Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1876, Page 6

4 esa e th he remarked, +I gues; we'll go i BE yD. | Aties “or Tusa nnd ? | wo work’ and iit bie dark lantern. With the Dua eesichcnedd tips atbo Weenatenelk Aan lantern In bis left hand and tbe tongs ia bis fe wandered np sre wander | right, Dick led the way, ty wing mate wy bext with the bag, and the reporter ringing Her slender feet were tory and bare, | up the rear. “Step light,” said Dick, ax be The dead leaves tank Botha naty, | unlocked the Kitchen door. The party . and " @ Moor cou ear She pad hut one thonght in her brain With a little instrament he hat la “My child! my littie ct: Dick imitated the “squeak- squeak” to perfection. The next morme:t ne threw back the slide of the lantern, and Cas- sidy held the bag open. The circie of light | op the floor seemed fairly swarming with | Tats. As quick as lightning Dick seizel them | With the tongs and dropped them iato the bag. The rats dashed round in the circie of | light, and seemed afratd to stir beyond It. | They were quickly snatched up until no | From field 'ofeld m town t She did not care for winds that blew, For frosts that entiled her throagh and through, For solemn 8: For lonely fo direst evil known Had brought her to tt is sad estate, Deceived. forsaken, desolate, J She cried: “My chili! my child! Not God had wronght her helpless woe, Had sent her wandering to and fro; She did not fear, alove with Him, Though sense were dead and soul were «im. From man the biow that felled her came, From man her craving crief and shame, On bim lay all the bitter blame, From bim she aske:l her ehiid. “My cbild! my child '” with awfal ery, She thrilled the earth and rent the sky. “My little baby, torn away ‘When smiling in my arms she lay! My broken heart, my throbbing breast, My ew My vanished rest. Ob! God, why am I thus opp My child! my In vain she cajled_i She found no resp: Bbhe leaned against « more remained on the floor. :That's not so bad,” said Cassidy, giving tue bag a shake. “There’s a hundrea and twenty, Dick.” Toner replied, *There’s another got away over in that corner. there, I heard him.” And he walked rapidly toa portion | of the Kitchen where there was a huge chop- pre wee Sure enough there was the rat; ick threw the giare of the lantern rignt on the rat, blinded him, and hauled him oat With the tongs. “I guess that’s all,” said Dick. “Now you see how its done.” Noticing that Cassidy kept swinging the bag about, the ter asked what that was done for. “Oh. id Dick, “that's to keep the rats from eating their way out, and I'll teil you & good story about that. One cold bight taking @ hundred rats to @ broker's house for a rat bait, when @ ‘cop- per’ stopped me tn the street and asked me what I inthe bag. I bat my collar up over my face and an old hat on, and he took me for@ burglar. I said I badn’t got any- Unlog, but kept shaking the bag. Well, this policeman Wanted to cateh a burglar bad, 80 he necked me and look me to the station, gto mention and he says, “and the cop lo Ne 1s,” says picture fs in the gallery,’ and he came out from behind the de-k to have a y child! my Littl were dark and d © tempest spread, h wrath and gloom, ail of doom, @ burgiar.” His eyes were dr His votee was like ‘Or tempesia mut goed look at me ‘What stuffhave you got 4I bring thine apswer | in that bag" n ean look for yourself,’ Unwilling votary, says i.and I gave hira the bag. He droppet | {ton the floor, and you ought to see his face when them rats ran ail over the station- | beuse. ‘Who the —— are you’” says he. «I'm | Dick the Rat,’ says L. ‘10n getout of hera | quick,’ says he, andso T did. Wi ee ig, | RoMLIght. young feliow. Tm ort e|€ ‘ie we ‘A weed beside the way rinornow to Work @ urewery ees f scornet of man aud fate, Crouching to bear He!!"s worst estate, Aitve, yet curset arnt fi OF DOG SrORIEs. Plupge th nd Seek th am | “nag madame 5 | A Faithful Brate ia Baifalo-Aa In- No stainless seraph stayed its tliget, { telligent Animal froy. Nostarbeam clett th No buman pity brea: “ Earth cast her out, nor smiled the sky. Above her darkiy-stoking head The silent deepening waters sprea'l. Her tale was told. Her sour was sped. No more she mournet her chilit. —[ Rose Terry ¢ ae Inlepentent. nigh!, The Buflaio Adve: day a Mr. Stamba burg turnpike, calle and reported to Capiatn large Newfoundland dog, attachcd to ab Wagon, had been standing on the tarnpike, about @ mile from the city, since Taeslay ten morning, and refused to move, thouga some = ‘ | one bad released bim from the wagoa, which THE WAYS OF RAT CATCHING. = | Yas partially filled with willow branches, a | evidently cut by the dog’s master, from & BiG, Tomer Felts How Me Does Tt—And | grovein the vicinity. This morning it was cay te an wen ascertained that the animal's owner was 4 yrSocaa | Andrew Selrick, 4 basket-maker; also, that With one arm resting on the euunter of @ | on Wednesday night he had been arrested by . m | an officer of the seco: t, and yester- pers tet anemadgedpay ore ct | day morning comm toa Times reporter the mysteries of | {OF thirty days in default of a 1 professional rat-eateht Mr. 1 v is % | and wagon to get a drin Ws clean-shaven young man with sharp | 9 number of ‘drinks,’ til a ee and a maddy complexion. He af | cated and forgot ail about his p: deca a Pronounced style of dress, wears Wide | Circumstances are remarkaMl:, aud aiford a pn ety war te ti Y- | good illustration of the faithfulness of a peg gg Apc pete Ts | brute who had stayed for three days without an dasnantio Lewin ee © | food, waiting for his master, as opposed to sameune lee Weaanon Wem on | the master’s dissipation end neglect.” aa wan cat const on | The Troy Whig gives the following in its Very comfortable livin issue Of Saturday: * Yesterday a little girl habitue of “The Bandhox. ter | WaS sent toa store with 4 two-dollar bill to erib in W: d " + to- | Make some purchases. Tae cull on her way street. then Kept by the notorious Christo- | MARE some purcha wong, and te ing pher Keyhourne, alias Kit Buras, and was a > s ote constant patron of the rat-batis and dog | Lome told her futher of her il-fortune. He fights almost nighti il teens: for thhe|| oe en Coe ecoron Or She Taleene delectation of the« | cash While s Search he was Mr. Toner’s predile | Becoste:? - amusement caused a Acquainiance with the tare and strength of 1 iat, ard e He becam ehitectural stri perry recog | was with House, on oceastons when the Bandbox ¥ panty raided on by Mr. Ferry Bergh. After ine | Y death of Kit Burns. Mr. Toner married S| ken daughier Mary. and ior a time carcted on the business of bis ¢ father-in-law, bat, | Binding it woremunerative, returned to his former ard more profi'able pursuit of rat- He traveis ali over the state, fil! Ing engagements in the prine!pal cities. “To begin with,” said Mr. Toner, “rats is NO good. “I mean they won't try t you know how to éaten t where the business comes in. ne canine or \- i 8 animal re turned, but with bo bill, aad the gentlem | look of incredulity became quite po: | but the boy asserted that the bill was not on the street. Had it been there, the b a tained, the dog would have found i | vindicate the bigh reputatioa of his p asked the gentleman to place a bill on th street at considerable distance and unob served by the dog, whieh was done. money Was exhibited and th | ra:dom. Ina few minutes | imal returned with the no’ time Mr. Ro Tanpard had fou r A | The remarkable sagacity of replied Toner; “there's one in | og sr. Tuunard heard of story at “Oh, orertne ig Detroit, und: tee mn Phitader: | BPOTpNy restored the money to 113. awe phia.’ Bot they never interfere with meor | #.compariecs of events Le ewan cane "AY JAG her, John Caseidy- ee ee in searchofit. The animal is a very fateili- pers?” = Jel that has been trained to . “I saw Jack Jennings one night catching | om articles, which he docs rats. end I thought if he was able to catch Lg eee Ua them Lought to be. So I went in and did it. | apipetany Blourpei ma ring, At that time you always caught the rats | 1 sree nt Waseca pomiee oa a With yourhands. Rat-bitesis potsonous. A Fat thet feeds in a corn warehouse isn’t pol- Sonous, but you get a bite from one of them fellers what feeds on hotel swiliorsiaughter- | house garbage, and you're sure to catch it. nter-house feller once, im cellar you may chese him utes, and, unless you happen to h & bric youll I'd me. It's all 1 b in the Way ip which it’s done any others in the same business | whieh the fy the owner after being shown another rlug by | the lady.” MOODY AND SANKEY RELICS. The contents of the depot church at Phila- delphia, which has been occupied by Messrs. | Moody and Sankey, were sold at auction recently, and brought in some instaaces | extraordinary peices. There was & large the use of a ton; John Cassiday says J | crowd present, many les dropping in to ee —— pny ange I see the last of the depot’s history, aad there were on lone cpp almost all those who had during stay of the revivalists taken an interest in their work, including Mr. George H. Stuart, Mr. Wanamaker, many | clergymen, and members of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The first arti- | cles put up were @ walout and green rep | lounge. and Spanish chair to match, used in the retiring room of the evangelists. These | @rought prices far above their value. A few | @riicles of minor importance were then | Knocked off, and the towels used by the revi- yalists were taken up. Mr. Shaw handied | them in a reverential manner, announcing | the great im ce attached to them as relics, and asked some one to start them. of. This having been accomplished, Mr. Toner resumed his discourse on the char- acter and capture of rats. Taking a stout cany: from under the table, he pro an ordinary pair of tongs. “ais,” id Mr. Toner, “is what I catch them with ‘ou see I have the inside of the end of in: g5 like arasp. Now, there's auotuer i ement of mine. if you lave an or pair of tongs, and grab a stout ra’ tail, U 3B g H j by he'll wiggle away, but if ye catch im with these, he’s bound to go in the bole.” j PB dee Poo mee — hace er the oe “What ei: yn use, Mr. Toner?” “One dollar,” another. Two, tures, “Well only a eeck lantern and a bag. | four, and finally five dollars apiece Be was bid for the two used by Mr. Moody, and knocked down to a Mr. Jounstone. | “Now,” said the auctioneer, “I have the | towels used by Mr. Sankey, Hew much am _ Ibid? Two dollars, thiee dollars, five, five ‘Where do and a half!—Mr. George H. Stuart gets them “Slaughter houses and granaries. Ioften at five and a half apiece!” Mr. Moody’s Make a sood bag in hotels. One nigtt i got platform was announced, and it was con- 30 rats in the Astor house kitchen,” cluded tosell platform, [ible rest, crimson «How do you charge for your services?” plush on the pulpit, piece of ingrain carpet “Well, me and my assistant gets =5 eaci: On the pulpit, and a Speaking tube from ihe every night we work and our boarl. And iatform to Mr. Moody's room, ail in one lot. Sometimes | sprinkle stuff on the toor to make them come out of their holes. Tue is When we work in private houses we somo- yne bundred and ten dollars was bid, fol- times charge $15 for every huadred rats lowed by $116, and it was Knocked off to Mr. catch.” Joshua L. Batley at #125, yo seemed to ex- “What do you do w perience considerabl: asure in securing “Selt them, of cour toisretie. “The next arti gentlemen,” kers has fancy terriers they want to train to Rill rats, and if there's @ raiting maten comes off we furnish the rats. Good rats is it!” Mr. #20 a handred Would guarantee this as bets “I suppose you have a consiteravie pum- ir. Moody. On ber of customers." started © “On, near all the big boteis, breweries, <a- Joons and slaughter houses in th You see, traps and poiso: out. Kats breed so f them wh. ne-seat chair the chair used ‘his anuouacement the t - exiled M. » for oN i.” “Just as you say,” repli 2 can't ecatc “Mr. Stuart takes the chai ou poison tuem 8 we have asimilar chair usod by Mr. S. key, bow much T bid for it?) One hax dred dollars? ? Then, 3302” Thirt * five dollars, ealied some one; $45, S said Mr. Stuart; $55, called Mr. Field, and here it stopped. “It is jours, Mr. Field,” Said the auctioneer. The Name of God. The following list, comprising the name of can’t crive ast y Igo into the cellar, or wherever the rat are, with Jobn. He holds the bag and It the dark lantern and the tongs. We lave rupbers on and step light. The rats run around and I squeak like one. Then they come close to us, aud | throw open the slide , of the lantern: ‘The Fats get confared and rash in ght, and I grab themand put God in forty-eight languages, was compiled them in the bag. When there's no more,I py the well-known Freneh philologist, Louis out and leave the place fora couple of Berger, in the following mater: rs, Or another day,then I go at them One day, as he was walking along the again. But the best way to know is tosee streets of Paris, he heard a voice heveeching me work. Me and Johu ts to clean out @ him to but some nuts. Upon looking back hotel to-night, and if you come along you _ he discovered that it was the voice of his old ean take @ band in. I’li leave hereai 12 barber, who was gaining a scanty living by ovelock.” The reporter ted the proposi- | selling nuts on the street. To ald him, he =, and,on returning at midnight, found | hastily made out and gave to the barber the ov his partuer in waitlug. Cassi- | following list: dy carried the bag and tools, and jamping | Olain Tongus—Den. on 8 Broadway car, the party were soon cou~ | Gnaldnlo ei ee German Cad Bene Gott. eyed to thelr destination, & prominent | A-syrian—El Fiomish—doed. Broadway hotel. The night clerk, on being | Sprlacia Turkish—Alah. Durch—Godt. | Informed by Mr. Touer of bis business, i Bagit-h and Old Saxoo— | ordered him to be shown to the servants’ | A F — Tentenle—Goth. the See of tee eet ee sod Swedish—Gut | ‘Latin— 5 Haymarket, and Mr. Tocer gravely assentel | Corie eraaie Din. to the statement that Jimmy Shaw's Jacko | presch—Dieu. Was the best ratter ever oe git. Mr. | Spanish—Dios. Toner next asked for the of the kitchen. | Forvaguces—Deoe. This having been given him, he she | C5 Genesee é 2 ¢losets and store room doors, and sprinkling | Prorgpeal Pio. Iapane-e—Gooror. a few ® fuls of Otorus fluid iu the center | Ftaltan— Dio. Madi —Zannar. Of the kitchen he retired, locking the door | [tab Dia.” Peru} Puchecammac after bim and putting the key in bis pocket, | "By the sale of these lists the barber was en- ong of the folkeun wee gad | abled to make as good 2 living, 1f not better, Vittles ecokedl now they’ vegot todo without | MAD M. Burger himsetf—(New York i tem.” Having uttered this declaration of 87-Three newspapers at Rome have been seized by the Itaiian government for pab- lishing @speecn of Garabaldi extolling the oman republic. i . Mr. Toner resumed his seat in the | hall. aud speot the following | o@- sing acd smoking. * CONTROLLING THE WEAIHER. rk Thinks he h Atmospher ns of Encor aging the Tropical Current Last night the Rev. L. B. Woolfork. p of the Baptist church of Lexiuxton, cy.. déliveres a lecture oa “The Coutrol of the Weather,” in the First Baptist church of Unis eity. Tne lecturer clatms to have mate discoveries which make meteorology a sel- euce in the true sense of the word, geseral- izingall its phenomena, and explaining them ip accordance witu regular law. He resi ted two years in Helena, the capital of Moutana, sitnated at the eastern foot of the Rocky Mountains, and iocated in the immetiate area where most of our continental winter Storms originate. He has witnessed the origin of many storms, watched toeir pt nomena, and traced theirdevelopment. T: phenomena of storms are vetled from obser vation in this country, but in Montana the storm movements are unmasked, and are Teacily Observed. Observation of the origin of storms revealed to him la’ of almos- pheric movement hitherto unknown, aud enabled him to comprehend the ceaseless cycles of the alr currents in their sweep north and south over the globe. These observa. tions enabled him to develop @ system of the air currents which explains all the wiad movements upon our globe, as the Coper- nican system explains the movements of the planetary bodies. And, as @ result of his generalization of the atmospheric carrents and the causes which originate storms, he became convinced that the currents of’ the atmosphere which cause heat and cold, wet and dry, storm and calm, are subject to hu- man control, and that man may, by means of cannonading, restrict storms to & small, given area, maintaining a warm, summer temperature throughout winter over all the continents of the northern hemisphere. ‘The subject has awaienet profoand inter- est wherever it has been presented. In Cin- cinnati, where it was first delivered, the en- lire audience rose to their feet in testimouy of their conviction that the weather can Db controlled by cannonades. When the lettre im. was delivered in Frankfort, Ky., the bers of the Legisiature who heard it were much interested that the Legislature unant- mously suspended the rales and passet a joint resolution inviting Mr. Woolfork to de- liver his lecture before tiat body. The Frank- fort Yoeman, in a notice of the lecture, states that the lecturer convinced nis audieace of the practicability of his theory for controll- ing the weather. Alter a@ brief introduction, embodying tha above facts, the lecturer opened his sabject by stating tat the temperature is goverued by tke winds. Ifthe air were still, every country would have a fixed solar climate, changing only with the seasons. But the varying winds cause vicissitudes —the south Winds bringing the warmth of the tropi and the north winds the eold of arcti climes. If the south wind could be kept blowing perpetually over the continants they would be kept bathed in genial warmth during the entire year. He then proceeded to show from the natural flow of the alr eur- rent the practicability of keeping tue south Wind blowing constantly over the conti- ner There are, be said, two grand air currents in the north lemperate zon The first is a Warm current (cailed by meteorologists the “antitrades,” bat which he preferre | to style “The Tropical Current” from the areas whence it flows.) blowing habitually upoo be surface of the earth from the tropic of oward Une polar regions; the other is ‘Polar Current” flowing as an upper t toward the south from the polar regions to the tropic of Cancer. The tropical current is @l ways a surface current; it never | blows except upon the surface of tbe earth. | The polar current is always an upper cur- rent; it bever gets down to the surface of the earth lo ravage it with cold except during storms. The lecturer next proceeded to show that ajl the winter storms of the temperate zone originate in the conflict of the tropical and polar currents. Meteorolozists had known the phenomena atiendant a contiicts of the two currents, bu’ altributed them to the true canse prohenced the laws of their progression. ‘The tropical current, as it ows northward upon the surface of the earth. moves into an “a growing continually smaller. a forees the tropical ear regular mechanical law to rise higher above the earth in its just as @ stream ¢ water must be deeper in a gorge than in wide bed. This “emoanking” of the tropical current intrudes upor the path of the polar current in the upper air, and checks its low toward the south, and consequently the polar evrrent becomes embanked around tbe pole. The mass of both currents 1s constantly re- inforced, and their embankment against other continues to Increase. The two cling currents can only bedisem banked, the polar current cutting a track tarough e confit b: he tropical current, in which it may ponr its embanked masses south want tothe tropic of C Our winter storms are all the C of the two currents in this “battio track.” ‘ine lecturer then proceeded to trace the of these storm tracks. Both cur- greatly compressed, press into ihe storm track. ‘The air of the tropical cur- t pours Into it, and, precipitating its ture In rain and snow, it is swept back toward the south. The compressed air around the pole rasues toward the point of outlet from «ll parts of the polar area, Its exit Cumery a\iowad by the In-rushing tropl current, ‘The tori Pade Monee neal al the rate of about thirty miles an hour, the polar fir continuing to rush through it, sSweepine away #ii the air of the tropical current along the area of the track unt!! the Iwo currents become disembanked. When the embanked lar air has swept througa the track, and the volume of the tropical air has been sufficiently reduced to lower the top So that the path of the polar current in the upper air is open, the track closes up and the storm ceases. The lecturer insisted that this alternate embankment of the two currents and trrap. tion of the polar current was the regular law of warial movement in the temperate zone. The irruptions of the polar current have not been reeogrized by science, because, in re- gions of moderate elevation, the rush of the north wind was veiled by the lower currents, the surface air of the tropical current pour- ing into the storm track. Mount Washing- ton was the only observatory in the states Where the rush of the polar current could be perceived. But fn Montana the polar cur- rent rusbes furiously over the surface of tie earth, revealing the source whence the storm-force originates, and he had oftan noted these storms of polar alr reported through the weather bure.y as the storm track moyed towar" jhe east. He then jrocceded to state that, in the na- ture cf things, the polar current never bas "Stone storm track at once. All the air in the polar regions rushes toward the outlet, and as it recedes the tropical eurrent flows up all reund the globe upon the evacuated polar area. We therefore find that whea the currents are not embanked, the tropical cur- rent is flowing Upon the surface of the giobe all rovnd the earth; that when the currents become embanked, the polar current cuts its track at some one place through which to ps its masses » thStropteal current is sweep- ing porthward apon the surface at ail points round the glo! cept in the storm track. If, therefore, we can break by a cannonade a storm track for the polar eurrent in a chosen area, and keep that storm track open, ihe trepical eurrent will flownorthwardover all other portions of the earth’s surface, bear- | ing in winter a genial temperature even into polar arca. then showed that in nature a storm 's opened by three methe . By growing vegetation, causing ascend- ing currents and thus producing @ voriex oe which the polar current breaks a track. 2. By electrical force breaking a vortex. mechanical pressure, when the polar cwrreit becomes so embanked as to pour over the top of the tropical current at its weakest polit, and, sweeping away the tro} leal air, cuts a track through it down to surface of the earth. The lecturer cited interesting examples of storms which he had seen originate in the Rocky Mountoins from these forces. He then showed that guapowder explosions are a more efficient force to break a vortex than any of the agents of nature, and ex- Ppiained at length the manner tn which a cannenade produces a vortex and thus opens @ track for the Polar current. Having finished his explanation of his the- ory for controlling the weather, the lecturer faid t science is not content with — ments in favor of an » but de- mands that every theory shall be submitted totbe test of experiment. Fortu = eet eencalte ter atnatee eee most concivsive Ry uonaded 1H winter are e lern times we have See eats meee always follow irra} current over the battle field, and showing that simultaneously the tropical current is bathing in its warmth away from the storm track. He cited Ged examples of storms caused by winter bat ues, and of @ summer ere guereerge 9 main- po preg continents removed from the scene of s The best place for @ vortex is the most western of the Aleutian Islands. This would Bux inds would on the Atlaauis uch wi ag 3 Into the Arctic Ocean, and without delaying there long enongh to become very cold, would sweep Into the storm-track in the Pa- cific. These south winds would drive before them the warm surface waters of the Atlan- tle into the Arciic basin, cansing a new gulf stream to few ort throcgh "a Straits. ‘The polar zone, traversed by @ ceaseress flow of tropical ais aud tropical waters, would be | great facilities which the Americans have, St rer * GOTTLIC’ HOUSES. ) are interested In d fom ihe reign of frost, Would Seon Lecoine the his ns of style eiduring the last t gh some of the exper et results to which it ts accustomed, Aud whic: beantifcol, even od om the monotony of brown or ¢ tone whieh has made ma: feshionable avenues a wea flat, wnrelieved fronts, the rec , hige windows of w the lofty fights of s: r ui varied balustrades; the fdeveloped balconics, consisting of a singie shelf under | the window, aud the level line of the roof loaded with #@ ponderous cornice—any one who has counted the repetitions of these in Fifth or Madison avenue can hardly help welcoming any change. Recently, some of rarchitects have introduced a variety of color in the stone or brick work; have thrown out graceful bay-windows, and sheltered the coorway with pillared porticoes or canopies, bave varied the forms of the windows to give some conception of the chambers with- in; have arranged light ba!conies that are at- tractive both to passers-by and to the in- mates of the dwelling, and have given us a —_ of,real roof, or provided gables or lormer windows at the top of the face of the house. To these architects the public owes adebt of appreciation and gratitude. They have made @ beginning in wuat we are cc fident wili ultimately be a complete reyolu- tion in our domestic architecture. Startling theory was ment tre calm, lucid preseniat on of principles and facts. As ihe sudj-ct was methodically unfolded. no daw appeared in the reasoning. and it -ceru~i difficalt to ob. ject to the startling conclast The theory ‘of the atmospheric current seems to harmon- iveall the phenomena. The resuit proposed is certainly of transceadant importance, and merits the carefal investigation of sctentists and the attention of the government. Que bundred thousand dollars expended in ex- periment would thoroughly test the theory which, if true, will revolutionize the indus- try and the social life of the earth.—{ Ohicayo Inter-Ocean. MACHINERY AT THE CENTENNIAL. ITS EQUIPMENT AND APPEARANCE. THE FINE DISPLAY WHICH HOME INVEN- TORS WILL MAKE. es [Speciat Corresponience N. ¥. Times.) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5, 1876.—When art is mentioned in a mixed company of Ameri- cans, It will be received by some with a sigh, by others with @ shrug; by this one with in- difference, and by that with contempt, ac- cording as the individual natures are sesthe- ic or Philistine. But let some one drop the magic word machinery, and ina trice tnere is neither impatience nor listlessness, bat every one, no matter what h's eceupation may be, is interested, and can follow iateiii- gently the exposition of the narrator. The mysteries of cogs and cams. piston-rods, dri- ving- wheels, shafts, and palieys, are to them the plainest English, and those who would fall asleep over the temaplation of an “Immaculate Conception” by Spagnoletto are filled with a strong enthusiasm over the wild legend that a man ont west has inveut- ed @ mortising machine, or that the folks i ‘Wilmington, Del., have a_new kind of jz Saw that works wonders. There is no affec- tation about it, there is no pretence of inter- est when nope exists, but, just as the bride of the Tyroler is truly mterested in her Hans’ rifle, 80 the young American matron knows whereof she speaks when she discusses the unfathomable secrets of the machine shop. And it is natural that this should be so, for America, surrounded by the mute opposition of the material forces of @ vast continent, has bent all its energies to their subjugation. And in machinery areembodicd ali that man knows of nature's powegs and qualities, and all the victories he has won over her dumb resistance, Therefore is it that this young nation, in celebrating the Centennial anniversary of its birth, is able to present such a machinery hail as now stands in Fairmount Park. The civilized nations of the world were informed that this hall had in round numbers 400,00) square feet, and they were requested to say what space they would require for the dis- play of their machines, and of the machinery rocestes used in any of their industries. jreat Britain demanded 37.225 feet; Gé@r- many, 10,874 feet; France, 10,139 fee gium, 9.315 feet; Canada, 4,300 feet; 4,000 feet; Sweden, 5,163 fe pa , Austria, 1536 feet; Russia, 1,500 feet; Den- mark, 585 feet: Italy, 585 feet. And the great remainder of 314,205 feet is oceapied by the youngest of them all, a mute, unconscious tribute to the nation’s superiority, which, indeed, 18 not at all manifested in the other departments. But the fact is incontestable that in machinery the nephews of Uncie Sam are ahead of the whole world. And from what I have learned from Col. John S. Albert, Chief of the Bureau of Machinery, the Americans will be as mach amazed at | naming a number of Instances of the appli- the comprehensive character of their superi- | cation of this principle—the uncovered tim- ority, when they come to see all the po:nts | bei he iron work on the surface, the un- of competition and contest collected under | case: &e., the willer says, **Cer- one roof, as even the strangers from the other | tainly this is very different from our houses side of the broad Atlan ic. The extenuating brick which imitate stone, our wooden circumstances, @s the French would call rtitious clothed with plaster, our stair- them, of the difficulty of moving heavy. sS which cut acrosa the miidle of w objects from great distances, and of t our light-openings that are as | ; forsmall rooms as for great, our chim: Nues that are xshamed to be seen, and from introdu steps wit cusiomary to call the work of ‘th architects who are engaget these changes the ‘new thie’ name bas ouly a very vague application. The gentlemen whose work 1s thus desig- nated are in no sense members of a school, and there is but slight similarity in their methods, Yet there is a certafa fitness in the name to which the new style has ¢ rise. So faras itis really an improv on the old, it i: controled th period of its Suppose that t ment the resultof the spirit. which stexcelience. Those who ssential clement of Gotuic Modes Of construction to Which its use logi- cally led, haye only grasped a portion of tho character of that Superb system. It would be difficult, and indeed impossibie to apply the Gothic principle to our modern houses, if the areh and its connections were the in dispensable expression of that principle. No One supposes that we can buikton ¢ity lows one hundred feet deep, and from twenty to thirty feet wide, each of which ts a part ofa long series of similar lots, a builling with Brained arches and flying buttresses, with Wide and high windew openings, filled Stained glass. But the same class of a lets who bulit the cathedral the thirteenth tury—the products of the Gothi¢ system—also built humerous converient and beautiful houses in the cities of tbat period, when the lots Were smail and the streets narrow, and When other conditions were more unfavor- able to fine work than those which the mod- ern architeet is obliged to face. The mauner in which this was done is described by M. Violiet-le Duc. ‘There were not,” he says, “strictly spe: absolute rules for the ap- plication of certain forms. The only rule was that of rigorous observation of one prin- ciple, with entire liberty to each to go his own way Within the limits which that prin- ciple imposed. That. pri ie is this: render every requirement of constractioa and every means used apparent whether the dwelling we briek, of wood, or of stone. its form acd aspect Were the result of the use of these diiferent materials.” After nOst splendid as the Exhibition is on thelr own grount, really exert but little influence, for the state | that perpetual concealment. of everything of Nevada, whieh is putiiog up an enormous | which oughi to bein our private dw: : quarts erushing mill, bas somewhat more of | where plaster is paiiuied to. imi difculty in tuis regard than Frauce, or Eng- | marble, or wood to imitate stone, and where land, or Germany. And, therefore, without | the poorest con st:ne: es udder an out- prolonging the argument, ii may be conceded | gide coatl Joxury That the poor show made by foreigners is dae | to the fact that they ecoull competition in this de y “giantof the Wester kuew they could not. The head of the department, Col. Albert has displayed very marked talents of admin- istration in his method of dealing with the applicants for space. The vlanks for permits contained on the first page a small diagram of the bail, divided into sections, numbered alphabetically, each section being subdivided by the supporting columns. The applicant receiving the permit was numbered, not named, and described as No. 5,708, section A 1, column No. 5, class 519, and received the further information that tae diameter of the jine shaft (to which be had to fita puliey) was 3 by 2»., that the number of revolutions per minute was 249, and that the distance of floor to center of shaft was 17 feet 10 inches Underneath this information a diagram of his section was drawn, with the line shaft in position, and his place in the diagram of the entire building was indicated by penciling And, moreover, he was, when received the permit, respectfully but earnesily en- treated to read the rules and regulations ov the following pages. By this singularly in- gevieona and carefnl eyatem, demands for explanation and letters ef inquiry were ab. solutely choked off. Accordingly, at the present moment, 1,150 applicants, exclusive of the foreigners, have received their allotted spaces, have visited the building, and are now actively engaged in ring for their di 1 ‘And bev ‘4 vy This is not an exaggerated pleture of a great many of our . ing it that the architects of th: y &re rendering a service. It would by | bard to carry the prineipie of Mr. Violet Duc too far. Tle more we insist thatt construction of our house shall be as nearly as possible what it seems, the better work we shall get, the richer Opportunities we shall have tomuke our nomes really beauti- fal. There is something permanently at- tractive in any thoroughly well-done piece of work, whatever its form, because no bad form can consist with essential excellence of method. The hopeful feature of the moiera architecture to which we have referred is, that it is in some degree animated by the sae of the medwval maitre de lwavre.—N. ~ Times. BYRON'S ILLEGITIMATE SON. The Confession ¢f @ Man Who Died in Prison— The Wrecking: § Express Trawmson a Michigan Raitroad, and the Robbing of the Passengers and the Express Qompany’s Cars. A gentleman who has been annoyed by the rman journals’ comments upon Thomas- "6 crime es @ Sun reporter the follow- ing details of some atrocious crimes in which @ German of noble extraction shared: In 1s56,on one of the railroads terminating in Detroit three express trains consecutively were thrown down & 2 oe many gers were ani wounded ‘were stripped of their valuables, and the express car was robbed. The trains were wrecked at the same time—a high em- bankment. They were thrown in the same direction, down the steepest side of theele- vation, and by the same mi by slee; enter into nent W Star, and they individual displays. between two hun- dred and fii ‘and three hundred belated ap- plicants are on the stool of anxiety, waiting jor the chance of some of the lucky ones dropping out, thi bankraptec; niary tightness. jeans there have been about thirteen victims of un posite rail of track. i commercial misfortune, the probabili- Euccat eee nuseite haensanie fies are that this number will not be greatly | footmarks in the mud about the ruins of the train. The foot was that of a man, but almost delicate enough to be a woman's, and in the marks made by the heels were several small holes, seemingly made by spixes. The detectives had plaster casts of the tracks made, and these nei i The foreign exhibitors have been given the position of honor at the eastern end, where the grand entrance is. England, that fur- eee —— foes to Varela of = whole foreign display, occupies very natu- it. Not rally the most important places in the cen- | Jong afterward the president of the ratirest ter, and on the north avenue 1s opposed to | received a letter from one of the most fash- Belgium, Brazil, and Russia. lonable of Detyolt’s hotels, in which the writer of for a large sum of money to ‘The Cedar Mines of New Jersey. give full information concerning the wreck- [From the Monmouth (N. J.) Democrat. ers. interview was br saggy oe the Among the strange productions of president found in the writer @ fine-looking, May are the ‘cedar mines”—swamps ordack, elegantly attired young man, who sald that miry stuff, in which are buried immense he = ——* oe Rabe meee cars ees of the white cedar, Cypressus thyoides of | Mate son of Lo! yron by a Scote! 1y the botanists. These ‘mites contain enor- rank. The young ‘man demanded money mous trees, buried to a depth varying from | down; but the president required time for three to ten feet. The logs lie one across an- | Consideration and meeting followed meeting. other, and there is abundant evidence that | Meantime the detective shadowed Byron. they are the growth of different successive | One bight he went out of the hotel quietiy, forests. Indeed, in these very swamps, for- | 2nd Bye ae route, reached the place erts of the same trees are now growing. The | at which the express trains had been miners become very skillful at their work. | Wrecked. The detective kept him in sight. An tron rod is thrust into thesoft mud, over | To the latter, Byron seemed to busy himself which often the water lies. In striking a | 0 the very spol at which the sleepers that buried tree, the workman will, by several | bad upset the trains had been for Then soundings, at Jast tell how it lies. He und. Byron spran; then manages to get @ chip of the tree, on the low fence of a grave- yard at the side of the track. The detective and by its smell determines at once whether ii is worth the labor of mining; that is, crept among the tombstones aud waited. The headlight of the locomotive of an ex- the workman wiil tell unerringly whether the tree be a windfall or a breakdown. Ifa ress train, bound into Detroit, appeared. The jarring of the track, the clatter and breakdown, it was so because it was decayed when standing; if a windfall, the tree feil then’ the heavy roll of the train were beard. The lights in the passenger coaches while sound, and been preserved ever since by the antiseptic nature of the and then the entire train became visible. Fieger = gay g Swe s to inevita- marsh in which it was buried. Thesoftearth | ble destruction; but | yy, and was is then removed. This makes a pitin the | 8@/e. Byron's diabolical scheme = swamp. Into this the water soon ilows and | Unaccountable way miscarried. He looked fillsitup. This is rather an advantage. The saw is now introduced, and at regular inter- after the vanishing train for a few minutes, | and then having cleared the track of the in- vals a cut is made through the tree, when the log floats to the surface. It is curious effectual obstruction, he sauotered to his hotel in around-about way. A few days ac- that a log of & sound tree will be sure to tura Lec over when it floats up,the lower side thus be- terward, while in Byron’s room the tive, who, by coming u ost. Trees are sometimes ob- tained witteh ‘Will yield 10,000 shii $20 per thousand; thus one = of English cricketing shoes, wil the he $200. age of such @ tree, as the | Spikes in s, and somewhat mu poe ee been counted, has been the side of B: ‘@ trunks. The > made out from ten to twelve hundred | ™anaged, by turning the er pis ears, and even more. A layer of such | foot, to examine tne spikes. le Was con- recs is found covered by layer, and | Vinced that they would tin the holes in the these again by another, and even a third, ae en ees that had been aoe ce see se pe Peing over y atverward he invited Byron to take a all. Itis evident, i , that New Jersey | ly afters ed has experienced what the geologists call ‘‘os- | antes and then he adroll Byron cillations.” Cape May contains abundant | £&™es, Mem Pine the detection evidence of having been lifted out of a mod- | to ‘ake part | t <p found in natural eas: just as they died in fis enaitea te ot Hiysoure po the can, bat oe pear ions 7 ae tive a for pe ng while ried septs lower than the ean was stolen by the of so mild a form as that now alent, that indicated his possession of carelessness in regard tolt is nocakcommron, shoes. Then Byron was arrested. and it is weil to remind le of the follow- that with the aid of in in the published of calling himself the the medical commission to investiga' japier, and a German sanitary ee ee The com! he aa aes = si ©. had Galvin Ellis, Dr. Pg ‘Hodges, f: a They had “The determining cause of scarlet fever is in and the possibility every case undoubtedly contagion, imme- y from express diate or mediate. The only means of wrecks Byron and vention applicable to this disease are his accomplices obtained more valuable tion of the di and disinfection fee ar ote of all possible vehicles of mediate infection. last having The patients should be kept in sech faithfulness of the until desquamation is ended, and shou! ith their panies, Foe be ly washed and aitired in fresh, the German, Byron clean before being allowed to taiagis hag S live samapta- unrestrictedly with other members of to trick the - community. The sick room should, if possi- | road company out of as mueh oo ge hg) he ble, be repapered and painted and -| could, aud, ppointed in that, had ly disinfected. All clothing. bedding, . | resolved to wreck another train. Byron was used during eickness, should re or | convicted and sentenced to state. ey for im ’. Bun- disinfected, asis smal. fe. He reeenuy did ia prisoa.— with 4 pox. Sun. dey To | For want of a better name, it has been | 2S ST ESET SE - KUSSIAN TROUELES, STEAMER LINES. Dir mueta? Embarrassment at Odessa 54 EXPRESS Lins vin © aes! arvee oe es ee | aan AL ONANORIA. wast. aeT EOKG ETO A vast nation- MOND SAILING Dave Pier BS, North Wharres, Phite tes RAY, ot 29m 29 W ater arent Gevrgetows. u ality wo Continents, nas delphia with Clyde's beer ‘ Tr, striving for ew Steamers for Prov; bow ha potion os ed States. Now a: os ofthe world. Kas- | Poston hy thi sia bt « es ber size, & brave and ut @ ¥ HVDK, agent ter B. of G. P “ calarly mark- wM P GETDE 8 CO... epladeignte. FA KEED Ab p a " nly wit Us ay open comp on of the serfs lieated u The enan- te Liss. that the R Crsase ous how many things mus nanged | NOTICE r people could do jastice to Ras- ‘With the view of Cimininh ag the chances of es. ‘They SAW COAL A GTPAL state was | ston, the Buoamers of this Line take © be bullt up by mechanical @ppliances, | course for all seasons of the year maments nor railways, noreven |.‘ we Rew cial skill. could make & poworfal m - tion. Tbe work must be begun lower dowa— A. Moriéiea du the bal nd disposition of the people. | of stad let or nee ng to the nor Pa old story. Rome was not batit Notwithstanding the supposed ad- s An enlightened despotism gives for xinelion of reforms, the mass of the on remain what they were. Very is the gross ignorance of the people THE BRITISH ANI NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL ge toe Tw, NeW YORK AND vER- fn LLING av pt 1d Li shed. E ren esent there is only wat 52 § Parthia, on abie to re and write to eye Tie . etehiy-o7 the inhabitants, and the if 3 =vuae Wed. Fob reforins alresdy introduced have occasioned | (Sas. Wed. & amen by fe | new misehiets. To ard, woo, from ta every halon tug WEDNESDAY ane Mahone iuterest or privetple, extoried ‘some ecor tram New York (mic results from thts sluggish mass, oxrers marl 201 carry steerage paseep- de. The abolition of serftem has oestn his authority, and the newer y Kate oF Pasnacs —Uabin, 90,9100 and 918, fine & which are to succeed him are not Pe eeereseg: S0 acacmenedeses Saenen te Saat Yer developed. Russia has, by the policy Bod taht eterc tickets on troreble her rulers, been hurried into compe ‘Stenrage thekote to and ton with nations 1 xery tow rates Throng bile origin makes ty Bella, Giaswow, Hay Ubeir pataral 08 the Coutineut, sod f best Gothic work during the | architecture has the pointed aren and the | at and pameni 4 Bowling G cadt ‘THD st. RON CHAS @. FRANOKLYN. Ageat FAMILY SUPPLIES. n growth of com et bear the test of the 104 ‘ ms partot Ru > such & vat nothing bat some novel expedi- ceesis a hope of rescue. The foreign are to be appealed to,on the com Sit of all the joint-stock banks of to rab @ loan to meet the Bat thts is only a tem- exy The embarrassment, immediately occasioned by the re: | res of the rvest, is but a sud- Empire ste Currant Sud Quince Jeliy put ap tadercer Pp supervision Preserves, Brandy Pesohes, ond a Bew Stor ante ye = at ment of symptoms which have Sy aa fa ou Awa buo. long beeu manifest. As a corn-producing | "octse-tr 608 Por country the United States have been — —— — sTatually outstripping their Russtan com : pelilors. The failure of recent harvests has COAL AND WOOD. ovly precipilated @ result which long pre- | : Tousiy mlxht have been anticipated. “Not- Cee! Coab: weep: ween: Wittsianding the natural riches of this ef Podolo-Voihynian district, the population CHEAP) CHEAP! JOB have neither che train: g nor the individaal THOUSANDS OF TONS ORDERED. Arriy ‘Dest warteticr wen energy tenable them to do justice to the resources of their couutry, and, sweeping ag ty ‘OoD, bay! MONeY et B Food article ONG ust the ton, call op the ancer- Was the change from seridom’ to equal before the law, there were still many i SUitalions absolutely opposed to ecouomi progress. Though the villagers were pei ts d from allegiance to @ superior | the acuvery ol Goal Sinect from our veseele te tee ‘id not become owners of laad | consumer, we can certatuly offer tndaoe Lonly so far as being members of | ments. Alvisit to cur Wharves and will com- community lo whom the adja- | Vinee one at @ glace of our vantages. Leclonued, They were thas wittieet | cod FLNB WOOD dclivered ss low as ©8-80' pai y “a. hulvidwal incentive toiadastry. They | vop eres, shared in the general prodact, and in | ee peacliaeneesactisitig ha system, where the idiéanduntrainet | "A siacin trial teall thet i pecessary to convince ere sull cousts bie body, the most | the public of the above fi wortlvess have the clearest advantage. Not y is tus Communtstte system adverse to | Bain Office and Depot at Jobuson's : Be mend of 12th and 18th streets. uitural improvement; it ts fatal to the Son F civect northwest, introduction of manufactures, for the vil- 212 Mhstret “ | sngeo rthorities can compel inhabitan oso through a perfanetory render- | 2 : | ing of their ce lo the community, and a PROPOSALS. | reeatied to take his share of the common | labor of his vi it nd tis combat- | wor a factory is always liable to be | DROPOSALS FOR WORK AT NATIONAL MILITARY UORMETERIES. Orrick oF NATIONAL CEMETERURS, Wastinoton, D.C, Febrasry 1, in76 | _ Sealed Proposals. in ipil with a copy of thie age. surprising, in such @ state of erican energy bas gradaaily i Kassia in © markets of this not tA ad: ertisoment attached tocach, will be ree ived at even of Germany. (slessa was | this office until MONDAY. March 64606, for the tom of Superintendents’ Lodges @t the ¢, but having nonat- v0. 4 Fort tion by water, it nas, | arin ina of = vith modern seaports, de. | round penced Ou railway communicats Petersburg, un Pine ar Bioumond, k, during its progress, will Taiiways, however, bave, like othe sofiered (rom corraption and intrigue. sobs best Kuown to themselves,the Odessa | tneers did DOL choose to connect principal towns by the nearest routes, but indulged tn playiul meauderings, very much to the in. crease of Lhe length and expense of the ttne.” ve ‘be ieeqnentiy ogitoers, and a strict com: * of the contract wili be re. or all bids not the Government. fostions may be seen st offices at The mére theory of the value of railroad com- Ealeigh Nashville, mu ion will not suffice to give a country | Teun., also at the Cemeteries above monte full command of ail its resources, uniess | | Proposals sb a there are athand men of prineiple and with gs eed oad pot a as ipa ett be sufficient knowledge to apply that tueory. | Sotnequrnecn nthe dateapenied, Ghee bilder With raiiways builtin disregard of the nat- | gfe invited to be preseul J lines of trafiic, and compauies endeavor. A. F. BOCK WELL, to make up this disadvantage oy nigh | _febS-tt Captain and A.) M rates, the trading community had furu contend against political troubles, are the old teuds between the Pole aud Mas- covite, and there is the still more urgent dif- [Perasruerr OF THE INTEBIOR, OPPiCE OF UNDiaS AFFAIKs, wary 26, 1876, tealed Proposals will be recelved at this office unril 12 o'clock the Bistday of Februsry, 1576. for Geulty of religious observances. Every | farn the following named quantities of Beet fourth dey is a holiday, so that nearly Gettle ont tbe Hoot for iseuse to Lpdiens in la- eight cays out of & month are, by id chureh autlority,given np to idleness. [t isin ror the Kiows and Comanche Agency, 1,600,000 such & state of things as tnis that the O tessa Brose weight. chamber! commerce,our correspondent tells | gant Wichita Agency, $00,000 pounds, gross us, t to statisties, and looking at the ‘or the Obeyenne andjArapahoe Agency, 1,300,000 past wed the present, is “lost in panfal ‘weight. thought when considering the quautity of : - | bidders "will be furnished On application fort. Tule alaem Ys. intelligible. engagh Gani7-cotfeb19__ Commissioner fatinn Adal. when We recollect Luat pine years ago 44 per cent. of the grain sent to tails country came from Russia, and only 14 per cent. from the United States, while now 44 per cent. of for- eign grain comes from the United States, aud only 21 per cent. from Russia. The Odesta merchants think matters will be still Worse in tbe future, as the Americans have found a new and cheaper route for their corn to Engiand, and insiead of sending it by Chicago and New York, will ship it down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and thence on by sea, securing an open-water journey the whole way. But tuat this diminution of Russian trade is not due merely to any acci- dental advantage obtained by the energy of another people is clear from the account ¥. Y. CLOTHIERS givea of other articles of ex “The de- — on —s = ae : articles of rura! uce is decreasing in proportion.” It is one of the results such @. tate of things as this that the close of the last year WASMINGTON OFFICH, witnessed the monetary crisis at Mos- cow, succeeded by @ continuous depreciation of the paper currency and excessive distress in southern Russia. Bull Among the Lawmak: {From the Toronto Globe, Feb. 2.) Late lastnight, a8 the assembled wisdom of Ontario were’ nodding over tne supple- mentary estimates at the Parliament build- ing®, a report of a somewhat unusual char- acter spread through the jalls aud loobies of the House. It was ramored among our law- makers that a wad bull was prancing about the yard which surrounds the buildings, amusivg himself by tossing around mem: bel Parliament in a way thatseerned cal- 106 F STREET. ‘ens-tr re the Holiday: rs culated, if continued, to bring on a@ gener#i MASS & CO” election. The first intimation of danger was WM. SEY omrseh. XX ALE. Mails wio said that as be was ‘coming along | CINCINNATI ail 1 88 rt . ag ry Wellington street toward the buildings, be LAGER SEER, happened to look up and noticed witnin a few yards of him a bull of large dimensions and ferocious aspect planted squarely across the sidewalk near the gate through which he intended to pass. Tols was surprising, even toa reporter, but Stopping @ second or two to calculate ‘the chances, he CATAWBA —, CIDER, & FOR SALE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY SAM’L C. PALHER, Ge W-tr Depot 57 Greene #t.. Geo'towr. DO. carioL nx. (fei LIVERY AND HIRING STABLES, Ke. 317 Third street s. e FINE CARRIAGES FOR WEDDINGS, CALLS, RECEPTIONS, &o. tog that af be 0 on at all hazards, thinking that ae ed ine animal would be very likely to cultivate bis acquaintance to an unpleasant extent. Just as he was avout passing the bull, the latter placed a horn on each side of bis body. Mr. Boyle luck- ily managed to get out of these rather u- comiortabie quarters and through the gate Without sustaining serious The bull shortly afterward got inside the yard close lo the building, where be need around ther alarmingly. members of Parlament, reporters and oth- SPECIAL ATTENTI! AID TO BOARDING ers came out With the intention of securing se ot atreaty of , if possible, but found that Orders Congressional Hotel, or at Stabile, hostilities only commenced, Gay oF night, will receive prompt attention. ly it = &. B. DENNIS & Oo. pe Sir 'bawesons M.P.P., baving got up the Cross, of Paw Paw, M: think- Ma. LIBKLMB. @B0. W. LINKINS ing ter busband was undaly attentive @ to his Ww e , Was ym — One evening he lefi the house and she he Saad fone to moat ie tae 20th Street Harket, few: yitee eens ee TWEATIETR discovered, nota titson, bats murder.” Sh¢ vee STBEBT. First BEATS. BUTTER, EGOS. revr. end all oF. Peovucs suanger was robhed nud drowoel, and bar | Sek. feetimony is used io the trial of the three FINS POULTSE I « specialty. oes Jjan00 tfebl WM. LINKING & SON,