Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — Page 2

THK LITTLE COAT.. Here's his rajrge 1 •‘roundabout,* Turn the pockets inside out; . See, his penknife, lost to use, f Rusted shut with apple-juice; Here, with marbles, top, and string. Is his deadly “devil sling," With its lubber, limp at last As the sparrows of the past! Beeswax—buckles—leather strap— Bulletaand a box of caps,— Not fl tSing of all, I gu> ss, • But betrays some waywardness— K en those tickets blue ai d red. For the B.ble-verses said— Such as this his mem’ry •ppt,— “Jesus Wept, i Here a fishing hook-snd-line. Tangled up with wire and twine. And dead angle-worms, and some Slugs of lead and chewing-cwm, Blent with scent that can i ut come From the oil of rhodium. Here—a soiled, yet dainty no‘o. That some little sweetheart wrote. Dotting— ‘ Vine grows round the stump,’ And—“My sweetest sugar lump!” Wrapped in this—a padlock key Where he’s filed atouQh-tiole—see! And some powder in a quill Corked up w.th a liver pill; And a spongy little chunk Of “punk.” Here’s the little coat—but O! Where is he we’ve censured so? Don’t you hear us eallimr, dear?- ——. Back!" Come back, and never fear You may wander where you will, Over orchard, field, and hill. You may kill the birds, or do Anything that pleases you! Ah, this empty coat Of nls! Every tatter worth a kiss! Every stain as pure instead As the white stars overhead; And the pockets—homes were.they - Of the little bands that play Now no more—but, absent, thus Beckon us. —James Whitcomb liiley-

HE "SOT ON DER FENCE.”

A STORY OF THE REBELLION. [The following humorous description . of the battle of Hanover —the first battle of the civil war fought on Pennsylvania soil—was written by J. C. Stevenson, of the 100th Pennsylvania (Roundhead) regiment. Hanover is a regtflar Pennsylvania Dutch settlement, so that the interview is not at all far fetched.] The reader will please picture to himself the cozy bar-room of the Central Hotel, occupied by about a dozen of the citizens of the town and neighboring farmers, dressed as suited their callings, in “hodden gray” or broadcloth, and talking among themselves in execrable Dutch, but to the stranger in exceUent English. An inquiry on our part elicited the information that the battle of Hanover was fought on June 30, 1863, between Stuart’s Confederate cavalry and the third division of. the cavalry under Gen. Kilpatrick. The 18th Pennsylvania cavalry was Kilpatrick’s rear guard, and while halting in the streets of Havover the regiment was suddenly attacked by the head of Stuart’s column, and at first driven through the town; but rallying with the sth New York, drove Stuart’s men back, when they opened an artillery site. This mUch had been related for our benefit by Dr. Stubbs, when one of the settlers remarked: “Hold on, here comes old Gotleib,” and in a few minutes we were made acquainted with Mr. Gotleib Meisenfelder, the man who “sot on der fence” and inspected the battle of Hanover. Mr. Meisenfelder went to the bar, took a drink sociably by himself, and as he returned to the porch, looked the crowd carefully over and remarked comprehensively: “Gentlemans, how you vas?”. A clear bill of health having been given, we ventured the remark: “Mr. Meisenfelder, you were in the battle of Hanover, I believe ?” “Yaw, I vas dere.” “In what capacity, may I ask ?” “Vas is dot?” “What were you doing there ?” “Ach! I does nodding at all; shoost sot on der fence?” “Sat bn the fence?” “Yrih, dot is what der peoples arount here dells me; I sot on der fence all troo der war.” “Was that so?”

“Veil, yah; I guess it vas; dot is undil dem battle mit Honofer. ” “How did the battle of Hanover contrive to decide your opinion ?” “Veil, dem rebble vellers make ma dot I don’t like dem at all any more.” “How so?” “Pecanse dey all der time vant to buy somedings mid noodings. So soon as •we hear dot Sheneral Stuart come dis •way we dook all the horses and a goot many of der gattle over cross der river into Lancaster gounty, but kept one pair of olt oxens to work mine corn. Veil, one day pretty soon I vos vorkin’ mit dem oxens in dot field shoos t outside der town. When I comes mit der end o’ de row I see a whole lot of vellers in dirty clothes cornin’ up der road on horseback, so I got up an’ sot on der fence too look at dem. Bretty soon a young veller he rides up to me and says: “ ‘Dutch wat you want for dem critters ?’ “ ‘Ein hundret unt sins dollars,’ I tole him. “ ‘All right he say; ‘shoost turn ’em out here; 11l take ’em.’ “ ‘But I don’t want to sell dese oxens till after harvest’ I say. “ ‘You turn them critters out here boody quick,’ he says, or I’ll blow you full of holes,’ and he pulls out a boss pistol an’ p’inted it at my head. Now, I don’t could stood dot; I got offul oxcited, an’ I schlapt him ober de gobb mit.der ox gad so dot he durables off his boss. Den der comes" up an officer unt say very nice: “ ‘Mine frient, you do shoost right Dot man don’t got no pizness mit your oxens.’ So he dell der man to git back mit hie company, and de man sneak off sayin’ a whole lot of cuss worts mit his mouth. - “Den dot officer calls up three or four mens, unt dey shoost take down der fence und drive dem oxens but in der road.' “Ven I holler, ‘vere is mine money for dem Oxens?’ dot officer shoostraise his hat so polite, like dis here, unt say: “ ‘l’ll make dot all right, my. frient;’ but he don’t all der same do it, and I vas mad mit dem reppel vellers ever since. x "I vas offul mad as could be now, unt I sot on dot fence unt tell efery one of dem reppel vellers dot come along he ▼as a* thief, but I guess dey know it pefore, for dey don’t mind me at all After a leetle while dey vas all gone, unt I sot dere wondering what becomes soon I hears a tuyful of a row down here in der town, unt dere

vas shooting and yellin’ and all der wimmin unt childrens comes runin’ up oer hill yonder vere I sot oh der fenae. “What is der drubbles ? I ask dem, but dey only schream, ‘Oh r de pine vellers unt dey gray vellers is a fightin’right in der street like shimeny gracious, unt dere is more as sins tousand deat men all ofer town gwick.’ “1 don’t pelieve dot, butall der same I sot on der fence pecause I sbme-‘ boddy might get hurt down dere, unt I didn’t vant it vas me. “Bretty soon dere comes up der road a plue officer mit six wagon loads of cannon after him. He drives into mine cornfield and yells somedings dpt ipakes dem cannons get in one row gwick as efej vas. Then he says to me: “ ‘Mide frient, what der tuyfel are you doing here ?’ —--- “ ‘I Vas shoost watchin’ my cornfield unt lookin’ at dose fight. Dose vas not some harm, did it?’ “Then he grinnet unt said: ‘Oh! no, dere is no harm in dot. But I dell you I am going to dake care of this field for a vhile, and if you don’t vant your fool heat blowt off you’d petter run a mile or two and crawl in somebody’s cellar.’ “I told him no. and he told me again I was a fool, unt 1 told him dot vas all right. Den he went over to der cannon unt began to shoot. Shimmeny gracious! he make so much noise dot I bretty near couldn’t hear myself think. Dose field and der other fields all around dere seemed to got full of-plue sogers all in a minute, unt dey vas all shootin’ unt yellin’ unt runnin’ some hoss races, unt I i ( was shoost thinkin’ swhat a pully goot place I had tjksee as I sot on dot fence. But shoost den dem repple vellers dey got some cannons too, und shoot at der plue vellers, unt bretty soon dot hill vas all full of smoke unt cussing unt cannon balls so dot I couldn’t see goot, so I raised up, youst so, on dat fence to look ofer dose smoke. Youst den somedings come along as big as a veelbarrow unt in a bigger hurry den a locomotive, unt dook dem fence avay, so dot I sot down so much gwick dot my head fiy t’rough my straw hat more as a foot.' I don’t like dot some pretty veil.

“Dose officer mit dem Union connons runs ofer unt picks me up. “ ‘There,’ he says, ‘I told you you’d get your tamn fool head plowed off.” “ ‘Nein’ mine frient,’ I say, ‘it don’t vas mine head at all; but I don’t can sot on dem fence some more mit out hurtin’.’ “Several dimes dose reppies came tidin’up to take dose cannon, but pefore dy get close enough dey alter deir minds unt go back pretty gwick right avay, unt dem plue vellers mit der cannons yell after dem. ‘Come on here, you infernal graybacks, unt get your wooden overcoats.’ “Veil, dey fight bretty much all day, and I sot on a leedle vagon by der cannons till I got tired, and I walk around some, but eferypody schouts at me to go avay, unt one veller ask me vereis mine coffin, so I walk over to the other side where dose reppies vas fightin’. Dere I climbed up unt sot on der fence some more again. “Here dey don’t let me alone, too. Some vellers say, ‘Vich side vas yoUns on?’ unt I dell him I vasn'ton no side; I vas on der fence. Den he wants to know if der fool catcher for dis country bad enlisted for a brigadier sheneral, unt I told him I guess he vas, unt lie told me to pull some hollow punkin offer mine head to keep mine prains in. “I don’t like dem repple vellers worse as effer, so I goes to mine house for somedings to eat. Himmel, what a sight vas dere! Der volks vas sins miles away, unt dem reppies vas shoost makin’ demselves right at home. Dey hat eat eferydings that vas cooked unt stole eferydings that vas not, unt dey vas killin’ der shiekens unt pigs unt havin’ a tuyfel of a times, so dot I don’t like dem reppies worse as efer. But when I dell dem dis vas all wrong dey shoost laugh at me, so I sot on der fence unt Schware some at dem, but dey could beat me at dot, too. “Veil, while I sot on der fence thinkin’, I hear a great cheerin’ like der Fourth of July, unt found der schootin’ had sthopped. Der next 1 know der vas nd Johnny reppies in mine house or yard, for dey vas runnin' right away gwick as never vas across der fields as if der constable vas after dem. Den in one more minute der place vas full of der plue poys, but they didn’t sthop runnin’ after der reppies. Directly dot officer mit der cannon vagons comes along and holler: “‘Hallo, young fellow! You’re not killed yet, eh ?’ “I said, ‘Nein, I vas shoost come down here unt sot on der fence to see what vas going on, ain’t it?’ “ ‘Well,’ he say, ‘all I’ve got to say is, it’s a beastly waste of iron unt lead to throw it around where you are.’ “Unt I told him, ‘Yaw, I guess it vas.’ “He den say, T’d like to have a lot of soldiers that scared as you do.’ Den he shook hand mit me unt rode awayc Dot vas a nice man; but I nefer see him again, unt der pattie of Hanofer don’t come back any more.”— Riverside Enterprise, Detroit.

How Webster Stopped a Leak.

The Cabinet meetings are, you know, always secret Just off the Cabinet room is the library, and when Webster was Secretary of State it was noticed that the Cabinet meetings were reported in full in certain of the newspapers. Various means were undertaken to find out who was the leaky member of the Cabinet, but each denied that he had told anything to anyone. One day Webster excused himself and went ottf into the library while the others were talking as usual He found he could hear every word uttered within. He came back and said he thought the secret must have gotton out through a correspondent listening in the library. After this the library was locked during the Cabinet session, and the reports immediately ceased.— “ Carp,” in the Cleveland, Leader.

A clergyman, preaching a very dull sermon, set all his congregation asleep except a poor fellow who was generally considered deficient in intellect. At length the reverend orator, looking round, “What, all asleep but the poor idiot!” “Ay,” quoth the fellow; “and if I had not been a fcol 1 should have gone to sleep tod.” <

WANTED—A MINISTER.

the Demands of the People of Thrlftyvlllo for a Minister. j TJiriftyville wants a minister. They are looking far and near to find one; but they want the “right man. ” Thriityville is not one of your old, effete, worn-out places. It is a place grown up quickly on Rapid river, in the beautiful valley of Eureka. It is a very important place—standing directly over the center - of the earth, so that if a hole were dug and a stone dropped into it, it wouldpass through the very center of this great world. It has a growing population, and boasts of “a circle of very intelligent people,” Moreover, it seems to be “the center of a great moral influence,” and it now wants a minister second to none. They wanfMo get the society out of debt, to repair the old wastes which time has already made in their half-built sanctuary, to gather in the young, to “draw” a full house, and to make the concern every way prosperous and respectable, and '"easy to support. Now for the qualifications desired. They are so few and simple that “the right man” probably stands at your elbow. He must be a man mature in intellect and ripe in experience—and yet so young that all the people will rush after him. He musbbe quick, ardent, flashing, nervous in temperament, so that he can kindle quickly, and burn brightly; prompt, ready, and wide-awake—and yet a man of the most consumate prudence, whose nerves will never be unstrung, or out of tune. He. must be a man of great burning zeal, so that ho can startle, and arouse, and kindle, and move the congregation and yet so cautious, so cool, that he is always safe, calm, self-possessed, unperturbed. He must have the power to awaken and arouse the church—and yet let them be quiet and look on, while he does all that is done for Christ.

He must urge and move men, and lead the whole people to salvation, and get them all into the church—and yet be so judicious that he can discern the difference between the wheat and the chaff, and let none but the real converts into the fold. He must be strong and original in the pulpit, and bring only beaten oil there—and yet visit daily from house to house, listening to gossip, twaddle, and scandal; and also be at leisure to receive any call, any interruption, and prepared for every occasion; and like the town pump, never lacking for water, or running dry. He must be a workman who shall go down deep into the mines of truth, and quarry out its pillars and set them up, and make men come and wrestle around them—and also be a gifted man in light conversation, on all that floats in the every-day world around him. He must have health, so that his body never wearies; his nerves must never quiver; a real specimen of muscular Christianity—and yet -be a profound thinker, a close reasoner. and a most diligent student, getting his books from any quarter where he can find them.

He must be poor in this world’s goods, to show that money is not his object, and so that he can sympathize wixh the poor, and cannot help feeling humble and dependent—and must also entertain more company than any other man in the town; his children must he second to none in education and training; they must be respectably dressed; and he must give away more, and give more cheerfully than any other man in the place, not even excepting Squire Rich himself; and his family must be models, in all respects, for the community. He must be a man who can remain in one place year after year; and his congregation must hear the same voice, on the same subject, several times each week —and yet he must come every time as original, as fresh, as glowing as if it were done but once a year. Ho must be able to live in a glass house, always acting in public, coming in contact with all sorts' of men and of prejudices, so original that all will respect and fear him—yet never odd or eccentric, morose, repulsive or awe-in-spiring in manners. He should have the powers and attributes of an angel, with the sympathies, the gentleness, and softness of a child. A He must, be always ready, ’lofty, keyed to the best public pitch, and yet so calm in spirit, afid word, and look, that nothing can disturb his repose. He must be able to serve three masters, at least—the the church, and the society or parish of worldlings who hire him; and be must so balance things that he will please all and offend none.

He must never preach so that the people are not proud of him when they have a stranger in the pew, or so that the echoes of his sermon shall not come back when he goes abroad—and yet every sermon must be so beautiful that all the young people’ will admire it, and wonder over itj and so simple that the little child can carry it all home and repeat it to his grandmother. His wife must be the model of all models. She must be young and handsome, but not indiscrete or vain. .She must be worthy of the admiration of all the people, and yet think she is the humblest of them alt She must watch, and discipline, and prune, and lead, and make her husband the embodiment of all excellence; but she must never be aware of her power, lest she become overbearing. She must be the model of a lady, have a fair face and white hands, though compelled to do all the work of her family, She must be ready to meet everybody with a smile, take her hands from the flour at any moment, wear a checkered apron, and still be dressed like a lady. Her face must never be otherwise than cheerful, and her head must do its achings in secret; and she must give none occasion to call her extravagant, or to call her mean. She must be .able to alter the same dress four times, turning it thrice, and fitting it to a smaller child each time. She will also be expected to be the very life of the Dorcas Society, the mist zealous member of the All-labor Society, the very backbone of the Maternal Association, the warm leader in the female prayer meeting, and the head andjmover in the reading circle, and the visitor-general of the poor.

The minister must, of course, be of sound doctrine, able to lay his hands on the naked foundations of thith, to fortify and defend the hill of Zion—and yet must never preach the oljl fashioned doctrines. They aro not spicy. They are not taking. They -will never “draw” a full house. It is rather desirable that he should be a pious man, and one who loves his Master—and yet, as this article,' piety, has not acquired great value in Thriftyville, it would be well for him not to make that too obtrusive! Such, in a few words, is the man they want for Thriftyville. Jf they can light on him they will pay him from £BO to £IOO annually, and not run behind unreasonably. This is not, to be sure, half what their clerks receive, but they think that the minister, if he be “the right man;” can manage to live oh it. Who is ready ? N. B.—All applicants must put an extra stamp in the letter, or it will receive no attention.

Murder of the Princes in the Tower.

King Richard 111. began his reign in the year 1-183, by the blackest of his' many wicked deeds, the order for the murder of his young nephews. The eldest of these, a lad in his 13th year, had succeeded to the English crown a few weeks previous to the death of his father, Edward IV. The youth had been removed to the Tower of London under the pretense, on the part of his crafty and cruel uncle, that he would be safer there than anywhere else, and his younger brother had also been sent there to keep the young King company. This was in May, 1483. By the end of June, Richard had manipulated affairs so successfully in his own interest as to secure a formal offer of the regal power. June 27, 1483, he was crowned at Westminster Hall. A few dayi after his coronation, he went to Warwick and thence sent a letter to Sir Robert Brackenbury, Governor of the Tower, ordering him by some means to put the young princes to death. Sir Robert returned answer immediately, that he would not do such a wicked deed for the King or any man. King Richard then intrusted the horrible task to his master of the Horse, Sir James Tyrrel, giving him authority to take charge of the Tower whenever he would for twenty-four hours, and hold sole possession of the keys during that space of time. Tyrrel took as his assistants two base men, John Dighton and Miles Forest, and going to the Tower one day in August showed his authority from the King and took temporary possession. That night he stood guard at the door while Dighton and Forest entered the rootfi w here the young princes were asleep and smothered them with the pillows of their bed, and buried their bodies under a staircase. Sir Robert Brackenbury suspected foul play when he returned and found the princes gone, but he dared not charge the King’s official with the deed. A story was trumped up of their having been carried away by some nobles known to be hostile to King Richard, and the truth was not known until some years later, when one of the murderers, on his deathbed, confessed the crime. It was so far doubted, however, that when Perkin Warbeck, a young man of Flemish birth, appeared in England in 1492, claiming to be the younger Prince Richard, he obtained a large following. In 1674, long after the death of the impostor, the commonly received story of the death of the two princes was fully confirmed by the discovery under the staircase in the White Tower, of the bones of two youths. These were taken to Westminster Abbey and there interred by order of Charles ll.—lnter Ocean.

Would Freshen the Sea.

See the young man. He is not quite so tall as his younger sister; but then he is much slimmer. His cheeks are ruddy as ripening peaches, but they are not quite so downy. He is raising a mustache. When he gets two more hairs sprouted on the right side and one more on the left he will have three altogether. He has been nearly live weeks out of school, and if he lives and keeps his health he will be 19 years old in the third year of Mr. Cleveland’s first term. Is he an editor? He is a journalist. He is the man who writes” all the funny jokes about married men, and how wives talk at night, and what a trial and expense a large family of grown up daughters is, and how many large bills a married man has to pay, and how he is always bald, and stays at the club every night, and always comes home drunk, and plays poker, and goes to the theater with strange ladies and dodges his creditors. Does that very young man write all those funny things? Yes, dear. It is because he is so very young that he writes them. Will he know more as he grows older? Perhaps; if he should live to be a couple of thousand years older he mightknow a little more. Is the young man fresh? Is he? If he should wade through the ocean, dear, the blue waters of the loud sounding sea could forever after be used for drinking purposes. —Bob Burdette.

Hurdle Racing.

In England, the regular hurdle 120 yards, with ten hurdles, three feet six inches high, has been run by two amateurs in sixteen seconds. The fastest amateur record for running 120 yards without the hurdles is 11 4-5 seconds, and neither of the two hurdle companions ever did, or ever could do better than twelve seconds. In other words a good hjirdler can spring from the ground, clear a three-foot six-inch hurdle, alight, and get into his greatest running speed again, with a loss of only one-fifths of a second in time from that in which he could have run the same distance without the hurdles. So in America, our fastest performance for the regulation hurdle race is 16 4-5 seconds, and the maker of this record could not run 120 yard on the flat faster than 12 4-5 seconds, so that in America, as in England, the delay at each hurdle is only two-fifths of a second. The difference between the delays caused by jumping a three-foot six-inch hurdle and a two-foot six-inch hurdle has not been so definitely determined, but is certainly not more than one-third of a second, probably not more (than one-twelfth of a second, in the case of a good hurdler. Politeness is the shadow of civilization. Christianity is the substance.

CHRISTIANITY.

Rapid Growth of the Early Christian « Church. The number of disciples who assembled in An upper room at Jerusalem after the ascension of Christ was only 120, but the miracles of the day of Pentecost, and the sermon of St. Peter, added 3,900 new believers, and before very long, according to the testimony of the second chapter of r Acts, tjheir number was 5,000. We are next told that “the work of God increased, and the number of disciples multiplied in Jerusal en “greatly.” For som e years after the crucifixion the Gospel was preached at Jerusalem - only; but the first great persecution there, in which St. Stephen was stoned to death, in the year 37, scattered the disciples, and they preached the new faith in Judea, Samaria, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Syria. In Tyre and Sidon there were bands of converts, and the number of believers at Antioch soon formed a strong organization, and it was in the last-named city that the followers of tbe new faith first received their distinctive name of Christians. The mission of the Apostle Paul to the Gentiles began about the year 44. The result of his first journey with Barnabas into Asia was the establishment of

churches in Pamphyha, Pisidia, Lyca- , onia, and Cilicia, in the southern part of Asia Minor. His next circuit extended the church into Phrygia, Galatia, Troas, Macedonia, and Greece. In another journey the Church of Ephesus was formed, over which Paul preached for many years. Carried to Rome in the year 59; Paul found the church had already gained a foothold in Italy, and he largely augmented the number of believers in the Eternal City by his preaching and died by martyrdom there in 68. The other apostles also preached at different places. St. Peter visited tbe northern provinces of Asia Minor and Chaldea; St. Thomas taught at Odessa and in Mesapotamia, and is thought to have extended his journeys to India; St. Mark founded the church at Alexandria in Egypt, and there are traditions that Persia. Arabia, and Ethiopia were visited by others of the apostles. Thus the little grain of mustard seen was growing into a large tree. The historian Tacitus, in describing the persecutions in the time of Nero, from the years 64 to 68, speaks of the Christians as having become a vast multitude. Pliny, the Roman Governor of Pontus and Bithynia, writing in the year 107, said that Christianity had caused the worship of the gods in his provinces to be almost en-. tirely given up. After the death of the apostles we have little record of the work of the church for some years. But Justin Martyr wrote about the year 150, 'as follows: “There is no race of men, whether barbarians or Greek, or by whatever other name they may be designated, among whom prayers and thanksgivings are not offered to the Father and Creator of all in the name of the crucified Jesus.” Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, writing about the year 178, said that the Gospel had been received in Germany, France, Spain, and Libya; and Tertullian, in the year 198, declares that Par thia, Media, Armenia, Gaul, Britan, “and other nations and island innumerable” had all received the light of the Gospel, and had added large numbers to the ranks of Christian believers. In the year 214 Origen conducted a mission among the Arabs and converted many. Mission aries during that century taught throughout Gaul, and founded several churches in Germany. Early in the third century, during the persecutions, Tertullian said that if the n Christians were all forced to emigrate, the Roman Empire would become a desert. These persecutions only served to stimulate the spread of the church, and in the year 303 these cruelties came to an end. The year 324 was an important one for the church, for in that year the Emperor Constantine joined the Christians, and the hitherto persecuted church was lifted to place and power. In that century, however, the rapid growth of Christianity was checked by tbe appearance of the first heresy, the Arian, and in tbe early part of the fifth century the incursions of the barbarian tribes and the overthrow of the Homan Empire were even a more seriious hindrance to its prosperous growth. But by this time it had nearly 700 bishops, several thousand priests, and deacons, and adherents without number in Southern Europe, in Asia, and in Egypt. In fine, it had utterly overthrown, before that date, all the heathen religions, though it had made little impression upon the Jews, and was destined in two more centuries to be wholly driven from the Oriental countries i by the rise and spread of Mahommed- ; anism.— lnter-Ocean.

Blistered Ears and Seasickness.

The semi-circular canals of the internal ears are nowadays pretty well understood not to be organs of hearing but of equilibrium. The sensation they normally give us is that of change of direction and speed in the movements of,QUf head through space. When over-eicited they gave rise to vertigo and nausea. A large percentage of deaf mutes, in whom the canals are presumably thrown out of function, are insusceptibly of being made dizzy. Of a considerable number of such deaf mutes who had been exposed to seasickness, none, with the exception of two doleful cases, had ever suffered. All these facts lead to the hypothesis that seasickness may arise, in the first instance, from the over-excitement of these sensitive organs, and, finally, they the practical suggestion that such over-excitement might be warded off or allayed by “counter irritation” which consists in blistering or otherwise reddening the skin above and behind the ears. The experiment is so simple, and would be, if successful, so pregnant of relief that it seems a shame it should not be tested by a large number of persons. I have tried it myself twice. The first time was on the British Channel, on a very rough day, when every one around me was violently sick. I simply rubbed the skin behind my ears tillw was slightly excoriated. An incipient nausea, which I felt at the end of the first half hour, completely vanished as the sensation of cutaneous burning became strong. In crossing the Atlantic I was less successful but my seasickness was rather anomalous, its principal symptoms be-

ing a high fever and no nausea, and I do not consider the failure to be a refutation of the method. It may be that the latter will serve for short-el-posures, like channel voyages, but not for long ones. At any rate the scientific presumption in favor ot its utility is certainly large enough to warrant experimentation by any one who dreads the direst of all forms of misery.— Dr. William Jones, Cambridge, Mass.

Nations’ Names.

These are derived principally from some peculiar causes or object. For instance, Ireland—which Julius Cicsar first called Hibernia—is a kind of modification of Erin, or the country of the west, y . Scotland, from Scotia, a tribe which originally came from Ireland. It was anciently called Caledonia, which means a mountainous country—forests and lands. » ■» Portugal, the ancient Lusitania, was named from a town on the River Douro called Cale, opposite to which the inhabitants built a city called Porto or Oporto. And when the country was recovered from the Moors the inhabitants combined the words and called it the kingnom of ’ Portucale—-hence, Portugal. - * Spain, the ancient Iberia, from the river Iberius or Hispania, from the Phoenician! Spaniga, which signifies abounding with rabbits, which animals are very numerous in that country—hence, Spain. France, from the Franks, a people of Germany, who conquered that country. Its ancient name was Celta, Gaul or Galia, Barechatta. the latter signifying striped breeches, which were worn by the natives. Switzerland, the ancient Halvetia, was so named by the Austrians, who called the inhabitants of these mountainous countries Schweitzers. Italy received its present name from a renowned prince named Italus. It was called Hesperia, from its western locality. Holland, the ancient Batavia, a warlike people, was so named from the German word hold, the English of which is “hollow.” implying a very low country. The inhabitants are colled Dutch, from the German deutsch or teutsch. Sweden and Norway were anciently called Scandinavia, which the modern antiqarians think means a country and woods, which have been burned or destroyed. The appellation Sweden is derived from Sintuna or Svitheod, the native term Norway, or the northern way, explaining itself. Prussia, from Peuzal, a Sciavonic race; but some writers suppose it took its name from Russia and the Sclavonic syllable po, which means adjacent or near. Denmark means the marches, territories or boundaries cf the Danes. Russia is the ancient Sarmatia, which has been subsequently named Muscovy. It derives its present name from Russi, a Sclavonic tribe who founded the Russian monarchy. The original savage inhabitants used to paint their bodies in order to appear more terrible in battle. They generally lived in the mountains, and their chariots were their only habitations. Turkey took its name from the Turks or Turcomans, which signifies wanderers, and originally belonged to the Scythians or Tartars. It is sometimes called the Ottoman empire, from Othman, one of their principal leaders.Galignani's Messenger.

Pugh and Logan.

Senator Pugh, of Alabama, writes a Washington correspondent, served in the same Congress with Senator Logan just prior to the outbreak of the rebel!' ion. They were then members of the same political party, and were personal friends. Near the close of the war, when the Union soldiers went through Alabama, a detachment of Wilson’s cavalry approached the residence of Senator Pugh, in Eufaula. When they saw the troops approaching, Mr. Pugh, who had been in the Confederate army and in the Confederate Congress, after having served in the Congress of the United States, expected to be roughly handled. He walked out to the front yard and when the detachment drew up to his gate he said to them. “There’s the house, go in and take possession.” The officer in command inquired: “Is your name James L. Pugh?” “That is my name, s r,” responded the Senator, supposing that the Unionists merely wanted' to identify him in order to make him suffer the more. “Here are my orders respecting you, sir,” said the officer, extending a paper. Mr. Pugh unfolded the paper, expecting to read an order for his immediate arrest and transportation to prison. Instead of that he read about as follows: To , officer commanding, etc-: You are hereby ordered to proceed to the residence of Hon. Jami sL. Pugh, at Euf uila, and to station a guard around the premises. See that neither Mr. Pugh nor anything belonging to him is molested’; John A. LogAn, M jor General Commanding.

The Tramp’s Outlook.

Soon shall I lie upon the pleasant sward, and feel the apple blossoms blow down on me in sprays of pink and white..,, I shall hear the birds making love on the budding limbs and carrying the straws from yonder meadotv to make their cozy nests. And at night I shall crawl under the hay-stack and fall asleep, looking at the twinkling stars and hearing breezes rustle among the vines and cattgfss. A draught of nature ’is the best draught out when you can’t get any other. How sweet, on a fresh, bracing morning when Ph&bus is getting in her biggest licks, to steal down the perfumed meadow and purloin the milk from the unsuspecting cow! Therefore I shall hang my boots upon my staff, and start for the country just as soon as the winter passes and the poet begins to take headers down the editorial stairway. How my heart goes out to nature in all its varying forms and conditions! I love an autumn landscape, with cows in the brook, and a hunter in the background looking down the barrel to see if it is loaded.— Puck. _____.

The Musical Girl of Dubuque.

Dubuque Conservatory girls carry their noon lunch in a music roll It must symphony to see them at their hunger-ian rhapsodies.— Pkiladelph ia Call. . ■- /