Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1875, Page 2

e et Rttt THE CINICAGO TRIBUNIE: ening, mind aod momary ore th firet long Bieep. but of tho Gwerval of mental e period ol funr years —oun folloning the ¥his time, on vk #oro tho name av B0 conurion pblivion exieted, these conditions slteruated, othor reguiarly after o speil of kound Bleep, In what wan callod Cho old statn ahio posses-ed all bor original knosledgo ; and in the now stato shio know only what had boon acquived twhila witlun its exporience. 1n short, the wirl Jed tao anparato and distinet lives, in neither of whitlh Hid ho remembor & fack or avent that belonged ta tho other, 1u s fon singular inatances, tho wits of & man have been wondorfnily brighiencd Ly u blow on tho head. Dr, Prilchard “gives toslimouy on his point 08 follows ¢ * I havo been informed, on good authority, that thore was, some limo since, » family, consisting of theoo borg, who sroca sll considered idiole. Oue of them ro- relved & savere Injury npon the head : from that Lime his facultios biegan to bright’ now & man of good tajouty, and preactices A8 bar ristor.” Dr, Wyntar, osting partlculars, cased of Innanity of from wham o dsaw these inter- mentionn soveral carions tho muscles, aich #8 is mani- fost in Bt Vitus' danco. In one instaoce, n Isdy waa subject to spasms, in which who neomd to fnutato tha action of n aatmon in ¢ »She wonld oceaainnally double horsell up, ang, with s convulaito spring, throw herself srom. [ha floor to (he top of o nawdrobo fully B fect bigh. This fit would enly Iast & cerfaln ‘Then sha would ratase her hoad from , without abiow- Teaping ing ln{ wigbs of fatiguo,” In Bomo caacd A po- Lient has been so overcomo by s propouaity fo g¥mio that, for a whole mouth st a timo, & cou- tiouous whirling has bson atstainad. * A ptill more extraordinary casu ison record,” mays Ir. Wyntor, * of o girl aho was contivually attompting o stand on Ler tieed, with hor lege poipendicularly in ho air,—coutinuing this la- ticrons action, fifteen timos in tho minate, for sifteon hours in tho dsy. Tho lavor incarred by thoso singolar mmuscular retionn would bave ox- hiaustod Lialf 8 dozen strong men ; yet this deli- cate girl boro up agatost thom for months with- out apparent fatigu GOLF, A book ins beon recently published in En- gland, wlueh, it it all iuto the hands of Ameri- can rendors, will inform them upou & subject almost ontirely unkuown on this sido of the At- lantic, Tho work is o compendium of the bis- tory aud litorature of * Clolf : A Royal aud Au- cient Gamo.” The eporl, played with balle uomothing in tho manuer of croqaot, i3 pamed from tho club with which the etroko Iy given. Tho pastimo Is purstiod upon b large, level aren of grooud, {h which round loles are cut for re- cerving tho balls, at dictancos of from 100 to 50¢ yasds from onch other, €0 a< to form a circult. Tho game conaists ip drivivg the baile from vue hiolo to another with tho fewest possitlo strokes. Like croquet, it may Le played by two, four, or nore persons,—tho opposing sides boiug bal- anced [n numbers. To acquira desterity 1n the gnme demands loag practice, and fow becomo pxpert who Lavo not plused fiom childhood. € buck" players will drive a ball aboye 200 yards with accuracy of aum. Golf is a nattonal sport in Scotland, and has bnen pursued by ull claessos for mauy ecenturies. Yot the birthplace of the game {s uncertain. IU is protty woll establislicd that, in snciont times, it ‘was practiced in Gormany and the Nether- lands, and also in England. At any rale, thore i o doubt that it is one of the oldest of the innumerable ¥nmcs of ball. The Beottish atat. utes of the ftesnth century abound in onact meuts probibiting: or roguinting the practice of * Golf and utber sic vuproliabill sporiis.” Not that thero was auything hariniul in a moderate pursuit of tho gamo, but bocauss the Govern- ment wished to restrain the yeomsury, with whom tho sport was immongcly popular, from oxpouding tho cnergy which ehould bo used in the practice of the Low 1poa a mere amuseniont, Tho game bas Loon foliowod with enthusissm by many of the Kings of Lngland and Scotland, and this has gained ita_title of **Royal.” Nu- morous items in the Lord High Treasurer's ro- rounta show that James 1V. of Scotlsnd was do- woted to tho pnstime. Jamea L aud Charles L of England endesvorod to promoto tho intoreats of the gamo by proclamation sud edict. 1t war whila Chnrlea was eugsged in o game, on Loith Liuks, during hig visit to Bootlaud In 1641, that o roceived nows of tho outbreak of tbo Irish Rebellien, ** whoroupon La tirew down bis elub, aud roturned 1n_great agitation to Molsraod Honse,” James II. dolighted in the sport; snd thers ia s (radifition tbst, when Duke of York, be granted, in honor of a victo- ry on the groen, & coast of arme to Lis pariner, s shoemaker and an oxpert golfer. The Iate King William ia ths only monarch com- fog after Jawen I, who ovinced puy fondness for golt; but it 1a statod that tho Princo of Fales ocoaslonally practices it. Tho Blackhenth Ciub, institnted in the time of Jamew 1., i5 ot ouly tho oldust goll club i existonce, but is ono of tho oldeat of mporting pocistios. Tho recorda fu its minnto-hooks at- test the populanty with which the gams it patronizes has been pereistontly rogarded by the wealtbier olavses. In England, tho spori haa boen rapidly roviving in favor of lato yeans ; while, on_the Hcoltish Laoke (iracts of level, wandy soil), It is played on overy holldey by the athlotic youth of tho coautry. THE PALMYRA PALM. Tho Palmyra palm (Bordssus flabeliformis) iv the most cowmon apecics of palm in India, growing in many districta spontasoously, und iu otbers botng cxtennively cultivated. In tho Tsland ot Coylon, vast foresta aro compoaed of thia tree. Itisono of tho fan-palme; aud, at the hefght of from 25 to 40, or oven GO feet, ‘Dears s magnificont crown of leaves, esch about 4 foot long, with a slalk of tho same lougth, end irom 70to 80 rays, ‘Ilie troo farpishos many valuabla products for tho use of the nalives, Buch a8 fruit, wine, oil, thatching, cordsge, and timbor; butoue of tho most imporsant of tho subsiancea yiolded by it i8 u matertal for writiug. Trom timo inmemorial, tho Hindoos bLsve used tho leat of the Palmyra pslm as a substitute for paper ; snd much of their most precious litera- ture has beeo rocurded upon 1t. ‘Tho long;, emooth, polished spaces batween the rays nre excetlently adapted to thie noeds of Lho writer ot gruver, aud aro vory durable, In waking ur a book, the narrow, straight slips nre pierced with a holo in the centre, throuch which » s(ring 1 paked, and Lhus tho pages or stribs are hung togother, Mang of tho eacred books of tha Hindus bavo beeu made 1o this way, snd bave bornu very rough usage for many ceatu- yies. The writing is execated with a_sharp ison style, mud i epgraved upou both sides of tho pago. In gomo parts of Iudia, palm-foaves still HoLve tho purpuse of paper; und luttors wrrition upon the slips, aud alterwards neatly rolled to- gother, are frequontly neat through tho post- oftices. ‘I'bld Is eapnchllf tho caso fn Orinao, in the (ond sountry, sod in the wouth of Ind:a, Tu wrlting, tho style 16 held in she right hand by ihe thumb, 1 & Mot conatrmned pomtion, tho littlo fingor acting as & fulerum, Tho vt of wnting rapidly in this mannor 1 rarely sequired by Europeans. During bis visit to India, the Priuco of Walcs will be presented with ssisples of this cunous lqnt-clhylphy‘ and 2lvo with eilver-inlaid jon alylea. 'Thene gifts, togethur with npecimena of the famous ivory earving of ‘Travancore, will be Pre.umudby the Itu)ah o3 Travancors, et Mulras, 'he tinost ~ivory-carving produced in L ix wraught in Travancore, aud soms of tho et palm-loat weiting is exscuted au Nugercoil, w Honth Tiovancore. ‘Lhe silver-work ot Gucliva zivals that of Cuttach in the worth, aud the . uitylos produced in this regiou are tho best menu- factured in ludia. 3omp of these, exhibiing the tineat dopigus and_mosk eXqUILite Workiuau- glip, are mauy venturios old. LIBRARIES OF EURORE. I'he following statistics with rogard to the li- brarios of Europs are tuken from M. Bloch's ve- contly-publiabed work cowparing the statistics of Frauco with thowo of other Luropean Statos, Fravoo possesses tho greatest mumber of vel- umes, and one-third of theso aro ju tho Hbraries of Psris, Outeide of the metropolis, thero aro §134 Jibraries, containlug 8,600,000 volumes, Forty-one of the proviucial Ubrariea are open in Lo ovouing, The six publio libraries of Pariu tumber in all sbout 1,000,000 volumes. Biuca 1865, studonts' lbraries Lave besu formed ull wver France. Hotween thst yesr and 1671-'2, tleso have increased frowm 4, contuining 180,584 volumes, 40 18,638, containing 1,153,742 volumey, Lrance bae in all bor pablio libruries 4,889,000 volumes, o 11.7 yler 100 persous; Ans- srin bas 4,484,000 volumes, or 8.9 per 109 ; Hus- #n Lisw 832,000 volumes, or 1.3 por 100 ; Belginm ban 509,100 voluwses, or 10,4 por, 1003 Taly Tas 11.7 vulumes por 100 inbabitanis, —— SPARKS OF SCIENCE. ASTRONOMY IN DABYLONIA. .An Iuteresiing skutch of tho astronowical sciance of tho BDabylonisns, contributed to Auture, affords us many of tho following purtic. aylarw: Tho carliest students of Chaldos woros people, now called Accsdisny, who probably came 1ato Ausyria from the East, Mingling fisternslly with the wen already ocoupylug the lsud, tuy Accaliaus uoited with thom in buildig_the' Wreat citiaa of Babrlonls. Bomowhoro between 8,000 and 4,000 yoars B, 0., tho Somiten ontered Habylonia, aleo from tha Esst, nod gradnaliy took posnansion of the entire Kingdom, complat- ing s conquost sbows 2,000 vears .. Intwo oF threo centuries after this, the Aceading lane fuago waa dinplaced by tho Bemitic ¢ yes stillat veas carefintly sludied by gobolurs, for the sako nco and litorature that remained lockod up s it. 'Fho volumen belonging Lo the Yibrary of Sar- danapnlas at Ninoveh, thas have beau réecoverad and interpreted by modevn acholsrs, {rnish ug with n tolarably eloar dea of the condition of ay- trunomy, a8 well us of other scloncen, antong both the Accadians and $Lin Homitle Babylonjans. From tha former race tho latter lorrned alinost all of their civilization. Boloro the Aocadians migratod to Chaldea, they seom to have been dile igent obaervera of the heavous ; and, aftor their eottiement in the land of their adoption, State obaervatorivy wera moiutained in ost of the lavger cities; and, in Jater Limey at leass, reports \wero sont by tho Astronomers Loyal to the King overy fortnizht, Tho oldese of theeo rocords that Lave heen dircovered nro coutnined in a great vwoli 1 noventy booke, ontitled *Tho Observatioun of ‘Bel,” s compilod for Xiug Sarion of Ariane, in ' Dabylonia, beforo 1,7 large portion of this wark wea pure- Iy astrological, yet fomo of the booka wero moro ecienlifio. Opo of them trented of the coujunction of the wun and 1won ; suothioe, of comots, or, a8 thoy are calied, * etars with n coronn in frout And i tail bebind " : s third, of ke movementa of Jiais ; a fonrth, of tha move- monts of Venus ; and a tfch. of tho Pole Star ,— that 18, Disconiy, A great part of this work Lias been recavercd, bul romo tablets shill lie amid the ruiné of the paace of Sardenapalus, ‘ T'a records in the work rancl back to o romots sotiquity, vet nil wers earefully kept., Tuey tell un that the Accadiaus named the signs of the Zodiac and tho daya of tho week. Thoy divided the heavens into four parts. nnd the passage of tho yau through each marked the four seasons. ‘Yho yeor was divided toto twelve lun mooths, and inso 860 daya,~au inter- ealary month being sdded * whenaver o | cortain utar, called ‘‘the Siar of Btars,” nr Jeu,—which was juet o advance of tho sun whon 1t crossed the vornal equinox,~—was not paralte] with the moon until Lxo days after the equinox, Occasionelly, 1n addition "to this, the calendur was rectified by the intorcslation of othor so-caliod months, consisting of o fow days praserved o8 ovidencea of their prowess snd Fangaanos over tivar ensmize. On the death of a Ctuef. all thy eealva takian by bim duving lue worliko carecr oz burne 4 with his remalon,” ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION, The rehemo for hoiding an Flectrical Fxlnbi- tion at the Yalais do FInduetrio in Paris, in 1877, tins boen porfected, and tho initisl preparations aro alrondy boing executed. ‘Vho project, which origlnated with Count lalloy d'Arros, haa ro- cetved poneral approval in ncientisie and indna- trial circles, aud the necedsary funds bave Leon gantatecd, An Orgauizing Conimicloe 18 being olected, and tho provisions! ofticors of the Bx- Nibition' are. at this catly hour, at work. The oach. Cyeles of twelvo yoars wors in nee, in which the weathor was oxpected to repeat the same auccessive phasos, The day wis divided into twelyo **doublo hours; " and cach of these was gubdivided into sixty minutes of sixty secondy ench, Tho month was divided in lwo{mlv«m of Ofteen dags cach, and each belf was subdivided into three periods of five dsys. Yet the week of neven dnfiu was used from tho earliost times. The doys of tho week wore uamed from the sun, moon, and five plsnots; and tho 7th, 1th, 19th, 2/et, and 28th of the mouth ware termed * days of roat,” on which cortin kinds of work wers for- bidden, The namos of the mouth woro tnken from the corresponding signs of the Zodiac. By the invontion of the clapeydra, sonlething liko an accarate meusuremont of timo waa ob- taimed. Eclipsss of the moon wers calculated at a very early perfod, but thoy are recorded in s yaguo and unscientific way in tha ' Obsorvations of Bel.” Long baforo tho date of this work, the Accadians had discoverod that lunar eclipsds re- cur after s cvcle of 221 lunstions. The records generally bezin with the furmula: ‘! According to caleilstion;” or mometimes, '* Contrary to calentation,” when the sstronomors had boen at fanit in thefr computations. Eclipges of tho aun wern calenlated by timing the shadow ns projactod on a sploroe. Obwervations on tho varying color of tho eun were miado as oxrly as tho'timo of Sargon of Argane. 1n ons placs, the record states thal the sun was s **bright yellow:” aud in anotherplace, tbat it was **discolored." Mercury, Veoas, Mars, Jupiter, and Batarn, wete the ouly planets known beaide tho Earth, but they were carefully studied. The phascs und moventents of Venus and dars oxcited par- ticular attentlon, A groat number of fixed tars were also observed, aud namen givon to tho principul stars, as woll ag to the constellations to which they bolanged. 'The madern represeut- atives of goveral of the Chaldean constollations have bson determiined ; mad it is hioped that avontnally the msp of the heavens as laid out by tho Babylonians will be wholly known to us. It is believed that the Babylopiaos mnst have had ot lenrt some rude form of the telescope to gesist themt in thoir obaervation of tho heavenly bodies ; nnd the discovery of a crystal lans in l-‘}u;evuh. by Alr. Layard, gives color to the be- of. EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. Liout. Conder, of tho Dritish Palostine Ex- ploration Expodition, has sent Lozio a roport of the progrees of the survey under Lis dircction, which prosents the following sccount of work sccomplished during the present yoar: In Feb- ruary, a trianguiation of 330 aquare miles of the dusort west of the Dond Sca wus made, In the uoxt throo months, nearly the wholo of Phillatis was survoyod, In June and July, tho expedi- tion waa at work in Galilee, when they were nt- tacked at Hafed, snd their labors temporarily broken oft, Thoy biad, however, at that time, completed the survoy of 180 miles, and worked up 20 of tho 30 miles composing the line of lavela from the Mecditerrauean to-the Son of Galilea, Among the discoveries of especial interess to tho Diblical sindont are those of the supposed sites of Adgullam, Berar Makheash, and Cans of Galilen. “In Jerusalom,” rucs the report, ‘ Lieut, Condor was a0 foriunate ss to tiud tha Asner, thu crusading ino for pil- grims, It lios close to the Grotto of Jeromiah, and ia now partly oxcavated, showing long lines of muugers. At Nablus, ha discovered that nearly tho wholo of the floor and foundations of tho carly ciurch buitt over Jacob' Wall exiat t atill, idden by modern vaulte. Bhofa Ame, & mognillcent sepulchre hay been found, with oluborase orasmone wl work, The reasnt church there ixavnu to be built on foundations older than the atin accupation. At Khorbet Rumab, n site of great modieval Interost, 8 rude Jewish tomb was fouud near the mouth of & larga esve, This cor- rosponds with the story of an early Jewish travoler, that at Nnmah were to be scon the sppulchrenf Benjamin, and a ¢ave near it whence the Mesniah waa expectod to appear.” Intelligenca trom Lieut. Coader, dated Aug. 12, rolatod that bo was siill at Mt. Carmel, awaiting otficial tavestinution into tho outrage at Baful, It io bolleved that eix months' work will comnplote tho survey of Western Palestine. SUN-PIGTURES ON PEACHES. ‘Tho Photographic News netos tho protly ef- foctw in natural photography which s gardener in Kont, England, Is iu tho hahit of producing. T'aldng advantage of the faot that the poneils of light from the sun paint (ho cheels of bis applos and peaches, the gardener so disposen his fruit, which {4 trained in the English mapnor npon wally, that tho anu shall reach, aud thereforo tiut, only particular portions of the surface. o #secure the aesired coloring upon his peachos, for instance, 116 coutrives to have lioes cover the Pmm wihich aro to contioue green, sud thus heiahten by contrast the offect of the purple Wloom of tho expowod portions, In many lo- tlancea, tho loaf was sharply photographed upon the fruit,—thereby yreatly enhanaing it beauty uud abiractivoness, Hv thio slizht sitention dur~ lug the rigeiing season, the gurdonsr was able @ ik 1o Covont Gardon specimons of froit thet commanded the highost prices. o LIONS V4, TIGERS. - ille controversy yuzarding tho relative strengiliof tho llon sud tiger bas brew sustainod uwoug curlain correspondents to Nature, The tatout writer—3ir. Haaglton, of Trinity Qolloge, Dublin—declares that evury porson well acquaint- ed with both avimale will conctde that tho tiger in tho stronger. Hr. Haughton slatos that tho strongth of tha liou {0 the fora limbe 1y only 6.9 por cont of (hat of tua tiger, und thas tho stzongth of the Lind lexe is only'dn.d per cont of that of the bger. *‘Liuay add,” ho sayw, * thut five mon ean wasily bald down n' hon, whttlo {6 tas qquircs iue meu to ountrol u tuzor, artial sina giated shat the tigers alwaye Lilled the tong ju tho suphitbeatss. "Lhu lon b8, v sruth, a pra- tontious humbirg, aud owes his reputation (g s imposiug maue; wud bo will ruu cway, liky whippod cur, under circumetancos in whieh the tiger will boldly uttack and kil SCALPING. It saems thrt tho praciice of tralpiug js not veculiar to the North Americen ludian. A query put forl fn Natwre dravs out the follay. g information on the wubjeet: MMerodowus wuntious that it was oue of tho modt character- 1utlo prachices of . the sucient Beythuans, It iy uafd tisty the custons still prevalls awong by villd trives of tho froutior In tho nortbeastern dlstles, uf Boeugal, The Friead of Indis ro- arkey shat ** 'Thio Naga tribes use tho soalplug- knify with a forocisy that is only viualed by the &7periosu Iodisue ; aud the sealps are carctully object of tho Exponilion I (o tlustrato all tho applicationy of t‘]eclrlclly to the asts, to indus- tey, aod to domeetic purposes, 'Tho diapiay ptamines to be of extremeo intorest. ALBINISM IN SWALLOWS, A_correrpondent of the Decry Scutinel pub- tiphen 1h0- fact that & pure-white ewallow was Tately observed by him at Churchili, Bogland, +Thero was no perceptible difforence,” he writes, **hetwaou it and the commion mwallow, with tho exception of {ts plumago being of the purest white, Other awallows wero flying abont AL {he samo time, but this rara acie shunned their company, and did not seom Anxtons to join thom, 28 it flitted about by its nolitary eelt, and keps at & respectful distaice from tho othors. As I linve nover besrd of o whito nwallow having been ween about this part of the vouatry betoro, Iconsider it o vory strangs visitor.” INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS., Y'rof. I3, Morren, of Vrasgols, has beon oxe porimonting with inseclivorous plants, snd re- ports reaults opposod to the gonaral opinion that they nro capablo of absorbing and assimilating animalmatter. Ho belioves that tho glutinous secretions of Lho leaves ot Pingincula longifplia nnd Drasera rotundifolia simpiy_hasten tho do- composition of eaptiva jnsects. Ho also afflims that tho action of the mucns is entiroly slmilar to that of pure wator, sugar-water, und the Loney Rocrotiona takon from tho Howers of Acchma midijlora. Ho admita, howevyer, tho ex- istenca iu tho atructure of these plants of admi- nhll: contnivances for catchiog aud rotaining in- wecla. 3 A SNAKE IN IRELAND. Aengka bas ut last been found in Iroland, and much oxcited speculation is induiged na to how the reptitecamo upon thoisland. A gardener in Dalt inglass, Wicklow Cousnty, discovered the snake on bis premises and killed it. Iv moas- urod 5 feet in longth, was Llack on the back sud yollow underneatil, 1t appears on investization that o geotlowmen brought two snakes from Tadin to Dalliarodan, boti of which eacapod aix oranven yeard ago. Ono of those was destroved by a pig, but the other was uover found., It is considerod probsblo that the snake recoutly killod n¢ Dsltinglass is {dontics! with the one s'blch eseaped from its custodisn at Balltoro- Inu. SWEDISH ARCTIC EXPEOITION, Tha Bwedish Arctic Expeditton srrived, on ite homeward journey, at Ilammerfest, the mast northorn town of Norway, in good Lealth and condition, Bept, 26. It passed tie Gult of Obl, and reached the River Yencsel, in longitudo &3 degrees eaat, on (bo 15¢h of Augnst. At this place Profs., Nordenskjold, Sundstrosm, and Stuzberg, lofi the party to roturn hiome by way af Biberis, while the sliip roturned coastwie The Expedition haa brought back a riel coll tlon illustrative of natural bigtory and sove {mportant hydrograpluc 1eports. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BRAZIL. Prof. Haptt, Director of tha Goological and Archrological Sarvey of Drazil, has entored actively upon tho worle wnder his charge. Ilis oxploring party haa startod weatward from the coast of Pornambuce, It is oxpected that tho work of tho survey will occupy at least four years. PR A VERBAL CRITICISM. Za the Kiior of The Chicago Tridune : Rockronp, 1., Nov. {.—~Whon, n fow yesrs 2go, the Chicngo Times introduced into North- ern journalism tho execrablo practico of eayiog » on yesterdsy,” I predicted that it woald nat bo long before that paper would be eaying *‘on lo- morrow,” The prediction was intended, how- evor, ns o strong condemnation of the practice, rathor than sn nctusl propheey. But, notwith- standing, the hiteral foiflllmeut has loug sioco been furnished by the editoriul columpa of tho aforeuntd journal. And nosr comes ono of its reporters, who. not to be out-Btorsyad by anybody, puts_tho follow- ing into & recont telegram : **Haokoy resched Broolklyn on this marning. Moady is expected oo to-morrow. The aervices begn in tho Rink an to-morrow morning.” Surely tho Tlimes is poyiug s pratty heavy poualty for its wrotchod nnovation, by tho way of payment for superflu~ ous woyds in ity dlapateheal Dut the question arises, Whero in this thing to end? Wo aro alroady beginning to bear ‘“‘on to-dsy,” or, if not, wo very soow slall bo. All other adverbs and adverbial phrascs denoting time when, will, of courso, have to * follow suit " ; and, mn the few respect- ablo houses whore the Zimes {8 taken, we may at‘::m expact to Lisar suvh dislogucs s tho toliow- R " Diddio, bring mo s glass of water.” “Must_you have it on nuw, or will it answor on by-and-by ?” And tho mtatress, looking up from her copy of tho Daily Times, will answer with omphesis: “X want it on immediatoly 1" Currie, P S DIVORCE. The Tuw has spoken, The law hse broken, And raen have hesrkencd ita atarn decres; The great world wondared 3 Lo liven aru wundeved, T'wo strearus Liave flowed to the sullen ses Tho past 18 in sshes, And tnemory dashed Th~ opos that weze born with the birth of the years 3 Life’s drestm ta relinquished, Love's lamp i8 oxtinguisbed, ‘The future Ju laden with curses and toars. Death's parting—to sover Yoraver, foruver, ‘I'o breatho 1ns world Daath’ parting—to wan ‘Alone, nnu 1o Jioader Q'ur dreama thatlie buried in anguish sud gloom. What doman bss entered W&\:')x‘n l\l];}‘fi!l have uenk\éfid.m 3 2 Al 0te life was a8 sweet o the of a clllay What flame has o'erpowered gt 'Tha love #o embowered, "The beauty, tho Lope, and the faith undedled ? Ah{ bright wea tho wummer, When ev'ry new-comer DPoured gladnen in bogoms of bridogroom and brides Ah | pure was aich meeting, Eath iintle anl each grecting, Esch tear that sevmed swooter than bonor or pride, Fledr Hps unnu-nuum Their eyos unrekenting, Thaey 'uen frean tha path thut is fairest to mon 3 Tope weary sud wighing, Love bitleriy dylug, I'he visfoiin that wore will come pever sgalo. 0 Heart] once forsaken, Onco withriod uni abaken, ‘Thy world {a hervulter & wos and & sthame Cuold pride nay sustainthee | "'will braise theo aud cb sin thno, r'will mock thee with throbbings thou csnst not ro- claim, —earge Edgar Montaovasry in the Arcadiam, Oty without fragranca or bleom?! der ‘fhe Egg-Dauce in Indic. Serioner’s Monthly, A much moro pliasing performance, and ono which inight porliaps botter have boen mieh- tioned in_connoctiou with the exploits of tho Jugelers, iy tho % egg-daunce.” Thisis not, sd ono mignt oxpect from tho namo givon it, a dance with theso fragilo objects. If is oxe- cutcd ju this wise: The dancor, drossed in o oorenge aud very ehort kist, carrios a willow wheol of moderate diamotor fasteued horizontally upon the top of her bead, Around this wheel threads ara tnstencd, equatly distant trom oach otuer, aud ab the eud of vach of those threads is & slip-nouvse, which i8 kept opon by a glans buud, Thun equipped, the younx gurl coicy toward tho spectators with n baslet full of cggy, whichh #ho pusmies around for ipspection to );mvu that thoy sre youl, sud not imitations. Plo musio stnkes upo !urf:y. monolovous sirain, and tho duocer bogius to whirl sronnd with preat rapidity. ‘Then, soizing un oxg, vhe puld It in oue of the elip noosea, sud, Wwith 8 quek motion, throwa {4 from bor b wuch s wiy as to draw tbe knot ught. The ewift turning of tho daucer produccs a ceutrifugal force which stretehos the thread out straight, liko x ray shoutlng from tho sircumftér. euca of the circle, Ouo after another tho ogge #ra thrown out inta these slip-vooses unul thoy make o horizontsl aurcole or Lalo aboul the dancor’s head. ‘theu tho dance becomes sull more, rapld.—8q rupld, {n tact, that it te difteuls 0 distiogulsh the featuros of tha girl; -$ho momwnt- ia crisicaly the lemat false 8 6, 1875.—T ATURDAY, KOVEMDBER iho tirvegnhicity o fime, and g dayh neniust enchother, Bt baw ean the ganna b #tapped 2 There i it ane vy, — that £ to rou: ovo the egnx in the way in which they hiavo beain put in place. “Yhig operation i by far tha mor 6 dolicite of tho two, 1t iy necen- snry (hat tho donger, by n single molion, oxnet aud tnereine, whould take hold of the ogg, and romoro it from { s noosn, A ringlo falss motion of the hand, tho itastint :rferonea with one of the throads, aud the - genoral arrangement 4 sud- deuly broken, and tho whala performasnco heag- trowaly onded, At fzatall tho euge are aucccnds fally ramoved 3 tho- dancer muddenly stope, and, without sceming 1t the loast dizziod by this dunce of twonty-five* or thirty miuutes, o ad- vances to the apectators with a firm atep, snd prassnts them tho CAYA which arn fmmodiately hroken in » flat dish '0 prove ihat there fwno trick abont the porforntanes, = S o INDIAN RRITORY, PrairioFiress-d Ni‘rrow Escfpo for Muskagee — Gone AMerman ~ Donble * Fiurder — Negre Wighty — Ethnolog= Leal, aneeial Corresvondence of 1'%he Chivaao Tribune, Musioure, Craek Natiot, Iud. Ter,, Oct. A,——A Wl is now pending in tho Choctaw Conn- cil, pronibiting the enlo a o beveraga of nlt liquors, whethior medicatad «r not. 1t Is in- tonded Lo work tho ramoval o1 such proprietary mediciuon—cordinls and bittons—ns Indisna are known $0 got intoxicated on, PRAIAIE FIRES are becoming vory alarming. Atready tho do- straction of property has been givat in the way of fencos, crope, Atabloa, and bounes ; and even Irorees and eattlo are caught in the | sarful flames. Atnight tha whole henvens aro larh) with these toreific fires. The ties, culverts, and bridges, on tho Minsourl, Kanass & Tesos Ratlway have suf- fered ; and trains, for somo Unys past. Liavo heen searcoly over on timo, from that cause.. Yestor- day was a fonrfal day for Muskogee. .Ab noon, with nstmngsnum breozo provailing, tho fires from tho Rontiwest rusliod and roarod wi'th great velocity and power far the town ;3 but thao clii- zens gathorod in large numbers, and, wtyrtivg * back-iren," succoeded In paving tho placo After a contost of over two hours; and the thanke- giving witneesed in every couutenanca ovirced how plessod all wora st the escapofrom destr.uc- tion of thelr checrful littls burg. aky. SUEWIAN, mombers of his wiaff, and several ladies, bave been fn town nearly all day, waiting for tho arrival of the passongor-tram now lying behind & ditched froight-train, about 1} miles south of this place. 'Tho Cieneral and hin party ate en rowto from Fort Sill to his hoad- quarters IIo vaports that nll is poaccublo and quict among tho 1udiany around the Fort. favors tho abolition of the Umted States agency thern, and placing the coutrol of alfaira entirely 1 the hands of the military ; &leo, tho suing of rationg of moat ouly to the Indiwus, and ro- quiring thetn, under tho divection of computent inatruetors, to preparo their brosd from tho wheat and othor grain that they raise. luring thelr stay, tho Gionornl's party wora entortsined at n‘u elegout party given by the officers of tho post, atep, 1 0L, NOCDINOT S I'APER, It is undorstood that, on Monday, tho Ist Noveinber, tuo Crook autborities will selzo Col. Boudinot's papor, the [fadian Progress and #oll it to the higbest biddor, Consideruble ex- citement may be oxpeeted on tho occasion. Huntors report the doer dying quito rapidiy of & dlgcare mmilar to the black-tonyue. Thib i vory unfortunate, as they ars exceedingly fat and abundant this year ; while prairie.chickens and quails wera novor tore glcmlml thna now, Tiis is really a paradiso for tho huutor, DOLLE MUBDER. Mra. 1lenson and her babe wora eruolly mur- dered Ly o forbidding-tooking Indian, 11 miles cast of Atoks, Choctaw Nation, a fow days ago Tho swomsy waa found with herehild in her arma, Iying on her face. It appears that sho was in tho act of suatching her child from s cradle when tho doath blow--sho being staboed thres tiines—was givon by the brute, who s uow en route for Fors Bmith, in the custody of & United States Deputz-darsbal. A minivg act hag beon passod by the Choctaw Couneil, providing that a royalty of 1 cont per buehol shall bo taxed and paid into the Natioual 'Frensury by sil who mine coal i that nation. NEGNO RIGKTS, Should there bs auv agreoment between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Comnmissioners, now in sogsion, on the nogro-rights measuro, it is quito probablo that (ov, Overton mii couvens tho Chichasaw Loginlatura (tho Unootaw Council bu- ing olraady nt work) to take sction, and settlo 1o question at auco and furover. THE ETAINOLOGICAL KTATUR of the thirty-throo tribes inhabiting this Terri- tory i given below, for Sthoso curious in that diroction: The Cherokeos, Croeks, Choctuws, Chickannws, and Sominoles havohabits, meuncrs, and customs, very aimilar to each other. Tho Chorokao Inngango has an siphnbet of olghty- wix lotters and characters (Sequoyah, swho way practieally thoir Cadmus, invontod many, if sob all, of them), and is alseimilar to all others. The Creoky und Seminoles spoak the same language, —tha Isuorhrlnfi-'rumw:y» " from tho Creok (or Muskogea) Nation 1 rowoto timea. ‘The Creoks and Choclaws havo o fow wordy aliko,— both Laviog a fow Krench words borcowed ; and the Choctaws snd Chickaeaws, excepe in the maoner of pronanciation, #poag substantially {bs same langnage, Tho Usages and Kais Lave slmost cutirely the samo laugusge. Tho prairie tribes use walnly sigos snd gesturos in conversation, aud yob havo 8 fow words of Span- fsh in thoir talk, Q. 8 e HOW TO UTILIZE THE FREEOMEN. T the Kditor of The Chicago Tribune : Crocrxrr, Tex., Oct. 25.—Tlere, In Toxas, wo bave thousands of freedmen who do not pro- duce one-fourth of what it will require to foed them; and tho consoquouco Is o catalogao of crime, a8 ovidenco of ademoralizod systom of Jsbor. Tho groat majority of tho while popula- tion do not understsnd how to spply the uegro to freo labor, Thoy think that whip and spuc uro the only Incontives for tho former slave. ‘'ho old slavobolder is nob tbo man to look upon his formor slave s & roasoning belag. That would be a condesceusion to which he would never conssut. e looks upon tho negro ssopon a mule, and helioves that only bruto force can mako bim work. Thore ia no aympathy or confidencs botween thowhitos and the blacks. Tach strivea to mako the most offof theother. 1t any stock s missing, tho negro I8 obarged with {44 thott; but it is not zlwase tho negro who Is tho erimiusl, "Fhe question 14, How aro wo to make veluable wil this domoralizad labor, eo iudisponsablo to the cotton snd sugar districts of the South? Wo muat first consider the ncgroos aa social beiugs by unture, who must necessanly livo in comumunfties, When scatiercd about, with uo asxuranco of a home, they cannot labor chear- fully; but, whon gathored in wmall colonies, thov scem perfectly happy; and, like school- chitdzon, thoy want Baturdsy 6o & vlay-dsy. 1 ppealk of those who havo alivays livedd upon plan- tutious, Thay nre clldron of Naturo, and taust 0 Lo dealt with. B L uchevo a colony of 150, with a schoolhasso that coutd be used 08 o church alko. with couw- fortable cabing and plenty of plain food, would produce from a scctiou ‘of land more cotton, suger, or grain, than "G00 now average, take = thewn a8 thoy aro gow, Acattored through tbe woods or pralrics, on swall patches of laud. (€ & negtro rawes o balo of cottun, and takos it to tho morclizut who gavo fum a small credit upon & gold Lsuiy, tho merchant pays ouly currency prices for the cotton; and, whon u balance i struol, tho nogro 18 told that the cotton paye only hialf of his dobt, ‘Thoy do mot keop uny account ; thoy have no ides of values, ana kuow nathing of the economy of farming, 1 hinvo tslked with sovoral gontlomon who seo these thingy in the wama tight. lut they have pot the capital to tske o leagio, or even & sec- tion, of 1aud, and colonize it upon that priuci- ple. Deuling with the freodmno fairly, thers could bo mo failoro to satisfy the lsborer and compeusste tho capitalist, A lesgus of lnnd would cost, eay, ©3,000, where it would bo couveuiont to ship by raflroad; sad buildings, with other outflt, and ono yoar's pro- visioun, “Y 33,000 mosa, Kifty bLands would out the rmly and fencs in 500 acres, besides put- ting iu & erop of 200 ucren of cottou, sud ¥ 14 all the corn aud meat required upou ti:e planta- tion. Oue bundred bales of cotton,—which is & reasonable catimate,—valuod at $7,000, would, after paying all expenvos. loaye 25,000, an an Viciereased valuo. of tho land of 35,000 woro; and the freedman would be happy in hia situation. Buch a course would soon chanje tho moral gtatus of Teaus ; and tho thousan who now Lavo no local halatation would be wourca of great wealth to this Btata, O, M, VixroK, An 01d Dunish War-Galiey. Laulon Tinwes, About 2! miles frum Dotloy, on tho bank of tho Hamblo, which runs out of tho Bonthainp- toa Watcr, thore Jio expoaed at low upring tides ! two ticrw of old pilea eaverall with mnd and Rea- weed, whicli iaso g heon a favarite haunt ol the cormorant and ofier ren-bivds. Tha piles extand from tho water's edgo for nome distanen info the bank of the river in tho dicreo- tion of Swanwlek, and nccording to tradition thoy formed part of thoe wieck of s Dasteh war Enllny burot and sunk at the time of tho Danialy nvasion of England in the year 870, Within the Jant fow days n gentleman who has lately taken o tosidopeo 1o the neighborhood conceived the ilea of raising tho prepumed wreck, and om- loved a numbor of men in making explorations, Whon nll:lv}rlh of sonto S or 10 feel in the wud, planke were found attached to the pilos, and tho ehapoof tho vessel waw traced, Thoso platky ware attached to tho timbers in throo thicknoses, encli planed to & haval and baat to the alapo of the ship. 'Tho thicke of the planks was from 4 tn O inches, and tho timbors 1t by 10 inchon. Tho roconrches worg contintied {0 tte keol, tho mesuroment of which was found to bo 130 fect in length. A quantity of cement was nmbedded botwesn the keel and flm- pers, aud tho plauks wero calked with moss, Iive timbor appeared to be of osk, but the color Doing cbanged, It resembled conl, and was ex- tromely hinrd: otherwise it wan perfectly nound, snd ovon saw matis wero distingnisbable in places, tho instruments need belng of a much thickor mako than thoso of tha prescut dav, It is hoped that theso examinntions will bo contin- ued and further information obtamod respecting this remarkablo relic of past agos. st SR PIITSBURMS BONANZA, Rovolution in the Fucl-Supply of Midls nud Fatudricss Juttalrg Critie. p Having boon detailed to give tha Critic in- formution in regard to the ges-pipo lino abont beiug compicted to this eity, nud the probabill- ties of {ho gaa-wolls of Butler County being utiliz:od to supply fucl to the furnnces of Pitts- \‘)\H’B. on Wodnosday inst I stacted for the vout, At Grafr, Bonzott & Co.'s milla ab Altos, the tormiuns of tho line, I ascortninod thmt it would o fininhed tho next day, and alio some particu- lars in rogarl to fta construction, Tho line conaigta of & G-inch wrought tron pipo, in fointa of 10 to 1 faot Touyt, and oxtand: from tho Ewnlt atreat bridga to tho llarvey well, a distanco of 1915 milos. . The object 18 to suppiy fuol to the nullof theso two tlim4 ond such otbord ay the lino mny be abln to supply. A coutisct hiss boen muda with the two firms at such prico as will fo- nuro b0 por cont por annum from theso Lwo mills alone to the ownors of the line, and, ot the same tuma, rosult in an immense saving in tho prico of fuel to tho mills in_quostion, 1 was unable to necortain tho cost of tho line. ‘Chia pipa is lad aloogt the Dutler plank-road, throngh Xna borough, past the will of Spaug, Chalfant & Co, At this point it loaves tho roed, and takes o *'bee-lino™ as uear un possible for Lo woll, pansinir up Littlo Pino Creek, nod o jwood pert of the way along the old Kittanuing ro3d. Throngh a G5g-inch pipo tho jas rushes grom tho oarth, aud bursts juto the air ina Tartning sheot of lund flame, which, st nicht, ith aninates the entire conntry, It cau ba seou finn tho bills in the vicinity of tho clty on any darh: oight, by leoking in &” northoastern divec- tion. ‘Tho well is located In o boautiful valley, and e seono ot night must bo magmileont. A dancin ¢ platform has boen orected near it and tho lan 1 and laskes 0f the surrounding country have ut lized the lignt and hont for the past yearin nany o midulyht econe of lovoand frolic. But flvding thero are groater sights of this kind bosund, I pass on to view them through Saxonburst to Great Lolt City, At this place 1 meot thoeo that can salisty my craving spirit on tho ne cpuostion; tho gex in all directions from this point Is Muminating tho sky, white from tho northward I hear s sound like tho distant roar of Ningara, This, I am informed, s tho mnoie maeda by the Durns snd Dolomator wolls, 7 miles diatout. “Thuno goutlemay inform mo thev hiave just com- pletod u gortes of ln!omflnn‘;: oxperunenta that havo eaiablishied ‘the use and portability of this volatiie sabstauce, and slso tho jmmenso value of the wolls in question, nnd that they ard pro- coeding Lo lay pipu to couvey it to Pittshurg. They gavo mo tho veuuls of their experimenta, Jinving just comeleted o new oil pipe to Freo- porb. which pasned tie Burn woll, thoy secured ‘a rofusal " and obtsdnod tho services of Prof. Ottg Wuth, tho disiinzuished chomist of Intts- busrg, Jawmes Cuddy, 131q., and othor oxperts, to experimeut and ascertain tho amount of gas pro- duced, what it cousistod of, aud what smount conld bo trausported turaugl a given sized pipo. Tiret, it sas ascortninard thed thie gas waa flow- ing through o 53i-inch catiug, tho full eize of tho woll, 05 a prossnre «f 10D pounds to tho squara inch ; attachmenty woro put onm, tho ptroeam uubdivided {oto six :lnch pipes in order to control sud regulato thu same, aod 1t wos found that the prosuro coudt by inctoased in- duilnitely by shutiing off the dilferent branchos, With two 2-inch outlots, & presiuroof 300 pounds tathy u(}lnru inch wos reachiod, vwhick waa conaid- ored ue bigh ws it wan se{0 to go, us tho presaura counterbilanced tho weiphit of tun coniny, aud & bigher pressure migbe hurl it trom the well, ‘Yo nuiso at this prossurs was pevlectly totritio, and tho frightened natives rusbed” torrified from tho scens, ‘Tho next peint was to find the velocity at which it Gaveted an- dor n coerenlu pressure, and smounnt lost by friction. ‘I'o dotcrmino this it was turned on to the Z-inch pipe leading to Freoport, 15} miles long, n telegraph Line boing Sloug the route; operators and timo-keopors wora at the woll, a¢ tho fieat siation, 82¢ miles distrat, and at tho terminus, Al cacl biaco s flre was kind- Jod at the ontlet, to dotermine tha momeat the s would reach: the point, as, of course, tho sir fn tho pipo would precodo tho gas. {Watchies Laving been compared and sot by telegraph, tho word was given And tho xas Lurn ou uta pror- sure of 200 pouais to the squaro inch. In fltcon miutes, precisoly, it ronched the firet distants of 8!/ wmiles, nnd 1n_cightoen minutes mmore thy socond distanco of 7§ miles, or s total into of thirty-throe wivutes for 153¢ milas. ‘fhia oue waoll, then, accordiog to this certid- ente, 18 producing fuol equal to 50,000 bushels of cou! per day, or 18,250,000 bushels per aukm ; which, nt 6 cents per bushel, amounts to over $1,000,000 & year. Hinca thosa axpsriments wero tuade, auother woll, tho Uelomater, was struck, which, from tho noise mado sud volume of flame preduced, 18 bo- Hoyod to bo much larger. Meemis. Kirk & Dil- worth also purchazed this ono, as thowr oxpori- ments showod that tho gas from both could be transported through a Geinch pipo to Pittsburg ; and trmy 10w proposo to form s atook. company ond procoed forshwith to put down the line. 1hink of a (-iuch pipe carrying £3,000,000 per snnum. The Comstoek lods will bo nothing to it ‘o much for statiutics, and now for my visit ta tho wells. At Carhon Ceutro I found the first oxhibution, A pipo having been luid from tho burning woll to this fllncn tosupply the Key- #tono Pipe Company with fuol, a small pipo un- der the bolter burste {uta & roanng fire, which with furpace-loor open can searcoly be gob small enougly to valso the propor stestn to drivo 8 mouster punp, foreing tho off 15 miles to Froa- port, while o stanupipo {8 oracted a shiort distance off to consnme thie surplus and light the town. | At the Burns woll tho gae 1 not on fire, as the wall is Tocated in the woods, aod it isdeoned un- sufa to permit it ta burn, Through five Z-inch pipus it rushed out into tho air with asound * that shook the Boru leuf from tho woods as though & storm passod by, It 18 simply appaliing to pass among the labyrinth of pipcs that conveys tho gan from the well. [leaveit as quick as poauls Ble, fearing that friction or some caroloss haud may »touch 1t oft.” Over the -bill rench the Delemater, Itisnow mght, and I witnoss & rcoue worth crossing the ocean for. Through two #-inch pipos sud two 2-fuch pipes, }e rushos with terrible nolye and swirls into monster col- unins of tawo, lighting up the wholo couutry; but I have seen ¢nough, and langusge fatls nie to dexcribo the night picturo, It must be scen to be appreciated, On the morrow I return In time to witness the succassfal test of the Vandergnft lino at O Bennelt & Co’'s and Shaug, Chalfant & Co.'s uille, It burat Into tho air the foll size of the wel in thirty-six winutes from tho time 1t was loton. Within a week both mills will be run- niog with this fuel, aud a new cra will have dawn- od upon Pittsbure. —_——— A GAME OF CHESS. ey atrolled upou tho bescl so long 1 1uiased Il train, belatad § And 50 thoy pisyed & gawo oF chess 'For paatiing, while he waited, 1t must hiave been 8 charnidng oae, Fur botls seonud quite enraptured § Hhe took » Castlo aud o Knight, Whilu L the whito Queon captured, 1 canuot Lel) who lost or won, uaa it s relatad, Alihuugh the geras was only drawa, ‘The players were matod. —Iartford Tvnes. ———r “cCulr Liege.” 3 The Paris correspondont of the London Tels: ngyh. thus dessribes a proj aration of cork, aown 86 cuir-liege, which sttracting oon- widerablo attention Lo Pariss ** Cutin fineulieots, or ju strips, snd covered ou either side with 8 skin of judis-rubver, it wholly loses its friabllity, while keapiug every sdvantage. Cork thus treated may be wrang out like & dish-oloth, doubled 100 any shaps, sud beaten with a mallot, but suffers actually no damage. It 1s, of courws, peclectly water-tight, aud tho iuventor slova Lackets of every aize wiich fold likn & hand- kerehiel to put pvay. Homs on viow have boon full of water ever sinco tha oponing of iho ex- hitdtion. But tho euir-fiege claims to ba nlgo hoat-praof, o quality that abowd meke 1t fn- valuable for ambulancs tonts, for awnings. and tropical una. [t tuay bo nhorfly malil that overy purposs sorved by lontlier profesees to b ful- filled 10 thin new subsiance, with ths fusther recamniendation of fouther-lightnews and im- permoability, Ita strength {n such that o wtrap an inch and & hislf wide Lina heen holding o 1,000 pound weight for tho last six wouks, In thicker Bhicotw, vencored with funey woods, it ia sug- rontod ar & material for carriago building, Most alegant hooty made of (£ ara khown you At well an portmanteans and hatw, Bat tho advautepe of tha ciir-tivge for soldiera’ equipmant is that which drow tho War Alinisfer'a attention. It s clalmad thnt knnsuuwh. atraps, belts, eartoucho- box, ote., can ho lightened by %0 por cent, aurd at tho samo time bo_made water and heat proof, strongthenad, and diminished tn cost by itk per caut, at lonat.™ THE HISTORY OF 3 S.{JIC!IH‘}. Whero the Act Aes Been Encourngoily aml Where Frowned upon--Home of the @1d Eaws and ciie Now in lelue ton to Felo.deasNe, New York Sun, At tho laat menting of tho Medico-Tegal Ho- cloty, Mr. It H. Guerngoy's papor on *The Ponal Lawa Relating to Hnicide in Anciont and Modern Times " was read by Dr, Miller. Alter dolining the difforoncen botween {ho two classea of sui- ciden reeoguizod by the law, tho author took up tho histary of eutcide and the laws . g on it jn difforaut agos and diferons couutrioy, The Mosalc law cantaing no ponalty for filn de se, ‘Tho firet suictdes montioned in the Old Tos- tament were thoso of Baul and Lin armor-bnarar, Ham -on's doath ean hirdly bo callml 8 wwsekle. Josophus says that in Judes tie body of tho wman who had taken I8 own hifo was not buried il aftor nunset, In kome pares of Indin suicds was imco cousidered meritoryas, but tho immolation of widows on tho funoral. thete husbaudy i8 no Jonger permitted. In China wuicido is by no moans nucomm.n, and no dis- grace attacties to tho vietim of his own violenee, or to bis fumily. 1o Jaysu nuicides nro freguonl. and tho taking of one'’s life fs oftau looked npon a8 meritorious, When an oflicinl hiss fuslod intho performauce of bis duty ho has the privilog af perfarming Lr-kar, or dwomhosohkng him- solf, to savo him the disgrace of dylog by the hand of the oxecutioner, 1i uo svails hunsei of tho priv:lego bia property i3 nased from fore foiture and his femily from” dwlonor, In roma countrics tho sot of suicldo 18 looked upon ny horaic, andl troquently the wons of the selfue. derer aro rewarded for tho cournza of thor fatler with importint appolutmens and pro- motions, The Btoios, tho disciplns cf Zero, tanght that suicide nuder cortain circumstancas was right ; that as man had notiing to fear alter death, ne was at liborty to take lus nwn lifo whonover it beeame irksowe to it Pythayo. ras beld that no wnan had tho rizht to loave Ly post without aw ovd:r from Lis comumandors but othcr philosophors roasoned that ua man's lifa was hig own lo counld dispese of it sg hio ploated, Heerius was said to bo #o oloquent in prsise of death that Lundreds who heard hm made away with themsclvea, aud miicido by dewric. Ptolotwy, alarmed at the spre infatutiou, ordered Lgesiug away from Alexau- dris, and the peoplo ot once camo to thew Ronses, At one timo i France poison was faynishad ty alf who could give patisfactory proof thab it vy ‘bettor for them to dio than fo live. A cobllar who had detormined to kill himuolf thought o would do it with cclat: 8o, having propuied his poizon, ho boxan a lottor whicl wad o bo read after his daath, and to Lo talkea of throughoul tho proviveo. e started off with a guotabion, and continted, *-Thus says 3lolere,” buat, fear- ing that ho had erred s astriburing the yamark o Moliere, ho tool down his fuvoiito author and bogan to rend, Afwer anhour's plesssnt vom munion with the great writer ha pub the poison awiy und went to work at his inat. Tho Milesian virgins ouce becamo pflicted with tho insane nothon that they should comaty sulcids, and many of them obeyed tho Impuls A law wan passed oadaluing that the body of e seida should by draggod naled throagh tho ntreets, and thig offeocuntly dispeliod Lhe liu- sion. Home of tho Roman Jurists said that sui. cido was o folony unless permitted by tha Eme peror. Under our Jimporor thn soliiors wore sot to ditehing and making sowera, Lortifiednt what thay loolied upon as an jgnoming, wanv, of } them committed sutelde, Umider anotbior a Foi- dior nttempung suicnls was treatadas w deanstor. Domitian docrood that the kuicidu of an reeused porsau should entail upou lum th dishonor tiat would hiave attached to b bad e erfino been proved, Among the eurly (hristiana thoro wnn nn are dent louging for martydom, and_undor o in- fluenoo of Tortulhau's naying, **‘Theblooidui the martyrs ia the veed of tha Churel,” nwnhors of thoem fell victims to their religlous faneticlan, A Iiighops’ Council in tho fitth contury decresd that suicide wan tha effcct of diabolcal inllu- once, Afterward the Churcn treated it 44 a vin, and tho body of the melf-murderer was bured without the xacted rites, In tna timo of Louis 1X, of Francs tha body of tho sutekls wag sab- josted to tho grossost indiguitisy, 1t was talren rom the bouse through an oponing wado for ihat purpose, was iioribly mutiittod, nnd burisd at night, N No mass was allowed for the saul of the dend raan, bt the choritably disposed were kindly permitsed to pray for its ropose if iliey felt inclined, Mahomet eoxprossly forbida suicids In the Koran, and the crimo iy extremely rare among Mubommedaus, "I'he Homan Cathalic, the Greck, aud Protost- ant Episcopnl Chiurches probibit the tosdin,: of tho burinl sorvics over the boly af tha sulewlo, oxeupt in tho caso of onio who diad while inwane, Thostatutolaw of Eagland prohibitaitinall casea, At the timo of tho Itoformation in Lugland, the wuicide's proporty was canfisonted to comjennio tha Stata for tho loss of a subject, his body van buried at tho cross-roads, and o stake wasdnven furongh it to mark the detostation of the imw, #ud to deter others from tlfo crimo. This ver arclent rule foll into gencral, 1f ot entire, die- 44 mAnY years ago, but it was not repoated until the fourth year of Gisorgo IV.' raign, and ovoir then, to matifost the horror of the law at the act of suicide, it was orderad that tho budy, which might bo placed i a churchyard, or other conseerated ground, shonld be buried at night and widiont tho Efirl‘ommnm of roligious riten. Tho Indizus of Bouth Amerios, when ooprassod. beyond andarance by thair Spunisl connuorors, made away wits thomselvas t groat numbers, Thoy wara checked only by belug told that, it they did 1ot deslst from tho practico, their may- vers would comnut sul2id » too, and follow thom into tho wext world, whora tholr toils and tor- mants_ehould be Incr.need toutold, This threat bad tho desired elfevt. Thero 18 littls suiciie among the Norch American Indisus, 1t i only tho squawa who kill thomsetves. Thov alviavs do this by hanging to & tros, and iuvarfably selocs tho smallest troo that will answer tha pur- podc, beliaving that In the next world they will be obliged to dray the treo about with them for- ever, il e . LOYER'S LANE. {Aaua_Calienty, Cat,, Oct, Thla unnie 14 onzales Vieente, HHer namo 15’ Matilde ro ; Tuvy liv on this crovk Calienle, And oficn at eyening g To walk whera the cactas-leaf covors “Tlie troolens and shadoviess phitiis, Aud act all the samo nn tkoso lovers Whio woo {n the shadowy lancs, 2, 1475 Last night, as thoy walked with slow paots, Tie whispered sweet worda in her car They Liejd tholr Banis lUght lu wmbraces, ‘Thelrfiips had wpproacked wry noar, When, curelessly atepploy, shis junmed » Big thorn fn ber foot—which wak laze— And eried with emotlon Car-r-reambia! A word which men uso whet (hoy swesrs “z‘. yreator est, And 1 saw Lim, st bour ot 8o later, Devoladly kuoel ut her feet, ut quickly bo roso and ho dsmand & 1l cactus whicl: grow Ly bis Xuay, And tho word which sho hcard Was Carerer-yamba ! Tustead of & lover's woft plcs, And 1 thought: Tt well for Vicente, Xud vl ’or';\lu't;l;m Tiro, 1 ADYG Tt that the thorh wero more len el ol A ot ond lavernedo e | It would make theta much betisr acquainted, Wollld baniat: fove's glumaur from tach, ‘Would warn him that sho ls uot suluted, - WRUA show her bls figurea of bpeesh, —Pyunk Curpater i the New York Graphic, Sl ———. A Grateful Chicagonm. In one of L eddrosses, at Brooklyn. on Bun- dny lust, Mr. Moody tald the fotlowing ancedote : 4“hure wad @ nica Qlristsn o my Chicago church—ono of those men who mado yon feal EMI[ yout laakod at bim, and mado you foel otter if you gpoke to him, He was tho wost grateful man I evor knew. Ho siways Lad something that ho wanted to thauk God for par- ticulasly. Well, one morniug he cut his finger, —cat it protty bad,—aud I knew that bo would maGsge 10 BOW Wiy to rogurn praise for It but 1 aid not soe how hie was to do. Wall, the prays er-motting camo, avd ho was_there, sud oo of thio fust 10 gat ou his foct, * You know, O dod,! he cried, ‘tbstIthis morning outwy fl'ib""' and 1 think Theo, Meaveuly Fathor, that I did uob cub it olf." . 1 s FADWAY'S REMEDIES, v T, m--.':"“‘ Radway's Ready Reliat CORYS THE WORST PAINS Tn Trom Oue to Twouty Hlimyes, NOT ONE HOUR \ Aller veading this Adveviisement e sufier with pain, ed nny oy Radway's Ready Religf 18 A CURE. 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Diabotes, Drapet, ht'e i ads panramee, 8 piic Tuawmor of Twelve Vonrs® Growth Cared b7 Ttwdway’s 1icrolvont. Ip, RADWAY: Tiomols, it 1ined everything that was ing helpod Al e, HnveRiT, Mass, Ju An tumor fa ¥ (hiors wed na haly far secamumented. LoLeEE s Tour feas T nl Ao T el 1 have had uras the dostors maid 2y wauld ey it; bat bad no’ fajth fured for twal! vo Izvaay Hsliof, and there e felt, snd 1 eal hinva tor twalso ede ot the howels, over tlis groi e bosont of othors, You can Leiter, ears. | Prico, $1 pet bottl, AN IMPORTANT LETTER. u, Da. Sakal 1 M‘ q thete iminton hysdets; Lotnatio o 3ho wufTering to ma¥o s eiliciie o myss eot>d with somo troul ;i mo ¢ the ki . islon (et oy u’:du radioally ourud. "lnll had taken & titio anig hoimeopal ol known e Ubitod Siatas. 1o I, b 0re, L took six bottlos 00 o b ol Hatwas ‘e Filla sl ‘s not a sign wrartot, o worat i 3 g TANNATLP. 188 v otai i 1 Keeatveat two bottles of your ‘of, tumor 1o bo e 248 to0, A Friom & promizont gentloman and residont of Clzelansth . 10¢ the DRt 1oLy Je palishury thsoughout 1o the Gewaya! Nuw Yors, Get. Ul u:a.“ upwar—Dean Sui: Lunt dnduced by & unt'lh! riel 5 1 yeant it Forgoreh wont G statoment o ia thy 3, ln‘ 1 hindl rusd of astanishing ouros ba: ramadics, ealladolphi eftedtod om o perso: ‘i mim foug taontle eturday Eoeni Leots, § went right off and Vathin, Terotroat, Ready 20d commonsad taking thom, | o Iy zadioved, and now (vl ax i it h(hl e quantil ofe it SUFANES, cunotsmath O "Post of a cute baving hb: ] o ‘\ eltef, and Kogula 1o (hreo daye og PUli= Twas grosr var. R PR o DR. 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