Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 November 1871 — Page 2

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P^4 TRICK HEN IIY.

Tbefollowing sketch of Patrick Ben* iy' (WiMtenand habits, Mr. Webster frpmvMr. Jefferson, And Is /ffund io the volumes of Mr. Webster's oorrtSsporidence: Patrick Henry was originally a bar-keeper. He was marriea very young, and going Into some business on his own account, was a bankrupt before the 3-ear was out. Wltfn I was about the age of fifteen, I left the school here, to go to college at Williamsburg. I stopped a few days at .,,w a friend's in the county of Lou'•I Isa. There I first saw and became acquainted with Patrick Henry. Having

Ja spent the Christmas holidays there, I proceeded to Williamsburg. Some questions arose about my admission, as my preparatory studies had not been

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pursued at the school connected with that institution. This delayed mv admission about a fortnight, at which time Henry appeared in Williamsburg, and applied for a license to practice law, having commenced the study of it at or subsequently to the time of my meeting him in Louisa. There were four examiners—Wythe, Pendleton, Peyton Rahdolphfand John Randolph. Wythe and Pendleton at once reiectcd his application. ,The two Randolphs, by his importunfry, were prevailed upon to sign the license and having obtained thwr signatures, ho applied again to "Pondlpton, and after much entreaty and m#ny promises of future study, succeeded in obtaining his. Ho then .turned out for a practicing lawyer. The

first case which brought him into no_,.,tice was contestejj election, in which he appeared as c/unsel before the committee of the H(j}iso ot Burgesses. His 'second was the Parsons case, already well known. These and similar efforts soon obtained for him so much reputation that ho was elected a member of tlie legislature. He waff as well suited to tho times as any uian ever was, and it is not now easy to say what wo should have done without Patrick Henry. He •was far before ail in maintaining the spirit of tho Revolution. His influence was most extensive with the member* from the upper counties, and his boldness and ther votes overawed and controlled tho more cool, or the more timid aristocratic gentlemen of the lower part of the State. His eloquence was peculiar, if indeed it should be callba eloquence, for it was impressive and sublime beyond what can be imagined. Although it was difficult, when ho had spoken, to tell what ho had said, yet whilo he was speaking, it always seemed directly to tho point.

Wlion ho hid sjaffken in opposition to *. my opinion—had produced a great effeet, and I myself been delighted and moved, I-have asked myself, when he ceased, 'Whftt has he said I could never answer tho inquiry. His person was of full size, and his manner and voice froo and manly his utterance nolther vorv fust nor very slow his spoochei/generally short—from a

qj tion was vulgar and vicious, but it was forgotten whilo ho was speaking. "Ho wan a man of very little knowledge of any sort. Ho rend nothing, and had no books. Returning ono November from Albemarle Court, I10 borrowed of mo Hume's Essays in two .vol urn ob, saying ho should have loisuro ih tho winter for reading. In tho spring ho returned them, and declared ho had not bnon ablo to go further than twenty or thirty pages, in the fi^ftt volupie. He wrote almost 110th-Ing^-ho could not write. Tho resolutions of'75, which have been ascrlb^01 to him, have by many boon suppos-*odno^hfcv&-DPok written by Mr.'Johnson who acted as his second 011 that occasion. But if they were written by.

Henry himself, they were not sifrh as to prove any power of composition. Neither in politics nor in Ills nisofes •Ion was he a man of business lie was

a man ,*t» debate only. His biographer says thjft he read Plutarch every year. I cioubt-whether over read a volume Of it in his Hfb. ill is temper was excellent, aljd he gr^rrally ^obsorved dooo£hin ln|ipbfttp •ions I hav^i softi anger was." terrible. Those who witnessed it were not disposed to rouso it again. In his opinions I10 was yielding and practicable, and not disposed to differ from his friends. In private conversation ho was agreeablo and facetious, and while in genteel society, appeared to undcrijtiuNi all the decencies and proprMfcMrof It but in his heart ho preferred low society, and sought it as often as possiblo. IIo would hunt in the pine-woods of Fluvanna. with overseers, and people of

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on mi 11 bjUfM itfon nle,

•ij,£i)O,0r two occaiiiim angry, and his

description, living in a camp a fortnight at a time without a change of raiment. I have often been astonished at his command of proper language how he attained a knowledge of it I never could find out, as he road so little and conversed little with educated men.

After all It ftiust be allowed that ho was our loader In the measure of tho Involution in Virginia. In that romoreSwas due to him than any icr person. If we had not had him we should probably have got on pretty well, as y^u did* by a number or men of nearly etjuai talents But ho left us all far .lwuna. His biographer sent sheets of his work to me as they were

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printed, and at the end ssked for my opinion. I told him it would bo a question hereafter, whether his work should be purged on a shelf of history or of panjgftric,"

Tits Binivs in Japan.—In Japan the birds arc regarded as sacred, and never, under any pretense, are they permitted to be destroyed. During the stay of the expedition at Japan a number of oflloars started on a gunning excursion. No sooner did tho peoplo observe the ornel slaughtering of their favorites than a number of them waited upon the Commodore, and remonstrated agains* the conduct of the ofiiccra. Them was no more bird-shooting In Japan by American officers after that and when the treaty between the two countHmmu concluded, one express oonditiotoWit was!hat the birds should ^prote^ted. What a commentary iv the inhuman practice of our peowho Indiscriminately shoot every thing in tho fbrm of a bird whtch has the misfortune to come within the reach ol their murderous weapons.

Ot?R fHend Gilbert Haven'a extraMethodist th ology sometimes appears in a very ludlerou* light. For Instance, he ha*"just been saying that Chicago was burnt on account of the city's sins —alluding particularly to "the Sabbath aa a day of sinful *pl©«ittre." and to "the brothels.'* Now every candid mind admits that in Chteago, aa in all other dtlm, ih« Sabbath la a day of particularly KinfUl pleasure In brotnela. But It* nappened that the Chicago ftra consumed the n.oat respectable dwelling*, and Mningely left unscoursed the district devoted to brothels. If

K-v premise Is »true, namely, ir waapuniahfei by God for *«a sin (In Ilia eyes) tu sid not harlotry for he *av«d the Rah aba, who fe-'d to have smitten the 5 fl ocka,—Qvklm A#*.

Young Folks.

ANAGRAMS. 6. Nk-e to atant. 7. Aunt, I'm pale, 8. Staid nice, ?9. Muse, sir. s| 10. Ague rots.

1. Rag bed. 2. Iog wool. 3. Naino one. 4. I score cases. 5. Mine ghost.

CHARADE.

My first a living creature is, Ah very few its friends Birds, men, and reptiles all destroy,

Soon its existence ends.

My second is in forests seen, In houses, streets, on ocean 'Tis sometimes eaten by my first:

Mv whole makes bitter portion.

TRANSFORMATIONS, No. 1. I am a confirmation add a consonant and I am a song change my head a^ain ten times and make merry an article of food a bird a verb a negative a reward a fish a verb a road, and a season.

TRANSPOSITIONS, No. 2. 1. Entire I am a noun transpose me into another noun, then into an adverb, then into an adjective. 2. I am a proper noun transpose me into a common noun, then into an adjective, then into a verb, then into another adjective. 3. I am a verb transpose me into a noun, then into another verb, again into another noun. •*,

§11K CROSS Pl'ZZLE. 1. Tho head of a prince. 2. Metal. 3. A geometrical figure. 4. A country. 5. Flowers. 6. A trap. 7. A common articlo in daily use. The centre letters, endicular and horizontal, form a on. Adolph M. Nagel,.

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MIDDLES.

1. Place two fish of one kind together, so, No longer fish, a songster bird they show. 2. Timatio a dogo nam, tubvreen turn ofetice mill.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES Ac. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

P^nigma.—Cumberland. Decapitation.—Start. Anagrams.—1. Inconsequent. 2. Fundamental. 3. Conjugates. 4. Hyperbolas. 5. Legerdemain. 6. Indispens able. 7. Emboldens. 8. Variance. 9. Opulence. 10. Incapable.

Combination.—Henlopen. Acrostics.—1. Red, Neuse, Schuylkill, Wabash, Mississippi, Delhi. 2. loledo, Tours, Havana, Lansing, Berne— Osage.

Transpositions.—1. Gander, garden, danger. 2. Cause, Sauce. 3. Caterer, terraco. 4. Untimely, minutely.

European Rivers.—1. Seine. 2. Dnieper. 3. Garonne. 4. Volga. 5. Vistula. 6. Danube. •5

Pont iu Oard.—Wherever tho Romans wont, they carried the arts of conquest but they left little or no remains of their religion, language, or manners. Tho material evidences of their grandeur remained but their mental and moral characteristics disappeared with their occupation. In the southern part of Franco there remains to this day a monument of their architectural energy, which strikes tho boholder dumb with astonishment. You walk in a desert where nothing reminds you of man cultivation haVdisnppeared thero ire ravines, heaths, rocks, rushes, oaks, nil massed together then a little stream, which flows by a melancholy strand, wild mountains, a sllenco like that of Thebes and, in the

midst of this landscape, springs up th3 most magnificent object that civilization has created for the glory of tho tino arts. This wojiderfnl sample of ancient architectural genius is an aqueduct. It is situated at Nismcs, in the department of Gard, and passes between two mountains over the River Gardon, fifteen miles north-east of Nismcs. It carried tho waters of tho njountains of Euro and Aurain to Nismes, a distance of nearly twenty-one miles. ,*•

A iiADY in a recent letter from Liverpool savs: ''llere, as in every other liotol in England, I found ladies at tho bar keeping tho register of arrivals, and assigning rooms to guests, receiving payment of bills, etc. So in tho telegraph ofllee, and in all the stores and shops, young and well-dressed ladles form a large part of the attendance. I was greatly struck with it, and bclievo it would bo well for our peoplo to adopt tho custom of thus furnishing employment to a largo and most dependent class of our people. Whorover thero is light and nimble work to be done, wo found universally ladies em-

fdoyed.

In the extensive draper cstab-

Ishmentol I^eo, in Liverpool, frequented and patronized by tho nobility and wealthy of tho land, the long lines of counters were attended by scores of beautiful young girls, tastefully dressed, and who were waiting upon tho crowds of ladies and gentlemen purchasing supplies."

Thk latest theory of the cause of voleanos is that proposed by Professor Phillips, a distinguished English geolollo

attributes such eruptions sole

ly to the action ot steam raised to great power proportionately to tho depth at which it was formed." Taking the assumed increase of the earth's temperature with the increase of depth from the surface, Professor Phillips regards tho limit of twenty miles as equal to producing sufficient heat to raise steam to tho press of forty thousand atmospheres, or in other words, that at thirteen miles depth the earth's internal temperature would be equal to raising steam pf a force sufficient to support a column of lava thirteen miles high. The theory is certainly a plausible one. —Goldm

NKVKRMiNnSisTRR."—An incident occurred during Dr. Bowman's sermon at Wheeling, Indiana, not long since, that illustrates* beautifully the grandenr of true manhood. A little child in its mother's arms began to cry. The mother sat near the pulpit, and though the seats and aisles were filled to overflowing, she sprang to her feet to make her way out. .Some expected to see the Doctor stop and sullenly await till she had passed out. But all were happily relieved when, in his whole-souled, manly voice, he kindly turned to the mortified mat her with:

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mind.

alster, it disturbs you a great deal more than it does me. Seemingly sound of the cheery voice cea*cd crying.

at the child

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. NOVEMBER 4.1871.

GENERAL WASHINOTON'S LAST VOTE. Every incident in the life of Wash' ington is full of Interest. The plain heroic magnitude of mind which distin guishesliim above all other men was evident in all bis actions. Patriotism chastened by sound judgment and careful thought, prompted all his public acts, and made them examples for the study and guidance of mankind It has been said that no one can have the shortest interview with a great man, without being made sensible of superiority. Of too many who have Bome way earned the title of great, this* is by no means true. Its applicabili to tne character of Washington is ve tied in the following interesting cir cumstance.

I was present when General Wash ington gave his last vote. It was in the spring of 1799, in the town of Alexandria. He died the 11th of December following. The court-house of Fairfax county was then over the markethousej and immediately fronting Gadsb's tavern. The entrance to it was bv a flight of crazy steps on the outside. Tne election was progressing— several thousands of person's in the court house yard and immediate neighboring streets—and I was standing on Gadsby's steps when the Father of his Country drove up, and immediately approached the court-house steps and when within a yard or two of them, I saw eight or ten good looking men from different directions, certainly without the least concert, spring simultaneously, and place themselves in positions to uphold and support the steps should thev fall in the General's ascent ot them. 1 was immediately at his back, and in that position entered tho court room—followed in his wake through a dense crowd to the pollsheard him vote—returned wi him to the outward crowd—heard him cheered by more than two thousand persons as he entered his carriage, and saw his departure. There were five or six can lep didates on tho bench sitting, and as the General approached their^ they arose in a body and bowed smilingly and the salutation having been returned very gracefully, tho General immediately cast his eye toward the registry of the polls when Colonel Dencale (I think it was) said 'Well,General how do you vote The General looked at the candidates and said: •'Gentlemen, I vote for measures, not for men and turning to the recording table, audibly pronounced his vote—saw it entered— made a graceful bow, and retired."

HOWMAI^S WERE CARRIED BETWEEN NEW YORK AND BOSTON IN OLD TIMES.

The beginning of operations on tho new post-office in Boston, leads the Traxlier to dig up the early records of mail carriage between that city and New York. In 1702 a post was established "to goe monthly" between New York and Boston. The mails were carried by post-riders, who started simultaneously between New York and Boston, Monday morning, and exchanged mail-bags at Savbrook, Conn., on the following Saturday. Returning to their starting-point occupied tho most of the next week. Up to 1753 there was no office north of Boston. In 1775 Benjamin Franklin submitted apian for a postal system, which, with some alterations, is the one at present in use.

In tho old stage-coach days the Albany, New York and Worcester coaches canio into Boston by way of Cambridge port. Hovey's tavern beinj? their stopping place-before reaching th~ a many otlnvr

rstages

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an route. During the infancy of this mail system, tho most exorbitant rates—as thoy seem to us at this day—were charged on letters, the postage to Now York being 18?£ cents, and 25 cents to any point beyond. This led to certain unscrupulous and thrifty people doing a little in the way of 11 carrying on their own hook. In 1839 Harnden's express carried surreptitiously fo New York, charging less than the government and delivering them earlier. The letters were concealed in band-boxes, itc., and tho operation was of course illegal.

J. W. Hale of New York also cairiad letters by tho "underground route," and made a fortune at 10 cents oach. In 1813 the government prosecuted Hale, but failed to convict him. With the reduction of rates, of course tho occupation of those operators was gone. The later history of tho office is familiar to most of our readers. 1

Goon heavens! here is another sect of so-called Christians, said to exist and even flourish in Southern Indiana. They call themselves by the startling name of "The Soul Sleepers," and their idea is that the immortality of the soul is limited to certain lucky ones, through tho mediation of the Savior, whilo all tho other souls which are unfit for Heaven are annihilated. They aro not capable of bliss, and God is too good to torture them. As they are too bad for salvation and too good for damnation, it logically follows that they must cease to exist altogether. Our impression is that this heresy is an old one revived— either that or something like it. At Columbus, Ga., is still another sect, bearing the complicated name of "Theophilanthropists." Tho creed is simple: "The world is my country, and to do good my religion so that we do not see why these new devotees did not call themselves the "Theophilanthropocosmopolltanists," which would nave been more impressive and sonorous. Ono portion of tho belief ot the Theo Phi's we somewhat approve. It is that "any system of religion which shocks tho mind of a child cannot be a truo system"—rather a broad bit of generalization, but with a grain of truth in It.—N 1* Tribune.

Art Criticism.—Virgil Williams, the artist (says the San Frana*co News letter), is arrived in town. Visitors to the art gallerv at Woodward's Gardens will regard his advent with some apprehension. And so, for that matter, will visitors at the fair the few weeks of the exhibition will bo amply sufficient for this gentlemen to knock off a half-sere of landscape to afflict us. He possesses some merit as an artist, bat it is hard to tell whether it lies in landscape or marine [minting vou neyer can tell his cows from his shtpa, except when they have their tails exalted, when the absence of spars betrays their character. Even then they may be mistaken for schooners scudding under bare poles.

What one loses another lmirs, ban old saying and now that Chicago Is in ashes St. fyouia recognise* her opportunity and la improving her moment. Her merchants are securing Chicago

road car going at the rate or fortv miles .. an hour, and have a man pans through clerks, and doing their utmost to divert

pans

the train and leave a tract in ycur hand the arrested trade of the Northwest entitled, "prepare to Meet Your God." from its aocnatomed channels to their ——I advantage. St, Louis is a &rand city

PmuA.DKi.PBt ah i* one hundred and already, full of Intelligence and entersixty tnilUonain s. while Boston baa) priae, and with a magnificent promise only about a k-*en, and her rioheai folded In her position and mercantile man is worth !*m than ten ralllloaa.— capacity. All possible sueeem to all, Qotdm Age. her honorable eodeavoim.—(Mden Aft,

THE ORIGIN OF FREE MASON Y. According to the best authorities the order had its origin among operative masons in the early part ot the middle ages. It sprung from the difficulty of finding enough men of skill in any one country of Europe to build the cathedrals and other ecclesiastical structures of that period. To obviate this difficulty, skillful men from various countries formed a fraternity of architects and builders or masons, and they traveled from country to country, as their services were required. They encamped in tents or huts by themselves, and framed regulations for their own government according to the peculiar circumstances of their occupation, and the itinerant lives they were called to lead. They called themselves "free" because they were at liberty to work whenever they chose. Many of the public buildings of England, in tho Gothic style, were erected by men in companies of this sect and it is quite reasonable to suppose, as some distinguished historians have done, that the institution *f speculative Freemasonry was derived from this professional brotherhood of traveling architects and artisans. They doubtless had signs and tokens and emblems by whicn thoy might know one another, and which tended to promote mutual assistance and good fellowship. «.

MASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES. When and where the order of Masonry was first introduced into the United States appears to bo a matter of some doubt, even among the best informed of the fraternity, and the fact that prior to the year 1717 lodges were not compelled to keep any regular record, leaves no authentic data whereby to trace its origin. It is generally conceded, however, that Alasonry in the United States dates from the year 1733, when the Right Honorable and Most Worshipful Anthony, Lord Viscount Montague, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England, on application ol several brethren residing in New England, appointed and constituted the Right Worshipful Henry Price as Provincial Grand Master over all the lodges in New England, who on the 30th of July, 1733 constituted the" first Grand Lodge of Freemasons ever opened on the American continent. This was known as St. John's Grand Lodge, which title it retained until it was united in 1792 with the grand lodgo founded by the Earl of Dalhousie, Grand Master of Scotland, of which Gen. Jos. Warren, who fell at the battle of Bunker Hill, was the first Grand Master. Henry Price was doubtless the first Grantl Master in the United States. He was a successful dry goods merchant and is generally looked upon as tho father of Masonry in the United States. The Order rapidly spread, and before the end of the last century a number of the states boasted of their Grand Lodges and Grand Commanderies.

George Washington was a member of tho Masonic fraternity for nearly half a century. He was initiated on the 4th of November 1752, a few months before attaining his majority, in the Fredericksburg Lodge. During tho revolutionary war ho was a frequent visitor to the Army Lodge, and in 1778 when the Grand Lodgo of Virginia was formed, I10 was chosen Grand Master, but declined the position. In 1788, Alexandria Lodge, at Alexandria, Va., was chartered, and General Washington became its first master, and was one of its members at the time of his death. The Lodge still preserves his apron, avel and other relics of the "Father of /"c£ountry," among its sacred treas-

In 1793, Washington assisted In

laying tho corner-stone of the National Capitol, wearing a Masonic apron made and presented to him by the wife of Lafayette.,

ANSWERED.

Wo have received the following question for answer, and though we have 110 desire to open a column of "answers to correspondents" after tho New York Slcdgcr style, yet the writer, so far as wo know, is in dead earnest, and his question reverts to a period in lifo that we have long since passed,wo will give him the benefit of what wo know about the "old thing" and its working:

Mr EniTOR—I am eighteen years old, and I have a little sweetheart sixteen years old. I called uj)on her the other evening, at nine o'clock, her lather brought lu a piece of bread nnd butter lor each of us, with sugar 011 it and said I need not go until I had eaten it. I felt insulted, and left without eating a mouthful. Did I do right? Ukokge.

Yours is a sad case, George, and one that calls for deeper reflection than we are capablo of giving it. Wo do not think it would have been best to have "riled the old man up I10 might have raised 3*011 hopes with his boot. If your sweetheart really loves you, it would havo been better to have accepted tho "lunch" nnd after oating the sugar off from tho broad and butter chucked the latter under tho sofa it would havo mado a grease spot on the carpet and you would have bad your revenge. But come to think of it, what in thunder do you sit up as late as nine o'clock for? We always used to leave at eight o'clock and listening outside until the old folks were snoring Uien take off our boots and go back and see the night out. Try this onco and if you don't get caught at it, let us hear from you. If vou do get caught at it, nobody will ever hear from you again. There is nothing so conducive to restlessness 011 tho part of a parent as to know their only daughter is sitting up with a greenhorn when sho ought to be asleep dreaming of to-morrow's washing. That's so.— Tiltutvillc Ilcrald.

This Hompki. at Nazartstii.—The Mission Church at Nazareth has been completed. Nazareth has now a population of some 7,000 souls, among whom Christians largely predominate, onefl'th only being Mohammedans—Tho

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of Jezreel, to the south and east, inhabited by Moslems, who are more ignorant than'thoso in the larger towns but less fanatical. Here, too, coino periodically the Bedouins of the Hauran (the ancient Decapolls) and the Druses on the southern slopes of Iebanon are within easy reach. Thus from the lowly spot where our Saviour was pleased to pass the greater part of his early life, nis gospel can now be mg reached to the Moslems, wan- who

Hidden Trkasurks.—In the "greenlOotr." in Dresden, where for centuries the Saxon princea have gathered their gems and treasures, until they have become worth millions of pounds, may be seen a silver egg, a present to one of the Saxon queens, which, when von touch a spring, opens and reveals a golden yolk. Within this Is bid a chicken, whose wing being pressed, also flies open, disclosing a splendid golden crown studded with jewela. Nor is this all: another secret spring being touched, bidden in the eet ter is found a magnificent diamond ring.

Mrs. Xtu of England, recently procured a divorce, but was directed by the uncMvalrons judge to allow her husband 91,500 a year.

AN ECHO.

To Understand an echo we must understand the nature of sound, which may be explained as follows No material in nature is really solid, but all are composed of a number of atoms cohering together more or less closely, according to the density and hardness of the material. "Now, when we strike any substance, we drive its constituent atoms one against the other, and occasion a commotion among them, caused by the conflict between the force of the blow disarranging them and their natural tendency to assume their original position. This commotion, commonly called vibration, displaces the air around, driving it away in waves, and the effect of the striking of these waves upon the ear is the sensation of sound All differences of sound arise from differences in the form and quickness of these sound waves, the regularity of their succession, or the way in which they striKe the ear. If they break upon the ear at equal intervals, a musical note is produced if fitfully and without older, the result is a noise. Strange as this doctrine of sound-waves in the air may appear, it admits of an easy proof, by placing a bell in the receiveV of an air pump: when the air is exhausted, the bell will cease to ring, and the clapper will strike the sides on being shaken without any sound ensuing. Further proof is afforded by the fact that sound takes time to travel: we see tho flash of a gun before we hear the report.

Now, when theso advancing points of sound meet with an obstacle which throws them back to the point from which they started, an echo is heard. But it is necessary that tho ear of the person listening for it be in the path of the returning sound, and also at some distance from the reflecting surface, as otherwise the advancing and retreating sounds become mixe together and indistinguishable. No perfect echo can be heard unless the obstacle which drives back the sound is about sixty-five feet from the place where the sound originally arose. It is because of this that the walls ot or dinary rooms do not produce echoes they are so near that tnere is not time for the sound-waves thev drive back to get separated from those that follow them. Sound travels at the rate ot about 1130feet in asecond consequently a person standing that distance from a wall capable of producing an echo, would hear tho echo just two seconds after he spoke, as the sound would take a second to go to the wall and a second to come back to him.

ALICE CARlnS ONLY LOVE. In tho profoundest sonso Alice Cary never loved but once. The man whom she loved is still alive yet gossip, with its keenest secnt, has never found or named him. With all her fullness of affection, hers was an eclectic and solitary soul. He who by the very patont of his being was moro to her than any other mortal could bo might pass from her lifo, but 110 other could ever tako his place. A proud and prosperous family brought all their prido and power to bear 011 a son to prevent his marrying a girl uneducated, rastic, and poor. "I waited for one who never came back," sho said. "Yot I believed he would come till I road in a paper his marriage to another. Can you think what life would be, loving one, waiting for one who would Merer come!"

IIo did come at last. I saw liitn. His wile had died. Alice was dying. The grayliaired man sat down beside the gray haired woman. Life had dealt prosperously with him, aa it is wont with men. Suffering and deatb lind taken all from her save the luster o'f her wondrous eyes. From her wan and wasted face they shone upon him full of tenderness and youth. Thus they met with lite behind them—the who parted plighted lovers when was young. Ho was the man whom she forgavo fer her blighted and weary life, with a btnilo of parting as divine as over lit the face of woman.—Mary Clemmcr Ames in the Independent.

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Beattty and Bathing-Dresses.— Alas, that tho boautlful bather at tho vfery height of tho season should suggest to the fastidious eye of tho observer nothing moro lovely that a sore seanymph swathed in cumbersome bandages! Oh, that something a trifle less hideous might be devised to blur tho faultless outline of tho fair Eugenia while she sports in tlireo feet of salt water! The sea is delicious, certainly not less so the air, and thero is something consoling in tho thought that the whole community that has taker) to water in a body is equally and unexceptionably absurd in appearance. But it is awkwardnoss personified, for all that! My Bulbul enjoys it. How she dips her red-flannel wings in tho shining surf, and flits away toward shoro for a long breath! IIow sho sports am^ng the slowrolling crests or tho sea, and fondly thinks they are breakers! How she laughs and shouts ar.d sings in tho general hubbub, and is in a perfectly happy and wator-logged condition! And this is your nymph of society who charms us and betrays us! —LippvicoW.s Magazine.

Gunpowder.—A little sulphur, a little charcoal, and a little niter, ground together, and we havo that wonderful mixture which rules for good or for evil the destinies of men. When gunpowder is ignited,the solid is almost instantly converted into gas, which, were it fired under water, and tho gas cooled down to the ordinary temperature of the air, would be found.to occupy about 900 times tho space of the solid powder. Gases are, however, known to expand with an immense, force when heated and as tho gases of gunpowder are in ordinary projectiles generated at a red heat, they are consequently greatly expanded, amounting, it is estimated, to more than 2 500 times the volume of the powder burned and it is hero we see whence springs the power of projection df firearms. Great as are tho evils of wars, tho use of gunpowder has shortened their duration from years to days.

RotJGK ox 7 he Doctors.—The following passage occurs in the St. Louis Democrat's report of the Medlicott poisoningcase: "A lawyer (not in the case)

widely preached to the Moslems, wan- who heard tho medical testimony, redering Bedouins, the Druses, and other! marked that another such trial would dwellers of the East. 5

ruin the medical fraternity of Kansas. It is a subject of general comment that the doctors contradicted each other upon nearly every point on which they were questioned. They even differed In regard to the effect of that wellknown drug, quinine, which is taken bv everybody In Kansas. Ono learned doctor hesitated along time before be would say that congestion of the lungs was a common cause of deatb. When they took hold of those poisonous drugs morphine and atropine, every one bad a different idea about them."

Two Prussian officers fell out. and wiabing to avoid infringing military law by duelling, carried out an idea in Dumas'comedy of "Made molselle de Beile Wi" by throwing dice to see which itinltf blow ont his brains. The loser pr* uaptly committed suicide.

A CALIFORNIA "INCIDENT." About the most ludicrous incident that we remember occurred the other day in an ordinarily solemn village in the cow counties. A worthy matron* who had been absent looking: after a vagrant cow, returned home, and pushing against the door found it obstructed: by some heavy substance, which, upon

He had been slaughtered by some roving joker who had wrought upon him with a pick-handle. To ono of his ears was pinned a scrap of greasy paper, upon which were scrambled the following sentiments in pencil tracks: "The inqulosed boddy is that uv old Bunker. Step litely, stranger, for yer lize tho mortil part uv wat yu mus be sum da. There arrest for the weary! If Bunker heddent wurket agin me for Corner I wuddent hed to sit on him. Ov such is tho kingum of hevvun. You don't want to moov this body til ime summuns to hold a ninduest. Orl flesh are

jras!" The ridiculous part of the story that the lady did not wait to summon the coroner, but took charge of the remains herself and in dragging them toward the bed she explodea into herself a shotgun, which had beon cunningly contrived to discharge by astring connected with the body. Thus sho was punished tor an infraction of tho law. The next day the particulars were told us by tho facetious coroner himself, whose jury had just rendered a verdict of accidental drowning in both cases. We do not know%hen we have enjoyed a heartier laugh at genuino California humor.—From the San Francisco News-Letter.

REMOVAL OF FRECKLES. Freckles, so persistently regular in their annual return, liavo'annoyed tho fair sex from time immemorial: and various means have beon devised to eradicate them, although thus far with no decidedly satisfactory results. Tho innumerable remedies in use for tho removal of theso vexatious intruders are either simple and harmless washes, such as parsley or horse-radish water, solutions of borax, etc., or Injurious nostrums, consisting principally of lead and morcury salts.

If the exaot cause of frecklos wero known, a remedy for thom might bo found. A chemist in Moravia observing the bleaching effect of mercurial preparations, inferred that the growth of a local parasitical fungus was tho cause of tho discoloration of the skin, which extended and ripened its poros in the warmer season. Knowing that sulpho-carbolato of zino is a deadly enemy to all parasitic vegetation (itself not being otherwise injurious), he applied this salt tor the purpose ofremovng tho freckles. Tho compound consists of two parts of sulpho-carbolato of zinc, twenty-five parts of distilled glycerine, twonty-fivo parts of roso-wator, and fivo parts of sconted alcohol, and is to be applied twice daily for from half an hour to an hour, then wash oft with cold water. Protection against the sun by veiling and other means is recommended, and in addition, for persons of palo complexion, some mild preparation of iron.

Tim CmcAoo Tribune relates thai when its vault and safe was opened everything was found intact, including a linen coat and a box of matches. Tho Detroit Post thinks that the presenoe of mind of the person who, when tho fire approached, deposited that box of matches among the (money and papors of the concern, for Security against fire, mark him as an invaluable em to havo in a first-class business urfW

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of matches by pifttllff!?'*R safe along with the money and other valuables. Tho manufacturer of tho Tribune's safe can well afford to nurchaso that box of matches, it I10 lias fco pay its weight in gold for it, and exhibtit as a specimen of the quality of his wares.

When Wendell Phillips was in Europe, thirty yoars ago, an eminent Frenchman said this, on tho eve of his departure for America: "Mons. Phillips, when shall we havo tho pleasure of seeing you aurain in France?" Tho reply of Mr. Phillips was: "I shall coino back wlen slavery is dead and woinonvote!" Tho Frenchman, then, with a courteous bow and a characteristic shrug, said, "Farewoil, then, forover." But my opinion is that tlio consummation of Mr. Phillips's prediction is near at hand I believe that women will voto in Massachusetts in fivo years. General Butler has given tho idea a good impetus, and thoroughly scared all tho old fogy politicians into at serious recognition of the movement.— James Iiedpath.

Rouon on thk Mayors.—'Wendell:' Phillips talks thus to tho bibulous Bostonlans: "If thero isn't statesmanship. and law, and morality, and Christianity enough to euro tho drinking-s habits ol our great cities, tho republic v-i is just as much fated to go down as tho Roman Republic was and your children will live to seo tho soldier on horsoback, or the aristocracy, fortified In wealth, who will tako possession of tho

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overnment. Every great city in tho States is ruled to-day by a mob. [Applause.] And thero isn't a Mayor from the citv of Boston to

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due west, who was not elected by the grog-shops of his own city. Not ono."

AccoKDINo to the Church Weekly, It Is no more strange that tho bread and wino in the Sacrament of tho Altar should beoomc tho very body and blood of Christ than that prayer should affect tho cure of disease or tho stay of pestilence.

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Sincothe great firo at Chicago, insurance companle* have worked faithfully and all are now known as substantial or busted." Haven* A Far!*, on Ohio street, rcprescat none but the nubstanttal. They are agents for three of the best companies In the world, the Fhnenlx, the International, and the North British. All persons wish- :j ing to Insure should Insure In these companies as they have been tried and stood th* test.

Citizens and strangers will save time and money going directly to the establishment of J. It freeman, Opera House building, for anything In the line of watcher, Jewelry, diamonds, sliver plated ware ami thousands of articles not enumerated. All goods warranted as represented.

V. G. Dickhout baa just received an Immense assortment of valises and men's pelisiers, one hundred and twenty varieties, ranging in "price from ono to twenty-five dollars. Dickhout keeps the largest stock of trunks in the State. All bis own iuanutaetore. Call at IM Main street.

Who don't appreciate a good disli of fresh oysters, rich and rare, Just from the Chesapeake Bay? You can get thern at Bheap'a, not two daysout of the sea. He ha* fitted np a fine saloon opposite the postofSre

where you can partake at anytimo. AJ ways ttmember Sheap for oyateni.