Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

•7W ■ BarbavM’B Childhood Qm OS® fancy the liWft MndObOM ■irL industrious, impulsive, interested faievnyfthing—in sll life sad all nstare in, on every side, learning, eagerly wondering, listening to aS around with bright and ready wit. There is a pretty little story told by Mrs. Ellis in her book about Mrs. Barbauld, how one day, when Dr. Aiken and a friend “were conversing on the passions,” the doctor observes that joy cannot nave place in a state of perfect felicity, since it supposes an accession oi happiness. “ I think you are mistaken, papa,” says a little voice from the opposite side of the table. “Why so, my child?” says the doctor. “Because in the chapter I read to yon this morning, in the Testament, it is said that ‘there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repeneth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.’*’ Besides her English Testament and her early reading, the little girl was taught by her mother to do as little daughters did in those days—to obey a somewhat austere rule, to drop curtsies in the right place, to make beds, to preserve fruits. The father, after demur, but surely not without some paternal pride in her proficiency, taught the child Latin and French and Italian, and something of Greek, and gave her an acquaintance with English literature. One can imagine little Nancy, with her fair head bending over her lessons, or, when playing-tune had come, perhaps a little lonely and hsiening to the distant voices of the - aehoolboys at their games. The mother, fearing she might acquire rough and boisterous maimers, strictly forbade any communication with the schoolboys. Sometimes in after days, speaking of these early times and of the constraint •t many by-gone rules and regulations, Mrs. Barbauld used to attribute to this earhr, formal training something of the hesitation and shyness which troubled her and never entirely wore off. She i does not seem to have been in any great btfmoiiy wjjih Im Ons oould imagine a fandful and high-spirited ftbila, timid and dutiful, and yet strongwilled, secretly rebeUmg against the rigid order of her and feeling lonely for want of liberty and companionship. It was true she had birds and beasts and plants for her playfellows, but she was of a gregarious ana sociable nature, and perhaps she was unconsciously longing for something more, and feeling a want in her early life which no silent company can supply.— Tht ComMU Mafftuint.

file Eagles of New England.

There are but two varieties of eagles found in New England—the bald eagle {HalinetiM leucocephalut) and the golden eagle {Aquilla Canadensis'). Both of these birds vary much in color and markings at different ages. The bald eagle is quite dark for the first year, and is called by those not familiar with the bird, the blazik eagle, and later, when grayish, the gray eagle ; and when in adult plumage, the white-headed eagle. The young of the golden eagle has rings about the tail, and is called by hunters the ring-tailed eagle, and later, when the gulden feathers appear about the neck, the golden eagle. ’liiore is one never-failing mark by winch the ba'd and golden eagle can be dist.'ngi.'Eli'-.1, n-> matter what the color or marl- i) g Tne golden eagle is always feather dto the toes. The e bald eagle is feathered only down its thighs. The. rough-legged falcon is feathered to the toes,, with markings somewhat similar to the golden eagle, but the size of the two birds is so unlike that any novice need not blunder. The golden eagle is from thirty to forty inches from its beak to the tip of its tail, and from six to seven feet in alar extent. The rough4egged falcon is Bom nineteen to twenty-four inches in length, and from four to four and a half feet in alar extent. Ik is not uncommon to read of eagles captured measuring from four to four and a half feet from tip to tip. There are no such eagles. They are simply hawks or falcons. ' I once received a letter from a professional gentleman informing me that one of his neighbors had captured a fine specimen of an eagle, which I could have by calling for it. I drove sixteen miles in the worst of traveling in March to get it, and found it nothing but a rough-legged falcon. In 1861, when writing a series of articles on our rapacise, I described a bird captured in our meadows as the Washington eagle—the bird was first described by Audubon and named by him after the immortal Washington. It is now very generally believed by ornithologists that the bird described by Audubon is not a new species, but a young, overgrown female of the bald eagle. The young of our rapacious birds are larger than the adult birds, and the female is larger than the male. These facts were unknown io ornithologists at that time, and many new species were described which since have proved to be immature birds. No bird has been captured in the last forty years that has fully answered the description given bv Audubon, and if there was such a bira, with a host of ornithologists on the alert, some one must have found it.

A Queer Invention.

A detective machine has been invented in France, but it is hardly likely to take the place of the human kind in general use. It is simply a camera, so arranged that when a suspicious person enters a bank or other room, a clerk touches a little button. Presently, a concealed camera is brought into play, the sensitive plate is exposed, ana* in an instant the man’s photograph is taken. Or, again, the head of the house leaves his business and confides it to hi® deck. Some of the clerks go to sleep, or smoke cigars, or skylark, or do other things not exactly in keeping with their calling, when there combs in a series of plates, worked by clock-work, and every action of the clerks during a series of hours is recorded. There might be even a pleasing, though compromising use oi this mechanical camera. With such an instrument all the handsomest women at a soiree might be photograped without their knowledge, and galleries of beat®, ties be put up at any one’s command. Ar.p the precious stones, except opal, OKU be quit® successfully imitated.