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no. 21.
VOL. XIV.
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To the I'nupprrflated.
Fools, philosophers and preachers, and a
host f other tea-tiers,
Hnve been trumping up prescriptions fur
producing happiness,
Kieh warranted, If shaken and regularly
taken,
To rcsn'l in perfect heaven, perfect pi ace
and ii'illii'ii; lc .
Ibis liai soti-lir.l i In- masses, but there are,
ninciij: l ho i'Ih-m
Another sort of people, ami 1 stand hero
iik their friend,
l'n lie miserable I hey are yearning, to misery
they are turning,
No met Iml ean i scape thrni that promises
IHat end.
Nuiv my pily.sceking whinrrs, my pcrtlslent
nil n filters.
A good MilT resolution i tli (I rut thing
you limit In i" I ;
Mart up n determination tbat shall frighten
all rmtiiUi
Ami vow nii will hnve misery sufficient
for J cnir need.
Now don'l mind what Fume areas lug aliout
laliiiy brci7.es playing,
Or tlie bounties of kind Providence, or
natire s beauties fair;
Trent all such insinuations as you would
your poor relations,
Itut keep one eye liiea o.i misery and you
surely w ill get there.
Let your jealousy awaken, think you are
the Most forsake,;,
Unappreciated mortal that ever walked
the earth.
Nnrcli for people in the mires, for the. ll
luiiis. cheats and linn,
And your pirposo will not tall ou, hut
yield you its full worth.
(Hut your ries to all that's fair, learch for
blackness everywhere
Kxcept within yoir own heart, for that
alone Is white.
IT'int for iil, and pursue II f r the joy it
(jives to iew II,
And I'll warrant you thai micry (hall
w a'k ith you day and night.
Plis.i l.siub .Maitin, in Motion (ilohc.
A BRAVE WOMAN.
M SAXroN I. V A II 1.1.
Ill a liltlo count i y graveyard in Nel
on County, Kentucky, lies buriud the
heroine of a story us thrilling as tlio
annals ot pioneer life contain. The
stone nt licr head is imHsgrown an I
broken, but push asidj ilio clinging
vine that tenderly cm braces it and
read tho naino of -Snaii Merrill, died
1 70;. " This yoniiy woman was
know n among Ilio Indians ai " 1 lie
l.ong-Kuifv Squaw," iiml Ilio story of
how she cariictl il was related for
long years about llirir canipfncs with
every expression of respect ami ad
miration, accorded always by tint led
(kins (o tho truly brave, even who i
tlint bravery w as disj laved against
tlicm.
Olio night in tlic early rummer of
17P7 Mrs. Merrill and her husband were
retting up la'.c with one of their chil
dren who was dangerously ill. The
hour was dose lo midnight, w hen tho
balking of tho yaid dog alio tiled
them
"I w ill sco what is tho matter,'' snid
Merrill, stepping tow aid tlio door, but
his wife, with a Midden premonition,
clung to him, I) fjj i im h'un not (o ven
t in o out and reminding him that the
dog might havo Been Indians.
Ho laughed at her, however, and iti
(pita of her entreaties opened tho
door. Ilo was gneteU by tho (lie of
six or seven lilies in tho hands of ns
many W'yondotlo Indian, ami fell
wounded severely, both arms ami lu9
thigh broken. Ilo fell across tho
doorway.nml as bin wife bent over him,
ho saw tho redskins: leap from the
cover of tho outhouse'', where they
had lain concealed, and ruu toward
the main house. She dragged her in
sensible husband into the room, and just
succeeded in closing tho door, ami
thocling t'.io bolt, when tho Indium
flung themselves against it. Tho
Jady, n magnificent specimen of
womanhood, tho ideal of n pioneer'
wife, now realized that tho life of bor
dear ones and her own depended on
lior nlo'.ic. She ran for her husband's
gun, ami, matching it from the rack
was about to load it when sho dis
covered that the ponder was damp.
As she nfierwaril described it, this
discovery caused her nearly lo faint,
until the knowledge that tlist was not
the time for any biioli giving way
Beted like a doueho of ico cold water.
Casting her ryes about for some wen
pou (ho spied the axe, which thesci.cd
and hurried back to the 'loor, which
wns being attacked by tho foe w ith
tomahawks. As alio reached it the
wood work gave way, nnil thn ugly
visage of a painted warrior peered in,
Sho raised her axe and brained the
wrotch with a singlo blow, neliiully
cleaving the skull from scalp lo under
jaw. As the body felt buck another,
toarcoly realizing what had befallen
his companion, thrust l.iniMilf in, fol
lowed clencly by a third. With an
other swing of her hlood-staiuod wea
pon, (bo brought it down on tho fore
most Indian's head, smashing his skull
and killing him outright. The other
Indian fired at her as die lid o, but
the bil let only carried nway a look of
Jjer braided hair, and (he returned bis
tire by a blow that struck him 01 the
breast, breaking the bone, and fending
him howling back. A fourth attempt
od to euler, but sho wounded him
severely in the cheek, hhatlerinrr hi
jaw. The Indian fell to tho floor, but
clinging to her dress, endeavored to
drag her down nnd tomahawk her.
I'liablo to do this ho I'nUod himself
and sh uck at her breast with his knife,
when sho brought her axe down on
bis face, breaking it in and sending
his warm brains ami blood all over her
dress ami bands.
Abandoning any attempt lo e tor
the house in this way, the enemy now
ascended to tho roof and endeavored
lo ctl'eet an eutraiieo by way of tho
chimney, tho wide, old-fashioned tirc
placo of that period, but oneo more
they were foiled by tho heroic, nnd
clover woman, made strong and run
ning by her beloved ones' peril. She
seized tho only feather bed the cabin
homo afforded, nnd ripping it open
with all haste poured its contents on
tho tire. As sho did so, tho clock on
tho mantel near bor, proclaimed the
hour when her nick child's medicine
was lo bo administered and with a
firm hand the admirable mother
poured out the draught and held it to
the little one's lips.
By this titno a furious blnc and
suflbealiug mioko was ascending the
chimney, and in another instant, two
stilled and half roasted Indians canio
tumbling down into tho fireplace.
They lay choking, and nearly inscusi
blo for n moment, when, seizing her
axo once more, she despntehed them
hastily, for tho only remaining savage
now appeared at the door, ami was
about lo ell'ect an entrance, while Mrs.
Merrill was engaged at the chimney.
She met him as he was stepping over
the dead bodies of his companions,
which blocked tho doorway, nnd
struck nt him with the axe. The
blow fell on bis shoulder disabling
li i in in (ho right arm, but seizing bis
tomahawk in tho other hand, bo rusdicd
upon her. 1 M opping the axe she caught
up one of tho tiro brands from the
hearth, .ami holding it by the uli
charrcd end, hurled it ablazo at the
other full in the advancing warrior's
face, it struck him, blinding h in for
the moment, when running forward
tho grasped him about tho lower
limbs, and tripping him up, sent him
head foremost into tho lire. Hastily
scrambling to his all fours ho wns
again felled to (ho floor, by a blow on
tho head, which stunned him. Mrs.
Merrill eanght up her axo once moro
and was about to biain the Indian,
when he sprang to his feet and with a
how I of tenoi and pain rushed from
(ho house with such precipitancy as to
upset tho lady in his rush. It was he
who carried tho story of Mrs. Mer
rill's com ago and strength lohis tribe,
which bestowed on her tho title of the
"Long Knifo fijimw."
Her foes once gono, tho lady busied
herself bai Heading the doorway with
logs of wood in pluco of tho shattered
door, and in caring for her wounded
husband and her sick child. Mio had
gono out tho next morning to dig a
graro for the dead Indians, when, by
chance, her nearest neighbor called to
sco them. lie could scarcely credit
her story, but the live bodies were to
be seen as evidence. Troiii'ising to go
after a physician for her husband, tho
neighbor, tho only other white person
besides thoinselvcs in eight miles,
assisted her in interring tho corpsc(,
which still cumbered tho house.
While they were engaged in this
work, a heavy groan from a little
wood close by startled them. The
man, more frightened than the
woman, was for retreating to the
house, but Mrs. Merrill insisted that
there was somebody in pui nor trouble
near them and that ho must investigate
the matter. Ho still refused, and at
last the lady, borrowing his gun as u
precaution, declared her intention of
enlei ing the wood herself. Sho per
sisted, though warned (hat Ilio groan
ing might only be a strutegetn lo decoy
hrr into tho woods, w hero she would
bo slaughtered by tho Indian". She
bad gone but a liltlo way wheii a trail
of blood continued her in her resolu
tion, and proceeding sac saw an J ti
ll in u lying under a bush, where the
suffering wretch had endeavored to
conceal himself. It was tho one whom
she had wounded in the breast while
ho was endeavoring to enter the house
at first, lie w as delirious and blood
was iisuiiig trom hi mouth. So,
calling to the neighbor to come and
help her, Mrs. Merrill determined to
take the Indian to the luniso and care
for him. When her friend ruiuo and
saw the lo.lhkiu, lie caught up his gun
nnd was about to shoot the wounded
savage, but throwing herself before
Iti r : l in sueli a manner ns lo shield him
! y her own body. Mis. Merrill cried:
"If you harm him, Koh.-it K ,
1 will lo.'ison with ;ou as if inn injury
was 'o ouc of my own fcinily."
"Ttutho is likely lo murder tK !
wholo lot of you if you take him into ,
your house. Tho bounds understand 1
nothing hut treachery. Ilidn't you
ever hear of the man tbat warmed
the snake in his bosom?'' :
"Yes, I've heard of Hut, but I'vo
also heard that I must loco my neigh
bor as myself." ,
"Yes, but is this butchering, cruel !
savage your neighbor?"
"Aye, sir, my neighbor and my ;
brother." j
The man eyed her for a moment in ;
sileneo unit then saying, "Mrs. Aler- j
rill, I haven't another word to utter i
except praiso tied, 1 have this day
seen a Christian I" stooped and helped i
her carry tho wounded Indian into the
home.
Though busy with her own sick tho
lady nursed the red man several days, i
but ho had baen mortally wounded
from the first nnd died at tho end of
that time, lly somo means the Indians ,
heard of this generous act, and com-
prohending it ns they did her courage
and fierceness in defending her home,
voted her in their councils "Ono
Good Sipiaw,'' and never again at
tacked nor molested her or her family,
but are even said lo havo remembered
her after each homing into tho game
lands farther west, by the presence) of
a flno buck or bruro of wild turkeys,
left quietly at her door by night by a !
baud that neither sought nor desired
to be thanked. Am'. Ibis in n timo of
(he bitterest feud between tlio whites ;
and tho
public.
Indians. Si. I(Jui( Ro- ,
A Little Hower Worth IO,00O.
A remarkable lucky Iiml of a vain
able orchid has resulted in bringing a
certain amount of fame nnd a certain
amount of money to the lucky im
porter. This is Mr. Sander of St. Al
bans, Loudon, Knglaiul, whoso name
is well known to all who take an in
terest in these parasitic plants.
Three years ago ho imported some
specimens of t'ypiipcdriitn, or Lady's
Slipper, the commonest and cheapest
of tho orchid tribe. In the lot he
found ono which proved in flowering
to be golden yellow instead of green,
as usual. Knowing it must bo Valu
able, ho divided tho plant into two
portions, one of which he sold to Mr.
li. II. Measures for .fV'x', and tho
other ho sent to auction, where it was
bought by Ilaron Schroeder for $100.
Mr. Measures divided his half into
four parts, ono of which ho sold to
Mr. Tf. .1. Measures of (.'rwnbcrwcll,
tho second to Mr. I.. Amo of Bos
ton, Mass., tho third ho kept for him
self, noil the fourth Messrs. Sunder,
tho original owners of tho whole
plant, havo bought for no less a sum
than $l2'n. According to the price
paid for an eighth of tho original
plant it would appear that its first
vuluo wns $10,000.
Baron Schroeder is one of the most
notable collectors in tho country, and
at his place in h'ghaiu, Surrey, ho has
a collection of Ihcso plants which must
havo cost him something like f'JOO,
000. He has himself sold a specimen
of tho species Cypripedium Sionei for
11800, ami other sales are recorded in
which specimens have etched nearly
if not quite as largo prieos.- New
York Telegram.
Face (irowtlt.
Careful measurements, made on
persons of both sexes by Professor
(i. M. West, have so far yielded somo
iletlnito re-ults which lire published as
preliminary; further details will no
doubt bo forthcoming hitei. In the
cuo of the female face, the results go
to bIiow that there arc three distinct
periods of growth, the first of which
ends at about thu seventh year.the third
beginning about tho ago of fifteen.
The abrupt transition from ono period
to another ii indicated by tho very
slow growth of some children until
the uges of eight and fourteen, when
a rapid development often occurs.
From the tilth to tho tenth year the
average growth appears to bo about
O.o millimetre), and from this time
little advance is made, the maximum
being reached about tho age of twen
ty. Tho male face is larger than the.
female faco at all ago, its grow th is
moro rapid nnd continues later in life.
fNow York liisputch.
urlnus Litter or Kilt, ns.
Our genial friend and follow-oilien,
Colonel W. C. W'inslow, will excuse
the mention of a wonderful and
curious trick of nature in a litter of
kittens that recently increased tho cat
family at his house. It is said that
there were fourteen in the family, tho
iilTspriiig of ono mother, of various
hues and stripes, as kittens generally
arc. Somo bad tails and somo bad
none; six heads on throe bodies, and
six fKt each on two. Tho limbs
wero badly distributed, for three of
them could only show nine claws.
Fort Valley ((it.) tn(erpii-:e.
CIIILDIIEVS ('OM'M.
ruics-ww.
Ilii-h smniu; the lops of Inns.
Caring naught for winl'y Uncr.r.
Sits a little bird ami sin,
And the music of his noiii
'lierrs me as I plisl alone
With th,' memories it brins.
Deep the snow lies all arouml.
Huhed is every summer sound.
I'air weather kucs'.s no more arc beizl;
Hut though cold the air nnd chill.
1 can hear the piping still
of that brave, wee, lnme bird.
tie ii like a tried, true friend,
W ho, when shadows o'er me bend.
Conic!, to comfort ami console;
So I bill his w illing w hips
Carry joy where e'er he Kings,
To each listening heart and soul.
--Ilctroil Kree Vm:
rt TTINU HIMM-.I.K I" SI KI P.
There is a certain liltlo canary-bird,
living in a certain city, in a certain
t-trccl and in a certain house. Ho lives
in a pretty gold wire cage, and in tlio
middle of it there hangs a swing.
And every night when it grows
dark ami this little canary thinks it is
time to go lo bed, ho hops into his
swing and swings bitinelf back and
forth.
Itaokward and forward he swings to
anil fro. And presently the swing
goes slower and slower, slower
and
slower, until it slops,
And then nil you can sco is a fat
Mule ball of feathers, very stiil, on a
swing in the middle of a gold-wiro
cage. The. canary is fast nsleep.
New York Woi Id.
! .!' K, HIT I'OI K KMAN S !fl;.
There is a nv-t remarkable dog in
Hamilton, Canada. Ho is a rough
haired mongrel terrier, and rejoices
in the name of ".lack, the policeman's
ilog." Fifteen years ago his master,
i a night wntcbmnn, was shot whilo on
duly. The dog, who was with him,
' ran home, ami by whining at the door
and scratching attracted tho atlentiou
1 of (ho inmates, whom he at once
' guided (o his dying master. Fir I ho
three days that the man lingered be
tween life and death tho dog lay at
the foot of his tied and never stirred
until the body was removed to tho
cemetery, when he followed I he
procession to tho grave, Thcnco ho
went lo the police station, and every
night since then he has attended tho
men while on duly.
M 0 ti. in., when the men Hro lined
' up for dismissal, the dog takes up his
post at (he head of the lino. On the
command "dismiss'-' being given he
barks and immediately
pen"
down the street, running at his ut
most (peed. No one knows where he
goes nor what he lives on. All but
his "public" life is a mystery. In tho
miscellaneous class at the Hamilton
iliow his entry read-: "."0o. lluniil
,oii l'olico Force. .lack, the police
man's dog (lough terrior), fifteen
years old. Not for sale.'' Mis Whit
iey aw ai ded him vhe., doubiless more
,n recognition of hi' unique reputs
lion than anything else.
A 1.11 II. K HAI KWfMip.s (iiin ,
William and Mollie IV , the eighteen-rear-old
son and seventeen-year-old
laughter of i well-known farmer
I w ho resides near Homing Springs,
I IV. Va., concluded tj go out in search
i nf n 'possum, which they be.Uoved (o
liavo been tho animal which for sv
, s nil nights previous had made deadly
raids upon their poultry. Accom
panied by two curs and w ithout arms,
:hey struck into tlio deep woods."
When about n inile from home the
Jogs "treed," and the boy and girl
-amc up nnd found that instead of a
harmless marsupial they had brought
!o bay an immense catamount. It lay
stretched out on a limb of a tree,
twenty fod above thoir heads, suarl
Ing and showing its (colli,
j The boy proposed that hi( (ister re
I main w ith the dogs to keep the wild
cat in tho tree until ho went back
home after a gun. She consented and
the boy started back. Whenever tho
rat began t show an inclination to
npen hostilities the bravo girl would
Muesli the bushes with a (tick unit
cheer tho dogs on until tho big cata
mount w riuld aaiu sctl!o down on the
limb, l or over half an hour that 17
j year-old girl stood in tho dark and
jlooiny woods, over a mile from home,
with her two little (logs, nnd without
a tremor held tho catamount at bay.
At last l he boy, accompanied by his
jalf frantic father, came with guns
uid the catamount wns killed. Tho
animal measured four feet and sevon
inches from tip to tip. What putiles
the girl is that everybody is congratu
lating and praising ber fordoing what
teems t. bor quite a matter of course.
f New ' ork Voice.
The falling ofl' of exports of canned
beef lo (irea: llrilain is due to com-
petition from packing establishment!
ricenily stinted in South Amerira.
A FORBIDDEN CITY.
An
OKI AIpc Town Never En
trretl by White Mpm.
Would-be Explorer Repulsed
by a Band of Indians.
, Mr. Juan Alvcre, who has just re
turned (o (ho cjiy of Mexico, says a
; correspondent of (ho I'hiludelpliia
Pres, f rom bii exploring expedition j
'. in the southwest part of the liopublie. i
repoi ts that ho has found a city w hirh :
1 has never been entered by white men
, nnd which has evidently been in ex
i islenec for hundreds of years, going
; back before the conquest of I be cotiu
' try by tho Spaniards.
! It is nu old A .ice city, and the np
- proiiehcs to it arosognaided by na
; lure that il is an impoihiliiy to reach
1 il, if tlio inhabitant do not waul to
' traveler to get in. The city lies in the
1 almost Inaccessible mountain, in the
i
, region of the country lying in tho ex
i trcinc southwestern part of the coitn-
try, and is so far away from civilii-
tion that few while men have ever
been in the neighborhood.
j It was by the purest accident that
i Alverez became awa'O that a city was
' anywhere in the vicinity and, after
I he found It, all of hi endeavors to
reach it were unavailing on account of
the persistent opposition of the na-
lives. He had been traveling over
j the mountains in tcarch of an outlet
' to the Pacific ocean when he came to
, the top of an elevate. I plateau and
! rrossed (o the further edge, lie hail
a magnificent view and while looking
. ing over the country saw what ho
took to be liousci" in a far distant vnl
! ley. close inspection with a glass
soon convinced hin that what he saw
! was really a collection of houses and
: he at once set about reaching the
' place lo sec who lived in that part of
tho country.
After days of hard work, climbing
1 over clifl's and mountains, he reached a
; place from which he obtained a ood
! view of the city and saw that it uns
regularly laid cut in streets nnd was
; peopled with a race who knew some
' thing about civilization. The houses
were of stone and wero surrounded by
' yards, In which were growing flowers
1 and shrub. On all sides were cvi
: deuces of taste show n by the inhabi
tants and il was evident that he. had
! found a riiy which was not
i known to (he outside world. A care
I fill exaininalion of I tie country showed
i ),;, (IHt t, ,.jty was w ithin a natural
amphitheater, and w as accessible from
ono side nily. He saw that the only
means of access was through n long
and narrow defile which led into the
mountains from the Pacific coast side,
nnd ho started to reach the place
where ho could II ml this entrance.
Ho made nu outline drawing of tho
city as it appeare 1 to him from the
distant mountain lop. and this is all ho
has to show I hat there is a i ity within
the heart of the mountains, for he was
never allowed to reach the spot.
I ioiu this draw ing it is plain that
tho city has not. less than tooo inhab
itants. Tho houses are all of stone
and nro supplied with doors and win
dows. In the centre was a large
building, which was undoubtedly the
temple of worship, for on its walls
could be seen tho sculptured designs
representing the deity. It was in tho
shape of the ancient tcocullies. w hic h
arc to be found in many parts of this
country, and the people could bo seen
passing in and out during all hours of
the day.
After ten days of arduous work Al
verez. found himself at the foot of the
mountains on the western sli,e and
set about searching for the canon
leading to Ibe city. He had so well
marked the lay of the laud that ho had
uo ilitlioully in finding tho entrance,
but ho was met by a b and of Indians
w ho refused to let him proceed. They
oll'eied him no violence, but insisted
Ihat he should return. He (old Ihoin
thai he had come over the mountains
and that he did not know Imw to get
back. After a consultation he was
told that ho would have to remain
awhilo as a prisoner and I wo runners
were sent into the mountains, who re
turned in a day
with orders from
(oine one in auih rity, and Aiwre
was blindfo'ded and placed on the
back of a mule. Ho (raveled in this
condition for three days, only having
(he bandage removed from his eyes a(
night. On (he fourth day he was told
to remove the bandage, and when ho
did so he found hini-clf on Ihc borders
of the Pacific ocean. Tho Indian- had
gone, leaving him nothing to guide
him back to the place where ho had
seen the city.
Russian parents inko the precaution
ti name their children before they are
old enough to know what is being
done.
Why Sixty Whittle Make an Hour.
Why is i lie hour divideit into aity
minutes, each minute into (ixty sec-
omls, etc. r Simply ami (olely bo. I
citase in llabylonia there existed, by j
the side of the decimal (ysltni ot na-
lions, iimiihiT system, (he sexagosi j
mill, which connle I by sixties. Why j
. hut number should have been chosen
is dear enough, but it speaks well for
the practical sense of those ancient j
I'.alu Ionian moi chants.
There is no number which lias (O
many divisors as sixty. The Habylon- 1
ian divided the sun's daily journey
into twenty four pnrusanga or 720 ,
s:ii'lia. I', i r It parasnng or liour was .
subdivided into sixty minutes. A I
parasaug is about a (ei iiian milo nnd 1
(he llabylonian astronomer compared j
Ibe progress made by the sun during
one hour nt the time of the equinox
to th" progress made by a good walker '
during the same time, both accomplish
ing one puriisano.
The whole course of the (un during
the tw enty-four equinoctial hours was
fixed at twenty-four parasangs, or 72o
stadia, or 3t degrees. This system
was handed on to the I, reek, and
llippalehus, the tireck philosopher,
who lived about loo It. C , introduced
the Habylonian houi in Kurope.
Plolemy, who wrote about lo" A.
I ., w hose name still lives in that of
the Ploloinic system of astronomy,
ge still wider currency to (ho Haby
lonian way of reckoning lime.
It was carried along on the quiet
stream of traditional knowledgo j
through tho middle uges, and, strange
to say, it sailed down safely over tho
Niagara of the French Kcvohitioti.
For the I reneh, when revolutionizing
weights, measures, coins and dates, 1
and subjecting all to thn decimal sj- 1
tern of reckoning, were induced by t
some unexplained motive to respect j
our clocks and watches and allow our
dials to rem un sexagesimal, that is, I
llabylonian, each hour consisting of :
sixty minutes.
Here you see again tho wonderful !
coherence of the world and how what
wo call knowledge is the result of nn '
unbroken tradition of a leaching dc- '
scolding from father to son. Not
moro than about one hundred arms !
would reach from us to (he builders
of the palaces of Haby on nnd enable,
us to shako hands with the founders
of the oldest pyramids. --Science
Sittings.
A Snowy Conch.
I( is related (hat two Indians in the
mountains of Nevada were seen to dig
a trench in the snow, wrap themselves
in a single blanket and lie down for
(heir night's rest. In the morn
ing a grave-liko mound of snow
covered their forms and they were
about to bo dii'' up ns dead, when
they themselves broke through their j
snowy covering and, freeing them
selves from the blanket, were found
to he covered wilh prcspiration.
This may at fut glance seem auom
alou, but it must be remembered
that the blanket kept the snow from
contact with the bodies of the sleepers
and served as a jacket such as are put
on boilers to keep the heat from radi
ating and consequent waste nt the
surface. The sleepers were thus not
only kept warm by their own iiuwait
cd heat, but the coldness of the snow
was prevented from reaching them b
tho warm air in (ho interstices of their
wooly covering. The Indians knew
the process, hut not the reason why.
The Argosy.
Thn Derivation of Dollar.
lew persons have ever troubled
themselves to think of the derivation
of the word dollar. II is from the
( rei inan llial (valley), and cnino intc
use in this way some "00 vents ago.
There is a little silver mining ci'y oi
district in Northern Hohemia cnlleii
.Toachimsthal or Joachim's Valley.
Tho reigning Duke of the lotion an
thoriu'd this city in the sixteenth ecu
lury to coin a silver piece which wa
culled joa.hiinsthalor." 'Ihc wore
"joHchiin'' was soon dropped aud the
name "thaler" only retained. Tin
I ieco went into general use in ier.
many and also in Pcnniat k, where tin
orthography was changed to "daler,'
w hence it came into F.ng'itdi, and wa
adopted by our forefathers with tomt
changes in tho spelling.-- San Frail'
citeo Chronicle.
j is a powerful antiseptic. An cxperi-
l'rewntahle f ires. menting chemist recently tried it upon
Mot tires originate in prcvcntabli germs, or more properly, microbes, of
accidents. If every ono were as care i diphtheria, measles, scarletina, small
ful as thn insurance journals urge hin j pox, and various other zymotic dis
to be, tires would be rare indeed, llu1 j orders, and found that tlie microbes
many people are not careful arc, it ! were killed insido of forty-eight hours,
regard to the danger of fire, aggros ; Whether it will prevent bacterial
sively careless. It is this hccdlessnesi : growth in wounds is yet to be deter-
of an ever present danger that nickel I
our annual fire loss the largest in tlx
world, in spite of the efforts of tin
beat fire departments to be found any
where. Commercial Advertiser,
Tick Tack.
Tick tack, tick tack, th old clock goes; 1
I wonder what it lias to say'.'
It stands above the rarpel stair
There in the irrim old entry way.
Tick lack, tick tack, 'ti( time to sleep; '
ijuirk, to mr slumbers, darling. R".
our downy cot is soft ami warm;
J lo your sleep, m baby, go.
Hush ! anp't w iugs wnfl yon to deep
Sleep, my precious buh . sleep :
tioft hands touch thy drow sy eyes,
Oo, my bud, to paradlsff.
'l ick tack, tick tack, the samr oldfneul.
Thwe high up in the entry hull:
A wske Diy Ismb, 'ti. time for light.
Oh." do you hear the birJlinps call ' J
Tick tack, tick tsck, your slippered feet
Come hounding down the carpet stair.
Come kiss me, dear, your sleep was well,
1 see the sunshine in your hair.
- II. S. Keller, In liienco Item.
Ill M0R0I N.
Man wants the earth, but it is the
housekeeper who gets tho dust.
In bread-making, ns in base ball,
thcro is nothing like a good batter id
the hour of knead.
A pugnacious ram ii fond of a
practical joke. He tries to make
butt of every one, he tneels.
finest Waiter, you forget yourself.
Waiter (grumpily) Well that in be
cause you never remember inc.
Why is it (aid that tho doctor fyt
visit, when every one knows that U
i the visits which pay the doctor i
A man in a boarding house is justl.
fled in finding fault with his dinner
w hen there isn't much else to find.
A cobbler and accountant havo
something in common it behoove
each to be particular in hi footings.
1 havn't been shaved by a barber
this year." Well, I've noticed you've
lost a good deal of llesh from your
face."
"Woman' voice is best adapted to
the telephone, they (ay." "So 1 have
heard. She seems to find plenty of
other U6CS for it, though."
Penelope (sighing) Ah, the men
arc not what they used to bo. Tom
I'd like to know why not? Penelope
They used lo bo boys, you know.
She Wouldn't you liko to hear tho
singing saud(, to-called? lie No,
not until I was (tiro that they don't
ting any of ihc popular tongs of the
day.
Miss Pnsse (sweetly 1 Do you think
you could guoss my agei' Mr. tioort
fellow (honestly 1 Pin not good at
guessing ages. I probably couldn't
come within '-0 years of it.
Why Kninilropg Do Not Kill.
A falling body moves much more
rapidly as it approaches the ground
than it did when it commenced to fall.
Its motion is, therefore, termed "
uniformly accelerated motion;'' in
other words, if a body being moving
at a certain velocity at the expiratiou
of one second from the point of timo
at w hich it was allowed to fall, it will
bo moving twice as fast at the cxpira.
tion of two seconds, and so on. Ex
periments liavo shown that tho rate
per second nt which bodies acquire
velocity in falling through tho air is
thirty-two feet per second at the end
of the fu st second after it has dropped
from tlio baud ; at tho end of the next
second with a velocity of sixty-four
feet, and at the end of tho third at
tho rate of ninety-six feet per second,
and so on. The velocity of a body at
any period of ils fall may bo ascer
tained by multiplying the rato of mo
tion hi the end of the first second by
the number of seconds it has been
falling. The velocity being known,
the space through which it has fallen
may be ascertained by multiplying the
velocity of that period by the number
of seconds during which it has been
falling, aud dividing tho result by
two. These rules only apply with
absolute correctness when a body falls
"in vacuo,'' for tho reaisUnco of Ilia
air materially retards tho velocities,
especially when thoy become consid
erable, and when tho body lias great
bulk in proportion to its weight.
Were it not for this resistance, every
raindrop, descending as it docs from
a height of many hundred feet, would
strike wilh a force as fatal as that ot
a rifle bullet. Brooklyn Kaglo.
Dead Sea Mater an Antiseptic.
Tho discovery has recently been
made tbat the water of the Dead Sea
mined, but so far everything is in iUt
favor, and it may soon come to pasa
that Dead ea water will be on sale
at so much a bottle. It can be easily
fabricated. New Orleatu Ticayune,
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