Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 August 1869 — Page 1

W.T .H .H .J PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT

VOLUME XIV.

POETRY. l TWiLiaiu .vr.tfoitv. .'s" v fcM the twilight -1äujvs hr, r aia-iiknocv nwOl.iw litrl. wi iw Ihejtsgels On.- T oin'. uV lumps of night 'lam litvl." uy lurling whispered, And 1 loiijf eoaraeo to leep;" lcM,l(l boa-- the ruhiu calling, Fi')oi tli'j -h.ulows lau and dorp. ' HoU foe "ii j our ho-om. mother:"' f tint nid row her whispered word?, Rtt xnm.- thov held the mu-ic Of j. KMAM etlgirig hin!-. And I hrtd. her to mv haasSt, CTomc a',- lint niv aching breast, b.ti. ih. .u :h.T-arm- about hT .oo.fl opt ooth Iht into teat, ,k Si.n-Hv dtr old cradle ballad That yon iwdt sitnr to mo A h ! .. i linked mi' into planter Ami r -at upon jronr knee." Thea! n' the simple ditty i a (.td familinr air. Whita my eyes were Uitu nnl bündeti Bj the - tb.it .'atltoied there : ' ".Hf my child. He still :ind tsaaber, iloiv aiiL' N guard thv bed. He vnlv btifsnngM iritno' unbe (lently Mlhg on ihj nea-l." Xli.-ii "s"t shoiie- oh so softly ! -t mm tli kIiwIuw of the west. Aad it tniuaV.l nur darling's eyelids With tlv Meines h.ilm of nA Oh. that MM ! 0 mild aUi ninler! 1 have often thought dace then That an navel touched my darling. AiH M riMrated away her pain ; Vor -lit flejpt the last sweet, -lumber j That a arearj mortal knows. iil her f new -I rauely qitictl In a deep and calm n-josc. YeA Sil vleht, to wakeki morning On tho carat, Sternal Hhoro To a now and -tr;inre exi-Mene, Full of rest mr evtTinoro. f)H-f it Month. MISCELLANEOUS. M1NMKIX AM IMMEXStKOFP. BY a smowm n. Wiik n 1 traveled in the country with a caravan I had a giantess und u dwarf in my bllection of natural curiosities. Tin 1 4 - 1 " . ft wnn n ronn g-emiemnn, .i 111 111 Svi 11 "v a:it: tht; iriantoss was from Russin :inl we called h-r Iramensikaffi 1 lie title ot a music hall song which was in vogue al the time having suggested an appropriate alias for her. I 1 1 1 rery well with them. The dwarf had an outrageous temper, ami would someUnses refuse to attend the vis itors at Iiis levee ; tint the giantess was alwaysat hand to supply his place on the list of vat tractions. She was the most mVille enwture in the world ; and she st.MMl seven feet eleven inches ami thfeequarten in her slippers, or, speaking in roimu miuihers its we did if on tie-hills eight feet si. The dwarf was three feet five, hot he eouM brine himself down to three übet whenever he was in a good temper ami the show was hill. In a ir'tn ral fay, bowercr, he may he laid to hare been about three feet two. We had all tnrded the Midland CircnU logtther, am! we were g i Ii up Xith. v hen an aeeiloiit happened Minnikiu ami Inum nsikoff eloped. It happened in this way. Minnikin, being a man, hail naturally got an ascendancy 'v r Immen sikoff Te mind, ami used his power to borrow halt' erowns of her win n his own purse was low. This happened rery often, lor, although he drew an enormous salary. Fie lived above his hv coeae, and as he could not hold enough to eat and drink hi- money aw:iy, he gambled wth ord, and plnved at hraiaPHS, Btnnd'.icT'in a clnir, till it was .ill gone,. and he wan pretty deeply in debt. When he left Hit chair in the billiard room it was only to mount on another in the parlor of the e-iravan and whisper an order, rather than a reiiii,"intö the ear of the hem voh nt giantess for a loan to pay far his dinner. She used to declare that there was something in his eye which Made i' impos-ihle f -r her to refuse him : and so -he w wH always din into the old school aatcbel ia which -he kept her savings, and give him what he wanted. He would then eat a nhole kidney for his supper, and drink a cruet ful of warn-, and win n the hitter had got into his hea l, would make such a -om-.M ottofl in the tent that to pacify him she was ir.-neraHv otithj-eft to irive him a shilling more. II" saw her dip so often in the satchel thai he fancied its contents were proportioned to its size; and one day, he, as it wen-, ordered her to marry him which -he was too weak to refuse to do. He told her to keep ih ir intention a secret Brow me, and she obeyed, although I had hitherto been her chosen confidant. Taking advantage of mjajpbgc nee in the town, he ordered a van to be sent round to the door of the caravan one erening, as if -one- furniture weretO be removed, and bv thi- means conveyed her to a neigh hosing railway station. .Mean totlieiasi, he m i le her pay the expenses of bet own elopement, for the tan was discharged with her money. When I came back I found nobody but Ike Jaguar in the tent, and a mde written on sheet of brown onper fr-m itehiensikoffasking my forgiveness. was angryenongh at the jnoment. as may h supposed, but I made ih- best of it "and what with turning myself into an aborigine, and advertising the Iwast us a tiger, 1 managed to keep a roof over my bead. Hut I always kept on the lookout for 8 new giantess I made up my mind to h ITC no more to '1" with dwarfs ;ind one day, some months after my loss, I ton ml one on -how bj a very inferior Lx ality of the town of Portsmouth. I paid my penny, and u . nl ia Ii n w Miaa ImmenslkoiTl She iravc i soh when she saw me that e JJIVC a son w lien -ie- -.i nov ightened the people out, and when they ere gone she gave full vent to her feeltri W er maw, till the rery ghisscs in the room -renn I to -hare her sorrow. O, how changed she waa! Profession -ally, perhaps, the chaalac was for th- better, for she was now so thin that she looked at least nine feet high: but as i woman i' .sa- painftd to I hold her In spite of her l"ok-. however, I told her I hoped I SSW her in good health, and I i v n inquired aitei her husband. 'I he mention of his nam sinn brought her w hole story to im r hps. Be was save and d praved a- vir, and nad lately j i ii t given up exhi biting, and had taken to playing nine pbjs ith a cricket hall, in which sport be was engaged when I found his wife. His ,,e object in in Hi ving bet had, it appears, been to live on her arninu's. and do no work himself, !" r there was nothing he hat. d -o mm h u keeping himself , lean fbf t uapany. But ha very kmmi diai it ered that her slender store would not -u,f floe la sajundrl h ?i extravagance for montli, for, careful a- she had been, she had loSUJ had to send remittam MS to her father and uncle in Podolia both fiiints In'si les niini-t er in-,' to her suitor's wants Heha! nimph In-en d- eeived hy tip' sie if th" ha; in v; fiieh sj,.- kep! her savings, wei i... -..,4 mean eno'ufh t. ievngtd

on her for the failure of his own mercenary calculations, Forgetting that he had UiMiertaken to cherish and protect her, he begin to treat her with studied cruelty, though for a time this cruelty was not 1 sueh a character as ma h- it easy for her to complain. He was Bimply neglcctf ', and appeared to be uncoUstsous of the i istence of his wife; and one day, when, having Just touched her brow with his lips in response to her tearful entreaty, he was asked if that was the kiss of duty or the. kiss of aft'edion, he replied that he declined to answer the question. Thenceforth he threw ofl all concealment and all retrain), and, like the wolf in the fable, never Buffered himself to hint a loss for the indulgence of his illwill. Her housewifely care w;is something remarkable, and w hen, after prying into all the anirles of their lodging, he failed to find any dust which had escaped her broom, he would turn round and rtterlv taunt br with the partio'. -n of Poland. a If she had had a hand in that crime; and he would positively :is her what she thought of the battle of Warsaw when she ventured to remonstrate with him for playing at loo till two o'clock in t he morning. Sometimes his ill-treatment seemed to be dictated by the most fiendish malignity. I nder pretence of likimr fresh-cooked t yd, he would onk-r her to make a puddimrfor the dinner of a size proportionable to his own appetite and nature, and, halving this meagre dish with the peaknife which he used at table, would ironically bid her "fall to" OH a portion that, while it was ample enough to serve for his necessities, would not make her a decent mouthful. It was the same with the food of the mind : she had a taste for the beau ties of our literature, and was accustomed lo enjoy the classics in folios, but he in

sisted on her reading them in diamond editions. These were the main points of the story sic-told me, with many tears, and ins manner that would have touched a heart of stone. When she paused she drew out a handkerchief to wipe her eyes, and in doing so, she accidentally brought on t o her pocket a garment which turned out to be the dwarf's great-coat, and w hich had found it way there in a manner she could not account for, except thai she had taken it up unknowingly in one of those periodical tits of mental distraction caused by her husband's brutal behavior. It often happened, she informed ine, that she fell into little mistakes of this kind In tidying up the place; but .Minnikin made no allowance lor them ; on the contrary, they served him as excuses for further ill-treatment ; and he had once indulged in horrid excesses of violence because she had inadvertently made an apron string of his dress-cravat. I took my leave of her without waiting to s.-e the dwarf, and told her in all sineerity how sorry I felt to see bet thus placed in the power of a tyrant. I felt that whatever my own misfortunes were in losing her services, they wen- as nothing compared with her own surrendering her freedom and happiness to a wretch who did not know the value of his posit ion ; and I was so anxious to he of service to her that I made up my mind to open my own poor show at the other end of the tow n, in order that I might have an importunity of seeing her from time to time. I did so, and made several calls, paying for admission each time, for I was determined to be in no way beholden to a man I detested. It was beautiful to see her in the intervals of the levees trying to become a good wife to .Minnikin, not only performing the household work with the greatest care, and making the puddings so small t hat they looked like dumplings bj her hand, but even trying to bring her capacious mind Into harmony wich the narrow understanding of her lord. Her views were naturally broader than his, for his head was certainly not burger than a Spanish onion, but she tried to narrow them by all the means in her power, and some) hues she succeeded by a great etl"rt in forming a false judgment on, one of the subjects erf the da'. She would bring this out along with the materials for his supper, and if fa deigned to say thai he was inclined to be of her opinion, t In headache it had cost her to blunt her tine perceptions and to .h. violence to her conscienc would im mediately pass away. Hut nil to no purpose. ( )ne day T c died upon h r and found her so agitated she could scarcely speak. That morning the ruffian had added personal violence loins otlnr crimes. He loved to dabble in house hold affairs, and she was holding him on her arm, according to CUStont, to enable him to dean the w indow s of their dwelling, When an opinion she chanced to express in fa vor of the abolition of the slave trade in Brasil excited his ire, and he struck her a blow on the head with so much force that it hart hi-thumb. I could endure it no longer. Great as was my reluctance to interfere actively in the quarrels of. a married pair, 1 felt constrained to give her certain advice. She -aid it was si novel as ii was terrible to her thoughts; and she at first felt extreme lv reluctant to take it. I made her promise ans however, before we parted thai, she would give it a trial. Exulting in the license given lo his evil nature by the removal of the last barrier to the free course of his temper which dutv and manly feeling had imposed, the dwarf renewed bis threats of ill treatment on his return home that night from a carouse, and the next morning be com manded the trembling woman, in a voice of thunder, to take him up in her arms again thai he might finish the top panes. In vain she suggested a pair of steps; he was Inexorable, and told her to hold her tongue. In for Innately, it was impossible for her to control her eyes. He w as using the dry duster with great energy to im part the final polish, when he discovered on it traces of a tear Which it had caught as ii lay In its resting place on her shoulder. He turned s.i agely and was about tost rike Iter again, when Bhe very deliberately h t him fall ; and in less than a minute he came to the ground With horrible iiois.-. Half stunned as he was, however, he wa- about to rise for retaliation, not doubt ing hat his punishment wis owing to her Inadvertence, when she saved him the ef fort bv liliing him in midair with one hand, in the same way as one lifts a favor ite cat. and, with the other, belaboring him tin the dust flew out of his little coat She then, all hough H was i aiiy in the day, ,,t him to bad, and ordered him not to Otter a syllable tor his life He was so much astonished and so frightened that hitherto he had not been sble to speak ; but no sooner did he and dims If in temporary quiet thaa he made an effort to regain his moral supremacy by op ning his mouth But his wife si once sseum d a determined expression of eoun lennie, and lie (rave way He ha! hi in-nd beneath r I fc bedclotbes, an4 h)J quite still In that podiSon the rest ,.i I' a.h d.ltü ii Isolation him that she '

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could hit so hard, and he reflected on it with considerable profit. As for the gentle crea lire who hail administered the lesson to him, as soon as her first excitement was over, she felt quite broken down, and she was Obliged to (lose the show for the day, "in consequence of the indisposition of the proprietor,' as the notice stated. After she had done that, and placed a little refreshment on a chair by Minnlkln'l bedside, she withdrew to her own room, where she spent some time in weeping over a loveletter written on the hack of a railway ticket, and a little wisp of hlr, which were the sole memorials of affection she had ever received from her e. del lord. She was sorry, t the truth must be told, alraid, fe' "s"eh was the influence f habit th it w a- difficult for her to divest her- ft of the belief that Minnikin was physically, as well as morally, the very embodiment of irresistible force. She thought her present victory over him was entirely due to chance and her own wild temerity, and she fully expected to feel the weight f his vengeance on the morrow. At the very moment these relied ions were passing through her mind, Minnikin was asking himself in a kind of sickening terror whether it was likely she would beat him again thai day. So thai each, as we see, knowing not hing of the fright of the other, was ready to give in; and victory was only awaiting to declare for the first claimant. Natters were in this state, w hen fmmensikoiV, with scarcely concealed terror, entered the room w here Minnikin lay, in the morning, and began making the preparations for a simple meal. She carried the taips and saucers most tenderly lest their rattle should wake the terrible creature, who, she hoped, was as yet unconscious of her presence, for she had not dared to look. The terrible creature, on his part, was awake enough, and was noiselessly shilling about beneath his coverlet in order to obtain the best possible position for receiving what he did not doubt would be the speedy visitation of that dreaded hand. He had gradually advanced one eye beyond the coverlet, and then the other, and finally had brought his little nose to light. It was much changed since yesterday. Anxiety writes its record on this feature more than any other. It was round at the end, and flushed with insolence and wine the morning before; but now you could have picked up seed with it, it was brought to such a point, and all its color had fled. It was at the moment that the nose appeared thai Imtnensikiit", stealing a timid glance toward- Hie bed, benefit standing sharply defined between two Afger eyes. Women are not always good physiognomists. She thought the nose boded fury and dire revenge, and all her little remnant of firmness gave way. She ran hastily across the apartment and was about to i ender a weak woman's submission to authority upon her knees, w hen, to her inexpressible surprise, the dwart bounded from his bed with a yell of terror, and throw ing himself at her feet, implored mercy in the most abject terms, and promised repentencc and aend men! He bad simply mistaken her intention, and he was conquered. She was sensible enough to conceal her real feelings, and she obtained from him the most solemn guarantees of good behavior before she allowed him to ret up and take his breakfast. When I called three days after, I found the dwarf for the ti est time al home, and al tending to his work. He was industriously exhibiting himself as Napoleon and as ( lipid, w hile his wife was taking the repose so necessary after her protracted exertions. He took me in to see her "Poppit," and she seemed to be completely happy. Tin y are both now at work in my shop again, and a more affectionate couple does not exist. She Often thanks me, when Minnikin is out of hearing, for teaching her that it i- sometimes good to pay the oppresses1 in his own coin. Outfits MtUfmine. Spectrum Analysis. Bkyomi all comparison, the most brilliant and startling conquest which the human mind hasyi t made over the domain of nature, consists of that group of discoveries which is described by the term Spectrum wabaia It provokes amazement in every aspect. In the first place, the developments have been made with a rapidity that is almost astounding; the ! whole thing has been dona in ten years. ! Dr. Wollaston discovered, in the year 1808, that by looking can-tuny at the solar spectrum with a Bpy-glass, dark line COUH be seen crossing ii. In isjä, Fraunhofer, a German optician, rediscovered and made a map of -everal hundreds of them, and from that time t hey were called, alter him, Fnnuthiift r line. Hut few supposed that there was the slightest possible significance in them; they were regarded as mere optical curiosities, having no higher nse than to serve as landmarks for mess uring the spaces of the colored spectrum. But, in 1899, the two Herman chemists, Kirchoff and Bussen, made t he capital discovery that. each chemical element, when burning in a flaute gave out a Hght that had its peculiar marks or line-, so that these lines could become a means of debiting the element. A totally new mode of chemical analysis was thus hit upon, far more delicate than anything hitherto know n, and a method, moreover, which w ascapabh of becoming a rsssfaSf cf fiw C0mtü 'iti'iu of tht stai'awjs. Chemistry, al a single Stroke, was fused with astronomy, and I he universal agent of light became the powerful servant ot the laboratory. Al the very first -b p, several new ele ments were discovered, the existence of which had never before been suspected. Examining with the spectrum the ash of some mineral waters, Prof. BunSOB thought In -aw some line- which did not belong to the substances already known. He then boiled dow n forty four tons of Dürkheim spring water, and grot a couple of hundred (Trains ol residue, from which he extracted two new metals, Cäsium and Rubidium, which resemble potassium. This Rubidium has since been found in the ah ot oak, of beet roof, of tobaOOO, collee, b a, and COCOa. The spectrum analysis, however, is not a mere instrument of original chemical p Msarch ; it has , praetical ' applicability. Tie ' Bj ssemer process,1 as it is called, is a method cf converting cast iron directly into steel. ( last iron contains more carbon than sled, and it i- converted into sb el by burning this ca.-bon out of the molten White hoi mam by a blast of atmospheric air. In this operation I've tons of cast Iron sre i onveft I in twenty minutes into live ton , of i i-t Bteef. But the success of Ifpe pro. . - d pends upon bcinfl able to t,,p ii at ju-t th.' light time If cOntin lied ten ,!.! too long, Of ' topped ten Rcconds too quickly, the batch is spoiled The flame, of coerce, Im ;n index of the

advance of the combustion, and, by watching it with the spectroscope, the appearance and disappearance ol the Hues indicate the exact moment at which the operation is to be arrested. The spectroscope promisee also to become a very valuable instrument in medicolegal investigations into the evidences of criminality. Jllood-stains may be detected by it w ith t-Mrcme delicacy. M r. Sorby has shown that the one-thousandth pari of a grata of the red-coloring matter of a blood stain may he detected with the greatest certainty. Hut it is in its celestial applications that the spectroscope has performed its most wonderful achievements. The constitution of the sun,fbr example, whieh, ten yean ago, wasa matter of the purest conjecture, is now a matter ol definite ami positive know ledge. We know w hat it is composed

oi us chemical constituents no! as completely, but w ith the same certainty, as we know the chemical constitution of the earth. Sixteen of the elements with rhich we are familiar Upon earth, are proved also to exist in I he atmosphere of the sun. Ti . ii... ir.ii 1 I i ucj aic hoe luuowiug: sou mm, calcium, barium, magnesium, iron, chromium, nickel, copper, zinc, strontium, cadmium, cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, aluminum, titanium. The -tars have also been subjected to spectroscopic study with equal success. They are show n to resemble our sun, their light coming from white-hot matter in their atmospheres. About eighty lines in tin-spectrum of the light from Aldebaran have been mapped, and it has been ascertained that the atmosphere of this star contains sodium, magnesium, hydrogen, bismuth, tellurium, antimony and mercury. Sirius contains sodium, magnesium, iron and hydrogen. A bom sixty other stars have been examined, and all seem to have some chemical element known on earth. AppkiOH1 Jo tri, nf. Love, Jealousy ami llee-Stings, The presence of the green-eyed monster is as frequently perceived in high as in low estate. Pretty young ladies are, il is said, peculiarly liable to the queer disease. It creeps into their hearts in such Insidious disguises that the artless lit!- beauties arc not aw are of its existence until it crops out in such passionate excesses that it frightens them to contemplate it. No doubl it was in precisely such a way that a young lady on Franklin street, Albany, became amenable to its influence. For some time past she has regarded n youth with special favor. Charlie possesses many attractive qualities, lie dresses in the !.- test mode, wears an " Alpine,1 and cultivates a moustache. Yet he is fickle in di-po-ition, and w hile his lips are attuned lo the harmony of sweet words, and a low. passionate recital of love's anguish for the ütir Julia's ears, his mind is enumerating the attractions of the pretty little widow around i be corner. Now, this w idow is no friend of Julia or she of her. For her life she can't see what Charik admires in her. Indeed, Charlie denies any special interest in the coquettish beauty, but he goes to sec her none the I --. Tin- tact that Julia disapproved it had noeffeot in changing his practice, and longing with a woman's curiosity to know What it meant, Julia determined to find it out. She forgot her selfrespeet. and be came a spy. The pretty Julia became an eaves-droppcr. Seeing Charlie entering the front door of the coxy little cottage wherein the widow abided, she hastened to admit herself into the yard by the rear gate, and peeped in at the window. Just underneath the window, however, was a little Square box, on which Julia stood to get a good look into the room. Her worst fears were realized. On a sofa just large enough for two, the pretty widow ami Charlie sal, with heads inclined, and a low, monotone issuing from the lips of either, telling, as plainly as words might have done, of love s COnfcSoionS. Julia stepped back, the box turned over, and innumerable angry little insects issuing, proclaimed it a bee hive. Of course they slung her. Fierce as mimic warriors the angry little demons laid hold of her shapely extremities, popping a si ing into tin- plump little nana, another in the rounded cheek, and even the silken hose were no protection to the exquisitely fashioned ankle. Bhe rolled on the ground ami crushed ruthlessly in mud and mire her hands, feet a ml body. The house wa- alarmed and the inmates came rushing OUl to learn tin cause ot the uproar. Kvcn the impudent Charlie looked cunningly over the widow's shoulders; but that might be pardoned, had he not asked sympathetically, "if the bees bad stung her?" Hartshorn ami camphor were called into requisition, and Julia, swathed in tlannelsand poisoned by the sting of the bees, consigns both Charlie and the widow to very disagreeable jives hereafter. Albany .' stay Journal, Effects of Candy on Children As the town enlarges and the confectionery shops increase, I see more and more the ill efiects of candies on child reit " Ify child i- so restless and thirsty at night, said Mrs. H . "What can be the mailer w ith her stomach?" " Do you allow her to cat candy ?" questioned. " ) dear! yes," was tin reply, wouldn't deprive her of the happiness I I ot anticipating and receiving the package of candy w hich Grandpa brings every night, for any 1 hing. Sin- is so fond of candy that she often prefers it to her dinm r. But you wouldn't believe how much water she drink al night. I always place a Isfgc pitchcrful by my bed, and sometimes inwill drink il all before morning. And then this thirst makes her so restless and wake ful. thai We are all disturbed by her. Can't von give her some medicine for her thirst ?" The subject of this appeal was a slender, waxen-faced little girl, with thin, sharp feature-; a dusky vellow half circle under 'n l eyes ; hands so thin a- to be translucent, the blue veins standing prominently out; the tongue of an angry red color, showing aa inflamed Rtomaeh ; pulse irri table, weak and quick ; tenderness over the stomach; bowels tumid the group of Symptoms indicating a sub-acute inthun ination of stomach, excited by indigestible substances candies in her case), and followed necessarily by lOSS of appetite, thirst, and an impoverished condition of blood. I have so frequently had to advise in this c lass of cases latterly, that I havi learned that success it not to be attained by a direct attack upon the candy, but by a more general argument thus "You know that the stomach of a child ia very delicate, very sensit! v Quite as much so ss the eye; it will bear milk, ami so w ill theeye; but if you add to the milk, pep per (he eye becomes red, and so doc the BtOtttaCh. Cold wider is grateful to tin. eye, to reih t Iii Infiammat Inui ami it Ii

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equally so lo the stomach. Now, candy is but little less Irritating than pepper; it creates the same redness, the same grade of inflammation, and there is the same demand for water to (pu nch the inextinguishable flame. In sueh a stomach, healthy digestion ceases; the appetite fails; the blood becomes poor and w atery, and the tissues are all impoverished. It is not the sugar that does the harm, for pure sugar is healthy: it forms part of the milk of t he infant, and enters largely into many of our bet vegetables. It is the sugar mixed with various other articles, often poisonous, and the process of manufacture thai render candy so injurious. " You mean to do well by your child, but you are slowly and certainly effecting her ruin. At this' critical period of her life, w in e,, for proper development and grow th. she needs a large supply of nourishing ami i asily digested food, you give her these detestable compounds of burnt sugar and poisons, w hich not only slow ly poison her - -t. ni. but, worst of all, deprive her of appetite and even of the power of digestion. If you persist in this course, it is not difficult to predict the result : the chances thai your child w ill reach womanhood will be' diminished ten-fold; if she reach adult years, it will not prove adult life in her case, but rather a dwarfed and imbecile maturity. Her certain inheritance w ill be dyspepsia, a morbid appetite for crude ami indigestible articles, and chronic and incurable diseases which w ill render her irritable and peevish, and lead to premature old age and death in mid-life. "The cure is certain, and the remedy is at hand : remove the particle of dust from an Inflamed eye, and the redness soon disappears; so cease to apply to the surface of this inflamed stomach the foreign substance which irritates it, and it will recover; the thirst will subside; her appetite will he restored : her lips and cheeks will become n il, and she will regain the flesh which belongs to her. An JSmittcmi Phuiciant in Hearth and Home. THE MA 11 HATE BATHING W0MAJTS LAMENT. It nearly lrk" my widowed art. When Bret I took the notion. The parties didn't a they used, Take rrfjw to the ocean. The hinfallt, darling little solos, Siill ciini qnite freqnent. Mesa 'em! but they is only rixpencM ach. Which hardly Jay to dress em. The ressofl -truck DM nil at SSjCS, Says I. it";' my opinion. The jrown-np foik- no longer bathes, Beeaast of them vile rtaonnhnM." The last as cum dresi in that stvle. s-ivs. ;,s he look it horf her, " rat sure l shall aM know the way To re-arrange my qaaffur!" By which she meat the ed of air. Which call it wot they will. Sir, Cum doubtless off a convict at llillbaak or Poatoarflfe, sir. The EVuliment should pa-s ;l hns, Which there's sufficient reason Thai folk as wear the Sheeniou.s should Uathe reirlar in the season. From Paaca, Playing with Kdge Tools. On Wednesday, a lady named llobertsou living out at the Mission, left her child, a little boy about 4 years old, playing in one of the rooms of her house and went loa house several Pods distant. After half an hour's absence she returned, and on entering the house she beheld a sight thai nearly made her heart cease to heat. There on the floor sat the little boy Harry, his face, hands and clothing covered with blood, and bleeding profusely from a number of deep and gaping wounds. In his hands he held an open razor, which he showed to his mother on her entering the room, and said, " Mamma, I've dot papas' shaver." It seems that the boy had, by m 'ans of a chair, climbed on the table and from I here had reached his father's razor, which was in its accustomed place on a shelf. The nearly distracted mother seized her child in her arms, and rushing to the door screamed at the top of her voice for help. She then laid him down on the bed and ran to the nearest house, and soon returned with a number of neighbors. A surgeon was sent for, and on arriving found that little Harry had inflicted wounds that will disfigure him for life. There wasa WOUnd about three inches long on one of his cheeks, another deep gash in the neck, several slight cuts on the face and hands, and live or six long and deep wounds on each of the forearms. Fortunately no large arteries were cut. San Pmntmo nates. Embroidery Extraordinary. A it km AKKAm.K fine piece of worsted embroidery on canvas, representing "Mary of Scotland Mourning Over t he Dying liouglas," has been on exhibition during the past week in a show w indow on Broadway, New York. It was Worked by Mrs. James Bennett, of Brooklyn, a lady of unusual taste and artistic ability, w ho has devoted to it the principal pari of her time during the last eighl months. Its dimensions are 96 by 89 inches, and it contains 6f&00d stitches, and 1UH different colors. Fifteen richly dressed human figures, two horses, a dog, a group of trees, and a castle, are the principal features of the picture, which is worked In w hat is called "quarter stitch," that is, t he si itches are only one-fourth of I he usual length; the best judges, among the many who have lately examined and admired I his work, suppose that it must have been done in Europe, inasmuch as very few American ladies possess t lie skill or the leisure necessary to produce with the needle so spirited and perfect a picture. The Whittemofc Brothels pfonouncc it by far the most meritorious of the more than five hundred works of the kind framed by them, and consider it undoubtedly one of the finest pieces of embroidery ever produced in America. It is valued al ftl,500, the sum refused by a gentleman on Twentieth street for a larger, but much more coarsely embroidered, copy of the same scene. N- ir York Tributu A Eight ing Editor. Tur."proprietors of the Boston AtfaWSlesi Evening Aryv. have recently engaged the services, as a permanent fixture of their establishment, ol a fighting editor.! Tiny thus announce the fact: " We have the sublime pleasure to an nounce to the deputy State constables, and all others interested, that wo have en gaged at an immense salary, one of the in- ! dispensable adjuncts to an independent newspaper establishment, to wit a tightmg editor. This course has been taken by US in order that ire may have an equiil show with all belligerents w ho desire to get proper satisfaction for anything we may say. The gentleman engaged for this purpose informs US that he has been in the business for some fifteen years, ami that he is fttllj competent1 to attend to all the du t i. i required ..t him, A ric-auuend'

tion, he informs us that during his career as fighting editor of various newspapers he has succeeded in bitibg off some sit . n noses and twenty car-, and gouged on! nearly forty eyes, having them now all nicely preserved in a glass bottle, w hich le is willing to exhibit to any one who desires it. He also informs us that, besides being a good biter, he has broken ral arms and legs of his numerous antagonists. He has also killed six men by throwing thom out of the editorial window, and baa broken three spinal columns by knocking the owners thereof down several flights of stairs. He is an inlidel, and has no fears of a hereafter. " Aggrieved parlies w ho desire a settlement are herebv notified lo apply to him at our office at any time, and they w ill be accommodated. Our associate is a little over seven feet high ; hisugeis thin y-five, i sr..

and he weighs one hundred and sixty pounds. He lives on raw beef exclusively, and is never fed enough at any one linn to take away his appetite for more. He was born In Fighting Hollow, Gnugi county, Arkansas, and never had a brother. "He proposes to conduct his department on the barbers plan: Inst com;., first served. All orders w ill be promptly exe cutcd, and gentlemen can examine a uinj ot Mount Auburn ( ctneterv while waitui" for their turn. Stale Constables served tirst, suckers next, after which indignant members of the dramatic profession will be attended to. Weapons constantly on hand, lor w hich there w ill be no charge. He will not undertake to give explanations after the first interview , for the reason that they will not be required, Lost noses, ears, Arc, will be properly labeled and put carefully away forfnture reference of friends. Dead bodies properly buried at relatives' expense. üt" His department is elegantly and sub stantially fitted up, and is now open for business, both wholesale and retail. "P.S. When not fully engaged at our office, contracts can be made with him for any other newspaper that may require his services.'' How the Qieatneas and Wealth of the Labuuclieres Was treated A BATKKB ap ocryphul account is given ss to how the irreatness and wealth of the Labouchcres was created. Tin- father of the late Lord Taunton, a clever young clerk, by an innocent stratagem got a rich w ife and a partneiablp in t h.- then first banking house in the world. Being clerk to the Hopes, of Amsterdam, he was sent over on a confidential mission to the house of Haring, in London. Being plentifully supplied with a quality which the vulgar call "cheek." he asked t he great Mr. Bar ingr for the hand of his daughter in marriage. The millionaire wasdumbfounded at the youth's assurance, and w hen he had recovered his breath he asked him how ae could think of a daughter of the Baringmarrying a penniless young clerk. Young Laboueliere, nothing daunted, said : " But suppose I wasa partner in the house?1 "Oh," replied Mr. Baring, "that would be a very different matter.'' The aspiring youth posted off to Amsterdam, and immediately asked the author of " AJMStasi " for a share in his business. "What," said the great man, "you a young clerk of only two years' standing, to be made a partner of Hopes, of Amsterdam I Nonsense." " But," said young Lsboucherc "suppose I could gel Miss Baring for a wife ! ' " In that case," replied Mr'. Dope, "the thing might be practicable." And in thai way it was practicable, as, by thus playing the two great nun, one against the other, the young clerk got a rich wife and a share in the great bank, and thus was founded the noble house of Taunton. Sleeping under the ( lot lies. Thbu is reason to believe (says Miss Florence Nightingale) thai not a few u the apparently unaccountable cases of scrofula among children proceed from the habit of sleeping with the head under the bed-clot lies, and so inhaling air already breathed, which is further con taniinatcd by exhalations from the skin. Patients are sometimes given t a similar habit ; and ii often happens that the bedclothes arc BP disposed that the patient mu-t necessarily breathe air more or less cootanünated by exhalations from the skin. A good nurse will be careful to attend to this. It i- an important part, so to speak, of ventilation. I . . a ft ... ' ti may ie worin wnilc to remark, that w hen there is any danger of bed -ores, blanket should never be placed under the patient. Never use anything but light Whitney blanket and bed covering for the sick. The heavy Impervious cotton counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the -iek person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Weak patients are invariable distressed by a great weight of bedclothes, w hich often prevents their getting any sound deep whatever. Tea Brands and Their Meaning. " Hrsox m means " before the rain-."' or flourishing spring, that is. early la the spring; hence, it is often called " Young Hyson.1 " Hyson Skin " is composed of i he refuse of other kinds, the native term for which is " tea skins." Refuse of -till coarser descriptions, containing many Stems, is called " tea hones." " Bohea " is the name of the hill- in the region in which it is collected. " IVeoe," or " lYcco," means white hairs, the dow n of tender lean s. " Poncbong," " folded plant." " BoM hong," " small plan' "Twankey" hi the name of a -mall river In the region from whence ii ibrought. "Congo" is from a lern signifying " labor," from the care required in its pre pa ration. What Makes Hie Heart Ileal. THE beating of the heart does mt dc peml on the general nervous system, cither cerebro spinal or sympathetic, as maybe shown by the fact thai tin heart of I t"i tolse continues to heal for many hours after it has been cut out. in fact, it maj be cut into parts, and these parts will con tinne to beat. The fact is explained by Prof. Foster, of London, in a lecture reported in Appleton'i Journal) as depend ing on the character of the nerve of ' tin heart. The ordinary nerves consist -im ply of fibers, and can mdyconvey impressions made upon it by nerve cells, such as arc found in the brain, or ganglia, or in the Pacinian corpusclss st the xtremiti of the nerv s Now the nerves of tin heart oombini both Id, ei s and c ., and it is the action of t liest, cells that affect 8 the nerve fibers, originating nerve force and thus gov, (, the mit I of the haart,

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rUTS AMI HtirjBEBA mjTUrtlL SOH In California has had bis father arrested for profanity. pHnuADunuA has shipped I5,?34,49t galkms of petroleum during the present year. Thk Bapti-ts of Germany have increased to ninety-six churches and over 1 7,(MM) members. Tin-: French Government has a III boll IS d the French Cable Company to lays sire from Brest to fingland. l to January 1, IHV, right life in-ur snoe companies in Hartford, ConiL, h id issued 133,633 pol ich s, A Boston tosth pink factory ha- the monopoly of tli frudnrsr, and nil ! ,mhi, 000 or &000,000 p r day. Ttita model of the bust offne Lite Jane i T. Brady, ordered lay the Neu York LawInstitute, is com 1 ted. Tin: Russian Uattn m fia-elle say- that Russia has already paid upwrtrd i '00, 000,000 rjsbh s to "Aiuukau railroad contractors. A( i. :iiiivm ht !w i CVfjr pr ehes three linn s eveiy Sunday, each thin in a different locality, and dm i Ig tie w i L cult i vat es s firm of 100 A i-M am. garter-snake with two b-ad-, each exactly alike, and standing u the same distance from ihe necic, was killed mar .Na.iiivillc, a lew day ngo. Tin; robe worn by Prinrfn Loul 1 1 . of BwcdcU, on the occasion of her marriage to the Prince Royal f Denmark, a made in Berlin, and cost 'Jl.OUO. Tiik father of a deserted w ife of Sioux City has ohi a im-d a judgment against tierecreant husband for bed ami board l-u the last two years, amounting to $1,380.50. In a recent seizure of a champagne making estaidsnansent in New York, the articles found, on hand wi re lour barrels of common white wimvone iKtrrvl of mola s s, and ajae, barrel of v il rid. A. T. Srnw wrr say-, hi- hnsinesi never was heiter tdian this year, and that he never ;:lort"seJ so milch before. lbgives his advernscments credit for keeping his trade lively in dull l hues. A max in Bridgeport, formerly sal. dier, has a w alking cane eomposed of l'" pieces of leat hc, and m.eTe from i pair of okl boots owned and worn by President Lincoln previous to his ssasgtpalion. Thk Um taäarjcc of the (nkrriagc of i Hindoo w idow oeancsi 1 in Besahay m Use J'd of June, and was the ooctsion of much public interest. It look place im h r the auspices of the Hindoo w hSnave1 Itairiage A -si eiation. in HeW Vrk city, during last year. !.'.- 2r2 poor, blind, insane and drunk i i ds u re provided for at a oat to the epiniciiality ofslO.-N ,.eh during the year. In De eesaker, is is, thSM remained nearly 7,000 persons in the various city prison-, pom bouses, Ao. Mil. Jorrv Bct.t.ock, of Bristol, K I., 100 years M on (lie 'M dny ! hvJ June, never drank a glass of ahm hofic lifpmr in bis life, and never has had anv mied of, or used spectacles. The old gentlemen can sec to pick up a pin or Meedh: from the fSOOff as quick as any young person. It is a little singular that the two links of railway necessary b make an absolute connection Ik twa i n the nidt-i cistern point of our Atlantic coast and the faiisY Ocean, should be the short hue between San Francisco and Sacramento, and n road of about the same length in the State of Maine. Tanssm isa man living hi Adam- county, III., named Wo who claims to lie ION years om. Men wis walked to outm-v. a distance of eight mdes, earn ing under his arm a dock to be repaired. He ap pears vigorous as most men st .W, and if as old a- claimed, is probably the oldest man in the count IT. Somktimk since a Portland, Me., man had hi- pocket picked of S.ÖO!'. Shortly after, he received a letter from the thief, stating that he had started in bu-im w ith his stolen capital, and thai he should pay interest on ii until he was able to return the principal. Two pnymctttS of interest have aire:: iv bot B nwuic. A LB9TKK to a New York piiMH t ib - that there are now almul o'M.ooo retributing members of the Order of Odd Follows on t his continent, cmiprtaed-ia 1,400 lodges. Intal receipts ot the order in two rears. nearh $5,000,000; aggregate amount pended in the mam tune fbf rcti r nf the distressed, burial of the dead, ami of to the w idow , and education of use orphan, about (M.noo. Thk leading French journal- an counting up the itinerary round trie world as folio. vs. Paris to Mew Veajk, 11 nays; San Francisco, by rail. ; Yokohama, by steam. 2i : ffong ICofltfj; I ; faicutta, 13; Bombay, '; Cairo. U; and go hack to Paris,; total, so. And out stall this immense line of route, there is only a dilance of 140 miles, between Allatrabad ami Bombay, which is, pro not per formed by steam, cither on hutd oi wuU r. Tsrsft ret rid of Me-ir Mai riageable children by means ol lairs in Itoumaiiis. When the fair i- opened, the fata r- climb 10 the top of their carriages and shout w ith lue whole pOWCV pi their lungs, M 1 have a daughter to marry Who want- a wife?" The call i- answered by 10008 ütber parent Who ha-a sou he i- anxious to pair off The two parent- compare nob s, and it' the marriage portion i -oi-factory, the treaty i.- there and then concluded. Thk Icelander have a curious custom, and a most t ti'eclual one, of prcvcnlussj horsj s from itrai ing. Two gcnlfc men. tor instance, arc riding together wnhout attendants. Wishing to alight for the purpose of visiting some oMecta at i distance from the road, tiny tsf the tail of one horse to the bead of the oilier, and the head of this to the tail of ihr former. In this state it i-utb rlv impossible that th can move either backward or forward, one pulling one way and the oilier the reversi and, therefore, if disposed Uynaovi ai all, 11 will he only in a circle, aud reu tin there must bean agreement to have their ht ad- in the same direction At the recent examination for woasea, bead by the I niversiu af Cambridge, England, in Croup A, including religious knowledge, arithmetic, English history, literature and oomposil ion, loi ladies wi n placed in the first class, eight in I he second, seven in the third. In Gfcoup B. (Ian guagoto two were pi n i .. in the tir-t class, two in the second, ten in the third 8i I eeal ladies ohtalned special marks f dis tim tion iu religious knowUxige. srithme tic, English, French and fJerman. ne passed In mathematics; tse in jolitioal economy, two in drawimr, and one in music. ' Thirty-six ladCes entered theii names Of these eleven wen cither ahtent tV-in tin examination or failed b) aat Ufv I he examiner?.