Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 March 1879 — Page 6

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(Samw Unm since th Mobile JSWf otfored H 1110 MK" UM 1MMMM WhlfiH, by H SiHlIlt HTU wrtmc. fco..d be JmJawd woi lMerhotiouM, eacnrn-uitv of the gramudw whioh cxU-umI 1m jm kouiHitrH heart towards the jmo)! of tho Xnrth far Mm philanthropy arid .MMxiianttuI ty freely iMMBotrtydfcMdayed in til time of MM M MBMUM M UW MUtKbr IMMtilnncv. Twm mw on the wwrt of the Xtn called umh YmW"Wtvn WMMMWittv oomumK1o4m. trm viwtaw parti M Eh country. " The com wttwu iowkoMM manuMrlota were mh lUlMod ttwelitiia kt lavor of thauoem entitled ''CKoquora-a at baa," by Mi Xam I oc AutfueM. 6e, vim U here 4 veu ; Kve, Vhi earae to 11 once, n brother, in wrath, ruu qpBHHWH iouowcu your patn. Yo comiuored then, but only in part, Vor h Mubtkwi thin U the human ht-art. So the mumI w4nd felowa Sh it Is wight and Ami taa foreat-a bowl in hU breath like grain, Their hea-da t-n Mm 1mm and their branehes broka. 8ot hewakall ha eoHm their heart of oak? Tm su ept o'er our land like the whirlwind's Witt. lhat tk Jratoaa hoart ia a stubborn thing. We laid down mtr arms, we yielded oar will ; ouv mr ihmutoi wwns was un-aeiiiueiei Mill. MWe are vanquished," wa said, " bnt our woun-ua mmt Jteai;" W e gave you our sword, but our ktaite ware -" We ara eoaquered,'' we said, but our hearts And M woe to the conquered? on every doer. Hut the j9Boik.r cawwi and he wodd not f-ie, 'IJm aaxl that walketh in datknei Has thw: He waled thro' the vaMey, walked thro' the street. And Ins kat th rht of ate ry feot; In tho ad, dead, dad, that waver'i Ak-J bwi7awa- witfe aovor a yrayer. vluajaaa From the detoNtte tand. fr6ra im tci-v heart. Thr. went forth a ory to t lie utt oraHMt iart ; Von; haard it, O brothers i With never a Itt UM ytl TG Voa oftenttMi yoar hoarte, and pourodoutyohr l t'MHHTH. O I &Hr of Merer, yon anva above these i For you helped, wa kaow, on your bended lonrnnywaa Human. uutoH! it wa more. n hH you s ha red or ci-oM and our Iwrdeu uore. Your ttvea CfaHrl f Your Uvea ciieo. In your handa you stood by our for our lives you laid down and And no arontor love hath a man to rive Than lay clown hU life that hla friend: may uvtt You noorod in our wounda the oil and the wiae That ytMi brought to im from a Hand Divine. You conquered m, brothers; our swonl we penve; n ytem now oar neart taey are an w aavo. Our htnt dilch wati Kmn. and it held tmtlnnsr It la yoar, U frionda and you'll ami it Mroni Yor love had a hmuc. diviner than art. Ami "Coaiftiewl by KlndneM" we'll write on our heart. WJIIOE WAY1 Children, stop your play, And tell Be whleli way I shall take t reaeh the elty ou the hill. First the (flrl, With a bw lie: "TMa way: Through the woo.l. across the Mile, lty a brook where wild flowers row, bre the btnbj ting weet and low; Then you forget it fc so far. And how tired you arc, 'or the ealw reeta you, makoa you Mill, Jf you take this way to the etty oa the hill. Than the boy, W Hit a frown: "Tht way: Ky toe mill and through the town l ou win the aoidiera tnw e, It Mr tUp tlilltuM aiul mmi tka fair! Then you foraet the way m lonir For the nole whIcm you, makes you thrill. 'When you go thia waj to the eity on the hill." CKOFTLY'S CMIME. o nun you waiK in me laroiiff, Bbw n Plot to Murder n Rival SclentlHrallr .MMrm-rlrH A ChHuhh Inveatlea Whioh l'n.v-sd the Uentk ef the Inventer. (From the San Franeieco Aionaut. A few weeks ago some workmen engaged in removing aa old mansion on the corner of California, and Mason Streets were considerably puzzled at fiadiag a number of copper wires conb eating the bath-room with a room above. The owners of the property were equally puazled, having never before known of their existence. The wires were removed and nothing more thought of the matter. This recalls to my mind an inoideat whioh many will "mow remember. On the 14th of July, 1862, a Prof. Croftly was found dead in the bathroom I have just mentioned. Croftly was well known among scientific men as 4 professor of chemistry, and, besides, had a krge cirele of acquaintances in this city. Ife was supposed at the time to have committed suicide, and his death furnished a three days' sennation for the press. The accounts in four leading newspapers materially ooBfiioted, which made the matter all the more latere ting to the public. All agreed, however, with a singular unanimity of opinion, that be was dead. Even the ijeui. wnue not positively admitUnjr his iemise m tne artvcie, virtually conceded it in the head-lines. " Croftly, when found, was lying in the bath, covered with wounds of so curious a nature that no one could explain how iaey came to oe inaietea. xsey were deep, ragged and gaping, and there was no instrument found in the room with whieh they night have been made. Even the detectives who visited the scene of Croftly 'a death shook their heads and were at sea. Those who discovered the body found the door soon rely fastened from the inside, anil were obliged to buret it open. The room had no other means of egress or ingress. " Suiektel" remarked one of the reporters. "How came these w ousels on the txk?" asked a oettotive.

:i jVUrjMUMK,. AMI HIHiar JtMR tain Jf BOre t MV. 1 afty A pot mortem revealed nottking'iMHr,' except iBHt iae ptiytoMHM menu a mm of the blood which they coulH not sat wiactoruy account lor. " lie was frozen," said a f ounr phtHumuj namiy ufiiiiHHl smmieu WJ nave its foundation only in surmise1. - " " You sm to hare forsf&tleti that iffl.-T .-a . .i s . in .iuiy," roaiarKeu n tmieny genUeh oomiected with a uni verity. Tiw sewsimpra vied with oaoli other in building up ingenious theories accountine for the afl'air, the coroner's jury found a verdict of suicide, for wast of any thing better, and the remains were buried. The reader who deeires to eet a more detailed account of the ailair ae related at the time can do so by referring to the files of any of the city papers of that date, in fact, l would produce thein

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bere did space permit. The mam thing, ln fond of the bath., He retired however, w to clear up the mystery of;Rt midnieht, and always took a bath

Croftly 'a remarkable death. lie oa me to the coast in i860, and was reputed to be a man of sufficient means to live handsomely en the interest of his money, lie stopped a while at the unentai Hotel, ana there mot Jbdward Dean, a young man who, like himself, was a gentleman of leisure. The two became intimate, and finally, tired of hotel life, they determined to sook quartam tli;b w.ml.l ka , . """6uu"' I Olid hnn.d.lila 'I'hflt fst till Mime n and home-like. me-UKe. xney louna tnese qtmr - ters at iu 1W.UCUCT u luuimm iiru. - strong, a mutual acquaintance, who Hved in very desirable quarters on tho corner of Mason and California Streets. Before the costly habitations of Stan ford, Crocker, and other millionaire sprang into existence, Armstrong's house came very near being called a mansion. Armstrong rented Croftly and Dean three elegant room?, partly necause lie HKeu the men personally, and partly bceause ho was running on a pretty close margin financially. The two found their new quarters as attrac tive as men of tasto could wish. Arm strong was a widower, and the three ! men hid some rare old times together evenings. His cellar was stocked with excellent wines, and bis library with books of tho very rarest vintage of lit erature. One evening a hack drovo up to the door, and a woman, clad in wraps, bounded up the steps with astonishing vigor and agility, like most Western Next morning the usual formalities of introduction were gone through, and Miss Armstrong became one of the fix-rilf-ixa r9 tha vlunM A fnor .1 OTn KafnttA 1 w l" " VJB WWUI bur arrivnl I'rnf I nfl p hart ciurn-uclii.) ." . . -"""j " I to pay Miss Armstrong the most devout attention, and as a matter of course she fell madly in love with young Dean, who paid her none. Itissrenerallv conceded that one of the most elective ways of wooing a woman is to let some ! other(man do it. The woman tires of the indefatigable lover, and the man ! who treats her with indifference is soon preferred. Some men learn this by experience; Dean discovered it by accident. He presently began to turn his knowl edge to excellent account, and a bitter rivalry sprang up between the two mon. Croftly soon realized that he was not the favorite, and never for tho life of him could ascertain how a woman could form an attachment for a man '" WUO . hadn't the remotest Idea of chemistry. He forgot that he was somewhat old. and that some . i . . . - . - , their bridal wreaths upon the snow. He , ."UUIOJl UIS.1NU IAI L'RSI. '

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Tt wuiuuguuu. .uo ,,uuSJf miu the play, liy 8 o'clock every thing was . money ; call tho next 'caseT" An En- Mr. fell into old Armstrong's arms. A nntat. in knnu nmrt i.i. "t!..i n i-. 1 i

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t - u- i uV newaaaaie zrom mterrupuoii unm 11 ou lor a coupe or days to the argtt-1 a(3 It Was hlS daughter Alice. 1 o'nlonk. anri nnrhnnsi Uto? . ,.f o ,i- " f?" ,

iVl t7 YnZ v ' VH ms nvai ,n JCO aoout nuunigiit, and she bared her arm, saying, Burn." i vices from danger of piracy, and aho JSS!u2J hiS ,Jhen,turixollot.w,ltor In tbo morn" "A poultice." said tho Doctor. Next i to systematize the light iu kch away JnShfr . !iS? f fG ' ns b ,cft of tb8 she cM&d P ahowod her arm, that when once introduced every little S i n He rubbed hia hands with ami said: "Hotter." "Continue the I detail will be complete, xnd it will be posed removal. The Professor began hioiiD-ht. ami hen nrii ;n .n.. n .u ., .r.'., . .

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iiunuy uciciiuiueu w uui ma rival out busily enga ed in chemical expert ments. bat he: "Did von ever re alize that the conditions which result in congelation might be produced chemically?" l confessed that I had never civenthe subject much thought. " ui course you understand that sud den evanoratinn ran km nnlil.M knew nothing of the kind at the n. but nnddari aaaaantrathnrtHan no. - - . - time, but nodded asssent rather than ac knowledge my ignorance. "I can produce ice instantaneously," he continued. This is my assistant," pointing to an olectric battery. " With a fiiirrant, nf. sar IfWI nmiu of olor!fitv I can accelerate enough evaporation to frw7c .ntnHt- inn linnc nf wat.r n nere tne rroiossor tooK a basin of and poured in a small quantity of ; colorless liquid. " This is ammonia," Ham tha Profoaaor tonV n t-sin nf said he. ""But this "-here he added a 00.1t asmucn ot some other liquid "is something else." " wnat is it?" ' No one knows but myself." I deemed it impertinent to nuetUInn him further. He then attached the 1 wires of his battery to the water. " When i make the connecting cur rent, the water will become ice." I watohed, union inter seted. and he laid his hand on a piece of metal which was part of the apparatus, and the turning of whioh caused the ourreate to connect. He turned ,the brass piece, and instantly a cloud of vapor rose from the serfaoe ef the water. Crystals shot f rem the sides of the basin "with aeloa-

, l, - , , , . , , i. ( na b KiM-jUb auuvu Ilia LSI J K . o the way, and set about laying his . and itg faInt glo M reflecU,d in the p .Bi! , m . j,ii .t water. To Croftly the atmosphere After a couple of weeks' deliberation gcemed tonave been generated in a lias he concluded to murder Dean, and do , furnace. Tht wate iooked 5,ol ind itsoneaUy and scientifically that dis- refreshing. There was yet more than ?and 1 .w8 n hKroolm-boinK f n 1 the doonfroni force of habit,and, throwoccasional visitor and observed himi tr hta tn,., ,t L.i tt. ir

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raukDlv. anil thara wah a sharu. - lrAbOiiif awn im the water exnandinr in it tmm& a strain upon Im bajrfn "WUh-ftOfl wiiboHtfntil tiePrp. ieiwefV'Vfoan free 600 cupic feel of water u w' i ' 4 1 lift the hotiee "m'uch JpieWi'wiUt the Uikjovery inade by the Frofeesor, and a few, data JRft4rward learhed,of death. 7ThnuWl6Twnaideyo4 it k Awe of aulcWe." I uwde aitraful foxamlnation of the preiuiide, wwljoauui to a different co'ncliwiqii. Itw.M. tliie hand oi Alice Armtrou7fir,. that' killed Prof. .Croftly. " Let ua go backn little. After the Profeeaor realised what oould l do no with his new appliance of eleotrioity, he deterinised to utilize it in the murder of Dean, lie hit upoa tke"rand idea of freezing him in the bath. She wul not love htm cold," bo said, and begun to arrange his plans just before. The bath-room of Arm strong's houso was au f exceptionally good one. It was situatud but a short distance from the suit occupied by the Froteesor and Dean. The tank was of marble, 8 feet; .wide, 10 foet long and G i feet deep, capable of holding 480 cubic feet of water. Croftly connected the bath with his own room by moans of wires One entered tho bath by the r wasie-pi I . pipe, llo reached this by digging ; n the gardenunder thoprctextof plunt,inj: flOWOrs. The wire ran down tho side of the house and into tho ground. ' It was concealed from observation by a lilac-bush. The other was connected ; with thepipe which furnished the water. . He bored a hole in the wall and found tho Ripe, as he expected, running in the roar of tho room close to thn Hour. Ho then increased the jars of his battery, and raised its strength to 500 owes. No suspicion was excited by this, as he

had been for months before making I whioh will doubtless bo delightful readnUntn..! TT.n .,-.....".(! S1 1 l5l .

electrical experiments. His aparatus was Axed on a .stand near tho wall, and the wiro3 from it connected with those leading to tho bath. When the apparatus was removed its wires could bo pulled away from tho others, and no trace would be left of previous connection. On tho night of tho 3d of July all was in readiness. Croftly laid his plans with nicety and deliberation. Doan alwji wuk a uam uoioro retiring, wmcn was about mtdnicht. In the morninsr lie now began to work in earnest. He , filled the tank with water, and then tested his wires over and over attain. ' forv ttnnir was in solend d workinc ... .... '7 . ... i rt t ...r. .. ortier. lie calculated tuat im could om- ! 1 ! 1 ..! !!.. . ical proportions, wnerem lav the secret of his discovery. Having dono this, ho went back to his room and laid the two connecting wiros of his apparatus side! by side upon the instrument. It was j uui u uiuua.. xie lurneu ibb gas up to a lull blaze to disperse the shadows, J took an easy chair and determined to read until Dean's return. The silence of the house became unbearable, and' the sultriness of the apartment more and mere oppressive. His excitement began to tell upon him and he was no longer cool. The man who is about to kill sutlers more pangs than he who 1 knows he is about to die. Croftjy paced i up and down tho apartment, and then a strange fascination drew him toward! fhn hath TTa turns! t.,o "". till? 1UU1U CftAHl and stood gazing into the motionless water in tho tank, and murmured to himttAlf . II ??-.. l.n.l ....1 mi.?vii x uut uuuqiou null cublc feelf five hundred omes." eighty Tknm v.. o i it. r. could discover no disagreeable trace of tne cnemicais, and once rnoro he felt the delightful sensation of being cool. It was so agreeable that he began to reflect in his mind whether he would not continue to enjoy the bath and postpone the murder. Suddenly tho hall door was slammed Bint il a llUUfl tUn 1kC. A 8tr0Bg talking with her father. The &..a ... j'1?., . j pair au imieeii rettirflsu, having left the theater because they did not care to be bored with Mrs. Bowers' hackneyed rendering of "Queen Elizabeth." Pass- , ing along the hall they saw the Professor's door open and tho gas in lull blast. Armstrong hated to see any thing go to waste, and told "his damrlito f,, Q n Hn(i inVirf,r n, i.-a BU r," & SnJH! MslArtHStrong ,,- ! .. awL .i i. . "? r7a;r lJ,r,r could not resist the temptation to pull a little note from her bosom and read, it again. She had received it that morning, and had already perused it about twenty times. It read: Dkar Auck Will you be iny wlfn? Yours, KnwAKb Dk.vk. Dean was' a young man, who, when he had any thing to say, said it at onco, and stopped on reaching the point. She pored over the letter about five minutes, and then, returning it to its place, looked about ler. Her evo pres ently .fell on the instrument connected with Croftly's battery. She took Up one of the wires, and wm about to" latP.t on tluadupanal XI ll.' I.see u mere would us a

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sne uropjHKi it aoiuaa IU IM". jv rjnm. flashed wit, which 'startled her. She drew back, lowerel the gas, xnd went to bed. At thf instant the wirea were eoinieoted Croftly waa in the center of the bath. A shook and terrible ohilP paaettd through Ms irame. ami he felt H cloud M vapor ,riein from tliajxtw ol the water and sweeping into his fact. Myriads Of spear-like crystals tjhpt out, from the edge of the tank and converg ed toward Mini like w: many siiatt of deatli. , lie realized his situation, and (iasneu to reacu 1110 hioim: aa ua uhi su, 1 11.--. l. .lt.1 .. he threw himself against the jagged edgeaof asheetof ioehalf aniaoJitiiiok. There was a frkhtful gash in his side, from which blood was streaming. He struggled madly amid the ice, and every throe orought fresh wounds. His limbs moved no longer in water; they wore enveloped in slush. Tho ice closed about him like a vise. Ho was dead. After the evaporation of the chemicals the electricity no lougor had any ofluct, and the heat of the room began to tell upon tho ice. Tho mass melted, and by 4 o'clock in the morning the corpse of Croftly was lloating upon the surface of the bath. He was not missed until 0 o'clock the next morning, when Doan hurst open tho door and found him as described. The rest is known. The jury gave a verdict of suicide, and Miss Armstrong and Edward Doan were married on tho 22d of the same month. Urovlty. Tho King of Zulu-land is said to have recently addressed a noto in a Uritixh t ollicer in South Africa aa follow. : Kxt collency First oarao tho missionary; ' next the Consul; now tho army. Cotywayo." This brief letter recalls some ' short speeches and ourt correspondence ing in those times of long a a i -a a harangues at A Western Aioanyanu Washington. Judge, once upon a time, addressed tho Grand Jury in thoao words: Gentlemen: Tho weather is extromolv hot: I . am very old; you know your duty, perform it." Another American Judge once intervened in an odd way to prei vent a wasto of words. Ho was sitting in chambers, and seeing, fram tho pllo of papers in tho lawyers' hands, that a , certain case was itKoiy to uo a long one ho asked: "What is tho amount of an act, and finally observed, when thev wore dono: "Hrnthnr. thai- nt was renoalod a. vmr ac-o." On mnm. I J n int? a woman w.w shown intn lir AV.r. .... ...... . . nothv'a room, liefnrn ho nnn d cnnit . . . . .. I .. afterward she name atrain? thnn said: "Well. Your fee?" "Nothing," said tho great physician; " you arc tho most sensible woman I over saw." Lord Berkeley, wishing to apprise the Juse OI uorset OI HIS C naneu con dition, wrote: "Dear Dorset: I have just been married, and am the happiest dog alive. Berkeley." The answer came: "Doar Berkeley: Every dog a Chicago newspapor, wanting the deS tails of a terrible inundation in Connec? ticut, telegraphed to a correspondent at Hartford : the Hood." T " You will find w w v ..... yn.vuiaiii ui The reply came ouloklv: Snml full nartmiil,i f them in Genosis."Jvcw ' orh Times. Another Deluge Coming. T A Belgian professor has published a work entitled " Periotltrit ii (Jr,,,ui, Deluges Jlenullmd du Mouvemcnl Graducl de la Lvjnc dcsAi-pvlcs de la Terrc," in which he warns us that wo may boon

the lookout for another deluge of tho , self was now dead, and, haying defeated world. At certain regularly recurring nnn incorporated hs tribe with hisown. intenals, he maintains, tho waters of Atcr tn's "e carBd on a long series of one hemisphere are suddenly procipi-' successful hostilities against neighbortated across the equator and Hood the in8 tribes, until finally he stood at the other. The last of these deluges, which ' 1,ead ol m Rrniy of 100,000 devoted folalways llow from north to south, or 5 lowcrs. Finally, howover, in 1828 Chaka from south to north, was that of Noah's 1 victim to a conspiracy excited by

times, which was from tha nnnh I Hence the explanation of the great preponderance of water in tho Southern hemisphere, and of the general southern trend of North and South America, Africa, and many minor poninsulas. The next of these dolugos will flow from me soum 10 uio north. The nansn. h , . vausui no argues, is the altornata lner.H m Hn-1

croase of the ice caps at tho polos, and uy th0 preference shown to his brother, tho consequent change of the earth's ' u8 m 18AG assembled 20,000 men and equilibrium. Since 11M8 the South Pole 1 Rttaoked the latter, who could only colhas been continually nnlaro-itiw. wi.il.. loot somo 8.000. A fearful massacre

tho North Polo has been nronortionatnlr i diminishing, to-day the diameter of the .southern glacier being about n.000 miles and that of tho Northern 1 inosc two glaciers shall have arrived at ( thoir maximum extension, then will tho earth tilt over and be submerged by an-' other great flood, tho llfteonthnf tha 1 J. . r. -1 " . klnd that has oecurred. In view of this oflora better suggestion, would it not be auvisaoiB mat. eacil Ol us resolve himaalf . into hia own ark by wearing night and day one of Paul Boyton's rubber swimming costumes ?- jjouisvtlu tCourkrJournal. Mrs. Sarah ,1. Hale, the oldest literary woman in the United States, long the editor of the My't Book, la now in her 91st year, and In veryfqeble health, at her midenoe In Philadelphia.,, f

impending and somewhat serious prob- sembied ins most trustworthy rogi memability, the question arises, What are we J An(1 llHpatchel them to chastise Lis regoing to do about it? If no nnn nan ! bcllious son. The latter, however, al-

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, r w - ---- m - tr -j w 111 1 I' 'l ha HoMton At twrLiMr aura 'V.r.ipublic exhibition of KdiAdn'a invuntions soHi the inventorVaaaistant mu! Temple lat evening, and, proved mi 0c. caskm of aiMorbine iHWireat to all iiros. eat: Mr. JohaeeHpUnM. gayo a brltf slcfttoh of the 1U f, KiUaon, luadinf un naturally to an aooount of his princiiiai iaveatiwia. Of late Kdieon haa nnnl f.,i . 1 f 11. . t-. i l i uim principle oi ins oieutro-niotor. i its means he has aucceedod in prodiic. Jng a receiver which gives out the I sounds tranamittd with such for u,. ' the words of the speaker at tho other end may be hoard distinctly at a great distance. The device was tosteil li. evening, and, although it was of the crudest character, the invention beiur as yet in its infancy, the result was that the notes and words of sincors statin... ed in the baaoroont of the building wore transmitted with sufliciont power to bo noaru uuaincuy across mo entire lcmrth of the hall. remaps tnq most interesting part of 'the exhibition was. that of tho principle of Edison's olectric light. Two sampler; of tho lamps based on Edison inventions, showing the exact form that they will have in actual use, were shotvn. The, lamp consiaLs of an ornaniontai ( bronze titandard, surmounting which U a transparent ghiaa case looking much like an ordinary Iamp-chimnoy, except that it ia closed at tho top Within this ! . .................. .. . . ! 1 . o . . m t .... i t . is nu.ipa.iuuii n spir.il oi niGUll Wirt' hardly lurgur than a knitting-needle in diameter, and perhaps throo-nuartnr of an inch in length. When tho electricity is turned on, this spiral glows wiha i white light, the character of which for ' steadiness surpasses tho best gas-jet ' over produced in fact, in tliU particular at loast, it is perfection. Unfortunatelv. I 1. !..., 1. 1 1 N.... lL 1 . . the inability of tho leoturer to procure n electro-dynamic machine in I.oston, as no nopeu 10 uo, compelled him to employ a battery, with whioh less perfect results could be obtained than would otherwise have been the case; but ho hopes to have this remedied by this evening. The ossontial devices, also, by which Kdi.son claims to havo obviated some of tho dil- ' hcultios which the best authorities have ' said could not bo removed, in tho way

in ; of the perfection of tho light for practii cal use, Mr. Edison, with a caution born

of exponence, refused to allow Mr, lohnson to remove from the laboratory. Johnson, however, stated unqualiy that Mr. Edison had practically jomplishod all that ho claimed, and il actually produced a practical liurht for house use, of full twonty-ono-camllo j power, the power of an ordinary gas jet. i The only motive for keeping it back from the public was to give an onoorj tunity for the inventor to secure hU deJohnson promised without hesitation that tho light would bo in actual we in tho houses of New York within a year's time. The ZhIhsA Warlike, Savage Marc. In the beginning of tho present century the Zulus were, according to an article in a Gorman newspaper, an unJmportant tribe under chief I nRme of Scnzangakong. This r ot tho man had two sons, tho younger of whom, by name Chaka, or the Firebrand," being threatened by his brother, lied from his father's houso and sought refuge with a neighboring Prince. By this latter the young Chaka was trained to be a skillful warrior, and when ho was grown up ho, assisted by tho Prince who received him, attacked his brother, killed him, and became chiof of the tribe. Having thus established bima'lf in his brother's place, Chaka turned up on tne son of his benefactor, who himhis brother. Dinarau. who in turn was deposed in 1810 by another brother, Panda, who was assisted in his enterprise by the bauers with whom after his accession to power he continued to live on good UTim. This Panda had two sons, Umbulazi and Cety wayo, of whom tho former was his father's favorite , - , . he joalousy of Cetywavo being oxcited onsucd, those of UrabulaziV followers who were not killed by tho sword being driven into tho TugelalUvcr. l'mbulazi himself fell into tho hands of his inlut- . . , .. .... .. . nmn "roiner, wno nan mm nayou am 1,10 rst PlRce m& then "sprinkled w'tn hotashos and black ants, his heart being finally cut out and eaten by Cetywayo's warriors. Thereupon Panda astlmncrh dafaato.1 nf. thn nulanr. anceceued in collecting a numerous -body of followers, and maintained himself in possession of a large tract of country until his father's death in 1872, since which time his position as chief of the Zulus has never been menaced. -Owing to the hard times," the Buffalo Express tolls us. spring bonnets will be worn mostly id the milincry establishments." - .

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