Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1881, Page 3

’ : : . HOME MATTERS, Ay = MowxtRiy Roses, especially the te2-scented, are beautiful window plants. They need rich coil, thorough drainage, frequent washing of foliage with 2 fine rose Syringe, as even a tem- perature as possible, carefully guarding from draughts of air, and smoking with tobacco if the green fly makes its appearance. They should have the morning sun, but be shaded from the afternoon sun when it becomes powerful. A Famous CHoera Mepictye.—More than 20 years ago, when it was found that prevention of cholera was easier than a cure, a prescription drawn up by eminent doctors was published in The Sun, and it took the name of the Sun cholera medicine. Our contemporary never lent its name toa better article. We have seen it in constant use for nearly two and found it to be the best ‘remedy of the bowels ever yet devised this by him, and takes it in tim No one will ev have the cholera. We commend it to all our friends. Even when no cholera is anticipated, it is an ex- cellent remedy fot ordinary summer complaints, colic, diarhaa, dysentery, &c. Take equal Parts of tineture of Cayenne pepper, tincture of opium, tineture of rhubarb, essence of pep- permint, and spirits of cexmpkor. Mix well. Jose, 15 to 30 drops in a little cold water, ac- cording to age and violence of symptoms, re- Peated every fifteen or twenty minutes until Felief is obtained. —N_ ¥. Journal of Commerce. s possible to have a bath in pri- vate or boarding houses, or even hotels. Take a pan, place it on a chair. and stand on a piece of i ly well and letting the Use some sea- in a_xreat deal to strengthen and refresh you. When you have sponged about a haif a dozen times dry and rab Hand put on some clothes, but do not dress Sit still at some occupation for about rter of an hour. and if you can get a cup of miik and water or thin cocoa and a piece of dry bread or cake take it. Even a little fruit will be refreshing. When you have properly rested aud feel a gentle glow all over your body dress for the day and begin the day's work, but quietly. All excitement is dangerous at this season, therefore avoid it, as you value your health and life. Come what may, curb your anxiettes and keep down your turbulent heart. ‘These bath-washings, where baths are impossible, will do much to. strengthen your heryous system and your digestive powers. In the evening rub your whole body dry before going to rest: ». hands and feet. if the whole bod: ses your liead $ dipped in ater, mixed with a little yinezar on it, and this will zive relief.— Food and Health. Tue Way To Have Perreetty Clear JELLY imply to have the pure juice of the fruit. T cooking the fruit until it is soft, pour it | intoa flannel jelly baz; have the bag long enous | so that you can tie it closely at the top with a | stout string; after doing this a primitive way to | ‘eed is to put the clothes stick (which is usu- broom stick minus the broom) through the i lay the ends of the stick on the tops of two kitchen chairs, lay blocks of wood or somethin y we chairs to . Let the juie you are snre that ithas all di jueeze the bag, as there ver of the pulp coming through and spoiling the amber r of the jelly. With a pint of juice nt of sugar. About boiling there is no is entirely safe to go by. The fruit at tuxes will require different treat- good way is to try a little at @ saucer, let it cool, and if it hardens slightly ina minute or two it wili be sale to infer that it will harden more in a longer time. inmou crab apple makes surpris- ingly good jetly. Look them over; see that there are no wormy apples: the stems may be left on. but or eut off the blow, as it would discolor the jelly. When canning red or black Taspberries. if yon have more juice than you care to put in the cans, make jelly of it. Two- thirds of red currants and one-third of red rasp- mnake perhaps the most delicious jelly be thought of to use in making jelly- cake, though some may like better jelly made of the ereen, that is, the unripe Catawba grape. For this jelly use brown sugar. Recipes for quince jelly will be given later. Very nice lemon Jelly is made in this way: Dissolve half a box of gelatine in a cup of cold water; grate one or two lemons, according te your taste or the needs of the one for whom you make it: take off the | thick skin and grate the pulp, heat about three cups oi ter, three cups of sugar, let it boil a ies and then add the lemon and gelatine: put into a mould or into pretty shaped Cups; when cold it is ready for use.—N. Y. Post. Canrets or Rros?—An article in the July is- gue of that beautiful and valuable monthly, the ‘our, pleads earnestly for the still larger ing-houses than at present; and persons about to invest largely in carpets Will do weil to reas and ponder: The large pieces of furnitur * in all rooms stand against the Wall—the sofas, the ot need any carpet at is put under them much wasted money, and yet we down yards of where it is seen, where the dust collects and is only ed in weekly sweepings. and where it 4 sort of color, while the rest changes color and fades. Let any one give a raz a fair trial, and observe for himself how much less dust will begnade in the room, how much more easily the room is kept. clean, and how mueh more manageable the furniture is when the weekly sweeping or the daily dusting has to be got through. In no case should any of the large Pieces of furniture rest upon the rug; for it ought te be an every day, or at least an any day matter. to turn it up and brush underneath it, or roll it up and carry it out to be shaken or swept. It is advisable to buy a good rug, large The Weather Reports, HOW THE INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND DIS- TRIBUTED—RAPID TELEGRAPH WORK—AN IN- TRRESTING DESCRIPTION FROM AN OFFICIAL ORDER. The transmission of the weather reports with the rapidity and accuracy required by the signal service, is one of the greatest achievements of telegraphy. The following interesting descrip- | tion of the manner of collecting the weather reports of the signal service is taken from an | official order recently prepared by Lieut. Caz- jare, acting signal officer, and issued by direc- tion of the chief signal officer: The system of telegraphic circuits for trans- mission of weather reports, as arranged by the chief signal officer. extends over the United | States, and. by arrangement, over the West | Indies, and tho most populous portions of the | dominion of Canada It embraces the lines of the Western Union, Northwestern, International Land and Ocean, West India and Panama, Mon- | treal, Dominion Government, and Florida Tele- | graph companies, besides a half dozen small companies whose bills are settled by the West- ern Union. Working in unison with this sys- | tem of circuits, for the purpose of forwarding weather reports, are the U.S. military telegraph lines in several of the territories and along the } Atlantic 5 st i w ather reports are received tri- Washington, D.C., office from 140 stations in the United States, from xteen stations in Canada, and from Havana, | Cuba. Reports are also received from five other stations in the West Indies in August, Septem- | ber and October, or during the prevalence of hurricanes. Telegraphic observations (i. ¢., those to be transmitted by telezraph to the central office at | Washington, D.C.,) are taken at each station at 7am.,3 p.m.and 11 p.m., Washington mean | time. The observations are for height of barom- eter, reading of thermometers, (exposed, max- imum and minimum;) the dew-point, state of | the weather, directfon and velocity of wind, amount, kind direction of clouds, rain-fall, and the rise and fall of rivers. These data make up a ‘weather report,” and are forwarded by ci- pher words, the reports from any station making on ab average a message of seven or eight words, THE REPORTS, enciphered, are filed at the telegraph office within fifteen minates of the time they are taken. The operators have heretofore been allowed ten minutes additional time to get their wires ready for circuit work. Promptly, then, at 7:25 a.m., 3:25 p.m. and 11:25 p.m., Washington mean time, the work of forwarding weather reports com- mences. By arrangements made with the tele- graph companies, necessary wires are reserved exclusively for the circuit work, from the time transmission commences until all reports that | go over the circuit are sent to all the signal sta- tions on it. This includes, for any one circuit, | not only the forwarding of reports to the central otfice, but also the sending of them, from the centers where they are coHected, en route to the central office, in Various directions to selected points where it is desirable that they should go. Thng, (supposing everything to work on schedule time), after having forwarded to Washington all reports arriving on the circuits which center there, ‘Cincinnati. sends reports from the lower Mississippi valley and the coun- | try adjacent thereto to Chicago, and reports from the upper Mississippi valley to Orleans, Not only do Chicago and New Orleans get these, but the principal cities in the Mississippi and adjoining valleys as well, the reports being copied at each signal station on the circuit. As described for Cincinnati, other centers send reports to cities where they will be of especial value. In this manner important commercial points are supplied during the cir- cuit hour with all reports that will be of in- terest to them. For the peculiar privileges of the circuit sys- tem, rates are paid in excess of those for ordi- nary government messages; but when the num- ber of drops are considered, each station’copy- ing all reports passing over its circuit without extra expense therefore, the average cost of the system is far less than it would be under the schedule of rates for ordinary government. busi- uess. THE AVERAGE TIME occupied on the principal circuits in transmit- ting these reports at each signal hour is about 50 minutes. When the lines work well they reach the central office at Washington in from less than one hour to one hour and a quarter. When lines are interrupted, down, &c., this time may be lengthened out to cover the signal hours one day, (three in number) but no report twenty- four hours old or more is forwarded; nor, saye in the case of the West Indies, are they ever sent, except at the signal hour, unless specially called for. in arranging the circuits, the stations on each, and in designating the reports that shall be transmnitted over them, the following principles have governed: First.—To secure the greatest length of line, embracing the greatest number of stations for valuable weather reports, that can be worked conveniently and rapidly. Second.—To secure for transmissicn those re- ports which will be of the greatest advantage to stations on the circuit. THE CENTRAL OFFICE at Washington, D. C., hae circuits running di- rectly to New York city; to Cincinnati, Ohio; to Knoxville, Tenn.; to Lake City, Florida, and to the Atlantic coast Military Telegraph Line. New York collects reports from New England, the Lake region and the northwestern section. Cin- cinnati collects from Davenport, Omaha, stations along the Union and Central Pacific railroads, from the Pacific coast and the southwestern part of the United States. Those from the West Indies and the Gulf states, with a few Texas re- ports, arrive ut the central office via the Lake City circuit. Those from stations on the Atlantic coast Military Telegraph Line come directly to enouch to cover sli the floor you wish to cover, even if it strain vour purse a little; for a good rug will last a lifetime, and. indeed, some rugs are well on their way to last a second lifetime The best Turkey, Persian and Indian rags are made by hand. of pure wool, and are so thick that is a hot coui failon oneof them, the charred 1 in the case of a Brussels carpet, be effaced, will disappear in a few After much using a good Eastern days’ wear. ruz, walking on the best Brussels carpet feels like walking on the wooden floor. To an artis- tic eye. an E n ruc that is handsome to. be- gin with, crows handsomer with time and use, and even one that was a little staring and tentious at first. gets te by being long walked over, just as if it were a human being. The gainof employing good rugs is so considerable in health and cleanlinessalone that the time must come when they will be “your only wear.” Steerixe Derive tee Day.—C. 8. B.—IL— Where a person sleeps during the daytime and afterwards feels heavy and dull, would you recommend her to do it? Also, what is the cause of this dullness and how can it be over- Aus.—Considering the great majority of people, I believe there are very few meas- ures which are of more value and greater im- portance in insuring them a return to health than that of takinz a period of rest sometime dur- ins the day ably toward the middle. Most Walids suffer from or less of nervous a ‘o situated that they Way and anothe h twenty-four: e ¢ through food nature's best system toa and funetional activity, 7 ‘ proper nutrition, it be- comes in my juc if an importaat part of treatment with ¢ involving nervous exhaus- tion that they should k up the labor of the and the ‘excitement thereof, by an hour or two of rest, and if possible sleep. ‘The great value of throw) ourself upon the bed and al- lowing the muscu tension to subside and the brain to become quiet is not properiy est*mated, and perhaps only can be so by the method being thoroughly tried by invalids. The cause of the heaviness and dullness ix the relaxation to which the rauscular system and bran is subjected under the influence of rest or sleep, and usually passes aw in a little wh after resuming the usual ayocsiions. The brain during sleep has Jess blood in it th: it other times, and all the parely animal functions, such as muscular ac- tivity, and the use of the brain and exercise of the senses, underzo or complete abate- mert during sleep. it, therefore, requires a little time after awaking for the body to take upon itself renewed activity, and it is just this freedom from activity «nd labor that enables those intricate processes of nutrition which in- volve the repair of waste and the build:ag up of exhausted energies, to take place. Hence it is by just this little thing that insny persons who othervise would not save strenzth enough from day to day to serve them a zood purpore ina eurative direction, find theioselves, on adopting i&, slowly and steadily caining —Laves of Life. ian ++ ed down and subdued P when combin The Rev. R. Rock, a United Bretiren pastor at Canton, has been suspended for saying “D—n it.” All the ebtef Frenen lichthouses wi'l soon be Tit by electricity, and previded with powerful steain trumpets for signals. the central office. Those from Canada, east of the great lakes, eome from Toronto, Canada, to Buffalo, N. Y., thence direct to Washington. Those from Canadian stations immediately west of the great lakes arrive via Milwaukee and New York; while those from the Pacific coast Canadian stations come as a special message from San Francisco. Whenthe regular channels for transmission of weather reports are inter- rupted they are, during the circuit hour, for- warded to the central office by any available means, either by circuit or as an ordinary mes- sage. The actual work on a circuit may be described as follows: At 7:25 am., 3:25 p.m., and 11:25 pre-| p.m., Washington meantime, the station farthest eee tise : office on each circuit ranning directly into that office starts his report; it is eqpied by every station on the ; 88 Soon as this station is through, the next station tends; he is followed by the next, and so on until every station has sent its report. While this is being done, all other circ are eollect- Ing reports at the terminal office of each nearest Washington; the station on each circuit nearest this terminal sending first, being followed by the others in regular succession, the last to send Immediately upon the makt of indica- tions and bulletin at the Central Office, Wash- ington, they are distributed from the telegraph room ofthat office in the following manner: The a.m. indications are sent to the National Associated Press at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, and to all stations on the United States Sea-coast T. h Line, At the same hour they are sent, by messenger, to the New York Associated Press Rooms, Wash- ington, D. C., and distributed thence by wire to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. The a.m. special bulletin is sent to the New York Associated Press at Baltimore, Philadel- phia, and New York; to the Nationai Associated Press at the same cities, and to stations on the United States Sea-coast Telegraph Line. At this hour also the Graphic Map is tele- graphed to New York City. The p.m. indications are sent to stations on the Sea-cost Telegraph Line only. The midnight indications are sent to the ob- servers at Pittsburg and Cincinnati, to the New York and the National Associated Press at Bal- timore, Philadelphia, and New York, and to sta- tions on the Sea-coast Telegraph Line. The midnight special bulletin is sent to both the New York and the National Associated Press at Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York city, and the stations on the Uniled States Sea- Coast telegraph lines. The synopsis for the past 24 hours is sent out at midnight to Cincinnati, Pittsburg, and to the New York Associated Press, New York city. The observers at New York city and Cincinnati distribute the midnight indications and synopsis to the signal observers in the diffesent commer- cial centers of the east, north and western por- tions of the Uhited States, where they are published in the Farmer’s Bulletins, and sj d all over the country, the daily edition of this bulletin now aggregating seven thousand copies. The expense of tel synopsis, published in the Farmers’ Bulletin, is borne by the Signal service. he disseminating of the same information to the public press of the country is done by the associated presses without expense to the United States. The foregoing system of circuit work will be varied as the interests of the service may ren- der necessary. ——_—__§e-—______ HOW THE STEAMER BROOKLYN WAS SAVED PLOTS AND COUNTER PLOTS—A CIPHER TELE- GRAM—INTERESTING CHAPTER IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE REBELLION. On the 31st of December, 1860, Lieut. Genera] Scott addressed an order from the headquarters of the army, in this city, to the commanding officer at Fortress Monroe to “prepare and put on board the sloop-of-war Brooklyn, as soon as the latter can receive them, four companics. making at least two hundred men, destined to reinforce Fort Sumter.” Some further instruc- tions as to details were given closes with the following in the script : ay of a post- dentially as possible. Look to this.” Records, vol. 1, p. 119.] {Rebellion kept may be inferred from the fact that on the same day a telegraphic dispatch was sent from the United States cap- itol, signed by two Senators and three Representatives advising certain prominent se- ceskionists in Norfolk to seize the steamer Brooklyn as she lay at the wharf, as Virginia’s share of the navy of the United States. As Virginia had not at the time seceded from the Union, the object of this seizure was doubt- less to prevent the Brooklyn from being used as proposed by Gen. Scott, and at the same time secure a means of repelling any attempt to: rein- force Sumter by any other U.S. vessel. The acquisition of so formidable a craft asthe Brook lyn at that time, with nearly every vessel of our navy in distant foreign waters, woud have been a@ great gain to the embroy confederacy and a serious loss to the government. The same want of confidence and secrecy, which characterized the War department, how- ever, extended to the telegraph office when the force was about one-third Union and two- thirds secesh—and nearly all strongly partisan, The knowledge that this dispatch had been sent who, early next morning, called upon Secretary Toucey,-of the Navy department, and informed him of its nature, and, go strong was the dis- trust of the loyalty of the members of Mr. Buchanan's anministration at that time, a wit- ness was taken to prove the warning should it be unheeded and the steamer allowed to be cap- tured. Secretary Toucey, however, promptly Cauley, and the associated press dispatches of the next day announced that “the steamer Brooklya, in the storm last night, dragged her stream.” She did not return to her wharf, but a day or two later was ordered into Hampton Roads. She did not convey the recruits, how- ever, probably because the secret had leaked out, and another effort was made to send reinforce- ments secretly from New York by the Star ofthe West, which was frastrated, the news of her mis- sion having reached Charleston almost before she was out of sight of Sandy Hook. The Brooklyn was ordered to support the move- Ler) and in the event of failure to convoy the relief ship to Fortress Monroe, but did not sail in time, and the Star of the West returned from her wi ful mission to New York. A little later the Brooklyn participated in the _ expedition for the reinforcemet of Fort Pickens, which, after some Raeet from political correspondence was suc- It is a little singular that the telegram of Secretary Toucey to Commodore McCauley can- not be found in the records of the Navy depart- ment. It is possible that the wrote the dispatch at his residence, it being a holiday, (New coe) but as the official cipher was used, it is probable that he purposely withheld the communication from the files to prevent a knowledge of his action reaching some of his coll in Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. Aside from the positive recollection of the writer of this article, the fact of the ve having been sent is shown bya telegram m Commodore being that station of the circuit farthest from Washington. Asthisis a simultaneous move- ment on the various it has the effect of converging the reports at the same instant of time, by various paths, upon the central office, When the signal hour is up, the circuits, by a preconcerted si; |, Close, and missing reports have to wait til THE NEXT SIGNAL HOUR. In circuit work, repeating stations give the central office precedence above all others. They allow no considerations to interfere with the Peeve snd rape forwarding of reports to the jormer. Reports received at stations are immediately copied by the operator on manifold Paper, one copy being retained by him, the other being de- livered to the signal service observer, who is furnished a table by the side of the operator, and translates the as fast as they are re- ceived. writing them on manifold bulletins, so that when the cireuit closes, bulletins are read, to be posted In specified public places, furnished to the hes nee s At midnight, after weather reports are all ceived at this office, stations on the gulf, lakes and sea-coast, which display cautionary remain on circuits until “good night” is them from the central office. At stations where the indications, the ial, or the farmers’ bul | letin is printed, the ol ers remain at the tele- h office until the indications or bulletin Feceived from the central office, “— = The receipt of weather reports at W: by the circuit system is supplemented and made complete by special messages which in those reports not forwarded over circuits, Sine term special message means nothing more than ee as an Corser d ecnnons m at ust government rates. uc! messages have no peculiar privileges like those sent over cir- cuit. They take their chances for transmission with other government business, altho yt transmission is claimed for them by ol “. Reports from THE PACIFIC COAST STATIONS San Francisco, Winnemucea, Pioche, and Salt ‘Thirteen hundred sheep. with their shepherds, were recently overwhelmned by an avalanche near Brigel, in the Grisuns. Lake c circuit to and pe by special message. Those Texas, Diane ' fornia, Arizona, New Mexico, and El jare sent over the military lines McCauley that a message was received and un- derstood, and the vouchers of the department for that month show the payment of $6.80 as telegraphic tolls on such a message. gee The Morphia Intoxication. Correspondence New York Star. I have seen too much of this terrible morphia Intoxication not to know it at once and detest it bitterly. I once had a friend whose wife was in the habit of taking chloral. This ruined his happiness and wrecked his life. Half the time she was insane from this drug; the other half he was rendered almost insane by her conduct. At last physicians were called in, and moved by their representations, the wife swore never to touch that poison again. She kept her oath— after a ion. She drank no more chloral, but she bought a needie and began giv- jemplng out of the frying pan into the fre, and mM} of 5 err ein aa still more fatal com} ‘ip, have mrers ced this evil into the Trentrical profes- sion. It is quite within bounds to sa} sora who knows the harm she has would hing the indications and | and the order | “Manage everything as secretly and conti- | How secret and confidential the matter was_ to Norfolk reached one of the Union employes, | communicated in cipher with Commodore Mc- } anchor and floated out into the middle of the | HOW THE SEMI-SIGHTLESS CAN COUNTERFEIT NATURE, Some of the Experiences of Those Who Are Single Orbed But Who Are Passed by the Throng as Witheut Blemish, Philadelphia Press. Few misfortunes are taken less philosophically than the loss of aneye. Putting aside the in- convenience, it is one of the worst of disfigure- able explanation which carries the admiring sympathy of the able-bodi and even \if the story be untrue it seldom fails to obtain | ready eredence, especially in a country where a | big war has raged within a decade. Any un- | sightliness of the wound is hidden by clothing, ps soldiers are proud of the empty sleeve or wooden leg, and often scorn to hide the deficien- | ey with an artificial limb. With an eye, however, |i is different. Not many, wounds received in | battle would destroy the eyesight without doing farther injury. A bullet piercing the socket | would probably forate the brain and kill out- ‘yight, and a sabre-cut over the temple would leave a ghastly scar to tell its tale; and so a dead | eye may, as a rule, be put down to disease, or to some petty accident, and in not a few instances | to a misfortune of birth. Small-pox and scarlet | fever in many cases destroy an e' @ severe | blow with the fist, the point of a stick or um- brella or pieces of coal jumping out of the fire | are frequent causes. Girls working at sewing- | machines in factories often lose an eye by the | sudden breaking of a needle, and several young | girls have disfigured themselves in that way, re- [lates a prominent optician of this city, by a habit | they have of “unbuttoning their boots with a fork.” Few people remain happy under so hide- ous a blemish, and, as science can disguise the defect so thoroughly that even a glass-eyed map has difficulty in recognizing a fellow victim, it is not surprising that the general public has little read | idea of the number of single-orbed individuais daily passed in the streets. WHERE THE GLASSY OBBS ARE MADE. Artificial eyes are manufactured principally | abroad, although there are one or two makers in New York. England, France and Germany monopolize the trade in this commodity, and by most opticians in the United States, Thn- ringian (German) eyes are preferred to any other. At a well-known establishment on Chestnut | street _a Press reporter was shown a varicty of | artificial eyes of every size, shade and color. | They are made of porcelain, hand-painted, every vein being perfectly marked, the imitation being complete. of these, and it requires renewing neariy every “ar, as the enamei wears off and the color fades. They are made to fit with the id little chance of similar ing te the wear se glass eye would twist round on ng side. About one hundred and fifty are sold annualiy by this firm, and had the government contract for the ts of Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgand | © lelphia to provide veterans with imitation optics in place of the real ones they had lost through the vi bellion. Over a thousand inen applied for this squads of twenty at a me. Women are a littie ashamed when they enter the store. They desire to be taken as far In the i Leave as hurriedly as they eye has been fixed or r 1 + tes eye can be put in so cleverly that a natural move- | ment can be given to it which almost deties de- tection, but in to the eye remains stationary. Brov. eyes are | most easily matched; blue are more d.fiicult, es- | pecially certain shades, as the play of the light | upon them gives a variation of color and sparkle | ., almost impossible to iznitate artificially. | Many interesting anecdotes are told of people's reticence in disclosing the fact of their misfor- | tune. A ONE-ORBED FAMILY A young man with a glass-eye was engaged to | be married, but he did not like te inform his_be- trothed of his ocular defect. A week previous he day named for the wedding he confided in | his future father-in-law, who, to his surprise, re- ceived the information in a highly amused man- ner. “I'll make it all right for you, my boy; you imitate me exactly in anything 1 do after supper {to-night and see how good-naturedly Maria (that was the lady’s name) “will take it.” Ac- | cordingly, as soon us the evening meal was con- cluded, the father looked at the young man and | began to sing: : ‘Oh! do you know the glass-eye man, ‘The ghass-eye man, the glass-eye man? Oh! do you know the xl: And as he concluded the last dine he took ont, his left e nd placed it ona plate in front of him. The young man was very much astonished to find his | self, while at the same time it gave him cou } to reply: | Oh! yes, I know the glass-eye man Who lives down our way, and to deposit his crystal optic on the table | Maria was conyuised with laughter at the pro | ceedings, but her future husband was ready to | believe all humanity one-eyed when she trebled forth: age | I also know the glass-eye man Who lives down our way, and dropped her eye into a glass of water by her | side. Frequent assaults and battery have been made | by sternly virtnous females in cars on glase-cyed men. Only recently a gentleman was enjoying the scenery through the car window with his na- | tural eye, unaware of the fact that his glass eye | Was staring straight ahead at a maiden lady of Sunday-school principles. She put up with it for half an hour and then got up, and, smashing his hat over his head, called him a licentious vil- lain and other complimentary epithets, and was only prevented from scratching his face by his timely retreat to the smoking-car, under the supposition that he had been attacked by a mad- woman. PROVIDENTIAY. EFFECT ON AN INDIAN. Fifty years ago, when California was under the dominion of Spain, a one-eyed commandant ruled at San Francisco who was the terror of all the Indians in the vicinity. A Yankee skipper tray- eling that way induced the Spaniard to purchase oneof the then newly invented glass eyes of him, and to the fear and surprise of the redskins the commandant suddenly appeared with two eyes. This was too much for the braves, so one of their number was deputed to assassinate the senor. He managed to gain access to the bed-chamber, but on approaching the couch was terrified to find the commandant sleeping with one eye closed and the other wide open. The amazed Indian gave an unearthly yell and threw himself headlong from the window. One of the most curious stories is the case of a supposed blind beggar in Paris. Tiis man was for some trivial offense, and on his way to the prison one of his eyes fell out on the side- walk. On being examined it was discovered that for a long time he had been in the habit of wear- ing two ingeniously contrived porcelain covers to his real eyes, which were of a different color to the sham ones, and he was at-once recognized as acriminal for whom the authorities had long been in search. A lee eye once figured in acivil trial. An optician sued a woman for the value of an eye he had inserted for her with the promise that she would find it both ornamental and useful. The woman declined to pay, her defense in court be- as follows: “I have false teeth, I can eat with them; I have false hair, it keeps my head warm and is ornamental; I have also a false leg, I can walk with it, but (taking her glass eye out and dash- ing it to the ground) I can neither see with my eye nor is it an object of beauty.” She er suit. me-eyed man, however, has this consola- tion—he is a king among the blind. ————___,g, The Old Horses and the New. As soon as our three most illustrious Eastern colonists, the Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin horse of unknown parentage had established themselves and, their familles in the land, the breeding of the English race-horse may be sald to have consummated iteelf. fore! sires ele to feed the descents for awhile; thus Brilliant has little or nothing to do with the Byerley Turk, and King Herod is per- haps the last horse of renown een a strane = Hood to the Godolphin. Still the three fami- jes were | ments; almost as bad as the loss of one’s nose, | | The absence of an arm or leg has often an honor- | and It costs ten dollars to purchase one ! itudes of the War of the Ke- | ses where there is little to cling t father as unfortunate as him- | ‘The bicyle has suffered somewhat from inja- dicious advocacy and headlong praise. It does not (as one dealer advertises) “move under the Tider almost by volition and with hardly any expenditure of muscular effort at all;” it does not put at naught time and distance on com- mon roads it will not bring steam into disuse for passenger travel and make every man his own locomotive; it will not even turn the horse out to grass; it does not roll without ‘any jars , and bumps whatever; it is not perfectly noise- less; It is not utterly free from habits of fracture and internal disorders; and many of the things said of it are romances, On sufficiently good surfaces it moves almost literally without effort until the rider is tired; but on rough or soft roads, and with strong winds ahead, a decided effort is required to propel it. Its ‘one wheel also conveys the jars of stones and ruts very di- rectly to the body, and the only remedy is “get- ting used to it.”" The art of managing the ve- hicle is not the difficult thing it locks, but everybody must train up to it. Upon the conditions of practice and fa’ good roads the bicycle is a practicable | Practical vehicle. Ifs apparent paradox of bal- ancing is in strict obedience to, not defiance of, | the law of gravitation, and when once the ver- side the base nothing topples over wore re: | riding it, exactly like w: is simply ternate falling and recovering. superior efficiency as compared with walking is aiso strictly under physical laws. It converts recip- "y motion. In walking the weight of the body is actually lifted at every step: on the bicycle the body is permanently supported by the saddle, and the force expended in lifting is all saved. The movement in wathing is continuous only in‘one sense. being broken every time the foot strikes the ground: the wheel, on the contrary, has an uninterrupted motion. The machine has to be carried up grade as weil as the body, but on the down grade both are borne without exertion, whereas grades are no adyautage whatever to the walker. The special heat and fativue of the avoided, and the swifter motion produces a lit- | the breeze for cooling. A stride of one com- plete movement of tle foot per second is brisk walking; the same movement on the wheel propels it about nine miles per hour. Seven miles an hour, or at Jeast double a walk, are rather slow; eight ta ten are not difficult when the conditions are not severe. and the bicycl ies the speed of walking three times w act statement of its ca- stand, and its develop- f us.’ Naturally taken up first by young men, but it is to as i for amateur athlet England, its better known agits powers 1 ton, where it ex- | best known, the ely. ! in other ion can be ¢ it in this proba- i trrned into rot pod roads: ou its being ace of the owing, ea “that thing” will answer but there is no real ob- cpt ignorance, In the way of having |all roads good. The majority do not know | what a good road is, and th know and could explain roads—are debarred from mental knowledse, proct ; once rider and horse, will gradually di | ignorance and make advocates of the sound n demands good roads. To do rill be one of the most valuable offices of the bieyle in America. se Dickens as an Editor. In the old Household Words d of bu ” door of the Gaiety Theatre. window, at least its two stories—it had only two—were thus bowed. The drawing floor seemed a heerful place to w in. TI shop of another ma: he wes the Strand, ace in Kent, keen and | black bag full of proot : | Another little Household Words tradition w his. The “ | blue ink on blue as himseif always wrote with con: ception, legible yet not very | fan it. every | to be noted the perfect finish, as it might be | styled, of his letter-writing—th s, even the for the printers, written as it is in yery hand, much crowded, is trying enough to es, but the printers never found any diffi- culties. It was much and carefully corrected, aud wherever there was an erasure it was done in thorough fashion so that what was eflaced could notabe read. Nearly ail the band followed his example in writing in blue ink and on bine paper, and this for many years; but not without inconvenience. For, like the boy and his but- ton described by Sir Walter Scott, the absence of paper or ink of the necessary color affected the ideas, and one worked under serious disa- bilities, strangeness, etc. Another idiosyncrasy of his was writing fhe day of the month in full, as “January twenty-sixth.”—Gentleman’s Maga- zine. | small the Growth of the Traffle in Frogs. From the Boston Commercial Bulletin. In spite of the prejudice existing against the frogs, frog-eating has now established itself firmly as an American institation. For a timé it was confined to the Eastern States, but soon the hardy Westerner succumbed to the custom of effete Europe, and Chicago and San Francisco areas deeply in the mireas Boston or New York. At Elgin, Ill, there isa man who found it so profitable that he went into the business, a few years since, of raising a kind of many cases they are sold under fictitious names, it is said that in the West they are served up as fried frogs. A considerable improvement has taken place in this trade recently, and a dealer says there is a good demand for all that can be secured. Maay restaurants and most of the ho- tels have the delicacy, though not on the regu- lar bill of fare, only serving to order. A large part of the frogs sold here are native, but there is a seriens competition on the of the Ca- nadian article. In Canada. the business is con- ducted on a larze scale, and the industry, which lately received considerable encouragement by fhe increased demand, is at present very prom- ising. Numbers of boys who have become quite cents a dozen. The commission men skin, packe in ice, and ship themto the Northern and Western cities, where the delicious tidbits bring them a handsome profit. In this city the frogs are sold generally by the dozen, and bring from oi. cents, acoanting to qual Asthe de- source of rural income, and: Codders might consider this st lis beg from per- sonal observation it is known vast num- bers of frogs are there which now live to a re- spected, honored old age. ject of efforts are ? escaped a frightful death ee rie Taventive faculties. of During the recent hot weather every one sre Seen at the Uridge to pay the toll bomgtlenly red “Ain't In te the wear and | tical line from the centre of cravity gets out- | , noticeable most in warm weather, are also | haless expenditure of | S| down to the Station, fresh from | and carrying his little Hl le to those un- | W. hire else i frog for the Western’ markets” While here in| © THE FASTEST MILE ON RECORD, Maud S. Speeds on a Heavy Track in %:10%;— How the Fastest Time om Record was Re- ceived. From the Pittsburg (Pa.) Commercial, July 14. ‘The trial of speed by Mand S. had been put down on the program for the first event, | although, of course, it was not expected that it would be first. But, as being the great event of | the day, it is worthy of mention first, although it did not take place until among the last. About four o'clock it looked as though the track would hardly be in condition to attempt to speed her at all, and. accordingly, Capt. Stone | had the mare simply driven around the track twice on a jog. Indeed, Capt. Stone had posi- tively stated in the early portion of the after- noon that he would not attempt to speed her, but simply exhibit her, and wait until to-day to | let her out. | About 6 o'clock the track had reached sucha | condition that Capt. Stone agreed that if a track were scraped and rolled he would allow the mare to make a trial. Accordingly, the four-horse scraper and roller was put to work to and smooth a portion of the track. It was still so | Wet near the pole that the scraper had to ran about twelve feet out from the in-fence all id. bes ‘as cleared c etly ut way around th drove her ata moderaté gait down the quarter 1, and came to the wire ina fairly good | He glanced up at the ju’ ve a slerht ‘ nod, and the word * w given. The mare kept up the same gait with which she passed un- ‘ re until she reached theturn.and every | uzht, while many exclaimed, “Oh, he is hot going to let her out.” But around the turn her stride seemed to lengthen, aad her feet fell speed. When she reached the ; people who had timed her \F was down to work in earnest. | Among the back stretch she flew more rapidly | | than it seemed she was going. But when she | finaliy entered upon the home stretch, and a | fair view of the tremendous length of her strides could be obtained, every one felt sure that Maud | Was going to make guod time. As she passed ler the wire ata thundering gate, she had the | homage of not a few cheers. Bair did not. stop her too suddenly, but gently got her down, after passing balf way around the turn. She had scarcely turned to come back to the wire when atremendous shout went up from the crowd, for the mazie figures 2:10'y were rung out. The first ind nm that those out- le of the judces’ stand had that remarkable . Brainard, never known to off his hat: saw the came slowly back to the groom at each side of her head, in the sulky, the mare and her a regular’ ovation. People he grand stands and crowded to get a better look at the ve vent to their exuberant sat- | ir rede up p in hand bowing to the crowd t he had made y prepared to see t S turned toward be liy an- S. had trotted | sr own record of | nile ever trotted aud 8. with unanimity and is the official record of the time by . 33__ | Three-quarters | Half-m ‘ull mite. | parts of the « 3 Useful Wives, From the London Standard. Numerous marriages, it is al! but universally conceded, are a sign of well-filled larders; vat early marriages are considered as systems of pear improvidence and prospective poverty. it ouht to be remembered that there are many exceptions to this deduction. In some districts a wife can always find em; ch adda to the comman income, grieuitaral un'ry she is almost indispensable 0 the well-bein wily young man engaged in farming operations. More especially ts this the case in Ireland, where early marriages are con- ventienaliy classed among unhappy island. In reality the marriage rate of Ireland is very Bnt ifa young man is to cultivate his | have the assi wants to tak t Potatoes; 5 that step of the settled dis- us. In other the same rule, necessitated by latices. Take, for example, the nies. In South Australia, where "or sinall whe: numerous, the marti contrary, in New South Wales and Victoria, where the rural popalatl ais mainly devoted to stock-raising and unin request In 1879 the marriage rate show pression throughout the Puropean though it maintained its ord Haugary, an 1 agricultural country, it was very high, whilst in cow like Sweden, where the rural populati: xtremel and thinly scattered, the chief porti peeple being collected in the districts, the number of nu brief, a wife is in man tries considered, as sh society, partly og mainly in the light ¢ It scarcely a century since in Caithness all the hard work and burden-bearing was de women, and if a uncommon for him te marry a wife as the cheapest substitute. In like thauner wives were useful chattels in the early deys of Mormonism, ‘They cultivated the polygamists “lots,” and saved them the expense of “hired hands.’ But of late years a spouse in Utah has become as costly and as independent as elsewhere, with the result that the frugal Latter-day Saints are be- ginning to have it “revealed” unto them that a sober Irishman at $15 a month and his board is more economical than a second wife, possessing, perhaps, enlarged ideas about milliners’ bills and women’s rights. The Profesional London Beauties, London Cor, Cincinnati Enquirer, in a barbarous state of ; 2 é H 3 vecasion of the first performance of Rubinstein’s opera of I Demonio. She sat with her back to the stage during the entire eve- having evidently come there to be seen, and not to se The Jersey Lily looks worn and faded, and her paie-gray totlet lacked the showy splendor tiat used to ¢ costumes in former days. 1 nev her, even when I first saw her in height of her renown. How any face be considered handsome with that broad, heavy jaw was to me a mystery. And then she ‘always lacked the sup charm of unconsciousness, whet real of Pped into visit her in one of the ut Hix Highness had a cold in his y.ashe passed nearly the whole isit in a series of vehement, yal sneezes. The beauty of the lon season is said to be a Mrs. Simp- son, who, with her husband, has just returned from a five year’ residence in China. There is also a Miss Graham, who has a most lovely face, Fach qua | following t 33: second quar- jt 2) 2: third quarter, 0:3154; fourth quarter, 0:333¢. ‘The third quarter is probably the slow. | est one on the whole track, yet just at that potat | Was where the mare made the best time, at the second slow. ck in good con- | dition , could make as low as 2:03, and possibly better. He thinks the | new track is the fastest in the country, gnd if it had been in as ood condition as it was on the first day Maud S. would haye brought | down her record much more. As it is, however, | ry enouch to@mve had her make the | ‘est mile on record on the second day the ck was ever trotted upon im atace. For tie benefit of personswho do not know it, | it may be stated here that Maud S. is only seven. id. She never trotted in a race but once, | at Cincinnati last year, in which she | was entered in the 2:30 class, and easily w: ia it bein; y afterward she went te Ch ade her first famous record, . Julien’s 2:13. Afterward St. Julien 13g at Hartford, and at the fall meeting o last year Maud 8. proceeded to beat record ng the mile in 2:108;. She | up to y rotted | except probably when being worked. | +0. | HOW THE ALABAMA SUNK. | The Victory of the Kearsarge—A Bloody Scene on the Confederate Cruisers Deck. | Howard in the Philadelphia Weekly Times, | The Kearsarge steamed away to seaward until | about nine or ten miles from the breakwater, | | Capt. S | | disposition of | when she veered and headed direct for the Ala- | al of distress. . That stopped the chaif the boys had been | passing around about her having weakened and urned tail and each one seemed to realize at | last that this was to be no child's play. By this | time about three miles intervened between the | belligerents, which was rapidly being decreased. | | When within about a mile and a quarter from | | the Kearsarge the Alabama ¥ . presenting | | her starboard broadside, and openéd the ball by | firing her 110-pounder rifled pivot at an eleva- | tion for two thousand yards range, followed almost simultaneously by a whole broadside. The guns were worked and served with the ut- | most rapidity, and in a few minutes another | irosaade was poured in, when the Kearsarge, | being by this time about eight hundred yards distant, presented her starbeard battery and the firing became general. The spirit of carnage had begun to animate the crew and the desire to be the upper dog in the fight — each man to Arcee S A few roadsides passed when the earsarge, under full head of steam forged ahead, steering so as to pass the Alabama's stern and rake her fore and aft, and alse get between her and the shore. This manouvre was check- mated by a port helm, causing both vessels to move in a circle revolving around a common center distant from each other about five or six hundred yards. The firing, meantime, continued with unabated vigor. The steady directness of the fire from the Kearsarge now began to be felt. The 11-inch shells poured into the ill-fated Alabama with sickening regularity and pre- cision, dealing death and destruction on eve . ns were dismounted and their crews | decimated by a single shot. Early in the action a shell struck the blade of the fan, breaking it short off and injuring the radder. Another landed in the engine room and tore things all to jeces, damaging the machinery, making a hole i the boiler, and flooding the stoke-hole with boiling water. ‘On deck the prospect was no more cheering. Men dropped dead, cut in twain by shot or shell, | while the groans of vin’ wounded, gegen) “os crashing and ing splinters, mingled wi 2 muttered ee of the seaman and the hoarse orders of gunners and offi¢ers. At half-past 12, Mr. Kell had jib and foretoy hoisted and at- tempted to stand in tor shore, distant by this time about five miles. This was prevented by her opponent ranging upand pouring in a raking fire of shot and shell. Word was aft almost one uae tree a was —— whereupon a truce suspended fro the Sumer and the new officer, Sinclair, sent in a boat to surrender the vessel. During his ab- sence the whole boat, dingey and three cutters | were launched, and preparations made to desert but whe spoils her very undeniable charms vy too free use of cosmetics. However, 1 thint that the epoch af professional beauty in London society is pretty much at an end, which is fortu- nate for society Queer Ways of Living on the Hatteras Banks— Hogs and Cattle. From the Raleigh News and Observer. The people of this region are of an amphibious nature, and live so much on and in the water that most of them, I am sure, are web-footed, The; n fish, clams, oysters, erabs, terrapins, and wild fowl When they leave home the: 'y go to court or go courtin: 6 to mill, or to a funeral, they always go by sail. Their corn mills are run by sails 2 pomp thelr water with win go up but “zo aloft; ‘turn in:” when they the weather,” and “w are “ of a it.” pealth ap and bilge free.” uit sweetheart as If she is a little stout they Many of them have ships’ cabin doors in their houses, that slide on grooves and to their buildings they give a coating of tar instead of painting them. The “old woman” biows aconch shell whea dinner is ready, and they measure time by Their babies are not rocked in cradl They chew black pig: wild tea called “Yeopon. land with sea grass and bury their y inthe sand hills. When hey want the doctor they hang a red flaz against a hill side asa sig- he don’t come, because the “wind ain't fair,” they take a dram of whisky nd copperas, soak their feet in sea wat in,” and trust te luck. If they die the buried on the top of a sand ridge; and when you see several sail boats on the water in procession with a flag at half mast, you are looking at a funeral. They ornament t houses with whales’ ribs and jaws, sharks’ teeth, swordfish snoots, devil- fish arms, sawfish swords (six feet long), minia- ture ships, camphor-wood chests, Honduras gourds, spy glasses, South American lariats, warclubs from the Mozambique Islands, Turk- ish pipes, West India shells, sandal-wood boxes, Chinese chessmen, J offal of fish and garbage. and their cattle wade out on the shoals for miles, where the water covers their backs, to feed on sea grass, and if they are carried up-country and fed on corn and fodder, they will not live. Every man is captain of some kind of a “she” is always better than any other ‘She is hard to beat in a gale of wind,” or “before the wind,” or “beating, to windward,” or “with the wind on the beam.” or “she can sail closer to the wind,” or “will carry sail tongest,” or “hurd to beat in a light wind,’ ” or is “stronger,” or is a big little boat,” “needs less bal- or “4 the best “dryer, or “bigger,” oF or “draws the least w or ads up than any other buat, &c. Perhaps “she comes about better than any other boat.” She ly bourd to have something about her better than anybody else's boat. A Cornrespo: NT of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Gotha, Germany, describes the Cremation Hall in that place, with the exception of Milan, the only one in Europe. It was built two and a half years ago, and since that time the bodies of fifty-two persons, including five women, have been ipeinerated.| The correspondent writes: “Nine hours of préliminary pr are neces: and it must be explained, in order to remove any feeling of repugnance on jd pd of the reader, that the body is not bu in flame, but is reduced to ashes by air heated to 600 deg. Reaumer. Two hours elap ashes are collected—six pounds bein the case of a man, four in that of a w I have before said. the process ix not visible is so scientific that every element of horror is eliminated. The ceremony takes place in silent solemnity, only the ortwo near relatives being admitted. omicials and one i think few visitors will visit this cremation hail without, being deeply impressed in favor of a system so advantageous to the living, and, it must be ad- mitted—at least, of France ‘and Germany—alao advantazeous to the dead. Here, as in the law compels such many cases it has place before the breath had left the body. In Aljeria I have known personally a victiin of this prompt interment. that in been known to take ion; and my German friends all speak cote seiga gh yeerd Shores new system ax, irre spective of other advantages, preventin; prema, ture burial.” ? 5