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FEARLESSLY THE RIGHT DEFEND IMPARTIALLY THE WRONG CONDEMN. VOLUME I. POLKTON, ANSON CO., N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST ' 13, 1874. NUMBER 18. The Instruction of Idsb on. t Horrors of the Earthquake. The morning of November 1, 1775,dawned ffjffir, but the heavens were he dry. Since Ktrfnight the thermometer had risen one de gree, and stood, at 9 oclock, at fourteen de crees above freezing, Iteadmur. As it was the feast -of All Saints, the churches were thronged from an early hour, and all their altars brilliantly illuminated with thou sands of tapers and decorated with garlands of various tinted muslins and thin silks. At 9:4-5 o'clock the first shock was felt. " It was so slight that many persons attributed it to the passage of heavy jwagons in the street, iiidevento mere fancy. Three minntes afterward a second shock occurred, so vio lent that it seemed as if the heavens and ca rth were passing away. I The agitation lasted fully" ten minutes, and ere it diminished the greater j portion of the city was in ruins, j The dust raised ob scured the sun; an Egyptian darkness pre vailed, and to add to the universal horror, the f e.ii ful screams of the living, and the I neglected wounds, or suffocating from 'the CToans of the dying !rose through the air. I effects of the foul -atmosphere. ' Here a about amid the ruins, pillaging the wound ed of their trinkets, and even murdering those who ventured to oppose their ghastly deeds. I The lewd inhabitants of the brothel broke from the. rigid restraint in which they were confined by law, and joined the ban dits. They plundered such 5 of the wine stores as were left intact, and, maddened with drink, and probably with terror, cast off their garments and went whooping their blasphemous song3 ( through the desolate streets, if such they could now' be called, while the lurid light from the innumerable fires cast a blood-colored glow on their naked and contorted bodies. They got into the churches robbed the-sacred images,! threw the holy vestments over their shoul ders, and made the ruined vanlts re-echo the shouts of their beastly revelry. "It seems," said Fray Bernardo de Canno, " as if pandenfonium had vomited forth" its demons, and that the powers of darkness had indeed prevailed." From the cellars of the hdnses rose the pierefng cries of those who were perishing from their ineriin "o j mother wept over the bodies of all her chil dren; there a group of timid nuns stood around their abbess and knew not what way to turn; now a fanatic rushed along howling dismal prophecies ; . now a long file f white-clad Cistercians passed by reciting the ear the horrid maniacal laughter of the gang oi lewd women ana brutal men at their dreadful revelry. An aged noble- woman, in lull court garments, was seen searching among the ruins of her palace for her jewels, and a famous Phryne of the day, Theresa Brandino, suddenly converted, name deserves to be written in letters of gold. , r dr. fifteen days was the . city infested How Sunstrokes Occur. A business man rushes from his counting- room and devours a, half masticated dinner This he washes down with a considerable quantity of ice r water ; and, having seized his hat, he rushes to his counting-house again. He seeks' the shady side of the street, with the impression that he is safe from the sunstroke ; but he forgets .that his 'imperfectly masticated dinner, the excess of water, the excess of muscular exertion, is creating great excitement in his blood. And, although he is in the shade, he might as well be in the sun at 98 degs., for the effects are the same vertigo, dizziness, colors before the eyes, blue, red, green ; nausea, stupor and death ! In fact, he hac received a pure sunstroke, undiluted. jThis' is not an" exaggeration, and the above instance has been given merely to, illustrate the disease more fully. . Those who have never seen a sunstroke could not, at first, distinguish much differ ence between it and apoplexy. Dissection, however, reveals a dissimilarity, and hence different treatments , have necessarily been adopted. Thus," sunstrokes are. treated under the impression that there is an excess of blood on the brain, and this blood must be, of course, removed. ' "We employ the following means: Iii twenty minutes "all became calm -uid people began to look around them arid cwiksider the best means of escape. Some were for going to the hills, but ; were soon discouraged from so doing by the rumors that those who had 'already gone thither were .suffocating from, the effects of the mournful prayers; and then again fell upon expose to the cool air, and if he has ceased dense fog of dust which still rose from the falling buildings.. They then rushed to wards the -quays which line a part of the Tagus, but only to learn the horrible news that these had' sunk into the earth with all the eople arid edificest upon them. Those who thought to put out to sea were told to oak at the river, and lo I in its center thev such. noble, deeds of; charity that her stimulating drinks, beheld a whirlpool which was sucking in all the vessels and boats in its vicinitv, not . m . . . i -. . with robbers, until Carvalbo, afterward the again. The roval palace had been entirely I , . . , , "V '.. pwallowea up, and over its site is now the vast square of the Paco, or Black Horse, one of the largest public places in Europe. The Colorado Potato Beetle. "We have on several occasions drawn our - . - readers' attrition to this great enemy of the potato, but if the hundredth part of the re ports we hve of its doings in the West M ere 1 x! ?L 1 3 ' 1 .1 . 11 oniy irue, ii wouia sun oe worm- wnne to have weekly notes of caution on-the part of potato-growers East to look out( for him. We do not, for instance, believe that myriad of the beetles start for the nearest church-spire when they arrive in a new neighborhood, and smilingly watch the farmers for miles around 'dropping potato sets, and calculate to an hour how long it will take for them to drop . just down J on them as they push through the grq.und to devour the whole crop ; but we do "hot be lieve it is, figuratively speaking, worth our potato-grower's while to look from church- steeples or any other intellectual high place that will aid him in seeing the destructive insect before he come too near. Every day we are learning some new facts about the destructive power of the thing. In the case of most insects they appear only at certain seasons. If we keep them away for a few weeks we are safe for the rest of the year. We have supposed from what we have read about the Colorado beetle that its ravages were confined to midsummer and The Boy-Murderer. Statement of Jesse Fomeroy'i Mother A Pop ular Theory Exploded. breathing or is unconscious, induce artifi cial respiration. -Cold water should be among the firs remedies. . Apply this fre quently and .continually to the head and heart, and place the feet in .hot mustafd water. This will induce the blood from the head; while it is very beneficial to give The great library- of the Holy Ghost was in flames, and its priceless Moorish and Hebrew manuscripts were fast becoming ashes. .The Opera ' house had fallen in, the Inquisition was no more, and the great church of San Domingo was but a heap of stones, beneath which lay crushed to atoms the entire con gregation. . The Irish Church of St. Paul was the death-place of one thousand persons, and the palace of Bemposla, where Catharine of Bragarza, widow of harles II., lived and died, had fallen over from the heights on celebrated minister Pombal, set an example of courage and energy. He descended into Lisbon, and remained days and nights to gether in hie carriage or on horseback, directing -affairs or' assisting in clearing away the ruins. He planted soldiers all over the city, and whoever could not give a clear j account of the property found in his pos session was hung then and there, and 357 persons thus perished. If .water or ice is not at hand, a cooling mixture can be made by mixing alcohol, borax and camphor together, and applying it directly to the head or'breast. When the symytoms abate he should be removed to a cool, cheerful room, where, having dis charged all indigestible substances from the stomach, he has some hopes of becoming better. ' . ,.C Dyspeptic persons should never venture The mother of Jesse Pomeroy, murderer, has made a statement to a re porter of the Boston- Globe, concerning the mania of the boy, and upsetting the theory of his being marked, which has been widely published. She said r " Before going into the butcher business my husband worked in the navy-yard at Charlestown, where he was employed for a period of ten years. He was at work . there four years before Jesse was born, and remained their until , he was nearly six years of age. It was" after this he went iUKJ H1C LTUldlCJ. UUOIUCM. , UC U1U UUk JUU cattle, but carried the carcasses abou,t th . market. I never saw an animal of any kind slaughtered. 7. do not believe in the theory of. Jesse's being marked. The state-, ment regarding the visit of the- three physi cians is false. - The only gentleman of sci ence who questioned me on the subject o f Jesse 'was a phrenologist, and he did not. seem to understand Jesse's mania at all. I have frequently received letters from persons in all parts of the country, principally in. the West, asking for some of Jesse's hair, and other absurd requests, that I have not autumn, but the Champaign, Illinois, car- paid any attention to. The story of Jesse respondent of the Country Gentleman tells us sticking knives into raw flesh is also false I think his vaccination had more enect on him than anything else. He was vaccinated when he was four weeks old, and shortly after his face broke out; and had the appear--arice of raw fiesh,. and some, fluid issued from the wounds that burned my arm when it dropped Ori ft, from which fact I judged the fluid was poison.- This lasted until he was six months old, when hia whole body. was covered with large abscesses,one of which was over his eye. and occasioned the cast or fallen appearance that he wears at present, At the time it was thought he would die, but he recovered slowly, and Dr. Lane, who attended him, stated that all the sickness was occasioned by vaccination." , Mr. Cotton, Jesse's counsel, had a long in terview with liim, and says that the boy looked somewhat paler "than usual, but otherwise was not much changed. He told Elevate the head, remove the - clothing, j that it appeared in that section this' season as early as the lzth ot May. it is by no means certa that the insect will be very troublesome this side of the Alleghanies. There are little pecularities of climate which insects can detect, though we with all our science cannot, which are often at work to. .restrain certain species , within certain limits. It is not in nature that any one thing shall override, the earth. We have in the East a small beetle with three lines in stead of ten, as in the Colorado one, and much smaller every way, which feeds on the potato though not to any serious extent, which species we believe is not known, in those regions where, the great enemy abounds. It may be that each- of these , is to keep to its own boundaries. It is also true that though a few scattering cases have occurred of ; the insect having been caught Th Ha v with the White lire. Medical jurisprudence, saysthe-New York Time, will be sorely tried by the details of the murders in which! ihe boy Pomeroy is supposed to have beon engaged-in Boston. The lad, now fourteen years old, was con victed of maiming eotne of his comrades in a shocking manner. State Reform -School, He was -nent to the and was eventually pardoned out Kextj one of. his little play maJLas named Mellenj disappeared, andhis body ;ras found in jaj marsh mutilated in the . manner formally adopted Jy woung Pomeroy. The circumstances of the case all pointed to the Pomeroy boy as the provable murderer ; he was arrested, but has not yet been put on trial. About the same 4ime last March Katie Curran, a child ten years pld, mysteriously" 4disappeared. All search was unavailing ; but last month her mangled remain were, found concealed . '!"' . ''. I'll 1. iL. in a cellar oi a ; nouse occupiea. - oy uic Pomeroy family at the time of her disap- pearance. lhe atrocious, mangling ei ine body corresponded w(th the wounds inflicted upon the previous victims of young Pome- roy. rjLhe cnain oi circumsnaniiai eviuenco leads so directly to fhe lad, it is not sur prising that public opinion in Boston unani mously convicted him without trial. The subsequent confession of the boy pi aces the matter beyond dispute. His own account of the murder is a marvel of cold diabolism. The strange side of j the whole tragedy in that this young monomaniac waa ever allowed to go:at large after he had shown bis horrible type of insanity by maiming six or seven boys, at clear 1 that he is a mind.: -' " i i I i different times. It is creature 1 of diseased , much in the sun, and it is exhibiting much, ! PenPs7lvaaand n. doubt there may the same story in relation to the murder of which it was built, and utterly destroyed which lay beneath it. the poor but populous part of the town In a word, where but nothing an hour since was Lisbon was now Jbut desolation ! As o the people, who can describe their condition ? At least seventy thousand crsons had perished, and the ma jority of the survivors were cruelly wounded and in agony of mind and body. Some went mad with fright, others' lost forever thfe power of speech,' sinners went about confessing their secret j crimes, and fanatics, Wieving the last, day had come, cried out to die horror-stricken multitude to " repent, for Christ was coming to judge the quick and the dead." ' -' .As the day waxed on, the wretched Lis honese grew calmer, and it was universally declared that the safest places, "now that i the dust was diminishing, where the heights overlooking the citv. and thither the ma- , jority fled. Here they found I their court assembled, fof the royal family was unfor tunately at Belem, where, strange to say, the earthquake was scarcely felt at all, and had hastened at once to the hills. The cardinal patriarch was here also, and so was Pombal ; and these, two men, with, surpns incr presence of mind, by their Admirable courage, were enabled before night- to in spire some feeling of order among the ex cited throng. The King and Queen be- haved nobly, and the young Duke of .La roons -deserves to be immortalized for his splendid conduct. He organized a band of noblemen " who went - about aiding the :wounded, rescuing the children, burying the dead. j It was a strange and awful sight to see this multitude gathered together on the summit'of the hills which once overlooked their magnificent capital, and which now looked down upon a mere mass of smoulder ing ruins. As the day declined and night came on, the cardinal issued a proclama tion ordering all to kneel in prayer and en treat the mercy of God upon them ;t and then rose on the air the wailing tones of that saddest of psalms the Miserere. When the shades of night had fully fallen a fright ful discovery was made the city was in flames in a hundred places. The conflagra tion was' greatly increased by he" strong wind blowing from the sea. - j There was no hopej of saving j anything, and it was but too well known that thou sands of human beings who had taken refuge in the cellars and crypts were being roasted alive. If the anxiety of .the escaped was dreadful to witness, the scenes within the city itself were even vinore i terrible. r Rob bers, escajied jail-birds, low sailors, and de graded negroes formed bands and went temerity for persons 'of .plethoric habit of body to be engaged much on the water. Rich living, heavy food, especially meat and indigestible food, generally, should . be eschewed in warm weather. The head should, be confined in a, light hat, lined with green ; the hair should be kept cut, the body clean; the pores open; but, at the same time excessive prespiration should be prevented, as it is induces exhaus tion, and it generally happens that sun strokes are received when the body is ex hausted. Flannel should be worn about the body, perspiration from coming to the surface too rapidly; but when it is required to prevent excessive perspiration the following bath About a quart or a pint of rock salt should be placed in about seven or eight gallons of water ; a little alum should be added, and the body should then be bathed thoroughly. and even To Fimfa" Drowned Person. It is said that quicksilver is an infallible means of discovering a body, no matter how deep the water in which it lies. As an in stance I will describe a case that I once came under my own 'observation. A gay party of ladies and gentlemen, had been rowing on one of the New England lakes, when by ac cident the boat wa3 overturned, and all hands fell into the water. One of he party, who was an excellent swimmer, was the means of rescuing two of the others, convey ing them safely to the distant shore ; but in returning to' help "another, who was still sup porting herself upon the-bottom of the boat. the swimmer oecame exhausted, and sank - J , . himself to rise no more alive. It was a sad occurrence' indeed ; and the gay summer guests who had seen the party embark on that bright morning were changed into a band of mourners. Efforts for the recovery of the bodies were immediately i begun, and r persons were grappling in all directions without success. The water was very deep, and after a day or two of unsuccessful ex periment the hope of recovery was about to be abandoned, when some one thought of the quicksilver. A loaf of bread was pro cured, and some four ounces of quicksilver having been buried in the middle of it, it was thrown into the water from a boat con taining the grappjinj party. . The loaf at once floated away, the boat following it, and after a while it began to whirl around in a circle, and finally sank to the bottom. This was the signal for the irons to be thrown out, and after a few efforts they were successful in hooking the clothing of one of the drowned persons the gentlemanr of "whom we spoke. In his pockets were found some Jjns, keys, etc, which had doubtless attracted the have been hundreds not seen for every one taken, they have not as yet made themselves seriously felt. We have some hope from ziArt o e ako linn a li o ft TTTk ' TV 1 -wr ncQ r0 and our seaboard States , becqpae the potato growers for the whole Union; but this is mere speculation, and we would not haver our friends abate one jot of their interest in making themselves acquainted with the in sect or in keeping a sharp lookout for.; him. Gemvantown Telegraph; Why Children Die. The reason why children die is because they are not taken care of. From the day for the reason that it serves to repressjthe of tneirVirth th iey " are : stuffed with food, ) . A Working: Girls! Frolic. Among "the excursions given by the charitable bf 'New York city was one'to the poorer class of working girls. The Sun, describing the affair, says : About 800 en joyed themselves.. One old lady of sixty ex claimed: " It's the first time I've seen the ocean since I came' over it from Dublin twenty-seven years ago." When this aged girl reached the beach the first thing she did was to take her seat on the ribbed sea sands, divest herself -of j her : shoes and stockings and plunge in rthe" surf. " With her dress kilted up to her knees-she paddled about as if she intended to go over the water to the Emerald Isle. . . In less than ten minutes girls and women wfere rollicking in the waves. Three strong men were " .stationed at the further end of three ropes' to keep them from going out choked with physic, suffocated in hotrooms, steamed in bed-clothes. So much for in doors. When permitted to breathe a breath oi air once a weeK in summer, and once or twice during the coldest months, only the nose is permitted to peer into daylight. A little later, they are sent out with no elothes at. all, as to-the parts of. the body which niosi need protection. Bare legs, bare arms, 'bare necks, girted middles, with an inverted umbrella to collect the air and chill the body. A stout, strong man "goes out on a cold'day with gloves and overcoats, woolen stockings and thick double-soled boots. The same day a child of three years old, an. infant in flesh and blood, and j bone and constitution, goes out with soles as thin as paper, cotton socks, legs uncovered to the knees, neck bare, an exposure which would disable the nurse, kill the mother in a fort night, and make the father an invalid for weeks. And why ? To harden them to a mode of dress which they are never expected to practice. To accustom. them to exposure, which a dozen years . later, wbuld be con sidered downright foolery. To rear children thus for the slaughter-pen, and then lay it to heaven, is too bad. . Katie Curran as that giyen at the inquest by Chief Savage. -Qa being asked why he did the deed, he said : . " I do not know ; couldn't help it ; it is here," accompanying the word " here " with a gesture indicating it was iri his head. He wished his parents had sent him to sea, and said that if he was let out he would go 'to sea" and never come Imck. He was also of the opinion th?t when he grew to be a man he could' resist the temptation to do such bloody 'deeds, but at present the temptation was - too, strong for him. He. was perfectly cool during the 'in terview but not so collected as he has been hitherto, and stated in answer to a question that he had confessed because he was uneasy ' about the. murders. The Growing Crops .'. Omitting fractions, the States named be low produced the annexed bushels-of corn in 1872:- - ' They rollicked like children in The older ones were transformed Experimenting to Some Purpose, " A Detroit architect desired some fire proof brick the other day for the floor of a quicksilver. A second loaf charged in like too far. manner led to the discovery of the other I the waves. hntW that- nf tha ladv' whose wateh and into children and the children were meta : J' l it. a t .i r. r . v i i v i j jewelry attracted it in the same way. This morphosed into, water .witches. They rolled ""c" simple method it may be of use to remem- over and over in the surf, enjoyed the knock downs they received from the.billows, chased each other up, .and down in the shallow water 'and learned in an'incrediblv short A Cheese Show; time how to catch the in-rolling waves so as Will. Carleton,' the' author '-of "Farm Bal- to be tossed upon the beach. It waa with lads," lectured at - Hudson Ohio. As $he difficulty they could be got out of the sea to ber, as accidents of this-- kind are apt to-be more frequent at this season of the year. t T lecturer wis tospeak upon domestic themes? I partake of a bountiful chowder lunch. it was thought bestj by the committee, out of compliment to the" subject and the leading industry of the place, to make 1 a splendid display off their 'leading domestic product. Accordingly, as there were no chairs in the hall, it was : seated with a ) thousand 'large- The Johnstons. . -A3outhern paper speaks of JGenerals Al bert Sidney and Joseph E. Johnston as " the two illustrious kinsmen." ' This is a mistake, thousand he determined to experiment little with some common brick. He pro cured a few hundred and had them delivered, when they were placed in a large vat, such as the pavers use in which to heat their-tar, and allowed to absorb the hot tar for four hours. In that length of time the bricks were as black as the tar itself, and soaked full of it, and whenallowed to cool off it was, found that their x solidity had been greatly increased. A reporter of the Free Press struck one of the brickseight or ten hard blows before he could even break a as the Richmond - (Va.) Enquirer, explains sized ' cheese , boxes, tastefully arranged in It saysthat Gen. A. S. Johnston'sf ather was anadrnole rows: the piauorm was garnisnea vuuucv.uv.ui uiou j .e in --vi i lil'ii'J j.ti'm'.'r f IbomiiTTtehfield." in that" State. Oen. tar-soaked : brick came out finely. To ii. i i iiiniiii i iiii Lit . . l Lin. - . - . : . i . . piece off, and to strike one with a hammer is like striking a rock. Subjected to th same tests as the regular fireproof brick, the domestic ' appropriateness, " a ' pyramid of Sidney Johnston was born in 'Mason county, determine their fireproof qualities, a num- solia bid cheese was improvised for a table, Ky.. Gen. J. E, Johnston is a son ot the old per oi the one were passed into ine Diazing and a seat for the speaker and officers of the revolutionary patriot, J udge Teter Johnston, lurnace, ana alter a severe test they came . ...... mi .1 I P -t? " J 1 ' T .1 1 I mi 4- V. Mil a Tr a nvoilr . in -foAf iia-rr evening ; also lor the tand . Xhia arrange- oi -irgmia, ana was-uom xa. jTruuxAiwaxu uuu nivuumauoy.yi Viavn., x., .j ment ' gave a peculiar pungency ' o the at-, county, . of .that State.. ... .If. there was any were rendered stronger and tougher for the mosohere in that part of the hall0 wherehe blood relationship between": them it is not balcing and 1 it was ' almost impossible to spoke. - ' - I known. Alabama Arkansas.. . Nebraska....... New Hampshire . Vermont........ California.'...... Iowa....... , Illinois.. . . ...... Minnesota Indiana "West Virginia... . Kentucky.... -i... South Carolina. . Pennsylvania. . . . Maryland Texas....". Michigan. ....... Louisiana Maine.. ......... New York ; . '. , New Jersey. . Missouri. . . . . ... . . Mississippi...... Tennessee. ... .. . North Carolina.;. Kansas.. .. ...... Virginia.. Wisconsin........ Ohio... ... 16,000,000 ... 13,000,000 ... 2,000.000 ... 1,250,000 ... 1,500,000 ... 1,300,000 ...141,750,000 ...143,750,000 5,250,000 .T". 81,200,000 8,200,000 .. 65,000,000 ... 7.600,000 ..35,000,000 ...i 11,000,000 20,000,000 .V 14,000,000 7,500,000 1,000,000 .. 16.500,000 . . . 8,000,000 ..66,000,000 15,000,000 .. 41,000,000 .. 18,700,000 . . 47,000,000 .. 17,700,000 .. 15,250,000 . .100,800,000 What Ram Does. While a tempera lecturer was speaking in the West, the hus&iand of the lady' preai dent of the society came staggering toward the stage. With 'shame, mortification, and deepest anguish depicted . on her counten ance, the wife sprang to intercept him, not knowing what he would do. He pushed by her andareached the rostrum.1 Just as he passed her, she plipped the protruding bottle from his pocket and placed it on'the" table. at her side. u the meantime the drunken, half-insensible husband returned to the audieuce and: sat down. All was still as death ; rising to her feet and holding the bottle up to view the half-frenzied wife exclaimed : row ! i Here are life-blood of a drunkard's wife. Look, at it rumsellers ; here L the poison dealt out by you to a once Joyed husband of my youth ; but now pointing to her husband behold the remainsr-nothing but the re- I ; i: I ': mains oi what was nce a noble and hon ored man. Love, truth, even manhood it self has fled. Now behold him ! Ahd here ing to. the bottle! is the cause." She M TTahi im Vi 4 a n da r9 mt.v- IJ 1 ., I the tears yea, the very poin stopped for a mom heard1 ent, and nothing was but the sobs Oil the audience; then, turning her pale, anguish-stricken face to wards heaven, she said: "How long, O shall I intemperance reign, blighting our dearest earthly hopes, and draining our very life's blood ;" jthen turning to the audience: "Can you wonder that I raise my voice against this terrible evil ? . Sinters, will you nelp me?" Cries of " Yes, yes !" came from every ladyj in the house. She sat down pale and exhausted. : " . i The ground now planted exceeds the area planted in 1872 by one-tenths ' I A Gypsy Swindling Dodge. a, sensation has been caused break one. . Qiiite a sensation has been caused at Jonesville, Saratoga county, by the discovery of a new swindling dodge. A band of gypsies have encamped ther, and one of the number owns or did own ,a smart trick pony, lhe moans operana was to trade .the animal with some farmer, getting generally from $15 to $20 to boot. The gypsy whis pers some French words in the pony's ears, whereupon the animal prances and acts in such an ungovernable manner that the victimized farmed is glad to pay $15 to get his own horse back. The gypsy at last found a jnan he could not victimize,and one who drove off with the pony notwithstand ing all the efforts of his master to keep hm. :-. ' . v It is the fashion now at Newport to sub- sttiute nicelittle kittens for lap dogs when' the ladies take4heir drives. An observing friend, of the providence Journal writes the fact that the kitten in all cases ." was sup ported by both hands of its mistress, and faced the horses, surveying the landscape perhaps, with a contented air. Bnilt of Siea-SheHs. , I'vcf just heard of a very wonderful thing. The houses and churches and palaces of the . big and beautiful city of Parirf are almost al 1 made of sca-ehclU! . I; :'''' '' ' This is how it happened : Some hundreds of thousands of years ago, the waters of the ocean rolled over the ppot where Paris now i in stands. Under the ocean waves lived and died millions and millions' and millions of V tiny sea-shell animals. By-and-bye, after a. great, great many y tars, the ocean "waters no longer rolled over this srot,.and the very, very Mg pijles I might say, indeed, the mountains of dead hell were left for the sun to shine on, the winds to blow on, and the rains jo fall pii for. many centuries more, till the shells bad hardened into rocks. Then, after hundreds and hundreds of years more, men came and began to build houses. They dug in the earth, and found the sea-shell stone, I with which they built the beautiful houses and churches -.and palaces for which Pans is so famous. And , yet the poor little sea-shells that lived and died so long .' ago never . get the least bit of . credit! for all that they did for the fine city Perhaps, though, theljr don't care. At any . rate, we will remember them, and that will be something. M l While we are talking about this matte, it may be well to rtmember that a great 'j many of the rocks in different parts of the world were' made of sea-hells, ahd fresh -j water shells, in just about the same way that the stone of uilders. ' Paris came to be ready for the; Nojsf is the time when the gentle rhubarb; is in bloom 'and pieaj and sauce fpom it are , in order. The housewife's recipe is to " put in twice as much sugar as there is rhubarb. Then put in as much again and shut your eyes, and shovel in aji much more as your conscience will let you."
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