Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 October 1869 — Page 1

POETRY.

A CONTENTED PROPlUElOIt. I n avk plontr of dntinil Tmxwit, lluvi- ulnty i-f i;oltl, nnt to piiv ; I km pteatyof baaaulM emtim lint my (ntl4 are built in tho air; Ami ray vnual are ail airy CPMtOTM, From x-;atifal dr:.nmlaml Ml tb-.-y; Th-y driTe me to 111 And niAntflcvot hall. And tell ne my ooach stops tho way ! But oh ! Yfhat a pest, Wbn it comes to the test I am kept in a dreadful d-lay ! A playuo on thoae wild little vamsals' You rn"t treat a word that th i.iy. And I've h :ard thnt my beautiful (MM Are diy inclined to decay. Father Wisdom adyised mo to sell them To th- public -a ht-ueflf clear And Fancy engaged to 11 them. For Fancy's a duo auctioneer: M'it Ui- markot by uo means was lively, For rastl. tlt call was but cold; lAad and iron were brisk, lint gold none won Irl risk To invent on my battlciuctits bold. my tarrow, unlet, 1 inhabit ih-ni vet. And rathss- N$atoa they're not sold, Ami never a bit am down hearted. For my vassals still ply me witk gold; M.f castles and I shan't be parted Till tht! heart of the owner be cold. Again Father Wisdom addn-saed me lie's a horrid old bore in hi way He said rats anil nurc would inf-st ni", As cruinbieil my tow.-rs to decay. v Th -y n-'ver cau rumbli. jokI fattv-r ; Th-jiv lasting whan one- th.-y re Ik-hu; Our cast Iva of air We can qnickly repair. As Ikt home uf the spider's rr-pini." So homeward I went To my caatle content ; As th'j vesper 1 1 1 told day was done. And they looked just as lovejy as vnr. As burnished they stood in the sun. Oh ! ne'sr from my catl-a HI a-er Till the sands of my life shall be run ' . All the Ymr Hvm i. MISCELLANEOUS. HOW I 1IECAME A DETECTIVE. Twrlvr yean ao, I wax in Ronton. I had jaet graduated, ami was endeavoring, in my llVrt to establish a practice, to see hw near a man could come to stnrvatioa. d still keep al;ve. I had got as far aw ay j iroiii hom.' as possible, because I did not want any of my own people to see or know of 1113- struggles, being content to right patiently on until I had made a sue vs. and then lot them know BOW I lau made it. I had hut one n-lative, I ma)- say only MM friend, in a', Boston; ami that was 1 h irl. y Drake. Charley was my cousin, and a clerk in a urnr-storc a retail store where he had plenty of close work, and very small pay. For him there was no oca thing as rest He slept in the store, ami was liable to he catted at any Boat of tho night, to make up a prescription, or retail a dose of castor-oil. This may seem a ri tli - to some; but, to a man who lias Im en going through the petty drudgery of a retail store from six in the morning until ekvsn at night, it is no mall matter to by waked from his first sleep to mix, and pound, and spread, and tie up a prescription a task that rr mires quietness of head an i re post; of body. On morning, quite early, I stopped in hin store, as it was my almost daily habit to do, to get some small matter I wanted. Tbc proprietor came out, with a look of anxiety on his face, and greeted me with "Did you know that Charley i in t rouble "Trouble? No," I said, MT7bl trouble ?" " A wrong prescription he pal up oaf killed a woman. I wish he'd killed himself b lore it happened iu my shop. It will ruin me." I looked contemptuously on the fellow, who only thought of his shop and Iiis pocket, and made further inquiries ' Oh, it happened last night, about shet-ting-np tram. The woman died within an hour; and Charley is under arrest, await- j ing the verdict of the coroner's jury." I felt an HtCT disgust for this fellow; but I thought I would give him a parting shot besor I left him. So I aid : "lint why don't they arrest you? They must look to you as principal. It was almost amusing to see Iiis cxprcs- j r-ion of fright. 'Arrest me? What had I got to do with b ! Why. I wasn't even in the store when it occurred." No the sneak he was asleep in his bed, while he put all the work and responsibility off on poor Charley, However, I e ssjteatpd myself with asking a few qucs lions as to who the person was that had died, and whn Charley had been arrest-d ; and then I started to see him. I found him, in a very little time, in the custody of one of the coroner's officers, awaiting IBC holding of the inquest, hich would eosao oil" in a hour. Asa matter of sousa Chariey was in intense mental agony, and it was only with difficulty I eoekl get him to speak to the point. His mind wandered, and he was in a high fever. I got bold of his hand, and triedto calm him. "Now, my boy," I said, "this is no time for despairing. You mailt plrck up courage, and look the thing squarely in thi fac. All is not lost, as long as life is left. Tell mo the whole story." " 44 Well, it was alout one o'clock, this morning, and I was waked out of a sound sleep to put up a prescription, and I put it up wrong. I was so sleepy, ami had beea so tired, when I weat to bed! (h, jMM.r Nellie! What will she mj to this?" 44 No matter aboal Nellie now," I anWend; "if she's the little woman I think she ia, she'll bear it noluy, and, no matter what Um result, aha won't think Irs of you. Now, then, what was the nature of your m: .lake?" " Oh, dear Cousin Rob, a very bad one! I put in three grains of atropia for three gralae of naanabla. and you know thai imj sixth of a grata of atropia is a large dose. I knew it was a atiaaae pricrfpUo ; bat, as it came from Dr. Baitoa Brewster, who knows what he's about, aad is a regular caataeaci of our shop, I put it up, and gave it to the mcsHcnjjer. I whs so glad to get to bad again, that I didn't think aboat anything until alxtut half an hour afterward, when the doctor aaaself waked me up, and asked to see the ptescripiioa. I hadn't put it in th booh yet, 0 I beaded it to him. lie took it to the n'ht-lamp, read it, and handed it back, saying, rery harshly : 44 4 Young man, .just read that prescription asrain. " I did as he bade me, thoroughly awake by this time, and, to my horror, read three irrainsof asafetida, instead of three grains of a'.ropia. 44 Dr. Brewster look'-d fiercely at me for a moment, and went off, leaving me with the prescription in my hand, and saying: 4 You've killed a woman by your careleasv Beas; you'll have to settle it" with the cot -oner hi the morning.'" 44 Well ; and. they arrested you this morning?" Yes ; about seven o'clock. The officer says it was good in Dr. Brewsti r not to give information against me until after daylight, since I might have got away in the meantime, if I had been of a mind to do so; which.no doubt, was the doctor's idea. But, bless you. Cousin Bob! I didn't think ot running away. I couldn't run away, if it was only fer Nette! sake." Nellie wax a dear little girl, to whom Charley had been engaged tor a year or two, and was likely to be for a f w years more, a4 he was waiting, until he could get into business for himself, to marry her. I cast over the whole thing in my mind, and the first idea that struck me was, that Charley ought to have a lawyer present to watch the ptweeediwea, and see that he bed at least legal rights, where all would be prejudiced airainst him. No sooner thought, than I leaseaabefed that I had beea able to do considerable professional service in the family of a you'.g lawyer by the name of BeafOfd; in fict, I had been fortuna'--enough to snatch a favorite child of ail almost out of the grie of death. Sanlord was, like myself, unable to make' both ends met t, and, in telling me his inability to pay me then, hoped that I, or some of my friends, would endeavor to make BfoJa sins il us of him. This was just the time, aiul, In; fore the inquest opened, I had 8anford on the spot, anxious tobe of use. The evidence was very simple : The deceased boarded in the house where bullied. Was a young girl, about niaeteea, Hod no relatfeas, and only one or two frieada, iu Pootoa. Efobmly rimtesl her but her physician, Dr. Brt witer. Stu:,had not Inten very well for a day or two, and Dr. Brewster had nrescrilM-d lat-the night before, aud sent a boy to Maroelin's dTQ

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volume xv. stre for prescription. Prescription book produced by Marcclin, the proprietor ot drug store. Prescription read : 44 R. Hyrirartr. chioromite, Ext rhei aa 4 scruple, A;aret. gr. iii, Pillule? vi." It was written with a hard lead pencil on an ordinary bit of white, unruled writing paper. Then oatne Brewster's evidence. He ; lentitied the prescription. Wncn he found there was something wrong with Miss Selby, the deceased, he went to Mareclin's, and saw Drake, who admitted to having put three giaiai of atropia in the prescription, instead of the same quantity of assahetida. Then came medical evidence as to the effects of atropia, and the amount that should be given in a dose which made half grain to eaeh pill, when one-sixth of a rain should be enough. It all looked very bad for poor Charley, ami I saw plainly that, in the present state of the case, San lord could not help him any. There was only one question he asked Dr. Brewster, which seemed rather to lother the doctor, and was suggestive to me. 44 Doctor," he said, 44 how was it that, when von suspected soBtethiae wromr w'th Miss Selby, you left her tbf nearly halt an hour witli the ignorant people of this house, and went yourself down to Marcelin's, instead of trying something to relieve the deceased, and sending a messenger to Marcelin's?" Dr. Brewster said he Wanted to he pcronally satisfied. "And how was it, doctor, that, when m were personally Satisfied, you counted yourself with using only simple remedies, such as sulphate of zinc, and did not call la other aid aotQ Miss Selby Wat pas; all hope1?" Dr. 'Brewster answered that he had acted to the best of his judgment, and hwas not responsible to anybody, even if; he had erred, which he did not. And 1 so closed the inquest, and Charley was committed to stand his trial for" man-I slaughter, his bail having been placed at ten thousand dollars. Of course, bail WSS 1 --il 1 y,, ,. . . unpoaHoic, ami uaarue went to prison, cheered into a little hope by Sealbrd and myself, but still nearly heart-broken. There either little Nellie Wilson, Saaford or myself, visited him daily, and did our best to cheer him ; but the prospect Avas dark, and the State Prison loomed up before. The day of his trial Wal approaching, and there was not a bit I or eSKlenee to submit la defence, save good character, and recommendations from former employers and from Marcclin, ail of which was poof hope. One day business led me past the house Where Miss Selby had died,' and I do not i know what induced the idea, but I thought j I would go in. The only idea I had, in act, was to sec the messenger who took the pr scription, and tnlk with him, though I knew him to be only an ignorant i boy. I saw the hmdlady it was a board- ! tag-hoBoe who was a kind, motherly v,,rt of a woman, and, after a little gossip with her. I got her Interested In Charley's esse, as an orphan, and without a friend in the world but myself. Thea I found that the old lady was troubled with a dyspeptic MÜH, Which I aadcrtook to cure," sending out for medicine on the spot, without letting ! it coal hei anything, and finally won upon ; Mrs. Bramble so, that, as I was going i away, she saul ; 44 .Now, doctor, why don't y come and take my little front reception room, and put up a sign here ? There ain't no doctor anywhars around this neigtinornooe, ana l ii board ye very cheap, jist to have yc in the house on 1 t sirni I laughed at the old lady's proposition, and told her that I would thinfc it oyer by next day; I did so, and saw that Mrs, Bramble's house was much superior in appearance and location to the one I inhabited. The result was, I struck a barj'ain with the old lady, ttnd moved immediately to her domicile. I hadn't been there three days, when, one morning, Mrs. Bramble, who was very fond of gossiping in my room, said : " Doctor, I can't help thinking all the time about that poor gal that was pisened up stairs. I haven't had that room opened since the morning aller she died, be haunted." Seem- to me as if t might "Yes!" I responded. "There war something strange, too, ahoal her; and that doctorman that came to sec her SO much." Yes I1 I said again, pricking up my cars, and looking inquiringly at her. " Thar was so mach sneaking in and out, and coming at all kinds of queer times; ami then they'd quarl, and, when he went away, she'd Iret and cry so, that she'd be e'en a'most sick." " Hallo!" I said to n.vself, ''here's SBOW shape to this matter." And then I said to Mrs. Bramble, 44 Where did Miss Selby come from ?" 44 Well, that's the strangest thing of all, doctor. She never would tell where site cams from; and tin; most that she ever dropped was, that she was from New Hampshire ; but then her name never was Selby in this world." u flow do yon know that, Mrs. Bramble ?" u Because every bit of her underclothes had another name rubbed out on 'em ; and one day there came I man lure, and asked lor Mis- Goodwia, and, when he was told that no sieh person lived here, he insisted, and said he'd seed her eOBM in here. Then, when this was talked of at tea-table, before Miss Selby. she trot dreadful excited aboal it, though nobody said a word aboat her being the one that just come in before the man asked for Miss Qoodwia.1 The old lady was making some revelations here that stirred my curiosity j but I could not see how they could help Char ley's case, except that, if there was anytiiing mysterious between the dead woman and the doctor, I might sift it out, and use it to sof4'-n his evidence against Chariey, or, per... ps, force his interest to help the poor boy. 44 All's fair in love and war," and so t took hold of the slender clew to trace out who Miss Selby, or Goodwin, niifht Sc. The last, I thought, was the true name, aad, although it seemM absurd to i nter upon the search, in such a way, I concluded to write to every postmaster in New Hampshire. I framed a letter, saying that there was something cl great importance Knding to a family by the name of Goodwin, somewhere in that State, and requested each postmaster, if the name existed in his locality, to please to send BSC a lit of members of the family, present and absent, especially th- hitter, and that, it the necessary information proved to be elicited through him, he should be well rewarded. Tiiis Utter brought eleven responses, one of which was from a BWBBBBT of the Qoodwia family, into whose hamD the potsaaaster of the town of M had put my letter. I had no sooner read this letter of Mrs. Barah Ooodwto, than I cried "Eureka!'1 The- very tone of II showed a mother seeking for her lost child, from the expression she put apoa my askin 1 for the names of the absent. She sought a daughter who had left her a year 1' fore, and the description, which I read to Mrs Bramble, was recognised in moment, of course, Mrs. Goodwia must be nent for. Her daughter! ellects were still in the lotked-up room, and they troubled poor Mrs Iiramhle almost as badly as if they had been a ghost. I therefore wrote to Mn. (Joodwin that, if she would come to Hoston, I oouM trive her intelligence of her lost daughter. It was a sad pilgrim age to bring the inotheeoa, bu' It was Itetter than to have her child lot, without track, forever. In a few da Mrs. ; . M 1 win arrived, and, in my room told her the sad fate of her child, ami pleaded with her to tell Ute all she knew of Brewster.

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She did not know Brewster, had never heard the name ; but, after urgent pleading, confessed that her daughter had left home with a man named Selby, that she had written to her declaring that she was married to Selby, and this was the last she had heard of her. I described the appearance of Selby, and the mot he recognized it instantly. It was that of Brewster. Light seemed breaking on this affair in a new way. What if this Brewster, who was a Ygitimately married man, had found him? If bumpered with Miss Goodwin, perhaps, illegally, married to her, and consequently had taken advantage of Charley's mistake for it was clear that he had discovered it in time to save her if he had tried, or at least that was the conclusion Sanford and I had com-? to This, indeed, was the defence we had designed to offer on the trial, bringing in medical evidence to support it. What if this were so, and we could bring it against Brewster on the trial, or, better still, get him to abscond for fuar of the revelation! 44 All's fair, etc.," as I said before. Mrs. Goodwin went to the room of the poor, dead girl, which was opened for the first time since her death. There was no mistake. Everything was recognized ; and the poor, broken-hearted mother was in agony. 1 had sent for Sanford, and he had arrived, and was shown directly to the room. Mrs. Bramble took the BSOtheraway to comfort her, and the lawyer and I discussed the situation. In the centre of the room was a table, one of those old-fashioned, wax-polished, mahogany tables, seen only once in a while. On the farther side of this sat Sanford, between myself and the wtadow. While I was talking I glanced at the table and presently mv eye rested upon some scratches, n hy I noticed them, indistinct as they were, I cannot tell; but my eyes would not leave them until at last I bent down close, and saw that they were the marks made by the sharp point of a hard pencil, through thin paper, and the very marks made by Brewster's prescription on the night of lOssOor twin's death. The wax-rubbed table had taken the impression plainly; and there I read, while Sanford looked at mc womit ringly, not only the prescription, now in the hands of the law, but the impression of another, almost identical, only substituting the word atropia for tssam llda I was thunderstruck, and called Sanford round to my side of the table. He read it, and we looked in each other's faces. The whole thing was as clear to mc as day. 1 called up .Mrs. iJramble and Mrs. (Jood- ; win, and both rend the marks. Quick work should now be made of the whole j thing. The room w hs closed, but not until ! I had made most accurate copies of both I prescriptions. Sanford went to police head quarters, ami brought one of their principal men, while Mrs. Bramble, In her ow n name, sent off for Brewster to come I directly to her on a matter of importance. He arrived just before Stanford 's return ; with the minister of the law, and seemed verv much taken aback by meeting me, w hom he remembered, at the inquest, as a friend of Charley's. I said to him: 44 Doctor, tacrc are some matters connected with the death of that lady up stairs, which I want cleared up, and 1 induced Mrs. Bramble to send for you, satisfied that you could enlighten me." 44 Enlighten you ! " lie sneered. 14 What have you to do with it at all?" 44 Oh ! " I said, carelessly, 44 1 have taken an interest in Miss Ooodwia'l death, as I have in Mr. Drake's life." The name of Qoodwia staggered him, and he turned livid. 14 Goodwin f he muttered, "I don't know any Miss Goodwia.1 44 Perhaps you would not know her mother," I said, as that lady entered the room with Mrs. Bramble. Brewster staggered toward the window; I jumped between him and it, for I thought he intend ed to ihrow himself out. M Perhaps, doctor, yon don't recognize these two prescriptions," I continued, ihowiog the copies I had made. Here is the one calling for atropia, which you exchanged for tlie other, when you called at the drag-store of Marcclin, ami asked Drake to show you the original. The very same, doctor." M That's a lie !" lie hissed ; " I destroyed that." " Oh ! did you ! Well, you see it has Come to life again. However, I'm triad yem've confessed that you tried to destroy it. And now, doctor, my advice to you is to make a clean breast of this thing, and throw yourself on my mercy." He caught at this like a cow ardly wretch, and, M Sanford came in, he knew him, bat did not know the man with him lie told the whole story. He had beguiled Miss Goodwin with marriage, which, of course, was bigamy, and was in daily dread of detection. He had plotted her death, and this plan had ceurred to him the very evening of Its execution. He knew the working of Marcelin's store, and that, by changing the prescription, Charley could be made the victim, and himself exonerated. And thrn, as he finished, he said : 44 And now, gentlemen, I have done; what do you intend to do with nie V" 44 Have vou hanged," I said calmly. 44 Is that your mercy I threw myself on r 44 That's too BBOCh mercy for a villain like you. There's your man, oAoer. We'll go with you till we see him safe 1111dtr lock. We don't want to take any chances on that fellow." And that was my first case, and my first arrest. The next morning I was sent for by the authorities, and coolly informed that Brewster hand hanged himself the night before in his cell, so you see I only erred by pronouncing who should hang him. AHto ('hurley, the district attorney arranged his business in a few hours, and he was a free man. Marcclin was verv anxious to have him back ; but I obtained for him a better place, in a larger store, with less week, more sleep, and larger pay. As to myself, a few days afterward I was sent for by the President of the B Bank, who, having apologised for his strange proposal, told me that he had heard from Baalbrd the whole story of my amateur detective business, and he feit Satisfied that if I would take in hand the matter of the robbery of their bank it bad lost eighty thousand dollars some weeks befbre which the regular detectives could do nothing with, he was satisfied I I could make something out of it. At all events, on his recommendation, the board of directors had told him to offer me five hundred dollars to try, whether I succeeded or not, and fifteen per cent, on all the money I recovered, if I succeeded. I laughed at the idea, and listened. Five hundred dollars wasa great deal of money to begin on. It would be a long time before I would get such a sum as a medical fee. I was interested in the story of the robbery, aad I took the job professionally. Two months later I closed it up, having recovered seventy-two thousand dollars of the money, and received my fifteen per cent , ten thousand eight hundred dollars, baa the five hundred dollars already paid. Oat of this money I set Charley Drake up, elegantly, in business, ami married him to Nellie; and put Sanford in the way of getting up, sending him since a large pracI ice. Api'Uioh1 Journal. Out John Berry that used to live up Lake Chaniplain liked to tell a big story. One evening, sitting in the village store, he said lie once drove a horse 12 miles in one day on the ice, when the ice w is so thin that the water spirted up through the bold cut through it by the horse's corks. One of the bystanders remarked that seventy ty miles was a pretty good drive for one d-iy. "Yes," said I nclc John, M but il tM alo)uj ihty in -'it."

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER

Is tho Moon an Iceberg or a Furnace! Tins is the question that selenographcrs are now earnestly discussing. It is strange that so little should be known of the nearest heavenly hotly, as to leave such a question open and championed on both sides by men of genius and great experience in lunar observations. That two theories so precisely opposite should exist with regard to the state of the moon, may well throwdoubt on some of the most confident guesses into the condition of the more distant sun and planets and stars. Sir John HefBCheJ stood forth as the chief defender of what we may call for brevity, the ''furnace theory" of the moon. He believed that, owim; to the long lunar days lasting some three hundred of our hours the moon warms up under the fierce heat of the sun, until its temperature is more than '.290 degrees F. above that of boiling water or about 409 degrees. For nearly seventy hours any given point on the moon's surface turned toward the sun is exposed to the almost vertical rays of that body. The moon having no atmosphere, or one so tenuous as to be invisible to us, there would be no mitigation of a shelter from the Maring downpour of the olar rays. No animal life, no TCgctation such as we are familiar with, could live for an hour under such torrid influences to say nothing of the want of atmosphere, Waich in the terrestrial order of tilings, is Indispensable to the vitality of animals and plants. So far the Herschel theory. But Captain John Ericsson, the distinguished American inventor, a man of profound originality, and a slow and cautious observer and theorist, recently propounded an opinion, that the moon's surface is one mass of ice. He has arrived at this conclusion from norel and ingenious experiments to ascertain the actual intensity of the solar rays in absolute space, that is before they enter the earth's atmosphere. We have not mom to detail his processes of investigation which were given in full to the American Association for the Advancement of Scii ce at its late meeting, and will only say that they are regarded by him as proving the actual heat of the solar rays in absolute space to be more than 800 degrees below the freezing point of water a degree of cold which has no parallel in human experience, and which would be as deadly to animal lifand vegetation as the high heat imagined by Herschel. The reason why the earth is not as cold as the moon is that the former has an atmosphere, which prevents the earth from parting with the solnr heal as fast as received, by radiating it back into space. In other words, the atmosphere permits the solar rays to reach the earth, and then keeps the" resulting heat imprisoned, until it is augmented up to the existing SYerage temperature, when other causes step in to prevent it going higher. Captain Ericsson, in attaching such importance to the atmosphere a prerentivc of the escape ot heat 0H08 imparted to the earth, has the familiar experience of aeronauts and mountain climbers on his pule. At the height ol a few miles from the earth B freezing atmosphere is encountcicd, which is satisfactorily explained by the thinners of the air, the radiation ot the earth's surface expending its principal heating effects on the denser strata of atmosphere below. Assuming, as may be properly done, from all the evidence, that there is no atmosphere about the moon, it would follow that the Herschel theory must be erroneous: and it will remain one of the curiosities of science that Hörschel should have regarded the absence of a lunar atmosphere as eausing an intense heat on the moon's surface, while Captain Ericsson takes that fact to be a positive proof of the superlatively cold condition of that body. The Herschel party claim that recent experiments with the great Bosse telescope sustain their theory. Thai gigaatic instrument has the largest metallic rcflectoi in the world, and, by connecting the telescope with clock work during the presen' year, Lord Bosse has been able to concentrate the rays of the moon upon a delicate heat measurer, for the purpose of dctermining whether the moon gives out heat or not. No tests previously made were satisfactory on that point ; but this one settled the question beyond a doubt. The lunar rays do transmit a sensible degree of heat This fact is quoted to substantiate the Herschel theory, but it does not necessarily do so. For it is a well established truth that heat may. be reflected from .surfaces of ice, or iron, or glass, or other substances, themselves cold. Reflected heat from cold bodies, or heat radiated from hot bodies, would produce exactly the same effects upon objects receiving the rays. No means are now known by which reflected and radiated heat can be told apart, except by an examination of the surface from which they proceed. The Bosse experiments, therefore, white they are very interesting as deciding a mooted point, and demonstrating thai the M chaste beams of the watery moon" are not altogether devoid, of heat, settles nothing conclusively as between Ericsson and Herschel; for there is no doubt that Ericssons hypothetical lunar ice would reflect as mach heat as Uerschel's supposed burning temperature would radiate. Under the impulse of the discussion which the bold and original Eric sson has started, the moon will now become more than ever an object of Inquisitorial examination. Perhaps some telescope may yet be made powerful enough to determine by direct inspection, once and forever, the question whether the lunar mountains are, as Krif BSOn says, enormous cones of ice, fed by water from the interior, which rVeexea the moment it comes to the surface, or the peaks of extinct rolcaaoes, as at roaotners generally suppose them to be. N ") York ,ourri'il of Commerce. Light iu the School-Room. BIT. T. De Witt TaLMAOX, of Brooklyn, N. Y., In a recent sermon, thus spoke of light in the school-room: 44 Let us have plenty of light in our sehool-rooms and homes light, clear and beautiful, such as Hod pours out of His sun every day, a world full of it j not crowdingthrough between small windows, and glass stained or eobwebbed : plenty of liht, like that which puts blue into the gentian, and gold on the cowslip, and spots the pansy, and covers the sea With emerald, and sends up the mist of the valley into whirling columns of glory sky tall, and at SUnset pulls back the bars of heaven until the brightness ot that land strikes through and through the cloud racks, dripping d wn the battlem a la sapphire, and purple, and orange, and flaming fire. Give as light and no gloom, for 'God is light, and m Him is no darkness at all.' lithe photographer takes the brightest room in the building to make his pictures, shall we not have a bright room where the Bun of righteousness is to impress the Imagi ol the eternal Uod on the human soul ? Let there be deep night m mout.taiu cavern, and down In the coal shaft, and in the hold ot ships, but let it Ry from tin school-room as quick as you can batter a hole in the wall or throw back the shut-t-rs. (Jod said at the beginning, ami it thrilled through aU the universe, 4 Let there be light,' and there was light. 41 With the light will come the air not. the bottled up air of othrr Sundays kept over frot 1 Week to week, as though, like wine, It impitrred by agS ; or such as lingers in damp baSflHHUte tinder the chuieh, but fresh, clear, air, mich as comes pant log Off the Sea, or down the hillside, sweeping up the aroma of whole acres ot red clover-top. Make suck plans bright and glad. Becaase Christ vas bora in a manger is no reason why we should W0f ship him i. a lain."

a Drink. I passed the winter of 1840-41 in the very hospitable city of II , where I was so fortunate as to form an extended circle of argceable acquaintances, who, by their genial and intelligent social intercourse contributed greatly to my happiness. 'and enabled me to while away the monotony of a protracted northern winter in the most satisfactory manner. In the spring following, as I was about taking my departure, my f) tends called, and wishing me all manner of good fortune, bade mc a kind adieu, and all, excepting my particular friend J. 8 , had left. ' He detained me for some time upon the little porch fronting the hotel, seeming loth to say good-by ; but as it was nearly time for the arrival of the train I was forced to tear myself away from him, and was on the point of stepping into the carriage when he entreated me to come back and take a tar. -well glass. I was obliged to decline, remarking, as I closed the carnage door, that we would postpone our drink until my return ; and away I went, consoling myself with the fervent anticipation that I might soon le permitted to revisit the excellent friends I was leaving behind. Bat, alas for the realisation of my cherished aspirations! my tortuous trail led me into Texas, Mexico, Arkansas and Utah, and it was nearly twenty years before I could get back. The time came at last, however, and I anxiously drove toward the old hotel, where I expected to see a great, many changes; but, to mr surprise, I found all the surroundings looking precisely as when I left, and to my utter astonishment there was my old fried, J. B , who was the last to bid me farewell, seated in the same spot upon the same porch, apparently In the same arm-chair, and with his feet raised at the same elevation, and resting against identically the same post as when I declined nil invitation to join him in the s in up cup. Getting out of the carriage, I walked directly up to him, gave him a hearty slap on the shoulder, and stud : 44 Well, s , as you are so pressing, I don't care if I do take a drink." He looked up wUh astonishment, and did not recognize me at first ; but he soon appreciated the joke, and seizing my hand, replied that his patience was nearly exhausted In waiting for my return, and that if I had not arrived within the next five or six yean he would jhare been obliged to drink alone. 'Jen. Meutjf in Harper Magazine for October. Paying More than We Owe. The distinctive feature of Mr. Bout well's administration of the treasury is the purchase of live twenty bonds at their market value. Hitherto he had a very roundabout way ol doing it. He sold his geld for currency, and Inen paid currency for the bonds earning the purchase to involve two transactions. He now discovers that this circumlocution is absurd to a political economist, and, it is said, intends hereafter to buy the bonds for gold directly. Bat i looks as though Mr. DootweH was aiming to settle a very important political question by his own personal decision, without wailing tor tue sense 01 tiic people on it. The bonds he is purchasing arc redeemable now, by their verv terms. Re deemable in w hat ? The holders of them my in gold. The late Thad. Stevens said in greenbacks; Ben. Butler says in greenbacks: Mr. Pendleton says In green backs; and manv other distinguished men of both parties say in greenbacks. The law itself does not say gold, and thereby authorizes the plain inference that it means ordinary money of the country, which is greenbacks. But Mr. Boutwell represents a constituency which holds a large share ot these bonds, and wants them paid in coin; and therefore, instead 11I f osc'iiii'i mese nonus at oar. lie is otiinf them at a premium of 19 percent. It is claimed that this policy is strengthening the credit of the Govern ment. Very likely. Any man who makes a practice of paving to his cred itors 19 per (lent, more than he owes them, will build up a magninccnt credit. But Mr. BoutwelV a plan strengthens the credit Of the Government at the expense of the people, for it forces them to pay their creditors something like three hundred millions more than they owe them. J-v-Kouri iit-jt'fiiiran. Curiosities of American History Tnr: American political history is full of curiosities and simmlar incidents. For in stance, three of our Presidents, all of w hom participated in the Revolution, died on its irreat anniversary, the Fourth of .Inly, viz. : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. General Washington, when he retired from the Presidency, was in the OGth year of his age. His successor, John Adams, when he left, was Tears old. After him came Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Mr. Jefferson was M, James Madison had just passed his 60th year, and Mr. Monroe was in his 87th when they respectively left the Presidciiii.il chair. General Harrison was 07 years old w hen he was alerted, and died m the Presidential oflice. From 1S01 to lS-,r, the Presidental oflice was tilled by Virginians. During the same interval, with the exception of four years, the Vice Presidential oflice was steadily held by citizens of New York. John Adams negotiated the treaty of peace that concluded the war of the Revolution with England. His son, John (Juincy Adams, was a leading envoy, and negotiated the treaty which ended the second war with England in 1814. His son, Charles Francis Adams, at the third great crisis of our historv was the Minister to England during the recent war, from 1801 to 1865, the period which covers the 4' Alabama" claims, out of which another war is altogether possible with the old mother country. In 1800, John Adams was on a leading Presidential ticket Twenty four years after, his son, John Quincy, was also a Presidential candidate. Twenty-four years from that time, Charles Francis Adams, .John Quiacy's son, was an important can di late for Vice President, with a contingent Presidential succession. Of the finl six Presidents, four ot them were taken from the oflice of Secretary of Slate; and the Other two, laing the first elected, could not perform its duties. From this fact arose the precedence that makes the Secretary of State the first oftieer in the CabJaet, instead of the Secretary of the Treasury, which is the case in Great Britain. The highest civil officer in the country at the time of the . Declaration of Independence was John Hancock, of Masse Chnsetts, the President of the Continental Congress. The highest military officer was George Washington, of Virginia. The first battle ol the Revolution was fought in Massachusetts, and the l.t-t in Virginia. The first President of the luited States was from Yirgiaia, aad the second trom Massachusetts. Tin- first English settlement In the country was made in Virginia and the SCCOad in Massachusetts. Ot the fifty-six fligaers to the Declaration ot Independence, three lonj; survived upon the earth alter all others had died, and two of these had been upon the committee of five who drafted the important instrument. The very last survivor, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Maryland, threw the first shovelful of earth trom the Baltimore mad Ohio Kailroad, the first railroad enterprise iu the country. Tin- last man of the past inaugurated the uning future. No leu than live ol' the gretde3t of

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7, 1869.

American statesmen were bom in the same year, 1782 : Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Thomas II. Benton, Martin Van Buren and Lewis Cass. From 1800 to 1855, a period spanning from the second President to the seventeenth, only two persons filled the oflice of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, John 3Iarshall and Hoger B. Taney. But two men in the United States have, as they say in Odd Fellowship, passed through all the 44 chairs," been Governors of States, held a first-class foreign mission, been the head of the Cabinet, then Vice President and President. Their names are Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren. Three Presidents died in oflice : Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln. Three persons were elected by the people Vice Presidents before they became Presidents : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren. Three Vice Presidents died in oflice : George Clinton, Ehlridge Gerry and William R. King. Three men were elected President who had been Ministers to England under the Federal Government : John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan. Three Vice Presidents became President by the death of their chiets : John Tyler, Millard Filmore and Andrew Johnson and every one of them pursued a policy adverse to that of the party by which they were elected. Two of the Vice Presidents of the United States, and they the youngest men who ever held the oflice, have been indicted for treason : Aaron IJurrand John C. Breckinridge, and ia each instance the Govcrment dismissed the case without even putting it before a jury. One Vice President, John C. Calhoun, resigned his seat as President of the Senate, to take a place on the floor, where he could have the privileges of debate, and there elucidate his State Right's views under the Constitution. Cincinnati Ena uirer. An Anecdote of Gov. Seward and One of His Old Friends. During Mr. Seward's first term as Governor, the anti-rent troubles assumed a formidable aspect. The Hcldcrbcrg was intensely excited, sherifls were defied, and a resort to arms seemed to be approaching. Under an act of the Legislature, Seward appointed a commission to inquire into the grievances of the tenants ami the rights of the landlords, naming as one of its members, his old friend Garry V. Sackett, of Seneca county. A day was fixed ft. Gov. Seward and Commissioner Sackctt to visit the infected district. The anti-renters who had never been honored with the presence of a Governor, resolved to turn out en mam to meet His Excellency, and selected an orator to meet him with a congratulatory speech, quite losing sight of the Commissioner. The day arrived, and Seward and Sackctt went out in a four-horse barouche. Saekett, who stood six feet three inches, and always dressed in the Webstcrian blue, coat and buff vest, with an amplitude of white cravat and an imposing goldheaded cane, was never better got up than on this grand occasion, and of course bore a striking contrast to the lithe little Governor. As they descended from the carriage, the crowd of anti-renters cheered lustily, and their Head Center stepped forward, unrolled his manuscript, and opened his oratorical battery upon Sacken, with 44 Your Excellency," and began his speech, while the ipass called out for three cheers for 44 our noble Governor." Saekett waving his cane high in air, shouted at the top ot his voice : 44 Stop, gentlemen ! You have made the .same mistake that the people of this State have made. They doubtless ought to have made me Governor, and perhaps intended to do so, but In fact, they have chosen this gentleman," turning to Seward, 44 whom I now present to you as Governor Seward." Nvio York Sun. The Sir John Franklin California. Document iu We have received the below communication by express, from a party in San Buenaventura, who signs his name, and is vouched for by a respectable firm in this city as an honest, trustworthy man. The communication reads as follows: 44 NEWS OF Sin JOHN FRAKLIN. 44 Found on the beach at San Buenaventura, on the 30th of August last, a document measuring 18 by 10 inches, much mut ilated, requesting the tinder to forward it to the Secretary of the Admirality at London, or to theSliritish Consul at the nearest port This request is printed in six commercial languages. The margin and every vacant portion of it has been filled up with writing relating to Sir John Fraaklin and his part', and was evidently cast to the waves in latitude 88 leg. 37 min. 42 sec, and longitude 93 deg. 4 min. 5. sec. It gives an account of the desertion of the ships Erebus and Terror. At the time of the desertion the party numbered 105 souls, under the command of F. K. M. Crosier, and succeeded in getting as tar south as the latitude and longitude mentioned above. Here they found relics of the late Sir John Hoss. The document states that Sir John Franklin and party wintered at Beechy Island in 184G-7, in lat. 64 tleg. 4:t min. 23 sec., and long, ill deg. 35 min. 15 sec, having descended Wellington Channel to lat. 77 deg., and returned by the west side of CornwaUifl Island. It also states that Sir John Franklin died on the 11th of June, 1847. It contains accounts of many interMÜae incidents connected with the ex pedition, which will be made known hereafter. The document was found by James Daly, of the firm of Daly fc Rodgers, lumber "merchants, San Buenaventura. 44 San Buenaventura, Sept. x, 1800." That the document referred to above may have been found on the teaeh at San Buenaventura, in a bottle or otherw ise, is entirely probable ; the next question relates to its authenticity and value. So far as its contents are given by our correspondent, they tell us nothing but what MeClintock's voyage discovered as long ago as in 1859, in relation to the abandon meat of the Erebus and Terror, except that the records found by Mr. McClintock put the date of the abandonment in April, 1848, and did not say Sir John had died. The person who found the document, it he believes it is not a hoax, will send it to the British Consul in this city, and transcribe its full contents for publication. Meanwhile we give his statement for what it is worth. Possibly some ingenious wag has taken a hint from Hugo's U Homme (ui Hit, the plot of which turns on the discovery of a bottle containing a wonderful revelation, twenty years after it had beea thrown into the sea by a sinking crew. &m Francitco llulUtin,Jkpt 13. A youno lady returning late from a concert, as it was raining, told the coachman to drive close to the sidewalk, but was still unable to step across the gutter. 44 1 can lift you over, miss," said coachy. 44 Oh, no!" said she, 44 1 am too heavy." 44 Lord bless you, miss !" replied he, 44 1 am used to lifting barrels of sugar!" Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is said to be the largest employer in the United States. He gives work to aboal eight thousand persons, and it is stated has recently raised their wares about 15 per cent. --The 1iU Mall urtts infers from tin length of the patent lists in Paria for the last (piarter, 44 that the French are becom ing scarcely less inventive than the Ameri cans."

NUMBER 5.

YOUTHS' DEPARTJIEXT. "I Dare Vou." 44Poou! I could doit easily, and be back here again before you could count fifty." 14 .May be so; but port don't dare to trv it." "Don I dare! Now Tom, you know better." 44 Well, I dare you ! " The boy's cy-s flashed. In a moment he was over the boundary line, skating skillfully over the forbidden Ice : while his schoolmates looked on, some with astonishment, some with fear, and a few with shouts of applause. Clear to the other side he went, though the ice cracked and bent ; then, with a graceful turn he w as coming toward them again, switter and swifter, with a look of pride on his glowing face, and tlie praises of :lie other boys already sounded in his ears : 4 Good for you, Win ! " 44 Hurrah for " Who ? Where was he ? Where the proud form and smiling face, and the dark hair uncovered in the moment of exultation? Gone! Hidden at once from their sight, under the ice. and the waters rose up ov r the spot, as if their time of triumph had come then. "Oh! What shall we do?" 4" Bun, quick ! Get a rope!" " Stand back, every one of you !" and the foice generally so kind, frightened them now with its sternness ; aad they looked in silence at the teacher's white race, afl be drew off his gown, and crept with it to the boundary line w hich he had marked for the hoys that morning, over that, too, so carefully, yet so quickly ; and the h-c cracked! cracked! And the boys culd none of them tell how it was done, only that soon the dark, dripping hair of their schoolmate appeared abore Ute broken ice; then his body slowly, slowly dragged towards them, his hand clutching tightly the teacher's dressing gown. The teacher aid not speak, and they dared not. In the teacher's own strong arm-, Winthrop was carried to the boose, and rubbed ; and, no, he was not dead; for in a few moments be opened his cy M, and looking at the group of anxious, boyish faces gathered round he sahl : 44 All right." How il brightened en ry heart there ! The boys could speak no v. 44 Oil, Wint, I" haven't counted fifty yetT burst out Tom, excitedly, and trying to laugh; but if he had not beea a boy, he could certainly have cried instead. 44 Now, let mc hear all about it," said their teacher, calmly, its the color began to come back into Winthrop'fl cheeks. " It is all my fault," said Tom, humbly. 44 How came you to disobey my rule, Winthrop, and go beyond the boundary ?" 44 Why, I baldly thought aboat the rule, sir: I wanted to let tiuin sec I wasn't afraid of the ice ! They dared me to do it ; and when any one dares me to do a thing " Winthrop stopped suddenly, as the recollection came over him of the cold gurgling waters, and of those lew, terrible moments of suspense. 44 Then you always d ire to do it ; is that what you mean ?" 44 Yes, sir ;" but the voice was not so full of conlidcnce as it had been halfen hour before. 44 And the end of your daring, thist'tiine, might have beea death !" A Shudder Crept orar Uu b ty'm kflMi 44 Oh, sir, please don't ! I dared bin !" said poor Tom. 1 14' And so you think a boy bj a coward who is dared to do a hin, and doesn't do it?" 41 It looks so," answered Winthrop. 44 Ah, my boy, you mast get rid of that idea: it is rroag! He who refuses to do a sinful or a dangerous thimr, even when people say, 4 1 dare you,' is a true hero : aaal he who run all risks to do something, just because he is dared, i by far the moä OOWardly and foolish. Don't look so down-hearted, Winthrop; I want you to be truly heroic, and I know yon can do things very bravely somctilflcs. For instance, it I should say you may not go skating another day during this season, yon would bear the punishment without complaint, I think." 44 Yes, sir," answered the boy, with a touch ot the ok pride in his fofoe. 44 Mayn't I bear the punishment? It is my fault," exclaimed Tom. 44I haven't given any punishment yet, Tom; I have only given this h'n about true bravery for yen all to learn. And now, be oil', every one of you, and let Winthrop rest, while I go to examine my dressing gown ; ami if it IS entirely rained, I'll pass a subscription round among you to get a new one." And the kind man smiled as he left them; but his heart was full ; and he went to thank God for the safety of his pupil, and to pray that he might become truly brave and noble. Hoys, never be dared into doing wint is wrong. Do not take one step a-ide from the straight path, no matter how many voices .say, I dare you." He brave enough to say, 44 1 dare not," to every temptation. And always Dare to lie riirlit ! Dam t M true ! All the world's tcorafcsfoni never bana yon; Stund hy yinir conx iciirv. your honor, your J.niih; Stand like a hero, and battle till death I How Two lovs Became Rich Somebody tells the following of two boys, and how they made an honorable mark in the world : Once upon a time, not many yean ago, there lived iu a little town ol" Brochia, a few mill s from Glamrow. in Scotland, two boys, brothers, whom I w ill call John and Thomas Hi iMau. The tat her di-d iu earlv life, and they were quite poor. After working :b apprentices in a cotton factory lor a while tiny set up a little store tor themselves, in which were sold certain articles used in the factory. It was the custom at that time, as I believe it is now. for manv Scotchmen to believe that they could not do any good work, or any great amount of work, without baring a bottle of liquor on the shelf. A very foolish be lief, I am sure you will all :u rec with me, for we know that driakiag Intoxicating drink makes us mad and takes away our senses, and is the Very wav, instead ol helping us in work, to prevent us from do ing anything at all. Well, one tune I homas Hi d lan was obliged to go away and remain a long time. When he came back, he w nt to the little store, and expected to receive a very cordial welcome from his brother. Mow do vou think he found him ? Drunk! When John recovered from his stupor, Thomas, who was i right-minded lad, talked to him, and the result of the conversation was, tley both earnestly resolved never, either of them, on any retcnse whatever, to drink Iqaor of any kind. It was not long after this that these young men came to America. Tin y I tied in a town called Andover, Massachusetts I am pretty sure you'll Sad it if you look on the map of Massachusetts, in your geography. They did net open "store this time, but with the momy t hey had been able t MV ovi r the water, started a fac tory Pr the manufaeture ot a certain sort off thread, that sho -makers use in their business. In this town they staid tor manv vears. They prospered in all their doings, "because they dil their work wed; were reliable, prompt and honest, and everybody treated them. And more thn that, they w ere religious yoong mra.atlradi dcharcn on the Haiiheta, ami, in foot, so conducted themselves as to win the esteem of aB in the neighlor'iood. They cot along s1( well that MM of them. In a tew yars, went over to Scotlaim, to the littldtown

where their mother was, and brought he over tc America. And what was very kind, they brought all the furniture of her apartment, just as it was, and arranged it. in a little room in the town they lived in, so thai she would not le 1 so very strange in this new country. Years went by, and they marrhid, and had children grown up about them. Tliey made plenty of money, and became very wealthy ; but amidst all their happiness "and success, they did not forget how much they owed to the nod God for all the blessings they bad had. So one of them, Thomas, one day said to the other: 44 John, I prooosc we do some good with our money." And John acquiesced, and "nftcr conversing awhile, they concluded to build a new building for the library of a Celebrated seminary that is situated in that tow n called 44 Andover Theological Semi nary." And tiny did beitd it at a eofll of over sixty thousand dollars, and called it lirochin "Hall, alter the little tow n in Scotland they came from. The hall is standing to-day, and if you should tm r happen to go toMaeaaeaamBtltry and sec it, and remember the story of these 'wo boys and hmv it came to be built.

FACTS AM) nn SJJTk.n million slate p i arBl are used up in the United States I v ry year. The Baptist contributions to mi last year were 96i,l79i Ti:as exports goats to Kansas. The current price is $1 per head. Tiif.ue are now apward of sixty then sand Germans in Paris. There arc two hundred and fifty synagogues in the United States. "From Maine to Texas," is now superseded by 44 from Florida to Al-i-ka." The Prussian Court spends daily five hundred dollars for charities; tin B am am Court twelve hundred rubles. The mot promising j'oung sculptor in Paris is ; orge Wanna, the son of American parents, but born in France. A somewhat defective copy of the first edition of Bkakspeareof 102: fetched KB) at Puttick fc Simpson's auction sale in London. Ada rs BlfUSM CoMPASY compels afj acrcnts and employes tOJMi up their photographs at the general odaCc, so that in case any of them run, the detectives can identify them. Tnn aggregate mCMberShip of the various brandies of the Order of Odd Fellows in all parts of the world is rjoa aider ably over 1,000,000. In Great Britain alone there are over ."iOO.OOO Odd Fellow L BaaSft hundred millions one hundred and eighteen thousand letters passed through the Post Offices of Oreat Britain and Ireland during the year ltVW an increase of nearly thirtv-livc millions over l $:. An English coroner's jury lately returned a verdict of 44 Death from fatty degeneration of the heart, accelerated Inf the deceased having strangled herself.'' That anmtd naturally aggravate such a disease. There is a remarkable diver, named Coad, at Ihxlmim, in Cornwall. Eng'and, who, during a recent swimming mat h, remained under water three minutes and ten seconds. This exceeds anything on record. A men mar. who lives near Rio Janeiro is said to keep a large anaconda on his premises to frighten off ladies and mUaioaaAea, who are constantly soliciting donations for charitable and religious pur poses in that city. Tun: gross receipts of Ihc places of imiiw im ill In Tfi w York fof too month of August, were :u:-V-Vl ; of the different lim s of railroads, 95S919 : of thclil fcrent stage lines, $Sft,48& There were 114,099,333 cubic feet of gas consumed in August. Tur. Rev. Mr. Reed, of Maldea, Mass, considered the expenditure of $10.000 n hit church edifice a poor waytodispnae of monev. and hoped "the Lord would lay the whole thing Hat." The big gab- did the business, and left a wreck wefth, fof kindlimr wood, altoat $SmX Tin: Methodist Episcopal Church h I rear erected 710 new places of worship. One hundred and torty of these wcrelHiilt to take the place of om ones, tin- other Kfl are a net increase. The total amount of money expended in bafldiag these chaichcs was marly KJ.UOO. Tiik oldest clerk in the depart BWaSS at Waahington is John Barclay, chief clerk of the osaee of Commissioner of Cmsbmsa, who has been a clerk for sixty-five Vcara, Charles Vincent, of the Third Auditor's officio, has been there titty-eight years. A family which was residing in I.ynn, Mas?., at last accounts, has. dariag the past sixteen years, lived in siMecn ditb rent towns and cities, and has occupied twenty-eight different hoaaca. Darlag this hnoving period the wife has become the mother of eleven children. A London vclocipcdist was ser.l by a London velocipede awaataCtarmg company to Edinburgh, Scotland, in order to attend an agricultural exhibition at the latter place. Edinburgh is more than four hundred miles distant from London, and the vclocipcdist made the trip in about five day Tiik business of Amt s ft Sons, 1 1ngreat shovel manufacturers of North Easton, Mass., having su Iii red frcmdiunkenness aaBOag some of the workmen, a ruh has been adopted to discharge every man found drunk, unless he will rtteckwe and testify in court where he obtained his liqeor. The six great Continental Row. rs of Europe have at the present time n 1. m than live million five hundred and eighty thousand men muler arms. France has 1,350,000, the North-Herman font..', ra tion 1.0284, Borthen Germany 399,170, Austria and Humrarv l.O.Vl.ooo. Prussia l,4C7,00, and Italy 4 !''', soldiers. Altiioit.ii the Prussian government insists on all precautions whk-b science has discovered for the protection of miners. ) men lost their ttset in the collieries ot thai country in l'iT. The proportion a .84 far every l.ooo men employed, la England the' rate per cent, is higher 7 per 1.O00). Tiik lists of patents cranted in Trance coataia some curious articles, among them the following: A. hat with deenratco rim ; an umbrella hat ; a woman's hygienic and impermeable skirt, called 44 la Pn royaati ;' stoikings with ir:irt rs MtSached; a mechanical mustard pot ; application of the instinct of animals to the guidance of steam carriages on ordinary roads- wmaV ever this last may mean. A domestic romance comes from N( v York. Twenty -two years aga a OOaple were married, had one son, lived together ten years, and then, after losing all their property, procured a ateoeee. i ae man married again, and got a fortum husband didn't, and remained poor. ä ww- tikot tbi. t utiii n liic lit i i'Iiic I ; the aad rich bus for a III' iii ill' nwnuu ' w idow, she has remarried hei fliM band and thev are ironic to I.o-ton revised honeymoon. Tiik Titusv.lle (Pa.) BratfhMtfc fl lowing concerning sonic recent marriage! in that place : 44 It v somen hat r marka ble, tirst, that four weddings tnik plena during the past weck: sei on d. that Ihe foorgjentkmsii were ?H merchants of Titusvillc; third, thai thev did business on ' the same street; fourth that tin y occupied the same bhck ; tifth. that they were all widowers; sixth, that in the aggregate thmj have had thirteen wives." Ax excellent suggestion is made by an English drugeist in relation to the di pen sing of iwummous substances. He pre poses that, in addition to the word 44 jxison," the labels should have printed on their margins the appropriate antidotes tar each emm of pohwaa A emma eon tabling a mineral acid, for instance, would have on its lals-1 : 44 Poison 'It taken by accident, give (mixed with water) chalk, or simp, or w hiting, or cvilinir-scrapings." Dklaw vuk is a small State and K grow ing smaller. The Delaware ctutoäcIu s upon it from ten to twenty feet every y ar, and the sites of houses that once stood in tin- midst of ticlds are now under water. Tin- b -hthousc mar Itow.i-' Ibach has been removed three times, and a small hotel on the Kinie 1m k h tbut one sOmmI in the midst of cultivated grounds, a con siderable distance from the bay, w ith large trees in front of it, hn . n-w WäohCtl 1)' the wa i r