid from Coiinbatoro to the nearest point to the Anamulhcs on a certain day, and despairing of ridding the -onntry of these animals, I was march ing along silently, accompanied by my two shikaries, when I heard what I knew to be a death shriek. 1 hastene I, almost ran. toward tho sound, little hei ding what noise 1 made as I tore through the jungle, followed by my sat ellite; but I might have known, had I given it a thought, that I should frighten the slayer away. Thero lay a wood-cutter, with his skull fractured by a single blow ; he had been also seize I by the neck, whence the blood poured in torrents ; but the man was stone dead. Here was my opportunity ; the man would not bo missed before it was too late to search for him, so as I had a little food with me, I determined t sit over the remains. The moon was at its brightest ; I would not al low the body to be touched; -it lay partially hidden by some fallen bant. In km; so, telling my men to prepare a inachan on the nearest tree, about ten yards off, 1 examined the ground. There was a ravine close by. up which the monster had crept and pounced up on his victim ; he would probably re turn that way. I saw but the mark of one tiger, while my men declared they hunted in couples; they (the men) were ulso very reluctant to sit over tho IkhIv, being superstitious thai thty w ould ever be bunted afterward, but 1 knew If I did not avail myself of thl9 chance I should get no other ; bo I was firm, and told them remain they must. We erected the machan as noiselessly as possible. Tigers are often driven off by the nolsi men make while pre paring a cache with which to hlay them. My men urged tho danger we run of gettlnir jungle fever by Bleeping out at night. I merely tul 1 them to hold their tongues and to mount, and if I heard either of them utter a sound or make the least noise 1 would fasten him down to tho corpse. The men knew I did nut threaten and not per forin, so, unwilling us they were, per force they had to obey in silenee. Wo arranged bushes to hide our plaeo of concealment ; wo had no be Id ng, no pillows, and tho bamboos which com posed the iloor of our platform were not very even or smooth, therefore imt pleasant, to sit on for some ten or twelve hours, during which we could j tier n rloiid, so I waited patiently until niove neither hand nor foot. it shone again, and then aiming a As the moon arose tho trees behind i wi ll as 1 could for the shoulder, 1 lired us east their shadows over the, place both barrels, and tho tigress, for such where tho poor wood-cutter was lying, j she proved, rolled over an I over, growl Time passed. It must have been about ing and roaring, and at last crawled ten, and I was dozing, when my arm : into tho rux in, whence we could le ar was grasped by Chiniah. Looking 1 her until close upon daylight, when it round, I found his teeth chattering and ; ceased ; nnd, with it, I knew either his face its pale as a corpse, while the j that she had crawled away or died, other man, with his hands over his j Waiting until full daylight, wo de face, sat trembling. From these I : scended from our perch. We lirst looked toward where Chiniah's lmrri- sought the tigress. .'She lay dead. We lied ga'.e pointed to something nn- then examined the three bodies, which earthly. 1 kno.v tho fellow was afraid of nothing living, but of the unseen spirits he had a dreal. I, too, was j taken aback. The ghastly body of the several hours, when we tried tounrav ' wood-cutter was slowly moving to and el the coils from tho tiger's body they fro; the arms and legs occasionally : resisted so stoutly that 1 hal to send i lifted up, while no agent was visible, i to the village tor assistance With the It made my blood run cold, and I felt ' aid of over twenty men, an I by cut ; a sensation as if cold water was being ' ting open the jaws, we released tht : poured slowly down my back along the : body of the wood-cutter and stretched , spine. I seldom touch spirits, but take j out the ho ly of the python ; it mens some with me in case of accidents or ! tired "Jo 1-2 feet long. The tiger had need. 1 took a nip myself and gave j bitten clean through tho vertebr.e jut the two natives a strong dose each, j behind the junction of ihe heal and , Mill the horrible cortortions continued, and I knew nut what to make of them, pored Chiniah, "how wrong it was to sit iii over the body of a Ilin loo? We shotil I have carried him to the village an 1 had him burned ; but now we are all dea 1 men ; ho will arise presently and kill us." "Hold your tongue, you fool," I re plied ; "the dead conio not to life again in this world ; thero is some trick be. ing played upon us." "Who would venture into these jun gles at this time of night with those cursed man-eaters about? " said Chin iah. "I don't know ; but keep quiet." Hero a jackal came along the ravine nnd out into the open, and approached the corpse ; but getting within a few yards, put his tail between .his legs, and, with a frightened cry of the Thecal, ran for his life. "Will you believe me now, Sahib?" said Chiniah. I was getting nervous, It is a hor rid sight to seo a body full of life only a few hours before, lying out iu the moonlight, in its last sleep, and to know that it met its death by the fell stroke of a tiger, lint the body moved b.e kw i:' 1; it f .1 b'l'ore hid Ion bo came exp-vse I ; lirst one eye opened, then tho other, closing and opening in a most diabolical way. There was not a sound, and I must own 1 should have been glad to have beon in bed in my tent, and never to have seen such a sight; but, thank goodii-vs our sus pense was not to last much l inger. My two followers had succumbed I believe they had fainted. Watching intently, 1 saw glide across the chest of the dead the head of an immense rock snake. It was wider than a large plate across, and its tongue was licking ket town about ten miles from Cam the corpse all over. The movement of ; bridge. On the morning after my ar tful limbs an I t he i pening and shutting ; rival 1 perceived that something un of the eye; w, to fully explained. My : usual was going on outside the house, feeling of horror disappeared, and I j and on making inquiry I was told that watched the boast's every movement, j a calf six weeks old, whielHiad be Iigging my penknife into Chiniah, 1 longed to my friend, but had been sold made him almost spring off the ma- i the previous afternoon and carried chau. After staring like a mad man away in a cart to a farmhouse some for awile he perceived the python, and live miles distant, had come back home w.is, if possiblo iu a greater panic. , to its mother. Now, had the calf "Ho is thirty cubits long," he uttered, "and vv ill swallow the wood-cutter first and us afterward." 1 gave a silent laugh, and pointed to the rilles. The movements of the snake were inaudi ble, but we could soo the disgusting process of covering tne body with sa liva, and after fully two hours, he opened his horrid jaws and began to swallow the body head foremost. Now a python's teeth are so arranged that I once anything enters his mouth it can ' not be ejected again. Cradually the head and neck disappeared, then the shoulders and up to tho waist, when there wasatorrilic roar. A tiger sprang from a cover rigid on to the python, seizing him by the ha k of the neck. 1 have no doubt that death was in stanteous, as far as the snake was con- j cemed, but his huge body, in circtim- lertnce equaling a man s. ami nearly thirty feet long, in convulsive move-1 mcnts, wound round the tiger, and we could hear the bones being crushed ono after tho other. The roar the tiger gave at the lirst squeeze was appalling; but In a few moments the roars turned into means, tho moans Into a gurgling sound, and gradually they, too, ceased, while tho contortions of the snake con tinued for over an hour. 1 never smv 'icli a frightful sight. What U man or his sin iigth inmpared to that ot either of the hearts lying ilea I before us? We were speech less with horror and surprise at the denouement, and at the amazing strength of n moribund snake. All signs of life ceased, and wo had d.v.cl lor awhile, when wt were awakened by the nolsmif tearing of llcsh. Peeping over our leafy panoply, there was a tier, or tigress, making a meal olT either the snake, its own kind or thu dead man. The moon was un- ! presented much the appearance of La- I ocoon iii the embrace of the serpents, Although life had been extinct for body. The tiger, one of the largest I j over saw, as he measured ID fwet : beaten into a jelly ; his i crushed to powder. The cutter was cremated the noon; the two tigers and snake were ..os,,,,,, in ineir shins, aim i never afterward sal up at night over any ki'l-nor do I wish ever to do so again. ! JT!rr ! The "llomliiff" Faculty. I must say that I much doubt whether the faculty which enables dogs and other animals to find their way homo is rightly called intelligence, although intelligence, no doubt, fro qupntly has some sharp in the result. Human beings are much more lutein- ! gent than dogs, and yet how few of j them, if placed unexpectedly in the same circumstances as poor "Jacob" that is, j carried off in tho dark along streets I and rea ls aUoetle r unknow n to tiu in, I to it phi, e mile. away, where they had j never been before, and to the position i and bearings of which they had not ! the very lightest c'tie -how few of them, 1 say, would within a reasonable time (in 1 their way back again, at least if they trusted to their intelligence ah-n", and did not ask questions or con sult maps. Cats, on the other hand, are rightly regarded as loss intelligent than dogs, and yet they en;ov the rep utation of being more skilful in finding their home again. A calf, too, is com monly supposed to be a type rather of stup'dity than intelligence, and yet I know of one install) e w hich seems to show that this "homing" faculty is, or may be, at least as strong in a calf as iu the most intelligent of do.;s. Some fifteen wars ago I was stavun at a friend's house at Linton, a small mar- come back along the mail by which the j ask admittance. There were some lif cart had conveyed it to its new home, ; teen children in tho room, which was much surprise would, no doubt, have furnished with long, plain tables, been felt at such a signal instance of There appeared to be no check upon sagacity in so young an animal; still, j the children, who were moving about there would not have been anything : and conversing with each other. The particularly extraordinary in the mat ter. I'.ut thecal!' had not followed the road, which was circuitous, in conse quence of the hilly character of the country. A boy hail seen it start off from the farm, and had followed it the whole of the way, vainly attempting I to catch it, and so the route it had taken was known. It hail gone at a quick p.V' e in the most direct line pos sible froi.i its new home to its old one, and in doing so it had climbed a hill and a-se, through a wood which crowned the summit of that hill. Here, surely, the facitltv which miided me ail was not luielligeueo alone. j luwk.n Tinu. ' A CHINESE THEATEIt. Vlalltoone In San tiaiiclsro. Arter the l'erforiiiaee.-An Oriental Danqnel. Describing a visit to the Chinese quarters of Sun Frandsco, a corre spondent says: In the rounds of regular night-seeing all strangers go to the (irand Theater, or plavbou ,i. ,,f ihe "lionu ,'iiai Yuen," whir- melodrama and tragedy alterna'clv eviio the audience to hhoiit.t. of laughter ami rounds of ap plause. The prrl'oi aiaiiee begins at 5 o'clock in the evening and lasts until midnight, and the historical plays often run for a week In foro the one j (lrm)m ia ,.,,,,,.,,, The actors are I all broiiglii o('f '.mm d - ;.'! t country, ! at salaries ranging from SJnnoto $i'000 j n year. At. time troops of jugglers and acrobats have come over for short er engagements, and occasionally a famous singer or musician. The drama goes on with tine disregard to unities, and the scenic aecessori 'sare so meager that much is left to the imagination. Women novwr appear on the Chinese stage, and their parts are taken by gifted n. en, who mince around tho stage in tho little foot hop and talk a piping falsetto. Tho costumes aro often of great richness and splendor, and some of the robes of superb bro cades and of satins st.lf with needle work and gold threail, are worthy of plao s in an art museum. The eat' tn visitors go daft over the Chinese i fhPil,t,r ., w.,nt t sUUy, but to the iin Franciscan it is the hvight of iiiarytrdom to endure the constant accompaniment of the gong, the wooden drum and the one-stringed fiddle, on which the irchestra play a wailing sort of tunc that half-way io-semble-i "Old Tom Tuc'.or" and "There is a Happy Land." After tho theater conies the Hung For Low Hestaurant, where the plebeians sit below stairs and the gentry ascend two or three tiers of kitchens to the upper iloor, where 1 i they are seatod in gilded alcoves and - ! served with cttiis of wonderful tea. ac- . I ' J ..... i...,v bones were . ,.;.,.,, ,m,i lyi.1(!0 , (jreat ban poor wood- j tW. at the Hang For Low Same after- I ,v IU .,.U nn.l t.lm -;..!. io,.r,.eoit j ' (lf Chinatown at costs ranging from' ; $,-,, 4,0,, invitations on vermilion ,,.,,.,. ,,, Konl 01lt ,,.1VS i,t-r..r ., whon tho vinh, , 'mu ass,.m,lo i at. the round table on the appointed (veiling incense sticks are hurtling, tho board is decked and a native orchestra is squeaking and hammering away in an alcove. The Chinese are an ab stemious race, and the table, when sot for ono of theso great banquets, re- sembles a dolls tea pa:ty,all the viands 1 i visible at the first curse being just . j about enough for a s hooi boy's lundi. j i A saucer of ginger, a saucer of cocoa- j i nut slices, a pear cut into many sec- lions and readv to fall at.art at a tan. a i '.li.-li of ly: hoe nuts and some queer bis cuits filled with chopped meat and lecorated exteriorly with parsley l 'aves, roiiorallv uccum the center of the table. A tea-cup an i little thimble of a linu spoon, and n.ss for holding I the fiery rico brandy, are set j before each guest, and al ter the courses if abalone soup, bird's nests and un- ' speakable f.shos and fowl, the enter tainment winds up with a whiff of .ipiuin all round in any of the little a'.c ,ves that open from the dining hall. Chinatown abounds in dozen of odd characters and celebrities; and liictu- resqiieness and drea Iful smells mark ! every foot of this older part of the city that they have converted into a genuine bit of Hung Kong. While opium joints and gambling dens are strictly against the law, the special i policpnipn will pilot people around to them and treat them to sights that surpass the evils and degradation of any great city. A Japanese Kclioolhouso. Heside, tie.! clear, crystal waters of a running stream and surrounded with lilies, savs a correspondent, writing from Japan, we n it iced on our way up Tuji-Yaina. the Japanese sand moun tain, w hat we thought to be a school- house and our curiosity prompted us to master was teaching the smaller ones the characters of the written language by writing them on a blackboard and requiring them to repeat the sounds indicated by them. Some were engag -eil in writing upon their slates, others in arithmetical calculatituis and others in reading or committing to memory from text books. There seemed to be an entire freedom from restraint, and we wcr' surprised at the happy and i lontented manner in which they pur ktied their studies. P.right and intolli -gent little fellows they looked, and Irom what we have seen of the vouth f Japan we are conv inced there is mudl t0 be expected from them. AMONG THE OLD MODELS. Home of the Curious ContrlTanees that iOarly luvrntors Patented. The model room of the Patent Office is the most bewildering place of all those which the sight-seers visit In Washington. Tho National IttjnMi can says for those people who have a taste for machinery thero i'aseiuatiop there for a lifiMiuie. F.vcn lor timso who know and care nothing for wheels, levers, screws, pulleys, and their com blnaiions, there is a picture suggested by cadi intricate contrivance of tho maker, studying, planning, drawing over his work, sometimes hopeful, sometimes despairing, occasionally losing . ight of the diiliculties in his way while thinking of the wealth suc cess will bring him. Almost any well known instrument or machine in uro to-day which is at all complicated is not an invention, but an army of inventions. a;:d the history of it is written in the cases which con tain the models in thu patent ofilee. That of the cotton loom or the steam engine may be moro thrilling for the iiii-chanioian, but the story of the sew ing mil' hill" is easiest to read for ordinary people. The, models of Row ing machines and their parts are num bered by the thousands. The oldest, label which appears upon any of them is dated February 21, lS-t'J. The in scription is I', .lames lireenough. Wa- hiagtoii, I). C, machine for sewing straight seams." The instrument itself looks like a small section of eh vated railway, and it turns with a hand crank. It does not appear how it could ever sow a "seem." The next on-' was patented Oeeeuibor 2T, 181?, by (i. W. Corliss, who rails it on tha label a "sowing engine." it is nn enormous thing, and in some respects bears a suggestion of the Corliss engine which ran the machinery at tho Cen tennial Inhibition. There is also n suggestion of the much later machine for making barbel wire fencing. It looks as if it was intended to run by horse pow er. There are quite a nutn btr of those old models, which bear no resemblance to each other or to the modern sewing machine. Xothing in the shape of the machin-' used lo ,ln.v ''"ppears until ten .or twelve years later, when Howe and Singer found their gold mine. Then men began to invent all kinds of sewing machines nnd attachments more and more every year but nearly all of them are variations of the modern machine. With them came the iib a'f putting on lucks and ilotinces and many seams. With them also lame the sewing machine agent and the instalment I'1""- The queere-t and apparently the most useless model in the sowing machine collection is for the h ng bar foi llls ,!' "'' h!1 ""iog machines. This one is made in the f,r"' animal coucli.mt. I he am- inal may be a cat; it looks very like a squirrel, and something like a rabbit. A long, ilat tail, curled along its back, appears to have been used for a handle. "lu' forepaw is uplifted a. i:' about to strike something. Through this Hie noodle works. There are but ono or tw" models in the building of a date earlier than ISii.i and but few older than 1 Probably the earliest patent in this country was that granted by the com monwealth of Massachusetts to Samuel Wiuslow, who had invented a method of manufacturing salt. "None are to tllis nrtiele." said the patent, except in a manner different from his. provided he set up his works within a year." As early as 177d John shipman ap- I'hed f.ir a patent on mills to be run by the ebb and How ol the tale, and got a monopoly for forty years for running his tide mills anywhere in the town of Saybrook. since then the sanio thing has been many times unsuccessfully tried. Ilenjamin Iearborn, of New Hamp shire, was a famous inventor 100 years ago, and in 177 obtained patents for printing press, balances or scales, and a hand lire engine. Origin of the Krcliiiing Chair. Mr. Henry Havard. in his recently published work, "L'Art dans le Sa lon," attributes the invention of tho reclining chair to a curious piece of etiquette scrupulously observed in France during the period of the old French monarchy. Whenever the king visited an invalid whose illness was of such a character as to force him to keep his bed, a second bed was inva riably placed in the room close to the sufferer's couch. His majesty reclined on the spare bed. and lay in a recum bent posture during the entire time occupied by the visit. When Louis X 1 1 1 visited Cardinal liiohelieu during his illness, this cumbroiiHctiquette was rigidly adhered to. as it was likewise when Louis XIV went to see Marshal Yillars after he received his wound. Th. second bed, by successive moditi cations, became eventuallv the mod - tru reclining i hair. St. Janws' Uaztt!' BCIENTIHC SCRAPS. ' Prof. O. fionnnrii and Dr. F.. nrtiff satelli have failed to dete.t the para lite of tuberculosio in the breath jf consumptive patients, making it appear that consumption is n ,( infectious. During his late journey in Centrrd Asia, Lr. Venukoff discovered th horse, the ennu i !!' the !.'iw' in their Wild sta'w. 'i ii ;. . !i ,v,rd no fear ot mnn even ai'ii i-M'lh" iiil 'li mtt.il " r had been si.ol. Volcanic ilistiirbau"ef in the island of Jsohin are usually j i .-. 'b ! by u turbid appearance ' !' w i cr in ba'l Where it is gone-elly el. :r To del- i siu h changi a; i angeiiieiits have hi made for regular elo o. ia1 e .-nnioi tiotis of the bii'hs ;n e. "ii as of vveli and springs. The .oologi ifll Cer.l. ;i '' Hi lb contain a liv in . , e :m--.i !' a ie-v. ostrich, vvhi'h leu io.i i....-si .;.-,erib-! by Dr. Keielielncv i:u to" I'.c M,ruthlo Molyi .o 'i in-. Tin- sp.c; inhabits the 'lesivl ,. !i ! til l nnd tie Wi Ill 'i i', ,i ' II . i ' tending mi tl a-t "i t i' M:. from H degrees ln.it': !:'.'. tu ie tolla equator. Prof. Tyudall has l"i,, 1 lb:' the mo: tnrc in th-- air t nn ordinary rueia a ii.. ffty to sev etity tine's a-; .uie-h lie- rn! ai t he.-i as th" air does. M .i- ,: is ; !,o icj,, lator and o'IimT'. r , I th" h ut. ami in duo ijuaulity acts lii.e a Hankr!. by protecting us from at o Mi'diiii".'! ing or beatiivf II !.,, '. ': liny i tl'iT beatiu;; :i j ; arnt e vvl.bh nverh at i the nir, and drh-s and scorches it. are liii'ief..!" rniiealtby. Pr. loiningo 1'i'c i" of l.'io ,1am Im the discoverer of the y !i.,. !ei r fungus cry p'. o. otvus xan' h 'gcni-ii,!;:1-Iiinde tho experiiiiei.l of t raasfi rnng this fungus into tho . .-tci.i of .iniical by injection, and hits obt a.ne.l -n:.-;-fa-tory courirmat imi of hi thorny. 'I he inoculated a limal--. niter a Very lii'l't t:nic.sh"W''. nil ! he m iu; ' nins ol veliow io,i" an. I i'n 'li-s ctio'i their bo"d vv as f n,n ! t.. 1 l o i : f ;!, ;:, rni of t he lypl. .cic ii x.f.th- n :n tc . . Connect i a io'tweeii Colors ainl Slllllllls. Some curious experiments h ive late ly been male to show the coIUle ti"II between colors and sounds. The blind.it is well known, often trau-la'.e sound into coli r. An ophthalmologic t,f Naii'es disi overed that a sharp note produced on one of bis patients a brighter, and a lint note a darker im pressioti of color. ii:l'erent musical instruments have given iiMTci'nt re suits. The saxophone brought out a sense of veil vv ; the clarionet, of red ; the piaro, of bine. The impression-; produced by the human eoi.v were more delicate shades of .wihov, "Veen., red nnd blue. 'I he s. at of the on'or whs always in the direction of il, sound. In i hoir s:ngino, M. i'c!rono' patient "notice i a multitude of ol rs formed in small point above the ho el.-, f the choristers." Analogous to thr.se were the exp-ri ments of Prof. II. .Ionian, of I'hiladel phia. to show the rtlect of sound mi the colors and figures in soap bubble.. A til in of oap being placed a t " the end of a pholieideseope, wis n i to I .in a canvas screen, where it a-suiiied a bluish gt ay appearance An intona lion of the voj. e through a tube cm ticcted with the film llr' i'iou...h' :i number of bla- k sp.-ts.ci the r.'ilei lam Thise passing away v. ore si;v, e.h d by a beautiful light given, m.rg'i 1 with I ink. The .same tone vv, uld always cause the same figure to appear, I ut had H i Control over the eolol, which might be blue at one tune and yi Uovv at another. The (.'rentest Obelisk. The Washington monument is the wonder of Washington, an I its I , the a -.miration -f belli Americans and foreigners. Already over :'" feet high, it rises ft'. an the bank. of tin- I'etont.o a gr. at, white, marble s!.a:t. pi. u ing the clouds, and backed agn n-t the blue ol the sky. It is already tho graniir-t obelisk the World has ever seen, and in the asms of the future, should the nations of the day pass away, leaving no more records of their progress than the mighty ones ol the Fgyptian p.it. it would suiq ;t-s the pyramids iu the wonder of its construe (ion. H is already higher than the third pyramid, and Within a hundred I" ot ot the size of the second. Ii is taller than si. Peter's cathedral, and when finished it will be the highest -tru. ture in the world. To day the athodrulof Cologne, .",12 feet high, is !bo tallest in the world. Next com, , die great pyramid. Id feet high ;thcn he strashurg cathedral, IT lfcet ; Mien tho second pyramid. I V!; then st !' er's. I-"; St. Stephen's at Vienna, lid, ind M. Paul's at London, IIS4. Vlttx uud Lnuhr. The Sons: of the Hen. In i in,; t .,; li singli) Uj ! ' ; i c ,. i, .';. J.. ,!) lung, i ; , ' i "i.i or tlio lirei-jiy wny il.'c ".- s:ni.le song. ,;li i: . h ar vrnllo shell, -i ,! ii.e a :" ' o'l inoio fiiir, , t ' I , I -1 ! 1 1 I I eneU Iii umt yoll, i.,,:1.. nn I w i u lie iiii'l rnar. A ! 1; A I'll, n I e. It thinii is my ovate hi, As i' Ii' s in hi., straw luii'd niw' i B it ii i ilo i!i the orntnr, u rn nnd stum, W.n ii it ci.'h. th liiin on the orest. TneiM is in fill in its weakness, and when It "- Down the iilternnon ol life, It r un , e! a striiiiK niKii by tho nosn Win n ii uiixoili imulf in the itrile. I ion no shuta'r; the hnwk that ewoops M.isi liniii id ii.u iu the tliatch, An I yet in tn lii'l.l or tho noisy coops, I iilwiiy ooine up to the soratoh. o I rhi 'I,,, only lay Unit I know, In miiiih.n In coiiiinely meek; IIiciii-m , thouvji "my i"i never sets," I know I h a in.v Iile will hr en 'od ne ks woak. Itiirlinzlon Hawkty. Ill MOHOL'S. The woman's cause Because. A tough time--Houghs on a spree. A great many Wall street men now adays are men of note. A new piny is called "Tho Burglar." It ought to take wi II. The riches which always take to them .elves w ings -Ost-riche. Iron is decidedly the most ironical of m t nl-;. for it is so often a railing. It isn't a great way to tho end of a cat's nose, but it's fur to tho end of its tail. It is only tho man with a pocket ful of nicks that can afford to throw stones. What in in w Mild one expect to find in a castle in theair? A "brown study." to 1, sure. Some of the men who carry tho most, expensive watches never know what time to go home. The new counterfeit dollars have a sharper r tig than the genuine coin. Probably a sharper ring made them. "I am the power behind the throne,' solil,..iiio 1 the mule, as he pitched Ins ri lor heels over bead to thft ground. Western pickers say that, "taken as a whole, the American hog is the best in the world" An exchange aks, who wants to swallow a hog whole? A young man named Hailing lives in Cargo, and when any one calls to him mi the street, every young lady within three bh ck.s I lushes and looks around, gently sav ing, 'Vh. sh." " hy are yon iil e a watch-case?" as,ki d a i lino of a man who was rush ing for a train. "(iie it up," he gn-pod, a he tied down the street, r.eciu-i' y iu'r' pressed for time!" yelled tiio :'c n l. A phy c'inn said jocosely toil polipe-lii-m mie ev en! ug: "I always feel safe w hen I j. li, emati in the evening, for tli 'iv is it" danger at'ntit." "Yes, s.iier than 1 be! when I have a doc tor about." ea.s the bright retort. (lid i'nssiau Savings. IJogui t.v is Cic hist of trades, .'.v. ,y b'x i r tisis hi own tail, v. debt is adorned h payment. A good beginning is half the work. An old friend is. better than two new ones. When lish ate rare, even a crab is a fisi I. livery little frog is great In his own bog. Trust in (lod, but do not stumble yourself. Money is not (iml. but it shows great mer.-y. t;..aft' '' two woke, and you will riot ev en catch one 'I he deeper you bide anything tho sooner yiVi i:nd it. Ask a pig to dinner and he will put, his n et mi the table. lie praise I not for your ancestors, but for your virtues. Never take a crooked path while you can s. e a straight ono. I ise.i -e conies iu by hundred weight s and goo out by ounces. Fear not the threats of tho groat, but rather the t'-ars of the poor. A father's blessing cannot be drowned in water nor consumed by lire. Armies, bat not Harmless. J. It. HolKs, of OuiTa.i. Tex., lost both anus seve-al years ago in a mo lasses mill. There is a stub protruding I from i ii' h shoulder about eight inches in length. By placing a pen between j his right stub am, chin he can write I bettor than the aver, go business man. , He can handle a pisti I in a lively way, i tnd requires no assistance in putting ' 'll ui' nil his clothes. ",'o suit his con venience ho wears high top boots, so i that he can lean over 4tid catch the i -traps between his teeth lie thus i mils his boots mi without any visible J jxertion. He says he can do anything that an ordinary man can.