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A MYSTERY Of THE PAST-
STRANGE DISCOVERY OF A
SKELETON A MURDER A
QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
It is only a few days since the numer
ous official ol tiro City Hull were ,
thrown iuto a foyer of excitement by the I
discovery of the skeleton of a woman
s . a
boxed np-tii a narrow space in one oi tiu
dark cellars of that building. The work
men who had been engaged in cleaning
out the accumulated filth of a quarter of
a century stood back aghnft at the spec
tacle which met their gaze, vividly rt call-ins-
the butcheries ot't 'oh. Prnlntt. Trinlti-
manii, and company. But Ihe horror of Ul,re" weir constantly exposcu on iiivir
the City Hall was as nothing compared breasts a red cross, as n symbol of mar
with that of a Mr. Frederick Brissel, a tyrdom, and to carry a banner bearing the
contractor of No. G30 Sixth street, and j bumble TTTBcriptton, "Ntm-nefns Jhmine,
his men, BpoH beins confronted last j
ar 1m f a m ill Bland-
lug erect between the weather-board and
the chimney at Ihe old frame house No.
:i65 Rivington sttecf.
Mr. Brissel was tearing down the house
in ntieslion nretuirntorv to building U new
one, when the sku'i Of 'tic slfM-rr, prn
.A ,.k..tlw ...AAf.A ,,. voil, if liv
- : r-r --; -J . . . " .
UUU KaWaSBSff p HOB ruuut in " j
the falliue away of some plaster. The
whole wall was removed as quickly as the pl nner and toiioweu uugn uc i ay
fears of the, trembling laborers would j ,hl! lIoIy Liultl- ,om ,I,,S .,l,uc
permi and in a short time the full skele-1 forward their history fornia a prom.iient
ton was taken out of a place in which it i P" of that of the Crusades and is famil-
must have reposed tor almost half a cen
tury. ,
The p'.lico on )cn$ notified of the
eae, bunted up a colored woman named
Deborah Groomer, who had been a resi-
,t.i, it if .tin r i in in in,,, ut' the walls of
which the skeleton was found for upward i
.
of twenty-hve years. She pmd'se. tui
liro ignorance of its eiisteitoe, and showed,
by her friglatSStatd-ayppoarai ce, to be more
surprised than ,the laborers. She hud
Often beard strange noises at night about
the room, but had always attributed them
to rats and mice.
No fragments of clothing were discov
ered on the skeleton, nor could anything
be found to indicate thai a body li.nl
been put in there with the clothing on.
All the circumstances point at tho affair
a m..nl T '.,..! ! ilnil.nl. itnuW
go to the trouble afhWing a skebton in n 1
place dieie its rnoval w.-tdd u.n.luu
almost the-tumbling down of the hous- j
DIi.iniixara.t was n.w. tl. al,.,.l,. of
a line of ci'ititWiats. who used to oner
ate extensively a
the East river, and
this tact may to
some extent acciitint tor
the presence of the skeleton: :.y
Coroner Keenau was notified to hold
an fnqucst and he may possibly throw
some fight upon what is aV present
shrouded in mysterv.
iVec York Commercia
Mai k "Twain having been elected an
honor..". Member of a poultry Society,
recommends himself in the following
"Even ns a shooTbriv, "pouhi-v r-iising
was a study with mc, and 1 may say !
without egoifsm that early, as theXage j
of seventeen 1 was acqtmnted with all the j
bestd an speediest methods of raising
them offarobsl by burning lucifermaTclies
under their noses, down to lining them
off a fence on a fiosty night by itisiituat
ing the end of a warm board under their
heels. By tbe time 1 was twenty years
old I really snppose I had raised moro
..pojalli individual in nil
the section mound about there. The
very chickens came to know my talent
by and by. The youth of other rexes
ceased to paw the earth for worms, and'
old rooitcrS that came to crow 'remained
to pray, when I passed Ly."
Tbo ijfcw York Standard says that
Horace Grec y continifcs to be seriously
ill. The disease with which he rt-'
turned from the Bahama sttlfpwgs to
him, and his-physicians deny lit friends
permission to sec him. He ha a strong,
bony ant constitution, and. although se
verely strained by fifty years of iiieiedi
ble mental and bodily toil, it is feared he
has scriourlv overused it, and that he
coiiijirTTctTto ei ek . rni: i mneSTrrST"" (
lOttf
ORHJIN AND HISTORY OF THK
ORDER OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Very little is known by I lie general pub
lic of this, the highest order of Masonry,
and a sketch of the origin and history of
the r Knights will be read with inter
est:
The Order of the Teinnle first nrisrisoka 1
icu on account of the 1'iii-adcs. Nino va
liant and pious knights loVin. .1 an ussoda
tion, uniting the characters of monk and
j - . .
kuiglil, devoting themselves lo a life ,J
thefr iwaord'" in r 1 1 .
lor, anrl cniplnving
'all
protwtbui of pilgrims on
the Holv Hume. Their
their visit to
resolution ac-
cnrdi (I ih In-mil it "f ihe Crusades, and
ga.ii. id tli.m tlu appiulialion ..f tlieirting,
B,ih' in IT , and the Fall in i eh III the
latti-i 's pn-si nee they look three vows of
rbastity, poverty ami obedience, ami a
fourth to fi.'ht incessantly in the cause ol
pilgrim in tin- Il4y lnd against the
heathen. They hound themselves to live
accord ng to the rules of the canons of St.
A n rnrt it.,', aiol elected us first master
H;1i .7. TV . 0. T:,1TT9 thertmeittt
c'jj- , ! . t . ' I lie in t ill. .1
Mil. ... i iH r .' T ;i I., llzu.
Fulk, Count i f Ai.)'-u, oo a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem to offer vows nt the Holy
Shrine, impressed with their sincerity,
lued the society, anil Upon Ins return
mine remitted thiity uniiiiils of silver an
nually, which example was soon followed
by many other noble prlncea of the West.
For nine years the Tempi irs lived in pov
erty and gave a 11 pre tents received toward
ameliorating the condition of pilgrims,
u-nrn nnlv Btifl, 1 1 it It i i ir fta tlm lolo.l of
charity bestowed, and though constantly
engaged in lighting the luaucl, were so
poor that Hugh dc Payens and his friend,
Godfrey of St. Omer, both rode tbe ame
war horse. In 1 128 the order was cou
li mu d by the Council ot Troyes, and a
white mantle prescribed as their habit to
distinguish them from the Knights of St.
John or Hospitallers of Jerusalem, an or
der differing from the Templars only in
their mission, theirs being to minister to j
the sick. In 1 1 16 the Templars' were or
' nomine tuo da gloria m ! (Aottous,
di d a new rule, that no kniirht should im
admitted to the order except he first settle
all feuds amend his life. Now began the
Templars' success. Yaltmhlc gifts came
o r.
""""tfr"'
kiiiirhls fi' in th
11 -ides. In 1129, ..00
its tn in the noblest Mini hps or i.u-
rope enrolled themselves under the Tt-ui-
! i I ' Ill I , . l
lar to ii.osL leuue.s. i iii'icrt. i.e u.uuv
raged lieiccstjor sword of Saracen threat
ened a (Jlirislnhi, there was found a Tem
plar to avert the blow. In the latter part
of the twelfth century the order became
demoralized by excess of wealth obtained
i successful wars against the heathen
'hi . .. i : ' t . -r r. r .. i ,,.1
I'lieir annual income in 1175 is stated by
I lugdale to have been $20,000,000. 1 be
Chrinllaii power began lo decline in the
East, Suhidin prepared Ift recovor Jeru
salem, and found discord in the Christian
camp. The fight came the terrible bat
tle, f Iliitin where the Templars and
Hospitallers fought with desperation,
when, blood flowed Tike water, and .lO.noo
Christians laid down their lives. A jeal
oiiv now arose between the Templars
9'"' jli'suiiullers, wni
i'Mf - I It-lfloUSV Was flnllly SUppilS
: measiu:i' by Hie 1 ope ami
'!',"" M." (,i 1 ' ' lii-md Masters. The links
""' atl. r drove ih. whole Chi rstiai. iWee
from Pulesiine. The Templars held out
lii the hist, taking refuge, with their fami
lies, in ihe fortress of Sr. Jean d'Aore.
Here they had a terrible battle, which re
sii'ited in lln . ihnosi entire extinction of
the order. Scj&Ve ten Knii;lits survived
this conflict, and thev, with the remnants
of the Hospiiallers and oilier orders, took
rofiH'e in Cyprus. Here thev elected
J apu4 j t4t-n citfm-iiH Kglil
' Masteiv l i.i-ir uumWrs, w 0.1: h and p .w
er again increased till they excited the
r i . w
envy
of Philip l lie
lip
fair, kt.ig tit trance,
oil by Mills, in history of the
Crusades, "the monster of the age."
Philip, by various artifices, elevated Cln
DHiit V. to the office of Pope and thesets-o
detci mined to degrade the order and crush
it out of existence. De Molay was sum
moned to the presence of Pope Clement at
Pari?, ostensibly to consult with refer
ence to 'another crusade, but the real pur
pose was soon. made manifest. A .list of
absurd charges were preferred against the
order, and on October 13th, 107, De
Molsy and all Templars were arrested un
der the most treacherons circumstances,
and cast into prison. '"Their real crime,"
says Mills, "was their wealth. They
were subjecled to a mock trial, tortured,
condemned, aud mauy oXlhcm burned at
the stake, fifty-four at one time in Paris.
Pope element assembled the cardinulsand
prelates in secret coiiiistory nt Venice,
and soon after, on his owu authority, is
sued a bill abolishing the order. De Mo
lay was burned at the stake on March
Uth, T314, and with him, it wauppos
ed. perished the order : but, notwitlistand-
ing the efforts of the King and Pope, the
order was not exterminated. Du Molay, -
in anticipation of bis fate, appointed John
Mark Iamienns as his successor in office,
and from that time to the present there
lu.s been a regular sirrces'on of flrand
Ma'ter TTi order still exists in F'laure.
and ranks among its members some of the
most influential noblemen of the empire.
In I'ortngal the name of the order has
been changed to that of the "Knights of
turisi, and its cross is frequently con
ferred by the Government as a reward of
distinguished merit. In England the en
campment of Baldwin, which wits estab
lished at Bristol by the Templars who re
turned with Richard I. front Palestine,
..in - . .1,1 .
sun connnio K to noli regular meeting,
and is bi lifted to have preserved the an
t-ieiil costumes sod ci-remoni ,. ihe nr
iltr.tXka i ii iiiitn s . '
three original enArnpuieiils of Engfatid.
From these hate emanated the existing
m a I
eiit'umpmenis
ol Ureal riritatn ana Hie
I 'nit.d States, sn tfiat the order as it now
exists i a ifneal desrenrtantof the-smetetii
order of the Temple. In Cunningham's
i-d I ion of tin- templars hart may lie
found a list of the Grand Masters, from
Hugh de Payens to Sidney Sn iih (elected
in 1838,) and the dates of tlielr eh-clloii,
eiilhnicing P -presentalives of the noblest
amilies in Europe oi all ages since the
foundation of the order.
f 'lVui
ut th:
I' ni'il ;if wk lo-'ooti-cl uilgiims uuxht-ir
II ! "l.iif.o, yet there a e
.elusive hisioiical pi oof tha' the ehi. t
and primary intention i.- to practice and
preserve the rites and mysteries of Free
masonry. Hud their real object been made
public, the antipathy lo the Masonic or
der, which was then considered antago
nistic to the doctrines and prfrrctprrs of
the Roman Catholic Church, would have
excluded them from Papal favor, and
prevented their attainment to wealth and
power. The surpassing, skill displayed
j y both tkv Templars and die Hospiul-
lcrs, especially the former, both in E Jrope
and Asia, in the construction or wowler
fni architectural and engineeiing woiks,
attests their knowledge of the laws of
beauty and just proportion, such as at
that time was not imparted from any oth
er than within the body of a duly filled
lodge Other evidences establish the fact
beyond a doubt that the nfSysterics of Free
masonry were known to aud transmitted
by tlicTcmplurs.
" The order of the Knights of tho Red
Cross, tbe first conferred in Masonic
Knighthood, is, on account of its intimate
connection with symbolic Masonry, joined
with those of the T emple and Malta, and
each candidate, alter intermediate proba
plar's asylum. It is conferred only upou
Masons who have taken the Entered Ap
prentice, Fellow Craft, Blaster Mason,
Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excel
lent Master and Royal Arch degrees, and
ta t'on.ided mainlv iinon incidents eonnect-
...l ... .I, ,l. n,u,U, n h iMmlai i
Jerusah-m. It relates the circumstance
of Zerubbabel, Prince of Sudah, prevatt-
ing under Cyrus, King of Persia, to re-1
store the Jews to liberty and permit them ;
to rebuild tbe city and mple. In the
ceremonies of cnuf erring this order the
trials and dffficnTties encountered in the
work are illustrated in a very forcible and
impressive manner. Its bistory date
back to that event, and is found in Jose
phus and in the third and fourth chapters
of tfhe first book of Esdras.
A FLORIPA TfODTH Handlkh Poisok
ous Rbptimcs WITH Iupi nitv For
I be benefit of tho outside world we-hare
Urtmt on record the laci that in our islaud
citv there lives a youth who in himself is
one among the great phenomenas of the
age. Listen, aud.be the judge yourself ;
lit mak'-s pels ulid play fellows ril the
laiger kind of ra'flesnakes, twisting them
aioimd him ami dallying with tbetr foJt
ed tongues and their ten, or twelve rattb s!
He actually has carried scorpions in bis
tostfln, nnd wasps and boruots in hi
sleeves and pockets, . without receiving
hit-or stltlg. In the loneliness ot the
'grove or forest, or in any secluded place
infested withsiakes, he can by few lal
lismaiiic words rail around him any n tim
ber of snaki-s, whom be c in cTmiiu ioio
pcrfectToBedleiico- to a'l bis Mandates
He cut pick 'them up and lay them down
at a.iy given place, and tu his bidding
i li. y will reintiii tin-re nnlil his return,
-,f-er nti absence sometimes of hours, i He
ran take a rat a "uinuse and so mani
pulate it o put llnvt ipexplicable tyrant
spell upon it - that it at once becomes a
mate suppliant for favor, ta quiescent, and
may he tumbled about at pleasure. The
young magician avers that 1 his miraculous
power is given him by spirits whether
good or evil, he knows not. We could
relate many incidents' in this connection
illustrative of our little friend's necromntic
faculty of subduing tho reptile creation,
but the foregoing must suffice.
Key West Dispatch.
A country pedagogue had two pupils,
to one of whom he was partial, and to the
other severe. One morning it happened
that these two boys mere late, and were
cal led up to account for it
i'ou must have heard the bell, boys,
why did you not cjome?" :
' Please, sir," said the f.ivorito "I
was drearain' that I was goin' to Califor
nia, and I thought the school bell was
the steauiboaf-bcll, as I was goin' in."
"Very well," said the niaiter, glad of
any pretext to excuse lijs favorite. "And
now, sir, turning to the other, "what
have you to say T
"Please sir," said the prnxTed boy, "I
1 was waiting to see I om off!
Junehug soup is actually a hew dish
just out in Germany. It is jiid to be Su
perior to crab soup, which gourmands con
r lifer uCllCIUU ; - .
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TERRIBLE CIRCUS ACClDKN'l
I earful and Auful Ajkifr Three Men
I h mured by Lions.
Kk.hi the MLIJIrtowai
.) Banner.
Tie iinusully qu
village of
Miittlletown was fat
irown Into a
painful f.-vcr of excites
it on the ii i
ing of June 12th bl
il catastrophe,
wmrli nccum-d to the I
lately attached
to Jain.-s Kobinson'
rircus and
nnifn .l show,
M. J.
the st-.itwsji,-
to urodut-e snpietbiar
a band chariot, and conceited on the idea
of nmuniiiig the band apoti tbe colon al
deu of p. ifoim-eg Numldi tii lions, and
which would hum one of the principal
and mostlnrpoarrrtr fVtts-f the show.
Although, rvpeatedly4rarned by Pro
f.-ssor Set Ion that he (Ii l ined the cage
ii. secure and dangeroas in the extreme,
the managers still ersistt-d in compelling
ihe Hand to ride upon it. Nothing, how
ever, ocenrred until the fatal morning of
the lh
Tt7e Hand' look
their places anil the
pit,ci-io-i commenced trTniovc amid the
shouts of he muliitiido of rustics who
had assembled to witness the grand pa
geant, and hear ihe eulieseniug strains of
music. Not a thought of danger was en
tertaineri uy any one, but tne awiui caws-
troptic was auoui to occur.
A the dtiver. wkav.auMl
lo make a
turu tn the streets the IeaKers became en
tangled and threw the Afire team iuto
confusion and he lost csntrol oi them,
and becoming frightened tbey broke into
a voilent run. Upon the opposite sido of
the street tbe fore wheel .f the cage came
in contact with a large roek with such
force as to cause the brscea and stanch
ions which supported t i roof to give
way, thereby precipitating tbe entire band
iuto the awful pit below.
For an instant the crowd was para
lysed with fear, but fur a moment only,
and then arose such a slfiok of sgony as
was never beard before Tbe awful
groans of terror and sgr which arose j BBlwwipUoil to , dese'rring charily. Sev
from the poor victims who were torn, cmen 0 ,Weud t, More
, III 1,1'. ' , III l. Ii II. ' - i , . r-
tniii'n.iii. r,n ,ua niiinaira in.ii,ti u'.id
Iictrtreudiug and sickepng tu a u rribl
aegree.
Every moment sotn
e or the band
es from the de-
would extricate tln-r
. J Wf-. lUUlVi of the
to the ground witn a iftia spring ana
faint away upon strikii t the earth, so
great was their terror, lot human na
ture could not stand and Ice men literally
devoured before their k'ery eyes, for
there, wero v ill'tig licsrfAuid strong arms
-ready to renih r every asrOtance n
sosnrv
to rescue (he aftfekMuimfc victims of tins
shocking cahimity. j
A hardware store wljeh happened to
tnd opposiie was tnvasja at the request
of the noble-hearted proprietor,
and
pitchforks, crowbars aiil long bars of
iron, and in fact every ivuilable weapon
was brought into requisition. The side
doors of the cage were qjickly torn from
their fastenings, and thi s a horrible sight
was presented to view, hiingled among
the brilliant uniform of 'the poor unfor
tunates lay legs, arms, Horn from their
sockets and half devosred, while the
savage brutes glared ferociously with.,
iheir sickly grencolorl eyes upon the
petrified crowd. Pifessor Charles
White arrived at '.bis nDim nl, and gave
orders in regard to exirtratiiig the dead
and wounded h.: well know ing it Would
be a difficult and dauge ius underialihg
to remove them from tb iufuriated mon-au-i,
'
Stationing men with arks and bars at
every available point, hi sprang fearless
ly. ii.to the den iiuiid saUge monsters, and
commenced moving lip wounded, and
E
issing upon the outsldi to their friends.
hid succeeded if removing the
wounded, and was pro'eeding tu gather
up the remains of the IIp-Icss, when the
iu.miuob liou, knuwu to showmen as
Nero, sprang with a fruitful roar upon
hia keeper, fastening his itceth and'claws
in his neck aud shoulder, lacerating him
In a horrible manner. Iftof. White made
three herculean efforts to fhuke the mon
ster off, hut wjiiiout atki, and gave or
ders to lire upon him
The contends of four.f Colt's nnvys
were immediately pouredinto the carcass
of the ferocious animal srid he' fell dead;
and the brave little msfnotwithstanding
the fcarfiil manner in which he was
wounded never left ' thfage tiiitil every
vcslage of thqjdead wore'' carefully gath
ered togi'ther and placed upon a sheet,
preparatory for burial.. It was found that
three of the feX who mounted the cage a
short time before were killed outright,
and firar others terribly lacerated. The
names of the killed are -August Schoer,
Conrad Freeiz and I barles O.einer. Cof
fins were procured .tin! an immediate bu
rial determined upon, as the bodies were
so frightfully torn and lacerated as to be
unrecognisable to their most intimate
fiiendi
i.
A Chip ok thk Oj.b Block. The
New York Sun. ( Radical authority,) of a
late date, says:
Walter Butler, a nephew cf the Gen
eral has been captured in Vorkville at the
residence of bis affianced. It waa charged
that ha hfifBtoleii SCS fiuin Miss-Lnthy,
of No. 90 West Houston street, Butler
atmrrpted to cirt-his throat before he was
taken from the house.
He .that blows the coals in quarrels he
lias nothing to do with, has no right to
tmmftamxfmja lace.
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TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF
A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE.
The following "journal of a defeated
candidate" we recommend to the conside
ration of those gentlemen who are desir
out of servinr thier couutnr :
Thursday Received the nomination
for aa offioe. Surprised aud indignant.
Kemonstiated with committee. Was told
1 must place myself in the band of tuj
friends. Eventually did so.
Friday Immense poster on a brick
ppaatte tioue ; my name ia two-foot
officer in tbe
- -
to law, is indicted aud tried at the end of
his term. Friends, meeting me in the
i stsssV say iheio is a roasor about town
(hat I am up for office, a rumor which
might M fee contradlc'-ed. Other friends
offer ironical congratulations, and leave
me tu doubt hcilo r the office is unlit for
me, or 1 for tbe office. Old geutleman
won't believe it, for he knew my father,
and he waa a very respectable man.
Saturday Man on the stoop of my
haaaa with big whin and tarrier. Broad
shouldered, slovenly person, with sanguin
ary eye. Come to advise me to beware
of ruffians tliat go around election times
extorting money from candidates. Offers
his services to attend the polls. Custora-
arv In aava ... tmv in mi e.. .... T I...-
him ,0 con)mit,co. Ho whistles to
y
bis dog. Engage him for 95, cash down
Wc part with mutual expressions of es
teem. (ioing in, find six men smoking in my
parlor, delegates from n target excursion.
Customary, they say, for candidates to
give prises ou these occasions. Refer
them to my committee. Captain very
poire tells mc ho will give me time to
think abont it, and will come on Sunday
with the whole guard in, to let me see
what a fine-looking sot of fellows tbey
are. Result, ST0 lor a ptiae.
J-veiling luxated persons call tor a
subscription for a banner. Man comes
with a wooden leg - wants a new one.
I I lir. i I1H.I II Ktltl Ika-tal I ' I . - r. r V II I 1 I I f,.l- fl
- . - .
cripples. Delegation want their fire-engine
painted. Men without arms to post
the bills. A woman with subscription for
a coffin. Children aT crying up stairs.
My wife in hysterics,. Great terror and
""Midnight Torchlight procession ; i'et-
! tie drums : serenade ; make a speech ;
rotten egg hits me in the eye ; general
fight ; brickbats, clubs, banners, torches,
and fists.
Tuesday Wake up defeated. Tell my
friends I don't care for myself, but feel
sorry for the city. My wife goes home to
her mother; tbe children are sent where
they cannot be under my influence. No
home no friends no wife uo money
uo office.
A QUESTION ANSWERED
"Can any reader tell why, when Eve
was manufactured from one of Adam's
ribs, a hired girl wasn't made at the same
time to wait on her I"
We can, easily. Because Adam never
came whining to Eve with a ragged stock
insr to be darned, a collar strincr to be
sewed on, or a glove to be mended "right
away, quick now !" Because be never
read the newspaper until the sun got down
behind the palm trees, and then stretched
himself, yaw . lint' ont "Ain't supper most
ready, my dear?" Not ho. He made the
fire and hung over the tea-kettle himself,
we'll venture, and pulled tbo raddishes,
and peeled the bananas, and did every
thing he ought. He milked the cows ond
fed the chickens, and looked after the pigs
himself. He never brought home half a
dozen friends, to dinner, when Eve hadn't
any fresh pomegranates, and the mango
season was! over. He never stayed until
eleven o'clock to "war meeting," hur
rahing, for the out and out candidates, and
.ben scolded because poor Eve was sit
ting up and crying inside the gates. To
be sure, he acted rather cowardly about
apple-gathering time, but then that don't
depreciate his general helpfulness about
the garden. He never played billiards,
uor drove fast horses,, nor choked Eve
with cigar smoke. He never loafed a
ronnd corner groceries while salary Eve
was rocking little Cain's cradle aj home.
In short, he didn't think she was special
ly created for the purpose of waiting on
him, and wasn''. under the Impression
that it disgraced a man to lighten a wile'B
care a little.
That's tiie reison that Eve did not
need u hired girl, and we wish it was the,
reason that noue of her fair descendants,
dd. " ""'V
What aTWak Dobs is Half a Cks
XCBT. According to u French staticiun,
taking the mean of many accounts, a man
of fifty years-of age lias slept 0,000 days,
worked C.-'iOO days, walked uo days,
amnsedVbimseTfCOOO days, was eating 1,
600 days, was sick 600 days, etc. He
1 1 J 1 3 ASkal J -
aU 17,U0U poiinrii oi ureau, io,uuw pouuus
j of meat, 4,600 pounds of vegetables, eggs
I and fish, and drank 7,000 gallon, of liq !
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uid, vh : water, coffee, tea, beer, wine,
etc., all together. ;ihis would make a
respectable lake of square feet surface and
three feet deep, on which a small sleam
boat could navigate. And all this solid
and liquid material passing through a hu
man being in fifty years !
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The New York Post thinks there' are,
on the whole, few things a woman can do
wjelJ asjri7 - . :
DEATH IN A FRIGHTFUL SHAPE
A M iv FALLS) FROM
CBCRCH s i ki: rt r t
nn.
THK TOP or A
UtSTAMCa OF 180
From tbs Cincinnati Enquirer, Jun. 10.
It has more than once occurred to those
who bare watched the erection of tbe tall
and shapely steeple of tha new St Paul's
Episcopal Church, at the corner of Sev
enth and Smith streets, that it would be
almost providential if that beautiful work
reached completion without an accident
nd. 1 owcriug above all sur-
aud as the daring workmen plll'll'IIJliin
it tbe finishinir touches, which were to
make it for thneto come "a ihfng of bean
ty," a shuddering feeling always found a
place in tire breast of the spectator, who
contemplated how near they stood to
Death s door and considered the fragile
thread upon which their lives hung. This
was truly the case in a sense anything but
figurative, a was demonstrated yester
day in an accident of the most horrible
kind, resulting in tbe death of ouc of, these
same wnrlcrr.cn. ' 1
A man named Ceorge Jaynci, a slater,
in the employ of Messrs. Dunn & Witt,
roofers, of Third street, was engaged sla
ting the northwestern steeple. About
half-past eight o'clock, he was swinging
in his little basket near the very apex of
the spire, engaged in Ins precarious work
The basket waa suspended by a rope,
which passed orcra pu'ly at toe lop of
ttff steej.li-a fragile com indeed. The
man had just received a new supply of
Slate, and was swinging on the west side,
when the -rope on one side of his diminu
tive condle snapped all of a sudden, and
he was thrown out with his leftside down
ward, lie was a hundred and eighty feet
removed from the earth, and the nature of
the fall may be imagined. In falling, he
struck bead first npon the cone of a lower
turret,' nearly seventy -five feel below, and
glancing off at tangent, alighted upou
the Seventh street pavement, acreral feet
from tbe building.
The frightful scene paralyzed every
witness for thu instant, and when his fcl-
low-workmen reached him they found him
a lifeless, mangled corpse. H is teg Was
broken, his neck dislocated, one of his
arms broken, and bis head and body fear-1
tuny cut and gashed. Lr. Comegys was
krffnVttcfWarrY i fttYl' Vfo i Wi uy HrtsW aM
1 hey pu ked him up aud earned him into
the vestibule of the church, there to await
the Coroner. Death's outrider came and
held his inquest, and while there was
much said about the three-quarter inch
rope upon which the man suspended his
life, and its general frailty, there was no
blame to be attached to anybody, and the
jury returned its commonplace verdict of
"Death by accidental fall," Ice.
I LOVE YOU.
A tired woman hushed to sleep her
babe. Beauty once made her face radi
ant, perhaps, but all that beauty is gone
now. The blue eye is dim and faded
the pale brow ia covered with lines of
care. Perbsps with that far off look of
hers she sees lit'le graves, green with
many summers. Her home is very hum
ble all day she has toiled, and tbe taint
ing spirit almost surrenders to fatigue the
downcast eyeslrcThbtfug'wtth tears she
is so weary and every nerve tingles
when these boys eomc hungry from school,
some with a tale of sorrow that mother
must hear.
And after that they were hushed with
kisses or eludings. It is time to set sup
per for seven hungry mouths, and tbe ac
customed never-ending of putting away
and cleaning up, tilt the worn out creature
wonders with ... aigh If there really will
come a n at for her an eternal rest.
At last she can rest lier wi,h weary
limbs in the corner rocking chair. The
babe whose eyes close fitfully to low lul
laby, lies in her father's lap. He is a
plain roan, that good father, with an hon
est face and a great heart, that would
take in all tbe caro aud sorrow of the
household. ,
Tho babe sleeps. With rude gentle
ness he lays it on its mother's bosom, and
us tho ruddy fire-light plays over the
care-worn features, ho looks upon her
with eyes suddenly growing lustrous and
beautiful. He lifts bis great hand softly
till it rests on Tier shoulders, as he say :
"I love you. dear Mary J"
How the poor heart leaps into love,
light and rest How vanish the cares
that trod upon her weary soul ! She no
more remember the toilsome watching.
She reflects not now that the pretty babe
with flushing checks against- her breast
has worn her patience threadbare with
constant tear and unrest. She Jorgets
that the fire would smoke, the broth bcrn,
and the children lease her, bat the
clothes line broke, and that every limb of
her frame ached with fatigue.
. W haT Trere those Tn comparison with
the steadfast lore I hat has burned for
eighteen years, in the sunlight of hsppi-
! ness, through the clouds of despair, when
MT
g
i.nrn, r.l AVuhn
winning, and when her
t charms of loveliness had
gone and ihe
freshness of youth had departed forever?
What cared she for aught outside her
home! Though she had many sorrows,
such as thrilled her whole being.
"1 love you Mary!"
A backman at Newport gained the cus
torn of the friends at the late yearly Meet
ing. by sa ing thee, but ruined bi chan
ces by asking "Whert's thou' baggage t"
"Hi.owi.ni;." There are many kinds
of blowing, aa tbe blowing of glass, which
is useful; the blowing of soap bubbles by
children which is amusing and harmleis;
tbe blowing of the wind, which, when not
too rodent ia hesdtby and invigorating;
there Is the blowing of tha born, which
can make melody of Itself, or hsrmonioas
sounds, in its wart of a rrand orchestra:
"a blow of tulip," or the blowing up of a
magazine, as wo read ot In tneTaUer, and
tbo losing of a Provinoo nt blow, as we
road of in the poo try of Dryden. AU
these from history to flowers, from drafts
nowcrs, irnm arans
ng of puff-balls and
I Ihf bht
U this, and more
of wind to the scattering of puff-balls aud
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is a blowing beyond all
common than all this which is without
grace, decency, elf-respect, public or
prirate utility. It 1s the blowing brag
gart - of the man or men who, having no
capital of their awn, contrive to lire upon
the capital of others. The very abund
ance of their superfluous breath serves
them in place of truth, integrity, fair
dealing, honor, justice, magnanimity, and
all those virtues and qualities of character
which adorn hnman life On the smallest
possible capital they make the greatest
possible parade. In journalism, as wo
daily ace, they substitute blowing for
news, prcteimions for substance, inven
tion, as in tbe wicked Roumania hoax, for
fact. If, as Mr. Lord Paler, says, "a lie
is an inrention to deceive," wo nnlo them;
for though untruths which they write and
print are legion, and of all the hues be
tween the white lies of Mrs. Opie and the
black lies of other people, and of aU the
varieties painted in detail by Sbake
pcare, be all and end all of this clamor
amounts to Blowing. Sometimes It il
malicious blowing, as in bearing false
witness of others; sometimes it is decep
tive, as in pretending to own what you
do not possess; sometimes it is harmless
and ridiculous, as iu the case of tbe climb
ing monkey; netTmcs simply silly, as
in tbe case of AWe ostrich who thought'
that the hiding of his head concealed his
whole body. Intelligent, sensible, read
ing people, always see where the body of
the bird is exposed. It is as easy to ex
plode such bladders as it is to scatter
bubble of water. Wlthftr there Is noth
ing but air, and without nothing but wind
1 hose who have real merit don t blow.
j Blowing is not necessary to their success,
lion they ore disgusting. -'A youth of
folly, sn old age of cards." In print they
are always assailants, and just what we
see them, men of words, words, WORDS.
Vox et prateree nihil.
Tuk Woods-Port nn Cask. The fol-
Llowing it the report of the Judiciary
Committee of the House, ' in the Woods
Porter case, as presented by Mr. Bingham,
on Saturday:
" Whereas, Patrick Woods on tha SOtb
day of May last past, at Richmond, did
make s violent, unprovoked and felonious
assault upon Hon. Charles H. Porter,
then being a member of tbe House ot
Representatives, on bis way returning
thereto from a leave of absence, and did
cut, bruise, and disable said Porter, being
then a member of the House, from at
tending to his duties therein, Woods well
knowing that Mr. Porter was then a
member of Congress and on hia way to
Wash 1 1 gt ..ii, and making such assault
because of that knowledge; And whereat,
said Woods being brought to the bar of
the House, and being fully heard in hia
defense by counsel and witnesses - be
fore the ('.'in mil tee of the Judiciary, all
the facts before recited fully appeared;
therefore,
Revoked, That Patrick Woods, now
beTd at the bar of the House to answer
for a breach of the privileges of the Honse
for Id i offence, be, and hereby is, ordered
to be imprisoned in the jail of the Dis
trict ot Columbia, as other criminals are,
for three mouths, aud ihut a warrant in
due form, under the hand of the Speaker,
be issued to (he Scrgcant-st-Arnv. direct
ing the execution of this order.
A Lover of Rattlesnakes. There
is iu , La Crosse., Wisconsin, a certain
John McK.ce, w ho has a singular fond
ness fur rattlesnakes. He has made,
says the JlepuUicon of that place, "a
perfectly square deii, about five feet each
w ay, and us many high, open at the lop,
and therein are eleven rattlesnakes, from
eighteen inches to three feet in length a
sight to behold! Writhing, twitting,
turning, and folding upon, over and un
der each other; or, with heads erect, with
keen eyes glistening, and w icked looking
serpent tongues protruding from their ugly
mouths., with lightning like swiftness,
there they are, a moving, twining, hideous
looking mass of serpents! It is a terri
ble eight. And th. :i to sec McKee coolly
and deliberately cuter among them, and
take thcrnVnch in his hand, call it by
name, open its mouth, and whim bo is
giving you its history To see the reptile
lay its head upon his cheek, and run its
devilish tongue at yon, while its eyes
seem to emit sparks of fire ugh! it's too
horrible. And all the while the others at
h:s feet are keeping up a continual btu
zirtg, rattling, humming, which fill tbe
air with low murmurs, and causes a cer
tain crtcping of the flesh and shuddering
at tbe heart which is not at all plcu.'ant.
Mr. McKee caught thrm on tbe blnffi
near the city, from a nest ol brer on.
hnndied in number, aud is. training tbciu
for exhibition.
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