Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1878, Page 7

! tron (stolen from some store at hand, I suppose), | and with tt he slips down the embankment, at the risk of his life, until he reaches the en- trance toa tunnel. There across the rails he deposits his burden. He is careful so to place it that by no possibility shall the engine of the doomed train now fast approaching clear its path of the encumbrance. He chuckles as this ssurance strikes him fully, Then he smites j the bara heavy blow with the paim of his ful madness glistens in his coal. ck eyes as he mutters, “Fine, fin minute after, and ke is over the embankment again; and half an hour subsequently, when all is confusion and horror and suffering, he quietly tells the story of his deed, and ts borne away with loathing to awalt the time when it Shall be pronounced whether he shall be put out of life as a malignant criminal, or be heace- forth well housed and cared for aS au interest- ing Imnatic of peculiar propensities. ONLY JUST SAVED. Wir lie Stansfield was clerk tp a London and Tndion bank. He was an orphan, and had but | One or two distinct relatives. Not very many frierds either could he boast of, but two he had, beth sincere and one powerful. Mr. Man- ley. a life-long friend of his father, had pro- ctired him bis present appointment fn the bank. of which he. Mr. Manley, was a director; Mr. Turner had known him from boyhood. ai pLunseth im on all portant matters. *Wiilie.” said the latter, “what {s this Whisper which reaches me that something more than kind feeling has risen"up between you and Jaura Mantes of this kind put to younss aLy generally disconserts th repiied pretty readily: be peopie In the worl > penetrated both inte . e: ere discove: Into that train, now coming on to Its fate, Deere he ated Spe that one singie | there stepped at the terminal station an elderly person ever saw the smallest outward mani gentleman anda beautiful girl, They had come festation of sifection between us, I ost posi. | 6 America from England for the benefit of the tively deny i young lady’s not over-strong health. + What a lot of f doget_here!” said the gentieman testily. We Started because it a charming morning, and now we are ina mp mist, getting darker every moment. A | Dlessed invention, thése fog-signals, for Iam | sure the engine-driver cannot see his hand be- fore him. lady timid! “You w ina moment, Mr. Turner, how | awkward! d. Leontess tt at | once, Tam stromgiy ed to Miss Mantle: and ido not thins Tarn uncared for by What an ot vas thing for me to. ¢ otany useful Was my father’s friend and doubt. He ‘Mt wteat | “Papa,” sald the youn, ' MLO Te te eee OF sta | with the dreamy atr which we assoclate’ with only child, Laura. How do-yoa thing | the looking back on long-past, events, “did you he is I to View any advances towards her | notice a gentleman who entered the train as we ez 5 THe the nk | Were just starting?” cee: a tee Gh th ee | SCYoung man, with brown halr and dark Turn Se eee sae 3 Yes, Laura; and I thought how gray | eo like he was to that headstrong d, who will turn up again, I pose, one of these day + Bo you think, papa, it could possibly have been he “Th Willie, a1 better spea’ less excites ement temper of yours docs fmaendin - Mr. Turner,” contt n. “and, What Is mor about its mending; Tv , wad to the mar . H ay be here— well remember tb he ded, in sof 4 maine fredia orc about him, that he sae Graeme: tebe RAEN eT : ud retura to my Not Weatbe tothink of. ‘The | ftvor, I dare say, tke the rest of the world, he I do not veat is striving and struggling. Lau this is in- moment isturn t wrenen t i ' 7 tus fene™ | deed a wretebed day for travellin bene Ub ee ee vling OF | “But Lapra’s thoughts were upon the brown hair and the gray eve to think of her, not te Antec ane we ¢ me to the long tunnel. ¢ How we | all Of us ery out fore ! ess creatures an my heast Wwe human beings are: Baht The idea of ty unate en ting to yi . | moralizing?” and the hard-headed business m: ve of much hope o: | I tle notion. your good designs. Do you “Tdon't nything to laugh at. papa. 1 itn Be i's | feela litte dull mysett, at the moment. “Do | you know, T m ina more critical state han you think. I may hot lve, Imay not. If T should di me here? You will Laura, my Laura’ yon know, you Will not me home, and—" the st er, forgive my warm-tem Will be as ealm as possih : oars Ls : ets aoe Die pet awing her to him and embracing her ee te a reavle per- | ghat has come over you? What sudden Kany cbetoermbehMenihe ee vie: che e | alarm is this?” Go fel me, my Kind, good friend, why do 3 ‘They were alone In the carriage, and the old sear a man’s tear dropped unchecked. tc “It will pass away. [dare curious presentiment came over In weak, Lill talk of other things. journey we such « There is edmirab: the pr cS aw ste" “Mr. Turner, look here, this 1s the yeason why 1 am doing all Tean to i bank to give appotntm: to fear, my girl. This line bp worked, and all contingencies are ; mis te . provided for, and peo bas eng alas that of a heavy bar tying on the | teesnecn t 1 te rails, placed there after the last train has been | signalled “All rig badbbrc ho ‘ie huge engine reared up as ff inv: Quest; ih and © well fl Dack Ch the foremost SRS hind | ! Mth 5 i the the © Why, th very kind } I 1 the train v Je ol i friend. he an odd-tempered, im} eS Land upon o: | teous confusion. Only a few of the es eseaped injury » killed I mia r ean rely him tn How many ps you now. they were favored above the nded, for Uke summons W obey ad, MY. Manley rose from. the ch. atric he bi onfstor turned. Where wi ered cc arrlage was partly re Just hear her voice 1S We met on to ment ot the lodzines plex postman bre and then fu upon He rimed al ait tty M ‘the old man shouted for help, bat tl what you think of that? | far worse cases, and no he sto be my friend. He once | #tose that the train on th ther, when he | dtte,and the Wy the debris, ft lose sight ¢ nceide - A foud wail air issued from th He gees me a poor as trait. e sirove to remove the mas ugments In which hts 1 was toumbed. Who was this wh the doer vached to render did not Know at the moment. young and pow ey Ne ‘ful man, and he ad been otherw said Mr. wa ido not altogether under- vy the shoulders, and the 1 Ped ao hota one Grecia on his knees before him, the old man ed him; “but, Willie, ( cannot At him by ali he held dear, by all his ing to Mr. Manle 1 pro- of present and future, to save his child. n footish and ¥ ° Save my L ~tny Laura, sir, and all I have i do it. +l With me also, Stansiie! earn One more avy, bUL my tld fs mn | P Look tnt Ty at my A Wh if you send this you ide t great beam? in for along tin . ts tly, as though they were left. ‘Then the letier wa 's plaything? gli, to the left, the masses roll: the than half done, when the cry arises that the whistle of the unstopped train on the other Hne fs audible. Stand aside. No use Work further. Death must have his ad- ditional victims. On comes the train. ‘Only at the last moment did Willie Stans: | Suces ed in clasping the frame of Laura Manley, | and bearing it awa} Saved! Who could take her from him now? ( Cassell’s Magazine nda vastly stupid le was, of me. His love to his patron, 3 Ip to himself to do so; D: en togo hen M into the ape; and, ihe desired to e: general discontent atl prospects of hi Sit about a deg iy consistent with pe writing the lett, Manley. tust needs go heac io mischief, into almost ruin, it seemed in: He saw the secretary of the bank and spoi sueh ur d terms that the secrets piainiy t im the board would not improb. bly thin! he had better leave the f "That afternoon Stansfiek State of mind than eve It was twod hearing Mr. Mane: ee | | A WOMAN'S DEATH WOUND. It left upon her tender flesh no trace, | The murdercr is safe. As swift as ‘The weapon fe ; d ecarce the silent dewy air dis; s but a word, A blow had b jumb beast branded by an ir heat she turned in bind and But then remembered, and with pi | cx went hou this that Mr. Tar ome to London, w They were well k or!{ has nothing m’ But she—each da: dying be complet and doth repeat, loved and kisse:t aad ki: Fr Voice OF StH vunts util he: ‘ou. Turne atly because ton the more said M you perliay penis of that run off to. T haven « Tqnar- ing y Ht: i YQU NOL Supporting hls wish to be [Fron + | Secret of Snake Charming. | SIMPLY A QUESTION OF WHETHER SNAKE OR JU LER IS QUICKEST. yorite snake for exhibition is ean thre stupid boy > Run In India the | the cobra, partly because of its more striking + The | appearance, and partly because, itsdeadly char- Tbounable. One wenhd think | 2¢leF being So well known, any triting with 1 appears to the uninitiated public the more won- | dertul. Nor, indeed, do the performances of the Hindoo snake charmers lose, on better ac- | quaintance. all r marveliousness, for cour- age of @ high orde: sing partly from the | confidence acquired by long practice, is mant- fested in seizing aud bagying the dreadful ophi Gian. In most cases the me adly injury. TOS mind there wa this lad and my daughte a for the Drea! Daget e charmer renders the Seer reptiles harmless by drawing thelr poison fangs, Freon Bight Fee ee and the exhibitic then merely one beri tt he and the ons ot the sna trained condition. that be 4 On the other hand it happens that the basket contains the veritable death dealer, and a ¢95- ra with Its fangs undrawn fs nearly always forthcoming if the temptation in money be sufticlentiy strong. But in handling of the creature when once exposed there is no hesi- tation, for hesitation me swift seizure and uring of an es when it with lightning rapi suecesstully reqitire “t deubt how matters stood, I suppose T ouzht to be very dene these two y en them with my bitt fer an instant tiin ce io my lif he world would spe: Ww What ts fo my uatnd at th ere ts |. A cobra strike its mind to stri to dodge lightning considerable agility. ‘The time to 9) Out finely ti it 7, ani | mowent. What dol care for the world? Bat | SUCoestully requ : : x = = sbake charmers, however, when put on their Fee hah sce Walle must net zo to India. | mettle, will grasp the erect cobra with. im: punity, owing solely to the superior speed of their movements, for by a feint they pro- voke the reptile to strike, and before it can at is in the backgrovad. and which may never get to the pogo 1 must pe ger pee: Le | recover its attitude seize’ it beiow the jaws. ; it's all over,” exetained the oiq | HAthe same Way the ichneumon or mongoose secures In contest with venomous snakes a com- arative immunity. It was fora long time an ‘ticle of faith with writers of popular works on tural history, that this animal enjoyed a com- forth. | Diete immunity, but setentitie experiment has baer I ed this fallacy, A mongoose and cobra | confined together fought freely, and though the latter scemed to the eye to strike his antaze- nist repeatedly, the mongoose, on being exam- imed after killing the snake, was found to be untouched. Another cobra was then brought on to the scene, and being made to close Its fangs on the mongoose’s leg, the animal confessed [s suscepUDility tothe | oye by dying in4 minutes Tt was therefore by its Yee activity alone e chtened color and flashing '¢ has gone his own way, his own head | jolish way. and be has ruiued him- a you -he fs not i . Turner, Ile’s taade off like a seamp—not «he is one. but what will people think diully stupid doy, after writing u nright bully our sec ve htm a hint that Whereupon, it would ap- returned to his lodgings, paid his was a thrifty and honorable 1), put his trifling possessions Might come of It. pear, the ld few debts (for young block | : Pe “3 | that in a fair fight with reptile it had es- beta ppeated 18 Acad.” sto | cabed unhurt and to the same cause the shake find this craved kul. “We must take all neces. ; CBatmer owes the immunity that attends his exhibition. But, as in the case of the mongoose, the snake charmer when actually bitten dies a3 rapid as any other creature, and in spite of all the powers of his charms, roots and snake stones. The Hindoo spectator refuses to be- Sary sieps—tie police—advertisements— “Not one so faras Lam concerned, Turner. ‘That yonth might in time have been my son-in- law. rich, b'essed with a dear and loving wife every Kind of happiness at his—but no, we are | Hove ene 8 Pe $ fn ng ie: eae ee Rae | Iigent audiences, for if we could only tas truth the charmer's — state- ment that he has really been bitten, and that the red drops on the bitten spot were actu- ally blood exuding from the fatal puncture, and could then believe that the root he smelt, the Willle Stansfield must praisewor davor. thought of these words in many an after st do Something very indeed Uefore he returns to my ¥ j 5 he ve 2 S bute a 2 = oq eahee ths sees re me \ted — magie of the cobra’s poison, the spectacle would is Wi On “One J ersonation of vio- p Jent temper avd the other of obstinacy. And , DGOf Surpassing Interest, since 1t would be a be ar- So this quaiTe!. which might so easil much suffering ant ranged, Is (0 cattse ever 5 injury, without any prospect of a terminauon. It is truly deplorabie. twas: bet asto bringing Willie Stansiietd ack, Unat was out of the question. He had al- veady started for America. ‘There ts something doubly alarm! and hor- Tible in those Instances of wickeduess for which no motive can positively be assigned. As Tim my mind's eye, five years after the con- 4 related, see a human betng on For the cobra’s bite there is no remedy ex- cept instant Ker he and the snake charmer himself knows this well. As a means of general | Security he confides in his dextrous slight of hand, but in cases of accidents he carries a broad-biaded knife—{London Telegraph. &2~ Auguste Guidi and his wife were very mis- erable in’san Francisco. They had been mar: ried only a few months, but were already dis- couraged by poverty. having been accustomed to an easy, careless life. Guidi sent a letter to + stamped indelibly cruelty of the | a friend, requesting him to go to a certain spot Vilest ordey, crawling about a railway embank- | ina suburb of the city, find a bit of red paper, ineat tn the United States, [have a shuddering and follow a trail of leces until he came conviction that some di 4 monstrosity is to “something startling.” The friend did as re- about io be perpetrated. And so it ts. ‘The | quested, and found the dead bodies of Guidi and ‘Wretched creature is cartying a huge bar of | Lis wile. They had committed suicide, * ach Working Habits of Composers. | PECULIARITIES OF SOME OF THE LEADING MAS- TERS IN MUSIC. Composers differ as much as authors tn thetr manner of working. M. Gounod 1s one of those whom composition throws Into a very fever, and who can bear no interruption or domestic sounds about them while they sit at the plano, taumping the keyboard with one hand and not- in: down their score with the other. Gounod once drove him wild by coming in to ask him for her thimble while he was endeavor- ing to link two phrases of an aria. Meyerbeer used to compose methodically, sitting down to his plano asa business man to his desk, and never showing the least irritation if called away from a work, which he seemed able to take up and leave off with the utmost ease. Rossint composed best lying on his back in bed; and it once he was en reine he would lie abed all day, humming his airs to himself until he had learned | them by heart.and scoring downa whole act at a time when he had hummed and rebummed It to his satisfaction, His musical memory was pro- | digious; but his voice was so untuneful that once an Italian innkeeper, in whose house he once | | hummed for three whole days at a stretch, ran | | up to beg him that he would desist, for that his “noise” could be heard through the 0 window, and disturbed some English t dining al freseo down-stairs, FAuber even up lo an advanced age, used to derive Tousical inspiration from a glass or two of champagne, and Wagner can only compose with the assistance of suits of satin clothes of divers: colors, which he dons and puts off according to the style of thing at which he is working. For instance, when spinning off a pastoral duet he will array himself in primrose satin; when he comes to a martial chorus, quick he bolts off to his dressing-room to don a pair of scarlet satin pantaloons, with tunic and cap to match. These delightful antics were made known to the public through the Mee aries circumstances that the author of the “Tannhauser” was. sued by his milliner for the cost of his composing vest- ments, and was made to pay an extremely long bill. Among those whom ‘one may catl minor composer, M. Lecocq is the most happily en- dowed, for he can forge solos and choruses any- where and at any time—in trains, in a hot bath, on the top of a “bus, in the rain, or in a dentist's drawing-room while waiting to have a tooth drawn, Vasseur, composer of “La Timbue aArgent,” who fs an organist by professton, contriv liveliest m lies by allowing his fingers to run wild over the keys of his large organ, and he, too, is a fertile workman. M. Offenbach, on the contrary, though he has com- posed so much, is only prolific during the spring lime of the year, and while reading by the s side. If he tries to compose elsewhere, and a other times of the year, hts works are worth little, according to his own testimony, As composers differ in their modes of working, sodo they in their manner of conducting re- hearsals once their pieces have been put on the Meyerbeer used to be a regular marti- ne , who would let not a false note pass, and ob- liged wretched chorists to begin over and over again till elther breath failed them or they grew perfect. Rossini was amiable but fidgety, a pa- ternal Sort of person, who chucked prime donne under the ein and chid them for their faults tn he C ¥ With endearing diminu- uve appelations, which did not prevent him be- ing very keen in seeing that nobody grudged lim good service. M. Gounod, who Is all heart and nerves, weeps ‘y When things go ali right, and lapses di pondent when ars are With ind, When sat- mances during he used to rush hin a sign of utter istied with Mlle. Krauss ihe rehearsals or + vor, crying all the time as if he had got an e Ss Mile, Krauw js rather a jolly lady, idency to laugh aloud when the eifect of these a M. Gounod, however, was sin- ¢ In having found in Mille. 4 soprano of the laughing sort, for half ubles Of great compose ave come from rime done tho made exhorbitant conditions before consenting to sing, insisting upon having the scores altered to suit their whims, sulke when their behests were not attended to, an finally contrived to f. the day fixed for n Daily News. the Moon. REVEALED BY THE ADVANCING "NLIGHT ON THE MOON'S SURFACE. Saturday evening a representative of the Tewerat and Chronicle, impressed with the idea that it was a suitable opportunity to view moon, called upon Prof. Lewis Swift at his hardware store on State street and inquired if the time was suitable to accept his invitation to kat the moon through his telescope. Prot. Swiit—he Is called professor from no desire or claim of his own, but because the citiz of ester delight to honor him—satd that the { moon was the most Interesting, but ednsid- erable satisfaction could be gained from view- Ing It in its present phase, and expressed a cor- dial wish to gratify us. he telescope, with a power of 36 diameters. was turned upon the moon, At first. the food of light was blinding, and the view y but cursory. ‘The moon Ioo! ke a shield of ein- bossed silver—the shi chilles—hung by nis goddess mother in the azure of the Heaven: WIL looked over the field and noted as b poked Many of the Interesting points, and sug- gested that we follow the sunrise on the moon. On the moon the dawn advanced at the rate or 19 mies an hour, lighting up new tlelds and furnishing to hit ¥-changing panorama. pts desolation, yawning rp. peaks of volean: walls with eames ides that surround deep pits. The moon 13 dead to all appearance—burned out with voleante fires. water laves the desolate and rugged shores of its gray sea bottoms. But in the gray plains, where some astronomers think an ocean once spread, craters are seen with perpendiculs walls, The gray platus can be seen with the naked eye, forming what is called “the man in the moon,” on a map like the eastern continent. Under the telescope we could trace what seemed at first to be shore lines on the borders of this plain, On closer Inspection, instead of wave-washied sand, these lines appeared to be but rounded steps form by successive lava bursts spreading over the plain and making by the lessening flow the gradual exhaustion of the voleanie force. From one of the largest craters rise three volcanic cones, the summits of which are tipped with surilight before the floor of the crater 1s lighted. In another large crater two conesarise. From the larger craters rays spread out, as though the volcanie force cracked the ‘al, injecting through the 3 of dazzling white lavs of cuttle-tish cov- ering a vast surface. E The grandest phenomena are to be observed by following the sun on the moon. The ad- vancing dawn forms a ragged eresceni Ine upon still in darkness. The sun's rays over dark chasms and low fields, lighting up ragged mountain tops far in advance. ‘They appear like little islands of light lying off the coast of an illuminated sea, High mountains ud crater walls near the shore of light cast aeep shadows. The circular rims of ¢1 are ninated and shine like rings of silver, glit- ig Upon a cushion of darkness. The ad- ncing dawn now lights up the bases of the outlying mountains that bat a moment ago showed but a speck of light, and still new are Upped with silver far in The sunlight strikes upon the side iar wall of a crater, and there is a silver crescent, space between It ind the sea Slowly the summit of her portions of the etreut Hl are Highted and then the sunlight invades the depths of the crater. while the shadow of the wall nearest the sun stretches half ucross the floor of the chasm. Frequently great gaps are broken in the crater walls and streaks of Nght stream across the floor, The jagged rock: cold beauty, shine and glitter in the light. Th nntains are mount lation, and the valleys are valleys of silence and death. They are wrinkled with the flow of java and torn with upheavals, ‘he moon is dead. No air, no sea, no forest shade, or living ting. ‘The moon 1s a never-failing ‘source of deiigit. It is also awful in its suggestions of power and in Its loneliness of utter desolation — [Rochester Chiou Tr 50- WAS COMMOTION In the polite circles of Montreg) after the grand ballat the Windsor. The goS™{ips were shocked to learn that th rquis had not danced with the right. peop ‘here was Lady This, who had arrayed herse' at ruinous expense in order to dance with hin, and who was not so much as introduced to him: and then there was Lady That's daughter, with all her own and all her mother’s and all her first cousin’s diamonds {n the upper sections of her toilet. who had to waltz with the young men of Montreal. Meanwhile the Marquis was danc- ing with ladies who were pretty and nice enough, to be sure, but, who did not grace the first walks of society, don't you know! When the supper room was opened matters went from bad to worse. The Marquis, who had been doing his best to make himself agreeable to everybody sie the evening, took down stairs a ey on ished lady, to be sure, but one whom Lady This and Lady That’s dauzh- ter consider slightly beneath themselves, inas much as she is a brewer's wife or daughter, or something of the sort. Wherefore, there are heart-burnings, and the committee in charge of the ball are condemned as unmitigated noodles. All these things tend to make the unrezenerate Yankee smile. To REVIVE FRostED PLaNTs.—Plants are often frosted through neglect and allowed to de Uhrough ignorance. Those that have been pees ‘severely nipped mi - ae if treated ightly. The proper sar en the frost has. been ‘lly drawn out of them, naturally, to drench them with cold water from a fine-nosed watering pot, and immediately cover again and Jet them so remain until they regain their natu- ral color. When they are removed slip off all such parts as are blackened. As soon as It is discovered that a plant has been touched by frost remove it to acool, dark room, and on no account suffer the sun to shine on it. If they can be covered So as to exclude air a3 well as ght it 1s better still. Dahilas, cannas and the Ike need not be removed until the frosts are se- vere enough to blacken the leaves.—[Ezchan_e¢ 82 In the case of Patrick Collins against Gen- eral Cassino, on trial at New York, for the al dvction of Miss Emma Collins, the jury award- ed the plantift $5,000, Poor Mme. } Stagnant water; but the: Poultry Notes. Hens are in effect mere e; keep these mediums in running order, we Must keep up the thrift and health of the"or- ins. The tirst thing to produce this is clean- ness of quarters, comfortable I laces, and nutritious food. are filthy birds as far as their appett oncerned, and will consume uncleanly food, and drink from dirty, are cleanly abott their jes and nice toa fine point. The better we keep our hens, the richer and larger are the eggs, far as this matter is concerned. there is quite as much in the keeping as tn the breed- ing, but the good keep with good egg-prodncing breeds is more profitable than the indifferent observer is aware of. If the feed does not pro- duce eggs, then It makes fat. If it isconsumed, and the birds be thrifty and right, it will show its effects promptly? Itegzs are desired, and our fowls make only flesh, ft will not do to be disheartened. Some breeds run more to flesh than others, while some birds, of even egg-pro ducing varieties, make only flesh. There is great difference. Some birds will never be fit for anything but the pot, and as soon as they are In a condition for this, send them there. ill are admirably adapted to laying. howd make a tolerable amount of testi commencing to lay, and be kept in good cannot depend on , must be raised each year to keep up stock. ‘The aim should be ‘to increase the good qualities of our tying stock each year, in order to excel in the one point at stake which Weare striving for. It cannot be reached at once. By diligent study ation we inst seek to unite dest Qualities, and join to them fancy points, but not at the expense of utility, [fwe lose that our profits will. disap- pear, ‘Select. such birds as_ © of requisi breeding purpo: ‘but alw: ve a good eze-producins: record. ne Size should sought in order that. the ehic! b rong, anduniform. The coc be smaller in body and more leggy. His form should be so trim and his build so close as to appearall legs, tail, and neck. Neither should be awkward or ungainly, put trim, straight, dsnugly built, witha round, plump breast, carried well forward. Some object. seriously to a crooked Dreast- bene for a breeder; but where the bird is he and ta tis malformation is undiscove h When full and plump fills in evenly seross, and the detect is covered. It is caused usually by roosting too young, while the bones and cartilages are tender and pliable. It 1s no defect if not very T have seen the bone so badly oved from place as to intrude ines and cramp some of the In such a case send the bird mity oceurs as often in Pullets are more plump not show incubators as far as the wri knowledge extend, have not yet proved Urely snecesstl. in tie first place there isan expense attached to them that seems large in on to the pattral hatehe The hen and raise her brood of the hen left. She can be ‘The price of the ar- large. No doubt chicks sed without the aid of thie hen, but they will sadly miss the click so natural to their eariy instincts. An old hen left to herset és her nest_and working org to the pot ers litical Ineubator is to can be hatched and charm, Can man invent a machi compete with her? Thi h js mere n the fault of the len, Some eg; 21 is termed “rotten,” while others dg 7... simply because tere 15 00 germ In the frsi Fees that are not fertilized will not become condy. ‘The white and yelk remain unmixed. there was a germ to thake a chick and the had become chilled, the form would still be ° there, untess It be in the very earliest stage, which seldom occurs, incu lized. Within ten days Te dark or tlle ntleman, utter rui- it ft = Hassan, THE FAITHFUS. CYPRIOTE SERVANT. san!” n told to call for Hassan if T wanted tng in the night ed water. and shoulders v throat were pa refused their office; in the stress of pain needed some one who could rai-e my head the piteher at iny lips. What “Hassan” like I had no notion, s: that Thad heard he was a servant of the house, whose duty was to lie on the mat near my door, listen for a: sound within the room, ahd instantly jump up. From his name I should have guessed that he 4 Syrian or an Arab, but by accic tioned as a native of the Tsland, one of Lhe 50,000 or 60,000 swarthy sons of Islam, who have passed from the sway of the Padishab into that oi the English Queen, “Then you have Turk- ish servants in the house?” I “had Inquired of “Oh, * the Major had replied, ‘very one in $a Turkish servant If he can, The are very clean and faith- Tul; as they never touch wine or raki, they are always sober; they are so honest you might fiustthem with your pantry and your purse, The ( when they are native and nov foreign, area good sort of people; but I love to have a Turk about my house, and, more than all, avout my sleeping-room and living-room.” It was the old story, I have heard the same thing said at Kaisan, Samara, Rostoff—places in witch, unlike Cyprus, Christian races have so penoralions held the whip-hand over their oslem 1 cried; a figure glided through the My room was dark. Fear of mos- quitoes had caused the lamp to be putout, A few stars peeped through the lattice, but ‘the crescent moon had sunk. “Ferrie mnie,” I be- gan, In the debased Cypriote Greek—trying in my pain to recollect the words, and, of course, forgetting them—“ferrie mie wdor,” instead of the local words vero, Ina tender voice, almost ike cooing of a Sister of Mercy, the dark figure stooped and whispered, “Patis Italiana.” IT had not heard the voice before, but. some- thing in the tone impressed me deeply in the man’s favor, Water was brought and carried to my lips by means of a straw; for I was ly- ing on my back, unable to either turn my neck or raise my head. All through the night that fellow waited on me, bringing me, With a silent service only to be ex: ed in a wife or nurse, limes, sugar, straws, wat! Light he was too wise a man to introduce. He Stopd in a corner of the room, quiet and watch- ful; only when 1 wished him to speak, he spoke. liis words were soft and fuil of hope. _Every one, he told me, had these imisha He had been thrown himself a score of time: Baring his arm, he showed me where his wrist ha been broken, his elbow crushed and his shoul- der put out, All injuries that man can suffer from mules and ponies he*had gone through, but the pain was only for a day; a little rest, a little shade, with plenty of good water, and he Was on his legs again. By lying still and rub- bee some lotion the Signor would soon be right. ‘Wiien daylight cam and I could sec the face of this good fellow, I was delighted rather than surprised to find in him the man who had been £0 quick on the road in running to the well un- asked and peeane me that glass of water from the spring. I looked my thanks. He under- stood me Well, though not a word was said. 1 put ty left hand out; he bent his lips to kiss it, mat J seized his own and gave him an English shake. A weird and beautiful fire lit up his oriental cheek. ‘That instant we were friends. (Hey worth Dizon's Cyprus Cor. Stand Aside, Mr. Edison! THE COMPOSITOR WILL PLEASE NOT CA OMIT THE SCARE MARK ABOV! {rom the Courier-Journal.} <GTON, Ky., Nov. 25.—In partaking of oup in hotels in’ the West, a feeling of awe has often crept over me when I contem- plated the solitary oyster that generally posed in the centre of my plate, surrounded it were, by an oce. What, I’ thought, must be its feelings (if it has feelings) to find Itself so isolated? But neither the hotel proprietor nor any of his employees should be blamed for the situation. T have lately ascertained the reason why there is only one oyster in cach plate or soup served up In hotels in the West. Tam informed by a friend who has just re- turned from the East, and who, while there, thoroughly examined the principal industries of New England, that a Connecticut company had been formed, and were doin; very suc- cessful business supplying the Western and Southern markets with gum arabic oysters. ‘This is an invention of a Yankee, and the in- ventor ayers, and the company has satisfactorily demonstrated, that a much more salable oyster can be produced at a less cost than the regular : ster. = ies process of manufacture is a secret, aim told, » the buyer, who does not examine ever thing he buys, the gum arabic oyster presents much the appearance of the real bivalve. The inventor Says that if he satisfies the imagina- tion he does as much good as can be accom- plished by the best brands furnished in Balti- More, New York or elsewhere. He claims that for soup his oyster is superior to any other known. Cold water wiil not produce any effect. upon the gum arabic oyster, but when the oyster is boiled, which it has to be whensou is made, the gum arabic oyster disappears, but the soup has greater consistency. Just here is where the great mind of the in- ventor gets in work, If all the oysters should disappear the eran would not be satis- fied. Lest there should be such a catastrophe, @ preparation is used (com largely of ca- outchouc) of which he makes about a dozen cvaiene for each pours of the others. These are thoroughly mixed with the gum arabic oysters, canned, and distaIbuted through the West and South. The solitary oyster which I and others hbaye noticed reposing in our dishes is one of the India rubber kind. {Our correspondent gives the name and place of business of the tirm engaged in the manufac- ture A vee of above, but, as we strongly sus- Fect the writer of an attempt to a free ad- Yertisement for a business with which he is connected, and for which he may be drumming, we have omitted them.—Ep.} 837-A laliice girder bridge on ¢ Edward Island out rails, on the Prince allroad is being built of worn HOME TOPICS. mediums, and @® | (By'Filith Rochester, in American Agricultaris:.) “__ WARM UNDERCLOTHES FOR CHILDREN. The cool days that come now, more and more wintry in theirsuggestions, set mothers to think- ing about the winterciot ‘of the family. Let no Ge, eke! gana or negligence hinder the preparation of warm under-garments, espect- ally for the children. We used to think that lite boys had much the advantage of litue giris, in having warmer and more equal clothing over their whole bodies. But the fashion of short trousers leaves their legs below the knees no betler protected than those of little girls—un- Jess indeed, they are more likely to be provided with long under-drawers. Many fashionably- dressed Fictie boys are not so provided for. Through ignorance or indifference, their moth- ers sacrifice future health and manly beauty to present prettiness, and in thts unreasonable and unkind manner, the majority of little girls are treated. Noone can tell how much this has to do with the general ill-health of women. The children are supposed to be growing “ tough, but it is often the case that the vitality ts too much drawn upon and the constitution gradu- ally undermined, so that many children who se€m to be enduring all things wonderfully, are really among those who “die in the toughen- ing, though the death 1s long postponed and approaches gradually at last. Make the under- arinents of flannel or fleecy cotton flannel, and let them cover the body from neck to wrists and ankles, They may be made all in one piece, or in two pieces, as preferred. For young children it ts often more convenient to have the lower garments made separate from the upper, and mutton to them. But the whole garment ts easiest made and managed for most children, such like the long night-drawers. The leg should gore down to the ankles 1 le the stoc! ings by both an inner and outer seam. The one om the inside of the leg should be left open a inches to lap over smoothly under the stock- ing. It shoutd always reach down tnside the shce-lop. After this garment has been put on the child, there comes next a stout waist with uttons around the bottom, to which are at- tached the dress-drawers (whether of white cot- ton or of colored flannel) and the petticoat latter may be basted strongly to the waist, for the reason, if both are colored, seldom needing washing. ‘To the side buttons of this waist (un der the’arms) are buttoned the stocking sup- porters or garters, either those patented and ought at the shops, or home-made garters— Stips Of elastic tape With button holes in the wide cloth binding at each end. rer buttons at the waist, the other fastens on & button upon the side of the stocking outside the leg. Then comes the dress. behind, you can dr ind undress the child very quickly after the shoes and stockings are taken off. Unbutton all the garments behind, and slip them all off together, and replace the set of day-garments by a warm welLatred night- gown. We mostly use soft thick factory cloth (or unbleached miisiin), and Tsuppose other poor folks do the same, but flannel for winter isto be ed, especially for litile ones apt to get un- covered in bed. During the night the set of day gurments may be placed so as to be well-aired in the Inside, withont separating them. and in the morning the child can slip them on all t ether withease, Perhaps | have told all thi efore, but I see more and more how little ts known or thought by mothers, about the health- ful d cof children in. cold weather, and 1 think I need apologize for returning to subject, lat the chief objec- under consideration as our that 1 feared that, the sun d not shine into the rooms enough to sult . She laughed as though that was-a new idea to her and enite whimsical. ‘The Srinasoén * house were hot cbjecifonable, as T should <cept on rare occasions. But the east and south side: would toy je the friendly sunbeams from the -onimon sitting ro Even fa sum- r I should not like that, as there are mapy oe is far better than a bor said that it always made her have the sun shine directly into er rooms, Now sunshine is one of the be tes for nervousness, but I understood my a that ‘the prying sunshine speck of dust and tiny cob- ‘ad by habitual shade, made the colors ‘ot the nd sunshine fades And 50 my neighbor pays the actor for medicine instead of taking it asa free gue ven in the bright sunshine and pure is air as much as sun- € OES OUt doors oceasion- ally 10 get them. [like a broad plazza or gen- erous porches about my house, but T want my Windows free from even too mu urtain, Un- ther, when almost anything ai you. and you feel disinclined to out door exe the best thing you can do is to sit down in broad smile of & sunny window and let the :beams PNt new life into you, If your ‘old, the sun will warm them more thorou: ly and permanently than a tire, especially if ake Off your shoes and put your feet on a stool or chair in the full sunst For neuralgia 1 know nothing better, in connection with fasting from one or two meals, than to lie in the Tu sunshine, all but the top of your head, whic be protected; cover up warm ff the roo: is cold, but let everything about your body be joose and well aired. BREAD PA: For those who have milk, convenient 4 to use up old bread Is to make it. into pane. ‘This isa good Way to use sour bread als tritie more soda than the sour milk requir neutralize it will sweeten the sour bread too. ak the bread crumbs, (a quart or le: few hours in as little sweet milk as will ‘Then mash them with a four tined fork, or wise reduce them to an even consistency a teacupful of sour milk, a half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in tepid water, and flour enough to make a batter just right to ke the cakes light without being too thick and hard. Try a little on your hot buttered griddle if your are in doubt about it. Eggs are not necessary to make light good wholesome pancakes of this kind. but en not too expensive, they add greatly to irdelicacy and goodness—two, three, or four gS, aS you can Spare them. ” AKE: Tree Frogs. BY JOHN BURROUGHS. Much more information is wanted about our common frogs and toads, especially the tree frogs. I can find no satisfactory information about them tn the books, nothing that agrees with, or helps interpret, my own observation: For instance, last autumn as late as Novemb. i, and When, of course, the ground was lable to be shut up by the frost at any time, I heard the small tree-frog piping everywhere I went in the woeds. They seemed low down as tf on or near the ground. Do they go to the marshes to hibernate Ux oy pass the winter in the ground? We had had severai hard fro: but still the were a long distance trom the swamp. _Y (hat when spring opens Hi amid the bogs. They leave the , take to the trees, and for the are pipir marshes in pest of Ub ason lead an arboreal life. 1 ught one asi May in some low bushes a few reds frem the swamp. He perched upon the small twigs like a bird, and would leap about among them s1 of his hold every time. I brought him home and he piped for one night, or twilight, ina bush in my yard, and then Was gore. Earlier than tina Water, and put him upon’a tree, but he would not stay there, but leaped to th joubt ‘There can be little varieties of tree-fro: referred to, and a mich tai Hyla versicolor, With bright former is emphatically a percher, but the latter sits close to the bole and larger branc! of the by means Of the flatiened disks of the toes, a So thoroughly a creature of the trees 1amhalf persuaded that, ings of the books, they hibernate In the trees instead of the pond, burying themselves in the toist rotten mass that, usually ils the cavities of decaying trunks, For two years a pair of them frequented an old apple-tree near my all piper above y one, perhaps ti ellow thighs. ‘The house, usually sitting at the mouth of a cavity ui ted into a large branch, and sometimes iin the cavity itself. Late in November I their voices asa warm south wind was blowing. In December, so confident was I that the frog had gone into winter quarters in the old tree, thet I came near severing some of the arse branches with an axe in search for But I did not look in the right place: On firstwarm day in carly April, wind in the south with promise of rain, I was standing near the old tree when I heard the voice of my frog. Ascending the tree, I peered into a large cavity that led down into the main trunk. The mouth of the opening was covered with spiders’ webs, the hole itself was partly filled with dry ve I could see no signs of life, and after ing for the frog to sound his note , 1 ran my arm down into the cavity, and, feel ome Object moist and clammy, closed my han upon it and brought it tothe Nghtywhen behold ! # Jarge tree-frog. I sbali not believe that he had come from the marshes thus early in the s€ason, but rather that he had wintered in the motst mud-like mass that filled the heart of the apple-tree, and which was two feet deep. 2 t og had that fresh, delicate look and tint asi! he had not before seen the light of spring. I put him back in his hibernaculum, but I have ny heard him there again from that day to this. Further than that, my observation is that these frogs take to the marshes in May, and doubtless deposit theireggs there then, as about Unis Ume they all seem conj in such places, and fill the air wi heir nuiar c-r-r-r-t-r-r, Later in the season, I hear in the trees about the groves ancdorchards again. When the hateh and when the young take to the trees, T have ho knowledge. I should be glad to hear through these columns, from other ob:ervers, upon this subject.—{Science News. &® The United States Fish Commission have yut two milliors or more Of codfish eggs into the “batching cones” at Gloucester, Mass,, and ure lcoking forward bg) wagon tong tm ngewe at ie experiments in reering this arti- cially. &@-A girl of twenty from Missouri went to San rnciees and d attire seemed tobe about fifteen, obtained a situation as paper car- ier early In the mo) and another as a can- dy taker at night, and ee day attended school, studying very hard. She was suspected and she confessed that she is a girl, saying that she could get work more easily as a boy. The | One end of this | Tf all button | at o'clo A ‘om, o'clock tm. | ureday and Saturday, at 4 o'clock p. m. Woon, leaves her wharf, terminus of Ith and 9th street line of’ cars, at 7 a, m., three times per for Currio- three Big, Nomin abd Leondrdiown, sopping at iter. day, Thursday apd Saturday. Soe rtker inf< atthe offi setropolitan Bank nor Ofice, or at tae Company's Wharf, foot of 6th. orens for On AURL BAOON, Brest oe ri Bre B. J. ACCINELLY, Agent. STEAMERS FOR NEW YORK. | | | ‘The Steamers JOHN GIBSON and E. 0. KNIGHT, alternately leave Pier 41 East River, New York, every Saturday, st 4 o'clock p.m. | ery ‘Saturday, and { a A | Freight taken at lowest rates, For information spply at office over Metropolitan Bank, 15th street, | }or to RP. A DEN! Agent, Water street, alte SAMUEL BACON, President NOnts. GERMAN LLOYD-—Sreawsare Luxe Between New YoRs, Havae, LONDOR, SouTuamrrox AND BREMEN, | ‘The steamers of ‘this company will aall every Bat. Sobchers itorot pamceses Breer a New <ieee | | Go : York to Hayre, London, Southampton’ | ind Bremen, Hist cabin, $100; secund cabin, 860, jstecrae, 890, currency, For baa! | See apnly to OELKIGHS & 00.,2 Bowlin Gren, | Now York. oct ay (EXDE's NEW EXPRESS LINE | PHILAD! LEXANDRIA, WASHINGTON | ELPHIA, ALEXA | AND GEORGETOWN, at, Philadelphia with Clyde's | Line for Boston, Providence, ai i ¢ New England States. j | Sailing Days. From Eni Indelphia —tinray, fe} 12m. From Washington—Monday, From Gconretown_—Monda at7 p.m receive daily ails of lading given to Boston and Providence, and Fall River. Con- | Signees wiehing their goods landed at' deorwetown yar! will ploase have them marked | “Georgetown, D.C.” ee mati J. H. JOHNSON & OTE treet nacth weet and Lath strest whack, E, 59 Water strect, P’ OLYDE & 00.; muar20-ly Geo Own, General pbia. \UNARD LINE. on ” ‘With the view of diminishing the chances of col- oy the Steamers of thisline take a specifi course Or &23 SCASO) year, STEAMSHIP OOMPANY LIM. THE CUNARD TED 00) at Cork Harbor. ag Rates of Passage. By steamers carrying steerage, $80 and 100 gold, | sccording to accommodations. H | | By steamers not carrying steerage, #80, $100 and | $130 gold, according to accommodations. | Packets to Paris, 615, fold, additional. | sta special low rate of $60 gold during the fall and winter senson. | Btcerage at very low rates. Btecraze tickets from Liverpool and Queenstown, and ail other parts of Europe at lo | ‘Throuszh bills of laden given for Belfast, Glascow, Gavre, Antwerp and other ports on the ent, | and for Mediterranean ports. | For freight and passage apply at the Company's aflice, No; 4 Howling Green, or both stoerage and bin, Ox1s WW, 005 Teh etreot, Washing: “sly” CHAS. G. FRANCKLYN, Agent, . ¥. RAILROADS. Baltimore AND OHIO RAILROAD, THE GREAT DOUBLE TRAOK. National Route and Short Line to the | jorth, Northwest, West | Nortiud Southwest. To take effect Sunday, Nov. 17, 1878. LEAVE WASHINGTON 4 5:05 a. m.—New York, Philadelphia, and Boston Junction, jer, and Elk iidwe. brakiatatheag? ve kfast at Relay. 6:50... m—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way. (Pied- mont, Strasburg, Winchester, Hagerstown, and ‘ay via Relay. 17-40 am Balttinoreand Lanrel $:103 m.—Point of Rocks, Piedmont, Strasburg, Winchester, Hagerstown, and Way Stations. 8:20 a. m.—New York, Philadelphia, mand Bal- | timore Express. ‘Parlor Car to New York and Philadelphia. Stops at Annapolis Junction. +8:35 a. m.—St. Louis, Louisville, icago, Columbus and Pittebung Exyrese. Frederick, Haserstown | and Valley Branch cxoept ‘Sunday. Through Car toStaunton, Pullman Car to Cincinnati | any, Grafton to Sandusky, sexcept Bat- | urday. 49:00 a.m.—On Sunday only, Baltimore, Annapolis Way. “pultimore Express. Stops at Bladens- 10:00 De eate, Ooliaee, Beleviile, Laurel, Annapolis Junc- tion, Jeseup’s and Hanover. 12:10 p.'m—Baltauore, Annapolis, Ecott City and | 1130p m—New York, Philadelphia and Boston | Express. Stops at Laurel. a eS on Sunday only for Baltimore and Way £30 p.11—Baltimore, Bladensburg, and Laurel | Wiyteas. | Frederick via Relay. Stops at Annap- : on. Sp. m—Por Froderick, Hazerstown, 14:35 p-m.—Pouit of Rocka, Fi ‘Wincherter and Way Stations. On Sundays to Point of Rocks and Way Stations only. 1440 p. m—Baitimore, Annapolis and’ Way Sta- tions. 16:30 p.m.—Philadelphia, Norfolk and Baltimore Expresss. Ellicott City. Norfolk except Sun- day. Norfolk Passengers taken in the rect to Loat at Canton. Stop st | and Laurel. | i 50 p. m.—Baltimore and Way Stations. | 30 p. m.—Chicego and Columbus Express. Sleep- | ing Care to Chicaro. {8-10 p. m.—Baltimore Exprese. . nt of Hock and Way Stations. 0p. m—St Louis, Cincinnati, Lowsville and Patebung Express. 7, except Sunday. diman Cars. : | 110.15 p. m.—New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore | Expres. “Stops at Bladensburg and Laarel. Siecping Car to New Xorg, and Special Sleeping | r ely (1) Daily. On Sunday only. Other trains daily maint ‘sins stop at Relay Btation. novié 1878 renxsvivama 1878 HOUTE TO: THE NORTH, WEST, AND SOUTHWEST. 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Hi eee ee ioe doe and journey across New ‘orisady 1:30, §:90 and 10:18 daily. roetioea 706,835 3308 risa: Fray cao e Sunday; 10:10 0 m1:90, 6:30, 1.80 Pope's Creek Line, 7:00 &m. and 4:20 p.m Yor Amaro, *7o0e mL and 4:20 p.m. dally, ex- cept, AUT AED, ALBRANDELA GRD WASHING: re iach Aa Qa ESM For ichond ‘and the South, 6:50 & m. and 5:20 p. Trains leave Alexandria for Jostioeiee. 6.5, 8:00, Gu Sunday at 6.0) snd 10. : can be ‘checking of bageage t0 from P. Agent. General Manager SSE THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS THE EVENING STAR. THE WEEELY STAR. The proprietors of Tag STAR present to the Public its datly and weekly editions, respective Ay, a8 not only the compietest and best, Dut also the cheapest epitome of events occurring at the national capital, and of general news as well, te be found anywhere, How well the public ua- derstands this is conclusively shown by the ex- ceptionally wide circulation they both enjoy, not In the City of Washington alone, bat Uhroughout all the States and Territories, In order that the reader not now familiar with the paper and {ts strong hold on the public may understand at a glance upon What elements ite great popularity ts based, the opinions of some of {ts contemporaries as to {ts merits are ap- pended. 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