Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 February 1872 — Page 2

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ANECDOTE OF BYRON. When Lord Byron, attended by Lieutensnt EkAtibexd, swam over the Hellespont, the feat was performed on (bat part of the" channel where it might- be supposed that Leander had passed in hit- nightly visits to Hero. It appears that at tbe Dardanelles, the current is so rapid that it is impossible to land by swimming, or even by boat, precisely at the spot you wish. Lord Byron took bis departure from tbe Castle of Abydos, and reached tbe opposite shore three milts higher up than be bad purposed. During the passage, a boat was in attendance upon bim, so that he might be said to have incurred no risk upou that bead. Wbfn he reached the shore he was so much exhausted that he was glad to accept the hospitality of a Turkish fisherman by taking rest and refreshment at bis hut. Here his Lordship fell ill, and a violent access of fever succeeded. This circumstance was the more disiressinur, as bis friend Mr. Ekenliead, was under the necessity of repairing on board the frigate almost immediately, so that Lord Byron was lett alone with the good man and bis wife, who had so kindly administered to his necessities lrom the outset.. Tbe fisherman bad not the remotest idea ol his noble guest, but did all in his power for his accommodation and comfort, in which he was ably helped by his wife, and both together managed so well that in less than a week, his Lordship was convalescent, nor did the kind offices of his friends finish here. On bis Lordship embarking, his host provided him with a large loaf, some cheese, and a carate of wine, he make him also accept of some paras, —pieces of money, in value about 10d., —then prayed Allah for him, and bade him farewell.

At the time Lord Byron received those attentions lrom the Turk, he contented hirnftelt by returning him thanks simply but, arrived on the oilier side, he dispatched his faithful Stephano to present the fisherman on his part, a new aw-ori nientof nets, a rifle, a case of pistols, and half a score yards of silk for his dame. When the good man saw so manv treasures collected together, he exclaimed "What a magnificent picscnt lor so small a desert!" and determined next day on crossing the strait to make acknowledgements in person to Niephano's master. With this intention he takes to his boat, spreads tho sail, and was hardly well out into the channel when a squall out no on, enpasized his frail bark and the Ill-starred fisheiman, like the lover of old (Leander) sank to rise no more in the blue waters of the Hellespont. The distress

L«id Byron at this untoward

evt nt may be easily pictured. As soon ns the sad tidings were known, his Lordship forwarded the sum of fifty pounds to the widow, telling her that she might, on all occasions,depend upon him—a promise that Lord Byron, as long as he staid in the country, never forgot.

A STORY WITH A MORAL. Mr. Bones of tho firm of Fossil, Bones A' Co., was one of those rrmarkable money making men. whose uninterupled success in trade had been tho wonder, and afforded the material for the gossip of the town for seven years. Being of a familiar turn of mind, he was frequently interrogated on the subject, and invariably gave as the secret of success, that he ''minded his own business.

A gentleman met Mr. Bones on the Assanpink Bridge, lie was gazing intently on the dashing and forming waters us they fell over the dam. He was ovidentlv in a brown study. Ourf. iend ventured to disturb his cogitations.

Mr. Bones, tell me how to make a thousand dollars." Mr. Bones continued looking intently at the water. At length he replied ..."" Certainly."

Hero you may learn the secret of making money. That water would waste away and be of 110 practical use to anybody, but for the dam. That dam turn It to good account, makes it perform some useful purposes, and then sutlers it to pass along. That large paper mill is kpt in constant motion t)V this simple economy. Many mouths are fed in the manufacture of the article of pajer, and intelligence is scattered broadcast over tho land on tho sheets that are daily turned out and in tho different processes through which it passes, money is made. So it is in the living of hundreds of people. They get money enough. It passess through their hands every day, and at tho year's end tbey are no better ofT. What's tho reason? They want a dam. Their exoenditures are increasing, and no practical good Is attained. They want thein dammed up, so that nothing will pass through their hands without bringing something back—or accomplishing some useful purpose. Dam up your expenses, and you will soon have enough to occasionally spare little, Just like that dam. Look at it, my friend."

RIPE WOMANHOOD.

What is girlhood but the effervescence of life? And yet how many mourn its departure as the end of all happiness and enjoyment! Few girls have any conception of a ripe womanhood. Tbe bloom and flavor wasted in clinging richness and sweetness to the maturer years, Instead of the dim horiaon and leaden sky of the east, when the sun-rising ia long past, there Is the loftier dome and dearer radiance ol the meridian, If one keeps pace with the aun. "Alwaya strike your hour, save some writer. Every in life has its own possibilities. Why should we not be eager to catch each to Its season, sinoe such as these flower but once in a lifetime Why ahould we not gather Into ourselves the sweetness and variety of every change that comes to us? There is always something new and fresh in that character which opens to receive the finer touches of the Master's hand—that patient, loving hand which rests not day nor night, in spring-time nor harvest, bat Is ever muldTng, and chiselling, and polishing with divine skill the rare workmanship of his creative power. Ah I women who atU call yourselves only girls, cheat not yourselves of the golden ripeness ana rich fruitage of womanhood.

DAVKNFORT,

Iowa, lady amused

herself a tew evenings ago by diaguising herself in a ghostly manner, and gliding in the dead of night Into the bedruom of another lady, who immediately went Into convulsions, which so alarmed the masker that she swooned away. Both recovered after awhile, and the first went into a erase, and the second Into a mild attack of horrors. Tbey are considered out of danger now.

a Sabbath school concert In New Hampshire (or any other place, if more convenient), the pastor, who prided him*el on the quickness and cleverness of his little ones, said "Boys, when I heard your beautiftal song to-night, I had to work bard to keep my feet mill now what do yon think was tbe trouble with them f" The answer came with gnat promptness: "Chilblainth I'1

SEVEN MILES IN THE AIM. Messrs. Olaisher and Coxwell, tbe girfeat balloonists of England, at one ime rose to a region which bad never been visited before, and probably will not again soon. Their precis* elevation could never be known positively, but it was probably 37,000 feet, or seven miles. This fa moos ascent was made in 1882, from Wolverhampton. When the aeronauts had soared to a height of five or six miles, Mr. Glaisher suddenly discoveredltbat one arm was powerless, and when ne tried to move tbe other, it proved to have been as suddenly stripped of its strength. He then endeavored to shake himself, but, strange to say, be seemed to possess no limbs. His head fell on bis left shoulder, and upon his struggling to place it eaect, it reeled over to tbe right. Then his body sank backward against the side of the car, whilst one arm hung helplessly downward in tbe air. In a moment more he found that all the muscular power which remained in his neck and back had deserted bim at a stroke.

He tried to speak to bis companion, but the power of speech bad departed as well. Sight still continued, though dimly but this too, speedily vanished, and darkness black as midnight drowned his vision in an instant. Even consciousness itself remained only a short time, and he was utterly oblivious to everything. But, fortunately, this was not of long duration. He was roused by Mr. Coxwell, but at first could only hear a voice exhorting him to "try. Not a word could be speak, not an object could he see, not a limb could be move. In a while, however, sight returned shortly afterward be rose from bis seat, and found sufficient tongue to exclaim "I have been insensible!" To this his companion gave an affiimatiye response, and said that he himself had bec-n almost gone. At the time Mr. Glaisher was smitten with paralysis, Mr. Coxwell had climbed upto the ring of the balloon, in order to free the valve-rope, which had become entangled. There his hands were so frozen that he lost the use of them, and was compelled to drop down into the car. His fingers were not simply blue, but positively black, with cold, and it became necessary to pour brandy over them to restore the circulation. Observingon his return thatMr. Glaisher's countenance was devoid of animation, he spoke to him, but, receiving 110 reply, at once drew the conclusion that his companion was in a state of utter unconsciousness. He endeavored to approach, but found that he himself was lapsing into the same condition. With wonderful presence of mind, however, he attempted to open the valve of the balloon, in order that they might escape from this deadlv region, but his hands were too much benumbed to pull the rope. In this fearful extremity he seized the rope with bis teeth, dipped his head downward two or three times, and found, to his relief, that the machine was rapidly descending into a more genial sphere. Fortunately, the voyagers reached the ground in safety, without feeling any lasting mischief from their audacious excursion but it would be difficult to invent a scene better calculated to make the nervos shudder than that of a balloon floating at the height of nearly seven miles, with its occupants awaking from a state of insensibility to discover that their limbs were entirely powerless, that the rope which might enable them to descend was dangling beyond their reach, and that there they must remain until the cold, which had turned every drop of water into ice, should eat away the feeble relics of vitality from their frames.

COJTRTSirir FOR LIFE. Very much of the pleasuro of courtship comes from constant attention ol the parties to each other. Their affection voices itself in all possible ways. Every sentence is edged with a compliment, and spoken in tender tones. Every look is a confession. Every act is a new world in the exhaustless vocabulary ol love. Kiss and caress are parenthetic clauses and gestures in the dialect of love, and the gifts and sacrifices are the more emphatic expressions of tho spirit no language can fully articulate, and 110 devotion declare. And it is the fact that affection confesses it sell continually, in look, and word and act, making'tho voice musical, and fingers poetic in their touch and doing, that makes the experience so beautiful, the mily Eden many a woman has 011 earth.

I11 courtship nothing is taken for granted. Both parties are put on their good behavior. Love keeps itself fresh and active by constant expression in word and act. But, strange' to say, the courtship usually ends with marriage. Very soon both parties yield to the sense of possession, aud a feeling of security robs gallantry of motive, and extracts the poetry from the iniud. Tbe beautiful attentions which were so pleasing before marriage are too often forgotten afterwards, tbe gifts cease, or come only with the asking the music dies out of the voice everything is taken for granted, and the love that, like the silver jet of the fountain, leaped to heaven, denied its natural outlet, ceases to flow altogether. Then come dull, heavy, hard days, with two unbappinesses tied together, wishing themselves apart, and not alwaya content with merely wishing. .This is unnatural, unwise and wrong. Wbat our married life wants to give It a new tone and sweetness, is more of the manner as well as the spirit of the courting time. Love must have an expression or it will die. It can be kept forever beautiful and blessed as at the first, by giving it constant utterance by word aad act. Tbe more It is allowed to flow out in deitcate attentions and noble service, the stronger, and more satisfying, and more blessed it will bea The house becomes home only when love drops its heavenly manain fresh •very day, and the true marriage vow Is made not onco lor all at the altar, but by loving worda, and helpful service, and delicate attentions to tbe end.

THK PROPBR THIMO

To Do.—"It Is

considered quite tbe thing now-s-days to wave the head whenever yoa attend a musical entertainment, and if yoo attend a musical entertainment, and If you can impart a slight oscillatory motion to the body so tnat yoo can make It prominently Known to the audience that you are enraptured, and that your entire being Is given op the delirium of the sweet accord .you are so re of making a greater impression. There la nothing so pleasing to the looker-on as tbe satisfaction of having to ait behind one of these genteel wavers. We saw several of these last evening, and tbey reminded oa of a poor afflicted 8t, VI us dancer. We Indorse the wave, though, because it Is the sign of a poetic soul.'* —(Savannah Advertiser.

A ooRB«ro»Mirr divides brides into two classes, theaeriousand the smiling. Tbe first enters with a queenly step, and terms to say. "Dnn'i look at me. Don't yoo see I'm married, and t» at those day* are over The other co*n*s op smiling, as much aa to sav. "I've landed him. Is it not good fan?"

TFRRE-HAUTE SATURDAY RVENINO MATT, FEBRUARY 24.1872.

2HE "ROUGH HOUSE OF HAMBURG." Tbe "Rough House of Hamburg** is •n institution which our philanthropists would do well to stndy. Forty yeara •go. Hamburg was renowned for Mug the wickedest city in th« world.

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vice was more open, its materialism grosser, snd its leligion more of a sbam." The only hope of reform was among tbe younger classes of criminals. A few spasmodic efforts were made to teach and refine them, but all in vain, until at length even these were given up, and respectable Hamburg folded its hands and wondered at tbe wickedness of its neighbors. Then a certain immanuel Wlchern, firm of purpose, and believing in the old maxim, "Desperate courage makes one a majority," put bis band the work and carried it through. The enterprise, like tbe famous Refuge of Frits Muller, has never asked for State or individual aid, and has always been amply supported. In October, 1862, Immanuel Wichern and his mother opened the the doors of a small cottage, known as "Das Raube Haus," announced their purpose, and waited. At the end of a wet k, three boys bad come at the end of two months, there were twelve,—all that the house could hold. Their ages varied from five to eighteen, and they were unfortunately steeped in crime. Such a band of prematurely developed rascals was probably never collected together before. Wlchern was a sentimenti.list,and the only ruleofthe Rough House as love. There was no restraint the inmates came and went at will. A hi^h wall which surrounded tbe grounds WHS removed, in order that there should not be even the semblance of forcible control. At the end of a year, the first twelve boys were reformed. Applications for admission poured in,and the twelve built tin inselves a new house, and gave up the old one to the newcomers. Then a house was built for girls. The day it was finished it was filled —mid filled with the vilest of the vile. The boys had given trouble enough, but the girls were far more wicked and unmanageable. But Wichern 's sentimentaiisni conquered here, too. From that time to this, the Rough House of Hamburg has pressed on in its triumphant career. It now consists of tliirty-eigbt separate houses, owns 400 acres ol land, and educates yearly more than 1,100 boys and gills. Ol its 43,000 graduates, not more than five per cent, have fallen. It has given rise to more than 800 similar reformatories in Prussia. Of these, that of Berlin, founded in 1858, is ihe largest, and keeps busy, merely in the work of BUperintehdence, forty-eight men. The order of the "Knights of St. John," of which WQ heard so much during the Feanco-German war, was founded at the Rough House of Hamburg, and now controlls all the kindred institutions in the country. Immanuel Wichern is still at the head of affairs. It might be worth our while to try the effect, of such a scheme here, instead of making our so-called Reform Schools traing-schools for crinie? and instead of discharging from our prisons, year after year, men more wicked than when they entered within their walls. Our present system of restraining crime is far from a success, and we may go farther mid faro worse than we should b}' adopting forthwith the plan of the Rough House of Hamburg.

THE SUN.

A correspondent of the Oneida Circular says that Professor Young, of Dartmouth, in a recent lecture at New Haven upon the great luminary, imparted much interesting information. The theory which he most seemed to favor respecting the sun's constitution, he illustrated very simply thus: Put a pail of water in a room, the temperature of which is below the freezing point the temperature of the waler settles slowly till it roaches 32°, and tl ere remains till every drop is frozen. The sun may be a vast quantity of merely gaseous matter, which is gradually liquefying, and accordingly will not change its temperature till this process is entirely accomplished then tho temperature will fall, perhaps thousands ol degrees, till solidification begins, when it will again remain stationary. One authority believes the sun to be" surrounded wifh a liquid coat already, and the sun spots are places where the surrounding inetalic clouds have opened, and we see the liquid surface below it. The theory that the sun's heat is kept up by matter constantly falling into it, he doubts, arguing tnat, if such masses of matter existed outside of the sun, tbey would exert some slight influence on the surrounding planets, no evidenceof which is discernible.

Speaking of iron, he said if the word were written in great letters across the sun's face, the proof of its existence there would not be so satisfactory as that afforded by the spectrum. He pointed out lines in the spectrum made by metals which exist in the sun, though entirely unkown to us.

He gave several illustrations of the beat or the sun. If a pillar of ice covering niue square miles extended from the earth to tbe sun. and all the heat of tbe latter should be directed upon it, the whole mass would be melted in exactly one second. If an Icicle forty-five miles in diameter were to be thrust into the sun with the velocity of light, ssy twelve million miles a minute, it could never touch the sun it would melt as soon ss it came. Still, physicists are aa yet unable to determine the exact temperature, one placing it at 67,000° Fabr., another at 20,000,000° Fabr.—some difference. [London (January 23d) Correspondence of tbe

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THE ATLANTIC CABLES. We are disturbed here in London by statement that tbe Atlantic cables are in such a defective condition that tbe communication ij endangered. As numerous interests are involved. It la difficult to obtain tbe troth. I am aaaored, however, that the government lately appointed a commission of distinguished electricians to examine the cable* and report upon them previously to a negotiation for their purchase, ana this report Is stated to be alarmingly unfavorable. Tbe companiea reply that tbe defects are near the land, and can easily be stopped. But do not be surprised if

ou are soddenly cot off from Europe. feels inclined to ssy thst the inconvenience will be richly doe to America, for aopinely allowing the work to remain In tbe hands ofa board of monopolists. The secret history of the "Atlantic Cable Ring" Is scandalous and why Ameriia«« should lesve us on this side to disoover a remedy, I am unable to understand. Are there no cables constructed in the Mates? no vessels In the nsvy that could be trusted with the work There should be fifty cables Instead of three and messsges ought to psas to sod fro at the rate of a ahilling a word.

TMsJDenbory News telle of a boosy ehap at a party who succeeded in disguising his condition until tbe apples were brought arouud. When be saw them his emotion overcame him. "What!** he exclaimed "appl«aat this season? Are they ripe?**

UHI'RINCJPLhD\ REVhNQE. A friend and myself got on board an express trsin one afternoon to make short trip. The car we entered was lull. Only one vacant seat, In feet, and that was alongaide or a very charming young Indy. J?rlt®d And I eacb in®d© a dash for that very desirable vacant aeat. It isn't a fair thing to do, aa a general, thing, to trip a friend, bnt It was allowable under tbe slightest trip in tbe world, just enough to give me the start of him and obtain the crovetet seat. My friend took a seat on the wood box, and looked disconsolate enough. I think I added to his discomfiture by certain triumphant nods, win^s and motions in which I indulged. Tbe young lady was attractive, aud some casual remarks dropped on one side or the other young lolks will drop a remark occasionally, and are more ready to pick it up again than old ones —afforded an opportunity to glide easily and pleasantly into conversation.

She was witty and sprightly, and I grew unusually brilliant that is, to the best of my recollection attbissomewbat remote day. My friend observing this looked madder then ever. At length we reached a station where tbe train stopped a moment. My friend abdicated the wood-box and rushed out on the platform. Suddenly he returned, and coming quickly to me seized me by tbe collar and said in a tone heard all through the car:

Quick, now get right off here. You can get a job here just as well as not. Tbey tell me there is only one shoemaker in the place, and 4ots of work.

So take your kit and get off before the train starts. No use of looking auy furtlierforwork. Trampingallaround the country for a job of slioemaking won't pay. Tako work where you find it. That's my motto."

He almost forced me out of the seat with his vehemence, and if I hadn't made a vigorous resistance he would have had me out on the platlorm. The young lady gave me one look of supreme disgust—a tramping jour, shoemaker!—then directed her gaze out of the window, and kept it there for the remainder of the journey. My friend remounted the wood-box, and indulged in such a series of fiendish grins and malignant chuckles as would have justified me in hurling him from tho car, only I was too stupefied by tho proceeding to proceed against him. When I left the car the young lady looked to see if I hadn't forgotten my "kit," and I am satisfied she thought I had got on to "kick for a job" as they say in shoemaker parlance.—['Oris." in theTiniesChronicle.

HOW GOSSIP I NCR EA SES. How gossip increases and grows till it gets into genuine scandal, and is entirely different from the original story, is told by a London letter-writer. He says, that he was told, if he ever took a house in a terrace a ltttle way out of town, to be very carelul that it was the centre one, at least if he had any regard for his reputation. For one must be well aware that a story never loses by telling, and, consequently, if he lived in the middle of a row of houses it was very clear that tales which might be circulated to his prejudice would only have half the distance to travel on either side of him, and therefore could only be half as bad by the time they got down to the bottom of the terrace, as the tales that might be circulated of the wretched individuals who had the misfortune to live at either end of it so that he would bo certain to have twice as j:ood a character in the neighborhood as they lia:l. As an illustration of this, he was informed of a lamentable case that actually occurred a short time since. The servant of No. 1 told the servant at No. 2 that her master expected his old friends, the Baylevs, to pay hiiii a visit shortly and No. 2 told 'No. 3 that No. 1 expected to have the Bayleys in the house every day and No. 3told No. 4that it w'as all up with No. 1, for they couldn't keep the bailiffs out, Whereupon No. 4 told No. 5 that the officers were after No. 1, and that it was as much as he could do to prevent himself being taken in execution, and that it was nearly killing his poor dear wife and so it went 011 increasing, and increasing, until it got to No. 32, who confidently assured the last houso, No. 33, that tho Bow Street officers had taken up the gentleman who lived at No. 1, for killing his Foor dear wife with arsenic, and that it was confidently hoped and expected that he would be executed.

ONLY A TRIFL E, SIR. "That's right," said we to our friend Simpkins, the baker, as the sickly looking widow ol Harry Walkins went out of his shop door with a loaf of bread which he had given her—"that's right, Siinpkir.s I am glad you are helping tbe poor creature, for she has had a hard time of it since Harry died, and her health has failed her." "Hard enough, sir, bard enough and I am glad to help her, though what I Hive her don't cost much—only a trifle, sir!"

How often does she come? "Only three times a week. I told her to come oftener, if she needed to, but she says three loaves are plenty for her and her little one, with what she gets by sewing."

And have yoo any more soch easterners, Simpkins "Only two or three, sir." "Only two or three! why it mast be qaite a tax upon your profits." "Ob, no, not so much aa you suppose altogether, it amoonts to only a trifle, •ir-

We could but smile as our friend repeated these words but afterwards we fell to thinking how much good he Is doing with "only a trifle." He •uppliea three or four families with the bread tbey eat from day to day, and though the actual cost for a year shows bat a small sum in dollars snd cents, the benefit conferred is by no means a small one. A six-pence to a man who has plenty to "eat and drink, and wherewithal to be clothed," is nothing, but is something to one on the verge of starvation. And we know not how moch good we are doing when we give "only a trifle" to good object.

MASSACHUSETTS

woman lately de

ceased, before her death, in order to eep her memory green In the mind of her husband, wrote a number of letters which she poet-dated and confided them on her aeath-bed to a friend, with directions to poet one to him on the last day of every month. In tbe 8pring-time of bis mourning the husband waa rather glad to receive these paeodo communication* from the spirit world, bat when time had cooled tbe heart burnings of his grief and another woman presided at his table tbe postman'a arrival with a posthumous letter at the end of each lunar revolution became very malapropos and qaite destroyed, with its dismal memories, tbe plsasores of his new honeymoon. His freshly cboeen bride, too, became jealous of these mysterious missives snd threatened to tear out tbe eyes of their author, bat on being told who the author was, contented^herself with bora* log the epistolatory productions of her predecessor aa often as they came.

THE NAVY OF THE I VJVRF. When the Navy estimates for 1872-3 sre laid up«n the table of tbe HotuMOt Commons, we. understand It la very probable that they'will be found to contain provision for the conatruction of a vessel tbe sruin ment of which will consist of torpedo artillery carried below the water line. Some time since, trials were made with tbe Whitehead fish torpedo, onder conditions, entered into between tbe inventor and tbe Government of tbia country, that .f tbe torpedo proved to be as effective upon trial ss it waa asserted to be by its inventor the latter should receive the sum of £15,000, the Government obtaining the right to the use of the torpodo as part of the national armament. Upon its trial, the torpedo exhibited

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owers exceeding those which bad claimed for it by its inventor, and he received from tbe Government the sum agreed upon. As it is to further test the torpedo as a new form of sea artillery that the new vessel will be constructed, we may presume that she will, as a test vessel, be of very limited dimensions. "The facts of the great success which attended tbe trials of this torpedo, that tbe Government has paid so large a sum for it, and that tbe Admiralty are about to construct a vessel to test its merits as a new form of submarine artillery for our fleets, would appear to indicate that little or no doubt is entertained of its successful application. If it should be foun in practical work that a ship can thus carry her battery of torpedo guns at required distance below her water line, or say from seven to 12 feet below her line of flotation, the nation will be committed to another reconstruction of its navy. Armor plating will have to be extended to ships' bottoms and not cease at their top sides while chain cables, coals, provisions, etc., will then, in ail seeming probability, hi-ve to be stored above the level of tbe ship's water line, and in about the positions where she now carries her guns."

The foregoing from the London Times indicates that a wide field for invention in the naval line is open for ingenious minds. The London Engineer in a recent number makes the following frank avowal concerning 'he British navy: "It is certain \hut we have not a single ironclad afloat that cannot be penetrated by shot and shell at close range, while the majority of our ironclads are not invulnerable save at a range of a mile and a half. Such a thing as an absolutely impregnable ship or turret has at this moment no existence."

Wbat is true of the British navy is also true of every navy in the world. Now, where is the new invention which shall remedy this state of things, to come from It can onlv be developed by the persevering stucly of ingenious persons. Not power, position, influence or riches can bring out a new discovery. Thought, persevering thought, is the true mother of progress. For the revelation of the most brilliant secrets, we most generally look to obscure persons of simple habits, humble minds, in lowly places. But the comfortably situated, well-to-do individual, havingconceit of knowledge, is rarely original. The poor inventor has a clear road before nim. 'T

CONFIDENCE OPERATORS FOILED. George Hamilton, a big burly Scotchman from Dumfriesshire, arrived in New York city last week in the Glasgow steamer. Before coming, he had made himself injpart acquainted by dilligent perusal of New York newspapers with the ways of the city. The knowledge thus acquired added to his natural shrewdness and great courage, made him rather a dangerous pigeon for the confidence operators to attempt to pluck. In west street at the foot of Dey, he paused for a moment to look around hiin. Three well dressed men approached him from behind. One of them touched him on the arm. The man held in his hand an open pocket book stuffed with greenbacks. He elevated the pocket book until it was under the Scotchman's nose, and said:

Frien, you nave just dropped your pocket book." "Ye dinna sny HO," Hamilton exclaimed, gazing ai the greenbacks, and preparing to grasp the book.

Slay, friend,'' said the man, closing the book and holding it behind him, "you see it is our duty to give this book to the police, and then it would cost you some trouble and money to get it. Me and my friends here, however saw you drop it, and if you'll give us a $20 bill we'll hand it to you without more bother.

By this time the three men had gathered in front of Hamilton. Hamilton raised bis hand as though to put it into his side pocket. "Ye thiev'n divils!" he exclaimed, and drawing off before tbe astonished men could comprehend his intention, be planted his fists right and left in the faces of two of them, and sent the third reeling into the gutter, with such a kick as only a brawny Scot who has made the leather ball fly on the links of Dumfries could have administered. The confidence men picked themselves up and went ofT in a hurry.

Fient a pocket book I niver bad i' my hale exeestence." said tbe Scot to tbe bystanders, "I n'ard o' tbe game afore, though, an* nane o' tbe rievin' sooundrels are gangin' to make a fule o' me, de'il tak'"em!"

WAJTTKD A DKPOSIT.—A

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a man went into a shoe shop to get a pair of boots, when a working man came in and asked tbe shoemaker to measure him for a pair of boots, which Joe of course at once proceeded to do. Having measured him, who wore a number eleven boot, Joe told him that he wanted a deposit on the boots, or ratber asked him in tiiis way: "Do you want to make a depoeit on yonr boots?" This worried the man very much, for he did not like to say that he did not know what that meant. He began to scratch his bead, and then said, "Well, no yoa needn't make any deposit on 'em." Joe then commenced to get mad because the man could not understand him, and said "You will have to make a deposit on them. "Well,** said tbe man, "If yoo have to do it why 1 guess you can put it on. But how moch doee yoo charge for it I don't want to pay much extra, for I think tbe boots would last me Jest ss long without a deposit on 'em.*' After indulging in a lsugh, the matter was explained by telling the man that Joe wanted him to leave some money, so thst be would be sure to take the boots. This he did after reflecting a moment and he Is now enjoying his new boots without any deposit on 'em.

J. Cvmrnaarr, of Galena, has a copy of tbe "Breeches Bible," published in 1578, or two hundred aud ninety-four yeara ago. which he obtained of Hsthaa Firth, Cascade, Dubuque county, Iowa. It wss in tbe Firth femily in England before the days of tbe Commonwealth. In the third chapter of Genesis, seventh verse, we are informed that our first parents took "fiigge leave* and made themMlvM breeches."

AN OLD QLOWN ON BIS PIiiCfc FEtsblON. Yoo ask me to me to U)| you shoot the clowns of the pieten day, Bin That's easy don*, in a very few words —there ain't any. Hanged a one on the boards or in the'aawdust. I was the last of them sll, I could go on sgain If chose but I won*t. Authors of pantomimes Interfere with my written scences. snd that I won't stand. I'll go to business sooner. What is wanted in a clown Is gag, and a real clown onght to be up to any amount of improvised gsg. I can't see a clown now, Sir, who could answer a costermonger. What did I mean by g*gf Well I will give you an instance. 1 wasplaying clown at a certain great circussome thirty years ago, and we had a troupe of young Americans brought over by a long-wiuded father. Tb6 father came into tbe ring and made a speech, aud a very dull one. All this time I was left witb a hoop covered with silver paper in my hand for one of the young men to jump through. All tbe'time tbe American was speaking, I stood behind bim, fanning myself with tbe balloon and imitating bim in his actions, which kept the gallery on the laugh to his great wonder. At'lastbe wound up by saying that a horse mail was "nascitur non fit." When he said that, I burst the balloon over bis head, leaving tbe hoop 011 bis bips, and ran for my life, bringing tbe h»use down with a roar. I was fetched back, of course, by the master of the ring, and I came back with my pockets inside out, to show that I had not stolen the American's money. Whereat there was another roar. "What do you mean by this conduct, Sir?" says the master "and why did you run away?" "I ran away to save my character," I said, "and the American geutleman said that the young man was nasty and not fit' (nascitur non Jit.") That's poor fun, you say but it is better than you get nowadays, and not a word of it came into my mind until the American began speechifying not one word wn» put down. The Governor wanted me to do it again the day after, bnt I had had words with the American about doing it at all, and I refused. Gag is^ gag, I said to the Governor, it comes into your head all at once and tho audiences then wanted real gag, and did not care to see tliesaine thing twice Now, audiences will see the same thing a dozen times over, as they do Dundreary, and never iret tired, though, mind you, Sir, Mr. Sol hern himself has afresh piece on every night. What a clown wants is gag. and there ain't a clown on the stage now who is ready with his tongue. You remember Tom Barry, Sir, at Rowe's Circus, in Melbourne. He made JE8,000 there and they tell me that some of you gent^ rode 500 miles to see him. Well, I don't expect there ever was a greater duffer on tho face of the earth, as a clown, than Tom Barry. It seems to me that Australian gentlemen would stand anything at that time. Tom could do nothing when he was on, except play the fiddle badly but off there was no one like Toin the wittiest man I over met. Tom Matthews was tolerable at gag) but, with the exception of myself and Joo Griinaldi, I have never heard a don 11 who could hold his own without his part unstudied.

How are we educated in our profession Well. Sir, the fact is that wo arenot educated at all. You might as well try to make a novelist or poet as to make a clown. "Nascitur non Jit," as the American, who gave me my first chance ns a clown, said. Thero are men 011 the stage now who call themselves clowns, but you don't get tboreal old article, any more than you get the public who will appreciate him and encourage him. The clowns of tho present day have mostly been Harlequins and there's a pretty education lor a clown! Why, they'll bo having female Harlequins next but I neverheard any one tell of a female clown. I call no man a clown who can't answer the gallery. What do I mean by answering the gallery? Why, look here, Kir. I was playing clown at Bristol, and coming on 1 knocked my wig and tassels off, leaving 1110 with my bare In ad. "Hallo!" says a young chap in tho gallery, "the clown has got the'county crop'"—meaning that my hair was cut close, as in jail—and thero was a laugh against me but I turned and said, "That's true, young 'nil I'm only just out Iseoyour sister there ana she sent her love." That is what I call answering the gallery. C'oarso, you say, Sir! Why, 110. We can't bo coarse, in a certain sense, if we would. Coarseness is utterly impossible in England. The slightest hint at impurity of any kind would empty a theatre at once. Our audiences will not stand it for a moment. Tbe Victoria audience may be rough and ready, but I should be sorry to risk my skin by one word of coarseness there. As for answering the gallery, you musn't do it too often, or they look for it.—[The. Echo.

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would seem to prove that a trip over tho Niagara Falls is not so very dangerous after all. A Mr. Shaw, living in tbe vicinity of the Falls, had a dog of the bull-terrier breed, who, on account of his vicious propensities.—biting every on4 who happened to come in bis way—he determined to got rid of. To this end he procured a rope, and tying tbe dog's besd snd feet together, threw him into the river above the Falls, and watched him till he saw bim go over. On his return home, an hoar afterwards, the first living thing that greeted bis sppearanoe was his csnine friend, who spprosched bim wagging his tail in tbe most friendly msnner, as if nothing bad happened.

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