Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1874, Page 3

Ode to the Great SYMPATHETICALLY DEDICATED TO ALL SU? FERERS FROM THE OCTOBER MOSQTITO. Had the Father of Sius Breathed into some millions And billions and trillions Of papers of pins; Had he te thorns and thistles lent @ tongue anxious, pondering face, and bed deeply. = . {t rent-day were only not the day after to- morrow!” she said. “Ifit could be any other ‘ime? “But I could not tell him that, | nie, ba'f lsaghing, ha’f crying. The usag society won't allow a girl, you know, to say, «if fou will come next week I will wear the batter in my hat, the tea in my gloves, the sagar "retarned see Through which bis hatred mght be sung— around my mck; but you must excuse me this Given slivers motion, and a heinous heart — pn the _ poor and we have dis- To reve! rargiec art; posed of those articies already.’ ”” Were m od nettles, like a baby, born, | “Or, if we were like those story heroines To yell fr larkness tii the morn; | pursued Harriet, as if thinking aload. ho al Were twenty Hades housed in one small thing | wavs have some wonderful old lace.,and a piece s buzz about and sing, ¢ that can be covered over, rments seren: made to look finer than anything from Wort Det one old gray dress, that has done duty for tvo girls since spring—cotton goods at that. Do you know, Jenale,among all the bits of [tal- fan-iace wisdom going the rounds, I am not there is one more exasperating to me | than that saying about a lady's character as re- | vealed in ber dress? Does it ever occur to any- | body, I wonder, that it costs mote to dres | plainly and appropriately than outof what odds ny Theummtic clock | wid ends you bave, or the cheap goxs you can hh the darksome hours; afford to buy? And that there ts such @ be! pricking powers jady in taste and feeling without mone! t to-night! to-night!” fasisted Jencie half ;baitanxious. “What can I do for to- Oar old gray dress is io shabby: be- » When you wore it last you greased cof the Pit, ng Sddles played; Oue made mince, and fashioned nel €5e: ©, stilett: | gle tu re is the old Victoria lawn. Itis alittle putting plainty Hire a and which the stocking wat sist why not give it np! n some tonement bose, foot on atonce in the door with the others—those woman whom ‘ou see »rms akimbo and hair twisted up in ® ard knot? Resign oarselves, and tell our friends that cone decen some? “There is the olf black-sitk basqae,”” con- tinued Harriet, as if she hed heard nothing ©The silk was never good, but it will not show so much in the evening. ‘Yon can take out sleaves, and wear it as a sieweles= basque. And that three dollars that we saved “We! you saved for your shoe Jennie. dd eourtships and other es of civilized life are not for—our in- "interpolated Harriet put that aside with a wave of the band “saw ladies’ bootso1 Lighth avense—don't scream, Jenpie—veiveteen boots—for two dol- lars. Dreadfel, 1 know, but rot =o dreadful as to show one’s stockings. You must put your best foot foremost, or rather keep it out of sight, and pray that there be no wind. And you can get lavender gloves to match the ribbon on your bat with the remaining dollar.” “I will keep that,” said Jennie, doggedly, “to buy the ears and snout, and make myaelfthe pig complete, that I should be if { listened to you— you, who bave had no shoes in six months, and who limp on all the down-hill sides of the street because ot thoxe dreadful heels; you, who go nowhere; you, who staid at home from ‘the par- sonage reception; you give me that three collars that you have pinched off from your bread-and- butter! Never! [ll stay at home with you"— throwing her arms about her sister's neck. “Cantot you understand,” retorted Harriet, “that this is a speculation, and th (Selom« Suri Ary goods estal straightness ot back, a leng’ tion of coat and tro} in his muddy but large and ye, and mour tmake a calm descrij of him simply impossible te any woman under forty. tons inay be the reason why be stands to the neighborhood where our story transacted itself, or rather to the young la: thereo: me Such relation as a prize r cup, or a champion’s belt. Cert Miss Moblot, whose father owned his own house, was as well known at Constant & Stirling’s as the lay-figure in the window; that Miss Matilda Mason and MissSelliquips were intimate friends Of the deadliest type, for no other purpose than to reckon up this young gent!emsn;that a dozen other young women were at swords” points about -die mi | &reé not & woman of business. Iam. I see so clearly that I want words to evpress it, that the income on which two si luxury, when I am left mnie grew scarlet. 8 for that, it is Bim; and that ail united im detecting Mise Jen- | ;.tbat this iss rere! aphnwdleehoedonend agus, as half alength ahead, and likely | ty though laten. Stace Piaust shook in in virtue of her good looks and undenia- | UY thoug! a < ‘i Sten | Die gentilty. “‘Dheretoss, | repeat, she chauny | Bt, that three dotlars { mean to invest in Mos- | gen torent pnt lad been no | S¢®’s #teck, with an eye to future profit. You | ‘ [wonder you talk so, But if—say any thing did bappen—O Harriet! you know yery well where i go, you wearing, in some i person with we’ b would go, too. “And there would be a clause in the marriage ceremony,” said Harriet, smiling slightly. “I take this woman and her sister to be my wife. My poor little Jennie, my poor child, take yi money and buy your boots. Indeed’ you mus If you don’t go, I will, aud have them fitted o my own foot, # little tight, and then I shall loz niy morning’s sewing.” So adjured, Jennie went. But fast by her, aud Disgust half ot “It is like murdering your neighbor for two» and-sixpence,” she told Harriet. fo be gu of such a meanness fer velveteen boots and follar gloves!” ng pleased her. Sho looked at her Victoria lawn and its scant plait- “Tshould wear a placard, back,” she observed a are ceiling for.” The om the riv. tween | and life thus, asit we 8 natural that they emorse kept a her. silk waist was intolerable. She vowed sic | would prefer a shilling calico, could she afford ai wstaracw an a ek atc | to Luy one. ‘he wind was rising—indeed, it was ~—— \ on a w Der wets told her sister, drawing on her right bh ust then the bell rang mocks the glove split entirely across th Sp Bharyyf che | glanced at herself in t eyes were forever battling with the | thesunstine out of her face),and turned suai tactinir Whale wan | ster with an indescribable look. Sania et appeerancen. “ have It. vested your three doliare badly, the famtiy- mother, as | my dear. appens wit lain and pract mnie was twe: Mr. Messeps waz waiting for her in the little, dark, borse-hair furnisaed parlor; gloves aud trousers cream color, coat anf necktie p rtect, Har and studs, If anything was wanted to complete the poor giri’s depression, it was the t of tasbion and prosperity that seemed actu- y te radiate trom his handsome and satistied self, All in ® moment she felt herself baif starved, as sbe truly was, pinched, woe worn, | awkward, tuappropriate; and advanced toward bim rather with the air of @ convicted felon, than of the bigh spirited and coquettish girl she reaily was. Mr. Messeps glanced at her ciuuded face, then at ber dress, and started—at least to the girl's sensitive fancy—and a subtile,chilling reserve at once seemed to form taclf between them. He was daunted by her manuer. She was as happy and comfortable as a gir: could feel in | a high wind, with short skirts and dreadfai Velveteen boots, and one bare hand, that wil! get red and swollen, resting con gentleman’s arm,and a that she is in every way at her worst. As they neared the corner, they met Matilda Mason. She smiled knowingly at Mr. Messeps, took in Jennie, in one long, woman’s look, till her eyes reached the ground, aud theatrically. Mr. Messeps instantly looked down. At that moment the sullen wind, tearing up the avenue in a clond of dust, caught them, seized on Jen- pie’s light skirts, by ay them tightly about ber ankles, and held them there. Mr. Meseeps saw, the whole world, saw the whole of the velveteen boots. It is hardly reasonable to supnose that, from that moment, as Jennie told her sister,Mr. Mea- seps turned the conversation to velveteen boots, and declared that Cartias jumped into the gulf for no other reason than that he was caught in & pair of them; or that Horatiusrefused to come der sister,and m¢ anc adapied £0 ¥ whot ppearance—a rarer char ed. Girls are j at how ofter of her skin, s pa'r o x asure. Perhaps this was w! * found her charm gentler inhal m of speaking of ing smile, and as should never have with her sist days, Thursdays, yoa pleased, you smiling,to receive vou, and no hint of Jeun'e; and, if you came Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, whenever leased, yeu found Jennie, freet and smil- | id no bint of Harriet; aud way the t differing so widely in years, should | have dressed precisely alike, even to the iat bow and ruiiie—sh, that was the Millfug: mystery. No one ever saw them out of the little, dark, horse-bair-farnisned parlor. Noone ever saw thom together. No one had ever dined or lancbed, or taken tea, with them,and no o: bad vet comprehended it. Butto keeps myste- ry wholly within the compass of one’s lite, and no loose end hanging out, is impossible; and a steady and cautious pull at suck an end—what might it not bring, pell-mell, afterit, should | OF Teer Peea en eee ne whale Toe one's interest warrant the laying hold of | Nor is it credible that Tuomas’ band played an i overture on the same subject, as she further- more insisted;but that the unlucky incident dis- turbed the whole evening, and altogether startled Mr. Messeps, out of the declaration on which Mr. Messeps had determined, is only too true. He certainly liked Mise Milifugus better an Sny girlheknew. But then Mr. M ng indy » 481 began by saying, she should never | tt. It was Jennie who said it, and with an air of triumph. A triumphant air is always & wanton attack on lLuman jealousy, a tous waving of the red flag in the very eves of the boll. It is true, she must have been | simost more than human bad she not stopped to | ser ad been used to speak of her as a you: Sandee ne eee Sd aropped the word | of independant income. “Now did yoong ines ag oa oy ee a independent incomes wear velveteen boots? id say, “with the Smith family, of course,” And, if there was no such income,on what did she live? Mr. Messeps felt mnch like a man aeety arrested on the brink of a yawning chasm, And now one might bave thought that fate had accomplished her worst; but if that were ao, fate had not consulted Matilda Mason. For it vexatious: for why “of course?” as if she girl that could get nowhere unless pinned skirt ofsome family! And so she said ps m4 = glove! y & m that tamed L suspect speech more now cccurred to that young Iady to propose, with much artieseness of anager, ‘a surprise Moblot, Miss the bam; tery! and with a great blush, from her cheeks all over her face! Matilda could have forgiven the call—surprisers, Mr. Messeps, Miss Mason, and Miss Selliquips; surprises, Misses Milifugus. If you are an evil-min: you Feadily than the Dlash; the last was such an ui~ coe Ta, oe , ao gio Ree mative, mpeachable wituessof happy consciousness: n te — . Mise Milifi ’ part; but, assuredly,she was nt why this most unfortunate idea should have led them, not into the little horse-hair parlor, ont Straight up the stairs, Motioning for silence at alittle back room door she knocked. A voice ted, “Come in!” Miss Mason at that flung wide the door, pushing Mr. Messeps ahead, who made a step forward and recoiled. The uncar- the girl to refuse the challenge. Could Mice Milliugus have seen—but which cf us does foresee? We open the door ourselves :0 Fate almost mvariably; yet which of us reco;- izes her’ Keyond @ satistied impression «f “serves ker right,” Jennie thought very litt aboutit. She was apeorbed in more {i peted floor, the poor little bed, the few chairs, considerations. It was @ saying between bt Wore heaped with piles of what is called sho and her sister that “if either were called su: Genly to die, their first impression would be that it was impossible, as they had nothing fit to in.” Andsnother, that ‘they lived on the fi come of a wolf,as in it there was no more pro- vision for clothes than if they had been born furry creatures.” Purchasing = dress they styled shooting the Tapids, so great were the perils, 80 nice the cai. culation necessary for the venture; while their wardrobe itself, if it could pretend to such a iss Harriet (it was her night—that the night on which ¢! . in the gray a the floor. Before the ing~ sack and skirt, with sleeves rolled to the elbow, sat Jennie, in the middle of a silence that follows “Yes,” she said, * name, they christened ‘All the Year Round,” . a, in buying a gown, say for the summer, it yeas. Weare cal Femade Te the calculate, also, bow iteould be | supposed there is batone Temade in the fall, and what could be done on a6 Geom ry er etic style of = ping, in which only a claifyoyant or apiniteni | Ne Ste very glad to mediam might be supposed to lete porplexitice ae eeene — lightly of these stituted as it is at present, so long aot fil’ ore frouzy sa; extant about silk-worm, she disguises dainty Comrse missha, shoes; when ® wrist and shoulders that weeld become silk aud camei'shair are disfigured In when sashes. apples of rides. And Jennie winced daily under these privations, as did Galliver under tie darts ofr tl Hipa tans. Somethin ever, was ‘The prize Messe; that critical cons to be more than mortified pride, how- nvolved on the present occasion. . the parti of the biock,wasin ition where he might be said verge of « deciara- tottering on the Je prolonged.” Just then he & €4 bis hat, possibly’ to relincy na ee S crisis. A touch only was needed to faish the | <p. ve Sie ome work; whiie, on the contrary, if he were ai. | WHS two theater cheeks fell on the floor. It ia lowed £5 recover himself, It would. be "na aay | B&tdlces to add thet Jones and tedeacen Pare without rpexking now. wi Trieks of J Contrasted with rit Manifestations—Ancient and rm 6 Thaumaturcy— toring the Dead to Life—The Ordeal of Fire and Sonia Coals— ‘s Mar- (From the New York World.) So eminent secientist as Prof, Aifred R. Wal- lace Ras written several English pane phy arti Tiodical ineupport of the claim that al phenomenon called spiritualistic produced by spirits which once inhabited ha- jan bodies. Many marvelous tb: are re- ported almost daily of this spirit manifestation. A few years ago nothing more startling than raps and table-tipping was produced, bat now. are asked to believ not only that mediums like Home elongate their bodies from é to 11 feet, carry red Lot coals in their hands without injary, an! float visibly in the air, but that the «-*pirite” can ‘materia‘ize™ themselves £0 as to become the rol'd flesh and bone that they were in this life. Nay, more: Col. Olcott, a clear- headed practical lawyer, and a gentleman of unimpeachable veracity, who it at Chittenden, Vt, invest. gating the alleged phenomena pro- dueed by the Eddy Mediums, telegraphs to New York in triumph that he bas succeeded in catch- ing one of the spirite—a female one, and weigh- ing her en Fairbarks’ scates. PROFESSIONAL MAGICTANS. Now, ail this from Messrs. Wallace, Crooks, ard Varicy, from Gol. Olcott, from Philadelphia, from Moravia, N. ¥., and other places haunted by materialized spirite, and from persons who have eat with Sade, Foster, and Mansticid, ts very wonderiul, but is it cenclusive proof that the claims of Spiritualism are right. What ir it can be shown that phenomena quite as extraor- inary have been produced by professional jug- giers, men who have made no pretense that they were asieted by occult powers, and who bave even explained the mechanism of their tricks? If this can be done, the inference must necessarily follow either that the Spiritualist'c mediums sre cunning impostors, or that the Professional necromancers are liars when they declare that their phenomena are mere trick- ery, and that they are realiy assisted by super- mundane agents. All history is full of the deceptions practiced either by these protee- si: nal characters of ¢thers who pretend to super- rs, aud were subsequently expo-ed e ans. Jugglery was allied te the ancient religions of the Greeks, Komans, Egyp- tians, and Chaldeeans. Hellas bad its oracle, with its cunning priesthood; Rome its augars and diviners, and Chaldee its world-renowned s. Inthe dark ages of Europe there ters, sorcerers, and astrologer: and, a little later, witches, who bad to have their conjury burned and drewned out of them. The Thaumaturgists and Rosicrucians pre- tended to magical powers. There is not an age in the world’s recorded past, bardly a year even, that some prestidigitateur has not tigured on the scene, eith Court appendage, a cus leadcr, or an actor performing for ihe amusemcnt of the pop Let the Daven- port Brothers or Dr. Slade do more than is Telatcd here, and then they will bave a right to ask us to consider if the phenomena they show are the york of spirits.” 11TO. In the ‘‘Lives of the Necromancers,” by Wm. Godwin (London, 1834), there is an account of a conjuror at the Courtof Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, and atterward> Emperor of Germany. On one occasion this perron, Ziito by name, ex- bibited bis cxtraordinary skill to the court. He showed himeclf first in his proper shape, and then in thoee of different pergons, successively. with countenances and stature iotally dittereit from bisown. Atone time he was splendidly attired in robes of purple and silk, and then, in the twivkling of an cye, in coarse linen and a clownish coat of frieze, MAGICAL TREP, In the same volume asketch is given of Dr. Lomb, @ noted necromancer in the time of Charies the First. The celebrated Kichard Baxter is authority for the statement thst Lamb, meeting two of his acquaintances in the street, and they having expressed a desire to witness some of his skil!, invited them home with him. He then conducted them into an inver rocm, when precently, to their no email surprive, they saw a tree spring up in the mid- dle of the apartment. ‘They bad scarcely ceased wondering at this phenomenon, when ina n ment there appeared three diminutive mon, with little axes in their bands ‘or the purpos- of cutting down this tree. The tree was felled, the doctor dismissed his guests, who were hed with the solidity of hin preten- siors. An account of this feat will be founu in Baxter's works. KESTORING THB DEAD TO LiFR. Ore of the most remarkable exhibitions of clever juggl ty is mentioned in Salverte's“* Phi- losophy ot Magic,” (London, 1816, vol. 1, page 105.) It wasreen at Nancy, in France, in 1x23. Anan frem the audience was induced to lie down op the stage, and the magician deliper- ately chopped ct his head. He displayed the ecyered Lend to the audience so that they could recognize the features; he permitted. tuem to touch it, foopen the mouth, which shut again of ils own accord, and to efamine the bleeaing section of the neck at the extremity of ths truvk. Heremoved the body and withdrew a curti nd almost immediately the snppose t dead man appeared in perfect health. Salyerte says that the beheading trick was performed by the Mahometans, and that Elian is authority for the statement that Evrculapius apparentiy reunited the heart of a woman to her corps: and restored her to life and health. THE MEDIUM HOME RIVALED. According to Mr. Godwin, in his “Histor the Necromancers,” it was &@ common practic. at the time he wrote (fitty org ago) for jug giers in the market pluces of the English town- to make the scais ot a baiance move at com mand, alternately ascending and descending. THE ORDBAL OF PIRR. Much stress has been laid by the advocates of Spiritualism upon the ability of the media Home tobandle live coais without injury or showing ascar. He has b.en seen to put red hot coals on his head, and the hair was no singed. The “fire ordeal” is a very old and familiar one to necromancers. One of the most ancient feats of magic was the art of breathing flame. During the insurrection of the slaves in Steily in the second century before Christ, a Syrian named Eunus acquired by his knowledge the rank of their leader. In order to establish his influence over their minds, he pretended to foveess miraculous power. When he wished to inspire his followers with courage, he breathed flames or sparks among them from his mouth. At the same time he was rousing them by his el- Oquence. St. Jerome informs us that the Kab- bi Burchochebas, who headed the Jews in their last revolt against the Emperor Adrian, made them believe that he was the Messiah by vom- iting fames from bis mouth. And at a later period, the Emperor Constantine was thrown io- tw & state of alarm when Valentinian in- formed him he had seen one of the body guards breathing out fire and flames, Sir David Brewster, who quotes these instances in bis interesting ‘Letters on Natural Mi ¥ of ic,” as not able to explain the exact meth: by which these effects were produced; but he said Florus informs us that Eunus & perfo- rated nut shell with sulphur and fire, and, hay- ing concealed it in his mouth, he breathed gen- tly through it while he was speaking. his act is performed more simply by the modern jug- gler. Having rolled together some flax or hemp so as to form a bal! the size of a walnut, he sets it on fire and allows itto burn until it is nearly consumed. He then roils round it while burn- ing some additional flax, and by these means the fire may be retained for a considerable time. At the commencement of his exhibition he in- troduces the ball into his mouth, and while he breathes fie od it the fire is revived anda number of burning ks are projected from are too feebie to do any barm, provided he inbalesthe air through his nostrils. The kindred art of WALKING ON BURBING COALS or red-hot iron belongs to the same antiquity. istomed, according to Stra! 4 ‘and, at the annual the te! unple of Apollo at Mount Socrate, in Etruri, the ‘pi marched over burning coals, and on this account they ‘were exem} rom military service, and re- ceived other privil from the Roman senate. This power of ig fire was ascribed even by Varro to the use of some liniment with which they annolnted the soles of their feet. Of the same character was the art of holding red-het iron in the hands or bet , aud of to heat, effect which may be produced b continually compressing oy skin Guires s horny conskeente, ae One of the f the present age was Robert . . sho for Pari Houdin wrote his autoblogeaphy, and related many ‘curions feats performed by him 3 i is Hi : : i 2g Hi i i 1) ‘ i Ht i li B i : s i a aswell as in China and neral farmers of the country to be EVEBY MOBNIBG alides.’ That The Bamboo. bred Swine. ping ep ag lw Degen gi ‘Some time ago we gave our own viewsonthe Mr. Alexander Charles writes in reference STEAMER LINES. Ab! ah!” the King added, as he looked at the expediency of oaiveting the bamboo in su: this subject, in the Swine and Poultry Journa! 3. STEAM MARY WasgiSaro ev i san shes to embarrass =e coll were adapted a a wth, belie ring that The thes bas been advocated, and tice | unt iTterther ation a it : : | — sea bipw wine this card’ prepeiet® ln | toes ane tee estan tome d ooke coe Clearly demonstrated, that itis impractica~ | She wii Teave Giymont Houdin, with ctful bow, declared a that be did not. nearly or quite fie kest-tndien. it ma Was some years intro- | of fine, or properly. speaking, “it is desired a send the hand- | duced into Egypt, and the Agricultural Depart- | theronghbred stock, with the Of disposing (Qaness, excepted lock. Returning. rare oasers to a spot bene the roots of the | ment of that country has issued & pamphiet on | it fancy prices, There may be many Washington at 20 Pm , tomody ss = leet ‘tree on the right of the Avenue of | the subject, from ich we gather the follow- | reasons ascribed for this, ee of which | } a}! ve a Tyee carriages @n e stock 8t Cloud.” Houdin affected the utmost non- | ing:— | is that it takes more ti more capital to | San stlow fetes. ss OREO, Capaie ehslence, “Only that, sire,” he said. “Deign |, The gigantic bamboo, which is of colossal | start than most of them are in circumstances to | — to order, and I will — The king gave roi | dimensions, growing to the height of sixty-four | afford, to say nothing of the business being & YER LANDINGS, yw voice, i tain Cirections ina Fe® PoTo Mat and ly | profession requires more study and ex ¥ | feet, and is fifteen to eighteen inches in clreum- * & mumber of his attendants hurried off to the | ferezce, from the jolnts of which, especially | perience than most of them ‘oan give. Tie — orange-trec to watch it. Het! "I select | those of the middle upper parts, grow of any of of Swit Saeewth ens ere x Pr nor, the orunge-tree.” Houdin's first business now | iomeroue branches, with, le Tcaves, is’ the | is, however, quite different from horses, cattle, Cagetin Sennt hecesodzen Seumer PILOT was to eend the handkerchiefs on their travels. | most vi; us specie of this arborescent plant. | or sheep, aud we are fully convinced that every | street W ‘ ack. arent So be placed them beneath a bell of opaque | It was introduced scme years ago into the gar- | farmer of the country can become a breeder of | TEBSPAY "ana BaTi BDA gisse, and. taking bis wand, ordered them to fly | dens of the Khedive of Egypt, at Ghezireh from | thoroughbred swine, and make it a remunera- JOBNINGS, for principal Landings en the Po-= to the spot the king had chosen. | Dell. the little parcel was no longer there, and a | white dove had taken its place. welked quickly tothe door, whence he looked in | the direction of the crange-tree to assure him- He raised the | whence it has been multiplied in two or three other gardens of the Knedive iast sutumn, that | he expressed his determination to import it | inte Brazil, and to cultivace it upon the impe- Fini estates as a shade for animals during the tomec, as far down ae Carrio tet urn! Wgebingion every W od geday a0 ¢ Sanday @ le urday and Sanday trip teclades Colton By Binck stows Lelead a4 Leoaarttown: tive business. Some may say we cannot all «+ them at fancy prices,which is very true,neither | | The king then do they need to do so in order to make it proft- | able. The man who buys a short-horn cow at $1 000 must necessarily sell her ealf at $500 or WY 8. BYLBS, Agent, | felt that the guards were there, and, when this | beatof summer. The gigantic bamboo origi- | $400, or the investment will not be a pay ngone. | _seplety Oh street Wharf was done, be began to smile and shrug his | nates in India and China, and ts highty appre- | Such an animal! will produce only ove calf in & | NEW EXPRESS LINE VIA OANAL Bs onders. “Ab! sieur Robert Houdin,” | ciated wherever it is cultivated, Ing used = year. ‘ j \ETWeEn - he said, frenicslly, **I fear much for the virtue | for posts in pavilions and the houses of the The case ie quite different with swine. A | PHILADELPHIA. 4LEXANDRIA Ya.. 4 ASE. | of your mayicstaf.”” Then be added, as he ree | inbabitants. The hollow joints are utilized for | farmer at the present day can bay a pair o: | INGTON aNb GRoR WE Oo. turned to the end of the room where servers! | carr; ing Nquids, for flower vases, ete; and in thoroughbred bogs ready to breed, or any of our Pier 9. x 7% YS > Ph! tanding. “Tell William to | China. and especialiv in [ndia, for bottles and | improved breeds, at from §5 to $30 per pair, wero AY acd SATURDAY. Hedetphia, below the last tree at the end | tobacco boxes, higbly wrought and polisbed, | and with ordinal 7 . success will produce twe Gf the avenue, and bring me carefutly what he | and sold at great prices. ‘The larger stalks are | to eighteen pigs during the year. ‘Thus it wil | fi: ds there—if be Goce find anything.” The at- | also used for bridges, water pipes. and carte and | be seen that be only has to sell them at $1.00 or ter dant proceeded to the orange-tree. ‘Phe earch | other yebicles. In fine, the wood 1s employed | $2 to be making as much on the capital inves - | at the side of the tree was carefully removed, | in the arts, in a mu’titude of industries, and for | ed as the fancy breeder who is purchasing cat: | west Line of steam and down among the rocts, atter much groping, | implements cf agriculture. The ies of | and horses at $1,000 each and disposing of the reland steve, No wharf. asmall Dore every appea ground cleansed from its moid and brought in and placed excitement and impatience prevaike sides. Houdin brought, perched en his finger, fron box eaten with rust was found. it | ce of having been in the This curious “tind” was | bamboo vegetates with nch rapidity that it can simiost be said that one can see it grow. Its Progress may be seen trom day today, and ar Gheztreh it has been kvown to grow nine inches in asingle night. In China, crimin corcemn jw death are subjected to the a’ cious purishmentof impalement by means Produce at $500 per head. Then it is at once apparent to all that the above prices ar much ascan be realized for the common hogs of the courtry at two or three mont 1+ | Then should he find diticalty in disposing them at th it will pay him three fol keep them to twelve to fifteen mont line YDS. Agent for D. of O, 00, Philadoipuia ria, * 'B, BY Devonsh: many years. @ street, lights delivered by Knox's Express. Or- | ders left at Groeral OMoce, 608 Ponus) ‘The great-st on all by the side or the King. or ne, OF Bteamas’ Tbe prow > the dove to the King, and around ite neck His | the bamboo. which time they will be hogs weighing mpward | gutjar,at s abetamaetceaintaee x Majesty ditcovered a little rusty key. At the | A hnmid soll is congenial to the gigantic of 900 pounds, which are worth from one j— dc sire of the conjurer he unioosed it and opened | bemboo, aithongh it suffers ra prolon, one-haif to two cents more per pound, than the | AmEBICAN Ling. the box. The frst object that met his eye was | inundation. itis propoeed in Egypt to culti- | scrub hogs brought to marhet. | MAIL STRAMSHIPS & time-discolored piece of parchment, upon | vate itupon the borders of the canalsinthe vast | We ask the careful attention of the rea. opty wine Oleeting Ve which be reac: “This day, the 6th ot June, | domatns of the Khedive. this matter; we are not writing from a theore!! AMEBICAN FLAG 17-6, this iron box, containing six handk There is also in the garden of Fgypt another | calstand-point, but from practice of what we chicts, was placed among the roots of orange tree by me, Balsamo, Count of Cagl! tro, to which will be execnted on the same day sixty | rs bh craft ab looked again and found in the bottom of the box y ard his family.” “There is certainly witch- an | species of the bamboo, ,believed to be the han- busa arundinacea of Wibdenow. It presents the following characteristics: The stalks are smal! er end shorter than the gigantic bamboo of India; te attains about thirty-nine feet height; it forms larger tite or clusters than the great bamboo, aud throws out a great number of stalke, which are furnished with numerous Sailing every THUBSDAY from Philadelphia for QUEENSTOWN and LIVERPOOL, CABIN, INTERMEDIATE and STEBR. ACCOMMODATIONS UNSUBPASSED, Bates as low as by another first-class Live, PETER WIGHT & BONS, General Agents, Philsdotpiie write, knowing that such are daily occurrences There being the facts, why will 50 many of oar farmerefpersist in keeping & stock of hogs «0 well known as Prairie Kootere? Some may say they cannet afford to buy the stock to start with This excure will hold good only in but few cases. while the prices of all our improved b ds of swine are 60 low. The experience of all who ferve in performing an act of magic ence before Louis Phillipe of Orieans | out this,” cried the King, and then he @ parcel sealed with the well-known seal of the | slender and flexuous branches, bearing, ordi- | have tried it fully attest that the use of thor- FRANK W. BANBORN, Agent, famous Cegiiostro. He broke it and opened | nartty. tolerable large thorns, a little arched at | oughbred males in horses, cattla, sheep. or | lane P cutie, Wallington the parcel, and there were the six bandker- | thejoints or articulation; and the leaves are | swine. isone of the best Paying invettments they BOM PHILADELPHIA ~ chicre which but five minutes before were lying | emailer than those of the gigantic species, being | canenter it. And if it is 80 in cattle. then «| on the corjuror’s table. Was not this trick as | rounded at the base, lance-shaped, tapering to | must be doubly 60 in swine, and if those whe do | Ship by remarkable aa the producing of “Katie King”’ | a point, anda little downy, | boo which it | Bt,belleve in thorough breeds will use thor- | “How Express Line.” from a dark cabinet? T species of bamboo which it | oughbred males of any of the improved breets PCDIEG HEAVY AND LICHT AT WILT. is proposed to cultivate in Kgypt. It attains | on their common stock of cows, Itwill soon chow saern Teg eee ED FROVIDERCE Hcucin was employed by the French govern- | a height of sixteen or twenty teet, produces | a marked improvement that will in a very chort on and Providence Ralirced. '? ° Brae ee ee eeTis om 8 Dove! mission. The | enormous clusters of danes, about the size of | time pay many hundred per cent.on the [nvest- | Bee advertiseuees “rp Expross Line Marabout priests exercised great influence over | the finger, and makes excellent props for use | ment. Burely no objection in regard tocost can | Wor fall information apply to the natives, because they were able to perform | in horticulture. | plant of two or three years’ | be raised from pureuing this course while the = o. 7. RYDE, certain fer ta of Jngglery. which they pretended | growth will furnish s hundred stalks, forming | best breeders of the country rly 69 Water street, Georgetown, arabouts proved their dive power. were en torbule! thought that it might be a good stroke of policy to send Hondin through the colony performing hie miracles, and deworstrating to the natives thata French sorcerer was greater than an These emies of the French, and encouraged ree among the Arabe. The government a cluster of rast size. The speciesis the bam- busa edulis, so called from the fact that its young shoots are edible, and in China regarded as very nourishing. There is stil! another species of bamboo to which the attention of the cultivators in Egypt is called. It is the black bamboo (bambusa are offering choice males at from $15 to $25 each 1874 CUNARD uiNg, NOTIC ib the view of Cimiuishing the chances of cole the Btcamere of this Line take © epecibed course for all seasons of the year, CLOTHIYG! 1875 | On the outward pateage from mea oy to Row Arab rorcerer. Accordingly Houdin appeared nigra.) it ts distinguished principally by ite | Sort. oc Desice.crening, AM tS let «fore large audierces, beginning in the city of | slender branches, which are of a fine black omeward p ‘ eridiag A'geria. At the first of theee performanceé he | color, and from which canes are manufactured | ~A0L AND WINTER. RS ae a te introduced a bex which became heavy or light | extensively for exportation. Peas are made rr’ at bis order. This box was brought by him to the fectlights, and, while holding it in h hands, be sessed the power to deprive the most powerful msn of his strength an invited encngh dle hes his side with great assurance. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERIGAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, TWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL; CALLING AT CORK HARBOR. From Baw Your. F * Rosse, ed. trom the smaller stems, and commonly used tor | writing in Egy Telegraph. Practical Suggestions. Five hundred cubic feet ora cube of eight fee each way of closely packed timothy hay wi make a ton. feet, or a cube ot nine feet, each way, of cl timothy in equals ; will make a ton. Light meadow bay cone stn eclared to his hearers that he p: THE LARGEST URTMENT restore it at will, Ho ary one who thovght himself strong to come on the stage. An Arab of mid- ht, but well built and muscular, came to “Are you or Fall and Winter Clothing, *C oo 3 ra | Of blue grass, red top, white bent or foosly pack= | teekts hee Con eat ae ee EGE | od clover hay, will require 1,000 cuble feet or . : . ¥ lesaly. you sure that you will always re. | t€D feet each way for a ton. Allowances must | MEN@’, YOUTHS’ AND BOYS’, marked * do netcarry steerage parven- main fo?” “Quite sure.” “You are mistaken,” be made for ‘litference inthewtate of compres- 7 intima th $50, 06, and 1m, said Houdin, ‘or in an instant [will rob youof | Sion in which the bay may be. thay tight EVER OFFERED BEFORE | gold, according to scommodation. Tickets to jour atrergth, and you shal! become as litiie | 1 pressed slown in a mow und: quantity of | fis, @18, gold, additional. Return tokets on favor- child.” The Arab smiled disdainfully. Houdin | &FAln might only require 100 or $00 feet for a ton, | able 8 Btecrage ‘$30 carrency. tolc him to lift the b-x. He stoopedard lifted | A ton of loose bay is @ mach larger quantity | Btocrage tickets from Liverpool and it without any effort, and said coldly. ‘Is that | tan most le suppose, and estimates of la a a oe ail? With fu imposing gesture Honding so!- | Weights ure more frequently tov large than too cad Sakeoceewom pills of Tading giver, for Belfast, Glasgow. Harres ynly provourerd the werds, “Behold, you are | low. . ™ port... Por frei n pane weaker than a woman; row lift the box?” Toe | Pega betel per ggacinaled or as eee age, spply at the Ocmpany's offce, No. 4 Bowling “ aeeie hich, When harnessed, refuses to start. ri: | p, for steerage re, No. Teeny, bet to. Fea ete, Tee 00m. | cad expediente, siany of teers orucl, exe pease. | Trinity Building, or (> OTIS BiG! budge. He attacked it vigorously over and | €@ to in order to overcome such obstinacy, ant, | bg ee et pant Oe over again, white his countrymen sat looking | St may, therefore, be well enough to plea ew _ Saar. ©. on in silent wonder, but it revisted. He note the California method. It is to put a ro expended on this box a etrength which wou have raleed an encrmous length, pausing, exhausted, and red with anger under the horse's beily, behind bis fore 1 and lettwo men, one at each end, draw the roe Yackward and forward, as if “sawing” at th The fine tron st DY 0 fine Whit nm elezaat Chinchitla sok, Blue and B. at weight, until Steamer LA baving resumed ber regular trips to t 72 ax “ © | Norfolk, will leave aer wharf, foot of he boried his face in bis burnous and retired | legs. It must not be dou Beaver Ov-reonss at $12 and 816; ne Bug eh Kor: | Sixth etheet ere MORDAY and from the stsge. Houdin does not explain the | W'\h force sufficient. | very'haudsom'ly trimmed api lined. et ®16 } THURSDAY, at ¥ >. m.,reuching at the principal secret of thisstrange trick by which be made | S¢™mthing be does not under 1 | fine Astracan Beaver Overconts at @30 end river landings, cone St Norfolk with steam- bodies heavy or light at will, and without appa- | Move @ few & t | and many ether styles. ship of the Mf and Ml. Line for Bm and Provi- rently touching them but it wasa favorite of | “viet applirat c ere Pulte from @ . Ola pominion, Stesmabip Com. his, and often exhibited to his fashionable | CeS*, Will not tuti to move on. n $15 to $2 and rs nek n te Patision andiences. | plications will work a thorough cure. | 5 to $32; B : Suis Cake, vie Hortoik. THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. | Professor Henry Tanner, Queen’s College, | $4, ard 6 r ona a Fancy Cassi 4-0. PLANT General keene” At the same exhibition in Algeria, of which | Birmingham, says: “1 have every reason : eat prices re ging from 4 50 to $3. A Room No. 10, Plant Burldicg we have written, Houdin invited one of the | believe thatthe action of sugar is most impor- | 'f0l tino of Children’s verooais audience to come on the stage. A young Moor, | tant in its actions upon the generative system. | riebly-d) table on the stege (the space between the top out 20 years of age, tall, well-built, and | M EBCBANT'S wINE OF STRAMSHIPS WASHINGTON 4ND NEW YORK. the Ope axd I think there is just cause tor « that any animal ma incompetent for p rested, advarced. There was a plain | I 7 7 ful inspection of my goods before pn Steanships £.0. KBIGHT and aud the floor being unmistakably open), which | breeder of some emi chosing «luewhesteementing the poole cr |g GIBBON will make regular week- Houdir asked him to mount. When he’ did so | {provement in the co: never b-iore have bed such # vartety of Gar Houdin covered him with an enormous cloth | ™0lasses to the dry food which he gi Mente t> please all tastes and desires, to cone, and, instantly removing it, the Moor was | 8t0ck. It certainly produced the result acecmroedste all purses, orto give one. ‘This trick produced @ panic in the au- | ticipated, for their general condition and a; such entire satisfaction, dience. Screaming, “‘It is the il One!’ they | Pearance was most sat: 3 bat this wa clambered over the benches in wild terror, and ee mhiek fan alee morta ee i hi it i »¥) alized hts respec out of the door into the street, where, in prices as breeding stock, now, with fea exes as STRAUS, the public ptace, rubbing bis eves in stapetac- tion and wondering how he the young Moor. While in the interior, Houdia air exhibition to the wild sons of the desert. He pretended that he was invulnerable, and offered To let a great crowd, and a vindictive-looking fellow came out of killin, were han the fact that the vents were clear. The Mara- bout put in a fair charge of powder, and drove tions, proved valueless for that object, m's | got there, they found | so felasle belug alle steriloe A member of the egy Pomological S>- | ciety stated at the late Adrian meeting that ce | — was very suceessful in keeping winter appl. and bad secured sound, fresh fruitsin May by | the nailer g treatment. He picks the fruit in | October, and places it in heaps in the orchard, | covering them with hay. These heaps remain | untouched till December, the slight meisture | ofthe earth and the few inches of hay prevent ing any injury to the apples, even during shar | freezes. ey are then assorted and packed in 101) PENNSYLVANIA AVENUR, ‘Three Doors from 11th Street INVULNERABILITY. octl3-tr ave an open- Ne Further Postponemen or 1am REAL SECONW AND Last | A‘™ GEAND GIFT CONCERT | IN AID OF THE ‘ATE AGENTS. © BEAL ESTATE No, 016 Tru STBBBT 8, W 5. 7. m FARETZ, Marabont shoot a: him. There wasa it from it and claimed to have the honor the hated Frenchman. The pistols d to Houdin, who called attention to Fitch, Fox & Oo., the wad home. Among the bullets produced | barrels which, after heading up, are placed in, Masonic Relief Asseciation Hondin chose one whieh he openly put in the | &.cold cellar which is kept at a temperature 0: | or *itave puboeheen ae pistol, and it was aleo rammed down. By the | about 32 degrees, and if it should happen to be | BORFOLE, Va. | = same process the second pistol was loaded. Ev- | & few degrees lower for short time, the protec- | Snr /OUNG & MIDDLETON, erybocy watched with the most profound solem- | tion of the barrels will prevent ‘any injury. | HURSDAY, 19th 8 be } - ee ee . himself 15 paces from the | They come out sound in the spring. | r ¥ MOveUREer. WM. P. YOUNG, 5. 3. MIDDLETON, Jr by tons ‘The Merahout immeliocie tiretiee ng BAT MARRS THR GuNTLEMAN.—Whatit is | Under authority of the Virginie Legislature (act BEAL ESTATE AGENTS, the pistols, and on Houdin’s giving the ignal, Canlly Telt tne dese een ® Sentloman ismors | passed March 8th, 1873), Ofice— Board ef Trate Rooms, toox deliberate aim at him. The pistol went off, | Seay fr taeda eee ae oe enew it when — HUUSES RENTED, RENTS COLLBCIBU and the ball speared between the magician’s | T° oreduuiaaoint know how to socount fo 60,000 TICKETS— | AND LOANS NEGOTIATED. teeth. faethe thanever, the Marabout tried | Gy nity ae Seen at pesg ree ‘ase, grace, References. —Mewsra, MW, Galt. Bro. & Co., Pers to seize the pistol. “You could not injure me,” | @8Rity, Soles ah io ee ty & Bro., Lewis Joh: & Co., Fitehugh Gopie, said Houdip, “but you shall see that my aim “is | Czbressive at ab habitual oer } 5.0. McKelden “obu A. Baker. ‘oct8-In. Toredargerousthan yours. Look at that wall.” | farner sey that an habitual self joa a Pp H. RYAN & He pulled the trigger; and on the hewly white. ould have (ae apaniete aon eee oe | One R. : washed wall appeared a large patch of blood : ; Gift 9 exactly at the spot where he ‘ined. The Ma- sthlied pany ped napping omaha Sie git bebemeeeamtiey Vc SUT 177 maaan ru » to it. — disco’ street, blood, ralaing 60 his saath ony nee base a et oon ene, © eee wer over his | One Git Bo, #33 7th » Opp. Post Office Department, ofthereality. When he acquired this certainty, | W20le body, which, with every inflection of ir, a his arms fell and bis head bowed on his chest asif he ~ the moment he doubted hg bomen oh should be under the control of his will. It must be evident that he does as he likes, without an STOCK! ABD 5 tepsir’ "BULDARD RXORANGED. CET int, confusion, or aw! ness. He is, in were annihilated. It was evident that fact, master of his person, as 121 $35: REQR22 Prophet. This seemingly incomprehensi- the professor ot Gifts {IRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT, ble feat’ Houdin performed yaaa of pre penile popes bees a cular mt; Gifts of F pared balls. With a bullet mould anda bit of whatever use he pleases and in FOR THE BENEFIT oF THE wax mixed with lampblack, he had manufac- tured a very fair imitation bullet. Another bullet of the same material he had filled with blood. Of course, it was by siight of hand that be changed the bullets forced upon him b; Marabout and substituted bi’ tends. Wherever this power and faculty egg @ recognize the look and deportment of the genticman—that is, of & person who, by his jabits and intercourse with society, has had little else to do than to study those movement, and that carriage of the body, which were ac- companied wit itpelier Female Humane Association AT ALEXANDRIA, FA. is own. An id trick enabled him to get the real bullet between most satisfaction to himeelt, | terprise. . %. mber 23, 1874. his tooth while the waxen ous was ahatiors® ce oo the sbprobation of the be- | wor rickets and Olreslane full information, tt am eces. So with the rocond ball, it was shat- | holder. Ease, it migi Observed, is not | sagrees, HENEY V MOURE: fered upon striking the wall, but aspot of blood | rough; dignity is too much. There must be a » Norfolk, Va, was produced. If Houdin ‘had not explained | Certain retenuc,@ conscious decorum, added to | Responsible Agents Wanted. sepl-t.th aelow this pene 4s iLe phenomena of spiritualism, and cou ‘iFTH AND LAST ce of | in the other, to answer toour tion of this F! Spit agency. Pears OF A Hood evidence Of | character, ‘Pechape propriety is as near « word \ Gift Concert EPIRIT-PORMS PRODUCED ny JUGorERs. | #8 aby to denote the manners of the gentleman: When around the world, Tre « fact that the omitted Parliement the me nt ordered There commas. ¥. Co the first—and @ certain “familiarity of regaro quenching the austere countenance of control,” a elegance is necessary to bite is proper to kings.—Haziitt, 18 AID OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY. the fine gentleman, dig- William H. Seward made his tour noblemen; and majesty {9 © witnessed some pet ers in India which were s2sssuscss uite on ae — “ 008 . Fogel — a OF GauEN Seago DEAWING CERTAIN ON 00000 been made by a writer in Nature, that the NOVEMBER 30th, 1874. the moon's urtacey to strikingly Pebeabtiog 82,900,000 IN IFTS. {inct voleseoes of that cataiiite® She dasertes, 100,000 TICKETS! 20,000 GIFTs. Remittances for tickets may be m=) -xpree pre-paid, post-office money order on % «maeiom ‘D.C., or by registered letter, addrense! : Hen. JAMES BARBSoUK. Pret M.F.E. An, Alexandria, Va. ‘For full particulars, testimonials, &c., send fog SS See, _Betahn Agen watiedeverrberasoemly | : “Wicked Bibie” ud : the word “ pot” was ——- from the Sevent: Commandment, fue destrnetion of tae entire Tiave' eines found City [ i i