The Corner Stone, Volume 5, Number 47, College Corner, Union County, 22 November 1876 — Page 1

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The annual income of the charities of London amounts to nearly $12,000,000. Of this large amount nearly two-thirds is derived from voluntary contribution?, the other third being derived from dividends, property and trade.

"Tobacco leaves" for the manufacture of cigars are now being produced in New York by the progress of chemical science. The material used is a kind of brown wrapping paper, made of straw especially for this purpose. The paper, after coming from the mill, is saturated with the juice pressed from tobacco and other offal; then the sheets are pressed through a machine, which gives them the perfect appearance of the tobacco leaf, and the peculiar spots are printed on them as on calico. At a recent meeting at Dusseldorf of a society for the improvement of the condition of the prisoners in jail a statistical paper was read to prove that a large proportion of crimes arose from Sunday dissipation. The Congress at Heidelberg passed a series of resolutions advocating the observance of Sunday as a day of rest from work and from enervating pleasure. The third resolution says : " Sunday rest must find its highest end in Sunday hallowing, and where this is neglected the moral strength of the people suffers." For scarf pins and finger rings the cat's eye has become one of the most fashionable stones used. 1 1 i s a species of the sapphire, and the most desirable color is of a yellow-green tint. It has threads of white asbestos within it, and the light is reflected from these in an intense and peculiar manner. When this stone is properly cut a white band of light is seen floating in its interior that changes position as the gem is moved before the eye, which peculiarity probably suggested the name by which it is generally known. A great deal has been said of the impossibility of Russia making war. owing to her financial embarrassments and the difficulty of raising a loan. The financial embarrassment is considerable, and a large loan outside Russia is probably not to be raised, but a national loan on the Napoleonic principle would produce some millions, and Russia has one oppressive and extravagant but effective resource. She can procure nearly everything by issuing inconvertible paper. An issue of 30000,000 ($150,000,000) would oniy increase ner paper currency one-fifth, and probably only raise the agio on gold twenty per centum, which, as America has shown, can be borne without a paralysis of industry. It is a most ruinous expedient, but Russia has resorted to it twice already, and each time has survived. The eighth National Cat Show was opened on October 20 at the Crystal Palace, London. There were three hundred and eight cats on exhibition. Some were arrayed in white, gray, and silver dresses, and some had coats of wire that emitted phosphoric sparks when the fur was rubbed the wrong way. One of the exhibitors set a value of twenty-five 11 J 1 C T ! a i 1 y- . muuaauu pouuus on jitue urownie, a short-haired tabby aged three years. Ihis highly esteemed little puss was de scribed in the catalogue as being of thoroughbred descent from cats in the possession of the owner and her father for nearly thirty years, and a tabulated pedigree for seven generations, framed and glazed, was affixed to the sales office in the palace. Notwithstanding the feats of " Little Brownie," who was re ported to be a famous rat-catcher, having on many occasions dispatched five rats in a minute, the judges awarded in this class the first prize to another cat, which the owner valued at the more modest fig ure of four pounds. On a recent day every school in Prus sia had to make a return of the black and blue and brown color of the children's eyes. Many of the pupils came home on that day telling their parents, with a mysterious air, that their eyes, ana nair, ana sinn Had been examined at

school. The results of this anthropolog- lops, sold; while his litle songs lay negical commission have been published, lected on the counter, and others never

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Prussia was 4,127, b6, and of that num- from the first by publishers with no muber 4,070,923 were under fourteen years sic in their souls, however much there

Ot age. With regard to the rolnr of their eyes, 42.97 per cent, had blue, and 24.31 percent, brown eyes. With regard to the color of the hair, 72 per cent, had blonde, 26 per cent, had brown, and 1.-21 per cent, black hair. With, regard to the color of the skin, Prussia had only o.orf per cent, of the brunette comp lex ion. In Bavaria" the brunette compiexion ciaim3 i& per cent., the black hair 5 per cent., the brown hair 41 per cent., tne lair nair 64 per cent.; and it is arguea irom this that the darker complexion m Germany came from the South.

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BY GEORGE lA'NT. Up from mirk midnight to the dawn, Waking, I heard the wild wind rout, "With sobbing wail and gusty shout, Sweep through the elms that skirt the lawn. Those patriarchs of their race, whoss leavps Scareo murmured as the zephyrs passed, Now groaned in concert with the blast And with their branches smoke the eaves. Dim broke the morn along the crag3 That eastward loom above the sea,"; And long processions sailed a-lee Of vajwry forms, like weird hags. Now in one sheeted flood it rains ; But the slant wind, with headlong force, Caught it in its impetuous course, And dashed it on the trembling panes. Anon the sun looked through the rift, But pallid as bis sister moon "When glows on high night's sober noon, Chasing through heaven the flying drift. At length, uprising toward his height, Majestic moves the orb of day, And subject nature owns his away, And the spent storm attests his might. Gone the long night's tempestuous dream, And mountain vale and forest aisle And earth's broad fields serenely smile, Subdued by that all-cheering beam. And all is still, save from afar That one low murmur evermore, Where the iong roll beats on the shore, And wind and wave wage war on war. Harper's Magazine. OXIjY a. soxk. Monsieur Bafonte, who had a large family and a small income, hired the upper story of a large building in Paris, and to reduce his rent, underlet a room to young Monsieur Fernande, the musical composer, of whose compositions no one had yet heard anything. It was a little narrow room, with one very high window, but it had this advantage: Out of this window one could, at the risk of breaking one's neck, catch a glimpse of the beautiful prima donna, Mile. 1a C , as she fanned herself on the balcony of the first floor. For this sensible reason had Monsieur Fernande hired the apartment. He was dreadfully in love with her, though they had never spoken to each other, and he fondly and falsely believed she knew he had thrown her bouquets, and had iriveu him special thanks for them as she held them to her pretty chin and bowed her pretty head for them, and smiled with the beaming smile of actress upon the audience. If ever he made his name and fortune, then she should know; but not until then. So he loved on m silence, and worked at his compositions, and ottered them to publishers, and had them de;nej writh thanks." Now and then, ot course, he sola a song, but the songs did not become popu lar, and he must have starved to death, but, that he now and then played on the piano for some dancing party. At the best he lived on bread, coffee, and a little soup. In his room he had an old piano, a desk, a chair, a meerschaum, and a little charcoal furnace. When he had five francs in his pocket, and it was not rent day, he felt rich. Mile. La G had every luxurious lounge and couch to be bought for money. She lavished gold on her friends, her self, on her pet poodle, on the beggars who held out their crooked hands and showed their distorted faces at the door of the house, as she tripped from it to the carriage. They said she had been a peasant girl, whose sweet voice, as she sung at the door of a little hut had caught the ear of a wealthy music worshiper, who had her taught in consequence. They tell such stories of so many prima donnas. No one would have guessed from her manner now that she ever knew the value of a sou. Yet with all this extravagance she was growing rich, and could make a little fortune in a night. Young, beautiful, adored, who could be happier ? And yet, though she could sing so divinely, she could not have com posed one of those little songs written in the garret over her head to save her bright young life. Lach one was a gem, &nxl probably M. Fernande knew it, for genius ought to know its own work Still, rattling marches, waltzes that I were the same thing over again, and bits from well-known operas twisted into gal arlil tli ennntpr t all. heiinT scorned ma v nave Wn in tlioir ahnns If, indeed, some well-known singer would have sung one of them Mile. La C . for instance then there misrht have been a change. The thought crept into poor Fernande's heart by degrees ; at last it strengthened into a resolve : but it must be the best of all that he I should lay before his idol, the very best nothing else would do So he wrote in his attic room, the poor I composer, and below the happy songbird trilled her song, and laughed, and 1 chatted, and was carelessly generous, and never even knew of his existence, who

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ened to her, envied the men who had the right to sit beside her, hold her fan, perhaps who knew ? her hand also; the men, one of whom might one day be her favored lover. And she enjoyed her uaPPv butterfly existence and knew nothing about him. At last, in a fit of romantic influence, our composer turned poet. He wrote the words of a song which he called " Love's Dying Dream," and he fitted it to music so sweet, so gentle, that, playing upon the old piano, he knew it to be the best he had ever done the bright, particular gem fit to lay before his lady. He copied it out daintily ; he wrote a note with the signature of " An Admirer," and resolved to leave it at her door and await the result. "If I should only hear her sing it, I should be so happy," he said to himself, I should be willing to die." What strange things we say sometimes! Did you ever say anything, not quite meaning it, that afterward preved itself rue, though not as you intended it ? I have. And one morninsr he said : " To-day I will do it and with these words left his room. He ran down stairs with the precious parcel in his hand, and stood before the door that led to Mile. La C 'a suit of rooms with a palpitating heart. He had intended to knock and leave the parcel with a servant, but, howunfortuuate the door stood open. He would steal in and put his music upon the table. He crept in ; he laid his parcel down softly; but as he did so, his eyes fell upon a miniature. It was a portrait of his di vinity herself, and it was set in costly gems, xnese ne neitner noticea nor cared for. All he saw was the sweet face. He stooped over it; he took it in his hand. " It is herself!" he said. And I think he would have kissed it, but at that moment he heard a scream and a stivage growl. He turned. The scream came from Mile. La C , the growl from a gentleman who accompanied her, and on the instant two hands came down on Fernande's shoulders, and the miniature was wrested from him. " How careless of Augusle," said the lady, " to leave the door open lor thie ves to enter by." The gentleman lustily called for help. Fernande said nothing. Conscious of his position, he was stricken dumb, and it was as one passing through the changing scenes of a dream that he knew himself to be arrested and cast into prison. The prima donna appeared against him when the time came. She had found him in her room. He had a valuable ornament in his hand. She believed that he intended to steal it. She had never seen him before. At this the young man felt that it would be well to be dead. She had never seen him before ! It was only fancy. He had not caught her eyes. She had never noticed him. The gentleman gave his evidence, but was fierce, and called Fernande a thief and a rascal, and Fernande could only j say he was not guilty. He would not even bring his respectability forward by way of defense. " I am named Fernande, and I am twenty-three years, and I am nothing and nobody." This he said when called upon to account for himself, and nothing more, and he was written down vagrant, and con demned to six months' hard labor as a thief. Mile. La C went home pouting and declaring that she "hated to go to such dreadful places." She ate a delightful lunch, and afterward finding a packet upon her table, opened it, and read Fer nande's anonymous note, at which she laughed ; and hummed over the song, pronouncing it very pretty." A few days afterward she practiced it, and on being encored one night, bethought her to sing it. Poor Fernande ! If he could have been there to have seen how the women w?ept over his pretty little lay of love and death, and to have heard how the applause rang. . After that the manager besought Madamoiselle to sing " Love's Dying Dream " every night, and the lady obeyed the request. Amateur singers went mad over it, and it was published. Having the name of no composer upon it, it was called Mile. La C 's song", and by many was believed to be her own, and it sold as never a song sold before. One day, with a party, she visited the prison where Fernande was confined. She stood amid her little circle of cavaliers and said to one in authority of the place : " What do they like, these people ? Shall I sing a love song ?" " As Mademoiselle pleases," said the man. " Every one understands that theme." And Mademoiselle smiled, and tried

her voice with a little trill, and began j poor Fernande's sonsr, Imve's Dying f

Dream." i iT.ronto (-. Oh, the eager, glittering eyes that j A gentleman who call him-t If a spjrwatehed her. j itualUt, and who Wars the reputation o Oh, the flushed cheek the hurried j Wing a successful medium, ha for tvine breath! Oh, the mad tb robbings of the j time past engaged in holding a numlxr heart of number twenty-four as he J of tetwtt at various places in Toronto, whispered to himself: Thr.-e tea net t it is said, have ln well " It is my song! It is my song!'' j attended. and s striking were the" inani- " What is the matter?'' whirred j festa turns " produced through the agency number twenty-three to number twenty- j of the medium that many of ourciUzens four. " I say, mon ami, speak." I who had previously been tk optical became "What is the matter ?' asked the j converts to spiritualism. The price of singer of the superintendent, as the last 1 admission to these ffxttct was generally notes of her song died upon her lips. I half a dollar, for which sum those who

ri ' - j - .t . There seems to be some commotion." "There is a little," said the superintendent calmly; "number twenty-four has caused it." "Has he escaped V cried the lady, looking a.s though she had heard that a tiger had broken looe. " After a manner, Madamoisclle," said the superintendent. "He is dead." They buried Fernande in whatever spot of ground is given to pauper prisoners. And Mile. La O sang until she sang herself into the heart of some title; but as long as she sings, at all, j-he will sometimes sing " Love's Dying Dream." It is so pretty, and then it was the work of an unknown admirer. It is the favorite with Madame, and always has been. No one remembers number twentyfour, named Fernande, who was so impolite as to die while Mile. La C was singing. t -Ye IP lne of Electricity. I New York SMin.1 " You see we are running our cash system with lightning, or electricity, it's the same thing," said Mr. William Ehrich, as I stepped into the famous ( Eighth Avenue store on Saturday afternoon. "Heretofore cn Saturdays, particularly in the afternoon, the din and confusion, and the inces,-ant call of ' cash ! cash ! cash!' by our saleswomen and salesmen were absolutely deafening. So my brother Louis and I put our heads together to invent something that would call tho cash girls without so much noie. I suggested bells, but Iouia said, ' No, thai wo;:ld be as bad a the cash cnlls One day he came to me and said excitedly, ' William, I've found it. Electricity is the thing.' I declare I thought Louis had gone crazy. 'Found what" said I. 'What is electricity the thing for?' ' Our cash girls,' he replied. 'In the name ot conscience, Loui;-,' said I, ' what are you going to put eleclricity on our cash girls for? I don't see that anything is the matter with them.' Then Louisbegan to laugh. Heexplaiued that he meant to apply electricity tocall them, instead of the cash call u--ed in all the stores in the city from A. T. Stewart's to ours. Now come and see his invention." He took me at once to the register in the center of the store under the main staircase, and showed me the thirty or more little circular silver-plated drops, labeled " hosiery," " buttons," " millin ery," and so on, with numbers also to correspond with the sections. Every now and then, as if by magic, down dropped one of the silver plates. A young man standing by the side of the register instantly spoke, "hosiery," or " trimmings," 1, 2 or 3, as the case might be, and as soon as he thus announced the department and number of started the head girl in the line of cash girls seated on the other side . of the register. In the meantime others came up as List as the first departed and took their seats in the line. There was no confusion, no hurry, not a call throughout the large and busy establishment when dollars and parcels by the hundreds were passing over the counters. Then Mr. Ehrich took me to one of his counters and showed me the little cordlike straps running back of the saleswomen that they pulled whenever a purchase was made and a sale completed, and which he explained to me were con nected with electral wires running under the floors and joined to the drops thatl had seen at the register. " An advantage in this system in addition to what you can see for yourself," said Mr. Ehrich, " ia, that we can so regulate the labors of the girls that each one is obliged to do her share, and whoever has the most cash checks credited to her at the end of the week we give a premium of fifty cents over her regular wages. See how orderly and composed they look compared with their former distraction under the old system." It was a fact. The little girls loked perfectly self-po ssed, calm, and selfrespectful, and the saleswomen were no longer fretting and scolding, and calling to get attendance, and the hundreds of ladies at the counters were collected and easy in the task of shopping on Saturday afternoon. We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best bookB.

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were fortunate enough to gain aduiK-ion to the "circle" enjoyed f..r a brkf period the extreme felicity of holding communication with five spirits, who played, sang and danced by turns, and occasionally indulged in Mich playful eccentricities as slapping the faces, pullins the hair, and even pinching the bodies of certain favored ones in the circle with whom it said they were in sympathy. A member of a well known drygoods firm having an e?t.iMi-!nnent on Youge Street attended several mmx, and for some reason orother became convinced that the manifestations were frauds and the medium a huriibug. He determined to expose the whole affaii, and with this object in view he paid a vi?il on Thursday nuht to a l.ou-e in which the medium generally summoned the attendance of the spirit, having provided himself with a quantity of cotton well saturated with burning fluid. It may be as I ell to ul -crve lit re that there is a bed room in the rear of the chamber in which the fauces were held, and that the wall separating the two had been pierced fur the accommodation of a ttove pipe. On the arrival of our Yt n.-c Street merchant, he found that the was just about to be oened, and having watched his opportunity he contrived to slip into the bedroom unnoticed by the spiritualist. The medium having been bound securely, and a circle formed, the lights werelurmd dxwn, and in a brief space of time the spirits vouchsafed manitcitations f a tremendous character. Everything waawotkiiig beautifully. in n suddenly i ii? nwra was uluiuinated by a bright, inten-e and mysterious light that appeared to pro ceed from the stove pipe hole, and to the astonishment of all, the medium was discovered standing unfettered in the room, with his coat and toots otT. His face wore an a -pec t of unutterable horror, that seen in the weird light emanating from the stove pipe-hole, had an aipalling e fleet upon his visitors. The denouement is not difficult to imagine the Yonge Street merchant says lie ei poscu a viie deception wnat lue me dium said we dare not expose. .4. Ilaboun Story. Mr. Haely, of Africa, tells the following story, which will hazely be believed, iu his lectureon Africa: " A woman belonging to a settlement of about one hundred soul went to gather soir. wood and left her child on the ground to take care of itself. While the mother was gone a female baboon appeared on A l. - 1 At ... vue scene, ami, espying me ctuid, ap proached, and began to fondle it. The child was allowed to partake of the uaooou 3 mux, wnicu uepnvea it I any appetite ior us motner s. n hen the mother returned she noticed that the child was carefully covered with leaves, and had lost its hunger. This was dons for several days before the mother ascertained who performed the unthankful act. When the mother did find out thedoer, she induced the men of her tribe to lie in wait for the baboon the next day. The animal noticed the men raise their weapons to fire, and began to waive her hand, or paw, as if asking them not to kill her, and at the same time pointing to a young one at her breat,.but the na tives killed her. No sooner had they done so, However, than a male baboon rut in its appearance, and, by a loud shout, summoned others of his tribe to the spot. Then, in a body, the animals at tacked the natives and forced them to flee to their huts for safety. One of the baboons tracked them to their settle ment, and the next day they were viited by about five hundred baboons, who as saulted them with cocoanuls ana com celled them to run away from their homes." Not a thousand miles from Richmond a wife lay in a dying condition. Having brought up a clever orphan girl, who was grown, the dying woman called the young woman to her and said: "I will eoon leave you my little children motherless. They know you and love you, and after I &ui gone I want you and my husband to marry." The young woman, bursting into tears, said: "We were ust talkinz about that." SriRiTrAl.isTS in Texas are required to take out a showman's lieen Wfore the authorities will allow them to appear upon a Etage and lecture.

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