Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1886, Page 13

12 TOE NEBRASKA FISHERY. | age of Talling Waters and Artificial Fish v THOUSANDS OF OVA AND FINS, The Hatche Which Streams 1w With Useful and Specimens of Fish. Supplies the nds of the State Beantiful [ Written for the O The Platte lay Bee.) South Bend by along wooden brid t by H. 1 Clarke and several other gentlemen, The southern end of this structure is in Cass, the vorthern in Sarpy county. To cross this bridge, a toll of one dollar must be paid for a double team, w and driver. Seventy-five cents are assessed against the individual with n horse and wagon, while foot-passengers are classed with and cattle and asked for twenty-five cents each as a tarifi for crossing. Sheep are priviledged individ ualg, being taxed but five cents, There are railronds running over this bridge, one w ywand the other a standard gauge. The latter is made for the cars which run semi-oces Stout's quarries on the Sa side, and the former for the fussy little locomotive which pulls them back and forth The northern hank of the river is lined with blufls, covered with coarse g ill-concealing the out-cropping of rock strata mn varions degrees of worthless- ness. On a shelf, cut on the hill side, runs a rural road, at times skirting the base of the biuffs and hugging the margin of the stream. This leads, after a drive of aboutten minutes, to THE STATE FISHERY Here there is a notable difference in the nature of the land. There is more ver dure, fewer rocks, better trees and richer soil, and one feels that he has forsaken a rock-ribbed country only to fine a ter- restial paradise. ‘Uhis feeling is increased us the drive is continued, and the pictur esque glen of the is brought to view. A short distance above the road, on the right, is a fall of water lowing in asteady musical stream, the while spark- ling like silver in the sunlight. Beyond, and far up in the glen, wiere the view is more or less obseured in the leafy vista, are other falls ing in size and re: ance, each subscrving n practieal utility while appealing to the refined sense of the beautiful. There is little about these miniature fulls to suggest the cataract of Lodore, and yet the pocts who have v ited the place have been more happy in likening it to that celebrated faney t to anything else. Still, there i ing but the of, to justify its being known as the Village of Falling V There is a dreamy quiet about the place in which the inhabitants of Irving’s crea. tion would revel, to sit and smoke and gossip and dream dreams and see appari- tions to their hearts content. Skirting a little hill, the road winds upward and ends upon the eminen from which may be had a delightful vi of the Platte and the wooded depths and cultivated fields beyond. Upon this height, the residence of the supcrinten- dent, M. E. O'Brien, has been built, ‘This is a neat little structure, interiorly as well as exteriorly, giving every evi- dence of a calm, tranquil and happy rural life. 3 On the day of my visit, Mr. W. L. M of Fremont, the oldest member of the State Fish commission, was present. In company with him and the superinten- dent, [ made s tour of the place, first di nding several flights of steps down the hill Khfi\ to the ponds in the glen, and then walking along the tortuous path to th head waters of e burst through a in a rock, and into the reservoir of the spring house, where they lie for a few moments, when they flow through s rge pipe to the hatching hous » purity of this water is remarkable, s it indeed, that in the spring, it secms as if it were even a hundred feet deep, a pin _could be distinguished in its depths. The spring house is a stone stracture eight by twelve feet in size, WM a window and door, the latter being always carefully locked at night, This is done for more th eason, the main one, however, being to prevent malicious people from tumpering with or poisoning the water, as was once done. The cow- ardly deed, however, was discovered and the injurious effects destroyed by shutting off the fluid from the hatchery In the vicinity of the spring house, there are several “draws’ or openings in the hills from which otherrills gush. One of these supplies pond No. 1 'in which, whenl1 visited it, there were 20,000 young brook trout, The water in this w: ingly k green, eaused doubtless by the reflection of the folinge on all sides » above, and closely resembling the cele- brated Green Lake in Colorado. At the sonthern extremity of thispond is a stone dam thirty-five feet wide, thre feet thick and twelye feet high,’ fitted with a gate and sereen, through the latter of which the water flows and then falls into pond No. 2, with a grateful sound. In this pond are 7,000 mountain trout, a species of fish of which travelers to Colo ado and Utah Kknow more or less after they return from their journeying. Another” dam and cascade” mar Ihr boundary of this pond, when the third 1 is renched. is contains mountmin trout two years old, many of them being about ‘eight inches long. As we journcyed by the ponds, Mr, O'Bri ied a_pan full of puly od beef liver, bandfulls of which he cast into the water, In a second every fish in the ponds rose to the surface and the next darted away 1 the fragments of a feast. The avidity with which this breakfast was seized was most noticeable with the mountain trout last mentioned, some of them jumping out of and lashing the water into foam. In the fourth pond were two-year old brook trout. Each of these ponds is framed with water cress, which in some places is very beautiful indeed, contrasting in its light green with the more :umfirc hue of the surface of the pond, THE HATCHERY is reached at this point, It is a two- story frame structure, painted in dark brown. The second foor 18 used for storing fish cans, while the first is used for hatehin The water, as before stated, is received from the main spring at the head of the glen. It forces its way through an upright pipe and falls in sparkling purity, into a long wooden trough extending across the building. From this trough run twenty-five faucets, Lieneath each of which, in another trough is a tin pail of peculiar construction. I'ho bottow is perforated and a slight wee ubove the lower rim of the pail. Near the upper v i reulsr opening o about one inch in diameter. A tin pipe perforated is fixed to this and may be re- wmoved at leisure. When the water is suf- fered to run throngh the faucets men- tioned, it flows into the next trough and thenee, through the perforated bottoms, rises gradunlly in the pails. When it reaches the perforated tin pipe near the upper rim, it flows out and drops nto another trough which Jeads it to a lavge wooden box on the floor ealled the nursery. The rise of the water in the Lulln is most gradual, sca; pereepti- le, just such. as is neces: to ge l‘l!v agitate the ova which ure theredepositod. | is spanne gon horses two fishery 1'HE After the ova are placed there, the milt is deposited in the same place, and with al- most immedinte effcct upon the oy | which are seen to largely increase in size These ova are procured from the female when in a state of feecundity, after which she is at liberty to again be set free inthe waters. The milt is procured in the same manner, without injury to the male. The ova remain in the cans until the fry is hatched, the moderate rise of the witer keeping them in motion akin the stream, When the' fry is hatched, however, the perforated tin pine which guards the outlet is removed, and the fry float to the nursery Besides these cans thore 18 wooden tronghs, abont ten fec two feet wide and siy inches deep. are several feet below the trough from which the main supply of water is received wnd from this by means of faucet and nose, they are supplied. Small supports run along on ench side of these trough upon which rest square frames with wi gauze containng openings about one cighth of aninch in width and thre fourths of an inch in length. Upon ti trays or sicves trout eggs are placed water is allowed to rise up to and flow over them, and then pass away The capacity of these trays is about 500,000 brook, mountain or luke trout, which re quire nbout ten weeks to hateh. When hatched, they swim through the sieve, sport for atime in the waters, and are then sent to the pond. In the cans men tioned, 25,000,000 eggs can be IO ed at one time, and require about six weeks in which to hatch, The fish raised at the hatchery are those already mentioned, namely brook trout, whicl Californ lake or salmon troutten weeks; wi pike, ten days; black bass, fift German earp, six to ten days pike imported from St river and Bast Saginaw bay, in flann s of the and packed in boxes with fine ice. They are then hatched at this hatehery. In this same room is a small but inter- tion of alcoholic specimens dy done duty at the state re also fine in with beantiful specimens of the several kinds of fish raised. among them being the k sucker, the mirror - stening con mingly tr pretty as a mountain, o trout, even tractive and interesting. In an- other acquarium mopes a pair of turtles, ble old snapper, with a moss hich il _comports with the vic- which he turns up toward In the nursery are acat fish « lips and dark sides. shadows and ecems anng imquisitiveness. South of the hatchery other ponds, I than those desceribed. The first of these is almost an oval, with sodded banks and aterracedisland with flowersin the centre. In this are 400 large trout. Below is a series of spawning races, and then com another pretty pond, studded with an is- Iand upon which the remnants of some trost-blighted flowers are visible. This is hemmed in by a stone dam, sixty feet long, six wide and fourteen high, A fall of water drops into a basin and 1s thence conducted by a pipe under the roadway, to several other ponds beyond. One of these is the carp breeding place, 200 feet squ The water had been drawn out u[l this pond and the fish removed to the small pond preparatory to shipping. Tt bottom showed a number of cedar boughs upon which the carp spawn. Another pond 150x200 feet contains 25,000 wall-ey .f.) , while a smaller enclo shelters about 7,000 black bass. other ponds complete the complement and in these,dittle andadult carp disport themselves. Mr. O'Brien with an a tant scined one of these ponds and brought up some beautiful specimens, each of which seemed in the possession of the greatest vitality. The carp are fed on squash, but Mr. May’s story that they make nightly pere- Zrinations to the neighboring fields for their vegetables may be received with doubt. The trout luxuriate on liver while the bass and pike are fed with smaller fr The hatchery was commenced on a smali seale about four years ago, when it was authorized by an act of the 1 a- ture, the commission then consisting of Dr. Livingston of Plattsmouth W. L. May of Fremont, and H. S. ey of Red Cloud, hiring a man to breed some Cali- fornia salmon. It soon got into the hands of the present management, by whom rything outlined above has heen done in about the last thre There are now cloven ponds, and’ the fishery prop- erty comprises flfty-two acres. he su- perintendent has two assistants in sum- mer and one in winter. The last appro- priation was $8,000 for two yemis, which, when salaries and other incidentals deducted leaves but about §1 provements. In view .of this fact, the amount of work done, the transformati that has taken place on the of the fishery, nd the numi streanrs and ~ privafe ponds stocked throughout the state, the success of the undertaking must be considered remark- abl The commission is at all times ready to supply people, in on, with fish for streams or ponds, and during this month, November and December, will furnish applicants with carp without other ex- pense than that of express charges. It js able that a larger appropriation will be requested next year to suc fully arry out the plans now maturing. The superintendent is one of the most painstaking of our state oflicials, and is ssisted by the commission, espee- r. M whose interest in the un- g is Learty and well directed E. A. O'Briy He sulks in the 1 over our a series of beautiful The Yo Chicago Inte: penn: It was th i i The groom was ‘“‘new, le, and the congregational ergyman_had commiited matrimony only in his imagination. Finally how ver, it wa | over; the twain was one flesh, and the little wife was weeping in the arms of the mother, The groom slipped up to the nervous minister, and as that gentleman was about to pass out into_the night, pressed a coin into his hand. A '$20 gold piece,” thought the young preacher. His heart beat faster now than when he was ofheiating at the wed- ding. He needed the money so much, Indeed, he often wished his meagre salary was only half its size, he had suen dini- culty ‘in colleeting it. And now to reccive $20 all at once. Wh, it Then it occurred to hi was customary for the minister to make the bride a present of his fivst marriage fee. The good man sighed as he removed lus thin “overcoat and returned to the room where the guests were offe their congratulations to the newly wedded counl S1 forgot someth approuohed the bride. marriage fee [ have ever r yours, It should be keptasar of this oceasion.” The young bride stretched out her hand_ and the coin rang as it touched her marriage ring. The guests looked up; the unconscious wife did not close her hand upon the fifty cent picce that lay there and all saw The minister was glad it was his first marriage. The guests tried to appear as if they did not the half dollar, and the reporter quietly smiled, and thought perhaps the young busband was saving up to buy the di voree. zirl so fight that he broke two of | f but was comforted when she sai Go on, Hauk and bust the other twenty-two.” 1id he, as le minder A California youth squeezed hi | to that of | nerve and s OMAHA DAILY BE WOMEN AND THEIR TWAYS. The Great Lack of Proper Eduoation of @irls in the Affairs of Every-Day Life, THE COMPLAINTS OF THE SEX. The Charming Girl and the Tom-Boy at Womanhood—Scandal, Mai- ringes, Deaths and Etig e —~A Love-Laden Ditty. Al for My Lo Temple Bar a golden argosy, o silver sail: thou ye fayoring gales night by stars to li 100 10 stoop and shine, use wy love hath sent for me, use my love is mine! Launch m Fell me the mighty cedar tree, Build me a palace fair, Deck it with gold and ivory, Hang it with arras rare, Fling wide the gates that part the sea And let the clarions play, Because the day hath dawned for me, My love is mine for aye! 0 bid the nightingales to sing, lie pearly tountains pl: A melody of love by night, A dream of nignt by d 1 ve the world it draw ot near, Tell ye the hills and sea, The glory of my life is here, My love hath come to me! A New Idea. Health and Home: One of the great- curses of this intelleetual age is the gr lack of proper education of our girls in the practical affuirs of every-duy lif They all want to be ‘‘school marms,” rovernesses or the wives of rich wmen. lousework, which should form the basic principle of our economie life, is shunned by them as something degrading. young woman will stand behind a dry oods counter fourteen hours a day for'a mere pittance—not enough to clothe her— lose her health, become anwemic and un- fitted for the performance of her natural duties, rather than accept a_position as a domestic where she would have a com- fortable home, good health and become properly fitted for the duties of a wife and mother. The ranks of the unfortu- nate are filled with shop-girls who, ha ing no place to spend their evenings, seck the parks and beer- ns, where young men, as it were, lic in wait for them as their natural pr ? How many young women can trace their downfall to this misplacement of their talents? Good domestics, and wives who are good cool so rare that when one is found she s worth her weight in gold. We have schools in which our girls taught cooking, embroidery, mu painting, school teaching, the fanguag: but positively not one in_ which is taught the art of housckecping. Why? Simply 1se of the prejudice against at, 1 girls desire to get married, which is y easy to do, butit is very, very aif- It to live happily in marriage; and where the wife has no knowledge of the 't of housekeeping, domestic cconor or is a poor cook, be her husband as ric as Crasus, her lot will be miserable. ch & woman is totally incompetent to A wife; her proper place is in some rret 'singing the song of the shirt.” W HiI6 i wial womanly beauty, yet m married life he admires much more a good squ: meal, cooked by the hands of his wife or under her mmmedi- ate directi What we mean by a good not simply roast be I & piece of indigestible p and a cup of ordinary coflee, but a table covered with snow-white hinen, the china and glassware shining like so many min- jature mirrors, with bouquets of fresh blooming flowers in season, and napkins soft and fresh from the laundry, not stiff as pasteboard, so that they ~will slide from your knee. These preparations cost but a trifle and are the invariable procur- sor of a good appetite. No dish should be served undecorated; the fish or should be surrounded with small picces of either parsley or beets, carrots or tur nips cut wolds into ' various kni knuck devices, not so much for eating for ornamentation, and also as an appe- tizer. For puddings, melons, ete., pul- verised sugar should atways be at hand, and for iced tea a slice or two of lemon with granulated suga end a thousand and one other little things we could mention concerning the table, cost no more than the sloven appe ite-destroying-foods of the present tim anliness of the table should be coim- portant with cleanliness of the body. Such a table would never fail to make home the abiding place of true love and solid eowfort. But as we have no schools for teaching the above art, what are we to do? not establish one, establ and in every city and in_ every v Have it a achool for practical housekeep- ing. Instruct the pupils in every depart- ment, from the scrubbing of the front door steps to the mysteries of the ki Run it actually as a boarding house. Issue diplomas of graduation to your servant-pupls after a two, three, or ov four years course. Have each pupil beg by learning the most menial anr, and by degrees advance her until she is ' thor- oughly qual in eyery department of the scullery, chamber, kitchen. Hay work in_theor good prices, give lirst-c as Colonel Scllers would say, “‘ther millions in it.”” Will any of our re: s take the hint* A diploma from such an institution would insure marriage, and, what is still better, happiness in mar- riage. chargo and, Women Who Are Always Complaining Cincinnatti Enquiver: The egotism of the sex leads its members to be always balancing their sensations in a pair of seales, wcifhlng them with the utmost nicety and exactuess, or else 1o place them under a mental mieroscope to be studied. Habits of introspection and self-anaysis are most hurtful when a too vivid imagination renders ealm judgment impossible. The training that women receive and their habits ot living are culated to heighten emotional sensibility and nerye sensitiveness, and their love of excitement is a most dungerous element in degeneration of the organism. They yield easily to all passing, real or imagin- ury disorders, without making an effort to forget them, belittle them or rise super- ior to them “To be fragile and frail in appearance, to have alook of extreme delicacy, is the consuming desire of our women. A small st, hand and foot are desiderata; the lily must usurp the rose on the fair cheek; to uvoid a cours and blowsy complexion a veil must be used during the promen- ade to protect from even u zephyr's gen- tle breath or the sun’s kisses. The con- finement in close sch ooms during early life and the artificiniities and ex- citement of society later on cause def encies of every Kind in blood and bone 3 cle. What wonder if tigh lucing, the use of cosmeties, exposure in dress, luck of sleep und exercise, cause an impeded cireulation, poverty in the qusantity of the blood, and all awtendant evils. Women are reared like exotics in a green house; and often they meet the siwme fute—tlourish apparently for a sea- son, bloom in beauty, and gone, Itis a pity that a Knowledge of physiol- ogy is not more generally diftused, and especiully smong won Even tho best educated of them are ignorant of some of the simplest facts, or have stadied them 80 little advantage as to make the atast mistakes. Thus they try to make certain diseases lit certain pains,diagnose them as symptoms of heurt, lung or liver Us with a terrible slckness. Starting with an inherited feeble constitution, even this is deteriorated by a life of indoor inac. tivity in the best hours of the day and late hours at night. Though the complex mental_and physical organization re quires the most careful treatment, they do not even try to *. cuperate after a se There is thus given an apti with no re vere strain tude to morbid degeneracy, serve foree to fall fi:u k upon. Fleeting pains, which in a more active life would s unnoticed, treated as cause for alarm, and drugging and doctoring are commenced; the high-keyed nature,which has a sensitiveness of the violin, broods over them until a morbid pitchis reached from ngitated apprehension they sink into mild-eyed melancholy or gloom, and become burdens to themselves and friends. Who ennnot run the gamut of the discase of theyaletudmarian? Malar ia, billiousness, dyspepsia, neuralgia what changes hayve been rung upon them what fugaes waitten! Malaria (bad air) might not be heard of if constant and suflicient exercise were taken; billious ness and dyspapsin, names given by women to any manifestations of stomach trouble, would froquently vanish were attention; paid to dictary rules that bete noire in many home, is often the indication of over taxod nerves, wenkened vitality or ex- posure to cold. Of course, these things may be, and sometimes o serious mat ters, but in how many instances are they names given to passing disturbances and slignt ¢ ngements ot function, which would pass quickly away if left to them selves? The Charming Girl. is a little difficult to deseribe charming gil,” She has not as yet penetrated the remote country places, ex- ceptin the faint reflections to be found in the columns of the illustrated story papers, says the Boston Record. She has suceceded the “type' girl, however, in the eurrent literature of n somewhat bet ter order, and is a decided relief from the overangenuous, too-quickly loving extra-spontancous maiden who ‘pree: her. The charming girl usually knows 4 good deal man feels in talking to her that she has ideas, that she is quite outof the transitional stage between an affectionate ereature of impulses and a tional human being. She is a compan- ionable girl. She is less mpressionable than the type girl was. As Mrs. Howe says, girls don’t fall in love any more, It would be impossible for the truly charming girl to fall in love in the old-fashioned way, the way which led the amiable predecessor of the Ange- lina type to set her affections on a villian or idiot and cling to him_through thick and thin with afidelity and a rapture that looks very silly to the charming girl. She knows lierself hetter than ever a girl knew herself before. She is taught wisely by her carcful mother, and no tn surprise her heart mnto surren ss he has at least a few of the elements of genuine manliness and no- bilit tractions of mind and spirit as well'as of face and manner. Of course there is . sham charming girl who doesn’t fall in love beeanse she <10 heart to lose, having wasted it all wdoration of herself and pretty gowns, iis inconsequent and eflective litie m knows cnough, how to imit ways of the girl who charming, and she gets up a very clever and interesting counterfeit oftentimes, and one which 15 extremely good to look E nt summer’s day ad by, when the id world, there the vl comes will without nd pretty sham of ner t the shore and monnt- ain resorts, whom the sham men the upon earth will flirt with to their heart’s content, while the ideal men will bow at the shrine of the ideal girl. The Tom-Boy at Womanhood. The girl romp, otherwisc known as the Tom-boy, is an eager, carnest, impulsive, glad-hearted, kind-souled specimen_ of genus feminine, If her laugh is too fre quent, and her tone a trifle too emphatie, we are willing te overlook these for the sake of the true lifp and exulting \'ixuli:jy to which they are the eseape-valve ; i ther like the high-pres: h must close off its superflu- *in such ebuilitions, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, The glancing cye, the glowing cheek, the sh, balmy breath, the lithe, . graceful pliy of the limbs, tell a tale 6f healthy and vigorous cal development which is nature's est beauty, Thesoul and the mind will be developed alsoc in due time, and wi shall haye before us a woman in the nse of the term. 1 the Tom-boy has sprung up to 1thful and vigorous womanhood she will be ready to take hold of the duties of life, to become a worker in the great sys- tem of hun i She will not sit down to sigh ove :n her to do, to simper nonsense, or full sick at heart, but she will ever be ready to take up her burden of duty. In her track there will be sound philosophy, in her thoughts holdness 1 originality, in her heart heaven’'s purity, and the world will be better that she lived in it, ] task she will bring health, vigor, energy and spirits; these will give her both the power and the endurance, without which her life must be, in some respects at least, a failure. What Catches the Feminine Eze In the Newspapers. Brooklyn Eagl nd who is keen on 5 told me the other d ve ascer 1 through a_ o of obser he suid, women who read the newspapers 1. terested in four subjects—scandals, ringes, deaths and etiquette Take an) woman in town and toss aper in her lap while she is working on a ‘splasher’ depicting the everlasting ‘Three Little Maids,’ or is engaged in some equally absorbing work, and what does she do¥ First she glances along the headlines until she comes to the Victoria Morosini episode. She at once drops her work, tans her teeth meditatively with her thimble and wades through ev word of the report, The moral she draws from the story is usually that she docsn’t see why 80 “much fuss is made about that Morosini fereature, whom she saw one night on the stage of the Casino anpd found to be as awkward as a cow. T she stops abruptly and skims ove paper till she finds the column headed ‘Deaths,” Here she revels fora long time, wondering if the Johnson who has just died is any relation to the Johnson who boarded at the second farm-house down the turnpike near the cross-roads from where she spent the summer o cut four years ngo. After arguing t over for some time and settling it posi- tively one way or the other she goes to the next nume. If she discovers the death of a child she divine once that it was scarlet fever, and decides to have the doctor look at the rash on Lucy's neck the instant she returns from school. Then she comes to the marriage column. Did you ever see anything more amusing than the absorption of the woman over the marriages? An earthquake wouldn't disturb her. She invests every couple with the romance of her own courtship, and goes off into speeulations on the fl'xmm's prospcets and the style of the bride’s wedding outfit. As for the etiquette column, that always makes her chatt ‘Here,' 'she says,” ‘is the most absurd young woman, who writes to the editor o know whethersbe ougiat to go to the theater with her young man without a chaperon. I remember the first time dear Henry tookane to the theater,’ and 50 on. After she as waded throy this column she throws the paper wside, and that night when her husband eomes howe she tells him how much she was in- trouble, or imagine they are threatened | terested in the newspaper. ‘Yes,' he says, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1886.~TWELVE PAGES. 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SOME oLn RSO last and six hours before she died ar ranged her hair ied, She was the mother of eleven children, scveral of whom hve in Johnstown, Cuptain James Lakeman, olde idents of M brated his 90th birthds appropriate manner. ‘T'he Rev. John Rodney, rector emeritus of St. Luke's Church, Germantown, Pa., in that city September of 90 y The body of Benjamin Skmner, col- ‘the papers are mighty That was an awful catastropl leston, wasn® ity s Robert Crat II\‘\"‘I‘ nm{ o, What, was the 112 on August ‘Why, the carthquake. « Banoroft. tho Well, there, that stupid_old paper didn’t | yoavs oid. * have's word about it.” The husband goes | 'yt iy o Yallos 5 aper and shows hor o six | | Joln O'Ma y, of Dallas county, 1 column article on the fi goTSheihadi(iLibyentatold sk chowaiSobuscorand not hit, of course " tha smoked since he was a boy, IA|}»|~_~\ nip T AT e T o of old Kentueky when hé 'feels like at, {imml . of newspapers somo- | A says that he never recited more than what out of breath, but very much in '.l'l"l‘vlv.‘vrw ata time i Nm'a'.\'l @ ost, “and I'm_going to_ work it out, | 414 did not go to s 005N HIY A Every woman in Ame 4 Ihe first anti-slavery man sent to the | ored, familiarly known as “Uncle Ben,” per that puts forth intelligenc United States senate on that issue is still [ who had livea here for about twenty dal, marringe, death and etiquette in the | living. “Joseph Cilley is the man, and ho | yours, was buried in Upper Alton yester most alluring style of art.” remains on his old family homestead at .|v.?r He was aged best attain- e Nottingham, N. H. Heis ninety-six years | able ) ) Ihe enmara- Not Many Women Are Good Listeners. | old, tor for this district for the census of 1880 San Francisco Report: Good listeners Colonel George L. Perkins,of Norwich, | wrote to his old Virg home for in- among women are scarcer than fresh | Conn., who began his ninety-ninth year | ferms a8 to his age, and the fignres eggsat u corner grocery. Women can | in August, is the active finaneial head of | given bused upon the reply reeci talk, as a rule, but they cannot listen. | the Norwich & Worcester railrond and | by him. Skinuer has heen marr three nd yet listening attentively is the first | works as regularly now as he did twenty- | times, s third wife died a few months rule of agreeable conyersation. If women | five years ago. ago. e leaves a tawily of chil- cluulnl onl . A.'I(Ill.lt 11”‘»”1" l:All«\.l)l'(l\\Ul"Ii Abraham Emerson, of Canada, re- [ dren, several of whom reside in this vi- then would not bo-the firgsome, trivial | cgyilycelebrated his cighty-sixth birth. | ity ) ; yl‘lfuh“ll{l') e ok e pondl £40 | day by digging forty bushels of potatoes | Hon. Jokn H. Ewing, of Washington, Jpuia helRmandacdiatock Inthandef ing Xy Goron Hiours; Pa.,on October 5, ¢ od. his 90th 1ot b o tho othors Mot | Joseph Rosenberg, 102 yoars old, died | birthduy. During the entire diy hostsof conversation. | answering oxactly. lots | in New Orleans a fow duys ago. He was | the e old gentleman's friends , Bl g oxactly, I AR TINASHAHE RADY,SRYR BRSO, (oML oy ng theiv congratulations. what she pleases to eall her mind run viov. | 90¢ of Napoicon's soldiors, and partick ” p i In consequence, the listening air 1s | Pated in the memotuble retreut which [ Norwark, Conn.,, Oct. 8.--A signifi- toredd by Jeeed ends of “You don't tell | followed the burning of Moscow vent roourring for many years in Y ARG 0RE8 0 ok ’ 3 s At vo | the quict zo of Wilton has been the and’ L am surprised?’ ana “Just | ~Andrew Lucas, who clwims to nave | the auict R0 L VLINONT R, oD Lk what we might have expected!” until the | been n body servant of Andrew Jackson, | IOy KnBINERsire of RS Yt Highos 4 AT i iad the othe in Br P DAl enport Raymond who is the oldest ion and interrogation fiend him- | died the other d i BEARLIORd, Ot e e v Iflon e Lo DraYe f, on whom they have drawn so frecly, 2 age of 125 ye Next. ' . 7o z N it, in Connecticut. Entermng upon he Maks fron) exbaukion jovillinm Kendall, aged ninety years, | ong hunared and fifth S ol e § 4 mond began to show Signs of f: oldest inhabitant of Cape Cod 1s | health, and gradunlly she grew wes Donsilla Laba, who 1s familiarly | till a few weeks ago, when her legs “Aunt Lal She rec fused to sustain her trembling form ninety-ninth hirthday. and she was obliged to take to hor couch. nis, who died in Philadelphia Her mental condition has also been on Wddnesday, was 101 years old, and | comewhat impaired, and ut times her until just betore her death maintained | mind wanders, her meéntal faculties remarkably. (Halvoxtaninaeas The census shows that M. Chevreul is | one of the early settl not the only ecentenarian in France, there | arrived in this eity i being 126 others who can show that they | died Septembe have lived a hundred years, Tlhiomas Smith, of Ipswich, Muss age, and was buried yesterday” afte dicd | from the residence of Mrs. A. O. Girard, afow days ago, aged ninety-four He was i veteran of the war of 1512, and ears, | corner of Twenty-sixth and Wi with whom sh as bee 4 past would be thrown on the guestion by voted for cighteen prosidential candi- i comparative study of the frequency | 4oiog cleven y asod came from France to this country, and her husband and severity of storms dur O ened nd over & dicd here in the early days of Gulveston, son, now also d aving served as geographic The German man of the city soon after its in- savants ineline to the opinion that the ion. bhe leaves no relatives, and increase is (o be attributed to the enor an cared for during the last days of mously increased production of smoke Hor fite by Mry, Girard, and steam which has taken place during the lust three decades. But although we may admit this to be to some extent o probable vera causa, yet when we con- suder the very local character of thunder storms we should naturally expeet to find that it would follow that ‘the neighbor hoods of large cities, and especixlly of manufacturing districts, would suffer the | most severely. But the statistics referred to show distinetly that the very reverse is the case. The number of storms at- tended by fatal resuits from ligntning is far larger in the agricuitural districts than in the towns. Upon the other hana, we ought to take into consideration the proteetive action of lightuing conduetors, witli which the prominent buildiogs in he towns of Germuny are well provided, /, of Prospeet, Ohio, was bistorian, is cighty-six Scientific American: ¥rom certain me- teorological statistics pubhshed m Ger- many we learn that thunder storms in that country have, during the last thirty ars. been steadily i wsing both in quency and severity, The number of hs per annum from lightning has in- sed in a far greater ratio than that of nerease of population. In the pres- o of our knowledge of the whole subject of atmospheric electricity, the cause of the phenomena of thunder storms is confessedly obscure. however, very possible that s Mrs. Marie Farreau ston,who poon t Walpole died in Lon don September 20, aged nincty-cight, She was, on the maternal side,the grand- daughter of the groat Lord Clive, and aternally of Sir Thomas Walpole, brother of Horace. She died a spinster, though a belle in her youth - John Hayes, of Williston, Chester county, Pa,, dicd on Sunday, Octobor 8, in the ninety second year of his The ! dec: d was born at Skebanna, County ipperary, Ireland. He came to this ountry (n 183, und settling in Dolaware | oy il unty, aged in farming. He retained BAUSE tha wania kaitale s nteinated i) his faculties unimpaired up to the time of ¥ . b . 4 his death, Of his six children one son < T _—— daughters are now living in Piling It On, sster county; also venteen grand- Damley--Roebinson, I ren and hree great-grandebildren. | vice. HBrown, I hear, has re Mrs, Grace Rodgors died at Miners | a8 an inspived idiot. ~ What ille, Cambria county u. few days | do? ago. She was probubly the oldest person in the state, having lived oue huudred and four yeurs. - She was vigorous Lo L -— Fursuo the Bame Cowise, “Uf a lady is beautiful, my son," said s e-duy Lord Chesterticld, ‘never fai refer (o her heauty ‘What am I to do when the lady is your ad d to me 1 1 better Well, Dum- Lim tuke Robinson (thoughtfully) y. I think you ought to mu k that word “inspiced