Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1883, Page 6

a, BRIGHT FANCIES OF THE PO: Struck for cher Pay. ‘Written for Tue Evenine Sraa. ‘Well, wife, I'm out 0’ work, for we left thé shops to-day, ‘Me an’ the other boys,—an’ struc for hizher pay. We hated to leave the work, but was siowly trove | to It, Bo we all agreed this noon that’twas best for us to | quit. We morchod up to the desk of the forsnan in a row, An’ one o’ the boys he sald that we hal resolvel | to go. He din’: sem surprised, but simply mutt-red | ure Aw’ pall to each man his due, which didn’t take Tong to & “u he come tome: “We hate to have you re worth two common men; bat of cours», | mat, you know Your business best!" he sald, then gravely spoxe gooldey To the Wulf-starved crowd 0” us who had struck for higher pay. I know you won't blame mo, wife, for you well | rem mer how Fve we a shal to Au’ oe waat they choose to give as the price 0” ate’s rest an’ never a wis to ckled slave from boyao01 up | with ‘harity shirk. : aved the best 6’ my Ife, til Pin gettin’ old grey, An’ Pye stood It as long as 1 will,—9o I've struck for higher pay! Year in and year out I've strove for a hom» with @ hopeful heart, Doln’ iny level best to gt some sort o” ast ct; But all o” my work so far has been labor + cut in vuln, For the tal of each day 1s the same told over and over again: Hard work fora little pay—hard work for our dally bread, An’ povert: ah ‘There’s Lilly, our only gal—a flower of pink and chalk, ‘Whos* witherin’ slow but sure to save the parent stalk. ‘Thanks to the rich one’s Kindness, she has tork encuzh to do, An’ Is up wore the sun, an’ always after It, too! But it’s prectous littie she gets for her stitchin’ day by doy— Poor thing! ‘twill be harder yet, now I've struck for higher pay ! pressin’ so close there’s never a cent An’ fom, he’s a likely chap with brains enough for aman; He's always up an’ off adoin’ the best he can ‘To help affairs along, but somehow a poor young laa Don’t stand the ghost o’ a chance by one that’s better clad. Aw’ there don’t appear to be enough o’ work for all, So the rich get the better part while Tom’s ts mighty small ! Ivs a curse to a youngster’s life to live in such a wey. He never can rise above it,—so I've struck for higher pay! Fe rve struck for higher pay; for Pm sick 0° livin’ so; An’ to rest an’ starve 1s no wors? than to work an’ starve, I know. ‘The rich still richer grow, while the poor are gettin’ worse. Sinkin’ an’ sinkin’ lower ‘neath poverty’s bitter curse, Till bed-rock ts mighty near, an’ Its quite the time o day To halt an’ make or break,—so we've struck for higher pay! But it won’t be always so; the thing will end some day; For Labor will cease to work If 1t don’t get better pay. Already our Brotherhood’s formin’ to help along each t And get bacx a part of the cash our hands and brains have ma An’ the click of the telegraph 15 almost still to-day, For the boys in’t pull enough, an’ they've struck for nisher pay! All over the land to-day the wheels of trade are sun, For business tsn’t much without Labor’s sturdy will; And Cupttal doesn’t pay a very big per cent 1 i If to help the wheis go round King Labor Isn't lent So, as we help to mike whatever és made, I say, Since the profits are so big, we ougat to have better pay! So we've struck. But mind you, wife, we don’t | Propose to fight This question of wages down except in a way that’s right. No force to make ’era yield, an’ nothin’ but what we earn. Livin’ wages for work” fs the motto we want ’em to learn ‘Au’ until they yleld us that we've a perfect right I say Fo quit thelr shops an’ combine, an’ strike for bigher pay! Vienna, Va., 1882. es Invention. —GoLp Dust. | at Mo. | the | hour for the work. j with true lw Wild fimes in the Gay Capital—Amer- icaus to the Fore. Cable to the Carson Appeal, Panis, June 26.—The round of amusements which Mr. Mackay is providing for the Ameri- nlony since his retarn trom the great fetes ow are the all-eclipsing topic of the At the ball given last Saturday Mr. ‘say hired the King of Sweden to dance with Awmerican ladies, paying him 31.000 an Abont midnight he struck for higier wazes and Mr. Mackay stood the raise merican san froid. By 4 o'clock the a8 completely blowa with his social ex 1 taken from the room in a fainting con- Mr. Mackay offered to pay all his funeral hour. M The Prince of 1 for an invitation to the ball, n millionaire remarking that a good short, declined his little bon mot was Journals the city was everal descendants ed of the I in the into tie CS iit repubs of the Although Mr. md until dayiight ‘and went, off jock, he whipped two editors of re breakfast for publish- iption of some of the When the b yin an ambu Invalides the crowds ap- treets, tothe Hospital d plauded in th On sunday last Mr. Mackay was taken with a chill, and, feeling that his hour was near, pur- chased the tone of Napoleon for a fami and had it at once taken to his garden. covering in the a “On re- noon he sold it to the ezar percent. The Journal of masterly stroke of busi- there was a rumor that Mons Pat. |. imperial keeper of 3.000 crosscuts of the Union, had struck bird's-eye porphyry in the Hale & , and that there was it. me of Mr. Mackay’s ately formed a company to Pee porphyry to Paris, and he kindly allowed them to take 10.000 shares of the Union stock at par. Tie Grand Consolidated Bird's Eye Porphyry Company (limited) is now one of the solid stock: . The first shipload of porphyry will arrive inside of a month. The only accident which marred the harmony of the grand ball was when the eldest daughter of the Count de Chambord fell into one of the tanks of champagi hich had carelessly been left in the corridor, and was drowned. The tank held 1,000 gallon: d the body was not discovered until the floor managers had drank the tank nearly dry SS How fo Tell the Stars. From the New York Sun. In April we printed some simple directiot finding the principal stara and constellations visible at that time In the evening sky. Since then many other constellations have been brought into view by the advance of the earth in Its orbit. When these have been once recog- nized, it Is Impossible ever to forget them, as they are all marked either by peculiar brilliancy or by some singuiar figure traced out by the stars composing them, and which appealsspow- erfully to the imagination. Such a constellation as Scorpio, for instance. possesses, in conse- quence of its curious outiines. a charm similar to that which Humboldt ascribes to the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, and certain countries, on account of their striking forms as shown in maps. It the observer goes out of doors in some place where he has plenty of sky room, say at My o'clock in the evening, he will recogniz low in the west and northwest, some of the con- stellations d din April, when they were high inthe heavens. Poised upon the north- west horizon, he will perceive the sickle of Leo; above that the nebulous. glimmer of Bereni ud half way up the western sky the s outshining everything in that vens. Between Arcturus and the Northern Crown. ‘The Great Bear is seen descending headforemost toward the ex- treme northwestern horizon, and the Little Bear is poised above the pole, apparently balancing upon_ its: tail. the dia- mond of the Virgin, ow down in ing these old let. the observer . Alittle east of the zenith le see astar which at once chains the atten- both b S$ unusual brilliancy and by the e which the the frie! southwest. h tion ti te zie of aif the air aperture will show the de nitude companion star of Ve a steady. be seen two little stars which ianzle withit. A powerful oper will readily show the northernmost of these stars, which is i Now let the ob cope upon it, with a magnifying power of say 7300 diame- He will perceive that each of the Stars shown by Close by Vega. on the east. m will ke a jer.and ifhis telescope is of the finest quality, and his eye good, he will see bet the two pairs two exceedingly minute stars which Herschel called the Debill sima, and which are famous tests for te ee or four inches aperture. A few degrees south of Vega are the third magnitude stars Beta and Gainma Lyre, both double, and about haif ways between them lies the wonderful Ring Written for Tue Evesixe Sram, ‘The kettle began tthe Song of Steam: AS great things all Up-spring from smal, And the grandest deed was once a dream. Some lonely man, by the kitehen fire, od-for-nouzht, ven to thought, Sang In his soul of the world’s desire! Bewa 1 man, lest you give it breath: A thous ind foes nit 1 you close, Ani mock and torture yon down to death f Bide your tim Your tria Shall com And scatter the nel su! ph proud clout, scorners like useless dust? and trust; Evcr the story reads the same, Evermore Night Shall hate the Light, And dwarfs attack the glant Fame! Washington. —SeaTon Doxouo, ‘The Whirlpool. in the shad Je of the hheadiang, a span from the ‘The whirlpool Lies cotted tn steep— Who coull guess that that slumbering brow ever bore A frown that is crafty and deep? ‘Fetus here in the blast of the hurricane’s breath ‘That the soui-laten ship finds a doom; To the musics! moan of this circle of death Do they pazs to their fathomless tomb, uth tn Its bloom, x Age in tts gloom, Mother and father, the maid and her mate, ‘Moster and slave Finding a grave In this mad magic circle, the whirlpool of fate! In the heart of the city, in turmotl and din, ‘The whirlpool doth fearies-ty ride; In tts moretiess torrent are virtu: and sin, ‘The porson and thier stde by side; Here the hamd of the peasant is gripped by the glove Of the gallant who lives but to Ite, And the maiden to-day who Is earning to love, ‘On the morrow has learnt how to dle! Vice with its paint, Crime with ite taint, Cradle and coftin, the lowly and great; Billows of blood Cresting the flood ‘Of this mad magie circie, the whirlpool of fatet —ARTHUR W. Pixeo, It is time of bloom. 1d roses lea! From out the hedges, and the roadsides glow ‘With daisies and red clover, and we glean Lilies of searict that beside them grow. ut from the crevices of the rocks they spring ‘The columbines, that nod tn every breeze, Which the bee sucks upon fts busy wing, And pauses on their treasured sweets to selza, Thon the sluggish stream white Illes rest; Along its banks the purple-flowers unfold; ‘The white clementis rears its dainty crest Among the stones o’ergrown by mosses old. ‘On mountain sides hang out the fairy bells, ‘The seashore shows tts pimpernel With pride, And every sheltered nook in perfume tells ‘That Summer reigns and earth ts glorified 1 Maw He who made we mast tees She iran spin For through these ng days ‘They mect us wheresoe roar ur footstep fice, Lured by the suashine throug! ways. Nebula. Not a trace of this nebula can be seen with the naked eye, the spot where it exists ap- pearing black and empty. If the observer has no right ascension and declination circles at- tached to his instrument, he can find the nebula v sweeping with the telescope from Beta to It looks like one of the smoke metimes blows from his lips in the air of a room, but it would en- circle the whole solar system, with plenty of room to spare. East of Vega is the constellation of Cygaus, marked by the easily recognized figure of a large sometimes called the Northern Cross. The star at the head of the cross is Deneb and the smaller star at its foot Epsiton The latter is one of the most beautiful Cygni. ofall the double trast in the colors of its’ components, one being ‘ars, on account of the con- orange and the other deep blue. readily separated by a telescope of two inches aperture. In fact, a large spyylass, if armed with an astronomical eyepiece, will’ show this splendid double well. Rather more than a third of the distance from bowl of the small dipper in the Lit- of stars forming a diamond- shaped figure will be seen. ‘This isthe head of the Dragon, a constellation, the remainder of whose stars are strung out ina winding line nearly encircling the pole. Far over in the northeast the observer will see the W-shaped fizare formed by the principal stars of Cas— siopeia. They are * now toward the southeast quarter of e will see, pretty well elevated above the horizon, a first magnitude star, on two sides of which, at a distance of about two degrees, 13 athird magnitude star. A line drawn through these three stars points toward Vega. The larger star is Altair inthe Eagle. East of the Eagle and south ot Cygnus is a small, well- marked group called the Doiphin, and ‘some- times Job's Coffin. The observer will notice that the Milky Way streaming upward from Cas- siopeia und enveloping Cygnus passes between vee and Altalr in two branches, the portion ‘ing near Altair being uaneaelly brilliant. Paeding on toward the south the Milky Way be- comes exceedingly bright in cloud-like patches just above the horizon. Right here the figure ‘of a short, inverted dipper, called the Milk Dip- per, is seen. This marks the zodiacal constella- tion of Sagittarius. With a telescope the ob- server may spend hours exploring the wonder- ful star flelds of the Milky Way until he ex- Cates in the words of the angel in Richter’s ream : “End is there none to the Universe of God: lo! also, there is no beginning.” West of Sagittarius and at about an equal ele- yation above the southern horizon is rans Its principal star, Antares, is one of the hief ornaments of the midsummer sky. It will be readily recognized by its flery hue, and a four- inch Eimcra will show a little green star half hidden in its rays. There are two smaller stars near Antares, which, with it, form a slightly crooked line, recalling the figure above de- scribed in the Eagle. A long, crooked line of stars below and to the left of Antares marks the trailing body of the Scorpion. To the right of and above Antares are three or four stars ing nearly in a line at right angles to the line form: by Antares and the stars near it. They are in the claws and head of the Scorpion. Two of these stars are of the second magnitude, and the northermost of the two is Beta Scorpi afine double. Still further to the right, two second magnitude stars will be seen in a rather blank region, so far as large stars are concerned. These mark the two scales of the balance in bh earth’s pleasant | Libra. Their names are so odd that the curious er may like to learn them. The southern star is called Zubenelgenubi, and the northern one Zubeneschemali. Turning now to the region overhead. the ob- server will see. nearly in the zenith, a constella- tion which possesses peculiar interest, because it lies directly in the path along which the solar system Is advancing through space. This is the constellation of Hercules, which the Greek poet Aratus describes in these singular words: Near to the Dragon’s head tn toil-spent posture Revolves a phintom, whose name none can tell, Nor what ne labors at; they call him simply The man upon bis knee; his knees seem bent In desperate struggle, while from bogh his should- His hands are high uplifted, and outspread AS far as he can reach. Toward this constellation the sun and all his planets are rushing at the rate of some 400,000 miles aday. Hercules can be distinguished by four stars, which form a four-sided figure, the southern end of which is narrower than the northernend. Looking at the two stars which form the v of this figure, and run- ning bis eye from the northern star about one- third of tire way to the southern one, the obser- ver will see what appears to bea very faint star. Onturning the telescope upon this oi beliold instead of one star a compact, globular s,80 numerous ani so closely ag- ated that only the outlying ones can be sep- although the whole nee, which indicate owhere in the heay oY wele thgn this strange s. How many thousands of them there are we have no means of telling. © ‘Terrors of an Epidemic. From the London Spectator. Nothing is more curious than the tact that dying as one of a crowd seems to be more ter- rible to aman than simply dying his own indl- vidual death. Unquestiora®ly there seems to be no kind of death more dreaded by ‘men than death either from sudden catastrophes—like that of the Ring theater at Vienna and that on tue Clyde, for Instance—or from p No doubt, it ‘is perfectly true that de shared in the same sense in which a peril or ij pleasure can be shared; you cannot, in all prob- ability, be conscious of the stren-zth of compan- ship after life begins to flicker low, nor are e above one or two people in the world with whom most men would covet the sense of companionship in sueh a moment as that of deati. Still, it is somewhat curious that death nd scale always seems to be more terri- ‘en tothe separate individuals, thanthe or- ry death by units. Ofcourse, terror is very catching, and, therefore, the terror ofa crowd always enhanc s the terror of the individual. But thou-h that explains the supreme azony ofa sink- ing siup ora burning theater, it does not in the least explain the additional dread of death “ue seems to inspire in individuals, for the inhabitants ofa plague-stricken city always very much less active sympathy re was before the pestilence appeared, and itisrathertirough the growth of mutual revulsion: than throu the heightening of a common sym- pathy that the influence of “pestilence is chiefly felt. As a fact, very few patients stricken with ordinary disease who are told that death 1s in- evitable show any panic at all, while the per- fectly healthy man, surrounded py pestilence, 18 too often consumed with a terror which renders oo absolutely unfit tor the discharge of his juties. Aids to Economy. From the American Queen. It seems astonishing that so many shabby things are often seen in a house that might with a little knowledge and energy, be made to look comparatively new, if people did not mind a certain amount of personal trouble and fatigue For instance, those portions of astone staircase between the edge of the carpet and the balus- trade, if they have been painted, are often seen ina very worn and dingy condition. A few ,and the employment of the paint , Which quickly dries, and which re- quires no varnish, would quite change the ap- ‘ance of the stairs. It is not necessary to p the stair carpets, if the painting is very carefully done, with @ moderately fine brush, and ina dayanda night the paint will very likely be quite dry. It isalways more satisfactory to have the treads painted, as when they are kept white with a mixture of mason’s dust, ete.. it comes off so much on the dresses. | Nursery ants’ washstands ean, for a few cents, b over with light stone-colored paint, and to look ed for the work by a painter. paint sold, in ti for re-c.loring wicker-work chairs that previously been ; and the paint is equaily w: ’ fee be inac been ebon, nice as if a good sum had The answers admirably have The bi white in pla rubbing in alittle raw linseed oil, and then applying the ing brush used for boots. Care must be taken to rub in the oil until it is thoroughly dry. and doesnot come off on to the fingers, and also to take the same precaution with the polishing brash. ‘This plan will not be successful unless the top is real leather, instead of the spurious imitat often sold for it on turnit The seats of dining room chairs, if covered with real morocco leather, can be rubbed over with oil, with most beneficial reeults, if looking worn and white. Little points like these, being at- tended to, all help to produce an effect of bricht~ ness and cleanliness, which cannot fail to be agreeable to the eye, and the good result being rapid, it is sure to please the operator. For snial! home repairs plaster of Paris will be found a most useful substance. and easily manipulated. If the marble back or sides of a washstand be- come loose, a small quantity of plaster of Paris, mixed with water Into athick paste, and put on immediately it is mixed, before it has time to set, mends them securely. The best thing tor ping oft the portion that oozes out upon the surface isa palette knife. Itmust be scraped over as soon as the edges are fastened tozether, before the stuff becomes hard. Ifthe glass re- ceiver of% paraffin lamp becomes upset from the brass base. hh so often happens, owing to the penetrating and softening properties of the oil, it can be easily-refixed at home by means of a dab of plaster of Parls quickly and neatly applied. See A Big Business in Baggage. d over 1,200 heavy trunks yester- day. and it was not considered a very big sum- mer day's work either. On an average about 1,500 pieces of baggage are passed through the baygage-master’s room at the depot every day during the summer months, At a rough guess, the perspiring bazeage-master yesterday found time to caiculate that 3,000 trunks are checked out of Philadelphia every day during June, July, and August. Last year there were 300,000 trunks checked out and about 300,000 received into the bi room at Broad street alone. The heayiest month August, when the average per day was over 1,600 trunks outward bound, and over 1,000 re- ceived from abroad. During the latter part of eptember and in October and November the baggage flows back at the rate of about 1,600 per day. On the Saturday before the Fourth of July this year there were 2,500 trunks checked out of the baggage-room at Broad street station, which was the bizgest day’s work on record. Hanging on the racks in the out-bound and in-bound baggage-room are over 400.000 checks, covering all the important railroad and stean boat routes inthe United States and Canada. A trunk can be checked even to London, Paris, Rome, or ferlin. “In the winter,” remarked the baggage-mas- ter at the station, “we have cool weather, less baggage, and comparatively small trunks, but in the summer, when it is hot, the baggage be- comes bette in number and size. If this thing of building big trunks keeps on, the rail- road companies will soon be compelled to con- struct cars with doors as large as half the length of the car. ‘Dog houses,’ which come so large that they were the subject of general remark a few years ago, are considered small affairs com- pared with some of the immense receptacles now In use by fashiqnable ladies on a jaunt to Long Branch or a trip to Europe. A box full of gold bricks could scarcely be watched with more care than a trunk is looked atter by the big railroad companies in these days of travel. The destination of every one of the 1,500 pieces of baggage which goes vut of the Broad street station daily is recorded in a book, and every time it changes cars a receipt Is taken by the train baggage-master and sent back to the Philadelphia office. If, for instance, in a Journey from Philadelphia to New Orleans the trunk changes ten times, ten receipts, showing whose hands it passed through and who deliy- ered to the passenger and received the check, are taken and returned to the men who started it on its voyage. A trunk which left Broad street station a year ago can be traced by the receipts through all the routes andthrough whose hands it passed to its destination. Thus it happens that of the 300,000 sent out last year not a single trunk was lost. —_—_ T. D. Jones of Durhum, N. C.. says that at the surrender of Johnston to Sherman, after the signing of the articles of surrender, ap epletack was passed around without the formal ‘glasses, and that the bottle was seized and kept as airhistorical relic. aT osm CHICAGO ICTION SNAPS, How They in the Unsophistica- ted—Confederates and Their Uses, From the Chicago Herald, “Do we sell goods for less than they're worth? Well, I hope you don't" take us for fools,” said the auctioneer. “But how do you work it?” ummies.” “What's a dumm’ “A man who bills for'us. You see, betore we begin a sale we sét out minimum price on every- thing in the stock. If two or more men get to bidding honestly, of course we don’t need the dummy’s bid, butdf onfy one man seems to want an article the dummy bids him upto the mini- mum figure and then keeps still. The auction- ecr takes care of the rest. If he thinks the cus- tomer will stand another rise, he pretends to recognize a bid from the dummy. If the custo- mer doesn’t raise that the dummy declares he didn’t bid, so the article is knocked down at the price last named by the customer. Sometimes we do ‘em up on the duuble-bid scheme.” “What's that?” “Well, say the customer bids 10 for a watch. If we can't get a better bid we declare it sold tor $10. The dummy steps up and says that was his bid, and the customer does the same. ‘The auctioneer settles the dispute by selling it again, and nine times out of ten a customer will pay a dollar more Just to keep the dummy from beating him. A man is always willing to pay something for having revenge. = dot li oe Home-Made Wills, From Chambers' Journal. No person should write his own will unless there be urgent need for it. Perhaps more liti- gation has arisen trom this cause than any other. The most experienced lawyers, not even excepting learned judges, in making their own wills, have been known to fail, not, however, in making simple bequests, for In that a man of fair intelligence and education could scarcely go wrong, but in trying too much in the way of complex and altertative and contingent desti- nation—in short, looking too deeply into the future. A man of standing and one who is con- stantly in the habit of drawing such documents should be emp! Nothing is saved by being too parsimonious in this recpect. Ifany manis determined to write his own will, let him do so in plain English, setting forth as clearly as he can what he has clearly and de- finitely resolved to do. All legal terms and phrases, notwithstanding the learning they may display, ought to be avoided. Children, if men- tioned, ought to be called by their names; and such extrewlind as “heirs, successors, issue, heirscf the body,” and so forth, never used at random. Most of these terms havea certain legal interpretation, which may differ from what the testator intended. There ts no use, either, in inserting a long string of words like “give, grant, devise, legate, bequeath, convey, dispose, and make over.” Although most of the legal peculiarities attaching to these words are now swept away, their repetition only leads to con- fusion. All printed forms of wills should be fe jected as dangerous, at least in so far as their meaning is not quite clear. If no legal aid Is at hand, let the party express his wishes on paper in plain'simple Saxon, just as if he were telling a frienda story, or writing a letter expressing his wishes, And let him not forget to sign It, as has been the case with many an amateur will maker. The same rules. apply to codicils. They may be executed at_ the testator’s pleasure; but if they make changes upon or partial revocations of the original will great care should be taken that these are clearly expresien The will and each of the codicils should be dated, although this is not essential, if their provisions do not clash. When two testamentary provisions are clearly inconsistent the later revokes the earlier, anda will disposing of the whole estate, real and personal, heritable and movable, by implica- tion of law revokes all prior wills. Litigation often arises from defects in the written instru- ment, but still more frequently from the author of a will not having clearly thought out what he intends to do; or having partly altered his mind; or having forgotten what he has done in some earlier codicil, which has fallen out of sight ona loose fly-leaf, and bequeathed the same ring or piece of plate, or other memento, to two ditfer- ent persons: or left the same money legacy twice same person; or misnamed some col- lege or suarttable:) institution; or tailed to dis- r or, worst of all, etting the house in order? util disease: has wealened oF destroyed the “sound disposing mind,” and left the kindly wishes and benevolent hopes of a lifetime—tor cherished, but expresséd, perhaps, too late—to a battle of medical and legal theories about in- sanity, or the accidents of a jury trial. — Engineers’ From the Albany Journal. “Amsterdam is now on the dead list.” said an engineer of the New York Central st nightas he glanced overthe account ot the third fatal accident at the crossing in that village. A Journalrenorter was ignorant of the significance of theterm “deadiist.” Heexpressed his curiosity. “By adead Ist I mean,” said the engineer, responsively, “¢ that that crossing is now out of danger. Three deaths, you know, baptizes it. That is what the boys say. You know they be- lieve that if one man or woman is killed ata certain point there are dead sure to be one or two others before long. Superstition? Yes, that is what it is and no mistake. But some of us engi who have run a machine for twenty or thirty years, as I have, take stock in it because we have seen it proved time and time again. I don’t believe that three deaths are sure to come one after another, but I can’t help wondering why it is so often two. That's what they call the duality, isn’t it? When you come fe think of it, everything goes by twos. You haye two legs, two eyes, two hands, two ears, two nostrils and two rows of teeth. There are two parts to aday, two divisions of the year, winter and summer, and two orbs of light. The pair is the natural number. I have a record home of the accidents that have occured while I have been on my engine. I can show yot the dates to prove that they have been in eight cases out often twoata time. veral times three have happened in succession, but two is the usual number. People would say that was superstition, but when you see It over and over again you can’t blame us. [ know engineers who will knock off for a week or so, after an ac- cident to their train in which somebody has been killed. rather than runthe risk. There was a case when young Platt Truax was killed near Schenectady, in 1878. You know they are now trying three young fellows in this city for derailing the train. A few days before a freight on which he was running had an accident, in which the fireman was hurt so that he died—I think he died—but the accident was not at the same point; It was west of Schnectady. The train men told me afterward that Truax had a prem@nition of death. If I had my book here I yonla give you a heap of information about death on the rail to show you that there is something strange im it. Anyway, most ot the engineers have a rather strong fear of repetition whenever blood is spilled along the line. Of course there are those who are as superstitious as old women, Those are the tellows who see ghosts.” “See ghosts?” “Yes, the disembodied spirits, as the mediums call them, of people they have run over. Not long ago an engine a yu know by name re- signed because he said the spectre of a woman he had ground to’ peices at Fonda used to ap- pear every night at the exact spot. es ‘Blinkers. From the London Lancet. The question has often been asked, “Why do horses wear blinkers?” We cannot answer the question. It seems to us that they are use- less, ugly, and, to come extent injurious to the eyesight.’ The most beautiful feature of the horse is its eye. If ft were not “hid from our gaze,” it would serve to denote sickness, pain, or pleasure. Many a time would a driver spare the whip on seeing the animal’s imploring eye. The argument in favor of blinkers is, we believe, that horses are afraid of passing carriages. This objection, if valid, Is of Pittle E welght, as uperstition such timidity, would s00n be overcome. We trust, now the cruel bearing rein has been cast aside. that blinkers will also beabandoned—a course whjch would, =e feel assured, beattended with advantage to Both man and horse. ‘Texas Drinking Water. From the Sanitary Engineer, Ina grotesquely horrible way a recent story from Texas brings out the indifference of people to the condition of their drinking water. A pub- lic well in Brownsville was cleaned out a short time ago, and in it were found the remains of a paisoner who had disappeared, it is said, severa, ears since. Then the ee remembered that! 0 be sure, Ge water did at one time taste bad end hair and flesh had been found init, But as it was sup| eed Tikes came only from drowned Tats or cats Phy went on drinking the water un- concernedly. The question of was of noim- portance; distilled dead animals they endured with equanimity—only when it Se etatoe to dead prisoner did Reet attach any the bad taste and be fetes in Paris said that in passin; The interesting question of the origin and rise of mountain chains has been made the subject of more especial investigation by French and by American than by English geologista. Nearly half acentury ago the late Elie de Beaumont gave to the world the result of his researches, in his ‘Systeme des Montagnes,”in which he pro- pounded an hypothesis that still receives very general acceptunce on the continent, but which, except in a modified view, has found few sup- porters in this country. Assuming for our globe an outer solid crust with a central liquid mass, this distinguished geologist showed that the earth is incessantly losing some portion of its heat by radiationfrom the surface, andthat this process of cooling, which has been going on at a slow rate from the earliest geological times, causesthe central mass to contract and lessen in volume. This lessen- ing of the heated nucleous has led the crust to contort itself in order fo fit or adapt itself to the diminished volume of the central nucleous caus- ing the crust to wrinkle or foldin great corruga- tions, or to fracture. and the fractured edges to squeeze up in lines of mountain chains. He showed that mountain chains have been formed at all geological periods, and that their relative age could be ascertained by determining the age of the tilted mountain strata, and the age of those strata which abut” horizontally ainst their base. For it is evident that the mountain range must have been elevated before the deposition of the strata which lie horizon- tally at their base, and which are unaffected by the disturbance, that threw up the mountains. It follows, therefore, that. the mountain cha:n is older than the horizontal strata and newer than the upheaved strata. Thus the age of any mountain range iseasily determined, relatively to the successive groups of strata forming the sedimentary series. Elie de Beaumont further argued that, as the crust of the earth must have become thicker by secular refrigeration, it follows that the crust was thinner and less strong at the earlier period of the earth's history than at the later periods, and, consequently, that the crumplings and mountain chains,although more frequent, were not on so latge a scale in early geological times as when the crust had become thicker and more rigid. =.But although there is no doubt that some of the oldest mountains are very insignificant in height, we have no means ot knowing what their original altitude was, or how much of their mass has been removed by wear and de- nudation. Some of the hills in the neighbor- hood of St. David's, in South Wales, are neith: majestic nor lofty, yet they are among the ear- est of our mountain ranges. Or look, again, at a range of hills of much later date; yet etill very old, as, for example, at the Mendips in our own country,and the Arden- nes In Belgium, both portions of the same mountain chain, raised before the formation of our Oolitic hills of Bath and Cheltenham, or of the Lias cliffs of Lyme Regis. It possible that this range, which is now of comparative in- significancé—in no case attaining a height of Fe hed feet in either Ei nd or Belgium—formed e time a lofty mountain chain. For, jude- ing from the portions that are wanting and have been removed from the Mendips, it has been es- timated that those hills may at one time have had an elevation of not less than 6,000 to 8.000 feet above the plains of Somersetshire. while the Belgian geologists have shown that the Ar- dennes might have soared from 15,000 to 18,000 feet above the plains of Belgium.’ This chain, now 80 unimportant, may at .one time have vied with the later-formed Alps and Apennines in height and grandeur. How strange and striking a picture our corner of Western Europe must have presented in that early age, when the English channel was not, and when a great chain of mountains, possibly snow-capped, ranged from the Mendips to Westphalia! The portions which remain are, as it were, the worn- down stamps of this great mountain chain, the whole of the yast superincumbent mass having been removed by wear and denudation con- tinued through long geolggical times. And such has been the case in many other mountain regions of our globe: on tlie one hand deforma- tion being produced by subterranean forces, and on the other planing down and levelling by meteorological agencies. How Captain Webb was Killed. The physicians who made post-mortem examl- nation of the remains of Captam Webb submit their official report. They found the body in an active state of decomposition, but no bones were broken, and none of the injuries, except the wound three and one-half inches long in the cranium, were sufficient to cause death. The cranium’ wqund they decided was produced after death. All the blood presentea a dis- tinctly red color, showing that it was not deos diz ‘xia in drowning, but that death r to that condition. None offthe characteristic symptoms of death by drowning were present, nor was there any local injury sufficient to cause death. It was therefore concluded that death resulted from the shock from the reactionary force of the water in the Whirlpool Rapids coming in contact with the submerged body with such force as to Instantly destroy the respiratory power, and in fact ail vital action, by direct pressure from the force of contact. The shock was of sufficient intensity as to paralyze the nerve centers, partially desic~ cate the muscular tissues, and forestal death by drowning. The conclusion was therefore reached that no living body can or ever will pass through the rapids alive. The river-bed at the Whirlpool Rapids is much narrowed, and suddenly assumes great precipitancy. ' The water strikes the unyielding banks with great violence, and by reaction meets with such re- sistance as to form in the center a mountainous ride of encroaching waters from twenty to thirty feet in height. Into this Captain Webb was submerged after passing the first breaker, and instantly subjected to the immense pressure indicated upon his body. This caused his death. Se A New Order. From the Wall Street News. “Waiter,” he began, “‘you.may bring me a spring chicken, a piece of lamb, a choice cut of- He was interrupted by the appearance ot a Arlen. who chatted with him for three or four es, and then left. Waiter, how far had I got?” asked the gen- tleman. “You were going to order a choice cut.” “Alt Yes. I was then under the impression that the west was enjoying fine weather, and the wheat was being harvested in nice shape. My friend says it has been raining every day tor a fortnight, the harvest is delayed and wheat is being badly damaged. Waiter!” s sir.” “Pl nake a new order, based upon a falling off 13 per cent in the crop. Bring me a dish of pork and beans and a glass of milk!” How Susie Treated the Mashers. From the San Francisco Chronicle. A pretty waiter girl ina San Francisco coffee- house told the following toa reporter: “When it’s noon we have a rush which lasts about an hour and a half; then for two hours the stragglers come in; afterthat it’s quiet until we close.” “What do you mean by ‘stragglers’?” “The fellers that like take their time eat- ing lunch and mash us girls.” “Do they mash you?" “Well, they think they do, which is Just the same. Susie, over there by that table; is a fa- vorite. She isn’t married, and hasn’t any folks tosay where she shall go or what she must not do. She's a good girl, though, but the other | f day (here she got confidential) Susie played a lot of them little dudes that come inhere. She and two other girls hired a big room up town for one night, and Susie told every feller she knew that she lived in that room and that he could come and see her. One feller she made promise to bring a bottle of beer, and another an oyster loaf, and so‘on. Weil, you'd died to have seen us—I mean to have seen Susie and the girlsand those fellers. There were seven- teen of’em, and each one aay ioe he was going to haye the lark all to himeelf. Trade fell off here the next few days, but they all came back when they got over their mad.’ oo Mightier than the Plumber. From the Cincinnati Saturday Night. The bathtub waste pipe had clogged up and the faffiily plumber was viewing the remains. “This Is terrible!” he exclaimed. ‘You didn’t send for me any too soon.” ey he went away and ordered the water turned Next day hesent arourd as men, a boy with a spirit lamp and a wagon load of tools. The men dug up the hydrant,. after which they were compelled to goto a neighboring saloon and pay, seven-up forthe champagne, and the boy to go to a base-ball match and hedge a few bets. hen the small boy of the household came home from school in the evening he stuck a switch into the seal me pipes and the bathtub was soon cleared of its By this hay chance the plumbers bill was cut down to This story teaches that the small boy is mightier than the plumber. ——___—-o- ____ Hungarian visitors at the ee a Bt the age of eighty: thre fey cag Seth rh ay OW FARE! FORUEAK | STEAMERS ! LY DSEr LINE! UNITED STATES MAIL! STEAMFRS GEORGE fore oe RGR, LEARY AND EXCELSIOR: A. 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