Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 256, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 April 1876 — Page 2
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Tlie Son&oftlie Shirt. Witb a utch bv way of po'e, "VKitli artistic fJ'Uter and flirt., A fclenator in he Senate sat, vVaving th* ttloody Shirt.
Wave, wave, wave,
Bellow, bluster aid blurt, Ami thus, with an acrimonious voice, lie saeg the Hong ot the shirt. It's wave, wave, wave
With initrlciaal hand. ftnp wave, wave, wavf, ffl peace forsafe es the laud, What euro I if iha gong
JL'pound be out oi tune, So ions *s io t. t.'ae delegates danc-i At CineWi'.iati in Juije. "Let lor on-j blessed hour these S3 clonal hatreds ceaso: Shall tliMKWor.i forever devour 'Let us''they cry, have peace.' Sprung ironi ill selfsame loins.
Why should ntrifn between us bt?: Mot peace, but WHJ'S) the thing needfu! for, Kellogg. HLJ .npencer and me. "O, men with sense, clt aV,
O men alleged to have Drains, Draught assess ye that tut the ir, us Mortous, BoutwellF, blaiaea. The vilest thiei ihat walks 'the capito.l's streets goesclear, An' he will i' stiontjlic has bean found out,
By a rebal brigadier. 'There's Bibcock, Belknap, Grant, Shepherd, Kobe-.ou, Ain^s, Spencer and liavs 1 uhatiV
Prolog the list of Names. They Inul Hie nat'on's flag. Through ^bbery'sduHtaud dirt, Bui no one h«ei.'S their rank inixdueds
Whenl wave the Bloody Shirt. "Of Mrs, PotinV:ar Curtls's song, v£' recks thepuUiug strut m? When human
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is BVrong ...
How wttk are iiurhan brains! What time we jousethe land \^ith p-ophecy, falshood, CUISF, No shudi.iring tax-payer teels tlie hand
Tfiatslily pioKs his pur^e."
•And so, with lils crutch for a pole, With devi irth flutter and flir A Senator in tne Senate sat,
Waving t!i* b'.oody SnirtWive wave, wave Bellow, bluster, blurt, Wl"th a strident, acrnr.onious voice,
He saug lha S.ug of the Shirt,
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11IS HONOR AND BIJiK.
An Hour tct the Central. Sfalion C^urt. It was a boy wha was as near bald* headed aa a boy evlr gets. He carried a long, sallow face, his voice w»» a whine, and it seemed as if April, and blu« birds and mud had lio charms for him. He was the first caller at tue station, and when Bijah asked'him what his great hurry was the lad answered "Come down to see you practice on roller skate*."
The old man smoothed liia bruiaed elbows, felt of the bump on the back of""his head, remembered how he skated iu six different directions at once, and lis picked the boy up, dropped him through the open alley •window and said "Them 'ere boys of this 'ere generation need a little more of that 'ere •did'Jashioned training!"
A ITINE START.
Court opened beautifully on the case of John E. Strong, a sailor, who arrived at this port a little too early to securo a berth, but none too early to go on a bender und raise caifi around a whole block. "Ever here before snapped hi3 Honor. "Yea'r." "Is this the way you intend to keen on all summer? "Yes'r."
"Want to ask any questions' "No sir." '•Satisfied with sixty days "Yes'r." "Step in and sit down for about twenty minutes, when the Black •faria will land you where top-sails, hanker-booma, cables, jib-booms '•Dd whisky are as scarce as good eth in Wisconsin." 5
A SET BACK.
Perry Gordon, a fat man with ed face, came ont in beautiful style, nut got mad at th9 start and disap*
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tnted those who thought he'd take trial meekly, and submissively. *'Drunk or not drunk?" asked the COflirt.
Perry did not sa,y. "I)runk or not drunk? Perry stuck up his nose. "Why dou't you answer?" exclaim ed the court. .... "Why don'11 jump over this house 1 veiled Perry. "What odds is it to vou or any other man if I was drunk? jfcm't I own myself, and dldn I pay^ for my drinks?" "Tou must answer my question Mrl Gordon." answer no man's questions when I don't want to! My head aches and I don't want to talk!"
,rVery
well, sir-I'll send you to
the house of Correction." "I'd like to see it done without iurv iriaH" answered^erry.
He sa*w it done. He had lived out two-thirds of his alloted days, and he thought he Uad seen everything worth seeint but he was mistaken. He kicked Bij*h on the shins, and Srewise fiit Bijah under the ear vfiile being promenaded into the ffior buft£en Bijah had rather jelyckedand struck than to be let lone. *••'&
A NEW OBJECTION, -'j .,],!
Henry Slathers stepped into one of dotations Friday afternbon, looked wound at the- beautiful collection Of {token batons aud old belts, and in# A, anired if the captain couldn get
JSim a Job in the House of CorrectXT The captain thought he could,
id* out him behind the bars. (Ban vou want to go to the House 'T»O you oahrpd his
"What kind of work cautiously inquired the prisoner. ••Oh, aaakiug chairs, shoes, or something of the kind "How much a month "I don't think you'll get any cash out of it," said the court, smiling as
Eight lines solid Nonpf.riel constitute a raare. Kearly ndvertistrs will be allowed loiithly changes of matter, free of charpe. u.oa(]|y'as the law permits. Tjle rates of advertising in the WEEKLY won't go reDlied the iXTK^vili be halt the rates charged I lneu won go.repileu uie
JAILT. prisoner. "I'll lay around town all •vertieements iu both the DAILY and
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|JFE before I'll work for any man
SCOT, will be charged full Daily rates I fnr nothine!" Tritg^in^F^nemTNoUces51.00. "This is a" case where you can't he Siety Meetings and Religious Notices very particular, Mr. Slathers. You'll j^^Shts each insertion. have to co whether you want to or ants. For Sale. For Rent, Lo*t. Fonnd, uave five lines tor 25 cents, each insertion,, not. ,. each additional line 5 cents. I "I object to the society up I':ere, al Notices. 18 cents per line, atst
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the prisoner, and it took quite
a deal of "reasoning anJ several threats to make him sit down and be quiet.
JOHN JOHN'S JOKE.
John Johns, a young man who came from Chicago to work at house painting, was slashing the paint on to a house on Fort street, when an old man cauie along and stopped to see the improvement in color. John John spilled some paint on the old man's hat to reward his public enterprise and give him a stylish look. Some hard words followed, John Jonhs received a black eye, and when he went to rub some whisky on it, the liquor didn't get up further than his throat. He went out on the street, fell down, and by and by the Central station had another sleeper behind the bars. "Jobn Johns, are you a joker?" asked the court. "Xo sir—no, sir." "Did you spill that paint on his hat during the period ol absent-minded-ness?" -Yes, sir I did sir." "Have you any heavy burdens of care on your mind "Lots of 'em, sir." "Namo some of them."
He couldn't do it, and he had to pay over enough cash to buy the old man a new hat and pay the people of the State of Michigan lor tbeir trouble in arresting him.
TWO O'CLOCK.
An old stager named George BurliDgaino had neither m'oney or influential friends, and realizing that the chances of bis getting into a feather bed Friday night W6re not good, he concluded to sleep away the day and walk around at night. He crept into a warehouse on Atwater street and slumbored until two in the afternoon, when he roused up and imagined that he had slumbered for a year. He went out on the street and asked a pedestrian what time it was. The man said it was about two o'clock, and Burlingame called him a Har and a pawnbroker, and was knocked down for using such bad English. He was lighting three men from Canada when arrested, and they were putting in some heavy leftbanders for the benor of Queen Victoria and the cross of St: Geor^o. ''What :-ort of a way is that to open the aummer?" demanded the court whpn the tes imony was all in. "I'm only a poor boy traveling around a little," protested the prisoner. "If you could see the corns I have on my feet you wouldn't say two mean words to me!" '•Where do you belong?" "All over. I belong to the whole United States, and "everybody likes me." "Well, I'm going to put you on track of a good thing," remarked his Honor. "Bless you for a kind-u^-vo^oir] angel. What is it, now?"' "Soap and water and a place to sleep!" "You needn't mind," protested the prisoner. "When I want soap and water I can buy 'em, aud I don't want any of your beds to sleep on." "They will use one hundred gallons of water and twenty pounds of soap on you before high noon to-day," said the court,- "and when they get through you won't know yourself." "Do you want 'em to kill me?" ask ed the prisoner.
He took the sentence very much to heart, and when he returned to the corridor be kicked the coal-scuttle sky high and said he didn't care if Mexico whipped this country all to pieces before the 1st of May
Nursery Souseuse,
The Ladies' Journal, noticing the the first appearance- of a new boy, says, "it slid down: a rift of sun" shine."
Happiness comes and goes like the flowers of spring, and a boy no sooner fiuds where the preserve jar is hidden, then his mother toies it away to another corner.
San Fraucisco has adjourned her schools for want of money. The children now go around throwing stones at heathen Chinese to their hearts' content.
Young men have no reasonable ex cu3e for not getting married this season Besides this being leap year, baby perambulators, with four wheels are down as low as four dollars.
It is an interresting problem for philosophers, why the average small boys never takes his handkerchiaf more than half out his pocket when he wipes his nose
There was some excitement in "a Pennsylvania Sunday school the other Sunday when a little boy who?e teacher had seuthim'home for her class cards which she had forgotten, returned in breathless triumph brandishing a eucre deck, with the joker on top.
If you come across a boy dropping hot glue on a cat's back, or fastening an old bird cage to a dog's tail, and reproachfully ask him, "sonny, do you want to grow up and be a cabinet minister?" it's just what you ex pected when he impetuously an 8wets: "You bet I do."
An English writer declares laughter to be an absurd and uncomfortable habit. He would have nothing more hearty than a smile. His opinion of the origin of laughter is that it resulted from the practice of tickling
babies, which practice has made it a confirmed habit on the pait of the
human race. L' Why Tiiey Hare®' Tbe little daughter of a Detroit family was the other day expressing the wish tbat her people oould have a piano, ane when asked why she didn't get one she explaJned:. "Well, we got one, and the tone didn't suit. Then we got another and the legs didn't suit/ Then we another, and we didn't l'ke the founding-^- Whence got the lit one it was all right, but the man took it away because pa couldn't nav forit. We've been to all the places in town, and pa will have to r*M» tia
places iu
ofCorrection do J™ asfcea fU8 one for us. ttgpor
Selected Miarps.
The spring style of hand organs is out. A Concord (Jf. man tried a long time to open the first postal card he ever received.
Why should It be ea^y to break into an old man's house? Because his gait is broken and his locks are few.
How to convert brains into money is a problem for scieuce. Money has never yet made brains.
Society," says Sam Slick, "is like a pork barrel—the middle good, but the top a^id bottom a leetl9 tainted."
Eggs in-oertain iuaccessille paris of Nt-braska three cents a.dozen. New Orleans had nine murders in thA A^tj^ehty.-oue days jta^Marcb./ ft has oeen found tjh'at-nearly in every civilized country the tree that bears the most fruit for market is the axle-tree.
We ought to live, says Dr., H*!!, five times as long as it takes to get our growth. We ought to weigh twenty times as much at thirty-five as on the day we were born.
It may seem a paradox, but it is nevertheless a truth, tbat, hit a man upon whatever part of the body you will, the blow is sure to go against his stomach.
In New Hampshire there is a musket that oas been heavily loaded with buckshot for two hundred years. The man tbat loaded it ifi not living now. And the man who fires it oft will not live long afterwards.
A shark has to turn over on his back when he bites, because his mouth is where his necktie ought to be. When Paul Boyton was attacked by a twenty loot shark he laid down ou his back on the bottom of tlie s^a and laughed at the fish which could not get at him.
An old farmer say3 of his boys: "From sixteen to twenty they knew more than I did at twenty-five they knew as much thirty they were wilting to hear what I had to say at thirtyfive taey asked my advice, aud I think when they g8c to be forty they will ac* knowledge that ihe old man knows something,"
The "most sublime of sublunary things is Hoosier rhetoric. One of the gifted Hopkinses of that realm e'oquently alludes to a neighbor as "that walking cyclopedia of billingsgate and crystallisation
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benzine that holds
bacchanalian revelries about the haunted purlieus of Greenville, and presides vor the prosy columns of the Democrat,"
Message and reply sent and received at a Waterbury, Conn., telegraph office "lam dying come as soon as you can." "I cannot come when you die, let me know." That can be discounted by messages recived and sent through the teldgraph office in this city: "Coine at onca, Folly is dying." Answer: "CATI'D come tell the old lady to brace up and die game."
The grasshopper blossoms sweetly on the edge of a Minnesota snow-drift. He has already got so that he can sit up on his elbow and lay half a pint of eggs in one afternoon. And while he lavs he looks solemn aud thoughtful, as" if be wasn't doing anything, and bis mind was fixed on the sweet reminiscences of his native clime.
Personal Paragraphs.
•.Tames W. Deaderick, the new Chie Justice or'romiDooOTi the Confederate army. "The American Senator," a new story by Mr. Authony Trollope, will be published in the Temple Bar. The scene of the tale will ba laid in Englaqd.
The life-siz? p3rtrait of Daniel Webster belonging to Harvard College, has been sent to the Centennial Exhibition.
Mr. John Cous hlan, whom the President has nominated to be Chief Justice of Utah, was born in Louisville, Ky„ iu 1835, and v/as one of the "California forty-niners."
Sitting Bull has begun to pull in his horns since has learned that Fred Grant is after him.
Rufliri, the negro legislator, who was expelled from the Virginia House of Delegates for theft, has also been debarred as a Vpracticing lawer in all the courts of the State.
Herr Vahiteich, a socialist member of the Reichstag, has been tried and convicted at Aitoona of insi/lting Prince Bismarck. He was sentenced to two months imprisonment.
King Alfonso has lost no time in rewarding the Generals who were instrumental in tbe suppression of the Carlist revolt. Quesada has been made a Captain General, a Spanish rank equal to that of Field Marshal Marttnez Campos is now Dake of Vera, Moriones Marquis of Garrate, Primo de Rivera Marquis of Estella, and Blancos Marquis of Pena Plata.
A Portsmouth, N. H., young man who was' inconsiderate enongh to "come in" after he had escorted a girl home from prayer meetiog the other Sunday evening was obliged to stop to family prayers, which came on very Boon, but wheu the pious householder prayed that "the young man who, for the time being, is one of our number, may be directed toward his Father's house," he took his hat and left with out ceremony.
Queen Victoria, who for her continental excursion has adopted the title ot Countess Rosenau, (the late Prince Albert's favorite chateau was named Rosenan) is expected to (arrive at Baden-Baden about the 1st of April, and to remain night or ten dayB part of the time as the guest of the Grand Duke's family and of the Hamilxms, and part of the time in a furnished villa which has been rented for her. During her stay in Baden-Baden she will be visited by tbe Emperor William. But the mala object of her visit to Baden-Baden is to re-visit the grave of her step-sister, the late Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg, over which she has recently had a costly monument erected. The Queen will make a stay of about eight daya at Cobnrg, where she is to meet her two daughters the German Crown Princess, and Princess Alice of Hesse, and their families, and there also she expects to see the German Empress and Dake '.Ernest of Saxony. Victoria will travel in |a special train of coaches built for her in Brussels.
His Advice.
A young man with a squeaky voice and a white wool hat on, entered one of the street cars yesterday, and after taking a long look at the musty straw, which was knee-deep on the floor, he stuck his head out of the front door and said to the driver: "If you want that horse to die before spring you just keep on bedding him down with auch straw as this Gvety"frtghtVK
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Orthodox Odities.
Passover comes on Sunday this time for the first time in twenty-two years but we are not told how many years will pass over before it comes again on Sunday.
The impression tbat there is a neutral territory in religion'is a great mistake. A dollar bill
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bo either
genuine or counterfeit it can not be both. A lover of the curious, who has an over-sanguine temperament, is searching for the envelope on which St. Pauls Epistle was sent to tho Corinthians. does spot care for the envelope itself Tjut wants to add a rare postage stamp to his collection.
Harvard College can no longer, be called tlie etroLghold of New ,England Unkatianism: It has three religious societies whose conditions of membership are thoroughly Calvinistic. JThs last graduating class numbered 148, of which only thirty nine were Unitarians. Conservatism is gradually bringing the institution back to the motto on iis shield, Pro Christo et Ecclesia.
While Mr. Moody., is preachiog to hosts, lesser rival lights are shining on hundreds and scores. Peter Dwhe has gone into the lower part of the city, and, like a Methodist of the earlier days, has bared bis arm and gone to work. The converts are among the poor but a soul is a soul, whether ragged or wealthy. The shortest way to retrenchment in the expenses ol the police force is to sustain the little missions.
Think of a man of genius like st Aoiant summing up tho whole of life in these sad verses. A wit, a man of mark, he got little out of his verse, perhaps because he nut but little into them. It is the story not of one lite, but of many:—
Upon a faggot seated, pipe in lip Leaning my head against the chimney wall.
My heart sinks in me, down my eyelids fall, As all alone I think on life's eclipse. Meantime the herb in ashes sinks and dies Then to iu sadness back my spirit flied.
And the old troubles still rise up behind. Live upon hopo and smoke your pipe, all's one. It means the same when life is passed and done
One is but smoke, the other is but wind. We prefer Mr. Moody's philosophy to that. Your estimate of lite depends more on what you choose to give to others than on what .you get from them. The most grateful, people are not those who keep most, but those who impart most. This is one of the paradoxes of religion. er
Petticoat Pleasantries.
As Belknap fell by tbe arts of a woman it. isn't supposed that he will employ Eve-arts for his couu&e!,
The time, perhaps, is not far ofl when womeu will have their rights and carry night-keys just as the same as the rest of us.
A Yale debating club has decided that the ladies are neither pretty nor entertaining. That settles if.
When a lovely Philadelphia girl was introduced to a stranger, she said she was an orphan. When he.£quoz her hand she added, "au orpuau with four big brothers," womaii ffoiiIdn't allow anybody to wash her face to revive her, because her face was waxed and powdered and she wanted to be a pretty corpse. "Now, Sprigvins, my dear," said Mrs. Spriggins at the theatre, during the first intermission, "you needn't go out to get any coffee, for I've got a half pound in my pocket."
Himpkins is fond of repeating the pithy sayings of great men, but as his lady love has sent him about his business, he is slightly confused, and his refrain now is, "Let no jilty woman escape."
Richard Grant White says: "Among a hundred men you will find perhaps ten or a dozen who open their moutus and speak clearly and freely but among a hundred women, not more than one." You jyon't, eti Let Mr. White go into a hundred houses where.'tbe female head of each house is engaged in springcleaning, and leave tracks of his muddy boots over the freshly scrubbed floor, and he will not only find that ninety-nine women out of a hundred speak clearly and freshly, but that they also know how to emphasize each word with a scrubbingbrush.
A good anecdote has lately crossed the ocean of an American girl Who was playing croquet in England last summer. "What a horrid scratch!" said she indignantly, when her mallet onoe failed of its duty, and she missed her shot. "Oh, my dear!" said an English cousin, "you should not use such slang expressions." '!What should Ibavesiid?" asked tbe American. "You might have said," replied the English maiden, after canvassing hea vocabulary for a perfectly unexceptionable phrase— "you might have said, 'what a beastly fluke!"
Remarkable Funeral Procession. The Denver Times says: "A strange funeral procession arrived at Santa Fe one'day last week. There were twenty freight wagons in the procession, and each wagon was a bearae loaded, with the remains of ioidlers in different. stages of decay. These had been buried, one by one, langiag through a period of several !ears, at Fort Craig, and. recently tie remains were ordered remoVed to fee government cemetery at Santa le. The bodies were exhumed,
Rbked
in gunny-sacks and each one jelled, just like sacks of ore. Only oae body, that of Lieut. Drew, was bansportd in a coffin, This officer
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rished of thirst on the Sornada del six years ago. His remains, when exposed to inspection at Santa ^•. presented a rather natural appearance. The tongue, or what renuined of it, still protruded from the nuuth, evidencing the suffering attetding' his horrible death. In this singular andgbastly procession were I40bodies. The wagons discharged their sKeletonio freight in the goy eminent cemetery and each gunnysack and contents were dropped into ft separate grave. The/e was no religious or militaiy services or ceremonies, and the men hired to accompany the procession tossed the sack of bones about with as little care and feeling as they would boxes of merchandise. A spectacle so weird k'not seen every day in Santa Fe."
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ITEMS OP INTEREST.
Victor Hugo is to become president* of a "society for the study and practice of cremation."
An Iowa congregation didn't like its minister's preaching, and locked tne church door against him. He smashed in a window and preached a sermon four hours long to his brother-in-law.
A firm in Germany, manufactures a pressed fuel of refuse tan. just as it is taken from the pits. The tan .is saturated with coal tar and powerfully compressed into bricks, The. nianufacturo is said to be very profitable
A posthumous five-act tragedy by Bulwer has been discovered by tlie editor of his posthumous papers. -A London manager who lias seen the piece is charmed with it and wishes to produce it. The scene is laid at Athens. It is written in heroic mi.tie and is highly poetic in. treatment.
Tilr. Edson, the electrician, has brought out an ingenious and useful invention, which excels in novelty all his previous efforts. It is an electrical duplicating press which enables one to write a letter and take five copies per minute until hundreds of copies are produced.
While several children were playing together, in N. Y. the four-year-old daughter of Eliza Wagoner thrust her tongue through the crack of the room door which one of her playmates instantly slammed to, cutting off nearl}* one-half of the member.
So "great is the excitement over the recent discoveries at Pike's Peak, and so rich all the country thereabouts, that a citizen of Colorado Springs, as a joke, reduced a stone jug in a mortar, carried the powder to an assayer, and was much surprised to find the jug yielded at the rate of $17.82 to the ton.
Victor Hugo preserves a blot on his carpet caused by the upsetting of his inkstand just as he had finished one of his most famous chapters in "Les Miserables.'" So a man might always cherish a patch in his pantaloons inserted after he had been kicked all the way down stairs. There is nothing under the sun like sentiment.
The Washington correspondents say that when old Jerry Black speaks in the Supreme Court all other counsellors are in the habit of leaving their hats outside the bar. When the divine flatulence is on the eloquent Jerry he doesn't know a seven and a half beaver from a cuspadore, and he expectorates like Vesuvius.
Half a dozen years ago the orange orchard of Colonel Hart, opposite Palatka Fla., could have been purchased for $10,tOOO, but not now. The orchard at present comprises 6,000 trees, and last year the net profits realized from those 6,000 amounted to $30,000. This years' crop is contracted for at thirty-five cents a dozen on the trees.
The man who plies the lash at the whipping-post in Richmond, Va., is described as a person of tender heart, who executes his odious and ignoble task from a patriotic sense of duty. He was given his place in preference to an enterprising ruffian who offered to do the flogging without pa_y, declaring that the pleasure of inflicting the stripes would be sufficient compensation.
A ball made of feathers and cloth, gummed together and varnished, has been an object of fetichism in a community of negroes near Vicksburg. The belief was that the ov^er could control any person near whom he placed the ball unobserved, and it was recently found secreted under a white woman's pillow. She irreverently burned it, and the grief of the negroes is deep.
Oliver Kingsbury is a hermit of Sharon, Mass., who had a mania for collecting steel pens when young, and after finally inventing a machine for their manufacture, left home, and for forty years wandered none knew where. When finally he returned, he brought with him three barrels of steel pens. He lives an entirely secluded life and allows no one to enter his habitation.
It may be laid down as a safe rule that you should always know whom you are marrying. A Cincinnati man uiarried a woman the other day of whom he knew nothing except that her name was Mary, and he is not sure that she did not lie about that, as she has since left for parts unknown, taking with her all the household goods, including even her husband's spare clothing. VR: .^0
The noblest "last words" that have recently been uttered were those of Superintendent Flint, of the Midland Railroad, who, held fast amid the ruins of the train that fell through the trestle work at Willowemoc, called out to those who were trying to rescue him, "Stop that mail train!" and died, ^he mail train and its passengers that were rushing to almost certain destruction were saved.
An ingenious toy, apparently of Japal nese origin, has recently been introduced into London. It consists of a small picture, on paper of a man pointing a firearm at a bird, target, or second person. Upon the application of the hot end of a match, just blown out, to the end of the gun, the paper begins to smoulder toward the object aimed at, and in no other direction. When it reaches the objeet a report is heard from the explosion of a small quantity of fulminating serial.
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CLOCK MAKING.
The oldest clock known to be in existence is one in the ancient castle of Dover, bearing the date of 134S. It has been running, therefore, five hundred and twenty-seven years. Other clocks of the same century exist in various parts °f Europe, and the general features bear a resemblance to the church clocks now in use, except that they have but one hand, which points tho hour,., tvnd retire winding up every twenty-four hours. From tlie .-fact of-so. many large clocks of that period having.'been preserved in whole or in part, it is :, highly probable'that U^x-lock was then/ an old invention."
But how did people measure time during the countless ages that rolled away before the invention of the clock The first time-measurer was probably a post stuck in the ground, the shadow of which, varying in length and direction, indicated the time of day, whenever the sun was not obscured by clouds. The sun-dial, which was a$ improvement upon this, was known to the ancient Jews and Greeks. The ancient Chinese and Egyptians possessed an instrument called the clopsydra (water-stealer), which was merely a vessel full of water with a small hole in the bottom by which the water slowly escaped. There were marks in the inside of the vessel which showed the hour. An improvement upon this was made about two hundred aud thirtyfive years before Christ by an Egyptian who caused the escaping water to turn a system of wheels and the motion was communicated to a rod which pointed to the hours upon a circle resembling a clock-face. Similar clocks were made in which sand was used instead of water. The hour-glass was a time-measure for many centuries in Europe, and all the ancient literatures abound in allusions to the rapid unobserved running away of its sands.
The next advance was the invention of the wheel-and-weiglit clock, such as has been in use ever since. The first instrument- of this kind may have been made by the ancients but no clear allusion to its existence has been discovered earlier than 996, when Pope Silvester II. is known to have had one coastructed. It was Christian Huygen, the famous Dutch philosopher, who applied, in 1658, the pendulum to the clock, and thus led directly to those more refined and subtle improvements, which render our present clocks and watches among the least imperfect of all human contrivances.
George Graham, the great London clockmaker of Queen Anne's and George the First's time, and one of the most noted improvers of the clock, was born in 1675. After spending the first thirteen years of his life in a village in the north of England, he made his way to London, an intelligent and well-bred Quaker boy and there he was so fortunate as to be taken as an apprentice by Tompion, then the most celebrated clockmaker in England, whose name is still to be seen, upon ancient watches and clocks. Tompion was a most exquisite mechanic proud of his work, and jealous of his name. Prior mentions him in his "Essay on Learning,'* where he says that the name of Tompion on a watch or clock was proof positive of its excellence.
Graham was worthy to be the apprentice of such a master,for he not only showed intelligence, skill, aud fidelity, but a happy turn of invention. Tompion became warmly attached to him, treated him as a. son, gave him the full benefit of his skill and knowledge, took him into partnership, and, finally left' him sole possession of the business. For nearly half a century "George Graham, Clockmaker," was one of the best known signs in Fleet street and the instruments made in his shop, were valued in all the principal countries of Europe. 1-Ie made two very capital inventions in clock machinery which are still universally used, and will probably never be superseded. It was a common complaint among clock makers, when he was a young ,s man, that the pendulum varied in length according to the temperature, and con-. sequently caused the clock to go too. slow in hot weather, and too fast in cold. Thus, if a clock went correctly at a temperature of sixty degrees, it would lose three seconds a day if the temperature rose to seventy, and three more seconds a day for every additional ten degrees of heat. Graham first endeav ored to rectify this inconvenience by making the pendulum of several different kinds of metal, which was a partial remedy. But the invention by which he overcame the difficulty completely, con--' sisted in employing a column of mer-', cury as the "bob" of the pendulm. The hot weather, which lengthened the steel rods,raised thecolumi. of mercury, and so brought the centre of oscillation, higher. If the column of mercury was of the right length, the lengthening or the shortening of the pendulum was exactly counterbalanced, and the variation of the clock,through changes of temperature, almost annihilated. This was a truly exquisite invention. The clock he himself made on this plan for Greenwich,, after being in use for a century,and a half, re-^ quires attention not oftener than once ini fifteen months. v?-' ..
George Graham' "died in 1751^ 'aged^ seventy-six years, universally esteemed-^ as an ornament of his age and country.
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