Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Page 4

MY MOTHER’S DOOR. BY R. H. BIO'JDABD. ■ met in the mint one Bummer morning A girl whom I hid known from a child. And whose bright self was her beet adorning— But that dark morning her looks were wild. “ Stop little Norah.” She did as I badc her. “ Why are you here alone on the moor 7” •• I was sad last night, to-day I am sadder, Because I go from my mother’s door.” “ Why do you go, then, and what is your sorrow 7 Tell an old man who has known you long.” •< Soggath Aroon, you will know to-morrow, An Ibo first—but don’t—to say I was wrong. I used to be glad—no girl was gladder— I never remembered that we were poor ; I was sad last night, and to-day I am sadder, Because I go from my mother's door.” “ What has she done to you 7” “ Broken my heart, sir.” “ And what have you done to her now. pray 7” “ Nothing but love him, and take his part, sir, For the poor, fellow hasn’t a word to say.” “ Then she got mad, and you got madder, And didn’t you stamp your foot on the floor 7" “ I was sad last night-“ And to-day you are sadder, Because you go from your mother's door. “You will go back, Norah. Give me your hand now.” “ I would rather not, sir.” “ I say you will. You will fetch him to see me. You understand now.” “Your reverence knows him. It’s only Phil. She locked me up, and he brought a ladder. lie loves mo.” “ You told me that before. But your mother is sad.” She shall oof be sadder— I will not go from my mother's door 1" —Appletons' Journal for A wjusl.

THE HOUSE CLEANING.

Mr. Walter Ammidon laid his knife and fork down with a gesture of absolute despair. “ Not going to clean house again, Mrs. Benedict I Why, it seems as if we had \ only just recovered from the dreadful \ tearing-up process of last fall,” j Mrs. Benedict slowly dropped four lumps of sugar into his coffee, then handed it to him, utterly regardless of / the misery in his face. “ Dreadful tearing up ! iliat’i; perfect nonsense, Mr. Ammidon. As if you were very much inconvenienced hist October while the carpets were up and the curtains down ami the painting going on. Of course I shall clean ; it’s my habit, and has been for twenty-odd years,” Mr. Ammidon gave a. little groan at the sad fate that awaited him—that awaited all bachelors in boarding-houses —in the shape of several consecutive days of bare floors and the odor of soap ; of cold dinners eaten wherever it was convenient to set the dining table ; of Mrs. Benedict in a chronic state of bustle and crossness, and the servants impudent, tired and sulky ; of wide-open doors and windows ; where the draughts tore through. > He was a gentleman, however, Mr. Ammidon was, and so repressed his illtemper and disgust ami mental maledictions that house cleaning was a purely malicious instigation of his satanic majesty for the torment of mankind. “ We’ll be so nice and sweet and clean,” Mrs. Benedict went on, with horrible cheerfulness, “and I’ve been thinking that I'll have your rooms newly {lapered, Mr. Ammidon. I’m sure you’ll ike that ?” “Very much—when it is done, /madam.” And he cut his meal short and rushed lout of doors into the cool, fresh October (evening air. i “Ah, bah! I can already experience the agonies of last fall! Good Heaven ! '.the woman must be made. of cast-iron to such a siege again. Jt is no 'under her husband died if he suffered Eo attacks of house-cleaning a year, and ball die or go crazy unless I leave her rbut J suppose all women are equally (iotio. ” A groan of genuine misery broke from uih lips as he strode along, his hat Jammed over his eyes- very unlike the Handsome gentleman jic really was, with his frank, cheery face anti pleasant mouth, with the whim even teeth, and the half-curling, thick, dark hair, and the grave, intelligent eyes, that nothing /utile as the, idea of Mrs. Beue-Bcmi-amimil tearing-up a courtI'effned, genial gentleman whom /found a puzzle because of his taut bachelorhood, when it knew ieastlialf a dozen who would have rd at the faintest chance, of an offer ; marriage from him -who himself /ondered why he had never faille n in bye—and whom pretty little Mrs. Baldwin, the blue-eyed, blonde-haired widow, with no incumbrance, a house of /her own, and an income of three, thou sand dollars a year, often felt piqued with that he was so very unimpressionable. So Mr. Ammidon strode along, almost mechanically turning corners, his pace gradually growing slower, and then all at once he heard the brilliant tones of a piano as some skilled hand played, and, looking up, found himself in front of a - warmly-lighted, cheery, hospitable house —the very house where Mrs. Bessie Baldwin lived. The contrast was so strikingly vivid between the pictures in his imagination that he involuntarily paused—one, the picture of thy way Mrs. Benedict’s boarding-house would look next day, the other of how Mrs. Baldwin’s elegant I little home always appeared when he called there, and as it appeared now through the lace curtains—quiet, warm, hospitable, inviting. And like a revelation from heaven it came to him -an idea, a determination that was so strong, so resistless, that he .walked up Mrs. Baldwin’s front steps and rang the door-bell, wondering as he did why the music had ceased, and where the player had gone. “I’ll marry her if she’ll have me, ami nen we'll see how many times a year the house is cleaned; that is if ” Then the door opened and the maid invited him into the parlor, with the information that Mrs. Baldwin had just run into a neighbor’s by the side gate, but would be back directly if the sick child was better she had gone to see. Mr. Ammidon ensc'nced himself in the easiest chair in the room— a great deep, wide, cushioned affair was drawn up’ by the little,, low table under the chandelier. “Bless her pretty blue eyes! Gone to see a sick child; I like that—l like it. What a blessing it occurred to me to offer myself to such a good-hearted, cheerful, tender, fond little woman as she is; and what a miraculous fool I have been not to have done it long ago. Why, honestly I feel as if 1 had been in love with her all along; and I believe I have been, and never knew it.” His handsome head leaned comfortably against the cushions, and his well-shaped, well-booted sett were crossed on a low ottomm near the tire that burned cozily and brightly. He waited ten—twentythirty minutes, and when she had not come at the expiration of three-quarters of an hour Mr. Am midcm was conscious of a keen disappointment that astonished himself. “At all events my object shall be accomplished, so far as I can accomplish it,” he thought. And he took his gold and ivory pen and wrote an ardent, courteous, undeni- ' ably eager statement of his case, asking i her to be his beloved wife, and begged I * ”, answer on the morrow, when she j mid be visiting Mrs. Benedict. 1 *1 accidentally learned you would 1 e tea with us to-morrow night,” he bte, “and I must know at once when i meet you if I am the blessed man I Ipe to be. If yon can look favorably Amy suit let me know by answering Acs’to the question I put to you. If ft is otherwise, I will not trouble you ' further.” Then he signed himself suitably, put the folded and addressed note conspicuously on the top of a pile of newspapers and sheet music on the piano, and took his leave, in a strange whirl of excitement and expectation. Half an hour later Mrs. Baldwin came i in, Mid stopped as she passed the (lining I rwiu door to speak to the girl, 6 j

“ You carried all those papers and the music up stairs, Annie, as I told you?” “ The very minute the gentleman went away, Mrs. Baldwin—it was Mr. jlmmidon, and he came just as you went out. ” “Oh, that’s too bad that I was not in ! Mrs. May’s little baby is very, very sick, Annie.”

And so Mrs. Baldwin never knew of the precious letter, as she sat there alone by the fire, thinking of the caller she had missed with genuine sorrow and paling cheeks and eyes full of disappointment. For pretty Mrs. Bessie, with her soft blue eyes and rebelliously curly hair, and small, perfect figure, was more interested in the handsome bachelor than she cared to admit even to herself. The next day she dressed with unusual care for her afternoon visit to Mrs. Benedict, wondering, as she basted the soft little niching around the neck of her sleeveless velvet jacket, and adjusted the poufs of her black silk overskirt., whether or not Mr. Ammidon would think she looked well, end whether, possibly, he might not escort her home. So her eyes were dancing with radiant blue sunshine, and her cheeks were flushing a most delicious rose pink hue, her lovely mouth dimpling into bewitching smiles, when Mr. Ammidon came into the sitting-room, several minutes before the time for the dinner-bell to ring—Mr. Ammidon, handsomer than she had ever seen him, in a dark-blue cloth suit, with white tie, and his face so grandly intelligent and animated as he went up to her and offered her his band, looking straight into her face as he spoke, very quietly, but with all his fate in his words—and she so smiling, unconscious.

‘‘ I am very glad to see you, Mrs. Baldwin. Didn’t you find it very cool this afternoon ?” Then she met his gaze, hating herself because her heart was throbbing so gladly at the sight of him, and despising herself because he had thrilled her from head to foot. Then, never knowing her fate was in it, she turned her beautiful face carelessly away and withdrew her hand, and answered him : “ No; I thought it was charmingly pleasant.” And Mr. Ammidon recoiled as if he had been struck a dreadful blow, and could not, for the life of him, console himself with the conviction that women were fools and men were well rid of them. The next day he told Mrs. Benedict he would not want his apartments any longer, ami had his trunks packed and sent to a hotel. Mr. Ammidon determined to kill two birds with one stone—to get rid of the possibility of having to meet often Mrs. Benedict’s friend, the pretty little woman, than whom he had never loved another more, and to make his home where house-cleaning was unknown, and Bessie cried till her eyes were red and swollen to think how entirely indifferent Mr. Ammidon was to her. And the winter crept softly along in soft, white, snowy robes, and several times Mrs. Baldwin saw Mr. Ammidon driving past, although he didn’t do more ns he passed than glance carelessly at the window ami bow. And the sweet warm spring days came, and with perfumy tints of roses and woodbine, and fresh emerald leaves, and climbing vines, and bursting blossoms, came Bessie Baldwin’s fate, in the shape of the unromantic, the inevitable spring cleaning that must be undertaken and accomplished, no matter how temptingly balmy sunshine and fragrant breezes and cloudless skies came to welcome them.

'Thus it happened that Mrs. Baldwin stood in one of her chambers with a blue veil tied tightly over her golden hair, and her muslin dress pinned up in front, disclosing ravisbingly lovely feet, despite the half-worn boots, with a basket lying in readiness beside her, and hep faithful ally, Annie, waiting to consign piles of waste to deathly ignominy, and the paper and rag man. “Only one pile more, Annie, and aren’t you glad we’re so nearly done ? I [ere, you sort the papers, and I’ll see that nothing worth saving has been put with this music.”

And a minute after the soft, rustling stillness was broken by a sudden ejaculation from Mrs. Baldwin, and Annie looked up, wide-eyed to see her rending a penciled note, with paling face and trembling lips. “It’s a letter I lost, that’s all, Annie. Go on with the papers. There is a man nt the door. I’lF go down. You can finish.” And with fluttering heart and eyes that were suspiciously bright Mrs. Bessie went down stairs, glad of an opportunity to get away by herself a few minutes to think it all over, to try to realize that it was true that Walter Ammidon had loved her. And she brushed away tears that were both rapturous and full of disappointment and fear, and opened the front door to Walter Ammidon. He bowed with a look of surprise and chagrin, fearing lest, now that his love for Bessie Baldwin had overleaped its boundaries, and force-1 him to ’a second attempt to win her love—that had become more precious in proportion as it seemed unpossessable —fearful lest his coming, as suggested by her appearance, was inopportune and awkward.

But (Mrs. Baldwin flushed and smiled, and looked lovely despite the old blue veil. And then he suddenly discovered she held in her hand the note he had written her six months ago. She answered his inquiring look as she conducted him into the parlor. “ I have only this moment read your letter. Oh, Mr. Ammidon, what must you have thought of me all this time?” His face lighted gloriously. “ That you were the sweetest little darling in all the world, whom I loved so, anil wanted so, that I came again today to plead my cause. Bessie, consider that let ter written just now—what would be your answer ?” And she dropped her white eyelids and hall-averted her sweet face, and the answer came through her parted lips, so low that only lover's ears would have known she said “Yes.” And Mr. Ammidon never finds fault when bis wife “cleans house,” because he knows that if it had not been for that abused institution he might be a lonely bachelor in Mrs. Benedict’s establishment.

Cruelty to School-Boys.

A, London school-boy, 12 years of age, committed suicide recently because he feared a flogging. He had played truant, and knew what the usual consequences were. The matter has stirred up a great commotion in the newspapers, and a Parliamentary inquiry has been demanded. Some persons familiar with the discipline of the school have written to the London Times about it, maintaining that the public would not be astonished at the results if they knew how the flogging was done. The Rev. A. A Day says, over his own signature, that two men are required for the operation. One takes hold of the boy, hoists him on the buck by the Wrists, and keeps him 'suspended. The other strips off his coat and, armed with a l;irge and heavy rod, gives fifteen cuts on the boy’s bare back, and these with might and main. This, however, was a mild flogging, for if the offense was at all great, the buy, after having fifteen cuts on his back, received fifteen more in another place with a fresh rod; and that, at least in Mr. Day s time, used to be the punishment for running away. The school at which this sort of flogging prevails is called, by an odd irony, Christ’s Hos. pital. “ Taw is a grout country, Every hn non is afraid of us. the, M pus, “ 1 “ c -

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

The Wa Corn. Howman, who*e gnarly hand yet kindly wheeled Thy plow to ring thia solitary tree With clover, whose round plat, reserved afield, In cool green radius twice my length may be— Scanting the corn thy furrows else might yield, To pleasure, August, bees, faiisthojnghts, and nae, That here come oft together—daily I, Stretched prone in summer’s mortal ecstasy, Do stir with thanks to thee, as >:tirn this morn With waving of the corn. Unseen, the, farmer’s boy from round the hill Whiatles a snatch that seeks hfa soul unsought, And fills some time with tune, howbeit shrill; The cricket tells straight on his simple thought— Nay, ’tie the cricket's way of being still; • The peddler bee drones in, and gossips naught; Far down the wood, a one-desiring dove Times me the beating of the heart of love ; And uiese be all the sounds that mix each morn, With waving of the corn. From here to where the louder passions dwell, Green leagues of hilly separation roll; Trade ends where yon far clover ridges swell. Vo terrible towns, ne’er claim the trembling soul That, craftless all to buy or hoard or sell, From out your deadly complex quarrel stole To company with large amiable trees, Huck honey summer with unjealous bees, And take Time's strokes as sOftiy as this morn Takes waving of the corn. —Sidnrg l.anier, in Harper for A vpust.

Around the Farm. J. T. Ellsworth, of Barre, Mass., says : “ Experience has taught me that a cow’s milk very deficient in butter often fattens a finer calf than that of a first-class butter cow.”— Chatauqua Farmer. My currant bushes have been attacked by the currant worms for the last two vears I sprinkled buttermilk on the leaves of the bushes, and by this means destroyed the worms and saved by bushes. — Farmers' A dvocatc. We consider a fowl at its prime at 3 years old. The vitality of the egg is not gone at the end of a month if they can be kept in a temperature of about 50 deg., and if they are occasionally turned at the end of that time they will hatch. —Land and Water. Currant worms may be effectually destroyed, says Prof. Kiley, by sprinkling with solution of white hellebore, one table-spoonful in a bucket of water, or the powder may be sprinkled on while the dew is on the bushes. Hot water has alsb been successfully used to make the worms drop off without injuring the foliage.

N. B. White gives a simple contrivance to prevent the cut-worm from getting at garden plants. It is a strip of tin two inches wide and about ten inches long, formed into a cylinder and set over the plant. They will last a lifetime, and probably cost half a cent each. —Country Gentleman. Weeds need constantly to lie looked after and taken by the foretop. Remember that every weed that is allowed to go to seed this year will be replaced by hundreds and thousands?, next year. “ One year’s seeding” of weeds is said to produce “ fifteen years of weeding,” and it is not far from the truth. The most successful fruit-growers, East and West, have decided that there is no better remedy for the coddling moth than to pasture hogs in the orchards, to eat the wormy apples and the worms therein. If the orchards are too large for the number of hogs kept, sheep are turned in. If we will all unite in this system, we shall soon see its good results. There is no doubt about its being effective. — Rural Home.

I have learned that wheat can be hoed with horses as readily as corn, and as fast as it can be drilled, the implement occupying the same space and the number of hoes being the same as a drill; and when hoed it looks as much improved as a cornfield dressed out with a cultivator. It does not destroy any greater percentage @f the plants than is done in cultivating corn. Any man that can manage a plow well can manage a wheat hoe as readily. I can’t see any reason why it won’t help wheat as much to hoe it as any other crop, so as to let in light, heat and fertilizing gases of the atmosphere to give vigor to the plants.— Western Rural. Good Seed.—Don’t put in any but the best seed. This is an important item in successful farming.. Good land and hard labor will not produce the best crops from poor seed. Let the best seed be planted, even if it has to be purchased ; yet most farmers can generally select good seed from the best of their wheat and other small grain. In harvesting, save out the best bundles, and in corn, by going through the fields and carefully selecting the best-filled ears ; then, by an occasional renewing of fresh seed from a distance and exchanging with the neighbors, all our crops may be greatly improved. Liberality in this interest pays handsomely. Procure the best seed at any reasonable amount of labor or expense.— B’c.stez'/i Agriculturist.

About the House. Fan’s Cake.—Two cupfuls flour, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful cream, salt, four eggs, creamtartar, soda. Baker’s Pound Cake.—Two cupfuls sugar, three-fourths cupful bnttor, three eggs, one cupful milk, salt, three cupfuls flour, nutmeg. To Cook Soft-Shell Crabs.—They do not require dressing except to wash well in salt water ; then fry in plenty of butter; season with pepper just before serving. In the matter of salt meat, it should be remembered that the brine, if it lias been used several times, occasionally becomes an active poison, and very dangerous. Experience proves that two kinds of coffee mixed make a better beverage than any one quality alone. Thus Java one-half and Mocha one-half mixed make a superior coffee‘to either singly. Black Cake.—One cupful butter, one and a half cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful molasses, three eggs, one cupful milk, one nutmeg, one tea. poonl'ul each of cloves and cinnamon, Jour cupfuls flour, two pounds raisins, one pound currants, one-fourth pound citron. Charcoal has been discovered to be a sure cure for burns. By laying a piece of cold charcoal upon the burn the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the charcoal on one hour thc wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on several occasions.

To Do Up Point Lace.—Fill a goblet or any other glass dish with cold suds, made of the best quality of washing soap ; put in your lace and place in a strong sunlight for several hours, often squeezing the lace, and changing the water if it seems necessary; when bleached, rinse gently in three or four waters, and if you wish it ochre or yellowish white, dip it into a weak solution of clear cold coffee liquid; if you desire to stiffen it slightly, dip it into a very thin starch. Provide yourself with a paper of fine needles, recall the form and looks of the lace when first purchased ; take a pin-cushion, and arrange your lace in the right form, gently pick it into place, and secure with the needles every point and figure in the pattern as it was when purchased ; leave it to dry, and either press between the leaves of a heavy book or lay betwen two pieces of flannel and pass a heated iron over it. Applique lace can be nicely washed by first sewing it carefully, right side down, to a piece of wolen flannel, washing, stiffening slightly, and pressing before removing from the flannel.

An Ohio Horror.

About three miles west of Berlin, near the Darke county line, on last Friday, a lady went out to draw a bucket of water from the well in the yard, leaving her two children, a little bqy of about 4 years of age and a little girl qf Jesg than aye Ji*, in the Jiousj. White f>he drawing up thn bucket, which was p|tanlieiHn her little boy paine

to her witte** bloody knife in his hand, and the mother gb of the wihfllass andraffl to tike find the’ little daughter’s throwout from ear to ear, and quite dead. she released the windlass, to whichfhe filled bucket was attached, tlie swiftjy-revplyjng"handle struck the little boy, crushing his skull, killing him instantly,— Greenville (O.) Herald. ,

A NARROW ESCAPE.

How a Philadelphia Lieutenant Got Away From the Mob in Pittsburgh. [From the Philadelphia Press.] Second Lieut. 8. J. Stewart, of the State Fencibles, tells a most interesting story of his escape from the Pittsburgh mob, his account of his adventures, as given to a Philadelphia Press reporter, being very graphic. On Saturday morning the Fencibles and portions of the First, Third and Sixth regiments, with the Washington Grays, were ordered to clear the crowd of some 2,500 rioters from the outer depot, and the soldiers started, with the Washington Grays in the advance. Their orders were simply to press the crowds back without firing, and the men marched forward with muskets crossed. One of the rioter's caught hold of a musket in the hands of a soldier of the First regiment, and sullenly ejaculated: “You would not shoot a workingman, would you i” “No !” was the reply; “ all we want is for you to fall back and clear the rails.” The next moment the rioter aimed his revolver and fired. This was followed by a volley of bullets and a shower of stones from the crowd. A number of .soldiers fell, and in the next instant the front rank fired without orders, and the firing was continued for ten minutes, when the multitude dispersed. After the troops were quartered in the round-house Lieut. Stewart was sent to the Union Depot Hotel, where Adjt. Gen. Lattit and Gen. Pearson were quartered, in order to obtain some medicinoTor several sick comrades. On the way he was stopped by six of the strikers, one of whom grabbed his overcoat, and another dealt him a heavy blow with a barrel stave. He broke away from them and managed to reach a coal-bin, where he hid until the rioters returned to the mob, which was beginning to besiege the round-lujuse, when Lieut. Stewart made bisway to the Union Depot, and, finding it impossible to return to his comrades, remained there. This was at 10 o’clock Saturday night, and for the next six hours the air was filled with the noise of the bombardment of the temporary fort, the yells of the rioters, and the flames of burning property. All this time Lieut. Stewart was an involuntary prisoner at the hotel, and on inquiry in the morning found that Gen. Latta and Gen. Pearson had escaped in citizens’ clothes. The proprietor of the hotel, which was part of the depot building, warned the Lieutenant not to show himself, as the rioters were searching the house for Philadelphia soldiers, and he remained locked up in his room until Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, witnessing the work of devastation going on in all directions. He saw seventyfive Pullman palace cars fired by the mob, and describes the manner in which the freight cars were sacked, saying that the men and women fought over the goods as they were thrown out to them, and, as these goods consisted of merchandise of almost every description, the scene was at times as comical as it was terrible. Men would struggle along under the weight ot hams, clothes, furniture, etc., . their faces smeared with, grease and dirt, and their hands sometimes bloody from injuries received iu the reckless scramble for plunder; others would roll barrels of flour, sugar and whisky along toward their homes, stopping to rest now and then by sitting on the barrel; other kegs of liquor were tapped, and the rioters filled themselves to repletion, while carts, wagons, and vehicles of every description were hurrying to and fro bearing away the goods. At a little lief ore 10 o’clock on Sunday morning Lieut. Stewart saw the rioters saturate a car-load ot hay with coal oil and run it into the depot directly under him, and the next moment the hotel was on fire. To show himself in his uniform would bo instant death, as the mob never ceased their search for Philadelphia soldiers, yet to stay longer would only be to become food for the approaching flames. Hearing a footstep in the entry, the Lieutenant cocked his revolver, and, opening the door, discovered a colored waiter approaching. He called the man into the room,locked the door, and quickly induced him to give up his civilian's dress, and as quickly put it on, leaving the waiter with the uniform and some S2O (all the money the Lieutenant had with him). It so happened that the colored man was very short and very fat, while the Lieutenant is very tall and very slim. His appearance, when arrayed in a pair of breeches six inches too short about the legs, and several times too ample about the waist, with a straw hat and a pea jacket/two sizes too short for him, was so absurd that iu spite of the danger the Lieutenant could not help laughing. But he lost no time in making his way out, and, shortly afterward, while standing unrecognized iu the mob, saw several of the rioters emerge from the burning hotel with the nether garment of his uniform torn info pieces and fastened to a pole. Ho then started to’ find hiscompany, and, heariugtlicyliad, crossed the river, followed their supposed route as well as he could learn it from cautiously listening to the remarks of the rioters (for to have asked a question would have placed him m imminent peril of being discovered and murdered), but, at 11 o’clock Sunday night he lost his way. He was without a. cent of money and afraid to beg, and finally went to sleep under a coal-car. The next morning he came on a coal train as far as Harrisburg, where he made himself known to a conductor, and was passed through to this city. Ho w.s without food from Saturday noon until Monday night, and, of course, arrived here greatly exhausted from want of nourishment, but otherwise none the worse for his terrible ordeal.

Saved by a Parasol.

A little colored girl, 9 years of age, daughter of Samuel Phelps, was passing over near the railroad bridge which spans Fishing creek near the depot, with a large parasol stretched over her head, when the blast struck her, and in a moment she was swept oft the bridge and was falling to the earth sixty feet below. A lady who saw the affair from' a short distance off, says that she went down hanging to the umbrella which was stretched overhead like a parachute. The handle broke just before she reached the ground. Several persons went to her assistance immediately, and were doubtless surprised to find her alive. She was not only alive, but comparatively little injured, as the doctor who attended her told the writer that her worst injury was a severe sprain of one of her ankles, with possibly a fracture of one of , the smaller bones. Her preservation from death is probably owing to the fact that the parasol acted as a parachute, and that she fell on a haw-bush three or four feet high.— Milledgeville (La.) Reporter.

Death By Anaesthetics.

Although deaths during the administration of anaesthetics are a comparatively small percentage, yet their total numbers, if a considerable period of time is embraced, seem somewhat formidable. Dr. Charles Anderson recently prepared a list of deaths during the use of chloroform in and near Cincinnati for thirty years past. He finds twenty cases, and in the journal which records this there happens to be mentioned four other cases of death by chloroform or ether—.they being recent, but all poi'prring iii this eot«utrv s

JOSH, BILLINGS.

Jk Man Wh» bailed in EveryOiing Rise, anti Suldfeeded »s a Writ [Ne# York Cor, Chicago If you were asked to guess who, of all American authors, makes thediost taoney with the least work, the chances are a hundred to one that you would not hit upon the right man. He is of the humorous tribe, and is generally known as Josh Billings, though his real name is Henry W- Shaw. Cultured people have heard of him. of course; many regard him as a kind of clown ; but they have little acquaintance with his writings, which are really to their liking. With the masses, however, he is a favorite; they never tire of reading and repeating his quaint sayings, often clever, but oftener flat He has had a curious career, having tried everything and failed before he tried’ literature—if his peculiar sort of composition can be so designated—and in that he has had exceptional success. He is a native of Berkshire county, Mass., and 58 years old. His father was a fanner, and, remembering that he was a New Englander, it is superfluous to say he-was j>oor. Considerable attention was paid to Henry’s education until he was 11, when he grew tired of restraint, and, desirous of seeking his fortune in the far West, he journeyed to the frontier. He seems to have enjoyed rough life, though he did Dot profit by it in a pecuniary sense. He turned his hand to anything he found in his way. First, he opened a country store, keeping a stock of goods more remarkable for variety than richness, including grindstones, needles, scythes, cathartic pills, calico, cheap confectionery, jewsharps, bl-easLpins and jujube paste. In a year or so, lie closed the establishment, but not without the Sheriff’s assistance. Then he took a farm on credit without gaining any credit by farming, and was obliged, at the end of the third season, to discontinue the noble occupation for lack of means to carry it on. Next, lie hired himself out to drive cattle, and, having driven himself into rags and semi-starvation, he determined to change his element.

Having obtained the place of master of a small steamboat on the Missouri, he navigated the river for two years, having, in that time, sunk three vessels, and lost, according to his own calcula - tion, SB,OOO or SIO,OOO, which was all the more deplorable, as he had no money to begin with. How he made the loss he Could never explain except on paper, and his arithmetic is so abstruse- as to be unintelligible to the common mind. Teaching was his next enterprise, and such was his success that at the close of the third term three of his pupils were promoted to the county lunatic asylum, and the remainder were pronounced deserving of the honor, with a little more encouragement. Having convinced himself of his capacity as a public instructor, he decided to open a bank—not with a jiminy and outsider, as a man of genius would have done—and opened one. But, having neither capital nor credit, he suspended indefinitely after the second week, and published a statement, his assets and liabilities both being represented by 0. He had expected the statement to create a sensation, but, as he had no creditors except himself, whom he had no hope of paying, he found that the public excitement very soon subsided. Having exhausted himself and his resources, and, having attained his -10th year, when, if ever, a man is presumed to learn wisdom, be decided that the West was not his proper field, and so lie set his face toward the East. He made his new home at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, and determined, as a last and desperate resource, to write ; wisely judging that a man who could do nothing else might prosper in literature, just as a man who jirospers in literature is usually disqualified for any other occupation. He was encouraged to this step by long observation that his queer speeches made people laugh, and he felt sure if he could produce the same effect on paper it would bo better for him than to keep store or teach school.

Turned of 45 he wrote his first things for print, being some of the layings by which he has since made his reputation. They were published in one of the city weeklies, and were not much liked, it is said, until he began to missqiell them. Tuen they rose in popularity, and he was set down as a humorist. After two or three years be issued a volume entitled “Sayings of Josh Billings.” It had a good sale in tins country and a moderate one m Great Britain. His n -xt book, “Josh Billings on Ice,” was iu still more demand, and put a fair amount of money in his purse. It soon o curred to him to get out an almanac—lis called it “Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Alminax ” and the almanac proved highly remunerative. From 100,000 to 135,000 copies have been, sold annually, and it is reported to be growing in favor. Shaw still continues his connection with the weekly he began on. It is a story paper, claiming a circulation of 300,000, and having perhaps nearly half that. The proprietors give him $4,000 a yenr for his sayings, furnished exclusively to that sheet. He is in request as a lecturer, his terms being from SIOO to $l5O a night. If Shaw is an ordinary clown, he is a clown to some purpose. It is said that by his newspaper contributions, his al manac, his books and his lectures he has earned in good years from $30,000 to $35,000, which is as much as Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Bryant, and other famous authors have made by their combined works.

A Modern Ruth.

A very pretty story is told in the Pittsburgh Commercial. A young lady from the South was wooed and won by a young California physician. About the time the wedding was to come off the young man lost his entire fortune. He wrote the lady a letter releasing her from her engagement. And what does the dear, good girl do ? Why, she takes a lump of gold which her lover had sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and, having it manufactured into a ring, forwards it to him with the following Bible inscription engraved in distinct characters on the outside : ‘ ‘ Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following alter thee ; for whither thou goest will I go, and whither thou lodgest will I lodge ; thy people will be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee.” “ We may add,” concludes the Commercial, “that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician, and that he subsequently returned to the South to wed the sweet girl he loved, and who loved him with such undying affeotien. Reader, this is all true. Young ladies who read the Bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done are pretty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives.”

A Joker’s Misfortune.

A reputable merchant of Paris found himself lately walking in the street without his pocket-handkerchief when its services were particularly necessary, and, as he was cursing his ill-luck, saw just ahead of him the familiar figure of a friend who displayed the corner of a most tempting-looking handkerchief lapping over his coat-tail pocket. The merchant made a gentle dive for it, but, as he drew it out, a heavy hand was laid on his shoulder, and, turning round, he confronted a policeman. No sooner had he turned his head back than the horrid fact revealed itself that the owner of the haudkeroliief was an utter strauger. So the unhappy wretch was led off to the police sMiop, but wl'ift wag his relief to

find that the chief officer oh duty wa»aa old friend, after ? hearty, laugh, begged him to accept the Joan of what heneede<l, and sent him bn his way rejoioiftg,' •, :r a. ’ fofj

FIRST THINGS.

A Very Interesting Chapter on ISarly Inventions. The first almanac was printed by Geo. Von Purbach, in 1460. The. first copper cent <was coined in New Haven in 1687. The first watches were made at Nurembiug in 1477. Omnibuses were introduced in New York in 1830. The first college in the United States was founded in 1866. The first compass was used in France in 1150, though the Chinese are said to have employed the loadstone earlier. The first chimneys were introduced into Rome from Padua in 1368. The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. The. first air pump was made in 1650. The first algebra originated with Diophantus, in eiflier the fourth or sixth century. The"first balloon ascent was made in 1783.

The first national bank in the United States was incorporated by Congress, Dec. 31, 1781. The first attempt to manufacture pins in this country was made soon after the war of 1812. The first printing press in the United States was introduced in 1629. Coaches were first used in England in 1569. Gas was first used as an illuminating agent in 1702. Its first use in New York was in 1827. The first glass factory in the United States of which we h&ve definite knowledge was built in 1780. Gold was first discovered in California in 1818. The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1829. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-7. The first daily newspaper appear ed in 1702. The first newspaper in the United States was published in Boston, September 25, 1690. The first religious newspaper, the Boston Record, was established in 1815. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. The first Union flag was unfurled on the Ist of January, 1776, over the camp at Cambridge. It had 13 stripes of white and red, and retained the English cross in one comer. The first steam engine on this continent was brought fronrilngland in 1753. The first saw-maker’s anvil was brought to America in 1819. The first temperance society in this country was organized in Saratoga county, N. Y., in March, 1808. Glass was early discovered. Glass beads were found on mummies over 3,000 years old. Glass windows were first introduced into England in the eighth century. Anaesthesia was first discovered in 1844.

The first steel pen was made in 1830. The first machine for carding, roving and spinning cotton, made in the United States, was manufactured in 1786. Organs are said to have been first introduced into churches by Pope Vitalianus, about A. D. 1670. Envelopes were first used in 1839. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. Ships were first “copper-bottomed” in 1783. The first telegraph instrument was successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse, the inventor, in 1835, though its utility was not demonstrated to the world until 1844. The first lucifer match was male in 1829. The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The first society for the exclusive purpose of circulating the Bible was organized in 1805, under the name of “British and Foreign Bible Society.” The entire Hebrew Bible was printed iu 1488. The first society for the promotion of Christian knowledge was organized in 1698. The first telescope was probably used in England in 1608.

No Cause of Complaint.

He was a singularly grave man, even for a sexton. For nearly a half century he had been a public functionary—had performed the conspicuous duties of a sexton ; yet no one had ever seen him smile. Occasionally he joked, but he did it in such a funereal manner that no one could accuse him of levity. One day he was standing on the church steps, wiping his melancholy features with a red bandanna. A hearse stood near, and three or four carriages were drawn up behind it. The notes of the organ floated out of the windows with solemn effect. A stranger came along and said : “ Funeral ?” And the old sexton gravely bowed his head—it was. “Who’s dead?” The old man again wiped his brow and gave the name of the deceased. “ What complaint ?” asked the inquisitive stranger. Solemnly placing his bandanna in his hat and covering his bald head, the old sexton made answer : “There is no complaint; everybody is entirely satisfied.”— Worcester Press,

Copper in Blood.

At last it has been apparently proved that copper is a norma constituent of the blood, not only of man, but of the lower animals. In the case of the blood of man, the presence of copper might be thouetM. bo duced through the use of vessels of that material, in the preparation of food. But an analysis of the blood of wild herbivorous animals also discloses copper. It has yet to be ascertained whether the copper belongs to the plasma or to the blood globules, or both, or whether it is introduced in the food or drink.

Promise and Performance.

The proprietors of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters promise nothing in behalf of this famous tonic an«l regulating elixir which it will not jierform. No pretensions irreconcilable with common sense Are made in reference to it, but evidence of the most positive nature has been accumulating for over a quarter of a century in its behalf, which proves it to be a reliable preventive and curative of malarial diseases, an efficient and genial tonic and general corrective, and specially valuable in cases where the bowels, liver, stomach or urinary organs are affected. Debility, the source from whence so many bodily evils spring, is entirely remedied by the invigorative action of the Bitters, which arrests premature decay and repairs losses of narvous and muscular power while improving the appetite and rendering digestion e»y. The gourmet talks eloquently about truffled quails, pate de foie grd* and other such delicacies. Pm him down, though, and you’ll find he admits the supreme importance of'good bread, biscuit, rolls, etc. Here all agree on the basis of true gastronomy. To be sure of the most delicious things baked from flour- use Dooley’s Yeast Powder. Thirty years’ experience proves the Graefenberg Vegetable Pills to be the mildest and most effective medicine ever known for the complete cure of headache, biliousness, liver complaints, nervousness, fevers and diseases of digestion. Sold everywhere; price 25 cents per box .Send for almanacs. Graefenberg Co., New York. CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. Tat Probhtß Tobacco Company. New Yorl}. Boston and Chicago.

Chill Cure !—Safe and Sure.—Dr. -Wiihoft’s Tonic is caratlve and'protective. It will‘cure Chills and jjj.oteatdxoin further ..at-. tack a. Ji is established. Its composition is simple and tciontllio. It containspoison. It acts promptly are permanent. It is cheap, becSTisc ft BSVCB doctors’ bijl < It is harmless, speedy ia action and deligmfnl in its < fleets. Try it and prove all that’> said. G. K. Finlay A Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sals by all Druggists. The proprietors of Hatch’s Universal Cougl. Syrup gave me the virtual formula of this medicine. Knowing from this that it must lie of vahie, I recommended it to my customers. An experience with it of six years has shown me that it has no superior. I have sold by far more bottles during that six years than of any similar preparation. I consider it safe in all cases. W. IT. Scott, M. D.. Friendship, N. Y. Sold bv Van Schaack, Stevenson A- Reid, Chi-1 cago, 111. Colgate & Co.’s Cashmere Bouquet Soap has acquired a popularity hitherto unequaled by any Toilet Soap of home or foreign manufacture. A reputation begiui early in the century made it easy for this house to impress the public. The peculiar fascinations of this luxurious article are the novelty and exceptional strength of its perfume. Pond’s Extract, the marvelous vegetable Pain Destroyer, has a career of thirty years as a standard medium. It has made a great reputation. Hofmann’s Hop Pills cure the Ague at once.

THE MARKETS.

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SANDAL-WOOD A positive remedy for all diseases of the Kidney*. Bladder and Urinary Organs; also, good In Diophical Complaints. It never produces sickneas, is certain anil speedy in its action. It J« fast superseding all other remedies. Sixty capsules cure in six or eight days. No other nUdicine can do this Beware of Imitation*, for, owing to its great success, many have been offered; seme are most dangerous, causing piles, Ac. DUNDAS DICK <fc CO.’S Genuine Soft Cuptulee, containing Oil of Sandalwood, told at all drug etorce. A»k for circular, ar tend for one to 86 and 37 Wooeicr etreet, Next York. U. N. U. No. 82 VVHKN WHITING TO AbVERTISfeksT V v pleas* nay you saw tho advcrtU»n-'*»>< An tn is paper-