Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1878, Page 6

GRANDSATHE "This is the Oply ayes uiet ar ORiuds and ce ‘There by the bed dusky gloom She wou u kace: with her tiny Fras Here is the little w ‘With the frag.a TR's Pet. 2d hands, and te rose of 8 room, - fled away! Nelly. grandfathe With ner w pg about they crowds ro. And the world se And Nelly is sine'ng Ie the little wh I the < reets are rear, ha bitter doom, nit here ust there, yw ba the “ige of the bed, aniving t Though Ik: ow she 's jter, and varied, and dead, Tshouul no. wender muel; ng. you know— a: 30 sweet to see, n q when she lay dead, And sh used te pleat for mo her aud me By the site of that very bed! livin ow ifs I words ns KRuow. Tn sai srits, ‘of things life: vat my darting died eo, With their prayers un- Nay: ra/hes ste sits at G dis own side, ee ee eS On ihakta TauiWal, PEOPLE MOONS, (Prof. R. A. Proctor, in Belgravia. ] Probably the most convenient assumption we can make is that there may be creatures in @ general respect like ourselves on those moons of Mars, but that, owing to the extreme rarity ofthe atmosphere, their-vital energy i: be d th are not more active than we » the feeble action of gravity in their ven if the quantity is proportioned ies of these moons. On this as- tity of air is less than the ity of terrestrial as 1 is less than 4 100 times 4.0—that is, iam part of the terrest spread over a sarfa rool the h’s it foliows that th y of air above each squs ile of surface is io part only of the « ach square of our earth's surfa This would be enough in all conscix but this is For the action of graviSt being, accor t our assumption, only L000 of terrestrial hi erie pres- t er reduced f pnsity of equal only tol = of our own air. Now, at a hight of seven miles, where the is reduced to on men of ordi: ath: fourth t tions wou'd y draw the vaive-strin, is hands being already po tof seven miles the den O times grea nm that w > assum: arian tivo thea, that i 3 dapted, corpo y, for existence rity of the here their vital energy. So that we may weil in ine that, instead of being able to leap to a Ficht of ‘baif a mile or over a-distance of tare ©: three miles, they are not more active than We are on earth with six hundred times gr sat- ight, but. far more effective respira‘ion. i ht, perhaps, go even further than this, and assume that, in order to give the inhabi- tants of these moons locomotive powers pro- portioned in the same way to theirown dimen- Sions as ours are, they must be supposed very much smaller than we are. ne then in an atmosphere so ttenuated that creatures which eould bh: vitality enough to move freely about must be no larger than flies or ants, and must have also some such provision as insects have for more effective inspiration. Int Way we mighi find in the Martian moons a miniature of our own earth, not only in the Pioportions of these worlds themselves, bat also in those of the creature: But it would not be very i Sider mere minia the moons of Mars carded. Ind sting to of our earth, suc . Seramble for ody and Sankey ene is to be torn down imme li ately. and the “fixtures,” the benches and the chairs were announ to be sold this morn ing at auction at 10 o'clock. and that there Would be a private sale earlier in the day. s the building was opened this mori- ing an eager crowd of relic seekers invaded the building and commenced to select the chairs and benches they wanted. After the M R The Tabernac! services closed last evening a lady advanced | toward Mr. Pentecost, and asked if she might have the reading desk, on which had rested so many times the Bibles of the revivalists. She was referred to one of the building committee, | and before the audience had all left the build ing the lady was the happy possessor of the trophy she desired. Outside the tabernacle this forenoon everything had the appearance of a market day in a western city. Every de ‘seription of vehicle could be seen standing in front of the roe and before they lett Were loaded down with benches or chairs. ‘The members of the press who have report- €d the meeting Were each remembered by Mr. Jobn G. North.the chairman of the committee on printing, and were each presented with the chairs which they have used during the revival meetings. The top of the reporters’ stand, on which the writing was done, was tora off and reserved by Mr. North as a relic. The anx- ty of the people purchase benches at pri- vate sale was so great that the auction sale did hot amount to much, although a few benches Were sold by the auctioneer, Mr. Maltby. He oferedthe benches at so much a piece, with the privilege of one or more, and the prices ranged from :5 cents to $l. Some persons de- Sired the bench upon which they had sat auring most of the. meetings, and paid #1 for their privileg but a majority of them brought . nts each. Some of the nehes were sawed in two to suit the purchasers. There were some very fanny Sights to be seen upon the streets. + girls, und women could be seen lug big benches and little benches, pi sof the Fail about the speaker's stand, and every con- ceivable object that they could get to preserve asa relic of the revival Young men were seen inside the tabernacle clambering around among the timbers, breaking off the electric wires connecting the usher’s position in the choir gallery with the different entrances. Some over-zealous relic-hunter was impudent enough to appropriate the mouth-pieces of the speaking tube which ran from the main gal- Tery to the neon a young man with a murderous-looking Kvife was seen working with a vengeance to cut out a part of the rail which surrounded the speaker's position. He had to give up his job, and his strength failed him, and was Satisfied to carry off a nail from what was left ¢ the reading desk.—[{ New Haven Register, une 1. - Growth in Grace. No real life is eyer stationary. It is an un- Satisfactory thing to a parent when a child does not crow as it should grow, It is not that the parent is ambitious that the child should £row tall, but the spparent stoppage of growth may be a sign that something is interfering With the heal'hy development of the bodily fabric, and that some radical evil fs at work, Which Will Weaken the whole constitution, and entail a heritage of ill health in later life. “Just in the same Way the gardener likes to see the little green envelop shoot up and spread, and h the bright colors of the flower with- ation of growth means mischief at worm at the ri ofthe plant, ora Sudden frost: for he knows it is the very Hature of the plant to” grow, and his surprise is, therefore, not that it should get larger and t it should cease to do so before ed its maturity. No real life is We look for growth as naturally as We look for morning, and we are disappint- & «d and astonished if we do not get it. Wh: hould we wonder that God expects | omus’ It is a ve tran ze law of that we constantly alter our prinet- ples for ourselves. Wha paturaily expect oO give Us We are sometimes surprised hey should expect from us. We are like the ju who reversed the sentence, and re- Initted the damages, h Ww t had broken dowe the hedge. tances alter cases. The proverb is no but the way we apply it is often We make our self-love the great in- . We are, all of us, in our own esti- Semewhat exceptionally circum Wwe are those who have greater need i the rest of mankiad® we stand in peculiar beed of syinpathy, or of support, of service of Kindness; and we wonder why the are cs unkind. and why they are so slow in Siving us what we have never made an pa at to give to them. We expect Spmbathy. bul we have, perhaps, been dis- ished by our brusqueness o! manner, or eur thouyhtlessness of the needy We forget what man demands of us, whilé we keenly Touareg all that we demand from wen,— aver. he air must be exceedingly rare, most | ing uponthem. | Dwight-street entrances. This fore- | A RIVER STORY. a, pend- wenes aud cases | 1 ave brought the Bricist feet—with such literary work y pep as I could perform without neglecting mj legal studies and prospe: in the Blank Keriew. Oste 9 review of a book, but in. reality the said book | Was the excuse or text for an es: whieh was intended to be witty, but was too often, I fear merely fippant. “I do not care for a dull account of the book you review; all I want is a pape said the | editor. And I did my best. | One of my most facetious papers, I remem ber, was written apropos of a littie volume of poems issued in the orthodox green cover, andentitled “Echoes of the Heat by “Dora. I did not take the trouble toread them, bu just dipped in here and there without even cutting the leaves, to get points for funny “copy.” 1 found one couplet, for example, in whieh irl was made torhyme with curi,where upon I spelled girl, gurl, throughout the ar | ele. Tealed “Dora’ ; | ry picture of her asa gushing youn: | fifty, with spectacles, and ‘an ibumb, and suggested that her proper oc tion was the artistic cooking of a sheep ather than wWiiting nonsense about the echoes of her own. I inquired how a heart ¢: anecho, and insinnated that the Gur Echoing Heart mus: be a ventriloquist witha more flippant stuif of the same kind. ith au affectedly serious dittride against poetasters of both sexes, and the pub lishers who print their etusion: a disgraceful | articte which was exactly to the taste of the | nil admirari class, from which the ders of the Blank Review were principally uit as during this early period of my career, he season when London is dullest, tha’ old college friend Sinclair in the nd naturally asked w brought him in the autumn ve been ordering adog-cart in Long he replied; “but why are you not ou. for a holid J “I have nowhere particularly to goto, and a gurl, drew an im gina. thing it | and att 1 met | Strand tofore | Acre. no oueiogo with me, As has been olten Said, London, When empty, has more people in it than any other piace ‘has when full,” said I. “Be {I went out T shou'd be paying for my empty chainbers ali the time as well as for my temporary lodgings.” ay :but stilla breath of country air does World of good. And you ean afford y ve made a start, and T expect both is meet, eh?” Yes, bul Lam waiting till they overlap be | fore I indulge in luxniie: “Look her wish you we this evening. You live at Aiteha Yes, Ih K till the ene on the : lawn sh the edge iver; perch and pik ay—I have never caught any: be Vth My wife took a f and i; is just the same to me as any other unti hunt begins.” Ts it far? “Oh, no, near Pangbourne; we down in acoup'e of hours. It is not any cos pliment to ask you, 1 own, for we are mon streus dull. But you ye as ny pwoed that you have nothing to keep you in London, and “i: would be very goc ured if you id come and take an oar.” ‘ake an o Tamrather tired of seulling those two about every afternoon by myself. Some of the in the neighborhood have taken to rowing themselves, and letting their husbands, broth- ers, &c.. steer, but my women-folk don't seem to see “You Speak in the plural.” “Yes; my wife, you know, must have some one to Speak to. “She has you “Pooh perience. after a pause, “I th me to Aitehiun era preity pi to see that you have no ex- e have been married ucarly amt talk of furbelows, and my ttaik of hunting. She wants another Ik to and so Miss Filmer is staying And I want a man to talk to, and you with us. will be he, won't you?) There is a quiet litule room opening out into the garden, W shall do any reading and writing undisturbed all the morning. Com He led me to my chambers, made me pack my portmantea nin wn to the sta tion and in a railw Triage almost before I juife made up my mind whe:her I would no} “You Have not forgotten how to row, have | you?” he asked, as we rushed through the country. “No, 1] fancy not; but I'm not in the condi tion I was when we rowed in our first boa during the Y¥ races. Whai time do you dine, by the way . ‘We never dine.” re you you want, o. We breakfast and lunch, and go Water when the latter meal has beeu d | and come back to a cold spread when had enough mist and moonlight. It is very ro. | mantic, I assure you.” aid I. thinking that I would have a pressing engagement to tear me back to town very soon. “Do you know what night- mare is? “Not very well; Isaw a picture of one once, | inan old almanac, I think. The clutch of the metropous is never shaken off while you remain ia the railway earriag~ which started from it: the turmoil of the | streets still sae in your ears for several min. utes after you have left the station, We | ad almost reached Sinclair's villa before | the sweet odors of grass and flowers got fair | hold of my senses, or the strange stillness of | everything ceased to confuse me. | _ It was a delicious place, the house was white and wide and low, and covered with jessamine und honeysuckle, and shaded on three sides by a broad veranda, upon which the French win dows of the sitting room opened. The stab! | and kitchen were out of sight and smell some- | where; the lawn was cool with trees, and the | Prien, qpiftly-flowing river shone at the bot- tom of it. A lady sat in a cane camp-ehair in the veran- darendine the paper; she heard our voices and | rose, and [was introduced to Mrs. Sinclar. My | friend had made a good selection: she was | handsome, well-dressed, courteous, hospitable, without Knowing it. By which,as I cannot rea} | people’s hearts, Tof course mean that she gay one the impression of not knowing it. She rather patronized me as being a benighted bachelor, after the manner of matronus of twenty. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon, and she wanted to have dinner for me ina couple of hours, but, of course, I would not let thei alter their domestic arrangements, so I , had a light snack then and there. after which I declared my readiness to take to the water. Passing out on to the lawn, accordingly, I found another lady with Mrs. Sinclair, and was made acquainted with M) ilmer, a quite, retiring little girl, rather nice looking when you came to notice her particularly, which one might very wellneglect Soing whes there were several other ‘irls present. Mrs. Sinclair called her Daisy, and a most appropriate name it was for her. The boat-house, which was also ar- ranged as a conyenjent’ bath-house, giving promise of an early plunge next morning, con- tained an outrigger,a canoe and a skiff. The lat- ter, Which was afloat and only fastened by a padlock, was loosened ; the ladfes seated them- selves in the stern, Mrs. Sinclair taking the til- ler, and as her husband remembered that I had rowed on the stroke-side at the University I was placed on the after-thwart, in easy con- versational contact with them. When Sinclair wanted to join in the talk he had to raise his voice and demand the repetition of any iaug ter-causing observation with a ‘What's tha!?’ I had not rowed for some time and my hands were rather tender, but I took it easy and saved them. Itwas a calm and glowing evening, the scenery was that which I like best, the con- versation of the ladies was by no means of furbelows, as Sinclair had put it, but clever, natural and interesting, so that I was enjoy ing myself thoroughly and no longer calcu- lated on an early departure. ; “Are you talking about books?” cried Sin- clair from the bows. ‘*Mind what you say, Kate; Jones there is an authority. “No, no,” said 1; “Tam only a hanger-on to journalism.” . “Oh, Tam so glad that you are a literary man. ‘I do so want a really good opinion about a certain book. Miss Filmer, you musi Eaow. is an authoress.”” “Oh, no, i aisy, and you are a great dea! Diffidence is a great bar to | success, 1s it not, Mr. Jones “In my Proper profession, the law, it cer. tainly would be fatal, replied wand 1 think that in authorship i | fidence is just as well. But what is your work, M Filmer—a novel?” * diffidence, I Bur I * No, though I am aceused of Was so ambitious as to write yerse: was rightly punished for my tem their worthlessness was fully expose “The most disgracefu', the most unmaniy, cowardly attack that wasever penned!” cried Mrs. Sinclair indignantly. “Some of the poems are beautiful: all show originality and pent yon ana see them for yourself, Mr. ones, and judge.” “Oh, no, ease? said Miss Filmer, who looked really distressed. “T hove you wii not refuse me the pleasure of'reading them,” Said I. i “She cannot; you shall have my copy, cried Sinclair from behind me. “I am no judge of poetry myself, but I thought them capital, and so did the publisher—really, you know, because he priptzd them without mak- lng any charge.” | that is most noble in hum | through the exeretories of the skin.” Lom afraid le has loct mone ithe poste: Oh, Miss F the review tl or man,” ‘was the name o” he fi for Lev hier “Ves, ane? a de plume of Dore’ vould he diy h very thin-sti Ve; bu “an t Lao ned,” said not think itieism of my book, however ed, some were kind and were harsh. and Iset them against ther. Bul this particular notice seen dieta'ed by personal matice, for it si turn me int % and un- me for. success would com- ring made the subject of y real name, which of course nes, You Would recognize the faci t 1am not generally con-idered deficieat useful foreusi brass, Even in those early days I siiy put out of countenance. Bat sion T did wish that the bottom would open. anda friendiy barbel lelike proporii iis tbsorb me quiet Foronce in my life 1 did feel mosi_utierly and intolerably ashamed of myself. ‘That prefty little, delicate, gentie girl ’so refined, se Ive—oh! it Was just asif Lhad stouck a bind man, or an infan “That isthe old form.” gasned_ Sinclair. “Bi —you know—we have—to come— back—again. “You will knock my poor husband quite up if you row so fast,” said his wife with a sn that hada touch of anxiety in it. truth, trying to eseape from my. re: and not aware wh a racing stroke, the wate £ Leasied at ones, and presently w Lwas so thoroughly disconcerted, he at 1 made my jist ered hands an excuse for changing ‘places, and to shifling the brunt of conversation to Sinclair, Before we retired that evening I borrowed the volume of It was indeed the “Echoes which I had treated so unkindly h they let her choose cha provoking title? 1 rea pry line be- and fell more ashamed of It was not merely the thouch m ring through than s, the bri flashes of eloquent ‘adimirat meri ori i eh should fa guaranteed the book ag: +, at all events. Tpassed a bid night over it, buts covered my self possession in the mornin and at breakfast exp essed myself in t which brought color iuto the cheeks and li eSofthe portess, As for th luded tohiminay sTadies ever mex in, for fear, as Sine d find ou! who the culprit: was and be. paeaged in Some personal him. That Tmight be spired no remorse, Miss Daisy proved to be and Vv whieh py ning his libel sir told me, lest I ing old offic eC company which broke down aud swallowed bis little pi However, and tried to make a) able as L could tot lingly injured. It was ration, considering being as agi ady Thad unwit- ther’ a hat I , and she was s the fascination about i: mes ofien have. What Bt nd making amends, a fortnight slipped away presently, and wher I returned to town at the end of that time I could scarcely be called a free man. MRs. 8. B. PIATT'S LITTLE POEM, “After the .”’ shows the difference between a deli- land a whitewash-brush, and has My many fine touches not to be quoted ea- ire: Hush, my Wai pretty one, Not yet, ittle, only wait. lie flowers are as wet : je the gate But Is the gate forever shut? Just a young man inth Saying (the bast tim -? ain wood mig tt? All these robbins? But—he will not Is no other wit Ther e anust not ery) she fare not fr down your tears, y re like his was never heard? » but beth I vow; ever h s gloy Ah, well, s hiis tose le y to-night you'll see, In mock velvet cloaks, mock Earls, h mock-jeweled swords—that hi ere aclown by! —Now, those curls Are the barber's pride T Do not ery for them, I pray If no one should love? Why, You can love seme other stills Philipsidne Shakspeare, Good King Arthur, if y Raphacl— he was handsoine. too, Love them, one and all. CM, ¥. Tribune, re “The Dipper.” A REMARKABLE FACT ABOUT THE CONSTELLA- TION OF THE GREAT BEAR, In the constellation of the Great Bear is the the “Dipper,” composed of seven bright stars, two of which are called the pointers, for the reason that a line drawn through them would always intersect the pole star, which is about 28% deg. north of the upper star (of the two called the pointers). A writer in the Hartford Times says: There is something remarkable in the fact that a large group of stars in the northern heavens, bearing no resemblance whatever to. a Bear, should yet be so called; and what is still more remarkable is, that this great re- gion of stars should always have been known by that name by all nations of the northern hemisphere of the earth, however remo! situated from other, aut. period we go back—back until lost, without record or tradition, and still wondering that the name and place of the constellation should yet be all aglow in that far, far, misty past. Great physical changes on the earth’s sur- face undoubtedly have oceurred in the azes that have gone, thereby separating and iso- lating nations that once kuew each other. Each nation after the cataclysm occurred probably kept its traditions, though it. be- came lost to its once neighboring peoples, and thus we have a probable reason why the Asiatic, the Egyptian and the American In- nare all, atthe same time, familiar with this northern constellation and its name. The Great Bear is pictured on the old Egyp- tian hemispheres as stately marching west- ward around the pole of the heavens, and is placed in a very high latitude, and in fact di- rectly over the home of the lar bears of the earth. Was it intended to typify the region? If sothen the Egyptian was familiar with the home of the animal. Or was it some mirage, Projecting a vast image of the animal upon hose misty polar skies, that gave rise to the thought ofso placing it? This constellation can be seen on any clear night throughout the year, in this latitude, ‘except the stars located in the bear's paws. Thousands of people have watched that part of it called the Dipper, and noticed its handle high above the pole star, then again sweeping around westwardly, and then seen low on the northern horizon, swinging around to the east, and again above the pole, and on to the west— all accounted for by the earth's daily motion on its axis—causing an apparent movement of the constellation westwardly around the pole of the heavens A NEW SWINDLE.—A new dodge for beating the innocent out of their coin has been resort. ed to by sharpers in thi Sieg since the town hasbeen made “too hot’ to “hold the bunko men and permit of them plying their trade. A number have a'ready fallen viciims and the sharpers are beyoud the reach of the law. Two of them enter asaloon, walk up to the bar and converse as if they had just met. One draws forth his handkerchief, mops off his brow and remarks; “Gracious, how I do transpit Says the other: “You mean perspire; there i: ho such Word used in that sense astranspire.’ “There is,” says number one, “and I'l bat yeu en the point.” An outsider is then re- ferred to by sharper number two, and asa general thing sides with the latter ‘in saying there is no such word used in that sense. “Ii you think so,” number says, “I'll bet you that Lam right.” A bei is made, sharper number two generally taking part of it with the stranger. A dictionary Is procured, the word is found, and the stanger learns that Webster's unabridged says: “Transpire—to ont course be ‘oses his money, and soon atter- ward the sharpens repair to a convenient place, divide the spoils and goin search of another vic im.—[Sacramento (Cal.) B2e. AN Inon Sup FOR Russta.—It is stated it Philadelphia that the Russians have ooo tracted with Cramp, the shipbuilder, for an iron elpper baile: steamer, 240 bieed long, to carry three 7-inch guns and some of a smaller calibre, and to be completed in five months, quality—er—suppose | ri cited by all | nt | either side, CALIFORNIA'S IGRATORY Dz ¥ o Brletin.) en are busy fast now or their suamer foaves cows have al had caives ers have made away wita thea fo! These n ewe hav | and but veal dairymen, Theic winter homes a { the fuot-hitt at about the auitud h up ‘on the aed plains w, ¢ out of the surro: i the seciuded vales ad E ud on the shores of the numeroas | atk at abound in those regions. | foot-hill homes are the real homes of th: iy. Here are their comfortabie family resi | dences, nestled in some of the num-ro is cosy |-and picturesque localities so frequent ta these | sections. The first experiments ia this new enterprise were made Dut a few years. since | These experiments proved so si stulant profitable that they were followed up by che enterprising pioneers in others followed suit, un’ tory dairies of the foot-bills and’ Sicr-a nits are t only numerois bat exten and their owners are among the most s. fuland wealthy dairymen in ihe s business Is conducted abow as f cows have their exlves fr the middle of April. calves as are desh promising daivy qual ace raised, ull others are tu Frou the time the cows be: HM about AL alihings being in readiness, including cows, herders, akers and all the necessary tools and furniture are started for tains. The owner and sueh of his family as intend to spend the summer withthe dairy company them, Arrived at the place of d tion, the spring is. just opening and are tender and juxuriant, Red clover, la Wild clovers, al grasses of recogr ch as timothy, red- ard grass, bulich grass, are fe abundance, Water for stock is plenti ful everywhere and of the best quality. The pital and the ¢ The summer res is commenced With such feed and such water e, the yield of miik comes pacity of the cows, the nel ful is he Catifoi nearly, the all sf natural | in earnest and in su | Bate oie, not oniy | point of view. Bei the ver he moun | nd in creat ; and various | atid | nd the butter | i | Sulphuric a i The busk of the butter is generally sold each week its it is made for immediate use. But Such asis not demanded for use in this man. | is readi xiand packed ior win. OUSUDD atson Jasts from: Mow to November, when the campaign closes, aid the party returns to the Is and goes into winter quarte home is made the main base of supplies. and op: tions, And these homes gener | result of thrifty enterprise and fi \ity. The cows are dried up when brouzh* | from ihe mountains in the fall, and are kept upon the dry feed of the niwadows and stab: show Uli the rains set in, When they all will be fed with hay till the early gr: nake Uh one of the’ many suecessful industries of the interior of this’ state, which is” prosecuted where ut a few years Since, but little inviing for a home or a business was supposed to ex ist. Each year develops new values for tie and mountainous regions of the jons will be ble localities for re THE BE among the most desiva eneesand business, \NETT-MAY DUEL. Mr. Jerome Describes It. Mr. Jerome, a friend of Messrs. Bennett and May, who has conversed with both principals and seconds since the duel, i as follows: The preliminaries having ranged, the question of weapons was first taken up. Fred. Ma: proposed swords, bat Mr, Bennett declined to fight with swords, claiming that he had no experience, and did not know even how to use those weapons. Mr. May abandoned his position, and lots were then drawn for “ position,” “weapons,” and “word.” Mr. May won the choice, and a brace of old and rusty pistols belonging to a friend of his were selected, and it was dee! cided that the principals should fire at a di tance of twelve paces. The night before the duel was spent in Bal- timore, and early inthe morning the pariy left by special train for Marydel, on the boun / ary like of Maryland and Delaware distance from the station the duel ¢ CH Both Mr. Bennett and Mr. May weretn sod hits When they appeared on the grouiu:. eed in Posten as second lot to gi he or to fire, which’ was, “Fire—one, two, th and the principals, it was understood, we discharge their pistols between ‘on three.’ At the word “two” Mr. Benne 4 tried_ to discharge his pistol, but_it woul t no Fe, off. At the same Mr. M Lop his cap, and_ before the wor Wis tered, Dr. May ealied out top,” and, siep ping up to Mr. Bennett, said: “Mr. Beane + did your pistol snap? U'thouzht you fired.” “No, sir, Idid not fire,” Mr. Benuett an swered. Then returning to his principal Dr. May asked him if he had fired, and he replied that he had not, but that he had snapped nis eap. id claim my shot,” Mr. Bennett then said. “Certainly,” Dr. May answered, * you ure entitled to your shot, and turning to Fred- erick May he said, “you stand upand be fired at now.” Mr. May folded his hands and stood firm. He betrayed no signs of fear. Mr. Bennett was authorized to fire, and rais. ing. his pistol discharged it in the air. rv. May advanced towards Mr. Bennett and inquired, ‘*Are you satisfied?” to which How- land Robbins answered, “We are,” and the prineipals and the seconds then left the ground. dn regard to the various and conflicting ac- counts which have appeared about the mat ter, Mr. Jerome said that they must have come from persons who had been ordered to quit the field, but who had evidently not done so. The doctors, coachmen and attendants were not allowed to remain, and on the duel ing ground there were no other ‘persons ex- cept the principals and their seconds. In re- gard to the imputations about the courage of he participants, Mr. Jerome said: “They were trying to observe the rules of the code and behave like gentlemen, and they did act like brave gentlemen, too; and anything said tothe contrary is absurd. No braver men ever took up heir positions on a dueling- round than Fred. May and James Gordon ennett. and it is a nasty thing for any one to rake up any suggestions as to any possibility of cowardice on the part of either of them. They don’t know what cowardice is,” Mr. Je rome warmly exclaimed, “and either of them would have stood to fired at forty times Without flinching, if necessary. Of course they were entirely in the hands of their sec- onds, and if the seconds made any mistakes they cannot be held responsible for them.”— N.Y. Commerciat. The Henley Regatta. DEPARTURE OF THE SHO-WAE-CAE-METTE3— THEIR PROBABLY FRUITLESS JOURNEY. Among the passengers for Europe on board the Anchor Line steamship Alsatia, which sailed this morning, were the members of tae now famous Sho-wae-cae-mette crew of De troit, Michigan—M. Nadeau—J. Nadeau, W. H. Durrell, and S. Dusseau, who recently Proved the victors in the four-oared rages at ‘atkins, N. Y., and who hope to win another rf and greater victory in the coming regatta at Henley on the Thames, and perhaps in the in ternational regatta on the Seine. far as the Hs pear at Henley is concerned, there isreason to fear that these plueky but eccentric oars. men are sailing under a grave misapprehen- sion, for it is extremely unlikely that they will permitted to take part init. In the firs: place, the race at Watkins was for money, and although > the managers have now de- cided not to pay the prize money to the winners, but simply to give it to a trustee, who will pay the expenses o! the trip, i: is doubtful whether this arrange- ment will satisfy the regatta committee at Henley. But even il the Sho-wae-cae-mettes are admitted to be amateurs in this respec’, they are almost ceriain to excluded on other grounds. The new definition of an am- ateur oarsman adopied by the Henley Associ- aion pointedly rejects all mechanfes, with an elaboration of detail that leaves no doubt of itsintention to exclude just such clubs as the Sho-wze-cae-me'te or the Beaverwyek. There seven asuspicion, which is probably groundless, that exception may be taken even to the Columbia College crew on the ground that they once took part ina regatta in which one of the contestants was after the race ad- judged to be a professional. “This rumor is, as we Say, probably without foundation, but it in- dicates the extreme jealousy into which the English oarsmen are tow guar.ling the title of amateur, and sugars) ill for the success of the Bho. wae-ene metie expedition.—[N. ¥. Post une Sth. Hariz, the Persian poet—and very few poets were Hafiz smart—once remarked: “ In ever man's heart is a chaplet of eggs, each of whi:! contains a love. To break these eggs isr - quired only the smile of a woman.” And it sometimes requires no more than half a dozen chum rea choad of waa EE plet to break the of a woman.—[ Nor- ristvon Herald. nd the time is not far distant when | aiter the first These gr | venerally hieip very materiaily in wintering and bringing them out in fine eondi tion for the next summer paign in the mountains. We have thus given outline of | | | tive | A to lead fa tne ia and inn ying waiag int inap efor general use. Coth! wiruin Zo the processes of wigt stil used in the 0.4 We as drinking soda wa er, ex froma bottle, was unknown. It remaiied f the United States to astonish and devight rope With ihe soda water nmiakers as the a score of years hal makers wei Stich a thin water interest in the United > f late years grown inio enorim sas p tions. Somie $12,000,000 are now invested in ine manufacture of erated drinks, fountains and other apparatus. . As long ago as the London international ex- hibition of 18 ror Biitish a ish taste runs la to het “ks, and the reader can im. the sensations of a London civie magnat: Was ted to the fountamn in the Aim a tion at the London exhibition, and the: Woduecd to his first e: perience. of Ya ike soda, waier. The day terribly hot, bo. London, the soda was de.jciously ea ny and foaining. The ald eved the deans it onser Valively, tuok one swallow lass down. My dear,” he said, add lady who dispensed the bev. such a thing asa drop o! What soda water? and set his ressing er powerful metal c tor pGOhper weer ors formerly in vozue, but frequsat exp! sions, leakages and itabie corrosion, evea where the iuterior has been lined with tis, has led to the substitution of steel. The eon! tact of the id with the ¢ of Time prod ‘The vitriol ha than the carbou latter, and a sulphate as thus obiained a tremendous effervescence. ronger affinity for line Fes the The aga st id gas had liberas of lime is formed, then passed taro ei—to remove any tr Aand then the foua aius, al ed WILn Water. in the water in the fount: amount of the salis 1 enuine Water ¥ beer and driight champagne pt that the Tale slosed vessels hh i yution, wh tains the requisite «Lin solution by ie Tie fountains and tiv pS to Six tubes and Iwenty two syrups, ranging in form from a sim marbl box to an elaborate Gothic the most exquisite workmanship, from $5 to $4.00). On no other beve there an extravagant oulay of moi anda v aged concern seldom fails to ve very profitable. With good syrups, an attrac. ountaia and aiendant, and steict ness, the soda water stand wiil pay the r Itis upon the syrups that the tradé turns gen erally. Conseientic alers make their os king genuine fr. arsimonious deale: fountains go to ruin by allowing. of the coils and <posing the Copy let their e tin lining TF and dosing their custom. with verdigris. A Ypsiland dru zgist once pursued this system of masteriy inactivity with such suecess as to killone man up another for an entire r, the soda water drinke! reach of the fountains almost. It is the great merican beverage after beer and whiskey This year the cost of ice is so high that most of the small “soda men” will be squeezed oat, as ice at 60 cents per 1W pounds is too much for them. Seda water is a social power. It is drink to which a gentleman may publi a lady; the fousitain is the only bar which the sexes may meet with perfect propriety, the lady sipping uilla and erea and the gen Hleman moisten: i club lemon, that is to sa: 4 Courtships matches fas inv CALIFORNIA'S SPENDTHRIFT HABITS. (From the San Francisco News Le ter } The reform most needed in Calif yenia 13 in our extravagance, which is not ouly an evil in itself, but isthe cause of nearly all the ab.ass Which haye crept into our governmeat ail iety. There are two things whict have come down to us. from we could very well do The one is reckless extr that queer specimen of hum: you by the button-hole and be came to this stale in 49 or_the spring ¢ The grim destroyer is reforming the very fast in the only way it is by shuttin e: the other, ywho takes When I of "5, la‘ter ossibie, viz.: his wind; for so long as he has breath, so ne will he bore you with the story of his past glory, when he could throw slags (we mean golden ones) to the birds. other is a different matter—time only iacrea it, and death has no power over if, and only gives it an opportunity to show itself to ad- vantage in a long line of carriages, a silver- mounted casket, and all the pomp and vanity which it seems ecessary to a poor soulless clod of earth to its last rest. To such an extent has this thing been carried that a poor man‘can no longer afford to die, whilst extravagance has taken from him the means of living; and were it not for the free lunches and occasional hele from generous friends, he would be placed in the position of the boy in Tuby Rosenthal’s picture “ Ba- tween Two Fires,” who. pase ine by his hands from the orchard wall, finds his retreat eut otf by a bull-dog, while the irate owner advances upon him from the other side of the wall. This is a city of spendthrifis, beginning with the poor newspaper man, who spends the wh is week's earnings upon the last thing neck-ties.. Men have been known to ask their friends up to drink and spend their last half dollar, although they Knew their oe Was in want of bread. It mixht be thought, this man was a drunka) Nothing of the kind. probably only drank soda-water. He was only ollowing the fashion, and was merely a thoughtless, reckless Californian. @ disease permeates all classes of society. It attacks = men, women and children alike. Children In San Francisco spsnad more money on candy and piaytiiogs than mown op people in other parts of the world do in things they don’t require ; and the amount of money squandered in children’s dress issomethig awful to contemplate. Ata ehildren’s ball given here a few years a: a child of 6 or 7 years of age appeared in a dress which cost $4,000, and her father was not a millionaire. ‘The’ laborer in San Francisco spends more upon his living and dress than the well-to-do tradesman in England, and the consequence is that when hard times come he fee to join Kearney and the other commun- sts on the sand-lot, and it isthe exampleof the rich which has brought him to beggary, and changed him from the honest laborer into the tool in the hands of a lo‘ of unscrupulous dem- apogee, who aim to make political capital out of his wretched condition, which was brought about bya bad example and his own folly. The clerk here spends more than the merchant in England, and robs his employer to feed hisex- travagance, and the wife of the clerk who re- ceives $150 per month dresses as well as the merchant who is making $10,000 per annum. The ladies vie with each other in dress, the furniture of their houses. and the grandeur cf their equipages. The men in the number and value of their horses, and the beauty and ex- pense of their mistresses; and this causes a state of aishonesty and immorality painful to contemplate in this otherwise beautiful city. It must not be inferred that thisstate of things is pecotar to San Francisco. What we say of this city may with equal truth be said of aay other ree city in the Union. Bauak presf- dents embezzle, clerks rob their e:uployers, government officials steal, men comiai: forze- ry and women aduitery, all to keep up ihis i ferral extravagance; and unless thece is a great reform in this, we need never exp+:t to See an enc of the private and public iinm orali ty which so disgraces the U. 8. A. It is impos sible to get honest representatives from among a People wholly given up to thisvee. Te ehi dren suck it id with their mothe ’s mi k, are brought up and educated in it, until it ve cemes a second nature, aud the ext genera, fou bids lair t» be worse than the present. ° Fai SeS A MAT As A BURGLAR ALARM.— Ata meeting of tie Franklin Institute a iew evenings ago, an electric alarm door-mat was exhibited This mat, when stepped upon, commu ricates a signal, or Hugs a el . The mat can be con- ceal-d under the carpet, or by covering with some ligh: material. Perhaps it may also serve \o record the entrance or exit of passengers from tail cars, and thus be added to the amber of bell-punch inventions.—[V. ¥. vibune. inal Brooklyn theatre fire fund of $50,000, al Dut $8,060 has been ex ended. Une hundred and twenty funeral bilis were id and one hundred and eighty-eight fam- ies aided. Fifty families are now id an aggregate of $350 every fortnight, ae syr pene: to Wear otf, thus | the one | But the | isplay in taking | 203 OF RICHARD TIT. pndemnin > 5) tstom uth. et x things with the vil Vuless Leoud 8 pt on record of Danbary try male base ball club o: t ticular ansWered every purpose Tt was merely desi periment on which to base futare Hs Were AL he hic when the subject was brougat Fup. The premis us, and include quite a piece + hiddeu fro she street by several drooping, Mxuriant old “asaioued ap pe tees. Lue uz lady of the house has a | brother whe i. fond Of base ball and has the | necessary maedivery for 4 This was she turf under tre fes assembied, takeu out on The li ‘ dativided then s | tWo nines of three ea The first three took | the and the second three went to the bases— one as caic pite a 48 Chase;—or pitcher w lear Tue were blondes with faces. a tion, The pitcher look the elf, put her arm straig! shoulder, th out modify in ty, and then i 11 wi to the pite when she aime rk of the Basiaess was th with a faint 3 ally visible. the and said This time she took 1 bur still negiecied to look ins cee ion than 1 the bat Was pres poked out of » this is dreadful. said Watter whose heives had been Kepi ac a pretty stid tensio: “Verfectly dreadful,” chimed in the eateh | er, With a long sigh. | “1 think you had better get up in one of Ss, mildly suggested [he eu neg se observations somewhat her, and she declared Whereupon a chan, ter. She was certain Just as seon as she was made more sensi let drive she u two of her mi, and madiy lew di staruled that both I ter, Which s bat’ clinched grip, that she eried, my!” and iet it dro; his movement un cove atcher, Who had botl tended about three feet apart, inn catch, but | studying the head, sire w being intently at cvilon the K of th® batter’ shot abe to rr uxhit a the bodice with sufi cent force to deprive her of ail her breath, which left her lips with ear-piercing shrill! . There was a iull in the proc ings for ten msinu es to enable the eatcner to takesom* camphor and the rs of the club to arrange her h. | The batter in took position, when one of the party discovering that she was holding the bat Very much as a woman c Sa broom when she is after a cow in the garden, showed her that the tip must rest on the ground and at her right sid, with her body a trifle iuetin ed in that disection, The suggesier took Ui bat and showed just how it Was done. brought around the bat with su en et, au nearly bra and moved back some fifteen [ The batter took her place, the bat on the ground, and the eyes again as lightly as befor The fielder had taken the precaution to get | back of a tree, or otherwise she must have | been disfigured for life. The ball was rec ered. The piicher looked heated aud v: idn’t throw it this time. st gave it tching motion, but no* lett of it in sitdown with consid : |” ‘Thereupon ured she would never | throw ga he lived T Was Just de a . ne ba‘tel «la tight hold on (he bat. Wthe bali stat, she im tvemeudous lunge with the bat, let go of it aad turned around in time to eaten the bail ia the | small of her back, while th being on its own hook. i une thy voiding a s » Heatly clipped ofl its arm at the elbow and let the flowers to the ground. There was a chorus of screan | confusion of skirts, and then the fulloy logue took place: - No. 1. Let's give up the nasty thing. 0. 2. Let's. No.3. So I say. No. 4. It's just horrid. rhs being a majority, the adjournment was made. The game was merely an experiment. And it is just as well it was. Hadit been a real game it is likely that some one would have en killed outiight.—[ Danbury News. Rabbi One of the prettiest sights of the country is to be found on the outskirts of a Wood any fine evening, zrass field or a piece of young wheat. ts are Skipping about, feeding, and chasing each other in all directions, but all provides With an instantaneous mode of retreat, either into the forest or into a burrow, should the ob server make an incautious movemeut. If suspicious, the rabbits merely squat and re- main motionless; should their surmise of dan- fer prove correct, one stamps loudly, and an immediate stampede results. This curious stamping may often be noted, aud attentive observation shows that it forms a kind of un: versal rabbit language, expressing on oceasi love, news of abundant food, satisfaction, danger, watchfulness, a challenge to combat, and so on through all the gamut of a rabbit's intelligence. Each of these states of feeling has its appropriate stamp or stamps, and when the public interest is involved, as when tidings of danger are thus expressed, an almost in- Stantaneous — telegraphic om munication flashes through the community. Rabbits fight ina very singular manner, wich perpetual re- course io what French boxers call the surute. Each endeavors to leap over the other in a duel ofthis kind, and to kick his adversary’s head in doing so. These tactics, if most amus- ing to a spectator, often inflict much pain and injury upon the combatants, as they spring over each other so quickly that the eye can scarcely follow their movements. Another ex- citing and common scene at harvest-time is to watch the cutting of the last few yards of a corn field. The reaping-machine dcives round and round, momentarily ating, the amount of shelter within until there is at length arush of bewildered rabbits among the men, boys, and dogs that beset the patch, on the look-out for the escape of these animals. Loud is the cheering and laughter, and great the agility evinced by portly laborers and saga- cious sheep-dogs {n pursuing the hapless terri- fied animals, but a large roo getsclear off. There is no need to descant on the enor- mous numbers of rabbits annually exported from Ostend to afford the British artisana savory dinner at alow price. Regu'ar rab dit farms are maintained on the sand-banks of the Low Country, where the creatures are daily fed with grass and turnips, like so many she +p, until their time comes to be sent over sea to London or Grimsby in large fiat hampers. Dealers frequently keep them alive at these ports under sheds until the demand grow, risk. We have seen 20) of them thus kept. and being black, gray, fawn-colored, and the like, they formed a pretty sizht. In one year recently no fewer than 15,Q0 rabbits were Sent Lom Osteud to_London weekiy daring the season. Some 1,500.0 more are annually sold by the sed game-dealers of E igiaad and Waues. Add to these the enormous hum b-r of rabbits consumed throughout the eoun- try without cov ing into the dealers’ hin is, and then, compating their varus ai ihe ow figure of a shiung each, the most deu rminad far.ner's frieud must hesitate before he cate - minaies ‘his pretty race of anin and de- prives rural Wa'ks of one of iuew greatesi chaims.—{ Harper's Weekly. “ PXAMINE the man whos lives in misery be- cause he does not shine above other men; wh> Pros uchag hiawself, pr, eu ut Bis sites a Cpe ed force every body—as it were ng every- body, for God's Sake—10 ‘ucknow-cdge him rt wan, aud set him over the hea Isof men! ich a creatuce is among the wret :hedest A great man? A sights seen under the sun. poor, morbit, empty, prurient man, fitter for the Ward of a Lospital than fora throne among men. I advise you to keep out of uis way. He cannot walk on quiet paths; unicss you will look at iim, wonder at him, write paragraphs about hin, he eaunot live.”—[ Curiyle. coxitated and carried out by six | Phat party shivered, | pacoisy if the wood adjvins a Rab- | a SU) Con ANGENENT, For none FORTRESS MONROE AND HE SOUTH. eaves Nore Sy TURSDAN. THUBSDA snd SATU at @ o'clock p.m. VAC RIVER OMPSON W. TM r fugtiog, appl x. nore ey art, toot v for oD application at Knox's Ex. SANDED BACON, Pree, LY. Agen M} RS FOR NEW YORK. + JOHN GIBSON and ately leave Pier 4l Kast tk. at @ O'clock p.m, AY at 4 p.m. ; George NDAY, and Alexan ; rom Uber Bed. ACL ANA STK A The Bre zo Ye _SAMUEL BACON. President. 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