Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1880, Page 3

MORE APPARITIONS. |. The English Clerical Ghost_Wash- | ington Ghost—Hemarkal Ex peri- ences. {Washington Letter to Philadelphia Bulletin.) In your issue of January 22 last I have read an explanation of the “Surprising story” as you term the seeing by an English’ clergyman of an apparition. In the first place, the story Js not at all ak don for such things occur daily, if not how through the world. “Doctor Clarke was correct; the clergyman did see the apparition, but not at all in the manner de- scribed im your statement. Doctor Clarke 1s in | error about the brain seeing ; the brain cannot | see, nor any other organ in the hody, except theeye. The clergyman saw it with bis e! and it was there. It 13 not seen by or through a disordered brain, and as all’ brains are “pay as it were, with PIM OETA AS of things once scen, why do they not show ™appa- ritioi to everybody ? “The sum and sub- siance of the whole matter Is simply explained and understood thus: Any one particularly situated, as the English clergyman was, had from his peentiar nt position. the eye | oft his mind op entarily, and thenee saw apparition” which to ot # different * appari- eto thelrmental vision. Tt is not yerson Should be “aMicte.v” to fA not been study- 3 from a nium- about, hand- had beeame almost pitting tne only righ gg briel ext 3 he fre remarkably clear. partlally recovered. During Ms are aud Sunday, Apr n. 0 get from the bed and g> dently Saw, but she was pre- ndeavor was made by those Ln O discover What i: wasshe saw. Oathe in a very passive sood night's rest. My daughter r, Mrs. J. Q. Adams, requested me to with her until’ they had arranged their Av a:s0 p. m., a5 [sat by my wife and lield her hand in ming, both. be she suddenly ered out, “Mary !* : th this city tn is55,) and burst into a nt fit of weeping. I called daughter | and sister-at onee, and it was nearly hal | ur before we got her pacifled. I then as her the following questions “Did you see my sister Mary Mary come to take you from us?” j “Mama, you want to | nd leave papa and me?” | Q. (by my daughter) ra) With aunt Ma E n3 when Mary is * Now, show me how long before Mary will come and take on Rayo] eaean how long from the Ume you Were taken sick till she comes a sorrowfully hand, closed. ing her tng into my eyes and nd gradually ers apart, I ed it out, 5} * Do you mean five days?” A. * Do you mean tive w A sidered a moment. and asked “Do you mean five months from the time you were ts aken sick Yes! ¥ « feats us ‘then And on Aug stroke (she hi: months) she died at speak, ‘Dnt wanted, and her si iary® was singul: bere 1s no doubt at all but that my wife wouid have told the time over the exact five months had she had the power to do so. Lhave in several instances witnessed stmilar evidences of the clairvoyant an clatraudant state in very healthy persons as well as in invalids. sister, Mrs. J. Q. Adams, who died In w her sister Mary (spirit) several Umes prior to her death, and her hu: band, J. Q. A., two days prior to his death, saw his father (spirit,) and mentioned to those pre- ent that his father and waiting to e him hene strangest of all, I have in my poss chings written for me in isis human ald) by the spirit of Henry G. L. died in New-York city in les at which the Sternest moralist could not cavil Y months from the first Kes Guring the five ne could ni what she ession some traw Bail.” Quite an tmportant and flourishing business 1s done in the city of New York in the furn tng of “straw bail” and bogus sureties in civil actions, We are reminded of this by the decis- lon of the Federal Supreme Court, just promul- ed, in Florida Central Railroad company ainst Schutte, where a motion to vacate the supersedeas on account of fraud in the approval ©: the bond was granted. AS we are informe by the opinion of the ¢) Jay who. t the least, w range to all the parties In Interest, was employed to pro- cure, Within 26 or 48 hours, sureties for the ts sufficient to secure the payment | to be paid tor his ser- of the appe me produced ef persons to sign as | stented with the usual form of | idavit full | rjUrKaAS to their Nobody became bound The prest ted himself at the last who heard the cause in the Creult Court, at bis summer residence in Vermont, and asked (lat te bongwe approved. On its presentation the justice read and seemad to be impressed “with the fulness and _par' 1 the tustifications.* Me sald, “Tb a goo The reply we Tudge, I believe {t to be a very good bond He then asked as to one of the parties whose , name appeared, and the reply was, “I am in- ninaber Not justification, the of gratultouls and de formed that he the son of a former Judge of the Supreme Court of ibe state of New York of that name,” adding that another of the signers “I am advised isa very wealthy man.” To allow thts to stand,” say the cor “would be a re- proach upon the administration of justice.— Albany Le 1 Advice to a Theatrical Aspirant. By the Detroit Lime-Kitn Club. | r from Clinton, Ky., signed Brutus. asked the guy as a body anid advise a fatrly-educal a, youn df for a profession. He could, he st ated, | iake the part of old man, youny man, dx divinity or butener-boy. aud Lis Innit parrot or a blue-jay were 1 he w he believed, Wa iuent from hk tig ight he softly ste >a up. Ume when f tough 1 co let wid any white ™ vund wid an’ gra ti a times for only new paper which | tina weex, 1 boy 2 Tort only how ow all about fo » juinp in tre © Yorick all ober t It dis LroNs stage. feshun n't hope ut Lop y on his unt Tramps and Ward, who signs himself Troy Tones: T nave just returned to atler_@ tour of ex: and reading in your | 1 an’article ov tramps and aks, T desire to D: ho lowed, as an old body known as {o correct a few mis- nm that the tramps were the origi Sof the mystic marks which have $0 ire. ently adorned fences, gat aad aoors, although it fs possi soap agents—memn- Lers of another branch of the trainp organiza- Von—have since adopted these marks for bust hess purposes. When tramping was good—aad Uthat Was some years ago—it was understood DY us that all houses where the inmates were zood for food, clothing or money were to be marked s aie trouble when we ly a meat could be ‘wet was indicated by oe an square, where a fellow would get a mines, an X expressed It, and for elot was directed by a XX. Mone: Finite he marked $; a house where the eS were friendly, but the dog unfriendly, was marked by agreatbig D. But atthe presént day tramps are not ST guided by t mese marks, as there are few houses where tramps are regularly fed. The - wamp t bore is now mayed out; but whatever ‘be said 3 the Pame. it cannot be ‘ deed ‘that he as” made bis mark io this vn eae sede Sane seal ane A tively. as a lady | wh oe * side of in the horse-car. “Because we are ” said one of the dam- { ee feelings of | tefers to the flowers. | the treasures W | eaten coffer which had lon | even bitrred. | been applied to the coursing of greynouads, | VALENTINES. What a Few of the Leading Styles Will be This Year, {Boston Transeript.) The American valentines come early this year, and are so pretty that unless their Eng- lish and German cousins follow quickly there | will be no demand for thei They are of Innu- merable sizes, as they have been former years, but the prettiest among those of moderate dimensions have for backgrounds a solid mass of violets, apple Diossoms, or pansies, upon which He a gilt panel with a picture of a girl; and a label inscribed with sundry verses; refer- ring to the Sowers and interpreting the sup- e sender, unless, indeed. he skilled with the pen and’ chooses to buy a card with a blank label rather than to say— ** Violets are blue, Love's eyes are blier, know, I know ; Some men's hearts are true, Maid’ hearts are truer, Mis eo; aeOs Sauey girls who wish to tease a lover, even while sending him a token of affection, might Uke the gray cards upon which shine ‘golden most covered by dainty button-bole bouquets of carnation and Lady Pollock geran!- ums ted in a true blue ribbon. The poem printed in bright brown letters on elther side of the design, says— **Girle should be modest, they eay ; Still, on St. Valentine's day, Tauppore a young maid may er a tiny bonquet And not wander far astray From. perfeetion. Only a leaf and a pink Surely af that one wink Tam still safe on the brink, Since I have not said, I think, That you are yourself ‘the pink f perfection.” Among the sets of cards the prettiest, are six representing flowers panel o/ biue sky. The dandelion ts grouped with its dentated leaves and with one blossom that ts In the ghost-like state called witching out; the butter -cup Is tied up with a grass blossom; the is! and by themselves, and the yellow rose o reli i by its own dark leaves. The blend- ing of colors in these cards Is very striking, and apart from thetr mottoes they will be prized by those who receive them. The fifth and sixth rds in the series represent the jasmine and its nk-tipped buds, and the amaryllis, and are peautiful in grouping, although less attractive than the other four. The most expensive American valentines are @ set of four, contain- ing eight pages each ; the cover, which is sttiT, has the inscription appropriate for the day on its first fe; the valentine ftself has a poem printed in carmine on the pink damask ground of its Inner pages. and an affectionate motto entwined with Ilifes and violets on the last leat; the first page differs, belng sometimes clusters of roses Iylug on a disk of gold; s times pansies on a en heart; sometimes chrysanthemum and rilliam, and in the very prettiest, big velvety pansies lying on ivy leaves. The poem on ¢ eh valentine of this set ans in three or four dif- pes are the among the small s, and are especially pretty to send to ladies Who havea faney for decorative art, as shown in the e of sereens orna- mented with br and photographs. ‘These fans m: he pretilest finish to corners and fill up any Space admirabl, Last OF all come the Boston. vatentines painted by hand, and with blanks; for original poems ; these may be 1 to hold a hatt- nk be- tween th ch are bought quite tovether made at home. Hidden ‘Treasures in Old Houses. [From the Stan A century ago, when the records kept by the Reg! ives Wel ra.] e Were no official ral, family en preserved in extre raf of the | ay a rule of law | as ind fis utable evidence, ning them atone with entries upon the parish register. Deeds, however, such as title of land, leases, coples of entries upon the the manor, mortgages, releases, and n bonds, were somewhat more jealously guarded; and there ts many an old house in Engtand which, if it were thoroughly ransacked, would be found to contain treasure of the most valuable Kind. There are—apart altogether from such records as may have been purposely concealed in secret drawers, or behind the pan- elling, or under the floor—old oaken chests the contents of which the family lawyer himself, | unless he an expert in black letter lore, | hardly pretends to understand. Colleges, ca~ thedrals and other venerable corporations abound in relics of this nature. Merton, at Ox- | ford, has in its stone muniment room bonds for | money Bearing the of Edward the Black Prince; and Balliol has similar acknowledge- | ments from John de Balliol, King of Seotland. Occasionally, too, treasures of another kind are thus liidden, Magdalen, at the same univer- sity. gave the bulk of its plate to aid the cause of Charles I. But about a hundred years ago,in an old set of rooms which had originally been occupied by one of the Fellows, and had since | his death been left abandoned and devoted to lumber, was unearthed a strong wooden box cor taining amongst some exquisite specimens or silver pla mall loving-cup, with a cover, Of pure gol Merton—a collegé Sivpulatly es and traditions— found a perfect eoliection of valuable pic- | 's hidden between the ceiling and the roof. | ne rool Originally had been covered by th itched rafters of the roof itself, and the pic | rs had been packed away upon the cross- Beneath the cross-beams a subsequent aunt had constructed a level ceiling of the n type, in happy or unhappy ignorance of nich Were stored over his head. In like Inanner the Thurloe papers were found in a false cetling in some old garrets close by the present chapel in Lincoln's inn; and Montaigne’s journals of his travels in Italy, written in bis own hand, were extracted from “an old worm held papers un- touched by incurious generations.” It is need- less to multipiy such instances. In very many of our old English mansions and houses, it is true, sufficient search has been made. But the antiquarian has still abundant work ready if only he choses to undertake it, *A Running Dog Photographed. {San Francieco Call.} It will be remembered that two or three years | ago Mr. Murbridge, the photographer. took a | serles of pictures of ex-Gov. Stanford's cele- brated horse Occident. wherein was delineated the position of the limbs of the animal at every step, the likeness being struck #0 Instanta- neously that, although the horse was going at a 0 gait, the fine line of the whip was not ‘The same principle has recently Mr. Muybridge having been experimenting at | ex-Gov. Stanford’s mansion, Maytield Grange, | Menlo Park, on the action of the celebrated dog | Bulldozer, belonging to Nat Brooks, of this city. ed and improbable position of the as shown in the negatives, would scarceiy | bs believed by any one Who had nol seen the fact recorded by the ‘umerring tinger of light.” Ii is usual to delineate a gre yhouad extend but these negatives, ainong other positions give the anlinal with’ his litibs gathered under storing Mis strength for the spring. ‘The is got at speed by holding him on one an attendant drawn in front of the « coveied with a she: ay dust or ped) a line pera, thie ground being of India rabber to prevent tying up to impair the cut outimes of the picture; the moment dog passes in front of the camera the t wire is broken, the electric circuit ts complete, the trustw jon has u record. ‘The Occtdent wl horsemen by surprise, y having no conception of the cram} ¢ of the animal in certain stages of hi AceTii aspect Shown when he Is ‘ength for the bound, and these ires will create a like surprise in the inds of those who have only associated the {deal greyhound with undulating aud serpen. tne grace. Get ng Longer Lived. tN. Y. Times.) ave more than once called attention to cl. for it fs undeniably a fact, that th people pt this Republic are steadily increasi in duration of lite. Almost any one can this from observation, If he live -in a large city, rom reading the death notices in the news journals for recorded 39, and 2, 86, > Alinost any daily death record here will show a preponderance of old pe meaning those of 65 or more. Sixty was considered old even 30 or 40 years ago; but now, when a man of 60 dies, the comment often made is, “he ought to have lived longer; young man yet.” Indeed, persons of sound Constitution, quick mind, ac- Uve temperament, are, in a sén=e, young at 62, for they are in periect possession’ of all their faculties, capable of any ordinary amount of work, and still have a considerable future. Many of the most responsible places in firms and corporations in this city are held by men of 70 or thereabouts, and they evince no dispo- sition to retire. New York ts noted for vigorous: old men. In no city on the continent, and in hardly any city in Europa, can so many hale active men of 65 and upward be found. Waiking in Broadway, Wall or Broad street, In Fifth-avenue, or any of the principal —— fares, one can hardly fail to be struck by the gray or white hairs and wrinkled faces, coupied with erect, elastic forms and supplen%s and rapidity of movement. There appear to be humberless ancient heads oa comparatively young shoulders. The opinion i prevailed that rural regions and rural pursuits favored ae but ir Oak were 80 once, _—— is were, ply ease, “mate an ae amount of ction, ae the country, monotony, lack of interest, nara ing round of small concerns, and vt work wear “on the nished, | § 4 The Syn, in bringin; } blankets, ‘The Disadvantages of Being White. {Fifth Column, New Yerk Times.} Our esteemed contemporary. the Sun, which | has song maintained the proud position of the snake —— of the country, has latterly Re ay attention to the field of cats, and ts now discussing with great earnestness and ability the question, Why are white cats deaf? bis ee pantad evidence of the inability of cer- tain of its contributors to carry out long and intricate processes of ratiocination, that they have irrelevantly asserted that white cats are not deaf. This observation would not have been improper had the Sun propounded the question, Are white cats deaf? but as an argu: ment on the real question under disens- sion—why are white cats ‘feat 7—It is obviously irrelevant and trivial. Itis a curious fact that a white animal is nearly always a defective animal. The white mouse has Weak eyes, the white negro is nov only weak-eyed, but, as a general rule, weak- minded, and the white bear 1s deficient in all the finer moral qualities of the professtonal brown bears who ee and drin! er. Even when the white man becomes particularly and exceptionally white he ts the prey of leprosy or scrofula. Unustal whiteness ts evidently con- trary to the design of nature, and 1s, therefore, to a greater or less extent, a €alamity. It is said to be an article of faith in colored circles that Adam was originally a black man; that he turned white with fear after his miscon- uct in regard to the apple, and that. only the cream of his descendants have regained their ancestral color. May there not be a basis of truth in thistheory? Are we quite certain that our whiteness is a matter to be proud of, fi stead ofa reason for shame and humility Would we not be better physically and morall if we were to abandon our monotonous white- ness and to decorate ourselves either with a quiet neutral tint, or with a brilliant variety of colors ? There is no doubt that white men are pecu- sliarly susceptible to certain diseases. ‘The ma- larious fevers that do not affect the negroes of the tropics are so deadly to white men tiat they cannot inhabit the regions where they prev: Consumption. which in our climate causes 20 per cent. of all funerals, is almost exclusively a disease of the white races. Who ever heard of a negro, or even of a swarthy Spaniard or South Italiin ‘dying of softening of the brain? ‘The white race certainly has a pecullar suscep- tbility to these and other diseasesyand we have aright to assume that its whiteness fs at fauit. It has only lately been discovered that the white man has a fatal effect upon colored races. We have always boasted with a good deal of pride that black, red, and yellow men must melt away in the presence of white people, because the latter are the superior race. With equal Justice we might claim that the yeliow- fever patient, in whose presence.other people contract yellow fever and perish, 1s of a race that is stronger and higher in the scale of civili- zation than are his unfortunate neighbors. The white man causes the colored races to vanish because his presence is unwholesome. On the river Amazon there are certain tribes which are friendly to the whites. but which are rapidly perishing, merely because of contact with the White race. Whenever a white man visits one of these Indian villages, an epidemte fever, end- ing inconsumption, breaks out. On the fsland of Tristan d’Acunha, the same phenomenon has heen cbserved. Whenever an English vessel touches at the Island, the inhabitants are imme- diately attacked by iniluenz: with great violence, and pas iminary stages of consumption. st through ‘sally conceded by our Ieadin: ns and othnologists. Beyond a doubt, it is this deadly influence of the white man’ that causes our North American Indl ray just,as the original ina Sandwich Islands hare done. Pop ar opinion attributes this decay of the ladiany. to w Sandwich Islanders hav extinct without the aid of whisky ) exterminates a nation, why do the Se id Irish sill survive? What has really slain. the Indian and the Ka have contracted it coal brazier distributes carbonic acid. The Indian has met the white man and has gone back to his village to sneeze and to cough. The Sandwich Islander has looked upon the fair ex- terior of the missionary, and taken into his system, theology and consumption together. The w race slays the red, the brown, and not because it is a superior race, but its whiteness is as surely fatal as We think ourselves fortunate in being white, but if is because we are ignorant of the fatal attributes of whiteness, and have become, through Jong habit, accustomed to regard white | as the normal color of the highest type of man. In reality, the dull monotony of white is as ugly when appifed to the human Surface as it 13. on the clapboards of New-England country houses. Afriean travelers, who have spent years cut of sight of white men, tell us that, in returning to Europe, they feel iin involuntary disgust at the pale, colorless hue of the white race. There can be but litule Conds that the White man {s intrinsically 4; We have a | natural love of color, and t i woman who rouges her cheeks and ‘penc Is her eyebrows is oy ing a blind yearning for that pictu jue- which the dead monotony of a white Skin is incapable. Could we color ou ves without incurring the reproach which attach: to the insincerity of paint, we kegin to delight in female color. The blue girl, the darkness of whose ultramarine nose should gradually melt tnto ight biue ears and chin, Would be admired for the deli rada- tions and the cold quiet be The soft gray girl would inv and would be wonderfully soothing to tired nerves. ‘The searlet girl would wavin the coldest room, and the bright orange irl picked out with black would typify the passion and warmth and langour of the south. How to change our color is a question of detail to be answered after we are convinced that White is ugly and unwholesome. We must first resolve to rid ourselves of the false idea that whiteness is Leesan! to boast of. We are the abnormal albinos of humanity, and we can never be perfect men until we assume color. the deficiencies of white cats before the public, has struck the first blow at whiteness. Let those who have the interest of the human race at heart join in a determined crusade eer the white face that carries death to ore men and deprives life of half its our confidence teu Zulus Eat Some Meat. Tt was such a scene as I am_ powerless to de- scribe. Fach boy sat at the fire in front of his own particular stick or ramrod, on which were the little knobs of meat; but beside each was a pile of long strips about an inch thick, and some cf them a yard ee containing at least half a pound of mea let it get toasted for a_ few seconds; then he would place that end in his mouth and begin to chew it, placing a and at the same me watching that the on bis stick did not get burned. For three y More not a boy moved trom the tire, pt to cut upa fresh supply of meat or to have adrink of water. All this Ume they iy spoke 2 word, so intent were they on ‘ging themseb roke {nto a low, snooty nou Sort of hu: ompauy- Oveasion- toa yell, and sali the while weepice apa chorus of the humming cha ally they would raise their vol then sink them so low as to _be bie. Weodwai nd myself turned into soon lulled aster ‘The & ish Market, In that first early moraing, we went to the fish market in Christiania, an interesting and uncommon sight to English eyes and ears.” fish men and women were all seated in their from the outer water by great locks. Sefvanis and housewives, with great tin baskets hang- ing on their arms, were bargainthg for the ‘y's dinner. Codfish, mackerel, sters were ‘In abundance. Anchovies—or a small fish so-called—might be counted almost by the million, The fish women with their oud voices were Contending with their customers— as they have from time immemorial, and will to the end—about price, Now, one made b>- lieve to go away, when a desperate sbriek would summon her back, and fish and moner coking thoroughly victimized. ‘The sun was pour ing his hot rays upon the spar) water, n which the boats were bobbing up and down. At the stern of each boat a great bough was | raised, as as half a tree, and under th> shade cast by the leaves sat the fish women. The greatest: juette_ could mot have conceived amore stril effect, as the leaves glinted In the sunshine and cast their quivering reflec- one over the women and their surroundings. ia cer ince! laughter. Muchot Ra was outo si ht, swimming in the holds of the small boats. whence they were fished out with nets asre cities Hive not only much more, but Ez anced Sehwelgert, Who was attacked and ‘stabbed on a street aaa Christian Hart, diea yesterday. at the time of the tabbing. ly St. Kilda begins | to | in length. While his knobs were | | cae Toasting the boy would take one of these | long d, holding one end in the flame, would | the still uncooked end in the | but as the night advanced | ‘ide the stone pavements, shut in ; eels and lob- | iid exchange hands, buyer and seller each | Instinct Not, at First Comectously ; ‘Taking Advantage of Leap-Year. | Performed. Most naturalists appear to believe that every instinct was at first consciously ‘med; but this seems to me an erroneous conclusion in Many cases, though true in others. Birds, when variously excited, assume strange attitudes and rufe tletr feathers; and it the erection of the fecthers In some particular manner were advan- tageous toa mule while courting the female, there does not seem to te any iinprobabtlity tn the offspring which inherited this action being favoied. and we know that cdd tricks and new gestures pe performed unco..sciously are oiten in- erited by man. We may take a different case (which 1b believe has been already advanced by some one.) that of young grouna-birds which squat and hide themselves when in danger im- mediately after emerging from the egg; and here it. seems hardly possible that the habit could have been cynsclously acquired just after birth without any experience. But tf those young bircs which remained motionless when frightened were ofteaer preserved from beasts of prey than those which tried to escape, the habit of squatting might have been acquired Hithout any consciousuess on the part of the young birds. ‘This reasoning applies with spe- «ial force to some young wading and water birds, the old of which ¢o not conceal them- stives when in danger. Again, a hen partridge | when there 1s danger ites: a short distance from her young ones and leaves them closely squat- teas she then flutters along the ground as if erplen, in the wonderful nianner which ts fa- mith lar to almost every one; but differently from. a really wounded bird, she makes herself con- spicaous. Now, it is more than doubtful whether any bird ever existed with suMecient tn- tellect to think that if she tintt...0d the actions of an injured bird she would diaw away a dog | or other enemy from her young ones; for tals presupposes that she had observed such actions ‘in an injured comrade and knew that they | would tempt an enemy to pursuit... Many na- | turalists now admnit that, for fustance, the inl: | Of a shell has been formed by the preserva | and inheritance of successive useful vi ration. j the individuals with a somewhat better e structed shell being preserved in great bers than those with a less well ¢ racted one; and why should not beneficial v ns in the inherited actions of a partridge be pre- ‘served in like manner, without any “thought or consctous intention on her part any more than on the part of the mollusk, the hinge of whose shell has been modified andimproved independ- ently of consclousness.—Charles Darwin in Na- ure, nu A Bear (Portland Press.) A young man named Oliver, in the employ of James Webster, esq., of Ocond, who Is doing an extensive lumber business on the waters of Aristook county, had a notable ex- perlenes the other day with a huge plack bear. Oliver, who is 22 years of age, and had never before seen a bear, was pas- sing through the woods. when he came toa Jarge tree, Inthe trunk of which there was a large hole. Thinkingit might be the den of some animal, he thrust his axe into the hole, and was surprised when ft struck some soft sub- stance. He immediately cut a long pole and repeated the experiment, when, without any dallying, a huge black head appeared at the | outer edge of the hole, It proved to be that of bear of enormous size. As bruin poked out, his head and the forepart. of his body young Oliver struck him a clip with his axe, taking off three of his tee nails. This 1 ‘at so enraged the bear th | plunge at Ollver and nearly suces eded In ge ting him with his axe into the den. ‘The young man had by this time concluded thas it was either self or the bear, so he doffed his coat and mittens, and br: acing himself struck the old fel- low a terrible blow on the head. ‘This seemed only to enrage him the more, and as his eyes lashed fire his ears stood erect and his breast protruded and he made another dash at his in- tended victim. But young Oliver was prepared for him, and dealt iin stich a blow as split ouen cad from the base of the brain to a point This finished the bear, who and rolled dead at the feet ack bear, apparently s pr,” measured nine feet from the tip of his n to the hind paws, and weighed over 450 pounds. After he i pd the monster, young Oliver becam a ey and standing there gazing upon bh ys he could feel his own hair 1 upon end. Length of ourning. {N. ¥. Times) Visitors to this country are ee surprised atthe long period fone which peorle wear mourning and remain in seclusion. ‘The cus- tom must be purely American, for it does not obtain elsewhere. In Englanda widow or wid- ower may, with perfect propricty, divest them- selves of faCuEning. attire at the end of 12 mouths, although, in most cases, they retain It, in some degree, a while longer. Mourning is worn for parents for one year, but changed to lighter oe! after six months, and the | same as re he mourning of parents for children. cept in the case of widows and widowers, it is not deemed at all obligatory to abstein from soclety for more than six months, although in the case of parents who have lost ‘hiidren it would be unusual to Fo to large en- tertalnments before the expiration of a year. Where a parent has died well stricken tn years. and quite in orainary course of mattire, woulu excite no remark Were the chilgren to go to quiet digner parties atter three mnths. A ald, in s e affectation. Mourniny is hiere carried to such lengths that some peo ple1 ange part of thelr Lives in weeping a mother. and. <1ste gregate of five years. ion, the death of a father, or brother making an az: It is a question Whether ig the thing too far. Li to be speat in perm: seclusion ‘on account of bereavement, mo: pecially for those, who, in the ordinary cow ofnature, must predecease us. Thousands of persons Would gladiy cut short their mourninty ut for the tyranny of fashion, which arbi- trarily rules In this as in so much besides. Royal Gems. [Pall Mall Gazette.} The pearl is the only gem that 1s reckoned worthy of companionship with the diamond, sapphire, ruby and emerald. ‘The opal and cats eye, costly and beautiful as they are, are but as duke and ‘marquis to the royalty of these others. Astor amethyst and onyz, jaspar and chyryso- | lite, turquoise and topaz, hyacinth and agate | and selenite—all these and their like have come to be of scant account. As a diamond, the faypous “Braganza” gem, brand-new from ‘'Bra- ail as it is, is Worth .£52,350,000; asa white topaz, which it is shrewdly though fo be, it is of no interest at all. It weighs 1, 650 carats, and is as luge as an oe ; but what is it in comparison with the blue fi ope dla alamond: which only weighs | 43:carats, ts abso) y Unique, and has a legend of its own, tke aby knight-erraat? ‘The peridot, once more valuable than the imperial | diamond, is now a mere sectarian jewel, af- ; fected by the members of the Society of Friends, As the diamond is superior to all the fashions of the world, and sttll retains or place at the head of the mineral kingdom, is not un- nt to tind that diamond euitin invented Gerquem, and perfected | by the great Wonetian, incent, Peruz/l, who {n- vented the brilllant—was better done i London onee upon a tine than anywhere; and that, though there are 22.000 Jews at wo sterdam—cutting, polishing, and | crattcmanship of the old London never been surpassed. Was surely uot made ‘The Inconceivability of Téme. BY P. ROC My friends, the question We are to consider Unk: evening: is, When did the universe menee? AU what time? Itis obvious that th: starting point of time, the hour when Nature eried, “All aboard that’s going!” must to the ordinary mind be inconceivable. since no matter how far back the ordinary mind goes tn the tm- agination of time, still some more time must of necessity lay behind that and some more be- biud that and still some more behind that, and s0 it keeps coining, or rather going, just as far back as the ordiiary mind can imagine, and ' even farther. It is inconceivabi the, for the ordinary human mind to conceive y period of Ume which existed before all other periods of time, because, even if you fix on. such a period, you Will stil! tind a period behind that’ anda eriod behind that and still another period be- hind that, just so far as you choose to keep going, and behind all these vast. eee there tl Still be another pet nd you s hen a Berioa pening that, and another behind that withe inconceivability, then, to the ordinary and unsclentific mind of fixing a period of time before all otver periods of time is such that it is in fact completely inconceivable—quite so—in { fact, we have no visible or tangible oe Oe | Which to rest asa point of comer the inconceivable ‘ap point of tl dueabt i ity: ‘of lume in the past 1s not conceivable, at least to the ordinary mind, and this inconceivable in- concetvability presents even a barrier to sclen- Uific research. aided by the most powerful tele Scopes. Still. I trust that the audience may perceive the gist of the idea I have been trying to elucidate—namely, that to go _ of the re- turns of eternity, or rather to int where one may assume that all creat started 4s inconceivable, because if you fix on one part’cular period of time there must be still an- other bebind that and another behind that and another be— My next lecture will _be on the probable end- | lessness of eternity. | | it Frese Press.) A Detroiter ho was out in tee country the other day to icek after some poultry stuck in a mud-hole, although having a buggy and astrong horse. He got out, arail off ‘the fence, abd was trying to pry the vehicle out, when along came a strapping young woman about twenty-six years of age. she halted, sur- veved oe situation, and You stand by the horse white I heave on the rail, and ¢ dont be afraid of getting mud on your hands and boots. ‘Ihetr united efforts released ‘the vehicle, and the Detroiter returned thanks and asked her to gelin and ride. She hesitated, looked up and down the road, and finally satd: “ Stranger, I'm blunt spoken. Who are you?” a He gave his name and residence, and she con- ne “Tm over twenty-five, worth $500 In cas] Know all about housework, and this ts teape Year.” “Yes, I know: but for heaven's sake don’t ask me ‘to marry you!” he replied, as he saw the “Sce here,” she continued, looking him square ™ the eye, “I'ma straight girl, wear a No. 7 shoe, and I like the looks of you.” ¥ but don’t—don't talk that S way to mel” Stranger, it's Leap-Year, and I'm going to pop! Willyou dave me or no?” a “1—I'm already married!” he eettaned e Fee Injun?” “Well, Uhat settles me, and I won't ride. Vil take ac t across the feld over to old Spooner s. He's got four sons and a fool nephew, and [li ‘x gin on the old man aud pop the crowd clear down to the idiot, for P've slummtxed around this world jnst as iong as I'm going to! by; sir—no harm done! Gooa- ants Darkest Day. General Grant says the darkest day ot his was when he heard of Lincoin’s dea day of the assassiaation, Grant narrowh the same fate. Says the General: * Lincoln had promised to go to the theater, and wanted me to go with him. While I was with the President, a note came from Mrs. Grant, saying she must leave Washington that night. Some incident of a trifling nature had made her resolve to leave that evening. So we started for the train. As we were driving along Pennsylvania avenue, a horseman drove past us on a Loa and back again around our carriage, looking into It. Mrs. Grant said: ‘There is the man wo sat near us at lunch to-day, with some other men, and tried to overhear our conversation. He was so rude that we left the dining-room. Here he is now riding after us.’ I thought it was only curiosity, but learned afterward that the horseman wa: Booth. A few days later I received an anony- mous letter from a man, saying that he had deen detailed to kill me, that he rode on my eat as far as Havre-de-Grace, and as my car ‘as locked, he could not get in. He thanked God he had failed. I remember the conductor Jocked our car, but how true the letter was I cannot say.” ss ale 8 8 0 THE NEWSPAPERS 1 8 8 0 OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE EVENING STAR THE WEEKLY:STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. The EVENING STAR, (on Saturday's a double sheet or eight page paper of fifty-six columns, the size of the New York dailies), is everywhere recognized as the leading newspaper of Wash- ington. With two exceptions only, if as the largest circulation ef any daily paper pubkished south of New York, AND MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER PAPER IN THE CITY. 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