Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1869 — Page 1

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Selected Miscellany.

Begging as ft fine,All. It ia diffleußat fhte. .rpqment to determine what institution,London still lacks, since it is very one at all acquaint,- , ed wjth ihe city, to count upon bis fingers the one* it already has. Stealing,bcgginp, and pocket-picking are Systematically taught iu secret, hut up to a very recent, period no one had darea to establish upon > t'»e Thames a school where begging, as a profession, is actually taught, and where the pupils have the advantages of lectures and the use of disguises. '“ Wbatdo yowTUMBp, t» thajtjhqmbug, or notf I asked of my wiMd. WhO Was an adept, in city way* . “ No, that is the troth/' he replied, and continued making his toilet a#.though dis nifsljAg.iuw.of thinkuniwoffest questions ot tlw the name of the profeijor aenUbit- re»»deweeU'No. BY Bxincess stJeejM. Gileh” / £ VThft ishiaftfmo?’’, • S V ,? -fUihave tljb greatest 'desire to take a tier td jive to the sJ'-fiWby not do ft., then P\ n ** ”la«*WR tease f mtMH»u*y> Do you fear thatthe seats will be all engaged t * : “Not that, blit rather that the police will be apt to close the academy as soon as possible." *' The police ? Oh, no! Roonay keeps within the law, so as not to cotoe In couf tact with it."; On the next day I sought Prof. Roonay I did not in the least believe in his existence, but thought that the announcement of his having opened such an academy was one of those bold assertions so often made by the press in order to fill their 4 empty columns. After considerable hunting, I at last found myself face-to face with Prof. Ropnay.-wh ml found (fressed in elegant style. “ How can I serve you ?" he asked, on my entrance, rising from his scat The sudden question rather disconcerted me. “I wish to take a course of lessons in the art of begging with success," said I, after a short pause. At the words “ with success," I could not suppress a smile. “ You aid not come here to make the art of begging, in the true sense of .the word, a means of your future support; it was your curiosity which led you here, was it not?” “ Yes, that is so,” I answered. “ Nevertheless/’ continued I, “ I have sought you with the eaipcft genre of hearing you lecture, and securing a seat I can pay the required foe now.” Saying this, I took out my purse. * s “Keep your money in your pocket,” said Roonay, with: a gesture of contempt. “ I cannot allow your name to be placed upon the register of my academy, for I take none, here but. those having a firm determination to pursue for the future the paths I show them. “ But I will,” continued he, “ make an exception for once. I say for once, in your case, in order to convince you that there is not so much humbug in London as the foreign press would have it appear. Please follow me."

1 had scarcely time to recover from my astonishment at his words, when Ro'brifcy led me into a wide hall which opened into a large room -Hbe academy proper—[he rear of which was handsomely decorated, and at this end was placed a desk for the lecturer. On the wells were hung many well-executed paintings,representing many devices of beggars indifferent countries, from the earliest days to the present time. The collection was one of considerable merit in a historical point of view. “ That side of the room represents London only,” said Roonay, pointing to a collection showing the ways of London beggars. We then entered a second room, which contained appliances of the profession. Here were closets with glass doors, containing pieces of what appeared to be papietfnadie, representing shot and stab wound* in various stages of healing. These, by simple mechanical contrivances, could be applied to any part of body. In other parts of the room were to tye seen many disguises, coats, little wagons for the use of pretended cripples, beggar clothingtcovered -wlthkncdals for deeds of imaginary bravery and, heroism, boxes wish various Inscriptions on them, umbrellas which looked as though made in the early days of art, and which could be used as weapons of defence, &c. Upon the table ftgMWn certificates for the use of pupils; testifying to their poverty ,or misfortunes; these were all signed by Roonay, and had tne seal of the academy attached. Thpthird room we entered wap the most interesting of all Here we found kennels of dogs of various breeds. “ This dog alone cap earn more than a hundred guineas a month,” said the professor, pointing to a small hound whose ugly countenance would aloue move one to pity. ‘ “ Therer, Moss, beg of this gentleman,” continued he, placing on the dog’s back one of the'small boxes we had seen Wore. The dog began by loud yelps, which he soon changed to a low whine, at (he same time- ’approaching me nodding his head, then stood on his hind legs, and, reaching out his paw, pulled at my coat-tail. This lie kept up, and would not be quiet until I placed a piece of money in.the box. His neighbor, Armstrong, begs in a different'way from that,” said Roonay, at the same time opening the kennel and hfftlbg odt a large bull dog, tipoh whose back was a huge box on which was painted, “ Your money or your life.” “Do not be afraid,' he will Pot hurt jrou, if yot* only place your purse in the At a! signal from Mb master, the Immense dog showed bis teeth and snapped . 'at me, and as t did- not make a movement for tnymoney, made a grab at:my throat. “ That is not begging,” cried J, indignantly ; “ that is a modern highway robbery." Havifig no remedy, 1 placed the contents of my wallet in Armstrong’s box. “ Here tbo tw« i extremes meet,” said Roonay, shrugging his shoulders. “ This dog is a master of his ait* f Just then the bell rang. Roonay toas needed In the paHor. As we retraced our steps, he told me that it was his intention t< ■ establish a large factory Jn connection with thd institute, where he wodld manufacture everything required in the profession of begging. On reaching the door R >onay offered me his hand, but I drew back, experiencing at tbe moment the same sensation a traveler mast feel while lying on the grass and having a tbad crawl Ot<* his face. When in the street again, l was about

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to call a carriage, but was reminded of my empty purse. The modern professor of begguigand highway robbery had relieved me pf my last penny, and t had no redress. On the contrary, had I commenced an action against him, I doubt not that, he would have recovered his tuition from me, for he had given me private lessons Leipsic Dahtim.

“Baby Talk.”

Thb following enthusiastic “ baby talk ” is from a lady correspondent of the Sacramento Union : * " Baby May is one Of the sweetest batten whatever, Whonthe gotei of Heaven were left »]ar—- • ,(|TI * * * * ft With folded hands and dreary eyes, Wandered out of paradise.’ "Twoyears of babyhood have passed ovey her pretty head. The other morning, ’her mother having stepped out, I heard a noise which, as it reached me, melted into a cooing tone. Going to the nursery and peeping in, I didn’t see this lovely morning glory * smiling behind her cradle bars,’ and reaching up her tendril arms to twine arouqd my neck, but, O snow-flakes and cherubs I I beheld this tiny Undine sitting in her crib in the midst of a snowy fountain, clapping her chubby hands and crowing with delight I It seemed wakening, and, nobody in Bight, she had amused herself by ingenibusty getting out ofher night gown, which was thrown on the floor, leaving her nakfed; then, espying a hole in the downy mattress ofher nest, had put her fingers in aßd, ripping the seam, pulled out every feather, till she was imbedded up to her plump neck, and looked like a chick peep ihg out of its shell Then commenced the fun. Throwing up her arms and bringing them down again with a staccato “ boo I boo ! ’'.the feathers flew up to the ceiling and ddwn again, and whirled in the air like. a snowstorm. I never beheld anything so cunning and so loyely. When I finally called out, “ Baby I" she gave a startled look, then reached up her bare arms toward me through the settling flakes. O dainty, dainty Baby May! was there ever a living picture equal to this maid of the mist—this sweet young Aphrodite rising from the sea 1 ”

Romance of a Pair of Stockings and a Chicago Girt.

.Many of the boys of the 53d M&ssachus setts regiment who were with Weitzel’s brigade when the charge was made ou the works at Port Hudson, will remember well the gallant defense which three dr four men made at the salient it was expected this brigade would take and hold until Paine’s division could come up. One of those men, so a native of Port Hudson told us, resided on a plantation about nine miles from the landing, near a farm now owned by Moody Brothers, from Massachusetts. None of the men who saw him with his “musket clubbed ” that day will doubt his being a brave man. He was afterwards captured at Chattanooga and taken to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where he remained nearly six months. About a year before his capture he had been among# party who seized a supply train of the Federate, near Corinth, Mies. In a box of stores belonging totbe Sanitary Commission he found a pair of blue cotton socks, and when he drew them on he discovered the following note inside : “Soldivb: Whosoever thou art, wear these socks, with the comforting assurance that the fingers that knit them were supplied with life from a warm and sympathizing heart. “ LiMiaVT Ou, Chicago.” This short letter (which was printed in (he, Louisiana papers at the time) was called to mind one day at Camp Douglas when he was putting on the stockings, he resolved, for the fun of it, to write toher and tell her the history of the pair pf socks. This he did, and soon after re ceived a call at his quarters from Miss Gee atfohber father. He did not see her or heir from her afterward until he was again in the Southern army and stationed ♦VBarper’s Perry. There the company in -krhich he WM Lieutenant captured a sqfiad of cavalry, and among the number wa»-the only brother of Miss Lizzie V. Gee. Every kindness which could be done for a prisoner was done for. young Gee by his new acquaintance, and when, shortly after, Gee wag paroled, he was the sworn tMhild of -the Cbnfoaefate-" Lieutenant. When the .war :<do*ed they had some correspondence, and the Confederate soldier was invited up to Chicago to attend the wedding Gee’s sister. When he got there, much to his surprise, the exConfederate. found that Gee had two-sis-ters, and that the one about to be married was not the one he h»ff.«en.. The rest of the story is told in a twinkling. He mar ried the sister that knit the stockings. For the details of latter part of this romance, see “everybody’s experience," such as sighs, palpitating hearts, a little moonlight, aua silly resolves "to die or win her." The matters which concern lovers were not told us to circulate. But the story itself we feel satisfied is a true one, as the address of the firm in Chicago, of which the bridegroom is a member, lies before us in our diary as we write.— 'Cor. Boston Traveler.

Immigration.

The influx of immigrants is now just a{ its height, and is immense. The large number now pouring through our city, from one railroad depot to another, sturdily footing it in long lines In the rear of long express wagons that convey their ‘chattels, are front (be Continent of Eu rope, though Scandinavia It sending a strong delegation. One authority who speaks from recent investigation abroad, says seventy-five thousand Swedes will emigrate from Europe this season. Over fifty-thousand emigrants landed at Castle Garden in the month of May. The books of the State Emigrant Bureau of Wisconsin show that there‘arrived at Milwaukee in that month 17,860 emigrants. No accurate figures can be arrived at in our own city, for other western States are exceeding us greatly in the organized effort to influence, receive and guide,immigration.—OMoiffo Republican, B th. ■»,*' w— ■- *, Decision has recently been given in New York against two insurance companies, in cases the circumstances of which fire as follows:' Goods were insured in a Store running from street tq street, bnt numbered only on the street on which was the front entrance. On that street the house was three stories high, on the other only two. Because the policy described the house as three stories high the companies argued that they were only liable ft>r the space so far back as the' three story part ran. Fourteen English mechanics are on 1 their way to this country for the purpose I of entering the Cornell university.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA JULY 16, 1869.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHUf..I. The Irish Ghurohblll, with amendments, was adopted in the House of Lords on the sth, after considerable debate. Gen. Mtlsgrove has been appointed to succeed Gov. Seymour, of British Columbia. The Fourth was celebrated by American residents in the principal European cities, on the sth. * Advices from Rio Janeiro, June 10, •lata that the war news was unimportant. McMahon, United States Minister, was at Buenes Ayres and would sail for Rio Janeiro at onoe. Dispatches from Doric on the 6th state that outrages by Fenian organisations continued. The police, near Cork, were attacked on the night of the 4th, and several of them badly hart. Some arrests were subsequently made on suspicion. Cubans in Washington had the following advices on the 6th: “ The Spanish troops, between the 23d and 35th of J une, attacked the forces of General Jordan, near Halgnuin, and, after a fight which is reported to have lasted eight hoars, they were repulsed and compelled to take refuge in tike town. The loss of the Cubans was nearly 300 in killed and wounded. Among those killed were 30 Americans. The Spanish loss was about the same. The Spanish troops consisted of two brigades and outnumbered the Cnbans two to one. General Jordan commanded the revolutionary army.” Captain General De Rod as issued a proclamation on the 7th, stating that the insurrection had been reduced to a mere guerrilla war; and declaring that parties arrested for robbery, arson, or murder, would be tried by court martial An order has been issued permitting the newspapers to publish official news. A Havana telegram of the 7th states that Gen. Lesca had taken command of the. Central Department, and commenced active operations'against the insurgents. De Rod as has also issued a proclamation closing nearly all the ports on the eastern coast of Cuba. He urges carp upon his officers when Boarding United States orEnglish vessels. The British Parliament has agreed to postpone indefinitely any discussion of the Alabama claims. The leading London journals favor this action. DOMESTIC. Acording to a letter from New Orleans on the 7th inst., heavy orders from France for wheat were being received in that city —more than could be filled there. Orders for 100,000 bushels of No. 1 had been received within a few days. Vincent Collyer reports from Leavenworth on the 7th that the Cheyennes and Arapahoee, whom Gena Sheridan and Custar defeated last winter, have retired to their reservations, and that the Quaker agents are working successfully in their department. A Lawrence dispatch of the 7th says “the recent instructions of General Sherman to consider all Indians hostile off their reservations, gives great satisfaction to the people of Kansas All is now quiet on the border.” Washington, dispatches of the Bth state that the iron-clad Centaur has been dis patched to Santiago de Cuba to inquire into the circumstances attending Speekman’s execution. Within two weeks, twenty of our war vessels will be available for service in Cuban waters. A Leavenworth dispatch of the Bth says the reports of damages by floods in the Republican, Saline and Solomon Valleys, in Western Kansas, have been greatly exaggerated. Corn is not injured at all, and • other crops not materially damaged. Very few live# were lost. $ On the sth inst., during the celebration at Elgin, 111., the hew iron bridge across the Fox River, at that place, gave way suddenly, precipitating a large crowd of men and women into the river. Many ware seriously injured. One of the victims—a little child—has since died. In relation to the reported loss of the Powell Expedition, the Chicago Tribune of the Bth publishes the following telegram from Mrs. J. W. Powell: Detroit, July 7. There is one of the name of John Sumner in the Powell Expedition. My last letter was dated May 30. A letter was published in your columns of May 29, dated May 2L In the Omaha Republican ia a statement from one William Riley, that he had seen John Sumner in the mountains, the sole survivor of the party, from whom he had gleaned the facts of the loss. Bumner gave some names, but had forgotten the rest, although he had been with them two years. The story seems to be improbable. The John Sumner of the expedition in such a case would, I believe, have made his way or reported to Chicago or Detroit immediately. Sumner is a most reliable man and brother in-law to William Byers, editor of the Denver News. Mrs. J. W. Powell. A telegram from Cheyenne on the Bth says: v “lt is generally believed that the Powell party are safe. Samuel Adams, with seven men, will start in boats for Breckinridge, Col, July 15, and descend the Blue, Grand and Colorado rivers, through the Great Canon, his objeotive point being the same as that of Major Powell” George Abbott, a member Of the recently captured filibustering party, denounces the whole Cuban expedition business trick to extort or make money from the wealthy Cubans and others who sympathize with the revolutionary eavse. He alleges that the officers allowed such information to be given as resulted in their capture. The Aerial Steam Navigating Company, of San Francisco, being so well satisfied with reoent experiments of the model air steamer, have resolved to construe 1 a machine of sufflefont capacity to cany passengers Two oases of cholera wuo reported ip

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New York ttty on UwOth. but the health officers had no fears Of’arf-epidemic. The House Carpenters’ Association -cfc Washington ha# 4o amended, its constitu,tien at tcexclude colored me* from becoming members. • • By au accident to a freight train on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Kankakee, on the night of the 7ih, the locomotive and several care ran off the track, and the. broken cars took fire and were consumed; The engineer,named FatqUhar.waa buried under the Cars arid instantly killed. The fireman was badly scalded by the escaping steam, and the forward brakeman received injuries from which he.expired. An abstract of the report# of thirteen Chicago National Banks shows the resources and liabilities to be $30,241,000 ; specie, $40,000; legal-tender notes, $3,353,000; three per cent, certificates, $590,000; United States deposits, $4,000. The damage by the recent rains in (Jen., tral New York was very Heavy, and Will seriously affect the crops east of Utica. Several mills on the tributaries of the Mohawk were destroyed, and two persons were drowned. PERSONAL., Governor Walker, of Virginia, was the recipient of an ovation at Richmond on the Bth. A New York telegram of Jhe 6th says “ Colonel Ryan’s men who were left at Gardner’s Island have all crossed to the mainland and dispersed. Ryan has gone to Boston, and part of his men returned to New York. Dr. Wm. F. Fair, of New York, has been fined $1,009 and costs in the United States District Court at Trenton, for using a cancelled United Stated stamp on a deed. ,■ ■

Letters received at Montreal, on the 7th, from Jefferson Davis, then at Paris, reader it doubtful if his health'will ever permit hki return. If he recovers sufficiently to perm it travel he will spend the summer in Canada and winter in Mississippi. . iSecretary Boutwell hah appointed Gen. F. E. Spinner, United States Custodian of the Slhkfng Fund and of such bonds as may be bought, subject to the future action of Congress. It is announced that the Empress Eugenie is coming on a trip to America this summer.

In the case of L. Nichols against the Kansas Pacific Railroad, for damages sustained last summer by a train running off the track, a verdict was recently.given at Topeka, for the plaintiff, for $62,500. Admiral Farragut has been elected President of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Gulf. The next meeting of the society will bo held in Boston. At the recent meeting of the Society ol the Army of the Potomac, in New York, Lieutenant General Sheridan was elected President for the ensuing year. ——~ The monument erected to the memory of Fitz Greene Halleck, at Guilford, Conn., was dedicated on the Bth, with appropriate ceremonies. About 8,000 persons were in attendance. James 8. Upton has been appointed postmaster at Battle Creek, Mich., vice Chandler Ford, removed. The Chicago Republican of the 10th says; “John A. Risdon, who has heretofore claimed to be the‘sole survivor’ of the Powell expedition, is now in jail at Springfield, Hi., charged with horsestealing." ~ POLITICAL. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have declared the Philadelphia registry law constitutional, and the act creating the Twenty-ninth Judicial District unconstitutional. An anti-prohibition organization has been formed in Massachusetts, under the name of the Union Republloan. State Central League.. , The election in Virginia occurred on the 6th. A Richmond telegram of the 7th says: “The State, according to the latest returns to-night, has gone, by nearly 40,000, for Walker. Majority of 50 on joint ballot in the Legislature. The Constitution, with the objectional clauses expurgated, is adopted by an overwhelming majority.” The National Irish Republican Convention assembled in Chicago on the sth. A permanent organization was effected by the election of J. W. Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati, as President, and i the!selection of several .Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. A series of resolutions was adopted, favoring universal suffrage; asking for aid and sympathy in behalf of Ireland, Cuba, etc.; opposed to free trade; endorsing President Grant; opposed to the existing neutrality laws A National Executive Committee was appointed, and the Convention adjourned on the 6th. The Ohio Democratic State Convention met at Columbus on the 7th, and organized with P. Van Trump as President. General W. 8. Rosecrans was nominated for Governor on the second ballot. The other nominations are; Lieutenant Governor, General T. J. Godfrey, of Mercer; Supreme Judge, W. J. Gilmore, of Preble; Treasurer of State, Stephen Buhrer, of Cleveland General, Colonel J. M. Connell, of Fairfield; Board of Public Works, Ben Churchill, of Hamilton. Returns received in Richmond on the 9th from eighty-four counties in Virginia give Walker, for Governor, 68,000 majority. The lager beer dealers' of Boston have formed a permanent organization for vigorous political action to tepbal the liquor law. The Germans throughout the State are invited to form local societies for the same object. _ A Washington special of the 9th announces that the President woutd at once issue his proclamations ordering elections In Texas and Mississippi on the fourth Tuesday in November,

The Power of Sulkiness.

T OrxaKU the power of sulkiness. FewfoKWtorft’e “#o»fd, it rarfly.eilsu in 4ts highest and moat concentrated form, fdn Miami ted to reaHnteUectual or- moral force, it wpuldbe so thorough as to bo iqjuriob# the general wtofareof humanity- * But in atmaand more ignoble form It is npt übcomjn° n » and the deadmake upau almoiM-.fotoforuhic There are people who have the gift of being sulky ror ap indefinite length of time, and assert that they stet thus on principle; but it is almost invariably found- that the principle harmonize# with the nature, for to tempers that are shOtt and sweet, hot,, inconsistent, or quickly placable, -r-and any of these are liable to be suddenly vexed for-an.hour or two,— jt. is always a difficulty to sulk. It is a bit of acting, and not reality, even when carried out, and the assumption of it is felt to be & burden too heavy to be borne.

• Tke capacity, for steady, splld, concentrated sulkiness is a mighty povrer to him who posupftrtttfeimplies many curious and yarap acaSHfllshmenta and gifts, among dUfcf s thaSorthe complete mastery of the five Sensed It is for a man to hfc blind' when it is desired that he should .open his eyes, dumb., whenever words would be acceptable, deaf tp all allurements.OT submission, insensible to every effort at conciliation. It can create gloom, and, having created it, it*: Can perpetuate and deepen it until it becomes a clinging atmosphere as unwholesome as a malaria. It comprehends an absolute control over the facial muscles. • ) that no softness or sign of yielding, not a ripple of a smile or an exoression of pleasure, may replace even for a mofoent the sullen apathy or illumine the habitual foowJ of the confirmed sulker. : Jn a word, it is the faculty of simu’i&tion to such a degree that a person shall appear to be blind, deaf, dumb, atnrii<V, paralyzed, ill, or dead, whenever and for as long as be chooses. Mr. He ' '•Tuly said, “ Unreason ft Or ays governs. Nothiiyi^revents. your having your own way Bomwah Ji: Wlng at all amenable to reason.” Ana sulkiness neither gives rea.sons nos listens to them. The sulky being sometimes wears % depressed, spiritless, .and utterly detected appearance, as though crushed and- heartbroken »y long-contin-ued oppression; sometimes a heavy, displeased, dragging stepAqnffa black and lowering brow are the chief signs which indicate the disturbance within*, and the form of -the vengeance which is to be taken in-respect of it. The litter is the masculine type; the former is, properly speaking, feminine. Mr. N. P. WiUis, in one of his earlier volumes, has- a clever litle tale, describing the power of an *‘ injured jook.” Byflrtue of it a young American lady contrived to persuade a whole house full of boarders to regard her ana martyr, afid'to speak the worst an.d think the worst they could of her husband; and all this, without uttering one word herself was produced solely by the “injured look.” And if there is an “injuredlook” there is also such a thing as a “dumb devil”; if the power of the one is great, the provocation induced by the latteT is unutterable. It is a curious, and to some will appear an unaccountable .circumstance that in sulkiness a woman is more often possessed with a dumb devil than is a man. Bulkiness is visible even in the nursery, where it exists, so to speak, in the form of a bud; but it is merely an outbreak of bad temper, for at that age a child has not learned the method of using it as an instrument with which to punish his playmates. And the wisest way is to leave it entirely unnoticed, “efface” the offender, as thfl French say, until there is an obvious return to a more amiable disposition. But boys and gukeocm learn to estimate the power of Sulkiness, either by practice or endnrence, and a large school is the best check on a datpCAum of this kind. Sulkiness is not a tyranny which.can be safely exercised !h society at large, and it is commonly reserved for private or.home exhibition. The smaller the circle the more concentrated its force; in & family, in a house, in one room, the power of sulkiness Oppresses, searches, and pervades every corner of it. Ip love-making sulkiness is a deplorable blunder. Smile or strike, or smile and strike, too, if that seems more advisable; but no good ever follows a sul-. len enmity, which chills, disconcerts, and often actually destroys. love. Even that simulated sulkiness, thhr toothless vengeance, which consists in pouting coldnesss, is an experiment fall of danger, and in the worst possible taste. But if between lovers it is jg&under, in married life it ,is simply the'greatest madness of which a human bpiffg can be guilty. There they are man and women yoked together like goats, and as the countryman justly observed, “ that’s been a trouble to more than goats,” and if either of them Is endowed with the faculty of persistent sulkiness, one shudders to think of the life the other one may be made to lead. It might be reasonably urged as a cause for judicial separation, possibly even for divorce, since the practice Of quietly pressing the spirit and Jife out of a human being', no matter how many years the operation spreads over, is not one that ought to be permitted in a Christian country: “ vse victis I” the weak go to the wall, and too often the week are -the pleasantest and most lovable of earth’s creatures. Somjßimee a person is seen to exhibit something which resembles and yet Is not sulks. It is a silent moodiness of manner arising from a sense of failure, mortification, or secret discouragemciit and vexationpvhich he cannot get oyer all at once. It is often seen id youth, but in reality the man is struggling with his infirmity, and a kind word or a friendly overture will almost always, float him over the difficulty. But genuine sulkiness is essentially premeditated and of a forethought; jt is also vindictivo, sometimes even malignant, in Its nature, and if much indulged in causes, the manners to be habitually morose,, and the face and person acquire a heavy, Midden appearance as of a substance too long steeped In unwholesome juices. Dragging the fret along the floor and slamming the doors of thenouse for weeks and months together / are vulgar and ignoble but neither nnoommon nor inexpressive modes of aulhtof* We oil-know of other ways morAqnflned, tat not less disagreeable, and remembe/ ; them too well. The fashion in which the very few words which custofn and convenience render absolutely necessary are dropped from the Ups as if they were so many leaden bullets; the stredfast, surprised stare that you or any one else should veoture to ask such questions as shall require reply of * any kind, the pertinacious coldness, the carefully averted glance, the steady gloom, the hand withheld, the smile onreturned, and the hardly muttered acknowledgment bf the morning or eve-

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ning salutiori,—who that has witnessed or endured these amenities can forget the effect of them?'.ln fact, the severity of the^pressure* which a really able, discriminating, and obstinate aulker can bring; to Hear on others for indefinite space‘of time amounts to a tyranny, dumb, indeed, but sufficiently unholy of its kind ; : neither soft coaxing nor urgent crushing can affect it, and, though to yield is humiliating, it is well nigh hopeless to resist it.—Pw MM QaietU.

CURRENT ITEMS.

An American school has beep established in Sitka. Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Newport, is soon to be married. A snow storm passed over the town of ■ Leeco, Italy, on the evening of June 18, Free bathing rooms for women ahd children have been opened In Philadelphia. A kan In London, follows the occupation of “ professional introducer,’? ‘and. makes money by it.- ‘ .jt.. Miss Garrett has passed the second examination for the degree of doctor of medicine in tho university of Paris. The latest fashion of London “nobs”, jgto carry a poodle in their arln* under IBS' flowers in their respective buttonholes. »_ Commodore Vanderbilt has taken one entire floor in the new hotel at Niagara, Canada, for his family, during the summer. Cognac, the great brandy town of France, is said so be one of the wealthiest places, in proportion Wftp size; in ‘be world.

A Mr. Miller, of Union square, New York, it should be universally known, Advertises for the owner cf an umbrella which he has found. Baron Alphonse db one of the thou* 0 - —oTHSCHItD was during th» - --*« arrested in Paris, - recent disturbance. He was - up for three hours. At a Boston baby, show,Mrs. Coughlin, of Brookfield, took the prize on triplets, for her three daughters, Faith, Hope and Charity Coughlin, u - Boston, by the addition pf Dorchester, has now a total of nearly 10,000 acres, and a population of 280,000. Dorchester contains 4,632 acres. The Cincinnati Times says: “The new railroad between Louisville and Cincinnati will bind the two dries together like a pair of cats tied by the tads.” The number of men organized in the Wades unions of New York city alone amounts to 66,099, and they have a bank account of $58,126.69. Thu first time a writer in the Cincinnati Times saw Thomas Bucanan Read, he was pasting theater bills for a strolling company, of which he was one. Daniel G. Mason, of the New York firm of Mason Brothers, music publishers, died on the 24th ulfc, at Schevolbacb, Germany, whither he had gone to recruit his health.

A swarm of bees lit on the front of a locomotive on a Vermont Railroad a few days ago, and the engineer not daring to disturb them, they got a free ride into Canada. An Englishman has engaged to form a company with a capital of $1,500,000, to work the prolific coal beds of Southern Russia ana introduce the manufacture of rails. The territory covering the marble quarries of Rutland, Vt., was sold within the memory of men now living, for one old mare and colt The property is now valued at millions. Dr. Russell says he wrote Wales’ speeches before the London Geographical Society, and had “doocid hard work to keep them short enough for the Prince to trouble about getting them off by heart.” There is in New York a belt of Indiarubber (made for a Buffalo elevator), of the dimensions of four feet In width, 320 feet'in length, and 3,600 pounds weight This Is nmoh the largest belt ever made in this country. The widow of Captain Wise applied to the Navy Department for payment of the expenses connected with the conveying of her husband’s remains from Naples to Auburn Cemetery, bat the request was declined. An autograph letter of Mary Washington, the grandmother of her country and the mother of the first President of the United States, wss recently sold In New York. Only one other authentic autograph cf this lady is now know so exist

On the 89th nit, a thirty-barrel-well of lubricating oil, worth sl4 per barrel at the well, was struck on the Jamison farm, about one mile and a half above i Tionesta, Pa., at the depth of only two hundred feet.. Great excitement prevailed, and property advanced wonderfully. The North German Confederation has a fleet of 4,067 merchant vessels, of which 8.694 belong to Prussia. Tonnage, 1,316,374 tons of 1,000 kilograms each. There are among them 153 steamships, with an aggregate horse-power of 21,162. Of these steamships 80 belong to Prussia. The Universallst Convention of Maine passed a resolution dedaring “capital punishment detrimental to the best order of society, and to the teachings of Jesus.” The attemptto revive this barbarous custom” in Maine, the convention regarded “with deep grief and unqualified disapprobation.” -• -Thk discovery of rich silver mines between White Pine and the head of navigation of the Colorado River is announced The ledge is from 3 to 90 feet wide, and very rich. There is an abundance of wood,nmter and grass. The location of the mines is not far from the line of survey for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Thu importation of Chinese crackers has been very heavy the present season, and is estimated by importersaohighas 140,000 boxes. The pyrotedhniiFwhich is probably the most extensively manufactured and sold is the torpedo. During the past yfehr more than 200,000,000 of them haye been made. An .English paper says it is not aq uncommon tiling in that country for ladies traveling in first-clast railway carriages to cut dowA gnd carry away the silk cUf?f the windows-tor the purpose of making aprons of them 'Bo general did Ke practice become on ode line that all new curtains were made of a material that was Hot worth stealing. A woNDjutvot submarine stewnahip has been examined and approved by the Prussian Admiralty. It is a modification Of the Amoricah monitor system, the deck' and a turret alone being above water ordinarily, bat the vessel is capable of eq tire submersion, and can make an attach, withyulbmarine cannon and torpedoes, or •ail under the water during a storm.

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Presentation of a Life-Beat to the Heroine of Newport.

At the celebration aft Newport on the 3d taut, tta most notable event pf the day, which preceded all foe others In order and inforeet,*Wrt the presentation of an elegant life-boat so Mia Ida Lewis ss a token of appreciation of ter heroism In rescuing two. drowning soldiers near ter father’s light-house, In March last The presentation took place Iq Washington square, an opes green, shaded with trees, snfi filled with a crowd of enthusiastic persons of both rexee. The boat is called the Rescue, and is of the finest workmanship. The material is oak, eedar, and black walnut, not a pohnd of trail' being used in its construction. It is 14 feet long, 4 feet 2 inches beam, and lfi Inches deep. The interior is finished in, the - most perfect manner, and does great credit to the taste and skill of foe builder. It is valued at S2OO. Miss Lewis was tastefully attired In a brown silk gown with black lace trimmings and hat of same material. She wpre a lace veil, but at the end of the presentation speeches she removed this for a few moments at the request of some of her friends; to allow her face to be seen. Hir demeanor was very lady-like aad composed, alike free from embarrassment or affectation.

The boat was afterwards drawn through the streets, a number of bouquets being thrown into it as it pained. lathe afternoon the Reacue was launched from the Long wharf .in rife prasenov«st crowd on the pirn, whil- ■ of the bay were dotted - .I^l and innumerable *■ ‘ . -ith asr"-- * W on the wing. The sun wai “ -oi brightly at the time, and tta whole scene was exceedingly gay and ani mated.

leather belt ronhdl the waist, and appeared a little fluttered at the trial she was about so Undergo. It stay be mentioned here that she is of a slight figure, and has never weighed more than 103 ponhds, even when in the best condition, so (hat Her endurance and strength are the more remarkable. At the hoar appointed, the Reecss was carried , from foe boat-bouse aad placed on the dock, where a photographic view was taken, of jL wdfo Miss Lewie seated at the o&ri ' Afforthis Wight delay, tta launch took place, and; amid cheer*, waring of handkerchiefs, and booming of cannon, the beautiful vessel glided through the crowd of other craft, and, urged by quick but vigorous strokes of foe fair oarswoman, who guided it with a firm hand, it sped rapidly toward its destination, the Lime Rook light-house, where otur heroine’s father, who was unable to leave home during the day, awaited in expectation her return. The crowd waited until the Hag of the Rescue was a mere speck in the distance, and then slowly dispersed.— Oor. N. T. Tribune.

A Misconception.

"Knox,” the correspondent cf the Sunday School Timet, tells the following incident, which occured in s Sunday School in Brandenburg, Germany. A speaker, dwelling upon Adam and Bve. asked: “Where did God place them ?” The answer was: “In the Garden of Eden.” “And what did they do there?” “They tilled it.” “ Why were they turned out?” After a significant silence, a little fellow cried ont: “ Sir, they could not pay the rent.” The novelty of the answer induced the teacher so inquire of his pupil why he had given it, when he was fold that hie father end mother had been tuned out of their house because they could not pey the rent, and he thought it most have been to with Adam aad Bve. The teachers made up a purse for the boy’s father. ta* 11 ii.jii '»• ‘ An electrics! blasting machine haadtewe suooessftilly tested in San Frandsco. The advantages claimed for it are: First, safety. No ftiee U used, and the Mast can be fired from any distance. Second, twelve or fifteen blasts can be fired simultaneously and Without danger. It will work either with nitro-glyoariae or the Califoiniia powder. It can be used as a submarine or land batteiy. The machine Itself cam be easily carried under one mans arm. St. Louis has three thousand opium eaten.

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