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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE AND THE MATERIAL INTERESTS OF OUR SECTION.
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SMITHFIELD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1883.
VOL. II. NO. 2.
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illiam Thain,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER,
SXITHFIELB, X, C.
Keeps constantly on hand a stock of
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
SPECTACLES, &C,
at the lowest prices for goed goods.
I keep no humbug stock, and will
not sell such trash.
American Waliham Watches a Specially,
of which I keep a small stock on hand,
and order as desired at factory prices.
The quality of my work is well
known to persons for whom I have
worked all over the country. I do
honest work at low prices, compared
with other honest watchmaker?. I do
not try to compete with unprincipled
persons who are here to-day and gone
to-morrow, and who have no re nuta
tion to keep np. I am located here J
ana nave oeen twenty years. A word
to the wise i3 sufficient.
All work warranted.
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THE
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Having located ia Smithfield, N. C,
Iters his professional services to the
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ana ginrnnU satisfaction. Give tw a trial.
New Barber Shop
Over Peacock & Brts Stow.
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St rtiort notice, imd as neataud chenp iw iy
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NORTH CAROLINA
OW THE EDGE OF THE MARSH.
IN MOTKMBKB.
Dead sienna and rusty gold
Tel) the year on the marsh is old.
Blacteaed and bent, the sedges shrink
Back from the sea-pool's frosty brink.
Low in th3 vret a wind-cloud lies.
Tossed and wild in the antomn skies.
Over the marshes, mournfully,
Drifts the soared of the restless sea.
m russ.
Fair and green is the marsh in Jane ;
Wide and wana in the sunny noon.
The flowering rashes fringe the pool
With slender shadow?, dim and cool.
From the low lushes " Bob White " calls?
Iuto bis nest a rose-leaf falls,
The bine-Sag f des; and throngh the heat
Far off. the sea's faint pulses beat.
Itiss A. A. Bassett, in Harper's.
OUR HOSTESS'S DAUGHTER,
" Come," I sa'.d, rising and throwing
aside my book " come, Traverse, we
have had work enough for one day.
Let us take a sunset walk on the oid
raiqpart?, and have our tea at that
charming little restaurant under the
beech ea.
Traverse took a last lingering look
at his sketch, then carefully set back
the easel against the. wall, and we
descended the stair from our apart
ments on the upper floor, where we
enjoyed a view of the housetops of
the quaint little town of Neunide, on
the banks of the wide and winding
Rhine.
"Stop a moment," Traverse said, as
we reached the first floor. " We will
see if there are any letters. I desired
the Frau Hansing not to bring them
tip hereafter, for, good woman though
she is. her talk is rather overpower
ing." We had been recommended to Frau
Hansing's lodgings by a fair cousin of
my own who was visiting sune half
English. halMierman relatives near
Bonn.
" If yen ftcp at Neureide," she
wrot?, "my relative, Madame Estorf,
3e?ires mp'to .cy that you will find ex
cellent lodging with Frau Hansing,
an old and faithful servant of hers,
who will roa';e you very comfortable."
iVnd, despite Frau Hansing's love of
lalking, of which Traverse mildly eora
pla ned, we had found the promise
nmply fulfilled, and had so far no causa
to regret oor choice of lodgings.
The old lady Of eaed the door in an
swer to Traverse's light tap, and her
plump, rosy face assumed an express
ion t f com mis ration and sympathy.
"Ah, mein IDxr. so sorry 1 No let
ters to-day though," f he a kb d, cheer
fully, in her broken English', on which
ehe pr d d hersolf. " Likely there will
be o:nei much letters on? day, to-morrow,
and then theHerr shall rejoice to
his full contentment to hear from his
home."'
Over her shoulder I saw that ?h?
badd c i. raied her little fitt n-room
with flowers aad evergreens.
" You are expecting company, Frau
Hansing?"
"Ah. yes, rmin Herr; but it is only
my little Bcrtta my daughter, who
is companion to Madame Estorf. A
nice, dear little girl, and my only
vine."
And the dd lady's eyes shone with
pride and delight as she thus spoke of
her daughter:
"She is with madame, who is now
at Rndtsheim, cn a visit; and-, its being
30 near, madame has kindly consented
to her coming to us for one week. She
Is very clever in I pretty, is my little
Bertha, though it is I who say it; for,
was sho not brought up by madame,
ind in great part with madame's own
granddaughter, the Fraulein Estorf?
It was very kind of them to treat my
little Bertha so well; but. then, I my
jeif was nurse to the poor little grand
daughter when her own mother died.
Well, she is a great heiress now, as the
Herr knows."
It was true that my Cousin Julia, in
describing the family in which she was
aow staving, had moro than once al
ttded to this Fraulein Estorf, She
was granddaughter of the old madame
jf the same aame, and was the real
jwner of the estate on which they re
sided near Bonn, with the handsome
chateau and the valuable vineyards
adjoining. Beyond this, I knew noth
ing Of the Fraulein Estorf; though the
brobaoulty was mat a nilgai, some
time meet her, as in this our summer's
holiday-trip Traverse and I were
slowly making our way up the Rhine
toward Bonn which was, in fact, the
abjective poict of my travels; for I
must let the reader into the secret of
ay engagement to my fair English
jousin. Julia.
That evening, returning rather me
;rom our al fresco tea, w observed
Frau Hnsinjj's door half open, and
h tall, gracel ul fiirure of a young girl
;t.a-i1intr under the hanirfn2-iamp read-
ng a letter.
That must be Bertha," said Tra
'me, his artiut's eye instantly attract
ed. Let us nee what she is like."
" Any letters yet, Fraa Hansing Y
io inquired, peering into the room; and
he girl turned around quickly, dis
saving a lovely, piquant, brunette
Jaci5, with dark eyes and delicate
jherry-red lips.
Frau Hansing is out," she said,
nodeatly.
" I leg your pardon. You are the
Fiauleln Bertha?" said Traverse, xe
jolved. as it t eemed, to make hi r ac
quaintance, and at the samis time lift
ing his 1 at with graceful courtesy.
"Yes," she answered, with some sur
prise and also a certain reserve.
"Excrsi mo; but I knew you were
expected. And since the Frau Han
sing is absent, will the Fraulein be
good enough o give me my letters, if
there are any?"
1 had passed up the stairs, and was
folly five minutes before my friend
ioined me.
"What a charming little creature is
our landlady':! daughterl" he said, quite
-nthuBiaitically. " buch lovely feature.
and to much expression! And then
one can see that she has been Irought
up with cultured and refined people.
Really, there i3 something about her
quite magnetic."
So indead it appeared, judging from
the frequency with which, on the fol
lowing day, my friend journeyed up
and down he stairs, at first anxious to
receive letters and ihen on some
newly-discovered business which ne
cessitated frequent inquiries at the
door of Frau Hansing's rooms. Mere
than once, in passing this door, I
beheld him seated on our landlady's
horsehair sofa, engaged in an animated
conversation with Bertha.
"Do you know," said he, with the
air of one communieat ng an important
discovery, that the Fraulein is as in
telligent and accomplished as she is
beautiful? What a pity that she is
only ou landlady's daughter !"
. Than the week passed. For myself, I
only saw Bertha in the evenings. She
certainly was a charming girl, refined
and ladylike, though dressing in a
simple bourgeoise style, and engaging,
as we had opportunity of observing, in
occupations not above her station
such as knitting stockings for her
mother and assisting the old lady in
household duties, even to cooking and
cleaning. That she did not do this at
the chateau she acknowledged. Her
bu?iness there was to walk out with
and read to the old madame, even to
sing and play for her ; and she played
uncommonly well, as we had oppor
tunity for observing.
"It is unfortunate," I remarked,
"that the girl has been educated above
her station. She is sup?rior to marry
ing a common bourgeoise, and is not
yet fitted for a higher rank by reason of
bsr fam ly."
" That is true," said Traverse, slow
ly. "Now, for instance, if I were to
think of marrying B?rtha, charming
and ladylike though she is, my whole
family would be down upMi me ; and,
in fact," he add d, hesitatingly, "I
don't think I cou'tl bring myself to tak3
such a step. I fhall require good birth
in the woman whom I marry."
" lh -n hadn't you better break off at
tmce with tin Fraulein B.rtha? It
Fejms to me that you are carrying this
matter too far not to give it a serious
ending."
" She is going away in a day or two,"
he answered, rather dolefully.
And she did go. We saw her back
into the stage which was to take her
back to liudisheim and Madame Es
torf, and, judging from her bright face
and laughing adieux, she carritd away
a hart a? whol? as she had brought to
Neureide. But with my friend it was
different, and from the hour of her de
parture he became restless and dissat
isfied. We consequently soon resumed
our pilgrimage up tha lihine. stopping
here and there wherever we found any
thing specially picturesque or interest
ing to afford a subject for our amateur
pencils.
It was on September 1 that we
reached Bonn. Leaving my friend at
a hotel, I lost no t me in making my
way to the Chateau Kotherberg, about
two English mile3 from the town,
where 1 had the great delight of being
greeted by Julia, looking fairer and
sweeter, i thought, than I h id ev?r
before seen her. Madame Estorf also
accorded me a most kindly welcome,
and on learning that I was accom
panied by a friend, insisted upon our
both dining with her on the following
day.
When I mentioned to Julia our
meeting with Ma lame Estorf 's pretty
companion at Neureide, she laughed
merrily.
" She is the most arrant of little
coquettes, that Bertha Hansing," she
said. "My cousin has quite spoiled
her, and so indeed has the Fraulein
Estorf. But she is a good girl, never
theless, and I don't wonder that her
mother is so proud of her."
" Whrre is this Fraulein Estorf?" I
inquired.
" i will introduce you to-morrow.
She is not nearly so pretty, in my
opinion, as little Bertha," she added,
lightly, "but then she is an heiress,
and 1 confess that were I not so cer
tain of your not being of a mercenary
nature, 1 should be afraid to expose
yon to such a temptation. As it is, I
shall insist upon your bringing your
friend, tince you describe him as so
handsome and fascinating. That will
deprive you of all chance of making
an impression upon the heiress," she
concluded, mischievously.
On taking leave, Julia and Madame
EstorFs nephew, a youth on a vaca
tion visit, accompanied me on a pri
vate path through the grounds. The
scenery was lovely and the view from
the highest point of the shaded terrace
way fine beyond description, and so I
told Traverse on my return to the
hotel.
I will accompany you to-morrow
A8? far as that point," he said, "as it
a id a subject to my portfolio; but
1 mmt deline the madame 3 hospit
able invitation. To tell you the truth,
Elliott, I don't dare expose myself to
the possibility of again m eeting Bertha
Hansing."
I rather approved of the resolution;
bo on the following day we left our con
veyance at the entrance to the grounds
and proceeded a'ong the terraced path
way toward the chateau. At the point
of view already mentioned was a little
round, open pavilion, upon reaching
which, imagine our surprise to behold
seated there, in a comfortable wheeled
chair, old Madame Estorf, and l y her
side our landlady's daughter, the fair
Bertha, reading to the old lady from a
French novel.
It was too late to retreat; so we
came forward with all possible dignity,
and I formally presented my friend to
madame, who, in her turn, quietly re
marked: I think you and Bertha have
met before."
Bertha blushed to her fair temples,
but glanced up with a demure, half
roguish snril?. Even to me she looked
more charming than ever, being dressed
more richly and becomingly than I hal
yet seen her.
" This is a favorite haunt of ours,"
expla ned the old lady. " But the sun
is getting uncomfortably warm, and it
is high time thtt Peter should come f or
me,"
Peter did presently appear, and as he
leisurely wheeled his mistress home
ward, I walked . by her side, leaving
Traverse and Bertha to follow.
On arriving sA the chateau, madame,
accompanied by her companion, went
away to attend to her toilet, she said,
and Traverse and I were for a few
moments left alone in the saloon.
" It is all up with me, Eliott," he
said, in a low voire, but with r ingalar
firmness. "It is an unworthy prides,
after all, which would lead a man to
sacrifice the woman he loves to
aristocratic prejudice. 1 now know
that I do really love Bertha ; and If
she will have me I will marry her.
She is a perfect lady jjs but birth."
It was no time for remonstrance.
Julia's step was in the hall, and after
ward Madame Estorf again made her
appearance, arrived en grand toilet
for dinner.
"Shall we see the Fraulein Hansing
again?' I ventured -to whisper to
Julia, but madam e's quick ear 1 al
caught he question.
" The Fraulein Hansing will not ap
pear at dinner," she said, quietly;
"but I will introduce you to my grand
daughter, Fraulein Estorf. Ah, here
she is, in good time !"
A graceful, elegant girl, richly
dressed in silk and la e, stood in the
doorway. Could it be possible? This
young lady was certainly our landlady's
daughter. There were the same regular
features, the same roguish eyes, though
her manner was now one of more
stately dignity.
Traverse stood as if petrified. But
the young lady came forward and
offered her hand to both of us, with a
charming air of archness and grace,
" You have known me before as your
landlady's daughter," she said. "That
was your own fault in the first in
stance and not mine. I am Bertha
Estorf."
It did not take long to explain the
mystery.
"The Frau Uansing is my foster
mother," said the young lady, ' and
when I go to Neureide, as I sometimes
do on business for ray grandmother, I
stay at her house. S.ie was expecting
her daughter on the occasion when I
met you, but grandmamma concluded
to send me ani allow Bertha to visit
her mother later. 1 did not know of
you gentlemen being at Neureide, and
since it pleased yeu to take me for
your landlady's daughter, I thought it
best to humor you in the fancy. Isn t
that sufficient explanation, grand
mamma?" she added, with a charming
smile as she turned toward the old
lady.
"Quite sufficient for the present.
We were all in the secret, my little
English cousin included," she said,
glancing at Julia, whocje eyes were
sparkling with delight through the
half-deprecating look which she cast
at me
" You will forgive my deceit, won't
you ?" she whispered, as we proceeded
down the long gallery to dinner. "But
it seemed such fun! A real plot, such
as we read of in novels. And, do you
know," she added, lower still, " I think
it will end as novels do, in a mar
riage!" "In two marriages," I corrected
her. And, as it turned out, my pre
diction was fulfilled.
I and my wife pay a visit every
summer to the Chateau Kotherberg,
and admire Mrs. Traverse's embroid
ery and her husband's pictures. And
which is the happiest couple perhaps
the reader would find it difficult to
decide.
Nihilists' Secret Printing Office.
I went over all the rooms in St.
Petersburg in which the work was
carried on. The mechanism was ex
tremely simple, A few cases with
various kinds of type ; a little cylinder
just cast, of a kind of gelatinous sub
stance closely resembling carpenter's
glue and somewhat pleasant to smell ;
a large, heavy cylinder covered with
cloth, which served as a press ; some
blackened brushes and sponges in a
pan ; two jars of printing ink. Every
thing was so arranged that it could be
hidden in a quarter of an hour in a
large clothes-press standing in a corner
of the room. They explained to me the
mechanism of the work and smilingly
told me of some little artifice which
they employed to divert the suspicions
of the dvornik who came every day
with water, wood, etc. The system
adopted was not that of not allowing
him to enter, but precisely the reverse.
Under various pretexts they made him
see the whole of the rooms as often as
poss ble, having first removed every
thing which could excite suspicion.
Wh n these pretexts failed others were
invented. Being unable to find a
plausible reason for him to enter the
innpr room.MadameKruoff oneday went
and told him there was a rat which
must be killed. The dvornik went
and certainly found nothing ; but the
trick was played ; he had seen the
wtmlA nf thn r,Toms and could bear
testimony that there was absolutely
nothing suspicious in them. Once a
month they invariably had people in
to clean the floors of all the rooms. I
was assailed by profound melancholy
at the sight of all these people. In
voluntarily I compared their terrible
life with my own and felt overcome
with shame. What wa our activity
in the broad light of a day, amid the
excitement of a multitude of friends
and the stir of our daily life and strug
gles, compared with this continuous
sacrifice of their whole existence, wast
ing away in this dungeon? Philadtl
pilia Prets.
It is estimated that there are 4,0C(V
000 of idi e. in Texas, which number
wi;l be inc'rea el during the. coming
season to 5,500,000, worth $13,500.-000.
THEMD ROY IN A NEW ROLE
he mcpx.Anrs aow he &sczxvi a
BX.ACK EYE.
Taking the Part nf a Girl Wh Had For
merly Been His Schoolmate Befriending
the Friendless.
The Milwaukee Sun's famous bad
boy appears in an entirely new role in
the following sketch:
Ah, ha, you have got your deserts
at last," said the grocery man to the
bad boy, as he came in with one eye
black, and his nose peeled on one side,
and sat down on a board across the
coal scuttle, and began whistling aj
unconcerned 3 possible. " What's
the matter with your eye?"
" Boy tried to gouge it out without
asking my consent," and the bad boy
took & dried herring out of the box
and began peeling it. " He is in bed
now, and his ma is poulticing mm, and
she says he will be out about the last
of next week."
" Oh, you are going to be a prize
fighter, ain't you," said the grocery
man, disgusted. " When a boy leaves
a job where he is working, and goes to
loafing around, he becomes a fighter
the first thing. What your pa ought
to do is bind you out with a farmer,
where you would have to work all the
time, I wish you would go away from
here, because you look like one of
these fellows that comes up before the
police judge Monday morning, and
gets thirty days in the house of cor
rection. Why don't you go out and
loaf around a slaughter-house, where
you would look appropriate?" and the
grocery man took a hair-brush and
brushed some loose sugar and tea, that
was on the counter, into the sugar
barrel.
" Well, if you have got through with
your sermon, I will toot a little on my
horn," and the boy threw the remains
of the herring over behind a barrel of
potatoes, and wiped his hands on a
coffee sack. If you had tiiis black
eye, and had got it the way I did, it
would be a more priceless gem in the
crown of glory you hope to wear, than
any gem you can get by putting
quarters in the collection plate, with
the holes filled with lead, as you did
last Sunday, when I was watching you.
Oh, didn't you look pious when you
picked that filled quarter out, and held
your thumb over the pla?e where the
lead was. The w.iy of the black eye
was this. I got a job tending a soda
fountain, and last night, just before
we closed, there wan two or three
young loafers in the place, and a girl
came in for a glass of soda. Five
years ago she was one of ths brightest
scholars in the ward school, when I
was in the intermediate department.
She was just as handsome as a
pe:ich, and everybody liked her.
At recess she used t take my part
when the boys knocked me around, and
she lived n-ar us. She had a heart as
big 3 that cheese box. and I guess
that's what's the matter. Anyway,
she left school, and then it was said
she was going to be married to a fel
low who is now in the dude business,
hut he went back on her and after
awhile her ma turned her cut doors,
and for a year or two she w;is selling
beer in a saloon until the mayor
stopped conceit She. tried hard to
get sewing to do, but they wouldn't
have her, I guess 'cause she cried so
much when she was sewing, and the
tears wet the cloth she was sewing on.
Once I asked pa why ma didn't give
her some sewing to do, and he said for
me to dry up and never speak to her if
I met her on the street. It seemed
tuff to pass her on the street, when she
had tears in her eye? as big as marbles,
and not speak to her when I know her
so well, and she had been so kind to me
at school, just causa a dude wouldn't
marry her, but I wanted to obey p i, so
I used to walk around a block when
I see her coming, 'cause I didn't want
to hurt her feelings. Well, last night
she came in the store, looking pretty
shabby, and wanted a glass of soda,
and I gave it to her, and oh, how her
hand trembled when she raised the
glass to her lips, and how wet her eye3
were, and how pale her face was. I
choked up so I couldn't speak when
she handed me the nickel, and when
she looked up at me and smiled just
like she used to,and said I was getting
to be almost a man since we went to
school at the old school-hous3, and put
her handkerchief to her cye-, by gosh,
my eyes got so full I couldn't tell
whether it was a niokel or a lozenger
she gave me. Just then one of those
loafers began to laugh at her and call
her names, and say the police ought to
take her up, and he made fun of her
until she cried some more, and I got
hot and went around to where he was
and told him if h3 said another
unkind word to that girl I
would maul him. He laughed and
asked if she was my sister, and I told
him that a poor friendless girl, who was
fdck and in distress, and wjio wa3 in
sulted, ought to be every boy's sister,
for a minute, and any boy who had a
spark of manhood should protect her,
and then he laughed and said I ought
to be one of the Little Sisters of the
Poor, and he took hold of her faded
shawl and pulled the weak girl against
the show-case, and said something
mean to her, and she looked as though
she wanted to di, and I mashed that
boy one right on the nose. WelL the
air seemed to be full of me for a min
ute, cause he was bigger than me, and
he got me down and got his thumb
in my eye. I guess he was going to
take my eye out, but I turned him
over and got on top and I mauled him
until he begged, but I wouldn't
let him up till he asked the
girl's pardon, and swore he would
whip any boy that insulted her,
and then I let him "up, and the
Hri thanked me, but I told her I
i Wnt speak to her, cause she was
toflf, and pa didn't want me to speak
to anybody who was tuff, but if any
body ever insulted her so she had to
cry. that I would whip him if I had
to take a club. I told pa about it, and
I thought he would be mad at me for
taking the part of a girl that was tuff,
but by gosh pa hugged me, and the
tears come in his eyes, and he said I
had got good blood in me, and I did
just right, and if I would show him
the father of the boy that I whipped,
pa said he would whip the old man,
and ma said for me to find the poor
girl and send her up to the house and
she would give her a job making
pillow-cases anck night shirts. Don't
it seem queer tojou that everybody
goes back on a ppor girl cause she
makes a mistake, and the whelp that
is to blame gets a chronio. It makes
me tired to tnink of it," and the boy
got up and shook himself, and looked
in the cracked mirror hanging upon
a post, to see how his eye wa3 getting
along.
"Say, young fellow, you are a thor
oughbred," said the grocery man, as he
sprinkled some water on the asparagus
and lettuce, "and you can come inhere
and get all the herring you want, and
never mind the black eye. I wish I
had it myself. Yes, it does seem tough
to see people never allow a girl to re
form. Now, in Bible times, the Savior
forgave Mary, or somebody, I forget
now what her name was, and she was
a better girl than ever. What we
need is more of the spirit of Christ,
and the world would be better."
The Action of the Heart.
As with each stroke the heart pro
jects something like six ounces of
blood into the conduit's of the system,
and as it does so some seventy times
in a minute and 4,200 times in an hour,
this implies that it doe3 the same thing
100.S00 times in twenty-four hours,
30,000,000 times in a year, and more
than 2,500,000,000 ties in a life of
seventy years. The mechanical force
that is exerted at each stroke amounts
to a pressure of thirteen pounds upon
the entire charge of blood that has to
be pressed onward through the branch
ing network of vesel3. According
to t ha lowest estimate that has be n
ma le, this gives an exertion of forca
that would be adequate, in another
form of application, to lift 120 tons
one foot high every twenty-four hours.
Yet the piece of living mechanism
that is called upon to do this, and do It
without a pause for threescore years
and ten without being itself worn out
by the effort, is a small bundle of flesh
that rarely weighs Et-orft than eleven
ounces. It is in the nature of the case,
also, it must be remembered, that this
little vital n;achine cannot be at any
time stopped for repair. If it gets out
of order, it must be set right as it runs.
To stop the beating of the heart for
more than th3 briefest interval would
be to change life into death. The
narrative of what medical science has
done to penetrate into the secrets of
thi3 delicate force-pump, so jealously
guarded from the intrusion of the eye
that it cannot even be looked into
until it3 ac tion has ceased, is, never
theless, a long history of wonders. By
means of the spygmograp a writing
style attached to the wrist by a system
of levers and springs the pulse is
made to record actual autographs of
cardiac and vascular derangement.
Edinburgh Review.
A Roman Pageant.
The tournament in the Villa Borg
hess, at liome, in honor of the mar
riage of the Duke of Genoa, was an
interesting spectacle. It will be re
membered that the Piazza di Scena,
which wa3 planned for pageants of
this kind, and where many have been
given since the days of Pope Paul V.,
has exactly the outline of an ancient
Eoman circus. The seats which have
been erected along the side3 and semi
circular cnd3 were filled with about
thirteen thousand spectators. In the
royal pavilh n cn the midfdle of one
side, hung with crimson velvet and
decorated with flowers, were the king
and queen, the bride and bridegroom,
the Duke of Aosta and Prince Ar
nulph, of Bavaria, with their respect
ive suites On their right was a
pavilion for foreign ambassadors and
envoys, and on the left otheis for their
families and the cabinet ministers.
The cavaliers, ail young Italian nobles
and cavalry officers, divided into four
squadrons of thirty-four riders each,
two representing Bavarians and two
Italians, were mounted on richly
caparisoned thoroughbred horses and
wore handsome sixteenth century cos
tumes of gay colors, with plumed hats.
They rode into the lists preceded by
the herald. Prince Odescalchi, trumpet
ers and standard bearers, and were led
by the young Prince Naples, who ac
quitted himself gallantly. The sports
were of the various kinds practwed at
such pageants since tilting went out
with the use of armor the Turk's
head, the hunt of the rose and the like.
The men rode well, and the evolutions,
especially those at a hand gallop and
over hurdles, were admirably executed,
and excited louH bursts of applause.
So gay a specta le ha3 not been wit
nessed in Rome for many years.
Value of a Goldsmith's Shop.
A pine floor laid in a gold worker's
shop in ten years becomes worth $150
per foot. A. Syracuse jeweler once
bought for less than fifty dollars some
sweepings that gave $208 worth of
gold. A tub in his cellar, into which
is blown the dust from a polishing
lathe, accumulates fifty dollars a year.
A workman in his shop carried off on
the tip of his moistened finger thirty
dollars of fillings in a few weeks.
Workmen sometimes oil their hair and
then run their fingers through it, leav
ing a deposit of gold particles, which
they afterward wash out Syracuse
Herald.
There are in the limits of lew York
city 78,858 buildings occupied wholly
or in part as dweliing housers. There
are 200,000 families, with an average
of sixteen persons to a dwelling.
i i i. OO AOS f.imilias n arn tha ))nmM
they live in, leaving 168,000 families I
in rented houses.
THE BLACK KORSES.
Have yots seen the black horses
A3 they stand in their places, ,
With tha steam of their nostrils
And the fire of their fares,
As they shine in their harness
For their swift, splendid races?
When they run in the darkness
How the y flame in their going I
Ho they frn earth behind them!
How the heat in them glowing
Leaves a trail on the night
From the sparks they are throwing I
And the hand of the master
Perchance yon have wondered
How it kept a firm reia
While they lightened and thundered
In the speed of their passage
Aa midnight was sundered.
Oh, grand are the horses
That whirl ns, unsparing
By hillside and hollow,
Their vigor declaring:
And grand are the drivers
Who urge on their daring !
Fly faster and faster,
Oh, gallant black hrses,
As ye fling the hot spume-flakes
Along your smooth courses;
Fly faster, for heartbeats
Shall add to your forces !
And grip the long lever,
Oh, hand of the master,
As the brass soines like gold
In the teeth of disaster
While the black horses' snorting
Comes faster and faster !
Sanihel W. Driffield.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The artist's adieu to his picture
"You be hanged 1"
According to an exchange, this is thf
season when the man who can see ser
mons in running brooks is apt to gt
and look for them on Sunday. Fiat
are biting.
A Georgia young lady is raising
four acres of onions in order to obtain
$1,500. .When she gets through sh
ought to be able to write a companion
piece to Tennyson's "Tears, Idle
Tears."
Mrs. Spaggins was boasting of hei
new house. Trie windows, she said,
were stained. "Tnat's too bad; bul
won't turpentine or benzine wash it
off ? ' asked the good Mrs. Oldboy.
Burlington H iwkeye.
"Shall we wear a silk hat?" was the
subject of a lecture by a Brooklyn di
vine recently. That is a question
which no man can answer. Every
thing depends on which way the elec
tions go. Philadelphia Hews.
There is a young fellow in our neigh
borhood who has been n aking a dailj
practice of attempt ng to aing, "Let
me like, a soldier die," He seems tc
crave death, and they do say that one
of the neighbors who has a musket ia
preparing to accommodate hito.
Saturday Night.
Thft hftierht of economy has been
reached in J hiladelphia. A woman in
this city, having worn out the htela
and tot "s of her red stockings, is going
to use the uprer port onsfor lining hei
bonnet. It won't be quite a3 showy as
red sa in, but m t tl.ink how much it
saves Phi adelphia Chronicle.
A woman has been sending bananas
to her husband who is confined in jail
in St. Louis. They were of a very
peculiar kind, and are deserving of the
atttntion of horticulturists. On ex
amination they were found to contain
saws and file3 witliin their pulpy
basoms. The imprironed criminal will
hereafter be known by his fruit.
" What d'ye .leave that door wide
open for?" exclaimed the gentleman
in the office to the intruding peddler.
"Oi thought surr," was the quick re
ply, " that ye moight want to kick me
downstairs, and Oi wanted to make it
convanient for ye, surr." The gentle
man was so taken aback that he
bought two apples for five cents,
passing orf a bad quarter in the trans
action. Boston Transcript.
. Charley, the thre?-year-old of the
household, stood an attentive and inter
ested looker-on while grandma was
paring potatoes for dinner. Presently
she mada a sign of discontinuing the
work viith a single potato left im
peded and unwashed. The little fel
low reached into the pan, took it in his
c'-iubby hand, and turning his bright
eye3 in an appealing glance to graid
ma's f ac e, exclaimed : " Take 'im e'oe
oif and give 'im baff, too."
A gentleman, who i3 said to be "one
of the poets laureat of the United
States," has written a pceia descrip
tive of a visit to Fg7pt, in which he
says: " Then to the rai road we did go
To take the cars for Ca-l-ro; To see the
pyramids was our intent, So from Al
exandria we went." We never underT
stood before just what was rreant by a
" poet laureat of the United States,'
but it is clear from this specimen that
the country is well supplied with them.
Non isiown Herald.
Inquirer Ycu wish to set Mr.
Sna?gs and his next door neighbor to
fighting. Easy enough. Some dark
night just take a load of ashes and old
oyster cans and dump them in Snaggs'
back yard. Hell lay it to his neighbor
and tling 'em ever the fence. The
neighbor'il be malder than a candidate
for office teaten by one vote, and will
sling 'em back. Then things will
hum; law suits, pulled nose? and
bloody heads will result, and- you can
sit back and see the fun. Boston Post.
An indignant landlord writes de
manding the name of the party who
first suggested putting coils of rope in
sleeping rooms as a protection against
fire. " He says he provided every bed
room in hi3 house with a coil of rope,
and the first night three of his guests
lowered their baggage lrom the sixth
story window and skipped, leaving
several days' board bill unpaid. He
allows that being burned to death is
bad enough, but running a hotel for
fun is a good deal worse. Rochester
Exvress.
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