Pike County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 January 1879 — Page 4

The Democrat. W. P. KNIGHT, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBUgG^ : : INDIANA. GENERAL BREVITIES. 1 — George Reed, a hard-working man of Hart County, Ga., has married off seven children In the year past, and has seven more who will be eligible for matrimony in the year to come. Herbert Morris, a young dry-goods elerk of Shelbyville, Ind., recently performed the rare gastronomic feat of swallowing a 22-caliber cartridge. At latest accounts it had not been recovered. A locomotive shop inPaterson.N. J., has received an order for seven immense electric lanterns from the Russian Government. These lanterns are to be placed at the bows of the seven men-of-war.

Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza king, has a sapphire which was once the property of a Russian prince, and which cost her $150,000. It is an inch in diameter. Her peat-1 necklace cost , $100,000 and her coral set cost $18,000. - New Mexico has seven different tribes of Fneblo Indians, each speaking a different language. Arizona has one tribe that live m seven different villages, adjacent to each other, however, ana in several towns a different dialect is spoken—the Moqnis. Three tourists undertook to walk behind Niagara Falls a few days ago. The danger is great in winter, owihr to the ice. One of the trio.in picking his way over the slippery path, ran against a large icicle, which broke off and fell on him. He was badly cut, and has since been insane, but whether from a blow on the head or from fright is not settled. Though plants sleep at night, they may be disturbed artificially. A French chemist tried the experiment on a sensitive plant, keeping it in a bright light at night and a dark room during the day. The plant didn't take kindly to it at first, but soon got used to the change, and at last turned day into night and night into day as easily as a newspaper telegraph editor. “ Old Ben Mason,” of Indianapolis, has just been sent to the Poor-house at his own request. He went West from New York 40 years ago, and engaged in the hotel business. Ip 1861 he reached Indianapolis without means. In 1866 he had made $75,000; but he invested in real estate and speculated,and his money went till a few months ago he found himself poor. In January, 1871, a French gunner was struck by a fragment of a Prussian shell which carried away his jaw, nose and both eyes. The surgeons have at last devised for him a metallic mask, with eyes, a false nose and an artificial jaw that permits him to masticate his food. The woman he was engaged to when the war broke out marri#|Jgim. It is stated as a peculiar wit that myopism, or near-sightedness, exclusively an attendant of civilization, never being found among savages, and rarely among the peasantry of any country. Investigation shows that the region of the macula luted, or “yellow spot,” opposite the pupil of the eye, has the greatest percipient power, but is peculiarly liable to disease, and that in myopic persons thi^part of the eye may become Congested, resulting, perhaps, in partial or even total blindness. A hot fight is going on in Toledo, Ohio, between Christians and Jews over a little girl. J. Cooper Price, a wealthy Christian philanthropist, was told that a child had been abandon ie ugh him [feeling a child had been abandoned to cold and hur ger in a hovel. He went to the place and took away the child—a bright, pretty Jewish girl. Subsequently he adopted her as his own, and had her baptized, all with the written consent of her mother. Rabbi Eger was deterjmnetHoMgr^Uhe'tBrniqgof the, ^^^WBPiWStigion of her sought out her .father, and sued to get the girl. Reli runs high on both sides. M. ja® 1,esseps has just returned from *ttr}|t to Tunis, whither he went to in^^fiEigate the possibility and advisability of letting the waters of the Mediterranean into the desert of Sahara, so as to convert a great portion of that desolate expanse into an inland sea. M. de Lesseps says that the Arab chieftains of the south of the Aures keep up the tradition of there having^existed in former times a'sea in that neighborhood from five to six hundred leagues in circumference. He also has been enabled to disprove the idea that the formation of a new late would do away with the oases, forme has discovered that these are all from fifteen to forty meters above the level of the sea, whereas the desert itself is below that level. Traces of Roman civilization have been found in the desert, and among them the remains of an amphitheater like that in Rome. Prof. NOrdenskjold, who directs the Swedish polar expedition in the north polar waters, has written to a friend in which he gives a highly interesting account of the village of Chabarova, Nova Zembla, inhabited by Semoiedes, from whom, with considerable difficulty, he obtained specimens of their gods, which for the most part resemble large dolls. Although converted to Christianity, these curious people retain many of their old customs, and sacrifice on their altars to gods. A Russian who lives in Chabarova in summer for trading purposes took the professor to see one of these altars in a tavern, which is regarded as sacred. Although the Archimandrite had destroyed it thirty years ago, and had raised a cross on its site, the \Semoiedes have found in the neighborhood evident traces of recent sacrifices to the gods, whose images were placed around. Bayard Taylor and His Habits. Bayard Taylor wrote a beautiful ha: He detested blind and slovenly writii and used to say that any man co write plainly who would make an fort. His manuscript was the delq of printers. Mr. Taylor wrote quit and steadily, and produced a great d more “ copy ” in a given time than t one would suppose him capable of u observed his apparent ease and absei of hurry. He was rather careless in dress, but not, like Horace Greel enough so to be conspicuous. He lit a stout, plain suit of clothes that coi be w rn a long time, a loose-fitting gi over-coat, and a broad-brimmed slot " He was a hearty eater, and v id of the German national bevera, ' :h he habitually drank at dinn

[orion ne mignt nave Deen classed Kiitarian or a Deist, though he ■^reverence for the faith of his Btocestors. In his later years Kfor travel wore ofl', and he on a journey with mHch Hft*ter seeing- and knowing

wt cities of the world his ■ New York. He often ■P rather live there than ■opean Capital. Tay■a daughter of the eelef astronomer, Prof. Han

riady of line culture and literary talent. A school many, written by her basin American schools, was 1 bv her into German.

PHpnghter, Lilian, closely resemKr father as he appeared in his Rul days. Taylor built the house Kennett Square where his parents live, and where they celebrated their golden wedding nearly ten years ago. He called the place Cedarcroft, and hoped to pass his old 0. W. Smalley, in ~ '

STO^TOI^A Old Mmjcr Throckmorto i and Charted Dickon*—Col. Dick Wlnt,r«mlth and the Attache—J enny Lind1! !Mp op the MUituippl. [Louisville Correspondence Hew York Sun.] Old Majo r Throckmor x>n, who kept the Galt House here for jean, is dead, but the memory of him survives. It was the Major who said that the turkey was a very inconvenient 1 lird—two large for one and not large enough for two. When Charles Dickers visited this country in '46, he meant to stay a day or two in Louisville, and., of course, put up at the Galt House. He had been well settled in his room in the second story only in hour or two when the Major, a bosom friend of Henry Clay, and on terms of more or less intimacy with every notable man in the South, sent in his name to the novelist and followed it a moment after in persea. “ Mr. Dickens,” he be ran, extending his hand, “we are glad 1» welcome yon. We know yon and admire yon, and will reckon it a privilege to be allowed to extend to jou the hospitalities of the metropolis of Kentucky. As your especial host, I beg that you wul command me for any service in my power to render.” Mr. Dickons received this with a frigid ■tare. “When I need yon, landlord,” he said, pointing to the door, “ I will rmg.

lhe Major was for tin instant paralyzed. Then he rushed at his guest, caught him by one leg and the shoulder, ; and hud him half way out of the open window before another visitor in the room could interfere and save the Englishman's life. Mr. Dickens left town the same day, anc the only mention that he made in his “ American Notes ” of Louisville was to refer to a casual pig that he saw rooting in the street as he was on his way to take the river steamer. Around the Major at the Galt House was collected a crowd of congenial spirits, most of whom are now dead or scattered. Among them was Col. Richard Wintersmith, now, I believe, a resident of Washington. He was Secretary of State of Kentucky in those days, but, when the war broke out,went South with Breckinridge and Preston and the rest. He was a great friend of Breckinridge and a warm advocate of that gentleman’s claims to be made President of the Southern Confederacy. One day, in the Galt House, just before the Kentucky party started South, Breckinridge came up to a group of which the Colonel was, the center, sat down on his knee, throw his arm about his neck, an d said: “ Dick, when I am President I want vod to ask for any office you want, and it's yours.” “No office for mo, Mr. Breckinridge,” said the Colonel; “but when you are President there is one thing I would like for you to do. I want you to come to rae^in some public place like this, sit down on my knee, put your arm around my neck, and just call me ‘Dick.’ That’s all. I’ll take care of the rest.” I heard another story of Col. Dick in ■the Galt House the other night, where stories of him are told without number. It appears that the Colonel was on his way down Pennsylvania Avenue to call on Mr. and Mrs. Hayes. Just before them was a slight and undersized attache of one of the foreign legations. Col. Wintersmith is over six feet tall, and large in proportion. Mrs. W. made some remark wliich the foreigner overheard a ad considered insulting. He turned fiercely on the Colonel. “ I hold you responsible for that, sir,” he said. “ I hold you responsible as this lady’s husband.” ‘ No you don’t,” replied 6ol. Rich10 wss a particularly galls ard, who wss a particularly gallantsoldier daring 1.he war. “No, sir. She’s got a father, and she’s got brothers. Go to them. I’m no blood relation.” Col. Dick had his joke, and the town laughed the foreigner out of his craving for gore. ijor was Capt. St. -Clair Thomasson, commander of one of the great Mississippi steamers in the days when there were no railroads to New Orleans, and when a trip down she river was the thing for every rich planter and his family to tale each winter. It was no uncommon occurrence for one party— especially a bridal party—to secure every stateroom on board, and make the six days’ voyage a journey worth remembering. Among the negro waiters there were always a half dozen musicians or more, and with this band there was had a dance each evening, with sometimes a concert in the ladies’ cabin, when high-born ladies sang sentimental songs, alternately with the plantation melodies of the darky waiters. I met the old Captfdn the other evening in the Galt House rotunda. He is no longer on the river, but spends his summers in Saratoga and his winters in Louisville or New Orleans. He is known to about every body iu the Southwest. He drosses witih scrupulous neatness, wears an old-fashioned collar, around which is wound a brilliant red cravat, and is: full of stories of steamboating days. I asked him if the newspaper story w as true, said to have been told by him several years ago, that he was with Jenny Lind at Niagara when the great songstress dropped on, her knees at the brink Of the cataract, and, with streaming eyes, thanked God that he had vouchsafed to her the sight of so grand an exhibition of his power. “Yes,” said the Captain; “that was in the early spring of ’50, and there was an icy mantle half way down the falls from the edge, and great masses of ice springing up iTom the bed of the river below to meet the water as it fell. It was magnificent, and the great hearted lady could not restrain herself as she saw it. I never shall, forget her prayer to be made a lietter woman—to be made able to serve the Mak er of so wonderful a world in the way th at she should. We all uncovered our heads as she knelt there, and I think I i.m the better man for that memory.

"We had been together then for nearly a month. I had Mias Lind and her party as passengers from New Orleans to Louisville. The trip down I had carried hundreds of the first people of the South to hear her sing in New Orleans. They had come all the way from Memphis and Little Rock and Vicksburg, but. when they got to New Orleans there was hardly a seat to be had for love or money. So, many of them came back with me unsatisfied— they had rather be on the same boat with Jenny lSiid—than to stay for the Mardi Gras and all that in New Orleans. When we were fairly on our way up the river, one of the ladias—she was a great belle in her day, the daughter of a Senator, and afterwards the wife of one of our foreign Ministerc—came to me and asked whether it was really true that Miss Lind meant to keep her stateroom all the way to Memp his. ‘“Of course not,’ said I. ‘Every body comes to dinne r on my boat.’ ” Those were simple times. The Captun of a Mississippi steamboat was a person of more consequence, even, than the commander of ui ocean steamer is to-day, and Capt. Thomasson was the most noted of all the Captains on the Father of Wate rs. —“ ‘Of coutsb not. She’ll be at dinner to-day. ’ Then I went to Barnum— Barnum, the showmin, who was managing Miss Lind. “ ‘Barnum,* raid I, * is Miss Lind getting.ready for dinner?’ e ‘‘Barnum looked up, surprised .- ‘ Why, no,’ said he‘Mus Lind eats her meals in heir room.’ “ ‘Not on my boaV said I; for you see I didn’t wai t to disappoint the la

dias. Well, p-aad l argued it awhile, and then I aimed to talk to Miss IjBd myself aboutitT Iknocked at the door of her stateroom. “ The pleasantest voice I ever heard surd, ‘Comein.’ “ Miss Land,’ said I, 11 am the Cap* tarn of this boat. There are twenty la<lie8 on board—ladies of the1 first station in America—whom I had brought anywhere from two to six hundred miles down to New Orleans to hear and to see yon. They couldn’t get even to the door of your concert room for the crowd. !3o they took passage on my boat again mth no other hope than just to see yon. They didn’t mean to be rude—neither do I; but 1 do hope you will gratify them and not seclude yourself all this long trip.’ 444 My dear Capitaine,’ said she, as pleasantly as could be, * I don’t mean to hide myself. Why should IP But what would you have me doP’ “4 Come and sit at my right hand at dinner,’ said I. 4 It’s nearly time for the bell to ring.’ “ 4 Wiz ze greatest plazure,’ said the great lady, and when dinner was ready s he came out of her state-room smiling, and bowed to every body in the ladies’ cabin, and sat down by my side. 44 4 Will yon not do me ze honsure to introduce me to ze tadies,’ she said, and I introduced her to all the lady passengers that were at my table—atl ladies, mind you. It was the most pleasant dinner I ever had. Miss Lind was curious s,bout every thing, and especially s.bont plantation life. She and Miss -got to be great fyiends, and the lady afterward visited Mrs. Goldschmidt, after her marriage to the pianist, at her home in London. “ After dinner the tables were cleared s.way,, and Miss Lind sat down on the sofa sit the end of the cabin. -1 went forward to where Barnum was sitting, near the clerk’s office. 4Barnum,’ said 1,4 won’t Miss Lind sing something for the ladies?’

“‘Captain,’ said, he, turning on me, ‘ are you gone raving mad? Miss Lind sing in a public place like this! Why, man, yon make me laugh. Miss Lind gets a thousand dollars for every song she sings. Perhaps you’ve got a thousand dollars to spare about you? Offer her that—and then she’ll tell you to.go about your business.’ “‘All right, Barnum,’said I,‘we’ll See.’ “ Well, then, I went into the pantry and got my nigger band together. There was one likely young boy among ’em, who had such a voice as you never heard. I was younger, then, bv considerable, than I am now, but I could never hear that boy sing one of his plantation songs without the tears coming into my eyes. But 1 thought I’d try him first.' So one of the boys kept time on his banjo,, and the fellow sang over his song. It was about a yellow girl who had been sold off into slavery from her Louisiana home into Georgia. I always thought the boy made it up himself. I never heard the words or the music before or since. The words didn’t exactly rhyme, nor the music wasn’t such as you hear in the opera, but I knew it would do. So I got the boys together in the cabin, and after they had played a while the boy sang his song. Miss Lind listened from first to last, and there were tears jn her eyes, too, when it was through. I don’t exactly know how it was, but five minutes afterward she was at the piano and sang first the music 6f that song as well as she could remember it, and then song 4 after song of her own. And not only that evening ei ther, but every evening she was on the boat. The pianist of her troupe played too, and the other members of the company sang or played, and my ladies also, and such concerts there never were in America before nor since. “ We got to be great friends, and when we reached Louisville and my boat laid up on account of the ice she urged me to go with her to New York. It. was on the way that .we stopped at 'Nlhgara. Ttell you, sir, she was the graa.test and the most beautiful and the best woman lever knew.” I think the Captain keeps a few little flowers and such trifles that date back tc> that trip religiously by him to this day. He has never married, I believe, though he was a comparatively young mam in ’50. The Fear of Death. * _ Weariness of mere existence is a heavy and probably a very common secret burden—one which makes the thought ot annihilation more attractive to some of us than any celestial visions. Those who suffer from it would not welcome the brightest prospects of heaven unless thBy could hope first for a “long and dreamless sleep” in which to wash off the travel-stains of the past. This is a feeling which is probably most common in youth or old age, when the ties to life are fewer than they are in its prime,and when the past or the future may well look almost intolerably long to the wearied. imagination. It may be that in the miserable experience of some sufferers this deep weariness of life may not exclude the fear of death; but so terrible, a combination can 'scarcely be either common or lasting;.. Probably the normal state of things is that in which Some degree of fear, or at least of reluctance, exists as a pure instinct; rising and falling with physical causes, ready to give force to the terrors of conscience and the cravings of affection, but held in check by varions considerations, and controlled by the will, if not utterly subdued by trustful hope.

xu people oi active, energetic temperament, with keen susceptibility to sensuous impressions, one may sometimes observe that no amount either of religions hope for another life or of painful experience of this will overcome the constitutional Shrinking from the anticipated rending asunder of body and soul. They carry the same feeling, through sympathyj into their thoughts of the death of others, which appears to be almost physically shocking to them, however obviously acceptable to the person chiefly concerned. Sinch a state of feeling is to those who do not share it as unaccountable as it is evident. Looking at death calmly, as one of the very few circumstances of quite universal experience, any vehement disinclination to it would seem to be inappropriate as well as futile. But disiincunation to some of its accidental circumstances is but too easily intelligible. This is probably another reason why shrinkage from it often seems to increase as youth is left behind. The very young can not know how terrible a thing sickness is; those who have watched many deathbeds can scarcely forget the awful possibilities of physical suffering. And yet it seems probable that many of title worst appearances are more or less delusive. A very moderate experience of sick-rooms suffices to show that actual suffering bears no exact proportion to its outward manifestations. Be this as it may, physical suffering is clearly no necessary accompaniment of death; and the dread of pain which makiss us shrink from the prospects of mortal illness is quite a different thing from the real instinctive dread of death; it should, indeed, and often does, act powerfully in reconciling us to the prospect of death.—Exchange. Gi.HBi.iNO is still carried on at Monaco, for very recently a game was played where the winner, changing his wager of 12,000 francs from red to black, won eleven successive tames — a "thing unheard of in this game of chance. He pocketed 132,000 francs.

fFrom the Detroit News, i Eight miles northeast of Cleveland is the home oI some adheraits of Shakerism, the phase of religions communism which has the largest following. The Shakers have 18 societies in the United States, with a population of 2,500 souls; and own 18 villages and 100,000 acres of land, part of which lies in Michigan. Four of their villages are in Ohio— Union Village, near Lebanon; North Union, near Cleveland; Waterville, near Dayton; Whitewater, near Harrison. The Shaker population of Ohio is about 600. The society at North Union is the second in strength in the State, and, while there are many others in the union stronger and more thoroughly equipped, will do as well as any for a text on which to write a chapter or two on the Shakers—in which their life and opinions may be more or less clearly outlined.

li VUUUUU9 auuut siA-soure memDers, of whom perhaps a score are children' or youths under 21, who are divided into three families. The society was “gathered'1 at North Union in 1822 in the wilderness. Its members are mostly Americans, with a sprinkling of English, Germans, and Swiss. As to occupation, the majority were farmers^ as to religion, about a third of the present members were brought up in the society; the remainder mostly progressed from the folds of the Adventists, Methodists and Baptists to the straight walks of Shakerism. They own 1,355 acres of land; have a saw-mill, and make brooms, broom-handies, stocking yarn and butter. They make most ot their money ,though,by the sale of milk, vegetables, and wood in Cleveland, They tend towards the prohibition of meat and narcotics, but do not absolutely forbid their use; so a little meat is taken. Tea and coffee are drank moderately, and in some cases the chewing and smoking of tobacco is allowed, although no one is suffered to use the weed in more than, one form. They have a little library, take two or three daily newspapers, are out of debt, and have money at interest. A long coat of light-blue, and a gray or white felt hat, very broad and stiffbrimmed, are the distinguishing features of the men’s dress. The women wear dresses of many plaited skirts and an odd-looking cap of some light material, which wholly hides.the hair and so far conceals the face as to put youth and age, beauty and hideousness on a level with the casual observer. Over this latter, when out of doors is worn the well known “Shakerbonnet.” A Shaker family consists of from 30 to 90 persons, who live together in one large house. The first floor contains the kitchen and pantry, store-rooms, and dining-hall. The upper floors are divided into rooms large enough to accommodate from four to eight persons. The furniture of each room consists of a cot-bed for each occupant, a mirror, a stove, a table for writing, and a number of chairs. -A wide hall separates the sleepingrrooms of the sisters from those of the brethren. Near the dwell? ing-house are the buildings in which the work of the society is done; as shops for tailoring, basket-making, car-penter-work, etc. On all the walls are rows of pegs, on which chairs^ hats, cloaks, shawls, etc., are hung when not in use. Strips of home-made carpet are laid loosely on the floor. Every thing is kept scrupulously clean, and dust is not tolerated. The carpets are laid down loose, so that the floor under them may be swept daily. Pictures are not allowed, because ornament is wrong and the “ frames and cords are simply places to gather dust.” „ They nse at 4:30 a. m. in summer, and 5 o’clock in winter, at the lap of a bell; and in 15 minutes must be ready to leave their h'B^rooms. On rising each one sets two chainf~bsck to back, lays' tne pillows on tljfe seats, aqc^neatly folding the bedclothes once, piece by piepe, lays them across the backs of the chairs. Then the women sweep, make the beds, and hang up the chairs. When all these things have been done it is apt to be time for breakfast, which is generally at 6 o’clock. Dinner is served at noon, supper at 6 p. m., and by 9:30 lights are out and all are in bed. They eat together at long tables in a common dining-hall. Men and women eat at separate tables and in silence, no talking being allowed during meals. Before attacking the victuals, and when the meal is ended, all kneel in silence for a moment. In doing the kitchen and dining-room work each sister takes turns, a month at a time. Immediately after breakfast they all go to work under the direction of the “care-takers,” or foremen of different departments. Shakers are not given to severe toil. They do not find it needful, and, holding that labor should be made a pleasure, they all work together,evenly but lightly, so that it shall not, at least, be painful.

rneir evenings are given to entertainments, of which they have enough of their kind. Each family spends every evening in some sort of social gathering. On one evening, for instance, they will meet to hear letters read from other societies and articles from the newspapers. The next will be spent in the assembly hall—singing, marching, and dancing. The third is given to general conversation; the fourth to a religious meeting, where they “labor to get good;” the fifth to learning new songs and hymns; the sixth to religious services. On Sunday evening the boys do not " go to see their girls.” On the contrary, on that evening, “three or four sisters visit the brethren in each room, by appointment, and engage in singing, and in conversation upon general subjects!” At these visits the sisters sit in a row on one side of the room, with their caps on, and each with a handkerchief, white and clean, spread over her lap. The brethren sit opposite in another stiff row, with each his clean, white handkerchief laid across his knees. Then the brethren and sisters have a good time talking about the weather, the crops, etc. But if any two of them are found to be taking a special''interest in each other’s conversation, or if any brother eyes any particular sister in a way to especially engage her eyes, that sister will not be ■ allowed to call again at the room in which the brother lives, These meetings are an-anged by the elders, begin at a certain minute, and at a certain other minute break up. Believing in and practicing celibacy, the Shakers observe the utmost caution in the relation of the sexes. Thus they never shake hands with persons of the opposite sex. Shaker men and women never touch each other in any way when it can be avoided, and no member of either sex is scarcely ever allowed to be alone; the elders room together in pairs, and below them generally six or eight men or women occupy the same room. They keep a continual watch over each other; and, while they are not allowed to gossip, all are bound to report to the proper authorities any thing they see amiss in the conduct of others. “ Brethren and sisters shall not visit each other’s rooms, unless for errands, and shall in such cases tarry no more than fifteen minutes. . . . Brethren and sisters’ workshops shall not be under the same roof; they shall not pass each other upon the stairs, nor one of each converse with each other unless a third person be present of more than 10 years of age..!'. No one shall leave the premises of the family in which he lives without the consent of. the elders, and he shall obtain the consent by stating (he business which calls him away. This

interdiction includes the act of going from one family to another in the village. Bat on their own grounds brethren (bat not sisters) may range at pleasure. . . . No conversation is allowed between' members of different families unless it be necessary, succinct and discreet. . . All visiting of the world’s people, even their own relations, is forbidden, unless there exists a prospect of making conversions. . . . The Sabbath shall be kept pure and holy to that degree that no books shall be read on that day which originated among the world’s people, save those scientific books which treat of propriety of diction. No idle or vain stories shall be rehearsed, no unnecessary labor shall be performed—not even the cooking of food , the ablution of the body, the cutting of the hair, beard, or nails, the blacking or polishing of shoes or boots. . . . All fruit eaten upon the Sabbath must be carried to the dwelling-house on Saturday. . If any property is likely to incur loss,as hay and grain that is cut and may be wet before Monday-^-it may be secured upon the Sabbath.” Such are some of the rules of Shaker life as given by Hervey Elkins in his pamphlet, “Fifteen Years in the Senior Order of Shakers”—and Hervey knew what he was writing about, and is strictlv reliable.

And he adds: “Not a single action of life—whether spiritual or temporal.from the initiative of confession to tharof dressing the right side first, stepping with the right foot first as you ascend a flight of stairs, . . . kneeling and rising again with the right leg firs t, and harnessing first the right-hana beast—but that has a rule for its perfect and strict performance.” / The societies do not choose their rulers nor are the rank and file consulted in the choosing of them. “ The visible head of the Church of Christ on earth is vested in the ministry, consisting of male and female, generally four in number, two of each sex. The first in the ministry stands as the leading elder of the society. Those who compose the ministry are selected from the church and are appointed by the last preceding head. . . To the ministry appertains the power to appoint ministers, elders, and deacons, and with the elders to assign offices of care and trust to such brethren as they shall judge to be the best qualified.” AU of the societies "have a ministry appointed to preside over them, and in most cases two or ; three are united under one ministry. Each family is a commune by itself, so far as the property is concerned, lives much to itself, and has two elders, one of each sex, to instruct, exhort, and lead it. Indeed, the fifty-eight families in the eighteen Shaker societies are so many distinct communes united under a common head—the four ministers of the leading society at New Lebanon, N. Y. And in this head all power seems to center—the ministry being self-per-petuating, with power to appoint deacons, trustees and subordinates, with only a moral responsibility to the members, who have surrendered every thing into their hands. The deacons appointed by this self-perpetuating ministry have power to change the employment of any member for any hour a day, or a week, but a “permanent change of vocation can be required only by the elders.” No trading Can be done to any save the trustees, or those licensed by them. “No new literary work or new-fangled article can be admitted, unless it be first sanctioned by the ministry and elders.” With all. their earthly goods in the hands of those in whose selection, they have no choice, and of whom they have sworn most solemnly never to ask any account in any shape, living under the code of laws above given, even under the eyes of spies who will report any defection, these communists bear a yoke heavy enough to satisfy even Bismarck or the autocrat of all the Bussias.

The Contest Between Guns and Plates. “ We are not only, it seems, to have steel-clad men-of-wav, bat steel projectiles as well, for the gunnery experiments at Shoeburyness prove beyond a doubt the efficacy of these missiles. There is one Whitworth projectile, we are told, which has twice penetrated an iron target of 12 inches without being any the worse for the process. It is made of what is termed compressed steel, and the only proof it bears of having passed through the solid iron plate is the fact that it is shorn of the projecting studs'of brass. For its second journey It was only necessary for the projectile to be restudded, and it then fitted the gun as accurately as jjefore. Very little is known as yet of the action of steel shot against steel armor; but so far as experiment has gone, it appears pretty evident that by the aid of such projectiles, guns will once more gaiD the ascendency over armor. A steel plate will repel an ordinary chilled shot, which passes easily through an iron plate. Thus at Spezza, when the 100ton gun of Sir William Armstrong was proved, it was found that while a 22-inch iron plate was readily pierced, a steel slab of the same thickness effectually repulsed the shot. The steel got fractured in the trial, but it did not allow the shot to pass. For the moment, therefore, armor triumphed over gun, for as long as a battle-ship can keep out an enemy’s shot, it is a matter of little importance whether her metal scales suffer. For this reason the Italians, the French and ourselves are all contemplating the building of steel-clads. But now comqs the question whether steel shot can not injure steel armor as fatally as the, chilled projectiles damage our iron-clads. This is exceedingly probable, and, if so, we shall be no better off than we were before. The only difference will be that the cost of production both of armor plates and projectiles will be magnified. We shall be able to afford but one steel-clad battle-ship for every three or four iron-clads. Just as we have ceased to count our sail of the line by the hundred, and now number iron-clads by tens, so in the future, when it comes to the adoption of steel in the navy,our battle-ships will be represented in units.—London News.

Big Grapevines in California. California has, probably, twenty vines, each of which produces more than 500 pounds of grapes as an average crop. Among these are vines at Coloma and Blakes, and near Mohtecito and Stockton—representing the Sierra Nevada, the coast mountains north of San Francisco, the San Joaquin Valley, the southern coast, the level of the sea, and an elevation of 2,000 feet above it. The Stockton vine, a mile southeast of the town, in the yard of Mr. Phelps's house, is a foot in diameter, and has this year produced 5,000 pounds (24 tons) according to the Independent. We have heard nothing lately of the yield of the Montecito and Cotoma big vines. We saw the latter in 1867 when young, and it then bore 1,500 bunches of grapes. The Montecito vine grew from a cutting of the old big vine at the same place, set out in 1795, and cut down in 1875, when eighty years old. It had a diameter of 15 inches, covered an arbor of 114 feet long by 78 wide, and averaged three tons in its annual yield. The big vine at Blakes separates, at the surface of the ground, into two stems, each six inches m diameter. The vine at Coloma is an Isabella; the other three are of the Mission variety.—San Francisco Alta. Thi Marchioness of Camden was one of the chief prise-takers in “the pig classes at the recent Smithfield cattle shot?,

Breath Gymnastics. The importance of breathing plenti fully of fresh air as an essential of nealth is generally admitted. Well ventilated rooms, open air exercise and excursions into the country are appreciated to some extent by all classes. Bat the ait of breathing is very much overlooked. Being a process not depending on the 'will for its exercise, it is too much left to the mere call of nature. It is, however, an act which can be influenced very materially by the will. Properly trained singers are taught to attend very carefully to their breathing. When brisk museular exercise is taken breathing is naturally active without any special effort. But when the body is at rest or engaged in.occupation requiring a confined posture, and especially when the mind is absorbed in thought, the breathing naturally becomes diminished and the action of the lungs slow and feeble. The consequence is that the oxygenation of the blood is imperfectly carried on. Even in taking a constitutional walk the full benefit is not attained for want of thorough breathing.

As a remedy for this it has been suggested that there is room for what might be fitly termed breathing gymnastics —to draw in long and full breaths, filling the lungs fall at every inspiration, and emptying them as completely as .possible at every expiration, and to acquire the habit of full breathing at all times. This mode of breathing has a direct effect in supplying the largest possible amount of oxygen to the blood and more thoroughly consuming the carbon and so producing animal heat. It has also the very important effect of expanding the chest ana so contributing to the vigor of the system. The breath should be inhaled by the nostrils as well as the mouth, more especially while out of doors and in cold weather. This has partly the effect of a_ respirator in so far as warming the air in its passage to the delicate air cells and in also rendering one less liable to catchcold. This full respiration is of so much importance that no proper substitute is to be found for it in shorter though more rapid breathing. In short breathing a large portion of the air cells remains nearly stationary, the upper portion of the lungs only being engaged in receiving and discharging a small portion of air..• Profound thought, intense grief and other similar mental manifestations have a depressing effect on respiration. The blood unduly accumulates in the brain, and the circulation in both heart and lungs becomes diminished,unless indeed there be feverishness present. An occasional long breath or deep-drawn sigh is the natural relief in such a case, Nature making an effort to provide a remedy. This hint should be acted on and followed up. Brisk muscular exercise in the open air even during inclement weather is an excellent antidote of a physical kind for a “rooted sorrow.”" And the earnest student instead of tying himself continuously to his desk might imitate a friend of the writer of this who studied and wrote while on his legs. Pacing his room,paper in hand with pencil attached, he stopped as occasion required to pen a sentence or a paragraph. •

Dreaming is tne nrst ana last act oi man and is of the most vital necessity all through life. Persons with full, broad, deep chests naturally breathe freely and slowly, and large nostrils fenerally accompany large chests. uch persons rarely take cold, and when they do they throw it off easily. The opposite build of chest is more predisposed to lung disease. The. pallid complexion and conspicuous blue veins show that oxygen is wanted, and that every means should be used to Obtain it. Deep breathing also promotes perspiration, by increasing the circulation an d the animal warmth. Waste is more rapidly repaired, and the skin is put in requisition to remove the used materials. Many forms of disease may thus be prevented, and more vigorous health enjoyed.— Chambers's Journal. A Disconsolate Chimpanzee Widower. It is not in the power of the melancholy muse to compose the sentence that would bring consolation to the agonized bosom of Adam. Adam is the male chimpanzee at the Zoological Garden, and is literally swallowed in grief at the death of hi3 mate and anticipated bride, Eve. Inflammation of the stomach brought her to a premature grave. She contracted a cold about two weeks ago, and though Dr. Chapman poured into her little stomach just such medicine as he would prescribe for a dimpled boy or girl of the same age, the spirit of the little beast fled from her clay on Friday, leaving Auam alone in this strange and rigorous climate, to rave and pine as only a little Chimpanzee can dp. Adam’s grief is pitiable. When his , companion died his screams could be heard all over the garden, and in the frenzy of his despair he dashed furiously against the bars of his cage, and butted his head against the hard floor with a vehemence that alarmed his keeper. When the first burst of agony had subsided he crawled into one corner of his cage, and, burying his head beneath the straw, gave himself entirely up to grief, and moaned as though his heart would break. These little animals were born near the Gaboon River, on the West Coast of Africa about 100 miles south of the Equator. They were brought to this country with several others, and thrived far better than any of their fellows, who were placed in other zoological gardens in different parts of the country. This couple were particularly fond of each other and of their keeper. They were almost invariably side by side, and, as a nfle, walked with an arm around each other’s waist. They were remarkably intelligent, and, though Eve was staid, Adam, when teased or frowned at by . his keeper, would break ihto lamentations that would disappear the moment an encouraging word was spoken to him.

They required as mucl^care as children of the same ag^JJhhe cage in which they lived was carefully inclosed, ambits temperature kept at 80 degs. They were fed upon bananas, oranges, boiled rice, and tapioca, flavored with wine, and drank sweetened tea with a gusto that would have gladdened the heart of Mrs. Sary Gamp. The remains of the chimpanzee were removed to the Jefferson Medical College on Saturday, when' the doctors, with sharp knives, opened its little stomach, and gazed into its internal arrangements with scientific eye. In a few days its little skeleton, all white and shining, will be put together on wires, to be gazed at by the curious. Now that he is bereft of his mate, Adam is not the same joyous ape he was, man delights him not, nor peanutseither. His grief wrings his little beast, ly heart, and it is feared that he will not survive the winter.—Philadelphia Record The National Penny Bank has been in operation in London a little over three years. In that time', at its seventy-1 five branches, there have been more than a million deposits; 127,000 persons have opened accounts, and $350,000 are. at present in the hands of the bank.. __ Be sure and call for Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, if you are troubled with a bad cough or cold. It will give you relief. For sale" by every respectable Druggist. One bottle, 35 tents; five bottles for (1,00. Massachusetts officials have observed that home-sickness is a frequent cause of insanity among immigrants.

HOME I3TEBEBTS. Thdt Gikgb«brfaj>.—BoH 1 quartof molasses 20 minutes, add immediately 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 cup of butter, ginger to taste, flour to make a paste to roll. Indiajt Puddihg —Stir into a pint of scalding milk Indian meal enough for a stiff batter; when obM add 3 eggs, 1 tablespoonful each of butter and molasses, 4 cup of flour, 1 tabiesuoonful of baking-powder; flavor with cinnamon; to be eaten with a rich sauce. Rick Griddle CakbSi.—Cook 4 a teacup of whole rice till every grain is dissolved and like, jelly. Warm 4 pint of rich milk, put in 4 teaspoonful of salt, stir the rice into the milk until it is smoothly mixed. Beat 3 eggs, whites and yelks separately, until very light, and put info the rice the last thing. Bake on a hot greased griddle till brown and light. Mustard Relish,—Beat the yelks of 2 eggs; stir into this 3 tablespoonfuls of French mustard, 1 tablespoonful of black pepper, 4 teaspoon!til of cayenne, 1 of salt and also of sugar, 4 cup of sharp vinegar; beat all well together and cook until .the consistency of custard. If not thick enough, add more mustard; if too thick add vinegar. This is a nice relish for any kind of meat.

Jumbles.—1 cap butter, 2 of sugar, beaten together, 1 cup milk, i teaspoonful soda stirred into the milk, and 4 eggs; beat it well together; add spice of any kind, 6 cups of flour; roll it rather thin, cnt it with a tumbler and with a wine-glass to form a ring; brush them over with the white of an egg, and sift on a very little fine sugar before baking. Bake them 15 or 20 minutes. Juried Oysters.—Large oysters are the best for this purpose.* Simmer for a minute or two in their own liquor, drain perfectly dry, dip in yelks of eggs and then in bread-crumbs, seasoned with cayenne (or blaek) pepper and salt; fry them of a light brown. These are chiefly used a3 a garnish for fish or fowls, but if intended to be eaten alone, make a little thick melted butter, moistened with the liquor of the oysters, and serve as sauce. Roast Goose ok Duck.—Boiling water should be poured all over and inside of a goose or dock before you prepare them for cooking, to take ont the strong oily taste. Let the fowl fee picked clean and wiped dry with a’©loth inside and out ; fill the body and crop with stuffing ; if you prefer not to stuff it put an onion inside; put it down before the fire or in the oven and roast it brown. It will take about 2a hours. The oil that drips from it should nearly all be turned off, or it will be too greasy. Prepare a turkey in the same way, only it should be roasted by a moderate fire at least 3 hours. Serve with cranberry or apple sauce. Celery Salad.—Take nice white jeelery; clean with a brush, do not 'scrape celery with a knife for any kind of dish; break it and put into salt and water to make it hard and crispy. For dressing take yelks of 4 eggs, well beaten; add tb this l ta'olespoonful of mixed mustard, <S teaspoonful of black pepper; set the pan sailing in a pan of hot water, and cook till it becomes as thick as custard; set away to cool. When cold add i of a cup of olive oil, if liked; if not, use sweet cream to thin the dressing. Take celery out of the water, drain through a colander, and pour the dressing over it just before sending to the table. Ornament this dish prettily with the tops of the celery. Torn to Pieces by a Mexican Lion.

Reference was made m the Herald ■ yastcrday to the mammoth cougar, or Mexican iion, that was chained in the stock-yard ol S. M. Wharton, in South Flores Street. Hardly was the description of the animal in type before Flores Street was in a furor. Crowds rushed to the stock-yards. Little Jose de la Barrera, a child of the widow Guadarupe Rameros, was' seen in the ferocious animal’s clutches. Andrew Hogan, who Vas standing by the gate, says that the cougar had leaped unexpectedly to the length of its chain and seized the boy’s arm through the gate. Litjtle Jose was pulled through the gate and literally torn to pieces. All that the hundred of bystanders could do was to pull out their revolvers and empty their contents into the cougar’s head, but it was too late.—San Antonio Herald. —The young man who offered his poorer rival §1,000 inhnrdcash to give up the lady of their mutual affections, and argued, further,thatthe girl wasn’t able “to stand the uinls of life and do the washing beside,’’ had the sad truth on Ms side. If he had taken a broader view of the subject, and added that the theological science of the world has tried to understand why there should be a washing day at all, and given it up in despair, he would have told a sadder truth still.—Exchange. —The end of the fast man—The waxed end. Clifford’s Febrifuge — Palatable, Powerful, Antiperlodic and Tonic.— Nature's remedy for Fever and Ague. Never known to fail in a single ease. This popular remedy differs from all other Ague Cures, In being free from all poisonous effects on the system; it enters into the circulation and destroys all malarious poison, and thus eradicates the disease without producing any of those distressing after-sensations such as fullness and pain in the head, ringing in the ears and partial deafness. Try it once-and ycta will never be without it. J. C, Richakdboh, Brop’r, Tor eale by all Druggists. St. Louie.

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