Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1875 — Page 1

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General News Summary.

FBOJI WASHINGTON. Fbesidknt Grant has assigned Dr. Linderman, the Director of the Mint, to make the examination ordered hy Congress as to what point in the Western States and Mississippi Valley possesses the best advantages for a mint. The investigation will be made dur ing the coming summer. A Washington telegram of the 24th announces that the Spanish Government had paid 145,000 of the SBO,OOO agreed upon on account of the Virginias affair. Thb Postmaster-General has issued an order canceling all awards of contracts heretofore made, in favor of the parties whose names are contained in the proposals fraudulently imposed upon the department by the complicity of clerks at the last regular letting, and directing the contracts to be immediately awarded to the respective bidders whose proposals are next lowest in amount to the proposals thus rejected. Secretary Drlano has announced that in accordance with the advice of friends in various parte of the country, and in accordance with his own Juagment of his duty to himself and to the Republican party, he has indefinitely postponed hl* Intended resignation.’

THE EAST. Tub Centennial Board of Finance cautions the public against counterfeit medals in commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. A series of medals with appropriate devices, emblems and inscriptions have been prepared, which are the only ones officially issued relating to the great events of 1876. These are of four kinds-*-small gilt at one dollar; large bronze at two dollars; coin silver at three dollars; large gilt at five dollars; or all inclosed in one case at eleven dollars. They are now being sold by the Centennial Board of Finance and it* agents. John Kelley has been elected Sachem of Tammany by a vote of 357 to 5 for Comptroller Andrew H. Green. A terrible tragedy is reported from New York. James Lafferty, of Rockville, Allegany County, killed his grandmother and robbed her house; subsequently he shot Miss Van Nay, who had refused to marry him, her moth or and then killed himself. Thb New York Union League Club-House was partially destroyed by fire on the morning of the 25th. Dani bl O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, recently walked 116 miles in twenty-three hours and eight minutes, in New York city, beating the best time on record. Thb cross-examination of Mr. Partridge, in the Beecher suit, was concluded on the 26th, and Elizabeth La Pierre Palmer, a professed spiritual medium, testified to having seen demonstrations of affection and intimacy between Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull and to have overheard" conversations between them relative to the publication of the Golden Age and Mrs. Woodhull’s paper as organs of Spiritualism. Before the publication of the Woodhull scandal witness says she heard the proof-sheets of that document read to Mr. Tilton by Mrs. W.; also heard Mr. Tilton say, before the publication of the scandal, that the story about Mr. Beecher and his (Tilton’s) wife was not true. Lawyer Tracy, of the defense, was called to the stand, but his testimony was deferred till the 27th.

THE WEST. The Chicago Inter-Ocean of April 32 published reports from various sections of the country, showing that the wheat crop in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee would be less than an average, while in Southern Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota a large crop was promised. Cotton and tobacco in Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia had been injured by frost, and in those States,’as well as in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, the fruit crop would be substantially a failure. The fruit regions of Southern Ulinols and Michigan had also suffered. Oats and clover had been damaged in some sections. The libel suit of Miss Early, of Rockford, Hl., against Mr. Storey, of the Chicago Times was concluded on the 21st by a verdict of <25,000 damages. The suit was brought because of the publication of an article in the Times alleging scandalous conduct on the part of the plaintiff. The publication of the article was admitted, and no attempt was made to justify it, the defense being that there was no malice in it, and that a subsequent retraction was made. At an election recently held in Chicago a majority of the votes polled were in favor of reorganizing the city government under the provisions of the General Incorporation act of 1872. Minority representation was defeated by a large majority. The Citizens’ Association will contest the election on the ground of fraudulent voting. Arthur B. Barrett, the recently-elected Mayor of St Louis, died on the 24th after a brief illness. .

THE SOUTH. The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine die on the24th. In the Senate the resolution suspending Auditor Clinton from office was postponed to 1876. A collision occurred on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, in Maryland, on the 26th between two passenger trains, and the two engines and four cars were completely demolished and nine persons were seriously injured and several others slightly hurt Memorial Day was observed at Augusta, Ga., on the 26th with unusually imposing cer emonies, the corner-stone of the Confederate monument being laid, after which the Ladies’ Memorial Association decorated with flowers the graves of the Confederate and Federal dead in Augusta Cemetery. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A St. Petersburg (Russia) correspondent of the. London Daily News says on the morning of the 21st that a plot had been discovered in Khiva for the massacre of all the Russians in the Khanate. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Great Britain have written letters of sympathy to the Bishops of Germany and Switzerland, now claiming to suffer persecution at the hands of their respective Governments. A banquet is to be given to the American rifle team on its arrival at Dublin, and the Lord Mayor of London has signified his intention to go in state, and at the end of the international contest to give the American riflemen a dinner in London.

THE JASPES REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

BY KBNB O’DONNXL. '"-1 A* often I pas* the roadside, When wearily fall* the day, I turn to look from the hill-top At the mountains far away. The red sun through the forests Throws hither hi* parting beams, And far in the quiet valley The happy village gleams. There the lamp is lit in the cottage - As the husbandman’s labors cease, And I think that aU things are gathered And folded in twilight peace. But the sound of merry voices Is heard in the village street, While pleased the grandame watches The play of the little,feet. And at night to many a fireside The rosy children come; To tales of the bright-eyed fairies They listen and are dumb. There seems it a joy forever To labor and to learn, For love with an eye of magic Is patient to discern. And the father blesses the mother, And the children bless the sire, And the cheer and joy of the hearthstone Is as light from an altar fire. Oh, flowers of rarest beauty In that green valley grow; And whether ’twere earth or heaven Why shouldst thou care to know? Save that thy brow is troubled, And dim is thy helpmate’s eye; And graves are green in the valley, And stars are bright in the sky. —Scribner forAfay.

MY NIECE NINA.

BY ELLEN TRACY ALDEN.

N nfA! Such an absurdly fantastic name to give a child! But, then, Adeline was full of fantastic notions. I suppose there never were two sisters more unlike than she and I. As long ago as I can remember, I think I possessed what might be termed correct views of life. I believe I can, without any semblance of boastfulness, lay claims to a fair share of common sense and sound judgment. Whatever duty lay before me I did without demurring. I was no dreamer, never locked myself up in my chamber to woo the muse, and spend hours —days—that had better have been devoted to more practical employment torturing incomprehensible sentences into rhyme and measure. But Adeline, oh! I used to get to out of patience with. She imagined she had a talent for writing (that is, I suppose she did; she never said anything of the kind. Adeline was no talker), and it was just the ruin of her. I used to do and say all I could to cure her of the notion, but my efforts were of no avail. What an amount of time she contrived to waste with her scribblings—verses or whatever senseless things, I thought; but there were some who did not agree with me—Nivison, for instance. (How angry I got with him one day during a discussion we were having as to the merits of one of her poems!) I foresaw just hew it would turn out when those two were married. I knew it would be a struggle for existence, for the fellow wasn’t worth a cent, and was a parson in the bargain. I did all I could to prevent it, I know that. But father always would let her have her own way. So married they were, and off they went. Well, I expect she saw some pretty hard times out there in Wisconsin, so far from the paternal pocket-book—which I used to suspect was, even at that distance, occasionally drawn upon. (I never could comprehend why father should think so much more of Adeline than of me. To be sure, she was always coaxing and palavering about him, like the great baby she was, calling him pet names, embroidering slippers and dress-ing-gowns, concocting dainty dishes for him and all that. I had no time for such folderol, with the housekeeping on my hands and the necessity devolving upon me, the elder of his two motherless daughters, to represent the family in society. That after my long and faithful discharge of duty he should, in his will, divide his property equally between us seemed te me an aet of inexcusable favoritism.)

After f&ther’a death no correspondence whatever passed between Adeline and myself, and indeed we never met again. Of course, then, after years of separation and estrangement, it was a matter of no little surprise to my husband and myself all at once to find ourselves the guardians of her child. Not regularly-appointed guardians, it is true; for, both parents having been suddenly and within a few days of each other carried off by a contagious fever, no arrangements had been made concerning her. At least so we were informed by an acquaintance of theira who wrote to us, the nearest relatives, inquiring what should be done in the case. My husband went on directly, disposed of their eflccta the proceeds he afterward invested in railroad stock; a veiy profitable investment, coo, it has proved, compensating us in a measure for eur care and trouble). On his return he brought Nina with him. Could I have anticipated all I should doubtless have prevented this. But the child was - only ten at the time—that was eight years ago—and so exceedingly shy and quiet I could not possibly foresee the trouble I was bringing upon myself. Nevertheless, I must admit that I had an uncomfortable presentiment when, at first sight, I noticed her close likeness to her mother, and later when I found the resemblance consisted not in looks alone. She was Adeline’s counterpart in manner, temperament—everything. I have heard some say they thought Nina pretty. I never could see it. She is too pale by half, and her eyes—well, I never could endure to have her look at me. In fact—l will confess it here—l never liked the girl. However,-1 have tried to do my duty by her. If she had had any other kith or kin to go to I should have hesitated about taking her

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bi. Bui die hbdnt, Kid tentative. ' ,J' I resolved on the start she should he of some use to me, and that I would have no fine-lady airs. And i must say she has been serviceable in caring for the children. (I have been able to dispense with a housemaid since her coming—at least on* item off our bill of expenditures—and in these days it dos* require so much money to live in any kind of style.) Of course I could not allow her the educational advantages of my own children. How mueh she has contrived to pick up I cannot say. She inherited her mother’s taste for reading and, no doubt, for scribbling too. But I was determined not to have a repetition of tAot folly. I would have no more bookworms about me; and as often as I caught her, duster in hand and sweeping-cap on head, idling over Shakespeare, or Milton, or dear knows what not, I have taken the book away and bidden her attend to her work. I fear, however, delinquencies of this sort are not the only ones of which she has been guilty. One day, I remember, I had been out shopping, and, on returning, found her singing one of Estelle’s songs, accompanying herself on the piano. Of course I couldn’t have that. It ploes injure a piano so to be drummed upon. How indignant Estelle was when I told her about it! The dear child! I only wish she might have been spared the many annoyances she has endured from having that girl in the house. I know very well what a trial it has been to her to have Nina always wearing about the dresses she had outgrown; but that was an economical measure which could not well be avoided, and I have been careful to keep her out of sight as much as possible whenever my daughters’ acquaintances were with us. If I had only managed a little more adroitly when Walter Ransom was here last winter. If I could have foreseen what has transpired I should certainly have got her out of the way for the time being. I might have sent her off to Cousin Jemima’s; or, perhaps, I should not have invited him to remain. A young man who could behave with such shocking rudeness little deserved even that favor. But business which would detain him several days brought him to our city. He happened to call upon my son Fred, with whom he had been intimate at college, and so it was very natural that I should ask him to be our guest during his stay. A young man of property, talents and prepossessing appearance, it occurred to me it might be a pleasant arrangement to bring him and Estelle together in this friendly fashion. So I prevailed upon him to remain with us. (How often since have I deplored my cordiality upon that occasion.)

Of course we did everything in our power to make the visit agreeable. He and Estelle rode, sang, played billiards, attended the opera—in short, were almost constantly in each other’s society, and matters seemed to be progressing finely, whenwhat should I discover one morning, on entering the library, but Walter and Nina sitting side by side on the sofa. She had been sweeping, I suppose, and he had come in and found her there. I did not think it possible she would venture to address or engage in conversation with a guest in the house like that. I never allowed "her to ait at table or meet socially with our visitors, all of whom doubtless had the impression she was one of the domestics.

I think I stared at her a full moment in mute amazement. She quailed visibly under my gaze. “Nina,” said I, sternly, “ you may go up-stairs and look after the children.” She left the room without a word. I wished, afterward, I had concealed my vexation, at least before Ransom; for immediately after breakfast (he had been unusually silent during the meal) he announced his intention to departon the next train, and nothing could dissuade him from his purpose. I thought it extremely impolite in him to leave so unceremoniously, considering all the trouble we had taken to entertain him, his attentions to Estelle, and knowing, as he did, that we had sent out invitations to a dance for that very evening—an entertainment got up especially on his account. Estelle, poor child, was almost inconsolable, and as for myself I could only give vent to my feelings by taking Nina to task. I reprimanded her sharply. What was my surprise when at last she remarked:

“ Why, Aunt Charlotte, I didn’t think there could be any harm in speaking to him! We used to be neighbors in Havreville. His father’s house was next to ours. We used to play together. We went to the same school.” I couldn’t find a word to say. How should I know that Ransom had ever lived in Havreville ? Well, in a few days there came a letter addressed in a masculine hand to Nina. I thought best to examine its contents before delivering it to her. I thought best to find out for myself wh at sort of person this might be writing to Miss Nina. It was from Ransom! It began with “ Dearest Nina!” alluded to her “ unhappy situation” and the “trials she was obliged to undergo!” (the ungrateful girl! what falsehoods she must have told him!) and ended with a proposal to correspond. Correspond, indeed! and with Nina—a girl so vastly his inferior in every respect. How edifying, to be sure! » Miss Nina never enjoyed a perusal of that interesting communication. I threw it into the fire. I considered I was doing a kindness in preventing a promising young man from wasting his sympathy and ink in that foolish fashion. And, besides, I still had hopes that, if the case were carefully handled, I might yet bring about a more satisfactory understanding between him and Estelle.

A® iwr JRvUh)'X •Cz'vllw {X with her I should certainly, then and there, have bidden her take her departure—seek her own livelihood in someway or other (she might teach, perhaps, in a primary school, I thought; might do anything, I didn’t care what, if only she got herself out of the way), but the younger children were just then coming down with the measles, and I could not well dispense with her services. Some weeks later, the little; ones having entirely recovered, “Now,” said I to myself, “it is time to speak.” I was revolving the matter in my mind one afternoon, as I took a short cut through the park on my way home from a call I had been making. I caught right of Nina through the shrubbery a* I passed along. She had the baby out in his carriage for an airing. A man was walking beside her. I approached. “This girl,” thought I, “must be watched as long as she remains with me.” The man was Ransom! He saluted ma in ths moat courteous manner possible. “ Nina,” said I, speaking in the mildest tones I <yuld command, “I think the little darling has been out long enough. Hadn’t you better be going home?” Ransom hastened to relieve her of her charge, turning the carriage toward the park entrance and pushing it himself. No sooner had we reached the house door than, pausing, he took Nina’s hand in his. It was right there on the street, in broad daylight! I could not but wonder at his audacity. Well, I don’t recall his exact words. I know he made a very smooth little speech, the substance of which was: he wanted my consent to their marriage! Marriage! For two minutes—longer, perhaps—l was unable to utter a syllable, so great was my astonishment. At last I managed to say: “ Mr. Ransom, it is a matter of perfect indifference to me in what manner this young woman may choose to dispose of herself. I only know that I. close my doors to her—now and forever!" And with that I lifted baby from his carriage and passed in. I suppose they went straitway to a clergyman for their marriage notice appeared in the next morning’s papers. And that is the last I have heard or care to hear of either of them. A precious pair, indeed! _

Cruelty of Keeping Pets.

As regards the cruelty of keeping pets, it goes against the grain to use so harsh a term of so amiable a weakness, and for this especial reason: that the young people who keep pets are generally in after-life those who are the best friends to animals. Still, there is a great deal of cruelty in keeping pete—not so much directly as indirectly. There can be no doubt whatever of the barbarities frequently employed in those devices by which pete are caught and tamed and rendered amusing; and there can be no doubt that we make pete of creatures which were never meant to be made pets of, so far as what they were or were not meant for can be gathered from certain visible signs. Of course this remark applies chiefly to the feathered creation. But, on the other hand, there are some birds, such as parrots and cockatoos, which, if longevity and apparent uproarious spirits go for anything, cannot be said to pine away in the confinement of a cage, varied by occasion-al-constitutionals upon-a balustrade, or an area railing, or a window-sill, or even upon the shoulders and necks of their tormentors, and which can be taught, without the slightest cruelty, not only to divert their owners and their owners’ friends with a choice selection of diabolical noises, but also to “speak like a book.” Indeed, the allegation of cruelty in the mere keeping of pete is somewhat difficult to maintain, and the term certainly would be most wrongly and idiotically applied in the case of those creatures, such as cate and dogs, which really appear to like the society of human beings. One would be inclined to say that, so far as pete, when they once'become pete, are concerned, the cruelty practiced toward them consists chiefly in overcoddling, overfeeding, and whatever else arises from thoughtless indulgence and willful or ignorant disregard of an animal’s natural constitution. Many a bad quarter of an hour, too, must be passed by the dog, evidently worthy of a better fate, whose eyes, as he waddles in his overcoat of many colors a few yards behind his mistress, are turned wistfully but helplessly toward the spot where half a dozen of his poorer relations are having a low but exhilarating romp in the public streets. He sends after them one feeble bark of mingled protest at their rude behavior and regret that he can’t join in it; and, with drooping tail, trudges along in the path of respectability, much as a Buttons, nearly broken into service, may be seen carrying a parcel dolefully behind the young ladies, and all the while casting furtive glances of despair and envy at the ragamuffins playing leap-frog in the road. But then Buttons should reflect that man is born to misery, but dogs, for all that appears, are not. — Exchange. —At a recent spelling-match at Columbia, Tenn., for the benefit of one of the churches there the teacher premeditatedly brought on a personal difficulty between a clerk in a grocery store and the word “rhapsody.” No sooner was the unoffending word thrown at the young man than, with the wildest confidence in his ability to knock both Worcester and Websteer into the middle of next week ata single blow, he hurled it back, mangled, mutilated and bleeding, thus: “W-r-a-p wrap, s-o, wrapso, d-a, wrap-soda.” —The way they manage it in England is to dismiss any person in the employ of the civil-servico-wwho may give the newspapers an item.

The Horrfldo Story iff Benner Lake. Thb tameness and sameness of the objects by the way render portions of the Pacific Railroad ride monotonous enough. Other portions are so crowded with interesting features that—even with the slow rate of these trains—the traveler has not time to see all or anything so well as he could wish. This rapid succession of beautiful, curious and grand objects, with lack of adequate time to see them, Is experienced in crossingthe Sierra Nevada Mountains. In the last miles of the ascent, going west, the pine forests, the bold escarpments, the deep gulfs, the granite ridges, spurs and peaks, and the train slowly winding up the sharp curves of nearly 100 feet grade per mile, may so claim the attention that the lakelet to the right, far below some parts of the road from which it is visible, may escape notice. But it ought not. Fail to see something else well worth seeing rather than fail to get this lakelet and its surroundings fixed in the mind. Its dimensions are only about one by three and a half miles. It is clear, cold, deep—“ girdled with a narrow margin of pebbly beach, encircled by dark and stately forests, and overshadowed by towering mountains.” Its beauty has gained for it the appellation, “Gem of the Sierra.” It is Donner Lake, and the name commemorates an event whose details impress the beholder more than the beauty of the “ Gem” itself or the grandeur of its setting. The event is one’ of the most hor< rid in the history of Western pioneering Here the gaunt specter, Famine, an un bidden and unwelcome guest, sat at the camp-fires of fourscore belated, snowbound emigrants till, fleshless and holloweyed as himself, nearly half of their num? her miserably perished. It is the site of “ Starvation Camp;” and for weeks these mountain slopes looked down upon human beings turned ghouls; beheld their horrid feasts of human flesh, and echoed the prayers and cries of anguish, the moans and hideous shrieks of the despairing and crazed wretches as, one by one, they to death, and became the loathsome food of those who yet survived. In 1846 an emigrant party of some eighty persons—men, women and children —mostly Illinoisans, and headed by Mr. George Donner, of Sangamon County, 111., by exploring a new route through a portion of the Great Basin were so delayed that they did not reach the Sierra till late in October, and found the mountains already white with snow. Some years there is no difficulty in crossing three or four weeks later than this, but there is danger of deep snow after the middle of October. They encamped at the foot of this lake October 81, and allowed the stock to wander in search of grass—a fatal mistake. A snow-storm came on, and the ’ next day they built rude cabins for shelter. The animals were lost, and the snow soon got so deep they could not go on if they had them; but being short of provisions they would have furnished food for their support till spring. Day by day the snow came down till it was many feet deep, as the trees, cut for fuel at a height of*fifteen and twenty feet above the ground, show. Attempts were frequently made by small parties to advance on foot, but the snow as often forced them back. By the middle of December their food was about gone, and the terrible alternatives were just before them of starving or of sustaining life by feeding on the flesh of those who might die-or be dispatched. Knowing that to remain was to perish, and that they could but perish by the way, eight men and five women, with two Indian guides, set out on the 17th on snow-shoes, determined to get to the settlements beyond the mountains if possible. They crossed the summit the first day, but owing to the great labor of traveling on snowshoes *in the very soft snow got only twenty miles beyond their cabins by the 20th. This day they made eight miles, but one man, Mr. Stanton, gave out and was left behind to perish. This locality was doubtless near what is now Cisco Station. A snowstorm detained them till the 23d, when

they traveled eight miles, though it was still snowing, and encamped in a deep valley. The valley most probably was the Bear Valley of to-day, just to the right of Emigrant Gap Station, going west, through which the emigrant road wound in ante-railroad days. By morning the snow had so deepened and was so light they could not go on. It put out their fire, which they were unable to rekindle until the afternoon of the 26th, keeping, themselves from perishing meantime by huddling together with blankets under and over them, and allowing the snow to coverthem. Their food was gone, and they were only prevented from preceding cannibalism with murder by the death of two of their number. Four in all died at this camp, furnishing a sufficiency of this horrible food, which was stripped from the bodies and eaten, portions being preserved for future meals. Leaving this valley the 80th they toiled slowly on over mountains and through deep snows, the blood from their frosted feet staining every step of the way. Another man gave out and died and his flesh was preserved, and soon after another—seven in all. The only white male survivor of the forlorn and rapidly-perish-ing little band pushed ahead and reached a settlement on Bear River about the middle of the month, whence aid was at once sent to those on the way. A most remarkable circumstance of the march of this little party, whose trail was marked by blood and strewn with corpses, is the fact that of the eight male emigrants composing it seven went down, while every one of the five women got through. Relief from this and other settlements was immediately dispatched to those at the lake, but the difficulties of travel prevented the taking of much food. They were found in a condition so fearful and horrible that language cannot depict ft. For

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OOrav-Umr omy ww aau wen uie flesh of those who died, whose bones and mutilated carcasses were strewn within and about the camps—a sickening sight, and creating a more sickening stench. The wasted forms and wild, ghastly faces of the miserable survivors—one of whom, a wife, was feeding upon the body of her husband, parents upon those of their children, and children upon parents—completed a spectacle the most revolting imaginable. All were taken out that could be and some food left for those who remained. Others were rescued by later relief parties. Two men—one the leader of the emigrant party, George Donner—were left because unable to be removed, and Mrs. Donner reftised to leave her husband. Their children were sent out and saved but the parents perished. A party late in April rescued the last man, the remaining one of the two, who had sufficiently recovered to travel. In June following Gen. Kearney and party, returning from California to the States, halted at the cabins and buried the remains, which were found in almost every state of mutilation. It was a generation ago—twenty-eight years. Viewed through events, it seems twice that number of years. The locality is within our own domain now, and, by reason of the Pacific Railroad, but a few days from any part of it. It was Mexican territory then. • They were not only in a far-off but in a foreign land. Gold was yet undiscovered. The American settlers of the Pacific coast were but a handful —a brave handfill who had just hoisted their country’s flag in the face of the Mexican authority in California—between whose distant abodes and the frontier States bordering the Mississippi was an unbroken wilderness.— Cor. Hearth and Home.

Little Johnny on Babies.

Babies ain’t big enuf to lick, or you wude see me a pitchin in to em, I can tell you, for I don’t like em, but wen you luke at one, and see em so little, you say now if I was to take off my cote and give you a good thrassin you cudent help yoursef, so may be you cant help being a nuisance, too. That’s wot I say wen our baby puts its gummy hands onto my face wen Ime made to set and mind him, but you jest wait till he gits as big as me, so it wude be a fair site, and then see wot He do, thats all! I spose I like that little feller, like Ime tole to, but wot does he put his gummy hands for in my face wen I kiss him? I no were there Is a baby wich is a lot older than ourn, but not morn hales so big, and it cant wok, and it cant tok, but sech dresses as that baby wears wude make yure head swim. It is in a shop windo, and it is made of whax.

I spose babies is differnt from fokes cos they dont no no better, but if I was them you wudent cetch me a puttin every thing in this world into my mouths, I can tel you, like ourn does. Mary, thats the house maid, she was a only chile wen she was to home, and she use to hay dols, but she never see a meat baby real cloce til she come to our house, and that girl was jes a stonish ol the time to see wot wude do, and it was morn a munth fore she wude tuch it.. One day Mary she come a bustin in the dinin room wen it was dinner, wits like a sheet, and hardly any breth, and she said O, if you pleas, mum, babby has went and et the nursry dore every bit up, ol but jes the nob, but wen my mother she went to see wot was the matter it was only father had tuke of the dore to mend it, and baby was a suckin a round paper wate. Such a girl! I have a other thing to tel you a bout Mary, thats the house maid. Wen she firs come to live with us one day Uncle Ned he was a plain with baby after lunchen, and he had the cork of a ale bottle a stickin on the cork scru, and he was. a lettin baby take it in its mowth. Mary she come in wile he was a doin it, and she see him' pul it out quick, and she ran in the kitchen as fas as ever she cude and brot ’Uncle Ne<F a tumbler on a tray! Tween me and you I dont bleeve that girls got any thinker!

There was a man and his wife and their little baby, and they lived by their selfs in the woods, ten hundred thousand miles from any other house. The man he hunted deers with a* gun, and the woman she stade to home to mind baby and cuke the meat. And one offle dark nite the man haddent come home, and the woman she new he had got lost, and was kil by sabbages, and et by a wile beest, and she was a frade. Bime by, way in the nite, she herd something like a little chile cryin, and a cryin, out side in the dark, some times on one side of the house, and some times not, and she said it was a spirit wich had come for baby, so she set in the middel of the room and hugged her baby, and was friten most to deth. And the Thingkep acryin, and a cryin, til her bind run cole, but her baby was a sleep in her arms, poor thing. At last she herd a nois at the windo, and she luked up and hollered, for she see two grate eyes a lukin in thru the glas, like coles of fire, and Ime that friten I cant rite any more, cos its nite, and Ime a lone, weres my mother? I’ve foun Uncle Ned, and he has lit his pipe, and he says drive ahead, Johnny, if you conjer up a fitin demon lie stan by and see fair play, wel jus then there was a gun, for it was a panther, and the man had come home and shot it. But when he went in the house his wife diddent kno him, cos she had went mad, and she had hug the little baby so tite it was dead. If Ide been her yude a saw me git the poker and wok strate upto the windo, and Ide a said Mister Panther, if you carry fire in your eyes it has got to be poked, and Ide a let him have it as fur in as I cude make it go, and said hoorayl But Uncle Ned he says wot wuda I done if I had see a notice on the windo like at the menagerie, don’t irony tite fthiweU?

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MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

—The sulphuric acid used for cleansing and deodorizing petroleum at Cleveland refineries is restored by a chemical process thereto a better commercial article of acid than the original. —Soluble glass can be made of pure sand fifteen parts, charcoal one part, and purified potash ten parts. Mix and heat in a fire-proof melting pot for five hours, or until the whole fuses uniformly- Take out the melted mass, and, when cold, powder it and dissolve it in boiling water. —Marble can be stained different colors by the following substances: Blue, solution of litmus; green, wax colored with verdigris; yellow, tincture of gamboge or turmeric; red, tincture of alkanet or dragon’s blood; crimson, alkanet in turpentine; flesh, wax tinged with turpentine; brown, tincture of logwood; gold, equal parts of verdigris, sal ammoniac and sulphate of zinc in fine powder. —When a drop of rain falls on the sea it descends with a gradually diminishing ‘velocity, and with Increasing size, to a distance of several Inches. Prof. Reynolds demonstrates this with colored water. Each drop sends down one or more vortex rings. The actual size of these rings depends on the size and speed of the drops. Stick a transposition of water from one place to another must tend to destroy wave motion. —ln Australia kangaroo skins are becoming an important article of traffic, and experts declare that they make the toughest and most pliable leather in the world. Boot-uppers of this material are said to be both comfortable and durable. It also makes the best of morocco whips, gloves, etc. Of these skins some are exported in their raw state, and others after being manufactured. The kangaroo is widely distributed throughout the colonies, and great numbers are slaughtered yearly for their skins. —Glass would perhaps be more used in actual construction if any pains were taken to improve its qualities, other than those which affect merely its transparency and ornamental properties. It is not generally known that good glass will stand a compressive strain but little inferior to that proper to ordinary wrought iron, the proportion being as seven to eight. Experiments have been tried on glass bars and rods in a similar manner as with iron, with the above result. Unfortunately, the tensile -strength of glass as estimated at present is very small, not exceeding in the best examples more than a ton and a half per inch of sectional area. It is not impossible that the strength of this material, both as regards its compression and tension, might be increased by a better annealing process and by other means, if there was once created a demand for glass possessing these properties to a greater extent Its advantages are that it can be readily both cast and rolled into any form; the ingredients of its manufacture are cheap and abundant; it is completely unaffected by acids, with the exception of one, with which it can scarcely accidentally come into contact, and is not attacked by the weather and the thousand and one causes of deterioration which are so fatal to iron. In addition, it is about one-third of the weight of the latter material. We think that glass would play a more important part as a constructive material if attention were drawn to the qualities it possesses—qualities no doubt capable of considerable improvement.— N. Y. Newt.

An Unknown Benefactor—A $5,000,000 Donation for a College of Music.

The New York correspondent of the Boston Saturday Genette gives the following information respecting the proposed College of Music in the former city, upon' the establishment of which an anonymous benefactor proposes to spend $5,000,000: “Dr. Elmer, who is the one medium between the generous Unknown and the outside world, has had his plans laid $o thoroughly and so quietly that at the proper time—which is not far off—the public will see that there has been no stone left unturned to make the arrangements complete. He has in his possession the plans of every conservatory of music in the world, and the prospectus of the New York College will be made from the best pointe of each. The charter for the college is now before the Legislature, and will hive become a law by the time this letter gets into print. The charter grants the college the right of conferring the degree of Doctor of Music upon its graduates. In the course of a week or two the Board of Trustees will be chosen. A number have already been selected, and from among the most prominent and highly-cultured men in the city. As soon as the Board is organized a faculty will be decided upon, and a site procured upon which to erect the college building. The block now occupied by Barnum’s Hippodrome is the most likely place, although Booth’s Theater, the Grand Opera-House, and some lots on Fourth avenue are mentioned. While the building is being erected the college will be carried on in temporary quarters. The generous Unknown, who is some eighty years old, is anxious to see his pet project in good running order before he leaves the world, which is so much his debtor; so the arrangements will be pushed along as fast as money and energy can push them. It is not positively decided, but it is more than probable that Theodore Thomas will be invited to take a prominent position in the instrumental department of the college. The vocal department will, of course, be conducted by an Italian, and for the head of all Were will be one whose fame is spread over both continents, the mention ofwhoee name the music-loving public will receive with cheers. There will be no half measures in the conduct of the college; the highest will be aimed at, and no partisanship or favoritism win be toL •rated in the selection of the faculty.”