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THE WINSTON LEADER, THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, II is k lare and daily increasing circulation in the ,,,mtie" f Koravth, 8tkes, Surry. Davie, Yadklo, l! jan, Iredell, Guilford, Orange, Person, liran and; throughout the Piedmont region, which i ike it a valuable advertising medium. Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates. Send for terir. Ixv-al Notices ten cents a line etch insertion. Marriage find leath Notices free. S THE WINSTON HAD Leader STON JAMES Al.OKE.XON R. - i priant twflUs awaf lis) t aa M i n i "wnt'.BianMi. . ttt as atk, I 0 t aB- In 0 4 tmm ........ I 1 an1 r are - . s CM a Ism r e-r? !' -a ajaaasv sjfx A ' iam mm fwwr Mr t tmmtr as ika utantr(tikitsin4.w it 4am mmm m frt fully ' t4 i . rr m na ' aarsBasjtratansM tatts t n naaaa 4 laral lr -- "Oil MUTED- jKT torl'l : on. pn. I).o "7;iih. NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA V E LABOR FOR ITS INTERESTS .IOH PRINTING fiorie with neatnss and dispatch, and on the most ?wvomroodttn; terms. Work solicited. ir .aw .f iu 1 y aa m- t4 TW tssr 'X0 T, 0. Tl.-.'S VOLUME I. WINSTON. N. ('., TUESDAY. JUNK 17. 1879 M MHKH 23. WfN ai A slvi TasH wmWr faH sasaBZL.u 1 vjLjfiSltei 3'"" "m BMss4 SMbSm ELr":l Ifciiimii a K teas mi ar laasis saarnasw4 aN IS in n 4 .-rni a'ajm. Maaaai itasttl tm hx" aa W writ' a aata ol i a asstt as. aa4 si i pan-aaVfc t t mt tfca mr a aa a gia i 1 i 1 1 ... . tsr.1.. trie, r 'hni. r ii,T.''rj to S.-II ..... 3,H r m T "i ,, , - 20 !- ... ft'i Illl I" fiffy., ' 'I unit., . i,",',"rln, 1 '":r Pr "' '"Prut, ORGANS. iTllun A Hi" I: h. E! r 'or rii- I wnrrHiitji of m r. rslll.il, I, v Vorh. SUN. rir. Iiid in th IJO tsd ths rrs Y. ,1, RSCTff Ion. flS.ET 1 1.' . lORSET Or 1 w.jv. :ll," HE," . I. I out. Iloxt ICAN II. i in v.. Im kin. er. il" to lur 1. Heading merely for pastime, without any moral aim, is a thing to be guarded Hgaiast. Immortality opens a large hope, that may overpaly the most unspeakable bitterness of life. Be true tolyour friend ; never speak of liihfaults to another, to show your own discrimination. When' a proud man is rolling out an ash barrel, a horse car loaded with fashionable ladies generally passes by. The Whitehall Timet truthfully says that " Live business men advertise in newspapers, dead ones on the graveyard tombstones." ('an t be beet A parsnip. Some thing to be looked into A mirror. Pay ing the piperSettling with the gaa - fitter. "ne of the most interesting sights in life is that of a spirituelle young lady iharpening a lead pencil, with a table kniie. New York ctar. Jaf'anese farms average about one acre each in size, and it doesn't take for ever to hunt up the cows in the pas ture. New Ilarev Reqittrr. What a bos tot memories it brings up to drag forth a last year's white vest and find a dime snugly ensconced in one of the pockets ! New York Exjirets. When ladies order slippers a couple i-siz'H too small for them, you can make up your mind that the croquet - ason is on its way. Waterloo Obsrrver. One elephant with a show used to be sufficient to bring in all the country people to a town, but now it takes a dozen to do that. The elephant is losing his influence on the masses." Some of the religious weeklies are so zealous for hastening the coming of the reign of peace on earth as to frown down (very kind of a schism, even to witticism. ftonton Transcript. One grocer asked another: "Is Colonel a man to be trusted? ' " I think you'll find him so," was the reply. it you trust Dim once you II trust him j forever, ile never pays. A man's manners usually grow better or worse in inverse ratio to remote or near acquaintanceship. In other words, he keeps his manners, as he does his best clothes, for holidays and company. " Iowa has two hundred and twenty four brass bands." Now, says the Nornstown Herald, we understand the drift of a long editorial entitled "The (Hoomy Outlook," which recently appeared in an Iowa paper. " Dear singer! Thou hast never ta'en my hand, and looked into my face all tenderwise," sings Mary Clemmer to John ;. Whittier. Of course he hasn't, Mary. He is no such man. tArell Courier. "am you tell me, my dear," sa'd a smUIng wife To her grave and earnest loid. " hy this bill that is duly ourj by right, K fiibiaa the negro horde Tliat leaving the South so fast of late And creating euch a fuss?" A nil Rh( answered his stare of bewilderment, ' Bi c melts en X-owtd-us " ltUdo fummerefnt. The Detroit Free Press man is evi dently cleaning house. Hear him: " .lust ask the druggist ' for some of that stuff to keep the mosquitoes away.' He'll tumble in a minute, and if you keep the front blinds closed no one will see you at work on the bedstead." " What is faith?" asks a subscriber. We haven't got our catechism handy ; should say it was writing to a rich uncle for a loan of some money and believing you will receive a favorable reply. One trial of this nature eradicates faith as effectually as if a Georgia mule had kicked it. Toledo Commercial. People have already ceased to wonder at the telephone, the. phonograph has become an old thing, and what the pub lic demand of Mr. Edison now is a ma chine that will stand at the kitchen door and knock the head of the firBt tramp that asks for a lemon ice and two Kinds of cake. Burlington Hawkeye. A man and his wife can never agree upon what constitutes a tidy-looking room ; a woman will grow irritable when she finds half-a-dozen cigarstumps stick ing to the scorched mantelpiece, and he an't be expected to keep calm when he finds a bunch of long " combings " in bis shaving-mug. Puck. TtlRRE is an easy way out of almost any difficulty if you are" only a philoso pher. Say. for example, that a man called you a miserable scoundrel, or any other harsh name, you have only to make up your mind that he is an ignorant puppy and no judge of human nature, and your mind will be set at rest imme diately. A LOCK of a man's hair in a lady's lingers before marriage indicates that a sighing lover is thinking of her; but a lock of a man's hair in a lady's fingers after marriage, is as surely indicative of a yelling chap, as the yell of agony when the owner says: "Jerusalem, Mariar, let go ! ()-o-uch ! Golly, don't pull so !" Bradford fira. How thoughts do crowd to the point of the pen after it begins to journey down the page, although they were never so tardy at first. Just like life. When we start, how few can we per-, -iVle to assist in our enterpriaea, but whejyeucceed how plentifully friends (rather around us. Turners Falls Re- A woman may revel in silks and sat ins: she mftV mab-o Iiaf tuiAilfv Tajntan. 'lent with diamonds and opals; she may j autre herself in the most delicate colors I until she looks sweeter than the burst of ! 'awn on Paradise; but at the same time j - ' will condescend to tie her hair up with the Tag end of a nair of superan- ! uted penny shoestiings. New York A Funeral Postponed. There died n few days ago in Paris a lady, whose decease was duly and le gally attested. The funeral was fixed for Sunday afternoon, and when the hour arrived the undertaker made his appearance, and was placing the corpse in the coffin, when suddenly one of his assistants exclaimed that the body was arm. At tiie same moment the lady moved ; her eyes opened slowly and re garded with a stupefied expression those who were standing around. The police were immediately apprised of the st range occurrence, and several doctors hurried in, hastily summoned. The lady was really alive, but was only temporarily snatched from the grave, and actually expired at the end of a few hours. Per haps the shock on discovering her awful situation had proved too much for Iter enfeebled constitution. The funeral, after all, was only postponed for a day. Iue early revenue officer eatches the ' '-m still. Often. OTreary is like the elder Wellefc; he has "done it once too often, Sammy. Bnt the defeated pedestrian has pjenty of company in this business. The world is full of persons who have done it once too often. In all departments fit life tne wrecks of those who have gone down on the last trip are strewn along the shore. Men are never satisfied with their achievements. They want to rise a round higher, and at last they take the one step too many that brings dis aster. Sometimes it is in a physical, sometimes in a moral, sometimes in a mental way. The human organism will bear great strains ; but each excessive effort weakens the foundation, and at last there is a total collapse, as is the case of O'Leary. We speak of the folly and wickedness of such trifling with natural laws asthe athlete exhibits, but the same excess can be found in any of the professions. Lawyers, doctors, ministers, editors, politicians, stretch the mental powers to their utmost tension, and are sur prised when their brain finally faols to respond, and they are left helpless! with the fight not half ended. Merchants, in their busy striving, tax their energies as unfairly as O'Leary taxed his legs, and some fine morning they find tjhem selves unable to master the perplexing prouiem, miii iaii DacK to make room for others. They have done it onde too often. As a matter of fact, how much orse was it for O'Leary to ruin his hjealth uu uuuermine ms constitution Oylcom- pelling his legs to earn his fortune than it is for the commercial speculator to snatter Jus brains in a similar pursuit? O'Leary's legs are used up, but hisfhead is unharmed. The speculator's hekd is gone, though his legs may be linim paired. The truth is, and the factt has been stated often enough, though no body pays any attention to it, tht we live too fast ; we strive too much ; we take too many stojw both for our mental and physical good. But another point that is quite clear is that in the rae for riches, office, fame, or what noti the competition is so great that incessant trial seems necessary to success. Per haps reform will come with an older civilization, and that after a while men will be content to reach the top round late in life, instead of mounting it at middle age with broken health and the cup of ambition drained Inter Ocean. A Wonderful Clock. ine wizo aiaie journal describes a clock which has just been finished in Columbus, as the result Of eight yfears' toil. It is five feet wide and ten high, and has "three times more dial indica tions and more moving embellishments than any clock on earth." The two Bides represent the two great periods in American history, the War ol the Revolution and the War of the Rebel lion. Independence Hall is shown, with its cracked bell in the old belfry, j and an old rcan to ring it. The hours are struck by the Goddess of Libertyj and Justice balancing her scales. There is also a reproduction of all the figures shown in the famous Strasburg clock. Historic scenes are enacted on a stage. At the first quarter hour '& locomotive appears, as the emblem of our progress in industry. At the second, the bell is tolled in Independence Hall, and Wash ington walks majestically across the scene. At the third, the apostles bow to the figure of Christ, Peter denie his Lord, and the cock crows. A ske eton hastens along, bearing a green scaff on his shoulders with the words " time flies," and an infant emerges from an opening door with a rattle-box in its hand. Just before the full hour arrives a phonograph makes music to herald its coming. At midday emancipation is acted. Lincoln, proclamation in 1: and, moves toward a slave bound to an auc tion block, while the slave turns to look at his deliverer, his shackles fall and his hands are raised as in a prayer of thanks giving. A (Gobbler's Spree. A farmer at Glenbnrn, Me, pnrch lsed some supplies in Bangor, among w lich was a pint of whisky. To avoid break age, ho placed the bottle in a boa of rice, but found on reaching home that the bottle was broken and the rice sat urated. He threw the rice behinc huj baru, and a big turkey soon paid his respects to it. In due time the tu -key became dead drunk, and was fount! in that condition hy the farmer.who thoi ipjht that disease or poison had killed iim. The bird was still warm, and the dartth evidently recent. The farmer wiuld not eat him himself, but plucked him for market and left him in the stable. The next morning he found tho bereft gobbler shivering nake I on his roost, and looking on him with re proachful eyes. Sacred Music. The owner of a steam sawmill in Ne vada was until lately a member of a Methodist church, from which he was expelled, as he says, to gratify the per sonal spite of the pastor. He resolved to hold religious services of his own, and, to make them effective, he ob tained a powerful calliope, and attached it to the steam boiler of his mill. On Sundays, the voice of the Methodist preacher is drowned by the soun I of the callippe, as it screeches " The Sweet By and By," and other Moody and Sankey tunes. The clergyman hast ap plied to a Justice's court for relief, but the magistrate rules that the use of the calliope on Sunday for sacred music is legal. The question has been carried to a higher court. French Laws and Customs. There are many strange anomalies in French laws and French customs! A young girl who recently shot herj se Jucer because he refused to keep I his promise of marriage has just been ac quitted at Bordeaux ; and yet French law takes- into no account breach of promise ; nor has a girl who has been seduced any claim on her lover even for the support of a child. The murdered man, therefore, committed no illegal act, and the girl who took the law into her own hands is acquitted, to the great delight of a crowded court. A Mother Killing Her Daughter. A sad accident occurred here to-day. Mrs. Colson, wife of Mr. D. F. Colson, i to amuse her litte sick daughter Annie, gave her an old rusty pistol to play with. Annie tried in vain to snap it. Eer mother then, thinking it unloaded, seized the weapon, and, laugningly (say ing "I will shoot Annie,' she pliced the muzzle to her daughter's head, and pulling the trigger fired. The ball en tered Annie's head, instantly killing her. -Iresden ( Term.) letter. Once 1 OI K FIRST BR. BY AXDUW I1DII. I couldnatbink mj bairn waa dead And jet I saw her dee ; I watch'd tbe waning o' her breath, The film creep o'er her 'ee. ' wba wad 'eer hae tbocht that I Bae soon f rae her should part I Bat there's the power that's far aboon A mither'a loving heart And aye. I looVd upon her Ioe It was rac sweetly mild : But oh, 1 coaldna cry, tho' death Had robb'd me o' my child. Noo every thing seems strange to me. Sin' my lov'd Det's been tsen ! inar, tno' aund freensare wf 1 rae here, 1 leel aa if alane. A stranger measured for her shroud. And mournfu' he did look I saw the tear fa' frae his 'ee, His hand wt feeling shook. " I've seeo," he said, bnrht children d, Wl' every mark o" bliss, Tut ne'er in a' my life hae look'd On face or form like this." Her lit'le playmates a' did come And stood around her bier; And oh ! it touch'd me to the heart Their sobbing words to hear. oreet a UntU the day I dee: When Una will awake.' An angel she will be." she said , Wl' weight o' grief I couldna speak, K'en when the bairns had ane; I cu'dna rest, I conldna think, My mind waa scarce my aln. Then a' the feelings o' my heart Broke in an anguish wild. And a' I wish'd and a' I ask'd Was, " l.ay me wi' jny child " Oh. the dark mystery o' death! Here much frae us is seal'd , But when my bairn I see again, Then a' will be reveal'd. the: west. BY iIIAHLKS MACK AY To the West ! to the West I to the land nt ,be free. Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the cea; Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the humblett may gather the fruits of th soil ; Where children are blensings, and be who hath most. Hath aid for his fortune and riches to boast ; Where the young may exult, and the aged may rest. Away, far away, to Ihe land of the West ! To the Wtsfl to the West! there Is wealth to be won. The forest to clear is the work fo be done; We'll try it, we'll do it, and never despair. While there's light in the sunshine and breath in the air. The bold independence shall labor and buy, Shall strengthen our hands and forbid us to sigh. Away I far away ! I -et us hope for tbe best. And build up new homes in ihe land of the Wp Extraordinary Experiments. Curious Tests and Wonderful Results iu Medicine and Science. On November, 14, 1666, Mr. Pepys wrote in his diary: " Dr. Croue told me that at a meeting at Gresham Col lege to-night there tvas a pretty experi ment of the blood of one dog let out, till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own ran out on the other side. The first died on the place, and the other is very well, and likely to do well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an archbishop, and such like ; but as Dr. Crone says, may, if it takes, be of mighty u?e to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better." A year later the secretary was mightily pleased at making the acquaintance of a poor debauched man, who, having had twelve ounces of sheep's blood let into his veins, found himself a new man. The value of his testimony is somewhat discounted by Pepys remarking: " He is cracked a little in the head," while declaring him to be the first sound man that ever submitted to the operation in England, " and but one we hear of in France ;" that one being probably Dr. Denys, of Paris, who successfully trans ferred the blood of an animal into his own veins. We rather wonder some inquiring spirit has not tested the truth of the fancy underlying Pepys's ' pretty wishes." That, perhaps, is to come. The transfusion of blood, however, is a recognized resource in desperate cases, like that related in a London medical journal four years ago, in which the patient suffered so terribly that the nurse fainted and the doctors despaired. Still they persevered, and by making alkaline injections into an opened vein wrought a slight improvement, an im provement followed by a relapse threat ening the worst. Then they opened a vein in the husband's arm, and injected his blood into his sinking wife. She be gan to rally from that moment, and in two months' time was almost herself again. Fortunately for those who may be in as sad a plight with no near and dear one willing to bleed for hive's sake, Dr. Brown-Sequard bas discovered that warm milk injected slowly into a human artery is a potent reviver; a discovery already turned to good account by the physicians of the Dublin Provident In firmary, who, finding an inmate of that institution apparently dying of ex haustion, promptly opened a vein, in jected into it a pint of milk fresh from the cow, and had the satisfaction of see ing the patient rally at once, a prelude to perfect recovery. Very different was the result of the rash experiment of a young Berlin doc tor, who fancied cholera could be kept at bay by mingling tainted with untainted blocd. He took some blood from a cholera patient, and introduced it into his own veins. In seven hours he was a dead man. Poor Oberndyer is not the only in stance of a medical theorist falling a victim to a mistaken belief. Professor Walkea, of Brooklyn, finding nothing to allay an excruciating pain in the face, took it into his head that a certain deadly drug would serve his turn. His wife sat down by his bedside, pencil and note-book in hand, intent upon carefully taking down, from his dictation, every sensation produced by the action of the drug. Her task was not a lone-lasting one. After swallowing the third dose of sixty minims, the unlucky experi mentalist shrieked outu Water: water water!" and expired. Somebody once pretended to have as certained tnat the curse of Brazil was identical with a disease which the an cients cured with snake venom. A patient at tbe Hospital dos Lazarns an establishment near Rio de Janeiro devoted to the reception of peisons af fected with leprosy "and elepnantiais F , ' i- ! I offered to submit tn the hazardous ex periment. A rattlesnake was put into his bed, but shrank from the companion ship, until the desperate feliow, seizing it in his hands, squeezed the reptile so hard that in self-defenee it struck him with his fangs, but so lightly that the man was unaware of the fact until tne on-lookers told him that tbe snake had f ullfilled his mission, and he saw. M little blood oozing from the puncture; but in twenty-four hours there was a vacant bed in the ward. When one of Pizarro's warriors re ceived an ugly wound from an Omecuan spear, the cspanish leech took off' the koigbt's coat of mail, put it upon an In dian prisoner, put him on a horse and drove a spear through the hole in the armor. Giving the Indian his quietus the surgeon opened his body, ana seeing the heart was not injured bv the spear thrust, concluded the knight s hurt was 1 not mortal ; so he treated it a a common t wound, and soon set the patient on his ; legs. A similar method of diagnosis was practiced bv tne rrench surgeons when the eye of Henry the Second was pierced by a splinter from Montgomerie's lance. In order to arrive at a knowledge of the injury inflicted they cut off the heads of four condemned men and thrust splinters into the eyes at the same in clination as that at which the fatal sliver had entered the King's eye. It was common enousrn to utilize criminals in this way in the olden days. In the sixteenth centurv the College of Mon t pel lier was allowed one criminal a year to dissect alive. Doctors were never so highly favored as that in Eng land, although the Barbers' Company and the Society of burgeons were, by act of Parliament, once privileged to re ceive an annual allowance of four bodies of executed criminals between them ; and so late as 17H1 we read in the fi'entfeman's Magazine that there was great talk about an experiment to be made upon a malefactor in Newgate, re prieved for the occasion, whose tympanum was to be cut in order " to demonstrate whether the. hearing pro ceeds from the tympanum or the nerves that lie between it ami the conception of the ear; it being" the opinion of some hat deafness is principally caused bv obstructions n the said nerves." The same magazine, recording the exe cution of a highwayman named Gordon, in 1733, says: ' M. Chovet, a surgeon, having, by frequent experiments on dogs, discovered that opening the wind pipe would prevent the fatal conse quences of the halter, undertook Mr. Gordon, and made au incision in his windpipe; the effect of which was that when Gordon stopped his mouth, nostrils, and ears for some time, air enough came through the cavity to con tinue life. When he was hanged he was perceived to be alive after all the rest were dead ; and when he had been hung three-quarters of an hour, -being carried to a house in the Tyburn Road, he opened his mouth several times and froaned, and a vein being opened, bled reely. It was thought if he had been cut down five minutes sooner he might have recovered." Seventy years after wards, through the intervention of Mr. White, Surveyor to his Majesty, leave was granted to Professor Aldine, " in heritor of the science of his uncle, Lugi Galvani," to make galvanic experi ments on the corpse of a murderer, the first of the kind ever made in this coun try. What a hubbub there would be nowadays if the Home Secretary per mitted anything of the sort!- although our New Zealand cousins were not at all shocked by the authorities there allow ing the doctors to take possession of the bodies of three murderers, that they might satisfy themselves the sp'n'al col umn was uninjured by hanging, and that strangulation, not dislocation, was the cause of death. Sir Humphrey Davy was once tempted into playing an amusing practical joke by way of testing the curative power of the imagination. When the properties of nitrons oxide were discovered, Dr. Bed does, jumping to the conclusion that it must be a specific for paralysis, chose a subject upon whom to try it, and Sir Humphrey consented to administer the gas. Before doing so, Davy, desiring to note the degree of animal tempeiature, placed a small thermometer under the paralytic's tongue. Thanks to Dr. Bed does, the poor fellow felt sure of being cured by the new process, although ut terly iu the dark as to the nature of it. Fancying that the thermometer was tbe magical instrument which was to make a new man of him, he no sooner felt it under his tongue than he declared that it acted like a charm throughout his body. Sir Humphrey wickedly ac cepted the cue, and day after day for a j fortnight went through the same simple ' ceremony, when he was able conscien i tiously to pronounce the patient cured. M. Volcipelli, a Roman physician, played a similar trick upon some of his t lipital patients, who were greatly af j fected whenever powerful magnets were j brought near them. Placing them un j der exactly the same conditions to all appearance, but Liking particular care to exclude magnetic influence, he found that every one of them was disturbed in the same degree as when the magnets i were actually employed. One summer day in 17S9, heptfonl was crowded with old salts and curi- ; osity-mongers of all ages eager to wit ness the launch of " an entire copper vessel," built at the suggestion of a Cornish mine owner, in order to prove : how far such a ship would answer the purpose of sailing. The ship went off without a hitch, and the novel ship promised, we are assured, to answer ev ery purpose for which she was designed : a consummation devoutly to be wished as likely to prove of very singular ad vantage to the British navy. We have sought in vain for some account of the after fate of the copper ship. It is evi- dent, however, that it did not equal its projector's expectations, and if there is to be a battle of metals, the issue will certainly be between iron and steel. A year later saw the trial at Woolwich of some leathern cannons, made by a snuff-box manufacturer, anent which Peter Pindar wrote: Uichmond. watchful of the htataa salvation, Sprinkling bis raveli- r o er the nation. Now buvina leathern-loin up by tooa. Improving thu ihe raiure of grat cans: (iuci blest with douhl" r iires a IM and r'.ugh Tu g1v a brd?ide or a nlctli of scuff.'' A French dictor. desiring to learn how fowls would be affected by alco holic drinks, administered some brandy and absinthe to his poultry, and found one and all take so kindly to their un wonted stimulants that he was com pelled to limit each bird to a daily al lowance of six cubic centimetres of spirits or twelve of wine. The result was an extraordinary development of , cock's crest', and a general and rapid loss of flesh all around He persevered ! until satisfied by experience that two months' abeinthe-drinking -utficed to kill the strongest cocr or hen, while the brandy-drinkers lived four months and ' a half, and the wlne-bibbers held on for ten months ere they died tbe drunkard's death. According to the Scientific American, a German lady, Fraulein Marie Von Chaavin, is to be credited with showing the possibility of transforming an amphibious, gilled, double-breathing Animal into a lung-breathing land creature. The lady obtained five strong Mex ican axolotls " and put them into shallow water. Finding they did not thrive, she adopted the bold measure of keeping them on land, giving them tepid baths three times a day to insure cutaneous respiration, and packing wet moss between their bodies during the in tervals between the baths. They ere fed upon earthworms. A worm was in serted as far as possible in an axoloU's mouth, and its tail pinched until it wriggled itself so far down that tbe ax olotl was obliged to finish the operation of swallowing, whether it liked it or not. Three of the curious rreaturr proved stubborn, and persisting in eject ing their food, died of starvation. The others quickly displayed fignsof a com ing change, their gill tulta and tail tins apparently shriveling through the action of the air, and, when a little later on tney were put into water, showed a dislike to their natural ele ment and struggled to get out of it. By-and-by, further changes took place; they cast their skins repeatedly, their gill-clefts closed, their eyes became larger, and their skins, originally black and shiny, became of a brownish purple black hue, decorated with yellow spots. Finally, the axolotls assumed the com plete form of the true land salamander, breathing only by the lungs, and in their new state developed an astonishing greediness. In one of the Southern districts of New South Wales a man discovered a fine soda spring. He opened a bush inn close by, and soon drove a brisk trade in spirits and soda-water. One day some genius hit upon the idea that a great deal of time and trouble might be saved by converting the well into a huge effervescing draught. A lot of sugar and acid, with a due proportion of spirits, was thrown into the well and J stirred about with a lung pole; but, to the infinite disgust of the thirsty opera tors, and something more than the dis gust of tbe proprietor, the final outcome of their labor was tbe muddying of the water and the irremediable spoiling of the soda-spring. Another unhappy experimentalist was Mr. Masse, of Brooklyn, a gentleman having great faith in science, but very little knowledge wf it. Happening to come across an account of a method of horse-driving by electricity, by having an electro-magnetic apparatus placed under the coachman's seat worked by a little handle, one wire being carried through the rein to the bit, and another in like manner to tbe crupper, so as to send the current along the horse's spine, and by the sudden shock subdue any in clination to jib or bolt, Mr. Masse, a timid driver, resolved to avail himself of the invention, and soon had the horse-queller attached to his carriage. Thus prepared against equine vagaries, he started one morning for a drive. He was jogging along until up dashed a fast roadster, drop went his horse's ears, and soon he was straining every muscle to keep the lead. Now was Masse's time. Grasping the handle of the machine, he gave it a turn. For an initant the as tonished horse stood stock still, and then then the driver thought earth and sky were about to meet. The ani mal jumped high in the air, came down again, and dashed along the road as if bent upon making a never-beard-of " record ;" his muster holding on to tbe handle and administering shock after shock, and shouting the while: "Stop him ! stop him !" The horse concluded to stop of his own accord, and set to kicking his hardest. " Why don't you jump out; do you want your idiotic head kicked off?" cried a paaaer-by. Masse jumped out and alighted unhurt. The horse, released from the electric current, quieted down, and was led by his owner to the nearest livery stable. Sell him," said he, M for whatever you can get for him ; I am not going to keep a horse that thinks he knows more about science than I do." More successful was the stage-manager of the Baltimore Academy of Music in bis application of electricity. Mr. Kelley was much annoyed by loungers congregating at the stage entrance. Taking advantage of the presence of a a man in charge of an electric ap paratus to regulate the lighting of the auditorium, the manager had a wire di rected to the zinz-eovered floor of the passage he wanted kept clear, and when it became blocked up, all the man had to do was to touch a knob and thereby communicate a lively current to the zinc, and the scared intruders took themselves off, " Their ridiculous antics resembling the jerky movements of j those supple-jacks with which children amuse themselves," aayw the American 1 journalist. 'It would not be a bad I idea to have a small electric battery connected with a strip of zinc fastened I to one's doorstep, so that book -agents. soap-peddlers, and h ucasters generally, could be disposed of effectually and without any annoyance." American College Discipline. Boys to Faculty Look heret we want shorter 5-o'cIock prayers in tho morning." Faculty" Very well, boys; well nip the prayers off at both ends. Only don't go to tbe Harvard shop across the way to buy your educations." Boys "And we want whisky in onr tea." Faculty "Now, bovs, that isn't hard ly right, yon know. Wine is a mock " Boys "Whisky in our tea, and a pint apiece overv morning after prayers, or we patronizes McCosh's shop. Faculty Very well, boys. Please take your boots off the center-table, wont yon ? " Boys "And the piofessor of theolo gy must black our boot and cut the meat np for our hull -pup ! " Faculty "Now", boys, that's too had. No college does such a thing at least for the money. Gentlemen, please pat your dogs out of the parlor, won't you ? " Boys " Prof. Dcgstar must black onr boots', and cut the pup's meat up, or we go over to the New Haven shop." Faculty "Well try and suit you. bovs." Boy" And Mrs. Prof. Hexameter must tuck us in after we go to bed, and bring ua oat soda and brandies in tbe morning." Prof. Hexameter Mrs. Hex. shall do no such thing." Boys " All right ; we move arret to the Frt-e-and-Easy Theological Institute to-morrow." Netc York Oraphic. The Postmaster General has tanned an order abolishing all agencies in Washington for the sale of postage stamps. Not a fUok -Judge. "Old Si " rejvut many a convcrsa aon between town and country itarkejra arlnch shows that thev both tHiss . no unall amount of native wit. And. i apropos of negro wit and Nharpneaa, I ; beard a tale the other day of a Georgia j colored Trial-Justice which seemed to me worth repeating. It appears that a white Democratic lawyer was called to plead for one of his clients before this ebony Justice, and, not fancying that I the negro had any mind of his own, f prophesied an easy victory for himself. do, when it came his turn to plead, he sent to his library for a very large nnm ber of law-books, and, arranging them on the desk before him, liegan to search them and to torn down leaves in each one. When he had thus marked about two dozen fat volumes, he began his plea, and from time to time he would pick up a book and begin reading an immensely-long extract. The colored Justice sat blinking, and showing evi dent signs of distrust of his own ability to comprehend, for half an hour, when a-nddenly he said : "Maa'r Tohn, is yo is yo gwine ter read in all dem 'books dat a-way?" "Well, your Honor." answered the lawyer, blandly. "I wished to call your attention to a large number of opinions pertinent to the case." "Maa'r John," continued the amble Trial Justice, "'pears like de mo' ye' reads outer dc-m books de mo' clouded like I gits in my min'. Now, Maa'r John, I reckons dat I better decide dis case on de equity an jnstice on it. So just leaf dem books alone, 'n come on a. M a i me. The lawyer did so, but, in telling the stoiy next day, he said: "Blank blank his equity and justice. The nigger de cided the case dead against me after all." Evidently the colored Justice was de termined not to be overawed by too co pious use of law-books, A tlan ta Cor. Bo ton Journal. The United klngwom In the Tear 1878. In the year 1878 there were 1,152,828 births registered in tho United King dom, being at the rate of 34 per 1,000 of the estimated popnlation, which was 33,881,966 in the middle of that year. The deaths registered in the United Kingdom in 1878 were 716,166, or 21.1 per 1,000 population. The natural in crease of population by excess of births over deaths waa 436,360, or 49,242 leas than the exeeas in 1877. The actual increase of population in 1878 cannot be ascertained, owing to there being no complete records showing the balance between emigration and immigration. The Board of Trade report the emigra tion from the United Kingdom in 1878 of 113,439 persona of British origin, be ing an increase of 28 per cent, over the unusually small emigration of 1877. The increase in 1678 was 22 per cent, in English, 34 in Scotch, and 27 in Irish emigrants. Of the 113,439 British emi grants of 1878 there were 84,066 who left for the United States, 36,087 for the Australian colonies, and 10,677 for British North America, each of these numbers showing a marked increase over the preceding year. The mean temperature of 1878, as shown st Green wich Observatory, exceeded the aver age in every one of the first ten months of the year, but there was a marked de ficiency in November and Decern ber; the mean for the year was 49.7 dog., or 1.2 deg. above the last thirty -seven years' average. The rainfall st Green wich in 1878 amounted to 29.2 inches, measured on 166 days ; this rainfall ex ceeded the average by nearly four inches. The number of hours of bright sunshine registered st Greenwich Ob servatory in 1878 was 1,250, or 28 per cent, of its possible duration, the sun being sbove the horizon for 4,454 hours. London Time. Two Alligator Yams. Last spring s large ox went into the waters of Lake Jackson, near Tallahas see, to drink. An alligator fastened to the fore leg of the animal, crushing the bone. The ox struggled to the shore, dragging his antagonist with him. At this time the shore was black with alli gators, attracted by the smell of blood, and some crawled upon the bank. The ox fongbt valiantly, tossing one of the monsters high in the sir. from which fall he lay on the ground stunned s considerable time. But the wounded ox again got in the water, snd a mam moth alligator closed on his nose and dragged him under. Not long ago a Florida paper told s story of the charming of an alligator i by a rattlesnake. The latter, npon dis- : covering the former, attracted atten tion by sounding an alarm. The alii- gator turned his head several times, as if he wanted to get away, but as often j faced the snake again. "Toward the ; end of half an hour," says the paper, "with fixed eyes the sUigator moved j slowly toward his terrible enemy, until within striking distance, when the snake . curled himself more compactly and struck the alligator. For a moment the alligator shook tremendously, snd then, ss if by magic, made s semi-circle Itackward, and brought his tail down on the would-be assassin with fatal result." On several occasions captured alliga tors and rattlesnake) have been put in an inclosnre to fight for the benefit of spectators, and in a majority of esses the snake has been victorious, having succeeded in striking his fangs into the alligator's open month. New York World. m Putnam's Departure far Banker HI1L Dr. Frederick A. Putnam, a grand nephew of Gen. Israel Putnam of Revo lutionary tame, tells this story shout the General, which has never before been made public : " The General wss shout sitting down to dinner in my grandfathers, his brother's, house, when the first news reached him that the British had marched from Boston to attack the Americana There was roast chicken smoking hot on the table when the pounding of a big drum "was heard out of doors. All hnmed out, snd s darkey was seen ceming down the street cry -ng, 'The British have left Boston to 'tack the Americans.' Gen. Putnam's horse, s big black fellow, that would let no one ride him but his mas ter, was ordered to the front of the house. Putnam was urged to stay and est his dinner, but he replied that be couldn't wait, he wss off for Boston. Then he grabbed one of the roast chick ens from tbe table, palled it apart by the less, snd mounted his horse, gnaw ing the bones ss he rode off for Bunker HilL" m A itli. in iking it s penitentiary of fense to carry concealed deadly weapons in Tee.neasee lias passed tbe lower bouse of the Legislature A Mad Dear's Bite, The report of a singular occurrence comes from Bn cksrille. About s fort night ago Mr. Ritchie, a farmer living in Breckxville township, discovered, on going oat one '.ornipg. that something extraordinary had taken possession of his flock of sheep, six in number. ; They were frothing at the mouth, and biting rieioaary at one another, and even tearing the wool from their own hips snd sidea Nearly sll bore marks of violence, as if thev had been attacked by some wild animal, and their wool was tiespattered with blood. Mr. Ritchie, becoming alarmed, and scsrcelv know j ing bow to set, drove them all into a pen snd locked them up. Their maladv increased, snd one by one thev all died I At the same time, another farmer by the nam? of Burt, a neighbor of Mr Ritchie, passed through s similar expe rience. He had four sheep, snd all were taken with the same malady, dving in the course of s day or two. These also bore marks of bites and scratches The general conclnwiona arrived at after consultation was that the flocks had been attacked bv s msd dog. sad that hydrophobia had caused their death. ' The symptoms were those of the disease lieyonJ any possible doubt, and the two men set themselves to work to bring dn-ut an explanation of the trouble. A few days after a 2 year old steer, owned by Mr. Burt, showed the same signs of the sickness, snd bore marks of bites snd scratches. The animal stall ooo tmties M suffer, snd sptwars gradually to be growing worse. Now thoroughly aroused, the two fstmhes set out a day or two ago and made a careful examina tion of the ground where the sheep had been pasturing In one place in the field thev found unmistakable signs of s str.iggle, and. gnided by the snow, they t.-scked the ftt print of s dog to a distance of two malea. lit re they came to the hooae of a laloring man, and found the cause of all the trouble to W s worthless, starved looking cur. that lrked snd snarled ss thev sppmacbed. The men carried aom. and it took bat a minute or two usead s conple of bullets into the dogs carcass. 7erWwf ('?. in) Leader. -av -at- Am Apsragiis Rest. He who lies in the country snd ha no asparagus bed bas st least one heavy siu of omission on bis conscience for which he never can give an adequate . excuse. I f the man who does not pro vide for his own house is worse than an infidel" he that will not "Itother" with au asparagus bed is anything but ortho dox, snd yet osn not call himself s rationalist. Some are under the delu sion that an asparagus bed is an abstruse garden problem and an expensive lux ury. Far from it. The plan ta of Con - j overs Colossal (the best vsrietv i can be obtained of sny seedsman st slight cost. I have one large bed that yields almost s daily supply from the middle of April till Isle in June, and I shall make another bed next spring in this simple way : As early in April as the ground is dry enough the sooner the ' better I shall choose some warm, early, but deep soil, enrich it well, snd then on one side of the plot open s furrow or trench eight inches deep, Down this furrow I shall scatter s heavy coat of , rotten compost, snd then run a plow or pointed hoe through it again. By this process the earth and compost are : mingled, snd the furrow rendered about six inches deep. Along its side, one foot sport, I will place one-year-old plants, spreading ont the roots, and tak ing care to keep the crown or top of the plant five inches below the surface when level; then half till the furrow over the plants, and when the young shoots are well up, fill the furrow even. I shall make the furrows two feet apart, and, after planting ss much space aa I wish, the bed i mnde for tbe next fifty years. In my father's gsnlen there was a good led over fifty years old. The young tdioots shouid not be out for the first two years, and only sparingly the third year, on the some principle that we do not put young colts st work. The as paragus is a marine plant, and dustings of salt sufficient to kill the weeds will promote its growth -IT. P. Roe, im Harder' Maaatitie. Hew it a Was First I'sad. Great was the amazement of all En gland when at the close of tbe last century Willuuu Murdch discovered tin use of combustible sir or gssv' So little was the invention understood and believed in by those who bad not seen it in use that even great and arise men laughed at the idea. "How could there lie light without a wick? " said a mem ber of Parliament, when the subject was brought before the House. Even Sir Humphrey Davy ridiculed the idea of lighting towns with gas, snd ask. d one of tbe proprietors if they meant to Uke the dome of St, Paul's for a gas meter. Sir Walter Scott, too, made himself merry over the idea of illumin ating London with smoke, though be was glad enough, not long after, to make his own house st Ahhotaford light and cheerful on wintry nights by the use of that very smoke. When the House of Commons waa bghted by gas, the architect imagined that the gas ran on fire through the pipes, and be there fore insisted on their being placed sev eral inches from the wall for fear of the building taking fire; and the members might be observed touehing the pipes with their gloved hands and wondering they did not feel warm. The first shop lighted in I ndon by the new method was Mr. Xckerman'a, in the Strand, in 1810, and one lady of rank waa so de lighted with the brilliancy of the gas lamp on the counter that she asked to lie allowed to take it home in her car nage Mr. Murdock was, 'bowetrer. too busy with other pursuits to eon tin ue to study the use of gas, and, although he was undoubtedly the first to apply it to practical purposes, manv others laid claim to the honor, sad other people quickly reaped the benefit of his clever ness and ingenuity. In this bo shared the general fate oi inntora. (hmty An exchange speaks of Wade Ham p ton's beautiful daughter, and adds " Boys, the old man has got only one leg." We trust no young man will be Banded by that incendiary item. A mar. with a wooden leg is a very dangerous man to go out of the gate ahead of. There is something about the in a wooden leer that at ami to one's spine, and make him snd things. Peck's Sun. MoTstam-Di-LAW, holding the scream ing baby : " Dear little darlin', how it looks hke its papa now ! Papa wonders why it w that his wife's mother always the laxbv to mm wnen ii is BSfsPrfk MlJSS lOIt. the l hiiadripctia cuokukg teacher, wear s black gowa and white apron while lecturing snd ilrrnfatau herself with a gx M . l tee and a loessat ss big and blight as a pie plate. A Fbksch woasan, h wishes the werld to understand that she i sot la mourning. fatea a small colored flower encircled with black feathers la tne back f tbe Mack bonnet whtel she wesrs V. L. GoPKt. of tbe Afis. lecturer In Boston on ' Some Resssdisa for Socialism." He thinks ajhat the Nihilist movement in Russia has noth ing socialistic shout it; it bas not reached Jibe wo kiss classes, bat is the result of chafing under brute force. 1'xai.BacHKPc tton cloth is now mass into dresses for little girls, aad when the tuft, collar aad sash are bound with bright plaid tbe effect is very pretty. Tbe cost very small, and aa tho costume are simply made, they ought not t add much to the laundry bill. Tiir Prince Imperial of France firmly believes that ne will owe day be eav throned ruler of that country. There was once a man a bo firmly believed be could f t himaelf over a fence by the slack f his ants, but there being an fence hard v he did not undertake it Ikimbmrti .Wars. KllZ XSETH CiwtK betjiirsthed none her estate in Newton. Mass , worth oss bund r d thousstid dollar- to relatives. xlthough she had many fifteen thousand dollars' lawyer aad payMcisn. i fifteen creditor from si! !i will is to le exatestea. so t lawyers . n get their -hare tVssserei. fhe t. raxi be, Fas r Rkjc xx de-cribed Paris correspondent of the Ch Tiff ss bsxiog "the body of Ien Butler snd the anie enoimou with s fare so sweet snd benignant that it seems more like that f an angel than a man. peaking of him Oisllemel 1-aeoiir said recently, He thinks as a man ; be feels ss s smmsn He acts a s child ai:d be write a a geruu In ls the Kmpresta Kugente. am her way through Lyons to Jurr. ordered a number of brxieade dre Tbe nxanu 'actuters sen ber tissue- some i f whsrN tost them 820 a yard. Ihe finest of hem wa never uisde up by tbe empress, he presented them eventually for altar i -stments to the ehaplain of t Mary's, 'Jhinrlhurvi. whrra tbe ssae of the tniwror lie. At West Rrattleborn Vt , lately, Mra -allie Jsocksrell celebrated the hnn Iredtb anniversary of her birth. Ova four hundred rrlstive. and friends paid tut ir resptrts to ber. anion r tbe an being twelve person who were more than ninety year. Mrs. block well is in vig orous health, and may live for manv year to come. fi--t- 'r'tsSe. "A ! r P no manufacturer in .Shef field, the other day." ss an Knglssh corrr-epondeiit. ''showed hi work men an assortment of Ameriean made goods, and taking up a pair tailor S siWar offered to give the t'nn.n 8 if any of its men, in s month, would produce oe psir of shesrs a good as the A mart ran. The cha'lenge wss not accepted Mrs.. Han ah Sjhth is s very snnent colored woman living in Dayton. hio. who is still vouthful enough to smilingly relate how she used to sd minister corree tion to the two young prransss known then ss " Teen np snd John " but n-w a t o or rsl and et-relary Sherman, wbea they come foraging alsiut her pan m baking day in old lencaster. A Mo so th ins nv ee.-enti James ti I'ernval. the i ' aad philosopher. ws fine a it much good senae ; be dil truion t l.-.e day s visitor some ladies to tue pat when it .pne I. s mdi.-d press his grstihi aUon. Tl Percival interrupted wi'h shut the door in his face. lilt: estate of faleb' u Urge, sa was at first rep chiefly in unpaxing props land at the Uim .i pot tall- oi x- Anthony, tbe taxea a and otiier expenses Busted the inroiue for rears, a ret in uopn. I other pr pertv ta strict oi i .lu labia on which ha fully twenty fixe yeai ductive lands and a I Virgini and the Pot The Cashing rei lene New bur vfj rt. is in tl librsrv will shortly tsf Tin newspapers r j a nee concerning the I f Irevy, of France, sax a that M me. I e ol i Ine wh ie a roll nir rt.lqmn to reepsoe at or ma tea that In .'ether In vi rumors it beto Maxe t irevy to rise s iple who delight up and explain I in underatan linr these thing jost now she and Mr tirevydo gel sbiasr. any how. Ma 5 relies far wore thsn he at aware of for emfort ant happiness on woman ta-1 and manageasent He so accustomed to these tnat be is uiteon sriou of their worth They are r del rate I y concealed, that he enjoys their e fleet as he enj'.v the b. . . atmosphere He seldom think how it Would bs with i im were they with drawn He fail U- sppreenate what s so freely given lie riay be reminded of them now and t .en, be ma rossplam of intrusion sod interference, hat the frown is smoothed sway by a ratte band, the murmuring lips are etoppad with a carew. aad the aanageavsi gwS on. Thf Ke iaa pspr. loll a singular story of filis! Vv.tKeo. A woasan fas tavrovol, isty year old. bad rtarl maaded her on, a full grown axaa. sod wa- excited to still rrester anger gasast him bv ber daughter At last she grew o inf uriate-1 that -be raiei ber arax t -Ulke her son. but be rrastssd Lis mother a arm aad prevented the hlnw. For thi action the old Isdv made com plaint again', him before a ;uige. aad he wa- ordered to apfasar in revurt. Whereupon, filled with renvorsefov hav ing t'ied to seen the wrathful blew of hi soother, be seined an sx snd chopped off bi offending hand. Wncs s student st the bsr i vail! up for exassieaiioa he i ei toe queelixMi. " Wbst is law "" bsfenpcm he replies, fci eye in a fine f rey rdl ing: Lsxw, us its ssost gosxeral aad o-raprenen-Me aeass, stgntficw s rasa of action. In this sense it is applied iadis criminately to all kind of actioas, whether animate or inanimate, ralinaal or irrational ' Three years sfter be has begun practice, if he is asked what I -i. he antwer dinrnb-d"7 " Isw deuced uncertain wty of soaking s pre carina I i viae." .Veawrl Sdu